Chapter 283: Do Unto Others as You Do Unto You
In the middle of the night, Bai Xiao stood silently in the basement and was silent for a long time.
His mind was still immersed in the fierce battle that had lasted less than two hours.
In the battle fashion and did not notice it, but in retrospect, Bai Xiao realized that the fierce fight just now really exposed a very serious problem.
This kind of losing streak is really a very rare experience for Bai Xiao. He rarely loses to the same person in a row.
Because every failure only makes Bai Xiao stronger.
The same mistake, Bai Xiao will never make it again, and even the same tactic will not work twice against Bai Xiao, his learning ability is rooted in his bones, as long as he experiences a failure, he can instinctively respond correctly without even thinking about it. And his tempered body has a certain degree of mutation ability, if he has been burned, he will be more tolerant of high temperatures, and if he has been frostbitten, he will be better at resisting the cold...... The so-called tempering is a real improvement for Bai Xiao. With each tempering, his weakness decreases by one.
Theoretically, a person without weaknesses is invincible in the world.
Of course, Bai Xiao is still far from being invincible in the world, the kind of opponent that cannot be defeated no matter what, there is one in the Snow Mountain tribe, no matter how many times Bai Xiao challenges, Bai Wuya is as insurmountable as the majestic holy mountain...... But this huge gap in strength is clear at a glance, and Bai Xiao did not expect to be able to go all the way to the peak of his life through hundreds of defeats, and the peak of that kind of masochism can not be climbed.
But the experience of fighting Zheng Liming is different.
He was obviously not as good as Bai Wuya, at least in the cultivation in the basement, the ancient power he displayed was far less thrilling and stressful than Bai Wuya. No matter how you think and judge comprehensively, Zheng Liming is by no means an invincible enemy.
But Bai Xiao just couldn't win, and after countless failures, Bai Xiao didn't get the kind of growth he wanted.
In fact, everything is going smoothly in the process, whether it is elemental, martial arts, thaumaturgy, or unformed willpower, any kind of technique, Bai Xiao will instinctively respond as long as he has been taught once, and he will not be hit again. Even the thaumaturgy that made the ancient martial arts civilization withdraw from the stage of history, Bai Xiao also faintly grasped the context - acceleration and deceleration seem to be incomprehensible, but as long as the change in speed is still within a certain range, it can be made up for by techniques such as prediction, not to mention that Bai Xiao himself can also try to release double the speed on himself with demonic powers.
The reason why he lost consecutive battles was that Zheng Liming's tactics were extremely changeable, and in less than two hours, he used at least nearly a hundred different ways to knock Bai Xiao down, each of which was completely different from before!
This made Bai Xiao faintly have a sense of absurdity that a bear was breaking a stick, as if every time he made up for a short board, a new short board would be exposed at the same time. And make up for it, and everything will just go back to square one.
Carefully recalling the fierce battle process of less than two hours, Bai Xiao's last defeat was almost essentially different from the first time, and even the time he held on was not extended by a few seconds.
It's incredible.
And Bai Xiao's wiser point is that he knows very well that once he encounters something unthinkable, it means that he can no longer analyze it with the old way of thinking.
So Bai Xiao remembered Zheng Liming's words before leaving.
"Your consecutive defeats are not because of how strong I am, but because you are not strong enough, once you lose your magic resistance, you are actually very vulnerable when facing the magic power of the demon-like Dao. ”
This sentence has really been perfectly fulfilled. And once he calmed down and savored this sentence, Bai Xiao got more content from it.
"Perhaps...... I was too arrogant in my mindset all along. ”
Since birth, Bai Xiao has been unbeatable on the road of growth because of his unique qualifications, and there are almost no opponents among his peers, and even the once brilliant predecessors have been eclipsed after Bai Xiao gradually entered the youth era.
Bai Xiao has never reached the realm of invincibility in the world, but he has never doubted that he can one day be above all living beings.
An opponent who can't win today may be able to win tomorrow, and an opponent who can win today will only win easier tomorrow.
