Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

Chapter Eight: Undercurrents

"Before we begin our discussion, I must emphasize one point to you: Cain cannot be defeated by force. Perhaps you once joined forces with the God of War to defeat him and send him to the 'Gate,' but that was in the past. If you still hold the idea of ​​defeating him by force, then I advise you to leave as soon as possible and not drag me down."

The hazy figure remained silent. Among the progenitors, she was considered intelligent. Ji Chaoge's words carried a subtle hint and sarcasm.

At the end of July, Ji Chaoge laid a trap to deal with the mysterious figure who should have arrived. However, the other party was nowhere to be found. Afterwards, Ji Chaoge sent a letter to the future, but still received no response... He had guessed too much.

In the great battle at the end of July, the hazy figure was indeed defeated. She tried to defeat Cain by force, but the result was obvious.

If Ji Chaoge hadn't experienced that crushing defeat, then his words would be perfectly reasonable. But since the hazy figure had, his words carried a hint of sarcasm and innuendo... These words weren't entirely meaningless; Ji Chaoge was merely speculating and needed to verify them from various angles. Unfortunately, the hazy figure remained calm and unmoved, revealing nothing.

"So, what do you plan to rely on?"

If I said that friendship and hard work would prevail, would you immediately take action?

"...Black Dragon, if you really have that much time, I'm happy to keep you occupied."

"Ah, I thought you would like humorous people."

"You don't need to pretend like this to hide your true thoughts. I'm not capable of seeing through you anyway."

"It's so disheartening. Can't I be a humorous person? Does this have to be an act?"

".."

The hazy figure remained silent. Ji Chaoge shrugged and got to the point.

"Door."

"..Door?"

“Yes.” Ji Chaoge picked up the fragrant tassel on the coffee table. This thing could be eaten with the peel on or without it. He was obviously a very particular person. He picked up a fruit knife and began to peel it. “These days I have studied a lot of mysticism. After thinking about it, I can’t imagine anything that could defeat him except for ‘the door’. His power comes from the door. So, if there is anything that can deal with him, besides the door, there is only that goddess whose existence is unknown.”

This sentence reveals that Ji Chaoge, like the hazy figure, is not confident. The hazy figure believes that if anyone can deal with Cain, it can only be Ji Chaoge, while Ji Chaoge believes that if anything can deal with Cain, it is only the "door"... Neither of them is confident; it's a case of choosing the best among the worst.

"What do you plan to do?" The voice of the hazy figure was calm and unhurried, but deep down she was yearning for an answer.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said, but the moment she finished, she knew she had made a mistake.

The next moment, Ji Chaoge's voice, which sounded like a half-smile, rang out.

"...Can't you see it?"

! !

...Having been seen through, there was absolutely no room for struggle. The moment those words were uttered, the information was destined to be leaked. Ji Chaoge was completely certain that the hazy figure's ability to observe the future had malfunctioned.

With just a single sentence, driven by her own eagerness, she failed to uphold the principles of the riddle-maker and was thus seen through... The hazy figure did not answer the question. She knew it would be futile; offering no excuses or uttering any words would only reveal more information out of thin air.

"This timeline has never had any problems; it seems it really is the end of July..."

A thought flashed through Ji Chaoge's mind. He and the hazy figure were in perfect sync, forgetting the question, "Can't you see?" He was confident in his judgment. If this was a setup deliberately set up by the hazy figure, then Ji Chaoge would accept it.

“He was never part of my plan from the beginning; he was an extra person. But it’s undeniable that he brought me a lot of convenience. It makes me feel very guilty to be discussing with you here whether to kill him…” Ji Chaoge sighed softly, saying things that even Zhong Hongyu might not believe if she were here. “So, you have to answer one question for me. You absolutely have to answer this question, otherwise we cannot form an alliance.”

".."

The indistinct figure chose to remain silent and made no comment.

Ji Chaoge leaned forward slightly, looking at the hazy figure with interest, and said, "My question is... if you send a single person back to the past, say, several decades ago, and that person is just an ordinary person, wouldn't the energy expenditure be minimal?"

"What kind of question is this...?"

This question left the hazy figure completely bewildered. She wasn't stupid, but even so, she couldn't imagine that Ji Chaoge really had a crazy idea of ​​'killing through the entire history of humankind' and 'turning everything into ruins'.

She said, "It won't be very small, unless that period of history is a blank."

