HSSB420: Great awkwardness
“His movement speed is very high, but there doesn’t seem to be any powerful aura-qi fluctuations,” Ah Hu listened, then said uprehendingly, “Could it be some special sort of movement technique? How strange.”
Xu Fei said, “That’s very possible. The martial legacies here must be dissimr to those within our Eight Extremities World somewhat.”
Yan Zhaoge listened to the movements of the neer as well, “It’s not surprising. After all, they’re two different worlds. Rather than the difference in martial arts, I’m actually more concerned about how different thenguage here is from that in our world.”
“After all, even in our Eight Extremities World, there are many different dialects used in different ces that differ greatly. If not for a standardised,mon one that we all use as a whole, it would be very hard for those originating from different ces to understand what the other side is saying.”
Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips, “Wanting to find someone through whom to understand the situation of this world, if we cannotmunicate, that would be awkward indeed.”
Ah Hu asked, “Young Master, why don’t you conceal yourselves first. I’ll stay and interact with this person.”
“The other party’s strength is currentlypletely unknown to us, being very hard to determine as well. He might even possess some strange secret arts that we do not know of.”
Having always followed by Yan Zhaoge’s side, other than being his follower, Ah Hu had also assumed the role of his bodyguard for a long time.
While Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation base was currently higher than his, Ah Hu’s mindset was still to keep Yan Zhaoge’s safety as the first and utmost priority.
While he usually appearedzy, when he got serious, this big guy was extremely reliable in carrying out his duties.
Being in apletely new and unknown world, everything was foreign, maybe even dangerous.
Currently, Ah Hu’s heart as a follower of Yan Zhaoge was already strung uppletely tightly.
Yan Zhaoge waved his hands, “If even so many of us are unable to cope with this danger, you alone going would be no different from suicide.”
“Rx a bit. While we are currently unable to determine the cultivation base of this neer, it shouldn’t be too high as well.”
“One art connects, all arts connect. In the great overarching dao of this world, all arts converge as one at their base. While there are differences amongst them, the higher up one goes, the more simrities there are to be found,” Yan Zhaoge gazed into the distance, “It’s just like us and the me Devils. The feeling when a Martial Saint or a me Devil King is standing in front of you ispletely different from the feeling given off by a Martial Grandmaster or a Great me Devil.”
“This is unless the other party conceals it intentionally or you instead identify an Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster as an Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster or vice versa, but it is absolutely always possible to distinguish whether it is a Martial Saint or a Martial Grandmaster.”
Yan Zhaoge and the others temporarily concealed themselves within the dense forest. Very quickly, a figure shed, appearing before them.
It was a tall middle-aged man, the colour of his skin like bronze, his eyes circr with a head like a leopard’s and rough features.
His body seemed to contain a flourishing, explosive power, his eyesight appearing exceptionally acute as light shot out in all directions.
Yan Zhaoge nodded to himself, “At least he has a human appearance, not being much different from us like some mutant species.”
As he observed the big man, he saw the man’s gaze suddenly flicker as he then promptly looked over in the direction of Ying Longtu.
The people dispersed within the dense forest all frowned.
While Ying Longtu’s cultivation base was the lowest of them all, he possessed the Big Dipper physique, able to freely control his qi and blood as he liked as he also had a mind that was clear and without w. If he intentionally hid himself, it should be very difficult for others to detect his presence.
Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, “Is it that this person, deeply concealed, is stronger than I thought, or is it that due to some special reason, his sensory abilities are extremely high?”
After scanning the location at which Ying Longtu was concealed, the big man now turned to look at where Feng Yunsheng was.
Yan Zhaoge coughed lightly, showing himself.
Seeing Yan Zhaoge, that man’s face was filled with caution and wariness. No longer looking in the directions of Feng Yunsheng and Ying Longtu, he instead stared fixatedly at Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge spread his hands apart, first asking, “How do I address you?”
He first used the standardisedmonnguage of the Eight Extremities World.
