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Chapter 311: Bradley Udler
"Holy crap, there are so many systems in this world?" Ning was surprised. "I seriously thought the Energy system was the only one all around."
Ning tried to look into more of the information but soon realized how incredibly expensive how any information about the different systems was.
"Well, at least given the number, we can guess there have been tens and thousands of systems at least. I wonder how they make the systems," Ning wondered.
"Oh, then that means there are more system owners right? How many are there on this planet?" Eleonora asked.
"Hmm, let me see," Ning said and filtered the information in the interface.
His heart bled when he spent nearly a month's worth of energy on a single piece of information.
'I'm not buying anymore,' he thought to himself.
"Hmm, it says there are… 3 people in total with a system on this planet. It says they are alive, so I'm guessing we will meet them soon if they grow," Ning said.
"Oh, that's fine. Also, you look like you're in pain, what's wrong?" she asked.
"Oh… I just used quite a few months' worths of energy for that 3 bits of information," Ning said.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked those questions," Eleonora said.
"Oh, it's fine. At least I learned something from—"
BANG
Ning heard the door shut from far away and a man came running inside. It was a man who seemed to be in his 40s.
He had black hair streaked with white ones and had a circular face similar to Eleonora and Ender.
"Father?" Eleonora got shocked seeing her father in a rush. She looked behind him and saw that her brother was missing.
She started having a bad feeling about it.
"Father, what's going on?" she asked hastily with a worried voice. Ning was a little worried seeing the man's face too.
"Ely, hurry. You need to—"
The man turned his head and saw Ning. His eyes turned wide for a second before returning back to his daughter.
"Who's he?" he asked.
"He's a teacher from the academy," she replied. "What's going on?"
"Oh, Oh right! Quickly run away. You need to hide somewhere right now. Use that concealing artifact of yours quick," he said.
"Please explain what's happening, father," Eleonora was getting more and more worried.
"No time to explain he's—"
Suddenly, a divine sense spread throughout the whole house and it reached them.
The man's face suddenly turned from worried to happy and he started smiling with a calm expression.
"— here. Young nephew Bradley is here to meet us, daughter," he said calmly.
Eleonora finally realized what was happening and her mood turned sour. She scowled at her father, who was all smiles now.
"Come, greet nephew Bradley," the father said and brought her along.
Eleonora waved behind her to gesture Ning to follow her. Ning stood up and slowly walked behind them.
"Yes, brother Bradley. Of course, it's tiresome, but it's also fun. You should try joining the academy, you will definitely not be bored," Ender said as he entered the house.
"No, making tools for myself is beneath me. As the heir to the Udler house, It is only correct of me to have people that can make stuff for me, little brother."
"You are the heir to your house too. Remember, if you ever want to be successful, you need to have people working for you," the man named Bradley said.
Ning could finally see Bradley fully for who he really was. Bradley was a guy that looked like a young man in his 20s. He had golden blonde hair combed behind him, a not so muscular body, and a very pompous look on his face.
The look, however, changed to delight when he saw Eleonora's face.
"Ah, there you are, sister Ely. I didn't think I would meet you here," Bradley said.
"What are you doing here?" Eleonora asked with a very rude attitude, but it seemed the man was used to it by now.
"Oh, you know. I was on my way to the capital after I heard about the massacre in the ceremony this afternoon. But then, I got the message that my father was alive and well, so I didn't need to go there anymore."
"Poor Gray though, I heard his father died today," Bradley said with an almost sad face. "Well, by the time I realized my travel there was unnecessary, I decided to come to visit the city. And look who I meet on the street?"
Ender and his father made apologetic faces.
"Then, I asked if I could visit here, and it just so happened that you were here, Sister Ely," Bradley said with a smile.
"We are glad to have you, Nephew Bradley," the father said.
"Hmm," Bradley said and finally saw Ning standing a few distances away.
"Who's he? A servant?" Bradley asked.
"Ah, this is…" the father tried to introduce, but he realized too late that he too didn't recognize Ning.
Ender finally saw Ning too and was surprised. "Bro— I mean, teacher?" he asked.
"Hey, brother Ender. You can call me brother too," Ning said then he looked towards the father and Bradley.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Rigot, Mr. Udler. I am… Jackie Chan. I'm a teacher at the Five Professions academy," Ning said.
Ender looked at him weirdly but didn't try to correct him or anything. Eleonora on the other hand needed to contain herself from busting out laughing.
"A teacher huh? What star are you? I assume it's gold like Sister Ely's," Bradley said.
"Oh, of course not. I could never hope to reach Teacher Eleonora's level. I'm still a silver starred teacher," Ning said.
"Hmm… so you're not even a gold-ranked huh? Seriously, why does that academy even bother keeping anything other than gold-ranked in their staff? It's just a waste of money to keep anything less," Bradley said with a scoff.
"Anyway, let's go talk, Sister Ely. I heard your academy was under attack, and I needed to make sure you are okay," Bradley said.
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Chapter 312: News
"Teacher Ning, why are you lying about your name?" Ender whispered while they were moving towards the living.
"I have some circumstances that need me to keep my name hidden," Ning said.
"Oh, and also, why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in the ceremony?" he asked.
"I left early," Ning said with a smile.
"Oh, thank god you did. I hear quite a large massacre took place in the ceremony afterward. The crown prince tried to forcefully take the throne and was killed," Ender said.
"You haven't heard anything else?" Ning asked in surprise.
"Umm… no? That's all father told me from what he was reported," Ender said. "He was about to tell me more, but…" Ender turned towards Bradley and hinted that they were interrupted.
Ning understood and smiled.
Bradley reached the living room first and said, "Oh wow, look at your servants, prepping snacks for me before I even arrived. At least you are doing something right, uncle."
"Come, Sister Ely. I have a lot to talk about with you," he said and sat in the very middle of the seat.
'No wonder the father tried to send her away. He's just so… annoying,' Ning thought.
"By the way, how is business going, Nephew Bradley?" the father asked.
"It's fine. I don't know what we are doing, but it only seems to grow," Bradley said. "Anyway, Sister Ely. When are you leaving that Academy?"