—Actually, it should be "variables." The fewer variables there are in a historical period, the easier it is to traverse. What makes Cain so terrifying is that after his appearance, the entire timeline undergoes drastic changes because of him alone. Therefore, the hazy figure simply cannot return to the period before July 15th.

"Is that so..." Ji Chaoge nodded, looking like he completely believed it. He lay back down and said, "Then let's get to the point. The key to dealing with Cain... killing or defeating him actually lies with two people, one of whom is you. We need to use your ability to keep the entire timeline unchanged, but to make individual individuals rewind time."

【“?!”】

The hazy figure was shocked and immediately spoke up, denying, "I don't know where you got this information from. Did the clown tell you? He's lying to you. I can't do that. Sending myself and the God of War back like that is my limit."

“I knew you wouldn’t cooperate…” Ji Chaoge sighed. “You’re clearly capable of it. Since you’re going to cooperate with me, why won’t you reveal your abilities?”

“That’s not what I meant. It’s just that my abilities aren’t as comprehensive as you think.” The hazy figure said calmly, “It’s really impossible for me to do such a thing. You’ve misunderstood. I don’t want to lose my life when dealing with Cain because of this misunderstanding.”

Ji Chaoge lay on the sofa, propping his chin up with one hand. He wasn't angry. The hazy figure reminded him of Wang Qiushui... always so vigilant, unwilling to reveal his trump card.

He calmly stated, "I tampered with Ji Qiuming's food. He has a miniature signal transmitter embedded in his intestines, which changes its frequency every three hours, sending a frequency-modulated signal to a receiver in my brain. However, at the end of July, the frequency of the signal he was sending suddenly regressed, returning to the frequency of a month prior..."

".."

The indistinct figure remained silent for a moment, then casually skipped over the topic.

"Continue with what you were saying earlier."

Chapter Nine: Undercurrents

"I want you to understand that all my ideas are based on my own understanding of the occult. If you have any questions, there's no need to ask; Cain might overturn all my understanding of the occult at any time..."

"I know, so please go ahead and say it."

"Ah, I guess you can figure it out too, so I'll get straight to the point: the two key points are you and the Divine Heart."

"Me...and God's Heart?"

"Hmm, you two... plus 'door'."

".."

The hazy figure fell silent for a moment, while Ji Chaoge remained calm and continued to speak.

"My understanding of your abilities is quite limited. Let's focus on the aspect of reversing time for now. This ability has three ways of being used. The first is to completely reverse the time of the world... You used it once at the end of July."

The indistinct figure remained silent, neither admitting nor denying.

Ji Chaoge was obviously just mentioning it casually, and didn't really think that the hazy figure would talk to him in this place and expose his information for nothing.

"The characteristic of this method of use is that, apart from you who have a second timeline, everything else will rewind to the past. However, because of the existence of the second timeline, you cannot rely on this ability to achieve perpetual motion and start over indefinitely."

Ji Chaoge continued speaking without pausing.

"The second one is to send someone back in time. You used this ability thousands of years ago, along with the God of War, to defeat Cain... This ability has the same limitation as the first one, which is that the consumption will be different due to the 'variables' of history. Therefore, you are completely unable to fight Cain in the same way you fight other people."

"The third one sounds somewhat similar to the second one. The second one is to send 'people in the present' to 'the past,' while the third one is the ability you used on Ji Qiuming back then. Its effect is to revert a person's state to a previous state."

"This third ability overlaps with the first two in many ways, yet it is completely different. The one that is reverted is the individual... everything about this individual returns to its previous state."

"...I don't think you would say that, but I still have to ask, do you perhaps believe that as long as Cain is subdued, I can rewind his time?"

Ji Chaoge showed a genuine look of surprise.

"Is not it?"

"..." The hazy figure knew that the other party was trying to extract information about its abilities, but at this moment, it had no other choice.

"There are too many problems... First, no one can subdue him. Second, even if we could subdue him, it wouldn't be of any use; he is no longer a being within the realm of common sense, and I cannot rewind his time. Third, even if I did rewind his time, what would that have to do with the door? It would only rewind his state, not his location. I can only move the 'time coordinates' of his 'body,' not his 'spatial coordinates.'"

The indistinct figure lowered their voice coldly.

"I know you're trying to get information out of me, but at least put on an act. How could you say something so idiotic?"

