Chapter 30
The Princ.i.p.al
Master Lang was lead along a winding path filled with plants and medicinal herbs. The Qi here was dense, letting the local fauna flourish. Soon they reached a stately building with majestic gold trim on the outside.
A sword statue stood in front of the building. Just by looking at it you could tell it had great mysteries regarding the dao of the sword hidden inside it.
Master Lang was actually startled when he saw the statue. The elder saw his expression from the corner of his eye and smirked. This was a statue personally carved by the founder of the Majestic Sword Academy whose sword arts was legendary throughout the world back then.
With such a powerful cultivator had personally carved such a thing, how could it be simple? In truth to those who studied the dao of the sword it was indeed a great boon to look upon.
Master Lang quickly recovered his senses and acted like nothing had happened. He followed the elder inside the building, there he was lead to an office.
Inside was a woman who looked like your average grandma except for the powerful ripples of power emanating from her frail body. “Master Artificer welcome. Please sit down.”
The princ.i.p.al was being very polite to Master Lang, and with good reason. A seven star artificer was as rare as phoenix feathers nowadays. They were able to craft some of the most powerful weapons and had great influence.
If a clan or sect was able to secure a seven star artificer for themselves it was guaranteed that their later generations would be adequately equipped. Not to mention that most powerful artificers also dabbled in alchemy.
After all, an alchemist have perfect control over flames, and knowledge on herbs. An artificer had perfect control of flames and knowledge on inscriptions and metals. Because of this many great alchemists and artificers had some success on both paths. Both had to have control over flame and learning herbs or materials is all that separated the two jobs.
Master Lang politely acknowledged the princ.i.p.al, giving her some face.
“So, I heard from Elders Li Xen and Li Xian that you were planning on staying at the academy.” The princ.i.p.al asked in questioning tone.
Master Lang nodded.“That is correct Madame Princ.i.p.al.”
She waved her hand dismissively. “Please, call me Princ.i.p.al Mayweather.”
“You may call me Artificer Lang.”
“I wanted ask what your disciples name is.”
“His name is Chu Shen. He is still a Man Stage cultivator.”
“Is he from the main family?” The princ.i.p.al suspected this was the reason Chu Shen was accepted as a disciple.
“No. He is from a branch family called Misty Pa.s.s.”
The principle seemed startled. “Oh. Anyways, the reason I wanted to talk to you was to inform you that he will not be getting special treatment.”
Master Lang did not seem surprised. “I never expected him to receive any. However, if I can provide resources better than the academies could he be allowed to accept any.”
The princ.i.p.al nodded. She had been expecting this question. “Of course, we allow anyone to receive outside resources so long as they are vetted by the academy.”
“Excellent.”
“Now that we have that down, I wanted to talk to you about a proposition.”
“Go on, I am listening.”
“The Majestic Sword Academy teaches a Beginners Forger, Inscription, and Artificer cla.s.ses but we don’t have any Expert cla.s.ses on the subjects. We are quite interested in hiring you to teach these cla.s.ses, of course you can sell any weapons you forge and you can set your own schedule. You would also become a teacher of the school.”
Master Lang simply nodded. To be honest this was the whole point in him coming. By becoming a teacher here, especially in a cla.s.s Chu Shen would be in would be extremely good for him.
This way he could protect his disciple through official channels thereby bypa.s.sing any resentment and discrimination from outside pressure. Also, there would be less resistance from other people. After all, if it was an outsider asking for favors it was an automatic response to reject it, no one liked being bossed around after all.
Princ.i.p.al Mayweather sighed in relief. Now the overseer from the Chu Sect would get off her back. “Thank you Master Lang. It is a great help for all of us.”
He smiled. “Don’t worry, you helped me as well”
Chu Shen sighed. Finally he was done with his schedule. Of course every few seconds Ti Wu would chime in with a sarcastic comment, however these comments did indeed help Chu Shen plan out everything.
First he would have weapons cla.s.s, then formation and inscription cla.s.ses, artificing, and finally techniques cla.s.s.
With his schedule he would have two days of cla.s.ses from sun up to sun down and the rest would be for research and cultivating. Seperating his two learning days was a day for rest. Chu Shen nodded, this was the best type of schedule. It would allow him time to cultivate and absorb what he learned the previous day and prepare for the next.
Taking a deep breath Chu Shen sat down and started cultivating. He still had half a day left, of course he wouldn’t waste any of it.