Chapter 1599

"My parents were illiterate, so they just picked a name." Wu Ming felt no embarrassment, nor did he feel teased or humiliated; he stated the origin of his name very frankly.

If this were any other eunuch, he would certainly think you were humiliating him and would put you on a blacklist. He would kick you when you were down at the first opportunity and take fierce revenge.

Chen Guanlou smiled with understanding. "Brother Wu has extremely high talent; no wonder you are so young and your cultivation is unfathomable. How many moves did Eunuch Wang Hai last under your hands?"

"You can see through me?" Wu Ming was very surprised.

"Is it very surprising? Seeing through your cultivation is not a difficult matter," Chen Guanlou said with a smile.

Wu Ming frowned and sized up Chen Guanlou again. "But I cannot see through your cultivation. If not for my intuition as a martial artist, if we had met suddenly, I would have mistaken you for an ordinary person who only knows a few punches and kicks. Do you have a special concealment technique, or is it that your cultivation is far higher than mine? I am already at the Ninth Rank peak, only one step away from Grandmaster. If your cultivation is far higher than mine, could it be that you are already a Grandmaster?"

"Not so!"

Chen Guanlou denied it with a smile.

But in his heart, he was shouting: what sharp intuition.

"I am the same as you, Ninth Rank. But my technique is very special, and I can't even say clearly where I am stuck at the Ninth Rank. Perhaps equivalent to the Ninth Rank peak."

"But I feel that I probably couldn't beat you," Wu Ming judged—indeed very sharp.

Chen Guanlou laughed and said casually, "Whether you can beat me or not, you'll only know after fighting."

"Then let's have a fight?" Wu Ming became excited instantly.

Chen Guanlou:...

"I won't fight!" he refused decisively.

If he suppressed his cultivation to fight the other, he estimated he wouldn't be able to determine a winner within a hundred moves. If he didn't suppress his cultivation, the other was Wei Wubing's foster son, and in the blink of an eye, Wei Wubing would hear the news.

He wasn't yet sure he could strike and kill Wei Wubing in one blow.

At the same time, he didn't want to kill Wu Ming. The other man was quite to his taste!

So...

He had to continue lying low!

Waiting for the right moment!

"Why not fight?" Wu Ming didn't understand. As a martial artist, when encountering an evenly matched opponent and having a rare chance to fight and weigh each other's strength, which martial artist wouldn't be tempted?

Refusal?

Unless the other person wasn't a martial artist, or there was some hidden reason?

He was very confused. "You shouldn't have internal injuries, nor external injuries! And I can't feel the aura of a cultivation deviation. Your aura is very smooth, so there shouldn't be a bottleneck; why not fight?"

Chen Guanlou clicked his tongue in admiration. "You are very sharp; how did you train?" He decisively changed the subject.

"Talent!" Wu Ming said matter-of-factly, without reservation. "From the moment I stepped into the martial path, I could see through others' conditions at a glance. The premise is that the cultivation difference isn't too great. You say you are Ninth Rank, and I believe you. But why do you give me the feeling that you are very strong and I couldn't beat you at all? It's really strange!"

He frowned, unable to figure it out.

Chen Guanlou picked up his wine cup and took a sip to cover it up.

He asked curiously, "Has anyone ever said you are very 'spiritual'?"

Wu Ming reminded him of the late Prince Anping, the very, very spiritual Prince Anping.

Just by the fact that Wu Ming could see through his internal condition at a glance, he had at least thirty percent of Prince Anping's spiritual energy.

Such sharp insight could be called terrifying.

Wang Hai losing to him was not an injustice!

"Yes! You are not the first."

"Who else has said it?"

"A wild Daoist priest, who could be considered my half-master. I didn't formally apprentice because I am a eunuch and not qualified to enter a sect." At this point, Wu Ming was uncharacteristically a bit sad. "He said I had spiritual energy and was willing to teach me a few moves."

"And then?"

"Master taught me for nearly a year, and then he left."

"He only taught you for a year, and you are already at the Ninth Rank peak at such a young age. Eunuch Wu, you are indeed very 'spiritual' and have extremely high talent. In all these years, you are the most talented person I have ever seen. I have seen many talented people, and Eunuch Wang Hai is one of them. But only you give me the feeling that you are a child of destiny."

"What does that mean?" Wu Ming didn't quite understand.

Chen Guanlou chuckled. "If you were in a sect, you would be the sect's Holy Son. The sect would do everything in its power to cultivate you, and all resources would be dumped on you for you to choose from. Other disciples could only pick up what you didn't want. As long as you grow up smoothly and break through smoothly, without encountering accidents while young, in the future you would be the sect's number one, the sect's treasure, the anchor, or even the sect's ancestor! You would be the confidence for the juniors to be arrogant and domineering outside. Understand?"

Wu Ming nodded hesitantly. "Understood! Prison Warden Chen is really good at 'killing with praise'!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Guanlou burst into laughter.

"You think I'm killing you with praise?" Chen Guanlou was amused to the point of anger.

"Isn't it?" Wu Ming asked back.

Chen Guanlou stared into the other's slightly sincere eyes and suddenly realized a problem. "How long has it been since you came out and saw the world?"

Wu Ming thought about it seriously. "When I was about three, I was sold by my parents to a human trafficker. The trafficker raised me until I was six and sold me to an official's family to serve the young master. Not a year later, that family committed a crime and suffered a disaster, and then I was sent into the palace to become a eunuch.

I learned the rules in the palace for half a year and was originally going to serve a noble, but because I broke a porcelain vase, I was beaten and was on the verge of death. An elderly eunuch, who had a kind heart, spent some money to have me thrown to the detached palace to fend for myself, winning me a chance at survival.

I recovered from my injuries at the detached palace and survived. When I was eight, I met my master. Master said I had spiritual energy, then taught me to read and write, taught me martial arts, and led me onto the martial path. Later, Master left, and I stayed at the detached palace until I was recalled to the imperial palace a while ago."

At this moment, Chen Guanlou was inexplicably moved. It is hard not to be moved when someone trusts you so much.

He asked curiously, "Are you this frank with everyone?"

Wu Ming shook his head. "Of course not. Just because I haven't seen the world doesn't mean I'm stupid! On the contrary, I understand everything. Although the detached palace doesn't compare to the imperial palace, it doesn't mean there was no infighting; it just wasn't as cruel as in the palace."

"Why tell me these things?" Chen Guanlou pursued.

Wu Ming pointed to his own eyes and then to his head. "You also said I am very 'spiritual', and I really am. My eyes tell me you are no threat to me, even though you are stronger than me. And you won't tell anyone about my affairs; you are tight-lipped!"

What kind of insight is this! What sharpness! Like a wild beast.

Sharp enough to make one's heart tremble.

"Do you rely entirely on feeling when interacting with people?"

"My feelings have never been wrong!" Wu Ming said solemnly.

Chen Guanlou laughed. "I am truly moved to be classified as a 'good person' by you. So, before this, you hadn't left the detached palace and indeed hadn't seen the world, right!"