High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2754: Chapter 975: Learning to Say No

”Yes.”

The teacher ignored the Flower Cat’s muttering and first affirmed the boy’s guess, then further explained, ”Not only that, after your consciousness is sublimated through the high-dimensional journey and returns to this world, it won’t be like dreaming again, where you can easily find the splendor of the dreamscape... This is a difference between active and passive... Your consciousness hovers between dreamland and reality, which is a realm you can control, so your consciousness can easily switch between low dimension and reality; but when consciousness goes to a higher dimension, you are a passive traveler. Whether you will ’smuggle’ anything back on your return journey, or whether your sublimated consciousness can return to its original state after returning, these are unknowns... I won’t rule out any possibilities. Especially since your soul state is very special.”

Although he couldn’t see the teacher’s expression.

But Zheng Qing could clearly hear from the words the teacher’s caution regarding this matter. At the same time, he also knew that what the teacher referred to as ’special’ was the small sapling rooted deep within his soul.

”You should emphasize to him the benefits of this journey a bit!”

The Yellow Flowered Cat’s malicious voice sounded again, as if a demon was whispering into its ear: ”——As long as you take this trip with the old man, your legendary road will be smooth, and you might even aspire to a higher rank. And the cost is just that your character becomes a bit colder.”

”But didn’t you just say that a cold heart easily leads to loneliness?”

The Black Gem Cat didn’t open its eyes, but glanced askew in the direction where it remembered the Yellow Flowered Cat was: ”Are you trying to turn me into a stone earlier, so you can inherit my San You Bookstore?”

”You’re looking the wrong way, I’m not in that direction!”

The Yellow Flowered Cat’s annoyed voice abruptly sounded on the other side of the Black Gem Cat: ”Additionally, first, you fake cat were originally a stone; second, the San You Bookstore isn’t yours yet, maybe I’ll be the next owner! Third, discarding the emotions of external interference can speed up your cultivation, as long as you become a legend before feeling the loneliness of time, you can slightly escape the bounds of the river of time, thus avoiding the danger of loneliness...”

”Roughly how long will it take?”

”What?”

”According to your estimation, how long will it take for me to become a legend.”

”Uh... such things, can’t be pinpointed.”

The Yellow Flowered Cat was visibly taken aback, muttering ambiguously: ”To become a legend, you first need to find a legendary concept that suits you... and you have to let others know, accept, and even celebrate your legend. This kind of thing isn’t like a high wizard condensing a bit of their true form... everyone is different. Some guy took seven steps right after being born and became a legend; some wizards struggled for thousands of years, almost turning to loess, before barely becoming one... As for someone like you, I guess, at least seventy or eighty years, or a hundred years.”

The Black Gem Cat rolled its closed eyes.

”There are twenty to thirty years between seventy to eighty years and a hundred years, Old Huang!” It made no effort to hide its sarcastic tone: ”The time discrepancy you gave is bigger than my age...”

”For high-level wizards, twenty to thirty years is just a fleeting moment.” The Yellow Flowered Cat earnestly lectured: ”You must learn to discard the time view and worldview formed in the first eighteen years of your life...”

”Practice is the only standard for testing truth, this worldview I cannot discard!” The Black Gem Cat stiffly retorted.

The night wind blew gently, the leaves lightly swayed.

The teacher silently listened to the argument between the two cats under the Kaishu.

Until they quieted down again.

The Kaishu leaves then made a soft rustling sound in the stirring night wind: ”...I won’t comment on whether ’coldness’ or ’mechanical’ look at these emotions is good or bad, just like I won’t evaluate whether this trip is more suitable for you... but I can give you a very small example for your reference. For example, after returning from the high-dimensional world, you may never blush again, nor will you become flustered and at a loss because that little miss from the Su Family hung you upside down with her tail.”

The Black Gem Cat’s face blushed instantly.

The teacher perhaps intended to use a joking tone to lighten the boy’s mood a bit.

But Zheng Qing couldn’t bring himself to laugh at all.

”Then I won’t go.”

Without any hesitation, he rejected the teacher’s birthday gift for this year: ”The world is so rich and colorful, I still want to take a careful look... If I reach that height in the future and have the interest, maybe I’ll go look on my own. For now, let’s forget it.”

Though he rejected it so decisively with his mouth.

Zheng Qing still felt distressed deep inside.

He had reason to believe that as long as he took a higher dimension journey with the teacher, forget those sneaky crows in school, even Old Yao, he might have the chance to hang him up and beat, let alone some Big Fox.

But correspondingly.

If he really chose to go, then after he came back, he would likely lose interest in catching up to hang that Big Fox for a beating.

”Then you’d better have the life to see it!”

The Yellow Flowered Cat couldn’t help but interject again: ”—Although I also agree that at your current age and state, you’re not suitable for a higher dimensional journey, considering your personal safety, raising your rank and gaining enough self-preservation capabilities is most important for now.”

”You can protect me.” The Black Gem Cat said thick-skinned, smiling in the direction of the Yellow Flowered Cat.

Woosh!

The sound of the wind seemed to grow a bit urgent.

It blew two Kaishu leaves down, fluttering as they landed on the foreheads of the two cats, like two seals, pinning them in place. The Black Gem Cat suddenly lost the ability to control its body, aside from its ears being able to rotate back and forth, and slightly tremble, even its whiskers couldn’t move.

”Don’t interfere too much with his choices.”

The teacher’s voice sounded in the Black Cat’s ear, and magically, though it couldn’t see the teacher’s appearance, the Black Cat could clearly perceive that these words were directed at the Flower Cat: ”As I said before, he has the right to choose his gift this year... then he refused it. That’s great. In fact, I’ve always worried that he wouldn’t dare reject it... Especially when I had told him ’what a gift from an elder it can’t be refused’...”

The Black Gem Cat blinked in its heart.

Heaven witnesses, when he refused, he really didn’t think about the teacher’s words, his mind was full of thoughts about catching up and hanging the Big Fox for a beating in the future, and he couldn’t lose that original intention.

”—Learning to refuse is a very important ability in the process of growing up.”

The teacher’s voice turned towards the Black Gem Cat, appearing somewhat serious: ”Everyone can easily discern others’ malice or goodwill toward themselves, but many people don’t know how to refuse that malice. Some people are thin-skinned, gentle; some have simply never refused others before, and don’t know what to do in such situations. At these times, you need to practice more. When you’re walking alone in this world, you must learn to refuse.”