Chapter 377: Peerless Genius

"You answer my question first!"

Zhang Su said with some displeasure, "Do you know how to be polite? I asked you first, and you have to answer before you can ask a new question!"

Ju Wuying pursed her lips, took a step back, closed her eyes, stretched out her hands to move in the surroundings, and said slowly, "Thin mist is the Qi I mentioned. Using Qi, you can feel everything around you. Striking a static meditation posture and closing your eyes to perceive the existence of Qi is the entry, the first step, but..."

At this point, she opened her eyes and looked at Zhang Su with curious eyes again.

"But what?"

Zhang Su waited for the other party's follow-up.

Seeming very reluctant to speak, Ju Wuying struggled in her heart for a while, lowered her eyes, and said, "No one has ever been able to complete the first step in just one day, no, one afternoon... You, are amazing."

Although she was extremely unwilling to believe this in her heart, when the facts were in front of her, Ju Wuying still praised the other party from the bottom of her heart.

"Oh?" Zhang Su was stunned for a while when he heard this, then grinned and said, "Haha, it's rare that you can still praise people. So, am I a martial arts genius?"

Ju Wuying's expression didn't change because of Zhang Su's teasing, but she just nodded in agreement and said, "Genius."

She wouldn't tell Zhang Su the real situation. She had spent a full month completing the first step, and that was with the help of a large amount of secret medicine brewed inside the Ju family. In her view, even if Zhang Su had a breakthrough, it would take seven or eight months, or even more than a year. The result was that he only used half a day?

In the records of the entire Ju family, the fastest one took five days. In other words, Zhang Su had beaten all the geniuses of the Ju family for thousands of years. This wasn't something that could be summarized by a simple "genius."

While Ju Wuying's heart was filled with mixed feelings, Zhang Su was also muttering in his heart.

"Could it be because of the energy?"

It was hard not to associate it like this. The last time he felt the special effect of full energy was a great increase in hearing, and this time, under the state of basic full energy, he had a breakthrough in training. Let's just connect the two for now.

Thinking about this, Zhang Su glanced at the energy bar. It had fallen from 100% after dinner to 95%. The price of rapid breakthrough was the rapid consumption of energy.

He hurriedly said, "We came here at night to train. What do you mean by standing there in a daze? Are you jealous that I'm a genius and don't want to teach anymore?"

Ju Wuying showed a complex expression, because Zhang Su had hit the nail on the head, but in the end, she shook her head: "People of the Ju family never break their promises."

"Break promises... still so literary. Are you Yu Wen's student?"

Zhang Su grinned and urged again, "Come on, let's start quickly."

"Okay."

Ju Wuying didn't dawdle either. Since she had promised to teach Zhang Su, she would fulfill her promise, which could also be considered a contribution to the camp.

For the next three hours, Zhang Su continued high-intensity training. Because he had already entered the door, the items were slightly different from the afternoon, and Ju Wuying also told him some unique techniques.

Yi Xiaoling sat on the side, looking very withered. Ju Wuying's teaching didn't avoid her, and she also wanted to learn, but she found that with her own conditions, even the most introductory movements could only be barely maintained for a few seconds. The difference wasn't just a little bit, so she decisively gave up...

She simply sat in the room watching the two train, but no one knew that her gaze wasn't focused on Ju Wuying.

At 10:00 PM, the training ended. Ju Wuying looked at Zhang Su, who was exhausted again, with a faint sense of achievement on her face.

Three hours passed, and Yi Xiaoling was nowhere to be seen. She really wanted to stay in Jingxin Garden, but her physical fitness didn't allow it. Even holding a hot water bag, she couldn't withstand the severe cold and had to return early.

"How is the progress?"

Ju Wuying asked about Zhang Su's training results at night.

"Hu..."

Zhang Su was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt at the moment. The temperature was close to minus 30 degrees, but his whole body was steaming. Hearing Ju Wuying speak, he felt it carefully and shook his head. "I can't feel the thin mist when I open my eyes!"

"That's the third step. You're thinking too much."

Ju Wuying said lightly, "You should strive for the second step now."

"You mean not having to do that strange posture counts as the second step? That's fine then!"

