Swish~ Swish~ Swish~

  Zhou Yao’s sword was never far from Xuanyuan Po’s vitals.

  “Ah!”

  Li Ziqi involuntarily cried out. This was too dangerous. If the combat addict was just the slightest bit careless, he would die.

  “How strong!”

  Jiang Leng felt a little regret at letting Ying Baiwu win. Given the speed Zhou Yao displayed, she was really very powerful. Even though Ying Baiwu was a long-range fighter, she might not be able to have too many advantages.

  For such a life-and-death battle, he should be the one to face it.

  Yet, Ying Baiwu didn’t feel any dread or fear. She took a few steps forward and opened her eyes wide, staring intently at each of Zhou Yao’s movements, wanting to find her weakness.

  “Isn’t she a little too strong?”

  The great teachers were shocked.

  Compared to the tall, sturdy, and muscular Xuanyuan Po, Zhou Yao looked like an ordinary young girl. However, her sword agilely weaved through the air and would even clash against the combat addict head-on. She wasn’t in any way inferior in terms of strength.

  It was unknown how her slender arms could contain such immense power.

  Sun Mo stared at her, but in the end, the words that appeared were ‘Your level of Divine Sight is too low, it’s impossible to read any data of your target.’

  “Are you kidding me? My Divine Sight is at the ancestor-level!”

  Sun Mo instantly frowned so severely that his brows could crush a crab to death.

  “Sorry, there’s still the legendary-level above the ancestor-level!”

  The system replied.

  “What origins does this Zhou Yao have exactly?”

  Sun Mo subconsciously thought about Dark Dawn. They might be the ones stirring up trouble, or she might be a student of a secondary saint.

  But speaking of which, Zhou Yao’s teacher had never appeared at all!

  Bang!

  Zhou Yao caused Xuanyuan Po to stumble backward and fall. After that, she gazed at her sleeves that were torn by him and she praised, “You actually could injure me? Interesting!”

  Xuanyuan Po climbed up and had a heavy expression on his face. “I originally didn’t want to use this, but I admit that I’m not a match for you. Hence, in order for me to fight better, I have to use it.”

  Hua~

  A commotion shook the audience. Xuanyuan Po who was so powerful was actually inferior to her. However, everyone was curious. What was he going to use exactly?

  “Please!”

  Zhou Yao elegantly spoke.

  Xuanyuan Po took out a spirit rune from his robes and tore it with his hands.

  Crackle~ crackle~

  Golden arcs of lightning immediately manifested. After that, they were like fish swimming in the pool, cloaking Xuanyuan Po.

  Crackle~ crackle~

  Crackling sounds rang out. They were like sparks flying off a flint, igniting the spirit qi from Xuanyuan Po’s body.

  RUMBLE~

  A corona of radiant golden spirit qi flowed out from him, enveloping him and allowing his combat strength to instantly surge.

  Hua~

  Exclamations of surprise rang out from the surroundings. At this moment, the gazes of over 30,000 people were all fixed on Xuanyuan Po.

  Golden spirit qi! They had never seen this before. Why did the hair of this fellow suddenly become golden?

  Also, all of his hair was spiked up!

  How should they put it? There was actually a cool sense of beauty exuding from him!

  “What is this?”

  Zhou Yao asked. She could sense that the spirit pressure from Xuanyuan Po directly rose by three times.

  What was spirit pressure?

  It was the pressure generated when spirit qi flowed out.

  Actually, this was the same logic as wind pressure. It was just that spirit pressure was generated by spirit qi.

  “This is the Dragon Ball Spirit Rune!”

  Xuanyuan Po was a single-cell organism. In his brain, he had never had the concept of keeping things a secret.

  “Eh? What a strange name. I can be considered to have some experience in the field of spirit rune, but why have I never heard of this before? Student Xuanyuan, can you tell me more about this?”

  Zhou Yao consulted.

  “I don’t know the specifics, but this is something my teacher invented!”

  After Xuanyuan Po finished speaking, he urged, “Are you prepared? I’m going to attack!”

  Hua~

  This time around, the sound from the audience wasn’t loud, but the great teachers were actually the one exclaiming in surprise instead. This was because the content of Xuanyuan Po’s words was too stunning.

  Sun Mo invented a brand new spirit rune called the Dragon Ball Spirit Rune?

  What concept was this?

