Crack! Crack! Crack!
Li Zheng's arm muscles and bones made a series of explosive sounds. With an incomparable force, he channeled it into the deep-fried dough stick, eting Zhan Zhouzhou's dough stick head-on with a crushing montum.
Bang!
With a dull thud, both dough sticks exploded simultaneously, turning into snowflake-like pieces that scattered around the two.
"What great swordsmanship!" Zhan Zhouzhou praised.
Li Zheng replied casually, "You're not bad either..."
It was only after he spoke that he realized Zhan Zhouzhou was praising swordsmanship, which was their family's specialty... By responding like that, wasn't he just echoing her praise of the Zhan family swordsmanship, while neglecting his own efforts?
"How did you suddenly enlighten?" Zhan Zhouzhou brushed off so remaining grease from her hands, her cold deanor quickly fading to normal, "I rember the last ti I saw you use Passing Swift, it was far more clumsy than today's move."
Li Zheng struck a pose, pretending to be mysterious and said, "People always need to grow."
"Grow?" Zhan Zhouzhou picked up another dough stick and dipped it into a bowl of soy milk in front of her, glancing at Li Zheng, "To put it bluntly, I'd be surprised if anyone else in the world could master Passing Swift in such a short ti to your level, except you..."
She took a bite of the dough stick, which was soaked with soy milk, eating with loud enjoynt, and then said the next half of her sentence, "Impossible!"
"Why?" Li Zheng was unconvinced, "Can't I have a mont of epiphany?"
"You think you can have an epiphany?" Zhan Zhouzhou seed to hear the funniest joke in the world, almost spitting out her food. She laughed so hard she doubled over, "Stop kidding, will you? To be honest, your martial arts talent is not even as good as a dog's, how could you have an epiphany?"
"That's a bit harsh." Li Zheng's face darkened, she is eating the food I provided, how can she say such unpleasant things?
"Exaggerated as it is, your martial arts talent in my view is really..." Zhan Zhouzhou reconsidered her words: "very poor! It's the worst among anyone I've ever seen, hands down!"
"Am I really that bad?" Due to Zhan Zhouzhou's words, Li Zheng lost his confidence. He knew his martial arts talent was poor, but he never thought it was this bad.
"I'm only being frank because I consider you a friend." Zhan Zhouzhou said seriously, "Yesterday while wandering the street, I saw there was a mory Release Device selling martial arts techniques. You must have had such a breakthrough thanks to that kind of tool, right?"
Li Zheng nodded, "Sort of."
"I knew it!" Zhan Zhouzhou's face showed realization and then she earnestly advised, "Use that thing sparingly or better yet, not at all! There's no shortcut in martial arts. What is not yours is not yours. Even if it brings short-term improvent, how will you proceed down the road?"
"Before you hastily rebut, let just give one example." As Li Zheng was about to speak, Zhan Zhouzhou raised her hand to stop him and continued, "Initially, your spear techniques must have co from the mory Release Device, but how long did it last? A day? Two days?"
"And next ti I saw you, your best attack thod had shifted to dual-sword wielding, where was your spear art? Why did it fall from your main offensive tactic?"
"Think carefully, wasn't it because it couldn't keep up with your combat rhythm anymore?"
Upon saying this, Zhan Zhouzhou paused to drink a few sips of soy milk, giving Li Zheng so ti to think.
She was right, ever since Li Zheng had a lesson in swordsmanship, the spear had gradually fallen from its primary attack position.
Although part of it was due to the lack of a suitable spear-type weapon, more was about the spear techniques he got from the mory Release Device no longer keeping up with his later combat rhythm.
He had attempted to improve his spear mastery, but with minimal effect, it was not better than the swordsmanship and sword skill he started practicing later.
The reason the swordsmanship could replace the spear art was firstly Zhan Zhouzhou's personal guidance, and secondly, because he practiced swordsmanship bit by bit from scratch, through his own understanding.
No matter how obedient others' children are, they never compare to your own.
"Slurp, slurp. Ha..." Zhan Zhouzhou emptied a bowl of soy milk, pouring herself more while asking, "Have you thought of sothing?"
"Hmm." Li Zheng nodded, "Indeed, there's no shortcut in martial arts, but... hey? You might as well drink straight from the pot, can't you save so for ?"
At this mont, Mirel walked over carrying a pot of tofu pudding, stood by the table in a daze for a mont, then burst into anger, "Could you two please respect others' labor efforts a bit?"
The little Enchanting Demon slamd the pot heavily onto the table, pointed to the scattered pieces of dough sticks around, and angrily scolded, "What does this an? You find my food unpalatable or not to your taste? Even if you have objections, can't you say it directly? Why ruin the food?"
Zhan Zhouzhou's confidence vanished, she quickly buried her face in her bowl and sheepishly pointed at Li Zheng, "It was him, nothing to do with !"
Slurp slurp, drinking big gulps of soy milk, stuffing herself as much as possible now, there might not be any left shortly.
Seeing Zhan Zhouzhou sell him out imdiately, Li Zheng didn't want to show weakness and firmly pointed at a certain ostrich, "Good for you, Zhan Zhouzhou, it's obviously your doing yet you pin it on ..."
"Do you two think I'm a fool?" Mirel interrupted Li Zheng's attempt to shirk responsibility, her little fists clenched tightly with cracking sounds, "You made such a commotion just now while sparring, I'm not deaf, do you really think I didn't notice?!"
"Sorry, my bad!" Li Zheng's bravado instantly extinguished as he buried his face into the bowl, playing ostrich alongside Zhan Zhouzhou.
Zhan Zhouzhou heard Li Zheng admit defeat, and secretly laughed inside.
This guy can't even manage his own pet, truly...
Hey?
Why do I feel like soone's watching ?
Zhan Zhouzhou glanced up from over the bowl and saw Mirel's dark face staring intently at her, asking, "Don't you have anything to say?"
Zhan Zhouzhou's heart trembled, considering she'd continue to freeload als in the future, she instantly caved, "I was wrong too, but his mistake was bigger!"
Li Zheng raised his head and angrily pointed at Zhan Zhouzhou, "Damn it, you're a real dog! It was clearly you who started it first!"
"Both of you, the older brother should not bla the younger, both were wrong!" Mirel fud, "I'll let it slide this ti since it's your first offense, next ti if you ss around with my cooking, you'll be making your own als!"
These two are too much!
Soone's over there preparing breakfast diligently and yet, they're playing with food like children, so disrespectful!
No regard for others' effort and hard work!
"Eat up!"
Mirel lost the will to argue, plopped onto a stool, picked up her bowl and chopsticks and started eating.
Li Zheng and Zhan Zhouzhou exchanged glances, made faces at each other, and ate in silence.
Two minutes later, Li Zheng suddenly froze, turning his head to the right, where two figures were heading straight toward them.
He was taken aback, imdiately slapped Zhan Zhouzhou's shoulder, and exclaid urgently: "Quick, tidy up the surroundings, the Law Enforcent Team is coming to cause trouble!"
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