Chapter 351: Chapter 349: There’s Even a Sword Scabbard That Dares to Ignore Qin Le Yin
Le Yu thought he discovered the ’Dark Qin Le Yin Principle’.
Known:
① Niruo and Ming Shuangli currently hold the greatest advantage as a sword trainers team;
② Young Mie Tang Ya lives in the student dormitory, has roommates, does not live alone, and holds a low status in the academy (first-year student);
③ Teacher Qin Le Yin lives in the teacher dormitory, lives alone, holds a high status in the academy (teacher), and is quite powerful.
After jumping outside the circle, Le Yu can see among the three sword trainers exposed so far, Qin Le Yin is indeed the best partner: Niruo is too strong, Mie Tang Ya too weak. By collaborating with the second-rate Qin Le Yin, advancing means acting freely above Niruo, retreating means the same above anyone else but Niruo.
The sword trainers are not fools. Le Yu estimated that one such as Mie Tang Ya, someone who dared to say Five-Flower Tea tastes bad, should be the lowest in IQ among them. But even Mie Tang Ya could draw three conclusions from the above information:
① Collaborating with Qin Le Yin is the decision that maximizes benefits and the necessary condition to leap into becoming the biggest winner in the Eye of Omniscience exam;
② If you don’t collaborate with Qin Le Yin, you’ll inevitably be suppressed and bullied by Qin Le Yin’s team.
③ Collaborating with Niruo is seeking skin from a tiger, collaborating with Mie Tang Ya is futile, because Mie Tang Ya’s team most likely cannot defeat Qin Le Yin’s team.
Thus, all sword trainers reached the same conclusion: Partner with Qin Le Yin!
This is the ’Dark Qin Le Yin Principle’, if you don’t want to lose, you can only become Qin Le Yin’s accomplice!
The druid who sent a message via a cat is named ’Feng Lv’.
He claims to have a knack for taming animals. On the day of the Eye of Omniscience exam, he can send a ferocious jackal and two leopard cats to assist, stating that all animal cronies possess a wild bloodline, comparable to Integration and Mastery realm martial artists.
Upon seeing that Feng Lv could control beasts of a wild bloodline, Le Yu immediately understood the background of this sword trainer.
In the Four Barbarians of the Border, wild barbarians are often wild beast-shaped freaks of the wilderness, their immense strength and vicious agility need not be mentioned. Even more remarkable is the fact that wild barbarians, although having an extremely strong ability to reproduce—bearing at least several offspring, sometimes a dozen—only a portion of them are intelligent enough to communicate, most being akin to normal beasts, essentially congenital idiots, called ’seated beasts’.
However, the high likelihood of disability has not become a weakness of wild barbarians, but rather a never-ending advantage—the seated beasts are all siblings of a single litter, so wild barbarians naturally possess a command instinct to direct them precisely.
While seated beasts are intellectually challenged, their combat power is not lacking. They even absorb the essence of sun and moon—tempering their bodies with sunlight. Coupled with their robust physique and fierce nature, even typical martial artists advancing in social ranks easily fall prey to these mass-produced war beasts.
Even during the flourishing of martial arts in the Brilliant Era, land immortals could lead armies to annihilate wild barbarians, but it was impossible to completely eradicate seated beasts. Moreover, seated beasts might give birth to intelligent wild barbarians, quickly proliferating new tribes.
Among the Four Barbarians of the Border, Sea Barbarians are addicted to water, Grass Barbarians cannot withstand heat, Mountain Barbarians are unaccustomed to local conditions, only Wild Barbarians once reigned over the Central Plains, wreaking havoc for a time, historically even referred to as ’demons’ or the ’Demon Race’, nearly equal to humans.
But those are stories of the past. Now wild barbarians have been driven to the wastelands west of Xiomu to graze. Since the invention of firearms, the threat of wild barbarians has sharply declined, even less than Sea Barbarians—the sea dampens bullets considerably.
Though wild barbarians are out of fashion, humans learned a skill from them: Beast Taming. This skill is extremely rare and has a high threshold, even the Imperial Academy hasn’t organized a corresponding Combat Technique, indicating how unsuitable it is for the current version.
Le Yu’s understanding of ’Beast Taming’ is mainly gained from somewhat colorful novels, where the narrative usually centers on the protagonist learning it, as he tames, the beast suddenly transforms into a cute beast-eared girl, leading to an exciting tale... or even without transformation, an exhilarating story still unfolds...
Even in this unreliable niche literature, a common setting is used: those who can tame beasts surely possess a wild bloodline.
Although Le Yu has never seen wild barbarians, he heard from friends that these Beast Taming books seem to be quite popular—that suggests the Brilliant Era people truly have such preferences.
But different species should be unable to reproduce; who knows how the Brilliant Era people circumvent this restriction—wait, Extreme Divine Weapon, surpassing imagination, conquering absolute limits...
They wouldn’t use Divine Weapons for such means, would they? It’s impossible, or at least shouldn’t be...
Despite wild speculations about Feng Lv’s lineage becoming politically incorrect, Le Yu still cheerfully agreed to collaborate, passing a reply to the white cat. The cat made a complaining sound, as if grumbling about the time taken, made a digging cat litter gesture on his desk, then leaped out the window with its tail raised.
Now Le Yu has concluded collaborations with four sword trainers, but it seems irrelevant to him—after all, more debts don’t worry him. He even intends to intensify his efforts; for stimulation, he must go all the way!
Le Yu has realized that Feng Lv wouldn’t be the last.
Predictably, as Le Yu slept until past midnight, the fifth collaborator showed up.
It was ’Cai Nu’ (assassin).
When she arrived, Le Yu’s Ice Blood instantly brought him to alertness. Turning to look, an enticing silhouette appeared in the window, with curves that fired the imagination.
"Qin Le Yin, I’ve come seeking collaboration~"
Her voice was melodious, with subtle teasing in her speech, gently shaking those parts of rounded beauty, seeming to invite Le Yu inside for a romantic rendezvous if he was willing. Yet Le Yu became wary, swiftly establishing a partnership contract, and hurriedly made her leave.
Not that Le Yu was particularly loyal to Qing Lan, but he felt her phrasing seemed eerily familiar—the kind he used when playing online games with a female avatar to trick others for gear.
As a man, he knew how to speak to stimulate others at the typical points.
Though Cai Nu appeared female, sounded female, and was named female, Le Yu remained deeply skeptical!
The key is she’s not as alluring as Qing Lan, not attractive to Le Yu. If she wants to seduce him, she must at least send someone on the level of a Huyan Siluo.
Just as Le Yu thought he was about to accomplish the feat of striking strategic alliances with six sword trainers at once, a day and night passed only to find the last trainer never approached him.
Dare ignore me.
Sword trainer, you’ve caught my interest.
What can’t be obtained always stirs the mind, while those loved remain unabashedly confident. Compared to the five trainers who boarded the pirate ship, Le Yu grew deeply intrigued by the trainer who didn’t come seeking him—why didn’t they approach? Did they realize he already had a (partner)? Or discover his special (partner) relationships with many? Why aren’t they seeking him!
Still, being short one sword trainer isn’t a significant issue, the next task for Le Yu is discussing how to pass information for cheating in the exam with Qian Yuya and others.
As for how to utilize this five-way strategic advantage, Le Yu already has a rough idea; he won’t let the Eye of Omniscience examination site turn into a ’Qin Le Yin Siege’ after all.