Chapter 184: Scholar Juyul (7) - Convinced in Heart and Word (心服口服)

#Chapter 184 Scholar Juyul (Juyul) (7) - Convinced in Heart and Word (心服口服)

「To follow someone sincerely, with both one's words and heart.」

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“Hmph! Fine! But since you were bold enough to wag your tongue so confidently, the price of failure will be far from trivial!”

Jang Hwa-ryeong ultimately accepted Juyul’s wager.

With the academy children’s eyes fixed so intently upon them, retreating was utterly impossible for someone with her towering pride. Besides, as far as she was concerned, this was a wager she had an excellent chance of winning.

‘I was momentarily surprised, but now that I think about it, anyone could tell just by looking that my martial art handles blazing yang qi. Nor is centering it around the middle dantian particularly uncommon among dragonkin, so there is nothing strange about that fellow knowing it if he is skilled in miscellaneous knowledge.’

However, identifying the characteristics of a martial art and improving it were entirely separate matters.

For example, suppose two sword techniques representing the unorthodox and orthodox factions both contained the movement of ‘cutting downward from above.’

At a glance, these two movements might appear to be exactly the same technique...