Chapter 51. You really have disciples all over the world! – Jinyu Translations
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Yun Weisi had a vague memory of it.
It seemed that after he had that dream, a half-closed door had slowly opened, and many things that were left behind the door started to appear one after another.
It was the anniversary of his parent’s death, the second year of his apprenticeship.
Their remains were in the faraway capital; moreover, their enemies had discarded the bodies and bones, leaving them to die without a burial site. The once powerful families, having lost the power struggle, dissolved like windswept clouds.
His shizun, Jiufang Changming, brought him out to travel to visit an old friend. Because shizun was usually strict, Yun Weisi did not dare to talk about his childish feelings.
But, when they passed through some village that was holding a fair, he got many toys.
Nine-link rings [1], ‘Getting higher each step’, and small animals made of bamboo.
He was not a small child at that time, and thought that Shizun was buying them for the children of that old friend. Who knew he would simply give them to Yun Weisi, and never take them back.
Then, Yun Weisi finally understood that these toys were bought for him.
He could not remember his thoughts at that time very well, but it seemed that he did not know whether to laugh or cry. Shizun had no experience with disciples, and even coaxed children so crudely. At Yun Weisi’s age, he would never be excited about these toys, but he still took them to play for a while. After that, he noticed shizun actually taking the nine-link rings in his spare time. Since he was not very proficient, and it took more time for him to solve them, Yun Weisi deemed that it was his first time playing. That was when Yun Weisi found out that Shizun did not have much fun during his childhood as well.
At that time, Yun Weisi actually could not imagine young Jiufang Changming spending his first years on the path of cultivation. Could it be that he was also sitting cross-legged under a frozen waterfall cultivating, looking prim and proper?
“It seems that you built a twenty-something layer pile.”
Yun Weisi remembered it now. It was roughly half the height of a person.
After that…
Yun Weisi overturned it.
He was too impatient and reckless, and the pile of colorful balls that could reach human height fell down.
Of course, Jiufang Changming would not punish him for a simple thing like this, but his rare high spirits disappeared, and he never built a second pile.
To coax him, Yun Weisi piled up ice and snow into a tall house in the middle of the night, practicing his ‘Cutting Ice while Riding the Wind’ skill at the same time. But the next day, when Jiufang Changming opened the door, a gust of wind collapsed the two-story house of ice, and it almost fell down onto his head.
Yun Weisi failed to coax him, but Shizun did not get angry, and only made him copy the “Scripture of Purity and Stillness” several more times.
…
He did not try to recall it on purpose, but the seal opened by itself, and the tide poured in.
“It seems that you’ve recalled many things. This teacher is delighted.”
