Chapter 162: Do You Think I'm As Stupid As You? (Thanks to

"Ling'an Academy Document"

Ling'an Academy's decision regarding the issuance of a school-wide disciplinary notice to student Zhang Suannai:

On April 10, 5021, Zhang Suannai (Martial Cultivation and Martial Artist College, Martial Cultivation Department, Class 1, Grade 5019, Student ID 50190211001), due to going to a fellow villager's home for a gathering and feeling embarrassed to arrive empty-handed, heard that the fellow villager had not bought fish. She then took the initiative to offer to buy fish herself. For the sake of "face," she decided to bring a good fish, and thus set her sights on the Golden Fin Fish raised in Long Lake by the Life Sciences College's Aquaculture Major. At approximately 10:20 AM, the student arrived at the east bank of Long Lake. After lingering for a moment, she actually used the Summoning Technique to extract three Golden Fin Fish from the lake in full view of everyone. She subsequently released the two smaller ones back into the lake and took the large one with her, while simultaneously verbally abusing the students watching from the sidelines. This incident caused a negative impact within the school and seriously hurt the feelings of all the teachers and students of the Life Sciences College's Aquaculture Major as well as the students who watched and reported the incident. However, considering the student's good attitude in admitting her mistake and that it was her first offense, after research by the school authorities, it was decided to issue a school-wide disciplinary notice to this student.

It is hoped that everyone will take this as a warning.

At the same time, we advise everyone: although Long Lake is not a breeding pond for variety testing, students are still not permitted to catch fish from Long Lake privately. The school organizes fishing every year and distributes the catch to all teachers and students. If you are interested in fishing, you may sign up for the fishing team when the time comes; please do not fish privately.

Ling'an Academy Academic Affairs Office (Upper half of official seal)

April 11, 5021 (Lower half of official seal)

Zhang Suannai stared blankly at this notice and couldn't help but scratch her head, feeling a bit confused.

What does it mean by "for the sake of face"?

And where did I verbally abuse the onlookers? Wasn't I just asking him to stop looking in the form of a question? Isn't this how contemporary young people normally communicate?

Also, when did I have a good attitude in admitting my mistake?

This makes me look like a coward!

The punishment is a minor matter, but face is a major one.

Zhang Suannai wanted to go find that grand-nephew-in-discipleship to reason with him.

……

April 12, morning.

Chen Shu received a message from the class monitor.

Wang Weixin: Big Boss

Wang Weixin: Registration for the off-campus Arena competition has started. If you are interested, I will help you submit your name for the leaders to review.

Chen Shu: Interested

Wang Weixin: /Okay

Chen Shu: Sorry to trouble you, Class Monitor.

Chen Shu: /Bowing

Wang Weixin: /I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it

Wang Weixin: /Handing tea to Big Boss

Wang Weixin: /Handing a cigarette to Big Boss

Wang Weixin: Big Boss, you are so fierce. Your final match scared us silly.

Chen Shu: Just tell me, was it cool or not?

Wang Weixin: Cool as hell.

Wang Weixin: If I were a woman, I would want to marry you.

Wang Weixin: No, even if I just look a bit like a woman, as long as you don't mind, I'll marry you too.

Chen Shu: /Wiping sweat

Chen Shu: To tell you the truth, I happen to have a roommate who looks like a woman.

Wang Weixin: Is it that exciting?

Chen Shu: I've already prepared the sleeping pills.

Chen Shu chatted with this class monitor who spoke very pleasantly for a few sentences, then closed his window. After thinking for a moment, he clicked on the avatar of another student. In the chat window with this student, there was only a red envelope sent by the other party labeled "I am really very sorry," and the system feedback that he had claimed the red envelope. Besides that, not a single word had been said; mainly, he was too lazy to speak.

Chen Shu: Did you sign up? Junior Sister Yan

Yan Keling: /Furious

Yan Keling: I watched your match!!

Chen Shu: Is that so?

Chen Shu: /My my dried fish are stunned

Yan Keling: You are definitely not a sophomore!!

Chen Shu: /Shrugging

Yan Keling: Liar!

Chen Shu: So, did you sign up?

Yan Keling: What?

