Book of Divine Lightning Flame

Seeing the pieces of delicate pastries being wiped clean by Nie Li. Du Ze, and Lu Piao, the noble kids felt depressed and heartbroken. Why didn't they get such treatment?

Xiao Ning'er also ate a few pieces of the pastries. Watching her eat leisurely was a sight that warmed the heart and delighted the eyes.

After chatting with Nie Li for a while, Xiao Ning'er returned to her seat.

Lu Piao patted Nie Li's shoulder, winked, and asked "Since when did you hook up with our goddess Ning'er? Justify yourself."

Nie Li shrugged, "We're just normal friends!"

"Tsk, who'll believe that?"

Whether it was Du Ze or Lu Piao, both of them looked at Nie Li with contemptuous disbelief.

"If you're just normal friends, why would goddess Ning'er make breakfast for you?" asked Du Ze.

No matter how Nie Li tried to explain it, Du Ze and Lu Piao didn't believe him. Several noble kids in the class looked at Nie Li. Their faces were full of hostility. Nie Li had stolen one of their goddesses. How could they give him good faces?

"Maybe she needed my help," Nie Li replied.

'Nie Li, this brat. He's actually so tight-lipped', thought Du Ze.

No matter how Du Ze or Lu Piao tried to get something out of him, Nie Li just wouldn't tell them anything. They realized that they could only bitterly give up. They decided not to investigate the relationship between Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er any more.

As the bell signalling the start of the lessons rang, Shen Xiu twisted her waist, and walked into the classroom. Unlike her usual arrogant attitude, the smile on her face looked like a chrysanthemum.

"The three of you return to your seats!" Shen Xiu said, looking at Nie Li, Du Ze and Lu Piao. There were VIPs here today to observe her lectures, naturally she wouldn't dare to be rash.

"Today I'm going to talk about Inscription Patterns. Whether it's to Fighters or Demon Spiritualists, Inscription Patterns are very important. Inscription Patterns are separated into two kinds, known as the Enchanting Patterns and the Battle Patterns. Enchanting Patterns can be inscribed on armours and weapons. As it can greatly enhance the combat abilities of those armours and weapons, especially when they're used by a Demon Spiritualist, they can make use of weapons and armours with Enchanting Patterns on them to release far more power than their base strength. As for Battle Patterns, they are used with Inscription Pattern Scrolls. By inscribing them onto the scroll and then activating those, one can have a sudden burst of fighting power!"

The shocking thing was, Shen Xiu actually began talking about substantial content today.

"Inscription Patterns are extremely profound and mysterious. They have been around since the Snow Wind Empire Era. They are being continuously improved on as time goes by. But during the Age of Darkness, the mainland was under the attack of many demon beasts. Glory City only managed to inherited a small portion of them, coming from three categories. Snow Wind Patterns, Sacred Flaming Patterns, War Prime Patterns. They are respectively of the Snow Wind attributes, Fire attributes and Neutral attributes."

"Today we will be talking about Enchanting Patterns." Shen Xiu said softly. Her tone today was more gentle compared to her usual tone.

Outside the classroom, three elderly men sat together, listening to the lecture.

"The knowledge from the members of the Sacred Family is quite profound. Having her teach these students is definitely more than enough!" one of the elderly men said with a smile. He was Ye Sheng, the vice-principal of Holy Orchid Institute.

"A few students in this class are quite good, take Ye Ziyun, Shen Yue or Xiao Ning'er for example," one of the elderly men said sounding very pleased. He was a professor in Holy Orchid Institute named Lu Ye.

Other than Ye Sheng, a grey robed, elderly man sat beside them. Lu Ye didn't know this grey robed elder's identity. This grey robed elder was just casually sitting down but he gave off a powerful, prestigious aura, causing Lu Ye to be careful with his words when he spoke. He didn't dare to make the slightest mistake in his speech.

"How is it?" Ye Sheng asked, looking at the grey robe elder.

"Mhm," the grey robed elder replied neutrally.

Lu Ye whispered in his heart, "What's the identity of this grey robed elder. He actually treated Vice-Principal Lu Sheng with indifference. His status mustn't be low. I fear that his status might even be higher than our Holy Orchid Institute's principal."

After thinking about it, Lu Ye didn't dare to speak anymore.

The students in the classroom didn't know that there were people outside the class observing the lecture. It was hard to imagine that Shen Xiu actually talked about some substantial stuff, so everyone paid attention and listened.

Shen Xiu slightly raised her chest. Her face was full of pride as she said, "Today I want to talk about Sacred Flaming Patterns! In the research on Sacred Flaming Patterns, the Sacred Family is without a doubt at the top of the field!"

"The Sacred Flaming Patterns has 66 foundation patterns. This pattern, for example….," Shen Xiu drew a totem formed from many patterns coming together on the blackboard, "This is the Scarlet Sunburst Pattern. This pattern was created by Sacred Family's first generation house master. It's the most powerful Bronze rank pattern! This pattern is made up of 36 foundation patterns combined together. It's, also the most complex pattern among the Bronze rank patterns. Next we'll talk about these 36 foundation patterns."

Shen Xiu began to talk non-stop.

Most of the students in the class were listening with great interest, however Nie Li was the only one not paying attention. He didn't have any interest in these foundation patterns. Furthermore, there were more than 600 foundation patterns in the Sacred Flaming Patterns category, not 66.

If it wasn't for Ye Ziyun and the treasure in the Holy Orchid Institute, Nie Li wouldn't even be staying in the class listening to Shen Xiu's pointless teachings. In his view, her knowledge itself was full of flaws. Her lesson simply couldn't be listened to. Stating that a simple Scarlet Sunburst Pattern was claimed to be the strongest Bronze rank Inscription Pattern was simply bragging.

