Chapter 463 - Wont Give Face to Anyone (1/2)
It was yet again a small stone house, resembling the stone house from the collapsed Qilin Peak. It was the same quiet environment with the same simple decoration.
The stone house door was left open this time and Qin Fen didn’t need to use any special means in order to see the master of the house.
Qilin wore a cyan warrior robe on his body and he casually sat on a rosewood chair. He emanated a forthright vibe to those around him.
Qin Fen walked into the stone house and carefully looked at the silent Song Wendong. Compared to the face he saw during the fierce battle last time, it was even more impressive. The person in front of him was vast and his depth could not be seen through.
Song Wendong was holding a steaming teapot in his hand, with his energetic eyes narrowed. He just stared at the steam coming out from the teapot.
Qin Fen joined his hands in salutation and bowed. He sat down on the wooden chair next to him and waited quietly for the Qilin to speak.
Steward Hou stood near the door and watched the silent duo, one elder and one youth. He smiled and nodded repeatedly. The pressure released by Qilin’s body was much greater when he was silent than when he talked. Qin Fen was able to sit peacefully without being affected at all. Not many martial artists today could achieve that.
Silence rang across the stone house for a brief moment before Song Wendong raised his eyelids slowly and looked at Qin Fen. His gentle eyebrows suddenly showed a hint of surprise. The difference in Qin Fen who had really awakened compared to his state before his first coma was too great.
Both had the same strength of fifteen-star, yet the difference between the two was like heaven and earth. Many martial dao masters did not complete the mass gas condensation until the beginning of the sixteen-star. Only after entering sixteen-star for a long time could they gradually complete the cycle of mass gas condensation.
Before the first time Qin Fen ascended the Qilin peak, Qin Fen had already completed the mass gas condensation. This was already a matter which made a lot of sixteen-star martial dao masters blush with shame yet he was able to complete the true condensation at fifteen-star strength. This kind of person had almost never appeared in the history of martial dao.
Compared to the true condensation, Qin Fen’s mental state was even more surprising. Whenever he sits casually, he revealed a grand power that only grandmaster martial artists could feel.
Song Wendong’s eyelids raised slightly. The martial dao foundation of Qin Fen today was definitely not enough of a grandmaster’s, yet the state of his body had already begun to spread this taste. When they fought with Qin Fen, martial dao masters of the same level couldn’t suppress the aura of power of Qin Fen. It could almost be said that he had not lost even one battle.
His martial dao improved greatly overnight! Song Wendong’s lips evoked a hint of astonishment. He thought that he was the biggest beneficiary of that battle. He didn’t expect that Qin Fen, who fought instinctively, could improve his strength greatly after he had recovered. Although he was still weaker compared to his instinctual fighting state, his progress overnight was still very strange.
“Your spirit was not bad.”
Staying silent for a while, Song Wendong’s first sentence was praise and Qin Fen was quite surprised.
Before he went into a coma after the battle, Qin Fen saw a hint of lamentation in the eyes of Song Wendong. He had seen a lot of this kind of look when he was at school. It was the look given by the teacher returning student’s test papers to those who had passed.
He passed! At least, he barely qualified for the time being! Qin Fen woke up and knew of Song Wendong’s thoughts. He thought that Song Wendong would say that he had barely qualified. He didn’t expect the words of his first sentence contained praise.
Was it because of the battle with the master? Qin Fen’s eyebrows furrowed slightly if that was the case, he could only be regarded as a fraud; there was nothing to be proud and boastful of.
To be defeated by the beast, Qin Fen did not care about it at all. If he could win, it would be a strange thing. However, due to the master’s praise, this kind of situation felt like he had stolen the fruits of the work of others, no man would feel the pride from doing this.
“You dare to advance to the Qilin Mountain, your spirit is not bad.”
Song Wendong explained his own words again. The uncomfortable thoughts of Qin Fen disappeared in an instant like clouds. The spirit that Qilin referred to was not the spirit from the fierce battle last time, but his spirit to advance into Qilin Peak.
Indeed, the identity of martial dao master among the people had an absolute lofty status, but they need to lower their heads in the presence of divine beast martial artists.
In this case, he still persisted and advanced to Qilin Mountain. In many people’s eyes, such a move could only be said to be stupid or rash. Qin Fen knew that real men should be bold to express their thoughts directly rather than hiding them.
“Your martial dao strength is mediocre.”
Qilin drank hot tea from the teapot; he did not pretend to be the literati.
Qin Fen smiled and was silent. It was rare that someone would have their strength praised in front of the divine beast. He didn’t know if even the strength of a constellation warrior was considered good in the eyes of the divine beasts martial artists.
“You had the wrong understanding.” Song Wendong placed the teapot on the table and shook his head, “Three-star martial artists, in my eyes, can also be said to be top-notch; the strength of the constellation warrior in my eyes would perhaps have not enough qualifications.”
Qin Fen adjusted his sitting position and revealed a hopeful expression. What was this high-ranking Qilin beast thinking about? Even with the psychology, he had learned from Squad leader Hao, as well as the information collected, he still couldn’t grasp Qilin’s thoughts. His thoughts may only be clear if there was face-to-face communication.
Initially, Qin Fen thought that Qilin Song Wendong didn’t like to talk. He didn’t expect this old man to be quite talkative.
“Potential does not equal to the future and it is not equal to strength.” Song Wendong’s eyes shot like lightning and they were directed at Qin Fen’s eyes, “The ability to provoke potential is the real future and strength.”
Qin Fen digested the meaning of Song Wendong’s words secretly and nodded gently to show his approval. No matter how great your potential is, if you can’t activate it in the end, what is the difference of having no potential?
“Your potential is amazing.” Song Wendong’s words had a hint of recognition, “Aside from everything else, judgment with just potential, there are not many people in your generation who could compare with you.”
Potential? Qin Fen smiled with a hint of helplessness. He was able to climb up from the bottom bit by bit. He was clear that his potential was different from the potential of others. This was something even Song Wendong couldn’t see.
The potential of others may come from heredity, perhaps from the innate nutrition foundation or even the martial arts foundation. There were innate factors beyond imagination and the potential had prepared them for life before they were even born.
Compared with other people, Qin Fen’s potential was very different. The potentials of others were almost innate. Based on Qin Fen’s own analysis, people like Xue Tian, who eats and sleeps and then eats again; practicing twice half-heartedly and yet able to produce results, were considered a congenital type of super genius.
Qin Fen categorizes his potential as an acquired potential. These potentials were mostly all by their own hard work. They think about the accumulation of feelings, put them all into their own potential and then put these into producing their own potential and then exciting them slowly.
If a metaphor was used to describe it, then Xue Tian would be a former Arab. Ever since they were born, there was endless oil under their butts, the oil being the potential of human beings.
Qin Fen was equivalent to the birth of the Sahara Desert. He had nothing from birth. He had to collect wood and the carcasses of animals and then bury them underground while he waited for the time to pass. Bit by bit, they turned into oil, and he would then dig them out.
Xue Tian only needed one process, which was the development of potential. Qin Fen had two processes, the creation of potential and then the development of potential!