The Academic Overachiever Is Working Hard

Office.

"You're at Kaiyuan fifth level?"

Liu Wenyan held his teacup and looked Su Yu up and down, a bit surprised.

He hadn't sensed it clearly before, but now that his willpower had materialized, it was very obvious when he looked at Su Yu again.

The Nine Apertures of Kaiyuan were invisible and imperceptible to ordinary people, but they, as Civilization Masters, could clearly sense the nine points of light. Su Yu had five points lit, meaning he was at Kaiyuan fifth level.

"Mhm."

Su Yu nodded. "I was still at the fourth level yesterday, but Teacher Bai wrote out the Kaiyuan Jue. After I read it, I felt like I had a complete grasp of the Nine Apertures of Kaiyuan and directly reached the fifth level."

"That's your fortune."

Liu Wenyan didn't doubt him and chuckled, "Bai Feng seems relaxed, but in reality, with his strength, writing the entire Kaiyuan Jue consumed a tremendous amount of willpower. If not for his deep foundation, an ordinary Soaring seventh-level cultivator would have difficulty finishing this cultivation technique."

"In Civilization Academy, instructors don't easily write Willpower Scripts because the willpower consumption is too great, and recovery is difficult. They also need to nurture their Divine Scripts. Under normal circumstances, they are unwilling to deplete their willpower significantly. That's why their courses are very expensive, and the students' merit points compensate them."

After speaking, Liu Wenyan smiled, "Kaiyuan fifth level, it seems your talent in the physical body path is quite good."

"However, the speed of Kaiyuan isn't really that important."

Liu Wenyan truly didn't pay much attention to these details. The Kaiyuan Realm, Kaiyuan geniuses, so what?

Even if you reached Kaiyuan at nine years old, what of it?

The day a Civilization Master materializes, they reach Soaring. That's the huge difference.

"I didn't ask you yesterday, did you kill that guy from the Ten Thousand Races Cult?"

"Mhm."

Su Yu didn't deny it and nodded. In front of Liu Wenyan, he couldn't be bothered to deny it.

"Good, you must act when it's time to act!"

Liu Wenyan chuckled, "You swallowed essence blood, unleashed your power, and killed him, right?"

"Teacher, you can sense that?"

Su Yu was a little surprised.

"Of course, do you think you can hide it from a Civilization Master?"

Liu Wenyan laughed, then became serious, "Your physical body is too weak. The Kaiyuan Realm is not suitable for cultivating by consuming essence blood, nor is it suitable for erupting with power by consuming essence blood. You're messing around!"

"Circumstances dictated action. You were in danger at the time, and we teachers failed to protect you adequately. That's why I can't say anything about you consuming essence blood then."

"But now, you are forbidden from consuming essence blood for cultivation!"

Liu Wenyan said sternly, "Don't rush your cultivation for a moment of speed and ruin your entire life! Essence blood can strengthen the physical body and accelerate cultivation, but you haven't completed Kaiyuan yet. If your Nine Apertures are not open, and essence blood accumulates in your body, do you know how much trouble that will cause?"

"When you reach the day of materialization, if too much essence blood from the Myriad Races has accumulated within your body, then when you forge your body, the essence blood will have resistance, and it will also conflict. It will greatly weaken the strength of your body forging!"

Liu Wenyan's tone was extremely serious, "Remember, you are forbidden from consuming essence blood for cultivation again. Don't keep gambling on a chance; you won't always get away unscathed!"

"Got it!"

Su Yu quickly responded. He didn't actually consume the essence blood himself; it was absorbed by the illustrated book. Only a trace of essence blood aura remained in his body.

Liu Wenyan only sensed this; it actually had no effect on Su Yu at all.

Of course, he didn't need to explain this in detail to Liu Wenyan.

"That's good then!"

Liu Wenyan resumed his smile. "There are still over two months until the academy assessment. You've already been accepted in advance, but that doesn't mean you can slack off for these two months. Bai Feng said you're a genius in Nanyuan, but in Daxia Prefecture, you're just mediocre. That's not wrong."

"But... that was before!"

Liu Wenyan smiled, "Before, I hadn't materialized my willpower, so there were things I couldn't teach you, and matters I couldn't help you with. But now it's different. For the next two months, you will primarily follow me in your cultivation."

