A Boom sounded in my head. I was now standing inside of a library in my farm. On a sign on top of the shelves, it read Heavens Path is imperfect.
Yup. I had chosen to reincarnate as Zhang Xuan the third. This time I had decided to take in the memories Zhang Xuan. This basically makes him the third soul to posses this body. I needed the memories of this body to survive in this world. Both of them had week personalities and so they didn’t affect me much. After all, Zhang Xuan was a pretty shameless guy but I am even more shameless.
“Teacher Zhang, please correct my flaws.” That statement from Liu Yang brought me back to reality. It seems that the library had given me the ability to go into my farm in spirit form while my body stays on the outside.
I remember this part of the story so there was no need to read his book. “Liu Yang, your Soaring Flower Fist is a right handed technique but its not suited for you. Try executing it with your left hand. The results should double.” I didn’t give them a change to make fun of me for announcing that there were 12 flaws and so all the bystanders used this opportunity to laugh at me. Seriously, why are there so many random bystanders throwing in their opinions in Wuxia worlds.
With a nudge from Cao Xiong, Liu Yang used his left hand and as expected, 123KG appeared. Liu Yang appeared to be in a daze. All he could say was “Is this from me?” “Teacher Cao, the results speak for themselves. Do you have anything else to say?” I tried to keep a smug off my face but my acting level is low so everyone noticed.
“Liu Yang, I am revoking your status as my student. You can now acknowledge Teacher Zhang as your teacher.” “You don’t have to be too smug about it. This time, you were lucky. The next time we compete, I will make sure that your reputation is ruined…” the basted Cao Xiong glared at me before stomping away. the asshole started this whole mess in the first place and he as the gull to make it seem like its my fault? I gave him the middle finger as he walked away but no one knew the reference.
“Alright, from now on you are my student. Don’t look so down. the fact that he could use you in a bet just means that he didn’t care for your well being in the first place. There is a saying, once a teacher. Parent for life. A parent that is willing to sell of their children is no parent at all. Take out your card.” I place a drop of my blood on his card and tossed Liu Yang my jade.
After telling Wang Wing and Liu Yang to meet back her for lessons tomorrow I left. I didn’t want to waste time and so I started to head to the Teacher Compendium Pavilion. Before I entered I decide to pop into my farm to take a look at the library. As soon as I entered, I for a message that the innate fetal poison had been stored. Aww shit. I had forgotten about this thing. Thanks farm. Right after that thought I got a massive headache. My eyes even had a burning sensation.
Is my mangekyou Sharingan awakening? With a thought, a book about myself popped in front of me. Guess I don’t have to enter the library to use my abilities. The library seems to have integrated fully with the farm. I guess this is farming for books or perhaps knowledge. This is actually the kind of thing I wanted to happen when I made my wishes. Cultivation is a type of farming right?
Anyways, the book about myself told me that I had gained the first realm of the eye of insight. The first realm is known as Discerning Facade, which allows one to see through all disguises, viewing an object or individual right at its core. If I go into the DxD world and get the boosted gear, I will be able to use this with penetrate to see through the clothing of girls. Something for the future.
I got to hurry, if I remember correctly then Zhao Ya should be headed to my classroom soon. I made it into the Pavilion but was stopped by Elder Mo. “Ah, you’re here. Still at fighter 3 dan I see.” “Yes elder, I feel that I can make a break through soon but I wanted to check on the manual here and compare it to mines. I think that there may have been an error when I copied it last time I was here.” “Good, good. Train harder. The academy needs young blood like you.” Thank you Ender.” I then walked to pass and as soon as I saw the books, they appaired in the library. I had my spirit body in my library at the same time and so I noticed that I didn’t need to think flaw. All of the books were copied as soon as I saw the shelf. Isn’t this a little to OP?
I didn’t want to waste time so I looked around at every shelf and then pretend to take out one of the cultivation books to not looks suspicious to Elder Mo before I headed out. “Thanks you ender, there wasn’t a mistake after all. Perhaps I just lack talent. Take care of your health.” As soon as I said that last line I regretted it. I forgot that Asians hate it when you talk about their health. To them it seems like you are cursing them to die earlier or some bull like that. Fortunately Elder Mo must of sensed my sincerity and only smiled and nodded at me as I departed.
