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  "I don't."

  One-Pun was feeling very helpless.

  "God Annihilating Demon Vanquishing Pilgrim's Sword?" Shi Xiaobai asked again.

  "I don't!"

  One-Pun was beginning to sweat. He had never heard of the three sword techniques that the young fellow just mentioned.

  "Demon Slaying Holy Sword?"

  "I don't..."

  "Great Sword of Light?"

  "I've heard of it, but I don't."

  "Nine Heavens Thunderclap Sword?"

  "Heard of it..."

  "Astral Holy Sword?"

  "I think I've heard of it..."

  "Wind Fire Thunder Divine Sword?"

  "..."

  Three Thousand Waters Sword?"

  "..."

  "Hundred-eighty Thousand Li Sword?"

  "..."

  "Three Thousand Li Sword?"

  "..."

  "Beginner Sword?"

  "..."

  "You don't even know Beginner Sword. Uncle, what should This King say about you?" Shi Xiaobai sighed. So it was not that he knew little, the truth was that the sword techniques Little Black mentioned were just too profound.

  One-Pun wiped his sweat. He had never heard of a large number of the sword techniques Shi Xiaobai mentioned. Even if he had heard of them, he had never practiced them. He knew a bit, but to say that he truly "knew" was just pushing it. Actually, he knew Beginner Sword, but how could he say that with a straight face!?

  The others were already dumbstruck. They were surprised at Shi Xiaobai's knowledge of so many sword techniques that His Excellency One-Pun did not know.

  Was he a sword fanatic?

  One-Pun did not insist on upholding his reputation, and instead said directly, "My research into the field of swords is currently still too shallow. Unfortunately, I am unable to help you. You can ask any question from other fields. I will answer them to the best of my ability."

  By the side, Yama Minamiya was wiping his sweat. For one of the top ten Sword Masters of the world to actually claim to have such shallow knowledge in sword techniques, how were other swordsmen to live?

  Shi Xiaobai frowned. What was there to ask? He did not seem to have any.

  "Oh yes, This King wants to ask. How can This King attract more derision and hatred from others?"

  Shi Xiaobai blinked his eyes. He had an urgent need to "receive and inflict damage"!

  One-Pun was stunned, his mouth agape in shock. This question...I have to say, when it comes to attracting derision, aren't you invincible in this matter?

  "This question... I believe that people should live in harmony and help each other out. After all, in this world, humans have several common enemies. In order to build a better home for survival, shouldn’t we be united against external forces?" One-Pun answered with deep emotions.

  Shi Xiaobai was stunned. He found what One-Pun said was somewhat reasonable, but...his answer seemed to be out of the point.

  He did not insist on this question and after a moment of thought, he continued asking, "Uncle, have you done any research on massage therapy?"

  The Massage Technique of God was also a technique that Shi Xiaobai currently had fairly deep interest in. He was very willing to discuss it with others if possible.

  The others were dumbfounded hearing this.

  Holy fucking massage? Are you asking a world-class hero if he knew a second-rate job's massaging techniques?

  "I don't!" One-Pun answered firmly.

  "Sigh." Shi Xiaobai sighed and with a bit of hesitation, asked, "Then, Uncle, do you need a massage?"

  Shi Xiaobai believed that it would be extremely good if One-Pun could be his experimental subject.

  "I don't need one!"

  One-Pun was feeling quite depressed.

  Isn't this little rascal acting a bit too naughty? What sort of questions are these…?

  One-Pun sighed and said, "Ask some questions on cultivation."

  Shi Xiaobai was startled. Wasn't he asking questions on cultivation?

  Shi Xiaobai seriously looked One-Pun in the eye and wondered out loud, "Uncle, when you answered the other three, you were not like this. Why do you not know a thing when it comes to This King? Say, are you messing with This King!?"

  One-Pun nearly spewed out blood. He was still wondering if Shi Xiaobai was messing with him, and never expected Shi Xiaobai to strike him first!

  "Your questions...have rendered me speechless!"