This was not a shot in the dark. Instead, themonnguage of the Eight Extremities World had propagated from words left behind from before the time of the Great Cmity, most forming a system, also being the closest to the civilisation of before the Great Cmity.
In terms of intonation, he also tried to go as close to that of olden times as he could.
While if it were Yan Zhaoge appraising it, there was still quite the difference, it was not through luck or coincidence that thisnguage and its written characters were mainstream in the current Eight Extremities World.
If this world before him was also descended from the civilisation of before the Great Cmity, they should share somemonalities.
In the end, having heard him speak, the big man showed no reaction. Instead, he appeared uprehending as he came to look even more wary.
It was clearly the look of not having understood anything at all.
Yan Zhaoge frowned, considering for a moment before asking once more, “How do I address you?”
This time, Feng Yunsheng, Ah Hu and the others all found his words foreign, seeming weird and hard to grasp in some ces as they were not easy to understand.
This time, Yan Zhaoge had directly gone on to use themonnguage of before the Great Cmity.
To make an analogy, aspared to thenguage of the current Eight Extremities World, this was like the difference between modernnguage and that of olden times. Some words had simr meanings, but if one had not learnt them before in a systemic manner, it would be very difficult to understand theirplete meaning.
In other words, it was like that of all the characters being individually recognisable yet not making any sense when stringed together.
By Yan Zhaoge’s conjecture, the martial arts his mother cultivated in were aparativelyplete martial legacy of before the Great Cmity. Therefore, thenguage and written characters employed back then had probably not been lost as well.
This time, the big man seemed to react a little, looking somewhat baffled at the same time that he remained wary.
Yan Zhaoge felt rather helpless under that gaze, which seemed to be asking:
Can this guy just speak properly?
Observing carefully, Yan Zhaoge felt that the reaction of this person when hearing the pre-Great Cmity spokennguage resembled that of Xu Fei, Feng Yunsheng and the others.
“In that case, it is most probable that thenguage and written characters here, like that of the Eight Extremities World, also originate from the pre-Great Cmity civilisation, but have undergone their own unique development as they are nowpletely different from that currently employed in the Eight Extremities World.”
Yan Zhaoge gradually came to an understanding.
However, despite this, he felt a bit of a headacheing on.
With them being unable to sessfullymunicate throughnguage, great awkwardness was felt by him.
“Anyway, since it’s definitely developed from the pre-Great Cmitynguage, as he says a few words and I make a few guesses, I might be able to understand the general gist of it,” Yan Zhaoge sighed, “If it really isn’t possible, I suppose I’d have to employ something like hand signals, even though that would be rather embarrassing.”
Thinking such, Yan Zhaoge said a few more words using the oldennguage of before the Great Cmity.
That big man looked uprehendingly and warily at him once more.
In order to understand the current civilisation of the Eight Extremities World back then, Yan Zhaoge had perused many books,e to understand manynguages and systems of characters.
Now, Yan Zhaoge drew on his knowledge onnguages to the maximum possible level. Not justnguages from olden times, he even includednguages currently still used in the Eight Extremities World, those dialects which were different from the standardisedmonnguage yet had been born from those olden timenguages as he threw them all onto the table.
Every time he spoke, he would note the reaction of that big man.
Feng Yunsheng and the others could only feel as though their knowledge of Yan Zhaoge had beenpletely overturned once more as their mouths hung open and their eyes stared wide at this scene.
Ah Hu swallowed his saliva, sending over a sound transmission via aura-qi, “Young Master, you’re so awesome…”
Yan Zhaoge sent back, “Do you think I want things to be so troublesome? If we cannotmunicate throughnguage, even if I capture him and want to interrogate him, it would also not work. Firstly, it has to be determined whatnguage he speaks, thereby allowing us to understand each other’s words.”
That big man, still appearing uprehending and wary, had been growing increasingly irritable.
As Yan Zhaoge was preparing to switch to another form of dialect, that big man lost his patience, letting out a low roar as he lunged over!
“This isn’t good, you know…” Yan Zhaoge rolled his eyes.