Su Yuchen kept quiet after Senior Brother Li completed speaking.

Senior Brother Li stopped speaking for a couple of minutes while staring at Su Yuchen. Su Yuchen didn’t know what to say to him.

“You have some friends in the outer sect, right?” Suddenly, Senior Brother Li asked Su Yuchen.

“Yes, we come from the same village.” Su Yuchen answered immediately to Senior Brother Li.

“You should go and check up on them some time. They might have faced some troubles because of being your friends.” Senior Brother Li’s face showed a fake smile as he said to Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen face turned dark, he asked, “Why? What will happen to them because of knowing me? Didn’t you say that the people behind the publicity wouldn’t take any action against me?”

Senior Brother Li shook his head, “Those guys will not be taking action against your friends. They only have one use with you and they used you.”

“It is the other people who want to use you.”

Su Yuchen narrowed his eyes and asked, “What use do I have for other people?”

“Your talent, your affinities. What else do you possess? Can’t you break down this simple thing? Do you also have top tier affinity with stupidity?” Senior Brother Li mocked Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen’s face twisted with anger, “I’m a stupid. The Great Stupid, me, will shit on the Outer Sect Affairs Elder’s face. The Wisest Senior Brother in the world, Senior Brother Li, please wipe my ass when the time comes.”

“Ha-ha-ha! I dare you try it. If you do, I will absolutely clean your ass with the water from all eight oceans.” Senior Brother Li cackled and promised unceremoniously.

“Aren’t I a member of the Third Elder’s faction? Why would others still try to recruit me?” Su Yuchen asked him.

“You are only considered as a member of the Thirds Elder’s faction. That doesn’t make you a real member of the Third Elder’s faction. Everyone knows this fact, but many don’t dare to poach you from the Third Elder’s faction.”

“There are still people who will try to get a talented candidate like you into their camps though. Those are the people who will contact your friends in the outer sect.”

“They would have contacted you directly, but you are with me. So, now all they can do is trying to meet you through your friends.”

Su Yuchen asked Senior Brother Li, “I hid in my courtyard for two months. No one tried to contact me? Why will they try to contact me now?”

Senior Brother Li said to Su Yuchen, “Those people must have waited to see the way you were going to deal with the situation you were in at that time. Many must have given upon recruiting you, but there should be quite a few people who will still try to recruit you.”

Su Yuchen’s face became dull and filled with worry, “Will those people leave my friends alone if I reject them?”

Senior Brother Li shook his head, “That alone will not be enough. You must also make a elder from the Third Elder’s faction cover you. Then everyone will stop paying you attention.”

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Su Yuchen became silent, he didn’t want to be in the same faction of Jin Tianlong, and with the system he will cultivate and become stronger than others more effectively and quickly. Taking shelter under an elder from the Third Elder’s faction will make him enter the same circle as Jin Tianlong.

Senior Brother Li understood the silence of Su Yuchen, “Do you still doesn’t want to be associated with the Third Elder’s faction?”

Su Yuchen answered after a few seconds of silence, “I don’t want to associate myself with them.”

“Su Yuchen, do you understand the situation you are in? Do you have any plans about your life in the sect?” Senior Brother Li asked Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen thought for a moment, “I want to cultivate peacefully and keep my distance from conflicts.”

Senior Brother Li looked at Su Yuchen with an annoyed face, “It is great that you have an idealistic plan, but you still didn’t understood your situation.”

“You are in possession of a treasure. A top grade talent and top tier affinity.”

“You are just happy with getting it. You are only planning about what you can do it.”

“However, you are not thinking about the consequence of holding a treasure.”

“If you had a background it would have been a good thing, but you are a commoner.”

“When a commoner finds gold, the authorities will try to snatch it from it.”

“When a commoner possess talent, the sect elders will try to use your talents for their own gains.”

“If the commoner wants to own the gold, he needs to complete the impossible task of convincing the authorities without burning his home.”

“You are lucky, the talent will be with you, it can’t be snatched away from you. So now you need to coax the elders and make them trust that you are useful to them.”

“As a commoner you can’t escape from this.”

Su Yuchen looked at Senior Brother Li and asked him, “Which elder is supporting you Senior Brother?” Senior Brother Li is the only person he trusts in the inner sect at the moment. He wants to know about the elder that bailed out Senior Brother Li when he was competing against the waste son of an sect elder. That person should be the only one he can consider.

Senior Brother Li snickered, “It is unnecessary for you to know about the elder behind me. That elder only seeks a motivated disciple.”

“He will recruit a motivated low talented disciple, but will not shelter you.”

Su Yuchen became silent, “Give me a target, I will try to reach the second stage of Meridian Refinement Realm within that time period. That should prove my motivation.”

“I know you. A stage improvement in Meridian Refinement Realm will not make me trust your motivation.” Senior Brother Li said to Su Yuchen. “And what if your friends were troubled within that time?”

Su Yuchen instantly replied, “Can you help my friends if they are trouble, Senior Brother? I will work hard with you everyday. You will see a visible progress in me.”

Senior Brother Li stretched his hand and caught the scalp of Su Yuchen and then started to move his hand in a circle. Su Yuchen resisted while feeling his head spinning.

“Look at this head, there is nothing in it.”

“You give the feeling of an mature child, but this mind is still the same of a four year old kid.”

“You are listening to everything I am saying like an obedient child, and now you are asking me for help like a child.”

“If I am willing to take you into the Mount Stable, I will also be willing to help your friends.”

“You don’t need to promise your motivation for that.”

“You need to be motivated for your own good.”

Su Yuchen smiled and said to Senior Brother Li, “I will work hard from now on Senior Brother Li. I listened to everything you have said. I will remember them.”

Senior Brother Li looked at Su Yuchen, “Remembering what I said is easy. When you enter the Astral Foundation Realm, you can even recall every dialogue from our conversation. Do you think that’s enough?”

“Everyone can listen, everyone can remember everything.”

“You can even read more philosophical works in the library and remember them. The ancients have spoken wiser words than me.”

“But remembering them will only make you a knowledgeable person.”

“To become much better than that, you need to think about the lines you have read, reminisce the speech you have heard. You need to contemplate their intentions.”

“The knowledge the other person wanted to present to you should be inside the mouth of your thoughts.”

“They speak more truths every time you listen.”

“When your thoughts speak the truth you want to listen you will slowly change.”

“Just remembering my word will not make you want to work hard, Junior Brother.”

“You need to think about my words and why I said them to you.”

“Hopefully, your thoughts will impart you with motivation and make you work hard.”

“Only those thoughts of yours can make you change.”