  One-Pun suddenly felt that coming here today was a huge mistake. No, if it weren’t for Shi Xiaobai, then everything would have been beautiful.

  Shi Xiaobai sighed as he sat down. Thankfully, he did not hold his hopes up too high when he came here. Indeed, the path of a king was not something others could guide!

  Wen Hezheng sensed that the atmosphere had turned awkward, so she immediately raised her hand to ask a question.

  One-Pun's eyes lit up and nodded at Wen Hezheng for her to stand up.

  At least he could communicate with ordinary people to recover that lost beauty...

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  Chapter160 A person should be more like Shi Xiaobai

  The morning question and answer was a long grueling process. After his first round of questions, Shi Xiaobai did not ask any questions after that. Similarly, Yama Minamiya did not dare request him to ask any more questions. Mu Yuesheng had very few questions as well. Occasionally, she would ask a somewhat more profound question, and in contrast, Kevin would frequently raise his hand and ask brainless questions that Yama Minamiya wanted to smack him for.

  Only Wen Hezheng's giggling questions were somewhat normal, perfectly playing up to the role as the cheerful fat chick. Yama Minamiya was feeling a sense of pity. If not for her being so fat that even her real mother could not love, she would definitely be a cute young lady that everyone loved.

  In summary, this round of question and answer made the always composed Yama Minamiya nearly want to reprimand the other three rookies other than Wen Hezheng.

  Fuck, this was an opportunity others yearned for, but you three bastards did not treasure it at all!

  Thankfully, One-Pun was quite a magnanimous person. He was not petty when it came to such trivial matters. Other than Shi Xiaobai rendering him speechless, Mu Yuesheng's questions were very intricate despite few in number. The questions Kevin asked might be brainless, but they were all quite refreshing. The fat chick's questions did not seem very refined, but they were very timely.

  In summary, the question and answer came to quite a perfect close. At least the four rookies probably would more or less gain something after listening to One-Pun's "thoughts and insights" an entire morning...Yes, probably.

  Lunch in the afternoon was long prepared by a few [Gaia] staff. The quantity of food was not much, but they were all very exquisite. The taste and nutritional value were excellent and the meal's quality was considered quite high.

  Shi Xiaobai was planning on discussing matters with Wen Hezheng during lunch time. After all, he had just received an Absolute Choice, and the key to his mission was Wen Hezheng.

  However, Wen Hezheng spent less than a minute to finish all the food the staff brought her. Using the reason of "not being sufficiently satiated", she left the lounge, as though she was heading to a restaurant nearby to have a feast.

  Shi Xiaobai looked at the tiny bit of food he had consumed on his plate and finally understood that the development and nurturing of every fatso was not easy. He did not chase after her but instead continued on with his meal. This matter was not something he could rush.

  After finishing lunch, Shi Xiaobai surveyed the lounge. Kevin had already gone somewhere else, while Mu Yuesheng only ate a mouthful or two before entering Cogitation again.

  Shi Xiaobai took a few serious glances at Mu Yuesheng before turning his head to begin his Cogitation.

  ...

  At two in the afternoon, Yama Minamiya came to the lounge punctually.
Shi Xiaobai opened his eyes slowly, and realized that Wen Hezheng and Kevin had already returned to the lounge.

  Yama Minamiya scanned the four people and said in a deep voice, "This afternoon, we will begin some actual collective training. Everyone should understand that it is impossible for you to have any tremendous improvement in three days, so do not hope that you make any frantic last moment efforts."

  "However, since we gathered you to undergo a three-day training camp, there are clearly some goals. The main goal of the three-day training camp is to prepare you for possible segments of the trials in advance!"

  The moment Yama Minamiya finished his words, Kevin's doubtful voice rang. "Prepare for the trials' segments in advance? Division Minister Minamiya, from what I know, the trial's segments are highly confidential, aren't they? Could you have received some information or...do you have a spy?"

  Yama Minamiya shook his head upon hearing this and said, "Unfortunately, we are unable to know of the information prior to the trials. The national organization senate has maintained high secrecy on this matter, so not a bit of information has been leaked out."

