Library of Heaven's Path

Chapter 8 - I Am That Trash

"Un?"

Zheng Yang stares blankly before his face turns red and darkens.

"I once had a crush on a girl. Then... I was humiliated by her. But this has nothing to do with teacher!"

He once had a crush on a girl and he had once confessed to her excitedly. However, he was humiliated heartlessly by the other party and he felt ashamed of it. He has kept this incident a secret such that not even Mo Xiao is aware of it. How did this teacher know of this?

"Is that for real? Zheng Yang, why didn't you tell me that you got humiliated by someone? Who is it?" Hearing him admit to it, Mo Xiao is surprised and hurriedly asks him.

"I will tell you about it later!" Zheng Yang shakes his head, refusing to say any more about it here. He looks at the teacher before him and says, "Teacher, this is my private affair. I have no idea how you could have knew this, but this should have nothing to do with guiding me in the way of the spear!"

"Nothing to do with it?" Zhang Xuan shakes his head. "This has everything to do with it!"

"Everything to do with it?" Zheng Yang is a little doubtful of his words.

What does a broken heart have to do with the Zhang Xuan guiding him?

"Your spear is decisive and powerful. This is just like your personality. No matter what you do, you always charge straight ahead without thinking about the consequences! This should have been a good thing. Warriors should be like that, charging ahead without concerning themselves with minor things!" Zhang Xuan looks at Zheng Yang calmly. "However, it is a pity that after your emotional experience, fear started to sprout within you. You fear rejection and you fear humiliation! There is hesitation in your spear. With that additional hesitation, your strength greatly reduces!"

"You.... You... You could see all these from my spear? You could tell that I was once heartbroken? You could tell my personality?"

Zheng Yang is shocked.

The words of the other party aren't wrong. Rather, they are too correct, there isn't even a single error in it.

His personality is straightforward and in this past, this allows him to charge ahead bravely without fear. Yet, due to that emotional experience, he starts to become timid and hesitant in everything he does.

For him to be capable of telling all these through his spear, even his heartbreak, what kind of eyes do he possess?

When did such an impressive teacher appear in the academy?

He feels as though he is going crazy.

Previously, when he visited the number 1 spear teacher Wang Chao to request for him to accept him as a student, Wang Chao only told him that he has yet to grasp the crux of the way of the spear. As for the reason behind it, he couldn't really tell. However, with just a single look, the man before him could tell that he had a history of heartbreak and that his skills stagnated due to the emotional trauma from it. Could this teacher's ability to discern... be stronger to Wang Chao?

"This is normal!" Zhang Xuan gestures with his hand, a look of an expert appearing on his face. "The spear is a reflection of one's heart. If one's heart isn't clear, the skills they display through it would be dark! Even though your skills with the spear is coherent, it feels as though there is something shrouding it, something that you are unable to make sense of, something that you are unable to sever from you. With just one look, I can tell that it is definitely a crush!"