Su Yu hesitated, then after thinking for a moment, he whispered, "Teacher, will it just be me?"

"Mhm."

"Teacher... my dad... could he be your long-lost son?"

"..."

Liu Wenyan was almost made to laugh!

"You want to be my grandson? I don't want that!"

Liu Wenyan pointed at him with his finger, and after a while, he chuckled, "You, don't overthink things. In Nanyuan, your talent and Liu Yue's are both good. But Liu Yue has family guidance and help, providing resources, so she's stronger than you now."

"You, on the other hand, have nothing, and your father went to the Battlefields of the Heavens. You've grown up under my watch for these five years in Middle Academy."

"Teacher isn't entirely a completely fair and impartial selfless person. Others in the academy... strictly speaking, their future is limited. You might go further than them, and humanity... needs strong individuals."

Liu Wenyan was blunt. "Because I believe you might become a strong individual in the future, I'm willing to help you more within my capabilities to make your path smoother. Of course, there's a prerequisite: you must be worth my favoritism. If you are rebellious and conceited, teacher will only watch silently and won't say anything more."

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Su Yu expressed his gratitude sincerely.

Over the five years at Nanyuan Middle Academy, Liu Wenyan had provided him with immense help. The learning of Myriad Races languages, mastering eighteen languages, all of this was inseparable from Liu Wenyan's assistance.

For five years, from an ignorant youth to someone about to enter Civilization Academy, Liu Wenyan played a very important role.

"No need to thank me. When you become truly powerful one day, remember... on the battlefield, kill more enemies. That will be the best reward for me!"

Liu Wenyan stood up and changed the subject. "Come with me. Over the next few days, you'll learn a few more languages of the Myriad Races, and your Willpower needs to be improved. You're too weak right now."

Su Yu didn't say anything, silently following Liu Wenyan as they walked out.

Xia Family Merchant Guild.

Storage Room.

Accompanied by the guild manager, the two entered a massive storage room.

Seeing everything inside, Su Yu was stunned.

"Today is the first lesson: corpse identification!"

"This is the Xia Family Merchant Guild's main storage room in Nanyuan. It contains 132 demon corpses, most of which were killed on the Battlefields of the Heavens and dragged back directly without any processing. Your task today is to spend the entire day in here, identifying the corpses!"

Liu Wenyan handed over a small booklet. "Record their data: height, width, weight, number of bones..."

Su Yu was currently dumbfounded, feeling a slight urge to vomit.

The smell of blood was too strong!

Spend a day here?

"Go in. You'll be alone in here today. Of course, don't move these demon race corpses randomly. They are very valuable, and you can't afford to compensate for them."

As Liu Wenyan spoke, he added, "I want to see the data you've recorded tonight. Also, for unknown species, I want to see your own deductions. Even if it's just a guess, you have to write it down for me!"

"Teacher... I'm alone?"

Su Yu looked bitter. It wasn't that he was too scared, exactly.

But in such a large storage room, with such a strong smell of blood, was it appropriate to leave a young man of eighteen all alone?

"Alone!"

Liu Wenyan said calmly, "Can't you even handle this? On the Battlefields of the Heavens, soldiers sometimes have to lie in ambush in piles of corpses for days. If you can't even endure this, you don't need to go to the Battlefields of the Heavens, because you'll just be going there to die."

"I... I understand!"

Su Yu stopped talking. Alone was alone, it was fine. There were many demon race corpses here, some of which he hadn't seen before. He wondered if he could find some of the monsters from his dreams.

"Close the door!"

Liu Wenyan exited the storage room. The next moment, someone from the Xia Family Merchant Guild directly closed the heavy metal door of the storage room.

As soon as the door closed, the manager who hadn't spoken earlier chuckled and said, "Old Liu, is this your disciple?"

"Mm."

Liu Wenyan didn't say much, and the manager didn't ask further. It was obvious.

If he wasn't an incoming disciple, Liu Wenyan wouldn't have paid a great price to have the Xia Family Merchant Guild open its storage room for a student to enter.

The main storage room of the Xia Family Merchant Guild wasn't a place just anyone could access.

"Old Liu, after all, he's a newcomer who hasn't been to the battlefield. He's too young. After a day, I'm afraid he'll have nightmares for days. Should we turn on the lights to make it easier for him?"

