Paradise of Demonic Gods

by Stayrr

“Obtaining the topmost degree of talent in sword arts in the world requires giving up 72 years of lifespan, which leaves you with only five more years of your life. At the same time, you will never be able to feel love, kinship, and friendship, and you’ll end up leading a lonely life until your death, unable to procreate, or to have any descendants. “From now onwards, everything r

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Chapter 33 Disciple

Fang Xingjian threw a baffled glance at Hogan's back before he continued to analyze the second sword technique.

Not long after, another sword technique appeared in his Techniques Column, namely Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth.

The Nine-Headed Dragon Sword Technique earlier required one to twist the body to the extreme, along with a high flexibility attribute, thus working towards the development of the body's potential. He was not sure if this Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth was a technique of the Nurturing Path or of the Training Path. From beginning to end, it was just one slashing movement after another. The only differences between the stances were in the channeling of the strength, and in the angles and use of each slash. Looking at the numerous inscriptions on the murals gave one a headache.

There were over ten other examinees who were also learning this sword technique, in deep thought as they stared at the first mural. There were some who shook their heads, wondering if they could also pick another sword technique to learn, just as Fang Xingjian had done. But at the same time, they were also worried that the other set of sword technique would be even harder, and that they would have wasted the past one hour spent on the current set.

On the other hand, everything seemed to be smooth sailing for Fang Xingjian. He only need to take one or two looks at the diagrams and explanations to be able to understand them.

However, this time around he did not take as little time as before, but stopped for a very long time before each mural. He used his longsword to imitate the movements, as if he was focusing on grasping this set of sword technique.

However, to the others, his slow movements still seemed extremely fast. Before midnight, he had already gone through all the murals of the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth.

Along with the previous events, his actions were still seen as deliberate attempts to mystify others.

Just ten minutes before the time was up, whilst everyone was still practising hard, aiming to queue up for the assessment only at the very last moment, Fang Xingjian took up his longsword and headed for the room next door where the examiners were.

Ogden was astonished. 'What is this fellow thinking? Is he crazy… Could it be that he has already mastered that set of sword technique?' Thinking about it, he shook his head. 'That's impossible. Even Kaunitz is only halfway through, how could he have already mastered it? Moreover, he wasted an hour before this.'

'Hmph, hmph. It must be that he has decided to give up, since the stress is too much to bear. Previously, Kaunitz was teaching him a lesson every single day, which led to him not daring to show his face in The School of Sword Arts. His will is very weak, so it's nothing strange for him to be calling it quits now.

'Such a good-for-nothing, putting his own talents to waste…'

Kaunitz also raised his head, looking at Fang Xingjian, bewildered. 'There is no way that his talent is better than mine… But why did he go over so early? What is he thinking?

'But if this is the case, the chances of him passing the Prefectural Selection would be very slim.'

An invigilator raised his eyebrows. However, since Fang Xingjian was not flouting the rules by leaving early, he only asked customarily, "Are you going to the next room to be assessed? Are you sure?"

"Positive," Fang Xingjian said, nodding.

Therefore, under everyone's gazes of bewilderment, doubt, despise and disdain, Fang Xingjian slowly made his way to where the seven examiners were.

In the room, the seven examiners were each seated on a chair. When they saw Fang Xingjian coming in, they all seemed very surprised.

Usually, in the third stage there would rarely be any examinees who would decide to come in earlier rather than queue up for their turn at the last possible moment.

A white-bearded examiner looked towards a member of staff at the side, mystified, and asked, "Is the time already up?"

The member of staff replied, "There's still another ten minutes."

The white-bearded old man looked towards Fang Xingjian with much interest, asking, "Chap, you still have another ten minutes. Why did you decide to come in? Why did you not spend the time outside? With ten minutes, you might even be able to learn an additional move."

The other examiners also looked at Fang Xingjian with curiosity. Only the main examiner, Huang Lin, had the corners of his lips curled up, revealing a mysterious smile.

Fang Xingjian replied, "Because I've already learnt it?"

"Learnt it?" the white-bearded old man asked in astonishment. "You said that you've learnt a set of sword technique on those walls within six hours?"

"Mmm." Fang Xingjian nodded and said, "Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth."

"How is that possible?" The white-bearded old man stood up in disbelief. "Do you know how long it would take an ordinary person to learn this set of sword technique? Half a year's time!"

"Even a person with the standard of a Knight would at least need a day to master this set of sword technique. And you're saying that you've learnt it within six hours?"

The other examiners also started chattering between themselves in an instant, throwing all sorts of looks filled with suspicion and hostility towards Fang Xingjian, as if they were thinking of shredding him into pieces in the next moment.

Fang Xingjian was neither humble nor arrogant as he replied, "You'll see for yourselves after you allow me to demonstrate this set of sword technique once."

The white-bearded old man let out a frustrated laugh, saying, "Alright, alright, go ahead and demonstrate it once for us."

Fang Xingjian drew out his longsword, slashing up-down in the direction of the old man, all the while exuding a dominating aura. As he was displaying this slash, he felt as if the bones and muscles all over his body were being run over by a truck, every one of his muscles muscles aching terribly.

It was obvious that this set of sword technique required one to accumulate power from the muscles, bones and even the internal organs all over one's body. It also had high requirements for one's physical attributes and the toughness of the body.

Displaying one slash after another, the next move Fang Xingjian presented was the continuous sixteen slashes. Each of his slashes brought sword wind, making the air currents sweep through the whole room, like a tempest.

With each slash, Fang Xingjian's muscles turned increasingly red and hot, and his sweat increasingly and continuously turned into steam. It made him feel as if he had just run a few hundred kilometers.

Slash, slash, slash, slash, slash!

With each of Fang Xingjian's slashes, the examiners became more and more astonished, looking at him as if he were a monster.

The white-bearded old man in particular. With each display of Fang Xingjian's slash, he stared with increasingly bigger eyes, until it looked as if his eyeballs were close to popping out. He pointed in disbelief at Fang Xingjian who had just finished his demonstration of the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth and said, "You… you… you… really learned it?"

The other examiners also stared in disbelief, looking at Fang Xingjian as if he were abnormal.

Seeing Fang Xingjian nodding, one of the examiners suddenly asked, "That's can't be right. Have you learned this sword technique before?"

"Mmm, that's a possibility."

"It's not as if there haven't been any precedents of exam questions being leaked."

"That's right, we'll need to investigate this matter thoroughly. Otherwise, if this really was the case, we would become a laughingstock."

At that moment all of the examiners started chattering, and the gazes directed at Fang Xingjian turned into looks of scrutiny and doubt.

This was all quite normal. When faced with such matters, most examiners would probably request for thorough checks to be performed in order to ensure the authenticity.

Fang Xingjian had long expected this, but he was not afraid to be put through any checks. It was because he was well aware of the complete process of the selection. His background in The School of Sword Arts was very simple, and in the worst case scenario, he would just be asked to learn another sword technique. It would be very simple to comply.

While most of the examiners were making a fuzz, each scrambling to say their thoughts on the matter, Huang Lin, who had not spoken a word all this time, finally smiled and said, "Everyone, weren't you all very curious before about the reason why I had given this fellow a perfect score in the second stage?"

After all, Huang Lin was a Conferred Knight who had gone through the second job transition, and thus his words obviously carried a lot of weight among the examiners. Everyone fell silent upon hearing his words.

Huang Lin revealed a mysterious smile as he looked at Fang Xingjian and asked, "Your Grizzly Bear Sword Technique is probably not just at level 10, right? It's a pity that the Nurturing Path is focused on the body, improving the physique and strengthening one's potential. That's why I was the only one who noticed this."

"What? His Grizzly Bear Sword Technique has broken through level 10?"

"He is truly a genius?"

"If that really is the case, then he's a genius! No. A great genius!"

The examiners' gazes towards Fang Xingjian seemed to burn, as if they had gathered around to look at a treasure. As for the theory Huang Lin had suggested, they would not doubt a Conferred Knight's words.

Moreover, even if they did not perform a check on such matters, the truth would be revealed sooner or later either way, when Fang Xingjian eventually enrolled into the Knight Academy.

As for this matter, Fang Xingjian had been prepared long before having decided to reveal a part of his talent. After all, there was no way that a person who could reach the first level of a sword technique within a few hours' time would only be equipped with a level 10 Grizzly Bear Sword Technique.

Therefore, he said in a calm voice, "Level 15."

In that instance, he felt as if the gazes from the examiners around him were burning ten times more intensely than before.

Huang Lin coughed and calmly asked, "Do you already have a master? I'm referring to a master who would give you one-to-one direct guidance."

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Chapter 34 Potential

The implication was so clear that Fang Xingjian would have had to be a fool not to understand. Moreover, with his talents, having such a powerful person like Huang Lin to protect him was more than he could have asked for.

Fang Xingjian immediately half kneeled and said, "Master, please accept my bow."

"Alright, alright." Huang Lin laughed, his eyes filled with satisfaction as he looked at Fang Xingjian.

The examiners watching them from the side shook their heads and sighed with regret. Each and every one of them desired a disciple of Fang Xingjian's calibre.

"Congratulations for accepting such a good disciple, Sir."

"Sir has finally accepted another disciple after so many years."

The white-bearded examiner laughed and shook his head, pointing at Huang Lin, "You're good. No wonder you wouldn't say a word when we asked why you gave him full marks for the second round. You had already thought of grabbing him as your disciple. Sigh, I'm feeling so regretful now. Why didn't I see that his Grizzly Bear Sword Technique had passed Level 10?"

"Haha!" Huang Lin smiled and turned towards Fang Xingjian. "You are gifted, I will accept you as my disciple for now." With that, he immediately turned solemn and said, "But I am extremely strict in my teachings. If you don't fulfill my expectations, I will kick you out of the academy."

Fang Xingjian showed no changes in his expression. "I'll listen to your every word, Master."

Huang Lin softened again, saying, "Mm, you may go back now. Come look for me after you've reported at the academy."

This implied that Fang Xingjian had safely passed the Prefectural Selection. Truth be said, given his results, if he had not passed then no one else would have.

Fang Xingjian returned slowly, but stopped in his tracks. After releasing the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth, he had spotted a problem. There was an additional line of numbers at the bottom of his attributes.

Current potential: 123,300.

'Wha… What is that?'

He wanted to research it when he got back, but remembering that this world had been digitized since god knew when, it had to be thorough in their knowledge regarding the Stats Window.

He turned around and asked, "Teacher, I have a question."

Huang Lin nodded. "Speak. But I have to take charge of the examinations, so questions that take up too much time will have to be discussed next time."

Fang Xingjian hurriedly asked, "Teacher, do you know what potential is?" He did not dare to say that it had appeared on his screen, so he asked indirectly.

Hearing that question, the seven examiners present looked at each other before bursting into laughter.

Seeing Fang Xingjian's perplexed look, Huang Lin replied, "You are not of nobility, hence it is normal to not know this. You should have learnt it when you were at The School of Sword Arts. Nurturing Path is the term for the process of accumulating potential to develop one's body and to enhance one's physique, right?"

Seeing him nod, Huang Lin continued. "The potential you are talking about is accumulated through the Nurturing Path. Normally, you wouldn't be able to feel it. Only once you have acquired the Training Path and once you've used your potential would you be able to see it on your screen."

All the examiners present had experienced it before. They nodded whilst listening. Huang Lin saw a hint of realization flash across Fang Xingjian's face and chuckled, "Do you understand now? The Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth was a Training Path technique. You've just unlocked the Potential Indicator on the screen."

"Hmph, trying to act smart with us? Ask us directly the next time you have a question and don't beat around the bush."

Even though Huang Lin was reprimanding him, he still reminded his student, with concern, "In martial arts, the Training Path is effective in enhancing one's physical strength, but it uses up potential every time. When your attributes are between 10 and 19 points, exhausting 10,000 worth of potential would increase 1 point in a selected attribute. When the attributes are between 20 and 29 points, exhausting 20,000 worth of potential would increase 1 point in a selected attribute. From 30 points onwards, exhausting 30,000 worth of potential will increase 1 point in a selected attribute. Correspondingly, at every stage, when enough potential gained from the Training Path techniques is exhausted, you can add some points to a particular attribute, depending on which Training Path technique you practice.

"However, training under a situation where you have insufficient potential will cause bodily harm. When you are practicing, remember not to use up all your potential."

"Your disciple understands. So the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth cultivates strength?"

"That's right. The Nine-Headed Dragon Sword Technique cultivates flexibility.

Alright, you may take your leave."

Fang Xingjian left the examination hall by another walkway. From the beginning, the whole examination process could not not be seen by the other examinees.

He was directed by the staff along the way, and left the Knight Academy for Kirst.

Halfway through, he could not help but start practicing the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth. It was his first time acquiring a sword technique in the Training Path, and he was too curious about the differences between the Training Path and the Nurturing Path, as well as the profoundness behind the former.

Truth be told, it had been difficult for him to keep it in on the way out of the academy.

Displaying the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth, Fang Xingjian took a stride with every swing, and with every stride, the earth seemed to tremble. His energy gradually increased, and after sixteen steps, Fang Xingjian's energy soared throughout his body, and his muscles and bones shook. It was as if a deity had descended, and he seemed to have doubled in size.

Hu~~~

He exhaled gently. After Fang Xingjian stopped, a great amount of perspiration burst out from all of his pores, as if he had just stepped out of a sauna.

'Is this the Training Path? Like the blazing summer, honing one's physical body, triggering one's potential. The training of the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth is indeed extremely tough. It feels tens of times tougher than the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique.'

Fang Xingjian only thought that during the process of practicing the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth his entire body seemed to have been torn apart and gone through a training like never before, especially the muscle fibres in his arms and the sides of his backbone.

After that, Fang Xingjian practiced the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth as he went on his way, and quickly found that every time he trained the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth, 10 potential points would be used up.

When Fang Xingjian was practicing for the twelfth time, the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth rose to level 2, and now each time he performed it 20 potential points would be depleted.

Fang Xingjian took big strides and swung his sword along the way, practicing the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth and hurrying home.

When he reached his rugged home, the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth had reached level 4. His clothes were all soaked in perspiration, he had bloodshot eyes and he looked like a cooked shrimp. Apparently, all his muscles, tendons and bones were emitting a large amount of heat, like a stove, due to the extreme training.

However, he did not stop, probably because the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth was the first Training Path technique he had learnt. Or because he had successfully become a Knight after passing the Prefectural Selection. Or because he had sworn in the powerful Huang Lin as his teacher, who had already gone through the second transition. Or because he felt that he had taken one step closer in his path of revenge. Whatever the reason, he was feeling a little excited tonight.

Feeling the perspiration all over his body, he stripped, revealing a toned body. Fang Xingjian followed up with another practice run of the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth.

He did this the entire night, coming back for practice after breakfast at The School of Sword Arts. Until late afternoon, his Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth had reached level 6. Each practice run exhausted 60 potential points now, and in all, he had used up more than 20,000 points' worth of potential. He now had 36 points in strength, and to be able to increase an additional point to his strength, he would still need to expend more potential of less than 10,000 points in total.

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Chapter 35 Wait

At this time, Fang Xingjian already had a general idea of what potential represented, and thus was able to better understand what an advantage he would have with his sword technique brought to perfection.

In fact, he had only been able to really appreciate the advantages of the level 30 Grizzly Bear Sword Technique and the level 20 Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique after officially enrolling in the Knight Academy.

It was not the additional attributes, neither the higher cultivation effects, nor their use in battles.

It was the fact that he gained ten times the potential compared to a level 10 sword technique.

When people trained their physical body to a certain degree, it was already difficult enough if they used normal training methods to raise their attributes, potential being the only way to maintain the increase in attributes.

Endlessly practicing the level 10 Grizzly Bear Sword Technique each and every day would only allow one to get a maximum of 50 potential points, and after reaching this point, no matter how much one trained, one would no longer reap any additional rewards. It was the limit of the level 10 Grizzly Bear Sword Technique.

And with a level 30 Grizzly Bear Sword Technique, coupled with Fang Xingjian's Sword Specialist specialty, the maximum potential he could attain from daily practice was 500 points. At that moment, he understood what the use of Sword Specialist specialty was. It was able to raise the potential obtained from Nurturing techniques.

Sword techniques of extremely high levels, coupled with the specialities related to sword art, could create a gap up to ten times the difference.

And similar sword techniques, such as the Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique and the Descent of Holy Light provided the same amount of potential. When one attained 500 points of potential from practicing the Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique, one would no longer be able to attain any additional potential via the Descent of the Holy Light. This goes to show that if one were to practice sword techniques of a similar nature, they would still only be able to raise only 500 points of potential in a day.

The higher the standard of the Nurturing technique, the higher the potential one could obtain. And the higher the standard of the Training technique, the higher the potential's consumption rate.

The more the potential, the higher the exhaustion, and the faster the rate of increase in one's attributes.

Which also meant that if Fang Xingjian were to alternate between training the techniques in the Nurturing Path and Training Path, the speed at which one could get stronger would be ten times faster than ordinary people.

A person with mediocre calibre would spend the whole morning practicing these three sword techniques but only receive 150 points in potential, and practicing the whole afternoon to exhaust the 150 points in potential. To exhaust 10,000 potential points to raise his attributes, one would need to spend up to two months.

On the other hand, after merely one day of practice, Fang Xingjian was already able to accumulate and exhaust two to three thousand points in potential; and to exhaust 10,000 potential points to raise his attributes, he would only require three to four days' time.

And the best thing was, since he practiced much more sword techniques than other people, while an ordinary person could practice three sets of level 10 sword techniques in the Nurturing Path to get 150 points in potential, Fang Xingjian could practice 10 sets or even 20 sets to attain four to five thousand points in potential.

This allowed him to pick up the pace of training his sword art to improve his physique, accumulate potential and also to temper his physical body and stimulate the amassed potential.

Although Fang Xingjian had not fully grasped this idea at the moment, he was already very excited to get his hands on a technique in the Training Path. During the time they were waiting for the results of the Prefectural Selection to be released, he decided to fully grasp the time to train his Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth and Nine-Headed Dragon Sword Technique.

At the same time, he would also continue practicing the other sword techniques of the Nurturing Path, including the Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique, to amass even more potential.

He dived into his sword practice fanatically just like that. He did a calculation and realized that with the sword techniques he had at the moment, he could receive 3500 points in potential daily. This meant that theoretically speaking, when he practiced the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth at a strength of 30 to 40 points, he would be able to exhaust 30,000 points in potential daily, and hence be able to raise a bit of his strength attribute once every nine days.

Upon reaching 40 points in his strength attribute, he would be able to receive an increase once every 11 days.

'Very good…' Fang Xingjian revealed a satisfied smiled, 'This rate of improvement is even faster than I had expected. After enrolling at the academy, I will be able to pick up even more varieties of techniques in the Nurturing Path and Training Path, and therefore increase the rate even further.'

Compared to an ordinary person, or even to other talented people, Fang Xingjian's attributes seemed as if they were purchased at wholesale.

After a night of practice, he dragged his exhausted body to The School of Sword Arts for breakfast the next morning.

However, just when he had taken a few bites, Ogden's sarcastic voice rang out from beside him.

"Oh? Isn't this the great genius from our school, Fang Xingjian?" Ogden smiled and said, "Haha, how was it? You'll definitely be able to pass the Prefectural Selection this time around?"

Seeing that Fang Xingjian did not pay him any heed, his face turned grim and he said, "I'm sure you guys are not aware, this great genius here had left earlier during the final stage and had even learnt two techniques by himself. Hmph… he really thinks he is some ultimate genius."

Fang Xingjian did not bother about him and Ogden started to exaggerate things, saying how Fang Xingjian had tried to put up a strong front in the third stage, how he landed himself in a hopeless situation, and how he eventually could not take the pressure and gave up.

At that moment, the leader of School of Sword Arts, Kyle, walked in. All the disciples stood up and shouted their greetings, "Teacher!"

"Don't be nervous, today's the day the results for the Prefectural Selection are released. The academy will inform each school by sending the results slip. I'm here to check your results." His brows were slightly knitted as he looked at Fang Xingjian and said, "Xingjian, is what Ogden said true? You learned two sword techniques in the final stage and even left earlier?"

Fang Xingjian finished the last bite of the black bread, nodded, and did not say anything.

Kyle shook his head and sighed, "Forget it, you've just picked up the sword not longer ago and this is only your first Prefectural Selection. It's nothing to feel some anxiety. With your talent, so long as you work hard in your training, you'll have a big chance in next year's Prefectural Selection."

Fang Xingjian nodded, stood up and said, "Teacher, I'll make a move first."

"You're not staying to wait for the results?"

"There's nothing to see." Fang Xianjian would definitely pass, so he could not be bothered to wait here for the results like Ogden and the rest. If he had the time, he would rather spend it practicing the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth and Nine-Headed Dragon Sword Technique.

Ogden stared at Fang Xingjian's departing back view and gave a cold sneer, "Tsk, you don't dare to stay behind for fear of embarrassing yourself?"

Thereafter, everyone from The School of Sword Art waited at the training ground, but no one was in the mood for training. Regardless of if it was the Eldest Martial Brother Ogden, or Second Martial Brother Lambert, they were were all anxiously waiting to find out the results and turned their heads towards the direction of the door every now and then.

Suddenly, a student shouted loudly, "It's here, it's here!"

The whole group of them dashed towards the door but only to realize that it was merely a passing peddler. The examinee said, embarrassed, "Sorry, I've got it wrong."

Ogden gave him a harsh glare and said, "It's fine, it's fine. Let's wait a little longer, it should be here soon."

On the other hand, in the lounge of Tresia Academy, the place was decorated with lanterns and banners, full of festivity.

The teachers in the academy were chatting amongst themselves, but at the same time, they had kept some of their attention towards the direction of the door.

Kaunitz was like a very big spotlight then, attracting everyone's attention. The young beauty who was originally from The School of Sword Arts was grabbing onto his arm and asking excitedly, "Kaunitz, you were saying that Master Huang Lin was full of admiration for you during the Prefectural Selection?"

"Mmm." Kaunitz said proudly, "Master Huang Lin had said that the powers I displayed in the second stage were quite good, and after I demonstrated the sword technique in the third stage, he gave me encouragement, asking me to continue to work hard in my training so that I can serve the Empire."

Vivian's arm hugged tighter around Kaunitz and asked, "So you'll probably be the Prefectural Champion this time around?"

"There's a possibility," Kaunitz said. "But Robert has gone already gone through the first transition after all, and has attained extraordinary powers. Although becoming the Prefectural Champion might be a little difficult, getting second place should be no problem at all."

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Chapter 36 Namelist

In the lounge of Tresia Knight Academy, someone walked over to Kaunitz. It was the person who had made a bet with Hogan that Fang Xingjian would not be able to get into the top five, Dick.

Instructor Dick looked at Kaunitz as he smiled and said, "I heard that you had performed extremely well in the Prefectural Selection held this time around and that you were the top amongst the younger generation. Seems like in the future, you'll be one of Kirst's leading figures."

"You are too kind." Kaunitz said humbly, "Fei Yang Academy's Barbara, Shadow Moon Academy's Boris and Aristocrat Academy's Ferdinand are also very strong…"

"But you are the best amongst them, is that not true?" Dick patted Kaunitz on the shoulders and said, "I think very highly of you. You'll definitely be the one to lead our Kirst's Knights to bring about brilliant results in the Regional Selection a few years down the road."

Kaunitz lowered his head, bowed slightly and said, "Thank you for your compliment."

"No need to be so rigid. After you enroll in the academy, I will be your teacher and in the future, we will all be comrades." Dick said, "I have another purpose for my visit this time around. There are some societies in the academy and I represent Kirst Condor Society to invite you to join us."

Kaunitz's gaze sharpened. Kirst Condor Society could be said to be a community that all aristocrats enrolled in Kirst Royal Knight Academy must join.

This was a community where aristocratic Knights built alliances and supported each other.

Hearing Dick's request, Kaunitz felt a little excited as well.

'Is it really because of my excellent results that the people from the society came to approach me directly and do not require me to approach them myself like the others have to?'

Kaunitz nodded, reached out his hand and said, "I can't wait."

Dick smiled and grasped Kaunitz's hand, "Welcome."

At that moment, a commotion broke out in the crowd.

"It's here, it's here."

"It's the person sending the results slip."

Dick took a look in the distance before smiling and patting Kaunitz on the shoulders as he said, "Go on, this moment belongs to you."

Kaunitz nodded his head and a slight flush of excitement flashed across his face. He looked to the Vivian who was beside him and said, "Wait for me here, I'll be back in a while."

At the entrance, a member of staff from Kirst Royal Knight Academy held onto a stack of documents and handed it over to the principal of Tresia Knight Academy.

The headmaster of Tresia Knight Academy was an old man with white and sparse hair. He wore a black tuxedo and had a charm like only those ancient aristocrats had. His elegant appearance made him seem like a gentleman rather than a Warrior.

And he was also the current head of Tresia Clan, Kaunitz's father.

Receiving the results slip sent by the academy, the old man smiled as he looked towards Kaunitz and said, "Our Tresia Clan will finally have another Knight from this year's Prefectural Selection. This brings honor to our clan and also serves to show the prosperity of the Empire and to our military strength. Here, let us make a toast to the longevity of the Empire."

Saying that, he raised the wine glass in his hand. The rest of the people followed.

"Long live the Empire!"

"Long live!"

After finishing the toast, the head of Tresia Clan said to Kaunitz, "Kaunitz, my youngest son, come take a look at this results slip. This is what you deserve after the more than ten years of tough training you have gone through."

Kaunitz was long since ready to walk up. This setting was intended to boost his reputation in the clan from the start and was specially arranged so that Kirst's aristocrats would become familiar with him.

Kaunitz smiled and received the document, slowly opening and throwing a glance at it.

Amongst the crowd, Vivian looked happily at Kaunitz, who was on the stage. She looked around at the aristocrats surrounding them, looked at their luxurious clothings, extravagant food, lavish decorations and the numerous maids and servants around, she started to feel very excited.

'This is the life that I want, to be a character in the upper society. This is something that I'll never get in The School of Sword Arts.

'While Kaunitz is a bit boring, he is considered quite a good partner. It's just that his family matters are slightly more complicated. But so long as he can get me into Tresia Knight Academy, it's sufficient. If I'm here…'

However, in the next moment, Vivian saw that Kaunitz's face suddenly turned grim and a tinge of fury flashed across his eyes.

"What is going on?" He looked at the person who despatched the letter and asked, "Is there some mistake with this namelist?"

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

A commotion broke out in the crowd below. Seeing this, the clan head placed his hand on Kaunitz's shoulder and said, "Stay calm."

"But…" Kaunitz had wanted to continue, but he felt a pressure coming from his father's palm, causing him to be unable to move.

After taking the namelist, the clan head's brows twitched, but he still remained calm and said, "Placed in tenth in this year's Prefectural Selection, Aristocrat Academy, Carter."

"Placed in ninth…"

As the clan head announced the names on the list, everyone tensed up. There were even some students from Tresia Academy who had participated in the Prefectural Selection but did not get good results, staring intensely at the clan head. They seemed to think that their names might appear on the list by a stroke of luck.

"Placed in sixth, Fei Yang Knight Academy, Barbara."

"Placed in fifth, Shadow Moon Academy, Boris."

"Placed in fourth, Aristocrat Academy, Ferdinand."

"Placed in third…" The clan head paused, but continued to say with a straight face, "Tresia Knight Academy, Kaunitz."

After he finished this line, everyone present glanced at Kaunitz in astonishment, as if they were all shocked that he would be third. The person in first place would definitely be Robert, but then who would be second? To think that he had robbed Kaunitz of his glory.

When Kaunitz heard his own name, his face turned pale and grim.

The clan head continued, "Placed in second, Robert Abel."

"What?"

"How could this be?"

"Robert Abel, who had gone through the first transition, is only placed second? Then who is first?"

"Could it be that there was someone else in the Prefectural Selection who had already gone through the first transition as well?"

The clan head paused for a moment, as if he was questioning the person in first place was, but after giving it some thought, the name was still not familiar to him. He continued to say, "The Prefectural Champion in this year's Prefectural Selection, School of Sword Arts, Fang Xingjian."

"Fang Xingjian? Who's that?"

"Someone from The School of Sword Arts? Wasn't it already a declining school?"

An aristocrat lady walked to Vivian and asked curiously, "Vivian, weren't you from The School of Sword Arts previously? Do you know Fang Xingjian?"

"Fang Xingjian?" Vivian jerked her head, looked at the lady and asked, "Did he say that the one who came first was Fang Xingjian? Fang Xingjian from The School of Sword Arts?"

The lady was stunned for a moment before she replied, "That's right, do you know him?"

"How is this possible?" Vivian was stunned and she said, "How can Fang Xingjian be the Prefectural Champion?"

On the stage, Kaunitz gave a cold snort, and ignoring everyone's words of congratulations, he dashed out of the lounge and headed for The School of Sword Arts.

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Chapter 37 Joyfulness and Sadness

In The School of Sword Arts, most of the students were waiting for the arrival of the Prefectural Selection's namelist.

Ogden paced around the courtyard, throwing glances occasionally towards the entrance's direction.

'I've already learned the Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique. All three of my basic sword techniques have reached level 10, and my performance in the Prefectural Selection was still acceptable this time.

'In the second stage, there was still an examiner who smiled at me.'

'My results for the second stage should be pretty good. After all, aside from Kaunitz, the others didn't perform that well in the third stage.

'After factoring all of these things in, I should still have a chance to pass the Prefectural Selection.'

If Ogden really did not have any hint of passing the Prefectural Selection, he would not be so anxious. Instead, he would have given up all hope.

However under these circumstances, while his chances were not high, he still held onto a bit of his wishful thinking.

'Maybe, I've passed it?'

Seeing how he was pacing around nonstop, Kyle could not help but call out, "Alright, stop pacing around. Look at how anxious you are. No matter how anxious you are now, the results will not change."

"Mmm." Ogden sat down, but his right leg was still shaking nonstop. He would knit his brows every now and then, as if he was thinking about some matters. Kyle smiled silently when he saw this.

Finally, when the The School of Sword Arts' atmosphere became filled with tension, Kirst Royal Knight Academy's staff arrived at last. Everyone present stood up in agitation on noticing the envelope in his hand.

Even though tens of eyes were fixated upon him, the person who had made the dispatch did not fall into panic. He had seen too many similar situations.

He shouted, "May I ask where is The School of Sword Arts' Headmaster?"

"That'll be me." Kyle walked over, cupped his hands towards the deliveryman, and said, "Thank you for your trouble."

After receiving the envelope, he slowly opened it while being the focus of many expectant, curious, and nervous looks.

While Kyle was looking at the namelist, he appeared very normal at first, but not long afterwards, he looked stunned. He brought the namelist closer to his face and took a closer look, as if he could not believe what was written on it.

Ogden's heart leapt, 'Could it be that I've made it? Could it be that I've made it?'

Kyle looked towards the deliveryman and asked, "This namelist is the correct one, right?"

Of course, the deliveryman had not seen the contents of the namelist before. However, he had encountered similar questions every year until he had forgotten how many times he had answered them. He smiled and said, "There's no way that there would be a mistake."

Kyle blinked his eyes, looked at the namelist in his hands, and suddenly smiled.

Ogden was waiting on the side and felt increasingly restless when he saw Kyle's series of expressions. Finally, he could not help but ask, "Teacher Kyle, so how is it?"

"Let me announce the names in the top ten." Kyle shook his head and said, "In tenth place for this year's Prefectural Selection is Aristocrat Academy's Carter.

"In ninth place is City Guards Institution's Jack.

"In eighth place is Tresia Knight Academy's Zhou Yong.

"In seventh place, Anthony.

"In sixth place, Fei Yang Knight Academy, Barbara.

