Ding!

  “Congratulations. Because you helped to treat the damaged spirit runes on one of Jiang Leng’s arms, your standard in this field has increased again. Current progress: 1/100. Reward: 1x silver treasure chest.”

  “What does ‘current progress’ mean?”

  Sun Mo naturally felt joyful upon receiving the treasure chest. However, this thing ‘current progress’ attracted his attention even more.

  “For some knowledge, after your proficiency level is upgraded to a high level, you won’t be able to use time emblems to increase it anymore. You have to personally practice, learn, and grasp it. Only after your progress is maxed out would the level of your proficiency increase.”

  The system explained.

  “Understood!”

  “You don’t seem to be surprised?’

  The system was curious. Its previous hosts had all revealed disappointed expressions when they heard this. After all, they wouldn’t be able to eat ‘free meals’ any longer. This was a great loss. However, Sun Mo didn’t react like that.

  “Why would I be surprised? Shouldn’t this be normal?”

  Basically, Sun Mo had never believed that one would be able to reach the ancestor-level in a field of expertise solely with time emblems. For any subject, at their end-points, there would only be a person standing at the peak. No one else could help you with that.

  For example, in the eyes of those top physicists, although everyone stayed in the same world, the world in their eyes looks different from others.

  Only those learners who could look further and deeper would be able to develop and expand a subject. As for the others, they were merely using the theories of the subject that existed currently.

  “I feel very gratified that you have such a mentality. This proved that I didn’t choose the wrong person.”

  The system sighed emotionally.

  Sun Mo listened attentively, but he then shook his head with regret.

  “You can’t possibly be waiting for me to contribute favorable impression points, right?”

  The system chortled. “Stop dreaming!”

  “Oh, there will be a day where I make you thoroughly convinced about me!”

  Sun Mo’s lips curled.

  “I’m waiting for that!”

  The system encouraged him.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations. Due to the improvement in the prestige connection between you and Jiang Leng, you are hereby awarded 1 silver treasure chest!”

  Li Ziqi brought over some paper, ink, and a brush.

  After Sun Mo cast Encyclopedic Knowledge on himself, he took the brush and dabbed it in the ink, starting to draw a picture.

  He started from the spirit rune patterns branded on Jiang Leng’s bones. Those were the core spirit runes.

  As Sun Mo drew the spirit runes, even someone like An Xinhui, who didn’t know anything about the study of spirit runes, could feel that the pictures Sun Mo was drawing contained a mysterious strength.

  “Teacher, these should be ancient spirit runes!”

  Li Ziqi interjected.

  “How can you be sure?”

  An Xinhui was curious.

  “Those spirit runes that could be bought from the market have all been studied by me. I can be sure that such runes don’t exist in the market, in fact, there are no spirit runes that are of a similar style!”

  Li Ziqi explained.

  Li Ziqi’s tone was very calm, but it caused An Xinhui to be dumbfounded.

  How many spirit runes were there in the market? Even though she didn’t learn this field before, she also knew there were tens of thousands of spirit runes that could be bought in the market. Yet, Li Ziqi had actually memorized everything?

  How impressive was she?

  An Xinhui glanced at Sun Mo and discovered that he had no intention to praise Li Ziqi at all. It was like he was listening to a very normal thing.

  (Your heart state is really vast!)

  An Xinhui felt that if she were Sun Mo, she would definitely compliment Li Ziqi properly because students needed encouragement instead of the stick and carrot approach in terms of education.

  Next, Sun Mo drew out those spirit runes based on his memory. Even those damaged spirit runes were drawn out precisely by him. After that, his expression turned heavy.

  “What’s wrong?”

  An Xinhui felt puzzled.

  “Why wasn’t Jiang Leng killed?”

  Sun Mo frowned, he wasn’t able to think of a reason.

  “Teacher, are you saying that you can repair these spirit runes?”

  The intelligent Li Ziqi immediately guessed the reason.

  The value of the spirit runes on Jiang Leng’s body was extremely high. It belonged to the type of knowledge one must definitely keep a secret. Usually speaking, if Jiang Leng was a failed experiment, he should have been eliminated.

