Chapter 113 : Back to School
Chapter 113: Back to School
“Seven in the morning, use the Clear Dust Technique to clean up.”
In the video, as Chen Beiwu formed a hand seal, a breeze swept across, and dust and garbage all rolled into the trash bin, leaving the floor instantly clean and bright.
“Seven thirty in the morning, study two types of talisman formations.”
When Chen Beiwu took out the Ten True Explanations of the Talisman Dao and Six Spirits of Formations to read and study, a string of question marks immediately popped up on the video interface.
【What’s this, streamer, do you even understand these two books?】
【Just putting on a show!】
【High school students in the Immortal Alliance are this crazy now? Already starting to learn Second-Tier Talismans and Second-Tier Formations.】
【Kids these days are amazing. When I was in high school, I couldn’t even understand the basics of formations. No, I have to share this video with my child, let him learn something.】
Seeing these comments, Xu Lingling couldn’t help but laugh.
“That guy is so full of himself, always bragging online,” she muttered.
When Chen Beiwu had just started school, he couldn’t even score full marks in the four electives—alchemy, artifact refinement, formations, and talismans. How could he possibly understand Ten True Explanations of the Talisman Dao and Six Spirits of Formations?
But one had to admit, this made for a great show, and the video’s likes skyrocketed.
At that moment, the phone screen shifted, and the shimmering surface of Still Abyss West Lake came into Xu Lingling’s view.
“Ten in the morning, begin fishing for Spirit Fish.”
Looking at Chen Beiwu confidently casting his rod in the video, Xu Lingling couldn’t hide her curiosity.
【Quick, pause it, the fish will run away and you won’t catch anything!】
【Upstairs is still calling them fishies. The more cultured bros now call the streamer the Fishing Emperor /sob.】
【Can’t hold it in, it’s just a Spirit Fish. I’ve got a friend who can catch over a thousand Spirit Fish in a year.】
Glancing at the silly comments, Xu Lingling couldn’t help smiling and tapped to fast-forward.
“Splash!”
As the float sank into the lake, the youth in the video gripped his rod and pulled upward. The fishing line went taut, and rainbow ripples spread across the water.
After playing the fish for half an incense stick’s time, a Spirit Fish broke through the surface—its dorsal fin like jade, tail fin like silk, shimmering in iridescence under the sunlight. Chen Beiwu caught it with one swift grab.
‘What kind of fish is this?’ Xu Lingling blinked and opened the comments.
【Jade-Faced Shark】
【Seven-Colored Trout】
【Rainbow Flame Fish】
【Brilliant-Scaled Carp】
Xu Lingling scratched her head. She normally never paid attention to Spirit Fish, so she couldn’t tell which comments were genuine and which were just trolls messing around.
“Buzz!”
At that moment, a special message notification suddenly popped up on her phone.
“Are you there?”
“Do you have time to come out for a bit?”
Xu Lingling’s pupils shrank. Her hand clenched instinctively, and arcs of electricity burst from the phone, crushing it into pieces.
“Whew!”
Xu Lingling took a deep breath and, as if it were routine, drew out a brand-new phone with backed-up data from her storage ring.
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Shouhe No.2 High School, Soaring Class Two.
The homeroom teacher, Wang Kui, stood on the podium and slammed his ruler against it with a sharp “smack.”
“Look at the state of you lot now—do you even look like cultivators?”
His gaze swept across the classroom, and he sneered: “With grades like yours, forget about taking the Immortal Exam, even if you tried joining the Ninety-Nine Orthodox Clans, no one would even want you herding cattle.”
“Pfft.” A student couldn’t hold back a laugh.
Wang Kui’s features were unpleasant to begin with. When he sneered, his thick lips looked even more swollen, making people instinctively think of sausages.
“What are you laughing at? Do you know why you’re all stuck at the Fourth Level of Qi Refining? Because your cultivation meditation looks like constipation, and your beast taming is like children playing house.”
He pointed his ruler at the blackboard, playing a video: “See this? Your senior brothers and sisters, because they didn’t work hard in cultivation, are now reduced to feeding and cleaning up after Spirit Beasts.”
“Go on, laugh, why aren’t you laughing now? If you don’t work hard in cultivation right now, this will be your future!”
At those words, not a single student in the class dared to make a sound.
‘The homeroom teacher is at it again, using that suppression motivation trick!’
Walking down the corridor, Chen Beiwu could already hear Wang Kui’s scolding from afar.
“Knock, knock, knock!”
He tapped on the classroom door and called out his arrival.
Wang Kui turned his head toward Chen Beiwu standing at the door, and his furrowed brows immediately relaxed.
Finally!
Ever since Chen Beiwu had applied for self-study, the top student Xu Ziqing also applied for self-study, leaving him to face a bunch of mediocre yet arrogant students every day. Recently, they had nearly driven him sick with anger.
Wait!
Sensing something unusual, Wang Kui froze on the spot and blurted: “You advanced to the Eighth Level of Qi Refining?”
Hearing that, the whole class instinctively widened their eyes. It felt like their minds had exploded, leaving them dizzy.
What?!
They all turned their heads at once, staring at Chen Beiwu in disbelief.
If they remembered correctly, when school started, Chen Beiwu had just advanced to the Seventh Level of Qi Refining.
How had he suddenly jumped to the Eighth Level in just a few months? Even taking pills couldn’t be that fast!
“Teacher, did you make a mistake?” Liu Yan couldn’t hold back his emotions and suddenly stood up.
Chen Beiwu had been one of only two students in class at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining. Both in appearance and cultivation, he was someone Liu Yan had to look up to for the time being.
But even so, Liu Yan had always held onto a sense of superiority, believing that he would eventually catch up and surpass Chen Beiwu.
After all, in the Immortal Alliance, cultivation wasn’t just about talent; family background also mattered.
His background and wealth far surpassed Chen Beiwu’s. The latter would inevitably be held back by lack of cultivation resources and end up mediocre in the later years of high school.
But now, with the teacher saying Chen Beiwu was already at the Eighth Level of Qi Refining, how could Liu Yan’s mindset not collapse?
This meant he might never catch up to Chen Beiwu!
“Are you questioning the judgment of a Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator?” Wang Kui cast Liu Yan a cold glance.
Liu Yan’s grades placed him mid-to-upper in class, so Wang Kui had usually treated him fairly well.
But now this brat dared to challenge his authority, as if accusing him of hyping up Chen Beiwu.
What a joke!
Unless Chen Beiwu had jumped straight to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining, there was no reason for him—a Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator—to lie for a mere Qi Refining student.
Did he not care about his own face?
“No…” Liu Yan’s body went limp as he collapsed back into his seat, his mind a muddle.
Chen Beiwu gave a small nod and said modestly: “I’ve been self-studying at home recently and happened to gain some insight.”
At these words, the sternness on Wang Kui’s face vanished, replaced with a warmer tone: “Not bad. Come in and sit down, don’t just stand at the door.”
Hearing Chen Beiwu indirectly confirm it, the classmates exchanged glances, each swallowing hard.
No wonder the teacher always said they were hopeless like mud that couldn’t hold up a wall.
With someone like Chen Beiwu shining before them, how many in the entire second year could truly claim not to be mud, but instead a cultivation genius?