Bitter Realm: Have the Four Realms been united today?

Chapter 24 Typos

Even Yue Tianji, who was known as the chief strategist of the Shenyu region, was looked down upon by the generals of Huanchenbu when he first took on the position of strategist because of his weak martial arts skills.

However, later on, Yue Tianji came up with a series of schemes, which allowed Huan Chenbuwu to eliminate many forces without lifting a finger, thus gaining his current prestige.

Rather than saying they revered martial prowess, it would be more accurate to say they revered strength.

They couldn't defeat the Heavenly Secrets, so they looked down on them.

The Heavenly Insights are powerful enough to do what they cannot, which is why they are convinced. It's that simple.

However, what they ultimately respected was Yue Tianji as a person, not the texts he had learned.

Moreover, once you get used to solving problems with your fists, you naturally find those roundabout, scheming plots even more troublesome.

Conquering the world requires military generals, while maintaining it requires civil officials.

Soldiers and generals who are not literate do not understand this principle, but Yue Tianji, as the military strategist of Huan Chenbu, understands it very well.

He did consider training people, and even taught them military strategy and government affairs, but he gave up after a month.

The learner's mediocre aptitude is a secondary issue.

More importantly, everyone in Huanchenbuwu showed great resistance to the idea of ​​learning literature.

Even the Soul Burial Emperor, who had always supported the reading of heavenly secrets, could avoid it.

One reason why Huan Chenbuwu's generals and Zang Hunhuang were unwilling to stay in the council hall was that this was the very place where Yue Tianji had chosen to teach.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone was unwilling to learn, with his talent for reading the heavens, he could have already trained enough people to free himself from tedious government affairs and steal a moment of leisure.

Unlike now, there isn't even a single person we can use.

Since they are unwilling to learn, forcing them won't work, so he can only spend more time subtly influencing them through his divination.

Even if only a few words reach someone's ears, if they can enlighten their mind, it is worthwhile, and better than doing nothing at all.

However, Xuanming's progress was too fast, and he understood things very quickly, while Yue Tianji was fully aware of Xuanming's thoughts.

Therefore, the "Reading Heaven's Secrets" is conducted in the form of questions, which incisively point out the blind spots or deficiencies in Xuanming's answers.

Xuanming understood instantly, but the soldiers on duty seemed to be hearing something completely foreign to them.

At first, he could understand three or four parts of it, but later he could not even keep up with Xuanming's deduction process.

Although they couldn't understand it, they could tell from the fact that the boy was taking longer and longer to think that the question of deciphering the secrets of heaven was becoming increasingly difficult.

They all felt that the strategist was trying to intimidate the young man.

Otherwise, how could there be one question after another, each more difficult than the last?

They only asked questions without asking the boy if he had any doubts. It was more like making things difficult than teaching him.

"I wonder what this young man did to offend the strategist, to be 'tortured' like this."

"Judging by his age, he seems to be under twenty, still a child. How pitiful!"

Despite his sympathy, he had no intention of pleading for the boy.

After the soldiers left, only the two of them remained in the room.

Yue Tianji had already finished handling the government affairs in his hands.

After the Emperor of Burial Souls led his army north, Huan Chenbuwu only had one-tenth of the usual amount of work to deal with.

He only began teaching Xuanming after finishing his official duties in the morning.

Since lunch, he has been analyzing and pondering the details of conquering the north, looking for any loopholes.

The reason for doing this was inspired by the question-and-answer session with Xuanming that morning.

There were some things that even he hadn't considered before.

Yue Tianji walked to Xuanming's desk again.

Just like in the morning, Xuanming was completely unaware that there was another person next to him.

Yue Tianji pulled up a chair and sat down, not making a sound to disturb the boy as he had in the morning.

He noticed that Xuanming easily ignored everything else around him when he focused on doing one thing.

At this moment, Xuanming held a brush in his right hand and was writing rapidly on the Xuan paper in front of him.

A stack of papers covered in ink had already piled up to his left.

Yue Tianji reached out and picked up the top page. His previously appreciative gaze froze slightly when it touched the paper.

On the left side of the Xuan paper, one could clearly see the troop strength, supplies, generals, advantages, and disadvantages of both sides.

On the right side are schemes such as enticement, ambush, and counter-espionage.

Some of the strategies are circled, while others are circled, with varying shades of ink, indicating that they were the result of repeated deliberation.

What's even more striking is that almost all of the plans were marked with a bold "X," clearly indicating that they were all rejected.

Between these two columns are crisscrossing black lines, some of which have words written on them.

What made Yue Tianji's heart sink the most were the several seemingly correct but actually incorrect typos mixed in in the middle of the page.

His gaze lingered on one of the characters for "grain" for a long time, and previously forgotten details suddenly flooded his mind.

Yes!

The child initially admitted that he "didn't recognize many characters."

However, he later became immersed in the surprise brought by the other party's six unexpected answers.

He was immersed in the flashes of inspiration in the sixth question that even he himself had not considered.

Completely forget about this insignificant "trivial matter".

Driven by a desire to explore its limits, he casually posed this seventh question.

Even Mu Yunzhishu might not be able to answer this question.

However, Mu Yun was well-read and had a solid foundation, and had been taught by him for many years.

The boy before them couldn't even read all the characters, had little experience, and only knew a superficial understanding of military strategy.

Yue Tianji put down the paper, his gaze sweeping over the boy's furrowed brows, his ink-stained right hand, and the obvious yet suppressed exhaustion.

A clear hint of guilt flashed quickly across his usually calm and composed eyes.

He got up and walked behind Xuanming, his movements slower than usual.

He gently grasped Xuanming's wrist with his left hand, while his right hand covered his cold fingers, patiently adjusting the stiff and incorrect pen-holding posture.

"The calligraphy brush," he said in a very low voice, with a barely perceptible gentleness, "should be held like this."

Almost as soon as he touched the Heavenly Secret, Xuanming immediately snapped out of his thoughts.

His body stiffened involuntarily, his mind went blank, and his right hand instinctively tried to struggle and dodge.

But the voice of Yue Tianji brought him back to his senses, and he barely managed to control himself from resisting.

But his stiff body still made Yue Tianji sense his tension.

"I do not like eating people."

"Hmm!" Xuanming nodded instinctively, then quickly explained after realizing something was wrong.

"No, I know Mr. Yue... no, it's not that I..."

Xuanming was desperately racking his brains for an explanation, trying to convince himself that he hadn't actually had the chance to read the heavens and devour his thoughts.

But he heard a soft laugh.

Xuanming turned his head and saw that Yue Tianji's smile had not faded.

The gaze directed at him held a smile, wisdom, and care, but not the familiar disgust and anger.

Even if he wasn't good at communicating, he could tell at this moment that Yue Tianji was making fun of him.

For some reason, even though the Heavenly Secrets were right in front of him, Xuanming felt that the Heavenly Secrets were so far away.

It was as if everything the person in front of me had experienced in Huanchenbuwu these past two days was just a dream.