Ember Rigot sighed when he saw his one attempt to distract Bradley away from his daughter didn't work.
"I'm not leaving the academy. It's one of the best places in the entire empire, nay the entire continent. Why would I leave such a place?" Eleonora asked angrily.
"But… it's just a school to make workers. You don't need to do that. You are the lady of a… house. If you were to become the lady of a bigger house in the future, you could easily afford to employ those people. You don't need to waste time learning and teaching. Let the others do that," Bradley said.
Ember and Ender got a little scared when they heard that and slowly turned to look towards Eleonora.
They knew for ages that she was very into making artifacts and no one could get her to stop making them. She would even get extremely angry if someone tried to stop her.
Knowing all of that, they started to fear for Bradley's life.
Eleonora didn't get angry, however. Instead, she gave a mocking smile and asked, "If I'm wasting my time learning and teaching, then what would you say is a good use of my time?"
"You should cultivate and become strong. That way, if there is ever a time you get attacked like in the academy, you can easily defeat the attackers."
"Look at me, I'm already at Nascent Soul 4th realm, and I did it just at the age of 400 years. I'm one of the youngest ones in the Empire to reach this level of cultivation base so early."
"You are so young and already in the 1st Nascent Soul realm at just around 300 years. If you go into closed cultivation for a few years, or even a century, you will surely come out around the same cultivation base as me," Bradley said.
Ning chuckled lightly from the side. 'So he thinks she's weak, huh? Has she not revealed her cultivation base outside of that one time she threatened me?' Ning wondered. However, he stopped when he realized something the man had just said.
'Wait, Singeer said that too… but that doesn't make sense,' Ning thought.
"Teacher Eleonora, are you really not even 300 years old?" Ning asked.
"Hey, don't butt into our conversation, silver," Bradley said.
Eleonora looked to the side confused and said, "Yes, I will be 3 centuries old in a few years. Why?"
Ning fell silent for a while and answered, "I'm more than 500 years old by now."
"Hah, so old and still at the 1st realm of Nascent Soul. No wonder you are still only a silver. You can't reach up to Sister Ely's position in a lifetime," Bradley said while shaking his head.
Ely ignored Bradley for a second and focused on why Ning was surprised. But then she realized.
"Wait… but we should have been—"
"Stop speaking," Bradley suddenly said. "My father is trying to communicate with me."
He took out his talisman, regardless of what the people around were saying, and started talking into his talisman.
"We'll talk about this later," Ning said.
"I said SHUT IT, silver," Bradley shouted. Then, he focused on the talisman while speaking loudly.
"Yes, father. Yes. No, I didn't return. I instead came to uncle Ember's house— Yes, Broken Soul city. Haha, Sister Ely is here too, so I was quite lucky. Oh, you will? Sure."
Then he put down the talisman.
"My father says he wants to come here, Uncle," Bradley said.
"Oh, Brother Tyander is coming? That's a surprise. Although I expected him to stay back at the Capital due to what had happened," Ember said.
"Sigh, I guess my old man is scared that there might be something else happening there again soon. Also, he says that Prince Kindley's coronation date has been set for a week later from today, so he will need to stay close by to return there in time," Bradley said.
"Huh? Wait, what? The Emperor is giving up the throne so soon? I thought he could go on for many years," Eleonora said as she had been the only one to not hear anything about today's events. "Also, wait Prince Kindley? But the crown prince is prince Badel."
"Oh right, due to nephew Bradley's arrival I forgot to give you the important news from today," Ember said.
"Apparently, in today's medal giving ceremony, the crown prince attacked the emperor with all of his people. This included the Emperor's shadow guard, normal guards, and even some family head."
"Wait, a coup?" Eleonora asked.
"Yes, but an unsuccessful one. They would have succeeded if not for the person from your academy that was there to take the medal. They say he singlehandedly killed everyone in the coup, just like he did with the intruders in the academy," Ember said.
"This teacher named Ning Ruogong."
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Ender looked towards Ning in shock, but Ning acted like it was nothing.
Eleonora sneakily looked towards Ning too but didn't bring any attention towards him. She now understood why he had decided to lie about his name.
"I hear he is very strong. He should be a gold starred teacher in your academy, right sister Ely ?" Bradley asked.
"Uh… his and my department are different, so I've never come across him before," Eleonora said.
Ender was surprised why his sister was even lying. She was not the type to go along with another person's lie. She hated liars the most after all.
"Can you tell me more about what happened, father," she asked.
"Oh right, more news has come out than we expected. Apparently, the Gassain family weren't traitors or rebels by themselves. They were instead forced to be so because of the crown prince."
"He killed their heir and then perpetrated the whole thing to bring their downfall," Ember said.
Ning was surprised. 'So easily the information gets twisted so become something else,' he thought.
Badel had indeed planned it all to bring the downfall of the Gassain family, but it was never his intention to make them a traitor and rebels. That was something that happened because of his impulsive decision.
Ning decided to not speak on it, however. He could change the facts here, but there were thousands of people out there that knew the wrong info already, and he couldn't change it all.
Ember and Bradley spoke some more on what happened while Eleonora spoke a bit in between while looking towards Ning in shock from time to time.
Ender however couldn't keep his eyes off of Ning while he heard what his seniors said.
Eleonora looked outside and said, "Oh, it's dark already. We should go into our quarters now. It's been a long day today."
She stood up. "Ender, come show brother Bradley to the guest room. I will show teacher N— Jackie the other guest room," Eleonora said.
"Oh, Ender can show silver his room," Bradley said.
"Ender is shy around teachers. He won't do a good host around him. He will do better around you brother Bradley, Good night," Eleonora said and left.
Ning nodded towards the rest of the people and left as well.
Eleonora walked off to a different section of the manor and entered a room. "Come, this is where you should stay today," she said.
Ning walked inside and nodded. "Not bad," he said.
"Oh, you've seen better?" she asked.
"The Royal Palace hotel in the Golden Moon city was better," Ning said.
"Oh, right. You stayed there. I forgot," she said. "Was it all true? What they said?"
