I Fabricated the Techniques, but My Disciple Really Mastered Them?

Li Xuan was secretly astonished.

“How old are you?” Ha, let me tell you, since the birth of this Domain…”

The youth in the purple robe suddenly started counting on his fingers, “How old was it again, I can’t count, anyway, it’s a lot, a lot of years!”

Yet inside, he was exclaiming: “Almost let it slip, good thing I’m quick-witted.”

Li Xuan, watching the other party count on his fingers with a feigned foolish look, couldn’t help but feel weary.

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Such poor acting.

“Let it be, I won’t expose him just yet. He’s too guarded. No need to rush, I’ll mislead him gradually. First, I need to figure out his identity.

“It seems he’s not a creature in the conventional sense, nor is he a Divine Soul. He’s truly odd. Since he’s as old as the Domain, his strength must be beyond my comparison.

“Some methods just aren’t viable against him, and there’s no need anyway. Just mislead him slowly, who knows, maybe I’ll gain a disciple?

“He looks like a youth whose mind hasn’t matured for long, easily misled.”

The youth in the purple robe, still counting on his fingers, suddenly asked, “And how old are you?”

Li Xuan, with a mystical aura swirling around him, his gaze profound, suddenly took on an air of age, as if reminiscing something far away, said in a drawn-out voice, “Me? I was here before the years, beyond the count of time.”

The youth in the purple robe was left baffled, sensing profundity in the other’s words.

“So impressive, really inscrutable, so mysterious, so unfathomable.”

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His heart experienced a small shock.

“Young friend, what’s your name?”

Li Xuan asked amicably.

“I don’t know, I’ve forgotten my name, what about you? What’s your name?”

The youth in the purple robe scratched his head, feigning a look of utter confusion as if he had indeed forgotten his name.

But his acting left something to be desired.

“My name, ah, is of great consequence. Something a young friend like you can’t bear, better not to know.”

Li Xuan’s face held a smile, not pointing out the poor acting.

“Just tell me, I can definitely bear it. There’s no consequence I can’t face.”

The youth in the purple robe said, full of curiosity.

“Come, young friend, have some tea!”

Li Xuan pushed a cup of tea towards the youth in the purple robe, continuing, “The Domain is very trivial, my karma transcends the Domain, even if you, young friend, are as old as the Domain, you can’t bear it.”

The youth in the purple robe had a puzzled look, seeming deep in thought.

He glanced at the tea before him, took a sip, and immediately made a face of distaste, “This tea is awful, I can’t swallow it at all. How can you drink such terrible tea?”

Li Xuan’s face maintained its smile, but inwardly he felt extremely helpless. This pot of Spiritual Tea was gifted by Emperor Da Yue, belonging to the highest grade of Spiritual Tea in the Qinghua state, extremely rare.

Even Emperor Da Yue could hardly bring himself to drink it daily, but he took out his treasured Spiritual Tea to please this exalted personage.

This was the highest quality Spiritual Tea Li Xuan could offer, and yet it was met with disdain!

A peerless high being, drinking such terrible Spiritual Tea, was damaging to the image.

“You, young friend, are of low Realm, it’s precisely because you’re of such a low Realm that you care about the grade of Spiritual Tea, that you care about drinking what heavenly and earthly treasures.

“With my current Realm, even if it were an ordinary cup of water, it would taste delightful.

“Do you know why? Because, I have transcended the stage of coveting heavenly and earthly treasures. I’m not drinking tea, but tasting the Dao of this world, drinking the invincible loneliness…”

Li Xuan kept his smile as he boasted.

The youth in the purple robe was stunned, his heart receiving another small shock.

“Drinking not the tea, but tasting the Dao of the world? Drinking the invincible loneliness?”

The youth in the purple robe was puzzled, scratching his head, feeling it was all too abstract, yet he took another sip of the tea, still finding it unpalatable.

“Still, I feel this tea is really awful!”

The youth in the purple robe said dejectedly.

“Young friend, it’s because your Realm is low, you can’t appreciate the underlying Dao. But once you transcend beyond the world, where all things in the Domain are just illusions, you won’t care anymore what grade the tea you drink is.

“Because, you are tasting the Dao of the world, not the tea in the cup.”