"In fifth place, Shadow Moon Academy, Boris.

"In fourth place, Aristocrat Academy, Ferdinand.

"In third place, Tresia Knight Academy's Kaunitz.

"In second place is Robert."

When he had announced the name for second place, everyone looked at Kyle in disbelief. Ogden's face turned grim as if he had lost all of his energy, but a vague hint of hope was still hidden in his eyes.

'I can't possibly be the Prefectural Champion. It's not possible… but, could it be? Maybe my performance this time around was what the invigilators were looking for, and thus first place was given to me?'

Lambert let out a sigh as he turned to leave, knowing full well that it was not possible for him to place first. He wanted to find a place for some peace and quiet.

Under Ogden's gaze, which was filled with both desperation and hope, Kyle smiled and announced the last name.

"In first place, The School of Sword Arts, Fang Xingjian."

"What?!" Ogden was the first to shout. "How can this be possible?! I don't believe this. I don't believe this! How can Fang Xingjian be the Prefectural Champion? I started practicing martial arts at the age of eight, and every day and night I've been putting in so much effort in my training for years. He has only joined The School of Sword Arts for such a short time, and it's only been half a year!"

Kyle frowned and said, "That's enough, this is the truth. Stop embarrassing yourself."

"This is not possible. How could Fang Xingjian defeat Kaunitz? And Robert, he had already completed the first transition. How could Fang Xingjian be more outstanding than him?" Ogden shouted, "Teacher, let me take a look at the namelist."

Kyle's brows twitched, and a slight bit of anger was hidden in the corner of his eyes. "What did you say?" The other party's words were obviously suggesting that Kyle was suspected of spouting rubbish.

Ogden immediately realized that he had blurted out something he should not have. He knew that Kyle would not do such a silly thing, but he was too agitated to control his own emotions. He spoke in a softer tone, "Teacher, let me take a look to see how I performed."

Kyle gave a cold snort and threw the namelist over. Ogden fumbled to catch it, and the first thing he did was to visually confirm Fang Xingjian's name was where the first place's name was written. He then scrolled down the list and started to look for his own name.

In forty-third place, The School of Sword Arts, Lambert.

In sixty-ninth place, The School of Sword Arts, Ogden.

He fell back two steps, and he felt all the energy from his body slowly seeping away.

Kyle shook his head and asked a student who was on the side, "Where is Xingjian? Go look for him. The namelist is already here, so why is he not here yet?"

"Right…right…"

A few students dashed out and shouted agitatedly, "Martial Brother Xingjian, Martial Brother Xingjian, you've become the Prefectural Champion!"

Lambert also suddenly jerked his head around, mumbling to himself in disbelief, "Fang Xingjian achieved first place?" He had thought the other party could pass the Prefectural Selection, but he had never thought he would become the Prefectural Champion.

In the courtyard, many students were also very excited, and the scene became very noisy.

"How did he do that?"

"Didn't Kaunitz previously beat him up everyday?"

"Did he have some connection with one of the examiners? If not, how could he have passed having only spent half a year in The School of Sword Arts. How could he have passed and reached first place?" Someone questioned.

Everyone in the courtyard displayed different expressions. Some of them felt there was something weird going on while others were surprised. Some could not understand while others were puzzled. It was obvious that they all found it a bit hard to believe that Fang Xingjian had clinched the Prefectural Champion's position.

Kyle shook his head and smiled. He knew that no one would dare cheat in the Prefectural Selection. Also, the examiners in the academy had deeper insights and a higher level of cultivation than his own, so a mistake was unlikely.

Right when everyone in the courtyard was immersed in a complicated atmosphere, the doors to The School of Sword Arts once again opened and Kaunitz walked in holding his longsword. He looked at a student and asked, "Where is Fang Xingjian?"

Under Kaunitz's heavy stare, the student felt uneasy all over and said nervously, "One of the Martial…Martial Brothers went to look for him. However, Martial Brother Fang Xingjian has had his breakfast. Usually, he will only be back at noon."

"This fellow…he doesn't even stay in the school on the day the results are released?" The flames in Kaunitz's eyes burned even stronger. He found a random spot to sit down and said coolly, "Then, I'll wait here for him."

After seeing this scene, many students revealed a gloating expression at someone else's misfortune.

"There's going to be a show to watch. The third place in the Prefectural Selection bashing up the first place?"

"Hehehe, the Prefectural Selection is not particular about one's battle powers, and it mainly focuses on one's potential, talent, and foundation. However, it's going to look pretty bad when the third place beats up the first place."

"Kaunitz is really infuriated to have his spot snatched by Fang Xingjian this time."

While watching this scene, Ogden's gaze also lit up as he headed towards Kaunitz.

Kyle frowned and asked, "Kaunitz, why are you looking for Xingjian?"

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Chapter 38 Knock-Out With One Sword

Facing Kyle's question, Kaunitz said, "It's nothing much. Fang Xingjian came first in the Prefectural Selection. This is recognized by all the examiners, of course I have no disputes since it shows that he is a talent blessed by heavens. The reason why I'm here is of course to seek guidance in sword arts.

"I've yet to master the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique, Eagle Sword Technique and the Tenauer-Style Body Strengthening Sword Technique."

Kyle frowned. While he knew that Kaunitz would definitely be furious and would adopt a hostile attitude towards Fang Xingjian, when Kaunitz puts it this way and Fang Xingjian was not around at the moment, there was nothing much he could say.

However, Kyle had made up his mind that should the two of them clash, he would definitely protect Fang Xingjian. After all, he was The School of Sword Arts' student. How could he be allowed to be bullied after snatching the first place in the Prefectural Selection?

Ogden however, had walked up to Kaunitz and said, "Young Master Kaunitz, I wonder what trickery Fang Xingjian used, to think that he snatched your ranking.

"We're all witnesses to him being beaten up like a dog by you for over ten consecutive days previously.

"How could someone of this calibre clinch the first place in the Prefectural Selection? This Prefectural Selection…"

"Shut your trap." Kaunitz threw a glare at Ogden and said coldly, "Since when was the authority of the Empire's selections something that a good-for-nothing like you could challenge?"

Kaunitz's words made Ogden so infuriated that his face turned red, but he eventually swallowed it down. He could only stay at the side and silently cursed, 'Fang Xingjian, you're dead meat. This time around, Kaunitz is really infuriated. You've offended someone from the Tresia Clan, so what if you have become a Knight?

'I'd like to see how you're going to survive in Kirst in the future.'

After about half an hour, Vivian, who was attending the gathering at the Tresia Clan, also walked into The School of Swords Arts in her gown. She nodded at Kyle in greeting and walked up to Kaunitz.

Seeing how Kaunitz was acting like a childish kid, while she was a bit annoyed, she went up and asked with a concerned look, "Kaunitz, are you alright?"

"Of course, what could be wrong with me? My condition is at its best yet." Kaunitz said furiously, "The reason I'm here is to just clear up some things."

The atmosphere in The School of Sword Arts became increasingly gloomy. While some of the students had initially felt agitation and excitement upon knowing that someone from their school had clinched the first place in the Prefectural Selection, they could only stand at the side now, feeling at a loss as they looked at the few people in front of them.

Some students wanted to practice their sword, but were forced to stop as they felt uneasy amidst the gloomy atmosphere.

Seeing this scene, Kyle frowned, clapped his hands and said, "Alright, alright, what are you guys up to today? In the end, the Prefectural Selection is each individual's problem to handle, what is it to you?

"Are you guys done with today's assignment? If not, why are you all just standing there?

"All of you better go practice your sword now."

The many students who were feeling at a loss in the gloomy atmosphere suddenly felt as if they had been granted great amnesty. Each of them walked up to the training ground and started their sword practice.

Kaunitz seemed unaffected by this as he stared hard towards the direction of the main entrance, waiting for Fang Xingjian's return.

The students who went out to search for Fang Xingjian obviously came back empty-handed. How would they ever think of looking for him in a heap of ruins which had gone through a fire? Therefore, everyone only saw Fang Xingjian walking into The School of Sword Arts nonchalantly at noon.

Seeing Fang Xingjian's appearance, everyone who was waiting immediately stood up and stared at Fang Xingjian, as if they were looking at some rare animal.

Fang Xingjian threw a glance in their direction and then headed for the canteen directly. His original intention was to come back for lunch.

Kaunitz blocked his way and said, "Do you know that you got the first place in the Prefectural Selection?"

"Oh?" Fang Xingjian knew that with his performance in the third stage, there would be no problems for him to get the first place in the Prefectural Selection. Thus, he was not surprised. He merely nodded and said, "I know now. Thank you for telling me."

Hearing Fang Xingjian's thanks, Kaunitz's fury flared up even more. Once again, he blocked the path of Fang Xingjian who was moving forward and said, "Fight me."

"Not interested."

Kyle also advised from the distance, "Kaunitz, Fang Xingjian didn't start sword training long ago, why are you trying to bully someone weaker than yourself? It'll be better if you guys have a showdown after learning in the academy together."

Kaunitz of course could not wait until then. Seeing how Fang Xingjian wanted to continue towards the canteen, he said furiously, "Are you scared?"

Fang Xingjian did not stop in his tracks. He only had four and a half years to live, why would he waste his time on a sixteen year old immature kid like Kaunitz?

Ogden shouted, "Fang Xingjian, are you a man? Do you only know how to hide? You've already been hiding for three months. Are you planning to avoid Kaunitz every time you see him in the future?

"Let me tell you, if you're still thinking of running away today, in the future, whenever you see Kaunitz, you'll need to keep out of his way and never appear before Kaunitz again, nor appear in Kirst Royal Academy.

"Let me tell you…"

Before Ogden could finish his words, his eyes bulged, his mouth opened so big that one could stuff a duck's egg into it, and he stared in Fang Xingjian's direction, frightened.

Before him, Kaunitz had already dashed up and thrusted his sword towards Fang Xingjian's shoulder, unable to wait any longer. This thrust was like a dragon, displaying the full strength of his Chaotic Strike. Kaunitz's muscles, bones and organs were all activated as power channeled through them, bursting out the full powers of his strength of 30 points. Under the activation of his full agility of 30 points, his muscles contracted and expanded fiercely, channeling all the strength to the tip of the sword.

It was like a comet had flown across the sky, releasing an air explosion with a loud rumble, smashing towards Fang Xingjian's shoulder.

Facing this attack, Fang Xingjian turned, twisted his waist and drew his sword. His actions were all very clean as his longsword was like a comet smashing into the moon, sending Kaunitz's sword flying. He then smashed the blade on Kaunitz's chest.

With a bang, the sword sent Kaunitz flying five to six meters back. Kaunitz had wanted to stand up, but felt numbness in his chest as he stared coldly at Fang Xingjian. Two seconds later, he turned limp and fell unconscious.

With Fang Xingjian's single attack knocking out Kaunitz, everyone in the courtyard turned hysterical.

Ogden was still pointing at Fang Xingjian in a daze, maintaining the posture he had before his words were cut off. This was until Fang Xingjian knocked out Kaunitz with one blow, after which he glared at him harshly, sending off the aura he had cultivated from the training in Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth which was like a towering mountain charging towards Ogden's direction.

Ogden was so frightened that he retreated two steps. Fang Xingjian said coldly, "Trash."

Ogden immediately turned red with fury, panting heavily as if he would draw his sword at any time. But all the way until Fang Xingjian had entered the canteen, he was unable to even take one step forward.

Fang Xingjian's strike earlier was like a flash of lightning, constantly replaying in his mind.

Kyle and Lambert also received a shock as they looked at Fang Xingjian as if they were looking at a stranger.

The move the other party had used was obviously one from the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique, but compared to how it was during their usual training, it was more than ten times faster and harsher.

Kyle seemed to have straightened out his thoughts and he suddenly laughed out loud, "Excellent… Excellent, hahahaha." After saying this, he ignored the crowd of people who were in a frenzy and followed Fang Xingjian to the canteen.

On the other side, Vivian stood on the spot blankly. She took a look at Kaunitz who was surrounded by the crowd, and then looked towards Fang Xingjian, who was heading towards the canteen, her mouth slightly agape and her mind completely blank. At the next moment, her face twisted as if she was a female ghost who was filled with resentment.

"Instant knockout?"

"It's an instant knockout?"

"How could it be an instant knockout?"

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Chapter 39 Enrolment

Fang Xingjian ignored the astonishment of those present as he was short on time, and so was not able to care about such things concerning his reputation.

Therefore, he continued to act as if nothing had happened. He went into the canteen, collected the milk, salad and black bread from the kitchen helper and started eating. These were considered quite a spread for him now.

It had also been a long time since Kyle had eaten at the canteen. He collected a set of food and sat in front of Fang Xingjian. Seeing how the other party was engrossed in his food, he smiled and said,"Say… when you have practiced in the school previously, you've held back, haven't you?"

Fang Xingjian did not even raise his head and replied, "Yes."

Kyle continued to ask, "Then can you tell me what level your Grizzly Bear Sword Technique is at now?"

After this issue, everyone would definitely gradually learn the truth, and Fang Xingjian had no intention of hiding it. He answered straightforwardly, "Level 15. I've perfected it."

Pssst. Kyle took in a sharp breath of cold air. What was the concept of someone having reached level 15 in the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique? This was a genius amongst geniuses, and in the Empire, only one would appear in decades or even centuries. He had never expected to encounter such a person.

Kyle said, "It's no wonder. With your talent, the Regional Selection would be no problem for you. However, you must still be careful during the National Selection."

Fang Xingjian had not that even thought that with the talent he had displayed, Kyle would still warn him to be careful during the National Selection. He asked in surprise, "Is the National Selection so tough?"

Kyle shook his head and replied bitterly, "Do you know how many people in the Empire have been training without a sense of day or night? Thousands of people enters the Prefectural Selection and ten of them are chosen to be Knights; about one to two hundred Knights enters the Regional Selection, and the top ten are chosen again.

"And even if those who passed the Regional Selection are not comparable to you, the difference wouldn't be too big.

"There are even old monsters who have been training for decades or centuries, freaks whose talent are no weaker than yours, and aristocrats from reputable backgrounds with access to resources that are hundreds or thousands of times more than yours.

Putting these people together to compete for the top ten spots, how intense do you think the competition would be? Moreover, the National Selection is held only once every three years, but only the top ten are selected. There are many strong people who are left behind to compete in the next National Selection."

Kyle sighed and said, "That is the stage which belongs to the people at the pinnacle of each generation."

Fang Xingjian nodded and finished the last bit of his bread, before he raised his head and said, "I'll be attending Kirst Royal Knight Academy and will probably not be able to continue helping out with the matters in The School of Sword Arts."

What rubbish are you talking about? After going there, how could you still bother yourself with the insignificant work here?" Kyle grinned and said, "I had thought of pulling you to join The School of Sword Arts, but never thought that you would suddenly soar up into the skies, progressing even faster than I'd imagined."

Fang Xingjian said seriously, "No matter what, you are the one who brought me true enlightenment on my path of swordsmanship. I'm very thankful."

"Why are you being so serious?" Kyle made nothing of it and said, "You paid the money, I teach you stuff, it's just so simple. Hehe, do you know that I accept tens of students each year, but there are less than five who still come back to visit me?"

"That's true." Fang Xingjian said, "Then I'll be taking my leave."

"Don't forget to report at the academy tomorrow."

Kyle looked at Fang Xingjian's departing back view, inclined his head and thought to himself, 'I keep getting the feeling that something's off about this guy's character.'

Half an hour later, another member of staff from the Royal Academy came to The School of Sword Arts to look for Kyle.

Kirst Royal Academy, archives.

Huang Lin looked at the record in his hands and a hint of a smile broke out on his face. Written on the record was all sorts of information related to Fang Xingjian, all the way from half a year ago. Even the period where he was recovering from his injuries in the fishing village was recorded.

'Mysterious background?' Huang Lin was indifferent to this. 'But the world of the Empire is vast and His Majesty's generosity is as vast as the mountains and seas, such that he would even take in demons from another dimension. While I'm not comparable to His Majesty, why would I not be willing to accept a genius with an unknown background?

'To be able to bring the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique to level 15 in only half a year's time, and it might be possible that level 15 is not his limit yet.'

An unfathomable smile hung on Huang Lin's face. At the same time, he sealed up the record and switched it with a file he had prepared earlier which indicated a clean background.

The academy would collect the records of everyone who had passed the Prefectural Selection each year and submit it to the Royal Knight Association for their recording. If there was anything suspicious, weird, or if the association felt that something was off, the Empire's higher management would order for a secret investigation to be conducted.

However, Huang Lin knew that should Fang Xingjian's situation be reported, what awaited him would be the various aggressive and ferocious wide-opened mouths, as well as the greedy gazes. Coming from the point of one who valued talent, he chose to keep Fang Xingjian's distinguished talents a secret for now.

'To reach level 15 in half a year's time, it really is too attention-attracting. How many Dong Fangling will there be in the world?' Huang Lin thought to himself.

At that moment, a figure entered the archives and stopped before Huang Lin.

"Lord, the task is completed. I've given Kyle a reminder. He's not likely to be too meddlesome."

"Mmm, so long as the people in the Imperial Capital have not noticed anything, I'm still able to handle Kirst's aristocrats."

The next day, Fang Xingjian had his breakfast at The School of Sword Arts and reported at Kirst Royal Knight Academy. Although he was despised by the guards due to his clothes, after he reported his name, their gazes had turned into those of fawning.

"Lord Fang Xingjian, this will be the classroom where you guys will be gathering at." One of the guards obligingly brought Fang Xingjian into a classroom.

Fang Xingjian gave a casual glance and discovered that he was the last one to arrive. The other nine Knights were already seated in the classroom.

Coming from the aristocratic clans in the city, Kaunitz, Fei Yang Knight Academy's Barbara, and Aristocrat Knight Academy's Ferdinand were naturally seated together.

Behind them, tenth place Carter and eighth place Zhou Nan were like attendants.

Amongst the top ten places in the Prefectural Selection, those from the aristocratic clans had taken up five spots. This obviously showed the powers of the Empire's aristocrats.

Shadow Moon Academy's Boris sat alone in a corner. Other than Robert, he was the only one who had belonged to a faction which specialised in bare-handed martial arts. After all, the Empire's major factions rarely sent their most outstanding inheritors to the Empire.

City Guards Institution's Jack and the unaffiliated Anthony were considered commoners who rose by their own efforts.

As for the previous head of Tyrant Fist Dojo, Robert, he was seated with both legs on the table. When he saw Fang Xingjian, he revealed his teeth to him, showing a challenging smile. It was obvious that he was extremely pissed off that Fang Xingjian had clinched the Prefectural Champion this time around.

Seeing Fang Xingjian's appearance, fire lit up in Kaunitz's eyes, as if he wished to tear the other party into pieces.

The others' gazes were all filled with curiosity and guard. Most of them had received the news that the other party could defeat Kaunitz in one blow and was someone with powers they should not be holding in contempt.

Jack from the City Guards Institution laughed out and waved at Fang Xingjian. Fang Xingjian also naturally walked over and sat down.

Jack was a man about 30 years of age, with a full beard. He greeted Fang Xingjian passionately after he had sat down, "You must be Fang Xingjian, right? My boss Hogan has mentioned your name quite a few times these past few days.

"My name is Jack, haha, after participating in the Prefectural Selections for six consecutive years, I've finally got in."

He then pointed at Anthony and said, "This is Anthony from Uranlis."

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Chapter 40 Goal

Jack said, "Anthony has been touring Uranlis and only returned this past month to enter the Prefectural Selection."

Uranlis? Traces of killing intent flashed intensely in Fang Xingjian's eyes. Was Uranlis not the country that the Mage Association governed, and was it not also the country that currently allied with the five great nations of Earth, exchanging resources and skills?

And was the Black Mage King not one of the three greatest Mage Kings, the true ruler behind Uranlis' governing body?

Therefore once he heard the news, Fang Xingjian took his own initiative to shake hands with Anthony as he introduced himself, "Hi, my name is Fang Xingjian."

Anthony replied in a friendly manner, "During this year's Prefectural Selection, your name and reputation were like the sounds of thunder piercing the ears. Please take care of me in the future."

Fang Xingjian asked, "You just returned?"

"Yup, I was in Uranlis before I arrived here."

Fang Xingjian made small talk with Anthony for two to three sentences, and he nonchalantly asked, "I heard that the Black Mage King of the Mage Association just accepted a disciple?"

"Mhm, yeah. I just received this news recently. The new disciple seems to be a commoner, and no one has ever seen him before. However, since he could become the Black Mage King's disciple, he's really incomparably lucky." He was different from those in the Empire who had their own perceptions towards Uranlis. As someone who had lived there before, Anthony was clearly more rational. "You all better not think that all these Mages are all swindlers, using illusion techniques and sleight of hand magicians.

"In reality, the Mage Association in Uranlis is exceptionally powerful. The three Mage Kings, especially, are much stronger than even the majority of the other countries' Knights." In his speech, he was already conservative in his estimate of the power of the Mage Kings.

"Even more terrifying than the Knights of other countries?" Jack, who was a City Guard asked. "Are you serious? In the amount of time it takes them to channel and cast their spells, our Knights can already chop and slash them more than seven to eight times, right?"

"It's not that simple." Anthony shook his head, but he didn't provide any further explanation. Evidently, he had already met many people like Jack who had underestimated the Mages.

Fang Xingjian was not really sure about this as well. Originally, when considering the magic prints of Demonic City, Mages would always be ranked above Knights and Warriors. However, after cultivating for half a year in the Empire, he discovered that the four paths: Nurturing, Training, Amassing, and Killing were all extremely profound. Their might surpassed those of the magic prints.

So were the Empire's Knights stronger or were the Mages of Uranlis stronger? He had no way to verify this.

However, he continued asking, "I wonder what sort of person the disciple of the Black Mage King is?"

Anthony replied, "I'm not very certain about this, but I heard that this disciple seems to have originated from the western regions." After completing this sentence, he cast a glance at Fang Xingjian because his physical features, yellow-skinned and black hair, also indicated that he had a bloodline from the western regions.

After hearing this answer, Fang Xingjian had already understood. Somehow, during the competition to become the Mage King's disciple, Fang Clan had obtained victory in the end. Fang Xingchen had become the disciple of the Mage King, but Fang Xingjian simply did not know what or how great the price Li Shuanghua had paid.

Afterwards, Fang Xingjian continued chatting with Anthony. Mainly, he wanted to enquire about Uranlis' current situation.

Approximately ten minutes later, instructor Dick walked in and glanced at those who were present as his gaze slightly lingered for a moment on Fang Xingjian. Because Fang Xingjian obtained the position of Prefectural Champion this time around, it had caused him to lose his bet with Hogan. It could even be said that he had lost both the bet and his pride.

Although he understood that he should not blame Fang Xingjian, in the end, a hint of malice still entered his eyes every time he glanced at Fang Xingjian. In particular, Fang Xingjian was not a noble; rather, he was just a commoner and a vagrant.

Lightly coughing, Dick spoke. "Everyone, from now on, you will all be formal students of Kirst Royal Knight Academy as Knights of the Empire.

"Today is the first day of your lessons. We have many missions here, but first, your Knight attire and medallions." After he spoke, he clapped his hands as some attendants brought over Knight attires, the Empire's medallions, as well as sets of data.

After seeing the brand new attires placed in front of them, many students in the crowd had expressions of slight eagerness on their faces. Even Kaunitz and the others were all extremely excited as they saw their Knight attire.

Dick continued speaking, "A Knight attire is made from materials obtained from Fire Kirins and had the added effect of expansion and contraction. Size doesn't matter here, so all of you can just directly put it on."

Jack, who was beside Fang Xingjian, dumbly stared at the Knight attire as he continually used his hands to stroke the scales of the attire. "A Knight attire, this is a real set of a Knight attire, and I'm finally able to put them on."

Dick continued, "As for the Knight's medallion, it represents your identity. You can use it to enjoy the benefits of a Knight, and it is also your pass to enter the academy. Only with this medallion will you be able to enter or exit a majority of the places within the academy.

"Next, the following materials are required for you students to take note of."

Fang Xingjian picked up the medallion from the box as he played around with it. There was a tiny bronze-colored sword with many small-sized rune-like characters engraved on it. Fang Xingjian knew that these should be the secret data that's used to determined one's identity.

These medallions were created by the Royal Knight Association. Not only were the materials difficult to fake, the secret data was also one of a kind. It could be said that each and every medallion ever given out by the association could be easily traced, and there was absolutely no way to counterfeit it.

He used a string to thread the gap between the coupling links of the tiny sword as he hung the medallion around his neck.

Fang Xingjian then glanced at the nearby stacked documents regarding the information to take note again. These documents told the new students about things in the academy where one needed to pay attention to. For example, students were not allowed to participate in life and death battles, and students were not allowed to enter or exit on their own. There was also a map, which showed locations of the canteen, library, reef, their dormitories, et cetera.

Naturally, some of the documents also showed some of the benefits and preferential treatment that they would be able to enjoy based on their identity as Knights. As the champion of the Prefectural Selection, Fang Xingjian naturally would be able to enjoy the highest degree of preferential treatment, as well as to obtain the most benefits. As for this, Fang Xingjian merely roughly glossed over it without reading it in much detail.

Dick continued speaking, "Remember this, passing the Prefectural Selection and becoming a Knight is only the first step of your ten thousand mile long journey. If people who are proud just because of their results from the Prefectural Selection and don't improve, I will personally report this matter up to our academy's higher management and expel them from this place."

When he spoke, both of his eyes continuously stared at Fang Xingjian, as though he were referring to him.

Afterwards, he shifted the direction of his speech, as he added, "The ten of you are considered this year's batch of Knights, and you belong to the Class 256. Our academy was founded two hundred and fifty-six years ago, so there are already a total of two hundred and fifty-six classes, including your batch.

"Currently, there are a total of eight classes that are active within the academy, and I am the instructor in charge of your class.

"There will be a monthly competition between different classes, and based on the results, punishments will be distributed to the class in last place."

After observing the crowd's nonchalant expressions reflected in their faces, Dick coldly smiled as he stated, "Don't assume the punishment is very easy. I can guarantee that none of you will like it."

He then continued, "However, as you all are new students, you all have a buffer of three months before you need to enroll in the competition. And within these three months, the first mission you have to accomplish is to complete your first transition.

"And in the following month, the various profession lessons as well as physical training, qualities development, specialized training will all be preparation for your first transition. The choice of your profession will determine the development of your entire lives. I hope you all will take this seriously.

"A month later, there won't be any lessons planned for all of you. Manage your own time and target, and all of you have to complete your first transition within the last two months."

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Chapter 41 Moving In

After finishing his words, Dick directly left.

After Dick had exited, Kaunitz stood up with a bang. He turned his head and glared at Fang Xingjian, giving a loud bellow, "Fang Xingjian, after we complete the first job transition three months from now, do you dare to fight with me? It will not be a private fight but an official battle, which we would need to submit an application for."

The Royal Academy prohibited private fights but allowed for official battles. Of course, it would not be a life and death battle but only until a victor was decided.

If person A were to kill person B in a battle, then person A would also have his tendons destroyed and his Knight status removed. If one were to purposefully cripple his opponent, then the punishment would be based on the severity of the situation. At the very least, one's identity as a Knight would be removed, and one would be barred from enrolling into the academy for forever.

After all, this was a national organization, and it would be sufficient to determine the victor in a battle. How could they allow for members to engage in internal killings.

Of course, this was sufficient to Kaunitz. What he wanted was to triumph over the other party before humiliating Fang Xingjian.

While Fang Xingjian did not bother with the other party, he knew that there would not be an end to the troubles if he were to show signs of inferiority now. Thus, he said directly, "Three months?

"How about this, three months from now, I'll take you on with just one hand."

"You!" Flashes of fury flickered across Kaunitz's face as he immediately drew his sword. He wanted to charge over, but he was held back by those around him.

"Don't!"

"Kaunitz, stay calm. You are not his match right now."

"Do you want him to knock you out with one sword swing again?"

These words of advice made Kaunitz so angry that he almost puked blood.

Robert who had wanted to take his leave also gave a cold snort and said to Fang Xingjian, "Brat, don't you think you're being too arrogant?"

Fang Xingjian threw him a glance and said, "I haven't settled the score with you yet from the Prefectural Selection. How about we settle it three months from now?"

"Hahahaha." Robert could not help but laughed and said, "Brat, do you even know what you're talking about? Who do you think you're talking to?

"Or do you think that after three months, you will also have completed the first transition and will have eliminated the gap between us?"

However, since Fang Xingjian felt he had made his point, he no longer wished to engage himself in a battle of words. If he had time for this, he might as well have practiced the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth a few more times.

Therefore, he turned and said, "Three months from now, the two of you can attack together, so that you won't waste my time."

With a bang, Robert landed a fist on the table, which caused the table to cave in and fall apart.

Looking at Fang Xingjian's back, he said viciously, "B*stard, you're really courting death…"

Jack and Anthony took a look at Robert and the vicious aristocrats. They laughed bitterly and ran after Fang Xingjian.

Jack of the City Guards Institution ran first to Fang Xingjian's side and asked, "Why are you so rash?

"Sigh, this is troublesome. The crucial heir of clans like Kaunitz has had his path planned out since his youth based on his constitution, interest, and personality.

"For the sake of his first job transition, he had begun preparatory work since he was young. Therefore, after completing his first transition, his upgraded battle power will have increased greatly.

"Xingjian, while you are talented, how will you be able to surpass his ten or more years of preparation within three months? After you've completed the first transition, you'll need to go through an adjustment period of a few months before you will be able to perfectly display your battle power."

After listening to his words, Fang Xingjian's and Anthony's eyes revealed curiosity in their gazes.

Fang Xingjian asked, "Are you very familiar with job transitions?"

Jack shook his head. "You guys will find out after attending tomorrow's class. The first period is the job transition planning class. You'll be able to obtain a complete set of information."

At the same time Fang Xingjian and the others carried their Knight attires and many materials outside, two ladies were staring in their direction from a windowsill over fifty meters away.

One of them was about fifteen or sixteen years old with a pair of bright and beautiful eyes, and she was emitting a presence of youth and vitality all over.

A middle-aged lady in luxurious clothings was at her side.

The middle-aged lady looked at those three who were over fifty meters away. When her gaze landed on their clothing, she subconsciously furrowed her brows.

Fang Xingjian, needless to say, was even wearing today the clothes he had brought from the fishing village. As for Anthony and Jack, while they were slightly better off, they were still not worth mentioning before an aristocrat's eyes.

The middle-aged lady subconsciously felt displeasure when she saw the other party's actions and attire. She turned her head toward her daughter beside her and asked, "Liz, what do you think?"

This middle-aged lady was full of adoration toward her precious daughter. From her daughter's childhood, she had never let her daughter feel any hint of grief. Her daughter was someone she held dear to her heart. It could be said she feared that her daughter would fly too close to the sun.

If her husband had not spoken with such certainty that Fang Xingjian was an absolutely talented genius and that they should quickly grasp the opportunity, she would definitely not have brought her daughter here.

The husband and father to this pair of mother and daughter was that white-bearded old man who was the first to doubt Fang Xingjian in the third stage of the Prefectural Selection. He was also Kirst Royal Academy's sword art instructor.

However, while he had told his wife and daughter that Fang Xingjian was very talented and outstanding, Huang Lin had already ordered them to keep their mouths shut in order to protect Fang Xingjian. Therefore, they just did not know the degree of Fang Xingjian's talent.

After hearing her mother's question, the young lady pouted her lips and said, "He is very dirty…" After saying this, she grabbed her mother's arm and swung it repeatedly as she said in a spoiled manner, "Why did father ask me to get close to this guy? Mother, did you see that? His hair is so dirty that they are all sticking together. Do you really want to see me marry this kind of guy?"

