I Can See Your Combat Power-Chapter 1014 - Three Hundred and Eight Everything Is

Chapter 1014: Chapter Three Hundred and Eight: Everything Is Ready

Chapter 1014 -Three Hundred and Eight: Everything Is Ready

At this moment, the Xu Clan swordsman’s mind was completely filled with thoughts of how to persuade his old friend. He had no intention of establishing a power, responding listlessly, “I’m still young, there’s no hurry to form a power. That can wait for later.”

“I think you should start planning now. In terms of cultivation, you have already firmly planted yourself in the Fierce Realm, and your sword intent is far sharper than ordinary; in terms of status, you are a legitimate descendant of a saintly bloodline; and in terms of fame, you are one of the Four Little Saints of our age, wielding the Emperor’s Void Phoenix Divine Sword. As long as you choose a sacred mountain and call out to establish a Sword Sect, followers will surely flock to you. What do you think?”

With such a cousin, Tang Luo was truly worried. Xu Lao Yin obviously didn’t understand the importance of power and had no aim to establish his own martial force. The swordsman of the Xu Clan still adhered to the romantic notion of chivalry, indulging in the vision that if one is strong enough, followers will come naturally.

What he didn’t know was that there’s an optimal time for everyone to establish their power, and sometimes missing it could lead to a lifetime of regret.

Being recognized as a wanderer of the sacred lands is not a permanent title. It’s an acknowledgment of young martial artists, and after a certain age, whether they like it or not, they must pass this title on to their successors.

In a few years, Xu Lao Yin would have to return the ‘wanderer’ title to the Xu Clan, much like the Feather God An Yuanxi, who had to forge her path in the world under her own name.

This stage is crucial for distinguishing the strengths of the disciples of the sacred lands. Some wanderers dwell on past glories while others, having shed the aura of their former titles, are reborn from the ashes.

Every generation has its wanderers, but not many reach the summit of the sacred lands. The lesson that “great potential in youth does not always lead to greatness in maturity” is often played out on the sacred grounds.

In Tang Luo’s view, now that Xu Lao Yin had the halo of a sacred lands wanderer and sufficient strength, it was an ideal time to establish a force. Even if he couldn’t expand as wildly as the Wuyi Sect, with his extensive secret techniques and family background, he was more than capable of winning over clans and stabilizing people’s hearts.

And most crucially, if Xu Lao Yin were to establish a force now, he would attract many noble sons and talented youths. After all, the ambition of a true hero is to rise to power on merit, not to enjoy unearned flourishes.

Faced with Tang Luo’s earnest advice, Xu Lao Yin still couldn’t muster the enthusiasm, lazily explaining, “I can’t start a Sword Sect now, I haven’t created my own sword intent yet. It wouldn’t make sense to inherit the sword intent of another sect. Wouldn’t it be better to wait until I become a Sword Saint before founding a sect?”

Yuanzhou is the cradle of the sword arts, not only because of the formidable swordsmanship of the Xu Clan but also due to their open attitude towards martial arts.

Almost every Swordsman who achieves the esteemed position of Sword Saint establishes a Sword Sect in Yuanzhou and passes down the main branch’s sword arts. Besides main branch disciples, some wandering swordsmen can also join a sect for cultivation. Thus, nearly every swordsman from Yuanzhou has trained in at least one Sword Sect and claims discipleship to it.

This is the root of the legend that all sword cultivation comes from Yuanzhou—first comes the Xu Clan, then comes the sword.

Xu Lao Yin, traditional in his views on martial arts, naturally equated Sword Saint with founding a sect, feeling that he could only start a school once he comprehended a new sword intent.

“You’ve learned such complex foreign languages, why are you now as dumb as a pig?” Exasperated and feeling like he was casting pearls before swine, Tang Luo argued, “If you achieve Sword Saint status at the age of a hundred, will you wait till then to start your sect? If you haven’t created your own sword intent yet, why not use your grandfather’s or uncle’s in the meantime? They’re your relatives, would they disagree? And once you become a Sword Saint later on, you can always establish a new sect and transfer your disciples there. Isn’t that feasible?”

The truth about getting things done is that if you wait for all conditions to be perfect before starting, you’ll never accomplish anything because it’s impossible to gather all conditions at once.

Therefore, people who really get things done start taking action once they have some basic conditions, and then continuously improve and refine during the process.

First address the “existence” of something, then its “quality.” Tang Luo believed Xu Lao Yin already had everything needed to establish a power, but Xu Lao Yin couldn’t muster the interest, partly because he was used to being a loner and also because he hadn’t realized how much a stable power could benefit him.

One need only look at the other Little Saints to see that they’re all cultivating their own strengths with great effort. Yankong, after first understanding the Sutra of No Suffering and Extinction, went on pilgrimages to preach, aiming to build reputation and momentum for himself, making the title of Buddha Son known throughout the land.

Secondly, he was looking for successors to then open a grand sect and transform his early reputation into tangible benefits.

And Bu Xiao? Why did he take on the task of managing the Longzhou Youth Martial Arts Competition if not to create an impression among the younger generation? Normally, both external and internal disciples admitted into Martial Saint Mountain would become Bu Xiao’s subordinates.

Wang Chan doesn’t even need to be mentioned. Among the four Little Saints, he’s the busiest, joining the Dutian Heavenly King’s patrol, and as the southern emperor, preaching for the Wuyi Sect throughout the land.

Compared to them, Xu Lao Yin was still living as he did when he was ignorant of the martial world, with hardly any substantial changes in his life or career.

Following such a trajectory, in at most twenty years, Yankong will have become the master of a new Zen Sect, Bu Xiao will have hundreds of gifted followers spanning hundreds of noble families, and Wang Chan, aside from holding real power within the Dutian Heavenly King Patrol, will also be the head of a religion with millions of followers.

As for Xu Lao Yin, what could he possibly amount to? He’d be at the peak of the Fierce Realm, having achieved the feat of killing ten thousand enemies, but to what end?

At that time, among this so-called golden generation of the Four Little Saints, it would be the other three dazzling figures facing off against each other. By then, for Xu Lao Yin to overtake them would be an almost impossible feat.

The way of the world is to take from those who have less and give to those who have more, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

This is the fundamental reason for the vast disparities thirty years later, simply due to differing perceptions in the present.

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Of the four Little Saints, the other three clearly know what they want and work hard towards their goals, while only Xu Lao Yin is misguided by perception, relying more on his cultivation and personal strength than on the power of a sect.

But when has there ever been an entity that could stand invincible in the world through sheer personal power? Even the mighty Han Wu, who faced a siege and fell at Dragon Island, and the fierce Fox King, who was caught in the trap of the Subduing Dragon Formation and perished at the hands of two Saint Kings of the Human Race, did not escape this fate.

If Tang Luo wasn’t genuinely concerned for his elder cousin, he wouldn’t bother saying all this. But clearly, Xu Lao Yin didn’t understand the well-meaning intentions because the young swordsman of the Xu Clan had his own pride and stubbornness.