Chapter 59: The Gap in Talent

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Qing Xiaoqu, training grounds.

"Lv Cheng, aren't you a combat instructor for the Main Campus? Why have you come to Qing Xiaoqu?" Mu Nujiao asked, puzzled.

"Could it be that you voluntarily transferred here for the sake of Sister Mu?" Ai Tutu said excitedly.

"No," Lv Cheng shrugged.

"I was about to take up my post, but Dean Xiao said he had reconsidered and wanted me to try my hand at Qing Xiaoqu first, to adapt to the students' strength and also to accumulate some teaching experience."

The Main Campus students are at least Intermediate Mages, and there are even many nearing graduation who have already reached the level of High-level Mage; if those people were to go all out, even he would have to take it seriously.

Moreover, those students could gang up on him!

If he were careless, something could genuinely go wrong.

To put it bluntly, Dean Xiao was worried that he wouldn't know how to hold back when striking, and if any casualties occurred, that would be a huge problem.

But most of the students in Qing Xiaoqu are Initial Stage Mages; even if they ganged up on him, they couldn't cause him any harm. He could treat playing with these students like playing with children, which was just right for accumulating teaching experience.

"Teaching experience?" Ai Tutu's face turned strange.

"You aren't treating us like lab rats, are you?"

"You could interpret it that way," Lv Cheng nodded.

Knowing how to cultivate and knowing how to teach others to cultivate are two different things.

He had discovered this point back in Bo City; there were many things he felt were self-evident, yet Tang Yue would always spend extra time emphasizing them to him, calling them key points and difficulties.

Yet he didn't feel those things were difficult at all; in fact, from the moment he started cultivating until now, he had never encountered anything that could be called a bottleneck.

Breaking through from Initial Stage to Intermediate, or Intermediate to High-level—he had never felt the kind of obstruction Tang Yue spoke of.

It had always been a matter of course.

This is the gap in talent.

Dean Xiao said that even within the experience of a Forbidden Curse Mage who had lived for most of his life, and even including Sufferers, his talent could at least rank in the top ten.

This top ten doesn't refer to the country, but the entire world!

Every one of his elements possesses a special talent; although there is a slight gap compared to a Sufferer, the gap is not large, and when combined with the fact that his talent is controllable, this gap is almost negligible.

If a Sufferer's single-element talent is a perfect score of one hundred, then each of his elements has reached at least ninety-five, which can be called a half-step Sufferer talent.

And because his talent is too high, Dean Xiao felt that he might not know how to teach students.

The Magic in his eyes and the Magic in the eyes of ordinary people are two different things!

To describe it vividly: for an exam paper, an average person reads the questions slowly, understands the meaning, finds the key points, analyzes them bit by bit, chooses a plan, and arrives at the answer step by step.

A genius can see the key to the question at a glance, skip some steps, and get the answer faster.

And a top-tier genius like him can just glance at it and write down the answer directly!

When he heard Dean Xiao describe it this way, he felt it was a bit exaggerated; after all, he hadn't felt this gap when he taught Ye Xinxia before, and there hadn't been any communication issues while teaching Ding Yumian during this period.

Both of these young women could understand what he meant.

But today, teaching the three less-populated White Magic systems—Plant, Psychic, and Healing—made him feel an indescribable sense of powerlessness for the first time!

How was he supposed to describe the fact that one plus one equals two using more detailed and simpler language?

Or rather, can this even be explained?

"Instructor Lv, why is this... like this?"

"……"

"Don't ask me why anymore," Lv Cheng took a deep breath.

"I am a combat instructor; I'm here to teach you how to fight! Ask your own teachers about cultivation problems!"

Unbelievable!

He felt as if he had entered a kindergarten!

No matter how simple the question, someone would ask it!

"Oh..."

Seeing that Lv Cheng seemed to be on the verge of losing his temper, the few young girls from the Healing Element walked away weakly.

They really didn't understand, after all...

"Why do I feel like he doesn't understand our questions?" Ai Tutu said with a strange expression.

The questions those girls asked just now were very normal, right?

But why did Lv Cheng look so bewildered?

"Hmm... he might really not understand," Mu Nujiao said.

"Why?" Ai Tutu asked, puzzled.

"Even I could understand those questions."

Mu Nujiao paused, "Because he perhaps has never encountered these problems himself."

"Huh?" Ai Tutu was stunned.

"What do you mean?"

"This..." Mu Nujiao really didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

"Simply put, it's like an 800-meter long-distance run. Normally, where you need to accelerate, where you need to decelerate, and where you need to regulate your breathing are problems we need to consider. Only by clarifying these things, setting a plan, and running according to that plan can we get a stable result. Then, based on each practice, we gradually improve this plan to increase our performance."

"However, for him, these things are not needed at all."

"Because he can run the entire distance at full power and full speed with ease!"

"He can even run a few extra laps!"

Ai Tutu was completely bewildered.

"To put it more bluntly, this is the gap in talent!" Mu Nujiao said helplessly.

The rigid disparity in talent is truly cruel!

If you can't, you just can't.

An absolute gap in talent cannot be smoothed over by any amount of effort; problems that mediocre people take decades to understand can be seen through at a single glance by a true genius.

Difficult problems? They don't even know what a difficult problem is.

In truth, everyone here had already vaguely guessed this reality in their hearts, but it was hard to accept for a moment, which is why they kept asking.

After all, those who can be admitted to the Pearl Institute are all top-tier geniuses who fought their way out of their hometowns; yet, when they were full of confidence, thinking they could show off their skills in a new world, they suddenly discovered they had become the "mediocre ones" they once looked down upon.

This kind of blow is very hurtful.

Even for so-called resource piling, you still have to be able to pile it!

The advantage of noble families is relying on high-quality resources to quickly break through bottlenecks when encountering difficulties in cultivation.

Moreover, this kind of resource assistance only increases the probability of success; it does not guarantee success.

But Lv Cheng... does he even know what a bottleneck is?

The Dean's office.

Dean Xiao looked at Lv Cheng with a pained expression, "I let you try your hand at the Qing Xiaoqu, how did you manage to make all those students depressed?"

"Do you know how many teachers have come to me to complain about you recently?"

Out of the five thousand students in this year's Qing Xiaoqu, Lv Cheng took turns teaching for less than a month, and he made no fewer than three thousand of them depressed!

The teachers at Qing Xiaoqu are almost crying!

"I don't know either." Lv Cheng shrugged.

"I never interacted with anyone when I was cultivating before, I only spoke a few words to my teacher."

When he was in Bo City, from the Initial Stage onwards, it was always Tang Yue teaching him; as for the situation of his classmates, he never paid any attention to them and had no idea what kind of problems they might encounter.

"You this..." Dean Xiao was speechless for a moment.

He had originally intended to find a true genius to strike a blow at these self-important students, hoping it would motivate them to strive upwards and not be content with the status quo.

However, with Lv Cheng's move, there was nothing left but the blow!

In comparison to this kid, those so-called geniuses have all become mortals!

"You should stop teaching for now." Dean Xiao covered his face.

"Let me think and arrange a safe way for you to teach."

If Lv Cheng continues to wreak havoc like this, I'm afraid the entire freshman class will end up depressed!

"How about I go directly to the main campus?" Lv Cheng said.

"The people on the main campus shouldn't be that fragile, right?"

"The main campus... no!" Dean Xiao's expression froze.

"You behave yourself and just stay over at the Qing Xiaoqu for the time being."

Appropriate blows can motivate young people, but excessive blows have the opposite effect!

(End of chapter)