nycdaug #595 - Someone did it
#595 - Someone did it
"What do you take me for, a fortune teller under the bridge?" Professor Xu snorted, displeased. Reading М
Only after he finished speaking did the students break free from the terrifying illusion of the starry river, regaining control of their bodies.
However, this time, the vast study hall was completely silent, and no one dared to speak carelessly again, their gazes towards Professor Xu filled with awe.
To be able to use a single spell to simultaneously plunge over a hundred people in the study hall into an illusion, rendering them unable to move, that was at least the skill of a Three Palaces cultivator.
Even among the instructors of the academy, not many could achieve this.
Not to mention Professor Xu, who had been constantly overlooked by them, with many young instructors even saying that Professor Xu was too old, that Celestial Phenomenon Deduction was useless, and that not many people were willing to listen to it each year, suggesting that the academy stop offering this course, give the old man a break, and let him go home to retire properly.
Yet today, Professor Xu, who couldn't even walk steadily, gave the students a good lesson.
With a single move, he shocked the entire audience, silencing everyone.
Afterward, the old man sighed, "I know you are uneasy, so I won't blame you for your missteps. Just remember that panic won't help you, especially when encountering danger. Calm your mind, do what you should do, and trust your companions. This is the correct way to respond."
"As for astrology and arithmetic, they are not golden rules. At most, they are just a fleeting glimpse into the future. How to interpret what you see is up to each individual. You must know that believing entirely in fate is not as good as taking a chance."
After saying this, Professor Xu looked at the students in the study hall again, and then said.
"I said I can't answer the questions you want to know, but since you've all gathered here today, I can't let you come for nothing. This matter was originally supposed to be announced by Supervisor Huang, but he's not here now, so I'll overstep my authority this once."
"Vice Supervisor Guo, Academic Director Su, and others have made a decision to cancel the minor competition that was supposed to be held in a month. Instead, you will be assigned to different supervisors as their assistants, accompanying them to investigate cases."
"Remember, this is not a test specifically set up for you by the academy. You will truly come into contact with those unknown anomalies, and I believe you will gain faster learning and growth than in the academy."
The students were in an uproar upon hearing this.
The matter of the reduced mystic energy hadn't been settled yet, and everyone didn't expect to hear another bombshell.
Someone couldn't help but speak up, but this time his tone was much more respectful.
"That's how it was for the previous classes of disciples, but things have changed now. You should have all heard some rumors more or less. Recently, anomalies have been appearing frequently in various places, and the current manpower of the Directorate of Celestial Observations is already stretched thin, so we have no choice but to have you fill in," Professor Xu said.
"However, Vice Supervisor Guo also said that if any of you here feel that you can't do it, you can bring it up in advance. The Directorate of Celestial Observations and the academy won't force you to face danger. They will just erase your memories of the past few months and let you continue living your previous lives."
"I won't leave the academy like this and go back home!" Chen Hanqing was the first to state his position, resolutely.
Before entering the cultivation world, he was inconspicuous in the martial world and wasn't well-regarded by the sect behind him. But now, among the geniuses in the academy, he was already known by everyone.
Although some of this was due to the previous farce, where he recklessly challenged Lu Jing and made a bet of ten thousand taels of gold. Chen Hanqing blushed and regretted it every time he thought of this, but apart from that, his cultivation speed was indeed astonishing to many people.
Chen Hanqing didn't want to go back to being that minor character that no one knew or cared about, so even if there was danger, he wouldn't back down.
What surprised Chen Hanqing was that there were quite a few people who shared the same idea as him.
Moreover, among them were some disciples from famous families who were well-known in the martial world, such as the White Jade Young Master Lü Ping, and Guan Pingping from the Guan family, who also didn't seem to have any plans to withdraw.
Lu Jing thought this result was quite normal.
Because it was one thing to be completely ignorant before, but now that they knew that there were spells, formations, talismans, elixirs, and other mystical methods in the world that could be used by people.
Now that they knew the truth of the world and the existence of anomalies, they could no longer comfort themselves and live peacefully at the bottom of a well like before.
After all, those who could come here were not ordinary people. They wouldn't allow themselves to lie flat all day long and live their little lives happily, like the pool Lu Jing encountered before.
Even Lu Jing, who had been tired of the rat race in his previous life, was no exception. If he still had a game-playing mentality when he first arrived and didn't have much sense of belonging to this world, then now that he had established connections with so many people, he couldn't completely stay out of it.
But it wasn't as if no one was hesitant. Soon, someone asked again, "But can we really properly handle those anomalies now?"
Professor Xu nodded, "Some of you have already done it. He has already joined forces with a fifth-order supervisor to deal with a very powerful anomaly and successfully subdued it."
The students were all a little confused when they heard this. Since this class of newcomers entered the academy, their daily lives had been almost the same, either listening to lectures or cultivating, busy with this and that, and they hadn't heard of anyone going to investigate cases in the meantime.
Wait a minute… there was someone who always seemed to be missing.
Thinking of this, more and more eyes focused on Lu Jing.
Lu Jing touched his nose. He was probably the first among everyone to know Guo Shouhuai's and the Directorate of Celestial Observation's plans, because Supervisor Huang had mentioned the subsequent arrangements to him when he sent him out on a field mission.
But Lu Jing didn't expect this day to come so quickly, and it even coincided with the decline of mystic energy.
He knew that Guo Shouhuai wanted to use him as a model to persuade those supervisors who were skeptical about partnering with academy disciples, as well as the academy disciples who were worried about coming out to investigate cases so early.
But in reality, Lu Jing's example had no reference value at all, because he was the only one in the world who could regularly replenish his mystic energy and internal energy, and he even complained that he had too much mystic energy after practicing three flying swords in one go.
He had been mostly safe and sound along the way, but if it were anyone else, they would have been dead ten times over.
If anyone believed the nonsense that 'if Lu Jing can do it, so can I,' they would probably be finished before long.