Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

Ji Chaoge smiled confidently, staring intently at Cain. He grinned and said, "It seems that you thought you had killed me the other day, so you didn't take a closer look at my memories. Cain, I'm giving you a chance to take a closer look at my memories now. I've already explained why you helped me."

Cain said nothing, but turned his gaze to Ji Chaoge. Under his watchful eyes, everything about Ji Chaoge was exposed, and ancient memories were unearthed from the corners and reflected in Cain's eyes.

The Red Emperor remained expressionless, waiting patiently on the sidelines, not in a hurry to make a move.

He wasn't at his full potential yet. If Cain tried to stop him, he would definitely not be able to kill Ji Chaoge. Although he hadn't tried it and had no evidence, he just had this feeling that Cain exuded an aura of invincibility.

Ji Chaoge...can he really persuade Cain? If he succeeds, it means he's been completely crushed by Cain, twice in a row...

Time ticked by, and everyone waited, waiting for the truth to come out.

Several minutes later, Cain finally spoke. He hadn't found the answer the first time he looked at it, and he'd scanned every corner of his memory the second time, still without success. On the third look, he vaguely sensed something. So, on the fourth look, he finally understood what Ji Chaoge meant.

"I see..." Cain sighed softly, then asked, "Do you think you can do it?"

“If I can’t do it,” Ji Chaoge retorted, “then who in this world can?”

This was an incredibly arrogant statement, yet Cain did not refute it, but instead nodded in agreement:

"That seems to make sense..."

Then, Cain slowly turned around and looked at the Red Emperor.

"Unfortunately... the Red Emperor, he convinced me."

Chapter 49 Who is whose calamity?

(PS: 62 missing)

The result was unacceptable to both the Red Emperor and Hiramura Tanzaku; they couldn't believe their ears, yet it had happened.

At this point, everything became clear: as Ji Chaoge had said, Cain decided to help him.

"Why..." The Red Emperor's crimson pupils stared intently at Cain, his voice hoarse as he roared, "What did you see in his memories? It might just be a lie!"

This was the Red Emperor's first thought, and also the first thought of most people present: that Ji Chaoge had lied in a certain memory to deceive Cain.

But Cain gently shook his head, denying their guess.

“A part of a memory can indeed be a lie.”

Cain said softly:

"But you and I have all misunderstood... Misunderstood. How many times has this word appeared today? We've all seen parts of his memories, yet we still misunderstand him time and time again. Even after seeing his memories, we still can't truly understand his thoughts. Me too, I'm incredibly stupid. It took me one, two, three, four times before I finally understood what he meant."

"What...does that mean?" The Red Emperor asked incredulously, his voice low. "If he didn't use a certain memory to persuade you, then why..."

“He did convince me with his memories,” Cain said calmly. “But he didn’t use a particular memory; he used his entire life up to this point.”

"Life so far...?"

"Yes, so far in my life."

The Red Emperor subconsciously glanced at Ji Chaoge, who was smoking with a calm expression. Noticing the Red Emperor's gaze, Ji Chaoge even smiled at him.

Cain, with his hands behind his back, explained, “At first, I also thought that there was some key information in his memory that could convince me. But after reading it twice, I still couldn’t find it. It wasn’t until the third time that I realized that what he showed me was not a particular memory, but his entire life up to this point. The fourth time confirmed this.”

"Life...?" The Red Emperor paused for a moment, then looked at Ji Chaoge as well. "Looking at his life, what's wrong with that? Why were you convinced?"

"Throughout his life so far, I have seen his overflowing talent, his extraordinary genius," Cain said softly. "Ye Jiaofang thinks he inherited everything from you. But he's wrong, Red Emperor. Your inheritance only accelerated his development. Even without those things, he would have reached this point sooner or later..."

The Red Emperor's mind went blank for a moment. Combining this with the previous conversation between Cain and Ji Chaoge, he finally understood Ji Chaoge's true intention in letting Cain see his memories.

"I don't know where you are in your research right now, but I guess you're stuck on the part about 'treating the dead as living people in the mysticism,' because that person has been dead for thousands of years, which is a huge problem."

"I see... Do you think you can do it?"

"If I can't do it, then who in this world can?"

"He did convince me with his memories. But he didn't use a single period of memory; he used his entire life up to that point."

Overflowing talent, astonishing genius...

The Red Emperor finally understood.

Cain was stuck at this step in the mysticism, unable to make someone who had been dead for thousands of years appear "alive." Ji Chaoge had anticipated this. Therefore, he used his exceptional talent as leverage to negotiate with Cain, hoping for his help. In return, he offered to help Cain decipher the secrets of the mysticism, making a dead person appear alive.

