Chapter 1963

"Can we just let this go? You don't know how long I’ve wanted to hit you. When I saw the original state of the Languan Training Ground, I wanted to hit you then.

But I heard you were in seclusion, so I didn’t. Who told you to be on the same flying boat as me today? So, take the hit. Don’t think about running. Besides, if you let me hit you now, I’ll feel better, and I won’t hit you later. If you run now, who knows what I’ll do later?"

Zhu Yanyi smiled brightly, looking at the Ancestor. "Besides, even if you escape this time, do you think you can hide from me if I really look for you?

People should be sensible. This is your fault. If it weren’t for you, so many senior brothers and sisters wouldn’t have sacrificed themselves. Also, they all have post-war trauma. Your beating lets them vent. Maybe their trauma will heal. What a good deal."

"In the end, I’m the one losing out," the Ancestor thought. He felt so miserable.

"No choice. You were wrong before, so you must correct it now. As the saying goes, it’s best to correct mistakes when you know them," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.

No matter how unwilling the Ancestor was, Zhu Yanyi was threatening her. She sighed. "Fine. Hit me if you want."

The Ancestor closed his eyes. It would only hurt his skin. Besides, he actually felt guilty about the sacrificed disciples. His inability to break through for so long was partly because of this guilt. So, let him be hit.

Zhu Yanyi stepped up and threw a punch. "Don’t worry. I originally wanted to beat you up. But thinking about it, hitting too much wastes time. There are senior brothers and sisters waiting in line. So, I plan for everyone to hit you once."

The Ancestor sighed deeply in his heart. "Hit me. Just don’t hit my face."

"Although your face isn’t good-looking, we are civilized people. We don’t hit faces," Zhu Yanyi agreed. Then she turned to the people behind her.

"Senior brothers and sisters, line up to hit the Ancestor. Follow the rules: no hitting the face. Hit anywhere else. The Ancestor will only feel skin pain. One punch per person. If you hit more, and he hits back, that’s not my problem."

After speaking, Zhu Yanyi stepped forward and delivered a clean, sharp punch. Next was Li Zhengyong. She punched once, smiled, and left. "I feel much better."

One by one, they took turns. Not only did Zhu Yanyi organize the people on this flying boat, but she also asked senior brothers and sisters from other boats to come over and hit her.

Only Zhu Yanyi could organize such a thing. Xi Muzheng originally wanted to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.

After Zhu Yanyi arranged this beating, the bond among the senior brothers and sisters of the Sage Academy seemed to deepen.

Moreover, there was another effect. Just as Zhu Yanyi said, because they hit the Ancestor, their post-war anxiety slowly disappeared.

"Little Junior Sister, I feel much better. Why? Does hitting the Ancestor really have this effect?" Wen Ziyuan asked curiously.

Others heard Wen Ziyuan ask Zhu Yanyi and listened carefully.

Zhu Yanyi smiled lightly. "Post-war trauma is your post-war anxiety. It is actually a psychological illness.

For so many years, you focused only on killing evil demons. But you also had resentment in your hearts.

Because your close senior brothers and sisters may have died in this incident, you secretly blamed the Ancestor. If the Ancestor hadn’t been so stubborn, if he had negotiated with the other four academies from the start, many fewer senior brothers and sisters from the Sage Academy would have sacrificed themselves.

Because of this, your resentment toward the Ancestor grew deeper. You were busy killing evil demons, so you had no time to think. Now, since you don’t need to kill evil demons anymore, this negative psychology naturally came out."

Zhu Yanyi explained, "Because the negative psychology came out, you feel unsure about the future. It seems like, besides killing evil demons, you have no goals for the future."

Zhu Yanyi paused. "But precisely because of this, as long as there is a channel for you to vent, your hidden life goals will naturally emerge. This venting is hitting the Ancestor once."

Zhu Yanyi smiled. "And when you hit her, you vent your resentment, curing your post-war trauma. The same is true for the Ancestor. Although she lost her judgment initially, due to her pride, making the Sage Academy fight the evil demons alone, over time, she accumulated feelings of shame."

Zhu Yanyi sighed slightly. "The Ancestor’s shame comes from seeing countless students of the Sage Academy fall. But to kill the evil demons, she had to regularly send new blood from the Sage Academy. This means the Sage Academy might one day become history, ceasing to exist in this world.

But he had already taken this step. He couldn’t turn back. So, his shame grew deeper. The deeper the shame, the deeper the mental knot. The deeper the mental knot, the harder it was for him to break through."

Zhu Yanyi didn’t need to explain further. Everyone present understood. As fewer people remained to hit her, everyone felt that the Ancestor had sat cross-legged on top of the flying boat. Spiritual energy was rushing toward her. She was about to break through.

She hadn’t broken through for so many years not because her cultivation was insufficient, but because her state of mind couldn’t break through. Due to guilt, her mental knot was deep. But now, with every student hitting her once, this punch not only healed the students’ psychological trauma but also slowly loosened the mental knot in the heart of the Sage Academy’s Ancestor.

As more people passed and the number of punches increased, his mental knot loosened more and more. Finally, the mental knot was shattered, and he naturally broke through.

Xi Muzheng hadn’t expected Zhu Yanyi to have such reasons for doing this. She glanced at Zhu Yanyi instantly, having to admit that her understanding of the mind was deeper than anyone else’s. If she had done this unintentionally, who would believe it?

However, at this moment, Xi Muzheng mostly needed to guard the Ancestor’s breakthrough.

The Ancestor was about to break through to the peak of the Moving Void stage. If so, as long as there was an opportunity in the future, he could ascend.

Don’t underestimate the difference between the late stage and the peak of the Moving Void. Every breakthrough requires insight. Without it, it is impossible. The Ancestor clearly understood this now, so his breakthrough was very smooth.