There was complete silence in the entire classroom and you could even hear the noise of summer cicadas crawling on the wutong trees outside the windows.

  Sun Mo stood on the rostrum and looked straight at Zhou Yong, giving him an expression that indicated for him to ‘continue questioning him’.

  Zhou Yong felt so awkward that he wanted to die. how could he continue questioning Sun Mo?

  That was because when they were both 16 years old, instead of other achievements, one should just look at the realms that they had attained. When you compared Zhou Yong with Sun Mo, Zhou Yong’s achievement wasn’t worth mentioning at all.

  “How awesome!”

  Jin Mujie wanted to applaud as Sun Mo’s counterattack was sharp and overbearing, it was filled with a sense of crushing aura.

  As Jin Mujie was seated at the back, she couldn’t see Zhou Yong’s expressions. However, she could have guessed that this fella must’ve felt as uncomfortable as though he was constipated.

  “But how did Sun Mo know that Zhou Yong was inferior to him? What if Zhou Yong’s background was better than him? His counterattack would have been useless and people can use it to start attacking him instead.”

  Jin Mujie thought about it for a while and concluded that Zhou Yong was a student who liked to stir trouble and was definitely not a fan of cultivation. Hence, his achievements were terrible.

  However, this wasn’t the fact. Sun Mo had used his Divine Sight and already had a panoramic view of Zhou Yong’s data.

  A gang of scoundrels who were beside Zhou Yong had been smiling mischievously. They had already been prepared to watch Sun Mo make a fool of himself.

  Zhou Yong was the beloved son of a tycoon in Jinling and was used to being pampered from a young age Hence, he grew up to become a faultfinder and loved making people embarrassed.

  Even though he was a scoundrel, Zhou Yong had a great mind. The tricks that he used usually gave the teachers a hard time, so much so that they had unspeakable bitterness.

  Today was Sun Mo’s first public lecture, and Zhou Yong had prepared to ruin his debut and gave him an unforgettable memory. However, he was met with defeat now.

  The gang of scoundrels couldn’t laugh anymore.

  “Sit down!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “Humph!”

  Zhou Yong sat down and crossed both his arms firmly in front of his chest, his right foot couldn’t stop tapping on the floor. He was in such a bad mood as he had always been the one making fun of others. When was he at such a disadvantage before?

  This was actually the first time!

  Besides, Teacher Xu Shaoyuan had hinted for him to embarrass Sun Mo to no end. If this matter wasn’t settled well, he would be implicated as well. No, this wouldn’t do, he must continue to think of another strategy.

  “Teacher Sun is so awesome!”

  Qi Shengjia was extremely excited, Teacher Sun had actually defeated that big faultfinder.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Qi Shengjia +15.

  Prestige connection with Qi Shengjia: Friendly (428/1,000).

  “Teacher has won!”

  Lu Zhiruo held onto Li Ziqi’s clothing and her excitement made her cheeks flush in red.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Lu Zhiruo +10.

  Prestige connection with Lu Zhiruo: Friendly (253/1,000).

  “Unperturbed!”

  Li Ziqi smiled slightly and had totally forgotten how she had been so anxious just now, racking her brain to help Sun Mo mediate the situation.

  The two notification sounds made Sun Mo a little speechless. (This honest lad and papaya girl must be too high yielding, huh? I have merely berated a punk. Why did they admire it so much?)

  Moreover, they gave quite a lot of favorable impression points. As expected, the more unsophisticated a person was, the easier they were at trusting people.

  Just when everyone thought it was time to return to the normal lesson, a teacher who was 30 years old or so started to provoke Sun Mo again.

  “When I was your age, I had broken through the spirit-refinement realm and opened up 31 acupoints!”

  Swoosh!

  Everyone’s gaze looked over.

  Fang Chen looked at Sun Mo with arrogance. (What right did you have to be the fiance of Headmaster An Xinhui? I would be tearing down both your inner substance and reputation and trample on them ruthlessly.)

