Volume 3: The Sword God of Debt Collection Chapter 3: Advancement

  Back at the hotel, I introduced Sun Yu to everyone, then looked at Xiao Qian and said: "Qian, it's all up to you now."

  Xiao Qian said nervously: "I don't know if it will work either."

  Sun Yu looked at Xiao Qian and said, "The friend you were talking about is her?"

  "What's wrong?"

  Sun Yudao said: "I didn't expect it was a little girl."

  "So you have to be polite to people."

  Xiao Qian smiled and said: "Why be polite with me?"

  I said: "What I'm most afraid of is that you'll be taken in by him."

  "Let's get started."

  I asked Xiao Qian: "What preparations do I need to make?"

  Xiao Qian said: "Don't do anything, just give me your hands, both of you."

  I sat on one side of Xiao Qian, and Sun Yu sat on the other, each holding one of Xiao Qian's hands. Old Wu and the others gathered around, and Sun Yu asked nervously, "Will I be able to fall in love like a normal person from now on?"

  "I don't know if it's successful or not yet." I glanced at him and said, "Besides, what you're doing isn't normal dating, that's just normally getting dumped."

  Xiao Qian said: "I'm going to start."

  "Can't we talk anymore?"

  Xiao Qian said: "Okay, but don't be too loud, I'm still a bit uncertain and afraid of being distracted." She closed her eyes as she spoke.

  Everyone dared not speak loudly, and Sun Yu was even more trembling with fear.

  There's no special feeling, Xiaoxian is like a data cable connecting me and Sun Yu, starting to work according to the method she has been practicing these days. I can see her facial hair slightly trembling, Su Jing couldn't help but ask me in a low voice: "Do you have any sensation?"

  I shook my head. Jin Chengwu said, "Use this time to tell us about your experiences in the Country of Women."

  I took a glance at Sun Yu, and immediately he said: "Don't worry, I don't care who you people are. I just want to turn back into an ordinary person. Whatever you say, it's all in one ear and out the other, as if I never heard it."

  I didn't deliberately avoid him, and I told everyone in detail about what happened from the day I arrived at the Women's Country. Everyone listened with their mouths agape, and Duan Tianya said: "Heiji has finally made his move. If I can go back, I will definitely suggest that our boss withdraw from this dispute. The grudges between countries are not something we can intervene in."

  I asked him: "Is your waist better?"

  "Alright, now it's just a matter of when you regain your strength. I'll have a duel with you then, and my wish will be fulfilled."

  It's been over an hour, Xiao Qian hummed and opened her eyes, her face covered in sweat. I asked anxiously: "Is it okay?"

  Xiao Qian gasped for a moment and said "I've done what I can, but it's still unclear if it will be okay."

  I let go of her hand and said to Sun Yu: "You try."

  "How to try?"

  "Just call whichever chick and see how she reacts?"

  "I've really become your test subject!" Sun Yu muttered, taking out his phone and carefully dialing a number after thinking for a moment. A female voice answered on the other end: "Hello?"

  "Xiaofeng? I'm Sun Yu, do you have time to go out for dinner tonight?" It seems that this Xiaofeng is the girl Sun Yu has been pursuing.

  The person opposite him said indifferently, "I'm very tired today, let's talk about it later. Also, you don't have to call me every day, we can be good friends, but I really don't have any feelings for you." This is indeed a quick retribution, this kid had just rejected his female boss, and now someone else has come to take revenge, even using the same excuse - "I'm very tired". This phrase is usually a euphemism for "get lost". "Uh..." Sun Yu stuttered, unsure of what to say.

  "Nothing else, I'm hanging up."

  I quickly poked him on the shoulder: "Scold her! Scold her!"

  Sun Yu said helplessly, "You're also too much! Having a meal together, what can I do to you? Didn't you say we could still be friends? A friend invites you to dinner and you always make excuses!"

  He paused for a moment, and his tone suddenly underwent a subtle change: "Don't be angry, I was really tired anyway, but since you said that...I'll wait for you at the company entrance after work!"

  "I sighed and said: 'Failed!'"

  Sun Yu hung up the phone and his expression almost cried out. He said stupidly: "I was forced to lose my temper with her again."

  I said to Xia Qian: "It seems it's not going to work."

  Xiao Qian apologized, "At first, it was going pretty smoothly, but just when I was about to finish, I felt that the aura I had just transferred to you suddenly returned to him."

  "What's going on? Have you found the reason?"

  Xiao Qian said: "I don't know either."

  "It seems I still have fate with you."

  "What can I do then? Can't stay like this all my life?"

  I shrugged and said: "We've done our best, and I want to get my stuff back more than you do. So this isn't something that needs to be rushed. You go back and wait for my call, we'll let you know if we come up with a new plan."

  Sun Yu said pessimistically: "In general, this kind of situation means it's hopeless."