As soon as I got back to my classroom, there was a few students waiting for me. A pretty girl called out to me. “You are teacher Zhang Ren?” “That’s me.” I answered back to her. “We’ve heard that you have won in a competition against teacher Cao Xiong and the student you guided had an increase in strength by one fold” her tone was really annoying.
“Good. Then I would like you to guide me as well, to see whether you can increase my strength by one fold as well.” “Sorry little girl, I am not free.” I answered her in a mono tone, trying to brush her off. “Not free? Aren’t you very idle right now?” I knew what she actually came here for. It kind of pissed me off. “I have to recruit students. I don’t have the effort to fool around with an spoiled, arrogant little girl.” I told her that calmly. Staying calm is the best way to piss her off.
She started pointing at my face and yelled out “You.” There we go. That’s what I wanted. If I had a check list for arrogant young misses, then I could have checked this one off. She even did the foot stomp. The girl seems to have some matter of control because her expression changed right away to a calm one. “What must we do for you to guide us?” I could see that she was still grinding her teeth. I guess her control isn’t that great after all.
“Simple, Acknowledge me as your teacher. I am recruiting after all.” I simply nodded like a wise old man. “Fine, I will acknowledge you as my teacher. However… If you were to teach me wrongly or give me bullshit, I will expose your lies.” “Zhao Ya. You can’t. If you were to take him as your teacher, you won’t be able to become teacher Lu Xun’s student…” The two nameless students that had been waiting in the background tried to persuade her.
I couldn’t let her get away so its best to provoke her. Think kind of thing works best on the arrogant, self righteousness type. You don’t have the guts to? If you don’t dare, just hurry up and leave. Don’t hold up my business of recruiting new students.”
“Who says that I do not have the guts to?” Yup, it was super effective. “I will acknowledge you as my teacher right now. Let’s verify our relationship.” I just sighed and shook my head. “You attitude is too bad. Even you want me as your master, I don’t want to accept you.” I then tried to shoo her way with a hand wave.
She should really go see an dentist soon. Her teeth grinding seems to be a real problem. Zhao Ya was however able to squeeze out a haft bake apology. “Teacher, don’t get angry. I was disrespectful. I sincerely wish to become your student, may I plead you to accept me.”
“I can accept you as my student. Before that, I would like you to clean this room. I don’t want to see a speck of dust here. Also, help me tidy up the washroom outside. Scrub the toilet bowls clean. Afterwards, I will check on it. If I am satisfied with your work, I will admit you in under my tutelage. Please show me your sincerity.” I didn’t even have to wait long until her real personality started to show through. “Don’t go too far.”
Before she could say too much. I interrupted her. “If you can’t even do such superficial tasks, you can leave right now. I don’t need lazy and useless students.” The anger on her face made me want to smile. Am I awakening as a sadist? Lets hope not. But really bully this little girl is so fun. “Who says that I am useless. I will clean up now, I will scrub now.” Zhao Ya started to stomp out when she was stopped by the two unnamed students again. “Zhao Ya, how about we just forget about it. I don’t think he is really capable. He is purposely making things hard for you.”
Zhao Ya seems to have resolved herself when she told the other two “Both of you wait outside first. Since young, I, Zhao Ya, have never really lost before. Today, I have decided to go all out against him.” The two nameless students tried to whisper but I could still hear them “Inform butler Yao, didn’t he come as well? If the butler were to know that the fellow who scored zero for his Teacher Qualification Examination was ordering young mistress to scrub the toilet bowl, he would definitely stop him.” the two then scrambled and Zhao Ya started on her maid duties.
For a princess type she was pretty fast. It only took her 20 minutes to finish cleaning. “You should be satisfied now. You can acknowledge me as your student and guide my cultivation now, right?” “Yeah sure, hand me your identity card.” I cut my finger on a tooth and placed a drop of blood on the card. Geez, there has to be a better way to get blood. I cut myself like 3 times in 4 hours today already.
