Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'

Chapter 968 532: Entanglement of Karma (3)

Sun Tiecheng was annoyed, "Didn't I tell you to go buy things? What are you all doing here? Go buy them!"

Everyone went about their business and left.

Li Banfeng looked aggrieved, still squatting on the ground.

Sun Tiecheng squatted next to Li Banfeng and said irritably, "Alright, today is indeed a good day. I'll teach you a technique. Have you learned it yet?"

Li Banfeng was taken aback, "What have I learned? You haven't taught me anything!"

Sun Tiecheng said sternly, "What do you mean? You wanted to learn a technique, I agreed to teach you, how can you say I didn't teach you?"

"Are you joking?" Li Banfeng was puzzled, "You agreed to teach, and that's considered teaching?"

Sun Tiecheng remained serious, "If I hadn't agreed to teach you, I definitely couldn't have taught you, don't you think that makes sense?"

Li Banfeng nodded, "That makes a lot of sense."

Sun Tiecheng continued, "If I agreed to teach you, it means I've already taught you. Is this not logical?"

Li Banfeng was dumbfounded for a long time, "What kind of logic is this?"

"This is reverse causality logic," Sun Tiecheng laughed, "Whether I've taught you or not depends on whether I agreed to. Think about it carefully, isn't there some merit to what I'm saying?"

Li Banfeng actually found this logic reasonable because he understood the technique.

But this didn't align with his understanding of normal logic, so he couldn't acknowledge the reasoning.

"The causality relationship you're describing is flawed, you can't calculate it this way."

Sun Tiecheng laughed, "How should it be calculated? Who decides, you or me? What's cause and what's effect depends on how the technique is performed. Can you understand it now?"

Li Banfeng carefully pondered the key points of the technique, thought for a long time, and murmured, "Is this The Unnamable?"

Sun Tiecheng nodded, "Good kid, you've got it. Other people's techniques rely on unnamable methods, but ours uses unnamable mechanisms. That's why our Taoist Sect dares to claim number one in the world!"

Li Banfeng seriously considered the changes in the causality, understanding that this technique was clearly difficult to learn. Sun Tiecheng told Li Banfeng not to rush, "Reversing causality is a hard skill, at the beginning, don't try to reverse too hard of a causality,

for example, I went into the Changsan Book Residence and had dinner, that's a normal causality. If you reverse it to say I didn't have dinner, so I didn't enter the Book Residence, that's a bit too hard to reverse,

Right now, I haven't had dinner, but I still went into the Book Residence, the logic is clear as day, reversing it isn't easy. I have the skill, but you need more tempering,

start by reversing less hard causalities. You can reverse it to say I had dinner to prove I went into the Book Residence, that makes the reversal much smoother."

Li Banfeng tried it and indeed, reversing those two causalities differed greatly in difficulty.

Sun Tiecheng laughed, "Brother, getting the hang of it?"

Li Banfeng nodded repeatedly, then stood up and said, "Since I've joined the Taoist Sect, I should call you Master."

Sun Tiecheng gave a bitter smile, "You've got it backward, just thinking of calling me Master now? Even if you want to, you can't call me that anymore."

Li Banfeng was taken aback, "Why can't I?"

Sun Tiecheng pulled up a chair for Li Banfeng to sit, "If you're still an outsider, indeed you should call me Master. Outsider disciples should call me that too, but if you've entered the Taoist Sect, you can only call me Big Brother,

Our Taoist Sect only has brothers, no Masters. Remember this, it's an unchangeable rule."

Li Banfeng didn't understand, "Why such a rule?"

Sun Tiecheng paused for a moment and said, "If a day comes when we become enemies, and have to fight to the death, I'll certainly say I taught you the skill, and I'm your Master, you must not betray your Master,

Don't be fooled. In our Taoist Sect, there's no such thing as a Master, nor betrayal of a Master, so when it comes to me, don't hold back."

The words were a bit heavy, Li Banfeng blinked and said, "How could we become enemies, where did that come from?"

Sun Tiecheng said seriously, "Have you remembered?"

"Remembered." Li Banfeng nodded repeatedly.

Yan Cui'er returned with wine and food, Tang Changfa hurriedly set the table, Sun Tiecheng looked at the food boxes, shaking his head, "Is this enough to eat?"

Tang Changfa said, "It's not little, enough for a table!"

Sun Tiecheng took out a few pieces of Silver Yuan, "Go buy more, add a few more tables, let everyone in the Book Residence come over to eat, sweeping and dusting, don't leave anyone out."

This is a big day for Changsan Book Residence, a big day for Fool's City, Sun Tiecheng was delighted, toasted whoever came, drank two jars, still feeling it wasn't enough.

Li Banfeng put down his wine bowl, brought up what happened during the day, "Big Brother, the people from Snowflake Beach are after me, they were secretly investigating me before, now openly causing trouble, it was thanks to Big Brother Huang helping me that I escaped disaster."

Sun Tiecheng was quite satisfied, "Ah Huang did a good job, and you are bold, daring to demand a territory from Inner State People, this territory is hard to defend."

Li Banfeng said, "I'm worried about this too, if I encounter people from Snowflake Beach again, what should I do?"

Sun Tiecheng laughed, "What can you do? Beat the crap out of them! If you can beat them, beat them to death, if not, we hide first, and when there's an opportunity to strike from the shadows, beat them to death."

Li Banfeng sighed, "I've heard Snow Cream is not to be messed with, I've truly offended them this time."

Sun Tiecheng snorted, "Snow Cream is not to be messed with, what the hell is Snowflake Beach? What's the harm in offending them? They're made to be beaten!"

Li Banfeng said, "They handle the money-minting business and have many ruthless people under them. With my current skills, I really can't compete with them."