Chen Shu: The off-campus Arena competition.

Yan Keling: Of course I signed up!

Yan Keling: I want to let everyone see that the former Imperial Sect has returned!

Chen Shu: Okay.

Yan Keling: Did you sign up?

Chen Shu: I did.

Yan Keling: I hope we don't run into each other at the start.

Chen Shu: Don't worry, this trash competition is full of water. The matching mechanism isn't random at all. I seriously suspect they all discuss it beforehand. There definitely won't be a situation where people from the same school face each other right away.

Yan Keling: That's good.

Chen Shu: What are you worried about?

Chen Shu: Do you still want to win the championship?

Yan Keling: Of course that's impossible. I started cultivating late and have no sect background; I'm only at the Fourth Stage now.

Yan Keling: But I heard that among the awards, besides the top three overall, they will also give an award for the first place of the Fourth Stage, which also grants academic credits.

Yan Keling: I originally thought no one at the same stage could beat me, but then I ran into you, Senior Brother.

Yan Keling: Pfft! You fake Senior Brother!

Chen Shu: /Dazed

Yan Keling's combat power is indeed somewhat heaven-defying; perhaps even Zhang Suannai at the Fourth Stage would have a hard time beating her.

No, it's not her combat power.

It's the combat power of her thighs.

It tastes a bit like cheating.

Or rather, the Imperial Sect System, like the Daoist System, is inherently very easy to surpass other practitioners of the same stage during the initial and intermediate stages.

Just like Yan Keling.

She herself is only at the Fourth Stage, but the main body of that unknown existence named "Lin Sword" is very likely High-Tier. For a High-Tier to come down and help an Intermediate Stage fight, even if restricted, is not something a normal Fourth Stage can compare to.

The Daoist System is the same way.

However, the Daoist System relies more on luck; it is not as stable as the Imperial Sect. Its performance might be worse than the Imperial Sect, or it might exceed it; it's hard to say which one is more of a hack.

Yan Keling is also relatively special.

Chen Shu flipped through some ancient texts, and through sporadic records and side descriptions, relying on his professional ability, he managed to piece together some intelligence regarding the Imperial Sect.

In the ancient Imperial Sect, those who could establish a connection with an existence of a higher stage than themselves and receive permission to summon a projection were already excellent disciples. Many disciples' "Secret Contract" targets were only at the same stage as themselves. Someone like Yan Keling, who could gain the favor of a High-Tier existence while only at the Fourth Stage, is very, very rare; if placed in the ancient Imperial Sect, it would likely be the configuration of a chief disciple.

"Emmm..."

It's also not easy to use the word "genius" to describe her.

Perhaps she is a genius, but this event alone is not enough to deduce that she is a genius, because there are other reasons that could also lead to this result.

For example, her personality might be more pleasing to those existences, and she just happened to suit the taste of some big shot;

For example, she has better luck;

For example, in ancient times, it was always those existences picking Imperial Sect practitioners, but after the Imperial Sect declined, no one had looked for them for over a thousand years. As the first Imperial Sect practitioner to contact them after a millennium, Yan Keling was very popular, and this big shot might have beaten up all the other existences to secure this spot;

For example, she is indeed a genius.

As someone who has a girlfriend he hasn't talked to, Chen Shu didn't chat with her much; he closed his Mobile Phone after asking a few questions. Just then, Jiang Lai came out of his room wearing a training suit, so Chen Shu asked him a question too:

"Did you sign up for the off-campus Arena competition?"

"I signed up, but I might not pass."

"Oh..."

Chen Shu wasn't worried about this issue.

Once this list is submitted, which people go to compete and which people are cut is basically decided by the leaders.

Generally, there are about ten participants from Yujing Academy each year. What Chen Shu can confirm is that Chen Banxia did not sign up, so there is only one Fifth-tier Practitioner from the whole school participating, which is the one who won the championship a few days ago. But Chen Shu didn't go to watch his championship match; he was really too lazy to go, and he was the only Fifth Stage in the entire Martial Arts Academy Group's Arena competition; there's nothing much to see in a Fifth Stage fighting a Fourth Stage.