  Sun Mo confidently nodded. Others would surely feel helpless when they looked at these spirit runes. However, Sun Mo was different. As someone who had designed and disassembled spirit runes before, he didn’t look at the surface when he looked at spirit runes. Rather, he looked directly at their core to find the concept.

  Once he understood the concept behind the design, in addition to the scars formed, it would naturally be easier to repair them.

  “What an intelligent girl!”

  An Xinhui praised silently. Her gaze was filled with admiration when she looked at Li Ziqi. Luckily, Li Ziqi was Sun Mo’s student. If not, if she saw such a genius becoming the personal student of another teacher, she would surely feel depressed and envious.

  “Cough, for great teachers as impressive as Sun Mo who can repair these spirit runes, I am sure that there’s almost none in the Nine Provinces. Hence, this situation is really coincidental.”

  An Xinhui smiled.

  “I have obtained a spirit rune grandmaster? I suddenly feel like I’ve profited?”

  According to the current market conditions of the great teacher world, one must pay a very high price to hire a spirit rune grandmaster to be a guest professor in a school.

  Moreover, if one wanted to hire a grandmaster full-time, it would be five times as expensive. Given the current financial strength of the Central Province Academy, there was no way they could afford this.

  This was why An Xinhui was so happy now.

  (It would be great if Sun Mo was a grandmaster in other subjects. Aiya, what am I thinking about? Sun Mo’s medical cultivation and spirit runes lectures are already so great. I should be content.)

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from An Xinhui +100. Reverence (10,000/100,000).

  “That’s true!”

  Li Ziqi nodded, revealing an ‘as it should be by rights’ expression. “After all, Teacher is the greatest!”

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Li Ziqi +50. Reverence (23.760/100,000).

  Upon hearing the system notification, Sun Mo glanced at the little sunny egg while suddenly feeling a sense of satisfaction in his heart. As a teacher, being able to receive respect from their students was the greatest approval and reward with regard to their jobs.

  However, after that, the feeling of satisfaction turned into panic. He must not let down the little sunny egg’s expectations!

  “I’ll definitely become a spirit rune great ancestor and resolve Jiang Leng’s problems.”

  Sun Mo set a goal for himself.

  Ding!

  “New mission issued: Please completely repair all the damaged spirit runes on Jiang Leng’s body within a year. If you accomplish this, the reward will be 1 mysterious treasure chest!”

  “Oh ya, do you know about the Deer Tail Banquet?”

  An Xinhui suddenly thought of a matter.

  “What is that?”

  Sun Mo was astonished.

  “After the 1-star great teacher examination, the Governor of Jinling would always organize a Deer Tail Banquet to congratulate the new great teachers. At that point of time, the top nobles and wealthy clans would all attend.”

  An Xinhui explained.

  “Can I not participate?”

  Sun Mo had no interest. Besides, there was only about two months’ worth of time before the 2-star great teacher examination.

  “You should participate. As long as we are humans, we won’t be able to avoid needing social connections.”

  An Xinhui persuaded, “I also dislike entertaining others, but you won’t be able to push some social interactions away, or others will feel that you are too egoistic and arrogant, looking down on others. You will leave behind a bad impression, and in the future if you want to make friends with them, things would be troublesome then.”

  “Teacher, for a chance like this, the vast majority of people wouldn’t even get it even if they begged to death.”

  Li Ziqi also tried to persuade Sun Mo. “Also, if it was someone else, they could skip it by claiming that they were sick. However, you absolutely cannot do this.”

  “Why?”

  Sun Mo didn’t understand.

  “Because you are definitely the main character of this year’s banquet. One-Vote Sun who said the sentence about dogs……creating a new record and achieving the grand slam. Who wouldn’t want to be acquainted with someone as famous as you?”

  Li Ziqi felt some pride.

  Although Sun Mo was only a 1-star great teacher, his future was boundless.

  “The invitation of the Jinling Governor would probably reach here by tomorrow.”