The mother furrowed her brows as she looked at Fang Xingjian's appearance. While she really did not feel happy about this either, she still said, "Your father mentioned that he is a pedigreed horse, a sword talent that may not exist for decades. If he became your husband, you would not need to worry about your life in the future."

"I don't want, I don't want, I don't want." The young lady said spitefully, "Brother Hylong is so much better. He is handsome, gentle, and polite. He can even play music and write poetry."

"Sigh, Hylong is good, but he's doomed to be stuck at the first transition for life. Do you want to be stuck in Kirst all your life like me?" Her mother shook her head helplessly and said, "And if a person is dirty, he can always clean up…"

"Mother!!!"

After noticing how her daughter was reacting, she sighed and said, "Alright, alright, alright. Let's wait another three months and see how it goes. We will need to at least see what job he chooses for the first transition before we decide. It's not as if there weren't any exceptional talents within history that had made the wrong decision for their first job transition."

That young lady was still unhappy as she said, "Hmph, this ugly freak won't be able to get a good job for his first job transition. I can even smell his stench from fifty meters away."

Fang Xingjian was unaware that he had become the star of someone's criticism, and he split up from Anthony and Jack after they reached the residential area.

As Knights of the academy, they were each assigned a two storied villa with maids to clean daily. After all, now that they had become Knights, how would they be allowed to waste their time on household chores?

When Fang Xingjian drew closer to the entrance of the villa, he saw three middle-aged women waiting there. They bowed and one of them said, "Lord Fang Xingjian, we're your exclusive maids.

"I'll be in charge of cleaning your room daily. Regarding your food, Master Huang Lin has already decided on your behalf. This is your diet plan."

"Diet plan?" Fang Xingjian received the diet plan from the other party and noticed that his breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and midnight snack were written on it.

He had arranged for Fang Xingjian to have six meals daily, including ferocious beasts' essence, medicinal food, herbs, and specially selected vegetables and bread. They all seemed to be customized for Fang Xingjian, and the amount of food in the six meals were all decided after considering Fang Xingjian's absorption and consumption.

This amount was almost the upper limit of what Fang Xingjian could absorb.

After all, Fang Xingjian was a strong person who trained both internally and externally. Even if he were to eat a large amount of food, it would only take a slight effort for him to chew and for his organs to move, and the food would mostly be digested in an instant.

However, after reading that he would be able to ingest a portion of ferocious beasts' essence daily, Fang Xingjian's eyebrows could not help but twitch.

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Chapter 42 First Transition

To think that he could have access to a portion of ferocious beast's essence daily. Even the Fang Clan could only drink a bowl of Nine Blood Spirit-Changing Soup every day.

Although the ferocious beasts provided by the academy were of as high a grade as the Nine-Headed Abyss Bird, it was the allocation for Empire's Knights.

Fang Xingjian asked, "Do we need to pay extra money for the daily partaking of ferocious beasts' essence?"

"No need." The female servant had a face full of deference as she looked at Fang Xingjian. This was a student that a master of the second transition personally planned the diet for.

"A portion of ferocious beasts' essence daily. This is the preferential treatment for the Prefectural Champion."

Fang Xingjian took out the data that was given out earlier. Indeed, the one in first place would be able to partake in a portion of ferocious beast's essence daily, while the one in tenth place would only be able to enjoy a portion of ferocious beast's essence every three days.

And as for income, residence and such, the one in first place would get rewards ten times better than someone in the tenth place.

Being the Prefectural Champion brought not only honor, there were also many other concrete benefits.

Fang Xingjian nodded his head and said, "That's enough, let's go in."

Under the lead of the maid, Fang Xingjian was taken on a tour around the residence. The whole villa had an area of over five hundred square meters and a complete set of a variety of rooms. Basically, there was a living room for receiving guests, dining rooms, toilets, training rooms, study rooms, bedrooms, guest rooms, and even a room for the female servant.

After making arrangements for the female servant to clean the room and prepare food, Fang Xingjian directly went to the training room to practice the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth. He wanted to make good use of this one month, or just half a month to perfect the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth to the maximum level. Not only that, he also wanted to quickly deplete the potential he had accumulated.

After all, things like accumulated potential were useless if stored within one's body. One had to constantly deplete it, and it would be optimal to maintain a balance with the amount of depletion. Only through this would one be able to gain the most benefits.

For this purpose, he decided to shorten his amount of sleep once again, sleeping only from 12am to 3am for three hours daily.

However, considering his current body's constitution, sleeping for three hours was comparable to an an ordinary human's sleep of six hours. Although it was tough to do so, he could still bear it and it would not bring harm to his body.

In the training room, Fang Xingjian executed the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth again and again, stepping forth with each slash he made. And with each step, he retracted his sword which followed with another slash again.

Slash slash slash slash slash. His entire state of mind was immersed within the series of slashes, relentlessly exhausting his potential. His strength attribute increased slowly but resolutely, akin to the piece of iron enduring the hammering of a blacksmith's blow, tempering his body.

Simultaneously, he also got increasingly familiar with each of the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth's movements, with each change in every iota of force.

Sword arts of the Nurturing Path took gradual and steady progress. They strengthened the constitution and nurtured the spirit, accumulating the body's potential.

Sword arts of the Training Path were assiduous training. They broke through one's limits again and again, akin to a hammer's blows raining down on one's body, constantly releasing the accumulated potential, allowing one's body to transcend its limits again and again.

But regardless of if it was the Training or Nurturing Path, they were all cultivation methods, and were not a way to kill one's enemies.

The academy's lessons would usually be held in the morning. On the morning of the second day, Fang Xingjian chose to attend lessons on job planning.

An instructor was standing on the platform as he spoke unceasingly. Below, there were only the ten students from Fang Xingjian's Class 256.

"The profoundness of job transitions lies in space.

"Some of you already know this, some of you don't. But regardless, all of you better seriously focus and pay close attention to what I'm saying. Firstly, I will talk about the three great theories.

"The first one is the principle of space stability.

"This world which we are in is formed by space and time.

"Space represents the existence of the myriad of things while time presents their motion.

"Space, is incomparably tough. So tough that it's impossible to break. For example, even if all the Divine Level cultivators struck out together towards one point, it would still be impossible for them to break through space.

"However, there are always exceptions. In certain mysterious places, the structure of space isn't as stable, and there would be many creases and cracks. To the extent that with each passing second, there would be the creation and destruction of innumerable spatial tunnels.

"For places like this, we refer to them as the secret realms.

"The second one is the theory of ether particles. In spaces we cannot see, there exists a special kind of energy.

"This energy is akin to the air that surrounds us, encompassing everything in the world. However, we have no way to sense them or touch them.

"Because the space in our world is too stable and would always be in a state of equilibrium, the instant this type of energy appeared, it would be obliterated immediately in the next instant. They exists for too short a period of time, causing us to be unable to utilize or even observe this kind of energy through conventional methods.

"We refer this kind of omnipresent, infinite and boundless energy as 'ether particles'. We can only attempt to come into contact with them in the secret realms where there is spatial instability.

"The third theory is that the myriad of living things in this world are all formed by waves. From something as big as the sun, moon and constellations, to something as small as ether particles. You all have to remember that ether particles themselves are a type of waves as well rather than being an actual particle. If you can't even understand this, you would have no hope of completing the job transition.

"And our body, our consciousness, are also actually the superposition of countless waves.

"When we are within a secret realm, in that place where the ether particles are the most active, after using the waves from our consciousness and body to pry open the gate to ether particles, we will be able to obtain extraordinary powers and obtain the recognition of the Jobs Window.

"We refer to this process as job transition."

The instructor on the platform spoke with confidence and composure, while the majority of the Knights below were already drowsy and falling asleep.

Only Fang Xingjian was seriously listening to the theories as he pondered over the rationale unceasingly in his mind.

'The theories shared by this instructor did have some similarities with Earth's wave theory, something similar to quantum theory.

'However, I don't really remember the specific differences.

'But if this was really the case, the scientists under Earth's governments should have already researched this. Are the laws of physics in the Miracle World really different from that of Earth?'

Fang Xingjian did not know the exact answer, and this was also not something he could deal with now. Thus, he continued listening to the lecture.

"So if one wishes to go through the job transition, there are two basic conditions. The first condition is to find a secret realm. All of you have already met this requirement and they are also of the best quality. Kirst Royal Academy possesses a total of seven secret realms, and there are sufficient for the students' usage.

"The second condition is to is to use yourself to move ether particles.

"Our body, consciousness and ether particles are all made of waves. If one of them wishes to move another, it is important to maintain a similar frequency.

"And as for the frequency of one's body and consciousness, we termed that as vital frequency.

"We are unable to determine how much your vital frequencies are and also have no idea the differences between your vital frequencies and that of the ether particles.

"But with our Empire's three hundred years of experience, we are able to roughly know what kind of person can move what kind of ether particles, and transition to what kind of jobs. These are the precious experiences accumulated by countless seniors and geniuses who had made numerous attempts on themselves to conduct experiments.

"And only in the Royal Academy would you be able to browse over this data unconditionally. But, remember, all this data regarding job transitions are not to be divulged to anyone, else you will be charged with the crime of treason.

"Remember, your body's frequency as well as your attributes, techniques and specialities are all connected. However, the most important thing is, the Amassing Path.

"The Nurturing Path accumulates potential, while the Training Path expends the potential. These two paths are able to temper one's body, adjusting one's attributes.

"Amassing Path on the other hand, is able to modify your vital frequency, changing the essence of your life and thus allowing for communication with the ether particles.

"It is the same as how the Nurturing Path is split into exterior nurturing and interior nurturing; the Amassing Path is also split into two categories.

"The first one is to grasp the rhythm of breathing, adjusting the circulation of blood and thus causing the frequency within one's body to match with a certain distinctive type of Wave.

"The second one is to adjust one's thoughts and transforming one's mental state, allowing one's mental frequency to match with a certain distinctive type of mental cultivation method.

"Therefore, if you wish to transition to the job of your choice, you will need to use the remaining time to adjust yourselves. Pick up Waves and mental cultivation methods, allowing your Waves, mental cultivation technique, attributes, techniques and specialities to get as close to the requirements of the job transition of your choice. The closer you are to the requirements, the higher the probability of a successful job transition.

"One more thing, don't blame me for being naggy, let me reiterate once again, all information related to job transitions are not to be divulged to even your descendants. These include the information about the various jobs, all the recorded Waves and mental cultivation methods in the academy. Those who divulge this information will be charged with treason."

Gazing at the ten people who were now paying close attention to the lecture seriously, the lecturer spoke with indifference, "Alright, now I will start to introduce the types of jobs for the job transitions. Today, the first job to be introduced is… Landslide Torrenter."

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Chapter 43 Job Information

From there, the instructor started to introduce each first transition job one by one. This included their abilities, their extraordinary powers, their progression, their skills and specialties, as well as the possible paths for their second or even third job transitions.

Of course, the prerequisites required in order to complete these first job transitions were the most important.

He described the number of points required for the strength, agility, reaction, endurance and flexibility attributes respectively.

What specialties were required, what skills to acquire, and what level were also mentioned.

And the most crucial things were the selection of Waves as well as the mental cultivation methods.

Everyone, including Robert, listened attentively to the instructor's explanation. While Robert had already completed the first transition, this opportunity to obtain information on the other first transition jobs was hard to come by. This was only possible through the Royal Academy.

His goal was the second transition, which required him to compete with the other Knights in the Royal Academy and eventually pass the Regional Selection. To do so, he would naturally need a better understanding of the traits of the other first transition jobs.

As for Kaunitz, Barbara, and the other aristocrats, they could not be compared with the influential aristocrats in the Empire's central. However, through their clan's help, they had obtained some generic information with regards to the direction of their first transition job choice. However, this was not as detailed as the information accumulated by the Royal Academy, which came from the Empire's hundred years of efforts of numerous generations of talents.

As for Jack, Anthony, and the others, they were deeply engrossed in the explanation and were full of excitement and longing for these mysteries of the first transition.

They were especially engrossed in the information on access to the specialities available within the academy. This included which instructors they could approach for guidance on the various skills or even the instructors and seniors who had taken on the same job for their first job transition.

This information was extremely crucial. After all, no matter how good the job was, they would need to satisfy the various prerequisites and look for people who could give them guidance on the specialties, techniques, Waves, and mental cultivation methods.

"Alright, this is it for the three jobs shared today." The instructor packed up the materials and said, "If you guys need to review this material, you can check them out for yourselves in the library.

We will be progressively introducing the seventeen types of jobs you can transition to in our Kirst Royal Academy. On the last day, I will be giving out the application form for the first job transition. After you've filled out the job you wish to transition to, when approval is granted, the academy will arrange for you your instructors and your various courses to attend.

"Finally, there is one more mandatory piece of information instructors are required to share ever since the Empire had set up the academy's system. However, I still must advise against you all from doing this.

"That is, in the event you do not wish to take on a job from the seventeen types that I've shared, you can do your own research in the library to find out about the successful cases of other first transition jobs from the Empire's history.

"But I must remind you again, the seventeen types of job transitions that I've introduced are not only strong, they are also the ones which the current instructors in the academy can guide you. If you were to choose other jobs, it's likely that there'll be no one who would be able to guide you on the various Waves, mental cultivation methods, skills, and specialties."

After class, Kaunitz glared in Fang Xingjian's direction and left. Robert also laughed coldly a few times before taking his leave.

Fang Xingjian left the classroom together with Jack and Anthony.

Jack said, "Anyway, I don't plan on looking for a job which no one can give me guidance. It's something that only fools would do."

Anthony nodded his head and said, "For now, the academy only arranged for us to have classes in the morning. Where do you guys plan on going in the afternoon? I plan to head to the training grounds to take a look. It's said that many Knights from the previous years all practice there."

Jack smiled and said, "I'll head back myself. I still haven't completed today's homework."

"Right, Xingjian, where are you planning on going?"

"The library."

"The library?" Both Jack and Anthony cried out as they looked at Fang Xingjian and said, "You must be kidding. Are you really thinking about choosing another job?"

"Not necessarily, but don't you guys think those first transition jobs that the instructor had introduced earlier were not strong enough?" Fang Xingjian said calmly.

While those jobs he had heard earlier were strong enough as they were, compared to Demonic City's top notch first transition jobs, they were only slightly better off. One would only be able to fend off three or four people at one go, and what Fang Xingjian needed was something with overwhelming power.

"The system for the Empire's Knights is considered to be stronger than Demonic City's. However, after taking into consideration other advantages, it is still insufficient. To eradicate an existence at the level of the Five Great Clans, what I need would be something powerful enough to single-handedly combat a modernized army of armored forces…

"While it is much easier to complete the job transition for these seventeen jobs, they are only considered the upper tier of the middle level. What I need is an even stronger job."

"Not strong enough?" Jack said exaggeratedly, "My god, the job Landslide Torrenter for the first transition is one which increases one's attributes. With each additional level, there's a 5 point increase in strength, 2 point increase in agility, and 5 point increase in endurance. Don't forget that the job's specialty allows one to borrow strength from the earth. The job's skill allows one to harden one's skin such that it is impenetrable and has resistance to both fire and water.

"Is this still not strong enough?"

Fang Xingjian smiled and did not answer. He was from one of the Five Great Clans and even if he was not favored, his expectation was not something commoners like Jack and Anthony would be able to understand. With just modernized weapons alone, there would be plenty of ways to deal with these jobs.

Fang Xingjian only said, "Anyway, I'll only be taking a look and will be deciding after I listen to all of the introductions for the various jobs."

After arriving at the library, Fang Xingjian approached the librarian and asked directly, "I want to look at all the material pertaining to first transition jobs."

The librarian led him to a row of shelves, pointed to the few hundreds books, and said, "These all introduce the various first transition jobs."

Fang Xingjian looked at the books before him, frowned, and asked, "Aren't there are too many of them?"

If he were to spend time to going through all of these books, how would he be able to find time for his sword practice?

After noticing that the librarian was about to leave, he quickly stopped the other party and asked, "You have the access rights to all these materials?"

"Mmm, what about it?" He did not know what the librarian's background was. When he saw Fang Xingjian, he did not behave cautiously like how the other servants were when they saw Knights. On the contrary, a hint of laziness filled his face as if he was not interested in anything at all.

"Can you help me organize the materials from these books…"

Before Fang Xingjian had finished his sentence, the librarian turned to leave, mumbling, "No time."

Fang Xingjian said, "What if I pay you?" He would definitely want to receive help from the maids or engage someone to find materials he needed, but apparently not everyone had the access rights to these materials on job transitions.

And why would ordinary Knights accept his request?

After hearing that Fang Xingjian would be paying, the librarian paused in his tracks and asked, "How much can you pay?"

Fang Xingjian replied, "If you can organize all the materials, I'll pay you four hundred copper coins." When he had taken on tough jobs earlier, he only managed to earn one hundred copper coins. To him, it was very generous that he was paying the other party five hundred straight.

However, that librarian immediately turned to leave, asking, "Do you think that you're trying to dismiss a beggar?"

"Wait, wait up." Fang Xingjian grabbed the other party's shoulders and forcefully pulled him back.

The librarian shouted out, "What are you doing? It's a serious offense to attack the academy's staff."

"Don't be hasty, I can pay you more."

"Oh?" The librarian's eyes rolled and he said, "How much can you pay?"

Fang Xingjian gave it some thought. Every month, the academy gave him ten gold coins, and the prize for being this year's Prefectural Champion was fifty gold coins. This was almost enough for an ordinary family to live in the Empire without worrying at all.

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Chapter 44 Four Types of Jobs

Fang Xingjian gave it some thought and said, "One gold coin, which is the equivalent of one thousand copper coins. How's that?"

That librarian said smugly, "Three gold coins, and depending on the difficulty, there may be a need to adjust the cost later."

"Three gold coins?" Fang Xingjian gritted his teeth. As a Prefectural Champion, he was only given ten gold coins per month, while Carter would only get one gold coin per month, since he was ranked tenth.

Fang Xingjian nodded and asked, "What's your name?"

"Manny."

Fang Xingjian took in a deep breath and said, "Very well, Manny, three gold coins it is. Within three days, I want you to retrieve all first transition jobs which utilize the sword and focus on sword arts as the main source of power. After that, make me a copy of those records."

Manny immediately broke into a wide smile and said, "Rest assured, no one is more familiar than me with the books in this library. I'll start making a copy of them for you tomorrow."

Fang Xingjian nodded, "Right, there are also books on sword arts in the library? Bring me there to take a look."

After leaving the library, Fang Xingjian was still feeling slightly stuffy. He had considered using other options, or even threatening Manny.

However, he thought about it from another perspective. Since it was something which could be settled with money, why would he need to complicate things? Now, to him, time was the most crucial thing. After the Prefectural Selection, he was only left with four and a half years' time and he needed to make good use of it.

Therefore, he headed straight back to the villa, and once he entered the training room, he immediately started fanatically training the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth. The explosive sounds from the waves of his sword were like thunder, sounding out endlessly in the room.

The servants who passed by would all looked towards the direction of the room in awe.

Two days later, Manny lugged documents which were as tall as half a person's height and arrived at Fang Xingjian's villa.

Seeing Fang Xingjian coming out slowly from the training room baring the upper half of his body, he made himself at home, going through Fang Xingjian's wine cabinet and said, "Wow, you have quite a lot of good wine here."

Fang Xingjian sat on the sofa, took a stack of documents and started reading. He then casually said, "They were all given by the academy, I don't drink them."

"You don't drink them?" Manny grabbed a wine bottle filled with a silvery transparent liquid and shouted out, "Do you know how much this bottle of Mountain Spring Fruit Wine costs? Since you don't drink them, you might as well give it to me."

"Help yourself." Fang Xingjian's eyes were still fixed on the documents, ignoring Manny who kept trying to stuff the bottles of wine into his pocket. He asked directly, "Which few are the most powerful amongst these?"

"I knew you'd ask." Manny pointed to the few documents in a file with the upper right corner of their pages labelled in red and said, "These four are the strongest amongst all these jobs for the first transition. Take a look yourself."

Fang Xingjian drew them out. The first that he saw was Void Sword Sovereign; job progression included an additional 2 points in strength, 2 points in agility, 2 points in reaction, 2 points in endurance, and 2 points in flexibility.

It was a very mediocre progression, but it came with a job skill, Sword Qi of the Void, which could utilize ether particles to launch sword Qi through gaps in space to attack enemies.

Space was a very strong existence which was hard to break through. However, it did not exist as a whole but contained numerous gaps and openings. Sword Qi of the Void could pass through those gaps, moving without a trace yet with a sharpness that was unparalleled. It was a top notch assassination job.

Fang Xingjian flipped to the next page. Starcluster Hunter: increased strength by 3 points, agility by 3 points, and reaction by 6 points. The Star Hunter focused on the reaction attribute, and with the two specialities, namely Innate Reflexes and Basic Instinct, it would give the person unbelievable reactive speed, allowing him to make the first strike almost all the time during close combat.

Next was a job called Windstorm Sword Hero. The attribute progression for this job was very simple, merely a 9 point increase in agility. It came with two specialties, the first was the Windstorm Footsteps, which could increase one's movement speed immensely. The second was the Sonic Slash, which could increase the speed of launching one's sword attack.

This was obviously a job which specialized in agility. The person would be able to fight and escape as he wished, and would be able to attack at the speed of lightning.

The last one was Sovereign of Ten Thousand Swords. The job progression was a 4 point increase in strength, 4 points in agility, and 4 points in flexibility. It came with a specialty known as Protection of Ten Thousand Swords, which would increase one's body defence. There was another specialty which was the soul of this job, the Throne of Ten Thousand Swords, which would allow one to accumulate strength daily, storing sword Qi in one's body up to thousands or tens of thousands that could be released at once if the situation called for it.

Of course, each of the four jobs had the basic abilities for a first job transition, which was to communicate with ether particles and thus display Reduced Force-Field (a universal ability which was achieved from communicating with ether particles to change life's intrinsic quality, and which could allow Knights to display a force-field of half their strength within a ten-meter circumference.)

The four jobs each had their advantages and disadvantages, but all of them far surpassed that of the first transition jobs the instructor had shared with them.

Fang Xingjian looked at the jobs' materials with gleaming eyes and said, "For these four first transition jobs, there are no instructors in the academy now who can provide full guidance?"

"You're speaking the obvious. If not, you think that the instructor wouldn't tell you?" Manny's clothes were bulging after having stuffed in quite a number of wine bottles. He even made clanking sounds while he was walking. "Be it specialties, or skills, or prints, or mental cultivation methods, there is no one who can teach the prerequisites for these jobs. This means that if you want to transition into one of these four jobs, there are many areas in which you'll have to self-study.

My advice is that even if you want to pick a unique job, you should take a look at others as well. There aren't many people in the course of the Empire's history who have achieved success in these four jobs.

Hehe, are you satisfied?" Saying this, Manny rubbed his hands fawningly as he looked at Fang Xingjian.

Fang Xingjian took out three gold coins, but when Manny reached out his hands, he pulled them back.

"What is the meaning of this?" Manny said anxiously.

"I'll give you two gold coins first." Fang Xingjian said, "To get the remaining one, you'll need to find me some other materials."

Receiving the two gold coins, Manny glared at Fang Xingjian. However, it was as Fang Xingjian had expected. The other party's mania towards money was sufficient to let him take this lying down.

"What do you want?"

"For these four jobs, I want all the details for all those who have completed the first transition for these jobs in the Empire's history, the more detailed the better."

The next few days, Fang Xingjian attended class with Jack and Anthony in the day to learn about the seventeen types of jobs the academy provided them with. During the other time, he would stay in the training room to practice the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth while studying the materials Manny had provided him with.

The days passed, and seven days later, Fang Xingjian had already reached level 12 for the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth, which gave him an additional point in strength and 1 point in agility.

Another thing was that he would practice the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth fanatically. He would accumulate potential for techniques in the training path, then expend the over 120,000 potential points until there was only about 20,000 left. Because of this, his strength had also increased by 3 points.

In these days, he depleted a massive amount of potential in one go. The 3500 potential points he accumulated daily through the practicing of nurturing techniques were completed depleted after he expended four to five thousand potential points daily. From there, he started to practice the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth for one to two hours daily to deplete the 3,500 potential points he accumulated daily.

Other than training, Fang Xingjian also took in various nourishing medications and ferocious beasts' essence, bringing the effects of his training to an even higher level. His muscles and bones continued to grow, providing nourishment for potential.

There would be people who would bring hot water, clean water and a change of clothes so that he no longer needed to pay heed to his hygiene.

And after the past half year of training, his body had also continued to grow. His height grew to over 1.9 meters, and in his blue Knight's suit, he appeared to be big and sturdy, with a sharp gaze, and his muscles and bones were twisted together to be as tough as steel. His skin and flesh was like a layer of steel, protecting his body, while his black hair swayed in the wind like fiery flames.

This made him appear like one of the legendary battle gods.

Compared to half a year ago, the Fang Xingjian now was a world away from the one before.

And his attributes had changed too.

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Warrior's Squire

Level

9

Strength

38

Agility

43

Reaction

23

Endurance

30

Flexibility

32

Techniques:

Single-handed Sword Grab

Level 20

Cross-slash

Level 20

Grizzly Bear Sword Technique

Level 30

Eagle Sword Technique

Level 30

Tenauer-Style Body Strengthening Sword Technique

Level 30

Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique

Level 20

Chaotic Strike

Level 20

Silver Moon Prayer Sword Technique

Level 20

Descent of Holy Light

Level 10

Tresia-Style Foundation Sword Technique

Level 20

Nine-Headed Dragon Sword Technique

Level 1

Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth

Level 12

Specialities:

Genius Swordsmanship,

Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing,

Internal Training,

Sword Specialist

On this day, when he entered the classroom again, he immediately felt a tight tension. No one spoke. Not even Jack, who usually appeared the most relaxed, and who loved to joke. Jack's lips were tightly shut, and his gaze gave away the fact that he was pondering.

It was the day of the last class of the job planning curriculum. It was also the day when everyone would have to fill in their application forms to decide what their first transition job would be.

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Chapter 45 Application

Jack kept scratching his head as if he had to make an extremely tough choice.

Anthony had finished filling up the application long ago, but his thighs kept shaking non-stop, and he still seemed to have some hesitation.

Compared to them, Kaunitz and the others looked to be calmer. After all, they had long before started their preparatory work in their respective clans. Renowned Knight characters had been the ones to choose their future paths for them. Therefore, Kaunitz and the others had immediately been able to choose their routes from the seventeen jobs.

Fang Xingjian also sat down and started to fill in the application form.

Out of the materials that Manny the librarian had gotten for him, he focused on the four main jobs, namely the Void Sword Sovereign, Starcluster Hunter, Windstorm Sword Hero and Sovereign of Ten Thousand Swords. Although he also swept across the other sword based jobs, they could not compare to these four.

In addition, these four jobs brought greater advantages compared to the seventeen the instructor had listed. Fang Xingjian believed that only if he chose one of these would he be able to eradicate the Onassis Clan, to suppress Li Shuanghua and question her about his mother, all by himself in the span of four and a half years.

Out of these four jobs, the Void Sword Sovereign's attribute increment was the lowest, but the Sword Qi of the Void was unpredictable and impossible to guard against. It was said to be the best for sneak attacks and assassinations.

Starcluster Hunter brought unparalleled reflexes, and would even be able to predict battle situations to a certain degree. Out of the four jobs, it was the best for close combat.

Windstorm Sword Hero brought unparalleled speed, allowing one to battle and then escape with ease. It had the highest level in terms of generic abilities.

The last one, the Sovereign of Ten Thousand Swords, allowed for the accumulation of powers and releasing them at once. It was the best for arena battles. Amongst the four, it was the best in terms of explosive force, and for one on one battles.

As for the other sword-based jobs Manny had gathered information on, he only glanced through them once, quickly. They were truly unable to compare with these four.

Fang Xingjian pondered for a very long time, scanning through the historical records of the many strong Warriors, which Manny had brought at a later time, before he finally decided to choose Windstorm Sword Hero for his first job transition.

One reason was because the speed of his movements and actions was too important, and as long as these two aspects were of high enough level, then he would be able to both attack and defend, and he would be able to have absolute overwhelming powers over his weaker opponents.

This made the overall abilities for the Windstorm Sword Hero to be stronger. In addition, with Fang Xingjian's sword talent, combined with the unrivalled agility and numerous sword arts, his battle prowess would rise greatly.

Of course, the most important thing was that from his research, he had noticed that only three people in the Empire's entire history had succeeded in transitioning into Windstorm Sword Hero. However, all three of them had eventually completed the third transition, and had become strong Warriors of the Divine Level. Fang Xingjian had the confidence that he would be able to transition into any of these four jobs, and so he eventually decided on the Windstorm Sword Hero.

After having looked through the records of the only three strong Warriors to successfully undergo this job transition in the whole of the Empire's history, Fang Xingjian started to think about something else.

'Windstorm Sword Hero may be able to go even further… and might even be able to fully surpass the other three jobs!'

Not much later, everyone had made their choice. No matter whether they were hesitant, certain, or regretful, eventually they had all made a decision which would affect them for life.

After the instructor collected everyone's applications, he took and glance and frowned.

"Fang Xingjian…" He looked towards Fang Xingjian and asked, "Are you sure that you want to select Windstorm Sword Hero?"

"Windstorm Sword Hero?" Jack turned his head to Fang Xingjian who was beside him and asked, "Xingjian, this isn't one of the seventeen transition jobs?"

Fang Xingjian calmly answered, "It's not. I came across this in the library."

Hearing his reply, Jack and Anthony could not help but smile bitterly, looking at him as if they were looking at a monster.

Kaunitz laughed out loud, his gaze towards Fang Xingjian expressing extreme disdain, and said "Ignorant people are truly fearless."

Barbara, Ferdinand and the others also grinned coldly, looking at Fang Xingjian as if they were looking at an idiot.

The instructor came down from the platform and stood before Fang Xingjian, asking, "Do you know that the attribute requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero are extremely harsh? And that it has high requirements in terms of specialties?

"This job is very powerful, but there are literally no instructors in the academy who can guide you. No, I should say that even if there were an instructor for this job, it would be useless.

"Your choice is to transit into Windstorm Sword Hero, but once you enter the secret realm, if you are not able to fulfill all the prerequisites, it is highly possible that your job transition will fail and that you will encounter the backlash from the ether particles.

"And do you know that across the over two hundred years in the Empire's history, there were only three who succeed in transitioning into a Windstorm Sword Hero? Do you think you can become the fourth?"

Fang Xingjian calmly replied, "I know all these, but I am confident I will succeed."

"You're confident you will succeed? Do you think this is a game?" said the instructor, his voice getting louder, feeling a bit resentful and impatient that Fang Xingjian was unable to show improvement or meet expectations. "Do you know how many geniuses in history have set their goals for the first transition too high and ended up failing the transition in the secret realm? They ended up wasting their lives, and some of them could not take it and even committed suicide."

Seeing that Fang Xingjian was being reprimanded, Kaunitz and the others were all relishing his misfortune. Jack and Anthony were anxious. However, they did not know how to persuade him.

Fang Xingjian replied, "Across the Empire, there is no regulation saying that I cannot pick Windstorm Sword Hero as my transition job, is there?"

"You!" The instructor had not thought that Fang Xingjian would be so stubborn. He pointed to him and said, "You are destroying your own future." After saying this, he left with the application forms. Before leaving the classroom, he turned around to say, "I will be reporting this to the Headmaster. I advise you to change your mind earlier."

After the instructor left, Kaunitz and the others broke into loud laughter.

Barbara from Fei Yang Knight Academy, who excelled in archery, smiled and said, "Great genius, then we shall wait for you to transition into the Windstorm Sword Hero. Kaunitz, after he completes the job transition and becomes a Windstorm Sword Hero, you'll most likely not be his match."

