Chapter 3029 (Three Thousand and Twenty-Nine) Faster
Tie Hongyan started writing again and told him that he would go to the wild to practice for a while. If he made rapid progress in the wild, it would not be difficult to tell Li Fangshi if he asked.

After reading the contents on the paper, Wu Xunsheng immediately understood what she meant and said, “Yesterday, it was Master Li who asked you to go outside to see if your progress would be faster. He also said that some people would progress much faster when practicing outdoors than when practicing indoors. You will go outside to practice later. If your progress is indeed much faster than when you practiced indoors yesterday, you can make Master Li believe that the reason for your faster progress is that you practiced outdoors.”

Tie Hongyan nodded.

Wu Xunsheng added: “But, we are learning indoors, and we will probably practice in front of Li Fangshi for a while. If you progress quickly at that time, Li Fangshi will still feel something is wrong, right?”

Tie Hongyan started writing on the paper again, telling Wu Xunsheng some of the things Ni Yuan had told her.

It turned out that Ni Yuan had told her before that among those people who make slow progress when practicing indoors but fast progress when practicing outdoors, some of them will make significantly faster progress the first time they practice outdoors, and from then on, whether they are practicing indoors or outdoors, their progress will be as fast as the first time they practiced outdoors.

Wu Xunsheng looked at what Tie Hongyan had written and said, “I see. Li Fangshi should also understand this, right?”

Tie Hongyan wrote to Wu Xunsheng and told him that Ni Yuan had told her that any Taoist priest who could teach others the art of Yin Qian through performing rituals must understand this, otherwise he could not teach her.

Wu Xunsheng continued, “What if Master Li thought yesterday that you were not someone who would make rapid progress by practicing outdoors?”

Tie Hongyan wrote some more words and told Wu Xunsheng that she had asked this question before. Ni Yuan told her that before the practitioner of Yin Qian Gong actually practiced outdoors for the first time, the Taoist priests might speculate whether the person would progress faster when practicing outdoors, but no matter how high the Taoist priest’s level was, such speculation could not be guaranteed to be accurate. Ni Yuan also told her that even if a Taoist priest clearly felt that another person did not seem to progress faster when practicing Yin Qian Gong outdoors, that person might still progress faster when practicing outdoors, and vice versa. In other words, no matter how strong the Taoist priest’s feeling was, as long as the person who was slow to progress indoors had not personally practiced outdoors, no Taoist priest would be sure that his feeling about whether that person would progress faster when practicing outdoors was accurate.

Wu Xunsheng asked, “So, if you let Li Fangshi think that you are the kind of person who has made rapid progress both indoors and outdoors after practicing outdoors once, then even if Li Fangshi felt that you were not that kind of person before, he would think that he was wrong and would not think that you are really weird?”

Tie Hongyan wrote on the paper again and told Wu Xunsheng that he could say that.

Wu Xunsheng finally felt relieved, so he said, “Don’t worry, I will definitely keep this secret for you and will never tell anyone else!”

Tie Hongyan smiled and nodded to him.

Wu Xunsheng added: “Don’t worry, you can tell me any secrets you have. No matter what they are, I will never tell anyone else.”

Tie Hongyan understood what kind of person Wu Xunsheng was, and she felt relieved knowing that he would definitely do what he said to her.

(End of this chapter)