books44 Chapter 586 Old Friends (3)
Chapter 586 Old Friends (3)
Chapter 586 Old Friends (Part 3)
In terms of pure skill cultivation, Han Yi might not be as good as **, but if you add his mixed strengths, various external skills, and terrifying blood and qi power, the two should be about the same.
Moreover, his most proficient poison skills were precisely what he could counter.
"You? You really think this is a peaceful sparring match?" He rolled his eyes. "I've been inscribed with the runes for two years. If I can't beat you in a life-or-death battle, I might as well find a block of tofu and smash my head against it."
The two of them had sparred quite a bit before, but it was always just a friendly spar.
In a true battle, the two of them would never reach that point.
"Two years of inscription...?! Amazing!" Han Yi gave a thumbs up and exclaimed in admiration.
This was the first time he had spoken of his true level of cultivation, directly from his own mouth.
"Hehe, keep it low-key, do you really think I wasted those years at Mingyu Sect?" He smiled smugly, seemingly quite pleased with Han Yi's praise. "But don't go around telling anyone. Even my father doesn't know about this. I'm only telling you."
He suddenly changed the subject and asked Han Yi, "By the way, are you busy next month? I need you to come over."
"how?"
"I had a baby girl last month, and she's just turned one month old. You must come over for the celebration," he said with a smile.
"what?"
Han Yi was startled, looking at the guy in front of him with mixed feelings.
This guy is handsome, incredibly strong, and has terrifying talent. He also comes from the Hu family, one of the three great families. Now he has children, a son and a daughter, making him practically invincible.
Even in male-oriented novels, he would be a typical winner in life.
If Han Yi had a power panel that allowed him to break through limits from time to time, I'd almost feel embarrassed to sit in front of him.
If it were anyone else, they would surely feel ashamed and speechless, and could only nod and agree.
However, after a moment of reflection, Han Yi suddenly remembered something.
"Wait a minute, aren't you unmarried?"
"So what if you're not married?" he retorted. "It's normal to have a few concubines if you don't have a legal wife?"
"You're right," Han Yi said with a wry smile.
Spending so much time with **, he almost forgot that this world wasn't his strictly regulated past life. For men, having multiple wives and concubines was quite common.
In particular, in recent years, the world has been plagued by frequent wars and conflicts, with continuous fighting on the front lines, resulting in a sharp decline in the population.
Local rulers were eager for more children and marriages to occur within their territories, and some places even enacted laws strictly prohibiting abortion.
Within powerful martial arts circles, there are fewer restrictions and a more open atmosphere. It's not uncommon for people like ** to engage in casual, non-marital relationships.
Of course, the only people who are not considered here are concubines.
If it were your wife, you'd have to take it seriously.
The status difference between the principal wife and the secondary wife is not significant, and both require formal marriage.
A concubine's situation is quite different. A concubine's children only have the right to inherit the family property, not the status itself.
If men have this right, women naturally do too. Powerful and influential women can also choose to require their husbands to marry into their families or to take in male concubines, which is quite fair.
“I’m saying, it’s fine that you choose not to marry into the family. Marriage is a major life event and needs to be considered carefully,” he said lazily. “But why don’t you take a few concubines? If you don’t find something to vent your frustrations during the tough days of martial arts training, things can easily go wrong in the long run.”
He chuckled, a hint of malice in his eyes.
"..."
Han Yi sighed, rubbing his head, somewhat helpless.
Actually, given his current power and status, no one would say anything if he had three wives and four concubines.
However, constrained by the strict monogamous education he received in his previous life, he always felt somewhat uncomfortable with having multiple wives and concubines.
He respects women, but he can't quite accept this kind of family.
In addition, he has faced immense external pressure and been very busy over the years, leaving him no time to think about matters of the heart. "We'll talk about this later, when the time is right," he sighed.
"Well, as long as you know what I mean. Speaking of which, you're not getting any younger, it's time to think about settling down and starting a family." ** smiled, stood up, and patted him on the shoulder.
Han Yi looked at his friend in front of him and was speechless for a moment.
However, he has only recently settled down, and a group of people have started to focus on him getting married.
It seems that in the eyes of the general public, regardless of gender, not getting married by a certain age is a great sin.
"Alright, let's leave it at that." Han Yi said, "I have something I want to ask you. Now that you've mastered inscription, what's the difference between that and the beginning of inscription?"
"Also, now that your inscription skills are fully developed, do you feel any changes in your body?"
He was quite curious about the realm of inscriptions and wouldn't act without getting to the bottom of it. Logically, he should have asked his master, Zhong Yunxiu, about these things.
He had just decisively rejected Zhong Han, and now he was shamelessly asking her again…
He wasn't feeling well.
Therefore, the only way he could find answers was through his good friend.
"Inscription is actually the process of using force to guide and engrave bone patterns at key bone sites. Bone marrow produces blood, and once the bone patterns are formed, they can penetrate deep into the bone marrow and continuously permeate and transform it."
I'll explain it briefly first.
"Your focus now is on stability, laying a solid foundation, and making the right choice of your true form. This will naturally make things much easier."
But the most important thing about inscriptions is actually mindset.
“Mindset…” Han Yi frowned slightly.
"That's right. Many people say that inscription tests one's comprehension, perseverance, and control over one's strength. But in the end, it comes down to mindset."
He didn't hold back, sharing all his insights.
"Inscription requires careful control of the force output. After the blood ink seeps into the skin, it is slowly guided into the bloodstream and adheres to the bones before the patterns are carved. This step is actually similar across different techniques, the difference being that the physical body is different, and therefore the patterns will naturally differ."
The true form is difficult to achieve due to its complex natural textures and the challenge of combining internal and external details. The true form is easier to achieve due to its fewer textures and simpler depiction, but correspondingly, masters who achieve the true form tend to be weaker.
Of course, regardless of the actual difficulty level, the most important key is actually mindset. Think about it, threading one needle might not be a problem, but what if you were asked to thread ten, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand needles in an hour?
Engraving bone patterns is essentially the process of threading a needle. No matter how complex the bone patterns required for the true body are, there is an ultimate limit. However, the most difficult part is completing this step before one's mental energy is exhausted. Many people fail before reaching the Grandmaster level not because of a lack of talent or aptitude, nor because the difficulty of the true body is too great, but because of a lack of mental fortitude.