Chapter 508: Was This Backlash?
Su Yizhi looked at Ling Chuxi in gratification. He wanted to borrow Ling Chuxi’s hands to temper these unruly Su family descendants and his objective had already been half met. Seeing the unprecedented hope and desire in their eyes, his heart was also filled with excitement, enthusiasm and satisfaction.
Ling Yichen looked at Ling Chuxi calmly, his lips curving into a soft and gentle smile unknowingly.
Ling Chuxi, Su Yizhi and a few others walked towards the village. The Su family’s disciples remained behind unmoving, still processing the words that Ling Chuxi had spoken.
“Miss Chuxi is right. To revive the Golden Pill Sect was originally our mission as descendants of the Su family. It was just that due to our current inability to do so that an outsider was left to bear it all. What qualifications do we have to call ourselves descendants of the sect? I, Su Yanhua, swear to the heavens that from today onwards, I will follow after Miss Chuxi and do my best to revive the sect.” Only after some time did Su Yanhua make this declaration loudly, clenching his fist in determination as he did so.
“I, too, Su Yanhong, will follow after Miss Chuxi and do my best to revive the Golden Pill Sect,” swore a burly man.
“You all are still calling her Miss Chuxi?” asked Su Xiu’er with a smile.
“Oh, right. We will follow after the hall master and do our best to revive the Golden Pill Sect,” declared all of the Su family disciples with a determination that was never seen before in each of their eyes.
“Don’t forget about me, me too, there is me too. Jiang Wuhen…” pipped up Jiang Wuhen, trying to squeeze into the conversation too.
“What does this have to do with you? It’s not like you are a part of the Su family,” retorted Su Xiu’er, rolling her eyes at him without being courteous.
A melancholic expression came over Jiang Wuhen’s face as he squatted by the side of the clearing and drew circles in the dirt.
At this moment, Ling Chuxi did not know that the words she had spoken earlier would stimulate the determination within the Su family’s disciples to revive the sect as such with the adverse effect of her winning everyone’s conviction and respect as their leader as well. Naturally, if she had known this was the outcome of her speech, she would most likely have stumbled headfirst into the ground. She had just acted so seriously to ensure she could cruise by and stimulate the determination and fighting spirit of the Su family’s disciples to sort out their own sect, without thinking that her performance was a little over the top and had instead resulted in her attracting a large group of followers.
In one of the small courtyards within the Su family grounds, Ling Chuxi and Su Yizhi sat by the small stone table. Slight steam was rising from the surfaces of the cups of hot herbal tea atop the table, emitting a refreshing tea fragrance.
“What exactly happened just now? Why did that fella called Ghost Hand suddenly receive such a severe injury?” pondered Ling Chuxi with a frown, unable to understand.
“I heard my ancestors talk about it before. Although the Sword Heart Soul Breaking Technique is very amazing because it is after all an attack on the mind using the concentration of one’s own mind, it also has a fatal flaw due to the same strength. If the other party’s mental concentration is stronger than the practitioner of the Sword Heart Soul Breaking Technique, not only will the technique be ineffective against the other party, but it would cause a backlash towards the practitioner’s mind. The stronger the cultivation used, then the strong the backlash. Seeing how good he was, what happened should have been the result of a strong backlash,” deduced Su Yizhi after some thought. Just now, everything had happened too fast. From how things looked, even they thought that Ling Chuxi and Ghost Hand would end up have a final murderous duel that would create shocking waves and high storms. Yet, suddenly Ghost Hand was seriously injured and everything had ended so bizarrely. Even Su Yizhi and the rest of the Sus were baffled and only now when the incident was in retrospect did they have time to process it and think of the reasons why it unfolded that way.
“A mental concentration stronger than his?” wondered Ling Chuxi aloud as she shook her head. She had never undergone any specialized mind cultivation training. How could she have been mentally stronger than Ghost Hand? If she really had such an ability, then she would not have fallen to Qing Lingyan’s sneak attack the last time.
“Though it seems to be the case, logically speaking, it is not quite possible. The Sword Heart Soul Breaking Technique of Cold Moon Palace is known to be an unrivalled top skill. Even the main sects are helpless in the face of it unless they counter it by using an absolutely superior martial arts cultivation to obtain victory. As for you who has never undergone any kind of mind cultivation training or studies on methods of this kind, logically speaking, your mental strength would not be stronger than that of Ghost Hand’s,” said Su Yizhi. The Golden Pill Sect had already been annihilated for more than a thousand years by this point, so there were many things that Su Yizhi had only heard about from the stories passed down to him by his ancestors and he himself did not have a deep understanding of such things, at times even being unable to understand them at all.