"Hmph, if he can really assume the role of a Windstorm Sword Hero, so what if I lose?" Kaunitz stared at Fang Xingjian with bloodshot eyes and said, "I'm just afraid that some people have set their expectations too high and will end up failing their job transition."

Fang Xingjian threw them a cold look before he turned around to leave. Jack and Anthony exchanged a glance, then they dashed out after him.

Once they were out of the classroom, Jack tried to persuade him, "Xingjian, why must you choose the Windstorm Sword Hero? There's no one who can guide you for this job and you'll be in trouble if your job transition fails."

"That's right, if you were to self-study, you would only be able to look up information in the library. There won't be anyone who can give you hands-on training in the key areas, and the chances of problems cropping up would be very high." Anthony also tried to advise him, "The seventeen jobs provided by the school are not too bad either. After succeeding in transitioning, we'll also have higher chances in the Regional Selection.

"Moreover, didn't you hear the instructor saying that there's only three people who have succeeded in their transition to a Windstorm Sword Hero? The chances of succeeding in this job for the first transition are too low."

"Chances?" Fang Xingjian said calmly. "What chances are there? The academy can only provide such mediocre jobs for the first transition, and most of the Knights in the Empire all learn these jobs, which are also easy to pass down. You want to stand on the same starting point with the others before the Regional Selection has even started?

"While the jobs for the first transition provided by the academy may not be bad, they are still considered too weak for me.

"What is the meaning in choosing a job of a similar standard to those of the majority of people? What would allow you to be able to stand out in the Regional Selection?"

Hearing Fang Xingjian's words, the two of them were stunned. When they came back to their senses, Fang Xingjian had already taken a few steps forward. With each step he advanced over ten meters, and so he soon disappeared from their sight.

Jack scratched his head and said, "What he said… sounds logical. With our talent, if we were to take on a first transition job of a similar standard with the majority of the Knights, then how would we be able to pass the Regional Selection in the future?"

Anthony's brows were scrunched up, and the hesitation he was feeling when deciding on the job for the first transition earlier came back.

However, in the end, he still said, "But it would also be very hard for us to succeed in the first transition in a job that no instructors would be able to guide us through. Let alone succeeding the transitioning into the Windstorm Sword Hero which only three people in the course of the Empire's history have managed to do."

"That's right." Jack sighed and said, "To gain something, you must be prepared to take risks."

At that moment, they were suddenly full of admiration for Fang Xingjian's courage in deciding to transition into the Windstorm Sword Hero.

Once Fang Xingjian returned to his villa, he took out a pen and paper, then he started making notes.

'Based on Windstorm Sword Hero's requirements, I'll need to come out with a three-month-long training plan.'

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Chapter 46 Plan

There were many prerequisites for the Windstorm Sword Hero, First and foremost of them was the attributes. This job required over 45 points in strength, over 60 points in agility, over 45 points in reaction, over 35 points in endurance, and over 35 points in flexibility.

The requirements for the attributes were very close to many of the Warriors who had already completed the first transition. For a normal Warrior to achieve these attributes before going through the first transition would mean that he would need to spend all his time practicing techniques in both the Nurturing Path and the Training Path, continuously accumulating and depleting potential points.

Those who were talented would need about five to six years. Those who had mediocre talent would need over ten years. And those who had poor talent would need twenty to thirty years to gain these attributes, and thus fulfill the attribute requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero.

Fang Xingjian was still short of 7 points in strength, 17 points in agility, 22 points in reaction, 5 points in endurance, and 3 points in flexibility.

However, the development of his potential was more than ten times faster than that of an ordinary person's to being with, and now, with the numerous sword techniques in the library just waiting for him to learn, he had the confidence to achieve the attribute requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero.

Other than attributes, another item was the specialities. To take on the job of the Windstorm Sword Hero, he would need three major specialties, namely Heightened Reflexes, Perfect Muscles and High Sensitivity Motion Vision.

Heightened Reflexes required one to perform a reflex action for ten thousand times in 0.1 seconds. After obtaining it, this specialty allowed the person to instinctively perform battle reflex actions under any circumstance, thus increasing the person's reaction speed by half.

Perfect Muscles was even tougher. It required one to train every single muscle throughout the body, and to have pink-colored muscles, which had the endurance of red-colored muscles and the explosive force of white-colored muscles. It was as if a person's muscles had strong endurance, like that of a marathon champion, but also had the explosive force like that of a champion sprinter.

This specialty could increase the practitioner's strength and agility attributes with 10% of the endurance attribute's current value.

This meant that if his endurance was 50 points, his agility and strength would each increase by 5 points.

The final one was the High Agility Motion Vision. To obtain this specialty, one would need to spend long hours without the sense of hearing, relying only on one's sight to avoid ten thousand high speed attacks.

After gaining the High Agility Motion Vision, it would increase the speed at which the optic nerves transmitted information, and thus strengthen the practitioner's motion vision.

These three specialties were the foundation of the job transition for the Windstorm Sword Hero, and the basic requirements for high-speed battles. In addition, all three were specialties which demanded hard work and effort. There were no shortcuts available.

As for the skills, the Windstorm Sword Hero did not require any.

Lastly, the Waves and mental cultivation techniques required was Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation Art.

The Waves and mental cultivation techniques were something which could change life's frequencies, and which could, in essence, change one's body.

Mental cultivation techniques primarily changed one's thoughts and one's way of thinking. The Waves changed one's body and blood vessels.

Only when the two were in sync would they be able to perform even more effectively.

The two were further split into two categories, namely basic types and special types.

Mistral Windgod's Waves was considered one of the special types. When it was trained to a high level, it allowed the practitioner to work together with ether particles in order to control the atmosphere and strong winds.

Basic type Waves did not have explicit extraordinary powers, they simply facilitated the strengthening of one's physical body through the ether particles.

The same goes for mental cultivation techniques. When one was able to obtain a high enough level in mental cultivation techniques of a special type, this would allow one to perform material obstruction.

Ice Age Meditation Art was considered a basic type, and it simply increased one's basic attributes such as computational abilities and reaction.

Regardless if it was mental cultivation techniques or Waves, those classified under special types were able to obstruct the material world, while basic types could strengthen one's body. They each had their benefits, and it was difficult to compare or decide which was the better one.

The combination of the Waves and mental cultivation techniques for the Windstorm Sword Hero was such that the Mistral Mistral Windgod's Waves controlled raging wind, while the Ice Age Meditation Art strengthened one's brain, nerves and thoughts. It was a combination of a special type with a basic type.

Looking at the many goals he had written down on paper, Fang Xingjian thought to himself, 'I must first train my attributes. After all, Heightened Reflexes and High Sensitivity Motion Vision both boil down to attribute requirements. As long as my attributes are high enough, the training for these two specialties will go much faster.'

Just as he was making his plans someone knocked on the door, and soon after a maid brought Manny in, the latter holding many books. He said, "There! These are all the sword techniques you asked for. Here are the best Nurturing sword techniques, these are the Training sword techniques for the five major attributes, and these are the renowned sword techniques of Tempest Overlord Charlemagne, of Gale Sword Deity Jude Law, and of Aurora Sword Spirit, McDowell.

"However, it is impossible to find their most exemplary sword techniques in the Prefectural academy. All the records we have here are of the sword techniques they practiced before and shortly after they had gone through the first transition."

"That's sufficient…" Fang Xingjian smiled. Amongst the three specialties, the one that he had least confidence in was Perfect Muscles. Such a specialty was simply in defiance of nature, and required one to continuously and crazily destroy one's own muscles and bones.

However, looking at the biographies of the various strong Warriors, he noticed that the only three Windstorm Sword Heroes in the Empire's entire history had all become Divine Level strong Warriors and had also reached level 30. They were Tempest Overlord Charlemagne, Gale Sword Deity Jude Law and Aurora Sword Spirit McDowell."

This was also one of the reasons he had chosen the Windstorm Sword Hero. Now, he had asked Manny to bring him the sword techniques they had practiced in their earlier days. This was also so that he could uncover the profound mysteries behind the specialty Perfect Muscles.

He believed that as long as he practiced these three persons' basic sword techniques to the maximum level, he would at least grasp an idea of how to obtain Perfect Muscles.

'Practicing techniques from the Nurturing Path and Training Path every morning and first increase the reaction attribute. Increase it with potential points first, then get additional attribute increments from practicing a variety of sword techniques. It would be more worthwhile this way.'

After all, his reaction only had 23 points, and he would only need to deplete 20,000 potential points in order to increase it by 1 point. When his attributes got higher, it would be more worthwhile to raise the reaction attribute by reaching level 10 in a myriad sword techniques.

On the contrary, when his attributes were lower, if he were to depend on the additional attributes from mastering sword techniques, then when his attributes reached about 40 to 50 points, each additional increment would cost him around 40-50,000 potential points, which was much more expensive in comparison.

'Practice techniques from the Nurturing and Training Path to increase attributes in the morning, study the three strong Warriors' basic sword techniques and experience in the afternoon,' Fang Xingjian said to himself as he wrote. 'Learn Waves and mental cultivation techniques at night.'

'Do this for one month… then make necessary adjustments subject to the results.'

Fang Xingjian's plan was to rely on his sword talent, using potential points and attribute increments from mastering sword techniques to level 10 in order to quickly raise his attributes.

From there, he would then depend on his high attributes to forcefully train and obtain Heightened Reflexes and High Sensitivity Motion Vision.

After that, he would depend on his extraordinary sword talent to master all the basic sword techniques of the three powerhouses, and from there work on achieving the specialty Perfect Muscles.

He had yet to think of a good plan for the Waves and mental cultivation techniques. He could only be like any other person and self-study for now.

Just as Fang Xingjian was deeply engrossed in his own plan, Class 256's instructor Dick came over to him with a grim look. He busted the door open directly and went up to Fang Xingjian.

He looked at Fang Xingjian, fury flashing across his face, and asked, "Fang Xingjian, do you know what you're doing?" After finding out about Fang Xingjian's choice of such a rare job for his first transition, he had started cursing that Fang Xingjian was being ridiculous.

Putting aside Fang Xingjian's own future, since he was Class 256's instructor, if the Prefectural Champion in his class were to fail his first transition, it would obviously appear very poorly on his performance evaluation, and may even affect his own career and his position in his clan.

He swept a glance towards the plan Fang Xingjian had written down and became even more infuriated, "Do you think that just because you've won the Prefectural Champion, that your talent is unrivaled and that you can be cocky now?

"Do you think that you're the only one who's clever, the only one who's talented, and thus would be able to assume a job which others are not able to?

"Think about it. There are eight other classes in the academy other than the one you are in. Putting aside the one person who has gotten through the previous Regional Selection, there are seven other Prefectural Champions. Let me tell you that, including Laurence who has passed the Regional Selection and was thus enrolled into the Regional Royal Academy, all of the Prefectural Champions chose their jobs from the seventeen jobs."

Fang Xingjian lifted his head, looked at Dick, and calmly replied, "So what?"

Dick felt exasperated, and spoke in a tone as if he felt that Fang Xingjian was not living up to expectations to say, "Do you know how many people have succeeded in becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero in their first transition, across the whole of the Empire's history? Three. Only three! They all became Divine level existences. Do you think that your talent is comparable to theirs?"

Fang Xingjian said, "I think it can be."

With a bang, Dick smashed the table before Fang Xingjian into two, sending bits and pieces of books flying.

"Ignorant!

"Arrogant!"

After saying these two words, Dick turned to leave, as if he had been completely disappointed in Fang Xingjian. However, when he reached the door, he still said, "I've already reported this case to the headmaster and to Lord Huang Lin. You'd better think of how to explain it to them."

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Chapter 47 Conversation

Outside Huang Lin's office, over ten sword art instructors were gathered, staring in the direction of the office.

"To think that even the Headmaster is here."

"No other way out. It's been a long time since something like that occurred. To think that someone had chosen the Windstorm Sword Hero for their first job transition."

"Windstorm Sword Hero? Even if we pool in the specialties and Waves of everyone present, it'll probably still be insufficient."

"We are still able to provide guidance for High Sensitive Motion Vision and Heightened Reflexes, but we won't be able to do the same for Perfect Muscles. None of us have this specialty."

"And there's no one in the academy who knows the Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation Art."

"It's impossible to succeed. The requirements for attributes are so high as well…"

"But to be able to learn Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth within six hours, Fang Xingjian is really talented."

"It's useless, no matter how talented he is. There were many who were even more talented than he is, but they didn't choose this job. So who is he to choose this job? Think about it. Who were the three who succeeded in this job? They were all Divine Level Warriors."

"Fang Xingjian is Old Huang's disciple after all, and the Headmaster would need to give him face."

"I reckon that in the end, he'll still need to choose from one of the seventeen jobs. Windstorm Sword Hero… This is ridiculous."

At the same time, in the office, Huang Lin was seated casually on the sofa, and opposite to him there was a white-haired amiable-looking old man who was slowly sipping and enjoying a cup of tea.

"Lin, it's been some time since I've had some of your tea. It really does taste different."

Huang Lin coldly said, "You drink milk tea everyday and rarely have a sip of green tea. Of course you'd find it fragrant."

"Hehe, weren't we in the same class back then? Do you have to keep me at an arm's length?" The white-haired old man was Kirst Royal Academy's current Headmaster.

He looked at Huang Lin and grinned, saying, "I'm here today just because of you."

"Me?" Huang Lin's eyebrows twitched. It was as if sharp streams of sword Qi were passing through every inch of space in the office.

The Headmaster wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Don't be agitated, don't be agitated."

Huang Lin gave a cold snort and said, "I've said it before. Ever since that event, no one should ever think of messing around before me."

Hearing Huang Lin's words, the Headmaster let out a sigh, put the teacup down on the table, no longer keeping up the pretense of smiling.

He frowned, saying, "Do you really think that Fang Xingjian can go through the job transition successfully and become a Windstorm Sword Hero? You should know how difficult it is to transition to such a rare job."

"With his talent, I trust that he has a success rate of 40%."

"40%?" The Headmaster calmly said, "To be able to learn the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth within six hours, it should be more than just 40%, right?"

Huang Lin's eyes froze, and the Headmaster waved his hand and said, "Don't stare at me like that. If you think that you're able to hide such small matters from me, then I can forget about holding on to this Headmaster position. Don't worry, I haven't reported this to the higher levels.

"But you must understand, once he succeeds in becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero, there's no way for us to keep it hidden.

"Someone who can succeed in transitioning to such a rare job for his first job transition… Many would set their sights on him."

"Which strong Warrior hasn't gone through trials?" Huang Lin's eyes burned as he spoke, "Moreover, this is no longer the generation we were born in. It's a Windstorm Sword Hero we're talking about. The Knight Association will not let them have their way.

"Moreover, I've said it before, even if I were to die, I'll definitely not let that kind of thing happen again."

"Since you have decided, there's nothing more I can say."

"But you must remember, I'll only let him waste three months. Three months later, if he does not succeed, he'll have to choose a proper job for his transition.

"This is the greatest concession I can give." The Headmaster shook his head. There was nothing he could do to this old pal of his. They knew each other too well, and he knew that once the other party had made up his mind, it would be extremely hard to change it. Moreover, he also did not wish to make things difficult for the other party, thus he could only agree with it for now.

The next day, Fang Xingjian was called to the office very early in the morning. The instructors who were present were all looking at him strangely.

Fang Xingjian ignored them, knocked on the door, and entered Huang Lin's office.

"Teacher."

Huang Lin nodded, looked at Fang Xingjian, laughed and said, "I thought that it would be a waste for you to take up one of those generic jobs, but I didn't think that you would choose a rare job by yourself. Do you know how difficult it is to become a Windstorm Sword Hero? How confident are you?"

"I have 70% confidence."

"What are your challenges?" Huang Lin asked.

Fang Xingjian knew that this was not the time to be modest. Thus, he gave it some thought before saying, "I don't have 100% confidence for the Perfect Muscles specialty. If this specialty is an inborn specialty, then I'll definitely not be able to succeed in becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero. Therefore, I'd like to meet someone with this speciality."

Huang Lin nodded and said, "Carry on."

"The other thing would be the Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation Art. I have no idea about these two. It would be best if there was someone who could guide me through them."

Huang Lin said, "The Perfect Muscles Specialty is too rare, and it is impossible for me to find you one upon request. I can only try my best to get people to look for one.

"As for the Waves, I know of a person who is trained in the Mistral Windgod's Waves. I'll get him to give you a one-time lesson."

As he said this, Huang Lin's gaze became increasingly stern. "But there's one thing you must remember. If you don't meet all the prerequisites for the job transition, I will not let you go forward with it. After three months, if you are still completely lost, I won't let you waste any more time. After that, you'll need to immediately choose from one of the seventeen jobs.

"Is this clear?"

"No problem." Fang Xingjian replied.

"Then that's fine. You can take your leave. There's no need for you to attend the remaining classes. You can take charge of your own time daily. Just let me know directly if you need anything else."

Fang Xingjian did not leave right away, but requested, "Teacher, can you give me guidance on a few sets of sword techniques of the Nurturing Path and Training Path?"

Fang Xingjian was in a race against time. Although he knew that he would be fast enough to pick up sword techniques by himself, if he could receive guidance from an expert like Huang lin, it was obvious that his learning speed could be hastened even further.

Therefore, the following mornings, Fang Xingjian practiced techniques in both the Nurturing and Training Paths under Huang Lin's guidance, accumulating and depleting potential in order to build on his attributes.

In the afternoon, he practiced the basic sword techniques of Tempest Overlord, Gale Sword Deity and Aurora Sword Spirit.

At night, he studied Waves and mental cultivation methods, and also tried to figure out the biographies of the three powerhouses.

Under Huang Lin's guidance, he would need to learn new Nurturing and Training techniques almost everyday, endlessly absorbing various sword techniques as if he was hungry and thirsty for them.

Fang Xingjian's talent was extraordinary to begin with, but now, with the support of the specialty Genius Swordsmanship and because of the escalating number of sword techniques which he had picked up, his sword arts experience continued to increase. Furthermore, he also received help from Huang Lin. With all these, the rate of progression in his sword training broke records once again.

For the various sword techniques which were at the same standard as the Grizzly Bear Sword Technique and the Eagle Sword Technique, he would be able to reach level 10 within one to two days. As for the techniques affecting the organs which were similar to the Nine Yang Divine Sword Technique and the Descent of Holy Light, he would need no longer than three to four days to reach level 10.

Although Fang Xingjian tried his best to be secretive, Huang Lin was under the impression that Fang Xingjian had reached level 5 or 6 within one or two days. However, no matter how hard Fang Xingjian tried to hide and explained that he had been practicing sword techniques daily, not daring to reveal the fact that he was doing other things in the afternoon and at night, Huang Lin was still shocked by his progress.

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Chapter 48 Job Transition

Ten days later, in front of a cave's entrance in the academy's eastern wing, the seven students of Class 256 were all waiting.

The cave was like the big demon's mouth, facing the seven students, seemingly preparing to swallow the whole world. From outside, the cave looked pitch black without a tinge of light, as if it was hiding all the chaos in the world.

This was one of the secret realms in Kirst Royal Knight Academy.

In front of the secret realm, Barbara, Ferdinand, and the other aristocrats looked at the pitch black cave, each of them with complicated looks on their faces. Some of them were amazed, some were astonished, some hopeful, and some wore killing auras.

None of them would have thought that ten days after they had submitted their application forms, Kaunitz would submit a request to enter the secret realm so that he would undergo his first job transition. This was simply unbelievable.

"Do you guys think that he can succeed?" said Barbara furrowing her brows tightly. "Complete the job transition in just ten days? Is Tresia Clan's preparation so complete?"

Although they did not have as much inside information as the Empire had, having inherited information from generations and generations of mediocre aristocratic clans on their side, they had their fair share of research and information.

It was obvious that Kaunitz started to prepare for the first job transition long before even entering the Prefectural Selection. And clearly, this job was one of the seventeen provided by the school.

One could only imagine the price that Tresia had paid in order to get access to information regarding the first transition, thus being able to prepare Kaunitz since childhood. This allowed him to meet the requirements for the job transition in just ten days after choosing, allowing him to enter the secret realm in order to undergo the transition process.

Hearing Barbara's question, Ferdinand, dressed in a white suit coldly said, "Without absolute confidence, Kaunitz would not enter. However, to be able to complete the job transition within ten days… This must have already broken the records in Kirst Knight Academy, right?"

At that moment, Dick's voice rang out, "He really will have broken the records, as long as he succeeds..." As Class 256's instructor, he was naturally concerned for Kaunitz's results, especially since they would affect his own performance appraisal in the academy.

At the same time, Dick was overjoyed to see Kaunitz's performance. To him, students such as him, from aristocratic clans and with a docile attitude, were the most outstanding ones.

Comparatively, Fang Xingjian's actions had made him burn with anger. Not only did Fang Xingjian treat his own future like a child's play, he had even affected the results of his instructor's performance appraisal.

From the side, Barbara asked, "Teacher, what about Fang Xingjian? Is he still aiming for the Windstorm Sword Hero?"

Dick's face turned grim as he said, "The Headmaster has given him three months…. Hmph, if not for the fact that this rascal had gotten Lord Huang Lin's appreciation, how would he still be allowed to mess around. This is simply unacceptable."

Barbara smiled and said, "Haha, this poor chap really doesn't know any better. Teacher, no need to be angry at him. When he realises that he's unable to complete in the transition, he will naturally become crestfallen. And then he'll choose his job properly."

A cold flicker shone in Dick's eyes. He had disliked Fang Xingjian from the bottom of his heart, from the first moment he had laid eyes on him. Many events ever since had also proven that the other party was trouble. Big trouble.

However, luck had it that this trouble got himself an amazing teacher. In fact, if not for Huang Lin, he would have forced Fang Xingjian to choose his job properly and would not have let him fool around, talking about Windstorm Sword Hero.

On the other hand, although Jack and Anthony were from commoner families and were not actually close with Kaunitz, since he was the first person to go to the secret realm and to go through the job transition, they obviously wanted to take a look for themselves, and thus accumulate some experience for their own future transitions.

Jack's eyes were fixed on the secret realm's entrance as he said, "Do you think that Kaunitz will succeed? Ten days… Completing the transition in merely ten days?"

"I think it's likely that he will succeed." Anthony let out a sigh and said, "These aristocrats are rich in resources, and just by getting those few Knights from their clan to plan out his training schedule for years ahead, it's already enough for him to get a much better head start than us."

Although the Empire forbid all Knights to divulge information relation to job transitions, Knights giving pointers to their juniors were not included under this clause. Even the Knight Association would not step in. It was considered an unspoken rule amongst the Empire's aristocratic powers.

Amidst everyone's chatterings, a great explosive sound rang out, a great tremor came all the way to their feet, and a raging wind blew from the cave's entrance. The strong wind was like a grade ten tornado, so strong that many people could not keep their eyes open.

Dick was the only one who stood there, unwavering, his eyes wide open, staring in the direction of the cave.

As Class 256's instructor, he was also a Knight who had completed his first job transition long ago, and he had the basic ability which all Knights who had undergone their first transitions had, namely Reduced Force Field.

Such a force field was made from applying waves and mental cultivation methods to communicate with the ether particles which were everywhere. It allowed one to transmit one's own physical strength anywhere within a ten meter range, forming a force field. However, with the fading of the Waves during transmission, such an ability could at most display only half of the person's strength.

Putting up a force field as a barrier before him, Dick was not affected by the raging winds in the least, and he saw Kaunitz's figure gradually come out from the secret realm.

"He's out!"

"Has he succeeded?"

"Has he completed the first transition?"

Everyone had their gazes fixed on Kaunitz, who had just stepped out of the secret realm. A proud smile broke out on the latter's face.

After exiting the secret realm, Kaunitz stretched out his palm towards Jack and Anthony, and with a light grasp the two of them flew up in midair, as if they had been wrapped by a big invisible hand and then lifted up.

"Succeeded?"

"It's Reduced Force Field!"

Jack hollered, "Kaunitz, what are you doing?!"

"Are you crazy?" Anthony asked. "It is forbidden for students to attack each other in the academy."

"Hmph hmph." Kaunitz gave a cold snort and with a wave of his palm, he tossed the two of them to the ground, bruising them.

Looking at the two's infuriated gazes, he calmly said, "I'm only trying out my abilities after going through the job transition."

Dick smiled and walked over, giving Kaunitz a hug and saying, "Congratulations. You are the fastest person to ever complete the first transition in the academy's entire history."

Afterwards, he turned towards Jack, Anthony and the others and continued, "You guys must learn from Kaunitz. Don't be like some people who indulge in wishful thinking all the time."

A cold smile appeared in the corner of Kaunitz's lips, and he looked at Jack and said, "You two can go tell Fang Xingjian that I've completed my first transition. I'm looking forward to teaching him a good lesson in two and a half months.

"He'll learn who is the one who truly deserves the Prefectural Champion title, and who is the true genius."

After this, the group made a proud exit, leaving Jack and Anthony looking at each other in dismay.

Much later, Jack asked, "Do you remember what was the first transition job that Kaunitz applied for?"

Anthony swallowed and said, "Six Armed Asura. The requirements are that all attributes have to be at least 30 points. One must have three specific specialities, namely Multitask, Invertebrato1 and Extreme Eruption. And on top of that, one must know over ten sets of sword techniques."

"Out of the seventeen, it is the job with the highest attack power."

[1] Invertebrato - Soft and boneless as though it were an invertebrate

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Chapter 49 Rumors

Five days later, Huang Lin's private training grounds.

Two swords clashed, making a sound so loud that it was as if an explosion had just occurred. Fang Xingjian consistently retreated, yet continued to hold his stance against the immense force. A satisfied grin broke out on Huang Lin's face, and a tinge of content appeared in his gaze.

"This is truly unbelievable. Xingjian, with your talent, in the future you'll definitely be one of the top swordsmen in the world."

Fang Xingjian exhaled briefly, expelling the foul air in his chest and replied, "Thank you for your guidance, teacher."

"No need to thank me. Your talent..." Huang Lin shook his head and said, "Remember, definitely don't reveal your talent to other people… Sigh, but if you really were to become a Windstorm Sword Hero, it would not matter anymore."

"Alright, I've taught you all the basic sword techniques I could. The rest is up to you and your training. To reach level 6 for eight sets of sword techniques in only fifteen days... You really are a talent in sword arts. You must treasure your talent."

Fang Xingjian nodded, thinking to himself that if the other party were to know that his actual achievements in the past fifteen days, he would probably be in so much shock that his eyeballs would pop out. He had reach level 10 for eight nurturing sword techniques. Out of these, five of them having no overlaps, which implicitly brought him quite a lot of additional increments to his attributes.

Other than this, from Huang Ling he had also learned a training technique specializing in increasing the reaction attribute, the Meteor Sword Technique. At night, he would take time to practice this technique, depleting all his potential for this set of sword technique, thus managing to bring his Meteor Sword Technique to level 20, which brought him an additional 4 point increase to his reaction attribute.

In addition, Fang Xingjian's large consumption of potential points on the Meteor Sword Technique also increased his reaction by an additional 6 points.

These were only the sword techniques he had learned from Huang Lin. Other than these, he had also spent the afternoons studying the three Divine Level Warriors' basic sword techniques, training all four sets of sword techniques to level 10, two of which had brought him additional increments to his attributes.

The more sword techniques Fang Xingjian picked up, the fewer he would find which were not repetitive in nature, but able to effectively increase his potential and provide additional increases for his attributes.

Therefore, Fang Xingjian's attributes had changed to:

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Warrior's Squire

Level

9

Strength

40

Agility

45

Reaction

36

Endurance

33

Flexibility

34

Nurturing Sword Techniques

20 sets

Training Sword Techniques

3 sets

Specialities:

Genius Swordsmanship,

Elementary Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing，

Internal Training，

Sword Specialist

With that, he took a big step closer towards meeting the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero's attributes, namely over 45 points in strength, over 60 points in agility, over 45 points in reaction, over 35 points in endurance, and over 35 points in flexibility.

He was 5 points away from the strength requirements, 15 points away for agility, 9 points for reaction, 2 points for endurance, and 1 point for flexibility.

And now, with so many sets of sword techniques, the maximum amount of potential points he could accumulate each day had increased to 5000 points. However, after breaking through the 30 point mark for the reaction attribute, now he was only able to increase his reaction by a tiny bit even if he depleted 30,000 potential points every six days.

After completing the sword techniques training in the morning, and having completed his daily assignments for training his attributes, Fang Xingjian went to Huang Lin's residence to join him for lunch.

Both of them were powerful Warriors, well-trained both internally and externally, with extremely strong organs and with the 'Internal Training' specialty. Therefore, both of them had extremely big appetites. For them, the amount of food an ordinary strong man would usually have was mostly digested after stuffing down a few mouthfuls, chewing and then compressing the food with their organs.

After finishing the meal, Huang Lin drank a cup of tea and, seemingly unintentionally, he said, "There seems to be a lot of rumors flying about in the academy recently."

Fang Xingjian went blank for a short moment. He knew what the other party was referring to. After he had started an all-out training for the Windstorm Sword Hero, various rumors about him had been started in the academy.

And with Kaunitz taking the lead in completing the first transition five days ago, thus becoming the fastest Knight in the academy's history to have completed the first transition, the rumors flourished even faster and fiercer.

The fiercest one of them all said that Fang Xingjian did not deserve to receive the title of Prefectural Championship. It was said that he had known Huang Lin before the selection and had acknowledged Huang Lin as his master, and thus Huang Lin had went through the backdoor for him, robbing Kaunitz of the first place.

Of course, Kaunitz was meant to get the second place, but Fang Xingjian had held hatred for Kaunitz for thrashing him so many days in The School of Sword Arts. Therefore, he had encouraged Huang Lin to take revenge for him, pushing down Kaunitz's ranking.

Another one said that Fang Xingjian was arrogant and conceited, and having chosen the Windstorm Sword Hero, he was bound to fail. He would definitely not be able to attain the requirements and would eventually return crestfallen, and end up choosing a normal job.

There was almost no one who thought that Fang Xingjian would be able to successfully transition into a Windstorm Sword Hero. And because many students thought that Fang Xingjian had gone through the backdoor and had pushed down Kaunitz's rankings, their impressions of him were very bad.

Other similar rumors flying around mostly came from Kaunitz and the other aristocrats. It was obvious that they wanted to affect Fang Xingjian through the rumors, and bring him down.

It was a pity that due to the Headmaster's and Huang Lin's consecutive orders for the instructors in the Sword and Sabers Department, telling them not to divulge Fang Xingjian's talent, the students were completely unaware of the news that Fang Xingjian had picked up the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth in a mere six hours.

Of course, what actually happened was that Fang Xingjian had picked up both the Hegemonic Qi Slash of Heavens and Earth and the Nine-Headed Dragon Sword. However, Fang Xingjian was the only one who knew this.

Hearing Huang Lin's question, Fang Xingjian replied, "I don't care about it. No matter how much they talk about it, it won't affect me."

"It's fine if that's the case," Huang Lin said. "Remember. Training is for yourself. It is not meant for bullying others, not meant for proving yourself to others, not meant to convince others, or to show off to others."

"From beginning to the end, training is only for yourself. Don't be affected by others' words and mess up your own rhythm."

"Kaunitz's talent is definitely outstanding, and with the vast amount of resources his clan has invested in him, it is to be expected that he is able to complete the job transition so quickly. Don't be thinking about comparing with him, and get affected by those thoughts."

"I understand," replied Fang Xingjian in a humble tone.

"Alright, I'm done with imparting the sword techniques to you. There is no need for you to come again from tomorrow onwards. With regards to the Waves, I've already found the person for the job. He will be coming to teach you in a few days' time."