  This indicated that Sun Mo already had grandmaster-level expertise in the field of spirit runes.

  One must know that the word ‘invent’ meant starting an unprecedented process of creation. It was too difficult.

  The vast majority of spirit runes that existed in the world were excavated from the ruins of the Darkness Continent. Only a minority was invented by spirit rune grandmasters. Moreover, these spirit rune grandmasters had all left behind a heavy stroke of their brush in history with no exception.

  In the great teacher world, let alone inventing a spirit rune, even modifying one to increase its effect by 100% would be considered an extremely remarkable achievement.

  “Sun Mo is only 21, right? Is he already a spirit rune grandmaster?”

  Bai Shuang was working in the Skyraise Academy and had seen many impressive great teachers before. But even in the Nine Greats, such an outstanding spirit rune master was as rare as phoenix feathers and kirin horns.

  Seeing the golden corona of spirit qi around Xuanyuan Po, Bai Shuang suddenly retracted her thought about ‘as rare as phoenix feathers and kirin horns’. She realized that there wasn’t even a single one like him at all.

  “That’s definite. If someone dares to disagree, Teacher Sun can just ruthlessly smash this spirit rune into the face of the other party and ask them if they have something like this?”

  Xia Cang bitterly smiled and shook his head. Geniuses would always cause people to feel despair.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Xie Cang +100. Respect (3702/10,000).

  At the VIP seats, those headmasters from ‘C’ grade schools were all sighing with grief.

  “How should we headhunt him?”

  Jiang Mu from the Wingspread Academy kneaded his glabella, feeling a headache.

  “You are still intending on headhunting him? Do you even have the face to talk to him about this?”

  Vice headmaster Bai Zao from the Virtuous Academy, which was ranked 5th in the ‘C’ grade, gave a self-mocking smile. After that, he looked at Huang Hai and revealed an expression of schadenfreude.

  Now, everything was good. No one should think about headhunting Sun Mo. In that case, the capability of everyone would be on the same starting line.

  “How did he suddenly become a spirit rune grandmaster in the blink of an eye?”

  Huang Hai from the Royal Dragon Academy forcefully pinched his thigh to ascertain that he wasn’t dreaming.

  (It’s fine, don’t panic. I can use the fact that our Royal Dragon Academy will rise to the ‘B’ grade this year as bait!)

  After thinking of this, Huang Hai suddenly sighed in a dispirited manner. Leaving aside the fact that they had not ascended to the ‘B’ grade yet, even if they did, those schools in the ‘B’ grade would also try to headhunt Sun Mo.

  It would never be their turns.

  This was a 21-year-old spirit rune grandmaster. His future was boundlessly bright.

  Even if the eyes of the ‘A’ grade schools’ headmasters were all blinded, there were still the vice headmasters. They would definitely try to invite him.

  “Why do you have to be so outstanding?”

  Huang Hai felt depressed. (Wouldn’t it be good if you are outstanding to that particular degree where the ‘A’ grade schools don’t want you, but your outstandingness makes you a top-quality hire for us?)

  But no matter how he thought, Huang Hai still felt an intense admiration for Sun Mo in his heart.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Huang Hai +100. Friendly (210/1,000).

  “It’s a pity that Teacher Jiang isn’t here!”

  On the judging panel, after a major character spoke, the others immediately laughed knowingly. Jiang Zhitong was a 3-star great teacher and because of his background, he had a relatively high attainment in the field of spirit runes, but he still wasn’t qualified for the title ‘grandmaster’. Now if he saw how strong Sun Mo was, he absolutely would cough three mouthfuls of blood from anger.

  On the stage, Xuanyuan Po and Zhou Yao continued fighting. This time around, both their attacks and defenses were done even more forcefully.

  All the audience felt high from watching. Some even climbed on top of their chairs and cheered with excitement.

  “Putting you guys in the youth group is simply unfair to others.”

  Tong Yiming admired the two of them, but he also felt somewhat helpless.

  “Beautiful! Beautiful!”

  In the spectator stands, Bai Wenzhang’s body leaned forward and his eyes were wide open. He wanted nothing more than to instantly place Xuanyuan Po on an experimental table and properly admire his body constitution.

  He merely came to spectate the competition and didn’t expect to actually see such a spirit rune.

  Its effect was gorgeous and powerful. This was definitely an amazing masterpiece!

