“Teacher Sun, I’m unable to repay you. You…”
The young man was really grateful toward Sun Mo and wanted to repay him. But he was midway through his sentence when he stopped.
It was because Sun Mo would definitely not raise any requests in public. He’d at least say a few nice-sounding lines such as telling him not to mind it too much. If that was the case, wouldn’t it make the young guy seem as if he was forcing the other party to not ask for repayment?
(I’m not a despicable guy!)
The young man didn’t know how to explain himself and panicked, his face flushing up.
“Even if you can’t make a big name for yourself, as long as you can nurture a few good students, it’d be considered the best repayment toward me. ”
Sun Mo consoled him.
Buzz!
Golden light encompassed Sun Mo and light spots splattered out.
Suddenly, the spring day in March became even warmer.
“It’s Priceless Advice!”
All the spectators exclaimed in surprise.
Of course, this reaction wasn’t because of Priceless Advice. After all, this great teacher halo was a commonly seen one. They were all surprised by the content that led to this great teacher halo’s activation.
When Priceless Advice erupted, it meant that this was what Sun Mo truly thought. What a noble character. It was worthy of everyone’s respect and to learn from him.
The young man became more spirited and he quickly bowed. “Student will remember Teacher’s teaching. I’ll definitely not impart this Minor Dragon Elephant Art to anyone, including my descendants.”
The young man’s action could be said to be very righteous. However, he was reproached by Qin Yaoguang.
“Hey, are you a man? Can you not be so wishy-washy?”
Qin Yaoguang was speechless. “My teacher has taught you the cultivation art, so it’s up to you how you’re going to use it. Just do whatever you want with it. There’s no need to report to him.”
“If they are students whose characters are mostly harmless, you should teach the cultivation art to them.”
Li Ziqi interjected.
“This…”
The young man was still unable to accept this. After all, in his perspective, this cultivation art was truly too expensive.
“Don’t ‘this and that’ anymore. It’s just a cultivation art. My teacher won’t mind it.”
Lu Zhiruo thought (Teacher can’t even be bothered to teach us cultivation arts that aren’t saint tier.)
The papaya girl had seen Sun Mo fighting illusions in the darkness illusion dojo, easily gaining cultivation arts of all tiers and grades. She had seen at least 100 types of them now.
Therefore, to Sun Mo, this cultivation art was really just one of the many.
“Student understands now!”
The young man bowed again. He decided to set Sun Mo as his role model in the future, helping others out.
Sun Mo smiled, feeling very satisfied.
He had only felt bad about this young man’s talent, but he had managed to earn a wave of favorable impression points. The amount was over 10,000 points.
The world still consisted mostly of ordinary people. Sun Mo could be said to be extremely generous to be easily giving out a superior-grade heaven-tier cultivation art.
This was really the disposition of a great teacher, worthy of them giving a big toast to!
Ding!
“Congratulations, you’ve helped an intern teacher to reestablish his life goal and ascertained his inspiration of becoming a great teacher. Rewarded with one silver treasure chest.”
To think that there was such a surprise takeaway?
It was like a free gift.
Therefore, Sun Mo opened it in passing.
Ding!
“Congratulations, you’ve obtained ten commonly used puppets’ blueprints. After learning them, you’ll grasp the skills to create them.”
Sun Mo threw a glance at it and felt upset. They were all small things that weren’t of much use.
For example, teapots that could fill up cups by themselves.
What was Sun Mo’s status now? If he wanted to drink tea, he’d have maids to serve him. Moreover, the maids’ looks mustn’t be too bad. Could your teapot give a smile?
Did it have the nice scent of cosmetics?
Was it big and fair enough?
…
Sun Mo continued to watch the competitions, but the others found a new loophole.
“Hold on, Sun Mo merely struck out a punch toward that examinee’s head and he managed to teach a cultivation art to him?”
“That’s right! It’d take me more time to let out a fart!”
“Can it be Enlightenment Provision?”
“It doesn’t look like it!”
The spectators whispered amongst themselves, wanting to make sense of this yet didn’t dare to approach Sun Mo. All of them started scratching their heads, feeling a strong itch in their hearts.
A few minutes later, another battle ended.
The loser looked toward Sun Mo with a pitiful look like a dog waiting to be fed.
“…”
Sun Mo was speechless.
(Do you really think that I’m a philanthropist? To be honest, you won’t have good prospects as a teacher given your aptitude.) However, these words were too harsh so he decided to feign ignorance.
Only then did the young man understand that Sun Mo wasn’t so generous toward anyone.
(It must be that Teacher Sun has good judgment and saw my great potential.)
Suddenly, this passerby young man felt even more confident. His dejected feelings from earlier were swept away. At the same time, he contributed another wave of favorable impression points.
Sigh!
(I really wish to apply to work at the Central Province Academy!)
(It’s a pity that they are now a ‘B’ grade famous school, and my resume isn’t good enough.)
“Next round. Number 508 Li Ziqi against number 309 Zhao Lei.”
The judge called out.
After reading out Li Ziqi’s name, he immediately looked over in Sun Mo’s direction.
There was no helping it. She was a famous person now. The judge was also very curious about how she’d perform in actual combat.
“Eldest Martial Sister, you’re quite lucky! It’s a girl!”
Lu Zhiruo felt happy.
“En!”
Li Ziqi took in a deep breath and took out a vest from her bag, putting it on.
“Huh?” The papaya girl was surprised. “What are you doing?”
The little sunny egg’s vest was filled with pockets. There were 50 of them.
“It’s used to store spirit runes.”
Li Ziqi casually explained, taking out the spirit runes that she had prepared in advance and placing them in the many pockets.