Li Xuan poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and continued, “In this sip of tea, I taste the greed of all living creatures in the Domain, the martial artist’s yearning, a longing to be invincible, a longing for eternity.

“This sip, I taste the storm of wind and rain, pouring between heaven and earth…”

The young man in purple robes blinked, becoming bewildered as he listened, unable to resist taking another sip of the tea. For some reason, this sip didn’t taste as bad.

“What did you taste in this cup of tea?” Li Xuan asked with a smile.

“Tastes bitter, hard to drink!” The young man in purple robes smacked his lips.

“You have bitterness in your heart, and unease, so naturally what you taste is bitter,” Li Xuan said, his words enigmatic.

Being sealed here, not knowing for how many years, it would be strange not to feel bitterness in his heart.

“Is that so?” The young man in purple robes tilted his head and handed his cup forward, “Pour me another.”

Li Xuan poured him another cup of tea.

The young man gulped it down and his entire face wrinkled up, as though he had just swallowed a mouthful of bitter water.

Seeing his expression, Li Xuan looked at the tea in his hand and suddenly found it difficult to drink.

Before, he had enjoyed the tea, but now he suddenly realized, was the tea actually garbage?

Gulp! The young man in purple robes struggled to swallow the tea, “So hard to drink, what kind of tea is this? If I hadn’t run out of the tea I had stored, I’d let you taste what real good tea is.”

Li Xuan’s face remained smiling as he said, “Young friend, with the state of your heart now, even the best tea wouldn’t taste right.

“You see, your realm is too low, still clinging to the quality of the Spiritual Tea. Once you transcend worldly concerns one day, you’ll no longer get caught up in that.

“The Dao flows naturally, close to the Dao, tasting the myriad ways of the world, everything can be found within it, even plain tea and simple food can be savored for the essence of the Dao…”

Li Xuan repeated his emphasis that the other’s realm was too low, which was why he was fixated on the quality of the Spiritual Tea.

The young man in purple robes blinked thoughtfully, an image floating to mind.

He had been the same, indifferent to possessions, as if all the treasures of the Domain no longer caught his eye.

All the Supreme Treasures, delicious food and drink, he had all pushed onto him.

“Taicang, was it the same with you? But Taicang is dead, how much more terrifying…”

Scratching his head, the young man in purple robes looked somewhat annoyed.

Seeing this, Li Xuan immediately understood that the other had remembered something and asked with a smile, “Young friend, if you have any concerns, feel free to share. Let’s chat as if we’re talking about family matters.”

“Are you very strong?” the young man in purple robes asked seriously.

“I don’t know if I count as strong, but to this day, no one has been able to withstand a slap from me,” Li Xuan said with a shake of his head and a wry smile, then added, “Being too strong isn’t actually good. Solving all problems with a slap loses its challenge and becomes boring!”

The young man in purple robes looked at him with suspicion, feeling that this person seemed to be boasting about his power!

But amidst his expression, there seemed to be a genuine discomfort with being too strong; it didn’t look feigned.

“His power, it must be greater than Taicang’s, even stronger than that fellow with the eyes?”

The young man in purple robes was somewhat shocked. Taicang’s strength was immeasurable, and the being with that pair of eyes seemed to be even more formidable.

This was a senior!

Thinking so, his expression turned a shade more respectful as he asked, “Senior, is it that the stronger a person is, the greater their greed, the greater their thirst to become stronger, to dominate everything, to elevate oneself above all?”

Li Xuan savored his tea with a relaxed posture, but inwardly he was secretly pleased. Things were moving forward; with a bit more cajoling, he might just get the answers he wanted.

“To me, that is not a strong person. A true strong one doesn’t have an intense desire to become stronger, but returns to simplicity, approaching the Dao, playing within the dust of the mortal world.

“Because being invincible is lonely, on the path of martial arts, there are no companions left to be seen, the desire to grow stronger has long faded.

“Only the weak long to constantly become stronger, while the invincible strong are thinking about how to avoid loneliness…”

The young man in purple robes listened, stunned, and looked at Li Xuan skeptically; it was almost as if he was saying, “You understand, don’t you? I am that kind of strong one!”

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