Chapter 7 – The Lu Chaoge Threat Theory

Yu Yue never thought that the young man in front of him would do a “tilted head kill” on him.

Although the force was not too strong and it did not hurt, it still felt like he was being taught a lesson by his elders.

A deep sense of humiliation rose in Yu Yue’s heart and he was like an angry beast, his eyes red as he pounced on Lu Chaoge.

The end result was that the situation was completely lopsided as Lu Chaoge was stonger than him.

The young teenager Yu Yue just took another beating.

At the end of the beating, his voice trembled and his eyes were filled with hot tears as he shouted out in humiliation to his senior brother, but the other party was still too deaf to hear him and gave him another tilted head kill.

“Pah! Haven’t you eaten? Speak up, you impolite brat!” Lu Chaoge said.

But in all seriousness, Lu Chaoge may be a drag1, but he was a man of manners throughout.

It was like with the benefactor secluded in the tomb that he never met, every time he went to “visit” the tomb, he would always give a proper salute before leaving.

Without manners, no one can stand.2

So, he was justified in giving the lesson.

Due to his pride, Yu Yue didn’t care to report the beating he received. He just wanted to get his own back one day!

Young man, you have ambition!

Three days had passed since then, and it was time for the young boy, Lu Chaoge, to take the Marrow Cleansing Herb and officially enter the world of cultivation.

Ning Ying thought that it would be better to choose a day than to crash it, and since she was rich and had plenty of spiritual herbs in her storage ring, she would simply let him and Yu Yue take the Marrow, and then grant the cultivation method, allowing the two youngsters to enter the cultivation world together.

In her opinion, this event was very ritualistic and would later be considered a precious memory of their childhoods.

Several of the adults were not blind and could see that something seemed to have happened between the two teenagers, except that Ning Ying’s brain circuits were unusual and she felt that they were forming a tentative friendship.

This was a scene she was happy to see.

Therefore, Lu Chaoge and Yu Yue took the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Herb on the same day, and also cultivated the most basic Qi Refining Skill on the same day.

In the Primordial Realm, all cultivators practiced the Qi Refining Skill, without exception.

There is a nine-year compulsory education on Earth, and there is also a unified Qi Refining tutoring for the Primordial Realm in the Tianxuan Realm.

Yu Yue: “Here’s my chance!”

He knew that he was gifted and was a rare talent in cultivation for a thousand years, so he would be able to crush this “village boy” who could only use brute force in cultivation!

Then he will know what it means to be a genius, what it means to be a pride of the heavens!

“In the future, if your cultivation level is far behind me, I’ll see if you’re embarrassed to let me call you senior brother!” Yu Yue already had a perfect plan, and a smile surfaced on his clear face.

It turned out that Yu Yue was indeed superior by several times, in terms of both root bone and natural talent!

It only took him a short incense stick to absorb the full effects of the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Herb, while it took Lu Chaoge three incense sticks.

When Lu Chaoge opened his eyes, he was greeted by Yu Yue’s slightly provocative gaze.

With a crooked smile, still confident, he said, “Kid, let’s let you.”

Yu Yue was half-exasperated and gritted his teeth, “I hope you’ll still be laughing when you practice the Refining Qi Technique later.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll make you cry later.” Lu Chaoge said back.

Inside the Mo Sect’s practice room, Lu Chaoge and Yu Yue were sitting cross-legged on two separate futons.

The “Qi Refining Skill” was the most basic cultivation technique, and as long as one had the talent for cultivation, one could easily get started.

And the only criterion for initiation is – to enter into meditation!

When you can quiet your mind and enter a state of meditation, you can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

You only need to refine a small wisp of heaven and earth spiritual energy before you are considered to have successfully started and become a practitioner of the Primordial Realm.

Most people are lively and rambunctious when they are young, and many of them are like wild monkeys when they are young.

It is extremely difficult to enter into meditation.

The meditation here was not simply a state of total concentration, but a more subtle one.

Although Yu Yue has excellent bones and is extremely enlightened, it is not possible for him to achieve this on the first time.

What’s more… He already has desires in his mind, and his mind is not quiet.

But Lu Chaoge is different.

In his previous life, he was a super-rich kid who was interested in many strange and exotic things.

He had studied yoga, learned to meditate with an old monk, and practiced with a Taoist priest in the mountains, so he did have some experience in meditation.

Not to mention that he was an adult thinker and had a higher education on Earth. The Qi Refining Technique was tantamount to a textbook, and his ability to understand it was definitely better than Yu Yue who was a little kid.

Therefore, in just the time it takes to drink one cup of tea3, Lu Chaoge had easily settled down and induced Qi into his body, stepping into the primary realm!

Yu Yue watched this scene with her eyes wide open, and then…

His mind collapsed!

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On a light boat, Yu Yue recalled his childhood memories from several years ago, his heart with mixed feelings.

Looking back on it now, he still feels… so angry!

As the world’s protagonist, his mind was naturally far beyond that of ordinary people, otherwise he wouldn’t deserve to be called a cultivation genius.

