Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

"The audience's participation in the cooking competition seems to be a bit low."

"What should I do..."

Chapter 5: The Yorozuya's Valentine's Day Operation

Whether rich or poor, people's desire for success never ceases, whether for money or for the realization of their self-worth.

Clearly, given the boss's circumstances, his pursuit of a career is a realization of self-worth, while Yu Xietian and Shenxin... are simply looking for their next meal.

Inside the Yorozuya (Odd Jobs Shop).

Shenxin tied a white ribbon around his head, his expression resolute. He patted his small blackboard, on which were the six big characters "Valentine's Day Operation".

That's right, it's already February 12th, and Valentine's Day is just two days away on February 14th!

As we all know, the intensity of a festival's atmosphere depends mainly on three factors. First, the cultural background behind the festival. This needs no explanation; a festival with cultural depth will naturally evolve corresponding customs. Second, the length of the festival. A festival is a good festival even if it lacks corresponding customs, as long as the holiday is long enough. Third, the consumption aspect of the festival.

In other words, it's a festival that makes people spend money!

So, based on the ranking of women > children > the elderly > dogs > men, when customs and time are limited, the intensity of a festival's atmosphere mainly depends on how much the festival relates to women, and secondly on the segmentation of the women's group... Young girls and mothers are certainly different. Making a young girl happy requires a lot, while making a mother happy may only require a flower, or even no flower at all.

Of all the holidays, the one that best fits the third point is, of course, Valentine's Day!

This is a holiday that will make your wallet cry out and hotels be fully booked!

Such holidays are a great opportunity for Yorozuya to make money.

The Yorozuya has been open for about a year now and has figured out certain industry patterns. Generally speaking, they receive the most tasks during holidays, followed by special periods in the industry. For example, accounting year-end reports, or mid-term requests from Imperial Academy students.

This Valentine's Day is an opportunity you can't miss!

If you want to escape poverty and become wealthy, and rise from the ranks of the poor to the elite, it all depends on this Valentine's Day!

However... the Yorozuya is once again facing that problem that has been troubling them for so long.

That is... they are so idle that they have no work to speak of, but on special holidays like this, all kinds of requests come one after another. Shenxin and Yuxietian are too busy to complete the requests, so they have to tearfully refuse most of them and choose one that is relatively cost-effective (price) to complete.

This time, however, Shenxin finally couldn't take it anymore.

We clearly have two people, so why can we only complete one request?

Yu Xietian! It's time for you to leave your parents and complete the mission on your own!

Yes, for this Valentine's Day, Shenxin accepted two commissions. She and Yu Xietian planned to split up, each completing one commission.

This kind of Valentine's Day request is basically just helping someone else complete the task. In order to help Yu Xietian complete the task smoothly, Shenxin plans to teach him a couple of tricks first, so that he can at least handle the job. Even if the confession fails, he can still shift the blame to the employer.

It's not that I'm not good enough, it's just that they don't like you!

"Listen up, Yu Xietian, I'm going to pass on all my experience in picking up girls to you! You'll use that experience to guide your employers!"

Yu Xietian had been having second thoughts, fearing that he would end up helping the employer and not only fail to perform well but also have the opposite effect, getting beaten up by the employer. Now, hearing Shen Xin's unreliable words, he became even more hesitant and squinted, saying, "Is it really reliable? You have no experience in picking up girls."

"Nonsense! I've been with more girls than you've eaten meals! You just haven't seen it!"

Yu Xietian didn't believe it at all and even wanted to expose Shenxin's boasting.

I've known you since you were six years old.

"Grandpa had been soaking in lots of tea before he was six!"

"Grass.."

Yu Xietian was speechless and could only sigh, "Then tell me, what do you want to pass on to me? Don't tell me that the way to make girls lose their resistance is to hit their throats hard."

"Hmph, listen up..."

Shen Xin adopted the posture of a martial arts master imparting her skills, and taught Yu Xietian her so-called experience.

Yu Xietian felt conflicted, like a new recruit about to go to battle being misled by a seasoned veteran. However, the commission had already been accepted, and he couldn't simply throw a tantrum and refuse to do it.

"Very good, it seems you have mastered all my skills!"

