Chapter 45: The Seven Wonderful Techniques (1/2)
Chapter 45: The Seven Wonderful Techniques
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Junior Leopard stood naked in the middle of the stream, splashing his face with its water. Every inch of his body seemed to stink, as if he had just emerged from rolling around in a pit of manure.
It was lucky that the little monster was in a bad mood and farted on him not once, but twice. Otherwise, he would have been knocked out by the first one and perhaps would not have been able to wake up in time. The little monster's second fart, however, had managed to awake him from this stupor.
”This must be the most tragic day of my life!” Junior Leopard said to himself, as he climbed with bare buttocks out of the stream. He could not help but grimace, when he saw his clothes hanging beside the stream were still wet.
Damn, now it looks like I have to use up my internal strength to dry out these clothes, and I still need to find some living animals for Xue Wuya… well, never mind, I cannot run around naked, I will just have to resign myself to this fate. Although there are no people here, I am still a civilized person... not like that little monster, running about from dusk till dawn completely naked!
Without noticing it, he had equated himself with that little monster.
Indeed, this was also a kind of tragedy.
After Junior Leopard had dried his clothes using his internal strength, he prepared about 15 living animals and dragged them at a cumbersome pace into that steep valley. By the time he arrived, he had no strength left at all.
When Xue Wuya saw Junior Leopard's face full of disappointment and dejection, as if he had suffered a gross violation, he couldn't help finding it a little strange.
”What's wrong? Have you got into any trouble?!”
”Just a little bit of trouble!” Junior Leopard said, and as he thought back to the situation he had got himself into, his stomach suddenly churned again and he coughed up some bile right there.
”It looks like you are not doing so well today!” Xue Wuya let out a rare smile, teasingly. ”How on earth did you find something to give yourself trouble in this surrounding area?”
”No, when I was hunting for living animals, I bumped into a skunk weasel. It accidentally took a bit of my blood when I wasn't paying attention!”
”Hahaha!” Hearing this, Xue Wuya immediately erupted with laughter. ”What luck you are having!”
”Yes!” Junior Leopard said through gritted teeth.
”Well, I see you are in bad mood today. Go back, and come here early tomorrow. I have some businesses for you!”
”What is it?” The question slipped out of Junior Leopard's lips.
”I'll tell you tomorrow!” Xue Wuya glanced over at Junior Leopard, and his eyes flashed fiercely as if to say ”Didn't I just tell you to come tomorrow?”
Junior Leopard shivered and said no more, obediently leaving the steep valley and breathing a sigh of relief. He had feared that Xue Wuya would try to test his martial arts again like yesterday, and he really did not have the energy for it right now.
Next morning Junior Leopard had recovered his energy. He finished collecting the living animals early, and he headed straight for the steep valley.
He quietly stood aside, waiting for Xue Wuya to finish the living animals and have a brief rest.
Xue Wuya was very satisfied with Junior Leopard's respectful behavior.
”I have something for you to do!”
”Waiting orders, teacher!” Junior Leopard replied, a modest and polite smile on his face. In this formal situation, Junior Leopard did not want to give Xue Wuya any opportunity to catch him doing the slightest thing wrong. He believed that even if he were to bitterly chop off Xue Wuya's head with Kunai, he could still keep this modest and polite expression on his face. This reminded him of his previous life. Although a hypocritically modest smile was not part of his nature, he could not deny that this expression, in that moment, was very useful for him.
”I require some Rootless Grass, Wandering Flower, and Gall Orchids!” Xue Wuya said.
Junior Leopard raised his head and looked blankly at Xue Wuya. He had never heard of these herbs before. In fact, in the prescription of the elixir, the rootless grass was one of the herbs required for bone-forging pills, and both wandering flower and gall orchid were used in the tendon-changing pills. However, he had only seen their names before but never seen them in real life and he didn't even know what they looked like.
What did Xue Wuya want these things for?
And why did he tell me his need of these herbs?
I have never seen such herbs before!
Xue Wuya did not care about Junior Leopard's thoughts and just pointed to a cliff-face behind him. ”The appearances and properties of these three types of herbs I have already illustrated for you on the cliff-face. Although these herbs are rare, they can all be found here in the Misty Mountain. They should not be too hard to be found. I will give you five days. Five days later, you bring these herbs back for me!”
”Five days?!” Junior Leopard was gob-smacked, and a wry smile immediately appeared on his face. ”Master, it is not that I do not wish to serve you, but that is indeed a difficult task to do in only five days!”
”Difficult?!” Xue Wuya raised his eyebrows and looked with surprise at Junior Leopard's courteous face. ”So you can't do it?!”
”I don't dare to deceive you!” Junior Leopard said. ”Whatever task my teacher assigns to me, I will complete even if he will die… but here we are on the Misty Mountain. In the last few days, I have scouted out the surrounding area, and yesterday when I went deeper into the forest, I was nearly eaten by a white-scaled python. Your disciple's strength is too limited to run far. In addition, this place is also a death-trap with a 10,000 feet precipice behind this valley. Your humble disciple is not able to cross it. From a cave upon the cliff-face, I spied a stream stretching ahead for about 10 miles, and during the daytime, there is a strange fog hanging over it. I have never seen any living creatures enter that fog, so I think it may be some noxious gas. Your disciple is simply not able to pass through there! In the last two days when I was wandering around to hunt for food, I became very familiar with the surrounding area, but as for the herbs that teacher has drawn, your disciple has seen no sign of them at all. However, if I have to scour everywhere out of a hundred mile radius, your disciple's life is trivial, but that is a gravely serious sin beyond the value of my own life to delay teacher's business!”
”My, what an interesting boy you are!” Xue Wuya said after gaping for a while when Junior Leopard finished his words.
The expression on Junior Leopard's face did not change, but his heart felt like it was blossoming into a smile.
This was a technique that he had often used in his previous life. Whenever a leader gave him a task, he would agree to do it. As long as it was a task that the leader has assigned, he would complete it to the letter. No matter what the leader said, it was correct, and whatever the leader required you to do, that was what he should be.
And before doing such difficult tasks, he would first scheme and plot. Then he would think clearly about the entire process and analyzed any problems or difficulties he might encounter. At last, he would draw up a detailed plan. If he didn't do this, he could not show how seriously he was taking the task that the leader had assigned, and there would be no way to prove his ability as a subordinate.
All the difficulties and troubles were shown on the table although the works should be completed whether conditions met the requirement or not. However, the leaders were all quite understanding and wise. Besides, the leaders were so appreciative of the difficulties that their underlings' face, that they would certainly provide as many conveniences, funds, and manpower for this task as possible!