Threatened

Seeing how furious Shen Xiu was, Nie Li chuckled lightly and said, "Teacher Shen Xiu is so knowledgeable, saying the book doesn't exist because you've never seen it before. Does that mean that teacher Shen Xiu has read all the books in the world?"

In his previous life, Shen Xiu was also unreasonable.

"Book of Divine Lightning Fire? Oh I just remembered, I think I've borrowed such a book from the library!" a commoner student suddenly said in a frightened voice. He had borrowed three books, one of them was the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. However, the contents inside the Book of Divine Lightning Fire were too profound. He couldn't understand any of it. He had forgotten to return the book after he tried looking into it.

The voice of this commoner student caused Shen Xiu's face to darken. This commoner student flipped the Book of Divine Lightning Fire open. This book was a copied version, not the original copy. It was written with words that belonged to the language of the Snow Wind Empire. The first volume was translated but not the other volumes. The written language in the Snow Wind Empire's age was very obscure. Ordinary people couldn't understand it.

Never expecting that this book actually existed, even Vice-Principal Ye Sheng and Lu Ye looked at each other with surprise. Although they were the Vice-Principal and professor of Holy Orchid Institute, the amount of books in the library easily numbered in the hundreds of thousands and 90% of them were left behind from the ancient times. Even they couldn't say the names of every single book. There were also many books that even they couldn't translate.

During his roaming on the continent during his previous life, Nie Li was proficient with seven languages. Upon reaching Legend rank, he read various books and had never forgotten their content. Not to mention, in his previous life, Nie Li stayed in the Stationary Space-Time Realm within the Temporal Demon Spirit Book for hundreds of years, reading millions of books while he was there.

There weren't any difficulties in reading the words written in the language of the Snow Wind Empire for Nie Li.

Even the grey robed elder sitting beside Ye Sheng and Lu Ye had his face coloured with surprise. Even he had never read the Book of Divine Lightning Fire before.

"Ye Sheng, send someone to the library to retrieve the Book of Divine Lightning Fire!" the grey robed elder ordered.

"Yes!" Ye Sheng looked at Lu Ye beside him. Lu Ye didn't dare to neglect this order and quickly bolted away.

Every student in the class focused their eyes on the Book of Divine Lightning Fire that the commoner student was holding. Both Ye Ziyun and Shen Yue were also very surprised. Being members of the three Major families, they had also read a lot of books, but they didn't know that such a book called the Book of Divine Lightning Fire existed. This book was too side door, therefore very few would take the initiative to learn from it.

Within Glory City, there were three types of Inscription Patterns that were more complete which were the Snow Wind, Sacred Flame, and War Prime Inscription Patterns. Almost everyone practiced those three types of Inscription Patterns. Since Lightning Fire Inscription Patterns had been long lost during the Age of Darkness, there were only a few books, such as the Book of Divine Lightning Fire, lying around. All of these were untranslated, so they were shelved. Occasionally, there would be some students borrowing them, but after realising that they couldn't understand the contents, they would immediately put them back.

"Let me see, Book of Divine Lightning Fire volume seven."

The commoner student immediately began rummaging through the book. This Book of Divine Lightning Fire was several hundred pages thick. Inside, the book was filled with illustrations, texts, and Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern diagrams. There were no translations for it after the first volume. The complex, ancient words caused many people to have a headache just by looking at them. After turning to volume seven, the commoner student realised that this volume alone had hundreds of Inscription Patterns. He started comparing them one by one with the one on the board, searching for the one that looked similar to the Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern.

Everyone in the class was getting impatient. When was the search going to end?

Shen Xiu's face frosted coldly and said, "You probably found this book in some corner of the library and don't even know what's written in it. Yet, you say that the Scarlet Sunburst originated from this book! Arrogant child, you dare defile the ancestors of my Sacred Family! If you can't find the Inscription Pattern, I'll go to the Saint Judgement Hall to sue you for defiling my ancestors!"

Nie Li laughed loudly and said, "Teacher Shen Xiu, it's still too early to say this kind of stuff. This book was left over during the Snow Wind Empire's time, existing for over a few thousand years. The timing of its creation is far longer than the creation of the Sacred Family, right?"

"Correct!" answered Shen Xiu nodding her head. This was a hard fact that she couldn't deny.

"Then, it's simple." Nie Li looked at the commoner student and said, "Flip thirty pages into volume seven. The sixth diagram on page thirty. Compare it with the Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern."

Seeing Nie Li's face full of confidence, Shen Xiu's heart sank. If Nie Li were to find out the origin of the Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern, it would be a stain for the Sacred Family. Especially because the Sacred Family had publicly announced that the Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern, as well as 16 other Inscription Patterns, were original creations of the first generation house master of the Sacred Family. This had caused a huge increase in the Sacred Family's reputation. If the public were to find out that the Sacred Family's Inscription Patterns were plagiarised from an ancient book, then the reputation of the Sacred Family would be greatly affected.

Seeing Shen Xiu's face showing traces of fear, Nie Li secretly smiled. The Sacred Family's fame came mostly from being the bearer of the Sacred Flame Inscription Patterns, which were claimed by many past house masters to have been created by the first generation house master. Their extraordinary talent was what saved Glory City from distress. However, the truth was, the Sacred Family was just a bunch of hypocrites!

