After the system heard Sun Mo’s declaration, it fell into silence.
Sun Mo glanced at his pocket watch. Even after waiting for three minutes, the system didn’t speak. He couldn’t help but ask, “So can it be done or not? Just tell me first. If it can’t be done, I will change my request!”
“Please pay attention to your wording. There’s nothing the system can’t do!”
The system’s voice was strict, filled with unhappiness at being looked down upon.
“I will have to trouble you then!”
Sun Mo grinned and reminded repeatedly. “Oh, the spirit rune must absolutely be able to summon the genie for females. The genie must not show any gender discrimination.” “Wait a bit!”
After the system spoke, it began to design the spirit rune.
Although the system said to wait a bit, this wait lasted an entire hour, causing Sun Mo to feel a sense of unease. He felt that if things went wrong, he might have wasted a spirit rune design template.
Another half an hour passed before the system notification rang out.
Ding! “Congratulations on obtaining the spirit rune for the ancient massaging technique. Proficiency level: elementary-grade.”
A bronze-colored spirit rune floated silently before Sun Mo. He only took a glance at it and felt his head spinning. (Damn, are you purposely making things difficult for me?)
The spirit rune was one square meter, and a dense mass of runic lines crisscrossed countless times on it. But even so, it exuded the modern kind of beauty.
However, wasn’t this a little too complicated?
Honestly speaking, when Sun Mo glanced over for the first time, he instinctively felt a sense of vexation. It was like when you were taking a math exam and saw the last question…your heart lurched because you knew it was impossible for you to solve it. Even if you could solve it, you knew you would have to spend a lot of time on it.
This was the feeling Sun Mo was experiencing right now.
One must know that Sun Mo’s attainment in spirit runes was high enough for him to be a spirit runes grandmaster. The spirit runes he created would at least be at the fifth-level. However, this spirit rune was able to frustrate him just by him glancing at it. From this, one could tell how difficult this ancient massaging spirit rune was.
“Can’t it be a little more simple?”
Sun Mo frowned.
“Why don’t you think about how difficult your request was? You want to use a spirit rune to display the four great branches of the ancient massaging technique. I could do it because I’m omnipotent. If it’s othe…Eh, I will have spat saliva on your face. You are deliberately making things difficult for me, alright?”
The system grumbled. “If it’s what?”
Sun Mo was astonished. “Could there be other systems?”
“Host’s authority level is too low. No comment!”
The system’s voice turned ice-cold, pushing Sun Mo away.
“How do I upgrade my authority level?”
Sun Mo continued to ask.
“Pass the test to become a great teacher first! Every time you gain an additional star, your authority level will be increased by one.”
The system explained.
“This means that I will be qualified to know after I become a saint?”
Sun Mo was like a helpless person, but he suddenly found a sense of direction. “Hehe!”
The system’s chortle clearly showed its disdain for Sun Mo. “Becoming a saint? Why don’t you become a 1-star great teacher first?”
“Alright, we will talk about this topic in the future.”
Sun Mo inspected the spirit rune. “Can this rune really not be simplified a little?”
“Please. The ancient massaging technique is a divine technique. You want to display the effects of a divine technique through a spirit rune? Do you know how difficult this is? Why don’t you just kill me?” The system complained bitterly, “If you find it too difficult, I will take it back!”
“Don’t!”
Sun Mo stopped it. “How about changing its name? It sounds too low-class calling it the ancient massaging spirit rune. It’s not cool at all.”
“You are the low-class one!” The system spoke in contempt, “However, since the spirit rune is yours, you can name it however you want to!” “In that case, I will call it the Ancient Dragon Capturing Hands Spirit Rune!”
Sun Mo joyfully spoke.
Ding!
“The spirit rune’s name has been corrected. Do you want to learn it?”
The system asked.
“Yes!”
Sun Mo nodded.
Pak!
The spirit rune template was crushed. Motes of bronze-colored light scattered and then flew into Sun Mo’s mind.
The abstract and mysterious knowledge was immediately imprinted into his mind, taking root and germinating. It was like Sun Mo knew this knowledge from birth.
Ding!
“Congratulations on possessing the Ancient Dragon Capturing Hands Spirit Rune Drawing Technique. Proficiency level: elementary-grade!”
Sun Mo kneaded his forehead and opened up the merchant store.
A golden skill book shone brightly and floated before him.
“Complete Focus is a great teacher halo priced at 50,000 favorable impression points. When students are influenced by this halo, be it whether they are willing or not, they will forcibly enter a state of learning. “In this state, the students will not feel fatigued and will even forget about thirst and hunger. In their minds, they will only think about learning. The duration of the effect depends on the great teacher’s strength.”
Sun Mo really wanted this. He had been saving up favorable impression points for the sake of purchasing this great teacher halo.
For students, what was the greatest stumbling block on their path of learning?
It was naturally laziness!
Or more accurately speaking, laziness was a bad habit of everyone. Whether a person was successful in life or not depended on whether a person was able to curb his laziness!
Who didn’t want to sleep and rest in comfort? Who didn’t want to play and pass each day joyfully? But this was impossible. Humans lived for the sake of working hard so they could have a better future!
(Students are lazy and don’t wish to study?)
(That’s alright, I can just cast Complete Focus and they will feel like learning whether they want to or not.) This halo would cause students to forcibly enter a state where they would put in a great effort. Adults living with their parents weren’t a species unique to Japan. China had many of them as well!
