Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 6
[Chapter 6 The Road to Advancement]
At the beginning, Lin Xiu hated and feared Zhao Lingyin.
He hated her because she ruined his plans and beat him up, and he feared her because he couldn’t beat her.
After what happened today, Lin Xiu’s impression of her changed.
Although she was a little too controlling and a little too ruthless, she really regarded Lin Xiu as her own. No one, including his parents in his previous life, had ever been so kind to him.
Lin Xiu was not an ungrateful person. Having seen countless women, he could tell who was sincere and who was false.
The former was Zhao Lingyin, and the latter was Sun Dali.
As a guard, when the person he was protecting was in danger, he would always run away first, without hesitation. Lin Xiu was already considering whether to change a guard.
Not long after returning to the mansion, someone from the Yishu Academy came to the door and brought Lin Xiu a few things.
Ten taels of silver, a waist badge, a set of clothes, and a thin booklet.
Silver is used for monthly consumption. Some students’ families are not well off. Even in the royal capital, ten taels of silver a month is enough for them to live well. This money is collected at the beginning of each month at the Yishu Academy.
The waist badge is the school badge of the Yishu Academy and also the token to enter the palace.
The Yishu Academy is located in the imperial city. The imperial city of Daxia is mainly divided into three parts: the front palace, the middle palace and the back palace.
Among them, the back palace is the residence of the emperor’s concubines and underage princesses, and the middle palace is where the court meetings are held and the emperor handles government affairs. The middle palace and the back palace are the real palaces.
As for the front palace, it is the official office of some core departments in the court. After the court meetings, officials can go directly back to their own offices from the middle palace.
Including the Yishu Academy, the location of the three major courtyards in the royal capital is also in the front palace.
This is deliberately done by the royal family. If someone wants to capture the palace, they must first break through the defense line of the front palace. There are countless strong people in the Yishu Academy and the Martial Arts Academy. It is as difficult as ascending to heaven to break through the front palace.
Because of this, to enter the Yishu Academy, you must enter the imperial city, and this waist badge is the token to enter the palace.
That booklet was the school rules of the Yishu Academy. Lin Xiu flipped through it and found that it was nothing more than prohibiting students from fighting each other, fighting bravely, and molesting female classmates.
These were nothing. The only thing that needed special attention was that you could not walk around the palace at will. It was okay to go to the various government offices, but it was a serious crime to trespass into the central palace and the harem
. Lin Xiu wrote these down, changed into the school uniform, and couldn’t wait to walk out of the house.
Sun Dali followed Lin Xiu step by step. If you didn’t know, you would think he was really a competent guard.
Putting on the school uniform and holding the waist badge, Lin Xiu successfully entered the imperial city and came to the Yishu Academy.
The Yishu Academy was divided into four academies, namely Huangzi Academy, Xuanzi Academy, Dizi Academy and Tianzi Academy. This was divided according to the students’ talents and potential in Yishu.
The highest level was Tianzi Academy, and Zhao Lingyin was in Tianzi Academy.
This was because her awakening ability was very powerful and she awakened at an early time, so her future was limitless.
Lin Xiu showed the same ability as her, but he could only be in the Huangzi Academy because his ability awakened too late and was not worth cultivating. If he hadn’t used the backdoor, he wouldn’t even be qualified to enter the Yishu Academy.
Students in the Tianzi Academy can enjoy a lot of resources. Each of them has several teachers to teach them. Students in the Huangzi Academy have to rely more on themselves. Most of the time, they practice on their own and only ask teachers for help when they encounter problems.
Lin Xiu was very satisfied with this. After arriving at the Yishu Academy, he went straight to the library.
The library of the Yishu Academy is open to all students. Lin Xiu is eager to learn more about the knowledge of Yishu.
It’s still vacation, and there are only a few people in the library. In a remote corner, Lin Xiu is concentrating and slowly turning the pages of the book.
The book says that since the beginning of human civilization, the ancient ancestors have discovered the existence of strange arts. At first, they only used this God-given ability to hunt. Later, as history progressed, human civilization gradually developed, and people’s understanding of strange arts became deeper and deeper. Up to now, strange arts have formed a complete system.
