You're a bookworm, aren't you!
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- Tai Lang School, Main Hall
"We need to have at least 700 of the 4,000 graduating students to be selected to one of the Sky Academy's, so we can get at least a matching amount of resources like we did last time from the Wang Dynasty!"
"So what, that's not the major problem. We need to make sure we have at least 1000 of those from the 4,000 graduating students to attend one of the 4 Military Academies within the Wang Dynasty, so we can get our cultivation resources just like we did 4 years ago!"
"Will you two stop arguing, what if the School head hears about this?"
"You think the School head would be upset! If the school head heard what we were talking about he would join in on the conversation that we are discussing!"
"Oh, really!"
"School head, we were talking about the school's future resources situation!"
"First you three need to come to terms, that what your doing and how your doing it, is wrong!"
"But sir this is a major problem, and we need to talk about this before it's too late!"
"I get what you're saying but you need to ...
"Cough, Cough!"
( What! )
"Who's there?"
"Hi!"
The old men were thrown off when they saw the small Qing Long, standing there quietly, and even though he was a little kid, there was this certain calmness about him that made the men question if he was even a little kid.
Hmmm...
"Now who might you be little one?"
"I was sent here to attend this school."
"Oh yeah, and why do you think you can attend here?"
"Because I was sent here!"
( The boy said that to us, with a straight face and he's not nervous at all!"
( You think the boy is just brighter than others his age then? )
( I think the boy should be tested! )
(Maybe we should try that thing...
"Well, are you three done talking?"
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"Why you little brat!"
" Show some respect you little twerp!"
" You Little brat come over here, and put your hand on the Spirit Marble Column."
"Oh wow!"
"What, are you amazed that you get to see a Marble Spirit Column?"
"No, I'm amazed that you're still using one of these, why don't you use a Spirit Life orb?"
"I read in a book once that a couple of hundred years ago, people from the upper realms connected to the dynasties that control Planet Azure, that they were introduced to Spirit Life Orbs to test their disciple's and clan members for their cultivation talent and Spirit Soul Potential!"
Hmm...
"You're a bookworm, aren't you!"
"Only when I have to be, or I'll have to do chores or learn useless skills and things!"
"Oh, and what might those be?"
"like learning how to do calligraphy or make talismans or create Spirit weapons, as a spirit Blacksmith!"
( What the heck, how do I know what those things are? )
"So you think, learning any of those things is useless, no but a waste of my time. If I need something I can just trade for something or buy the things I need!"
"So if you got stuck on your path of cultivation, you would just ask someone for help!"
"Yea, that's how the world works, nothing is for free, take this school for example. If per se this school was attacked and on the brink of destruction or pushed to the edge and this Tai Lang School truly experienced a deep threat that could end the school's existence, all of the past students that attended this school when they had just started down on their path towards immortality. If we are to come to know that the people and the place that gave them a chance, were on the brink of destruction. Then they would come to help, even if we were about to be wiped from existence. They would come without question, when you help a homeless man on the street, from experiencing hunger, even for one day. Where to know the man who saved his life, was about to be killed or even in just some trouble I believe they would come without hesitation!"
"You think that much about favors and you believe that being true to one's self is the best case of action, what do you believe then, if you aren't allowed to join this school because of insufficient talent?
"To be honest, from the moment I entered this room, I have been watching you three!"
All three men were thrown off by Qing Long's statement. Causing all of them to reevaluate the little boy in front of them and not think of him as just another kid within the Tai Lang School.
( Okay, I seriously need to talk when this system thing is done or whatever, I feel completely different from when I first woke up! )
Qing Long then walked up to the White Marble Spirit Column, and then looked back at the three men as he hovered his hand above the surface of the column.
"You're not asking the right question old man!"
"Then, what is the right question kid?"
"It's not what others think about yourself, it's what you think about yourself! If you can't believe in yourself then how can others believe in you?"
As Qing Long was standing there the other 2 men were starring at Qing Long, with questions on their minds.
The school head, on the other hand, was extremely intrigued by the boy in front of him!"
"I don't believe that entirely when push comes to shove most will only think about themselves and not others when things get hard or dangerous, not even thinking about another when the going gets tough!"
"So, if what you think about people is really true and that people are only out there to help themselves. Then therein for a world of trouble, unlike the mortals that occupy and are a dozen if not 50 times more than cultivators, were to abandon their saviors or the person that help them, most of the time nothing would happen to them. But it's a different story when it comes to cultivators, if we screw up we can affect our karma or form an inner mental demon that could affect not just our cultivation but also our lives.
Qing Long then placed his hand onto the column, and it began to glow. There were 16 stars on the column and the more you lit up, meant the higher your talent towards cultivation was.
if someone looked harder they would see that the top was missing, most that were good at observation skills would see that 16 starts weren't the highest for the column, but that the top of the column was broken, but in truth was smashed off in an effort to protect and hide talents of a higher caliber than 16 stars.
The column started to rise, the higher it went the more stars kept rising it reached the 5th star and the old men raised their eyebrows in surprise when the 9th star lit up in indigo purple. The two old men that were arguing earlier got up from their seats in surprise, they began to sweat and get confused at how some random kid that just so happened to show had talent that was high enough to leave their realm and head to the upper realm to cultivate.
Within another two minutes, Qing Long's talent had been red by the White Marble Spirit column, it reached the 11th star on the column and now the school head was now sweating as the vice head that helped found the school with the founding of Tai Lang School Head, had a talent that reached the 11th star on the column.
After another 5 minutes, it reached the 14th star, and the two old men fell to their knees, as they knew that the founding School head had a talent of 14 stars back then, they even knew he was still kicking around, even though it had been more than 100,000 years.
The news reached their planet 300 years ago, when they found out that the founding school head was still alive, it gave their school great pride, even after he had left the realm above theirs, giving them the impression that they'd never see the founding school head, they were now scared and excited that the boy in front of them was just as talented as the last person to ascend to the next realm.
At this point, Qing Long turned his head towards the 3 old men and then smiled.
"I think this has taken long enough!"
Qing Long, then pushed the small but powerful Spirit Qi he had hidden in his body, faster into the White Marble Spirit Column, and the column lit up faster reaching the 16th star in under 30 seconds.