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Bai Wenzhang +10. Prestige connection unlocked: Neutral (10/1,000).

  Great Flame Black Tortoise!

  BOOM!

  A giant turtle formed from the flames materialized before Xuanyuan Po.

  Chi~

  Zhou Yao’s sword pierced through that and slashed against Xuanyuan Po’s neck again.

  Xuanyuan Po was ruthless enough. He ignored it and directly unleashed his ultimate skill.

  Ember!

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Everywhere his silver spear passed by was ignited, forming a line of flames.

  This was an attack that would cause the user to perish together with his enemy.

  Zhou Yao temporarily retreated, giving up the attacking initiative to Xuanyuan Po.

  Nine Revolutions Flame Dragon Tornado!

  As he unleashed this ultimate skill and when a flame dragon whistled past the stage, Zhou Yao lightly leaped backward and landed below the stage.

  Xuanyuan Po started. After that, he roared. “What are you doing? Come back up and fight!”

  “I’ve lost!”

  Zhou Yao spoke. She lifted her sword and placed it beside her mouth. After that, she licked the fresh blood on her sword.

  “Come and fight!”

  Xuanyuan Po urged. He even planned to jump off the stage to continue fighting, but he saw Zhou Yao suddenly revealing a meaningful smile, which caused his heart to involuntarily thump with nervousness.

  Zhou Yao’s eyes were too terrifying. It was as though she could see through everything.

  “Student Xuanyuan, we will fight again when there’s a chance to!”

  After Zhou Yao finished speaking, her legs exerted force and she leaped through the air. After a few jumps, she vanished from the battle dojo.

  “What’s going on?”

  The audience was very unhappy. They felt as though they were forcefully stopped by someone when they were urinating halfway.

  “Xuanyuan Po is the victor for this round!’

  After Tong Yiming finished his announcement, the gazes of all the great teachers turned and landed on Sun Mo, filled with envy.

  No matter who won or lost, the champion would be Sun Mo’s students. Once again, he had broken a record.

  Yet, Sun Mo wasn’t joyful. Instead, he was thinking about Zhou Yao.

  Zhou Yao left the Westmountain Academy, and when she turned at a right corner on the streets, her right hand suddenly scratched the skin below her neck as she forcefully tugged upward, removing her fake ‘face’ and hair.

  “Sugar-coated haws! Sweet and sour sugar-coated haws for sale!”

  “It’s being sold for cheap!”

  An old man who was carrying hay baskets filled with sugar-coated haws wandered into the alley.

  “Old man, give me one!”

  ‘Zhou Yao’ who removed her ‘face’ smiled sweetly and passed two copper coins over.

  “Ah, whose daughter are you? You are so good-looking!”

  The old man praised and passed her a large stick of red-colored sugar-coated haws. “Hold it well!”

  Kacha~

  ‘Zhou Yao’ bit a mouthful in passing. After that, she coughed and took a few breaths. (It’s so sour, how can he say it’s sweet? What a liar!)

  However, ‘Zhou Yao’ continued to munch on it happily because she had discovered a very fun matter today.

  (Sun Mo of Jinling, the Central Province Academy, you guys better not let me be disappointed!)

  (Oh right, I heard that the headmaster of that school is a beauty on the Beauty Rankings? Maybe, she would also be a fun toy to play with?!)

  Chapter 630: The Birth of the Champions, Personal Students Ruling the Top Rankings!

  After resting for a day, the last day of the student battle arrived. However, the audience all felt very pessimistic as they don’t think it would be fascinating at all. After all, both combatants were Sun Mo’s students, it was impossible for the two of them to go all out and fight until one dies for the sake of becoming the champion.

  “Ying Baiwu, Xuanyuan Po, please get up on stage!”

  The main examiner was still Tong Yiming.

  “I forfeit!”

  Xuanyuan Po was seated in the preparation area and didn’t even bother to go up the stage.

  Hua~

  Everyone erupted into curses and scoldings.

  Although many people had guessed that this would be the ending, they still felt very depressed when they personally saw it. After all, the tickets to the event cost money!

  “.……”

  Tong Yiming’s face turned black. (Can you respect the audience a little? Even if you want to forfeit, you have to fight casually for roughly three minutes first before you do so, right?)

  “Go on. Even if you want to forfeit, do it on the stage and thank your supporters among the audience!”

  Sn Mo instructed.