"How would I know if I didn't ask?" Ji Chaoge shrugged. Ever since he saw the hazy figure, he had been in a good mood. "Like now, after you answer me, I can tell you. Although there are still quite a few problems, at least the three you mentioned are not problems."

"...How to say it."

“First, there’s no need to subdue him; he’ll take the bait himself. Second, you’ve deliberately been vague. What, he’s not a creature from the Six Realms? That’s alright. Creatures can evolve into magical beasts, but magical beasts can also degenerate into ordinary creatures. Degradation isn’t difficult. Third… this is the result of my research: when inheriting the ancestral destiny, the inheritor will have a brief connection with the ‘gate’.”

The hazy figure gazed at Ji Chaoge, its voice remaining unchanged.

"You've kept us in suspense for so long, but you still haven't revealed your specific plan. What exactly do you want to do?"

“It’s all your fault.” Ji Chaoge shook his head and said, “You can manipulate time. I’m afraid you’ll get my plan for free and then just leave, leaving me here waiting like an idiot. So, before I tell you about this plan, I have to promise you another discount.”

"..?"

Before the hazy figure could fully understand Ji Chaoge's words, he spoke up, smiling slightly, "Let's make a pact. We'll join forces to kill Cain. There will be no restrictions on you. After Cain dies, the technology to detect alien bloodlines will be sent to various countries. You have no alien descendants, and the pact doesn't require you to kill Cain. This will only benefit you."

"...?!"

Even the long-lived beings who had survived for thousands of years and witnessed countless storms were stunned by Ji Chaoge's sudden words.

The thought even crossed her mind uncontrollably: "Does Ji Chaoge know what he's saying?" She really shouldn't have thought about a legendary emperor like Ji Chaoge in this way. But she couldn't help it, because what Ji Chaoge said was truly inexplicable.

Alien detection technology... How important is this technology to humanity? The answer is the most important, without exception. It is foreseeable that without this technology, even by the most conservative estimate, humanity would be wiped out by demi-humans within five hundred years—in reality, it wouldn't even take five hundred years.

In this context, how important is interracial bloodline detection technology?

What? You're saying this thing will cause the progenitors to revolt and plunge the world into chaos?

...Could global chaos be more serious than genocide?

In an urban novel, Ji Chaoge's gift would be equivalent to all the shares of a Fortune 500 company; in a fantasy novel, it would be a complete set of divine equipment plus all the pills needed to cultivate from the lowest to the highest level, plus two God Emperor wives—something that would make anyone envious. But now, he's actually giving this away for free?

Not to mention Ji Chaoge, even Xun Jiang couldn't have imagined that he had been threatened by Ji Chaoge to reluctantly relinquish some control over the demi-humans. At the time, he could have signed a contract with Ji Chaoge, but because the contract would allow them to sense each other's location to some extent, he feared beheading and also believed Ji Chaoge would never release this technology. Therefore, he did nothing, and now... Ji Chaoge was going to give this technology away for free?

Even the most powerful and evil god-emperors in those frivolous novels wouldn't dare to give away their lives like this when they're about to die!

This was too surreal; the hazy figure's mind went completely blank, and after a long while, he could only manage to squeeze out a single sentence.

What are your terms in exchange...?

"There were no conditions for exchange, nothing was required, it was purely a gift from me."

Chapter Ten: Undercurrents

Did Ji Chaoge have no ulterior motives?

No, no, no, he has many motives.

First of all, the gift was genuine and there was no tampering with it. Ji Chaoge even restored the genes of the demi-human lineage of magical beasts and cloned the magical beasts of that lineage. Otherwise, humans might suspect something like "swapping the corresponding conditions between humans and demi-humans and then wiping out all of humanity." Ji Chaoge was very thoughtful and thought of everything for them.

—In fact, the mere fact that he can recreate the genes of demi-human monsters is enough to set him apart from the best. In terms of genes, bloodlines, and races, Ji Chaoge is absolutely unmatched, both five thousand years ago and a thousand years later. In other areas of alchemy, he may be a few decades or a hundred years ahead. But it's not that exaggerated; Mu Nandong could rival him.

The gift was real, and the contract he made with the hazy figure was absolutely real, without any unnecessary manipulation—Ji Chaoge was very knowledgeable about mysticism, but to try to tamper with the contract to deceive the hazy figure was just a pipe dream, utterly impossible.

The gifts are real, and the contract is real, so where exactly does Ji Chaoge benefit?

The answer is, in something unseen.