In the face of any strong enemy, Bai Xiao will not be cowardly. Because in his eyes, there are only two kinds of enemies, those who can be beaten can be beaten in the future.
Such a mentality makes Bai Xiao able to maintain the self-confidence and even arrogance of the strong even under the absolute disadvantage.
Perhaps, this arrogance is the root of the problem. ”
Bai Xiao sighed softly and shook his head, trying to shake off the tingling sensation in his head.
To imprint such an unnatural conclusion in our minds is like being born with a nail in our mind, full of pain and discomfort.
In general, everyone has their own inviolable sphere, and self-confidence in this area is the main building block that makes up a person's personality.
Bai Xiao has no sense of victory or defeat in many aspects, for example, he doesn't mind that he is not as good-looking as Lu Xun, he doesn't mind that he doesn't have as much fat as Zheng Liming, and he doesn't even mind that he was hung up and beaten by Qingyue in the chess and card project.
But he minded his practical talents.
Bai Xiao is a hunter and a warrior, and fighting is the most important core function in his life.
But Bai Xiao also knows very well that only those who know how to show weakness are qualified fighters.
Some people are destined to be difficult to achieve in a lifetime, some martial arts are destined to be difficult to master even with a single sound, and some enemies are destined to be difficult to defeat with a single sound.
If you can't learn to admit your incompetence, you'll have to die of pride sooner or later.
Bai Xiao took a deep breath, suppressed his instinctive arrogance again, and said softly: "I'm not that strong, I'm just a weak martial artist, that's all." ”
After a while, Bai Xiao exhaled a breath of turbidity, feeling that his state of mind had finally calmed down.
And after calming down and reminiscing about the previous battle again, Bai Xiao suddenly made a new discovery.
If Fang Cai's battle is understood as a chess contest with Qing Yue, many difficulties will be solved.
He and Qingyue played thousands of games without a single victory, and he was not reborn because of multiple defeats, and he had a chance of winning from now on.
How similar this is to the battle just now!
So, what should we do when we can't learn lessons from failures and turn defeat into victory?
"Give up?"
Bai Xiao frowned, and couldn't help but say an answer that surprised him.
But when this answer was spoken, it seemed to suddenly open up in front of me.
If the goal is not to win, then ......
"I see, I see!"
Bai Xiao said as he felt the excitement in his heart surge. This feeling is somewhat like receiving a spear from my father for the first time when I was very young, and I am eager to try it for the upcoming hunt.
In the contemplation just now, Bai Xiao had already found his own spear, so the next step was natural......
Ignoring the fact that his body was already scarred under the fierce battle, he quickly left the old rain building and galloped towards Zheng Liming's greasy hut.
At night in Hongshan Academy, many students who had just finished self-study and were full of fatigue were surprised and even horrified to find that there seemed to be ghosts in the college!
In the blink of an eye, a pitch-black figure passed in front of him, fleeting, making people feel that it was just a flower in front of them, but after a moment, a strange smell of blood lingered on the tip of the nose.
For a while, the screams in the academy came and went.
Bai Xiao didn't realize what kind of color he had added to the nightlife of Hongshan Academy, and it only took a moment to come to Zheng Liming's hut.
Then I heard a tired but angry voice coming from inside.
"You two...... What do you want to do!?"
Then came the voice of a maid: "Be a nurse for you, seeing that you are so badly injured, it seems that you can't take care of yourself, we can only reluctantly take care of you." ”
"I don't need you to make it difficult, hurry up and get out of here!"
"That's not good, you are the young master's teacher, although it is now in the stage of red apricots coming out of the wall, but I can't leave it alone. Otherwise, you were squeezed dry by Bai Xiao like this, how can you be a teacher for the young master in the future?"
Bai Xiao stood in front of the door, thought about it for a long time, turned around and went back to the old rain building to sleep.
After experiencing the life and death of Qingyue in the holy mountain, Bai Xiao hates most now that he is ruining his marriage!