Inheritance

After the annoying person left, things at home got better again.

Jiang Ding hugged his sword with both hands, comfortably rolling over on the sofa with his eyes narrowed.

"Brother, I'm hungry!"

Jiang Yuan declared with complete confidence.

"Put all the vegetables in the fridge. We're ordering takeout today, my treat. Budget: three hundred." Jiang Ding opened his eyes. Takeout was strictly regulated these days, with no hygiene concerns, so customs had changed accordingly.

It was just expensive.

Any service involving human labor was never cheap.

"Ah!"

Jiang Yuan screamed.

Lin Wanqiu looked over in surprise as well.

"I made a small fortune today."

Jiang Ding took three thousand yuan from his pouch and counted it. He then sent screenshots of his chat with a Rainbow Cloud Pharmaceutical technician on the library app to the Happy Peaceful Family group chat, and told them about finding Purple Spirit Grass in the flowerbed.

"Such good luck!" Lin Wanqiu said delightedly.

Jiang Yuan, swift of hand and quick of eye, immediately opened her phone to place an order. Cola, chicken wings, and burgers were piled on, then she added the things Jiang Ding and Lin Wanqiu liked.

Thump!

Jiang Ding knocked her on the head. Before she could angrily strike back, he tossed her a thousand yuan.

"A reward for you."

"Ah! Thank you, Brother." Jiang Yuan's eyes gleamed. She had originally wanted to scratch Jiang Ding, but instead threw her arms around him and kissed him, smearing his face with saliva.

"This is for Mom."

Jiang Ding shoved her away in disgust and split off another thousand yuan.

"Thank you, Ding Ding!"

Lin Wanqiu said with a smile.

The first and second periods in the morning were for the Moral Character exam.

This posed no difficulty for Jiang Ding. His pen moved as though guided by the gods; upon seeing the questions, he instinctively wrote the answers: Immortal Sect Law Book One: Knowledge Law, the first confidentiality regulations, application problems, and so on. He finished within an hour.

After carefully checking several times, Jiang Ding chose to hand in his paper and use the time he had saved to practice swordsmanship.

A wave of envious gazes came from all around him.

It was not exactly showing off. Everyone knew he had been specially admitted because of his exceptionally high Moral Character Score.

"Student Jiang Ding, wait a moment."

His homeroom teacher, Guo Kui, stopped Jiang Ding. He sent a text asking another teacher to come help proctor, then quickly walked out of the classroom.

"You've advanced to the Inner Qi Realm, haven't you? Let's go to the school library."

The two spoke as they walked.

"Yes, Teacher," Jiang Ding said softly.

Even Hua Bing and Wu Tianli could easily see through his cultivation. His homeroom teacher naturally needed no mention.

The two soon arrived at the school library. Under Guo Kui's lead, they entered a spacious, brightly lit classroom. In the middle stood a simply arranged desk and several stools.

Other than that, there were seven or eight extremely conspicuous surveillance cameras.

They looked somewhat out of place. The Immortal Sect's technology could easily make cameras the size of rice grains, with even better functions. Something so broad and heavy seemed far too ancient.

"Sit." Guo Kui pointed at the camera overhead. "Do you know what these represent?"

"Inheritance."

Jiang Ding answered calmly, the aura of a top Moral Character student naturally spreading from him.

"For ten thousand years, the collision and fusion of the non-spiritual and the supernatural has subjected the Immortal Sect to countless trials. At least three times, its entire territory fell, and it nearly faced the extinction of its whole people. That is why it places such particular importance on orderly inheritance at the grassroots level."

"In fact, many instances of Internal Strife did occur throughout history. Some high-level cultivators, especially elderly cultivators with no hope on the Dao Path, became especially obsessed with things like the glorious continuation of their Lineage bloodlines."

"Yet with only an advantage in resources, how could a single family name compete against the geniuses and outstanding figures of an entire region?"

"The best choice was to directly sever that region's inheritance. Personal powers such as Lineages and sects could then naturally occupy a position of dominance."

"After several civil wars that affected the entire Immortal Sect, the Immortal Sect established strict inheritance regulations."