Fang Xingjian's gaze flickered, and a tinge of expectation flashed in his eyes. If it could be said that the training for his attributes was smooth sailing, and that he had managed to grasp some hints with regards to the profoundness of the Perfect Muscles the Tempest Overlord and others had, then for the past 15 days, he'd had no progress whatsoever in the training for the Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation. It was because Waves and mental cultivation methods were not sword arts, and his sword arts talent was useless for this.

Finally, someone proficient in this set of Waves could teach him now. How could he not be filled with expectation?

After lunch, Fang Xingjian left Huang Lin's residence and gradually headed for his own villa.

The issue with his attributes were not significant. He reckoned that after another twenty to thirty days, he would be able to master all the sword techniques he was learning to the maximum level. With the attributes increment brought by these sword techniques, in addition to the potential he had been depleting for the past twenty to thirty days, it ought to be sufficient for him in order to meet the attribute requirements.

However, from now on there would be less and less sword techniques which could bring him additional attribute increases. In the future, he would need to depend on his potential in training his attributes, and the speed of their increase would be get slower and slower.

Now, the crux was finding out the secret to obtain the Perfect Muscles, as well as for the Waves and mental cultivation methods.

'Perfect Muscles… Perfect Muscles...'

Fang Xingjian started to contemplate the three powerful Warriors' secret. Based on the historical records the three powerhouses had not displayed extraordinary talent when they had been young, whether it was Tempest Overlord, Gale Sword Deity, or Aurora Sword Spirit.

The time when they had actually stood out was after having transitioned into Windstorm Sword Heroes.

It might have been that they had not had sufficient talent, since out of the three, the youngest one of them was already thirty-six years old when he had become a Windstorm Sword Hero. It was obvious that it had taken a lot of their time to fulfill the series of requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero. After they had completed the first transition, many of their generation had already reached the pinnacle of the first transition, had undergone the second transition, or had even reached the pinnacle of the second transition.

It was impossible for the academy to provide Fang Xingjian with resources for a few years or even decades. Only those from the main factions, or only the great aristocrats would be able to ensure such treatments for their members, and to spend such great amount of time and resources for their job transitions.

Concerning the ordinary Knights from the academy, there was a limit to the free resources they were entitled to.

'Therefore, although the first-generation Emperor started the Empire's Selection to connect people from different hierarchical backgrounds, when it comes down to it, only the Royal family, the major aristocrats, and the great factions would have the resources to create top notch job holders. The most precious, rarest, and strongest jobs are mostly in the grasp of these groups.

'Ordinary people could soar towards success only if they were geniuses of talent that maybe one in ten thousand had. For the others, no matter how much effort they put in, it was possible that they would stay in mediocre management positions for all their lives, working for those in the higher levels. The small group of geniuses who were able to overcome this stump would be eradicated or forced to conform. Whichever it was, there was no way that they would be able to affect the Empire's domination… It was just like how a small aristocratic clan such as the Tresia Clan had risen in importance due to the appearance of a genius of an early generation. However, despite the fact that so many years had already passed, they had not been able to become part of the Empire's higher management.

'So long as the Empire continues to be the one to grasp the most resources, the most information regarding jobs, and the most Knights, there is no way to break out of this situation.'

Fang Xingjian had a basic degree of understanding regarding the Empire's and the aristocratic clans' policies.

What he could do now was to rely solely on his talent in order to become a Windstorm Sword Hero within three months' time, thus performing a feat which would take others ten or twenty years to accomplish.

Others in the academy considered this fully impossible.

'After the Knights had successfully gone through the first transition, it was said that they had all revealed great talent in the Waves area.

'If it's not an inborn speciality, could it be related to their sword arts?' Fang Xingjian continued to recall the sword techniques he had been learning all this time. 'What is the secret behind this? I've learned all their sword techniques, and they are not much different from those of The School of Sword Arts, except regarding the areas that the techniques are training. How on earth did they get the specialty Perfect Muscles?'

As he thought about this, he headed to his own villa and started a new round of practice, starting to learn the three powerhouses' basic sword techniques.

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Chapter 50 Emotions

The following few days, Fang Xingjian started practicing the Nurturing techniques every morning. After completing the training for all Nurturing techniques and after squeezing out all the potential points he could squeeze, he would start practicing the Meteor Sword Technique in order to raise his reaction attribute.

Even with his talent, by the time he finished practicing the set, it was already noon.

After eating ferocious beasts and various medicinal food, Fang Xingjian would nap for half an hour. This was meant to rest his heart, internal organs and brain, keeping them in good shape and giving him more energy for the rest of the afternoon.

In the afternoon, he practiced the sword techniques in which the Tempest Overlord and the others had trained before their first job transitions. He had learnt an additional six techniques, which in all made ten. However the newer techniques had yet to reach level 10, and goodness knows which ones would provide him with attributes increases.

He looked in detail at the basic sword techniques that the Tempest Overlord, Gale Sword Deity and Aurora Sword Spirit had trained in. In total there were fifteen basic sword techniques. They had each practiced five sets of techniques before their first job transitions.

'Five sets of sword techniques?' Fang Xingjian mumbled. 'Why do they all happen to be five sets?'

Fang Xingjian had thoroughly researched these before. There were no duplicates among the five sets that each of them had trained. All of these sword techniques specifically focused on training different parts of the body, in accuracy.

In other words, be it Tempest Overlord, Gale Sword Deity or Aurora Sword Spirit, when they were young, before their first job transitions, they had deliberately chosen five sets that would cover the training of their entire body, and yet would not overlap with each other.

All the time that Fang Xingjian had spent training… Although he felt that the secret of Perfect Muscles was hidden within these sword techniques, he had not been able to discover the actual clue even after all this time had passed.

Another afternoon passed, and when it was time for dinner, Jack and Anthony knocked on the door and entered, led by the maid.

Spotting Jack's bruises and swollen face, Fang Xingjian asked, "Were you beaten up by them again?"

Seeing that Jack was silent, Anthony shrugged and replied, "Ever since Kaunitz completed his first job transition, they have been increasingly arrogant. The commoners in the academy are few, and they don't even dare to resist when they come across the nobles…"

"What nobles?" Jack chided. "Were there not farmers or hunters amongst their ancestors? No commoners? Which family or clan didn't start out as commoners?"

"But they're not commoners now." Anthony sighed.

Fang Xingjian told the maid, "Serve the dishes."

Watching the dishes being served one after another, Jack and Anthony stopped quarreling immediately, their eyes lighting up. "Master Huang Lin is really good to you. He increased the share of ferocious beasts again, didn't he?"

Anthony said, a little embarrassed, "We come so frequently for meals… Will Master Huang Lin be unhappy?"

Jack grabbed a piece of roasted meat and began eating, mumbling with his mouth full, "It's fine. There's so much food that Xingjian won't be able to finish all of it anyway."

While eating, Fang Xingjian asked, "Who beat you up this time?"

"A few guys from the previous batch. They told us to stop looking for you." Jack spoke fiercely. "Isn't it just that they've become a Knight one year earlier than me? Why should I listen to them? Let me tell you…"

Anthony said, "It's a good thing that the academy doesn't allow private dueling. They can only bully you during the martial technique lessons."

He had heard from Jack and Anthony that they had been constantly bullied by the nobles for the past few days. During this time, since Fang Xingjian did not even step out of the house nor did he go out for lessons, the nobles could only cause trouble for Anthony and Jack, since they were closer to Fang Xingjian.

As he listened, Fang Xingjian felt something strange stirring in his emotions.

He was still trying to gradually sort out the change in his emotions. 'This feeling… Is it hatred? Pain?'

After dinner, Jack and Anthony left. Fang Xingjian lied on the sofa, thinking, 'By right, my emotions should all have been stripped off. For this half a year, I have not felt any feelings of friendship, love, kinship…'

Indeed, be it Kyle, or Vivian from The School of Sword Arts, or Jack, or Anthony, or even Huang Lin, in his heart, Fang Xingjian had never treated them as people close to him, even though he had pretended to be like an ordinary person.

However, recently he had been practicing the Waves and mental cultivation methods. Mental cultivation methods guided one's thoughts and emotions, and after some research, he had felt something wrong weird stirring up in his emotions.

He realised that even though he could not love nor feel friendship or kinship, he could still feel fury, enmity, and hatred.

This was why he had been treating Jack and the others to meals the past few day. He was trying to sense the minute changes in his emotions.

'Which means that, even though my positive feelings were taken away, my negative emotions were left behind?'

Fang Xingjian slowly drank the medicinal wine in the bottle, as scenes from Demonic City surfaced in his mind, one after another.

Li Shuanghua's expressions and cruel words; the difficult times and contemptuous looks he had experienced since young; Caroline's torment, humiliation, maltreatment... All these appeared in his mind, one scene after another.

In that instant, all the muscles in Fang Xingjian's body tensed up, trickles of blood popping up in his eyes, as if he were a raging wild beast. Green veins popped out from his two arms, neck and forehead.

His consciousness was almost drowned in feelings of vengeance, fury, unlimited rage and hatred.

The next moment, with an angry bellow, he stood up. The table and chairs before him had already been shattered into pieces.

"Li Shuanghua… Caroline… "

Gritting his teeth and spitting out these two names, Fang Xingjian breathed in with deep gulps, gradually suppressing his anger only after a long while.

Next, Kaunitz's voice flashed across in his mind, and with a cold grunt, a murderous glint flashed in his eyes. He had gained full control of his negative emotions.

At a clap of his hands, a maid came to clean up the room. Fang Xingjian headed towards the training room. It was time to practice Waves and mental cultivation methods.

Sitting on the floor, Fang Xingjian held a Mistral Windgod's Waves' secret training manual in his hands.

'Waves' was the term for the rhythm in which humans breathed and their blood flowed. As long as one could control the rhythm of one's breathing and blood flow, one would be able to make changes to the intrinsic qualities of one's body. From there, people would then be able to communicate with ether particles in the secret realm, and thus gain all sorts of unbelievable powers.

Reading once again through the warnings for practicing the Mistral Windgod's Waves, Fang Xingjian sat on the floor with his legs crossed, his breathing gradually slowing down, slower and slower, slow yet unbroken, faintly discernible.

Every time he breathed, his stomach swelled slightly, his four limbs tensed up, the muscles in his palms and soles contracted, and when they bulged his entire body spread out like a tent.

Each of his breaths had to be part of the rhythm of his breathing as he channeled energy throughout his whole body, changing his physical body little by little.

At the same time, the muscles and veins in his body trembled all at once, continuously leaping. His heart was beating furiously, as if someone was playing drums in the room.

This was him agitating the blood through physical strength, and in turn, controlling the rhythm of the blood flow in every part of his body.

After a good long while, Fang Xingjian's head was covered with an abnormal amount of perspiration. He spat out a mouthful of foul air.

One hour had passed. This was the longest period of time he had been able to hold on to the state of the Waves.

For one to truly connect Waves, one had to maintain this state twenty-four hours around the clock, be it sitting, lying down, walking, battling or resting, and then change the intrinsic qualities of life completely, little by little.

It was obvious that Fang Xingjian had no talent in Waves cultivation, or rather that he had only mediocre talent for it.

As he completed a cycle of Waves cultivation, a man's voice resounded, his words filled with disdain and contempt.

"With your talent, you definitely won't be able to master the Mistral Windgod's Waves even if you were to cultivate for another year."

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Chapter 51 Waves and Mental Cultivation Methods

Fang Xingjian's eyes burst open, filled with murderous intent. Goodness knows when he had appeared, but a man shrouded in darkness stood before him.

If not for the man having spoken, Fang Xingjian would not have noticed that he was right in front of him.

"Who are you?"

Fang Xingjian turned serious, his right hand slowly creeping towards the longsword at his waist.

The man exuded an air of unfathomable vastness and depth. Merely staring at him took Fang Xingjian half of his energy. The way he sent prickles down Fang Xingjian's back in particular made the latter feel as if the man would lash out anytime, giving him the illusion that each strike would tear him into pieces.

He knew that the opponent was one of the strongest he had met ever since he had come to Miracle World. Even Huang Lin, who had taught him sword arts everyday, might not be stronger than him. The pressure this man gave out was much much greater than the one made by Huang Lin.

Seeing that Fang Xingjian was on his guard as if he had encountered a formidable enemy, the man only sniggered coldly, saying, "I've only been asked by Huang Lin to teach you Waves and mental cultivation methods. You don't need to know who I am. I'm just returning a favour. After tonight, there will be nothing between us."

Hearing this, Fang Xingjian slightly relaxed, although in his heart he was still very much on his guard.

The man did not pay him any heed, and continued, "Waves and mental cultivation methods. One is internal and the other external, one uses the physical body and the other uses mental energy. They are techniques created to find a good fit with ether particles, in order to change the essence of human life.

"Ether particles exist in every corner of the world, connecting different time and spaces, and encompassing infinite energy. They correspond with every other matter, whether in heaven or on earth.

"Hence, different combinations of Waves and mental cultivation methods will allow one to come into contact with different ether particles, thus becoming able to unleash different powers. Basic types can enhance the self, while special types can control ice, fire, thunder and electricity, or change the geomagnetism et cetera. They each have different uses.

"Humans first connected with ether particles in the secret realm, through Waves and mental cultivation methods, and then combined them with different attributes, specialities, and techniques in order to achieve different transition jobs. They would thus attain greater attributes, stronger specialties, and more powerful techniques.

"In order to understand Waves, one has to control the breathing process and the blood flow, basically changing his living rhythm. Your skills are so-so, but your understanding of the Mistral Windgod's Waves is simply horrid."

The man continued, full of scorn, "I've been observing you for the past few nights. Your problem lies in the fact that your mental cultivation methods do not match your Waves.

"From the beginning, you've been blindly imitating."

"Mental cultivation methods?" Fang Xingjian defiantly said. "While practicing Waves daily, I have been maintaining the realm of the Ice Age Meditation Art, and my breathing and blood flow were also maintained in the rhythm of Mistral Windgod's Waves. What is the problem here?"

"Haha, really?" the man asked. "Fish can stay underwater for twenty-four hours. Can humans do the same? Plants can stay rooted in the ground all day long, all year around, but can humans do so?

"Humans cannot, unless they change their own life's characteristics.

"The same goes for Waves and mental cultivation methods. What you are doing now is forcefully immersing yourself in water, forcefully rooting your feet into the ground. It may seems like you have learnt Waves, but in reality you are completely ignorant.

"Learning Waves and mental cultivation methods requires you to change your life's characteristics, accept new characteristics, and not just simply pretend and imitate."

The man saw the blank look on Fang Xingjian's face, shook his head, and sighed. "Blockhead. Huang Lin said you were actually intelligent?"

Ever since Fang Xingjian had come to the Other World, he had been endlessly praised by people saying that he was blessed with great talent and genius in sword arts. This was the first time he had been called dumb. But he knew that other than sword arts, he was indeed mediocre in other domains. He was not mad. He merely asked, "Then what should I do?"

"What can you do? I don't want to be wasting too much time on you, so I will transfer one stream of my Waves to you. Before this Wave disappears, you can carefully comprehend it, slowly closing in on the rhythm of Mistral Windgod.

"Remember, don't try to imitate all of the characteristics at once. Trim the edges and corners today, change a few strands of hair tomorrow. Bit by bit, truly change your rhythm, truly change your breathing and blood so that they all become the Mistral Windgod's Waves."

He did not give Fang Xingjian much time to consider before he thrust his finger. Fang Xingjian did not feel the slightest movement of air currents, nor could he even see the shadow of the other party's finger before it landed on his head.

The next moment, surges of Waves gushed out from the tip of his fingers, and immediately travelled through all parts of Fang Xingjian's body, spurring all of his breath and blood flow towards the direction of the Mistral Windgod's Waves.

However, such a thorough inversion of his breathing and blood flow made Fang Xingjian feel extreme agony. The veins on his forehead popped out. He felt as if his body, both inside and outside, was being stabbed and torn apart by countless small knives.

Looking at how much agony Fang Xingjian was in, the man chuckled and said, "Relax, this stream of Wave will disappear only after more than ten days. You still have a long time to slowly experience and comprehend it.

"For the rest of the night, I'll transfer you the Ice Age Meditation Art. You better carefully comprehend it."

While Fang Xingjian was tolerating the pain, the man had started talking, and his every word and his every sentence was like monstrous sounds piercing through Fang Xingjian's ears, penetrating all barriers to reach his ear. Although he was in extreme agony, he was still able to hear every word, and he ingrained everything in his mind.

"Remember. Mental cultivation methods change the way humans think. They transform one's mode and way of thinking from top to bottom.

"The speed of the Windstorm Sword Hero is unrivalled, hence the need for the Ice Age Meditation Art to cool the heart, calm the mind, in order to maintain absolute rationale and calm at all times.

"Envision your thoughts as being as cold as a machine, as harsh as winter. No matter the situation, no matter who your enemy is, or how painful it is, you have to control your thoughts and maintain absolute peace of mind.

"Now, follow what I say. Learn to calm your heart and to reflect on your thoughts. When you notice yourself thinking about anything, stop it and cut off that distraction.

"If you can cut off all distractions as you wish, it means that you have achieved the basic success required for the Ice Age Meditation Art.

"The flesh affects the mind, and the mind in turn influences the flesh. Only through interaction from both inside and out and through uniform movement can you achieve the Waves and mental cultivation techniques."

"Cut… off… distractions…"

Fang Xingjian's heart was entirely filled with agony, fury, desires for revenge, and he forced himself to not think about those. But the more he tried to stop himself from thinking of them, the wilder those thoughts resurfaced, over and over again.

When the man saw Fang Xingjian's twisted face, he laughed and said, "Take it slow. The beginning is always the toughest."

Fang Xingjian spent the whole night drowned in physical pain and mental frustrations. Everytime he felt that he had reached a limit in his frustration, as if his entire body was itchy and he wanted to stand up and fling his four limbs about crazily, the man's huge hand would press down on his body, forcing him down on the same spot and making him unable to move an inch. He could only tolerate this stage of emotional turmoil.

After tolerating time and time again, he felt as if the physical pain had lessened a little, and that the infinite surges of distractions, worries, fury and vengeance had also been slightly reduced.

It was not until the sky had lit up that the man allowed him to stand and move his muscles.

Fang Xingjian nodded towards the man and said, "Thank you. If you have any problems in the future…"

He wanted to be polite, but the man waved his hand and interrupted, "Your talent is too weak, and the distractions in your mind are ten times that of an ordinary man's. The probability of you becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero is less than one in ten thousand.

"Rather than thinking of helping me, you'd be better off thinking about how to overcome this trial before you."

From his words, it was clear that he did not think well of the current Fang Xingjian. The next moment, the man's silhouette disappeared like the dissipating snow.

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Chapter 52 Negative Side

In the following days, Fang Xingjian completely stopped his sword techniques practice. He spent about twenty hours or more per day to comprehend the Waves that the mysterious man had left in his body, relentlessly killing off all the distracting thoughts that appeared in his mind.

And because the man had left a sample of the Waves within his body, he was able to use it as a reference to aid him in his learning. Thus, his comprehension of the Waves was progressing very quickly, especially due to the fact that he was circulating the rhythm of the Mistral Windgod's Wave almost twenty-four hours a day. His life characteristics did indeed gradually undergo a gradual transformation, getting closer and closer to the Mistral Windgod's Wave.

Just as the man had explained, Fang Xingjian had too many distracting thoughts. After four to five days, other than the night that he had first started on, he felt that the rate of improvement in his mental cultivation arts had been getting slower and slower. Not only was his heart unable to calm down, it actually did the contrary of what he intended, as it filled up with more and more frustrations.

"Ah!"

At this moment, he only felt that his heart was akin to a lump of burning embers. The faces of Li Shuanghua, Caroline and Kaunitz kept floating in his mind. The next moment, he abruptly stood up, a long cry escaping from his mouth, as though he was trying to clear all the frustration in his mind by shouting them out.

The mysterious man who had guided him, as well as Fang Xingjian himself, both did not know that when the purple flames from before had changed Fang Xingjian's natural aptitudes, although they had stolen his sense of kinship, love, and friendship, they had only stolen those and nothing else.

This was why he could still feel anger, hatred, loathe and dislike to a much greater degree than normal people. Every time he thought of what had happened in Demonic City, his heart would boil with anger.

Just as someone who, having been blind for a long time, would turn extremely sensitive to noise.

If one could not feel or use both legs, the arms would naturally become stronger than before.

When someone became like Fang Xingjian and lost the sense of love, only leaving behind hatred, his negative emotions would unceasingly be magnified. This was also why in a situation such as his, the methods of killing distracting thoughts used by ordinary people had entirely no effect in quelling the negative emotions and the distracting thoughts in his heart.

On the contrary, with the flow of time, his heart had become unable to sense the existence of love, while his negative emotions had multiplied more and more, easily filling his heart to the brim with hatred and anger.

Although Fang Xingjian still was not completely conscious of this fact, he had already formed a faint conjecture by this time.

Thus, when he bellowed, he felt as if his chest had lightened, and that his mind was comfortable for the moment. With a shift of his eyes, he felt as though he had gained some insight.

At this moment, Carter, who was ranked tenth in Class 256, and Zhou Yong who was ranked eighth, arrived outside Fang Xingjian's villa, laughing coldly as they stared at it.

They were aristocrats, and also from the same year as Fang Xingjian. Their talents and background were several times more inferior when compared to those of Kaunitz and the others, so they naturally took on the roles of underlings in the group.

This time around, they had come here under Kaunitz's orders, and wanted to provoke Fang Xingjian in order to disrupt the rhythm of his learning.

Zhou Yong opened his mouth, shouting loudly, "Fang Xingjian! You spend every day inside your villa! Are you hiding because you are afraid of meeting people?"

"Fang Xingjian, you obtained the first place which belonged to someone else through despicable means! Are you still considered a man?" Carter continued, "If I were you, I wouldn't have the face to still stay here. I would've already quit the academy and left long ago! How can you be so shameless? Could it be you're still hatching some nefarious schemes?! Since your aptitude can't match up to others, you want to go through the backdoor instead?"

As their strings of curses continued, the Knights in the surroundings all began to furrow their brows, their impression of Fang Xingjian worsening.

In the villa, the anger which Fang Xingjian had dispelled with great difficulty started to smolder yet again. His eyes were blood red. He wanted nothing more than to go out and violently beat up the two of them.

However, he knew that this meant that he would not be able to master the mental cultivation technique, but would instead be further away from mastering his Ice Age Meditation Art.

Thus, he tried to suppress and eradicate his flames of anger, forcing himself not to take action.

However, the two outside got increasingly cocky, their curses and scoldings got unbelievably insufferable.

"A despicable man like you, who goes through backdoors and uses underhanded methods, a trash who crawled up from the gutter, still has the face to stay in the Royal Academy?!

"Haha, looking at how he is, I reckon that his parents are no better. His dad is probably a conman and his mum a prostitute."

In the villa, Fang Xingjian's eyes snapped open, veins bulging on his forehead. It was as though his eyes were about to spit fire.

"You're courting death!"

He could not bear it any longer. With a thunderous sound, Fang Xingjian dashed out the villa's door. Zhou Yong and Carter could not even see Fang Xingjian's silhouette clearly before feeling a black shadow caging their bodies.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

Fang Xingjian did not use a single sword art or technique. He merely punched his fists forward over ten times, continuously beating up Carter while aiming for his face. He was moving forward and simultaneously punching out. Carter's body, propelled into the air from the impact, flopped down lifelessly. In the blink of an eye, Carter had been blasted about a hundred meters away.

Power-wise, Zhou Yong and Carter were ranked at the bottom amongst the ten in Class 256, while Fang Xingjian's speed attribute was over 40 points. Even those who had recently transitioned into the more ordinary professions of the first transition were no match for him, let alone these two. They did not even have the time to attempt any reactions to his attacks.

Zhou Yong felt that with the amount of effort it took one to blink, Carter had already been flung back over a hundred meters by Fang Xingjian's tens of punches. Carter's face was heavily bruised with reddish, greenish, and purple patches as he flopped to the ground, only the whites of his eyes showing. He struggled to get up on his feet, but could not move an inch. He stared at Fang Xingjian, anger smouldering in his eyes, but was immediately knocked unconscious by Fang Xingjian, with only one slap.

Seeing what had just happened, Zhou Yong pointed at Fang Xingjian and screamed shrilly, akin to a young girl who had just been raped, "You! You! You! What are you trying to do?! The academy prohibits private fights!"

"We'll talk after I finish beating you up."

Fang Xingjian laughed evilly as he sprinted forward as swift as a phantom, arriving in front of Zhou Yong. Only then did Zhou Yong attempt to retreat, but it was too late. He could already feel a claw-like hand gripping him, and lifting him up by his head.

He frenziedly used both his hands and legs to bash at Fang Xingjian's body. However, the in difference strength between the two of them was too great, to the extent that he was not able to harm Fang Xingjian in the slightest.

Fang Xingjian snorted coldly, directly grabbing his opponent's head and slamming it straight onto the ground. Under the violent actions, the air looked as if it had instantly contorted for a moment, and a dull sound echoed out, Zhou Yong's head already pressed into the ground.

His four limbs twitched before he completely fainted into unconsciousness.

After finishing up what he wanted to do, Fang Xingjian felt his both his body and mind clear up. 70-80% of the distracting thoughts that burdened him earlier had completely dissipated.

He suddenly realized several things.

'Taking away my sense of love, yet leaving hatred behind for me?

'Methods of getting rid of distracting thoughts, suppressing emotions are not suitable for me.

'I should repay grievances with grievances and vengeance with vengeance, and release all of my anger and hatred through violence.

'Get rid of all the resentment in my heart and want only for serenity of the mind.'

At this moment, Fang Xingjian could feel all the vital energy and blood in his body circulating violently, warmth radiating in all directions from him, in a battle-ready state.

His heart was extremely calm. Circulating the Ice Age Meditation Art, he felt an unprecedented serenity.

Warmth on the outside, coolness on the inside. Reason and calm simultaneously co-existing with anger and hatred.

He had mastered the Ice Age Meditation Art.

At this moment, Dick and a few other instructors made their way over, and upon seeing the unconscious Zhou Yong and Carter, Dick roared in rage, "Fang Xingjian! What are you doing?! Do you still give a hoot about the academy's rules? Do you still have your elders and instructors in your eyes?"

"They insulted my parents. I've already showed consideration for the academy's rules by not killing them," Fang Xingjian coldly stated. "If you all wish to punish me, go ahead. But if I encounter the same thing next time, I'll still do the same.

"Also, tell Kaunitz this. There's still two and a half months left. When the time to battle comes, I will break his ribs, one by one."

Hearing Fang Xingjian's words, Dick's anger soared to its limits as he raised a trembling finger, pointing straight at Fang Xingjian. "No respect for your elders. Extreme arrogance! Capture him, I want to report this to the Headmaster!"

Despite this, Fang Xingjian kept smiling coldly, not saying a word. If it were in the past, he would not have shown off his abilities in the limelight, and would have suppressed all his emotions within his heart.

But after he had said his mind, his thoughts had started circulating the Ice Age Meditation Art. He only felt frost and snow in his mind. This feeling was extremely satisfying, having no other distracting thoughts.

Thus, he knew that he made the right move. In seven to eight days at most, he would be able completely master the Ice Age Meditation Art.

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Chapter 53 Accomplishment

"Why?" Dick was standing in the Headmaster's office. Anxiously, he continued, "Fang Xingjian does not respect his elders, he's arrogant, and he has beaten up badly a student from the academy. We should expel such students immediately!"

"Sigh, youngsters tend to be hot-blooded. Even if they raise their hands against each other, it's not such a big deal." The Headmaster looked at the documents in his hands, and said without even lifting his head, "It's sufficient to keep him in confinement for ten days. He is so talented. Do you really want to see him expelled?

"Are you the Headmaster? Or am I?"

Having said these words, the Headmaster put on a grim face, his gaze towards Dick filling with discontent.

Under such a gaze, Dick suddenly broke out in a cold sweat as he lowered his head and said, "I was too anxious. I apologize, Headmaster."

Seeing that Dick had stepped out, the Headmaster gave a cold snort and said, begrudgingly, "Old chap, this student of yours is too good at creating trouble. In all these years, no one else has dared to be so ruthless in the academy."

"This is considered ruthless?" Huang Lin stepped out of the shadows and looked in the direction where Dick had walked out. Killing intent flashed in his eyes. "If someone dared to speak ill of my parents, I would definitely wring off their necks, to have them with my wine."

"You are really..." The headmaster pointed at Huang Lin, smiling bitterly as he shook his head. "If it wasn't for you, I would definitely have confined him for three months!"

Huang Lin said, disdainfully, "Talents, geniuses, should definitely enjoy special privileges. If they were to be treated on equal terms with ordinary people, then there would not be an Empire today, let alone all these academies, Knights, Conferred Knights and Royal Knights."

"Hahahaha!"

In his villa, Kaunitz was lying down on the sofa, laughing copiously. With a slight movement of his finger, the force enclosed the red wine within the force field and poured it into his mouth.

"Fang Xingjian is an idiot. I only wanted to mess up his rhythm a little, but to think that he is foolish enough to take action…

"Now that he is kept in confinement, the delay will make it even harder for him to become a Windstorm Sword Hero."

Barbara, seated with her legs crossed, was looking at Kaunitz and that great wine held by the force field, her gaze filled with both wariness and envy. She smiled and said, "A commoner like him is all brawn and no brains, he only knows how to train relentlessly. And now, haven't we made a fool out of him?"

Kaunitz sneered and said, "He actually said that he will teach me a lesson when we battle? Hmmm, hmmm. We'll see who will be the one to teach the other a lesson."

While they had been exchanging words, all the furniture and fittings within ten meters of Kaunitz under his force field crumbled to dust with a series of explosive crackling sounds.

"Someone! Come clean up this mess and replace everything here."

In the northern side of the academy, there was a stone house built from big chunks of marble, with no windows on any of its four sides. It was pitch dark inside, only a small ray of sunlight the size of a palm shining in from a small window on the roof.

This was one of the academy's confinement rooms, especially used to confine students who had broken the academy's rules.

It was a pity that only Fang Xingjian was in there now.

However, although Fang Xingjian was kept here, he was still carrying out his daily training, as usual. Huang Lin had also instructed people to bring him all sorts of food and drinks. Other than having no one to do the laundry or to clean for him, and apart from having no soft bedding or exquisite furniture and fittings, it made almost no difference to him whether he trained here or whether he trained outside.

Of course, this was all due to Huang Lin's special attention.

After Fang Xingjian had relieved his fury the other day, he had found his own way of practicing the Ice Age Meditation. For the past few days, his training progress had gone exceptionally well, even his Waves being much smoother now. Even if he did not activate them deliberately, they were already 70-80% similar to the ones that the man had left behind.

'Excellent! There's no one to disturb me here. Without external stimulation, I'll be able to focus better on my training.

'The confinement lasts only ten days. During these ten days, I'll completely master the Waves and the mental cultivation method.'

Fang Xingjian lightly clenched his fist, a slight confident smile flashing across his face as he exhaled a long stream of current. He was practicing the Waves again.

Therefore, during the days he spent in the confinement room, Fang Xingjian acted as if he were outside, completely forgoing his sword arts practice, and focusing entirely on circulating the Waves and the mental cultivation method.

On the morning when the ten days of confinement were up, an instructor headed for the direction of the stone building.

Before he got close, he heard the crackling sounds of collisions.

'This is...?'

His expression changed and he walked up. The collision sounds were now clearer.

This was the sound produced when currents collided against the stone walls. And now, this sound was highly controlled in a rhythm similar to that of a tide, which meant that the air currents knocking against the walls were as stable as tides.

'Could this be his breathing?

