Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

He's a lazy bum; if he has nothing to do, he doesn't want to get up even when he's awake. He's nowhere near as diligent as authors who get up early to update their content.

However, he got up now not because he wanted to get up, but because it was lunchtime and Ying Qin Guan was a little hungry. Otherwise, this useless man could probably sleep until the afternoon.

"Good morning... oh, good afternoon, card player B."

On his way to the restaurant, Ying Qin Guan, still half asleep and lost, bumped into a guy who looked vaguely familiar. They must have played cards together yesterday, but he couldn't remember his name, so he just called him whatever came to mind.

However, the other person stopped and took a slight breath.

"What kind of name is 'card player B'? It's really rude. After all this time, you still haven't remembered my name? If that's the case, I have to consider whether you did that on purpose to get my attention. Did you think I would be like the protagonist of a domineering CEO novel, giving a wicked smile and saying, 'Man, you've caught my attention?' Obviously, that's impossible. But considering that you may have really forgotten, I'll repeat it to you now. My name is Ji Fahua Na. Remember it well, Ying Feihan."

Hey! You still didn't remember my name after all that?!

The other party's expression remained unchanged as he said:

"Obviously, I was just making a trivial joke as punishment for you calling me 'card buddy B.' Did you think I was like you, unable to remember people's names? Obviously, that's impossible. It's as incomprehensible as misremembering the direction of a restaurant, isn't it, Fu Qin Guan?"

As Jifa spoke, she walked toward the restaurant.

Ying Qin Guan stared with dead fish eyes, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back behind her.

All the words I wanted to say were reduced to a sigh.

"..Hold."

After lunch, I went to the deck to read for a while. But I couldn't concentrate and had no interest in playing cards. I put the bookmark down, placed the book on the chair, and walked to the railing.

The distance remained a vast expanse of white, with no land in sight.

Scattered across the deck, people gazed at the sea. After the first day, the loneliness on the high sea began to emerge, leaving them somewhat bewildered.

There was nothing to be seen in any direction, only the boundless sea, a loneliness that made one's heart tremble.

"This is.."

As Ying Qin Guan rested his hands on the railing and gazed into the distance, he suddenly heard Fu Fei Han's voice beside him.

He looked at Fu Feihan, then followed the other's gaze to the sea horizon.

A sizable shadow appeared underwater not far away... I couldn't see what it was, but I was certain it was quite large.

"Oh! What kind of magical beast has appeared?!" Fu Feihan exclaimed, looking full of confidence. "It's time for me to make a difference. Let me go and defeat it!"

"I advise you to skip it." Just as Fu Feihan was about to bravely take off his clothes and go into the water, Yu Xietian walked up to him and began to give him a little explanation.

“That’s a Sepuk fish—you should find the name strange because it’s a transliteration, and it looks big, but actually…” Yu Xietian’s inner energy surged, and with a flick of his finger, divine light exploded, crashing into the sea… The shadows beneath instantly dispersed.

Yu Xietian shrugged and laughed, "Actually, adult Sepuk fish are only three to five centimeters long, quite small. However, they are very special marine social creatures that like to gather together and release a special pheromone that makes other creatures mistake them for enormous animals..."

He paused here, then frowned and said, "But I remember Shenxin mentioning to me that there's a rather dangerous place... what was it again?"

Yu Xietian couldn't remember for a moment, so he turned his head and found Shen Xin on the deck, far away from Ying Qin Guan. He immediately cupped his hands into a megaphone and shouted, "Shen Xin, come and take a look."

The other person looked up unhappily, glanced at him, and gave him a cold look, but still reluctantly moved his body.

She walked over while holding up the small blackboard.

"What trouble do you have to ask me now?"

“This,” Yu Xietian pointed into the distance and said, “the Sepuk fish, I remember you told me about it before. But I don’t quite remember. Is it dangerous?”

"It poses no danger whatsoever."

Before I knew it, Shenxin had walked over, her face inexplicably flushed.

"However, this fish prefers to eat the young of the Titanoboa. Over tens of thousands of years, the Titanoboa, nearly driven to extinction by its prey, was forced to evolve special organs that allowed it to search for and evade the Sepuk fish. Therefore, Titanoboa often travel great distances to attack Sepuk fish. So the real danger lies with the Titanoboa; adult Titanoboa can even pose a threat to medium-sized alchemical ships, let alone steamships, though generally they won't be that unlucky."

"Excuse me..." Fu Feihan spoke up, his voice sounding a bit strange. He said, "The Titan Sea Serpent you mentioned, is its body about twenty or thirty meters long and two or three meters wide?"

【"good."】

Fu Feihan's voice sounded a bit heavy, "Then, is this thing moving very fast, maybe more than ten meters per second...?"

"Exactly."

Fu Feihan swallowed hard and continued, "Does it...like to move quickly at a depth of five or six meters underwater?"

"I didn't know you knew this much. You can't judge a book by its cover. That's definitely the depth that Titan sea serpents prefer when hunting."

"No..." Fu Feihan's voice was heavy as he said, "It's not that I know a lot, it's just..."

As he spoke, he pointed to a spot not far away.

"Could it be the Titanoboa you're talking about..."

A huge strip of shadow, stretching over thirty meters and two meters wide, was rapidly approaching.

"Is this what it is...?"

Shen Xin glanced at them, his expression calm, which gave Yu Xietian and Fu Feihan a great sense of security.

However, the next moment, Shenxin raised the small blackboard.

"Damn it, run!"

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Overwhelming Output

The Titan Serpent is considered one of the bosses in the ocean, but it's not exactly incredibly strong.

If they were on land, according to Shenxin's calculations, Yu Xietian could easily kill him single-handedly.

But... this is the ocean, and the ship beneath my feet is not a top-of-the-line alchemy ship, but a steamship that has been phased out by the times, and a small one at that!