This should have been a negotiation with almost no chance of success. Who was Cain? He was practically a god, a veritable embodiment of truth. Ji Chaoge was indeed highly accomplished in biology and alchemy, arguably unparalleled throughout history. But when it came to the occult, he could only be considered a master, not even the best of his time, let alone capable of deceiving the occult—something others wouldn't even dare to dream of. However, Ji Chaoge's talent was truly astonishing.

He solved too many ancient mysteries, which Cain gradually saw in his memories.

The entire United Nations was desperately researching anti-separation technology... He almost single-handedly cracked the code and put it into practical use.

For four thousand years, all humans and other races have been researching the technology of racial conversion and deciphering the identities of other races. It cannot be said that this was accomplished by one person alone. The Red Emperor's legacy accounts for three-tenths of the credit, other technical personnel account for one-tenth of the credit, and the remaining ninety-six-tenths of the credit still belongs to him alone.

What else is there?

Too much.

Using artificially mutated cloud-suppressing stones, he developed a half-owl bloodline, combined human consciousness with the magic network, and deduced the entire magic circuit system of the apocalypse simply by calculating its power and energy consumption, thus independently cracking the secret of the immortal worm.

Cain's gaze swept over Hiyomura Tanzakura out of the corner of his eye, but finally landed on Hime Asaka.

This talent is truly astonishing... In just over ten years, Ji Chaoge accomplished the ultimate dream that countless people had failed to achieve for thousands of years. Cain, on the other hand, was indeed clueless about the problem. Ji Chaoge successfully convinced him with her talent, so he decided to help her.

“It seems you’ve figured it out too.” Cain calmly stepped forward, looking at the shocked Red Emperor. “He convinced me; I can no longer compete with him for the destiny of the Earth Mother Goddess. But in the future, I do need the destiny of an ancestor… Ji Chaoge is both asking me to protect him and handing you over as protection money…”

Cain sighed deeply and said, "Look, he even calculated this much. What reason do I have not to take action against you?"

"I wish you a resounding victory, my dear ally." Ji Chaoge wore a contented smile as he stood up. The hour hand on his watch pointed precisely to noon. A massive pillar of light shot into the sky. Ji Chaoge stood beside the pillar, his index and middle fingers joined together, and gently waved forward.

His figure disappeared into the huge pillar of light.

The Red Emperor lowered his gaze and did not look at Ji Chaoge again.

His inner energy surged, and he slowly assumed a fighting stance... The Red Emperor had not yet recovered to his full form, and many of his ancestral strange abilities had not been revived, but this did not mean that he would surrender easily.

Defeating Cain... that's something I wouldn't even dare to think about, but escaping might not be entirely out of the question.

The Red Emperor knew he was in an unprecedented crisis. If he lost this battle, Cain might have some power to control him behind the door, preventing his resurrection—something he absolutely could not accept. Therefore…

Suddenly, a beam of light exploded in his mind, and the Red Emperor's body trembled. This discovery almost drove him mad.

"I... am 'resurrected'."

"So, this guy is actually my... thirty-seventh tribulation?!"

"I thought I had become Ji Chaoge's tribulation, but in reality, is my destined thirty-seventh tribulation also waiting for me...?"

Chapter Fifty: Escape

Cain...

No one knows his exact strength, because none of the existing systems can accurately express his power. He exists independently of the existing systems and is a force to be reckoned with.

The Red Emperor is currently in a state of being a peerless master and half a progenitor, though his abilities haven't fully recovered. However, in terms of physical attributes, he's basically at his peak... Progenitors aren't particularly strong physically. In fact, some progenitors' physical attributes are actually weaker than their pre-tribulation beast forms, which is why they recovered so quickly.

But in this state, what are his chances of winning against Cain?

In those chaotic years, behind the "door," the Red Emperor could sense something within Cain. He was using the unknowable chaos behind the door to complete himself. Rather than saying he was tainted by the taboo, it would be more accurate to say that he was the taboo itself.

The Red Emperor did not hesitate for long before taking action.

He was resurrected within Ji Qiuming's body, granting Ji Qiuming multiple buffs. After his own consciousness descended, these buffs underwent a tremendous enhancement and qualitative change, the difference between the two being like the difference between Shi Huolong and Qiao Feng's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

Internal energy is not used much by the Red Emperor. Ancestors cannot 'self-grow,' including but not limited to 'physical attributes,' 'magic power,' and 'internal energy.' Upon becoming an Ancestor, these attributes are automatically fixed at a certain value and cannot be increased further. Therefore, most Ancestors are not interested in the martial arts and magician systems.

However, the long span of thousands of years has still endowed him with superhuman control abilities.

The Red Emperor stepped forward, making no movement, yet his violent inner energy silently permeated the ground beneath his feet, penetrating deep into the earth.

The ancestor's inner energy and magic power are fundamentally different from the inner energy of martial artists and the magic power of sorcerers. Their inner energy and magic power possess various unique properties. Take inner energy as an example: inner energy separated from the body for a certain period of time and distance is uncontrollable. The ground, as one of the mediums for the transmission of inner energy, is tragically ineffective. Martial artists can almost never effectively transmit inner energy through the ground, except for a very few tricky techniques.