  Because Xuanyuan Po’s combat style was iron-blooded and valiant, he had won quite a few fans during these few days.

  “I didn’t tell them to support me!”

  Xuanyuan Po’s lips twitched. He truly felt no interest in doing such things.

  “Xuanyuan, you will understand after you grow up what this type of recognition means!”

  Sun Mo persuaded.

  “Quickly go. By acting so coldly, I dare to guarantee that at least half of your fans would turn to loathe you.”

  Li Ziqi prodded the combat addict, “If those black-hearted fans kept dissing you. In the future, even if you reached a powerful cultivation realm and became a spear saint, you wouldn’t be able to gain public approval because your reputation would have been damaged even before then.”

  “It’s so terrifying?”

  Xuanyuan Po frowned. After that, he went up the stage.

  “The two of you, please exchange your greetings. The match has officially begun!”

  Tong Yiming was overcome with boredom as he announced.

  “I forfeit!”

  After Xuanyuan Po spoke, he glanced at the audience. “Ying Baiwu is my junior martial sister, so I can’t fight her. Although she cannot defeat me, she’s still extremely powerful. So, you guys, please do not underestimate her. Her abilities merit her for the first place!”

  “What do you mean by this?”

  The iron-headed girl’s face sank.

  “I’m praising you for being impressive!”

  Xuanyuan Po was astonished. He didn’t understand why Ying Baiwu was angry.

  Pak!

  Jiang Leng helplessly facepalmed.

  “If you don’t know how to speak, just speak less!” Li Ziqi roared in a low voice. “Alright, thank the audience!”

  Ying Baiwu glanced at Sun Mo. She didn’t want her teacher to lose face, or she would have disputed and made things clear with Xuanyuan Po today.

  “Thank you everyone for your support!”

  Ying Baiwu bowed toward the audience in four directions, but she didn’t give a damn about these people in her heart.

  (I’m only fighting to become the champion for the sake of Teacher. Even if everyone in the world looks down on me and wants to blacken my name, I don’t care. As long as Teacher understands and loves me, it is enough.)

  “I’m Xuanyuan Po from the Central Province Academy. Thank you for all your support. In the future, if you guys want to fight, you can always come and look for me, I will accept any fight requests any time!”

  Xuanyuan Po’s thanks only consisted of a few sentences, and he would definitely bring the topic back to a fight.

  “But let’s make things clear first. I don’t have much money. So, I can at most treat those who win against me to a meal. As for the losers, you guys should settle your own food and lodging!”

  Xuanyuan Po added.

  The audience was dumbfounded. What the hell was your speech of thanks? But after that, when they looked at the straight face of Xuanyuan Po, everyone started laughing.

  “This fellow is truly a battle fanatic!”

  “He’s quite pure!”

  “Yeah, he is fully focused on this method and has no other distraction in mind. It truly causes people to feel envious.”

  The audience understood Xuanyuan Po’s character. After that, they stood in waves and applauded for them.

  “Why do you have to treat those who win against you to a meal?”

  The papaya girl didn’t understand.

  “Because we can fight again after eating!”

  The sickly invalid involuntarily burst into laughter after hearing the answer. This combat addict was truly born for fighting.

  “I hereby announce that the student battle of this competition has concluded!’

  Tong Yiming waited for the applause to fade and announced loudly.

  “Champion, Ying Baiwu!”

  “Second place, Xuanyuan Po!”

  “Third place, Jiang Leng!”

  Actually, there should be one more match between Jiang Leng and Zhou Yao. However, it was discovered that Zhou Yao had vanished.

  After that, during the evening, someone found her corpse on a tree on the outskirts of Westmountain City. From the looks of things, she had committed suicide, but the Saint Gate would investigate this all the way until the end.

  Naturally, although the match wasn’t fought, no one doubted Jiang Leng’s strength. In fact, many great teachers felt that this youth with the word ‘cripple’ on his forehead might even be stronger than Xuanyuan Po.

  As Tong Yiming’s words rang out, all the great teachers stood and applauded. Many high-ranking great teachers even walked toward Sun Mo, wanting to get acquainted with him.

  It wasn’t because they wanted to form connections. Rather, they wanted to understand Sun Mo and learn from his experience of nurturing students. However, they soon realized that they had no chance.

  Their vice alliance leader kept occupying Sun Mo’s time by continuing to speak to him.

