Chapter 10: The Fifth Grandmaster?

  Fei Jia's eyebrows furrowed slowly, because he believed in the blind man's great strength, so he had never thought that Fan Xian's true energy would have any problems, but today when he checked his pulse, he found some unusual places.

  Seeing the serious face of the indecent teacher, Fan Xian also knew that something was wrong and asked with a smile: "What's wrong?"

  "Laughing like this, aren't you afraid of going crazy?" Fei Jie glared at him and said: "Last time I only knew that your true energy was very overbearing, but I didn't think it would be so overbearing."

  Fan Xian scratched his head: "Very overbearing? How overbearing?"

  He replied very seriously: "It's quite domineering."

  Fan Xian looked at him very seriously: "Teacher, we are all talking nonsense."

  ……

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  Fei Jie was not a martial arts master, but rather someone who used poison. He couldn't judge what kind of true energy Fan Xian was practicing, but he could clearly feel the danger emanating from the child's body. After thinking for a moment, he advised Fan Xian to go find Wu Zhu, but unexpectedly, Fan Xian sighed and said that Uncle Wu Zhu had only listened to his mother's words and given him the book, without even practicing it himself, and refused to say anything more.

  Fei Jie was furious: "The Fifth Master has gone too far! As the young master of his household, why didn't he teach you himself? Instead, he let you learn these dangerous and unorthodox techniques without proper guidance?"

  For over a year, he had already taken the five-year-old child in front of him as his greatest comfort in his later years, and also hoped that Fan Xian would take over his mantle in the future and make his life's learning shine. So when he heard about this matter, he began to resent the blind man Wu Zhu.

  "Is Wu Zhuo very powerful?" Fan Xian asked with narrowed eyes, like a little fox.

  "Of course it's powerful." Fei Jie thought back to the past, "But there are only a few people in this world who know of the existence of the Five Greats... Do you know about the Four Great Masters?"

  Fan Xian naturally knew that, in today's world, the four super powerful martial artists revered by the people as gods were the Four Great Masters. Counting on his fingers, two were from Qing Guo, one was from Bei Qi Guo, and one was from Dong Yi City.

  In today's world, Qing Guo has gained an overwhelming advantage under the leadership of the Emperor. However, it is strange that after the bloody coup in previous years, the national strength has recovered, but the Emperor has instead retreated and no longer expanded externally. Nevertheless, within the most powerful country, there are two super strong men, which is also a natural thing.

  "Not bad, our country currently has two grandmasters." Fei Jie said with a cold smile: "The world is ignorant, only knowing that fighting is fierce, who knows that using poison once entered the realm of transformation, it's also a grandmaster..."

  Fan Xian hastily coughed twice, stopping his teacher's self-praise.

  "...If we exclude the most mysterious temple, among the four great masters, Qing Guo has two of them. One is the younger brother of the current Kyoto Guardian Master's teacher, Liu Yun San Shou Ye Liu Yun."

  Fan Xian widened his eyes, thinking that the head of the Tang was a bit stronger, but the Kyoto Defense Master was responsible for the safety of the entire capital area and was the most critical position in the world. The younger brother of the master's teacher, Ye Liu Yun, might be very powerful.

  "There is another expert, said to be in the imperial palace, but no one has ever seen him."

  "Hey, teacher, we were talking about Uncle Wu Zhang."

  "What's the hurry." Fei Jie glared at him, "That Ye Liu Yun had seventeen life-and-death duels in his lifetime and never lost once. However, when your mother first entered the capital, she beat up Ye Liu Yun's nephew, who is now the Kyoto Guardian General Ye Chong, into a pig head. Therefore, Ye Liu Yun made a statement that he would make trouble for your mother."

  Fan Xian was stunned, and he hurriedly asked his mother, whom he had never met before, who was also a domineering figure back in the day.

  Fei Jie laughed and said, "But later on, I don't know what happened, Ye Liu Yun suddenly stopped caring about this matter, and Ye Chong even ran to the Taiping Courtyard to serve tea and apologize to your mother."

  "Huh?"

  "No one knows what's going on, it's been mysterious all along. But it should be that Ye Liuyun and Wu Zhu Daren had a battle under the Imperial City, Wu Daren is your mother's servant, it's normal for him to take the lead in this kind of thing." Fei Jie picked up the tea by his side and took a sip.

  "Who won in the end?" Fan Xian opened his curious eyes, although he knew that Blind Five was a very powerful person, but he didn't expect that back then he had actually fought against Ye Liu Yun, one of the four great masters of today.

  "No one knows the outcome, but it should be a draw." Fei furrowed his brow and said: "I heard that Ye Liu Yun returned to his own Sword Pavilion after that battle, covered himself with black cloth and practiced sword for half a year. It was only after that time that he abandoned his sword and created a unique set of empty-handed techniques, truly becoming a master of his generation. I suppose that battle must have been quite enlightening for him as well."

  He propped up his small face and thought foolishly, the Four Great Masters? Is Bamboo Fifth Rank fifth in line really the meaning of the fifth great master?

  Fan Xian's eyes were filled with peach blossoms, thinking to himself that the blind servant from his hometown was actually so formidable, and from now on, he wouldn't be afraid of anyone when venturing out into the world.

  Suddenly he thought of a question: "Teacher, didn't you say that these things were secrets? How did you know?"

  Fei Jie said coldly: "I am a senior official of the Supervisory Institute. What secrets can this world have for us?"

  For some reason, Fan Xian was always particularly interested in the powerful figures of this world, as if he felt that ten or so years later, he would inevitably run into those people. So he asked: "As for the other three Grand Masters, have you met them, Teacher?"

  "Qing Guo has another master who only exists in legend, and according to analysis, should be within the imperial palace, but no one has ever seen him." Fei Jie said: "As for the unparalleled strongman of Bei Qi Guo, it is naturally their national teacher, that perverted bald monk, Ku He."

  "Shaved head?" Fan Xian thought that in this world there was no Buddhism, so naturally there were no monks.

  "He was a monk, I heard that in his early years, Kuhe was an ascetic monk. He once knelt on the bluestone steps of the temple for three months, only drinking dew and eating cold food. Somehow, he moved the people in the temple and obtained the heavenly doctrine, becoming a master of his generation." Fei Jie said with envy, "Just looking at him, you can tell that this bald head is a fake."

  "Temple?"

  "Temple is where gods are worshiped."

  "Teacher, you're talking nonsense again."

  "...the temple is the most mysterious place on the entire continent, said to be where our ancestors worshiped the gods, but unfortunately, except for those lucky bastards, no one can find out where the temple is, so no one knows what it's like inside."

  "Maybe...the temple doesn't exist at all?"

  Fei Jie slapped Fan Xian's little head fiercely: "It's okay to be reckless on ordinary days, but how can you be disrespectful in such a sacred and noble place?"

  Fan Xian covered his head, looking at the teacher in surprise. Firstly, he was surprised that the teacher who had poisoned people to death without blinking an eye actually showed respect for the Temple of Gods. Secondly, he found that he had surprisingly easily accepted the four great masters and the Temple of Gods, which seemed a bit absurd.

  It seems I'm really quite adapted to this world after all.

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