  Sun Mo still wasn’t anxious nor impatient and activated the Divine Sight.

  Fang Chen, 35 years old, blood-ignition realm, very experienced teacher but has not obtained the star-level.

  Strength: 23, mediocre. ……

  Potential value: average.

  Remark: he is in self-denial. After he reached 25 years old, there was no more progress in his cultivation. He might not have any more accomplishments in the future.

  Sun Mo glanced at him and quickly retrieved the necessary data.

  “Oh yes, I was also cultivating the Overflow Rain Sword at that time, but my teacher mentioned that it wasn’t worthy to be cultivated by me anymore. Hence, he found another earth-tier peerless-grade cultivation art for me.”

  Fang Chen tilted the corner of his mouth upward. The feeling of superiority within his tone was enough to drown a person.

  Sun Mo laughed. “Really? Then how about when you were 20 years old?”

  “Haha, I was headhunted personally by Headmaster Zhang Hanfu.”

  Fang Chen’s face was filled with complacency.

  “Then have you been officially employed at that time?”

  Sun Mo continued to inquire.

  “Er!”

  This time, Fang Chen’s smile became frozen.

  Of course, he hadn’t. All intern teachers had to go through one year of internship. Even though Fang Chen’s aptitude was pretty good, he hadn’t been so outstanding to the extent where the school had to make an exception for him.

  “Looking at that appearance of yours, it means you hadn’t?”

  Sun Mo laughed gently. “Well, I’m now an officially employed teacher in this academy. Do you want me to show you the employment letter?”

  “You……”

  Fang Chen was so angry that his chest was moving up and down. Luckily, he was still considered quick-witted and quickly found new phrases to continue arguing. “You guys are just lucky. If our batch of intern teachers could also recruit students, I would have passed the evaluation and gotten hold of the employment letter as well.”

  “Lucky?”

  Sun Mo’s tone became stricter.

  “Our batch has a total of 200 intern teachers and only 4 people passed the evaluation in the end.

  “To win in a competition of over 200 people, is this an insignificant achievement? Then please open your eyes and look at Zhang Lan and Gao Ben who are in the same batch as me. They are both graduates of the Nine Great famous schools, while Gu Xiuxun is an honor graduate of Myriad Daos Academy. According to your theory, if I’m mediocre, then aren’t they the same? As for those 200 losers, won’t they only fit to be called useless by your standard, huh?

  “Also, you may be questioning my ability. Let me tell you, in the competition of student recruitment meet, I’ve also defeated Qin Fen.

  “Who is Qin Fen? A graduate of Jixia Learning Palace! Headmaster An headhunted him over herself, do you think he’s a useless person?”

  Sun Mo questioned this poor guy like a barrage of gunfire.

  “No, that’s not what I meant!”

  Fang Chen tried to clarify but didn’t know which aspect he should begin with. His mind was in confusion, and he couldn’t find any reason to rebuke Sun Mo for the time being.

  “Then what did you mean?”

  Sun Mo talked back at once, “Could we have entered by giving presents through the back door? Could we have received the official employment letter by pulling relations and selling our butts?”

  Hearing Sun Mo’s amusing words, many students and teachers started laughing. However, they only realized after laughing that in order for Sun Mo to become an official teacher, he indeed had certain capabilities.

  “What terrible eloquence!”

  An Xinhui shook her head. It was no wonder that Fang Chen still didn’t have many achievements despite his age. As a teacher, he didn’t even have a strong eloquence. How could he even do a decent lecture?

  “Useless!”

  Looking at Fang Chen, Zhang Hanfu couldn’t stop cursing and scolding in his heart. However, Sun Mo could talk really well with the gift of the gab.

  “Alright, you can sit down now!”

  The color on Fang Chen’s face disappeared as he sat his butt down on the stool.