“Teacher Zhang, now that I am your student, can you give me a pointer or two?” She even gave me s slight bow when she asked. “Sure, sure, display a martial arts so that I can gauge your fundamentals.” I really didn’t need her to do this because my library seems to generate a book for everyone I see. I don’t need them do anything. This means I also don’t need to knock people out.
I still took out her book to check it thought. Zhao Ya, the daughter of the City Lord of Baiyu City. Fighter 1-dan Gathering Ki Stage Pinnacle. Weakness: 27 flaws. No.1, her personality is rash and she is easily angered. This goes against the White Jade Skill’s nature of calmness and smoothness, so she is unable to bring out its full strength. No.2…
Before she could finish her form I yelled out “Stop.” I stood up from where I was and started circling her. I then stood in front of her and put up one finger for her to see. Then I started poking her on various places on her body. The shoulder, her side boob, I even ran my finger up her spine. I saw her shiver before she jumped way. “What are you doing?” “Relax, I am just taking a look.” I then placed my hand on my chin before I told her. “You are sick.”
I started to count in my head 3…2…1. “You are the one that is sick, your entire family is sick…” Ah, her emotional outburst makes her look really cute. “Why did you start hurling insults? I am saying that your body is sick, I am not insulting you.” I told her calmly.
“I am not sick. In my opinion, you are the one who is sick. Something is wrong with your brain.” Wow. This girl is pretty hateful. “Don’t refute my words first. Do you often feel a vague pain in your danzhong and jujue acupoint? Especially on the night of a full moon. When the humid wind blows, a faint red tinge will appear on your body and you will… No matter how you train, you feel like your heart won’t calm down?”
“How… How did you know?” Zhao Ya was now starting to turn red. “I am a teacher. I could tell from the punch routine you executed just now.” I was able to easily guild the conversation in the direction that I wanted. She was pretty meek but was still able to ask “Is there a solution?” I could only tell her “There is a method to resolving it. Come to class tomorrow and I will explain it to you.” She immediate asked “really?”
I could only tell her “If you don’t trust me, you can look for other teachers in the academy.” She refuted me instantly. “No, no… Teacher, you are the only one.” I then pointed to a spot “That Record Crystal, do you still intend to keep it? If not then I wont mind if you give it to me.” She froze for a second be decided to hand me the crystal.
I then told her to go claim her books and lodging and get some rest for tomorrows lessons. Just as she was about to exit the room a bullet came bursting in. Damn, I was hoping to get her out of the room to avoid this situation. The man came in howling “Young mistress.” Zhao Ya steps in front of him to block his view of me. “Uncle Yao, why are you here?”
After Zhao Ya told him that she had already acknowledged me has her master the two left. It’s a good thing that I kept the crystal. I avoided an annoying situation. If he somehow got his hands on the crystal, there would have been evidence of me poking her boob.
I quickly stored the crystal in my farm after erasing the content. I then decided to have my soul form take a look at my library and I noticed that all of the books I’ve read in the past was also in here. While taking a look I noticed that more then haft was manga. That’s if I ignore the thousands of books I had just added.
If I remember correctly, there should be some time until the spear guy shows up. I quickly enter my farm and had the library compile not just the cultivation method but also every profession I could think of. There were several books that piled up but the one I needed was the heavens path method. After I finished reading the book. I sat down in the lotus position and started to cultivate.
As I had expected, my farm was completely saturated with Zhenqi. It was thousands of times more concentrated in my farm. I am pretty sure that this was actually pure superior Zhenqi. The farm is perfect after all. Using the circulation method in the manual. It only took me five minutes to break through into the 4th dan and another 20 minutes to break into the pinnacle of the 5th dan.
Obviously I was now covered in impurities. There was something I wanted to try and so with a shrug of my shoulders I jumped right into the spring. It was amazing to look at. The impurities just seem to melt of. Before I even made it back up to the surface of the spring I was already completely clean. Wet, but clean.