It was dark inside, with only a few dim emergency lights providing illumination. In such a setting, the storage room felt even more eerie.

"No need. Civilization Masters often have to deal with corpses. If he can't even get past this hurdle, how can he cope in the future?"

Liu Wenyan said with a smile, "A powerful Civilization Master directly captures gods and demons on the Battlefields of the Heavens and studies them. Since he wants to walk this path, he must learn to get used to it."

The manager smiled and didn't respond. Civilization Master... it was too early to talk about that.

Many people remained stuck in the cultivation stage for their entire lives; not everyone became a Civilization Master.

Capturing gods and demons... How many people in Great Xia Prefecture could achieve that?

Liu Wenyan placed too much importance on this student, and his expectations were too high.

Of course, he couldn't argue with Old Liu's words, as his Willpower had manifested, making him a Civilization Master.

The Xia Family Merchant Guild didn't care much about a newly promoted Civilization Master, but Liu Wenyan had a junior fellow disciple working as a senior researcher at Daxia Civilization Academy, so they had to take it seriously. In any case, he, from the Nanyuan branch, couldn't afford to offend Liu Wenyan.

"This is a Fire Pig, 3.1 meters tall, 7.2 meters long. It's skilled at spewing fire and charging. It's a cannon fodder race on the Battlefields of the Heavens, mainly in the Qianjun Realm..."

Looking at the incredibly tall corpse in front of him, Su Yu began to record.

Liu Wenyan thought he would be scared, disgusted, or terrified. In reality, Su Yu didn't feel it was that terrifying, just a bit pungent. The smell of blood in this storage room was too strong, and he couldn't quite tolerate it.

"As for the weight..."

Su Yu calculated the volume, recalled the density of Fire Pig meat, and the proportion of bones, roughly estimating it to be between 20 and 25 tons!

That's 40,000 to 50,000 jin!

That was the weight of one Fire Pig!

The sheer size and weight were terrifying. Even though Fire Pigs were cannon fodder, a charge from a Qianjun Realm one was still fearsome.

A small team at the Qianjun Realm, if unprepared, could easily be torn apart by a Fire Pig's charge.

"Hmm?"

As he was calculating, Su Yu frowned slightly. The little "Blood" character in his mind was stirring.

"You want to absorb blood?"

Su Yu bared his teeth. "This isn't mine. Even though the vital blood has been refined, the regular blood is still valuable. Stealing other people's things is not good, understand?"

Actually, these corpses had very little blood.

The vital blood had been extracted, leaving not much ordinary blood. Most of it had merged with the vital blood.

But no matter how little, it wasn't his. His teacher brought him here to gain experience. If he took something, Liu Wenyan would be blamed, and that wouldn't do.

"You can actually absorb blood..." Su Yu muttered.

The "Blood" little sibling seemed displeased. It was the "Blood" Divine Script; wasn't absorbing blood normal?

"Can absorbing blood strengthen you?"

Su Yu wasn't sure, but he couldn't absorb the blood here. It would be hard to explain.

"Don't get restless. When I have money later, I'll buy some myself. Ordinary blood isn't very valuable."

Last time, he bought a bottle of ordinary Iron Winged Bird blood for 5,000 yuan, though it wasn't a large quantity.

In reality, if one were to purchase in large quantities, the price wouldn't be high, and there would be significant discounts.

The key was that no one would buy ordinary blood in bulk, unless...

Su Yu's eyes flickered. Vital blood was also refined from ordinary blood. Su Yu couldn't help but mutter, "Little sibling, can you refine vital blood?"

If it could, this would be a way to get rich.

Some Civilization Masters could refine vital blood, and the wage for refining a drop was quite substantial.

A drop of vital blood from a Qianjun Realm expert, the Xia Family Merchant Guild dared to sell it for 50,000!

In reality, the cost was minimal. It was mainly in storage, transportation, and refinement, plus personnel costs.

As for the inherent cost... go to the Battlefields of the Heavens, and for 100,000 yuan, you could have the military bring back dozens or even hundreds of Qianjun Realm demon beasts. Those things were trash on the Battlefields of the Heavens. The soldiers didn't even eat them; there were too many, and they couldn't finish them.

The bulk of the cost was in the later stages: the cost of refining vital blood, the cost of transportation. Transporting Qianjun Realm demon beasts back from the Battlefields of the Heavens wasn't cost-effective unless it was in large quantities; otherwise, even 50,000 would be a loss.

