Chapter 50: Qingtian Hunting Office

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Magic City.

After settling Xinxia in a hotel, Lv Cheng followed the address Tang Yue gave him and arrived at the Qingtian Hunting Office.

The jump from Intermediate to Advanced is a major threshold that consumes a vast amount of resources. Although Lv Cheng reached Intermediate Level Grade 3 quickly thanks to his powerful talent, he still needed certain essentials to advance to the Advanced stage, such as a Galaxy Pulse.

To put it bluntly: he needed money!

Everything required money!

Tang Yue had considered this, which is why she suggested Lv Cheng come to the Qingtian Hunting Office to work and earn money, letting him stand on his own two feet instead of always thinking about living off a woman.

However, the probability of earning enough for a Galaxy Pulse within a year by taking on missions was low. Tang Yue's maneuver was simply to keep Lv Cheng away from that "noble family woman" (Ye Chang) from before.

A woman's intuition: that woman is very dangerous.

"Are you the genius Big Sister mentioned, the one who summoned a sub-dragon at the Initial Stage and reached the Intermediate stage in three elements at eighteen?"

Just as he reached the entrance, a little girl with twin tails and an old-fashioned air greeted him.

"You know me?" Lv Cheng asked, puzzled.

"Big Sister showed me your photo." As she spoke, the little girl turned her head toward the shop.

"Grandpa! The person is here!"

"So fast?"

Hearing this, an old man puffing on a pipe walked out from the shop and carefully sensed Lv Cheng's condition.

Spiritual Power at the peak of the third realm?

A flash of shock crossed Bao Laotou's eyes.

Without absorbing any resources for Spiritual Power cultivation, how could his Spiritual Power grow this fast based solely on his own talent?

"Come in and sit." Bao Laotou beckoned for Lv Cheng to enter the shop.

"Leng Qing is busy lately, but she should be back in a couple of days. I am her grandfather; you can just call me Bao Laotou. That child is my granddaughter, Lingling."

"Leng Qing told me all about your situation. Have you understood the requirements from Mingzhu Academy?"

"Yes." Lv Cheng nodded.

"That's good." Bao Laotou took a puff of his pipe.

"If it were a regular teaching position, I could put in a word for you, but for this position, you'll have to fight for it yourself."

"After all, it wouldn't do you any good to get in through the back door."

"Are you really planning to apply for the Special Teacher position at Mingzhu Academy?" Lingling looked at him strangely.

"Why would you be so short-sighted?"

"What's wrong?" Lv Cheng asked, puzzled.

Could this position have some kind of pitfall?

"Don't you know? A Special Teacher at Mingzhu Academy must be ready to face challenges from students at any time, and you cannot refuse," Lingling said.

"Although the salary is generous and the competition is fierce, the retention rate for this position is almost zero."

"So far, the Special Teacher who held the position the longest only lasted a month before resigning."

Lv Cheng's eyelid twitched. "What the hell?"

"They get worn out," Lingling shrugged.

"Which student at Mingzhu Academy isn't a proud genius? Who can accept someone around their own age standing over their heads? Every year, Mingzhu Academy has hundreds of students, and a Special Teacher has to face challenges from all the students currently enrolled, including those about to graduate!"

"Can you imagine what it's like to be challenged by hundreds of people in a gauntlet?"

"And that is the job of a Special Teacher; you can't refuse~"

"……"

"Aren't you afraid?" Lingling asked, puzzled.

She had seen several young geniuses who wanted to challenge for the Special Teacher position at Mingzhu Academy before. After all, the benefits of this position were quite good—better than those of department heads—but without exception, those people were worn down to the point of resignation in less than a week.

"Afraid of what?" Lv Cheng asked, puzzled.

No wonder Tang Yue recommended he become a Special Teacher; this was a position tailor-made for him!

His training in Mind Magic control required a large number of sparring partners. A gauntlet? Weren't they just lining up to be his lab rats?

"Weirdo." Lingling curled her lip.

"I've warned you; don't regret it later."

"And don't think you can scare those students off all at once. Mingzhu Academy has plenty of stubborn types who only get more determined after a setback. Besides, if you offend a child from a certain noble family, you might get beaten up while walking home at night."

She had heard of quite a few who had been beaten up.

And being beaten up was a minor matter; some had used excessive force during training and were left crippled.

Although it could be healed, who could withstand being beaten up every few days?

In any case, the Special Teacher position was just a big, tempting trap!

"More determined after a setback?" Lv Cheng looked strange.

"There's such a good thing?"

Lingling was stunned, unconsciously looking at Lv Cheng as if he were an idiot. "You don't actually think the students at Mingzhu Academy are easy to deal with, do you?"

"Although your talent is indeed terrifying, those people aren't pushovers. Many of them have noble families behind them providing massive amounts of cultivation resources. While you have the advantage in talent now, their resource advantage is enough to offset your talent."

In a small place like Bo City, where there was nothing, reaching the Intermediate stage in three elements at eighteen was indeed terrifying. Even among top noble families, such geniuses rarely appeared. She even suspected this person had the talent of a Sufferer.

However, the further one cultivates, the more terrifying the demand for resources becomes.

Those noble family geniuses only need to focus on cultivation and never lack resources, but someone like Lv Cheng, who is penniless, will have to worry about his own cultivation resources most of the time in the future.

As time goes on, the gap will gradually narrow, and then, gradually widen.

……

"Grandpa, why didn't you try to persuade him?"

After Lv Cheng left the Qingtian Hunting Office, Lingling finally asked her question.

Since he was introduced by her sister's friend and there was no enmity, why not stop him a little?

With this kind of talent, what else couldn't he do?

Being a Special Teacher is a total trap.

"His situation is a bit special, he should be able to handle it, or rather, he needs this position," Bao Laotou said.

"Needs it?" Lingling looked puzzled.

"His Mind Element is a bit special," Bao Laotou said.

"And his talent for Spiritual Power is exaggerated; he is about to enter the Fourth Realm."

"..."

"The Fourth Realm?" Lingling looked bewildered.

"Are you serious?"

Someone from a small place like Bo City couldn't possibly have Mind Stones or similar items to boost Spiritual Power; at this age, how could it be this exaggerated?

"Of course, and his Fire Element Nebula is somewhat restless; I'm afraid he's about to break through," Bao Laotou said with some helplessness.

"Why are the young people nowadays getting more and more outrageous..."

In terms of cultivation, although it was exaggerated, he could still understand it; after all, he had seen more exaggerated things, like the Sufferer talent, but that was only a single element, yet this kid was cultivating three elements simultaneously?

What he couldn't understand most was this Spiritual Power... how was it soaring so fast?

There were no traces of absorbing Mind Stones, nor was there any sense of instability from rapid growth, which meant this young man really hadn't absorbed any auxiliary items to boost Spiritual Power, and that feeling was just like... natural growth!

This Spiritual Power talent is a bit terrifying.

(End of chapter)