I did my best to ring out the water but my cloths were still pretty damp. I exited my farm and was hoping to have some time to get a change of clothing but Zheng Yang and Mo Xiao arrived. “Nice to meet you, teacher.” Mo Xiao greeted me with a bow. I raised my had and gave the to a haft wave. “Yo, are you here to look for a teacher?”
Mo Xiao gestures to the guy next to him. “Yes, this is my brother, he is extremely formidable, especially with his spear. In the younger generation, there are few who can compete against him. I hope that teacher can guide him along.” The two then whisper to each other and start looking around the room.
Yes this place is pretty crappy. I want to nab this guy so I ask him to demonstrate his ability with the spear. Zheng Yang doesn’t seem like he wants to but is pressured into it by Mo Xiao. “Since we came here, we might as well have this teacher guide you for a bit, since there’s nothing to lose. If his standard is really bad, we could just refuse to acknowledge him and leave.” Zheng Yang nods and jobs the stone pillar with his 3 piece that he had to assemble on the spot. 110, not too bad.
The guy didn’t look like his heat was in it be he still asked me “May teacher offer me some pointers.” There was no need to look at his book. I remember this guy. He got dumped and was being a wuss. I might give him some tips at a later date but he’s not going to be a harem king for sure.
“You are emotionally wounded? That is… you have been dumped before?” This line looks to have shaken him. Even his buddy was surprised by my statement. “I once had a crush on a girl. Then… I got humiliated by her. But, this has nothing to do with teacher.” Mo Xiao had on a flabbergasted face. “Is that for real? Zheng Yang, why didn’t you tell me that you got humiliated by someone? Who is it?” He genuinely seems to be angry for Zheng Yang.
“I will tell you about it later.” Zheng Yang really doesn’t look like he wants to tell his story but I still want to nab him as a student so, back to manipulating kids. “Teacher, this is my private affair. I have no idea how you could have knew this, but this should have nothing to do with guiding me in the way of the spear.”
Time to shake him up. “Nothing to do with it?” I shake my head. “This has everything to do with it. “Your spear is decisive and powerful. This is just like your personality. No matter what you do, you always charge straight ahead without thinking about the consequences. This should have been a good thing. Warriors should be like that, charging ahead without concerning themselves with minor things. However, it is a pity that after your emotional experience, fear started to sprout within you. You fear rejection and you fear humiliation. There is hesitation in your spear. With that additional hesitation, your strength greatly reduces.”
This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
Both boys looked shocked but it was Zheng Yang who answered me back. ”You…. You… You could see all these from my spear? You could tell that I was once heartbroken? You could tell my personality?”
“This is normal.” I just waved my hands as if I was brushing his statement aside. “The spear is a reflection of one’s heart. If one’s heart isn’t clear, the skills they display through it would be dark. Even though your skills with the spear is coherent, it feels as though there is something shrouding it, something that you are unable make sense of, something that you are unable to sever from you. With just one look, I can tell that it is definitely love.”
Zheng Yang was lost in thought but Mo Xiao took this opportunity to aske me to take a look. He did the same move as Zheng Yang and yes it was a much better execution. When he asked me for pointers I told him what I could see from my eye of insight. It was exactly the same as the flaws in his book.
“You have a weak stomach. If I am not wrong, you even suffered diarrhea today.” Boy, this guy sure likes to get startled. He soon recovered though. “Teacher, you could tell that I had diarrhea from my spear?” I only nodded. He then asked me to guild him but I refused. He would first need to acknowledge me as his master. I don’t want to run a foul with another teacher. Not yet anyways.
This was when Yuan Tao dropped on his knees and stated that he accepts me as his teacher. We proceed with the formalities and I sent the two off. I was now out of tokens and I need to go get some more from the logistic guys. If I remember correctly, there’s going to be trouble.
I started to head to the Logistics Building. I need more tokens o be able to accept more students. As soon as I enter, the dumbasses started to talk. “Yo, who is this? Isn’t this our ‘star teacher’? For you to not be recruiting students in the classroom to visit me, what do you want? Oh, let me guess, could it be that you used none of the identity tokens, so you are here to return them.”