In Nie Li's previous life, during the destruction of Glory City, every family had been fighting for the survival of the city. The Sacred Family's role was to guard the west gate of Glory City, but during the outbreak of the war, in order to save their own strength, they had gotten every single one of their family's experts to enter into the St. Ancestral Mountain Range. This had caused the west gate to be breached, and had allowed the Snow Wind demon beasts to march into the city. Nie Li still remembered the horrifying scene caused by the demon beasts' massacre.

Nie Li and the rest had had no choice but to leave Glory City! After his rebirth, Nie Li didn't have any good impressions towards the Sacred Family.

'In this life, I will let this rotten family be removed from Glory City!'

If he wanted to have the Sacred Family be disdained by all the citizens in Glory City, then he would need to reveal the true nature of this family of hypocrites first!

"Page thirty, sixth diagram?" The commoner student murmured. After being guided, he found the Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern.

"Ya!"

The crowd of students let out a sound of surprise. That Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern consisted of two-parts, with one part looking exactly like the Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern. The Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern was much more simple compared to the Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern. It was the same as cutting out half of it.

Nie Li was actually correct!

Shen Xiu clenched her fist tightly to the point her fingers turned white. When Shen Yue, who was among the crowd of student, looked towards Nie Li, his eyes became full of hatred. Nie Li was discrediting their Sacred Family!

Nie Li, naturally, noticed both Shen Xiu and Shen Yue's hostile looks and coldly laughed in his heart. Sacred Family members were all exactly the same. When they couldn't find a way to reason themselves out of a bind, they would push the blame onto others. If it wasn't their own flaws, why would they worry about other people exposing them?

"So what if the first generation house master of my Sacred family took it from the Book of Divine Lightning Fire?" Shen Xiu coldly replied.

Nie Li laughed, "Teacher Shen Xiu, looks like you're not familiar with the Demon Spiritualists' code of conduct. Do you want me to explain it to you? The Demon Spiritualists' code of conduct has been around for three thousands years. Almost every Demon Spiritualist follows the code of conduct. Demon Spiritualists' code of conduct article number 161: when taking parts of Inscription Patterns or copying entire Inscription Patterns from other Demon Spiritualists, one must indicate their sources and cannot claim them to be their own original works. This is the ethics of the Demon Spiritualists!"

"You….you..." Shen Xiu trembled from the anger. Nie Li's words directly hit on their weak spot. He directly said that the Sacred Family did not follow the Demon Spiritualists' ethics, but even so, she couldn't refute Nie Li's statement.

"If they were learning from the Lightning Flame Inscription Patterns in order to create their own Inscription Pattern, then it would be fine. However, the Sacred Family's first generation house master directly took half of it and claimed it to be his own. Isn't it a little too….. absurd? Could the first generation house master of the Sacred Family have some unspeakable difficulties?" Nie Li blinked his eyes as he spoke innocently.

Nie Li's sharp words were directed at the Sacred Family's weak spot, and yet he still pretended to look innocent. This caused Shen Xiu and Shen Yue to want to kill someone.

The students were thrown in a fit of whispered discussions.

"So the first generation house master of the Sacred Family was such a person."

"It's said that, although the first house master of the Sacred Family was only a Gold rank Demon Spiritualist, in the studies of Inscription Patterns, he was a great master who had created several Sacred Flame Inscription Patterns by himself. Hasn't the Sacred Family always been the torch bearers of the Sacred Flame Inscriptions?"

"I never thought that the Scarlet Sunburst was actually copied from an ancient book."

"I looked at the Snow Wind Inscription Pattern's records. The inscriptions inside have been reproduced or taken from ancient books but they've always indicated their source. They never claimed it to be original work."

"This is the ethics of the Demon Spiritualists. Every noble Demon Spiritualist would do the same!"

A group of students began to wonder: could the great master of Inscription Patterns in their hearts be nothing more than someone who was fishing for compliments?

Listening to the discussions of the students, Shen Yue's heart became even more unhappy, he already saw Nie Li as an enemy.

With his face ashen, he stood up from his seat and said, "Nie Li, my Sacred Family has been around for three hundred years. We are one of the three Major families in Glory City. We aren't something someone like you, who's from an ordinary Aristocratic family, can criticise! This Scarlet Sunburst was written in the first house master's notes. Originally, it was not published. We younger generations found it when we were arranging the first house master's notes. So we thought that it was created by him. That's normal."

Nie Li looked at Shen Yue. He was indeed a member of the Sacred Family. He made an excuse for this to wash off the responsibility!

Shen Yue deepened his voice when he mentioned "Major family", and pointed out Nie Li as a member of the ordinary Aristocratic families, making his words very clear. If Nie Li were to pursue this further, then, with the Sacred Family being one of the Major families, they definitely wouldn't let him off.

As for Shen Yue, Nie Li also disdained him. Before Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun's marriage, the war began, and Shen Yue immediately ran away. Hearing Shen Yue's words, Nie Li became even more unhappy.

"Student Shen Yue is an arrogant bully. Ah, fortunately there's a strict law in Glory City. Otherwise, I'd really be worried that the Sacred family would….." Nie Li was acting like a pig who was unafraid of the boiling water. He blinked his eyes and said "I believe that a big family like the Sacred Family would protect my safety now. If anything were to happen to me, I'm afraid the Sacred Family wouldn't be able to wipe that stain off."