Chapter 1259: Deep Bonds Between Teacher and Disciple!

Translator: Lordbluefire

Li Ziqi didn’t move, but Sharp-chin suddenly felt an extremely great sense of crisis. This caused his resolve when attacking to waver somewhat.

However, this was such a good opportunity and it would be too much of a pity to miss it.

At this moment, he heard a light sound. Although he couldn’t see it, he knew that this princess had snapped her fingers.

Pak!

Rumble!

With Li Ziqi at the center, a sea of lightning with bolts akin to wriggling silver snakes started to spread out through the surroundings.

Due to the electrostatic effect, many of the snakes shot toward Sharp-chin.

As their distance was simply too close, Sharp-chin could only face them head-on.

“ah!”

Sharp-chin screamed.

Li Ziqi didn’t turn around, but her back suddenly shot out a beam of light that slammed into Sharp-chin’s chest.

Boom!

Sharp-chin was blasted backward and rolled a few rounds on the ground due to the impact.

“Little Chestnut!”

Square-face hurriedly sped over to help his comrade. Their other companions also brandished their weapons and were ready to attack.

“Haha, you guys cannot win in a solo fight, so you all are preparing to fight with numbers?”

‘Tantai Yutang ridiculed.

“Depending ona spirit rune armament to win, how can this be counted as being skilled?”

The girl that was eating the sugar-coated haws snorted in disdain.

“This armament was designed and created by my eldest martial sister. Why can’t she use it?”

Lu Zhiruo was unhappy. “This is the power of intelligence. Do you understand it or not?”

“Eh!”

‘The sugar-coated haw girl was speechless.

In the Nine Provinces, everyone would first set an agreement on whether high-level spirit armaments or secret treasures could be used in a fight. But if those armaments were created by themselves, they could use them any time they wanted to.
“Who’s next?”

Li Zigi looked around.

Her expression and tone were calm, as though she had just done a very insignificant thing. But in her heart, she was cheering out with joy.

(Teacher, I can also win against my opponents in a fight!)

Although she could depend on the art of spiritual control and her spirit rune rods to win, it would cause others to feel that she was using a shortcut. However, this spirit armament was different because it was the crystallization of her intelligence.
“This is something designed by you?”

Square-face asked. From the Little Chestnut’s injuries, he could tell that this armament was very impressive.

“Tantai, help to treat him!”

Li Ziqi instructed.

The sickly invalid shrugged and walked over before he squatted down beside Little Chestnut. “Let me treat him. Otherwise, even if he doesn’t die, his future would be affected!”

Square-face pursed his lips and muttered his thanks.

“In the future, this world’s fight will belong to spirit rune armaments!”

Qin Yaoguang glanced at Li Ziqi. Her expression was one of disappointment and sadness.

“Yeah, I suddenly feel that my efforts in cultivating suddenly became meaningless.”

Jiang Leng sighed.

Everyone knew Li Ziqi’s battle standard, but the moment she was equipped with the armament, her combat strength explosively rose by a factor of tens.

“Who said that? It isn’t like I’ve never won against her before.”

Xuanyuan Po snorted in contempt. “No matter when, only if you yourself are powerful can that be considered true strength.”

“Yeah, no matter how strong our eldest martial sister is, let alone the saint realm, she definitely wouldn’t be able to win against experts at the Legendary Realm. She also wouldn’t be able to shatter the void in the future, but senior brother Xuanyuan would be able to.”
Xianyu Wei belonged to the camp of Xuanyuan Po’s thoughts.

“Wrong, given our eldest martial sister’s intelligence, I believe she would be able to find another solution of shattering the void!”

Lu Zhiruo countered.

Qin Yaoguang didn’t say anything further. What she meant was that Li Ziqi’s invention could allow low-level cultivators such as noobs in the Body-Refinement Realm to have the possibility to kill experts at the Divine Force Realm.
Moreover, who would dare to guarantee that Li Ziqi’s spirit armament couldn’t be improved on and become stronger?

“Bai Wenzhang once said that the future of the Nine Provinces would be an era of spirit runes!”

Jiang Leng sighed ruefully. “The study of spirit runes contains boundless possibilities.”

