True Martial World - Chapter 87: Peak of the Qi Gatherer Realm

Compared to the footsteps of the other participants, Yi Yun's faltering steps looked more arduous. He looked like he was destined to be much slower than the rest. Most of the heirs of the small tribal clans and the elites of the Tao tribal clan had come within twenty steps of the horn.

There were some who were struggling, trying their best to pass the twenty-step mark.

"This little slave actually began to move. But in such a miserable state, he can't go far." After one glance, Lian Chengyu did not take any further notice. He raised his head to look at the large desolate beast phantom image in the sky. He gritted his teeth and wiped the sweat from his brow as he carried on moving forward.

The closer they were to the Fierce Divine Tiger's horn, the greater the pressure became. For Lian Chengyu, each step became more difficult than the last.

He saw that he was about twelve steps away from the horn, and knew that upon reaching the ten step radius, he would receive an immense increase in terrifying pressure. Without any mental preparation, he would not be able to withstand it and be forced backward by the energy.

Some of the elites of the Tao tribal clan had failed because of this.

And among the people, the only person to successfully enter a ten-step radius was Tao Yunxiao!

Lian Chengyu had to admit that Tao Yunxiao had beaten him both in terms of strength and Spirit.

As a fourteen-year-old child, Tao Yunxiao was absolutely arrogant, but such arrogance was also a manifestation of Spirit!

At that moment, the slowest Yi Yun had approached the twenty-step radius.

"Master, he's about to pass soon," said Lin Xintong. Old Man Su pinched his beard and said, "Passing the kingdom's selection's preliminaries would be nothing even if you were to pass it, but…"

Old Man Su focused his mind and looked carefully at Yi Yun, "This kid is doing something…"

"Oh?" Lin Xintong was stunned.

"His strength is increasing!" Old Man Su said without rhyme or reason, "From the moment he began moving towards the horn, his cultivation level has been slowly increasing. Odd…"

Old Man Su stroked his chin and his incredible eyes could easily see every inch of Yi Yun's body from high in the sky. By observing Yi Yun's body condition, he had realized that Yi Yun's energy within him was undergoing change.

If not for the mysterious Purple Crystal that exceeded Old Man Su's comprehension, he would have been shocked by the uncountable number of light dots that were flocking to Yi Yun like birds following a Phoenix.

Twenty steps!

Yi Yun finally stepped into the twenty-step boundary and passed.

Every person who stepped into the twenty-step demarcation line would catch the attention of the crowd. Yi Yun was no different.

A few members of the warrior preparation camp had already retreated to over a hundred steps away to a "safe distance". Seeing Yi Yun qualify, they were displeased.

This kid could not hold on and each step looked like he would tumble, yet he had qualified!

Heaven was unfair, this punk's Spirit was stronger than all of them!

Buzz——

Buzz——

At that moment, Yi Yun's accumulated energy had reached his body's maximum capacity. The Purple Crystal in his heart would absorb the energy and compress it with each pulsation.

Blood began seeping out of Yi Yun's mouth as his blood vessels began to protrude as if they were about to explode!

Just a bit more, just a tiny bit more!

Yi Yun gritted his teeth and as he was just about to take another step, the Fierce Divine Tiger in the sky stared at every one of them with its large amber eyes!

"Roar——"

The long roar of the Fierce Divine Tiger, which comprised of a large amount of energy from the horn, was like a volcano eruption, surging up into the sky!

"Ah!" Lian Chengyu let out a scream. The sudden change in pressure was too much for him. He felt like he had been rammed in the chest by a jackhammer. With a snort, his body flew backward!

Fierce Divine Tiger got its name because its roar was extremely fearsome, enough to scare the heavens!

This was only the phantom image of the Fierce Divine Tiger. If it was a mature living Fierce Divine Tiger, a roar would be enough to kill an army of a thousand people!

Many of the elites of the Tao tribal clan experienced the same thing as Lian Chengyu. With the sudden burst of the imposing aura, they were not prepared and failed to react in time, resulting in them flying backward.

Those who were already at their limits immediately vomited out blood and could no longer move forward.

As for Tao Yunxiao, his strength and confidence were showcased. Although he had retreated backward and his face was ashen, he only genuflected but he did not collapse!

"Good! Good! Exhilarating! I must conquer you today!" After wiping the blood off his lips, Tao Yunxiao's eyes lit up with excitement. No one was competing with him anymore. The person to defeat was himself.

Just as Tao Yunxiao wanted to stand up and move, he heard a bone crunching sound behind him!

"Ka Ka Ka!"

It was the clear cracking sound of eggshells cracking which was alarming!

"Huh!?" Tao Yunxiao turned his head suddenly to search for the source of the sound.

He saw a youth drenched in sweat as if the youth had been fished out of the water. The youth was crouching on the ground, while his muscles were rippling and shaking!

The trembling of his muscles was not due to the fear caused by the pressure, but the joy of the muscles filled with energy.

The energy within Yi Yun's meridian channels was circulating rapidly. When the Fierce Divine Tiger roared, the pressure had reached its extreme, sending a violent surge of energy through Yi Yun's body, as if there was a high-speed crash into a wall.

A seal on his body's energy was smashed through in that instant!

A whirlpool began to form at Yi Yun's heart and began sucking in innumerable lights dots to it like a black hole.

"Boom!"

With the explosive burst of energy, the rock by Yi Yun's feet shattered. He opened his eyes and his eyes flashed like lightning.

I have finally broken through to the peak of the Qi Gatherer realm!

As such, I'm just one step away from the Purple Blood realm!

"What's the matter with this kid?" From Tao Yunxiao's insight and observation capabilities, he could not tell what had happened to Yi Yun's body.

As for Zhang Tan, who was in the middle of the square, he could feel it. Although he had not reached the point of Opening Heaven's Eyes, he could tell that Yi Yun had broken through.

"This kid actually used the pressure from the Fierce Divine Tiger's roar to break through?" Zhang Tan was surprised but he gave a fascinated look. "Interesting! Interesting! Normal people would find it hard to bear under such tremendous pressure. Each breath would feel as long as a day, and they would not wait to finish the test early. But this kid actually used this chance to give himself an opportunity. Haha, interesting!"

Zhang Tan felt that the child would one day amount to something!

Yi Yun clenched his fists and took in deep breaths. he felt every breath was sweet and refreshing. His saliva was like the water from an oasis, nourishing his body with each swallow.

Reaching the peak of the Qi Gatherer realm that was just one step shy of the Purple Blood realm, he felt the world appear clearer to him. His perception of the environment had increased further.

Not only that, he felt an inexhaustible amount of energy within his body. The rich Heaven Earth Yuan Qi around him was entering all his pores and into his body!

A warrior at the peak of the Qi Gatherer realm could easily absorb the energies of the surroundings. Although they had not reached the realm of avoiding grain, they could still survive even with the lack of food.

"This is the peak of the Qi Gatherer realm, it feels great!" Yi Yun clenched his fists and felt an upheaval of emotions. He turned his head over and he glanced at Lian Chengyu.

Yi Yun and Lian Chengyu were separated by a distance dozens of feet apart as they looked directly at each other!

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 11: Begging for Mercy

In the Fighter 4-dan Pigu realm, one’s muscles, bones and even skin would be tempered, causing one’s strength to soar rapidly!

The difference between it and Zhenqi realm was like heaven to earth!

Yet, the brat in Zhenqi realm was able to cause a Pigu realm expert to vomit blood with just a single slap. Everyone found the sight unbelievable.

[Besides, wasn’t this fellow the last in the sparring during the Teacher Qualification Examination? Why… is he so strong now?]

“It must just be a coincidence, do not fear him!”

Qian Biao howled.

One of the teachers also agreed with what Qian Biao said and charged over.

Just like Li Yuan, he had reached Pigu realm advanced stage. His muscles were just like metal tendons and his skin was just like a metal plate, giving an impression of indestructibility.

