Chapter 17: Simpification

I walked to that junior brother who had black hair and yellow eyes.

Without any delay, I asked him the important question.

"Are you a simp?"

"…"

Silence.

There was only silence.

You might be asking, dude why did you ask him if he is a simp? Are you playing around?

To answer you I have to say that first of all I am always serious.

Second of all, if you can't even see the importance of this question, you wouldn't go far in life.

Okay, let me educate you this time. Asking him if he is a simp is the best way to find out if he is from earth or not. If he has some reaction to this would I might be working with a reincarnator or a transmigrator from earth but if he doesn't show any reaction that shows that he is at the very least not from earth and that is for the best.

He being from the earth is bad in many ways, he might know the plot of this world if this world is based on a novel or something. Or he can be one of those ones who got reincarnated by a R.O.B and probably has some cheat and shit…

Looking at his face, it was evident that he was confused.

It seems that he has no clue about what simp means, and now, with 99.98 percent accuracy, I can say that he is not from the earth and I don't have the problem of him knowing the future or having OP cheats…

After a few more seconds of silence, he started talking.

"What is a …simp?" he asked hesitantly.

"Oh! So you do not know the legend of the simps?" I asked him.

"I… do not…" he answered me with more hesitation.

Clasping my hands behind my back, I took the form of a sage giving instruction and advice.

"There was a legend of a far far away times, when heroes of old would save the people in need and they were the hope of the ones in desperation." I told them as if I was a bard.

"If there was a damsel in need of help, they would be there!" I added with vigor.

"If there was a girl being bullied, you could find them trashing the bully and giving the girl a hand!" I added with even more vigor.

"And when the others would see them or hear about their deeds, there was but one word that came to their minds…" I paused for a more dramatic effect.

"SIMP." You could see sparks in my eyes.

"When a girl doesn't need any help but he is helping her, he is a SIMP!"

"When you are having an argument with your partner and he takes the girl's side without hesitation, he is a SIMP!"

I was acting so believable that this could be the start of a social movement.

And yet the youth was looking at me with sparkling eyes, and now I could be 100 percent sure that this dude is not from the earth.

I mean how the fuck is he not breaking character in this situation? If he is this good, I would gladly let him kill me.

Okay, time to finish this shit show.

"There are many stories about the meaning behind this word but one shines brighter and that says that simp stands for a 'sympathetic individual who mourns for people'." I nodded and stroked my chin.

The crowd was a little conflicted about my story but didn't put much thought into it.

"Anyway, are you a simp? Because you were going to intervene in this junior sister's spar without care for rules of the sect in conducting spars…" I asked him with a smile that didn't reach my eyes.

"No, but I don't let the rules define me and I do what I have to do!" he answered arrogantly.

'Oof, dude the cringe is real! How the fuck is he saying these shitty lines with his head held high?' I was disappointed with this beta MC.

That aside, who gave him the courage to talk to a chief disciple this way?

"Good for you, I guess." I told him dismissively.

and like any idiot who thinks he is important, he was shocked that i was ignoring him.

Before I walk past him, I tried to see what kind of opponent he is.

'Peeping eye of heaven' I gave a mental command.

As I looked at him what I saw left me shocked for a moment.

When I use this ability I could see the worth of anything with colors, the more colorful the more precious that thing/person is.

But this boy is not emitting the slightest of colors when I look at him, it was like he was Vantablack, not reflecting the slightest of lights.

'Even a piece of shit is worth more than him…' I narrowed my eyes.

No, I'm thinking about it backward.

He is the closest thing to an MC that I have ever seen. That aside, he has got into the heavenly sword sect as a disciple, and that in itself shows that he can't be worthless.

So, it leaves two more reasons.

One, the peeping eye of heaven is defective and doesn't work. Well, this is just downright impossible.

So that one is crossed too.

The final thing that I could come up with is that something or someone is cloaking him from prying eyes and that is the reason for this weird behavior from the peeping eye of heaven.

'So… I can almost be sure that he is the one.' I thought.

Well, Nothing that I can do about it now so I just keep monitoring him so that I can finish him discreetly.

Even as the grandchild of the patriarch, I am not above the law.

If any one of the younger generations was free to do as he/she pleases, the sect wouldn't have any stability and wouldn't be going strong through the centuries…

He has to be handled with care and I should not be hasty about it. Killing him is one thing and handling the aftermath are two different matters and I can't just kill him and hope for the best…

I have to be smart about it.

Moving past him I was going to get back to the sword valley, but I remembered something.

'I don't know his fucking name!' I clicked my tongue. 'Well, I don't want to waste any more time with that guy. Finding someone who made all these commotions is not a hard thing afterward.' I reassured myself.

When I was about to turn back to be on my way, I remembered about Lai Xinyue who was following me.

Remembering that I only gave her a contact and not a device to contact me with, I turned to face her.

"Junior sister, do you have a communication device that accepts contact formations?" I asked her.

The basic kind of communication device is basically a walkie-talkie. You can not add formation to it and you can only contact the other end.

This device is cheaper and is more available for common people.

The other type of communication devices are the ones that accept contact formations and based on the quality of their creation they can hold many contact formations In themselves, but clearly, they are much more expensive.

For someone who just came to the sect and is an outer disciple of the sect this expense is too much and she has to use fewer cultivation resources to be able to save money to buy this communication device.

"No, I do not have one, senior brother." She shook her head.

"If I may ask, do you have the money to buy one, junior sister?" I asked her kindly.

"I do not have it right now, senior brother, but I can save the necessary money in a short time, and then I will contact you." She told me.

'It would be a waste if she use her saving on something that is only used to contact me…' I thought.

"That can't be. The only use of this communication device for you is to contact me. How can I let you waste money on this?" I told her.

While I spoke, I took a spare communication device out of my storage ring and tried to hand it to Lai Xinyue.

"Take this one, junior sister. It was my spare one and I have no use for it." I told her reassuringly.

"Senior brother, I can not accept something for nothing." Although you could see that she was happy with my gesture but she still tried to refuse.

"Don't be burdened by it. You can pay me later when you get to the core court." I tried to ease her mind about it.

She had stars in her eyes when I told her that she has a chance on getting into core court.

"I tell you what, until you pay me for this communication device, you can only use it to contact me. Think of it as me giving it to you for my convenience so that I don't have to carry multiple communication devices. Is that fine?" I added as the final point.

After a moment of silence, she nodded with her head down and took the communication device from my hand.

"Thank you, senior brother." She told meekly.

"Don't mention it. I'll be on my way then. Elder, junior sister, farewell." I said my goodbyes and started moving.

'Next stop, sword valley. Hopefully.' I muttered to myself.