But children are children after all, and when they are still young, how can there be anyone with a heart like a rock?

Therefore, at that time, it was still very easy for his mind to get messed with.

And it is well known that there are many shadows from childhood that people spend their whole lives on, and they don’t always come out.

“Yu Yue, if Master remembers correctly, you even cried back then, didn’t you?” Ning Ying inexplicably interjected.

“Master, I didn’t!” Yu Yue said decisively as he manoeuvred the leaf boat.

“You did.” Ning Ying said with certainty.

“Chao Ge had entered the stage earlier than you, when you had just entered the stage you went to him with great enthusiasm, who would have expected that he was already in the Second Level of the Primordial Realm, you were furious and cried on the spot.”

“Master, you remembered it wrong!” Yu Yue’s clear face was slightly white, and his voice had a bit of a pleading tone to it.

Stop it! Don’t say it!

This memory had long been sealed up in his dust, and at this moment, Ning Ying’s casual words were like opening the door to a dusty place.

He recalled that afternoon, when he had finally succeeded in meditating, and was about to say some harsh words, telling Lu Chaoge that he had only been negligent for a while and would soon surpass him.

The Qi Refining Technique is a very basic thing, as long as one is efficient enough in meditation and one’s mind is quiet enough, the cultivation of the Primordial Realm is really easy.

Yu Yue remembered that day, when he knocked on Lu Chaoge’s room door, the man was leaning against the bamboo door, his body exuding the rich aura of the Second Level of the Primordial Realm, tilting his head, looking down at Yu Yue with his nostrils, and said in a casual tone.

“Isn’t this just a matter of having a brain?”

At this moment, Yu Yue manipulated the leaf boat and began to fall into a tangle: “Did I really cry that day?”

Honestly, he had some trouble remembering, or rather, this memory was something he selectively couldn’t remember.

But he knew very clearly that since then, he had been convinced by Lu Chaoge.

Deep in his heart, he had long felt admiration for this senior brother.

Brother ChaoGe, I am not as good as him!

Of course, his words must have told a different story.

Half a month passed in a flash, and Ning Ying took the still-young Yu Yue away from the Mo Sect.

As they parted, Yu Yue began to doubt his life, as his heart surged with reluctance.

It was clear that he had been abused for half a month! His head had been beaten several times, but he was still a bit sad to leave!

Ning Ying’s leaf boat carried him away from the Mo Sect, and not far away came the dragging voice of the teenager Lu Chaoge.

“Not even a goodbye, impolite brat!”

Yu Yue closed his mouth and did not reply, but in his heart he shouted with force, particularly in the middle: “Farewell! Brother Lu!”

After arriving at the Sword Sect, Yu Yue quickly showed his cultivation talent and became an instant hit among the Sword Sect’s contemporaries, gaining the favor of countless elders.

His contemporaries regarded him as the pride of heaven and called him the sword cultivation genius of his time, but unexpectedly Yu Yue was always humble and polite, waving his hand and saying bluntly, “I dare not.”

For he knew in his heart that in the distant Mo Sect there was another senior brother who was far superior to himself in every way.

Whenever a disciple of the Sword Sect praised him, he would bring up a mysterious senior brother to tell everyone that they should not be complacent because they were disciples of the Sword Sect, that there were mountains beyond mountains and people beyond people.

He chased this mysterious senior brother with all his might, but in the end, what he caught up with was only his shadow.

The Sword Sect was the holy land of sword cultivation in the world and had always been the leader of the Sword Dao. The goal of every generation of sword cultivation disciples is to defend the current position of the Sword Sect in the Sword Dao.

Yu Yue, as the leader of the current generation of disciples, used to say: If anyone could threaten the position of the Sword Sect, it would be that Senior Brother!

Day after day, year after year, he kept this phrase on his lips all year round, only he was unwilling to reveal Lu Chaoge’s real name and only used the words “Senior Brother” instead.

The young disciples were curious.

“Who is he!?”

“Just how strong is he?”

　　”Does his talent really pose a threat to the younger generation of our Sword Sect?”

The “Mysterious Senior Brother Threat Theory” (“Lu Chaoge Threat Theory”), thus became prevalent among the younger generation of the Sword Sect.

1 Drag (拽): Refers to someone who is self-righteous and arrogant.
Sources:
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/431254865456525972.html
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/5907823.html?qbl=relate_question_3
Finally found what it meant, will update previous chapters later. While searching, I found someone talking about people from Beijing being rude. Is that a thing?

2 “人无礼，无以立”: A variation of the quote “不学礼无以立”, meaning, “You can’t stand without learning etiquette”. The quote is from the 16th chapter of the Analects of Confucius.
Sources:
https://baike.baidu.com/item/不学礼无以立/3522984
https://inf.news/en/baby/f972a2b25ad6e67558b1f4d48924fc12.html

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Source: https://forum.wuxiaworld.com/discussion/447/a-better-definition-for-time-in-xianxia-novels