Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 55 Zhang Zhiwei's Wavering
The 80th birthday banquet of Old Master Lu of the Lu family has ended.

After one night, the leaders of various sects who had come from all over the world to celebrate Old Master Lu’s birthday also bid farewell to Old Master Lu with their accompanying disciples.

But compared to their elation when they came, some disciples had thoughtful expressions when they said goodbye.

Zuo Ruotong once said that apart from the children of wealthy families and merchants like Lu Jin and Li Muxuan, most of the disciples who joined the Trinity School were peddlers.

They may not be as unlucky as Wang Yi, who was born an orphan. And because they live in the territories of these sects, they can still survive no matter how hard their lives are.

Feng Ping, a disciple of Huode Zong, is a microcosm of these disciples who came from peddlers.

They had seen and heard the things Wang Yi talked about, but they had never thought about the reasons.

And now, Wang Yi uses these blank spaces to let them think for themselves, reflect for themselves, and find the reasons for themselves.

As long as one person figured it out, understood it, and found the reason, then, without Wang Yi having to do anything, they would come to him on their own initiative and stand by his side.

This is an open conspiracy, but these elders dare not say anything because the more they say it, the more it will arouse their resistance and make them want to find out the truth.

So now these older generations looked at Wang Yi, who was greeting Lu Guangda and Zhang Zhiwei, with something wrong in their eyes and expressions.

There are expressions of helplessness, emotion, and regret.

However, they had no right to blame Wang Yi, so they could only lead their useless disciples back to the sect while it was still early. If there was no major event, they would not come out and leave it to time to resolve the issue.

"Wang Yi, when you arrive in Beijing, come directly to Yanjing University to see me. Regarding what you told me before, we need to make a schedule and think it over carefully."

Wang Yi smiled and nodded in agreement. The previous conversation with Lu Guangda was simply to make him determined to study abroad.

But after going abroad, in addition to the most core nuclear physics, Wang Yi also needed him to pay more attention to many things, but I couldn't explain it here at the moment.

Just as Lu Guangda was reluctantly saying goodbye to Wang Yi, Zuo Rutong, along with his fellow apprentice Shi Chong and his disciple Li Muxuan, walked towards Wang Yi.

"Left Gate Chief."

Wang Yi has great respect for Zuo Rutong, a senior who has taken care of him a lot.

Zuo Ruotong looked at Wang Yi who was paying respect to him as a junior, and also glanced at Liang Ting who was standing next to him like a guard. He naturally would not look at Liang Ting with tinted glasses, but just pondered for a moment and spoke directly to Liang Ting.

"Are you going to the capital?"

"Yes."

"In that case, let's take Si Chong and Mu Xuan with us as well."

what?
As soon as the words came out, Wang looked up with a puzzled expression.

Also confused were Si Chong who was following Zuo Rutong, Li Muxuan, and Lu Jin who was eavesdropping from behind.

The three of them have different ideas.

For Si Chong, a senior in the Sanyi Sect who was only lower than Zuo Ruotong in seniority, he naturally thought that his senior brother asked him to be Wang Yi's bodyguard. But he quickly denied it. As for the competition between Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei last night, if they really met the enemy, it would be hard to say who would be the bodyguard.

Since he was not here to escort Wang Yi, Si Chong fixed his eyes on Li Muxuan who was following Zuo Rutong.

This kid, who was known as the twin prides of the Sanyi sect together with Lu Jin, had caused quite a stir when he first entered the sect.

However, if it weren't for the commotion caused by the evil boy Li Muxuan, he wouldn't have met Wang Yi, the eldest senior brother of the Sanyi Sect jokingly called by the disciples. He also understood why his senior brother wanted to pass on the third level of reverse life to Wang Yi, even though he knew that Wang Yi might cause a big disturbance in the world of aliens in the future.

"Mu Xuan."

Zuo Rutong did not keep the person in suspense and directly called out to Li Muxuan.

"The disciple is here."