  “Teacher Sun is really good at teaching disciples. All three of your personal students actually reigned supreme on the ranking board and occupied the top three positions. You are the first person to have done so in 300 years.”

  Liang Hongda congratulated.

  This wasn’t just pleasantries but was the truth.

  Honestly speaking, the great teachers participating in the 2-star great teacher examination wouldn’t be too famous. If they could find one or two students who had a not-too-bad aptitude, they should already burn incense to thank their ancestors.

  Even though Liang Hongda was already on the seat of the vice alliance leader and enjoyed high prestige and authority, at this moment, his gaze was also filled with envy when he looked at Sun Mo.

  As a great teacher, who wouldn’t want to have good students? No one would feel that they had too many geniuses under them.

  “Vice alliance leader praises me too much!”

  Sun Mo humbly and politely replied. He didn’t like social interactions like this, but when one was in society, they had no choice but to follow the rules.

  Mei Yazhi was worried that because Sun Mo was too young and had achieved such a glorious achievement, he would become arrogant and egoistic and might offend a major character like Liang Hongda. In that case, his future path as a great teacher would definitely not be smooth. But very soon, she discovered that she had been worrying too much.

  Sun Mo couldn’t be considered a veteran, but he was proficient in dealing with situations like this.

  “Sigh, the old headmaster’s judgment is really sharp.”

  Mei Yazhi sighed ruefully. If it wasn’t for the fact that Sun Mo had a marriage engagement, she truly wanted to headhunt him.

  He was overflowing with talent, handsome, and had a tall figure. The most important thing was that he had a high EQ. How could anyone not like him?

  To say something unpleasant sounding, if she met someone like Sun Mo when she was young, she might not be able to control it and would pursue him.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Mei Yazhi +50. Friendly (400/1,000).

  “Everyone, there’s still the award ceremony!”

  Tong Yiming felt helpless.

  The reward for the champion was an average-grade heaven-tier cultivation art, second place would get an average-grade heaven-tier weapon, and third place would get an inferior-grade heaven-tier alchemy pill.

  The rewards weren’t bad, but they held no attraction to Xuanyuan Po and the other two. In addition to the urgings of the great teachers, the rewards ceremony was swiftly brought to a close.

  “Student Xuanyuan, let’s get acquainted. I’m a vice headmaster of the Royal Dragon Academy, Huang Hai!”

  Since Huang Hai was unable to headhunt Sun Mo, he turned his sights to Xuanyuan Po.

  “Oh!”

  Xuanyuan Po frowned. “You are blocking my way!”

  This place was too noisy, and the combat addict wanted to return to the hotel to do his meditation.

  The attitude of Xuanyuan Po caused Huang Hai to feel very unhappy, but when he recalled Xuanyuan Po’s talent, he calmed himself down to explain. “My Royal Dragon Academy is the #1 school in the ‘C’ grade. I wonder if you have any interest in coming for a tour?”

  Li Ziqi immediately glanced over as she grew wary. The words of the other party were very tactful, but anyone could hear the subtle hint within. This man wanted to poach Xuanyuan Po.

  Other than Huang Hai, there were others in the surroundings, but they didn’t speak. It wasn’t because they were reserved. They wanted to confirm their offering price from the conversation between Huang Hai and Xuanyuan Po.

  If they could afford it, they would headhunt Xuanyuan Po. If they couldn’t, they would quickly step aside to not lose face.

  “Let’s have a fight first!”

  Xuanyuan Po suggested.

  “Huh?”

  Huang Hai was stunned. After that, he guessed that Xuanyuan Po might not understand his meaning, hence, he made things clearer. “Whatever you want, our academy will do our best to meet your request!”

  “Yeah, that’s why you should have a fight against me first. We will spar based on techniques and won’t use any spirit qi.”

  Xuanyuan Po was brimming with desire.

  “Hehe, there’s no hurry if you want to fight!”

  Huang Hai naturally wouldn’t act. Besides, there seemed to be something wrong with this situation. (Shouldn’t you use the chance to tell us your conditions?)

  “Why is there no hurry? After we fight and I confirm the strength of your school, you can send your elite students to look for me, so we can have fun clashing against each other. Don’t worry, my teacher will take care of their food and lodgings!”

  After Xuanyuan Po spoke, he looked at Li Ziqi. “Eh, Teacher will help me pay them, right?”

  “Farewell!”