I try to ignore him as best I can but when the other party is a dumbass, it can’t be helped. “I have finished using my identity tokens. I would like to claim a few more of them.”
With a laugh the idiot Qian Biao starts to laugh. “Finished using it?” Ha-Ha, everyone, come and take a look. This teacher who is first from the bottom comes here to brag that he has used up all of his identity token. Ha-Ha, this is the funniest joke I have heard in the entire world. I seem to recall that you gave him four identity tokens back then. Finished it? Him? What a joke. The teacher who is second from the bottom, teacher Sun Yan is said to only have one student currently. This fellow who made history by scoring zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination could accept a single student? What are you trying to brag about? Throw him out. Anyway, after today, he would be fired.”
I could only shake my head. “Fine, I was trying to save face for you but since you are placing your face in front of me to slap, I wont turn you down. Lets have a bet then.”
I could tell that Qian Biao was god smacked. “Bet? Fine, since you want to lose so badly, I will fulfill your wish. Just that, given how poor you are, I doubt that there is anything you could offer.”
I take this opportunity to take out the recording crystal and activate it. “ One hundred million gold coins.” My statement made the room grow silent. Then they all started to laugh. “Given your background, the things you take out would probably just be some rotten metal or similar shit-like things. You think that I your grandfather would bet with you? I can’t afford to lose my reputation betting with you.”
“I see that you don’t have the balls to bet. You are all talk after all. Just hurry up and give me my tokens. I don’t want to have to report you to the Administration Branch. I wonder what will happen to you if you can’t even do a simple job like handing out tokens.” I tell him this with as smug an expression as I could.
“Fine, lets bet. However, if you don’t have the money then I will sell you as a slave to compensate.” This guy just keeps digging his grave deeper. “Good, lets sign a contract then.” I quickly wright up the bet agreement with the conditions that the one who can’t pay becomes a slave. Easy money.
“Alright, since you said that you accepted four students, bring them here now so that can we verify your claim. Or, you do want me to make you a slave right here and now.” I just facepalmed. “Bring the students here. You are all teachers of the logistics branch, it can’t be that you don’t even know the simplest thing. It is easy to verify whether I recruited four students or not. As long as students were to claim ownership of my token, their personal information will automatically appear in the Education Bureau. As long as we verify it with the Education Bureau, the truth would be clear for all to see. After all, the Education Bureau can’t possibly be working with me just to lie to you all.”
Qian Biao quickly calls out “Li Yuan, you take a look! I want to see how this fellow could still act so smug after that.” It wasn’t long until he came back. And yup, “There is… four students who acknowledged him as their teachers! These are their names are personal information.”
My smile just grew wider and wider. Watching that bunch yell back and forth was truly satisfying. While they were arguing, I decided to help myself to 200 tokens. Really that was the entire stock, otherwise I would have taken more. Before I snuck out I called out to Qian Biao “bring me the money before 3 days. If not then I will send this recording crystal and this contract to the Administration Branch for collection. After all, a teachers whose word cannot be trusted is no teacher at all.”
With that I walked away. The fatty should be trying to fake suicide by the lake right about now. The fatty Yuan Tao was spewing a bunch a bull while putting on his face suicide act. The guy is fast when he wants to be because he had already latched onto my leg before I noticed it. I decided to check his book and yes he had the Ancient Emperor Bloodline.
“The guy is all sweaty and he’s even rubbing it off on my pants. “Kid, let go.” “Teacher, I will only let go if you accept me” he was begging and even rubbing against me even more. With a kick, he was sent flying. “Ok. Come one then.” We quickly perform the formalities.
My peaceful time didn’t last and so, Enter unrequited lover boy. “It seems that the standard of the teacher determines the standard of the students he would accept. When the teacher is trash, the student would also be trash!” I need to play my part so. “Who are you insulting as trash?”
Shang Bin falls right for it and so he answers “Trash is insulting to you!” there we go. I just pinched my nose and told him “Oh, so ‘trash’ is insulting to me. So smelly, so smelly!”
