Chapter 646 Road
Bang!

The sound of the bolt falling was exceptionally clear in the silence.

As Bevin was gazing at the tightly closed stone door, he suddenly heard a few barely audible sighs behind him.

He turned around in surprise and saw everyone's relaxed posture—Dorothea was gently patting her chest, as if she had unloaded an invisible burden; the other girls also quietly relaxed their previously almost frozen shoulders, their tense backs slowly stretching out, and the air seemed to begin to flow again.

"What's going on here..." Bevin blinked, somewhat puzzled.

In response to Bevin's question, Dorothea quickly bowed, the lingering tension in her voice clearly discernible:

"Please forgive me, Young Master Bevin."

Master Yaro's current aura is too astonishing. Just now, when he was concentrating on the suspicious points of the beast, the sisters felt that the air around them had frozen, their hearts were clenched, and they were even careful with their breathing.

"I really...I really couldn't control myself, that's why I lost my composure."

As she explained, her fingertips unconsciously continued to caress the side of her skirt.

Clearly, she was still somewhat nervous even when Lord Yaro was mentioned behind his back.

Bevin paused, his gaze sweeping over the girls' slightly pale faces and the faint beads of sweat on their foreheads.

It seems to be true?
but……

"When Master was pondering, I did feel a bit of pressure, otherwise I wouldn't have suddenly interrupted. But that feeling... didn't seem as exaggerated as you described, did it?"

"Perhaps it's because... you've always been by Master Yaro's side and have become accustomed to this kind of imposing presence?" Dorothea guessed.

"Is that so?"

Seeing their lingering fear, Bevin's mind raced, and he began to have some guesses.

……

Outside the stone gate, a figure, as dark as ink, seeped into the shadows of the stone wall, its outline perfectly swallowed by the rough texture of the wall.

—This is the effect of the escape formation.

That's right, Yaro didn't go far immediately.

He held his breath and focused his mind, extending his senses like silk threads, penetrating the thick stone walls, and clearly perceiving every whisper and every breath within the courtyard.

That's why he was in such an awkward situation.

What on earth was that suffocating aura that Dorothea was talking about, the kind that came from his 'deep thought'?!
He had always thought he was just concentrating on thinking, and he even felt that he had been quite calm just now.

"Could it be that I forgot to turn off the 'power' that drives away wild beasts?"

Yaro frowned in confusion, subconsciously beginning to recall every detail from before.

He was quite certain that he hadn't... to be more specific, he hadn't activated his extraordinary level of pressure!

After all, he couldn't possibly forget whether he had used magic or internal energy.

But the girls' simultaneous sighs of relief didn't seem fake, and Bevin also admitted that he felt pressured, just not as intensely as the girls.

This confirms that the feeling of oppression does exist, and that there are individual differences in the intensity of perception!

But what is the reason for this difference?
Yaro's mind raced, comparing Bevin with the other girls, and he quickly found the key.

—They come from different backgrounds! Bevan is of noble birth. Although his family has fallen on hard times, there are few people in his family who can make things difficult for him. In fact, if things get out of hand, he can even give his father a hard time.

Those girls were all once maids, and they were maids who survived the clutches of monsters that fed on humans!

This difference in background makes the girls extremely sensitive to the atmosphere and body language, even more so than Ya Luo, who had just revealed the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" and glimpsed the gateway to "power".

Just then, Yaro had just learned the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" last night. Along the way, in order to protect Bevin, he had been using his aura for a long time, which affected his behavior to some extent, and the girls had keenly noticed this.

“No…wait!”

An idea suddenly flashed through Yaro's mind.

"Is it really because of the pressure applied for an extended period of time on the road?"

"Or perhaps... I really wasn't influenced by those extreme Legalist ideas in the *Huangji Jingshi Jue*?"

Every word and sentence of the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" originated from him. He accepted the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" much faster than others. Even if he did not completely agree with the final structure, it would still have some influence on his behavior.

Inside the stone courtyard, the girls' tense breathing was gradually replaced by soft conversation.

Bevin seemed to be comforting Dorothea: "Master is actually very gentle..."

The girls' responses were tinged with a relieved chuckle, like a frozen stream beginning to flow gently under the warm sun.

This subtle sense of relaxation penetrated the stone wall and clearly reached Yaro's ears.

—It was precisely this ease that stung him!
The image of him staring at everyone with a knife-like gaze when he questioned the beast about suspicious points flashed through his mind, and even now, he was eavesdropping outside the door like he was interrogating a prisoner.

"I see……"

He suddenly realized that the process of compiling the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" was itself a process of self-refinement of thought!
Even if he only uses the Legalist school's "sharp analysis" as a tool, the gale generated when he swings the knife has already cut his own "cocoon of human relationships" without him even realizing it.

The sharpness I displayed when I was concentrating was the glint of a blade leaking out from the gaps in this cocoon!
Or rather—their behavior leans to the left!
He recalled the extreme national structure proposed in the *Huangji Jingshi Jue*, which used the concept of "personal representation of the state," and couldn't help but examine himself:
"Can I accept this outcome?"

Of course, this is unacceptable!

How can a tool affect its owner!

So, how do we change it?
Should we abandon this tool?

"Why should I abandon the tools I created myself?"

Since it's leaning to the left, let's pull it to the right!
Imagine a mud house where one side is replaced with reinforced concrete. Since the rest of the structure remains that of an ordinary mud house, the entire mud house will naturally experience stress distortion.

To maintain overall balance, there are only two paths:
Either demolish the reinforced concrete walls (abandoning tools) to return the house to its uniform, fragile soil;
Alternatively, the other three walls can be modified simultaneously (adjusting the mindset), using resilient beams and columns to neutralize the rigidity of the steel walls, ultimately forming a new structure that combines rigidity and flexibility!
Once the entire mud house is replaced with a reinforced concrete structure, it will have the foundation to support the skyscraper!
This principle applies both at the national level and at the individual level.

This is even more true when it comes to martial arts training!
"Should we summarize all thoughts and allow 'me'... to return to my original 'self'?"

Yaro suddenly smiled.

"If we really reach that point, can 'I' then be called the 'true self'? If martial arts reach that point, wouldn't that make one a 'true person'?"

When one understands one's true nature, one's original mind remains clear and pure as ever.
Cultivate oneself and preserve one's true nature; like a stone sinking into a mountain, one remains steadfast and unyielding!

"Perfect timing! As long as we complete the Eight Extremes Method, both of these steps can be achieved!"

Bevin's comforting voice and the girls' whispers in the courtyard drifted away on the wind. Yaro withdrew his senses, his figure as light as a leaf, and quietly disappeared into the shadows of the mountains and forests.


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