‘The cultivators here were all shocked because there was really nothing to write home about regarding Li Ziqi’s performance. She had simply unleashed some lightning and a few beams of light, and she won just like that.
“This could work too?”

Yang Shizhan and Hu Xi

ang were both dumbfounded. As major characters, they were very far-sighted. Hence, they instantly understood the value of this spirit rune armament.
“Xuanyuan, do your best!”

Square-face waited for Tantai Yutang to treat Sharp-chin’s injuries. After that, he shouted some encouragement to Xuanyuan Po before bringing his companions away.
“Are you acquainted with him?”

Qin Yaoguang was curious.

“Nope!”

Xuanyuan Po shook his head and his gaze kept flitting toward the armed little sunny egg. Apparently, he wanted to fight her.

“Ah? Teacher is over there!”

Lu Zhiruo suddenly called out and sprinted excitedly toward a street’s corner. “Like I said, my intuition won’t be wrong!”

Swish~ Swish~ Swish~

Everyone turned their heads over.

“Teacher!”

Li Ziqi had a look of joy on her face as she ran over. However, because she was in too much of a hurry, she had only taken a few steps before her left foot kicked into the back of her right foot, causing her to stumble and fall onto the ground.
(Oh no! The stable demeanor and image I’ve worked hard to establish are gone!)

Li Ziqi felt so depressed that she covered her face.

In order not to lose face, she always emphasized the word ‘stable’ before her fellow martial siblings. She did everything meticulously and cautiously because she was afraid of falling down.
“Teacher!”

The plains girl stretched out her long legs and sped past Lu Zhiruo, arriving first despite not being the first to run, lunging into Sun Mo’s embrace.
“Awu!”

‘The papaya girl was unhappy. She could only hug one of Sun Mo’s arms.

“Eldest Martial Sister!”

Helian Beifang helped Li Ziqi up.

Very soon, the nine students stood before Sun Mo and respectfully greeted him.

“Mn. dispense with the ceremonies!”

Sun Mo surveyed his students from a close distance and grew increasingly satisfied the more he looked at them.

“Teacher!”

Li Ziqi’s eyes turned red. She didn’t want to cry but couldn’t control her tears. She had truly missed their teacher too much.

“Eldest Martial Sister, take my place!”

Xianyu Wei left Sun Mo’s embrace after a suitable time, but Ying Baiwu took action quicker and rushed in to hug Sun Mo.

“You…”

Li Ziqi was speechless. (Don’t I want face as the eldest martial sister?)

“Sun-laoshi, your esteemed disciples are all very respectful and love you very much!”

Yang Shizhan was envious.

He thought of his failed teaching career. All his family had been killed by his vile disciples.

“alright, don’t cry anymore. Quickly stand properly and greet Saint Yang and Secondary Saint Hu!”

Sun Mo urged.

‘They must not have a lack of manners.

“Huh?”

Other than Lu Zhiruo who was still in a daze, the eyes of the other students widened. The two guys beside their teacher actually had such high titles?
They were people standing at the peak of the great teacher world!

(Wait a minute, what did this Saint Yang address Teacher as? Sun-laoshi?)

‘The students were all very intelligent, hence, they instantly discovered this blindspot. After that, all of them became dumbfounded.

(Teacher, what did you do? You actually managed to get a saint to address you as ‘laoshi’?)

Usually speaking, only when one treated another with great kindness would one receive such preferential treatment.

“Why are you guys so startled? Quickly greet them politely!”

Li Ziqi urged and took the lead to bow.

“Everyone, please dispense with the ceremonies!”

Yang Shizhan and Hu Xi

iang had smiles on their faces, appearing like amiable old men from next door.
“Let’s go. There are too many people here. We should speak only after we return!”

Li Ziqi hurriedly got servants to prepare the horse carriage and allowed Sun Mo and the other two to get on it first. After that, the students squeezed their way into the carriage.

15 minutes later, everyone returned to the mansion. After some simple washing up, they sat in the guest meeting room.

The maids brought over fruits and tea.

