Stuck in a Chinese novel-Chapter 390: Questions

"It's inefficient," Tanya said as Wei Jun and her were eating in front of a campfire.

"What is?" Wei Jun asked as he finished eating a piece of roasted meat before he picked up another one of the well-roasted cow's pieces.

"The way you use your power," Tanya said.

"Really?" Wei Jun as if he couldn't believe her words, "I was told I had a very good control."

"You were told correctly." Tanya said before she said, "The powers of the universes have their own mind so one can have a hard time controlling it. However, your control is flawless. There's no fluctuation or wasted energy when you use your power."

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"Then I don't see what's wrong with it." Wei Jun said.

"Nothing is wrong with your power. What's wrong is with your imagination." Tanya argued.

"My imagination?" Wei Jun asked.

"Mhm." Tanya nodded before she explained, "I can tell you have had a very sheltered life. Not as in the sense you were coddled but the experiences you went through were too few. One would think it is not of great importance but I disagree."

She looked at Wei Jun and said, her face still half covered by her hood, "You don't question yourself."

"Question myself?" Wei Jun asked.

"Mhm." Tanya nodded once more before she said, "Imagination is the realm of impossibility but that is not purely accurate. Possibility lies in imagination. That possibility gives birth to probability and that probability in turn gives way to questions."

"Is this possible? If possible then how? Is it possible to make it better? If so then how?"

"Endless questions create room to grow. You, on the other hand, appear as if you have a path decided and move on to it without ever questioning yourself whether or not you're doing it right or not."

"It is like you have already created a set of principles for your life and you abide by them. It is not wrong if you live the same life, but if you're living another then..."

She finally raised her head, enough so Wei Jun could look at her face, spotting her deep blue eyes, "One becomes inefficient."

"..." Wei Jun remained silent. He had never thought about it and even the system had never pointed out such a thing. But if he thought about it again, it probably wasn't the system's job. It was his assistant, not a mentor who was there to help him figure out his way.

As Tanya said, Wei Jun had lived his life with a certain set of principles. Those who betrayed him were only met by one fate and those who helped him... well, he never needed anyone to help him in the first place. He took what he desired and left nothing for the others.

That was the life he had lived. That was the life Damien had lived. It was fine for him in the world he originally belonged to and it worked for him in the world of novels but it was as Tanya said, he wasn't on Earth anymore. He was on an entirely different planet, with entirely different beliefs and a power that never existed back in his original world.

How was he supposed to deal with those changes? Would doing as the world offered him would make him the best? No, it would make him like them. He didn't want to be like them. He was different. He wanted to be different.

He never thought if there could be something done about the way he cultivated or if the powers in his abdomen could somehow be... changed.

"Then..." Wei Jun looked at Tanya and asked, "What should I do?"

"Questions are a necessary part of your life. If there are no questions, there can be no answers. Without answers, life is aimless. So just simply question yourself and be confident you'll come up with an answer." Tanya said.

She then finished eating and stood up. She left, leaving Wei Jun with his thoughts. As he was alone, he asked the one person who was more well-versed in Qi than anyone else he knew at the moment.

'How did you create those cultivation techniques?' Wei Jun asked.

[I took what I had]

[Broke it down]

[And built in my own image]

[Simple but complex]

[But...]

[It's nothing new, host]

[I may have been born special]

[But, in the end, I was just a human]

[But, I was also a human]

[Did you know, host]

[In all of existence, a human is the sole creation that has no limit]

[They don't have strong bodies, exceptional vessels, or unique physiques]

[Yet they always stand next to those who do]

[Why do you think that is?]

'Because...'

"They wonder." Wei Jun said as he slashed the head of the city lord. It was a difficult battle but Wei Jun had managed to defeat the city lord and his knights.

He looked down at the stream of blood that flowed throughout the city, washing down in the sewers. It had been about five days since he began to take over the kingdom of Agentine. The kingdom of course figured things out but it was too late. He was already very close to the capital of the kingdom and one final battle remained before the kingdom of Agentine would fall.

However, that wasn't why Wei Jun was having a hard time. It wasn't because the battles were becoming difficult and the opponents were becoming stronger.

No. It was simply because his head wasn't in the right place. He couldn't figure out his path. What was he doing? How was he doing? What was the path of Qi? How should he proceed?

Such questions and a hundred others occupied his mind and left no place for him to focus on the battle. He didn't know how to deal with it or how he should move forward from that point on.

All he knew was that he knew nothing. He couldn't understand Tanya's or the system's words at all.

He could understand what they said. What they meant.

But, he couldn't understand what they meant by that. What was the unique experience they both had that made them unique and how was Wei Jun supposed to figure that out?

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Huh?" Damien raised his head to look at his brother who had just entered the room and saw Damien looking at the wooden puzzle intently.

"I'm trying to solve it," Damien replied. At the age of seven, Damien had nothing to do but laze around. He wasn't an immature child so he busied himself with learning several things along with playing around.

Latin, religion, cars, animals, guns, and literature.

Puzzles came in the category of the games, he guessed, so he gave them a good time. He'd often get immersed in a puzzle so much that he'd lose track of everything else.

The time when he discovered Rubik's cube was a terrible time in his life. He lost track of sleep and food, nothing else mattered but the puzzle did.

But, unlike all those puzzles, this puzzle didn't come with a set of directions. There was no goal, just one.

Make something with it.

Anything.

A puzzle of imagination.

"With what? The psychic power of your mind?" His brother asked as he came close and sat on the opposite side.

"It's just... doesn't make any sense. There must be something to do but no matter how much I try, I can't just come up with a... shape." Damien wasn't sure what the puzzle was about in the first place so he didn't know how to even reply.

"Haha." His brother laughed as he picked up the wooden pieces and began to assemble them. He failed.

"Haha, you failed too." Damien laughed, attempting to make fun of his brother.

"But at least I tried." His brother replied, "If you just keep thinking and do nothing, then nothing will be done."

His brother began to rearrange the pieces once again while he said, "A thousand years journey begins with a single step. If you just remain in your spot to wonder if this path is correct or not, or if the other path is correct or not, or if the path that comes after that is correct or not, then you will just remain in that spot forever."

As he said so, the puzzle was complete, and a perfect globe was in his brother's hands. He looked at Damien, pulling one piece out, and disassembling the entire puzzle, "Why don't you begin with just one path and see where it leads to? You can always think on the way. Only stop when you fail, or when you end the path and want to try another path."

"But what if the path is not correct? What if..."

Damien raised his head to look at his brother who had stood up, "What if I fail?"

"Then try again." His brother said as if the most obvious thing, "If you let fear of failure hold you back, then you've truly lost. The will to keep trying is what being a human is all about."

"Begin, huh?" Wei Jun said as he looked at the capital city in the distance, an army standing in his path.

"Why don't I just begin then?" Wei Jun said a set of daggers appeared in his hands as he began to walk forward and a set of notifications appeared in his vision...

[Would you like to delete your current cultivation technique?]

[Yes\\No]

[Warning]

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