'How could it be? Even a Knight who would have completed the first transition two to three years ago wouldn't exert such oppression when circulating his Waves.'

The instructor's expression was one of extreme astonishment. The motions in the stone building were as if a prehistoric dragon was sleeping inside. He quickly unlocked the lock with the keys, and pushed the door open.

He saw Fang Xingjian quietly sitting in the middle of the room with his legs crossed and both eyes closed. Each time he exhaled an air current would start flowing in all directions, with him at the center. It was as if strong gusts of wind swept by, eventually colliding against the walls.

"This is?!" The instructor's eyes popped wide open at this sight. The breathing cadence seemed to have set the whole room in a specific rhythm.

It was the Mistral Windgod's Waves, Waves which could control air currents by communication with ether particles.

Just when he was staring, astonished, at Fang Xingjian's Waves, the person in question suddenly opened his eyes and slowly stood up.

Along with this move, the previous strange happening disappeared as well. A tinge of cool light flashed across Fang Xingjian's eyes. With a slight twist of his body, a series of crackling sounds came from his joints.

He had not moved for over twenty-four hours, devoting all of his efforts only to circulating the Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation Art.

This also meant that with the over ten days of studying before being confined, plus the final ten days of tough practice in the stone room, over twenty hours out of twenty-four, he had finally mastered the Mistral Windgod's Waves and Ice Age Meditation Art.

Therefore, there were two more additions to his Techniques Column now.

Mistral Windgod's Waves level 1: when the Waves are activated, all attributes increase by 1 point.

Ice Age Meditation Art level 1: when the Ice Age Meditation Art is activated, it increases one's observation skills, reaction and judgement, bringing one extremely close to absolute rationale and calm.

As long as the Waves were circulated, one's attributes would increase. One could not look down on this little increment. It would increase by 1 point when one's strength attribute was 10, and then increase by 1 more point when one's strength attribute was 100. When it was over 100 points, a one point increase would make a vast difference, and one would need to deplete at least 100,000 potential points or more, just to increase the attribute by 1 point.

From this, one could tell how nature-defying Waves were, since they could change the practitioner's life essence, bringing it closer to the structure of ether particles. They were just like ripples in the water, having the effect of amplification. The stronger the force, the greater the increment, thus allowing for the same increase in points to one's attributes.

Ice Age Meditation Art was even better, especially in battles. However, as Fang Xingjian's way of training this mental cultivation method was different from others, his temper would appear to be very bad in others' eyes. He had to release all his negative emotions, trying his best not to leave even a tinge of it in his heart.

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Chapter 54 The Last Month

After obtaining these two skills Fang Xingjian wanted to level them up. Thus, everyday, he would take some time to circulate and cultivate his Waves and his mental cultivation method. Each additional second he spent on them enabled him to gain additional experience points for both the Waves and the mental cultivation method. Once he had enough experience points, the techniques would naturally level up.

However, Fang Xingjian knew that he still harbored great hatred in his heart, hatred which he had yet satisfy in revenge. Therefore, not all of his negative emotions could be completely cleansed. If he truly wanted to reach the pinnacle of his mental cultivation method, he would definitely have to wait until when the grudges in his heart would be avenged, until when his heart would be cleansed and emptied of these distracting thoughts.

Coldly glancing at the instructor, Fang Xingjian indifferently asked, "Can I leave now?"

The instructor was stunned for a moment. Although he felt that Fang Xingjian's tone was extremely disrespectful, he could not do something just because of that. He only replied, "Mmm, sure. You can leave."

Fang Xingjian nodded as he strode out the door, heading towards his villa.

Right now, since he had already cultivated to the first level for both his Waves and his mental cultivation method, the next thing he ought to do was to continue training in Nurturing sword techniques and Training sword techniques, thus increasing his attributes and simultaneously researching the secret to creating that perfect set of muscles.

However, the very moment he had returned to his villa, Fang Xingjian found Jack and Anthony lying on his couch with swollen bruised faces.

Seeing that Fang Xingjian had returned, both of them were left dumbstruck. Jack shouted, "Xingjian, you've finally been released! Did you run into Kaunitz and the rest on the way back?"

Fang Xingjian looked into their eyes as he frowned and asked, "Did they beat you up again? Who was it?"

"All of them have ruthlessly done this to us during the live combat practice, but you must definitely not go and look for them. Barbara from the Fei Yang Academy and Ferdinand from the Aristocrat Academy both have already transitioned successfully. You must not go looking for them in a moment of impulse!"

Fang Xingjian was slightly stunned. He would never have thought that these two people would actually transition successfully so soon after Kaunitz. But then again, one whole month had already passed, and as members of aristocratic clans, it was not surprising for them to achieve such results.

Fang Xingjian coldly stated, "Don't worry. Once I've transitioned, I'll teach them a good lesson on your behalf." Now, he was no longer trying to hide his raging temper. This was for the cultivation of his mental cultivation method. He would unleash all the negative emotions in his heart, and then follow up by using the mental cultivation method to suppress his negative thoughts and emotions.

After all, he would never be able to fully kill off all of his distracting thoughts and emotions through gradual elimination.

Even so, Fang Xingjian releasing his emotions did not mean that he was an impulsive fool. It was his way of making his stand clear, declaring that he would be dealing with Kaunitz at a later time, if only in order to relieve his emotions, but he was not foolish enough to attempt to deal with three Knights who had completed their transitions, all by himself.

However, seeing Anthony and Jack hiding here, he frowned and asked, "Why are you guys hiding here?"

Jack and Anthony locked gazes before they helplessly sighed, "They blocked the pathway to our doorstep. Each time we go back they make a din and scold us. We have no way to rest or train at all."

"Don't the instructors care?" Fang Xingjian raged.

"Care about what?" Jack cursed. "Dick and the others are all nobility. They basically all have the same standing. When we went to complain, he told us to beware of influence, and told us not to mess around and not be like you, sending the entire academy in turmoil."

Hmph.

Fang Xingjian coldly snorted. He had no feelings of friendship with Jack and Anthony, but he incomparably loathed the methods that Dick, Kaunitz and those from the aristocratic clans used.

He decided to let Jack and Anthony stay there. Either way, the villa was extremely huge, and housing two more would be no problem.

As for Kaunitz, no one knew whether he was afraid to offend Huang Lin, or whether due to the fact that, previously, Carter and Zhou Yong had been injured too badly,no one came to make a commotion at Fang Xingjian's.

After thinking about it, Fang Xingjian came up with some conjectures. After all, Kaunitz and the others had to focus on their cultivation as well, and it was not possible for them to personally come and create a disturbance. As for Carter and Zhou Yong, how would they dare to come over to Fang Xingjian's residence again? After all, Fang Xingjian was unlike Jack and Anthony, who had suffered heavy injuries after being beaten up by Kaunitz and the others in class and yet did not dare to strike back even when being bullied.

Fang Xingjian's abilities had surpassed theirs. Not only was he uninjured, he even dared to strike back!

And so, for the next few days, Jack and Anthony simply stayed in Fang Xingjian's villa, asking their servants to deliver their meals over to this temporary residence.

Fang Xingjian did not concern himself with such things. The moment he returned to the valley he would immerse himself in cultivating his sword techniques, spending about twenty hours per day on sword practice. With only three hours of sleep every night, his crazed-demon look gave Jack and Anthony a huge scare.

They had came across crazy maniacs who devoted all their time and effort into cultivating their martial arts before. And, in truth, those who could pass the Prefectural Selection and eventually enter the Royal Academy, were all those who had put great effort into their training. Even a genius like Kaunitz would spend over fifteen hours on his daily training routine.

But this was the first time either Jack or Anthony had seen someone like Fang Xingjian, someone who was practicing as if he had gone crazy. Due to this, they now had even more admiration for Fang Xingjian.

The days passed by and in the blink of an eye there was only a month left before the deadline for going through the job transition.

Making the most of this one month plus span of time, Fang Xingjian perfected the various sword techniques which Huang Lin had shared with him, to their maximum levels. Some of them were at the level 30. Many others at level 20.

Other than that, he had also mastered the sword techniques which the Tempest Overlord and the two other Knights had trained in, up to level 10. It was a pity that out of all the new sword techniques which he had learnt, there was only one set which had brought him an additional attributes increase.

As the number of sword techniques he practiced increased, the sword techniques which granted him additional attribute increments also got increasingly less. However, during this time, his reaction attribute had greatly increased through his practice of the Meteor Sword Technique.

The higher grade Nurturing sword techniques had also allowed the amount of potential he gained daily to rise up to 7,000 points.

Therefore, his attributes had now become:

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Warrior's Squire

Level

9

Strength

43

Agility

48

Reaction

44

Endurance

36

Flexibility

35

Nurturing Sword Techniques

31 sets

Training Sword Techniques

3 sets

Specialities:

Genius Swordsmanship,

Elementary Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing，

Internal Training，

Sword Specialist

Potential

7,000 point increase/day

Waves

Level 1 Mistral Windgod's Waves

Mental Cultivation Method

Level 1 Ice Age Meditation Art

Although Fang Xingjian had already comprehended the Waves and the mental cultivation method, his talent in these two areas was only mediocre.

However, although the rate of progress in his Waves and mental cultivation method was not fast, the gap between his stats and the attribute requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero had been shortened to the point where he now only lacked 2 points in strength, 12 points in agility, and 1 point in reaction. As for the endurance and flexibility attributes, he had already met the necessary requirements..

However, with only one month left, even if he were to include the additional 1 point he would gain for each of his attributes through circulating Waves, it would still be a close call for Fang Xingjian.

After all, the requirement of having 60 points in the agility attribute was too challenging. As of now, he was still short of 12 points.

In what concerned the Perfect Muscles speciality, even now he was still absolutely clueless about it.

'Perfect Muscles? How on earth did they manage to achieve it?'

In the training room, three silhouettes unceasingly clashed in the air. The air was howling, as if a demoness was shrieking. The blurred silhouettes zoomed about, clashing with each other, each time creating trails of Qi current. Every step they took was accompanied by a series of booming thunderous sounds, as though the whole residence was bound to collapse the very next instant.

In reality, if not for the fact that Knights' residences were all reinforced with steel, the building would have collapsed long ago.

As a thunderous sound rang out, two silhouettes instantly flew. These two silhouettes were none others than Jack and Anthony. Their faces were red, but with the help of the Reduced Force Field, they gently drifted downwards, stabilizing themselves.

That's right. Another month had passed, and after almost two months' time, they had successfully completed their first transition. Everyone in Class 256 had completed their first transition, with the exception of Fang Xingjian.

But at this moment, Anthony and Jack were staring at Fang Xingjian as though they were looking at a ghost.

Fang Xingjian was standing on the huge craters left on the ground, formed through collisions of great intensity, as well as by the their stomps. With a slight movement, he sent countless stone fragments flying.

Jack exclaimed in shock, "Crap! Are you still human? We have already completed our first transition but we are actually still unable to defeat you?"

"Not only are we unable to defeat you," said Anthony, looking at Fang Xingjian with a gaze filled with terror. "I feel that when we are fighting against you, it's even more exhausting than fighting against Kaunitz and the others."

"Yup, if there's anyone who still dares to say that you are the only trash in our class who hasn't completed his transition yet, I will be the first to object." Jack shook his head as he said, "When compared to us, you who have not undergone your first transition actually has greater strength, higher agility, faster reaction, plus sword techniques so strong that they are inhumane, all without using ether particles. How strong would you become after your first transition?"

"If I don't undergo the first transition, I'm nothing," Fang Xingjian replied indifferently. "You guys can leave. I wish to train alone for a while."

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Chapter 55 Profoundness and Comprehension

After Anthony and Jack left, Fang Xingjian was left alone in the training room, waving his longsword to portray different sword stances.

As he thrusted the sword again and again, various sword techniques were displayed, almost as if a massive amount of flowers had bloomed majestically.

In his hands, it was as if the sword techniques had their own souls, and with the increase in the number of sword techniques he had been practicing, the level of cultivation of his sword arts was also brought to new heights. Regardless if it was the speed at which he was learning sword arts; or their application in battles; or the flow in switching from sword stance to sword stance, they had all improved qualitatively.

However, towards the matter of Perfect Muscles, he still felt that something was not right, as if something was missing – something which caused him to not be able to achieve Perfect Muscles.

The various rumors that were going around with regards to Fang Xingjian seemed to be progressively getting worse. The Knights who passed by Fang Xingjian's villa all looked towards it with gazes filled with contempt.

As the students in Class 256 all completed their job transitions one after another, with Fang Xingjian still not being able to complete his job transition at such a late point in time, more and more people grew to believe that Fang Xingjian had entered the academy through backdoor, and that he did not have the talent to be a Prefectural Champion.

Another fifteen days passed by. Fang Xingjian perfected the basic sword techniques of the Tempest Overload and the others to the maximum level, bringing himself additional increments for his attributes.

During this period, he had picked up an additional sword technique, the Storm Sword Technique, which was specially targeted towards raising one's agility attribute. This was done in order to increase his own agility attribute, as well as to get a moderate increase in other attributes.

Having brought fifteen sword techniques to their maximum level, there were a few Nurturing techniques which did not overlap and brought him additional potential points. Of course, this also caused him to have to increase his training time to three hours in order to accumulate potential points , and the potential he could gain increased to 8500 points.

Therefore, Fang Xingjian's attributes changed to become:

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Warrior's Squire

Level

9

Strength

45

Agility

56

Reaction

46

Endurance

38

Flexibility

35

Nurturing Sword Techniques

31 sets

Training Sword Techniques

3 sets

Specialities:

Genius Swordsmanship,

Elementary Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing，

Internal Training，

Sword Specialist

Potential

8,500 point increase/day

Waves

Level 1 Mistral Windgod's Waves

Mental Cultivation Method

Level 1 Ice Age Meditation Art

At present, Fang Xingjian was only 4 points away before his agility attribute met the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero. However, most of his sword techniques had already reached their maximum level, and there were lesser varieties of Nurturing techniques which he had yet to learn.

Therefore, from now onwards, he would probably have to depend on potential to increase his attributes. What was left was the job progress and Waves after the job transition was completed.

However, even after he had perfected the three Divine Level characters' fifteen sword techniques to their maximum levels, he was still unable to grasp the Perfect Muscles specialty.

From this, it was obvious how tough it was to become a Windstorm Sword Hero. What Fang Xingjian had already achieved would probably, by comparison, be something that one with mediocre talent be unable to accomplish even with decades of training. Even a genius like Kaunitz would probably need to take at least twenty years to achieve Fang Xingjian's current level.

While one was spending decades to complete the first transition, other people from the same class would probably have long completed their second transition, or would have even reached the pinnacle of their second transition and were just waiting to see if they could achieve a breakthrough and attain the Divine Level.

It was also why, after all these years, no had had attempted to try out those rare jobs… While they were powerful, it was impossible for ordinary people to put so much resources and time to waste.

Only a monstrous level talent like Fang Xingjian would be able to achieve so much within two and a half months.

However, even Fang Xingjian had not been able to fully grasp the principle behind the Perfect Muscles. He started to have doubts as to whether or not he had been too confident at the start, and made the wrong choice.

'Impossible.

'My talent is many times better than the three predecessors. If they can do it, there's no reason that I can't.'

Once again, Fang Xingjian displayed the fifteen sets of basic sword techniques, while their use, profoundness, principles, and other factors all flashed through his mind as he tried to think of their similarities, and think of the definition of Perfect Muscles on Earth.

'Perfect Muscles, each person would have a little of it and most people would only be able to get it though extreme training in small amounts each time, but with high repetitions. It must be maintained and yet can only be increased by a little. Theoretically speaking, it is impossible for it to cover all parts of the body.

'Tempest Overlord and the others… How on earth did they managed to achieve it before completing their first transition?'

Just as Fang Xingjian was thinking about it, Jack and Anthony knocked opened the door, dashing in one after another.

"Xingjian, bad news. Kaunitz has defeated Robert!"

They yelled out, but saw that Fang Xingjian was as if he had been possessed, mumbling while he continued with his sword practice.

"Fang Xingjian, did you even hear what we said?!" Jack shouted.

"Kaunitz's Waves broke through to level 3. He has unparalleled talent in Waves cultivation, and coupled with the job advantage of the Six Armed Asura, he managed to defeat Robert.

"Now, everyone is saying that he should be this batch's Prefectural Champion, and that he is the person with the strongest talent amongst us."

Anthony said with a grim look on his face, "He has already said that so long as you are willing to kowtow to him, apologize, and admit that he should be the real Prefectural Champion, he is willing to let you go from the battle that will be taking place half a month later."

Seeing that Fang Xingjian was still carrying on with his sword practice as if he was possessed, Jack could not hold it in any longer and shouted out, "Did you hear what we've said?! Kaunitz's Waves has reached level 3!"

"Waves?" Fang Xingjian was stunned for a moment and he suddenly stopped.

"To get a high level of cultivation for the Waves, it is best for it to be continuously circulating at all times."

"The three of them are all equipped with great talent in the area of Waves cultivation."

"Perfect Muscles requires extreme training in small amounts each time but with high repetition."

"All over the body?"

"At all times?"

"All three of them were absolute talents in Waves cultivation?"

Fang Xingjian's face twitched, and suddenly he broke out into a loud laughter.

Jack and Anthony exchanged glances, "It can't be?"

"Could it be that this guy was dealt a blow and has gone crazy?"

Fang Xingjian said, "I understand, I finally understand. Kaunitz's talent in Waves cultivation is real, but for the other three, theirs were faked.They used the sword movements to substitute Waves movements. This meant that their muscles were constantly trained for twenty-four hours daily, thus allowing them to achieve the Perfect Muscles."

"Therefore, they all had five sets of sword techniques which covered the training for every part of their body. It was because they needed to replace all their daily motions with sword motions."

Jack blinked and asked, "Xingjian, what are you talking about?"

They did not have the chance to probe any further before they were chased out by Fang Xingjian. After that, Fang Xingjian continued his sword practice, one stance at a time. But unlike how he did so previously, he tried to compare each breath in the Mistral Windgod's Waves, each flow of his blood, with a similar sword movement which produced the same motion.

Humans could control the rhythm of their breath, and could affect the blood's flow through compressing one's organs and muscles. Therefore, they would naturally be able to achieve a similar effects through various movements, just like sword practice.

It was like when a punch was dealt, blood would naturally gush towards the fist.

With a point of a finger, the fingertips would have a swollen feeling. It was blood coagulating at the fingertips.

Fang Xingjian wanted to cultivate his Waves through sword practice, and then allow himself to continuously circulate Waves for twenty-four hours at all times.

Such a sword practice was equivalent to Waves cultivation, and cultivating the Waves would be equivalent to going through sword practice. So long as Waves were circulated, he would be able to train each and every piece of his muscles at all times.

He wanted to combine Waves and sword arts into one.

Fang Xingjian's current advantage was much more than the Tempest Overlord and the others. It was because he had picked up thirty-four sets of sword techniques and had a monstrous talent. He could easily find out the sword movement which could produce the same rhythm as the Wave's.

Just in terms of Nurturing techniques and Training techniques, he could very well be considered a master of his generation.

Therefore, as each day passed by, just seven days before the promise of three months was up, Fang Xingjian finally managed to complete all of his substitutions.

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Chapter 56 Postpone

"It's finally completed."

Fang Xingjian closed his eyes, reviewing the situation within his body. Now, regardless of whether he was sitting, lying down, or walking, he would be constantly practicing various sword moves. No matter if he was running, jumping, walking, or sleeping, the muscles and bones in his body would be activated through various sword stances to hone his body.

What was more amazing was that while the tens of sword techniques for different styles and varieties looked like a horrible mess when connected, they put pressure on his body, stirring his breath, and slapping against his blood vessels, allowing him to activate a circulation with the same style as the Mistral Windgod's Waves.

Fang Xingjian felt that every single bone, every single piece of muscle in his body was constantly being trained.

Not only that, because he moved and activated various parts of his body through sword movements, this also meant that Fang Xingjian was constantly practicing sword techniques.

It was as if he was accumulating experience in the sword techniques at all times, increasing and depleting potential.

Merging the Waves with sword techniques, and constantly circulating Waves for twenty-four hours every day allowed his daily activities to maintain the state required for the Waves.

This was his result from the past few days, integrating the Waves into sword techniques, and then integrating sword techniques into his daily activities. Now, so long as he was alive, he was constantly practicing sword arts and cultivating Waves.

However, most of his sword techniques had already reached the maximum level. After his potential had reached the upper limit, it would not continue to increase. After fully depleting his potential, it would not be good for him to continue applying Training techniques.

However, this was sufficient. To be able to practice sword techniques at all times spared Fang Xingjian from having to spend a large amount of time on his sword practice to accumulate potential in order to increase his attributes.

The best thing was that it also allowed him to circulate Waves at all times, replacing Waves cultivation through the path of sword arts. Fang Xingjian looked at the Techniques Column of his stats screen. The experience for Mistral Windgod's Waves was increasing frantically with the passing of every second.

'With this speed, the progress rate of the Waves would be faster since I'm now cultivating it through sword arts practice.

'I feel that all the muscles all over my body are going through a complete makeover.'

At present, Fang Xingjian was like a piece of material placed on a forging platform, with the thousand and tens of thousand of sword techniques being like many hammers, continuously knocking on his body, causing the muscles all over his bodies to change gradually.

And as for the past two months, all sorts of nourishment and vital essence hidden in his body from the medicinal food, the ferocious beasts, and the tonic that he had eaten were all knocked out, merging into his body together with the Mistral Windgod's Waves.

However, even though he was on the path to achieving the Perfect Muscles, a physical body was still the physical body. Even if you had comprehended it, you would still need to gradually make changes to the physical body to achieve any sort of success.

It was impossible for one to immediately undergo huge progress and have the physical body go through an evolution just from comprehending it. Those were celestial arts, not sword arts.

Now that one has comprehended it, it would just be a mental change. The physical body would still need to go through a gradual change one day at a time.

"I'll need to make the best use of my time." Fang Xingjian's expression was solemn. At present, he was only short of three specialties to be able to go through with the job transition. For the Perfect Muscles, he could only wait for his body to change gradually. What he needed to do now was to rely on his extremely high attributes to get the other two specialties.

For the next seven days, he underwent tough cultivation for his Waves, sword arts, and specialties. But during his daily activities, regardless if he was walking, sitting or lying down, he increasingly felt that something was off.

Seven days later, on the Kirst Royal Academy's battle arena.

Kaunitz was drawn and pointed to the ground as he stood there, his eyes closed. His head of golden hair danced in the wind and was a shining a brilliant glow as if it was the sun's.

Waiting from noon till now, over half an hour had passed. But on the promised date of the battle, Fang Xingjian did not appear even after so much time had passed.

At the bottom of the arena, over a hundred people were waiting to observe the battle.

While there were only over a hundred people, it was not a number to be underestimated. The whole academy had only nine classes, and excluding the few who had gotten through the Regional Selection and entered the Regional Royal Academy, there were only over eighty students in total. If it was not for the tens of instructors who had came by, it was impossible for there to even be a hundred people gathered.

Seeing that Fang Xingjian had not arrived after so long, the people in the crowd started whispering amongst themselves.

"Why is Fang Xingjian not here yet?"

"He must be scared."

"That's true. I heard that a few days ago, Kaunitz had sparred with a Knight who was from Class 255, from one batch earlier, and he did not end up to be on the losing end."

Below the other side of the arena, Ferdinand smiled and asked Barbara who was standing beside him, "Do you think Fang Xingjian will come?"

"How could that be possible?" Barbara laughed out and said, "Half a month ago, I sent people to keep an eye on the entrances to the all of secret realms as well as the outside of Fang Xingjian's villa. These past few days, no one has entered the secret realm and Fang Xingjian did not take a single step out of his villa either.

Therefore, it's impossible for him to have gone through the job transition. Without completing the job transition, how could he challenge Kaunitz?"

On the other side, Jack and Anthony were both looking anxiously at the arena.

Jack said, "What to do? Xingjian has yet to complete his job transition. If he came, I wonder how much of a chance would he have to win Kaunitz."

"If I were him, I wouldn't come." Anthony shook his head. "The battle with Kaunitz is merely one started on impulse to begin with. If I had the time, I wouldn't be wasting it on something like this. Even if I were to win, there'd be no prizes and it would even offend the Tresia Clan. Moreover, while Fang Xingjian is already powerful enough without going through the job transition, after completing the first transition, he'll still get extraordinary powers."

While Fang Xingjian appeared to be a bit cool in his attitude, but just the fact that he had let them stay at his place and shared his ferocious beasts' essence and medicinal food, they owed him a great debt of gratitude.

After all, their rankings were towards the end, and thus they did not have sufficient medicines and ferocious beasts assigned to them.

After Fang Xingjian had generously shared his part of the items assigned by the academy with them, and provided them with sufficient nutrients and tonic to replenish their bodies' daily expenditure, and allowed them to maximize their training to the full potential, they had already treated Fang Xingjian as their best friend.

Just as the people at the bottom of the arena were getting increasingly impatient, a shadow flashed on the arena. However, it was the Sword and Sabers Department's strongest instructor, Huang Lin.

Kaunitz smiled and nodded his head, asking, "Teacher, is Fang Xingjian forfeiting the match?"

Huang Lin remained silent for a moment before he said, "Fang Xingjian has now entered the final juncture before the first transition and will not be able to participate in the battle today. The battle shall be postponed for ten days."

After Huang Lin finished his words, discussions broke out below the arena.

"What? Postponed for ten days?"

"Postponed as he wish? This isn't a child's play. "

"Hmph, he should just admit his defeat. Do we all have to wait for him if he were to request to push back for another ten days, ten days later?"

Hearing the discussions below the arena, Huang Lin's expression turned grim. Kaunitz shrugged his shoulders, smiled and said, "Teacher, you've heard it for yourself. Fang Xingjian shouldn't come as he wishes, or postpone match as he wishes. What does he treat a Knight's honor, honesty and courage as?"

The crowd below the arena also immediately turned noisy.

Barbara shouted, "That's right! Entering by the backdoor isn't enough for him, and now he's even thinking of backing out shamelessly in a battle?"

Ferdinand also followed to shout out, "It's really an insult to us to be called a Knight together with a person like him."

At their lead, the crowd's reprimand also turned worse. From their mouths, Fang Xingjian became the most disgusting, sinister and despicable man.

Huang Lin's face turned black like the color of a pot's base. If it was not for the fact that he was on the losing end of reason, he would have long ago slashed out at those few people with his sword.

With a cold grunt from him, violent killing aura poured out. Everyone present were suppressed so much so that they were not able to say anything. It was as if a chattering little bird was suddenly grabbed by the neck.

The next moment, Huang Lin's ice cold voice rang out.

"The battle shall be postponed for ten days. Ten days later, at noon, Fang Xingjian will be waiting for Kaunitz here. If he does not make good of the promise or is defeated by Kaunitz, he promises to withdraw from the Knight Academy."

With these words, the place was filled with silence. Everyone's faces were filled with astonishment.

Jack and Anthony exchanged a glance, their faces filled with worry.

The corner of Kaunitz's lips curled up slightly, revealing a satisfied expression.

"I have no problem with that."

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Chapter 57 Choice

Three days later, in the training chamber, Fang Xingjian's silhouette turned into an incessantly flickering blurry grey shadow, as he moved about.

In the spot where he was standing, threads of black light were flying across the space, directly piercing into the ground.

It was the Ox Hair Needle Huang Lin borrowed from the military, a kind of standardized weapon with extreme speed and power.

As the last one thousand Ox Hair Needles were fired, Fang Xingjian halted his movements, removing the earplugs from his ears and feeling his eyes.

On the other side, Jack and Anthony put down the needle box they were holding, stuck out their tongues and said,

"This item is quite overwhelming. If one fires a volley of needles at close distance, even a Knight would fall prey to it if not cautious."

Anthony spoke, "This was originally something that the army developed to allow ordinary soldiers to restrain Knight opponents. However, if the Knights are expecting them, these needles would barely even pass through the Reduced Force Field. But if they fire the needles intermittently, in large quantities, it's sufficient to exhaust a large amount of the Knight's energy."

Jack gazed in Fang Xingjian's direction as he asked with deep concern, "How is it, Xingjian, did you succeed?"

"Mmm."

Fang Xingjian took his hands down from his eyes. He had gained one more speciality - High Agility Motion Vision, which increased his the rate at which optical signals were sent, strengthening the practitioner's motion vision.

Relying on his attributes, which were sufficiently high, he had been training frenziedly for the past few days. Very soon, he completed the 0.1 second reflex for ten thousand times, and dodged ten thousand high speed attacks before he gained the specialities High Agility Motion Vision and Heightened Reflex.

In truth, these two specialities were also the two specialities that Knights usually had a hard time gaining before their first transition.

For Knights who had completed the first transition and who were powerful enough, or for the majority of the Knights who had completed their second transitions, both Heightened Reflexes and High Agility Motion Vision were the compulsory specialities they had to master.

Knights who had yet to complete their first transition generally did not have sufficient attributes, and so it was more difficult for them to gain such specialities.

However, this was obviously not a problem for Fang Xingjian. He took a look at his specialities, feeling a fiery energy surging from the muscles throughout his body, and unceasingly breaking through limits.

"Perfect Muscles… I'm going to obtain it soon."

Standing at the side, Jack asked, "Xingjian, is it in time? How confident are you in defeating Kaunitz?"

"It's a small issue, no need to be concerned." Fang Xingjian's eyes were vacant, as though his spirit was on a journey in another dimension. "You guys can leave, I want to go proceed with my sword practice."

Jack and Anthony locked their gazes, as they slowly turned to take their leave.

Jack exhaled and said, "What did you sense? The pressure Xingjian is giving off is getting increasingly stronger."

"Mmm." Anthony nodded in agreement. "The feeling he gave me was stronger than the one I sense when I'm facing some of the instructors."

Within the training room, Fang Xingjian suddenly started walking in circles unrelentlessly, his speed faster and faster. In the blink of an eye he turned into countless afterimages.

Simply walking about like this, Fang Xingjian's muscles, vessels and bones all over his body started moving according to the principle of sword arts, equivalent to him constantly practicing his sword techniques at all times.

Tens of sword techniques circulated restlessly in his mind. Fang Xingjian had taken nine months in order to master what others had taken decades to achieve. In terms of sword arts, he could already be considered a master of his generation.

But now, he had run into the same problem as any other master.

"Using sword techniques to unceasingly move the body, enhancing the Waves…

"The Waves are circulating perfectly…

"But during the change between sword stances, I only feel imperfection."

Fang Xingjian's gaze stiffened. The powers circulating within his entire body had undergone a slight transformation.

His breathing seemed to have lightened slightly, and the blood flow on his right shoulder and elbow had also slowed down a teeny weeny bit.

Among such minute changes, Fang Xingjian saw the Mistral Windgod's Wave on his Stats Window start to turn slightly blurry, as though it would become something else in the next moment.

"According to my intuition, the strength in each moment of the circulation should feel more natural and fluid.

"But the Waves also underwent a transformation because of the changes in strength, resulting in changes to my breathing and blood flow…"

Unexpectedly, Fang Xingjian noticed that when he wanted to make changes, the Waves would not stop circulating, but rather they would change the Mistral Windgod's Waves into another type of Waves.

'Should I do it?

'Follow my intuition and cultivate a new type of Wave? This might even affect my first transition.

'Or should I just stick with the Mistral Windgod's Waves and transition into a Windstorm Sword Hero?"

Fang Xingjian instantly came face to face with a dilemma.

Because each person would only be able to cultivate a single type of Wave, if one were to change to cultivate another type of Wave, for most cases, one had to follow their chosen path to the very end.

This was because a person's vital frequency was incapable of abruptly undergoing a transformation. If someone had already fully adjusted to the new wave, reverting to the original Wave would take a very long time.