“You shall fall to the ground!”

Stepping forward, this teacher lifted his eyebrow and prepared to smack him with his palm.

Pah pah!

The compression of the air resulted in explosive sonic booms.

Facing the other party’s ruthless blows, Zhang Xuan remained calm. With his forefinger and middle finger together, he struck upwards at a slanted angle.

Pada!

The teacher whose body was like a metal plate felt a slight pain at his armpits before his vision went dark and he collapsed onto the floor.

“What?”

In two strikes, two Fighter 4-dan teachers were defeated. The remaining two teachers, including Qian Biao, knew that the teacher whom they had been looking down upon wasn’t as simple as they thought to be!

“Let’s attack together…”

With a loud roar, Qian Biao raised his fist and charged over. However, even before he made a move, Zhang Xuan suddenly appeared right before him. His left-hand grabbed his face while his right-hand poked him lightly.

Putong!

A pain in the abdomen and Qian Biao collapsed to the floor as well.

The moment his body hit the floor, the last teacher whom he teamed up with also fell to the ground and convulsed as though he was epileptic.

“You… How did you know all of our mingmen…”

With a spurt of fresh blood, Qian Biao stared at the fellow in front of him in fright.

He finally understood why even though the other party’s strength was far from them, the results ended in the direct opposite.

Their opponent found the mingmen of their cultivation the moment he struck, how could they have possibly expected this and guard against it?

All cultivators would tend to have a mingmen as their weakness and the moment it was struck, even if the person striking was a child, it would be possible to kill the person!

However, mingmen was the core of a human, thus cultivators would protect it carefully. Even the closest kin would not know where their mingmen is. Although Zhang Xuan did not possess strong cultivation, he seemed to know where their mingmen was and strike at their vitals directly.

How could they resist against someone like that?

Hearing his words of astonishment, Zhang Xuan smiled without explaining.

Of course, it was through the Library of Heaven’s Path.

Not only did the Library of Heaven’s Path allowed him to see through flaws in one’s cultivation techniques, he was also able to see the personal problems of the cultivator and his mingmen. They were all written in detail on it.

Knowing his opponents’ mingmen and the weaknesses in their skills, even if Zhang Xuan transcended from Earth and still wasn’t very familiar with the skills of this foreign world, it was still a simple task to subdue the four of them.

“Since you all chose to accept the bet, you all should have prepared yourself for the consequences of losing the bet. If you all had obediently allowed me to slap you all, we wouldn’t have to go through so much trouble!” Zhang Xuan chuckled.

“Zhang Xuan, you don’t need to get gleeful over it! I don’t know what kind of despicable methods you used to find out where our mingmen is to wound me, but as the least experienced teacher, you attacked other teachers in public! Just by this alone, I am able to send a complaint letter to the academy to have your Teacher Qualification revoked…”

Qian Biao howled.

There were clear levels between teachers in the academy. For lower level teachers to make a move against higher level teachers was an immoral action.

Zhang Xuan was young, and he also scored zero for his Teacher Qualification Examination. Thus, he was considered as one of the least qualified teacher in the academy. For him to wound four people who were more qualified than him, if the academy were to be informed of this incident, there would definitely be an uproar. His Teacher Qualification License being revoked was a small matter, it might be possible for him to be directly expelled!

“Why? Since you can’t defeat me using martial arts, you want to try to the rules to suppress me?” Despite facing such threats, Zhang Xuan didn’t seem to be bothered by it.

“Indeed!” Li Yuan was also thinking about this. Excitement and cruelty flashed across his eyes, “If you obediently kneel before us now and allow us to beat you up, perhaps when our moods lift, we won’t report the incident. Otherwise, prepare to be fired!”

“After being fired from your position, without your identity as a teacher protecting you, no one will say anything even if you are killed!” Another teacher howled.

In Tianxuan Kingdom, the teachers of an academy were of high social status. The moment they lost their job, their social status would also fall correspondingly. If so, the few of them would really dare to make a move to kill him.

“Since you all want to deal with this using rules, alright, I will also deal with this using rules then!” With a tranquil gaze, he walked a few step to Qian Biao and said, “Qian Biao laoshi, you secretly used Elder Chen Ming’s treasure to please your concubine; three months ago, you embezzled from the school’s fund to buy a house for her; a month ago, when you broke Elder Liu Quan’s most beloved porcelain, you pushed the blame onto a student, causing him to be expelled… Do I need to be recounting all of these matters in front of the school leaders?”

“You… you…”

Qian Biao’s eyes narrowed as his plump body twitched uncontrollably. An inconceivable fear surged through his entire body. He looked as though he had seen a ghost and was on the verge of going insane.

He committed all of those without leaving behind any traces, so no one knew about it. Even his colleagues, Li Yuan and the others, weren’t aware, so this fellow… how did he know about it? Furthermore, with such details?

“Li Yuan laoshi, did the female student, whom you robbed of her dignity that resulted in her suicide from three years ago, return as a vengeful spirit to look for you? A few days ago, you grew an acne on your back. Perhaps, this could be her seeking you for revenge!”

Ignoring Qian Biao’s terrified expression, Zhang Xuan turned to look at Li Yuan.

“Ah…”

Hearing those words, Li Yuan hurriedly backed away from fright as his face drained of all color.

Three years ago, he was enchanted by a beautiful female student and he humiliated her, causing her to commit suicide from shame. This incident was very covert and except for him, no one knew about it. Due to his conscience acting up against him, throughout the three years, he often dreamt of the other party coming to reap his life as a vengeful spirit. Furthermore, half a month ago, a giant acne in the shape of a human palm grew on his back, scaring him out of his wits.

After hearing Zhang Xuan recount this event with great details, his entire body trembled uncontrollably out of overwhelming fear.

Putong!

His knees lost his strength and he kneeled onto the floor. A sudden pungent smell wafted around the room. To think a Fighter 4-dan advanced stage expert would be frightened to the point of peeing out in public.

“Du Chun laoshi, you stole your good brother’s business and even poisoned him to death through toxic wine. Although this incident was inconclusive back then, if rumors were to spread out now, do you think that you can continue being a teacher?”

“Bai Lin laoshi, there isn’t any major flaws in your actions. However, due to your interest in antiques, you have accepted many gifts from the students! If I’m not wrong, the ancient jade ring which you wear should be a gift from back then when a student had something to request of you. As for what the request is about and who the student is, do you still need me to go into details?”

Looking at the two remaining teachers, Zhang Xuan stated.

“You… You are a devil!”

“You aren’t human…”

The remaining two teachers were also all frightened out of their wits. This time, their stares were full of fear.

Those things that they have done, although it might not be impeccable, they were confident that no outsider would know of it. Yet, how could this fellow be so aware of it, it was as though he was a specter!

When he defeated them through his skills, they only felt ashamed, but not fear. However, when he revealed all of their secrets, they were truly terrified! It was as though the multiple clothes on them were instantly ripped to shreds, causing them to stand nude in front of everyone else. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

They could already imagine that when the information leak out, whether they could remain as teachers was already a small affair. In the worst case scenario, they might be sent to the Teacher Court and be killed on the spot!

“We were wrong!”

“Zhang Xuan laoshi, as a great man, don’t bear grudges against minor figures like us. Please spare us…”

……

Trembling, they unwillingly begged for mercy.

“I am lazy to bother with what you all did in the past, just stop pissing me off in the future! Also, if you all don’t change and continue committing more vile actions, I won’t mind interfering to ensure that you all would receive punishments proportionate to your crime!”

Zhang Xuan waved his hand in disdain.

Actually, if these people didn’t get on his nerves, he wouldn’t be bothered with them.

The Library of Heaven’s Path was able to peer into all of one’s flaws. Even personality and past actions were counted in its midst, not to mention that this was only a small portion of the entire book.

However, he wasn’t the savior of the world, so no matter what they did in the past and do in the future, as long as they did not cross his path, he wouldn’t be concerned with them!

