Chapter 21 Are you worthy of fighting with me?
Chapter 21 Are you worthy of fighting me?
These six words are incomprehensible at first glance, and they answer the question irrelevantly, leaving people confused.
However, with just a second glance, the true meaning of those six words will become clear and obvious.
Everything is so direct.
——What realm are you at? Are you worthy of fighting me?
No matter how you look at it, leaving such a message in a handwritten letter in reply to a letter of challenge is an undisguised contempt and humiliation.
Thinking of this, Chen Chi finally understood why everyone was in an uproar just now, but suddenly became as silent as a grave.
the reason is simple.
Although the six words in Gu Zhuo's reply were quite arrogant, the young master from the restaurant had no way to deal with him. If he didn't want to humiliate himself meaninglessly, pretending to be dead was the best option.
The reason why Dongzhen is known as the first chasm and the first realm on the road of cultivation is because practitioners only truly begin to come into contact with the great Dao from this realm. No matter how important the second stages of Qi Refining and Marrow Washing are, they are ultimately for laying the foundation. How can they compare with the first realm of Dongzhen?
The vast majority of practitioners are like Huang Xinping, the killer from Wuyou Mountain. They spend their entire lives, put in countless efforts, money and energy, but still have no chance to reach the realm of truth.
In the summer festival held every four years, there are often only a handful of geniuses among the eligible candidates who are able to step into the realm of Dongzhen. These people are undoubtedly the strong contenders for the top spot in the summer festival and are tomorrow's grandmasters who are bound to be in the top ten!
To put it more bluntly, among all the young practitioners in Wangjing, only Gu Zhuo has been able to see the truth.
Faced with this statement, how did the young man in the restaurant respond?
He could only choose not to fight.
"Today's young people are really better than their predecessors."
After hearing this, Chen Chi raised his eyebrows and said, "He's almost catching up with me back then."
"You didn't see the truth before the summer festival. Don't use others to lift yourself up."
Guan Xingu said casually, paused, and then said: "It's right to do this. I remember that he received more than 110 challenge letters today. If we really fight them one by one, how long will it take to finish..."
The voice stopped abruptly, and his expression suddenly became strange and extremely subtle.
"Gu Zhuo wouldn't say this in every challenge letter, right?"
The three of them fell silent.
The next moment, Chen Chi stood up without hesitation and walked directly out of the restaurant, preparing to use the special intelligence channels of the Sky Patrol to confirm whether Guan Xingu's inference was correct.
About a quarter of an hour later, he returned to the table with a complicated expression, and said something with emotion to the pot of boiling red soup.
"You guessed wrong. In fact, Gu Zhuo's reply was not just those six words." Chen Chi said to Guan Xingu.
Yu Yinchun was very curious and asked, "What else did he say in reply?"
When it’s time to eat, the best dish to go with wine is undoubtedly gossip. Who can resist being curious?
Chen Chi had a subtle expression and said, "Gu Zhuo may be a little tired of replying to letters."
"Don't keep me in suspense." Guan Xingu was a little impatient.
"Ok."
Chen Chi sighed with some regret, looked at the two of them and said, "In the dozens of letters he wrote afterwards, he wrote... I, Dong Zhen, you?"
After the words were spoken, Yu Yinchun and Guan Xingu fell silent.
After a moment, two voices sounded at the same time, with quite complicated tones.
"Writing two fewer words really saves a lot of effort."
"Compared to the previous six words... these four words seem to deserve a beating many times more."
Chen Chi had already experienced this kind of shock, so his expression was very calm at this moment. He smiled and said, "You are all right, but I can only use twelve words to describe Gu Zhuo."
Yu Yinchun was always supportive and asked patiently, "Which twelve words?"
"What an arrogant remark." Chen Chi's eyebrows danced with joy, praising: "This person is even more arrogant!"
Guan Xingu was silent for a moment, then he looked through the hot mist from the hot pot to the lights outside the restaurant and said, "Starting tomorrow, Wangjing will be very lively."
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Another meeting took place deep inside the Changzhou Academy.
The old people were still present. Perhaps because they had to come to the meeting after resting at night, their faces looked uglier than this morning.
If they looked like they had lost their mother in the early morning, now they looked like the elderly were sending off the young.
"Tell me...what should we do now?"
An old man supported his forehead with one hand, without any dignity in front of students as usual, and asked helplessly.
In front of him, on the large desk, there was a small stack of opened envelopes, and on those pieces of letter paper were clearly written the four or six words that Chen Chi had read out not long ago.
"It's not even a day yet, and all the calculations I made before have turned into a pile of waste paper..."
A professor laughed and looked at the vice president sitting above him, mockingly saying, "Why don't we just hide here for twelve hours a day to hold meetings and discuss how to deal with Gu Zhuo, so that we won't be able to set up a trap as fast as he can break it."
This is of course spoken in anger, but it is also the truth.
In the meeting held this morning, everyone here roughly decided on the specific plan on how to deal with Gu Zhuo and recover the academy's sunk costs over the past three years. They thought that even if accidents were inevitable, there would still be some room for maneuver and adjustment.
However, no one expected that before even a day had passed, all of this would be gone, with no way to save it.
How are you feeling at this moment?
I am numb.
"There is one thing I think I need to remind you of."
The professor who was in charge of signing the withdrawal documents that day said to everyone, "The last student at Changzhou Academy who broke through to the realm of Dongzhen before the summer festival was ninety-six years ago."
Then he looked at the vice-president and said helplessly, "No one can suddenly create a real student for you who can defeat Gu Zhuo on the right day and take away his reputation."
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room became even more dead silent.
A good man looked at the scene, thought for a moment, and consoled him, "At least Gu Zhuo's appearance proves the strength of the academy, proving that the academy can train students who strive to be the first in the summer festival. At the end of the year, we will have more confidence to ask the court for money."
"Then the Ministry of Revenue asked the academy, since the academy is doing so well, why did Gu Zhuo only become enlightened after dropping out of school?"
Others sneered and said sarcastically, "How should we respond then?"
The good old man was speechless.
The vice president still didn't speak.
There was silence.
In fact, having said this, there is nothing more to say.
No matter how much life experience and wisdom the old people in the academy present had, or how great things they had done, they were still helpless at this moment, because they were not in the right. Gu Zhuo not only stood on the moral high ground, but also had the ability to put his own moral advantages into practice. So what could they do?
"or……"
Someone looked up at the silent vice-president, sighed helplessly, and said, "Shouldn't the academy just admit defeat in this matter?"
(End of this chapter)