Chapter Sixteen: The Real Master of Picking Up Girls
"At first, when everyone was dressing up for Zhao Liya, only you were still dressed sloppily, not paying attention to your image at all. We even laughed at how hopeless you were in the morning, but later found out that you had planned it all along. This move is called 'winning by being unconventional'. When everyone else was dressed to impress, only you looked so simple and stood out. Your unique image caught the beauty's attention right away! If it were just this, you wouldn't be considered a master, but what's even more impressive is that when everyone else was showing off their best 'pig brother' smile for Zhao Liya, only you showed a disdainful expression, not even giving her a glance. A beautiful and well-born woman like Zhao Liya has great confidence in her charm, but you challenged her confidence, so she wouldn't give up and sat down beside you! Chen Youmi's analysis was spot on, and everyone couldn't help but praise him, while Zhang Huban thought to himself: 'Damn, even this can make someone a master of picking up girls?!'"
"Actually, Lao Yao didn't mention one more thing, and this is also what I think Lao Si has reached the pinnacle of flirting!" Hu Zhiming suddenly burst out with another sentence.
"What's going on?" Almost everyone asked in unison, even Zhang Huban curiously perked up his ears, he really couldn't figure out what else the boss could come up with to pick up girls.
"I think when Zhao Liya sat next to Lao Si and Lao Si didn't move at all, everyone must have been wondering if Lao Si was gay or impotent!"
Everyone nodded, and Zhang Huban was so angry that he wanted to give each of them a good scolding. What kind of society is this? Not liking beautiful women means you're gay or impotent... It's really amazing how they can imagine such things. I hope Zhao Liya doesn't think so too! Although Zhang Huban didn't take Zhao Liya seriously, being wrongly accused by the beauty still made him feel very uncomfortable.
Ho Chi Minh glanced around at the crowd, extremely satisfied with everyone's reaction, and continued: "I think that at the time, others including Zhao Liya would also have thought so! If it were really as everyone thinks, then Zhao Liya would be at peace. But when Old Fourth saw the Scottish beauty's pig-like appearance, it was more than anyone could bear! Zhao Liya's confidence suffered a fatal blow! In my many years of experience, beauties always have an abnormal amount of confidence in their own looks, they have an unyielding determination to never admit defeat in their appearance. Next time, she will definitely sit next to Old Fourth again, this is Old Fourth's clever move, stirring up Zhao Liya's competitive spirit, making her voluntarily follow Old Fourth!"
"High, high is really high!" Everyone gave Zhang Huban a thumbs up and cast admiring glances at him.
As the person involved, Zhang Huban was stunned and confused. After nearly a hundred years of cultivation, his mind had never been as muddled and chaotic as it was now. According to Zhang Huban's judgment, even if he had walked into madness, his mind should be clearer than it was now.
"I propose that our dormitory elect Comrade Zhang Huban as the leader, I will step down to second-in-command, and others follow in order. Does anyone have any opinions?"
"No way!" Everyone, of course, except Zhang Huban, said loudly without thinking, jokingly, a master-level player who can pick up girls, as long as he is still in college, is there any girl he can't pick up?
In fact, by actual age Zhang Huban should be the oldest in this dormitory and it is indeed the case, but how could Zhang Huban have thought that taking the seat that should belong to him would be due to such an absurd reason, it's really laughable.
A month passed quickly. During this month, Zhang Huban was deeply shocked by another civilization created by humans. He felt grateful that he had chosen to attend university as a way of cultivating himself in the world. Otherwise, he would never have been able to experience such a magnificent and profound civilization. In just one short month of study, Zhang Huban's understanding of cultivation had made a qualitative leap. It could be said that no one in the entire cultivation world understood the true meaning of cultivation better than Zhang Huban. This was because there wasn't a single cultivator who had reached the Nascent Soul stage and still studied diligently, especially not those who were considered weak by the entire cultivation world. They pursued power and eternal life, but it was precisely this neglected human civilization that revealed many fundamental truths. Unlike the cultivation world, which liked to use abstruse concepts to explain the Heavenly Way, science used a rigorous attitude and logical reasoning to interpret the secrets of the universe. Although it was only a small part of the iceberg, it was still more than what those struggling cultivators knew. Of course, the magical and mysterious techniques of the cultivation world, which could move mountains and seas, were not something that modern scientists could understand. That required a flash of insight from a highly talented individual, or a sudden enlightenment after hundreds of years of meditation. Otherwise, Zhang Huban's four senior brothers would not have been left with lifelong regrets for being unable to enter the Nascent Soul stage.
It can be said that science and cultivating the Tao are two completely different systems. Science is a subject that talks about facts and reasons, everything can be reasoned out, as long as you are willing to learn, generally anyone can learn it and understand it. However, the Tao is a mysterious and profound subject, it can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words, not everyone can learn it.
It can be said that if a scientist were to cultivate the Tao, even if they have extremely high talent, they may still be unable to enter the prenatal realm their entire life. However, if a cultivator of the truth were to study science, because they possess a strong spirit and physique that ordinary people do not have, their learning speed would be incredibly fast, just like Zhang Huiban who learned in one month what ordinary people need years to learn.
But is there any cultivator of the truth willing to spend time learning about the civilization created by people they consider to be like ants?
However, all things are interconnected. When science and the heavenly way are grasped by the same person, it is destined to inevitably open up a cultivation path that has never been seen before in ancient or modern times, creating an unparalleled cultivation genius, a transcendent immortal. Just like how unremarkable materials such as charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur can be combined to create a bomb with enormous destructive power.
Universal gravitation, it turns out that I am now unable to fly to the moon because my speed has not yet reached the reason for escaping the Earth's universal gravitation. Plants can grow originally because chlorophyll absorbs solar energy, if I want to create something like chlorophyll in my body, wouldn't I also be able to absorb the powerful energy of the sun? That is even more pure energy than the heavenly spiritual energy... These are some strange ideas that Zhang Huban had after learning human knowledge. For ordinary people, some of Zhang Huban's ideas seem a bit far-fetched, but for the powerful Zhang Huban, these ideas can be fully realized through research and practice. However, the scientific knowledge that Zhang Huban currently possesses is still extremely limited, and there is much more to learn. Moreover, Zhang Huban does not want to improve his cultivation at present, after all, his state of mind and his cultivation are still some distance apart. Although Zhang Huban tries not to improve his cultivation, the impact brought by science has made his thatched cottage suddenly open, and his cultivation has unknowingly broken through from the initial stage of yuan ying to the middle stage of yuan ying, which scares Zhang Huban so much that he doesn't dare to cultivate recently. However, the benefits brought by learning science have made Zhang Huban tirelessly learn and absorb human-created scientific knowledge, and have also strengthened his determination to stay in university for further study.