  An Xinhui smiled. “Oh ya, I will be attending as well!” ……

  Li Manor, a gigantic residence!

  The stone lions at the entrance were imposing and tyrannical. Those horse carriages that passed by would either have to take a detour around the area, or they would have to get off their horses or carriages. After all, this was the location of power belonging to Prince Li Zixing.

  Bang!

  A small door in the mansion slammed into the face of a grey-nosed Zhang Hanfu who had an unsightly expression. He knew he was finished.

  (What should I do?)

  Zhang Hanfu glanced at the endless stream of horses and carriages on the streets, but he felt extremely cold.

  In the meeting room.

  Li Zixing had a look of disdain on his face as he waved his hands. “Maids, come over and throw away this teacup!”

  A maid instantly went up and took away the teacup that Zhang Hanfu had used.

  “Trash. A 2-star great teacher couldn’t even handle a new teacher? What a waste of my trust!”

  The more Li Zixing thought about this, the angrier he was. He directly swept his teacup, something that cost 1,000 taels of silver, onto the ground.

  “Bang!”

  The teacup shattered.

  “Prince, please calm down!”

  Ni Jingting waved his fan, having a calm expression. He was a 3-star great teacher and was a private tutor that Li Zixing hired with a huge sum of money.

  Other than strategizing for Li Zixing, he was also in charge of teaching Li Zixing’s children.

  “Oh, seeing how Teacher Ni is so confident, you should have a way to resolve the problem?”

  Li Zixing’s spirits stirred.

  “The Central Province Academy was originally like a dead dog, the reason they could reverse their situation is all because of this Sun Mo. Hence, as long as he is finished off, everything else would be easily solved.”

  Ni Jingting lightly fanned himself while he drank a cup of tea.

  He didn’t like a dry and dull lifestyle of giving lectures; it was too much effort. How could that be compared to his current circumstances? He could enjoy his tea and give some ideas to gain a huge amount of wealth. He could even focus on his cultivation.

  “Assassinate Sun Mo?”

  Li Zixing frowned. Before this, this solution could work. But now, Sun Mo had gotten famous through the examination and if Sun Mo suddenly died of an accident, others would surely suspect him.

  “Prince, fighting and killing is too low-class.”

  Ni Jingting’s lips twitched. Actually, he really looked down on Li Zixing’s mentality. Li Zixing was someone acting lawless just based on his status. Why couldn’t he use a little of his brains to come out with some quality measures?

  “In that case, Teacher Ni’s meaning is?”

  Li Zixing didn’t feel ashamed to learn from his subordinate as he asked.

  “There are two solutions. Either we poach Sun Mo over, or we give him a ‘social death’!”

  Ni Jingting used his feathered fan to cover his mouth. “I heard that Sun Mo is An Xinhui’s fiance? Hence, I’m afraid we won’t be able to go with the first solution. We can only use the second one!”

  “Social death?”

  Li Zixing seemed to have understood something.

  “What’s the thing a great teacher is most afraid of? A damaged reputation!”

  Ni Jingting smiled sinisterly. “Isn’t the Deer Tail Banquet going to be held two days later? At that time, just gather a bunch of great teachers to drill him together……”

  “Excellent, truly excellent!”

  Li Zixing applauded as he praised. (No matter how strong Sun Mo is, he is just a 1-star great teacher. At that time, I can just find a bunch of great teachers to make things difficult for him. Even if he is immensely capable, it will be tough for him to turn things around.)

  This time, this plan would succeed for sure!

  Chapter 496: Isn’t Teacher Sun’s Popularity a Little Too Terrifying?

  Sun Mo just ended his rest. In fact, the news of him restarting his lesson didn’t even need to be announced. The moment it spread out, it was like a tornado that engulfed the entire Central Province Academy.

  5 a.m., the teaching building.

  “Move quicker!”

  Wang Hao urged.

  “Why are you in such a rush?”