Shen Xiu's gaze swept across the students in the class, and lastly fell onto Nie Li. Previously, Nie Li contradicted and looked down on her. He even made a bet with her. She had been hating him in her heart all this time. When she saw that Nie Li was not paying attention to the lesson, she laughed in her heart. She finally found her chance! Shen Xiu continued gabbling about the 36 foundation patterns. Nie Li didn't have a single shred of interest in it and simply lied down on the table.

At this moment, Vice-Principal Ye Sheng, who had been sitting outside, wasn't very happy when he saw that. He looked at the grey robed elder beside him. There was an important figure here today to observe the lecture and that student was actually sleeping in class. He was simply throwing mud on the Holy Orchid Institute's face. He didn't know the name of that student. If he had, he would have definitely expelled him from the institute and never let him back!

Seeing that the grey robed elder didn't have any reaction to Nie Li's actions, Vice-Principal Ye Sheng was secretly relieved.

Lu Ye, who was sitting beside them, sternly said, "In the Fighter Apprentice class, there would inevitably be good and bad students mixed together. I will certainly punish this student later! Parents spend so much money on him to send him to school, not to let him sleep!"

Ye Sheng nodded his head. Lu Ye knew his stuff.

Because Nie Li fell asleep, everyone saw that Shen Xiu's face went heavy. Wasn't a student sleeping in class implying that the lesson was boring?

"Nie Li!" Shen Xiu spoke in a deep voice as she walked towards Nie Li's side.

Nie Li was sleeping happily as he hadn't had any good sleep for the past week. He barely opened his eyes, seeing as he was still quite sleepy, and said, "What's the matter?"

Seeing Shen Xiu wake Nie Li up, a bunch of noble kids secretly laughed. They wanted to see Nie Li in trouble the most. Who asked him to steal the goddess of their heart from them?

"He's doomed this time!"

Du Ze and Pu Liao smiled bitterly at each other. No matter what, sleeping in class was something they didn't dare do.

Nie Li's attitude made Shen Xiu even more furious. She said in a deep voice, "You are actually sleeping in my class. Do you already know all of this stuff?"

"Yeah," Nie Li calmly said.

"You….." Shen Xiu became speechless from being choked by Nie Li's words. Since the start of the lesson Nie Li had been sleeping. And he actually said that he knew all of it already. Who would believe his words?

Shen Xiu coldly sneered, "Since you already know, why don't you tell us about the Inscription Pattern on the board?"

Nie Li's eyes swept across the Inscription Pattern and said, "This is a low-grade Sacred Flaming Pattern. It can barely be considered a Bronze rank pattern. With 38 foundation patterns in its structure, it's power is weak, but if used to boil water, it would be good enough"

Hearing what Nie Li just said, the whole class started laughing.

"Haha, I almost died from laughing. He really did not listen to anything the teacher said. To actually say that this Scarlet Sunburst Pattern has 38 foundation patterns in its structure when, earlier on, teacher Shen Xiu just introduced that there are 36 foundation patterns in its structure!"

"I laughed to the point that tears began to come out. He actually said that it' should be used to boil water!" one of the noble kid said while he was laughing.

While Ye Ziyun couldn't help but smile, Shen Yue became a little angry. Nie Li had just said that the Bronze rank pattern that had been passed down in his family should actually be used to boil water. This, simply, couldn't be tolerated! Among all the students, only Xiao Ning'er remained calm, Xiao Ning'er felt that Nie Li wouldn't avoid doing something that would cause others to feel depressed. These people didn't know of Nie Li's real talent.

At that moment, outside of the classroom, Lu Ye also laughed. "This student is really funny. That smart-ass actually said that there are 38 foundation patterns in the Scarlet Sunburst's structure and even said that it should only be used to boil water!"

While he was laughing, he noticed that the Vice-Principal, Ye Sheng, and the grey robed elder did not laugh. He suddenly stopped by pushing his laughter back into his stomach.

"What's so funny? The Scarlet Sunburst is indeed made from 38 foundation patterns." Vice-Principal Ye Sheng calmly said. At his and the grey robed elder's level, with in-depth investigation they would find that there were 2 foundation patterns in the Scarlet Sunburst pattern that were actually not only made from 2 foundation patterns, but made from 4 foundation patterns. However, what made them feel shocked was that this information actually came from a student. Was this student randomly guessing? And for experts like them, the Scarlet Sunburst, this sort of rubbish Inscription Pattern, could indeed only be used to boil water; it's actual effect in battle was very small.

A light flashed across the grey robed elder's eye, but he did not say anything and remained silent.

"Bullshit!" Shen Xiu grunted angrily. Her face turned grim. As a member of the Sacred Family, naturally, she couldn't tolerate anyone degrading the Scarlet Sunburst Pattern in front of her.

Nie Li did not pay any attention to the students that were laughing at him and continued,"This Inscription Pattern comes from the seventh volume of the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. The original name of this Inscription Pattern is the Lightning Flame Burst Pattern. It originally consisted of 60 foundation patterns. It could be considered a little complicated, but some smart-ass went and cut part of the Inscription Pattern, slightly changed it, and turned it into this nondescript Scarlet Sunburst Pattern. With no real combat capabilities, it could only be given to the Sacred Flame Pattern practitioners to study."

Book of Divine Lightning Fire, what was that? The students in the class looked at each other.

Nie Li actually said that the first generation house master of the Sacred Family was a smart-ass? Shen Xiu was beyond furious. She didn't know of any Book of Divine Lightning Fire or what was recorded in the seventh volume of it.

"Ridiculous! Such a book does not exist in the world!" Shen Xiu thought for awhile and countered. "What seventh volume of the Book of Divine Lightning Fire? It' probably some of Nie Li's nonsense", she thought.