Extra's Strategy: Cultivate Protagonists, Become Invincible-Chapter 156: Xuanyuan Zhou Is So Good At Acting Tough!

"One hundred and forty-eight disciples?" Xuanyuan Zhou’s disguised voice rang out as heavy as distant thunder, carrying a hint of threat with it.

"It seems like not everybody can recognize an opportunity when it falls into their lap. No matter, no matter; not everybody can find true success as a cultivator either. Stupidity of the masses is the one true constant through time and space."

With dying sunlight gracing her mysterious aura, Xuanyuan Zhou truly looked imposing, facing the crowd with her arms crossed and face hidden. Her opening line impressed even Han Xuhan, who was used to devising clever speeches to pull crowds.

At the very beginning, she had alienated the absent disciples from the present ones, and boosted the confidence of the latter group with a vague promise of power—how masterful!

"I’m not here to waste time, and neither are you. So let us begin the lesson. Be silent and pay attention!"

"The first question all of you would like to know the answer to, is obviously, ’What kind of cultivation technique are you here to learn?’

"The language of laws is a medium for cultivators to impose their will upon the world around them. Our entire universe operates on laws of innumerable numbers and categories. Almost every law here exists to keep us in a balanced and optimal environment.

"If a single, seemingly superficial cosmic law is derailed from its original purpose, then it’d cause a chain of effect that would cast the entire universe into chaos. Because all existing laws are connected directly or indirectly, forming a giant, complex network, a web of balance running through the vastness of the world."

Han Xuhan’s brows furrowed in confusion as he listened. What the hell was Xuanyuan Zhou yapping about? The script they had devised earlier was nothing like this. Was she improvising?

Then again, didn’t her lecture sound a bit too sophisticated and sure-footed to be entirely improvised on the spot?

Xiao Wu spoke up the moment Xuanyuan Zhou stopped to take a breath. Han Xuhan had planted this fellow brother of his in the crowd to do this very job, but now that the script had been flipped, he feared where Xiao Wu’s role might lead to...

"I have a question. If derailing a single law can cause a disaster that large, why is the manipulation of laws not banned and declared a demonic technique?"

Dammit, Brother Wu! You’re supposed to ask questions that inadvertently reveal the technique’s merits, not get it labeled as a demonic art!

Xuanyuan Zhou, however, nodded confidently at Xiao Wu and continued to speak again.

"And here’s where Law Cultivators come in. Cultivation, in its essence, has always been about transcending our limits and touching upon the true power of authority. This power can maintain balance just as easily as it can destroy balance.

"During ancient times, when human cultivators realized that manipulating cosmic laws can effectively destroy the universe as we see it, countless precautions were taken by them to stop such a scenario from taking place. And once you delve into the world of law manipulation, you’ll learn exactly what sort of precautions they took.

"But of course, destroying the entire world isn’t as simple as it sounds. Sure, just tweaking some fundamental laws would do the job very easily; but making sure that the changes you’ve made stay permanent, or become vast enough to encompass this near-infinite universe, is a task that even the most powerful cultivators can’t hope to achieve!

"Otherwise, we wouldn’t be having this conversation here; in fact, we wouldn’t even exist. From popular myths and fragmented history, it can be theorized that only the celestials can generate a catastrophe of such scale.

"But that’s something beyond us. Let’s turn back to our objective, which is learning the basics of the Mystic Art in our hands."

Speaking this far, Xuanyuan Zhou stopped again to let the introduction sink in, and to let the skeptics speak their minds. Han Xuhan didn’t think giving them a voice so early into the lecture was a good idea.

Having given many improvised speeches in the past, he knew that any ill-wisher from the audience could devise meaningless rhetoric to negatively affect the speaker’s momentum, especially in situations like this where the crowd had no sense of loyalty to the speaker and his ’product’ yet.

Sure enough, one mouthy brat stood up.

"Your teachings are quite contradictory, senior. At the start, you mentioned that even messing with a superficial law can affect the universe due to the chain of destabilizing effects it would create, but then you proceed to say that affecting the entire universe is impossible. What are we supposed to learn from this contradiction?"

His question earned several nods and noises of agreement. Han Xuhan restrained himself from chucking the wine flask at his head, something that took him great effort. Every voice of doubt here was a chunk of profit lost to the void!

Xuanyuan Zhou didn’t seem to be affected by the sharp question. She answered in a patient, almost lazy tone.

"You are correct. In actuality, both can be true based on the circumstances. Suppose you want to nullify the gravity around you. With the right set of tools and techniques, the language of laws can help you nullify the gravity in an area, but corresponding to your level of cultivation and mastery over law techniques.

"Then suppose, you want to cancel the entire gravitational force of this planet. How powerful and skilled do you think you’d need to be to achieve something of that caliber?

"Let’s just say that you’d need to have cultivated the language of laws to a realm beyond our Elders, beyond our sect master, and perhaps beyond any living being on this planet, to singlehandedly achieve the feat.

"Theoretically, it is indeed possible, and if you manage to do so, what do you think will happen?"

A hint of ridicule snuck into Xuanyuan Zhou’s tone, rather than the reverence a typical young cultivator had while discussing powers in such a realm. freёnovelkiss.com

From her demeanor, Han Xuhan got the feeling that she knew exactly what would happen, which was a rather unlikely possibility considering that scientific advancement in this world hadn’t gone far enough to stage simulations with gravity or figure out the mathematics behind such hypotheses.

As an Earthling who had gone through high school, he knew what would happen, but what about Xuanyuan Zhou?

’Great acting, girl! You’re putting up a font so confident that it’s confusing even me, the person who arranged the whole scam-I mean, scheme...’

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