  Zhou Xu yawned. Even the gum in his eyes hadn’t been washed clean. “We came 2.5 hours earlier and we would surely be able to get seats. Speaking of which, do you want to go to the canteen to buy a meat pastry for breakfast? I feel a little hungry!”

  “Let’s eat after the lecture!”

  Wang Hao pulled Zhou Xu, rushing to the #301 classroom, a 300-pax classroom

  When Wang Hao and Zhou Xu arrived, they fell into a daze. Tens of people were already queueing up in the corridor. When the two of them reached the door and glanced inside, they were completely stunned.

  “It can’t be, right? What time is it now? Why is the class so full?”

  Zhou Xu was speechless.

  Was Sun Mo’s lecture really so attractive? Zhou Xu saw that many higher year students had come this time around.

  One must know that high-year students had stayed in the school for a few years, and all of them had found suitable great teachers that they were fond of. Hence, they usually wouldn’t attend classes of new teachers.

  “Isn’t Teacher Sun’s popularity a little too terrifying?”

  A sixth-year male student at the side was dumbfounded. He came over two hours in advance and still couldn’t get a seat.

  “I told you to come earlier, but you refused to listen!”

  The guy’s girlfriend pinched him, grumbling with a look of unhappiness on her face.

  “Wait a minute!”

  Evidently, the guy was very rich. He entered the classroom and found a student with a good seating location. He then discussed in a low voice, “Hello junior, I’m willing to pay 200 taels of silver, can you sell this seat to me?”

  The male student who was being spoken to took a glance at him and shifted his eyes away immediately.

  “300 taels!”

  The guy added the price. When he saw the other party remaining unmoved, he grew angry. He then spoke, “500 taels!”

  After speaking, the guy showed a complacent expression as he looked at his school junior, waiting for the latter to compromise.

  “Senior, please don’t harm me!”

  The junior pleaded.

  “What do you mean?” The guy frowned. “Did you find that the price is too small?”

  His temper flared as he increased the price again. “1,000 taels!”

  When the students at the side heard this, they couldn’t help but raise their eyebrows. 1,000 taels……this was enough for an ordinary family of three to eat well and cloth themselves for three years.

  “Even if you gave me 10,000 taels of silver, I wouldn’t dare to sell you the seat!”

  The school junior shrugged.

  The rich guy had wanted to say something, but he was interrupted halfway.

  “Xiao Sheng, stop making things difficult for that junior. You have never attended Teacher Sun’s class before, hence, you aren’t clear about the situation. I can tell you now that selling and buying seats are not permitted in Teacher Sun’s class. Once you are discovered, you will be permanently banned from his lessons.”

  Cai Tan persuaded Xiao Sheng because he was acquainted with him.

  “There’s something like this?”

  Xiao Sheng’s personal teacher was He Yuanjin. He naturally didn’t need to attend Sun Mo’s lectures. However, his girlfriend wanted to come here to witness the extremely famous God Hands.

  “Yes!”

  Cai Tan nodded.

  “Junior, don’t worry. My personal teacher is Teacher He Yuanjin. There’s 3,000 taels here, please take it.”

  Xiao Sheng’s father was a rich merchant and he didn’t lack money. The philosophy he believed in was that problems that could be resolved by money weren’t considered problems.

  That school junior didn’t accept it.

  “3,000 taels of silver is enough for your family to live comfortably for five years. Even if someone reported you and you wouldn’t be able to attend Sun Mo’s class in the future, it really doesn’t matter much in comparison to this 3,000 taels, right?”

  Xiao Sheng persuaded as he took out a bunch of banknotes, placing them on the table before the junior.

  That junior didn’t even hesitate and directly stood up. He raised his hands. “Everyone, please be my witnesses. I didn’t accept his money!”

  “Eh?”

  Xiao Sheng was stunned.

  “Haha!”

  Cai Tan was overjoyed.

  “Let’s leave.”

  Xiao Sheng’s girlfriend pinched him. “Stop embarrassing us here!”

  It was evident that to this junior, attending Sun Mo’s lecture was more worth it compared to getting 3,000 taels.