But the Red Emperor doesn't need to resort to tricks.

The inner energy passed through the ground without any hindrance, covering a distance of nearly fifty meters in the blink of an eye—a distance that even Ying Qin Guan and Ye Jiao Fang could hardly maintain the same level of effective damage, let alone the medium of the earth, which the inner energy simply could not pass through. Back then, Ying Qin Guan had already shocked Yu Xie Tian for an entire day by heating a hot pot with his inner energy through chopsticks, let alone the earth.

—Note that they are of the same level. Ye Jiaofang was once an ancient martial arts master, so he can still cut down a large area of ​​grass if he wants to.

But the Red Emperor's inner energy showed no signs of weakening. In an instant, it surged from the ground beneath Cain's feet, like a violent torrent, and swallowed Cain in the blink of an eye.

Fifty meters, the medium is the earth, precise control to the point of explosion... more like a magician than a martial artist.

All of Ye Jiaofang's skills, whether it's controlling light or manipulating airflow, are essentially still within the realm of martial arts. The reason they seem fantastical is simply because other martial artists haven't grasped their true meaning enough. However, the Red Emperor's attacks are truly fantastical. Although they may not appear as flashy as Ye Jiaofang's, they are something that no martial artist can replicate.

boom!!

A violent torrent of internal energy surged into the sky. The Red Emperor's internal energy was so distinctive that the torrent was crimson, as if the boundless sky had been ripped open, and what flowed out was not blood, but molten lava.

The Red Emperor demonstrated his signature ability to kill from the first encounter with a single move. Even a demon warrior like Darius was unstoppable, let alone a progenitor like himself.

The attack succeeded, but the Red Emperor had no time to stop and watch the outcome. Without hesitation, he transformed into a streak of red light and fled into the distance at a terrifying speed of three times the speed of sound.

Three times the speed of sound!

Himura Tan's eyes were wide with shock. Even with his dynamic vision, he couldn't pinpoint the exact speed at which the Red Emperor fled. However, he could estimate the approximate range. The shock he felt was indescribable. The Earth Mother had also tried to escape, using earth-burrowing, reaching a speed of approximately 200 m/s. If she could maintain that speed, she could travel over 30,000 li a day, three times more than the legendary 10,000 li. Perhaps the Earth Mother hadn't fully recovered, and after a brief earth-burrowing, she was forced out. The Red Emperor's condition was clearly also incomplete, yet... he was this fast?

Himura Tan's speed was not clearly visible, but it was at least four or five times faster!

"At this speed, there's absolutely no chance..."

"Even if you deploy apocalyptic weapons in a place like this, he can still run at breakneck speed, from the core area to the outer perimeter..."

[“Without any acceleration process, it accelerates from zero speed to top speed in an instant. Its practicality completely surpasses that of Void Formation. At this speed alone, 99% of human alchemical weapons are useless…”]

"No wonder he said he could crush Ji Chaoge with a flick of his finger..."

At this moment, Himura Tan's Sakura clearly felt the enormous gap between humans and the progenitors. The hidden boss that could only be challenged in the next version was no joke. There were only two possibilities for an progenitor who could be killed by humans: one was that the progenitor wanted to die, like the previous Red Emperor, who wanted to scheme against Ji Chaoge but was killed instead; the other possibility was a name that specifically referred to a certain person, which we won't discuss.

The fact that the Red Emperor displayed such speed in order to escape further reveals the terrifying image of Cain in his mind.

"A wise choice...if the recipient isn't me."

Amidst a calm voice, Cain, with his silver hair, emerged from a massive torrent of lava. His figure was half-real and half-illusory. As the torrent of his inner energy stirred up a piece of rock that struck Cain's body, his figure flickered, and the rock passed right through it, treating Cain as nothing.

The Red Emperor was indeed fast, but not fast enough.

He knew a little about Cain, but not enough. If he truly understood Cain, he would know that escape was futile. Because Cain was faster than him, and... Cain was much more than just fast.

Cain's body vanished into nothingness, and in the blink of an eye, he intercepted the fleeing Red Emperor seven kilometers away.

The Red Emperor, caught off guard, crashed headfirst into a transparent, void barrier, forcing him to exit his Radiant state. It's somewhat unfair for Himura to compare this to the Earth Mother's Earth Release technique; in this state, the Red Emperor had no choice but to flee. However, the Earth Mother could attack directly from within Earth Release. If she encountered this, she could punch it away and continue running, but the Red Emperor, crashing into it headfirst, was helpless.

Cain landed lightly in front of the Red Emperor. His expression was calm, and his long sleeves moved without wind, bringing a tremendous pressure to the Red Emperor!