There aren't many Fourth Stages in the school either, and most are concentrated in the fourth and fifth years. Judging rationally, Chen Shu feels that neither he nor Jiang Lai will be cut.

Let's gather some intelligence first.

Chen Shu opened the Ancient Cultivation Group.

Qingcai Keke: Everyone, after half a year of bullshitting, it's time to do some real work.

Nameless Person: What real work?

Gate of All Wonders:?

Qingcai Keke: The Daoist is completely neglecting his cultivation now.

Gate of All Wonders: /Helpless

Gate of All Wonders: I was cultivating just fine. When I first joined the group, basically no one talked, and I had forgotten about it. As a result, I accidentally changed to a new Mobile Phone and forgot to set it to block pop-ups, and I accidentally saw your messages. From then on, there was no stopping it.

Gate of All Wonders: Heavenly Venerable above.

Gate of All Wonders: If my grades are at the bottom at the end of the month, you guys will bear the primary responsibility.

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: Amitabha, same here.

Nameless Person: What real work?

Qingcai Keke: The Martial Body Meeting. Come share some intelligence: how many Fifth Stages and how many Fourth Stages does everyone's school have, and who are the powerful ones?

Grandma Always Says: Good idea.

Grandma Always Says: The group is finally doing some real work.

Grandma Always Says: You go first.

Qingcai Keke: You go first.

Grandma Always Says: If I go first, then I go first!

Grandma Always Says: Ling'an Academy only has me as a Fifth Stage. My combat power is unparalleled, heaven-defyingly strong; I kick the Grand Ancestor and punch the Sword God. The rest of the Fourth-tier Practitioners have mediocre talent and ordinary combat power.

Haoran: /Eating melon seeds

Qingcai Keke: You are really shameless.

Grandma Always Says: It's your turn.

Gate of All Wonders: We have nothing to hide either. In the five-year program at the Daoist Academy, I am also the only Fifth Stage.

Gate of All Wonders: However, there are some with good talent among the Fourth Stages, and since our Daoist system is special, they might also be very powerful.

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: Amitabha, in the five-year program at the Buddhist Academy, besides this poor monk, there is another Fifth Stage senior brother, but he is abroad and will not participate.

Chen Shu watched carefully.

The systems of the Daoist Academy and Buddhist Academy are different from ordinary universities. They don't just have five years; many students study and cultivate there from a young age. You can continue to study and cultivate there until you reach the intermediate stage. After reaching the intermediate stage and completing five years, you can transfer to various temples and Daoist temples. The five-year program mentioned here starts from the opening of the Spirit Sea, and the following five years are used to correspond with the academic systems of other universities.

Qingcai Keke: @Haoran @Nameless Person

Qingcai Keke: What about your schools?

Nameless Person: Is this okay?

Haoran: The atmosphere has already been built up to this point.

Anonymous: Alright!

Anonymous: I won't be competing. There is also a Fifth Stage student in this year's Military Academy, but they are very mysterious; I don't know if they will compete, and I don't know the specifics. I suspect they are very likely from the Royal Court, and I don't know if they are in the group. I have also seen the other Fourth Stage senior brothers and sisters; they are all very capable of fighting, because it's the Military Academy, after all, and many Cultivators are basically trained in the direction of combat.

Haoran Zhengqi: Your school is so amazing. Among the current students at the National Comprehensive Academy, it seems there is no one who can be brought out to show off except for me /awkward

Grandma Always Says: Understood, understood, your school was already the worst to begin with.

Haoran Zhengqi: ……

Chen Shu also revealed a smile.

Compared to Yujing, Ling'an, and the Military Academy, although the National Comprehensive Academy has a long history and deep foundations, backed by the Imperial Family and all the traditional noble and wealthy families, the average quality of its students is indeed inferior, and they are always looked down upon by students from Yujing and Ling'an.

It is mainly caused by political reasons.

The students of the National Comprehensive Academy are mainly composed of the following parts:

First, descendants of the Imperial Family.

Due to their powerful bloodlines and consistent eugenics, even collateral descendants of the Imperial Family usually have quite good talent.

Second, specially recruited students.