What these people should have never done was to find trouble with him and make things difficult for him!

[Since you made things difficult for me, I will show you what death looks like!

So that you will never dare to think of doing the same the second time!]

“We don’t dare, we will never dare to…”

“Zhang Xuan laoshi, these are the identity tokens that you wanted. Take as much as you want to…”

……

Hearing that he would not expose their past actions, Qian Biao and the rest heaved a sigh of relief.

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 10: Going Against the Bet

“Alright, since you said that you accepted four students, bring them here now so that can we verify your claim. Or, do you want to just present your face now for us to slap?”

Looking at the teacher who was first from the bottom arrogantly betting with the four of them, Qian Biao smirked coldly.

“Bring the students here?” Zhang Xuan shook his head. “You are all teachers of the logistics branch, it can’t be that you don’t even know the simplest thing! It is easy to verify whether I recruited four students or not. As long as students were to claim ownership of my token, their personal information will automatically appear in the Education Bureau. As long as we verify it with the Education Bureau, the truth would be clear for all to see. After all, the Education Bureau can’t possibly be working with me just to lie to you all!”

As long as a student had verified his relationship with a teacher, the information would be automatically transmitted to the Education Bureau and recorded. No one would be able to fake the results!

“Li Yuan, you take a look! I want to see how this fellow could still act so smug after that!”

After looking at his confident expression and hearing his words, Qian Biao was taken aback for a moment before turning around to command Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was one of the teachers who mocked Zhang Xuan previously. Hearing the orders, he turned around and walked out of the Logistics Branch.

The Education Bureau and Logistics Branch belonged under the Administration Branch. It didn’t take long for Li Yuan to return with a darkened face.

“How was it?”

Looking at the expression on his face, Qian Biao’s heart pounded furiously, ‘ge dong!‘, as an ominous premonition loomed in his head.

“There are… four students who acknowledged him as their teachers! These are their names are personal information…”

Li Yuan face turned strikingly pale.

Even now, he still found the fact hard to believe.

Were those four students blind? Of the many teachers in Hongtian Academy, why did they have to choose a teacher who scored a zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination, a fellow who didn’t know anything!

“Let me look at it! Let’s make sure that he didn’t find some disabled and blind fellows who could be expelled at any time to be his students!”

Qian Biao grabbed the name list.

The other two teachers hurriedly surrounded him.

There were quite a few teachers who would recruit some inadequate students so as to boost the number of students they have. These people could be expelled at any time. Even if they were kept in the academy at the moment, they probably wouldn’t last more than a few months!

In Qian Biao’s opinion, for a person like Zhang Xuan who ranked at the very bottom, even if he successfully managed to recruit students, he could only recruit the worst of the lot, students whom no one wants.

Accepting this kind of students just to fill the numbers didn’t bring the teacher any pride, it brought shame instead!

“Wang Ying… a female? She doesn’t sound like anything by her name. She is probably one of the students who scored the worst in the entrance examination…” Looking at the first name on the name list, Qian Biao snorted in disdain.

Hongtian Academy was not a place anyone could enter. If one wished to enroll, they would first have to undergo the entrance examination. Then, the students would be ranked based on their results and those who met the prerequisites would be accepted.

Those who scored the first few in the entrance examination were hot targets for the more outstanding teachers. Each of them were famous in this academy and among them, there didn’t seem to be a student called Wang Ying.

“Qian laoshi, continue looking on…” Before Qian Biao could finish his words, he heard the trembling voice of one of the teachers beside him.

“Why? Could she be worse than I have described?”

With a cold laugh, Qian Biao continued browsing down the list. With just one look, his eyes narrowed as he read the detailed information on Wang Ying below her name. “Rank 67 of the entrance examination, younger sister of Wang Tao, an Elder’s disciple, and the young mistress of one of the four great families in Tianxuan City!”

“The young mistress of the Wang family? Wang Tao’s younger sister?” Qian Biao gasped in astonishment.

[There are four great families in Tianxuan Kingdom and the Wang family is one of it. The young mistress of such an esteemed family acknowledged the fellow who got a zero for his Teacher Qualification Examination as her teacher? Are you for real?

Shouldn’t a figure like that go for Lu Xun or Wang Chao?]

If her family were the ones who induced fear in him, then what caused him to fall into despair was Wang Ying’s elder brother, Wang Tao!

He was enrolled in the academy two batches prior and after his enrollment, he had always scored within the top ten in the annual comprehensive evaluation. This year, an elder in the academy even set his eyes upon him and accepted him in as his disciple!

[If the older brother has that kind of talent, how bad can the younger sister be?

Having an influential background, talent and a good brother, she still chose to acknowledge this fellow as her teacher?

My eyes must be going blind for it to make such a mistake!]

Qian Biao could hear lightning rumbling around him and he felt on the verge of fainting.

“Look at the ones below…”

Just as he was convulsing in disbelief, another teacher exclaimed with a shaky voice.

“He probably used up all of his luck to be able to admit a Wang Ying in. I don’t believe that he would be capable of getting someone even more incredible…” Clenching his teeth, Qian Biao continued glancing down the list. When his eyes gazed on that name, his entire body convulsed yet again and he felt the sight before him turning dark.

“Zhao Ya? The Zhao Ya who is 7th in the entrance examination? The daughter of the City Lord of Baiyu City?”

Qian Biao felt like tears were going to stream down from his eyes at any point.

He just said that he wouldn’t believe that Zhang Xuan would be able to recruit an even more incredible student and never in his wildest dreams would he imagine that he was able to… Not only so, it was a popular student whom countless teachers would go crazy for!

He had already heard of this Zhao Ya before she even enrolled in this academy. She was the daughter of the City Lord of Baiyu City and not only was she pretty, she was also blessed with great talents.

This kind of talent would be competed over by the teachers who rank at the top. Why would she acknowledge such a trash?

Impossible, this was impossible!

He tried to forcibly suppress his emotions. Glancing downwards, he saw the names, Liu Yang and Zheng Yang. The two may not be very famous, but their rankings were not low in the entrance examinations, scoring within the first hundred!

Especially Zheng Yang, it was said that he specialized in the spear. Due to the limitations of the examination, he wasn’t able to exert his full strength, causing his ranking to fall behind. If he were to be allowed to use his spear, he might be even able to get into the top twenty!

Staring at the names of the four on the list over and over again, Qian Biao and the other teachers felt like they are going mad.

This wasn’t rational!

“You must have used some kind of deception to get them to acknowledge you. Even though they acknowledged you as their teacher, they don’t know who you are. The moment they find out, they would withdraw from your lessons…”

Suddenly, Qian Biao howled with a savage expression.

What rights did a teacher who scored zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination have to recruit such outstanding students! He must have used some kind of despicable method which no one knew of. The moment these methods were revealed, these students would abandon him in anger!

That was to say, while it is true he had four students, these students probably wouldn’t follow him for long. They would withdraw from his lessons in a matter of time.

“It isn’t your problem whether they withdraw from my lessons or not. The bet that we decided on was whether I have students now. Now that you all have verified that I have four students, shouldn’t we be fulfilling the conditions of our bet?”

Couldn’t be bothered with the savage-looking quartet whose minds were all around the place, Zhang Xuan spoke calmly.

Qian Biao, Li Yuan and the other two have expressions on their face that looked as though they were in a funeral.

The content of their bets was indeed on whether he had students now, and not what would happen in the future.

Going by such, they have lost!

However, they were unable to accept the fact that they have lost and that they would be slapped by the worst teacher in the academy!

“Bet? Little fellow, what if we refuse?”

After a slight hesitation, Qian Biao smirked coldly and a ferocious look appeared on his plump face.

“Indeed, even if we go against our words, what can you do? Haha, do you want to beat us up? The fact is, do you have the ability to?”