  Huang Hai’s face sank. He left after clasping his hands, feeling that Xuanyuan Po was pranking him.

  “Hmph, how arrogant. Is it impressive just because they hogged the top three in the student battle? The Central Province Academy, right? In the ‘C’ grade school tournament this year, my Royal Dragon Academy will definitely crush all of you!”

  Huang Hai left in anger. Actually, he understood that he wouldn’t be able to headhunt Xuanyuan Po.

  After Jiang Leng received the rewards from the ceremony and passed it to Ying Baiwu, he quickly hid away. He hated crowds. Ying Baiwu was slower by half-a-beat and got surrounded by a group of great teachers.

  “Student Ying……”

  A vice headmaster who felt that he had passable looks smiled as he spoke. He looked like a pedophile trying to cheat a young girl.

  She touched the cultivation art she had just obtained as a reward. [Sky Mystic Art]? It sounded very impressive, but it was just an average heaven-tier item. She wasn’t able to use this, but this should be able to sell for some money.

  “Ziqi, how much can this cultivation art sell for?”

  Ying Baiwu called out.

  “The Saint Gate is still very generous. The rewards they give out are considered quite rare. It should be worth about 50,000 spirit stones?”

  Li Ziqi gave an estimate.

  “So much?”

  Ying Baiwu was stunned. After that, she glanced at the vice headmaster who felt that he had passable looks. “Have you decided?”

  “Decide what?”

  The vice headmaster had a puzzled look on his face.

  “Have you decided to give me a peerless-grade saint-tier cultivation art?”

  The iron-headed girl asked.

  Chapter 631: Opening Treasure Chests Continuously, Top Rewards!

  “.……”

  The countenance of the vice headmaster with the passable looks directly contorted, and he instantly became uglier by ten times. (Is there still any rationality in this discussion?) He suddenly felt like spitting on this girl’s face.

  “If I have a peerless saint-tier cultivation art, why would I still need to poach you away? As long as I shine it around, many students would be begging me on bended knees for me to take them as……!”

  (Wait a minute.) The vice headmaster suddenly discovered that even if many students would want to take him on as a personal teacher in that case, Ying Baiwu wouldn’t be among them because she already knew a peerless saint-tier cultivation art.

  “Black Doggy Sun, F*** you. You are maliciously raising your stake and destroying the balance of the great teacher world!”

  The ten-times uglier vice headmaster turned and left.

  The other great teachers also shook their heads regretfully, losing the interest to headhunt Ying Baiwu as she would ask them ‘Do you have a peerless saint-tier cultivation art?’.

  This wasn’t simply a form of rejection but also a type of contempt. In the Nine Provinces, how many people would be as generous as Sun Mo?

  “Well done!”

  Li Ziqi patted Ying Baiwu on her shoulder. (Luckily, none of you left or I would have to ‘cleanse’ the sect of its filth.)

  “Hey student, do you want to come to our school for a tour?”

  A middle-aged man walked toward Lu Zhiruo and smiled at her.

  “Ah?”

  Lu Zhiruo jumped in fright. After that, she blinked her large eyes and asked in excitement, “You want to headhunt me?”

  The papaya girl had always been a silly girl. Because of her background, she had never experienced being headhunted before. Hence, she felt this was very fresh.

  The middle-aged man glanced at the surroundings and lowered his voice. “You can understand it this way!”

  “Why do you want me? I didn’t go up the stage to fight!”

  The papaya girl felt puzzled. After that, she became enlightened. “Ah, you want to headhunt my junior martial siblings through me? Let me tell you, it’s impossible.”

  “No, the one I want to headhunt is you!”

  The middle-aged man had a straight face on. “I feel that you are the correct person I’m waiting for!”

  “He wants to poach you because you are Sun Mo’s student!”

  Li Ziqi hurriedly walked over and stood before the papaya girl, protecting her.

  “Hehe, do you want to come along too?”

  The middle-aged man laughed dryly, but he didn’t give up. Li Ziqi was correct. He truly couldn’t tell which aspects of Li Ziqi and Lu Zhiruo were impressive, but it didn’t matter. He believed in Sun Mo’s God Hands, and those who could be accepted by Sun Mo would surely have their own outstanding areas.

  Hence, he wanted to first headhunt anyone of them and slowly do his research.