  "You think it's beautiful, you say that's a hospital, this is our private debt——" I patted Sun Yu on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, we'll definitely come up with a solution. You can leave if you want to, aren't you supposed to take your girlfriend out for dinner? If you're late again, it's not good. Let me give you some advice, make the most of these last few days and do something substantial. Who doesn't know that I'm the biggest loser when it comes to saving money in the bank? It would be a waste if you don't take advantage of this huge sum of money, right?"

  It was still my words that worked in the end, Sun Yu stomped his foot and went to eat with the girl.

  Xiao Qian whispered: "Sorry, Little Dragon brother."

  "How can you blame him?" I looked around upstairs and downstairs and asked: "Where is Liu Laoliu?" At this moment, I remembered that the wooden support had come.

  Old Wu said: "He has been acting strangely lately."

  I said to Su Jing: "It seems that it's impossible to retrieve those power attributes for the time being, let's start with the sword energy first."

  Su Jingdao said: "That's right, sword energy is the root. As long as you have sword energy, those attributes can still be practiced."

  I said: "My dantian did respond, but I never felt the sword energy you mentioned."

  Su Jingdao said: "This is normal, it's just that the water hasn't reached the canal yet. With a bit more effort, it will be done soon."

  "I waved my hand and said: 'Let's try to get it done tonight!'"

  Su suddenly said: "The most taboo in cultivating sword energy is impatience. Looking at your current state, it's normal to be promoted to Sword Child in three more days."

  "Three days? I can't wait that long!"

  Su Dang said inexplicably: "How did you suddenly become so enthusiastic? In the past when there was plenty of time, I never saw you in a hurry."

  I smiled slyly: "The past is the past." I said, "You teach me again how to do it?"

  Su slightly shook his head, but still gave me a demonstration: "Follow me, step one..."

  I know this is actually quite boring, but at her level, she's letting me guide how to advance to the next level. It's like asking a PhD supervisor to teach preschool children from scratch - it's a bit of a joke. I followed along seriously and did it once, but I still feel that my dantian is the same as before. However, I'm not impatient, I know that advancing from an ordinary person to a sword child is a crucial step. Many masters started from here. In some sense, advancing from an ordinary person to a sword child and finally to a sword saint or sword god are the same - both talent and mental state are very important.

  For the entire afternoon, I followed Su Jing's method to stimulate my dantian. Su's theory is simple: a person's dantian originally has qi. What beginners need to do is constantly stimulate it and open up the meridians throughout the body.

  After dinner, I continued to sit there experimenting over and over again. Duan Tianya said: "What you're doing is completely meaningless, the human body has its limits, even if you..."

  He didn't finish his sentence, and I suddenly felt a strange sensation in my lower abdomen, like something had burst open inside me. It was as if I had spat out a watermelon seed, but this time it was happening inside my body. I only felt a faint breath of air emanating from my dantian that spread throughout my entire body. It wasn't hot or cold, just a pleasant, tingling sensation.

  I had a premonition, knowing that it was probably successful, I held my breath and stared intently. Trying to mobilize the energy in my body, I waved at a business card on the table, and the card slightly moved. Duan Tianya seemed to have sensed something too, his face changed as he exclaimed: "It's done!"

  I excitedly shouted: "Sword energy! Sword energy!"

  Everyone in the room gathered around, I waved my hand at the business card repeatedly and said loudly: "Do you see it move?"

  Duan Tianya coughed and said: "Let me correct that, it's not sword energy..."

  I grabbed his neck and said: "Then what is it?"

  "Hmm..." Duan Tianya pushed me away, fanning the business card a few times with his hand, and it fell under the table: "You see, strictly speaking, that's just the wind you blew up with your hands. You need to use your mouth, the wind is stronger." He suddenly poked at the floor with his foot, and a sharp gust of air shot out from the edge of the business card. The business card was stirred up and floated into the air. Duan Tianya reached out and caught it, saying, "This is what we call sword energy."

  I: “……”

  Duan Tianya suddenly turned serious and said: "However, congratulations are in order. You have indeed been promoted to Jian Tong."

  I then turned from anger to joy: "Is it?"

  Duān Tiān Yá sighed, "The Sword God is indeed the Sword God, able to advance in just half a day. In normal times, I wouldn't even dare think about it." My face turned red, from an ordinary person advancing to a Sword Child... I didn't just use half a day, but more than a month! I had already started practicing lightly before crossing over to the Daughter Country, and only officially began when I met Gěng Líng. There's nothing worth boasting about here. Among the 1000 people who escaped with me, nearly 30% advanced to Sword Child in just a few days. I'm not even last among them, but definitely at the bottom. This has something to do with my mindset. In the past, I always thought it didn't concern me and didn't put my heart into it. It wasn't until after recognizing my old mom that I had a proactive attitude. But as for talent, I'm afraid I don't count as high.

  Of course, I wouldn't tell them that. I bared my teeth and shouted at the crowd: "Niú B not, Niú B not?"