Professionals of the Starry Skies - Chapter 532

[Chapter 532 School]

It was built in Green Forest City and is the largest and most magnificent building.

When Fang Xing entered, he could see a white square and a garden with a fountain…

“It’s a bit strange… This world is similar to the ancient East, but the biggest power is the ‘Heart Temple’…”

‘Even the schools were built by the ‘Holy Church of the Heart’. It worships only one God – the Lord of the Heart! Churches are built in various regions to enlighten children of appropriate age. There are also a series of rulers such as priests, clergy, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the Pope…’

‘However, the ruling power of the Holy Church is very weak, and it often adopts the ‘tax farmer’ system, which is more similar to the Western hierarchical feudal system, giving away most of the local power…’

“For example, in the countryside, there are many gentry, such as the Fang family, who occupied Sanshan Township and controlled the “village militia”. As long as they paid a certain amount of taxes every year, they would be the local tyrants…”

“Even Green Forest City and the large tracts of land nearby belong to that lord-level farmer’s family…”

‘The history of this world is very strange… I can find some history books to read someday.’

He checked in smoothly and chose a single dormitory.

The next day.

Inside a classroom.

Fang Xing and twenty or so other people of his age sat on mats, looking respectfully at the person in front of them.

The man was in his forties, wearing a green Confucian robe, and looked quite elegant.

“I’m the school teacher – Wen Lun, you can call me Teacher Wen.”

After Fang Xing and the others had saluted, Instructor Wen smiled and said, “Next, everyone introduce yourselves and get to know each other. Then, I will begin to teach you how to practice the ‘Power of the Heart’…”

As soon as he finished speaking, a little fat man stood up: “I… my name is Feng Sanjiao, and my heart is a black iron quality ‘wild boar’…”

“I am Lin Linglin, and my heart form is the ‘Iron Tree’ of the Black Iron grade…”

After Feng Sanjiao’s introduction, another short little girl with dark skin stood up.

Fang Xing made a statistics and found that among the twenty-five people in a class, twenty-two of them were of Black Iron level mind form. Without a great opportunity in the future, they would be destined to be soldier-level controllers for the rest of their lives.

“My name is Pei Ziyue, and my mind form is bronze quality ‘Thunder Cloud’!”

At this time, a girl stood up and said.

Fang Xing looked over and saw that the girl had a pair of willow-shaped eyebrows and looked very gentle and peaceful.

“Bronze quality… In the future, there is a high probability that I can cultivate to the ‘general level’… If there is a chance, I may become a lord.”

Teacher Wen smiled inwardly: “Very good, next one.”

“My name is Ning Jian, and my heart is the bronze-grade ‘Longquan Sword’…”

A tall and thin boy stood up.

Fang Xing stood up behind him: “Fang Xing, bronze-grade ‘Black Fire Wolf’…”

“Very good, now that all the students have introduced themselves, the class will begin.”

Instructor Wen nodded: “Before we start practicing the power of the heart, we must first understand the origin of the heart beasts… They come from the inner spiritual world, so they can be a wild beast, or a wisp of wind, a bowl, or a knife, a sword, a shadow…”

“Among those wild beasts, there will occasionally be heart beasts, because wild beasts also have hearts and minds… Even the mountains, rivers… this world, all have ‘hearts’. It’s just that a thought of theirs may take thousands of years to run… Therefore, the concept of ‘beast’ in the ‘heart beast’ is not accurate enough. The world is so vast that there are all kinds of things. Maybe a flame, a wisp of wind, or even an invisible will or destiny… can all ‘condense’ and become a heart beast!”

With Teacher Wen’s explanation, Fang Xing has a deeper understanding of this world.

“I see… The minds of wild beasts are not as good as those of humans, but when there are many of them, and various minds converge, it is possible that a ‘mind beast’ will be born…”

‘And, after a powerful rider dies, their ‘heart beasts’ may not dissipate, but run into the wild and become wild heart beasts… so it’s even more bizarre.’

“The cultivation of the power of the mind is even more interesting, requiring the stages of meditation and gathering…”

The more Fang Xing listened, the more solemn his expression became: “The cultivation of the power of the heart seems to be higher than that of the will?”

There are three layers of soul, and will is only the middle layer. The deepest true spirit practice is the realm that even the peak civilizations can hardly reach!

Even if one’s cultivation reaches the level of a Dharma Lord, one may not be able to sense the existence of a true spirit.

Only Fang Xing, whose willpower had been cultivated to a certain degree, could gain some vague insights with the help of the attribute panel.

“This world is not normal!”

“I wonder who that Lord of the Heart is… The power of the heart he passed on seems to involve true spiritual practice? The heart… Can a mortal’s heart reach this level?”

“Even Pangu Wu, the eternal being of the fifteenth realm, only mentioned the cultivation of will in the Panwu Canon, but not the secret of true spirit cultivation… Could it be that the Lord of the Heart is suspected to be a transcendent of the sixteenth realm? At least he is related to the transcendent and has obtained some of the transcendent’s inheritance?”