Shang Bin wasn’t even trying to hide his anger anymore while Shen Bi Ru just smiles faintly on the side. This situation could be considered her fault. This asshole is trying to show off to her and pulled me into his mess. “Why? Is there something wrong with my words? There isn’t a single person who doesn’t know what your standards are in the entire academy! This fatty came to my classroom previously. Fat like a pig, he only knows how to defend and nothing else! The strength behind his fist is only a mere 15 kilograms! He must be either the first or second from the bottom in the entrance examination, so if he isn’t trash, what is he?”
I look over to the fatty and he tells me that he’s ranked 9997th. “It can’t be that you accept anyone who is a student?” Shang Bin sneers once again. Then, flinging his sleeves, trying to look cool. “I have a clear requirement when accepting students. I don’t accept anyone who is below the 500th in rank! The teacher who is first from the bottom and the student who is first from the bottom… How compatible! Ha-ha!”
“Good.” I told him. “You admit that you have no talent as a teacher and only rely on the talent of your students. Anyone can use a sharp knife. It takes a master to use a dull knife to get the same results. Now are you done talking? If yes then shoo.”
“You. It seems that a rotten wood cannot be carved. Teacher Bi Ru, let’s go. If we stay with this kind of trash for too long, we would be contaminated by them. Hearing this. Shen Bi Ru frowns her pretty face before turning around to face me. “Teacher Zhang Ren. Although the previous time you didn’t score so well for your Teacher Qualification Examination, do not give up on yourself. Work hard and you will find yourself rewarded in the end.”
I could only thank her for her advice but I noticed the way she was looking at Yuan Tao. “Teacher Shen, don’t take this the wrong way but I am disappointed in you. For someone who is also walking the path of a master teacher to look at a student with such distain. Really. The roll of a master teacher is to uplift all of humanity. Not just those with talent. Sadly, it looks like you have not put in that much effort. If you had put in more effort in your studies instead of courting men, you may have awaken the eye of insight. If you had, you would be able to see that his student here has a dormant bloodline. If he was given a single bloodlike awakening pill, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sored straight pass 8 dan grandmaster.” I then waved for Yuan Tao to follow me. He seems to be excited when I mentioned that he had a bloodline.
The two of us just left the dumbfounded beauty there. “Yuan Tao take your token and claim tour books and lodging. I will see you tomorrow for classes. Don’t be late.” I still had time so I decided to go into town get some shopping done.
I needed to find some Frigid Sun Grass so I headed to the trade town. I saw a stand that was selling hers and other miscellaneous items and so I decide to ask him if he sold any Frigid Sun Grass. He did and I was shown several stalks. Good, this was the same one had that the Frigid Sun Mother Grass.
It was damaged and so I offered to pay 30 gold for the mother grass. After some negotiation, I offered to buy all 6 for 30 and he agreed. I also went through his entire stock of hers and bought them all but before I paid him I grabbed his wrist and started to act like an expert.
“Brother, If I’m not wrong, you are from Xia Pingyi.” The man was surprised. “How… How did you know?” he looked surprised. “It doesn’t matter how I know of it. Half a year ago, you probably met with danger in Tianxuan Forest and was bitten by a Cold Bamboo Snake. Although you managed to escape with your life, your kidneys were damaged. If I’m not wrong, When you are doing that, it is difficult for you to showcase your masculinity!”
He was just standing there gaping like a fish at my words. “looks like you don’t trust my words. Just forget it then. I will just pay and go.” If I was in his place I wouldn’t want to live anymore either and so he quickly stopped me. “Gongzi, don’t go. Can you truly treat me?” I turned around and flicked my sleeves, acting like a cool master in those Wuxia movies begore telling him “I won’t force you to believe me! However, since I am able to tell what is wrong with you, naturally, I have my own ways to treat it as well!”
The man was on his knees grabbing my robes while begging “Gongzi, I plead you to help treat me. As long as you can treat me everything here is free for your taking.” Yes I can easily afford his stuff but free is best. With the advice on how the gall of a cold bamboo snake could help, he ran off and in just a few minutes he was cured. I quickly added all of the hers into my farm and bought seeds to farm them.