“The worst teacher in the academy with the worst cultivation. To be so smug in front of us, do you believe that even if we were to beat you up to the point that your head swells up like a pig head, no one would come to stop us?”

“Stop acting cool and perhaps you could stay in the academy a little longer. Otherwise, it wouldn’t take long for you to be kicked out and be shamed!”

Li Yuan and the others immediately understood Qian Biao’s intentions and sneers.

Not only did Zhang Xuan fare the worst in the Teacher Qualification Examination, his cultivation was also subpar among all of the teachers. Even if he wasn’t the very worst, he wasn’t far from it!

That’s precisely the reason why he didn’t have the eye to discern the problems in the training of his students.

Naturally, Qian Biao and the rest wouldn’t be willing to be slapped. Since the other party didn’t possess the strength to enforce the agreement, they intended to go against their words to the end.

“Oh? That is to say, you all don’t intend to follow the rules of the bet?”

Zhang Xuan wasn’t angry. Instead, he smiled at them.

“That’s right! You brat, what do you think you are? To think that you would think of slapping me, do you believe that I will slap you to your death right now?”

Seeing how this fellow didn’t back out and continued acting so smugly, Li Yuan was provoked and immediately sent a slap towards him.

Even before the slap reached him, the pressure from the wind caused one to experience shortness of breath.

Although this Li Yuan was only a teacher of the Logistics Branch, his cultivation wasn’t low. He had already reached the level of a Fighter 4-dan Advanced.

There were 9 dans to a Fighter, 1-dan Juxi, 2-dan Dantian, 3-dan Zhenqi, 4-dan Pigu, 5-dan Dingli, 6-dan Pixue, 7-dan Tongxuan, 8-dan Zongshi, 9-dan Zhizun.

Another new world appeared with every level. The higher you climb, the harder it was for you to progress.

In every level, there were four tiers, primary, intermediate, advanced and pinnacle.

Zhang Xuan was the youngest teacher in the entire academy, being just 19 this year. His cultivation was only at 3-dan Zhenqi Pinnacle!

Li Yuan was a level higher than him!

The difference between each level was very great and almost couldn’t be overcome.

Pah!

Just when everyone thought that Li Yuan would definitely strike on Zhang Xuan’s face, leaving him faint-headed, a sudden crisp sound echoed. Everyone immediately saw a red mark on Li Yuan’s face as fresh blood spurted out of him and a large bunch of his teeth fall to the floor.

“How… How is this possible?”

Everyone stood in their spot dumbfounded and on the verge of going insane.

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 9: Bet

There were many rumors regarding that useless teacher. Before even coming to the academy, they have heard so much about him that callouses were growing on their ears.

They say that he was skilled in nothing and that he had been misguiding disciples!

They say that he didn’t know how to cultivate and he didn’t know martial arts at all…

All in all, all kinds of slander there was!

As long as one was a student, it was best to stay as far away as possible from him. Do not mess with this fellow, otherwise going berserk was just a small matter at hand. At worse, they might even die in his hands!

When both brothers came to the academy to seek a teacher, they have also heard of such rumors. All along, they have been proceeding carefully but never in their dreams would they imagine that this unworldly and incredible expert was that legendary trash!

“Teacher, if you are so incredible, why would…”

Zheng Yang couldn’t resist asking.

Although it had just been a short period of time since they knew each other, he could tell that the teacher before him had immeasurable capabilities. Every single movement of his had an elegant disposition. How could he be a trash?

“There are many people in the world who are envious of the talented. This kind of things means nothing at all!”

Zhang Xuan tilted his eyes upwards 45 degrees as sadness and regret reflected in his eyes, as though lamenting the incomprehension of the world.

The emotions on his face were in place, but in his heart, he was scolding vulgarities.

If it wasn’t for the Library of Heaven’s Path, given how the previous owner of the body was, it was already very incredible of him to not get a negative score. Zero marks… was already a high score, alright!

“I am willing to cleanse teacher of his sullied reputation!”

Seeing his teacher’s ‘depression’ and ‘incomprehension of the world’, Zheng Yang’s heart was moved and he couldn’t help but declare so.

“It’s okay, teacher’s reputation doesn’t matter. As long as you train hard, I would be satisfied. Take the identity token to claim your bedding. Come to class punctually tomorrow, make sure to not be late!”

After Zhang Xuan’s show of acting cool, he seemed to have fully captured the worship of the student. Zheng Yang nodded his head.

“Yes!”

Zheng Yang pulled Mo Xiao, who was standing beside him, and the both of them walked out.

“Four students!”

Seeing the two of them leave, excitement flashed across Zhang Xuan’s eyes.

The dazed young lady Wang Ying, the student who he won from a bet Liu Yang, the arrogant young mistress Zhao Ya and the spear genius Zheng Yang.

Initially, he thought that today would be just like how it was before, he would be unable to recruit a single student and the day would end in a failure. He didn’t expect that he would manage to recruit four of them!

“Without identity token, even if students were to come, I would be unable to admit new students. I better make use of this free time to get a few more tokens!”

After getting emotional over recruiting four students did Zhang Xuan realize that he didn’t have any more tokens on him.

This item was given out by the academy. Due to his terrible reputation, the teacher in charge of distributing the tokens only gave him four. He even thought that Zhang Xuan would be unable to use all of it. If he didn’t claim more of it, even if new students were to come, they would be unable to acknowledge him!

This token contained the information of the teacher. Once a student claimed ownership of the token by dripping a blood drop on it, it meant that they acknowledged the teacher as their mentor. On the other hand, if they would like to withdraw from the lesson, the teacher only had drip a blood drop on it and the information of the student would be erased.

Standing up, he walked out of the classroom.

The sun outside shone brightly and a heat wave assaulted through the shade of the tree, causing people to sweat profusely.

Freshmen and older students were walking on the pavements of the academy and excitement could be seen on their faces.

Coming into a new environment and acknowledging a teacher, the freshmen were overjoyed. On the other hand, upon thinking of the arrival of new students for them to play with, the older students were full of smiles as well.

While walking along the pavement, a large infrastructure appeared before Zhang Xuan. There were two gigantic words hanging on a board at the center of the building, ‘Logistics Building’!”

The tokens that represented the identity of a teacher were claimed from this building.

“Yo, who is this? Isn’t this our ‘star teacher’? For you to not be recruiting students in the classroom to visit me, what do you want? Oh, let me guess, could it be that you used none of the identity tokens, so you are here to return them!”

Right after walking in, he heard a sarcastic voice sounding out.

Zhang Xuan raised his head and a plump man whose face was full of fats came into view.

This fellow at least weighed 300 to 400 kilogram. From afar, he looked like a giant ball of meat.

“Qian Biao!” A name floated from the depths of his memories.

This Qian Biao was one of the teachers in charge of logistics. He was a very spiteful man who always liked to eat into the spare change of others. As the teacher on the lowest level, Zhang Xuan’s salary had been minute and the resources he could claim had always been minimal. Thus, he had never been respected by him.

Due to this affair, he offended him. The moment they met, all kinds of sarcasm and insults would come flying out.

Previously, Zhang Xuan being given four identity tokens under the premise that he wouldn’t finish it was the work of this man.

“I have finished using my identity tokens. I would like to claim a few more of them!” Couldn’t be bothered with the other party, Zhang Xuan spoke calmly.

“Finished using it?” Qian Biao stunned for a moment before howling in laughter. “Haha, everyone, come and take a look. This teacher who is first from the bottom comes here to brag that he has used up all of his identity tokens! Haha, this is the funniest joke I have heard in the entire world…”

“I seem to recall that you gave him four identity tokens back then! Finished it? Him? What a joke!”

“The teacher who is second from the bottom, Sun Yan laoshi is said to only have one student currently. This fellow who made history by scoring zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination could accept a single student? What are you trying to brag about?”

“Throw him out. Anyway, after today, he will be fired…”

……

Upon hearing Qian Biao’s shouting, the few teachers in the logistics branch came rushing over. They stared at Zhang Xuan with looks of disdain.

