"Nangong Suxin..."
After the Young Miss's move, Nangong Suxin didn't go to support her, but instead went to...
"..."
Xiaoyao suddenly understood. After seeing Nangong Suxin's action, he realized what these two women were doing. They were using the Young Miss as bait to make the opposing formation shift, with the formation's center of gravity moving toward the Young Miss, thus exposing a weakness to Nangong Suxin who was waiting on the side. Nangong Suxin immediately began attacking the formation's weak point.
When Nangong Suxin attacked the weak point, the formation began to fall into chaos. Some people went to protect the weak point while others continued attacking the Young Miss.
This way, although Nangong Suxin and the Young Miss separated, their opponents also separated. They began attacking this somewhat chaotic formation, quickly regrouped, and then started their combination attacks again.
They were only two people, so they could separate and reunite very quickly without any adjustments needed. The opposing formation was different - this way, they displayed their strongest power, attacked the opponents' weak points, and quickly broke through the opposing formation.
"Interesting..." Xiaoyao smiled and nodded. He was very satisfied with this result. The Young Miss and Nangong Suxin had flexibly used combination techniques. Formation use naturally included stopping and separating - something Xiaoyao hadn't even taught yet, but unexpectedly the two had comprehended it themselves.
Watching their cooperation, the tacit understanding seemed to reach a level where no words were needed, they could completely sense what the other would do through intuition. Perhaps this was because they fought so often that they learned this, but regardless, this kind of understanding was rare and precious. Many people would want it but couldn't necessarily cultivate it.
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...
"How about it, little servant? Aren't I amazing?" Nangong Suxin came before Xiaoyao and said, ignoring the Young Miss's contribution. Although they had cooperated, she didn't want any special entanglements with the Young Miss.
"You're amazing? Don't joke around. I'm the amazing one, you just cooperated with me a little." The Young Miss also came over and said confrontationally.
"Pfft! Aren't you embarrassed saying that? Your contribution was just this tiny bit!" Nangong Suxin held up her pinky finger, pinching it slightly.
"Get lost, that's you!"
Again, a familiar scene - the two began arguing and seemed about to come to blows.
"..."
Everyone who saw this situation fell silent. They were all wondering if the two young ladies who had just cooperated perfectly were the same as these two before them, or if what they'd seen earlier was an illusion.
"You were both excellent!" Xiaoyao said at this moment.
"Really?" Both young ladies stopped, smiles appearing on their faces. Hearing Xiaoyao's praise seemed to make them very happy, even happier than winning just now.
"Mm! You did very well this time, beyond my expectations. Actually, using formations isn't just about how to use them - when necessary, you need to stop part of the formation, or even all of it! And you..." At this point, Xiaoyao looked toward the seven people who had lost. "You really disappointed me. You actually focused only on offense while ignoring defense. At the same time, your adaptability is very poor. Just now, regardless of which choice you made, you should have picked one, if continuing, then continue; if defending, then defend. What's most feared is some people wanting to continue while others want to defend!!"
Xiaoyao paused and continued, "If you had persisted just now, the Young Miss would have been in great danger. Their plan wouldn't have succeeded so easily. What they did was still very risky, as long as you knew how to grasp this opportunity, defeating them would have been easy!"
"..." The seven people hung their heads under Xiaoyao's scolding. If outsiders knew about this situation, they would definitely be very surprised, even finding it hard to believe.
Wasn't this Xiaoyao supposed to be someone who was captured? How did he now seem like a high-ranking member of the Le family, with Le family members appearing to respect him greatly, not even daring to talk back?
These seven people weren't ordinary servants either, they were a seven-person combination with some prestige in this Great Tang capital. Over the past year, they had become quite prominent because they knew a combination technique that had defeated many experts stronger than themselves.
If they knew these seven people had this combination technique precisely because of Xiaoyao, they would definitely understand this was a very normal situation, and everything would make sense.
However, at that point, they would surely have another doubt, just who was this Xiaoyao to be able to train such a team!
But few people seemed to know about this situation. Those from the Le family who knew didn't talk about it much, because Le Youran had said no one could discuss Xiaoyao's affairs. This rule had been established from when Xiaoyao first came to the Le family, not when he started teaching people.
Later, the Le family also confirmed this policy. After all, the fewer people who knew about this, the better - they could monopolize this advantage. At the same time, Xiaoyao was the kind of low-key person who wouldn't display this aspect of his abilities unless there was cause, which could have made the Le family miss this opportunity.