Lu Zhiruo stayed by Sun Mo’s side, not wanting to leave. Also, Ying Baiwu was a little more introverted and wasn’t like the papaya girl, but she still stood behind Sun Mo to knead his shoulders for him. This was already sufficient to express her longing for Sun Mo.
Yang Shizhan and Hu Xingjiang knew that Sun Mo had been separated from his disciples for over four years and they would surely have many things they wanted to talk about. Hence, after a while, they found an excuse to leave.
After only Sun Mo and his disciples remained in the guest meeting room, the atmosphere immediately grew relaxed.

Although it had been over four years since they last met, there were no hints of awkwardness.

However, Sun Mo still used his finger to push against Lu Zhiruo’s forehead, pushing her away from him gently.

“Pay attention to your image!”

Sun Mo reminded her.

“Tm always a little kid before Teacher!”

Lu Zhiruo pouted.

“Knead my shoulders for me!”

Sun Mo found an excuse. He actually wanted to say, ‘Are there any kids as old as you? Look at the huge papayas before your chest, did you stuff two huge watermelons underneath your clothes?

(How old are you merely, but you already have two large Gs!? By hugging me like that, those who don’t know the truth will definitely suspect my morals.)

“Teacher, I have many questions I want to ask you!”

Xuanyuan Po immediately spoke about matters of cultivation.

“Wait! Wait! Wait!”

Tantai Yutang stopped him. “You are thinking of cultivation every day. Don’t you find it tiresome?”

“How can it be tiresome?”

‘The combat addict’s reply directly caused the sickly invalid to be stumped.

“Alright, I was too mouthy!”

‘Tantai Yutang slapped his own face lightly.

“Xuanyuan, I’ve watched your competition. You fought very well!”

Sun Mo guided. “Your spear arts have reached minor completion, and you have achieved an ‘initial glimpse of the dao of the spear’. If you continue training like this, the speed of improvement would be slow. So after the Hero Battle ends, you should give the spear up and go and train with other weapons.
“all weapons are of the same path. No matter which weapons you are using, as long as your person itself is a spear, you will become a spear king.”

Sun Mo yearned for such a day to come very much.

“are there any other solutions?”

Xuanyuan Po didn’t wish to be separated from Little Silver.

“At the very least, I still can’t think of any!”

Sun Mo shook his face.

“It’s fine, just follow our teacher’s instructions!”

Qin Yaoguang pushed Xuanyuan Po aside. She circled once around Sun Mo. “Teacher, quickly look. I’ve grown taller and more beautiful!”

“You make it sound like none of us is beautiful here!”

Li Ziqi pouted and patted her chest. However, when she lowered her head to take a look, she suddenly felt depressed.

His students were all tactful and didn’t make him worry much. Sun Mo didn’t even have any chance to feel a headache due to them. Besides, Li Ziqi was like a half-a-~mother and had taken care of everyone meticulously.
“Teacher, w…what do you think of the spirit rune armament of mine?”

Li Ziqi’s tiny hands were clutching her robes. She wanted to be praised by her teacher.

It was something worth many years of her effort.

“Very excellent!”

Sun Mo sighed ruefully. “Actually, I also created a spirit armament, but when compared to yours, I suddenly feel embarrassed to take it out.”

“Teacher’s invention would surely be the greatest!”

Lu Zhiruo worshiped Sun Mo unconditionally.

Under the gazes of anticipation from everyone, Sun Mo took out a handgun. However, many spirit runes were engraved all over the gun, and its ammunition clip that needed gunpowder bullets was replaced by spirit stones.
In order to increase the destructive might, Sun Mo used rupture-style bullets.

After a simple explanation by Sun Mo, Qin Yaoguang lifted the handgun and fired some shots toward the wall.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every gunshot could open up an apple-sized hole in the wall.

“Wow, these twelve consecutive shots can directly blast the head of an enemy apart!”

‘Tantai Yutang felt that this toy wasn’t bad. It was very suitable for people like him who weren’t adept at martial techniques.

“The might is a little weak. If we encounter opponents with high cultivation base, they will do their utmost to defend against the impact. I’m afraid we will only be able to fire a few shots before they close in and kill us.”

Helian Beifang analyzed sharply..