Chapter 1698 - 37: I Want to Be the Sect Leader

Chapter 1698: Chapter 37: I Want to Be the Sect Leader

This is an extreme contradiction of two attitudes.

It is also Fang Che’s true knack for leadership—as a superior, a boss, one must possess such a ruthless mind, otherwise achieving greatness will forever remain a dream.

This is how society, how Jianghu works, and more importantly, how reality functions.

Upon seeing the effect of his pressure, Fang Che smiled and said, "Perhaps your thoughts have been frightened by me, leading you into a misunderstanding."

Long Yikong, like a drowning man grabbing onto a life straw, hurriedly asked, "Boss, what do you mean?"

The other four raised their heads suddenly, staring blankly at Fang Che.

Because of this oppression, they clearly understood that, when a martial artist’s Dao Heart faces setbacks, it gets suppressed and remains suppressed.

Fang Che laughed and said, "You’re now thinking about catching up to me. But why would you want to catch me? My opportunities are different from yours."

He said seriously, "I’m truly only eighteen this year, and my actual cultivation time hasn’t exceeded four years! I can swear to the Celestial Worm God, this is true!"

Boom!

Another thunderous shock fell upon the five.

The five of them were now almost losing hope in life.

Eighteen years old.

Four years!

The five thought of their own ages, then of their relentless daily cultivation efforts, and when comparing themselves... instantly a feeling of ’people are better off dead compared to others, goods are better off being thrown away compared to others’ emerged.

They hung their heads, not even wanting to speak.

How can they catch up?

He swore to the Celestial Worm God; how can it be false?

Fang Che laughed, "So, you have entered a misunderstanding. I know your martial artist Dao Heart is somewhat shattered now, but this is not impossible to resolve."

The five immediately raised their heads, "Boss, how do we resolve it?"

Fang Che said, "You should think about why your Dao Heart doesn’t shatter when facing the Emotion Cutting Saber, the Sui Meng Spear, and the Vice Sect Masters."

"That’s... that’s an achievement we’ll never reach in our lifetime!" Ma Qianli blurted out.

"So why are you fixated on me?"

Fang Che smiled lightly. His voice was gentle yet carried immense ambition and confidence, and he softly said, "As far as I know, Duan Shouzuo at eighteen was far inferior to what I am now! So, I know exactly where my future lies, and I will keep moving towards that direction!"

"The reason my Dao Heart is firm and prideful stems from this fact: even those Cloud City experts, in their youth, did not achieve what I have, thus I continue to advance until reaching the peak, or falling midway."

"This is my thought process."

"You do not have my conditions now, nor do you have my goals."

Fang Che pondered for a moment, finally adopting a ’determined’ posture, and softly said, "I aspire to become the Sect Leader in the future... Have you ever thought about it? Dare to dream about it?"

All five wore expressions as if struck by lightning, then turned to a resigned look, "We dare not."

"There we have it."

Fang Che said, "You may compete among yourselves, I don’t mind; even if you pursue me as a goal, after today, I won’t care. So now, do you understand?"

"If your highest goal is to advance alongside me, then first recognize that it is ’following me,’ not ’leading me.’ Since you are ’following me,’ why set me as your target?"

Fang Che’s words left the five in thoughtful silence.

Feng Wanxia said, "I understand. My position for myself is as a subordinate, working for the boss. Why pursue the accomplishments of the boss?"

"Just like among the hundreds of millions of experts under the Sect Leader’s command, Duan Shouzuo may be formidable, but still merely one among them, yet Duan Shouzuo can still awe the world!"

Feng Wanxia’s reasoning may be somewhat tenuous, but it does hold some truth.

The other four felt slightly relieved.

As long as there is a reason, a way out of the Dao Heart dilemma, they will seize it. Be it flawed or right reasoning—it is the wisest course of action for those with a robust and clear-minded inner self!

Undoubtedly, anyone who can cultivate to a Saint Level is generally not a fool.

Fang Che laughed, saying, "So, I’ll remind you first. Actually, during our time in the Gu God World, it’s your rare opportunity to enhance your power. If you can truly achieve it, then in the remaining month, strengthening your power by one-fold, or even more, is not difficult at all."

The five people immediately breathed heavily, having some understanding while still feeling a bit unclear, like looking through a thin mist, vague yet perceptible, but not knowing the reason, thus they anxiously scratched their ears and cheeks: "Boss, please enlighten us."

"Your previous cultivation, from my point of view, was apathetic, desperate, without hope, without goals, without prospects in cultivation."

Fang Che said clearly, "This is something each of you is actually aware of! You might be Shi family’s sons, but you are not from those top families, because the batch of people who went out earlier did not include you."

The five nodded despondently, indeed.

"So although you cultivated, it was blindly just hoping to make yourself a bit stronger, to face the storms of the future a little better, rather than for doing anything. But you are also aware that no matter how high you reach, it is ultimately still within others’ whims, and you simply cannot dominate your own fate."

"Therefore, when you saw me, and understood my situation, you immediately realized this is your opportunity."

"Thus, you seized this opportunity right away."

"This is not your own intelligence, but the suffocating environment you are in. When suffocation was near, you saw me, and then immediately realized I would have a bright future, so you were willing to gamble everything on me, desperately!"

Fang Che said, "But this is not something you truly desired, it’s the environment forcing you! Because you want to escape from that environment too badly."

He looked at the five, smiling: "Think about it yourselves, is it this reasoning?"

The five fell silent.

After a long time, Long Yikong said bitterly, "Yes! You are right!"

This time, Long Yikong did not say ’Night Demon Master is right,’ but directly used the respectful term ’You’; this change, he did not even realize himself.

Yet he changed so naturally.

The other four were also silent, faces looking bad, Feng Wanxia sighed deeply: "Yes, what you said...is spot-on! These are our true thoughts!"

"Because we saw a path."

"So when we met you again, we decided immediately to follow, it’s this path, not you."

Feng Wanxia’s voice was somewhat despondent.

Being in the situation, did not feel much, but after truly seeing another long path, and then hearing Fang Che clearly interpret it, they immediately realized: this is truly the case.

"Therefore, I do not care if you follow me or this path, but at least your goals, your path, your prospects, are already there."

Fang Che said word by word: "Having these, you then have clearer motivation to advance. And having true goals after cultivation, compared to previous desperate and confused cultivation, the effects are completely different. And this is what I call...your tremendous opportunity!"

The five’s eyes shone brightly.

Everyone was not foolish, they had already realized this before Fang Che spoke these words.

Yes, when the spirit no longer has shackles, cultivation after escaping the cage can it be the same as before?

Previously, it seemed like completing a task, forcing oneself to cultivate. But now, it’s truly for one’s own future, for the ability to control one’s own fate and strive!

This...can it be the same?

"So, seize this opportunity!"

Fang Che said, "And seizing this opportunity is not necessarily about burying yourselves in cultivation."

He said word by word: "Battle is the shortcut to achieve your goal!"

The five took a deep breath simultaneously.

Fang Che asked, "Have you completed the standard of submission for those one hundred and fifty people?"

"Completed!"

The five almost spoke in unison.

They are not Fang Che; Fang Che killed too many, seeing venerable level martial artists, he thinks first to kill, instead of submitting.

While they met first, they thought first to submit instead of kill.

So the task quota had long been completed naturally.

"Oh."

Fang Che couldn’t help but touch his nose; this response was a bit unexpected, not thinking that these five guys had already completed, so according to time calculation, they even completed earlier than he did?