Chapter 57 Don’t Worry!

The cool breeze was refreshing, caressing the green grass on the ground.

There were circles of ripples drifting on the surface of the lake, and the soil gave off a sweet fragrance that made people’s mouths water.

A boy and a girl were sitting side by side by the lake, looking like a passionate couple who secretly skipped their classes and went out to have fun.

When two people were in a relationship, every word they said was telling others that they were in love.

However, the ideal is plump, but the reality is always bony.

They were in the departure. The girl would say goodbye to the boy.

The girl would go to the distance, somewhere far away.

The boy said that he would see her again, but the girl thought that it was unlikely to happen.

Hearing Li Muyang’s words, Cui Xiaoxin slightly raised the corner of her mouth and said, “I’m trying very hard to say goodbye to you.”

“I know,” Li Muyang said, smiling. “I’m seriously joking with you.”

“You’ve changed a lot.” Cui Xiaoxin glanced at Li Muyang and said, “You’ve become the same as Yan Xiangma. Oh, I remembered. When you attacked Zhang Chen that day, your words were much sharper than those of Yan Xiangma. Or, you two were born birds of a feather. Am I right?”

“As the saying goes, who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. Yan Xiangma has been looking for me all day long. Perhaps, I have been somewhat tainted with some of his bad habits.”

“Then, you will also become a dandy.”

“Well, people have to born into rich and noble families to become dandies. It’s very difficult to make themselves dandies with their own efforts.” With a smile, Li Muyang continued, “No matter how hard I work, I won’t be able to become the son of the City Lord, will I?”

Cui Xiaoxin smiled and said, “But you can make your son the son of the City Lord.”

“With your blessing, I will try my best.” Li Muyang pulled up a blade of sugarcane-grass from the ground and put it in his mouth to chew. He didn’t know when he got used to doing this. Perhaps, this habit began when he sat there staring blankly someday and picked up his first sugarcane-grass to chew. “But haven’t we already made an appointment? We are going to watch the sunset by the Nameless Lake of Xifeng University. I think I should be able to go to Capital Heaven soon.”

“By the time I arrive at Capital Heaven.” Cui Xiaoxin was about to speak but said nothing. After a long time, she said in a low voice, “I will have been occupied with my study, so I don’t know if I have the time to watch the sunset with you.”

Li Muyang stiffened, but soon he said with a smile, “It doesn’t matter. Anyway, we will stay at school for several years. We don’t need to worry about this kind of thing. When you are free, we can go to see the sunset by Nameless Lake.”

“Well, but I don’t know how long we’ll have to wait,” Cui Xiaoxin added, “I hope that we can see the sunset together someday.”

Cui Xiaoxin felt that she should say something more decisive to show her determination so that she could make a clean break with him, who was originally from a different world. But when she met Li Muyang’s eyes, she just couldn’t say anything like that.

Li Muyang remained silent, and Cui Xiaoxin stopped talking.

The boy and girl sat by the lake, worrying about the worries that they shouldn’t have at their age.

After a long time, Li Muyang said in a low voice, “Cui Xiaoxin, what are you worrying about?”

“What?”

“I know I don’t deserve you, but I just want to be an ordinary friend with you.” Li Muyang looked coolly at Cui Xiaoxin. “I admit that I had expected to be your boyfriend, but soon I extinguished the spark of hope in my heart. I didn’t tell you when I liked you, and neither did I tell you when I decided not to. The reason why I didn’t say it was that I knew you would not want to hear it,” said Li Muyang calmly as if he were telling a story that seemed to have nothing to do with him.

“At our age, who doesn’t like beautiful girls? In my eyes, you are not only beautiful but also kind and independent. I have really thought about how good it would be if you could become my girlfriend. We could be together just like the other couples in our school. At that time, I would be the most eye-catching boy that others envied the most in the school, right?”

“I have never asked you about your family background, although I have already guessed that you must come from a remarkable family. Since even Yan Xiangma is your cousin, I suppose that your family must be as powerful as his. I know that we are from two different worlds, and I also know that it is impossible for you to love a boy like me, who is neither handsome nor outstanding. I think that we may become ordinary friends. Even if you are just a friend of mine, I believe you will be a perfect friend. Also, you are my first real friend. Besides Sinian, you are the only one at my age who is willing to come into contact with me.”

“However, you suddenly disappeared, and you don’t want to go to my home anymore. I tried to look for you, but I didn’t even know where you lived. You are trying hard to push me away for you want our relationship back to the initial state. I can feel all of this. Now you are not even willing to be an ordinary friend of mine, aren’t you?”

“Li Muyang…”

“Cui Xiaoxin, don’t worry.” Li Muyang grinned and said, “Even if we are still friends, I won’t pursue you. Even if both of us are in Xifeng University, I won’t ask you to be my girlfriend, either.”

“…”

Cui Xiaoxin left.

She left the Sunset Lake and would also leave Jiangnan City.

Li Muyang was left alone, sitting by the Sunset Lake. He could no longer squeeze the sweet juice out of the blade of sugarcane-grass in his mouth, but he still felt reluctant to stop chewing.

Li Muyang was a person who valued a lot his relationship with others because he had so few friends.