Sun Mo had personally seen an adult of over 30 years old staying home to game and watch p*rn every day. They would spend their entire day before their computers and refused to go out to work. They depended on their parents for food and expenses.
If their parents had this great teacher halo and cast it, their children would immediately leave and start to work hard for the sake of maintaining their own livelihoods independently.
Sun Mo felt that this great teacher halo was a divine technique.
Because he knew that for the majority of the time, he would want to sleep until he woke naturally. For his alarm clock, he would set three timings every day because he knew that he would definitely not be able to wake up when the alarm rang for the first time.
With this great teacher halo, he would be able to cast it on himself every day when he woke up. It would instantly cause him to be inspired as he entered a state of complete focus and diligence.
“System, how many favorable impression points do I have now?”
Sun Mo asked. “27,090.”
The system reported quite an impressive number.
As Sun Mo’s fame rose, the number of favorable impression points he received per lesson was gradually increasing as well.
Sun Mo contemplated for a while. It was still better to increase his proficiency level of the Ancient Dragon Capturing Hands Spirit Rune. If not, what was the point of having an elementary-grade rune?
“Get me 3x time emblems, the ten-years version.”
Ding!
“Purchase successful. Items have been sent to the storage. We welcome your next purchase!”
Sun Mo took the time emblems and crushed them.
A layer of green light immediately enveloped Sun Mo.
Ding!
“Congratulations, the proficiency level of your Ancient Dragon Capturing Hands Spirit Rune Drawing Technique has reached the grandmaster-grade. Please continue to work hard.”
Sun Mo closed his eyes and observed the spirit rune in his mind again. Since his proficiency level was now at the grandmaster-grade, it allowed him to have a deeper understanding and comprehension of this spirit rune.
The more he looked, the more he sighed in admiration. The design made by the system was truly marvelous. Every weave of lines intercrossing was backed by solid logic. It really made him feel curious about the origins of the system.
“System, are you an A.I.?”
Sun Mo contemplated. He entered the study and took out a piece of paper, beginning to draw.
Ever since he started learning spirit runes, this was the first time that Sun Mo understood what was known as the word ‘difficult’. Despite his proficiency level being at the grandmaster-grade, it was still very tough and slow when he attempted to draw one!
Only after an entire hour did he finish drawing the ancient dragon capturing hands spirit rune. However, a spirit tornado didn’t manifest.
“Damn, I could have done a full set of massages on two people during this time.”
Sun Mo wanted to cry but no tears were coming out. This was simply finding something difficult for himself. However, he wasn’t someone who would give up easily. If not, the favorable impression points and the spirit rune design template would have been wasted. Hence, other than him giving classes, he would be cooped up in the study and continued practicing to draw this spirit rune. He didn’t even sleep.
On the third morning, Li Ziqi placed down the tray of breakfast and appeared in the study.
“Teacher, you should take a break!” Li Ziqi had a face filled with worry. She had checked and the bed in Sun Mo’s room showed no signs of being touched before. This indicated that Sun Mo had gone without sleep during these few days.
“I’m not tired!”
Li Ziqi hesitated for a while but eventually still chose to rush over and snatch away Sun Mo spirit rune brush.
“Teacher, if you continue working so hard, your body won’t be able to take it!”
Sun Mo frowned as he looked at the now ‘contaminated’ spirit rune. “Teacher!”
Li Ziqi knelt. “Disciple has acted rashly and offended you. However, the league tournament is about to begin. You have to take care of your health!”
Seeing the worried look on the little sunny egg’s face, Sun Mo closed his eyes and rubbed them. Indeed, he was very tired. Also, he seemed to have sunk into bigotry.
In Sun Mo’s bones, there was a streak of perfectionist spirit. He felt that if he wasn’t good enough, he wouldn’t be worthy to be someone’s teacher and wouldn’t be qualified to guide students.
“Hey, get up!”
Sun Mo helped Li Ziqi up. “Let’s go and have a meal together!
“Mn, there’s chicken soup today. I brewed it
myself!”
Li Ziqi hugged Sun Mo’s arm. She was the fondest of this aspect of her teacher. He wasn’t like other personal teachers who would always put on airs, forbidding others to doubt his words or be disobedient to him.
For the majority of the time, Sun Mo was like a gentle elder brother. When being together with him, Li Ziqi would always feel very relaxed!
After the meal, Sun Mo returned to his study and passed a piece of the ancient dragon capturing hands rune to Li Ziqi. “Try it out!”
“Mn!”
Li Ziqi would always perform Sun Mo’s instructions unconditionally. She tore the spirit rune and a vast amount of spirit qi immediately gathered, forming a spirit tornado. After it vanished, a muscular genie shining with golden light appeared. “Genie?”
Li Ziqi was astonished. What spirit rune was this?
Sun Mo touched his chin as he seriously observed. This muscular dude had the same appearance as the genie. However, the genie that manifested when he personally performed the ancient massaging technique was a little different. Its lower body was a wisp of smoke and it could ‘connect’ itself to him, providing spirit qi for Sun Mo. However, this version of the genie wasn’t able to do so.
Li Ziqi lay on the bamboo bed. The muscular genie floated behind her and started to give her a massage.
Sun Mo began to frown. The movements of the genie were so stiff and had no spirituality at all. It was purely massaging according to the prescribed order. It didn’t even know how to adjust the amount of force used.
Hence, the effect was… Li Ziqi would feel comfortable or in pain at times. Naturally, the massage wouldn’t really hurt anyone. But although this was a small flaw, it was intolerable to Sun Mo.