"Some of it was exaggerated, but the main crux of the matter was true," Ning said.
"Wow, you saved the country from two different threats. I'm surprised the Emperor didn't gift you another Medal of Honor," Eleonora said.
"I don't think the Emperor's mind was there at all. After all, he had just been crippled by his own son," Ning said.
Eleonora gasped. "The Emperor is crippled? Why did that information not get out?" she asked in shock.
"I don't know. Maybe they told the people not to," Ning said. "Anyway, let's focus on something more important."
"Wait," Eleonora said and brought out a rather large, oval-shaped artifact from her storage bag.
She dropped it onto the ground and suddenly it opened up to reveal 5 20 centimeters rods inside that flew out around them.
Then, the carving on the bottom of the plate where the rods previously stood started shining.
Suddenly, a blue film of light appeared around them touching the 5 flying rods, making a perimeter around them.
"Okay done. Say what you were about to say," she said.
"No, we need to talk about this first. What the hell is this?" he asked.
"Oh, this? This is my own little contraption. Its… a formation setter," she said.
"A… formation setter? Can you explain a little more?" he asked as he looked around at the flying rods.
"You know how formations work right? You carve the pattern on the rods and the rods have to be placed in a proper place for the formation to work, and if you mess up even a little, it doesn't work at all."
"When you are in a fight or a hurry, you can't set a formation in time, or even if you do, the chances of it failing to work is very high."
"So, I created this little artifact, that sets a formation on its own. At 6th or lower grade formation, the chance of the formation being set is 100%. The chance lowers a bit for 7th and 8th, and drops drastically for 9th."
"I couldn't find a 10th-grade formation, so I couldn't check the accuracy there," she said.
"How does this work?" Ning asked. He was truly fascinated by the weird little artifact.
"It will take some time to explain, and I don't know if you have any understanding about Artifacts to know what I say," Eleonora said.
"Oh, I can just buy some right now— Although, you are right. Let's focus on the important things first," Ning said with an awkward smile.
"We were born during the same generation back on earth, right?" Eleonora asked.
"From what information you have provided, absolutely. But… I came to this planet way before you. I think I was roaming the Southern Continent when you were born," he said.
"Which doesn't make sense given that we died around the same time, so we should be born at the same time," she said.
"Unless… you didn't get born right after you died. Maybe your reincarnation took some time," he said. "I know mine was immediate because that's what my system told me."
"Then… what? Does time move differently for the two of us?" Eleonora asked.
"No, but I do have a theory. I think… when you died, your soul went into the reincarnation cycle… and it stayed there for years," Ning said.
"By the time it was time for you to be born again, over 2 centuries had passed."
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"That's… not a bad theory, I guess," Eleonora said. "Although, I thought the afterlife was… fake. I don't know why I think that though, even when I was reborn."
"I believe its real. Not because I was reincarnated, but because my system said Souls exist and leave a body after they die. I dont think afterlife exists in the same way as heaven and hell do as most people believe, but just as a stationary place where the souls are kept," Ning said.
"Hmm, if what you say happens to be correct, then it would make sense why we were born in different times despite being dead around the same," Elenora said. "So… where do you think the souls go after death?"
"I… let me look it up," Ning said.
"You can look up anything? Don't tell me you have a search engine in there," Eleonora asked with a chuckle.
"Pretty much," Ning said while focusing on the task at hand.
"Wait, seriously? Damn, my system is a joke by comparison then," Eleonora said.
"It can help me find anything aside from information on Energies itself. For example, I can't look up the types of different Energies, or best sources of said energy."
"On that note, soul is a form of energy too. So, the system has nothing on our question," Ning thought and closed the interface.
"Oh, that's disappointing," Eleonora said.
"Yeah, so… uh, are you not leaving?" Ning asked.
"You want me to leave?" Eleonora asked inquisitively.
"I mean, is there something else you want to talk about?" Ning asked.
"Of course! I finally met a person from earth. I want to talk all night long. Tell me, what year you were born in?" Eleonora asked questions after questions.
Ning smiled as the nostalgia of it all got to him too. He asked her some questions too.
The talked for a few hours, telling each other their depressing daily lives, and soon that talk came to an end too.
Then Eleonora started asking about his time on Kumia. Ning laughed and started the tale of his journey from when he met Freya.
He talked about Klavis, and how he foolishly acted as a god. Eleonora laughed hard when she heard how he nearly screwed it all up by not keeping his emotions in check.
Ning found it rude of her to laugh like that, but soon he was laughing at himself too.
He talked about his time in the Scattered Isles and how he became a physician. Then he talked about going to Vilmore, which truly surprised her.
"Wait, there is a planet that you can go to through the northern continent? I would like to visit there someday," Eleonora said.
"Yeah… but, if you go there you can't come back," Ning said. "Its a one way trip mostly."
"Aw, that sucks," she said with a disappointed face. "I don't want to leave my family. Tell me more."
Ning smiled and continued talking about his travels through the southern continent. He told her the beauty, the weirdness and everything in between in the southern continent.
"Wait, my brother was the first person you met in the Central continent?" Eleonora asked.
"Uh… technically not, but you wouldn't be wrong to say that," Ning said. "Now it's your turn, tell me about your life."
Eleonora described her life as well. Compared to Ning's it was simple and boring.
Ever since she was born, she had been different. It took her some time to get accustomed to the language, and once she was, all she did was try and learn stuff from the library to better her knowledge.
The only problem was, her parents were relatively poor at the time, so she couldn't really afford a lot of stuffs. It was only after she started making artifacts and secretly selling it through her father's merchant business did they grow.
Her family was given a noble title from the Emperor and the rest was history. Once the family grew to a sufficient level, they no longer needed her help to grow, and she could finally focus on making stuff for her own.
She started creating new designs and earned points. She got a decent cultivation method from the system and other handy tools.
Unfortunately, it was all for herself and couldn't give it to her brother. If she could, he would probably have a lot higher cultivation base by now.
"I see. I'm quite surprised you got the gold star so fast," Ning said.
