Chapter 156: Chapter 86: Even a Dog Wouldn’t Crave It

Miao Miaomiao chuckled softly.

“Hm? Don’t tell me this Martial Art is also an incomplete fragment?”

Zhao Rui froze for a moment, then asked out of curiosity.

“How did you know?”

Miao Miaomiao was stunned. She frowned and said, “What do you mean by that?”

Zhao Rui said calmly, “Because your Charm Technique is also an incomplete fragment.”

“You’ve seen the complete version?”

Miao Miaomiao’s heart skipped a beat, and she asked anxiously.

“I haven’t seen the complete version, but by studying the rhythm of your aura, I’ve reverse-engineered some of its Magic Techniques.”

“Bragging!”

“Your aura is unstable, and you can’t control the automatic release of your Charm Technique. That’s because you’re missing some key Magic Techniques…”

Zhao Rui said clearly, “How about this: you seriously teach me the Sound Wave Skill, and I can work with you to analyze your Charm Technique and help you complete it. Of course, if you don’t believe me, then just pretend I never said anything.”

“Are you telling the truth?”

Hearing this, Miao Miaomiao immediately fell silent.

Zhao Rui’s meaning was obvious. She would first have to contribute her Spell and share it with him. Only then could they cross-reference and analyze it together.

“You’ve already gotten my Sound Wave Secret Skill.”

Miao Miaomiao’s eyes grew slightly cold. She felt that if she agreed, she would be getting the short end of the stick no matter how she looked at it.

“Whoa there, I never lied to you. I’m going to tell you how I overcame the influence of your Charm Technique.”

“But what I just mentioned is a separate matter. If you don’t trust me, you can completely ignore it.”

“Besides, I didn’t memorize or learn that Sound Wave Skill you were talking about!”

Zhao Rui said.

“But I already told you,”

Miao Miaomiao huffed coldly.

“Alright then. I’ll tell you now how I resisted your Charm Technique.”

Zhao Rui smiled and said in a clear voice,

“My Qi originates from the Innate, Pure and Unblemished. You also know that our sparring team has a useless Martial Arts Mimicry Fist…”

“The Charm Technique actually has a release frequency. By reverse-engineering the flow through the Meridians, although I can’t figure out the exact details, I can encourage my Inner Strength to adapt to the impact of your Charm Technique to a certain extent…”

Zhao Rui’s words weren’t complete nonsense. They were based on the adaptation process he had reverse-engineered after his Integration and Mastery of the Charm Technique.

Four parts truth, three parts fiction, and three parts reverse-engineered deduction.

As Miao Miaomiao listened, her elegant brows furrowed, and an inexplicable emotion welled up in her heart.

Because some of the things Zhao Rui said had genuinely touched upon aspects of the Cultivation Technique she didn’t understand.

“Fine, I can agree to your terms!”

“But if you dare to trick me, I’ll hunt you to the ends of the earth!”

Miao Miaomiao looked at Zhao Rui coldly.

“Whoa, let’s just forget it. All this talk of fighting and killing makes it sound like I’m desperate to help you. It’s not like I’m short on Gang Qi Techniques.”

“I’m outta here!”

After speaking, Zhao Rui stood up, tapped his feet lightly on a branch, and shot off campus like a bird darting into the woods.

“You…”

Miao Miaomiao was stunned. She hadn’t expected him to leave so decisively. She was suddenly both anxious and angry.

“I take back what I just said!”

Her clear voice echoed through the silent night.

’Too bad!’

Her voice lingered for a long time, but it failed to make Zhao Rui stop.

…

The next day, after finishing his major-specific classes, Zhao Rui unhurriedly made his way to the Martial Arts Team.

As soon as he entered the hall, Miao Miaomiao found him.

“I’ll do it!”

The moment she said this, the team members scattered around the hall froze, all turning to stare in shock, as if they had just seen a ghost.

“Without all those messy conditions?”

Zhao Rui asked back, unconvinced.

“None!”

“Deal!”

Zhao Rui agreed with a smile.

“Good. See you tonight at the usual spot!”

Miao Miaomiao said casually.

“WHOA…”

What usual spot? The crowd was dumbfounded, their shock turning into a commotion.

’Are those two having an affair? Has Miao Miaomiao actually been conquered by Zhao Rui?’

One by one, they all revealed expressions of disbelief.

Miao Miaomiao also realized she seemed to have misspoken. Her elegant brows knitted slightly as she slowly swept her gaze over the onlookers.

Her eyes narrowed, a cold light seeming to flash within them, instantly frightening the crowd into hurriedly turning their heads away.

Only then did Miao Miaomiao retract her gaze and walk toward a corner of the Martial Arts Arena as if nothing had happened, where she began to cultivate silently.

It was past ten at night.

In a quiet and secluded grove on campus, perched on the same bare tree trunks as before, Miao Miaomiao skillfully played a tune.

At the same time, she periodically recited the key principles of playing.

Zhao Rui stood to the side, earnestly studying and pondering her words.

After a while, the young woman stopped playing, resting her hands on the zither. “I came across this Sound Wave Technique by a stroke of luck,” she said. “Its power isn’t particularly high, and it feels somewhat sluggish when I channel it.”

“Since you don’t understand music, just treat it as a Support cultivation method.”

“Teacher Miao is absolutely right!”

Zhao Rui chuckled. “However, while I may not understand Melody, I know how to roar and beat drums!”

“How crude!”

Miao Miaomiao couldn’t help but roll her eyes coquettishly. He was turning a perfectly good Melody Divine Skill into the Lion’s Roar.

“This is rather troublesome to learn. Why don’t you try learning by doing? Attack me with your zither’s music a few more times. I might learn faster that way.”

’Learning is secondary. The main goal is to activate my Martial Arts replication.’

“You won’t fight back?”

“Er… that’s fine too!”

Hearing Zhao Rui say it was fine, a cunning smile instantly appeared in Miao Miaomiao’s beautiful eyes.

TWANG, HUM, CHIME…

Before the sound of Zhao Rui’s voice had even faded, Miao Miaomiao’s zither had already unleashed a string of combative notes.

Streaks of Gang Qi shot toward Zhao Rui like bolts of silk.

“Holy crap! That was a cheap shot!”

Zhao Rui dodged clumsily, his figure leaping and weaving between the branches. In just a few moments, the tree he was on had been stripped bare.

“Profound Sound Sky-Cracking Chart progress: two percent.

Profound Sound Sky-Cracking Chart progress: three percent…”

The messy pile of broken branches on the ground wasn’t entirely useless; at least it had greatly boosted Zhao Rui’s replication progress.

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