I need to add in more plants and so I did just that. Not only plants and seeds but I also added in several spirit animals like chickens and fish. Before I just stored everything but now I want the farm to raise them and so I had an upkeep to feed the animals. 1500 gold a day was sill not that much so I don’t have to worry for a while.
Its no good to get into the mess with the scammer appraiser and so I headed off to the Huang Yu Bookstore. Inside was a pretty girl working behind the counter. I took a look at all of her bookshelves and adding in everything before asking the girl if she had any 6 dan cultivation books.
““Fighter 6-dan cultivation technique? Gongzi must be joking. Such secret manuals on cultivation technique cost a hefty sum, a little business like ours doesn’t have the qualifications to be selling them… If you want some entrance level cultivation technique manuals, we have a few of it here though…” She said this while shaking her head.
Placing my hand on my chin I asked her “Then… Do you know any stores that sell them?” She told me that it was impossible and that there are a few collectors but not many are willing to show just anyone. I then asked her if she knew any seniors that were willing to show me there collections and she did.
““I do know of one. However, he is known for being eccentric! When he is in high spirits, he won’t mind even if you were to take all of the books in his house. But if he is in a bad mood, ignoring the fact whether he will allow you to browse through his books or not, he might not even allow you to walk through his door.” She agreed to guild me to this senior and we chatted on the trip there. I was informed that he was the painting and calligraphy teacher of Emperor Shen Zhui.
The girl, Huang Yu advised me that “The old mister prefers juniors who are more obedient. No matter what the old mister says, you just have to nod your head. You should also know that a great scholar like him tend to be more conservative, so his thoughts may diverge from that of us youngsters. Just try not to squabble with him over these!”
After passing a series of allies, we came upon the residence of old master Lu Chen. It could be considered run down but was still keep neat. As we arrived at the door a carriage rushed over to us and a young man exited to meet us. Her introduced himself as Bai Xun. He looked to be jealous of me and Huang Yu but I decided not to clear up the misunderstanding.
The two bantered back and forth but we eventually went inside. Inside, we met with Uncle Chen and he brought us into the lounge to wait. It then came to me that I was a day early and so we shouldn’t have met Bai Xun. The guy was likely stalking Huang Yu.
There was a pretty nice painting on display and so I decided to comment “What an incredible natural ink painting.” This lead to Master Lu Chen introducing himself and basically forced me to criticize several other paintings. At the end it all worked out though. He asked Huang Yu to introduce me and everyone finally came to the realization that we had just met when Huang Yu asked me for my name.
“So it is little brother Zhang Ren. You can’t put it like that, manners are manners! You are able to see through the flaws in my work with just a glance, this means that you are well-versed in paintings, and you possess an exceptional eye for them. If you aren’t worthy of the title of master with your standards, wouldn’t that mean that I am unable to live up to my title as a master as well?” Having two people around my age bowing to me and calling me master was kind of freaky.
“Alright, stop being so polite. Feel free to reprimand these juniors when you meet them in the future!” I had no choice but to nod in agreement. “Little brother, to follow Xiao Yu here, you probably aren’t here for leisure. May I ask what is it that you require my help on?” Finally, I was able to ask get to what I came her for. “I have heard that master has a wide collection of books. The reason why I am here today is to find some Fighter 6-dan cultivation technique manuals to browse through along with any other books you may have.”
“My collection of books is quite vast, but they are mainly on painting. I do not possess many books on cultivation techniques here. As for those on Fighter 6-dan, I only have a couple of them. They are in my study. Come, I will bring you over to take a look!” I then followed him to both libraries and copy everything. Now that I was done I wanted to gift him with something.
“Master Chen, if you can prepare some things for me I would like to get your insight on some things.” He quickly nodded. “I will need bush and paints. Oil paints of you have them and also sever spatulas od different sizes.” After s short pause he regretfully told me “I don’t know what you mean by oil paints. Sorry little brother.”