"Yeah, my teaching methods were just… different, and it seemed it worked a lot better for the students. So they kept joining more and more," Eleonora said as she shook her head..
"Sigh, anyway. I will be leaving now."
She touched the base plate on the ground and the rods that were flying around them stopped projecting the white film of barrier. They came together and fell onto the plate, which then closed to form the oval artifact once again.
She got up to grab the artifact when suddenly a divine sense entered the room and washed over the two of them.
"Shit!" the two of them said in unison. Suddenly, they could hear a storm brewing outside as the loud footsteps got closer.
"Sigh, this is going to be a problem," Eleonora said.
The door slammed open as the lock on it flew everywhere. "Sister Ely, did this guy force you to stay here all night? Tell me what he did; I will kill him," Bradley shouted loudly.
"Go back brother Bradley, we were just talking," Eleonora said.
"Talking about what? Why was there a formation up such that my divine sense couldn't even enter?" Bradley asked.
"Because it was a secret talk," Eleonora said.
"Secret? With this Silver? That's a lie. From what I can see, you two are having an affair, aren't you?" Bradley loudly asked.
"Yes," Ning said without hesitation.
Eleonora looked back shocked, but then she heard his voice in her head. "Don't worry, I will make sure he leaves you alone."
"You…" Bradley started getting angry. "I demand a duel right now."
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"Duel? You mean actual combat right?" Ning asked.
"Of course. Why? Are you scared?" Bradley asked.
"Sure," Ning said. "But what's the point of this duel? You trying to show that you can beat me only?"
"Of course we will have a bet on it," Bradley said with a hint of confusion on his face. He couldn't understand why this weak guy was so willing to fight him.
Ning's eyes brightened when he heard that. "Alright, let's have a good bet. What's at stake for me?" Ning asked.
"If… If you lose, you will never meet with sister Ely again," Bradley said.
'Damn, why are people so p0ssesive in the Central Continent. First Gonez now him,' he thought.
"Oh, and my thoughts don't count here?" Eleonora looked angrily at Bradley. "Am I a tool you can decide if someone uses or not?"
"N-No, of course not Sister Ely. I was just trying to keep this good for nothing away from you. What do you even see in him in the first place?"
"He's not rich or strong. He's not even as good of a teacher as you," Bradley said.
"Oh, then what? Do you think I should get together with you?" Eleonora asked.
"I- I mean, I… I'm not… uhh… opposed to it, I guess. If you really want to… then I won't stop it," Bradley fumbled his way onto the answer.
"It's okay, my love. I will fight this demon for us," Ning suddenly said from behind.
Eleonora suddenly looked behind at Ning with angry eyes.
Ning winced a little when he saw those eyes. 'Yikes, I went too far.'
He made an apologetic face and looked at Bradley. "Very well, I agree to your bet. But, what about mine?" Ning asked.
"Say what your bet is?" Bradley asked.
"If I win, you will stay away from the Rigot family for at least 300 years," Ning said.
"Sure," Bradley didn't hesitate at all when he agreed. "Come, let's go to the backyard to fight.."
Ning nodded and walked out of the room. Bradley angrily walked off towards the back, while Ning followed behind him.
When he finally reached outside, Ning was surprised.
"Oh, it's morning already?" he said in surprise.
"I guess we might have talked all night long. I didn't notice the time go away," Eleonora said.
Ender and Ember had heard the shouts inside the house and quickly ran out.
"What's going on, sister?" Ender asked.
"Brother Bradley is going to have a duel with… the teacher," Eleonora said.
"Huh? Is he an idiot? Why is he trying to fight with nephew Bradley?" Ember asked.
Both the siblings didn't say anything and instead walked towards the fight.
"What is this about?" Ender asked using his divine sense.
"Bradley thinks teacher Ning and I have an affair, so he challenged teacher Ning to a duel," Eleonora replied.
"What? But he'll die," Ender shouted out loud.
"Right?" Ember said from the side, completely misunderstanding his son's response.
"Uncle Ember, please watch over our fight," Bradley said.
"I'm weaker than you… but sure. Let me be the referee. No killing or crippling and no use of forbidden techniques and items," Ember said.
Ning and Bradley got ready.
"Fight!"
Bradley suddenly ran forward to attack but suddenly, a golden light flashed in front of him.
As soon as the fight started Ning had brought out Aegis. While Aegis' cultivation base wasn't as high as Bradley's, his defense was still top-notch.
Even 5th realm Nascent soul cultivators would find it difficult to hurt him.
Ning took out a chair from his storage bag and put it on the ground before sitting on it with one of his legs on top of the other.
"Just block his attack until he is tired," Ning said and chilled back. All 3 of the Rigot family members were shocked when they saw Ning chill like that.
"Is he trying to kill his beast?" Ember asked. "That's a suicide!"
"Umm… Isn't the beast doing quite well on its own though?" Ender asked.
"It should be fine," Eleonora spoke. "The beast might actually be able to defend it all."
"Why do you say that? Do you see something we don't?" Ember asked.
"No, its cultivation base is indeed Nascent Soul 2nd realm, but…" Eleonora didn't speak and just thought back to the time in the academy when she was protecting the many students and this beast was left behind by Ning to protect them.
'He must've done it because it was good at defense,' Eleonora thought.
Bradley was raging mad right now. "Fight me yourself, you coward. Stop using your beast," Bradley said. "If you don't, then I will destroy this beetle into a million pieces."
However, no matter how much he shouted, Ning acted like he didn't hear anything and just basked in the morning sunlight.
Attack after attack, Bradley threw everything at Ning, but Aegis blocked each and every single one of his attacks.
Bradley was starting to get frustrated.
"Hey, can you hurry up? I got places to be. I can't spend my remaining life sitting here," Ning said.
This just agitated Bradley even more. "You bastard. I will kill you," he shouted and started attacking more and more.
Finally, after a while, Bradley started huffing and slowed down a bit.
Ning looked at Aegis who was doing all the work and asked, "Tired?"
"No," Aegis said as he shook his head.
"Rest anyway. You did good," he said and took back Aegis.
