Chapter 13 - Profound Pract.i.tioner Academy
After half a month, Lin Haoxue followed her sister and enrolled in Profound Pract.i.tioner Academy.
Profound Pract.i.tioner Academy was situated outside of Taixing town, and it was situated in a wild area of land. Here many imposing structures rose steeply from the ground. You could see profound power faintly cascading down from the tops of these buildings. Just seeing such a sight was enough to pressure ordinary people.
"Unexpectedly, there are so many Spirit Gathering Incantation arrays, it seems like I really can"t look down on our Profound Pract.i.tioner Academy." Lin Haoxue looked at the magnificent buildings in front of her and sighed.
"Of course you can"t! Do you think anyone can easily enter this academy? Don"t underestimate this place," Lin Ruoxue responded unhappily to her.
"Hahaha," seeing her sister speak with a bad att.i.tude, she made a wry face and stopped talking.
She didn"t care at all about this academy, but her sister did, so she had to give her at least some respect, right?
"The academy is divided into four different levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and superior. Each level corresponds to the realms: Profound Pract.i.tioner, Profound Master, Profound Grand Master, and Profound Ancestor. As your strength grows, you will get more cultivation resources that are more effective." On their way, Lin Ruoxue introduced the academy to her sister.
She kept speaking:
"Our academy is quite strict. If you don"t reach your goals in a set time then you won"t be allowed to return home. Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule. These exceptions are divided into three main categories. The first category is the top-ranked students since they have the best strength for their realm, and also because the academy doesn"t have many students, they have absolute freedom. The second category is outstanding students who are especially gifted. Some of these people might be able to cultivate super fast and some of them have unique profound veins. The third category and type of people you shouldn"t offend are those who weren"t able to reach the Profound Ancestor realm before eighteen years old. These students weren"t able to enter the Saint Emperor Academy, so they have basically been abandoned. Don"t offend or look down on these people as you will just be bringing disaster on yourself."
"I can"t offend those who haven"t reached the Profound Ancestor realm either?" Lin Haoxue asked her back.
"Especially those people," Lin Ruoxue said while glancing at her. "Don"t look down on them. These people are tough since they deal with issues without considering the consequences. Dealing with them really gives one a headache."
"Un, I got it. I"ll listen to you sis," Lin Haoxue promised.
"Will you?" Lin Ruoxue asked her again since she didn"t fully believe her. This time when she came home she heard a lot about her sister. She realized that her sister had changed quite a bit, she was no longer the little girl who needed her protection, and this change actually made her feel gratified. But at the same time, she was a little disappointed since she felt like she was no longer needed. Will her younger sister listen to what she said like before?
Lin Haoxue just chuckled and stopped talking. Her sister still saw through her.
"You are new here and are merely an average Profound Pract.i.tioner so you can only stay at the freshmen academy. You need to complete missions to earn cultivating resources, and after you reach the intermediate level you will obtain certain rewards. Afterwards, every time you increase your level, your rewards will double. Of course, the training area for the best students has the best rewards. There are many different rewards one can choose from such as spirit stones, spirit medicine, profound skills, and so on."
"So in each student area, they need to carry out missions? There are no exceptions?" Lin Haoxue thought that if they were all just easy missions it would simply be a waste of her time.
"There are exceptions, but it"s hard to obtain such status. That is unless one can make an enormous contribution to the academy and they reward you with enough resources to practice with."
"Oh, I see. Sister, you can go practice now," Lin Haoxue nodded her head to show that she understood. Lin Ruoxue was now a Peak Profound Master realm cultivator. What she needed now was time to cultivate and break through into the Profound Grand Master realm; therefore, Lin Haoxue didn"t want to waste her time.
"Alright, then go to the academy"s front courtyard to register. Remember, don"t cause any trouble," Lin Ruoxue pointed in the direction of the courtyard and once more reminded her. Now she wasn"t worried that her sister would be bullied. Just based on her strength alone, amongst the new students, it would be good if she didn"t bully others.
After her sister left, Lin Haoxue went to the front courtyard alone. In front of her eyes was a line of new students which was advancing at a snail"s pace. She frowned but still walked to the end of the line. She specifically wanted to achieve everything with her own power and didn"t want special care, so she didn"t show any dissatisfaction.