  The two of them walked out of the classroom. Xiao Sheng, who originally didn’t care much, now had a face filled with curiosity.

  “Are Sun Mo’s lessons really so outstanding?”

  Xiao Sheng also didn’t select his target randomly. As someone from a merchant clan, he could tell that the junior’s family wasn’t rich. 3,000 taels was definitely a large sum to him. Yet, he actually could resist the temptation?

  “In the future, don’t use money to probe the hearts of people!”

  His girlfriend persuaded. After that, the curiosity in her heart regarding Sun Mo grew even stronger. What sort of teacher was he exactly?

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Ding Lan +10. Friendly (120/1,000).

  “What should we do?”

  Wang Hao had a helpless expression when he saw Xiao Sheng and Ding Lan leaving.

  “What else can we do?”

  Zhou Xu rolled his eyes. “Let’s leave!”

  If it was the class of another teacher, there might be people leaving and freeing up seats after they waited for a while. But it was impossible for such a scene to appear in Sun Mo’s class.

  “Sigh, I feel really envious of Shengjia!”

  After Wang Hao walked to the staircase, he suddenly sighed.

  “Yeah!”

  Zhou Xu nodded. His aptitude had been better than Qi Shengjia’s. His cultivation base had been higher too and he could have looked down at Qi Shengjia from a height. But now, Qi Shengjia was a member of the battle hall. Although he wasn’t Sun Mo’s personal student, he could still follow Sun Mo and learn from him.

  Just think about it. Other people needed to wait for long hours or pay 3,000 taels and more to listen to a single class by Sun Mo, yet Qi Shengjia could listen to Sun Mo’s teaching at any time.

  “Shengjia’s dogshit luck must have been accumulated by his combined virtue of ten lifetimes!”

  Wang Hao sighed.

  Actually this ‘dogshit luck’ was once in front of their eyes too. However, why did they miss out on it?

  Every time Zhou Xu thought of that afternoon of how they had met Sun Mo in that warehouse, he would feel so much regret that he felt like dying. At that time, if his attitude toward Sun Mo was slightly more respectful, how good would it be? Now, even if he wanted to hug Sun Mo’s thigh, it was much much more difficult compared to before.

  “We can only blame ourselves for our lack of judgment!”

  Upon thinking of this, Wang Hao lifted his hand and gave himself a slap. Who would have imagined that Sun Mo would have so many accomplishments in just one year?

  (However, Teacher Sun is truly impressive. Just look at Qi Shengjia, Teacher Sun has guided him to the extent where he could become a first-rate member of the battle hall. This would truly make the eyeballs of everyone explode from shock!) ……

  After eating breakfast with Lu Zhiruo, Sun Mo headed to the teaching building.

  “Which lectures are you going to attend?”

  Sun Mo patted the papaya girl on her head. “System, open a treasure chest!”

  “I’m not going to attend any. I’m preparing to cultivate!”

  Lu Zhiruo pursed her lips. She knew that the 2-star great teacher examination was about to arrive. The great teacher wanting to qualify must comprehend six great teacher halos and specialized in two secondary occupations. These were the hard conditions. Her teacher would surely have no problem. However, he must have a ranker on the Greencloud Rankings as his student.

  The papaya girl wanted to help her teacher. Although Xuanyuan Po and Ying Baiwu were both very impressive, her teacher had shown so much care for her. Hence, she wanted to become a ranker on the Greencloud Rankings to gain some glory for her teacher.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, you have obtained 1 Divine Force Fruit!”

  Good stuff!

  Sun Mo was very satisfied. A divine force fruit could allow him to level up once. Even if he didn’t consume it, it could be used as a form of currency.

  A nature fruit like this could easily be sold for a very high price in places like an auction.

  “Alright, go on then!”

  Sun Mo patted the papaya girl’s head again. “Continue to open!”

  After Lu Zhiruo left, the silver treasure chest was also opened.

  It was a prescription that was glowing with light.

  Sun Mo’s spirits instantly stirred. Something valuable was finally opened!

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, you have obtained the lower-part prescription of the lover protection medicine!”