"Haha! Finally. Now that your beast is gone, I can easily beat you," Bradley shouted out loud.
Ning smiled and was about to bring out Blue to mess with him some more when he heard the door to the back of the mansion open up.
A servant opened the door and made the way for a person to walk through. The new man was an older gentleman wearing a greenish-yellow robe with light yellow hair.
"I was wondering why you guys weren't outside to welcome me. Turns out you were all back here."
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"Oh, brother Tyander! You're here. I'm sorry I couldn't go out to get you," Ember said when he saw the new man walk in.
"It's fine, brother Ember. I have two legs and can walk on my own," Tyander said. "Oh, the kids are so big now. Sigh, why do they always grow so quickly."
"Hello, Uncle Tyander."
"Good Morning, Uncle."
Bother Ender and Eleonora respectfully greeted the new arriver, Tyander Udler, head of the Udler family.
"So, what's going on here?" Tyander asked as he looked towards his son who was huffing quite hard. "Some form of morning sport?"
"Oh, I'm not sure either. The kids suddenly started fighting this morning and asked—"
"Brother Bradley requested a duel early in the morning and is now fighting," Eleonora cut her father off and told Tyander what was happening.
"A duel? Why?" Tyander asked as he turned to look at Eleonora once again.
"Uhh… it's better if you ask your son, Uncle," Eleonora said.
"Okay," Tyander said. He then looked over to his son and asked, "Bradley, why are you fighting with—"
Finally, he turned towards Ning and noticed him. Suddenly, he felt as though his world came crashing down, and his worst fear had come to fruition.
Tyander ignored everything and directly walked towards his son. Bradley looked to the side and noticed his father walk up too.
"Huh? When did you come back, father? I will be right there after I beat this as—"
SLAP
The backyard rang when Tyander slapped his son into the ground. "You bastard! Are you trying to kill yourself? Is that what you wish? Come, I will kill you myself!" Tyander said angrily.
"Wh-wha…" Bradley couldn't form any sentences.
"Brother Tyander… why are beating your son?" Ember walked forward, completely befuddled as to what was happening.
Ender had an inkling of what was going on and looked towards his sister who was the main perpetrator here. She knew what would happen, so she purposefully butt into her elder's conversation and forced Tyander to act.
Tyander looked towards Ning and finally spoke. "It's a pleasure to see you here, teacher Ning. I didn't get to thank you back there, so let me take this chance to thank you from the bottom of my heart," Tyander said.
"Saving… you?" Ember looked at Tyander in confusion. Tyander was quite surprised and his face got horrified.
"We-were you trying to keep your identity hidden, teacher Ning. I'm so sorry. I stupidly revealed it," Tyander said.
"It's fine. I wasn't really trying to hide it; I was just not using my name when it wasn't needed," Ning said.
"Thank you for your benevolence, teacher Ning," Tyander bowed towards Ning.
Bradley and Ember were both flabbergasted as to what was happening. Why was the head of the Udler family, one of the strongest families in the Galyra empire bowing his head to a simple teacher?
"Wait, did you say Ning?" Ember suddenly asked. "THE Ning?"
"You really didn't know, brother Ember? This is teacher Ning, the recipient of the Medal of Honor, and person who stopped the coup in the capital yesterday," Tyander said.
Both Bradley and Ember were shocked when they realized who Ning really was.
"So what about the duel?" Eleonora asked from the side.
"Duel?" Tyander asked. "Of course my son loses the duel. There's no way he can beat teacher Ning. Right?"
"I agree," Eleonora said. "Then what about the bet?"
Ember looked at her with a hint of confusion. "What bet? You guys had a bet in this duel?"
"Of course. Brother Bradley bet that he would never come to the Broken Soul city for nearly 200 years if he lost this duel," Eleonora said.
Tyander looked at his son and asked, "Is… is this true? You not only dueled with teacher Ning but also bet with him?"
"I… I didn't know who he was. So I accepted the bet, father. I…" Bradley was starting to get flustered.
"Why did you even duel him in the first place?" Tyander asked.
"Because your son thought that I had an affair with teacher Eleonora, so he came to fight me," Ning said.
"You idiot!" Tyander kicked his son. "Why do you always have to butt in other people's lives? Why are you like this? Are you acting arrogant just because you are an Udler?"
"Bastard! I was the one who worked hard to make this family. All you do is sit around and make the servants do everything. Urghh! I'm getting angry now."
"Leave right now and go back home. You made a bet. Now you will have to be a man and stick to it. Never come to the Broken Soul city for 200 years," Tyander said.
"B-But father, I haven't lost yet," Bradley said.
"What? Do you think you can win just because teacher Ning went easy on you? Do you think you can fight against a dozen of the Emperor's shadow guards like he did?" Tyander asked.
"N-No," Bradley's head drooped.
"Then leave. Fulfill your bet," Tyander demanded.
"Y-Yes, father." Bradley stood up and walked ahead. "Goodbye uncle, brother Ender, sister Ely."
Bradley immediately flew and went away. Whether it be because of his father's fear or Ning's fear, he would forever stick to the bet and not come close to Broken soul city for over 2 centuries.
"Sigh, I let you see something unsightly, teacher Ning," Tyander said.
"It's alright," Ning said.
"Ah, you must be bored from our little father-son squabble. Please, let's go in," Tyander said.
The 5 of them went inside and talked for a bit. Ning answered whatever question he could of the 2 old men and asked some of his own.
Eleonora asked Ning to stay around until the academy started, which he happily accepted. Tyander was quite happy to be around Ning and make a friend of him as well.
The academy had 3 months before it opened back up, but to cultivators, that was but a blink of an eye. Before they knew it, it was time to return back to the Five Professions city and go back to teaching once more.
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Chapter 317: 4th Grade Artifact
Beads of sweat rolled down Ning's face as he put all of his focus on the cauldron in front of him.
The cauldron was different from his Hollow Jade cauldron. It looked much sturdier, was much wider, and had things that didn't look like alchemy ingredients inside.
Instead, the items inside looked like they were molten metal. Ning focused on the metal until he felt that the metals inside were at a certain equilibrium.