"Do you still remember how many Quan Xing disciples you and Uncle Shi Chong met on the way to the Lu family when I brought you out this time?"

Li Muxuan was stunned for a moment, and Wang Yi also understood Zuo Rutong's good intentions.

"Disciple, remember, this journey took seven days, and Uncle Si Chong took me to meet six Quan Xing disciples in total."

"So what do you think of the character of these six Quanxing disciples?"

"Master, although these six Quanxing disciples were evil, they admitted their mistakes and repented when facing you and Uncle Shichong. Since their evil deeds are not obvious and their past is known, in my opinion, it is a great thing to admit mistakes and improve. Their crimes... their crimes are not punishable by death?"

Li Muxuan truthfully expressed his views on the six Quanxing disciples who were subdued by Si Chong.

The idea was a bit naive, but Wang Yi, who was listening nearby, already understood the reason.

In the final analysis, it was because Li Muxuan was too well protected. The only Quanxing sect member he met was the scoundrel Ghost Hand King. He had no idea that in the Quanxing sect, people like Ghost Hand King were considered good people.

Not everyone can follow the Ghost Hand King like me and still keep his original heart and hide himself.

As for the Quan Xing disciples that Zuo Rutong and Li Muxuan met on the road, it may be true that their crime does not warrant the death penalty, but if Li Muxuan had not been followed by Si Chong and Zuo Rutong, it would be hard to say whether this crime does not warrant the death penalty.

"This is why I want you to take Mu Xuan and Si Chong with you. I can't always be by his side to protect him. I'm not worried about Jin'er, but I want Mu Xuan to be with you. He will see more and understand more."

As he said this, Zuo Rutong was about to salute Wang Yi, but Wang dodged by turning sideways.

He knew better than anyone that this was just Zuo Rutong's excuse. He was more worried about himself. "Master Zuo, your words are too serious. I think we should consult Junior Brother Mu Xuan for his opinion on this matter."

Wang Yi gave the choice to Li Muxuan, who already understood Zuo Rutong's intention. This guy, who regarded Zuo Rutong as his mentor, only thought for a few seconds before giving an answer.

"Master, I want to see what the whole nature looks like in the eyes of a practitioner."

"Well, Si Chong, I need you to give them more advice along the way."

"Brother, don't worry. I know the severity of the situation."

Si Chong, a fifty-year-old man, also agreed. This was why he respected Zuo Rutong. He was so dedicated and considerate to every disciple who joined the Trinity Sect for their cultivation.

Just when Zuo Rutong handed Li Muxuan, the Trinity boy, to Wang Yi to take to the capital, Zhang Zhiwei also slipped over from Zhang Tianshi's side, put his hands in the sleeves of his Taoist robe, and bowed to Zuo Rutong.

"Master Zuo, can you allow me to have a word with Junior Brother Wang?"

"Brother Zhang, you can go ahead and say whatever you want."

Zhang Zhiwei pointed outside the Lu family compound and said, "Junior Brother Wang, can you please have a word with me?"

As he said this, he walked out of the courtyard, and Wang Yi followed him. At this time, Zhang Tianshi also walked to Zuo Ruotong's side. The two leaders of the Xuanmen orthodox sect stood side by side, looking at Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei who were leaving.
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"Junior Brother Wang, I only have one question that I really want to know the answer to."

"Brother Zhang, please feel free to speak."

"Last night, did you admit defeat on purpose?"

Zhang Zhiwei hid his hands in the sleeves of his Taoist robe, like a practitioner who was at peace with the world, but the look in his eyes when he looked at Wang Yi betrayed him.

Yes, no matter how much he was born to be a cultivator, Zhang Zhiwei was still a person, a young man of twenty years old, the same age as Wang Yi. Even though victory and defeat were common in the military, for Zhang Zhiwei, who had been invincible since childhood, it was not that he could not lose, but that he could not accept that his loss was mixed with other things.