  Pu!

  Upon hearing the system’s voice, Sun Mo almost coughed up blood. What the hell was this? Why didn’t the system let him open a clump of dark soil instead?

  The lower-part prescription of the lover protection medicine was something he already had.

  In the past when Sun Mo played games, he hated collecting parts of certain weapons the most because he would always get repeated parts. Naturally, there was also a method to reduce the rate of getting repeated parts and that method was to spend real cash.

  In any case, the game developers would think of all methods to make players spend money on the game.

  “This daddy will not spend cash no matter what!”

  Sun Mo cursed angrily. Naturally, even if he wanted to spend favorable impression points to purchase a bunch of treasure chests, he didn’t have any. This was because he currently owned the system over 100,000 favorable impression points.

  “Wait a minute, I still have many lucky treasure chests!”

  The system would always give him a red-colored lucky treasure chest at midnight. Because the rate of opening items from such chests was simply too low, he would open clumps of dark soil for the vast majority of the time. This was why Sun Mo couldn’t be bothered to open them.

  “Forget it, since my lucky mascot has left, I will wait next time to open them!”

  Sun Mo increased his pace. After he got to the third floor, he could see many people gathering outside the #301 classroom, and this stunned him.

  In the past, if the seats in the class were fully filled, the others wouldn’t wait outside. After all, when Sun Mo was selecting students to answer their questions, it wouldn’t include them.

  “Is the rallying power of a 1-star great teacher so great?”

  Sun Mo mumbled.

  “The rallying power of a 1-star great teacher isn’t great, but your rallying power is great!”

  Jiang Yongnian passed by. After hearing Sun Mo’s words, he couldn’t help but tease him. At the same time, he also felt some envy in his heart. He also wanted such popularity.

  “Teacher Jiang!”

  Sun Mo greeted.

  “Liu Mubai is planning to participate in the 2-star great teacher examination this year. Do you have the same plan?”

  Jiang Yongnian smiled as he asked, “Your student Xuanyuan Po is very powerful. Even if he can’t make it this year, he would definitely be able to be ranked on the Greencloud Rankings next year!”

  “Yes!”

  Sun Mo didn’t conceal it.

  “Eh……”

  Jiang Yongnian started. After that, he felt awkward as he was merely asking casually. He didn’t expect Sun Mo to have such a thought.

  In that case, if he and Sun Mo both passed, wouldn’t they be considered great teachers of the same batch?

  Jiang Yongnian subconsciously surveyed Sun Mo.

  How old was he?

  ?

  All of a sudden, a strong sense of reluctance and envy appeared in his heart. He had to reach 30 years old before he had the self-confidence and capability to go and test for the 2-star great teacher title. Yet, Sun Mo was only 20 when he did this.

  It was like a 30 year-old-guy suddenly saw a more talented and richer 20 year-old-guy. The 30 year-old-guy would surely feel that he had wasted 10 years of his life.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Jiang Yongnian +30. Friendly (250/1,000).

  “Wrong, what if I can’t pass?”

  Jiang Yongnian suddenly grew worried. If he failed, that would really be embarrassing. (No way, I have to work harder during these two months and train my personal students more intensely.)

  (Damn it, you guys have to work hard for me!)

  “Teacher Jiang, I’m leaving first to teach my class!”

  Sun Mo bade farewell.

  Staring at Sun Mo’s back, Jiang Yongnian felt envy. Those from the junior generations were truly terrifying! However, after that, he felt that there was completely no need for him to panic or be jealous at all.

  Who was Sun Mo?

  He was a new superstar that had gotten the grand slam. He and Sun Mo were already not on the same level. His targets for competition should be teachers of the same age as him.

  “A genius ultimately has to be defeated by other geniuses!”

  Jiang Yongnian suddenly felt a strong sense of anticipation. Who would be first between Liu Mubai and Sun Mo?

  Dang! Dang! Dang!

  The opening lecture’s bell rang. The students immediately sat upright and still, waiting to witness the glory of ‘God Hands’ for themselves!