The National Comprehensive Academy is wealthy and generous; if some students from humble backgrounds have good grades and good talent, the National Comprehensive Academy will offer them a high price to come and study, and these are the main force for improving student quality.

Third, children of the powerful and wealthy.

Those who come to expand their social circles are undoubtedly dragging their feet.

Fourth, successors of foreign powers.

Yiguo has a very high status on this planet and has a fatal attraction to students from all over the world. In addition to some excellent students, it is inevitable that there are children of powerful figures and successors to power from other countries who want to come and gild themselves, especially the future successors of some vassal states; you cannot keep them out, so it is often the National Comprehensive Academy that is responsible for receiving them.

These people also like the National Comprehensive Academy the most.

Therefore, by comparison, the quality of the student source at the National Comprehensive Academy is worse than the other three schools.

Haoran Zhengqi: However, our school still has about a dozen students who will compete, all at the Fourth Stage, including two princes and nobles from small countries. You all be careful not to beat others too miserably, so as not to hurt the harmony.

Qingcai Keke: Understood, I'll teach them right now what is meant by "weak nations have no diplomacy."

Grandma Always Says: It's your turn @Qingcai Keke

Qingcai Keke: I don't want to betray my schoolmates.

Grandma Always Says:?

Gate of All Wonders:?

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha:?

Anonymous:?

Haoran Zhengqi:?

Qingcai Keke: Haha, just kidding.

Qingcai Keke: Our school has two Fifth Stage students; besides my sister, only one will compete.

Grandma Always Says: I think I've heard of that.

Grandma Always Says: Is it the one from the Spirit Sect?

Qingcai Keke: Spirit Sect?

Qingcai Keke: Isn't the Spirit Sect related to your school?

Grandma Always Says: /Look at the idiot

Grandma Always Says: The Spirit Sect is related to our school, and it is also related to your school; it provides teaching support to both schools simultaneously.

Qingcai Keke: Learned something new.

Gate of All Wonders: How is that person's talent?

Grandma Always Says: Not in the group.

Qingcai Keke: You put that quite tactfully.

Grandma Always Says: Right now, you are the worst in the group.

Qingcai Keke: /Yawn

Qingcai Keke: Do you think I will be like you and feel ashamed because of this?

Grandma Always Says: /Fatherly blow

At this time, the group owner sent a question.

Haoran Zhengqi: I heard that a successor of the Imperial Sect has emerged at Yujing Academy. Does anyone here have any understanding of the Imperial Sect and that successor?

Gate of All Wonders: Didn't the Imperial Sect disappear more than a thousand years ago?

Grandma Always Says: Isn't the Imperial Sect fake?

Gate of All Wonders: ……

Gate of All Wonders: Does your Sword Sect really not value the knowledge popularization education of its disciples at all?

Grandma Always Says: /Fatherly blow

Anonymous: If even you, the group owner, don't know, then we know even less.

Grandma Always Says: Exactly.

Grandma Always Says: Asking for nothing.

Haoran Zhengqi: No choice.

Haoran Zhengqi: Not long after the Imperial Sect was established in the previous dynasty, it suddenly weakened. By the middle and late stages of the previous dynasty, it had basically disappeared. The Spirit Contract Secret Technique became ineffective, and other Cultivators in the world at that time were no longer interested in the Imperial Sect. Coupled with the wars, the systematic records of the Imperial Sect were lost.

Qingcai Keke: I have an understanding.

Grandma Always Says: You have nothing.

Qingcai Keke: Three hundred.

Qingcai Keke: No refund if it doesn't work.

Grandma always says: They're here, they're here.

Grandma always says: They've come to swindle you out of your money again.

Grandma always says: /cracks melon seeds

Qingcai Keke: I am untalented, but I come from a family of historians. I participated in the opening and artifact cataloging of the Yuanzhou Fangti. The naming of the Commoner Woman's Hairpin is related to me, and I was right there when the Classic of Strange Beasts was unearthed. I don't have many hobbies in life, but digging up unknown history is one of them.

Grandma always says: Everyone, you must learn your lesson.

Grandma always says: Do not believe him.

Grandma always says: If you don't believe me, I can make up a similar one for you too.

Haoran Zhengqi: 【Exclusive Red Envelope】