“Sure enough… this world is very useful to me.”

At first Fang Xing felt that the direction of the Gate of All Heavens was a little wrong, but now it seems that it is just right.

Therefore, he listened more attentively.

“It’s a rare opportunity. You don’t need to do anything out of the ordinary. Just do what you should do…”

“I’m already one of the top three students in the class, so I just need to be good, but I don’t need to be too outstanding…”

“According to Instructor Wen, it takes three to five years to complete the training of the Iron-level Heart Form and summon the ‘Nativity Heart Beast’… Bronze-level Heart Form is much better, and it will take about two to three years… And, at the last step, if some special items are added, it may even lead to the upgrading of the quality of the natal Heart Beast… Of course, this is very difficult, very difficult, and requires great luck. Ordinary students can’t count on it… But from his tone, it seems that there is a way in the school, but the requirements are very strict…”

“In the future, if I want to tame other Heart Beasts or even train them, feeding them every day will be a huge expense…”

‘You also need to learn how to identify the inner beast, wilderness survival techniques, and even various advanced techniques and secrets…’

‘These all require accumulation and even investment…’

‘At the critical moment, you can take out the marriage contract of this body, bind it to a powerful wife’s family, and gain the support of the wife’s family?’

Fang Xing was silently making plans for his future practice.

This is the optimal route formed based on the memory of this body over the past decade…

…

Time flies like water.

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

For Fang Xing, he was determined to keep a low profile, so naturally, no one would come to him for anything.

The only big thing was probably a letter from home saying that the Heart Beast Wolf was very cunning, but was later subdued by a passing rider and became his pet.

However, Sanshan Township has finally gotten rid of its troubles, and ordinary people no longer have to worry.

This day.

Inside the school.

“Students, after three years of practice, the best among you have reached a certain stage of mind power. You can truly condense your mind form and summon your natal mind beast…”

Instructor Wen looked the same as he had three years ago. He said in a gentle voice, “Pei Ziyue, tell me what to pay attention to when summoning the Heart Beast…”

“yes.”

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with a bookish air stood up and said, “For the summoning of the Heart Beast, except for the natal Heart Beast, the other conquered Heart Beasts cannot be taken into the body, and must be cultivated outside… Cultivation inside the body is to use the power of the heart to open up the ‘Heart Space’, and only the natal Heart Beast can move in… And cultivation outside requires Heart Beast Space props. The most common and popular one is the ‘Heart Sutra’ in the Heart Temple. Different ‘Heart Sutras’ not only have different internal spaces, but also can bring different effects to the growth of the Heart Beast, and have some query functions…”

“Well, Ning Jian…how many types of heart beasts are there now?”

Instructor Wen looked at Ning Jian again.

“According to the Heart News of the Heart Temple last month, we have discovered about 3.5 million species of heart beasts, and this number is still growing…”

Ning Jian stood up and answered.

“Sit down, Fang Xing, how do you judge the strength of a heart beast’s cultivation?”

Instructor Wen looked at Fang Xing again.

No matter what kind of teacher, they will be somewhat partial to students with good grades.

And in his class, there is no doubt that Fang Xing and the other two are in the first echelon.

Fang Xing stood up. He had grown into a sixteen-year-old boy at this time. He answered, “The cultivation level of a Heart Beast is usually determined by the number of years of cultivation. Generally speaking, the cultivation level of a soldier-level Heart Beast is between one and ten years… Even the natal Heart Beast that was just summoned has at least one year of cultivation. In addition, one to five years is a lower soldier-level, six to ten years is an upper soldier-level, ten to fifty years is a lower general-level, and fifty to one hundred years is an upper general-level… The ‘one year of cultivation’ here refers to the heart power accumulated by a Heart Beast of black iron quality in an ordinary natural environment for one year…”

“Whether it’s the quality of the heart beast, the feeding, or even the special environment, they can all have different effects. For example, a bronze-quality beast that practices for one year may have two years of cultivation…”

“It should be noted that a heart beast of black iron quality is often unable to break through the bottleneck of ten years of cultivation. After reaching this limit, no matter how much training is done, it is difficult to break through, unless there is some opportunity, such as swallowing natural treasures, or the accumulation is really strong, and because of some coincidence, it breaks through in a bloody battle…”

After answering these questions, Fang Xing also felt emotional in his heart.

The awakening of the mind in this world is even more demanding than the spiritual roots in the world of immortal cultivation. Basically, the quality of one’s awakening determines the upper limit of a person.

Black iron quality, upper limit of soldier level of cultivation is ten years.

Bronze quality, upper limit is a hundred years of cultivation for the general level, commander quality, upper limit is a thousand years for the lord level.

This is still within the reach of ordinary people.

The king-quality ten thousand-year monarch level and the one hundred thousand-year emperor level are extremely rare.

As for cultivation of more than 100,000 years? That is indeed a “legend” in every sense…

(End of this chapter)