  To speak the truth, he had just thrown such a big face away. Hearing the comments of the students around, which seemed to be sneering at him, he wanted to take his leave so badly.

  However, he couldn’t. He must stay behind and look for an opportunity to strike back; otherwise, he was going to become a stepping stone for Sun Mo’s career.

  The students were all whispering.

  The intern teachers, who were present, had expressions of embarrassment on their faces because they were all losers in this competition.

  Piak! Piak! Piak!

  Suddenly, there were sounds of applause.

  Fang Chen was indignant. (Are they trying to slap my face?) But when he turned his head and was prepared to glare at the one applauding, his expression became stiff.

  Because the one applauding was Jin Mujie, a three-stars great teacher. The moon-white long robe on her represented her position in the school and the great teacher circle.

  When the teachers saw this scene, they were distracted for a moment before the sparse sounds of applause started echoing as well.

  Among the teachers who were here to watch Sun Mo’s first public lecture, some belonged to the neutral clan and had only come here out of boredom. All they wanted was to see for themselves who An Xinhui’s fiance was.

  This moment, their applause could be considered as acknowledgment of Sun Mo’s performance.

  His quick-witted adaptability and nimble eloquence couldn’t be feigned. Just by looking at those students’ reactions, you would know that Sun Mo’s opening was on the winning hand.

  (How formidable, huh?)

  Jiang Yongnian pouted and thought about it carefully. Everyone was saying that Sun Mo was living off a woman and that he was a graduate from Songyang Academy, so he wasn’t worthy of being with An Xinhui.

  Who was An Xinhui?

  She was an honor graduate of Heavenly Mystery Academy, one of the Nine Great Aristocratic schools, and she had the reputation of a talent that you would only meet once in a hundred years. Moreover, she was a great beauty that was ranked 7th on the Devastating Beauty Rankings.

  If you were to seek such a talent in the various countries of Nine Provinces, you wouldn’t even find more than three of them.

  This seemed like the situation of how a national female celebrity had gotten together with an ordinary person, how could everyone accept it?

  In everyone’s eyes, the fiance of a national female celebrity should have been the son of a rich and powerful family. If not, he should at least be a national male celebrity to be an appropriate match for her in terms of social statuses.

  And what kind of person was Sun Mo?

  When everyone saw Sun Mo, they would naturally start to see him in another light. They would nitpick and find all sorts of fault with him. As long as Sun Mo had any single inadequacy, it would be magnified endlessly.

  In fact, Sun Mo was indeed not fit to be a match for An Xinhui. However, when you put him in comparison with other ordinary people, then he was considered pretty good. If he was really a useless person, he wouldn’t even have entered Songyang Academy.

  “What a formidable specious argument!”

  Gu Xiuxun pouted and somewhat admired Sun Mo’s quick-witted adaptability. It could be said that Sun Mo had borrowed her reputation to raise his social value.

  “Entirely useless!”

  Zhang Sheng looked at Fang Chen and was fuming with anger. (Did he spend the last few years of experience as a dog? How could he have lost to Sun Mo in this verbal battle!?)

  Sun Mo nodded toward Jin Mujie as a form of gratitude. His action was so minuscule that nobody had realized it. Following this, he immediately started to speak. “This brief interlude has ended, let’s continue the self-introduction!”

  Sun Mo was really afraid that other great teachers would stand up to attack him verbally again. Xu Shaoyuan and Feng Zewen, who had had disputes with him previously, were both present as well.

  When compared to Fang Chen, these two persons were genuine elites.

  Speaking from conscience, his original self’s aptitude was of above-average standard and not considered bad. However, it wasn’t close to a talent’s standard at all. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have only reached enlightenment for ‘Priceless Advice’ halo just before he was about to drown.

  “What use does good eloquence have? A teacher’s best asset is still their teaching ability!”