After giving him a lecture, the god patted Yu Xietian on the shoulder with satisfaction and announced that he had officially graduated.

—Why did he graduate so quickly? Because the Divine Heart Sect was never a proper sect, and because the Divine Heart Sect members were never proper people.

Yu Xietian had no other choice but to try anything, hoping that his request would be easier.

With that thought in mind, he took out a circus ticket.

This is the location chosen by the employer on the day of the date. In an era without cinemas, using a circus as an appetizer at a hotel is quite impressive. You would hardly find a better date location.

I hope everything goes well.

Yu Xietian silently prayed a couple of times.

-

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

At Ying Qin Pass, filming for the movie has wrapped up, Jiu Yi isn't at the board game arcade, and the students haven't finished their winter break yet, so there's not much to do for the time being... Incidentally, it seems that Ahe has taken Ying Qin Pass's advice and closed the board game arcade, which will probably not reopen until the start of the new school term.

With nothing else to do, Ying Qin Guan paid more attention to his disciples.

Switching between martial arts styles is extremely difficult for a martial artist. The application itself is relatively simple, but it may require using weapons that are not familiar to the user and overcoming the physical instincts left by the previous style. The real trouble lies in the cultivation method. Most cultivation methods will change the martial artist's physical body, and changing the physical body is a long process. During this process, the conflict of internal energy will also lead to a significant reduction in combat power. Many styles cannot even be converted due to their conflicting nature.

Of the three, Fu Feihan chose to cultivate Ying Qin Pass's cultivation method and completely transformed his own cultivation technique, while Luo Shui and Zhong Hongyu only learned the cultivation method but did not transform their cultivation techniques, still relying primarily on their original cultivation methods.

February 13th.

Although Ying Qin Guan believed they were far from being ready to learn the Consciousness Slash, and that even if they did, they would be almost unable to apply it in actual combat, he couldn't resist their repeated pleas and finally decided to try teaching them the Consciousness Slash first.

Listen carefully.

Ying Qin Guan stood with his hands behind his back, looking like a peerless master imparting martial arts skills.

This is true.

"The so-called consciousness cut is to deceive the opponent's brain. If you reach my level, you can even directly cause the opponent's brain death by using consciousness cut... Of course, this is an extreme case. I only feel that I can do it, but I have never actually tried it."

"Deceiving others is too difficult for you, so the first step is to deceive yourself."

"Try hypnotizing yourself first."

Chapter Six, February 14th

Most moves are weaker against stronger opponents and stronger against weaker opponents. Of course, if your opponent is stronger than you, they can see through your moves and block or dodge them. If your opponent is weaker than you, they can't block or dodge them.

However, there are also some extremely special moves or skills that become stronger when facing stronger opponents and weaker when facing weaker opponents. Such abilities are extremely rare among humans, but may be possessed by ancestral alien races or special alien races.

And among these two, there is a special skill.

That was Ying Qin Guan's consciousness slash.

Does it become stronger when facing the weak?

Not quite... because the Consciousness Slash itself is designed to entice the opponent's brain to imagine. But just as a virgin cannot have a real sexual dream, someone who hasn't experienced a bloody battle cannot feel the terror of the Consciousness Slash—unless Ying Qin Guan expends several times more internal energy and killing intent. But of course, that won't work. Arguing about whether it's weaker or stronger against weaker opponents requires controlling the variable, namely Ying Qin Guan's effort.

So, does it become stronger when faced with a stronger opponent?

—Kui was hit, but his expression didn't even change.

The skill "Consciousness Slash" is best used against those who have "rich combat experience but are not as strong as you".

It is neither "stronger when facing the weak, weaker when facing the strong" nor "stronger when facing the strong, weaker when facing the weak." Instead, it limits the opponent's strength to a certain range. Only when the opponent is within this range can the Consciousness Slash achieve its best effect.

Of course, there were also some unlucky ones. Their strength was average, but their combat experience was extremely rich. If they encountered Ying Qin Guan, they would truly be cursed for ten lifetimes.