During the battle, the situation would definitely be very intense. Therefore, she wouldn’t have time to take out spirit runes with ease. This was why Li Ziqi thought of this solution.
At the sight of this scene, Sun Mo raised his brows. He had thought of an idea.
Li Ziqi got up to the arena, applying Composed Calm onto herself.
Gasp!
A series of commotion broke out.
(She’s so young? It’s this kid, right? What was I doing when I was her age? I was catching birds, chasing after dogs, and having lots of fun playing!)
Zhao Lei looked at Li Ziqi, feeling stunned. She then felt a sense of security filling up her chest.
(This will be an easy win. Sigh! After all the effort I put into my preparations, I came into a free win.)
“Please bow!”
The judge instructed.
“Zhao Lei, second level of the Blood Ignition Realm. Please give me your guidance!”
“Li Ziqi, ninth level of the Body Refinement Realm. Please give me your guidance.”
What?
The spectators who were filled with anticipation toward Li Ziqi’s outstanding performance were all stunned.
Wasn’t that too low? Did she report it wrongly?
“You must respect your opponent on the arena. Don’t joke.”
The judge reproached.
“I’m really at the ninth level of the Body Refinement Realm!”
Li Ziqi smiled bitterly. (I don’t wish to be like this either, but what can I do when I’m useless in cultivation?)
To speak the truth, Li Ziqi’s physical capabilities were too weak. If it wasn’t because she received the ancient massaging technique every day to relax her muscles and energy channels, ate good nourishing items and then cultivated the Myriad Manifestations Spirit Wave Art that didn’t require too many actions, she might not have even reached the sixth level of the Body Refinement Realm.
Lu Zhiruo’s aptitude was extremely bad, but even she had managed to reach the Spirit Refinement Realm and opened 12 acupoints under Sun Mo’s nurturing.
“…”
If the judge didn’t have a strong heart and didn’t know about her status, he’d have bellowed out ‘Why is someone of your cultivation level coming to join in the excitement?’.
She wasn’t even good enough as a sparring opponent.
“Hold on. I’ll go report this to the other judges.”
The judge didn’t dare to make the decision himself. Their difference in their cultivation levels was too vast, so how were they supposed to fight?
That Zhao Lei would be able to kill her with a slap!
“This is bad!”
Zhao Lei’s happiness melted like snow. However, she soon accepted it. There was no way that the judges would let her fight a battle in which she was sure to win.
“Please hold on!”
Li Ziqi called out. “I remember that there aren’t any restrictions placed on the examinees’ cultivation level. Therefore, I haven’t violated any rules. Why must this be reported to the other judges?”
The little sunny egg was worried that she’d be disqualified. This meant that all the hard work she had put in previously would have all gone to waste.
“Every few years, there’d be intern teachers with low cultivation levels like you taking the examination, wanting to pull off a brilliant feat. But do you know? Without any exceptions, all of them were crushed.”
The judge chuckled.
Cultivation levels represented one’s absolute strength. It was like a giant bullying a kindergarten child. There was no doubt about the results.
“Judge, I’d just like to ask if there are any rules that forbid me from participating in the battles?”
Li Ziqi asked.
“There aren’t!”
The judge said in a deep voice. To speak the truth, Li Ziqi’s performance had been too outstanding, causing the judge to take pity on her in view of her talent. Otherwise, there was no way that he’d care what would happen to Li Ziqi.
No matter how badly she was beaten up, she wasn’t his student!
“I hope that you can allow me to participate in the competition.” Li Ziqi bowed. “I’ve prepared for a very long time for today!”
“But…”
The judge wanted to continue to persuade her, but after seeing Li Ziqi’s respectful attitude and her determined expression, he didn’t know how to continue. Therefore, he looked toward Sun Mo.
“Are you really willing to see her taking part in the competition?”
The judge frowned.
“I respect my student’s decision.”
Why could Sun Mo do?
The little sunny egg had come all this way. He couldn’t possibly stop her, could he?
“Alright then!”
The judge let out a sigh and looked toward Zhao Lei. “Don’t overdo it, understand?”
“I understand!” Zhao Lei suppressed the smile on her face, feeling a great delight as if she had recovered a lost wallet.
“Alright then, get ready!”
The judge backed off to the edges of the arena.
“Huh? Are they really going to fight?
“It’d be a one-sided battle, right?”
“Maybe she has some kind of trump card?”
The spectators were all curious and watched on with wide-open eyes.
“Sister Zhao, thank you for your kind intentions, but please do your best.”
Li Ziqi pleaded seriously. She then clutched a spirit rune in her hand while concurrently started to chant an incantation.
Zhao Lei had great admiration for Li Ziqi’s strong will, but this matter concerned her career prospects and she could only say sorry.
Clank!
Drawing her longsword from its sheath, Zhao Lei waited for Li Ziqi to make a move first, not wanting to be bullying someone weaker.
“Sight, she’s really a righteous elder sister.”
Li Ziqi sighed.
(Defeating an opponent like this is really saddening. After all, I’d be cutting off her prospects. However, for Teacher’s sake, I’ll put aside my sympathy and go all out.)
“Thank you!”
While feeling thankful, Li Ziqi quickly tore up three spirit runes in succession.
Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!
As electricity flashed, many lightning balls appeared, surrounding Li Ziqi’s hand. In the end, 28 of them appeared, completely protecting Li Ziqi on the inside.
What?
The spectators were all stunned. These lightning balls looked scary.
But this wasn’t all. The young girl was still tearing up spirit runes.
Spirit qi gushed forth and a huge green tortoise appeared, covering her from the top of her head like a yurt.
This was the Black Tortoise Spirit Rune!
It provided a strong defense!