Of course, the military also had Civilization Masters who refined directly on the Battlefields of the Heavens. However, Qianjun Realm ones were generally not very valuable, and Civilization Masters were too lazy to bother.

Su Yu hadn't understood these things well before, but now that he knew about Civilization Masters, he could connect the dots and figure most of it out.

"The Blood Divine Script needs to absorb blood..."

Su Yu sighed. He felt he was going to go bankrupt. If blood could nourish the Divine Script, wouldn't he have to buy it?

He definitely would have to buy it!

Nourishing the Divine Script was very important.

If Willpower wasn't enough, he would use other methods to nourish it. It seemed he would be very short on money in the future.

Su Yu entertained himself alone in the storeroom, examining the corpses, sweating profusely from exhaustion.

These corpses were too heavy. As a Kaiyuan Realm cultivator, he sometimes couldn't even budge them, let alone move them.

Some were piled together, and he had to painstakingly shift them bit by bit just to get a clear view.

After a while, Su Yu was covered in bloodstains, dirty and looking like a blood-soaked person.

The "Blood" Divine Script pulsed even more intensely, as if wanting to come out and absorb blood. Su Yu suppressed it. Did this thing want to get beaten again?

It wasn't until evening that the storeroom door opened, and Su Yu was let out.

Outside the door, Liu Wenyan looked at his dirty appearance and the small booklet filled with dense writing, a smile appearing on his face.

Very good!

He didn't complain or slack off. Very good.

"That's all for today. We'll continue tomorrow. We'll stay here for five days, and then we'll move to a different location."

After speaking, Liu Wenyan paused and then said, "Before, Bai Feng taught you how to try sketching Divine Scripts. Of course, you can't do that yet, but you can try to adapt to it in advance."

"Sketching Divine Scripts consumes a lot of Willpower. There's actually a shortcut: sketching with demon vital blood. Vital blood naturally contains Willpower and Yuan Qi. First, sketch a Divine Script with divine charm externally, then use Willpower to sketch it. This is the normal cultivation method for Civilization Academy students."

"I didn't teach you this before, but I will teach you now. Every five days, you can receive a drop of vital blood suitable for sketching Divine Scripts from me, provided you complete your coursework exceptionally well!"

Su Yu was initially excited, then embarrassed. "Teacher, forget it. I won't use it."

Relying on the academy to reimburse the cost of this vital blood was impossible.

Clearly, Liu Wenyan would have to pay out of his own pocket. Even exchanging it at the academy would cost 1 merit point.

"I said exceptionally well. Do you think I'm giving it to you for free?"

Liu Wenyan said exasperatedly, "Do you think you can complete it easily? Perhaps after two months, you'll be lucky to get one drop. What's 1 merit point to me?"

Su Yu chuckled awkwardly. He wanted to say that he had actually finished the sketch, but with people from the Xia Family Merchant Guild nearby, Su Yu held back.

He'd see. Besides, his teacher was right; he might not be able to complete the task assigned to him.

If it weren't for his habit of being killed in his dreams, he probably wouldn't have been able to handle so many corpses and the strong smell of blood today.

"Let's go. Get some good rest tonight. Your recent tasks are quite demanding, so you can ease up on your Kaiyuan cultivation a bit."

"Mm, I know, Teacher. Don't worry, I won't fall behind."

"..."

After a few exchanges, Su Yu went home while Liu Wenyan returned to the academy.

And so, the days passed one by one.

During the day, Su Yu studied with Liu Wenyan, and at night, he had many tasks. He cultivated Kaiyuan, studied the Kaiyuan Jue, fought in his dreams, and still had to find time to learn the languages of the myriad races.

He had also officially begun studying the bone fragments of the Qianjun Realm. Although he couldn't see them yet, every confrontation of willpower was beneficial for improving his Willpower.

Bai Feng said at most twice a day, but Su Yu... he looked at them at least ten times a day.

He didn't feel anything was wrong with it. After all, his head would ache slightly after each viewing, but it quickly recovered. It was nothing serious.

Su Yu was too busy to deal with the "Blood" character's desire to absorb blood.

For now, he would nurture it with Willpower and experiment slowly when he had more time.

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

The time was now mid-May.