  Feng Zewen was frustrated. Even if Sun Mo was able to say his piece with extravagant embellishments, at the end of the day it was down to whether he could coach students or not. Whether the students improved or not was the genuine test of this first public lecture, and the test had only just begun.

  Li Ziqi observed her surroundings and realized that as compared to before, the students’ interests had been evoked.

  Chapter 78: You Guys Don’t Understand Teacher Sun’s Excellence!

  The lesson had started. When Gao Ben was doing his self-introduction and mentioned Jixia Learning Palace, which he graduated from, sounds of surprise echoed throughout the entire classroom.

  Looking at the envious and admiring gazes from those young and tender students, Gao Ben’s expression remained unperturbed, but he could feel his ego swell.

  (Zhang Hanfu, have you seen that? This is the influence of a graduate of an Aristocratic School. To think you’re comparing me with Sun Mo, you don’t even understand my value.)

  Gao Ben had a vile character in his heart who couldn’t stop sneering. His enemies were Liu Mubai and Gu Xiuxun from Myriad Daos Academy.

  No matter how it was calculated, his rival would never be Sun Mo.

  The 300 seats lecture theater was now filled with not less than 200 people. This was where Gao Ben got his arrogance and confidence from. Sun Mo had been working hard for 3 years, but the number of people in his public lecture perhaps couldn’t reach this number. ……

  The other lecture theaters’ atmosphere seemed quite harmonious.

  Some students were not interested in gossip and rumors; hence, they didn’t know that Sun Mo was An Xinhui’s fiance, nor did they know about those negative news.

  They only came here to listen to the lecture and look at Sun Mo’s standards.

  During the lecture, Sun Mo had not only dealt with Zhou Yong’s deliberate questioning but also left another teacher speechless with his verbal skill. He had also very naturally displayed his excellence.

  Putting his teaching ability aside, at least Sun Mo stood firm and steadily on the rostrum. This kind of confidence, calmness, and free-spiritedness was very infectious.

  After the students had quietened down, an arc appeared on the corner of An Xinhui’s mouth. This was the charm that belonged to Sun Mo!

  His perfect performance had temporarily won over the students. It made them want to continue listening.

  “I’m good at 3 disciplines. Firstly, the study of spirit runes. Secondly, medical arts. And thirdly, traditional painting!”

  Right after Sun Mo spoke, voices of comments were echoing.

  “What is medical arts?”

  “This vocabulary is so unfamiliar!”

  “I haven’t heard of it before? Is it a new discipline?”

  Not only the students, but even the teachers let out a perplexed expression and didn’t know what trick Sun Mo was plotting.

  “It seems like everyone is puzzled by medical arts. Let me explain. This is the conclusion of some of my experiences and will be of great assistance toward cultivation.”

  After Sun Mo finished explaining, everyone present went into a commotion.

  “He is just making things unnecessarily complicated!”

  Xu Shaoyuan ridiculed him. (A fella who isn’t a great teacher wants to establish a new discipline? Is this a joke? If it was, then a boar could even give birth to a monkey.)

  “Teacher Sun, this is your first public lecture. You must not mess around!”

  A teacher from below shouted.

  “Everyone, please remain patient and listen to my explanation.”

  Sun Mo moved his palms downward and indicated for everyone to keep quiet. “It’s named medical arts, which means that it’s a discipline that combines medical science and cultivation arts.

  “Everyone is a cultivator. Do you all think that just by spending great efforts in cultivating, you’ll be able to upgrade your realms?”

  Sun Mo inquired.

  “You don’t say. We can’t possibly be cultivating when we’re eating or resting, right?” Zhou Yong started to make fun of Sun Mo again.

  “Yes, during the period of cultivation, what you eat, how much you eat, the time you sleep, even your method of sleeping—all of this will affect your health and your results of cultivation,” Sun Mo explained.

  The students were astonished once again. On the contrary, those teachers with some experience started to frown and pondered over what Sun Mo had said.