Time flowed by, and in the blink of an eye, it was one day before the duel.

The rumours about Fang Xingjian which were spreading throughout the academy had gotten increasingly unfavourable, the main reason being the fact that even up until this moment Fang Xingjian had yet to enter the secret realm and go through his job transition.

To majority of people, Fang Xingjian was someone with absolutely no hope of going through the job transition.

Fang Xingjian stood within the training room as he looked at his Stats Window, which now had yet another speciality. Perfect Muscles: muscles gain the incomparable endurance of a marathon champion's muscles, along with the strong explosive bursts of energy of a short distance sprinting champion's muscles; strength and agility attributes also increase by 10% of the endurance attribute's value.

During this time, Fang Xingjian had integrated his sword techniques into every action of his daily life. This method of training his sword techniques for twenty-four hours a day had also allowed him to perfect all the sword techniques which had not reached the maximum level yet.

In addition, with the help of the Nurturing sword techniques circulating in his body everyday, tempering the attributes of his physical body, Fang Xingjian's current stats had become:

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Warrior's Squire

Level

9

Strength

484

Agility

614

Reaction

47

Endurance

41

Flexibility

41

Nurturing Sword Techniques

31 sets

Training Sword Techniques

4 sets

Specialities

Genius Swordsmanship,

Elementary Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing，

Internal Training，

Sword Specialist,

High Agility Motion Vision,

Heightened Reflexes,

Perfect Muscles

Potential

8,500 point increase/day

Waves

Level 1 Mistral Windgod's Waves

Mental Cultivation Method

Level 1 Ice Age Meditation Art

The attributes above come into effect once the Mistral Windgod's Waves is activated.

Due to Perfect Muscles, 4 in strength and agility (10% of the endurance attribute)

In his current state, regardless of his attributes or specialities, he had exceeded the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero. If he were to enter a secret realm and to undergo the job transition, there was a 99% probability of him successfully becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero.

However, he continued to stare at the words 'Mistral Windgod's Waves' on his Stats Windows which fluctuated between blurry and clear, in deep thought.

He was still hesitant.

Fang Xingjian's mind involuntarily brought up the Tempest Overlord and the other two's experiences.

'The three of them were facing their peers, their sword arts practice companions, watching as the others advanced, learned new techniques and trained new specialities, simply following the pre-assigned routes for their transition. In comparison, they spent over twenty years to learn basic sword techniques, incorporating Waves into their sword arts, and then the sword arts into their body. During this process, how much hesitation and helplessness did they feel? How much scorn and sarcasm did they have to put up with?'

It was an extremely difficult task for one to persevere in one particular area for over twenty years.

And what that was even more upsetting was that they did not know if the abilities they were training in were right or wrong, nor did they know if they were to succeed or fail.

'What was the reason that made all of you persist so stubbornly?'

The information on the many generations of the Empire's geniuses flashed through Fang Xingjian's mind once again.

Fang Xingjian did not know what the reason for their persistence was as they created new Waves, new mental cultivation methods, and thus, new jobs.

However, he knew that the reason why he was so hesitant was because the level of his sword arts was high, and he had absolute confidence in his control of the sword arts.

'I believe that as long as I change the Waves according to my intuition, my body will definitely gain strength.

'I believe that after I make the changes to my sword arts, since the Waves rely on the sword arts to be displayed, they will become more synchronized with my sword arts and my body.

'Because my talent in sword arts is unrivalled.'

Waves of self-confidence glowed in Fang Xingjian's eyes as he started circulating once again, practicing his sword techniques and circulating his Waves.

At midnight that day, Fang Xingjian and Huang Lin appeared before the secret realm at the west of the academy.

It was a white stone palace about thirty meters in height, with thick stone pillars, and fragmented marble. All of it stood as proof of how ancient the palace was.

Huang Lin said, "At midnight today, out of the academy's seven secret realms, the ether particles in the Saint Hall will be the most active.

"Are you ready?"

Fang Xingjian sighed, his eyes looking as if they were filled with sword light as he said, "I've been waiting too long for this moment."

Seeing Fang Xingjian slowly step into the pure white palace, traces of nervousness riddled Huang Lin's expression.

A few moments after Fang Xingjian entered the palace, an old white-haired elderly appeared beside Huang Lin.

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Chapter 58 Success? Failure?

The old man who had appeared besides Huang Lin was the Knight Academy's Headmaster.

The Headmaster looked at the secret realm which shone with a pure and holy light and asked calmly, "Can he succeed? You should know that in order to allow you two such a delay I've withstood much pressure, and expended a lot of money and resources. If he were to fail…"

Huang Lin's expression was solemn and his tone serious as he said, "He has completed all the the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero. It is impossible for him to fail."

At the same time, in another corner of the sanctuary, human silhouettes continuously appeared in this dark night.

The Headmaster smiled bitterly, "Windstorm Sword Hero… It has attracted too many people's attention.

"If there's anyone who dares to break the rules, I'll kill them." Huang Lin's words were like a thrust sword, and it sounded as if a metallic sound had rung through the air.

In the dimness were Kaunitz, Barbara, Ferdinand, Jack and Anthony, even Robert and the Knights from other classes, who had heard the news and had rushed over. As they looked at Fang Xingjian entering the secret realm, contempt, shock, and doubt shone in their gazes.

In their minds, they were only thinking of one problem.

Could Fang Xingjian successfully complete the job transition and become a Windstorm Sword Hero?

After taking one step towards the sanctuary, Fang Xingjian could feel something in the air which was not usually there.

With each step that took him closer to the sanctuary, the feeling of the disturbance in the air got increasingly stronger, making him feel as if his heartbeat and blood flow were getting increasingly faster amidst all this restlessness.

However, with Fang Xingjian's current attributes and with the control of his body's movements, such a minor disturbance was unable to stop him. He took a few steps forward and went through the sanctuary's door with no hesitation.

Taking one step into the sanctuary, Fang Xingjian felt as if he had entered another world. The raging ether particles moved about in the air wherever they wished, releasing a limitless amount of information in the battered space.

Fang Xingjian's eyes saw the endless images of the past, the future and of numerous other worlds.

Fang Xingjian's ears heard the crying, shouting and screaming of numerous men, women, elderly, and children.

It was as if Fang Xingjian's body was being tugged on by countless people, as if he had entered hell and many ghosts were attempting to pull him into the afterlife.

This was the battered void. These were the ether particles.

Countless miniature black holes appeared and disappeared in an instant. They barely affected any material substance but yet remitted information.

However, Fang Xingjian had long since prepared for the situation in the secret realm. He was only stunned for a short moment before he disregarded all of it and continued to head deeper into the sanctuary.

The space in the secret realm was different from the usual space. From the outside, Fang Xingjian had thought that the sanctuary did not look too big. But when he entered, he realized that it was actually enormous.

Fang Xingjian headed to the center of the sanctuary, the area where the ether particles were the most active. The more active the ether particles were, the higher the chances of him completing the first transition.

On the way, Fang Xingjian felt that the energy disturbance in the surroundings was getting stronger. Although there were no material substances in the air, it actually felt as if something around him was continuously swirling, sometimes moving forward, sometimes backwards, sometimes pushing him from behind, sometimes obstructing his advance.

However, Fang Xingjian's strength attribute had reached 48 plus 4, for a total of 52 points. Even if a truck was in front him, he would still be able to easily lift it and move it out of the way, let alone if he was facing a mere energy disturbance.

Taking one step at a time towards the center of the sanctuary, Fang Xingjian then sat down on the floor cross-legged, controlling his breathing rhythm and his blood flow as he focused on circulating his Waves and mental cultivating technique.

Completing the transition in the secret realm required one to fully concentrate on circulating Waves and the mental cultivation method, thus finding a way to let one's Waves and mental cultivation method along with one's life frequency to get closer to a certain type of ether particles' frequency, eventually allowing one's own powers to move the nature's energy.

Fang Xingjian concentrated on the fluctuations coming from all over his body as he continued to communicate with the ether particles in the surrounding air.

If this has been outside, what he was doing at the moment would mostly be a complete waste of energy. But in the secret realm, the space was battered. And given that the ether particles were active like never before, Fang Xingjian felt that along with the circulation of his Waves and mental cultivation method, the whole sanctuary, the whole space seemed to be fiercely trembling.

However, the Waves that he was circulating now were not the Mistral Windgod's Waves which should have been used to complete the transition into a Windstorm Sword Hero, but instead they were the Waves that he had just acquired and which had recently appeared on his Stats Window. It was a new type of Waves.

Sonido Sword Zephyr Waves level 1: after circulation, strength attribute will increase by 1 point, agility by 2 points, reaction by 1 point, endurance by 1 point and flexibility by 1 point.

This type of Waves was a basic type that was even stronger than the Mistral Windgod's Waves. However, unlike the latter, it would not offer the user the ability to control wind in the future.

The Sonido Sword Zephyr Waves sacrificed the ability to control wind in exchange for gaining more explosive energy as well as speed.

Therefore, regardless if it was in terms of attributes or Waves, Fang Xingjian had exceeded the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero. This had given him many expectations, allowing him to hope that he would have the chance of transitioning into into a job which was even stronger than the Windstorm Sword Hero.

"Come…

"Come…

"Ether particles…

"Give me the power I deserve!"

A faint breeze blew around Fang Xingjian. The next moment, that breeze turned into a raging violent wind. Countless air particles circled around Fang Xingjian's body, wholly encompassing him.

On his Stats Window, the potential points started jumping furiously. However, it was a pity that he had contributed all his potential to Training techniques everyday, and did not have many. As such, after a few jumps, the number turned to zero. In fact, depleting potential during the the job transition process was something which had never happened before, in the entire course of history.

It was because there had been no one in the course of history who had foundations as strong as Fang Xingjian had, or who was as gifted as him.

The next moment, Fang Xingjian felt countless invisible forces drilling into his body, crushing his bones and flesh, his organs, blood vessels and nerves.

With a pfft, he suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood.

After two whole hours, in contrast to the flurry in the sanctuary, Huang Lin and the others who were outside were unable to see any anomalies in the least, because of the secret realm's uniqueness.

Under Huang Lin's slightly nervous gaze, suddenly a human figure slowly walked out. That human figure was stumbling out of the sanctuary.

Huang Lin's expression turned grim as he immediately dashed out in a flash, grabbing onto Fang Xingjian's shoulders and supporting him.

Fang Xingjian looked pale. He was spewing fresh blood, looking as if he was gravely ill. Only his eyes were still bright and energized.

Huang Lin asked nervously, "What happened?"

Fang Xingjian looked at his Stats Window, and looked at the job which had appeared on his Stats Window - 'Windshadow Sword Divinity', as well his new specialty and techniques gains. He smiled and said, "I… I've succeeded…"

The next moment, his eyes rolled back and he fell unconscious.

Huang Lin furrowed his brows, saying nothing as he carried Fang Xingjian to his place, with a grim look on his face.

The Headmaster let out a sigh and disappeared as well.

Kaunitz looked at this scene and fell into a daze for a moment. Soon after he broke out in loud laughter, "Succeeded? Hahahaha, Barbara, have you heard of anyone who completed their first transition spewing blood as they walked out, and even passing out in the end?"

Barbara, at the side, smiled and said, "No. Only one situation fits the bill. The case when one fails the job transition and suffers from the effects of the ether particles' backlash in the body."

"A useless bum who could not even complete his first transition successfully." The corner of Kaunitz's lips curled up slightly as he coldly said, "Genius? I'd say he's a useless bum. I reckon that there's no need to carry on with the battle tomorrow."

Jack and Anthony exchanged a glance, let out a sigh, then both chased after Huang Lin.

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Chapter 59 Regaining Consciousness

Feeling like he was encompassed in warmth, as if he was submerged in boiling hot spring water, Fang Xingjian gradually opened his eyes and saw that as expected, he had been placed in a gigantic bath vat. A strong medicinal smell came from the bath vat, the deep dark-green-colored medicinal liquid continuously bubbled, as if it were to explode at any moment.

'What the hell is this stuff?'

Although it did not look good, Fang Xingjian could feel that there was something similar to vital energy flowing into all of his body parts.

His body's previously depleted potential, because of the insufficient amount when he had been going through the job transition in the secret realm, had not only recovered, but it had also accumulated a massive amount of medicinal properties, waiting for him to disperse and merge them with his body in his future cultivation, thus reinforcing it.

Seeing that Fang Xingjian had woken up, Huang Lin said in a serious tone, "Your job transition has failed and you have yet to recover from the serious injuries. Your organs, muscles and bones have all suffered the backlash effects from the ether particles.

"I've borrowed this medicine from the headmaster. Circulate your Waves and carefully absorb the medicinal properties to recover your injuries.

"With regards to the issue of the first transition, don't think about it for now. There'll be a way out." It was obvious that after seeing Fang Xingjian's internal injuries, Huang Lin had thought that his job transition had failed, making him suffer the backlash effects of the ether particles.

Hearing Huang Lin's words, Fang Xingjian fell into a daze. He took a look at his Stats Window, which had now become:

Name

Fang Xingjian

Age

16

Occupation

Windshadow Sword Divinity

Level

9

Strength

484

Agility

624

Reaction

47

Endurance

41

Flexibility

41

The attributes above come into effect once the Sonido Sword Zephyr Waves is activated

Due to Perfect Muscles, 4 in strength and agility (10% of the endurance attribute)

Techniques:

Nurturing Sword Techniques

31 sets

Training Sword Techniques

4 sets

Reduced Force Field

Boundaries Negation

Specialities:

Genius Swordsmanship,

Elementary Survival Instinct,

Internal Healing,

Internal Training,

Sword Specialist,

High Agility Motion Vision,

Heightened Reflex,

Perfect Muscles,

Single Sword World Subjugation

Potential

8,500 point increase/day

Waves

Level 1 Sonido Sword Zephyr Waves

Mental Cultivation Method

Level 1 Ice Age Meditation Art

Windshadow Sword Divinity was the job which Fang Xingjian had obtained in the sanctuary. Fang Xingjian did not know what the job progress was yet, but after the he had succeeded the job transition, he had only gained two techniques and one specialty.

One of the techniques was a common technique across all jobs for the first transition, namely the Reduced Force Field, which was the basic form of communication with the ether particles. At the stage of the first job transition, everyone would have this technique. It was also a technique that could not be leveled up, so there was nothing special about it.

The other technique was called Boundaries Negation, another technique which also had no level tagged to it.

Boundaries Negation: allows one's body to overcome physical and material boundaries in an instant. Under the enhancement brought by ether particles, it expends 1000 potential points every second, fully accelerating the body's vital energy and blood; agility reaches the limit of what one's body can endure, ignoring the limits of the other attributes.

The agility attribute raised the speed at which one's muscles could contract and burst out with force. However, if a person wished to attack quickly or run quickly, other than a quick muscle contraction speed, one's muscles would also need to have a high resistance, a high explosive energy, high agility, high flexibility et cetera.

And Boundaries Negation allowed for instantaneous outburst of the vital energy and blood, ignoring all of the restrictions of the other attributes. It based itself on the agility attribute, allowing the cultivator's agility to burst out and stretch to its very extremes.

This was obviously a very powerful technique. Just the fact that it expended 1000 potential points per second showed how powerful this technique was. However, Fang Xingjan would need to test it out himself before he could understand the actual characteristics. However, this also meant that he would need to accumulate potential during his usual training to gain the possibility of activating Boundaries Negation in the most crucial moments.

Although he only had one additional specialty, Fang Xingjian could tell how powerful the specialty 'Single Sword World Subjugation' was just from looking at its definition. It was much stronger than the Windstorm Sword Hero.

Single Sword World Subjugation: when a sword-type weapon is used and the worn armor is below ten kilograms, a force field will be produced which increases the user's speed by allowing ether particles to attract each other, forming a force field; each additional point in the agility attribute can provide up to a 2% increase in the user's movement and action speed.

Looking at this specialty, Fang Xingjian's breath started to quicken. It was different from the regular acceleration provided by the Windstorm Sword Hero's two specialties. The Single Sword World Subjugation provided an acceleration which increased as one's agility attribute got higher.

A 1 point increase in the agility attribute increased one's movement and action speed by 2%. Considering that Fang Xingjian's current agility attribute was at 66, his movement and action speed would increase by 132%, the only requirements being not to wear heavy armor, and to be equipped with a longsword.

What did the increase of movement and action speeds by 1.32 times mean? It meant that it was 2.32 times the original speed of the person. Regardless if it was movement speed, the speed of launching the attack, or one's explosive damage prowess, they were all increased by a couple of times in just an instant.

Moreover, this was still not the limit. As long as Fang Xingjian continued to raise his agility attribute, the effects of this specialty would continue to rise to higher levels, until his agility would reach an unbelievable state. This was a specialty that one could keep on using without looking down on it even up to the Divine level.

To sum it up, even if job progression was not taken into consideration, the job Windshadow Sword Divinity was already so strong that it was terrifying. To Fang Xingjian, it seemed even stronger than many of the second transition jobs in Demonic City.

From now onwards, he would only need to continue maintaining the state where his body would automatically undergo sword training and Waves cultivation for twenty-four hours a day. It would thus allow his attributes to get increasingly stronger, along with his Waves. With the magnifying effects of the job's specialty, his battle prowess would get increasingly powerful as well.

The only thing that seemed to not be up to scratch was his mental cultivation technique. Mental cultivation methods were merely the training of the mind, so physical training of sword arts were of no help for this.

Therefore, after Fang Xingjian heard Huang Lin's words, he was stunned for a moment before he took another look at his Stats Window and then said, "But I did not fail. I succeeded in the job transition."

"No need to go on." Huang Lin sighed and said, "The Windstorm Sword Hero is really too tough. There is nothing to it even if you failed. I've already applied for leave from the headmaster. From now on, you'll just need to focus on your recuperation. I'll bring you to another academy to undergo training and complete your first transition…"

Although Fang Xingjian had failed in his job transition, to Huang Lin, he was still a peerless genius. Huang Lin still hadnot given up on him, but instead, was worried that Fang Xingjian would give up on himself.

"Although it is hard to change the Waves cultivation, it is not impossible. It's not as if there haven't been people who have done that in history. With your calibre, you'll definitely be able to do it if you spend more time on it."

"But I…"

"You don't have to embarrassed. Just remember the lesson you've learnt this time." Huang Lin shook his head helplessly and said, "You must remember that common jobs are not that bad. There are many Divine level experts who also started off from common jobs."

"Sigh." Fang Xingjian shook his head, no longer trying to interrupt Huang Lin. He reached out his hand, and lightly grasped the air.

With a crisp bang, it was as if an explosive had discharged in the air. A slight breeze blew from where Fang Xingjian had grasped and released the air explosion. Huang Lin turned wide-eyed instantaneously.

Fang Xingjian smiled briefly, once again making a grabbing motion midair. The whole lump of medicinal liquid in the vat looked as if it had been grabbed and lifted up by an invisible gigantic hand as it floated like a balloon.

"Force field? Reduced Force Field!"

Huang Lin was still a bit hesitant at first, but the next moment, that familiar feeling told him that his judgement was not wrong.

"If you can perform the Reduced Force Field, it means that you did not fail your job transition and that you have succeeded in your job transition?"

"Mmm." Fang Xingjian said, "I…"

"Windstorm Sword Hero! To think that you've succeeded in the job transition to become a Windstorm Sword Hero!" Huang Lin's eyes went wide until they reached the size of a frog's, as he stared at Fang Xingjian in slight of disbelief.

Seeing Huang Lin's gaze, Fang Xingjian nodded. He did not mention anything about the Windshadow Sword Divinity. "Mmm, I'm now a Windstorm Sword Hero."

"Excellent, excellent excellent." Having received a positive reply, Huang Lin was overjoyed. However, seeing that Fang Xingjian was trying to stand up, he immediately pushed him back across the air with his palm, and it was as if there was a pressure from a big mountain pushing Fang Xin back into the medicinal vat once again.

"Do you know that the only three Windstorm Sword Heroes in the Empire's history all became Divine level experts?

"This means that it's very likely that you will be able to complete the third transition and become a Divine Level expert as well.

"No no no, you must stay and soak in this and recuperate. This vat of medicine has taken me a lot of effort to prepare. Not only can it heal your internal injuries, it can also raise the effects of your future cultivation by a great degree.

"Haha, Windstorm Sword Hero.

"You must let your body recover well, so that no internal injuries are left.

"Mmm, now that everyone has completed the first transition, the next thing is to learn Killing techniques. I'll help you take a look to see which Killing techniques are suitable for a Windstorm Sword Hero."

Huang Lin was pacing to and fro, smiling non-stop, with his usual mighty disposition. It was because he understood well what the words 'Windstorm Sword Hero' meant – a Divine level expert. There were no more than ten Divine level experts in the whole Empire, and even though it was merely a possibility for Fang Xingjian to become one, it was already sufficient to make Huang Lin's cold face break into smiles.

After pacing for a few steps, he dashed out in haste. No one knew where he was headed to.

Fang Xingjian had not expected Huang Lin to be so excited, and he was secretly glad that he had not told him his actual job.

Windshadow Sword Divinity was a first transition job he had not seen in the piles of materials he had gone through. Thinking about this, he simply fell backwards, submerging his body in the medicinal vat, feeling the endless vital energy continuously seep into his body.

He even noticed that on his Stats Window, his potential had been gradually increasing by 1 point every ten minutes.

As a matter of fact, yesterday, he had not thought that when he was going through the job transition for Windshadow Sword Divinity, his potential would be absorbed to perform an intrinsic transformation of his physical body. This was why his vital energy and blood had been forcefully absorbed by the ether particles, which in turn led to him suffering internal injuries.

However, his blood and vital energy had been replenished by the various precious medicinal items Huang Lin had brought. In addition, he had the specialty Internal Healing, which could be used to heal the injuries to his organs. In fact, more than half of his internal injuries had already been healed.

However, seeing that his potential could increase by itself, Fang Xingjian was still astonished, 'How much did this vat of medicinal liquid actually cost?' Then, he recalled Huang Lin's overjoyed reaction earlier and silently exclaimed to himself, 'This is the first time that I've seen Teacher acting like this. Seems like the first transition job Windstorm Sword Hero is more important than how I had imagined it would be.'

The Windstorm Sword Hero was already sufficient to astonish the world. If Huang Lin and the others knew that Fang Xingjian's job was the Windshadow Sword Divinity, which had never appeared in the course of history, and that it even came equipped with specialities and techniques which they would see as horrifying, their chins would probably drop off, or the knowledge would even cause a grand storm with him in the center.

The next moment, he had already fully submerged himself in the medicinal liquid, focusing solely on absorbing its essence.

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Chapter 60 The Day of the Duel

On the second morning, Fang Xingjian crawled out of the vat filled with medicinal liquid already gone transparent. He asked the servants for Huang Lin's whereabouts, but with no result.

Thus, after finishing breakfast, he headed towards the classroom.

After the three months deadline was up and everyone had completed the first transition, according to the school's regulations, other than attending specialisation classes, techniques classes and physical training classes, the next most important thing was for them to, pick up the Knights' actual techniques for killing their enemies – the Killing techniques. Doing this every morning was the second phase of their mission after they had completed their first transition.

The Nurturing Path was equivalent to spring, strengthening the constitution and nurturing the spirit, keeping the individual fit and healthy, and accumulating potential.

The Training Path was equivalent to the summer, wrecking one's physical body, stimulating one's potential and strengthening one's attributes.

The Amassing Path was equivalent to autumn, the Waves and mental cultivation methods and Waves moving amidst the calm, the connection with ether particles, the complement to one's job, the comprehension of extraordinary strength, each with its own miraculous usage.

The first three paths were all paths helping one to become stronger, focusing on gaining strength. It was the complete foundation of a powerful expert from top to bottom, inside-out.

On other hand, Killing techniques were the real techniques used for combat, purely with the scope of destruction – techniques meant for killing opponents.

So, regardless of how powerful Fang Xingjian's job was, or how much his current talent and experience in sword arts had already far surpassed the instructors', he still decided to listen to their introduction of Killing techniques.

However, as of yet, he still did not know that his job transition the previous day had been witnessed by too many people. Everyone in the academy thought that he had failed his job transition.

Fang Xingjian was still contemplating what his next step ought to be.

In his current state, his sword arts and Waves could undergo training in his body without rest for twenty-four hours a day, and his attributes would increase every five to six days. His Waves would also level up every ten or twenty days or so. His mental cultivation method was the only one for which he needed to specially find some time each night in order to train it.

Therefore, now he had much more time during the day, which he could use for training in new areas. Fang Xingjian was contemplating what type of training he ought to be using this extra time on.

'Hmm, should I pick up new sword techniques? There's still ten or more sword techniques in the academy which I've yet to learn. Should I look through them and see if any of them don't overlap with my current ones?

'Or should I approach the other instructors, and use my higher attributes to gain even more specialities?'

Attributes were one's foundation, while specialities were the special effects. Fang Xingjian had already built up an exceptional foundation, thus preparing for actual combat. What he had learned so far would augment his power, enhance his physical strength, increase his movement speed, power up his techniques, strengthen his physique... But at the end of the day, he still did not have a true technique for killing his enemies.

'I should take a look at Killing techniques first, and find out how to train those…

'I only have four years and three months left. I need to be faster… faster…

'Sword techniques, tempering attributes, Waves cultivation are already circulating by themselves every day. As for my mental cultivation method, I'll need to put in hard work every night…

'Nurturing sword techniques automatically circulate daily, tempering my attributes…

'Waves automatically circulate daily, modifying my vital frequency. The Sonido Sword Zephyr Waves primarily emphasized on increasing the agility attribute. After the Waves form a connection with the ether particles, the higher its level, the faster my speed will be.

'I still need to put in more effort in training my mental cultivation method. The higher its level, the more rational and clear-headed I will be in battle, and the less I will make mistakes or be affected by negative emotions. In addition, I have too many negative emotions suppressed within my heart, so for my mental cultivation method, I'll have to unleash all my negative emotions in order to speed up my cultivation.

'My attributes are very high, and with my great speed there shouldn't be anyone who's gone only through the first transition who would be able to surpass me. And if I execute Boundaries Negation, my speed will be even faster…

'What I lack right now is a Killing technique that could be a good match for my great speed.'

Fang Xingjian's sword techniques relentlessly circulated throughout his entire body. He lowered his head and contemplated his future training plans. He seemed to be extremely focused, to the point that he did not notice that wherever he passed by, people would point their fingers at him and gossip about him, throwing him looks of ridicule, sarcasm or disdain. There were also some who looked at him with gazes of pity.

However, he did not even notice these as he walked. In fact, since with his brain's invigoration, he could feel the ether particles constantly disappearing and reappearing, maintaining a dynamic equilibrium.

When he was halfway to his destination, Fang Xingjian discovered that his Stats Window was flickering. He had just leveled up.

'That's right. I have been at the peak of level 9 for a very long time. Now that I've completed my first transition, it's natural for me to be able to level up.

'And since my experience bar for level 9 was maxed out, and I've continued to cultivate my sword arts internally for the few hours I've had since last night, I've managed to level up.'

Cultivating various techniques, attributes, specialties or even reading or learning would naturally allow one to earn experience and level up. Naturally, this method of leveling up was extremely slow, and one could only level up once or twice each year. It could not even compare to the experience gained from attacking and killing powerful beasts or other humans.

Even before his transition, Fang Xingjian's experience bar was already at the peak of the level 9. Given the previous night's transition, coupled with the fact that on the way his body was unceasingly training by itself, he had leveled up.

After leveling up, he discovered that the job progress from the Windshadow Sword Divinity had only affected the agility attribute. However, it was a full 11 point increase!

Therefore, his agility attribute had soared to a tremendously terrifying 73 points.

And as he thought of how the 11 point increase in agility would further enhance his moving and action speed by 22%, Fang Xingjian was dumbstruck, and gradually felt a sense of joy building up.

'This speed… is simply terrifying…"

He continued to cultivate and contemplate as he walked, finally arriving at the classroom. Fang Xingjian pushed open the door with a bang, and saw the nine Knights of Class 256 all turn their gazes towards him.

Traces of mockery appeared in Kaunitz's eyes. He was looking at Fang Xingjian as though he was a clown.

Jack's and Anthony's brows furrowed slightly. They had rushed to Huang Lin's residence yesterday, but had been chased out by Huang Lin who was fully focusing on taking care of Fang Xingjian. Hence they still had no idea what Fang Xingjian's current state was.

A look of cool indifference was reflected in Robert's eyes. Ever since Kaunitz had caught up to his progress, completing his first transition and later defeating him, Robert had been working hard, practicing day and night. He now only had one thought in mind – to defeat Kaunitz.

On the platform, Dick, who was currently explaining the theory of the Killing Path, slightly squinted his eyes as he spoke, "Fang Xingjian, this course on the Killing Path is only open to those who have completed their first transition. Haven't you come to the wrong place?"

Kaunitz faintly smiled. His underling Zhou Yong who had also come from the Tresia Academy stood up as he berated, "Fang Xingjian, have you forgotten what you said back then? You failed to turn up for the duel, yet you still have the face to come here? If I were you, I would quickly pack my stuff and get out of the academy."

Carter, who had previously gone along with Zhou Yong to taunt Fang Xingjian outside his villa also stood up and said, "Fang Xingjian, do you think that a small fry like you would really be able to stay in the academy after having entered through the backdoor?

"I've said so long ago, after removing the genius disguise you put up, you are nothing. A small fry will always remain a small fry. To think you're still fantasizing about becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero…"

Even before they had ended their tirade, traces of killing intent started flickering in Fang Xingjian's eyes.

"Who said I've failed to turn up? How come I didn't know about that?" He replied softly, "Today is the day of the duel. Come, Kaunitz, just as I've promised, I will give you a handicap, one hand only. Then, I will break your ribs one by one."

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Chapter 61 Fire

"Boasting without shame." Kaunitz could not even bother to take a single look at Fang Xingjian. In his eyes, Fang Xingjian who was rumored to have 'failed the job transition' could barely even compare to characters like Carter or Zhou Yong. He was already eliminated, and a useless bum from head to toe.

However, what Fang Xingjian had said was true. The actual time for the battle was today, and not last night. It was just that after everyone had seen Fang Xingjian 'failing the first transition' the night before, they all subconsciously felt that he had failed to honor the appointment.

Class 256's instructor, Dick, said coldly, "Fang Xingjian, you have failed the job transition and no longer have the right to continue staying in this class. Leave quickly! Stop with the endless pestering.

"As for your villa, maids, and monthly resources, I've already submitted an application to cancel them. Those resources were not meant to be wasted like this."

"To think that his class's Prefectural Champion had failed the first transition. If not for Kaunitz's ingenious performance, his situation in the academy would now be even worse. Thinking of his teaching appraisal for the current year, Dick's gaze towards Fang Xingjian turned more and more into one of disgust.

Fang Xingjian only looked at Kaunitz coldly, his gaze full of unspoken provocation. He had been fully focused on his training all this time, but that did not mean that he was unaware of the rumors outside. He was not a robot, but rather a person who had been left with even more fury, vengeance, and negative emotions than normal people.

However, for the sake of fully devoting his efforts towards the first transition, Fang Xingjian had been unwilling to waste any of the time on him. After all, he barely had slightly more than four years left.

But now that he had finally completed the first transition successfully, it was only obvious that he would no longer have any more reservations, nor would he continue to tolerate the other party's impertinence.

Moreover, the Ice Age Meditation Art he was cultivating required bravery and diligence, and the elimination of all grievances in one's mind through physical force. How could he then allow others to cause him humiliation as they wished?

"Haha," Seeing Fang Xingjian's provocative gaze, Kaunitz stood up. A violent raging force field swept across the surrounding air, releasing a pitter patter of explosive sounds. Even the tables and chairs in the surroundings were all being squashed and deformed, making creaking sounds.