  “It’s one thing if you headhunt Xuanyuan Po, Ying Baiwu, and the others. But if you dare to have designs on Zhiruo, my teacher will definitely crush your head.”

  Li Ziqi had an unkind look on her face and pulled the papaya girl with her as she left. “Such a person is the most shameless. He’s treating the entire thing like betting. He basically doesn’t know what talent you have, and he is only relying on luck!”

  “How can you put it like this?”

  The middle-aged man felt like he had lost face.

  “Leaving aside Zhiruo, even if Xuanyuan Po was given to you, he would deteriorate into trash.”

  Li Ziqi directly shot back. “Also, why don’t you spar against my teacher?”

  “You are unreasonable!”

  How would the middle-aged man dare to look for trouble? That would only be courting humiliation for himself. Also, he was worried that Li Ziqi might complain to Sun Mo about him. Hence, he feigned a look of fury and quickly left the area.

  Although he had reached middle-aged and had lived for over 40 years, when compared to Sun Mo, he was basically trash.

  “Sigh, I can’t afford to offend him, I can’t afford to offend him!”

  The middle-aged man felt depressed, feeling that it was very difficult to live!

  Sun Mo was chatting with the major characters while listening to the system giving out rewards.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your students have obtained extremely exemplary results in the student battle, and you accomplished the mission with flying colors. Special reward: 3x mysterious treasure chests. Please continue to work hard.”

  Ding!

  “In this 2-star great teacher examination, your performance perfectly echoes the behavior and elegance a great teacher should have. Reward: 1x gold treasure chest!”

  Although there were only two notifications, the rewards were extremely good.

  An hour plus later, it was already noon.

  “Teacher Sun, I will be the host. How about having a meal together?”

  Liang Hongda invited. Also, he glanced at the few major characters around him. “Let’s go together!”

  Those high-ranking great teachers that weren’t qualified to go with them grumbled at how greedy Liang Hongda was. (You’ve already spoken with Sun Mo for such a long time, can’t you let us have some time to speak with him privately?)

  If they missed this chance and wished to invite Sun Mo in the future, it would not be as simple.

  However, Liang Hongda truly placed Sun Mo in high regard. He could also be considered someone whose time was extremely valuable, yet he was willing to spend so much time on Sun Mo.

  “Alliance leader, I apologize. I’m somewhat fatigued.”

  Sun Mo revealed a bitter smile.

  Liang Hongda started, a hint of unhappiness flashed in his eyes. However, he still smiled. “That’s true. I’m sure that Teacher Sun has accumulated a lot of pressure and fatigue during this period. Let’s wait for the competition to end completely before we gather!”

  “Mn!”

  Sun Mo nodded and clasped his hands to everyone in the surroundings before he left. Very soon, Li Ziqi and the others followed behind him.

  The others suddenly no longer wanted to chat. Instead, they were staring at the six personal students of Sun Mo with a judging look in their eyes.

  Liang Hongda’s vision directly landed on Lu Zhiruo. (Why does her back view look a little familiar?)

  “It can somewhat be considered that the examination has ended. Where do you guys want to go and play?”

  Sun Mo smiled lightly and patted Lu Zhiruo’s head while instructing the system. “Open the silver one first!”

  Sun Mo still had three treasure chests saved up from previously. This time around, he wanted to open all of them.

  The last round of the examination was the Q&A round. The main content of this round was to ask an examinee the reason why they wanted to become a great teacher and how they planned to be a good great teacher.

  As long as the examinee wasn’t brain-damaged, there was no way they would say that they wanted wealth and fame. Basically, all great teachers who made it to the final round would 100% pass it.

  “Hunting!”

  Ying Baiwu’s eyes glowed. In the mountains near here, there were several ferocious beasts. Not only did they taste good, but their skin, fur, blood, and flesh could be used as alchemy ingredients and were worth a lot of money.

  “I wish to catch a bear god!”

  The papaya girl lifted her hands. (My combat strength might be weak, but I can catch a bear god to help me fight!)

  Lu Zhiruo also wanted to gain glory for her teacher.

  “Don’t talk nonsense!”

  Li Ziqi rapped the papaya girl’s head.

  The so-called bear god was the guardian beast of some wild tribes in the deep mountains. It was considered a spirit body and would manifest when the tribes encountered trouble.

  Usually speaking, touching the guardian beast of someone else meant that both sides had a grudge so intense that they couldn’t bear to live under the same sky. Unless one side was completely annihilated, the war between them would continue into perpetuity.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining 1x 10-year time emblem.”