He immediately pulled out the liquid metal using his Qi and started forming it into different pieces of separate items.
Once they were all done, he started assembling them. He already had leathers from different beasts prepared as well as wood from a very strong tree.
Before he knew it, he had finished assembling the items. Next, he had to align the newly-formed item's Qi lines to do what he wanted them to do when he poured in Qi to the item.
Not every craft required Qi lines, but most did. Ning touched onto the item and started sending in his Qi to forcefully make new Qi lines. The better the Qi lines, the better the grade of the item would be.
His Qi ran rampant, but in an orderly manner as it entered the metal, leather, and wood. After nearly an hour of concentrating and more beads of sweat, he was finally done.
"Phew!" he wiped off his sweat and looked at the final Artifact he had created. The artifact was a chariot that could fly in the sky at incredible speed.
Unlike other flying artifacts, this one had seats in it for him to just sit down normally, instead of sitting on the ground.
Ning took the chariot outside and started using it. He got onto it and poured in his Qi. Soon, the chariot started hovering, and it started flying away.
"I did it!" he shouted and finally showed a smile on his face when he realized that he had been successful.
He roamed the back of the house for a few minutes and came back down to the backyard.
Eleonora was there waiting for him.
"Oh, he Ely. When did you come out?" he asked.
"Just now. You were in there for about 3 days; I see you've made a new one. What grade did it come out to?" Ely asked.
"4th," Ning said happily.
"Hey, that's not too bad. You can make 4th-grade artifacts in just 3 months, people would be jealous if they find out," she said.
Ning just laughed.
"What grade do you think you could make if you didn't try to learn it all on your own?" Ely asked.
"After a couple of days of practice, I would consistently make 8th or 9th grade, and soon reach 10th grade. Having almost all the knowledge is not that fun honestly," Ning said.
"Well, I wouldn't know. I had to learn most of it on my own," Ely said.
"Yeah, I'm trying to do that too. It's so much more fun. Every little advancement makes me feel like I've grown as an Artifact crafter," Ning said.
"You already know pills and beasts. Now, you are learning Artifacts. Are you going to learn about Formations and Talismans too?" Ely asked with a chuckle.
"Maybe. I do have quite a lot of years that I need to stay here. At the same time, I can't hurry up either. It's very annoying," Ning said.
"How long do you have to stay again?" Ely asked.
"Hmm… let me check," Ning said.
"Status"
[Status
Name: Ning Ruogong
Energy: 168.48 Trillion
Separated Energy-
Heat Energy: 920 Billion
Sound Energy: 22 Billion
Qi Energy: 167.32 Trillion
Kinetic Energy: 218 Billion
Aether Energy: 0
Skill: …]
"Sigh, I need close to 2200 years just to get the body," Ning said. As for the other stuff, I might have to forget about them for a while," Ning said.
"2200 years…that's not possible for even the strongest people to live. Unless one goes into closed cultivation, it should be impossible," Ely said.
"It's fine, I can add a thousand or 2 more years to someone's lifespan by simply giving them the new body cultivation that I will buy soon. In fact, I should look it up right now," Ning said and started checking his interface.
"Oh, it costs about 40 Trillion energy and needs you to be at least a level 37 body cultivator. I don't think neither Hyesi nor Anya and their families are at that level yet," Ning said. "Oh right, here. Take this is a form of payment for letting me stay here for the last 3 months."
Ning took out two talismans and handed them over to Ely. Ely caught it and read it. "These are the cultivation techniques? Ooh, I will gratefully take these. Thank you," Ely said with a chuckle.
"Alright, it's been a while so I will go check up on my disciples and their family. I will go to the academy in about 4 days," Ning said.
"Oh, you're not returning with us?" Ely asked.
"I don't know when I will get the next free time, so I will go now," Ning said. "Goodbye."
He disappeared.
"Shit! That ability always makes me jealous," Ely lightly said. She then looked at the cultivation techniques in her hands and was very surprised.
"Wow, these are much better than I expected. No wonder he is so strong. Once father and brother learn this, we won't have to keep staying low-key anymore," Ely thought.
Finally, Ely decided that it was time for her family to grow, to take on more business ventures, and do riskier things.
She walked back inside and quickly copied the techniques down into 4 more talismans and handed it over to Ember and Ender.
"Ning already went ahead, so we t0o will be going now, father," Ely said and walked outside.
A carriage was waiting for her, but she shook her head. Instead, she brought out a flying boat that could house both her and her brother.
Once the two of them were settled, they said their goodbyes and flew towards the academy.
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Chapter 318: Fame
Ning stopped cultivating. He had returned from the Northern Continent a few ago and had returned to teaching.
He walked out of his underground quarters and made his way out onto the Alchemy wing.
"Hello, teacher Ning," A teacher greeted him.
"Hello," Ning greeted back and went on with his day.
"Good morning, teacher Ning," another teacher greeted him. Ning greeted him back too.
When he finally reached the staff room, most of the teachers turned around to greet him.
Ning sighed on the inside but greeted all of them. He quickly set up his classes for the day and left.
He went to his class and waited for the students to arrive. It was barely a few minutes before the students started coming in.
"Good monring, teacher Ning. How was your day yesterday?" a student asked as she walked in.
"Good morning. My day was fine. How ab—"
"Teacher Ning!! Good morning," another student greeted him.
Ning was about to answer when another student greeted him again. And then another, and another. He was greeted all the way until the final student arrived and there were no more seats in his room for the others.
The students who arrived after the final students could only go back with a disappointed face.
Ning was surprised when he realized that one of the students that couldn't make it to the class was Reya, who just looked saddened as she walked away from the door.
Ning looked at his class and saw that more than half of these students were people he had never seen before. He wanted to ask a student to leave so Reya could come in and learn, but he couldn't play favorites as a teacher.
He sighed and finally spoke up. "Alright, today we will be learning about ingredients with Fire materials in it."
"Let's start with a few examples of Fire materials…"
Ning started teaching for the next 3 hours. He taught the knowledge he knew as well as he could, but he could see many of the students getting bored.