"Don't anger me. Fang Xingjian, the one thing you shouldn't have done in this life is to anger me." Kaunitz lifted his chin, staring down at Fang Xingjian with a gaze filled with a sense of superiority and said, "Seeing that we are classmates, I'll give you one last chance. Apologise and admit your mistake, and I'll let you leave with dignity."

"Kaunitz…" Fang Xingjian's eyes squinted slightly as he lightly replied, "No need to say any more. Let's meet on the arena."

Dangerous glints flashed continuously in Kaunitz's eyes. He took several steps forward, his Reduced Force Field like a gust of raging wind, pushing against Fang Xingjia and pressing down on his shoulders, limbs, and spine.

"As you wish. Fang Xingjian, today will be the day you'll never ever wish to remember." Kaunitz checked the time and said, "In one hour, we'll meet on the arena. I hope that you will not stand me up again." After finishing his statement, he smirked at Fang Xingjian, satisfied.

He wanted to ensure that there was sufficient time for enough people to gather, so that even more people could witness Fang Xingjian being squashed under his feet. He wanted to vent his frustrations caused by Fang Xingjian previously defeating him in a single move. Kaunitz wanted to let everyone know that in the whole of Class 256 and in this year's Prefectural Selection, only him, Kaunitz, was a true genius.

Kaunitz turned to leave while Barbara, Ferdinand and the others followed behind him. Barbara looked towards Fang Xingjian with a cruel smile, mimicking the gesture of cutting one's throat.

Today, Fang Xingjian was dead meat to them.

Dick passed by Fang Xingjian, gave a cold snort and said, "Don't know what you're trying to do." His gaze was full of contempt towards Fang Xingjian. To him, it seemed that the latter had completely failed his job transition, and had gone crazy to actually dare to come to the classroom and stir up a scene, seeking his own humiliation.

'But it's also good that Fang Xingjian will be chased away like this. A useless bum who failed his job transition would just be a burden on the results of my appraisal if he were to stay.'

Jack and Anthony came to Fang Xingjian's side, not saying much. They merely nodded and said, "Xingjian, be careful. It's said that Kaunitz has started learning Killing techniques since last month. Be careful of his Reduced Force Field."

The group headed in the direction of the arena. And the news of Fang Xingjian still insisting on having the arena battle with Kaunitz, even after the former had failed his job transition, had spread like wildfire throughout the whole Royal Knight Academy.

Knowing that there was going to be a battle, the many staff members and students who saw them on their way all followed curiously. They looked at Fang Xingjian as if he were an idiot.

"How many years has it been since there's been a battle in the academy?"

"I thought that this battle had long been cancelled, what with Fang Xingjian failing his job transition and all. I never would have thought that he had such guts."

"Guts? I'd say it's foolishness. One who has yet to complete the job transition challenging one who has already gone through the first transition... He's simply courting death."

As Fang Xingjian and the others gradually walked towards the arena, more than ten Knights were already there. Instructors, students and members of staff were coming as well.

And when those who had arrived saw Fang Xingjian and Kaunitz, their gazes were filled with varied emotions.

"Didn't Fang Xingjian fail his job transition? He's still looking for a battle with Kaunitz?"

"Is this fellow crazy?"

"It's such a pity for Fang Xingjian. If not for the fact that he'd insisted on choosing the Windstorm Sword Hero, he wouldn't be in such a pathetic state."

"This is what's called biting off more than one can chew."

There were only about one to two hundred students and instructors in Kirst Royal Academy. Counting maids, chefs, craftsmen and other members of staff, the personnel would definitely not exceed one thousand people. There weren't really that many people, so the news that Fang Xingjian and Kaunitz were going to continue with their battle spread very quickly throughout the entire academy.

Fang Xingjian did not pay them any heed. After arriving at the arena, he sat down cross-legged on the floor, and closed his eyes as he started his cultivation.

He started circulating his sword arts again and again, throughout his whole body. Under his Knight attire, his veins, muscles and bones were trembling endlessly, entangling, twisting as he circulated the sword techniques and Waves.

More and more people rushed over, including instructors like Dick. Even Hogan from the City Guards Institution came to the arena.

Seeing Hogan walk over, Jack's gaze flickered as he asked, "Boss, why are you here?"

"Of course, to teach a class. Although it's merely in name, I am still the academy's instructor and have to come a few times every month." Hogan said as he took a glance at Fang Xingjian, who was cultivating with his eyes closed.

He had thought well of this person since the Prefectural Selection, and had even had a bet with Dick, winning 100 gold. He tried to advise, "Fang Xingjian, cultivation is not a matter of speed. Do you want me to go have a talk with Kaunitz and the others? You can focus on your recuperation first, and then battle it out with him after completing your job transition. Don't act on impulse."

Anthony followed, saying, "That's right, Xingjian. We can bring up the battle at a later date. Why do you need to rush into it? Even if you're in a rush, you should still allow yourself time to recuperate from yesterday's injuries." They had seen for themselves how Fang Xingjian had spewed a few big mouthfuls of blood the previous day.

"It doesn't matter."

Fang Xingjian suddenly open his eyes wide, giving this simple answer before he headed up to the arena, saying, "Kaunitz, come up. Let's not waste the time."

He shook all the muscles over his body, releasing a series of crackling sounds, and taking big steps up the arena.

His display of strength was extremely violent and raging, but his mind was calm as he analyzed all of Kaunitz's actions in his mind, continuously simulating what would be happening during the course of battle later.

Kaunitz frowned slightly. It had only been half an hour. But although it was not exactly what he had planned, taking a look at the more than one hundred people below the arena, he was not willing to step back either. With a light tap of one of his legs, he cut across the air in a beautiful arch, and appeared on the arena.

He was wearing his blue Knight attire, with three longswords attached to each side of his waist. His golden hair fluttered in the wind as he broke into a cold smile.

Looking at Fang Xingjian, he said, "Today, we'll fight it out. I'll let everyone know… who is the real genius in this year's Prefectural Selection…"

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Chapter 62 Empire's Divine Weapon

More than ten minutes before Fang Xingjian and Kaunitz would start their battle, Huang Lin was rushing excitedly towards the Headmaster's office.

He wanted to tell the Headmaster that Fang Xingjian had successfully completed the transition and had become a Windstorm Sword Hero.

However, the very moment he dashed into the office, the scene before him made him slightly furrow his brows.

A grandly dressed white-haired woman was sitting with poise face to face with the Headmaster. The woman's brows were very thick and dense, but her eyes were elongated and thin like a fox's. Her face, filled with wrinkles, was a clue that she was far from young.

Sitting next to the woman was the white-bearded old man who had doubted Fang Xingjian from the start during the third stage of the Prefectural Selection, but who had later been envious of Huang Lin for getting himself a disciple, eventually inciting his daughter to try to get closer to Fang Xingjian.

When Huang Lin saw the longsword embedded with colorful gemstones at that woman's waist, his brows furrowed.

"Tresia Clan's Rebecca… Why are you here?" She was Rebecca Tresia, one of Tresia Clan's strongest existing warriors, with the powers of a first transition level 19, and also Kaunitz's aunt.

Although she had not succeeded in completing the second transition, she had been at the pinnacle of the first transition for tens of years. As a well-known first transition expert, she had been building up on her attributes, and had been putting in hard work in order to acquire specialities. Their accumulation, tens of years of training was not something to be trifled with.

Even some of the youngsters who had just completed the second transition would most likely not be her match.

"Oh? Isn't this Master Huang Lin?" Seeing that Huang Lin had entered, Rebecca smiled and said, "It's been some time since we've last met."

Watching the scene, the Headmaster smiled and said, "Lin, you've come at a perfect time. Adelaide will be retiring. We've invited Rebecca to take on the role of the sword arts instructor from now on. You know each other as well. She's from the renowned Tresia Clan and has exceptional sword skills, she's very suitable for the job."

Rebecca smiled and said, "Headmaster is exaggerating with his compliments, haha. We're just discussing the problem of cutting down on the academy's expenditure. Since Master Huang Lin is here, we can discuss it together."

"Reducing expenditure?" Huang Lin said coldly.

"That's right. Take for example the Prefectural Champion Fang Xingjian. Since he has failed his job transition, he should no longer continue to enjoy the treatment Prefectural Champions enjoy." Rebecca's tone was sharp, with the same aggressiveness as if she were performing sword techniques.

Her words were a form of direct confrontation with Huang Lin. "Those resources could be better spent on other more talented students."

Huang Lin smiled coldly, looking at Rebecca, "Haha, for example, Kaunitz?"

"That's right. I do not differentiate people in terms of how close they are to me. Although Kaunitz is my nephew, since he has great talent, enough to complete the first transition within ten days and bring his Waves cultivation to level 3 within three months, I think that the academy should allocate more resources to him and aid his progress rather than wasting them on a certain useless bum."

"Hmmmmm, useless bum." Just when Huang Lin was planning to share the news that Fang Xingjian had completed his job transition successfully, an instructor walked in and said, "Headmaster, Fang Xingjian is battling on the arena with Kaunitz."

"What? What are they trying to pull?" Headmaster's brows furrowed.

Rebecca spoke up, "Kaunitz is a sensible fellow, it's impossible for him to be the one to take the initiative to bully someone else. It must be that Fang Xingjian provoked him. But the academy's rules are such that one cannot intentionally cripple or seriously injure another in the battle arena. Master Huang Lin, there's no need for you to worry. At most, Kaunitz will just give him a small warning, and won't do much to him."

"Haha!" Huang Lin could not help but break out in laughter. "Are you sure it'll be Kaunitz who'll be teaching Fang Xingjian a lesson?"

Rebecca's brows furrowed. Although she was slightly doubtful seeing the other party's attitude, she still said, "Isn't it true? Fang Xingjian failed his job transition and isn't even able to perform Reduced Force Field. As such, how could an ordinary person like him be able to pit against a Knight who has actually gone through the first transition?"

Huang Lin only looked at her and laughed coldly, "Then how about this. You feel that Kaunitz is the most talented one in this batch, but if Fang Xingjian won against him, it would prove that Fang Xingjian is better. Headmaster…" He looked towards the Headmaster and said, "How about regardless of who wins, we'll put the winner's name in this year's slot for the Empire's Divine Weapon? Anyway, none of those in this batch has an Empire's Divine Weapon yet."

Empire's Divine Weapons. They were superb weapons forged by the Empire's Weaponry for powerful Warriors. They were legendary weapons which could communicate with ether particles, and which could display extraordinary powers.

However, such weapons needed to be specially designed and manufactured, and one would have to expend an immense amount of resources in order to make them. Usually, only one student recommended by each academy would be able to enjoy this privilege, and usually there would to be only one or two slots for this. It was extremely precious.

Although Rebecca was suspicious of Huang Lin's attitude, she only nodded and said, "That's how it should be."

Seeing that both of them had agreed, the Headmaster did not object, but said, "Both Kaunitz and Fang Xingjian are extremely talented, their generation's most exceptional students. If we have to decide on who in this batch is deserving of the Empire's Divine Weapon, we should definitely choose from the two of them."

"Then it's decided." Huang Lin smiled, heading out. "Let's go take a look at their battle."

Rebecca frowned, thinking to herself, 'What does this old chap mean? Could it be that he really thinks that Fang Xingjian will be able to defeat Kaunitz even though he has yet to complete the first transition? Impossible. It's definitely impossible.'

The Headmaster also stood up and smiled at Rebecca, "Then let's go. Let's go and have a look at their battle."

All of them were powerful Knights and Conferred Knights who had gone through either their first or second transition. Even if they took small steps, their speed would still be exceptional. In but a moment's time, they had reached the battle arena.

Both Fang Xingjian and Kaunitz were standing on the arena.

Kaunitz looked at Fang Xingjian and said, "Today, we'll battle it out. I'll let everyone know… Who is this Prefectural Selection's true genius…"

Fang Xingjian said with indifference, "Shut your trap, you…"

After Fang Xingjian said the word 'you', Kaunitz's expression suddenly changed. The air was split open and a loud cry pierced the atmosphere. He only felt a raging wind blowing towards him, and black shadows appeared before him, as if all light had instantly been blocked by something.

"speak…"

With a loud boom, as if everything was being played in slow motion, one could see Kaunitz's mouth open a little bit at a time, his pupils contracting. Fang Xingjian's right fist landed on his stomach, even making his back bend outwards.

"too…"

Kaunitz's body flew backwards from the heavy blow, his Reduced Force Field bouncing out unconsciously in all directions. Countless air explosions were released, and a series of invisible shockwaves flashed through the air. It was an anomaly which appeared only when air currents flowed at extremely high speeds.

But no matter how the Reduced Force Field was sent out, no matter how many explosions it created, Fang Xingjian was like a rock, freely allowing the force field to put pressure on his body, yet not being affected at all, as if it was merely a breeze blowing at him.

"much…"

It was as if Fang Xingjian's right hand had transcended the boundaries of time and space. With over 70 points of agility and the specialty to allow him over 2.4 times his usual movement and action speed, his right arm had entirely become a series of blurred images. Just when Kaunitz had been punched once and had flown back over ten centimeters, Fang Xingjian's right arm had already moved slightly, and once again grabbed onto Kaunitz's head.

"crap…"

When he finished his sentence with 'you speak too much crap', Fang Xingjian's fingers were already fixed on Kaunitz's brain like steel bars. The latter's pupils were still contracting, and he had yet to react to the first punch in his stomach, which Fang Xingjian had hit with his powerful right arm, when Fang Xingjian started dragging Kaunitz by the head and smashing him into the ground.

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Chapter 63 Battle

Kaunitz's body was still flying backwards from the effects of the previous punch, when Fang Xingjian grabbed his head and smashed it to the ground with brute force.

His head was facing downwards and his body upwards. His whole body seemed to have been stretched a little in that instant. He gave out a horrible cry, and at the next moment, his whole face had already smashed onto the surface with great impact.

With a boom, his head crashed against the ground. Under Fang Xingjian's raging strength, his head split the ground open. And when rocks and sand were sent flying, Fang Xingjian sank Kaunitz's head into the ground.

Fang Xingjian released a breath, feeling exhilarated. Seeing that Kaunitz was still trembling non-stop, he took a step forward and once again stepped down on Kaunitz's head when he attempted to lift it up, sending it back into the ground.

At that moment, Fang Xingjian seemed to be extremely wild and unrestrained. However, his mind was extremely calm. With the circulation of the Ice Age Meditation Art, his brain controlled each of his movements as if he were a robot. Kaunitz's every single move, the tremble of each muscle, each bone, were all within Fang Xingjian's control.

And along with him stepping on Kaunitz, Fang Xingjian only felt that his heart had reached a state of understanding, where his mind was very calm and relaxed. On the Stats Window, the Ice Age Meditation Arts' experience was increasing at a never seen before speed.

"It'll level up after a few more times." Fang Xingjian smiled, twisting his right foot on the back of Kaunitz's head once again. He immediately felt much better.

"Ahhh!" Kaunitz's eyes were bloodshot. Fang Xingjian had not thought of killing or crippling him, since it was against the academy's rules. Therefore, not only was Kaunitz not seriously injured, he was still quite clear-minded due to his remarkable physique.

But it was because of this that he was now even more furious. His eyes were that one would think that blood would be dripping out any moment now. He opened his mouth to release an infuriated roar, wanting to say, "Ahh! I'm going to kill you!"

However, it was merely a 'thought'. In fact, he had been unable to speak a single word, since the moment Kaunitz opened his mouth to let out a bellow, Fang Xingjian exerted strength on his leg, sinking his head even deeper into the soil, thus filling his mouth with soil and rendering him unable to speak with the only option of making muffled sounds.

'Fang Xingjian!' Kaunitz bellowed in his heart, his emotions of fury almost blasting his chest apart. All of his energy suddenly erupted, and four blurred shadows suddenly flashed behind him. It was his job Six Armed Asura's technique, which could form four additional arms with ether particles.

Once the four arms were formed, they immediately drew out the longswords at Kaunitz's waist. Together with his two arms, they traced a series of flashing sword webs, caging in towards Fang Xingjian.

The Six Armed Asura's newly formed ether particle arms each had the same strength and speed as the practitioner's own arms. At that moment, it was as if there were six Kaunitzs attacking Fang Xingjian at the same time, each of them displaying different sword techniques, forming layers of sword webs and caging in from all directions. It was well worth it to have the job ranked first in killing out of the seventeen jobs offered in the academy.

Sword light flashed, but under the illumination from the series of silver colored light, Fang Xingjian was left unfazed. He even had the spare energy to differentiate the six sword techniques Kaunitz was displaying with his High Agility Motion Vision.

The next moment, Fang Xingjian drew his sword.

With a crisp clank. No, it actually was six clanks which had merged into one because of his extraordinary speed. Everyone present could feel a series of silver colored sword lights piercing through the air and setting it alight. In an instant, the six longswords in Kaunitz's hands were all sent flying.

Kaunitz was panic-stricken. His head was under Fang Xingjian's foot, and he could not see anything at all when he felt that the longswords in his hands had all been sent flying. However, he reacted immediately, grabbing the six longswords with the Reduced Force Field and thrusting them towards Fang Xingjian once again.

However, his full power physical attack was knocked away by Fang Xingjian in one hit. Moreover, they were both using Reduced Force Field, so it resulted in a series of noises of weapons dropping onto the floor. Kaunitz still intended to fight back when he felt an extremely violent force as heavy as a mountain pushing down on him, coming from the other party's foot, as if Fang Xingjian was trying to crush his head.

At that moment, the rage in his eyes was replaced by complete and utter fury. He dared not attack anymore, his limbs trembling and convulsing because of the excruciating unimaginable pain.

Fang Xingjian's movements had truly been too quick. So much so that most people below the arena had not been able to see them clearly. After a series of explosive booms, black shadows, and flashing silver lights, they suddenly saw Fang Xingjian stepping on Kaunitz, the latter unable to move.

He had not only been fully overpowered by Fang Xingjian in terms of attributes, but all his movements had been obstructed by Fang Xingjian's, while the latter was circulating the Ice Age Meditation Art. He simply had no chance to fight back in the least.

At the same time, only two emotions, rage and calm, remained in Fang Xingjian's consciousness, making him feel calm and at ease at the same time.

It was as if his skin could feel the movement of each slight breeze in the surroundings, as if the sole of his foot was able to grasp each hint of struggle from all of Kaunitz's body. His mind was clear like never before. The Ice Age Meditation Art seemed to be circulating at its maximum speed right now.

Barbara was agape, making lifeless cries of ahh ahhh ahhh, as if she was unable to accept what was happening right in front of her eyes.

Zhou Yong and Carter, watched what was happening on the arena in a daze. When they saw Fang Xingjian's cold gaze sweeping over, a murderous aura came raining down, as if a tub of ice cold water was being poured down on them, freezing them over. The two of them let out a cry and retreated, not daring to have any further eye contact with Fang Xingjian.

Some ladies even simply turned their heads, not having the heart to see Kaunitz's terrible state.

Jack and Anthony were equally astonished as they looked at this scene. They had thought Fang Xingjian might be able to win, but they never would have considered the possibility of him having such a clear-cut win.

This did not look like a battle, but rather like a one-sided crushing.

Especially after seeing the brutal and ruthless side of Fang Xingjian in the arena, which was a far cry from the usually calm guy they knew.

Jack broke out in laughter, "Alright! This Kaunitz deserves a thrashing!"

Anthony felt astonished, "Xingjian usually looks so calm. To think that his temper is actually so bad!"

Robert froze. Looking at how Kaunitz, the person who had defeated him, had suffered an instant knockout, his mind turned blank.

Hogan's expression when looking at Fang Xingjian in the arena was similarly astonished. The latter did not show any signs of having failed the job transition. His speed was so fast that it actually matched the descriptions in the rumors.

On the other end, Dick gave out a surprised cry. He was recalling the speed that Fang Xingjian had earlier displayed, a speed so swift that it was against common sense. He stared straight at Fang Xingjian, his voice was so sharp and piercing that he could barely believe it himself.

"Fang… Fang Xingjian.. You've completed the job transition successfully? You transitioned into the Windstorm Sword Hero? How could this be?"

With a boom, the crowd below regained their senses, and it was as if oil had erupted in a metal wok. Amidst the commotion, everyone's gazes were fixed on Fang Xingjian in the arena, looking at him as though they were looking at a monster. They were all waiting for Fang Xingjian's reply.

"That's right, I've already…"

"You little b*stard, let go of your leg!" A thunderous bellow resounded, and a piercing aura ray of clashing lightning and fire flew towards him as it cut through the air, slashing towards Fang Xingjian.

Before the sword Qi had arrived, the high temperature in the air had already made Fang Xingjian's hair turn slightly curled, the trickles of electric currents making his four limbs feel slightly numb.

Fang Xingjian's expression turned grim, and stepping heavily with both his legs, he made Kaunitz's head under his feet give out a crisp crackling sound as he was knocked out for good. Smoke and dust shooting up into the sky from the ground layers, as if they had exploded, Fang Xingjian appearing ten meters away in an instant.

However, that lightning and fire infused sword Qi did not miss. Instead, it made a turn and continued to chase in Fang Xingjian's direction.

At that moment, another series of slashes cut through the air, clashing with the lightning and fire infused sword Qi. After a series of explosions, the two cancelled each other out.

Huang Lin's cold voice rang out, "Attempting to kill my disciple… Do you want to die?"

A dignified white-haired middle-aged lady dressed luxuriously dashed into the arena, looking at Kaunitz in concern. When she realized that he had only suffered some skull cracks and fractures and that he had not died, she let out a sigh of relief.

However, when she heard Huang Lin's voice, she immediately let out a piercing scream.

"Old chap, look at the good thing your disciple has done. To think that he wanted to kill a Knight from the same batch as him in the battle arena! According to the academy's regulations, the tendons to his four limbs should be destroyed and he should be chased out of the academy." She had a savage expression, revealing raging and violent killing intent.

Looking at Rebecca, her figure merged with the image of Li Shuanghua in his mind. They were both old, they both sided with people they were closer to even though they were at fault, and they were both similarly vicious.

His experience in the Demonic City once again flooded his mind, burning in his eyes.

Fang Xingjian smiled angrily and said, "If I'd wanted to kill him, he'd have long died a few hundred times. Moreover, who are you? What right do you have to be making irresponsible remarks here?"

While he spoke, his heart turned increasingly cold and increasingly calm. In his mind, he kept contemplating Rebecca's performance and that prowess of the lightning and fire infused sword Qi from earlier, simulating what he ought to do if they were to engage in a battle.

"You shameless scum!! Shameless scum!!" Rebecca trembled in anger, pointing towards Fang Xingjian, saying, "Headmaster, take a look! Take a look! This is our Prefectural Champion for this batch? This person not only does not show respect to his teachers and seniors, he even stomps on his classmates! Such a dirty pig who goes against reasoning is fit to be the Prefectural Champion?"

Huang Lin smiled coldly, looking at Rebecca, at the same time drawing his long black metal sword slowly, and saying, "Shut your trap. If you had not suddenly attacked, how would Kaunitz have been hurt by my disciple's stomping? Moreover, he is a super genius who has successfully transitioned into a Windstorm Sword Hero. Do you think that you have the right to drive him out of the academy? Old hag, don't think I dare not kill you just because you're old!"

With that, the metal sword in Huang Lin's hand swept horizontally, slicing towards Rebecca.

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Chapter 64 Fervent

As Huang Lin's sword swept out, his longsword seemed to instantly transcend time and space, as a towering, incomparably sharp sword Qi soared to the skies, giving everyone a horrifying feeling, as if the edge of a blade had just stroked past their faces.

Rebecca, who was bearing the brunt of the attack, suffered the greatest pressure. She could only feel that her Reduced Force Field seemed to be slashed apart by Huang Lin. Letting out a shout of terror, she frantically started retreating.

As she retreated, sword Qis with the nature of thunder and fire shot out of her fingers and zoomed towards Huang Lin's longsword.

But as the Qis of thunder and fire hit Huang Ling's sword with the force of a bazooka, they were slashed apart like tofu and then dissipated. Huang Lin had used a single slash to scatter the eighteen streams of sword Qis of thunder and fire, his sword's tip stopping less than one meter away from Rebecca's forehead.

Abject terror filling her eyes. It was only at this moment that she recalled Huang Lin's identity. He was a level 25 Sword Master who had completed the second transition, a Conferred Knight with the job 'Heaven Slaughtering Greatsword', an asura who had once killed over ten thousand enemies in a battlefield.

Her entire strength violently erupted. Her stats, with over 100 points in strength, agility, and flexibility, blew up like a bomb. The attributes which she had slowly accumulated through her daily sword technique practice over the decades, the heavenly ingredients and earthly treasures she had taken daily for her meals, the strong physique she had built up from the resources resulting in her body building up over the years… Even Knights who had recently passed their second transition would barely be her match.

But despite the eruption of her over 100 points in strength, speed, and flexibility attributes, she was still unable to escape from Huang Lin's deathly attack.

She saw the sword's tip inching closer and closer, shortening the distance between the two of them. Just as it was about to pierce into her forehead, a spotlessly white palm, akin to jade, appeared all of a sudden, its fingers pinching the edge of Huang Lin's sword, and countering his attack.

Saved, Rebecca could only feel cold perspiration drenching her entire body. Seeing the Headmaster blocking Huang Lin's sword for her, the previous terror and despair she had on her face immediately transformed into an anger so intense that it soared to the heavens.

An ear-piercing shriek escaped from her throat as she hysterically screamed, "HUANG LIN, YOU… HOW DARE YOU?" She pointed to Huang Lin as she screamed, "YOU WANT TO KILL ME? BECAUSE OF THIS LITTLE BASTARD, YOU ACTUALLY WANTED TO KILL ME?!"

"Aren't you still alive?" Huang Lin gave a cold laugh. With a shake of the sword in his hand, he withdrew his sword from the Headmaster's grasp.

The Headmaster smiled bitterly and said, "Alright. Although there may be some friction between the both of you, is there really a need to face each other with swords?"

"BUT HE WANTED TO KILL ME!" Rebecca continued screaming, her gaze filled with enmity as she stared at Huang Lin and Fang Xingjian. "To publicly try and kill a Knight conferred by the Empire! He is revolting! Huang Lin, just you wait. I will report this to the Knight's Association, I'm going to cripple you of your sword skills and send you to prison, and make you live in the most disgusting and dirty shit hole for all of your life!

"And you!" She turned and glared at Fang Xingjian, ruthlessly cursing, "Little bastard, I'll make you kneel and kowtow to Kaunitz! I'll make you his slave forever!"

Fang Xingjian glared at her, the killing intent in his eyes circulating continuously. He had already marked this old hag as a target that he would certainly kill.

"Hmm?" Beside him, Huang Lin also had his eyes opened, and it seemed as if boundless sword light was circulating in his eyes. He took another step forward, sending gushes of killing intent as consistent as material objects towards Rebecca.

Rebecca let out a cry, dodging, and then grabbed Kaunitz as she retreated far into the distance. In several blinks' time she was already several meters away.

Her resentful voice echoed like the owl or ghosts in the depths of the mountains, echoed.

"The two of you… Remember... This… this matter… is not over!..."

Looking at the fleeing Rebecca, Huang Lin laughed coldly. "Trash. It's no wonder she is still unable to complete her second transition despite her being in her seventies or eighties." He then turned towards Fang Xingjian and said, "However, although such old freak have yet to second transition, they have spent too much time at the peak of the first transition. With their age, and with their access to an inexhaustible amount of resources, they've raised their attributes to an extremely high level. You have just completed your first transition and still aren't their match.

"However, with your talent as a Windstorm Sword Hero, just give it a year of two and then killing them will be as easy as killing dogs."

Fang Xingjian seriously listened as he nodded, "Your disciple understands."

Seeing how the master-disciple pair's conversation was brimming with killing intent, the Headmaster, standing at the side could only laugh bitterly yet again. "The two of you… really know how to bring me trouble. Don't tell me you guys really intend to kill Rebecca?"

Huang Lin coldly stated, "This kind of trash is merely a small hurdle my disciple met on his path. She's nothing to be concerned with even in a few years' time, but if she doesn't keep herself in check, I will immediately slaughter my way to the Tresia Clan."

The Headmaster was helpless with Huang Lin's temper, and could only turn his head to look at Fang Xingjian, talking to him in an amiable manner. "Fang Xingjian, you… have really completed your job transition and have become a Windstorm Sword Hero?" As he said this, excitement could be seem gleaming in his eyes.

The instructors, teachers and students at the side also curiously turned their heads in their direction. When Huang Lin and Rebecca had crossed blows earlier, their attention had already been drawn to that direction. However, how could they dare to come closer when two experts were in combat.

Now that the battle was over, after hearing the Headmaster's question, everyone turned to look at Fang Xingjian.

Fang Xingjian smiled slightly. Suddenly, his legs turned blurry as he said, "It was a success., I'm already a Windstorm Sword Hero."

Seeing how his legs had become blurry, everyone's expressions immediately turned serious.

Over 70% of those in the crowd could not see clearly which leg had Fang Xingjian moved earlier.

The Headmaster laughed uproariously. To think that such a rare job like the Windstorm Sword Hero had actually appeared in the Prefectural Selection this time around. This was undoubtedly the highlight of his career. Even his Majesty in the Imperial Capital would surely give him great praises for his teachings.

The quick witted instructors all quickly stepped forward, fawning, "Congratulations, Headmaster! After over ten years or careful nurturing of the students in a bid to strengthen and boost Kirst's martial arts, you've finally came across a heaven-defying genius like Fang Xingjian, and groomed him into a Windstorm Sword Hero!"

"Windstorm Sword Hero is only the beginning. Based on Fang Xingjian's talent, after ten to twenty years, he will definitely be at the Divine level. At that moment, both Headmaster and Master Huang Lin will be the teachers of a Divine level practitioner, and all of us could also bask in the light."

"Yeah, since our academy has been founded over two hundred years ago, not a single Divine level powerhouse has appeared. The Headmaster is truly the first one to have such success as a master of a generation, having students all over the world."

Bootlicking after bootlicking followed. The previous disdain, contempt and pity in their eyes when they looked at Fang Xingjian had now transformed into envy, admiration and passion.

After all, they were not idiots. How could they deliberately choose to go against a Windstorm Sword Hero, someone who could become a Divine level powerhouse in the future?

To them, people like Rebecca who did not know any better were simply people who had turned into idiots from their martial arts practice.

Although some bootlickers were too obvious, the Headmaster and Huang Lin listened to them and accepted them all. The Headmaster in particular showed an extremely good mood, with a perpetual smile on his face.

The Headmaster calmly said, "Enough, enough! All of you can take your leave first." He then glanced at Fang Xingjian, looking at him as though he was a precious treasure, and said, "Xingjian, follow me. You are a Windstorm Sword Hero and naturally we must place more emphasis on your training from now on. We'll discuss and plan for your next steps together.

"Hmmm, I remember that the Windstorm Sword Hero has the specialty of increasing one's action and movement speed? It's just perfect that the Kirst City Lord has over tens of Wind Hawks. I'll get him to gift a few to you to eat, for you to nourish your body."

Hearing the Headmaster's words, everyone in the crowd gulped. The Wind Hawks reared by the City Lord were extremely ferocious beasts, with levels as high as 20. They were the City Lord's most treasured pets.

But to think that with just that one word from the Headmaster, he would need to give them up as nourishment for Fang Xingjian!

The envious gazes from the crowd sent to Fang Xingjian instantly intensified by ten times.

But there was no choice. This was a Windstorm Sword Hero. The Windstorm Sword Hero which, in the entire course of history of the Empire, was only successfully transitioned into by three individuals; and all three of them had eventually become Divine level experts.

But now, finally, there was a fourth.

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