[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arrival-in-1994":3,"chapter-arrival-in-1994-arrival-in-1994-chapter-595":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arrival in 1994",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2353076,4601,"Chapter 595: Yoda","arrival-in-1994-chapter-595",595,"\u003Cp>The house where Master Yoda lived—no, it wasn’t even a house, more like a doghole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White stone bricks formed a maze-like interior, filled with furniture, but these pieces paled in comparison to human wooden furniture—not only because they were made of white stone, but because they were crude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked like the work of someone who had no idea what furniture was supposed to be, destined to fall far short of pieces crafted by a professional carpenter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of the furniture crawled snakes, spiders, and cockroaches—this was unmistakably the dwelling of a mountain savage, no, even mountain savages didn’t live as squalidly as Master Yoda; at least their homes never harbored spiders or snakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry,” Master Yoda said, noticing Ye Nan’s gaze fixed on a green-spotted snake, thinking he was afraid. “It won’t bite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know,” Ye Nan replied, seeing the snake’s listless demeanor—he understood these snakes wouldn’t bite, for they resembled those in the park drugged into stupor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then again, it made sense: Master Yoda might be an ancient monster who’d lived for centuries, but he couldn’t possibly master everything. Not being able to tame snakes was normal, and living in the same room with untamed, un-drugged snakes was pure self-torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Nan stared at the doghole-like entrance, at Master Yoda already inside, gritted his teeth, and crawled in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entrance was too small—even lying flat and squeezing his body as much as he could, it was still hard to get through; after struggling for a while, he finally made it in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, it was much more spacious than the entrance; though he still couldn’t stand upright, he could move freely if he bent his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come. Eat.” After Ye Nan entered, Master Yoda handed him a pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Nan took the pot curiously and peered inside—only to see a thick, viscous liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tree roots, bark, and other local specialties from Dagobah, boiled together,” Master Yoda said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll pass,” Ye Nan pushed the pot away and set it back in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care about food—if he wanted, gourmet feasts tasted no different from feces and urine. But here, he was just an ordinary servant, a humble attendant who’d grown up dining on delicacies beside Princess Leia; he wouldn’t touch food that made him want to vomit just by hearing about it—he remembered that firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Picky about food?” Master Yoda glanced at Ye Nan with a strange look but said nothing; he simply walked over to the pot, stirred the liquid a few times, and drank it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Master Yoda swallow that mess, Ye Nan’s face twisted in discomfort. He frowned: “You eat this stuff here, all the time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else is there to eat? This planet only has this food. If you don’t eat it, you starve. Will you eat it or not?” Master Yoda presented Ye Nan with a choice, his eyes suddenly brighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Nan’s brow furrowed deeper, his inner conflict written plainly on his face. “We can leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leave? Where could you escape the Empire’s pursuit?” Master Yoda gave him a strange look, as if a flicker of curiosity had stirred in him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Other planets. I once heard someone say: ‘The greatest hermits hide in the court, the middling ones in the marketplace, the least in the wilds.’” Ye Nan said. “The universe is vast, countless planets exist, bizarre creatures abound—your appearance may be odd, but you could still hide.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurried to add: “I didn’t mean to call you odd—just that you’re unlike most people...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his explanation was wasted. Master Yoda had been captivated by Ye Nan’s phrase: “The greatest hermits hide in the court, the middling ones in the marketplace, the least in the wilds.” He fell into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have I been wrong all along?” Master Yoda asked himself. After the Republic fell, he left—not only from despair, but primarily to evade the Empire’s hunt, to preserve his usefulness. That’s why he chose Dagobah, this uncharted world on star charts, and lived like a savage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, hearing Ye Nan’s words, he wondered if he’d been mistaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiding on Dagobah was fine, but hiding among dense populations on other planets might not draw attention either. Given the Empire’s grip on its worlds, finding him was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did you hear this phrase—‘The greatest hermits hide in the court, the middling ones in the marketplace, the least in the wilds’?” Master Yoda tapped his cane and paced a few steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d spent so many years here—he’d grown accustomed to this life. Even if he moved, he wasn’t sure he’d adapt. And since Ye Nan arrived, he knew this peace would be shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is he really a deceiver?” Master Yoda asked himself, but had no answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the prophecy, he was the deceiver—he’d seen Ye Nan meet the Sith Lord. But now he saw only an ordinary servant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since the dark side of the Force engulfed the galaxy, prophecies have grown increasingly unreliable,” Master Yoda sighed inwardly, his earlier judgment now wavering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know who originally said it,” Ye Nan replied. “I only know the phrase came from a planet called Earth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earth?” Master Yoda heard the name for the first time, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to see it. “If we survive this, I’ll go to Earth. I want to see the person who could say such a thing—what kind of person was he?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did you come here?” Master Yoda asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come here to do what?” Ye Nan was stunned. He wanted to say he came to learn the Jedi’s Force techniques—but he knew he couldn’t say that. Even if he did, Master Yoda wouldn’t teach him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t about suspicion—it was because he wasn’t a Jedi. His body held no Force. No matter what, Master Yoda would never teach him advanced Force techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Obi-Wan Kenobi—that was pure accident. Obi-Wan feared sudden death, so he needed someone to guide Luke and watch over him. Even then, Obi-Wan held back—he sent Ye Nan with Luke to find Master Yoda, precisely to bypass himself and let Yoda teach Luke directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To gain advanced Force techniques, he had to work through Luke—use his relationship with Luke to slowly extract the techniques, or simply learn them by stealth while Yoda taught Luke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he couldn’t say he came to learn advanced Force techniques, he had to change his story: “I came here to wait for Luke.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait for Luke?” Master Yoda clicked his tongue, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, only turning away silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on with him?” Ye Nan wondered inwardly. With Master Yoda, he always felt something ungraspable—Yoda never revealed his emotions. He buried them deep. Without mind-reading, Ye Nan couldn’t accurately judge his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is he dismissing me? Or what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nervous inside, Ye Nan spoke aloud: “Yes, to wait for Luke. He’ll learn Force techniques from you and become the greatest Jedi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The greatest Jedi?” Master Yoda paused mid-step. “Do you even know what the greatest Jedi truly are?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One full strike can destroy a planet,” Ye Nan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s focus on knowledge, Ye Nan had some understanding of Jedi—he knew Jedi capable of destroying a planet with a single blow were real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did Obi-Wan Kenobi tell you that?” Master Yoda chuckled. “But what you described isn’t the Jedi’s peak. The true peak far exceeds that. The Force has far more potential than you imagine. Still, for you to know this much is impressive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jedi have power beyond that?” Ye Nan’s eyes lit up. If Jedi could do more than destroy a planet, then higher realms existed—excellent news for someone like him, who sought nothing but Jedi power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wonder what the true peak of the Jedi really is,” Ye Nan said casually, hoping to draw out Master Yoda’s knowledge of the Jedi’s ultimate limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obi-Wan Kenobi believes the Jedi's peak is destroying a planet because his understanding of the Force is shallow—he cannot reach its true summit. In my years of study, I have begun to sense that realm—but alas, it is too far from me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderous crash echoed, as if a heavy object had slammed onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What was that sound?” Ye Nan instinctively wanted to activate Super Vision—but he thought better of it. He didn’t know what kind of perception Master Yoda possessed. He wouldn’t risk stumbling in the gutter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go see for yourself.” (To be continued.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1405,"2026-06-21T03:32:52.632Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b70c9d8983d6fb04c6f39b942768c6555ddb998d13fc390c21ba3e6857b115fd","arrival-in-1994-chapter-596","arrival-in-1994-chapter-594",643,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farrival-in-1994-cover.jpg"]