  Kevin immediately frowned and said, "If that's the case, how are we to prepare for the trial's segments in advance? Are we going to just guess?"

  Kevin's tone was filled with an undetectable derisive tone.

  This made Yama Minamiya involuntarily frown slightly.

  This blond kid needs to learn to be more courteous. If he was a rookie from his division, he would definitely be pulled to the office for some education.

  However, realizing that Kevin's Division Minister was Creation's sultry bitch, he immediately felt better. That sultry bitch would usually rear such youths with slightly better looks in the bedroom.

  "You are right. We will be relying on guesswork." Yama Minamiya responded with a deadpan expression.

  Kevin was stunned agape and immediately thought of disparaging a bit, but looking at Yama Minamiya's solemn expression, he finally realized that he had been rude. He hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "I understand. It must be the organization's intelligence department using accurate data and statistics to analyze with robust logic for inference to deduce what the segments the national organization senate will come up with! That must be what it is!"

  Kevin heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. He gave a pat on his back for being wise to suddenly suck up.

  Unfortunately, Kevin's sucking up was ineffective.

  Yama Minamiya slightly coughed and said, "Child, you overthink things. It's not as impressive as you think. It is just purely a guess. All the four Division Ministers will make a guess. Anyway, if we guess it correctly, that's just a bonus, and there's no loss to guessing it wrongly."

  To put it in simple words, they were just going for broke!

  "Ah?"

  Kevin was dumbfounded.

  How could [Gaia] do things this way? This will cause them to be doomed sooner or later! Also...can your insta-smack of the face be lighter?

  "Pfft!"

  A pearly laughter burst out as though someone could not restrain it further.

  Kevin immediately turned his head and saw Wen Hezheng's rotund face biting her lips as though she was suppressing her laughter.

  Angry sparks immediately flashed in Kevin's eyes.

  This darn fat pig was laughing at him?

  Wen Hezheng waved her hands apologetically at Kevin, indicating how it was not deliberate on her part. While listening to the two's conversation, she had automatically envisioned a scene of Yama Minamiya and Kevin being seme and uke. After that, she could not help but burst out laughing. That scene was just too contrasting!

  As Kevin looked at Wen Hezheng's giggling face, his fury grew in intensity. If not for Yama Minamiya being present, he would have blown up there and then. His hatred for Wen Hezheng had reached an extremum.

  Yama Minamiya noticed Kevin's reaction and shook his head.

  This child was still too young. Look at Shi Xiaobai. He infuriated people all day, but have you ever seen him suffer or turn angry?

  A person should be more like Shi Xiaobai!

  Yama Minamiya coughed and went straight to the main topic. He said, "Although it's based on guesswork, we certainly have reasons behind our theories. In my opinion, with a large-scale selection of a thousand people, there will definitely be a large-scale elimination segment at the beginning. A simple but brutal competition will eliminate a large number of candidates."

  "With so many people at the beginning, it's not suitable for a free-for-all, or elimination matches that can easily lead to problems in the selection later. So in my opinion, the first selection segment will be an endurance battle!"

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  Chapter161 Come, let's have a good battle

  "Through a most simple and direct endurance competition, it will first eliminate a batch of people of the worst quality. It will not result in lasting problems, nor would it result in a fiery atmosphere at the onset."

  "Then, what do you think is the most possible endurance competition?"

  After Yama Minamiya gave his analysis, he "cheekily" threw this small problem at them.

  "A segment that tests the consumption of Psionic Power?"

  Kevin upheld his usual style by giving an answer without any substance.

  "If it's a competition of endurance, could it be...a food eating competition to see who can eat the most...Hehe. If that's the case, I will definitely not be eliminated!"

  Wen Hezheng maintained her silly and cute style as well. She made the atmosphere turn lively and cheery.

  Mu Yuesheng and Shi Xiaobai also maintained their consistent style of remaining silent.