If something goes wrong with the ship... that would be a huge problem.

"Disperse the Sepuk fish and don't attack the Titan Anaconda unprovoked. These creatures are extremely irritable and vengeful; they might attack us if we encountered them normally. But the Sepuk fish are drawing their aggro, so just keep your distance!"

Yu Xietian's sword finger froze in mid-air, while Fu Feihan, who had unleashed the ultimate flying sword technique of his own school, looked stiff.

Not far away, a flying sword pierced straight into the body of the Titan Sea Serpent, and a divine light suddenly exploded on its head, turning the surrounding seawater red.

Martial artist, martial artist, why is he called a martial artist? Because his body is faster than his brain, and his actions are faster than his thoughts.

When encountering monsters, the first thought is to intimidate and attack... On land, this approach is correct; most monsters are bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong. If you strike hard, their instinct for self-preservation will drive them to change targets. However, firstly, this isn't land, and secondly... some creatures become even more excited when you attack them.

While others were still debating whether to make a move, the martial artist had already flashed onto the opponent's face.

The mage can be anywhere on the battlefield, but the fighter will always be in your face.

The Titan Sea Serpent, not far away, let out a strange roar, then changed its target and charged towards them.

Yu Xietian turned his head stiffly, looking at Shenxin with hope.

Is it still possible to salvage the situation?

Shenxin raised the blackboard expressionlessly.

"Fuck you."

"I knew this money wouldn't be so easy to earn..." Yu Xietian sighed, drew his soft sword from his waist, and flicked it with his finger.

—The Imperial Academy, acting as an intermediary, collected all the commission fees from the merchants and paid them back after the students completed the task. However, the fee that Yu Xietian collected from Ruoye was even higher than the commission fees from the merchants. It's no exaggeration to say that Ruoye was essentially paying for a positive review.

Meanwhile, the roar of the Titan Sea Serpent drew everyone to this spot.

Ji Fa opened her mouth, intending to unleash a devastating attack on her teammates. But after a moment's thought, she simply sighed and drew her knight's sword.

"Let me make this clear beforehand: I have no intention of letting you off the hook. Your two foolish choices have forced us to face unexpected risks. I will definitely discuss this issue with you afterwards. Don't think you can get away with it so easily. However, with a formidable enemy at hand, we still need to deal with this thing first..."

—It can be seen that Jifa was very restrained; she spoke less this time.

"Hongyu, let's stay away and not cause trouble for the teacher." Luoshui pulled Zhong Hongyu. She knew very well that even on land, the two of them could not participate in the team to fight the Titan Sea Serpent, let alone at sea.

Zhong Hongyu shook her head and said, "With our lives hanging in the balance, we should fight with all our might."

—In fact, she and Luo Shui were the least suitable people to take action. Even Fu Feihan and Ruoye, who were also students, could at least observe, one of them had a secret flying sword technique (the kind that couldn't be retrieved), and the other was a ranged mage. But for her... it would be a waste to go there.

Although the Titan Serpent is not a top-tier magical beast, its body, which is over thirty meters long, combined with its terrifyingly powerful physique, means that even a single lash of its tail would be fatal, let alone a bite or being bound.

"Sister... Boss! Is everything alright?" Ruoye was somewhat panicked. Although she was from a noble family, there were still some things she had never seen before. She was clearly trying her best to appear calm and collected, but it seemed to have backfired. "I'll go back and get the equipment... Wait, the ship is full of anti-separation devices..."

"I take money and do things for people." Yu Xietian narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered to himself, "I'm sure I can kill this thing, but I don't know what will happen to the ship then."

Shenxin turned his head, overcoming some of his fear, and looked at Ying Qin Pass.

Ying Qin Guan rested his chin on his hand on the railing, staring with dead fish eyes, yawned, and had some tears in the corners of his eyes.

He seemed a little tired.

The Titanoboa drew ever closer, waves crashed, and the ship rocked slightly. Ying Qin Guan's book, which he had placed on his chair, fell to the ground, and the bookmark was blown away, landing on a page that Ying Qin Guan hadn't yet read.

The little beggar pushed Ji Li's wheelchair all the way to the Feng family's residence.

A beggar and a disabled person—this combination attracted a lot of attention.

The little beggar said, "Mr. Ji, we might be going to die."

Ji Li said, "It won't be us who die."

The little beggar didn't answer. The two arrived at the Feng family's residence. Ji Li, sitting in a wheelchair, gently said to the gatekeeper, "Go and call your family head. Tell him that Feng Ruo's friend has come to visit."

The gatekeeper, unaware of the truth, hurried off to deliver the message... and soon after, someone emerged.

[It was an elderly man with white hair and beard, who looked like a sage. He said, "You are Ji Li."]

Ji Li, seated in a chair, said, "Exactly."

The old man nodded in satisfaction and said, "Then go die."

[The words had barely left his mouth when the old man suddenly sprang up, his inner energy surging, and slapped towards Ji Li!]

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Looking into the distance, Ying Qin Guan suddenly said, "Hey, Yu Xietian, how much money did you get from Ruoye?"

"Why are you suddenly bringing this up...1200 pounds?"

"As expected of a duke's daughter..." Ying Qin Guan exclaimed, then said, "Give me half, and I'll help you solve this problem, how about it?"

Shen Xin suddenly raised his head and looked at Ying Qin Pass.

Ji Fa held her sword and also glanced in the direction of Ying Qin Pass out of the corner of her eye.

Although she seemed indifferent, she actually cared a lot about what happened that day... She was taken down in one move. Was it a coincidence? If so, then she had abandoned her dignity as a martial artist.

However, that one encounter was indeed insufficient to discern Ying Qin Guan's true skill level, or rather, his potential.