[For a teacher who is at the very bottom and scored zero for the Teacher Qualification Examination, why the hell is he trying to show off?

Students would run the instant they hear your name. For them to acknowledge you… what kind of joke is this?]

“Oh? You said that I am bragging? Fine, why don’t we bet on it?” Zhang Xuan didn’t get mad. Instead, he smiled.

“Bet? Fine, since you want to lose so badly, I will fulfill your wish. Just that, given how poor you are, I doubt that there is anything you could offer!” Qian Biao didn’t expect this fellow who he had always looked down on would challenge his authority face on by betting with him. He snickered in disdain.

“It isn’t your problem whether I am poor or not. Since I proposed the bet, of course, I will take out something I am willing to bet on!” Zhang Xuan widened his eyes.

“Oh? You are able to take something out? Given your background, the things you take out would probably just be some rotten metal or similar shit-like things. You think that grandfather, I, would bet with you? I can’t afford to lose my reputation betting with you!” Qian Biao stated contemptuously.

Zhang Xuan was the lowest level teacher in the entire academy, not to mention first from the bottom. Not mentioning the fact how he was unable to get a single student, he didn’t even have bonuses or so. If one must point out the poorest teacher in the entire academy, it would definitely be him.

He lived thriftily even in his daily life, not to mention resources for cultivation!

“Hehe!” Zhang Xuan wasn’t bothered by his insults at all. He chuckled and continued, “The thing I would like to bet isn’t a treasure or an object. It is… face! If you were to lose, I will slap you three times in front of everyone else! If I were to lose, I will let you slap me three times! Do you dare to bet with me?”

“Slapping face?”

He didn’t expect the other party would bet on this. Qian Biao couldn’t help but hesitate over it.

To be slapped by the academy’s worst teacher, if he were to lose, he wouldn’t even feel like living on. He would be so embarrassed that he would want to die.

“How, do you dare or not?” Zhang Xuan smiled at him.

“Qian Biao, what are you scared of? It’s not like you don’t know his standards!”

“Can a teacher who scored a zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination get a single student? Isn’t he just dreaming!”

“He is just scaring you. If he is able to recruit them, then won’t I have a few hundreds of students by now? Even if the students of this year were to be blind, they wouldn’t be blind to such an extent!”

……

The other teachers of the logistics branch smirked.

None of them believed that Zhang Xuan would be able to recruit students.

This was as difficult as a pig climbing up a tree.

“Fine, I agree!” Finding everyone’s words logical, he nodded his head in agreement.

“Since the rest of you are cheering so happily, would you all like to make a bet along with me? With the same terms as him?”

Seeing him agree, Zhang Xuan looked towards the other three teachers of the logistics branch.

The previous three who were so disparaging a moment ago didn’t mind adding to the bet since one of them had already agreed to it.

“Why? Do you find your face itchy that you would like us to slap a few more times? Fine, I’m in!” A teacher declared haughtily.

“I’m also in!”

“Who’s afraid of you! To be bragging in front of us despite scoring a zero, you are looking for death!”

The three of them nodded their head with a smirk on their faces.

In their opinion, Zhang Xuan was bound to lose this bet. Today, he would definitely be slapped!

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 8: I Am That Trash

“Un?”

Zheng Yang stared blankly before his face turned red and darkened.

“I once had a crush on a girl. Then… I was humiliated by her. But this has nothing to do with teacher!”

He once had a crush on a girl and he had once confessed to her excitedly. However, he was humiliated heartlessly by the other party and he felt ashamed of it. He had kept this incident a secret such that not even Mo Xiao was aware of it. How did this teacher know of this?

“Is that for real? Zheng Yang, why didn’t you tell me that you got humiliated by someone? Who is it?” Hearing him admit to it, Mo Xiao was surprised and hurriedly asked him.

“I will tell you about it later!” Zheng Yang shook his head, refusing to say any more about it here. He looked at the teacher before him and said, “Teacher, this is my private affair. I have no idea how you could have knew this, but this should have nothing to do with guiding me in the way of the spear!”

“Nothing to do with it?” Zhang Xuan shook his head. “This has everything to do with it!”

“Everything to do with it?” Zheng Yang was a little doubtful of his words.

What did a broken heart have to do with Zhang Xuan guiding him?

“Your spear is decisive and powerful. This is just like your personality. No matter what you do, you always charge straight ahead without thinking about the consequences! This should have been a good thing. Warriors should be like that, charging ahead without concerning themselves with minor things!” Zhang Xuan looked at Zheng Yang calmly. “However, it is a pity that after your emotional experience, fear started to sprout within you. You fear rejection and you fear humiliation! There is hesitation in your spear. With that additional hesitation, your strength greatly reduces!”

“You…. You… You could see all these from my spear? You could tell that I was once heartbroken? You could tell my personality?”

Zheng Yang was shocked.

The words of the other party weren’t wrong. Rather, they were too correct, there wasn’t even a single error in it.

His personality was straightforward and in this past, this allowed him to charge ahead bravely without fear. Yet, due to that emotional experience, he started to become timid and hesitant in everything he did.

For him to be capable of telling all these through his spear, even his heartbreak, what kind of eyes did he possess?

When did such an impressive teacher appear in the academy?

He felt as though he is going crazy.

Previously, when he visited the number 1 spear teacher Wang Chao to request for him to accept him as a student, Wang Chao only told him that he had yet to grasp the crux of the way of the spear. As for the reason behind it, he couldn’t really tell. However, with just a single look, the man before him could tell that he had a history of heartbreak and that his skills stagnated due to the emotional trauma from it. Could this teacher’s ability to discern… be stronger than Wang Chao?

“This is normal!” Zhang Xuan gestured with his hand, a look of an expert appearing on his face. “The spear is a reflection of one’s heart. If one’s heart isn’t clear, the skills they display through it would be dark! Even though your skills with the spear is coherent, it feels as though there is something shrouding it, something that you are unable to make sense of, something that you are unable to sever from you. With just one look, I can tell that it is definitely a crush!”

“This…”

This time, not only did Zheng Yang’s face crumbles, even the mouth of Mo Xiao beside him was opened so wide that an egg could soon be stuffed inside it.

[What the heck, are you for real?

Just by looking at one’s skill with the spears, you can tell that emotions are shrouding it, and the unable to make sense of and unable to sever… Are these still the eyes of a human?]

Mo Xiao and Zheng Yang stared at one another, disbelief appearing in both of their eyes.

“Teacher, can you help me take a look as well?”

After the shock, Mo Xiao stepped forward with a look of desire on his face. Regardless of whether Zhang Xuan was agreeable or not, the spear in his hands trembled and he began to execute his moves.

He executed the same moves as Zheng Yang, just that they were stronger and much more fluid.

Just by his skills with the spear itself, he was indeed better than Zheng Yang. It was no wonder that Wang Chao laoshi chose him and not Zheng Yang.

Hu!

After a gust of wind, Mo Xiao retracted his spear and stood up straight.

When his spear moved, he was like an unparalleled frenzied demon. When his strength overflowed, even gods and spirits dared not approach. When his spear retracted, he stood quietly just like a statue.

With a movement of his hands and feet, his disposition changed.

Although he couldn’t be considered to be strong, being at Fighter One-dan, he could be considered to have walked quite a distance in the way of the spear.

“You have a weak stomach. If I am not wrong, you even suffered diarrhea today!”

Zhang Xuan’s serene gaze turned towards him.

“Ah?” A shudder passed through Mo Xiao. “Teacher, you could tell that I had diarrhea from my spear?”

Just like what the other party said, his stomach wasn’t doing well today. He already started having diarrhea from yesterday. Today, it got even worse and his body felt weak.

However, this didn’t really affect him much. With a spear in his hand, he still managed to execute his skills at top form such that even Wang Chao laoshi couldn’t stop praising him. Yet, the man before him could see through it in an instant…

Was that for real?