"Inner Qi Realm warriors already count as members of the most basic rank of soldiers. They have already stepped into the Immortal Sect's sequence of rights and obligations, and a thread of the Central Array Spirit Computer's utterly insignificant attention has begun to watch this place."

"To ensure that the Immortal Sect's most basic inheritance proceeds strictly."

A trace of complexity appeared on Guo Kui's face.

"Very good."

As an elderly cultivator who likewise had no road ahead on the Dao Path and no hope of Foundation Establishment, he had spent these years paving the way for his descendants. At this moment, he could not say that he had no chaotic thoughts of his own.

"The Inner Qi Realm inheritance is simple. There are only two branches: line infantry and Reconnaissance Infantry."

Guo Kui reined in his slightly stirred emotions and slowly spoke.

"Line infantry can accumulate military merit up to the rank of company or platoon officer in a Class C legion. Their weapons include Heavy Machine Guns, some grenade launchers, mortars, and other ground firepower. At school, however, you only need to learn Heavy Machine Guns, and the exams are only related to that."

"Reconnaissance Infantry have the same promotion limit. Their equipment includes reconnaissance camouflage capable of blocking some divine sense searches and some Spirit Particle Radar scans, Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifles, and so on. They are required to survive and fight alone in the wilderness, obtaining the intelligence their corps needs."

"Correspondingly, the martial arts they need to study emphasize different things. Line infantry must learn the Vajra Seal to stabilize Heavy Machine Guns, while Reconnaissance Infantry must learn the Minor Breath Concealment Technique."

"As for scores, line infantry are easier to pass. Their lower limit is high, their upper limit is not low, and they are relatively safe among the crowd. Reconnaissance Infantry have a low lower limit, a high upper limit, and a high danger rating."

"Which do you choose? You may discuss it with your family. You only need to decide within a week."

"No need."

Jiang Ding shook his head. "I choose the Reconnaissance Infantry specialization."

If this had been before, he might still have hesitated. Now, there was no need. He spent all year in a state of exploring another world, without comrades. The Reconnaissance Infantry specialization was naturally suited to him.

"Fine. I'll report it for you. Teacher Zhang Dingjun will also be notified on the cultivation class side."

Guo Kui said nothing more. A boy of this age had confidence and pride, making him difficult to persuade. "Within one month, you will still have one chance to change specializations. If you find yourself unsuited to Reconnaissance Infantry training, remember not to miss the deadline."

"Thank you, Teacher."

Jiang Ding rose and took his leave.

After leaving the school library, he found that only twenty minutes had passed during their conversation. Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then headed toward the cultivation room.

The door opened.

Within the empty cultivation room was still a half-open emerald wooden palm. Resting upon it was a pill that flickered with faint radiance: a low-grade mortal-tier pill called the Ginseng Flower Qi Stabilizing Pill. It could replenish the vital essence within an Inner Qi Realm warrior's body, making it easier to generate inner qi.

It was not that pills which directly increased inner qi did not exist. Such pills, which brutally raised cultivation, would damage one's potential. Once detected by the cultivation room's array spirit, a student's cultivation class score would immediately be reduced to zero.

To young warriors, such pills were no different from poison.

The Ginseng Flower Qi Stabilizing Pill continued the Immortal Sect education system's style of providing pills: low cost, passing effectiveness.

It was roughly equivalent to half the effect of the Essence Qi Marrow Transformation Pill he had taken in the Bone Refining Realm. He also needed to strictly follow the pill instructions to expel trace amounts of Pill Toxin, lest it affect a young warrior's potential.

If the cultivation room's array spirit detected residual Pill Toxin in the body, it would refuse to provide pills.

The little pale-blue figure before him began to move. Arrows within its meridians moved in an orderly yet complex pattern, weaving into a net through the ten largest meridians of the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian.

Swallow the Ginseng Flower Qi Stabilizing Pill

A streak of bright silver light appeared, then began to dance. Sword light scattered throughout the cultivation room, strengthened by the circulation of inner qi. The air was sliced into utter disarray, and sword shadows filled the room.