I quickly informed him so as to not upset him. “Don’t worry too much if you don’t have oil paints. Just bring me some porcelain clay and a thick clear liquid along with the normal paints that you have. I can make some oil pant tight away.”
After I got the supplies, I mixed everything quickly and compiled the all of the art knowledge that I had and read through it. I then forced Huang Yu to model for me by sitting on a stool and then I started to paint. My first painting was in the traditional Chinese style which is basically water painting. Although it could be considered well don’t and life like, it was never the less flat.
My second painting was done in the European style and with oil paints. The many layers and use of the spatula and brushes left an extremely well done painting that painting that could have matched any picture from an HD camara.
My third painting was with oil paint also but I had turned Huang Yu into a cute anime girl. I even changed her expression in this one into a shy and cute expression with the hint of a blush. If someone was to look at this, the would say that the girl looked like she had just fallen in love.
All 3 paintings was filled with my intent and displayed the might of a master. “Master Chen. You have shown me your hospitality and this I gift you these 3 paintings. Whatever insight you can gleam from these now depends on your self.”
Master Chen was basically drooling over the second and third paintings. He had seen the normal eastern style so much that even though it was amazing, the other two just stood out so much more. “Brother Zhan Ren, what is this?” he pointed at the European style painting and the anime style painting.
“Ah, Master Chen. I am not surprised that you don’t recognize these two styles of painting. They are both lost styles from before the Master Teacher Continent was established. The one here on the left is from a place called Europe. You can call this style European. On the right, this style is called anime. It originally started as a way for art to entertain children but later grew to be accepted by people of all ages.” I shall slowly spread the otaku culture.
Picking up some of the remaining paper and a piece of sharpened charcoal, I quickly drew 8 pages of a manga story of my me painting the 3 paintings up until I started drawing the manga. “Master Chen, when anime is drawn like this.” I pointed to the manga. “Its then called manga. It can then be made into a book and shared. This is especially helpful for children. It can keep them entertained and pass on knowledge as well.”
I then gave him some advice. “Think of it this way. If you can spread this style, more and more young people will be interested in art and the knowledge of paintings will increase.” Like a devil whispering in his ear, I strike home. I knew that he would now help spread the otaku culture. These cultivation worlds are filled with pedophiles and lolicons and so that wont be a problem. Incest is wincest and imouto power will need some work.
After being told that I was invited to the kingdom book vault in a few days I left. It was already late afternoon when I left and I quickly entered my farm when I was out of sight. My farm was now full. I hadn’t bothered checking but I only had 10 acres of land. Each acre of land was ten thousand and so I just went ahead and spent ten million of one thousand acres of land. With regret, I set the farm to auto farm some of the common crops. I wanted to cry because I had to but those seeds from the shop. I need this so that I can have a food supply incase something happens. I also chose to store 1 out of every egg from the spirit chickens. .
I had forgotten that I had bought some potions from the Pokémon world and I decided to dump them directly into the spring. This gave me a few notifications that the spring had been upgraded to heal paralyze and burns even faster.
Sitting down, I compiled the golden body method along with upgrading my heavens path and started to cultivate again. In just less then haft an hour, I had reaffirmed my cultivation at the 5th dan and perfected the first level of the golden body.
By the time I got back to my residence, it was already dark. That’s when I spotted someone snooping around. Its that bastard butler Yao Han. If I remember correctly he planned to castrate me. Bastard. Even though I avoided that annoying scene readier he still came here to make trouble. Oh well, I should just trick him and beat him up. This should work as stress relief.
After tricking him and beating him up I used that cannon lines “I have a grudge with Zhang Xuan. Earlier today, he got on my nerves and so, I intended to teach him a lesson in the night! However, if he were to be castrated by you, Bi… she would definitely suspect that I am the one who did it and a misunderstanding would arise between us! Blame this all on the fact that you met me today, as well as your untimely arrival!” this way I can use him to beat up that annoying guy in the future.
Its time to get some rest but this world is really a slow mover. It would take me a while before I can get to any place with large amount of books. There is one place where I can go or it can be better said that there is one guy with an incredible amount of book knowledge. Yup, lets do another world travel.