Chapter 43: Gu Xueling's Resentment

Zhang Wei was one of this small handful of people.

Calling it foresight, he could roughly realize the importance of cultivators in the future world. But the more important factor and motivation lay in his heartfelt yearning for that magnificent and magical world.

Zhang Wei's life originally had no entertainment to speak of.

Before his Awakening, he thought of ways to earn some pocket money every day just to survive with Bai Guagua. Studying hard was for the sake of surviving better in the future.

When a person's brain is filled with the instinctive thought of "how to survive," and they have struggled to maintain this for several years, other things no longer hold any attraction for them.

This is also the reason why he did not care about Han Mei leaving his side.

However, when magic descended and the stars hung low, the desire for Transcendence suddenly pulled Zhang Wei out of the quagmire of low-level pursuits, and for the first time, he did not do something with the pure thought of survival.

Come to think of it, what better way to survive is there than standing above the clouds?

Under the dim desk lamp, Zhang Wei stared at the Star Chart in deep thought for a long time, finally fixing his gaze on the three stars named "Tian Yue" and the one star "Xuan Ge".

Yue and Ge, the meaning of weapons and armor, the nature of conquest.

The Great Sun Golden Pupils are immensely powerful, but they can only serve as a trump card and cannot be used as a conventional means to face enemies. Therefore, the urgent priority is to increase his Supernatural Ability and diversify his methods; he cannot always rely on his eyes to glare at enemies.

The video of the battle at the school campus continued to ferment as it spread, and the Resentment Value harvested could be said to be rising step by step, currently exceeding the amount of seventy thousand. After spending forty thousand to light up these four stars, if he could still evolve a Supernatural Ability, he didn't know if the remaining thirty thousand would be enough to cover the consumption...

Not every star vein can give birth to a Supernatural Ability; if there is a surplus, he decided to dump it all into the Lucky Draw.

After that "rotten apple" that had been bitten by someone last time, Zhang Wei was actually looking forward in a slightly mischievous way to what other bizarre things might pop out that could blind his eyes.

Once his mind was made up, Zhang Wei's divine sense immediately entered the "Star Palace." He first lit up the Tian Yue vein. As three stars radiating great brilliance appeared in the dark sky, a subtle yet clearly perceptible change surged into his body...

No prompt for evolving a Supernatural Ability appeared.

But Zhang Wei noticed that his physical body was stronger, and the Star Power within his body was more abundant. Even in his most fragile eyes, some cool, refreshing substance seemed to surge into the tiny blood vessels, giving his eyeballs and vision a clear improvement.

The sufficiently tough eye organs made the Great Sun Golden Pupils more enduring—feeling the changes like a trickling stream, a realization dawned in Zhang Wei's heart.

Once this process ended, he immediately lit up the Xuan Ge star.

As this star shone brightly, a prompt appeared: Do you wish to evolve Weapon Intent?

Weapon Intent? What kind of thing is that?

Zhang Wei was a bit stunned, but he still chose to evolve it. Watching ten thousand Resentment Value quickly drop, he felt a little disappointed.

The consumption was far less than the Great Sun Golden Pupils, so he supposed the power was also limited, right?

At the same time, dozens of miles away, in a quiet courtyard, Gu Xueling was sweating profusely. Her snow-white, slender legs and the cold, shooting sword light complemented each other, making Gu Shouzhi, who was watching quietly from the side, recall a line.

A beauty is like jade, a sword is like a rainbow.

The sword edge cut through the air, whistling and making one's scalp tingle. Following a flash of lightning, a sharp sword sank deeply into a large bluestone several feet away, with only the hilt left outside, trembling slightly.

"Good! Ling'er has finally entered the hall and ascended to the room. Shouzhi, your younger sister has already walked ahead of you; do you still not know how to work hard?"

An old man with white hair and beard spoke eloquently: "In the past, Li Guang mistook a stone for a tiger and shot an arrow at it, burying the arrowhead in the stone. Later, he shot again but could not achieve the same effect. Do you know the reason for this?"

Gu Shouzhi thought for a moment and said with a calm expression: "A tiger pouncing for food is as swift as the wind, and human strength cannot compare. If Li Guang's first shot had not hit, he would surely have been harmed by the startled tiger, so he had a thought of certain death; the arrow and his intent were united, moving forward without retreat. Later, when he discovered it was just a stone, the second shot lost the intent to kill, and thus it could not enter the stone."

"The two demon creatures that attacked Yi Zhong during the day, and Xueling fought a great battle with them; it seems she has gained from the misfortune."

Although Gu Shouzhi said this, he felt quite bitter inside.

During the day, he was still lecturing the other party in the car, but in just half a day, his cousin's cultivation had suddenly surpassed his own.

The old man nodded, "Li Guang, as a commanding general, personally went into battle year after year to fight the Xiongnu. The killing intent in the hearts of such ancient warriors who could stand out in the age of cold weapons far exceeds that of ordinary people, and they could often achieve the union of intent and weapon unintentionally."

"You were born in this peaceful era and have no opportunity to reach this realm through slaughter. Only those who practice year-round, are dedicated, and have superior comprehension can gradually master it, fusing the intent in their hearts with the long sword in their hands. The sword comes from the heart, the sword is born from the intent..."

"The battle during the day was not the main reason for Ling'er's breakthrough; it was merely a trigger. The real reason lies in her ten years of unremitting perseverance. Before the Giant Demon Devouring the Moon, no matter how these ancestral inheritances were practiced, nothing came of them. Didn't even you give up halfway?"

As he spoke, the old man said with emotion: "This child has accumulated for many years, and only then did she have this breakthrough. Now that the world has changed, those who have mastered sword intent can go even further than the ancients... My Gu Family finally has a successor. Let's see how far Xueling can go in the future!"

Gu Shouzhi hurriedly said: "Grandfather, didn't you participate in that war in the eighties? The cruelty of modern warfare far exceeds that of ancient times; why can't even you master sword intent?"

The old man shook his head, "It's different... To miss it is to miss it. Now that I am old, the decline of a person lies not only in the body but also in the will..."

Half an hour later, Gu Xueling finished bathing and looked at her snow-white, jade-like skin in the mirror with satisfaction. Only then did she put on a light, thin silk bathrobe, lay on the bed feeling refreshed, and casually picked up her phone to scroll through it. She saw that there was another message posted by Zhang Wei on her WeChat Moments:

"Just used a tin broom handle to vigorously strike a whetstone; the stone shattered but the handle didn't break. I've actually grown capable again."

Seeing this tone, Gu Xueling's teeth itched with resentment: Yes, yes, yes, you've grown capable, why don't you fly to the sky?

But after looking at the attached photo, she recognized it as that kind of traditional natural whetstone, quartzite material, the hardest and heaviest kind. A huge piece of it was shattered into pieces all over the floor, and she couldn't help but be shocked.

Was this really shattered by that kind of hollow tin handle? That kind of thing, any child could snap it in half easily, right?

Even if a person's strength is great after Awakening, it's impossible to kill someone by throwing a cotton ball at them!

Gu Xueling was somewhat incredulous, but she immediately thought that if the other party had also mastered the union of weapon and intent, then it would make sense...

But, why!!

Wuwu... I practiced for a full ten years just to...

The spirit that Gu Xueling had just fostered vanished like a bubble in an instant.

Absorbing Gu Xueling's Resentment, +999, +9, +9...

Zhang Wei on this side blinked his eyes: Huh? What does this little girl have an opinion about me for again?