The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 144 - 138 Someone Unheard

Chapter 144: Chapter 138 Someone Unheard

At Wuya Inn, while the master and disciple conversed, in room number three of Yellow Character Hall, a certain student surnamed Meng, rumored to be deaf, also had his own visitor.

"I originally planned, after the competition in the Literary Arena was over, to promote you to a core scholar for better instruction. It is a pity..." Mr. Wuqu held up a book in his hand for Qing Yu to see.

Communicating with someone who has impaired hearing always poses some difficulty if one doesn’t know sign language. Fortunately for Qingyu, as a deaf person, he wasn’t the one who needed to exert extra effort.

He smiled lightly, showing no sign of despair or sadness about his impaired hearing, and poured a cup of tea for Mr. Wuqu, saying, "There’s nothing to pity, compared to other fellow disciples who died in the Small Secret Realm. That I am only hearing-impaired is already fortunate enough.

"Moreover, I am merely temporarily leaving to seek a cure. If by chance I manage to get treated, I would hope that you’d leave a door open for me at that time."

This humorous remark made Mr. Wuqu, who usually maintained a serious expression, smile slightly and he wrote down, saying, "Mountain River Academy will always have its doors open for you."

"Then I am at ease," Qingyu clapped his hands in a gesture of relief.

The conversation abruptly ended there. Mr. Wuqu, not a man of many words, felt pained over his extraordinary student’s misfortune and didn’t know how to communicate with him. Thus, after a while, he wrote, "You should rest well. I must leave now, but you can find me anytime if there is anything."

"Safe travels, Teacher," Qing Yu stood up to see him off.

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Not long after Mr. Wuqu left, another visitor arrived; it was Feng Jiu.

When Feng Jiu arrived, Qingyu was carefully reading a bamboo scroll and occasionally lifting his cup to sip some tea.

Feng Jiu sat down opposite Qingyu and, looking at him holding the bamboo scroll, couldn’t help but ask, "Are you... really deaf?"

Feng Jiu still found it hard to believe that this man, so formidable in his eyes, had been rendered hearing-impaired by insignificant characters like Chen Yan. What was this? A large strategic oversight or a minor stumble? It all seemed bizarrely funny.

"No," Qingyu suddenly quipped.

These two brief words startled Feng Jiu, who looked at Qingyu with a bit of horror as Qingyu turned his gaze toward him and said, "You... aren’t deaf?"

"I am not deaf," Qingyu nodded but then added, "However, I currently cannot hear."

"How do you know what I’m saying then?"

"Do you remember the methods I thought of to prevent Lu Qifeng from eavesdropping? Writing, sign language, and lip reading. Writing was inconvenient, and lip reading was too difficult to practice, so we chose sign language in the end. But I never gave up on lip reading and kept practicing. Now that I’ve mastered it, I can understand what you’re saying," Qingyu explained with a light laugh.

"So you say you are not deaf but cannot hear, what does that mean?"

"Have you read the ’Yin Runes Scripture’? There’s a phrase in it: ’The blind are good listeners, the deaf are good observers. From closing off one sense, gains in another multiply.’ I purposefully sealed my hearing to enhance my eyesight. The ability to learn lip reading in such a short period of time is thanks to the improvement in my eyesight," Qingyu elucidated.

"Is that so..." Feng Jiu murmured to himself.

Just to enhance eyesight, he sealed his hearing; was it really that simple? Feng Jiu faintly felt that Qingyu wasn’t revealing the entire truth. In his mind, this formidable man wouldn’t seal off his hearing just to learn lip reading. There must be a bigger reason hidden beneath.

"You can think of it that way," Qingyu said with a sly smile.

Really, was it just that? Of course not. While it was true that enhancing eyesight was the goal, there was more to it than that. Regardless, an ordinary deaf person would not be able to learn lip reading in such a short period.

Qingyu sealed his hearing to enhance his eyesight and to cultivate the ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience.’

The absolute philosophy skill, ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience,’ was divided into two parts: ’Knowledge’ and ’Gained Through Experience.’ Gained through Experience involved using eyesight to see through detailed characteristics of a target and calculating breaches in the mind; it resembled Martial Arts more like a way of cognition.

Therefore, Qingyu’s past unbeatable skill in quickly mastering Martial Arts didn’t work on ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience.’ Since his self-created ’Heavenly Person Rebirth Technique’ integrated the ’Little Faceless Skill’ along with the principle of Yin Yang creating everything, Qingyu’s speed in mastering Primordial Energy-related Martial Arts was extraordinarily fast.

While cultivating ’Black Heaven Book,’ integrating the Tribulation Power that could transform myriad energies into his own Martial Arts system, Qingyu could immediately cultivate Internal Cultivation Methods upon acquisition to the level of his current Realm, enriching the diversity of his Martial Arts.

However, this quick learning method still had its limitations. The first point is that it only related to Martial Arts involving True Qi. Like those that dual cultivated Qi or those that solely cultivated spiritual power or Body Refinement still needed patient step-by-step cultivation. ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience’ did not fall within this scope, and Qingyu needed to train painstakingly by himself.

Knowledge didn’t involve True Qi, and Gained Through Experience was a combination of both True Qi and spiritual power. Only by locking on with spiritual power could one achieve the ultimate effect. This aspect showed that Lu Yi’s talent was one in ten thousand. Being able to use spiritual power at the Innate Realm indicated that his spiritual power was naturally far beyond ordinary people; had he not frequently used ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience’ before clashing with Qingyu, the outcome─who would fall─remained uncertain.

Back to the main topic, Qingyu sealed his hearing to better cultivate ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience’ and to use his eyes more, enhancing his ’Void Eye.’

Indeed, Qingyu finally had a name for the Divine Skills of his eyes that came with cultivating ’Black Heaven Book,’ just like the Divine Skills named by Xian Tainu in Canghai.

Actually, based on the functions demonstrated, names like ’Thousand-mile Eye’ or ’Heavenly Eye’ would be more fitting. But Qingyu felt the former lacked impact, and the latter was almost cliché.

Coupled with the capabilities of ’Knowledge Gained Through Experience,’ it could also be named ’Eye of Truth’ or ’Direct Death Demon Eye’ or something like that. Then, recalling their related catchphrases, Qingyu felt a bit embarrassed. Phrases like "Even the gods will be killed for you to see" were just too embarrassing for Qingyu, whose mental age had reached a point of no doubt.

So, in the end, Qingyu still chose the name ’Void Eye.’ ’Void’ also had the meaning of ’Dao,’ which indeed matched the path Qingyu was following.

With these thoughts flashing through his mind completely explained, his expression remained unchanged as he spoke, "I sealed my hearing to achieve my goals and to leave Mountain River Academy. Staying here now no longer brings significant benefits; it’s necessary to go out and expand my influence.

"In this Academy, with so many stronger than me floating about, one is always restricted, cautiously fearing discovery by others."

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