  This was a very common reward that couldn’t be considered bad or good.

  “Contin……wait!”

  Sun Mo suddenly stopped. He had always been opening chests in a ‘normal’ manner. Would this lower the success rate? Hence, he decided to change things up a bit.

  “Open two golden treasure chests now!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  Click! Click!

  The two golden treasure chests opened together, and the light from them was more resplendent than usual. Before Sun Mo could see what items he got, the system’s congratulations already rang out.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining a piece of mysterious turtle shell. Currently, you have 5/7 pieces, only two pieces away from completion. Please continue to work hard!”

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining Darkness Species Encyclopedia: Ferocious Beast Edition. You have obtained the detailed information of 500 types of ferocious beasts, including their living habits and everything there is to know about them.”

  “Ziqi, cast a Retentive Memory on me.”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  Li Ziqi was very obedient and cast her halo.

  Sun Mo instantly felt clear-minded and refreshed; his memorizing abilities got boosted greatly. After that, he instructed the system that he would learn the content of the book.

  Although Sun Mo didn’t need this knowledge right now, he didn’t mind learning it.

  The skill book turned into motes of light and entered Sun Mo’s glabella. A moment later, the image of numerous ferocious beasts appeared in his mind. They were roaring, hunting prey, and breeding. Their entire lives were played out once before him.

  Because of the augmentation from Retentive Memory, Sun Mo quickly memorized everything.

  Next, the four mysterious treasure chests glowing with purple light floated before Sun Mo’s eyes.

  “Come, open all four at once, give me a god-tier item!”

  Sun Mo prayed as he put his hand on the papaya girl’s head.

  A few seconds later, the purple light faded, leaving behind three skill books and a time emblem shining with a green glow.

  Sun Mo swept a glance and saw it was a 50-year one.

  “There’s no great teacher halo!”

  Sun Mo felt a little disappointed, but he didn’t lose out because he had opened three skill books.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining calligraphy skill: Thin Gold Body*. Proficiency: expert-level.”

  “This calligraphy style was created by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. It has never appeared in the Nine Provinces before. Please use it with caution.”

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining the first part of [Basic Outline of Herbology]. Proficiency: elementary-level.”

  “This skill book is divided into three parts. It is the most comprehensive basic theory of the entirety of herbology in the Nine Provinces. After learning it, you no longer need to refer to other books of similar category.”

  “Note: this skill book includes some basic knowledge that the scholars of the Nine Provinces have yet to discover. Roughly, about 5%!”

  Upon hearing this note, Sun Mo’s spirit stirred. What a good item!

  Although this was just basic-tier knowledge, the improvement it brought about would also be very great.

  One must know that basic theory was like the foundation of a skyscraper. The more comprehensive it was, the more sturdy the skyscraper would be.

  For example, if you didn’t understand the pythagorean theorem of Mathematics, when you answered relevant questions, you could only calculate manually to get the solution.

  Besides, the lack of basic knowledge could sometimes cause a huge deviation with regard to the understanding of certain subjects.

  Never look down on the 5% unknown basic knowledge. Once Sun Mo discovered what was ‘unknown’ by everyone else, he would be qualified to write a book and become a grandmaster of the herbology world.

  Naturally, Sun Mo wasn’t so shameless. He wouldn’t plagiarize other people’s stuff, even if it was an ownerless item given to him by the system.

  “Go, let’s have a sumptuous meal!”

  Sun Mo was very happy. “System, how much is the merchant store selling the second and third part?”

  “The two cost a total of a million favorable impression points!”

  The system replied.

  “Scram!”

  Sun Mo’s answer was comprehensive and concise. The system was simply an unscrupulous businessman.

  “Ignorant. This book is expensive because of that 5% unknown knowledge. Do you know how long is needed before the knowledge will be discovered? A total of 150 years!”

  The system spoke in contempt. For any type of subject, the knowledge was built up drop by drop. Wanting to know everything in a single step? One shouldn’t even be dreaming about this.

  “What is the last skill book?”

  Sun Mo decided not to chat about this topic anymore. In any case, he couldn’t afford it. Speaking of which, the last skill book looked really bizarre. Moreover, the system didn’t take the initiative to inform him about it.

  [1] A type of chinese calligraphy script invented by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.