Some even yawned inside the classroom and that made Ning a little annoyed. There were students out there that missed this class because of these people, and yet they weren't paying any attention at all.
For the entirety of the 3 hours of teaching, maybe a thousand out of the 10 thousand students actually paid proper attention. The others were here for something else.
"Alright, any questions?" Ning asked.
Several students, including the bored ones, suddenly raised their hands. Their boredness seemed to have suddenly disappeared as well.
"You," Ning pointed at one of the boys.
"Teacher, is it really true that you are only at the 1st Nascent Soul realm?" someone asked.
"Uhh… yes," Ning said. He was surprised at the question, but perhaps he shouldn't have been. This had been happening for the last 2 days as well.
He pointed at another student.
"They say you turned down the opportunity to become an Emperor, is that true?" the student asked.
"What? Who's spreading such false rumors?" Ning was surprised.
Neither of the students he chose asked any proper questions so he called out one of the students that he remembered were paying attention.
"Can you explain more about this thing you said regarding Firemoss and us not being able to replace it with other ingredients? Is there a reason?" the student asked.
Ning smiled when he finally heard a question related to today's class.
"It's not that Firemoss can't be replaced at all. Do you know the energies found in the Firemoss plant?" Ning asked.
"Yes, Fire and Water," the student answered.
"Yes. You see, fire and water are opposite energies. In most cases, the one that has a higher quantity or quality will usually destroy the other when you mix those together."
"So, when making pills that require you to put water and fire in equal amounts at the same time, you could technically go with 2 different ingredients that have an equal amount of both, but how do you tell if any ingredients have that amount in equal quality or quantity."
"The slightest mistake, which is very much possible, will ruin your entire set of ingredients."
"Firemoss are naturally occurring red plants in the ocean. They gather fire energy while keeping it from going astray with equal water energy. It's the only ingredient in this planet that will always have Fire and Water in equilibrium."
"So, that's why I say it's an irreplaceable ingredient. Understand?" Ning asked.
The student made a face of realization. "Ah, thank you for the explanation, teacher," the student said and sat back down.
Ning smiled and chose another student to ask some questions. "You!"
"Yes!" the student shouted out. "Teacher Ning, how can we become just as strong as you? Is there a secret?"
Ning nearly lost his cool when he heard that question. "I'm not answering any questions that have nothing to with alchemy. If you have such a question, just put your hands down."
More than 80% of the students put down their hands and Ning felt horrible. These students weren't here to study at all.
They were all there to see and talk with the famed teacher Ning who defended the academy and saved the Emperor during the coup. Ning was a celebrity for these people, not a teacher.
This had happened for the last 2 days as well, but it was much greater today. And that made him feel horrible.
"You," he asked one of the remaining hands in the air.
"Um, is there a pill or something that we can eat to get as strong as you?" the student asked.
That was the final straw.
"Alright, class dismissed."
Ning immediately walked out and went out to find Principal Singeer.
The Principal was sitting in the underground looking at some talisman when Ning reached him.
"Oh hey, teacher Ning. Are your classes over?" Singeer asked as he walked in.
Ning walked up to Singeer and said, "Principal, I would like to ask that I be allowed to go into closed cultivation for the next few years."
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Chapter 319: Closed Cultivation
"Umm… is there a reason, teacher Ning? We can't allow teachers to leave their spots for no reason unless they are gold starred or haven't had a free time in years," Singeer said.
Ning sighed and explained everything.
"Ah… I see. That is indeed very… sad," Singeer said. "I didn't expect your popularity to be your one detriment when it came to teaching."
"I would be fine with it if only the ones that actually wanted to study could get a chance to enter too," Ning said.
"I get what you mean. There have been times like this when a teacher suddenly goes up to gold rank, and suddenly everyone comes to see how they teach. Fortunately, those people do care about the teaching, unlike the students going to yours," Singeer said.
"However, I don't think you need to go into closed cultivation for that," Singeer said. "How about you limit your classes to 2 classes every week? That way you can keep teaching and the students will leave you alone."
"Uhh… I'll try I guess," Ning said and returned.
Over the next couple of weeks, Ning lowered his classes to 2 classes a week. Each week he taught one class of Alchemy and one class Beast Masters. Every third week, he also taught one class of Physicians, and one class of Bug Handling.
In this way, he separated his time by teaching very sparingly. Even then, that didn't help at all.
Due to the limited teaching time, the students would use that one day to meet him, and it once again ruined his teaching experience.
'No, I can't let this keep on going,' Ning thought and went up to Singeer once again to confront him.
However, Singeer surprisingly agreed, making Ning very confused.
"Haha, don't look at me like that, teacher Ning. Remember what I said? Gold starred teachers can freely go into closed cultivation. Go and hide by yourself while your fame dies down."
"I'm sure the academy can wait," Singeer said.
"Thank you, principal Singeer," Ning said and left. He went back out and found a few of his students.
He met Reya and gave her a few books to study on her own. She expressed her thoughts about becoming a teacher once she was done graduating from the academy in a decade or so. He told her to do so.
He met Nilo and talked to him for a bit. He learned about how Nilo was very close to finding his cure on his own. Ning smiled and gave him a talisman with the answers so that he could learn what other directions he could've gone to find the cure.
He talked about how he was likely going to be the next Emperor of the empire and should learn about politics while he was at it. Nilo was a little sad about it all, but he accepted that as something he should do.
He was currently alone in the academy since his mother had already returned by his father's side to become the empress of the empire.
He expressed his desire to return back to the Capital once his studies were done and go and become the crown prince he had come to be by fate.
Ning then went to Ender and talked to him for a while. He also gave him some books to learn in his free time.
Ender had the opportunity to learn alchemy with Ning for 3 whole months, so his overall level as an alchemist had gone up by a few notches.
Although it wasn't to the same level as Hyesi or Anya, Ning considered Ender as his Psuedo disciple now.
Ning then went around to the various teachers and students to meet them for a while. He just told them what he was planning to do and they all supported his decision.