To be able to tell one’s heartbreak and diarrhea just from his spear, what were his eyes made of?

“You want me to guide you? If you want, then acknowledge me as your master!”

Ignoring the shock of the two, Zhang Xuan looked at them calmly.

To be able to tell the condition of them both so simply, the both of them were about to go mad from shock. Yet, it didn’t seem like anything much to him.

The truth was the same as well. When the both of them executed their skills, the Library of Heaven’s Path automatically compiled a book on them both and the heartbreak and diarrhea naturally appeared in the list of their flaws. Zhang Xuan only had to take a look and read them out loud. There wasn’t any difficulty to it at all.

“Disciple Zheng Yang is willing to acknowledge teacher as my mentor!”

Without any hesitation, Zheng Yang immediately kneeled on my floor.

He was truly impressed by Zhang Xuan.

With this kind of eye for discernment, how could his guidance be ordinary?

“Un!” Seeing how Zheng Yang acknowledged him as his master just after he pointed out a flaw of his even before he started guiding him, Zhang Xuan nodded his head satisfactorily. He retrieved a jade token representing his new identity to him and said, “Verify our relationship!”

“Yes!” Without any delay, Zheng Yang immediately dripped blood on it to verify his ownership of the token.

Very quickly, the procedures were completed.

“Since you are now my student, let me give you a suggestion. If you want to be respected in a relationship, you must first hold sufficient strength. Without strength, how could the other party think of you as an equal? Thus, the first thing you have to do is not to be depressed but to open up your mind and focus on your training. You must let the other party know how foolish they were to reject you! You must use your strength to prove to them…” At this point, Zhang Xuan suddenly recalled a very show off book from his previous life and smiled faintly, “The river reverses its flow after thirty years, do not bully the youths just because they are poor!”

“Do not bully the youths just because they are poor?”

Hearing those words, Zheng Yang felt a burning sensation in his chest. He felt so agitated that his face turned entirely red and his body trembled uncontrollably.

As a person born in this world, how could Zheng Yang possibly have heard of those words!

In that instant, his battle will seemed to have been lit.

The depressed emotions he welled up from his heartbreak seemed to shine brightly like diamonds.

“Try executing your skills again!”

Seeing how he had broken out of his shell, Zhang Xuan gestured.

“Alright!”

Without saying anything, with the spear in his hands, Zheng Yang’s disposition changed in an instant. It was completely different from his disposition previously.

Hong hong hong hong!

His spear swept about as his aura rumbled. Powerful strength was exerted through the spear and scattered into the surrounding, shaking the entire room.

Peng!

At the end of his spear routine, he sent a horizontal stab towards the rock pillar.

A deafening reverberation and a line of digits appeared on it.

235!

To think it would be 235kg!

Previously, when he used his full strength, it was only 110. With just a pointer, his strength increased by more than a single fold!

“Thank you, teacher!”

Seeing the numbers, the doubts in Zheng Yang vanished. He kneeled onto the floor. At this moment, he was truly convinced in the capabilities of the teacher before him.

“Incredible!”

Looking at the numbers on the rock pillar, Mo Xiao couldn’t help but turn red as his entire body trembled.

He was delighted over finding a good teacher for his good brother. Yet, he felt disappointed at the same time.

Previously, when Wang Chao guided him, his strength only increased by 30%.

Yet, the teacher before him enhanced Zheng Yang’s strength by more than a fold!

If only he had known that this nameless teacher was that formidable, he wouldn’t have wasted his effort to look for Wang Chao and would have immediately acknowledged him as his teacher.

At this moment, he felt a little regretful.

However, doubt sprouted in his mind. How could such a formidable spear teacher remain unknown?

He couldn’t resist asking, “Teacher, since you have accepted Zheng Yang as your student, could we have the honor of knowing your name…”

Hearing his words, Zheng Yang looked over as well.

He was completely impressed by this teacher, but at this moment, he realised that he didn’t even know his name!

“I am Zhang Xuan!” Zhang Xuan replied calmly.

“Zhang Xuan? That name sounds familiar…”

Hearing that name, Mo Xiao pondered for a moment. Then, something came to mind and his eyes narrowed. His lips quivered uncontrollably as he asked, “I seem to recall… The trash teacher who scored zero points for his Teacher Qualification Examination is also called Zhang Xuan. It seems that teacher, you… have the same name as him!”

“Un, I am that trash!”

Zhang Xuan nodded his head.

“Ah…”

Zheng Yang and Mo Xiao were petrified.

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 7: You Were Dumped Before

“What did I do?”

Upon seeing at the other party seethe with rage, Zhang Xuan was speechless.

Wasn’t this misunderstanding getting a little out of hand!

However, he could understand that it was natural for others to think that way. After all, without guiding her cultivation, he was able to make their young mistress willingly acknowledge him as her master and she even blushed upon bringing up the subject. What’s more, the Record Crystal had been shattered. That’s obvious an act of evidence destroying…

All of these showed that there’s something amiss with the situation.

Zhang Xuan was immediately labeled as a weird uncle, a sex maniac, a shameless teacher and other similar titles.

“Uncle Yao, what are you thinking? If you are going to continue behaving like this, I will never bother with you again!”

Looking at the furious Yao Han and hearing his words, how could she not know what was going through his mind? Her face immediately darkened as she exclaimed.

After all, she was a young lady. This kind of rumors would ruin her reputation.

“Young mistress…”

Interrupted by Zhao Ya, Yao Han could only withdraw his aura.

“Alright, follow me to collect my bedding. Don’t hold me up here, I still have lessons tomorrow.” Zhao Ya harrumphed and walked out of the room.

She was unwilling to talk about her illness. If she were to reveal it to him, he would definitely pressure her to talk about it. Under this kind of situation, how could she possibly talk about it?

Thus, unable to come up any other excuses, she could only claim to have willingly acknowledged Zhang Xuan as her teacher.

“Hmph!”

After seeing the young mistress turning around to leave the room, Yao Han glanced at Zhang Xuan coldly with a glint in his eye, seeming to be contemplating over something. Then, with a fling of his arm, he turned around and walked out.

At this moment, the intention to kill that young man lingered in his mind. If they weren’t in the academy and the young mistress didn’t stop him, he would have long made his move.

“Who did I offend this time…”

Looking at the Yao Han’s cold gaze, Zhang Xuan felt perplexed.

[I only accepted a student, do you have to go this far…

He made it seem as though I am an unpardonable criminal who is the source of all evil in this world.]

The problem was that… he didn’t do anything at all!

“Forget it, there is still time left today. Let’s see if I can recruit a few more students! The more students under my tutelage, the more resources I will receive!”

There were many different levels to the teachers of Hongtian Academy. Every year, an assessment of the teachers would be conducted based on the conditions of their students. The number of the students they have, the pace of their improvement, their results in all kinds of competitions… The teachers were reliant on these to be promoted.

The higher their level, the resources a teacher would get would increase exponentially. Naturally, the same goes for the resources their student would receive as well.

This was probably what it meant by the teacher and the students advancing as one.

Right now, he had only accepted three students. He might be able to retain his position as a teacher, but if one were to talk about qualifications, he was still the last in the entire school!

In order for him to advance, he could only continue recruiting more students.

……………………………………

“Zhang Yang, don’t be too disappointed! Wang Chao laoshi was the only one who rejected you, you don’t have to be so depressed!”

Two youths were walking on the pavement in the academy. The youth in front was currently trying to console the one behind.

“Mo Xiao, you were accepted, of course you don’t feel anything saying those words. How about you try getting rejected!” Zheng Yang frowned, unhappy at his friend’s words of consolation.

“Cough cough, don’t say that. There are still a lot of excellent teachers in the academy, there isn’t a need for you to choose Wang Chao laoshi out of them all!”

The youth in front scratched his head in embarrassment.