Therefore, as long as the Le family members didn't talk, basically no one would know Xiaoyao had these abilities, and interestingly, Xiaoyao once again went unnoticed.
In this whole affair, although Xiaoyao was the cause, few people paid attention to this cause, because Xiaoyao was just a little servant. They only thought Guxing acted this way because she was loyal, even for a subordinate, she could do such earth-shaking things.
Perhaps this was because Guxing's group was too dazzling, overshadowing Xiaoyao's existence. Or perhaps it was simply because Xiaoyao's presence was too weak, making people easily overlook his existence.
"Perhaps you should go to the battlefield and entrust your lives to your opponents, that might improve your understanding!" Xiaoyao finally said.
At this, all seven fell silent. They seemed to understand what they should do, constant training was useless; they needed real combat, needed to experience life and death to break through.
"The battlefield? I want to go too!" the Young Miss suddenly said, startling everyone.
"Young Miss, I wasn't talking about you, I meant them!" Xiaoyao immediately said. He didn't want the Young Miss going to the battlefield - that was a dangerous place where even Emperor-level experts could lose their lives.
"I know, but if they leave, we'll have no opponents. Also, I feel I need to break through too, or I won't be able to keep up. The battlefield suits me!" The Young Miss rarely became serious, and it seemed she was earnest about this matter.
"..." Xiaoyao was silent for a while. "Alright, you can go too, but if you die, don't hold any grudges!"
"Bah, bah! Can't you say something auspicious? We haven't even left yet and you're already cursing me!!" the Young Miss said irritably.
"It seems you're serious. I think I shouldn't fall behind you either. I'll go to the battlefield with you, my life was saved anyway!" After a moment of silence, Nangong Suxin said. This decision required deep thought, and after thinking it through, Nangong Suxin felt she should also go to the battlefield to break through.
Perhaps this was because she didn't want to lose to the Young Miss!
"Alright, since you want to go, I'll prepare some things for you to take when you enlist! With the Nangong clan's capabilities, they should be able to arrange the most suitable battlefield for you. Be careful and stay safe!" Faced with the two young ladies' sudden decision, Xiaoyao had no way to stop them, nor did he want to.
As they said, this was indeed a good place for breakthroughs, and with their strength, as long as they didn't encounter particularly dangerous situations, self-preservation shouldn't be a problem.
After making this decision, Nangong Suxin, the Young Miss, and the others quickly left. They needed to prepare - thinking of something and immediately doing it was the Young Miss's habit, and Nangong Suxin was similar, preferring to be direct and decisive.
After Guxing finished recovering, she spoke a few words with Xiaoyao before also leaving. She needed to throw herself into the next round of cultivation.
Go to the battlefield? Guxing wouldn't go, because she felt going to the battlefield would waste her cultivation time. Her martial techniques didn't need the battlefield's help, this was different from the Young Miss and Nangong Suxin.
...
Three days later, the Young Miss and Nangong Suxin set off for the battlefield. The Great Tang Empire's southern front, a war against a barbarian nation. This place was very suitable for the two young ladies. Although fighting continued here, it generally wasn't too intense.
Before departure, Xiaoyao suddenly appeared before them, moving and surprising them. They never would have thought Xiaoyao would appear.
Now they understood one thing, Xiaoyao actually wasn't truly trapped at the Le family. If he wanted to leave, he could do so at any time without needing their rescue.
At this moment, they didn't blame Xiaoyao for deceiving them. If this had been at the beginning, they definitely would have scolded him harshly upon learning this.
But they wouldn't now, because they already understood Xiaoyao's purpose, to stimulate Guxing's growth. At the same time, during this year, they themselves had made considerable progress. During this year, they had long thought about this matter and suspected Xiaoyao's purpose. Now that the situation was so obvious, how could they not understand what Xiaoyao meant?
Although they understood Xiaoyao could freely come and go, they still hadn't expected him to appear. According to Xiaoyao's personality, even if the two of them were going to their deaths, he probably wouldn't come for a look. Yet this time he had appeared to see them off, which they found very surprising and somewhat moving.
After Xiaoyao arrived, he didn't do anything special - just handed each of them several books, told them to read when they had time, said a few words about staying safe, then immediately left.
In Xiaoyao's words, he had snuck out and needed to return immediately, or he would be discovered.
(End of Chapter)