  “Cultivation is not just attainable by meditation. The warm-up prior to cultivating, the maintenance after cultivating, and the intensity of cultivating—all of this must be considered as well.”

  Sun Mo started to elaborate on his philosophy of medical arts.

  This was actually the spirit qi version of sports medicine. In the original world where Sun Mo had lived in, the study of sports medicine was an emerging discipline.

  In the past, athletes were all engrossed in training hard. But now, it was about the scientific knowledge of diet, training, as well as rehabilitation.

  Why did certain athletes rarely injure themselves? Why was the recovery process shorter? And why were certain athletes able to maintain their peak performance for over ten years?

  Sports were all about scientific knowledge.

  Those top-notch football clubs such as Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Barcelona—they all had professional doctors, nutritionists, therapists, and fitness coaches. These people made up a training plan to ensure that the top-notch footballers always maintained their best state.

  “Cultivation is a serious matter that runs through a cultivator’s entire lifetime; hence, the cultivator’s state will always be fluctuating. And what medical arts pursue is to always maintain the cultivator’s state at its optimal moment.”

  Sun Mo explained.

  The students were still dumbfounded, while some of the teachers had already revealed expressions of sudden realization.

  “So that’s what it is.”

  Jiang Yongnian nodded. When he was training his students, prior to the start of certain yearly competitions, he would plan the students’ diet and resting time.

  Many teachers were already doing that, but they were all relying on the inherited experience from the previous teacher. They only found it to be beneficial to the students, but as for the root cause of this strategy, most teachers didn’t try to think about it.

  Now that Sun Mo had concluded it, they seemed as though they had achieved speedy enlightenment.

  Jin Mujie was flabbergasted. (This Sun Mo isn’t that simple, huh?)

  An Xinhui’s beautiful eyes brightened up. Sun Mo had once again given her another surprise.

  “Be quiet, don’t interrupt Teacher Sun.”

  Zhou Shanyi suddenly shouted with his voice.

  “What are you trying to do?”

  Jiang Yongnian, who was beside him, jumped with fear. But very quickly, he realized that the classroom’s noise had disappeared and the teachers were all looking at Sun Mo, waiting for him to continue his narration.

  “Teacher Sun is so awesome!”

  Seeing how even the teachers had become interested, Lu Zhiruo tugged at Li Ziqi’s clothes excitedly.

  “That is indeed our teacher!”

  Li Ziqi felt honored.

  Xuanyuan Po was relaxed with his eyes closed. Meanwhile, Jiang Leng was looking pensive, and Tantai Yutang was tossing around his ears and looked at Sun Mo with a ruminating expression.

  “I shall use simpler words. A cultivator is like a weapon. A weapon needs to be frequently polished and maintained to ensure its sharpness. A human’s body is an even more refined structure, so it naturally requires more maintenance. And medical arts is to teach everyone how to maintain your health and remain at the sharpest state at all times.”

  If Sun Mo hadn’t gotten the ancient massage technique, he wouldn’t even have dared to launch this discipline. Because the foundation of this discipline was the ability to achieve a detailed understanding of the human body.

  “Alright, today is just the first public lecture, so I won’t go into too much professional content. Everyone can come and attend my public lecture on medical arts.”

  Sun Mo kept everyone in suspense at the right timing.

  Ssss!

  Suddenly, there were teachers who let out hissing sounds of dissatisfaction. They had already removed their pants and he had already finished his lecture?

  Sun Mo continued to talk more about the study of spirit runes and traditional painting. Then, he drew a self-portrait on the blackboard with the charcoal pen, showing off his Character Painting Technique.

  A public lecture’s essence was to let students become interested in the teacher, and it would then allow the teacher to pull in a sufficient supply of students for the courses in the future. Hence, they only needed to display their excellence.

  Half an hour had passed.