While she was approaching the place to enroll, she noticed that there was a profound power tablet which was used to test the incoming students" profound power. That profound power tablet was similar to the one she saw in her family"s ancestral hall, but it was obviously of a higher grade and more advanced. The profound power tablet had seven different levels and each level had three smaller sub-levels. These levels corresponded to the seven big realms and three intermediate stages within each realm.
The young boys and girls were being tested in front of the profound power tablet one after the other.
If one"s strength didn"t reach the Middle-stage of the Profound Pract.i.tioner realm they would fail to gain acceptance into the academy and could only practice at home waiting to apply again next year. But the efficacy of practicing at home would be completely different than at the academy, therefore, everyone hoped to qualify and get accepted.
However, most of the applicants failed. Less than thirty percent actually qualified to enter the academy. Lin Haoxue stood by and watched without much emotion as those who got disqualified desperately begged the teacher who remained unmoved by their pleas. She thought that everyone should take responsibility for their lives and use their strength to prove their value, instead of begging for the mercy and sympathy of others.
Finally, the person in front of Lin Haoxue failed as well and was left dispirited with his head hanging low. Next up was Lin Haoxue.
"You"re up. Go test your profound power," a serious-looking middle-aged man spoke to Lin Haoxue.
Lin Haoxue put her hands on the profound power tablet and used her fire elemental profound power. At the same time, she carefully controlled all her other elemental profound power so that they wouldn"t interfere. She saw a red light emerge from the bottom level and slowly moving up. Once it entered the second sub-level, it gradually stopped.
"Middle-stage Profound Pract.i.tioner, qualified."
The serious man spoke coldly, and when he said this sentence, there were a lot of people who looked at her with jealousy, since Lin Haoxue became one of the lucky people.
"Your name?" The middle-aged man took out a palm-sized jade tile and asked.
"Lin Haoxue."
"Lin Haoxue? Hearing this name, the man raised his head and looked at her in surprise. Could it be the Lin Haoxue that he had heard of ?
But didn"t she have double elemental profound veins... Then why did she? But then he was reminded that the princ.i.p.al had told him to treat everyone equally; therefore, he didn"t ask anything else. He continued his actions and wrote her name on the jade tile. He then pressed it on the profound power tablet and let it absorb a slim profound power thread from Lin Haoxue.
"This is your ident.i.ty tile so keep it with you. It has all the rules and any messages for you inside it. Go find a residence for yourself according to the instructions in your tile."
"Thank you, teacher," Lin Haoxue said taking the ident.i.ty tile after which she left.
All the people from the academy looked at the teacher who was enrolling new students. Normally he just pa.s.sed the ident.i.ty tiles to the new students without saying anything, so why did he talk so much to this Lin Haoxue? They looked at the middle-aged man then back at Lin Haoxue and they thought that maybe this young girl was special.
"Next," seeing that Lin Haoxue had left, the middle-aged man continued testing students.
While Lin Haoxue was entering Profound Pract.i.tioner Academy, there was a sixteen-year-old blue-clothed youth practicing in a cultivation room in the Imperial Capital"s Saint Emperor Academy. His eyes were closed as he breathed in and out circulating his profound power. With each breath, the profound power floating in the center of the room was absorbed into his dantian.
"Shuaaa."
Suddenly, a faint green light flashed in front of his eyes causing the young man to open his eyes. He unfolded his arms and caught an incantation talisman. After he read it, the incantation talisman turned to ash.
"How could it be like this? This really was a miscalculation," After reading the incantation talisman, the young man frowned and laughed soon after. "But this makes it more interesting, right? I"ll wait for you, don"t disappoint me."
"Elder brother Yun, are you finished practicing?" At this moment there was another young man scratching his head in front of the practicing room while calling out. His skin color was darker and his age was two or three years older than that young man, but he still called the one inside elder brother.
"Ah, you silly boy again. You"ve been waiting for a while, huh?"
"Haha, nah, not long. It"s only been half a month. Everyone"s been asking about when you"re going to take us to do a few missions. We"re running out of spirit stones," the dark-skinned young man spoke.
"Alright then, let"s go now. I need to consolidate my realm anyways." The blue-clothed young man stood up and left the cultivation room. One could see that this young man couldn"t be regarded as tall, but he did have a slim body. His facial features were delicate, and with his eyes closed, he looked harmless. But whenever he opened them and looked at something, it made one feel like he was extremely dangerous.