According to the power of strange arts, they divided them into four levels, from high to low, namely heaven, earth, black, and yellow.
The most powerful abilities are classified as heaven-level, such as freezing, controlling fire, and attracting lightning. Those
slightly weaker than these abilities are classified as earth-level, such as strength, speed, and body hardening.
Weaker abilities are reduced to black and yellow levels.
According to this classification method, Lin Xiu’s three abilities are the ice strange arts of the heaven-level, the power strange arts of the earth-level, and the ability to understand animal language should only be considered a yellow-level ability.
Lin Xiu roughly understands that those heaven-level abilities can cause large-scale AOE damage. A strong person with heaven-level abilities can be equivalent to an army, just like a god.
Those who have exerted their personal abilities to the limit, such as extreme strength, extreme speed, extreme physical strength, etc., still have good combat power, but they are much inferior to the Heaven-level abilities.
As for the Xuan-level abilities, such as healing, wall-penetration, invisibility, and flight, it is difficult to use them in combat and can only play a supporting role. The
weakest Huang-level abilities, such as being able to understand the words of animals and being able to control the growth of one’s own hair, are generally not taken seriously, and the Yishu Academy will not recruit them at all.
Of course, having a Heaven-level ability does not mean you can have Heaven-level strength.
For example, Lin Xiu, although he has the ability of the Heaven-level, he can only use it to cool himself down. It can be said that he is a god who is on par with mortals.
In the Yishu Academy, there are many people like him who have high-level abilities but have only practiced to the basic stage and can only live in the Huangzi Academy. The
book records all the Yishu abilities that people have discovered so far, but there is no mention of an ability that can copy the abilities of others. Lin Xiu flipped through the entire book and did not find a similar description.
Lin Xiu decided to keep this secret in his heart. If others knew about it, it would bring him countless troubles.
Lin Xiu flipped through a few more books and finally found what he wanted.
The method of practicing strange arts.
Just like in a game, he was just a level one rookie who had just awakened his abilities. His skill damage was very low. As his level increased, his skill damage would gradually increase, and he would also be able to unlock more skills until he reached the maximum level.
Although the special skills cannot be upgraded, they can be awakened continuously.
The first awakening is a process from nothing to something. After each awakening, the strength will be significantly improved, but not all abilities can be awakened all the time.
The reason why freezing, controlling fire, and controlling thunder are heavenly-level abilities is not only because they are powerful, but also because there is a more important reason, that is, in the recorded history, there have been strong people with such special skills who have awakened more than seven times.
Only when a certain ability is awakened more than seven times, this ability is qualified to be listed as heavenly-level.
If all the people with freezing special skills in history have not awakened a second time, then this special skill can only be ranked at the end of the yellow level.
Similarly, if someone can awaken the power special skill seven times, then from the moment he awakens for the seventh time, the power special skill will also enter the heavenly level.
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Xiu closed the book, rubbed his sore eyes, and exhaled gently.
The Special Skills Academy is indeed a good place. It is difficult for him to obtain this information directly in other places.
Soon, Lin Xiu stood up and came to another row of bookshelves.
What he had just learned was just the basic knowledge about the supernatural arts. What was more important to him was the path to advancement of the supernatural arts. What should he do to awaken for the second time? There were
countless books in the Supernatural Arts Academy. There were special books recording how to practice and awaken each supernatural art.
These were the valuable experiences left by the predecessors. The achievements collected by the Supernatural Arts Academy from generation to generation could only be seen in the library of the Supernatural Arts Academy. At
the location where Lin Xiu was, four rows of bookshelves were arranged in order. On the bookshelves, there were four big characters engraved: “Heaven”, “Earth”, “Xuan” and “Huang”.
These four bookshelves corresponded to different levels of supernatural arts.
Lin Xiu planned to start with the Huang level. He glanced and inadvertently saw the two words “Beast Language”, and then pulled out a thin book.
The book recorded the supernatural arts that Haitang possessed.