“There’s no need to choose him? It is easy for you to say. Since young, we have been training in the way of the spear and the spear has already become a part of our body. It is something we are unable to discard anymore. The best teacher in the art of the spear in Hongtian Academy is Wang Chao laoshi. Now that you were accepted by him while I was rejected, is it possible for me to not get depressed?”

Zheng Yang raged.

“That…” Mo Xiao didn’t know how he should reply to such a question.

In Hongtian Academy, different teachers have different specialization. Some of them specialized in fists while some of them specialized in sabers… Wang Chao laoshi was well-known for his capability in imparting the way of the spear. He was considered as one of the better teachers even considering the entire academy.

The both of them joined the examinations together in a hope to become his disciples. However, one of them passed while the other one failed. It is natural that the one who failed would feel gloomy.

“Hmm, there is a classroom there. How about we take a look!”

Unsure about how he should resolve this awkward situation, Mo Xiao suddenly saw a classroom not too far away and pointed towards it.

“I’m not going…” Zheng Yang shook his head.

“Let’s go and take a look. What if this teacher is also skilled in imparting the way of the spear as well?” Mo Xiao consoled. “Anyway, you have nothing to lose just by visiting it!”

“Alright!” Although he was unwilling, Zheng Yang still followed Mo Xiao into the room.

The person inside the room was Zhang Xuan. He was just about to go outside to recruit some fresh blood when he saw two youths walking in.

“Nice to meet you, teacher!” Mo Xiao bowed.

“Un!” Zhang Xuan widened his eyes slightly. “Are you here to look for a teacher?”

“Yes, this is my brother. He is extremely formidable, especially with his spear. In the younger generation, there are few who can compete against him. I hope that teacher can guide him!” Mo Xiao said hurriedly.

“Mo Xiao…” Zheng Yang pulled the sleeves of his good brother.

“What is it?” Mo Xiao asked in confusion.

“Look at the surroundings…”

Zheng Yang frowned.

This classroom was extremely narrow. From the looks of it, it could only fit ten people or so. It was obviously a small classroom.

The size of the classroom was representative of the capability of the teacher. The teachers who were ranked in the top few have classrooms the size of a field, allowing more than hundreds of students to cultivate and train at the same time. In comparison to that, this classroom was just like the size of a palm. The teacher of this classroom was probably only of average standard.

“It’s indeed quite small…” Mo Xiao noticed the size of the room and his heart beats, ‘ge deng!‘.

Initially, he wanted to help soothe the stifled emotions in his best friend’s heart. Yet, unwittingly, he came to this kind of location. If the teacher’s standard was really subpar, not only would the stifled emotions not disappear, it might even weigh heavier on his heart.

“Demonstrate your ability with the spear!”

Seemingly oblivious to the secret conversation taking place between the two, Zhang Xuan said calmly.

“Since we came here, we might as well have this teacher guide you for a bit, since there’s nothing to lose. If his standard is really bad, we can just refuse to acknowledge him and leave!” Seeing the look of hesitation on Zheng Yang’s face, Mo Xiao persuaded him.

“Un!” Zheng Yang nodded his head.

Other than some exceptionally popular teacher that most students set their eyes on, when most teachers chose their own students, their students were allowed to examine the capabilities of the teachers as well.

After thinking it through, Zheng Yang immediately retrieved the spear from his back and fixed the multiple parts together.

Weng!

With the long spear in his hands, Zheng Yang’s expression changed instantly, just like the intimidating glint of the sharp edge of an unsheathed blade.

Sou sou sou sou!

The long spear stabbed forward and a sonic wave boomed. The entire room sounded as though it was being torn apart and a strong gust of wind whipped up in the surroundings.

Experts were identifiable the moment they made a move. This Zheng Yang, although he might not be considered too strong, but his prowess with the spear was indeed not quite bad.

Hu!

The tip of his spear tremored and struck the rock pillar not too far away. A light reverberation lingered in the air and numbers appeared on the pillar.

“110!”

To think it would be more than a hundred kilograms!

Just by the destructive prowess itself, even a 1-dan Fighter Juxi realm pinnacle would be unable to take the blow!

“Teacher, please offer me some pointers!”

With his spear held vertically beside him, Zheng Yang stood upright without a hint of nervousness or tiredness as he looked at Zhang Xuan impassively.

Truthfully, just by the size of the classroom, he didn’t hold high expectations for this teacher. He thought that his standard would at most be of average.

As though proving his point, the teacher before him squinted his eye. It was difficult to fathom what he might be thinking. He only slowly opened his eyes after hearing his words. He turned to look at him with a faint hint of a smile on his lips.

“You are emotionally wounded? That is… you have been dumped before?”

After thinking it through, Zheng Yang immediately retrieves the spear from his back and fixes the multiple parts together.

TL: In case you find this part weird, it is probably like 3 parts to the spear (a spear is quite long. It tends to be taller than a human, so it is hard to carry around)

Library of Heaven's Path - Chapter 6: What Did You Do To Our Young Mistress

Finishing what has to be done, Zhao Ya was ready to see the fellow before her make an embarrassment out of himself.

Suddenly, an idea came to mind and a Record Crystal appeared in her sleeves.

Record Crystal, it was an object capable of recording video and audio in its surrounding. She intended to use it as ‘evidence’ of Zhang Xuan’s wrongdoing! This way, he would be unable to talk his way out of it when she spread word about his crime.

“Let’s see how you would be humiliated then. To think that you would dream of competing with Lu Xun laoshi, dream on!”

Upon the thought that she would be able to grab hold of ‘evidence’ on him soon to punish him and vent her frustration, Zhao Ya’s eyes glittered and she almost failed to control her laughter. Suppressing her happiness, just as she was waiting to see what nonsense the other party would come up with, a pair of clear eyes reminiscent of lanterns appeared right in front of her.

“AH…”

Zhao Ya leapt in shock and backed away hurriedly. Only then did she realize that it was Zhang Xuan laoshi. She grinded her teeth in anger and exclaimed, “What are you doing?”

“Relax, I am just taking a look!” With his hands behind him, he circled around Zhao Ya, shaking his head. Then, he suddenly stopped before Zhao Ya with less than one chi [1] between them.

She could feel the warmth from his body. Zhao Ya’s face blushed. From young, there hadn’t been a single man who had been in such proximity with her. Her heart beat furiously. Then, she head an unhurried voice saying, “You are sick!”

Hearing those words, Zhao Ya almost erupted and fainted on the spot. “You are the one that is sick, your entire family is sick…”

She was on the verge of going crazy.

What’s wrong with this fellow’s brain. She executed a set of martial arts for him to point out the flaws in them. Instead, this fellow said that she was sick. How could such a vile person exist in the world!

“Why did you start hurling insults?” Zhang Xuan frowned. Soon, he understood what other meanings his words could hold and smiled faintly, “I am saying that your body is sick, I am not insulting you!”

“I am not sick!” Zhao Ya humphed coldly. “In my opinion, you are the one who is sick! Something is wrong with your brain!”

She was as strong as an ox. A single fist of hers had a strength of more than 100kg behind it. She was very clear on the fact whether she was sick or not.

“Don’t refute my words first. Do you often feel a vague pain in your danzhong [2] and jujue [3] acupoint? Especially on the night of a full moon, when the humid wind blows, a faint red tinge will appear on your body and you will like…” At this point, Zhang Xuan hesitated for a moment, as though it was difficult to verbalize it out. He continues, “No matter how you train, you feel like your heart won’t calm down?”

“How… How did you know?”

The furious Zhao Ya had intended to refute every word that the other party would say directly, but after hearing those words, her face turned red and she became stupefied.

It wasn’t that the words he said were incorrect, but they were simply… too correct!