  Yama Minamiya sighed and immediately felt that the question he asked was retarded. He said helplessly, "When it comes to endurance, the best segment is apparently—long distance running!"

  "Ah!"

  At this moment, Wen Hezheng was dumbfounded. "No way, if it's long-distance running..."

  If the first round was long-distance running, she could feel at ease to be a personal shopper for others. [1. A personal shopper is a tourist, also known as daigou, who goes overseas and buys suitcases worth of luxury items and sell them back home in person. You can read more here: http://fortune.com/2016/04/03/chinas-grey-luxury-market-taxes/]

  Kevin immediately took the opportunity to kick her while she was down by saying, "What Division Minister Minamiya says makes sense. Long-distance running tests endurance, stamina, Psionic Power and the candidates' will and allocation of wisdom. It is indeed the most suitable first line of elimination. Indeed, we should practice our long-distance running!"

  Finally, Kevin's fawning hit its mark.

  Yama Minamiya nodded his head in a gratified manner and said, "What you said is very good. So I will not belabor you on why we should practice long-distance running. In short, today's training program is long-distance running and it's very simple. Just running a hundred times around the special track in the training grounds will do."

  "Pu! What!? A hundred rounds?"

  At this moment, Wen Hezheng could no longer sit still. The special track in the training grounds was four thousand meters a lap. Wouldn't a hundred laps be four hundred kilometers?

  Heavens, wouldn't this be killing her?

  She only wanted to be a carefree little pig, and silently look at her male gods tie the knot. Why was she tortured in this manner!?

  Kevin's face stiffened too.

  Four hundred kilometers.

  With his stamina, he would not be able to finish running it even if he gave his all.

  Fuck, this was really him lifting a stone to smash himself in the foot!

  Shi Xiaobai was rather calm. He did not know that the track was four thousand meters per lap, and even if he knew, he would not be afraid.

  Even calmer was Mu Yuesheng. She did not even open her pretty eyes. Her brows didn't even wrinkle at all.

  "Let's go. Gat
her at the track."

  Yama Minamiya did not give Wen Hezheng and Kevin time to complain and directly walked out the door.

  Kevin's breathing stagnated and angrily stared at Wen Hezheng.

  This was all that fat pig's fault.

  If not for her...he would not have acted on impulse and agreed with the long-distance running training. At least, he would have tried to negotiate it. After all, four hundred kilometers was just too exaggerated.

  Kevin silently cursed at Wen Hezheng. His resentment for her had deepened once again!

  ...

  Ten minutes later, the group gathered in front of the track. Shi Xiaobai was slightly surprised, but his heart immediately ignited with fighting spirit. Only a four hundred kilometer run was challenging enough.

  Wen Hezheng had an aggrieved face while Kevin had a sullen face. Only Mu Yuesheng remained placid.

  However, what was most surprising was Mu Yuesheng walking to the outermost circle, opening up a distance with the other three.

  Yama Minamiya glanced thoughtfully at Mu Yuesheng and gestured for them to be prepared.

  The four rookies immediately focused.

  "Three, two, one, go!"

  Yama Minamiya shouted the command.

  Before Yama Minamiya was done, a bolt of lightning shot forward!

  This was not a description, but a true bolt of lightning!

  Even Shi Xiaobai widened his eyes. He had just begun using Crab Steps when he saw that bolt of lightning. In the span of a blink, icy-blue lightning suffused from the body of that girl with brown hair and eyes. She appeared at the other end of the straight track instantly.

  That was a true bolt of lightning. When Mu Yuesheng charged forward, there was an eletric buzz emanating from her body as well as the tearing of air. She had transformed into a icy-blue bolt of lightning that shot forward.

  A lap was four thousand meters, and the two straight parts of the track were each fifteen hundred meters long. The bends were five hundred meters long, so in a blink of an eye—in less than a second—Mu Yuesheng had traversed a distance of fifteen hundred meters!

  What did this mean? This was nearly teleportation. If not for that icy-blue bolt of lightning being so blinding, there was no way to see her charging figure.