Corresponding to them would probably be the Jue Tian Army. Although Ying Qin Guan did not know the Consciousness Slash at that time, even if he did, it would be useless. They had no combat experience, no sense of pain, and were not afraid of death. The Consciousness Slash was completely ineffective against them because even if their "brain" died, their bodies would continue to charge.

Teaching the Consciousness Slash now is not a good choice. The Nephalem tried to learn it from Ying Qin Guan, but failed. Of course, back then, Ying Qin Guan himself hadn't been able to compile a complete set of details for the Consciousness Slash, and the Nephalem hadn't learned the prerequisites and cultivation methods for it, so it's normal that he couldn't learn it.

But this doesn't mean that these three people will definitely be able to learn it.

To kill others, you must first kill yourself.

If you can't even fool your own brain, how can you fool other people's brains?

Like the invincible Ying Qin Guan, he was a master of self-deception!

Ying Qin Guan hadn't expected the three of them to produce anything significant in just one day. But Fu Feihan was truly gifted, a natural talent. By the afternoon, he had actually managed to deceive his own brain and successfully "kill" himself!

This surprised Ying Qin Guan. He felt that this step should be paused for a while, but he did not expect that Fu Fei Han would enter the door in just one day. This talent can truly be described as rare in the world.

“That’s enough for today.” Ying Qin Guan stopped the three of them. “I don’t really recommend that you practice this move. If your basic skills are not good enough, even if you spend a lot of time building them up, it will be difficult to put them into actual combat. But I can’t keep an eye on you all the time, so you need to be aware of that.”

-

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, the atmosphere on Qiyao Street was intense, with many more mobile flower vendors and shops hanging banners announcing that they had Valentine's Day packages. Shikongsha also took the opportunity to launch a new pair of couple skins.

Speaking of which, there aren't many couples who can enter the Time-Space Kill at the same time. In its more than four thousand years of history, only a few hundred people have been selected. The requirements for the official card pool in Time-Space Kill are quite high.

Jiu Yi had arranged to go to the circus with Cao Cailan today... but before that, he went to the Time Killer's specialty store to try his luck and see if he could draw the two latest skins.

—The result, of course, was a crushing defeat.

"What bad luck..."

Jiu Yi sighed, and suddenly thought to himself, could it be that Ying Qin Guan always drew the God of War when he soloed with him, not because he was lucky, but because he was unlucky?

He fell into deep thought until Cao Cailan arrived.

She had long, sky-blue hair and wasn't dressed provocatively. But it was clearly the kind of outfit that prioritized style over warmth; she had no gloves, no scarf, no earmuffs, showing no respect for the cold air. Although winter had passed, a cold front had hit Qiyao, plunging the region into a state even more frigid than the dead of winter. According to experts, this cold front was expected to last until the end of winter break, around the end of February.

"The cold air came so suddenly, Mr. Jiu Yi." Cao Cailan probably thought she could handle it when she left home, but by the time she arrived at the meeting place, she was already a little numb from the cold. And because she wasn't a noble platypus, she hadn't learned the divine skill called being stubborn, and frankly admitted that she couldn't stand it. "I can't stand it... Have you been waiting long? Here, this is hot chocolate I bought on the way."

Jiu Yi took the hot chocolate and said, "It's alright, we didn't have to wait long... Let's go, it should be warmer in the circus."

"Ah."

Cao Cailan responded, and the two headed to the Setsuna Circus.

This is a very famous circus that travels around the world performing amazing shows. This time, they came to Seven Stars and performed for three consecutive days, from February 14th to February 17th. They started promoting the show well in advance. The original location was elsewhere, but after negotiations, the performance venue was changed to Seven Stars Amusement Park. This way, they can use the facilities to attract more visitors. If the circus is full, the circus can also go to the amusement park outside, which is a win-win situation.

As the two headed to the Seven Luminaries Amusement Park and turned to leave, Jiu Yi caught a glimpse of Yu Xietian wearing sunglasses.

The other person gave him an OK sign.

Jiu Yi saw Yu Xietian but couldn't find Shen Xin beside him, and immediately panicked. Although he knew the two from the Yorozuya were splitting up this time, he still felt that the Yorozuya would send the reliable Shen Xin to his side, after all, he was a regular customer. But...

Only Yu Xietian showed up?!

Is this guy reliable?