"If not, I think Senior Brother Zhang wouldn't believe this after hearing what I said last night. But at the beginning, I said 'I still don't believe you are the best in the world' from the bottom of my heart, and I also wanted to compete with you. Senior Brother Zhang, you are in the middle of what happened later, so you understand it best.

I admit defeat because I realize that there is no point in fighting any further. You and I will never see each other in life or death. If we want to determine who is truly superior, we have to leave it to time to see how much our skills in cultivating our lives will improve over time. Only then can we truly determine who is superior. "

Wang Yi answered Zhang Zhiwei's question very straightforwardly. Zhang Zhiwei just looked at Wang Yi and asked again.

"Then, Junior Brother Wang, aren't you telling me that you have given up? After we part today, you will go to the capital and run around for what's on your mind. No matter how well you can practice, once you get entangled in worldly affairs, you will always fall behind. But I am in Longhu Mountain, and every day is a time for practice."

"Are you trying to persuade me not to commit suicide? Great, Zhang Zhiwei, you should be the one persuading me."

Wang Yi was secretly happy, but having already passed the stage of tempering his mind in the worldly world, he was also pointing at himself and Zhang Zhiwei.

"Every day is a time for cultivation? Senior Brother Zhang, your cultivation on Mount Longhu is cultivation, but my running around in the secular world is not cultivation?"

Zhang Zhiwei was stunned, and Wang asked again and again.

“Like the last trick we used last night, how many times can you and I use it? In my case, nine times. After nine times, the true Qi in my body and the innate Qi around me will all be at the end of their strength. If I use it again, I’m afraid I’ll die before the other party even has to do anything.”

"My words are similar to yours. Even if it is a pseudo-Five Thunders Law with a hint of heavenly power, it is still heavenly thunder. How can ordinary people not pay the price?"

"Yes, we are mortals after all, and our power is limited. But do you know, brother, the ultimate tricks you and I used last night, apart from the Xuanmen leaders like Zhang Tianshi and Zuo Menzhang, are already unrivaled in this world of strange people. How many practitioners may spend their entire lives to achieve what you and I did last night.

But for the foreign powers, it only takes one salvo to accomplish this, and it is even much better than that, not even a consumption. You said that unless the country is destroyed and the race is extinct, or the national crisis is at hand, foreigners will not intervene in state affairs, but now is the precursor of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the race. "

"Has the situation become so serious?"

"Brother, how are the people living in Longhu Mountain?"

“Life is tough, but we can get by.”

"It seems that when the Heavenly Master took you down the mountain, he didn't let you see how the people outside the Longhu Mountain lived. If you have time when you go back this time, go and take a look outside the Longhu Mountain. Your clothes are just right, you don't look like a Taoist priest."

The cool morning breeze blew, blowing the sleeves of Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei.

Zhang Zhiwei stood there thinking for a long time, looking at Wang Yi in front of him, and bowed slightly to him.

"Wang Yi, I lost."

It was not because of their means, nor was it because of life and death, but because Zhang Zhiwei understood that he could not realize his own Tao so early after experiencing a story like Wang Yi. If Zhang Zhiwei's Tao at the beginning was to practice, and he wanted to know what Tao the founder Zhang Daoling used to ascend to Tao, then now he is a little shaken. Is that really the Tao he wants to pursue?

Wang Yi stood there and accepted Zhang Zhiwei's greeting as a matter of course.

At the gate of the Lu family compound, Zhang Tianshi and Zuo Rutong stood side by side. Seeing Zhang Zhiwei's salute to Wang Yi, Zhang Tianshi also sighed.

"Like a moth to a flame."

"Heavenly Master."

Zuo Rutong looked at Zhang Tianshi and said.

"You and I, as practitioners, which one of us is not like a moth flying into a flame?"

　There is another chapter at twelve o'clock. Today is Sanjiang. I hope you will read it. It is very important to me. I also need to save more manuscripts and update them when they are put on the shelves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)