Meanwhile, Li Muyang was a nostalgic person, because there were no other memories for him to cherish except for this.

That day under the blood-red dying sun, numerous carps jumped out of Sunset Lake to present themselves before him. Whenever Li Muyang recalled such a scene, he would think that he might become a great man one day.

“At that time, there will be a lot of people who are willing to be friends with me, right?” Li Muyang thought to himself.

When Cui Xiaoxin arrived at the riverbank, Yan Xiangma was already there, waiting for her.

Yan Xiangma looked toward somewhere in the distance, but he couldn’t see where Li Muyang was at all.

He grinned and said, “Have you said goodbye to him?”

“Yes,” Cui Xiaoxin said with a poker face.

“Have you made the thing between you and him clear?”

“Shut up.”

“Then, that is to say, you didn’t make it clear.” Yan Xiangma slightly shook his head and said, “Love is the most sentimental word. However, you did this for his good. The day when Li Muyang took the exam, Crow went to attack his family. I arrived there in time and got them out of danger. However, some of his time for the exam was wasted. Therefore, I think that he has small hope of getting into Xifeng University. Worse still, whether he can go to Capital Heaven or not is still unknown. At that time, you two will separate from each other, too.”

“I have a feeling,” Cui Xiaoxin said in a firm voice. “He will definitely go to Capital Heaven, and he will greatly stir up the political situation there.”

“How can you tell his fortune?”

“You didn’t see his eyes.” Cui Xiaoxin explained with a sad voice, “You didn’t see how aggrieved and unwilling he looked.”

“…”

Cui Xiaoxin left, but Li Muyang didn’t go to see her off.

Li Sinian had been there to say farewell to Cui Xiaoxin. After that, she simply said to Li Muyang, “Sister Xiaoxin left, and so did the idiot young master.” Li Muyang didn’t ask for more about the scene of the farewell, so Li Sinian didn’t say much.

Cui Xiaoxin, who seemed to be a passer-by in their lives, passed them by like many people that brushed past them in the downtown. They might think of each other occasionally, or even cherished the memories of each other. However, neither of them could return to the past.

Every day, Li Muyang wrote, read, and learned the Qi-breaking Technique from his sister.

He had sheer brute strength but didn’t know how to use it. Each punch that he delivered was either weak and feeble or powerful enough to destroy everything.

Since the strength of his punches always went to these two extremes, Li Muyang certainly knew he didn’t learn this technique in the right way.

But since there was no great teacher to guide him, he could only consult Li Sinian, who had practiced martial arts and Qi ahead of him.

Though Li Sinian didn’t know much, she instructed her brother without reservation. Owing to Li Muyang’s extremely strong learning ability, Li Sinian found that she soon had nothing to teach him. She, who was always eager to do well in everything, was unwilling to give up on this. Thus, after finishing her homework, she would drill the Qi-breaking Technique diligently every day.

In the process, Li Sinian’s skills had been greatly improved.

Also, Li Muyang borrowed the original “Qi-breaking Technique” from Li Sinian to study. Last time, Li Sinian wanted to use it to exchange for Li Muyang’s life, but Crow disagreed. As a result, Li Muyang took Crow’s life instead…

The “Qi-breaking Technique” was a valuable book of the Taoist Qi cultivation, which was easy to get started. By practicing it, people could build up good physiques and improve their health. However, if people wanted to cultivate seriously, according to this book, it would be challenging. Li Sinian was able to use the Shattering Fist only because she was very talented and had kept practicing for many years.

The book “Qi-breaking Technique” said that once a practitioner of the “Qi-breaking Technique” had practiced it to the limit, he would be capable enough to hold the sun and the moon as well as break the void. Li Muyang didn’t know if all of this was true. On the one hand, the book could possibly make people as excellent as it had described. On the other hand, the author of the book might have bragged much when he wrote the preface for himself.

After all, every writer likes bragging.

Li Muyang was delighted as he looked at this book, and many times, he would be enlightened all of a sudden.

In the past, Li Muyang knew nothing about martial arts. Now, he finally had a chance to go through a systematical process of learning and cognizing them.

The book went from the easy to the complicated, which fitted Li Muyang’s present physical condition well.

What surprised him the most was that he felt very familiar with the latter part of the book.

There are numerous great ways for practitioners to cultivate themselves and a great many techniques for people to practice. All roads will lead to the same glorious peak as long as people use these methods to the limit.

Li Muyang felt that many knowledge points in the “Qi-breaking Technique” were the same as those in his memory, although he dared to swear on Yan Xiangma’s moral quality that he had never read this book before.

But since too many strange things had happened in recent days, Li Muyang no longer felt that such a thing was worth exploring. Even if he wanted to make a thorough inquiry about it, it would also be difficult for him to get the answer.

Now, he desperately absorbed the knowledge of the “Qi-breaking Technique”, like a traveler who was rather thirsty for water.

Firstly, he would remember the content in this book. Then he would compare the newly learned knowledge with that of in his memory to confirm it. Finally, he would develop a way of systematically practicing according to his physical condition.

Li Muyang indeed became much smarter.

Like a fleeting show, this period flew by fast.

At the end of August, the admission results of all the famous universities in the empire finally came out.