The book records very detailed information. It first gives a preliminary introduction to this special skill, and then introduces the life of people who have possessed this special skill in history, as well as some anecdotes and interesting stories according to the time. It feels like reading an ancient novel about strange things. What
surprised Lin Xiu a little was that being able to understand the language of animals was not the whole of this special skill. The book records that the first time this special skill is awakened, the person can understand the language of animals. When this special skill is awakened for the second time, it can communicate with animals. At that time, the person who possesses this special skill can not only understand the words of animals, but also communicate with them…
However, this is also the full ability of this special skill. According to historical records, all people who have possessed this special skill have awakened their abilities at most twice. No wonder it is classified as yellow-grade, barely classified as upper-grade yellow-grade.
And the ability that can only be awakened once is naturally lower-grade yellow-grade.
The School of Strange Arts is indeed a School of Strange Arts. Even this kind of unconventional strange arts has such detailed records. However, this book does not record the method of advancing this strange art. Either this method has not been passed down, or there is no regularity to follow in the advancement of this strange art.
Lin Xiu did not take it seriously. He came to the bookshelf of earth-level strange arts and found the book that recorded the strange arts of strength.
This book is several times thicker than the previous one, and the records are more detailed. It contains the method of subsequent awakening of abilities. Lin Xiu is more familiar with this ability. When Sun Dali has nothing to do, he likes to lift two millstone-sized stone locks in the yard. That is his method of practice.
The advancement of the strange arts of strength lies in the pressure of one’s own limits, which is a bit similar to fitness, but the process is more difficult and the upper limit is more immeasurable.
After reading this book, Lin Xiu came to the bookshelf of heaven-level strange arts.
The books here are recorded in more detail. Almost every awakening of abilities has detailed guidance, but the process makes Lin Xiu a little scared.
For example, those who have awakened the ability to control fire must first endure the scorching sun in the hot summer, then use their hands to explore the fire and bathe in the fire. Even in the later stages of practice, they must find active volcanoes and practice in magma…
Just seeing the description of the text, Lin Xiu felt dry mouth.
Another example is that people who have awakened the ability to control thunder must stand on the roof with iron rods on their backs in thunderstorms to draw thunder into their bodies, which makes Lin Xiu’s hair stand on end…
Lin Xiu quickly found the book he needed most. Sure enough, the essence of advancing to the heavenly level of strange arts is to torture oneself. After the awakening of the ice strange art, one must find a breakthrough in an extremely cold environment, such as standing naked outdoors in the cold winter, letting the wind and snow blow, or lying on the ice, or living in an ice room…
Lin Xiu is not afraid of hardship or torture, but now is the dog days of summer, the hottest time of the year. Where can he find ice and ice rooms? He
can’t really wait until winter to start practicing, right?
Lin Xiu closed the book and was worrying about this when he suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance.
Zhao Lingyin appeared in front of him and said to Lin Xiu, “I saw Sun Dali at the gate of the Imperial City, so I guessed you were here.”
Although Zhao Lingyin’s expression was cold, her eyes were somewhat soft. Obviously, she was very satisfied with Lin Xiu’s diligence.
Lin Xiu said to Zhao Lingyin, “My strange skills have just awakened, and I don’t know how to practice, so I came here to read books.”
Zhao Lingyin said lightly, “I will help you with the practice, follow me.”
After that, she turned her back to Lin Xiu and walked out of the library.
Cold on the outside, but warm on the inside, this is Lin Xiu’s evaluation of his future sister-in-law. She was obviously very good to him, but she had to pretend to be unapproachable, but Lin Xiu had to admit that she was really cool like this.
Very cute cool.
Lin Xiu followed Zhao Lingyin out of the library, but she didn’t expect that she would leave the strange skills academy directly, walk out of the Imperial City, and go straight to the Lin family.
Lin Xiu followed her back home and walked into her room with a puzzled look.
At this time, Zhao Lingyin turned around and said, “Close the door.”
Lin Xiu closed the door casually.
Zhao Lingyin looked at him and said, “Take off your clothes.”
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