When training started at night, Zhang Su needed to strike a meditation posture and close his eyes to feel the white mist, but now no matter where he went, he only needed to close his eyes, and he could immediately feel thin mist drifting around him, and he could clearly feel some situations within four or five meters around his body.

It was precisely because he realized the magic of the white mist that Zhang Su was finally able to understand Ju Wuying's "Observation Haki," because in his perception, Ju Wuying's movements were very clear, but to achieve prediction, long-term practice was needed.

This was a long process where the master leads you to the door, but the practice depends on the individual.

Ju Wuying sighed slightly after hearing Zhang Su's words. From the series of reactions just now, she had already judged that Zhang Su had completed the second step, but she didn't dare to believe it in her heart, because the speed of progress made her feel absurd.

From zero to one was the most difficult, and from the first step to the second step was actually not too difficult. She only used six days, and the fastest in the Ju family only used one day.

But if you take from zero to two as a whole, Zhang Su only used one afternoon plus the night. If calculated by hours, it was about seven hours...

This could no longer be described as unimaginable. Ju Wuying even felt that this set of martial arts inheritance of the Ju family was tailor-made for Zhang Su, otherwise, how could it be so compatible?

"No, I can only feel external things, and I can't feel any internal emotions at all. How much longer until that step?"

Zhang Su tried to feel Ju Wuying's attitude toward him, but unfortunately, there was no way to start.

Hearing Zhang Su's words, Ju Wuying curled her lips and said, "That's a very late ability. You don't have to be too anxious."

"Is that so? That's fine. Hey, how is my learning ability?"

Zhang Su asked smugly, took off his short-sleeved shirt, wiped the sweat off his body with trembling arms, and then quickly put on warm clothes and a coat. Those who knew would know that his muscles were exhausted and shaking after training; those who didn't would think he was shivering from the cold...

While teaching Zhang Su, Ju Wuying was also training herself. At this moment, she slowly stretched her movements and said lightly, "Your learning ability is very amazing. It's the most amazing I've ever seen, none of them."

"Haha." Zhang Su smiled and waved his hand. "Overpraised, overpraised. It can only be said that you have seen too few people, and they are probably all people from your country, right? If you had come to our country earlier, you would find that many are not worse than me. This is nothing."

"I suggest you take a hot bath after going back, relax for at least half an hour, and don't sleep within two hours. Wait until you don't feel muscle soreness before going to sleep, otherwise, your body will be very difficult to recover."

Ju Wuying didn't pick up the topic, but instead gave Zhang Su some small suggestions.

Zhang Su picked up the short-sleeved shirt that had gradually frozen hard and smiled. "Difficult to recover? Do you think I need to recover? I can continue to practice for three hours without any problem, but you need to rest. There's plenty of time, continue tomorrow."

"People of the ancient Heavenly Dynasty are mostly humble gentlemen. You are very arrogant. Clearly, your fingers can't even be lifted, yet you still want to be tough." Ju Wuying spread her hands, a bit helpless.

Zhang Su rubbed his face in exhaustion and smiled. "What you see is not necessarily true. Remember, eyes are not reliable. Don't believe too much in what you see!"

"I am feeling!"

Ju Wuying shook her head. In her world, she could feel that Zhang Su was already at the end of his rope, like a group of withered Qi, similar to when the afternoon training ended. Just like this, if she rushed up and gave him a slap, Zhang Su wouldn't have the strength to fight back.

"If you think so, then so be it. Good night, have a good dream."

While speaking, Zhang Su waved his hand with his back to Ju Wuying. As he walked toward the courtyard gate, he activated the second backup energy bar.

Hum.

Less than two seconds after the energy bar was activated, Ju Wuying felt a powerful airflow burst out from Zhang Su not far in front, and the whole person radiated new life, just like a different person!

"Wait a moment!"

Ju Wuying stepped forward, sliding with her feet, blocking Zhang Su's way, her expression full of astonishment.

Although the light was dim, it could be seen that the other party's eyes were like a dragon at this moment, and a powerful aura radiated from his body. He was so full of energy that it was simply unreasonable, as if layers of air waves were surging out from him!

"Eh, your movement technique just now was pretty good. When will you teach it to me?"

Zhang Su looked at Ju Wuying with a half-smile. He knew exactly what his body condition was now. Just like what he promised Zheng Xin before, taking on two, he would keep his word!

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