There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 54 The White-Haired Old Lady

When Lu Ren woke up, rubbing his forehead, it was already dark outside.

A handsome young man with white hair appeared out of nowhere and was sitting next to me.

When will you arrive?

And why do so many people in the Shen family have white hair?

The handsome white-haired man sat cross-legged next to him, holding the bamboo sword and carefully examining something. When he saw him wake up, he smiled gently at him.

"You must be Koji? The attendant personally appointed by Haruki?"

"I am Lu Ren... May I ask who you are?"

"Me? I'm just a lazy bum who eats off the Shen family."

Lu Ren: "..." According to convention, people who say this are usually very awesome.

With concern for the younger man, the handsome young man remarked, "Training hard is good, but you can't push yourself to the point of fainting. Xiao Lu, you need to take better care of your body."

"I understand."

"Haha, don't be so formal. But Xiao Lu, who just used this bamboo sword?"

"She was... well, a girl with white hair like you. She didn't tell me her name. That senior gave me some pointers on swordsmanship, but I'm of average talent and didn't learn much. I even fainted from exhaustion."

"A girl with white hair...?"

"Do you know who this senior is?"

The white-haired youth shook his head and said, "I might be able to guess who it is, but I can't be sure. After all, there are quite a few members of the Shen family who look young but have white hair. Don't be fooled by their youthful appearance; they are actually old men and women in their sixties or seventies."

"Huh? Can advanced professionals... reverse aging?"

The lifespan of professionals is not much different from that of ordinary people. Senior professionals can live a little longer, but it is still just over a hundred years.

There is a legendary level above the Burning Sun Realm called the Void Realm. People at the Void Realm can live to be three hundred years old, but that is only a theoretical level. No one has ever reached it, and even if someone could live to be three hundred years old, there is no reason for them to become young again.

"No, this is just a special ability of the Shen family [White-haired Shaman]. After breaking through to the Star Cocoon Realm, she can maintain her appearance. However, although her appearance remains unchanged, she will still grow white hair as she gets older."

For professionals, either they never break through to the Star Cocoon Realm in their entire lives, or they break through to the Star Cocoon Realm before the age of 25. Basically, their cultivation will not improve much after the age of 25. It's not like the novels where people get stronger as they get older.

No wonder that girl looked so young, yet she was a master of the Frost Moon Realm.

"If that's the case..."

Therefore, the white-haired girl was most likely an elderly woman in her seventies or eighties.

Lu Ren felt incredibly embarrassed, having just been staring at the old lady's feet.

Before Lu Ren fell into a deep sleep, he still had some fantasies, guessing that the other party might be an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years.

Although I've never heard of professionals extending their lifespan, who knows, maybe I'll just happen to be one?

After all, this is how it is in novels and anime, and Gala Gemu also has this kind of theme.

It turns out she's in her seventies or eighties, a genuine old lady.

They're completely different!

A centuries-old monster who looks like a young girl and a seventy- or eighty-year-old grandmother who looks like a young girl are completely different things!

That's not how things are in the corner of the wood, I don't accept it... Lu Ren is thinking of going to find Jiang Yueying right now.

But at that moment, his stomach started growling.

The handsome white-haired man laughed heartily and said, "Let's go eat, the sun has already set."

This handsome white-haired man must also be an old man, and Lu Ren addressed him as "senior" with perfect ease.

"Then, senior, I'll take my leave now."

The handsome white-haired man nodded to him, but after Lu Ren left, he looked down at the bamboo sword in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Just then, a voice appeared in his mind.

"There's no need to pay too much attention to this child; I didn't mean anything by it."

This is resonance transmission, which Shen Yanqing can naturally do as well, but it requires locking onto a target. Since he couldn't lock onto the other person, he could only speak into thin air in the training ground:

"Grandma, are you back?"

Shen Yanqing waited for a few breaths but did not receive a message. He got up and looked at the nearly withered giant tree in the clan's territory. After a moment, he sighed slowly.

However, just as he was about to leave, his great-grandmother sent him a telepathic message.

"Make the girl from the Ji family carry 200 shi of weight and run around the clan's territory until dawn."

Shen Yanqing: "..."

The girl surnamed Ji currently within the Shen clan is naturally his granddaughter, Ji Liguang.

Since his great-grandmother suddenly sent him a telepathic message a year ago, telling him to quickly arrange a marriage for Yaoxing, including the message he just sent, he has only sent the message three times in total.

What did Ali do that she got into that led to her being punished by her great-grandmother?

……

After eating and drinking his fill, Lu Ren strolled around like an old man in the evening. When he returned to the front door, he found a little one standing there.

When Xiao Jue saw him, she jumped and skipped around like a puppy.

"Big pot, big pot!"

This little one really loves me. Lu Ren squatted down and picked her up in his arms.

"Let's go, let's go, big brother, how about you show Xiaojue around?"

"good!"

Training during the day is exhausting, and at night I still have to learn etiquette with Lu Youhe.

Their main teacher was a very dignified middle-aged woman who, I heard, was a palace maid 20 years ago. She was very strict and taught them many rules to follow.

Actually, it was all rather uninformative content, mainly about the ideology of ruler and subject, master and servant. Lu Youhe would even take notes seriously, while Lu Ren would just listen to it like a casual university lecture.

Besides ideological work, etiquette also includes addressing people in conversation, posture, visiting and receiving guests, banquets, letters, etc. These are all okay, a bit tedious, but not much in content.

Most of the content comes from teachers of various subjects.

Lu Ren couldn't understand why he still needed to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, writing, official documents, geography, poetry, prose, and traditional Chinese studies... What era is this? Who still learns these things?

Besides, wasn't he a servant? He was just a common soldier.

Why is he learning this? To govern the country, manage his family, and bring peace to the world?

Lu Youhe is enthusiastic about everything. She has a talent for things like tea tasting, flower arranging, and needlework, but if you ask her to study poetry or prose... well, you could say she would work very hard.

On the contrary, Lu Ren studied well. He was originally a top student and learned everything quickly.

After finishing class around 8 PM, the rest of the time is for rest.

"Let's go back."

"No, I want to review what the teacher taught today."

"It's nothing important, you can just learn it casually."

Lu Youhe protested, "How can we be so casual? Sister Yaoxing is so good to us, we definitely have to study even harder!"

"Then you should put your serious effort into things related to your profession."

Lu Youhe pouted as she took notes: "Training is important, but etiquette is also important. We should learn everything they tell us to learn."

This younger sister is stubborn, and the kind who's all talk and no action, always getting the lowest score on every test – a fake effort.

"Whatever you want, I'm going to find Xiao Jue to play with."

Before class that evening, the little one kept asking when he could play with her. Lu Ren couldn't bear it and told her he would play with her after class.

Just then, the sound of someone humming a tune came from outside the school.

Even before they arrived, you could tell who it was just by listening to the little tune and hearing their cheerful footsteps.