Recently during training, she would feel a faint pain in her danzhong and jujue, although she would just bear it since the pain wasn’t severe. The crux of the problem was that… On the night of a full moon, when the cold wind blows, her body would turn weird. A strong desire would surge through her body as it turned red. Unable to suppress her raging emotions, she would find herself craving the embrace of a man…

She was just a sixteen to seventeen year old young lady who had yet to undergo the matrimony of human bodies, so she was unable to tell what that emotion was. She only felt embarrassed by it. Initially, she thought that she could just bear with it and it would pass. However, these feelings became more and more intense. As her body developed and her chest became more and more fleshed out, she felt those tendencies getting more and more uncontrollable.

In the past, she could deal with it with just two circulations of her cultivation technique. But now, even ten times wasn’t enough for the urges to subside. She could only halt with her training until the sun rises.

As this affair was really too bizarre, she didn’t dare to tell anyone about it. Even her best friends and her City Lord father were kept in the dark!

Despite it being a matter no one knew about… How did this fellow find out about it?

It was also due to her being unable to bear it that she came to the academy in a hope to find the crux of the problem and solve it once and for all.

“I am a teacher. I could tell from the punch routine you executed just now!” Zhang Xuan replied calmly.

Of course, it was impossible to tell this much through looking at one’s punch routine. The Library of Heaven’s Path was an extraordinary treasure. As long as she possessed flaws, even if these flaws have nothing to do with her skills, it would be recorded in it.

Exactly because he had seen her problems, that’s why Zhang Xuan had a bizarre look on his face.

“Is there… a solution?”

Zhao Ya clenched her jaws and asked with a reddened face.

After she was so resolute to expose the fraud of the party, she ended up having her problems exposed by him in an instant. It made her feel embarrassed.

“There is a method to resolving it. Come to class tomorrow and I will explain it to you!”

Zhang Xuan gestured with his hands.

“Really?”

Zhao Ya’s eyes lit up in disbelief.

She was very aware of the problems in her body. Due to her inability to control those raging desires, it caused her became irritable and impatient in everything she does. Initially, she thought she could only conceal this matter in her heart and that there was no way to solve this problem. However, never would she ever dream that this teacher who was the last in the entire academy would be able to uncover it in just a few words.

Furthermore… he had a solution to treat it!

“If you don’t trust me, you can look for other teachers in the academy!” Zhang Xuan flung his hand with an indifferent expression, the look of an expert.

“No, no… Teacher, you are the only one!” Zhao Ya hurriedly nodded her head.

It hadn’t been just a day or two since the start of her suffering. Countless physicians in the city couldn’t tell what was wrong with her. Even her father, City Lord Zhao wasn’t able to tell that there was something amiss with her. Yet, this Zhang Xuan laoshi could tell with just one look. Just comparing their eyes of discernment, none of these people could compete with him!

That was exactly the reason why she thought that he would have a way to treat her problem.

“That Record Crystal, do you still intend to keep it?”

Zhang Xuan pointed at her sleeves.

“Ah….”

Zhao Ya was horrified. Only now did she recall the Record Crystal she intentionally left behind so as to get evidence on him. If the contents of the conversation were to leak out, how could she continue to walk with her head held up high?

“I don’t, I don’t…”

Exerting some force with her palm, ‘kacha‘, the Record Crystal was reduced to dirt.

After destroying the crystal, Zhao Ya glanced at Zhang laoshi once again. This time, his face didn’t look so hateful. Rather, it was an enigmatic face.

Despite concealing the Record Crystal so discreetly, she still got caught. Not to mention, the problems with her body were exposed by him. How could someone of such capabilities score a zero on the Teacher Qualification Examination?

“He must be indifferent to fame and reputation, apathetic to the views of outsiders! I have heard that experts are all like that…”

When this idea appeared in her head, Zhang Xuan’s position in her heart evolved from a swindler to one of the top experts in the world.

“Take your identity token to claim your bedding and your books. Also, look for your lodging while you’re at it. We shall start lessons punctually tomorrow…”

Seeing that another student had been reeled, Zhang Xuan waved his hand as he passed down instruction to her. Suddenly, a loud roar could be heard from the outside and in a flash, a human figure rushed in.

Hu!

The person who entered was a middle-aged man. He carried a ferocious aura with him as he entered into the classroom. From a single look, one can tell that he wasn’t weak.

“Young mistress!”

After entering the door, the middle-aged man stopped and bowed to Zhao Ya.

“Uncle Yao, why are you here?”

Zhao Ya stared at him blankly.

This wasn’t anyone else but the butler from Baiyu City whom her two friends went to invite, Yao Han!

Just as he was about to leave after sending Zhao Ya to the academy, her two friends rushed over to inform him that the young mistress wanted to acknowledge the fellow who scored a zero on the Teacher Qualification Examination as her teacher and that he even ordered the young mistress to scrub the toilet bowls…

Hearing those words, butler Yao Han almost exploded on the spot.

Young mistress, the apple of the eye of the City Lord! At home, no one dared to order her around. To dare to get her to sweep the floor and scrub the toilet bowls… He was too audacious!

If this fellow was one of the more reputable teachers in the academy, he could drop the matter since they tend to be pickier. The crux of the problem was that… This fellow was the last in the Teacher Qualification Examination, not to mention he even drove a person berserk…

How could the young mistress study under someone like that?

Even in the city, the people who guided her, even if casually, were much stronger than this person over here!

“Young Mistress, are you…” Staring coldly at Zhang Xuan, Yao Han quickly glanced at the young mistress.

“I have already acknowledged Zhang laoshi as my teacher!” Zhao Ya declared.

Running here with his full strength, he didn’t think that he would still be a step too slow. Yao Han’s face darkened as he pulled Zhao Ya to his back. He stared at Zhang Xuan coldly, “Quickly withdraw our young mistress from your tutelage! Then, apologize! Otherwise, when I blow this matter up, everyone will know that you bewitched an underage lady as a teacher to get her to come under your tutelage!”

“Bewitched an underage lady? Isn’t your use of phrase a little too much!” Zhang Xuan shaked his head.

If others were to hear such words, they would think that he had done something towards Zhao Ya. The heavens could serve as his witness that all he had done was to accept a student, it was an extremely pure action…

“Don’t play around with me. The young mistress of our family is a talented genius. She isn’t someone a person of your qualification can teach. If you were to remove her from your lessons now, I can choose to just let this pass. Otherwise, I will definitely bring this up to the principal and have you fired…”

Yao Han howled. However, before he could finish his words, Zhao Ya interrupted him from his back.

“Uncle Yao! What are you doing! I have acknowledged Zhang laoshi as my teacher of my own free will, why are you causing trouble for me?”

Zhao Ya stomped her feet.

The reason why she came to the academy was to solve the problem with her body. She was still happy over the fact that the teacher before her assured her that he would be able to help her, and yet this fellow here came to mess it up. What the heck was he doing?

“Of your own free will?” Yao Han glanced at the young mistress. “Do you think that he can really give you guidance that would allow your strength to surge?”

The young mistress was a proud person, he knew that well. Could it be that this teacher who was reputed as trash is able to guide her? That’s why she acknowledged him?

“Allow my strength to surge? That he didn’t do…” Zhao Ya shook his head.

The other party only pointed out her illness, he didn’t guide her on her cultivation.

“No? Then…” Yao Han was baffled.

“Alright, Uncle Yao, stop asking!” Recalling her own illness, Zhao Ya’s face turned red.

Seeing the young mistress behaving like that, Yao Han stared blankly in confusion. Then, when he saw the shattered Record Crystal on the floor, his face turned frosty and in a split moment, he seems to have turned into a rampaging lion.

“You darned brat, what did you do to our young mistress? Did you think that I wouldn’t dare to kill you right now…”

Boom!

In his rage, a powerful aura surged forth and the wind howled. ‘Jiya‘, the ground creaked in agony as though it was unable to bear the heavy pressure.

[1] 1 chi = 33.3cm

[2] Danzhong is an acupoint in the center of an horizontal line that passes through your two nipples.

[3] Jujue is just below the center of your ribcage.