  Jin Mujie scanned the classroom and saw the students listening eagerly. She couldn’t help but be astonished, Sun Mo’s unconstrained appearance on the rostrum didn’t seem like a newbie teacher who was lecturing for the first time at all.

  “Could it be that he was of teacher material since birth?”

  Jin Mujie was suspicious and grew more interested in Sun Mo.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Jin Mujie +1.

  Prestige connection with Jin Mujie: Neutral (4/100).

  “How is it?”

  An Xinhui asked her female assistant.

  Zhou Lin remained silent. She couldn’t find any fault from Sun Mo’s performance because this fella didn’t seem anything like a newcomer. His lecture techniques seemed extremely experienced.

  “He must’ve been practicing in private.”

  An Xinhui made a guess.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from An Xinhui +1.

  Prestige connection with An Xinhui: Neutral (5/100).

  Looking at the atmosphere in the whole classroom, Li Ziqi suddenly felt a little proud.

  “Humph, you guys don’t understand Teacher Sun’s excellence!”

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Li Ziqi +5.

  Prestige connection with Li Ziqi: Friendly (131/1,000).

  Having heard the 3 notification sounds from the system, Sun Mo heaved a sigh of relief. For him to have received favorable impression points from them, it meant that he had given a pretty good lecture.

  But weren’t these favorable impression points a bit too little?

  Sure enough, it wasn’t an easy feat to conquer a woman.

  “Alright, we’ll leave the time for questions now. Anyone with questions, please raise your hand!”

  Sun Mo ended the topic at the right time and moved onto the second segment of the lecture.

  This was a required process stipulated by the school. He couldn’t avoid it.

  Sun Mo reckoned that Feng Zewen’s opportunity to raise difficult questions was right at this moment, but he didn’t know what difficult questions he had prepared.

  Qi Shengjia had long since been waiting for this moment. He was afraid that no one would raise any question. If the classroom were to fall into an awkward silence, it would embarrass Teacher Sun. Hence, he raised his arm immediately.

  But who could have known that there was someone else quicker than him.

  Just as Sun Mo’s voice ended, more than half of the students raised their arms. For a moment, the raised arms seemed to form a forest that was about to break through the ceiling of the classroom.

  “Oh my lord!”

  Ludi was so startled he almost bit his tongue. If it wasn’t for the fact that he knew it was impossible, he would’ve suspected that these students were dummy students hired by Sun Mo.

  “What’s the big deal with so many people asking questions? He can only be called outstanding if he manages to answer every question; otherwise, it’ll be even more humiliating.”

  Feng Zewen was unperturbed. Perhaps there wasn’t even a need for the students he arranged to enter the scene, Sun Mo would’ve exposed himself by not being able to answer the questions.

  Those experienced teachers weren’t surprised at all. They had already guessed that this situation would happen.

  Although everyone would only speak the righteous stuff such as education must not be discriminating, in actual fact, the better students were always being favored. Why was it that when everyone was recruiting students, they would voluntarily want those with great aptitudes?

  They were easy to teach and would attain achievements easily. If you recruited a mediocre student, you were only finding problems for yourself!

  Of course, there were also teachers who treated good and bad students equally, but the proportion wasn’t big.

  This kind of prevalence had contributed to the situation where almost more than half of the students in any school were without any master. If they had wanted to acquire knowledge or obtain pointers, they could only attend the teachers’ public lectures.

  Of course, they could also get their answers if they inquired with the teachers in private. But they wouldn’t be able to successfully stop the teachers for questions every time, right?

  The students with their arms raised all had questions in their minds that they weren’t able to get their answers to. Now that they had the chance, they were desperately trying every way to get the answer.

  Sun Mo activated the Divine Sight and aside from browsing through the great amount of data, he pointed at a student named Wang Gang.

  “What question do you have?”

  Wang Gang stood up and swallowed a mouth of saliva. “I…… I’m at the sixth level of body-refinement realm but have been stuck for almost half a year, I wonder what’s the reason?”