Chapter 16: Vice Dean of Tiansheng Academy

Lu Li was somewhat surprised.

But he still invited her into the villa.

"Captain Zhao, is there something you need by coming here?"

Zhao Tieyi sat down in the living room and chuckled, "Don't you know what good deeds you've done yourself?"

"The good deeds I've done?" Lu Li couldn't help but frown.

"Within these last ten days, the cultivation of those students, including Zhang Chi, has all improved by one level. This must be your doing, right?" Zhao Tieyi asked with a smile.

"I only refined their cultivation techniques a little; whether their cultivation improved is entirely up to them." Lu Li did not hide it.

"As expected!"

A look of complexity appeared on Zhao Tieyi's face.

If she hadn't seen those ten-plus improved cultivation techniques that her father had spoken of earlier, she simply wouldn't have believed it.

A Grandmaster in one year!

Although this also shocked her greatly, it could still be described as "accumulating strength over time."

But to have refined over ten cultivation techniques in a mere ten days!

This already exceeded her ultimate understanding of talent; even a heaven-sent genius would be hard to describe this way, and even in the hundred years since the resurgence of spiritual energy, she feared no one had been able to do it.

Lu Li in the military, although tenacious in character and decisive in action, was not all that mysterious.

But after a year of separation!

The current Lu Li was already far beyond her ability to see through!

"You really are unbelievable." Zhao Tieyi sighed softly.

"Just luck."

Lu Li understood what she meant and did not offer much explanation.

"Perhaps."

Zhao Tieyi did not press further and went straight to the point: "I came here today to invite you to join Tiansheng Academy."

"Invite me to join the academy?"

Lu Li found it a bit strange.

"I should be past the age for entering a martial arts academy now, right?"

"Haha, our academy wouldn't dare take you as a student." Zhao Tieyi giggled, "I am here to invite you to manage the academy's collection of books."

"Manage the collection of books?"

Lu Li was somewhat confused.

A librarian!

Although this job was very relaxed, there was no need for him to waste his time, right?

"I suppose you don't know yet, do you?"

Zhao Tieyi glanced at him and explained, "The martial arts academy library is not an ordinary library. It houses countless insights and cultivation techniques, including the insights and experiences I recorded for you previously. It is guarded personally by the academy's Vice Dean, and ordinary people simply cannot enter."

"It houses countless insights and cultivation techniques?"

Lu Li's expression shifted.

Wouldn't such a place be perfect for him to deduce his Spirit-Building cultivation technique?

"Are you tempted?"

The corners of Zhao Tieyi's mouth lifted slightly.

The libraries of the eight great academies are where the essence of human martial arts resides; they are the places that almost everyone in Qian Cheng who pursues martial arts dreams of. The higher one's talent and aptitude, the harder it is to resist the temptation within.

She did not believe Lu Li could resist such a big pie!

"Then what does the academy want me to do?"

Lu Li gave a wry smile.

A place housing countless insights and cultivation techniques has immeasurable value; he knew it was impossible for them to let him manage it for no reason.

"Refine cultivation techniques!"

"Refine cultivation techniques?"

A look of confusion appeared on Lu Li's face.

"Just like what you did for Zhang Chi and the other students, refine the cultivation techniques in the library as much as possible."

Zhao Tieyi said with a serious, heroic, and compelling demeanor.

"In the hundred years since the resurgence of spiritual energy, humanity has given birth to many geniuses and created many cultivation techniques, but due to various reasons, they have developed flaws or cannot be continued. I hope you can do your utmost to refine the hard work of these predecessors and allow them to be passed down."

"So that's it."

Lu Li finally understood her intention.

Everything said before was just a setup!

Her true purpose was to have him refine cultivation techniques!

This might be suspected of being used, but it suited his wishes perfectly. As long as he managed the Tiansheng Academy library, he could draw upon the countless cultivation techniques within to continue his own path of cultivation.

As for refining cultivation techniques!

With his talent, he might be able to complete it in passing.

What's more, this was a matter beneficial to the inheritance of humanity; since he could do it, he would naturally try his best to complete it.

"Have you considered it?"

Seeing Lu Li silent for a long time, Zhao Tieyi couldn't help but feel nervous.

Her only trump card now was the temptation of the countless cultivation techniques in the academy library. Once Lu Li could resist and refuse, she would have no other way, and given Lu Li's firm character, once he refused, there would be no possibility of turning it around.

This was a great win-win situation, and she did not want it to end in failure.

"I agree."

Lu Li smiled lightly.

He had no reason not to agree.

However, to be able to make this heroine who dominated the military nervous, he should be considered the first.

"Whew!"

Zhao Tieyi let out a sigh of relief.

She took a token from her waist and handed it over: "Since you have agreed, then from now on, you are the Vice Principal of Tiansheng Academy."

"Hmm?"

Lu Li took the token, toyed with it carefully, and couldn't help but smile: "Vice Principal of Tiansheng Academy; I didn't expect that managing the academy library would require such a status. I've certainly profited from this."

Think about it carefully!

Besides this Vice Principal of Tiansheng Academy, he also held the position of highest-ranking guest elder of the Zheng family, a martial arts clan!

And this was in just under a month.

If he really waited ten or a hundred years, he feared his waist would be covered in tokens.

Zhao Tieyi did not pay attention to Lu Li's joke.

Seeing that the matter was completed, she did not stay long, and after instructing him to report to the academy tomorrow, she hurried back to the academy to report the results.

Lu Li watched her leave.

He rested for a while, then began to cultivate again.

In the blink of an eye.

One day passed.

Early the next morning, an announcement shook the entire Tiansheng Academy.

After three years!

The academy library finally welcomed its controller!

Lu Li!

Such an unfamiliar name suddenly burst into everyone's view, dropping jaws to the floor.

One must know that the libraries of the eight great academies of Qian City gathered the lifeblood of countless outstanding people!

The Vice Principal who controls the library is a position that all major martial arts clans fight for; anyone who ascends to this position has made great contributions to the human race, and both their cultivation and qualifications far exceed those of ordinary people.

The previous controller of the Tiansheng Academy library was the ancestor of the Wang family, the number one martial arts clan in Qian City.

But now, it had actually fallen to an unknown young man.

Countless people could not imagine it.

"Too terrifying!"

"What exactly is his background?"

"To seize the academy library right from the start, this is to make an enemy of all the martial arts clans!"

Everyone was incomparably shocked.

But after the name "Lu Li" echoed repeatedly in their minds, they suddenly remembered.

Isn't he the person behind the scenes who has been stirring up the academy's winds and clouds recently?

In just ten days!

He modified more than ten cultivation techniques!

No wonder the Principal invited him to control the library!

(End of this chapter)