Finally, Ning went to Ely. It was getting close to evening time by now, and Ely was in the Artifact wing's staff room.
"Hey," he called out.
"Oh, hi. What's up?" Ely asked.
"So… I am going to a closed cultivation soon," Ning said.
"Oh, for how many months?" Ely asked.
"Um… for a few decades… at least," Ning said.
Ely stopped. The information was too jarring for her brain to understand in a single moment.
"Wait… a few decades? So long?" she asked.
"Yeah, it… just feels like the right thing to do. I need to get stronger as a cultivator and I also need energy. Staying awake for hundreds of years… it just feels dreadful," Ning said.
"We have to do that too," Ely said.
"Haha," Ning chuckled, "it's a little different… in a way. I am immortal, you guys are not. 2000 years is an eternity for a mortal, and a lifetime for a Nascent Soul cultivator."
"But for me, there will come a time when 2000 years will go by in the blink of an eye. There will be times when I will go to sleep during the birth of a child, and wake up when that child is dying of old age. It's… a haunting thought, really," Ning said.
"You're talking about this like you will be gone for centuries," Ely said.
"Haha, I won't. But, it's just that… I'm afraid everyone, everything around here will change when I come back out… and in a sense, this is goodbye for the current world."
"Although, I guess that's the life of an immortal. I will have to say goodbye to things a lot from now on and welcome the changes whether I like it or not."
"So, uh… I will hopefully see you later. Take care," Ning said and turned around to walk away.
"Don't worry about it when you come out," Ely said from behind him. "Even if everything changes, I won't. I will be here for you why you come out."
Ning stopped and looked back before smiling slightly. "Thank you," he said and went back to his room.
Ning properly closed the door and fortified it before sitting down on his bed. He was a little nervous about going into closed cultivation, but he still closed his eyes and breathed. Soon, he was cultivating.
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Chapter 320: A long time.
Over the course of the next few years, Ning continued his closed cultivation. Since the entirely focused on his cultivation, in just a couple of years, he broke through to the next realm.
Once he broke through, he started going into timer-based energy absorption. It was incredibly mentally exhausting to go in and out of the body every single time, but slowly, after a few years, he got used to it.
Once enough time had passed, he left the closed cultivation. He went around the sect, met the old people that were there, and met the new people that were there.
Reya and Nilo had already left the academy, along with many, many of the students Ning knew. Similarly, many others had come to join as well. The world was vast, and there would always be enough students to fill the academy.
Ning's name was remembered, but it wasn't revered as it was during the first few months. When he started back his classes, only students that wanted to study joined it and he was happy.
Also, being a Gold Starred teacher, Ning started helping out the academy by making high-grade pills for them. However, he always made sure that the pills were 8th or 9th grade in quality.
As for 10th grade, it would create chaos, so he kept those for himself. Singeer was pretty happy with just that.
His teaching was great, and he was a gold starred teacher, so soon enough, his past fame caught up to him, and he was starting to get students that only came there because of him.
So, once Ning taught for a few years, he went back into closed cultivation again. His only regret during this time was that he didn't get to meet Ely who had also gone into closed cultivation.
The next time he left was about 2 decades later. Once again, he taught and helped the academy. He looked at the change and accepted it. There were a lot of new teachers and students around him, but he didn't let that bother him.
After a few more years, once he felt it was time, he went into closed cultivation again.
The next one was 30 years long.
Then 50.
Then 80
Then 120.
Then 40.
Then 68.
He went in and out of closed cultivation for a lot of time, and in these times many things changed.
Singeer had died of old age by now. The Principal of the academy was Maeve.
Jezeere had gone into his final closed cultivation wherein he would try to break through to the Spirit Transformation realm or die trying.
He learned the news of the 2nd Gold starred Alchemy teacher in sect dying of old age as well.
On the Beast Masters side, teacher Keng had retired of old age. Gonez was the 2nd best teacher in the whole Wing, behind only Ning.
Ender had at some point graduated as well and left the academy. Ning was quite saddened to hear all of this.
However, there was also good news. Many teachers had joined the academy to teach once again. One of them was Reya who was doing incredibly well and was already a silver starred teacher.
Daisin, one of the best students from his Physician classes had also become an Alchemy teacher that started focussing only on being a physician as well.
Ning learned of Nilo's name being rung about as the next Emperor of the Galyra empire.
Ning taught for a few more years and went back to closed cultivation once more.
However, during all of these years, he kept having that one regret. He never got to meet Ely at all.
"Sigh, let's just go on a long one," he thought and entered his room once more.
Time flew by but Ning felt none of it. With most of his days being spent asleep inside his spear, he couldn't feel the passage of time at all.
He cultivated outside for a while, but after every single breakthrough, he only focused on his energy gathering.
Thanks to this, his body hadn't grown much at all. In total, his body was currently less than 300 years old right now.
If he were to tell people that he reached the 7th Nascent Soul realm in 300 years, people would probably start getting ill out of jealousy.
He had also changed his body cultivation technique by now, and it was incredibly effective. Although, it was so painful that he wanted to get rid of his pain receptors at some points.
However, he realized the problems that could cause and didn't do it. Instead, he just fought against the pain with sheer force and finally jumped the hurdle.
He had also passed along the cultivation technique to Hyesi and Anya and told them not to give it to anyone that wasn't already at the 36th level of Body cultivation, or they would die.
Now that he knew they would live for quite a long time, he freely went back into his energy absorption task with no longer a need to care about anyone, mostly.
He went in and out of the spear so many times that he lost count of it. He couldn't tell if it was day or night, or how many months or years had passed.
His mind was numb to the things he was doing and at one point he started doing it on just simple instinct.
Since he was gathering energy through just Qi, he was also in a way cultivating, and before long, he broke through to the final realm possible on this planet as well.
He could tell, his time on this planet was coming to a close very soon.
Finally, Ning stopped the process. He didn't know how long it had been, but it had been many years for sure.
He decided to no longer do the closed cultivation for a while and instead simply live life a little, after all, there wasn't much longer for him.
So, with that decided, he opened the barricade on his door and walked out.
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