First Day of Skipping Class

"The abnormal fluctuations have disappeared!" Deep Blue's voice suddenly rang out.

Yang Ning didn't reply. Instead, he put down the jade token, took a shower, and then returned to bed with his phone, playing for over an hour until he was yawning uncontrollably before closing his eyes.

"I feel like I'm going to be honed into an Oscar-winning actor sooner or later!" In the Spiritual Realm, Yang Ning sighed and asked, "What kind of fluctuation was it?"

"Similar to the Heavenly Eye of Insight, but with a lower frequency," Deep Blue replied.

Even Golden Core Stage powerhouses like Lin Tianheng had to observe at close range to examine someone's sea of consciousness, which showed how limited the observation range of the Heavenly Eye of Insight might be.

A lower frequency meant a wider observation range.

"I knew someone was peeping!" Yang Ning nodded. Such behavior was normal. After all, this world wasn't safe. Sects had both cooperation and conflict, and sending spies to each other was a common occurrence. The Ascension Academy would naturally care about the purity of new students.

But being monitored like this was still somewhat annoying, especially for someone with many secrets.

"Jade token!" Yang Ning raised his hand and summoned a jade token. Unfortunately, he couldn't materialize Spiritual Energy, so it was just an ordinary jade token.

"I wonder how those software functions are implemented. What programming language do they use? It should be something similar!"

Yang Ning was very interested in this kind of language. He wondered how well the Taiheng Sect's intellectual property protection was. If it was decent, he had countless software ideas that could make him money.

He closed his eyes and entered a meditative state. From the outside, he looked as if he were asleep.

Late at night, the fluctuation occurred several more times, continuing until dawn.

Yang Ning woke up groggily, stretched, then opened the window and took a deep breath of the purple solar energy.

His residence was on the twelfth floor, not low, but compared to the hundred-meter-high dam, it was nothing.

Yet, Yang Ning still gazed intently at the white wall. He knew that beyond the dam lay the vast blue ocean.

"I love the ocean!" Yang Ning said softly.

"I love it too!" Deep Blue nodded.

The ocean indeed contained many elements that brought peace, such as uranium, protium, deuterium, and tritium.

And gold and silver.

Especially after obtaining the Dragon Pearl, entering the ocean felt like coming home.

"Perhaps, my future lies in the ocean?"

Yang Ning put on his school uniform, picked up his jade token, and followed the map's directions. He ate breakfast first and then arrived at the classroom just in time.

It turned out to be a tiered classroom. Using the same Meso-Sumeru technique, the small classroom had over five thousand seats, but only about two thousand people were present.

Among the two thousand people, all were male, of various ages. Unlike Yang Ning who came empty-handed, they carried notebooks and pens.

After finding a seat in the back, Yang Ning noticed that the textbooks were placed on the desks but were fixed in place and couldn't be taken away.

The pages were also exceptionally tough. Yang Ning tugged at them lightly, but they wouldn't budge. Judging by their smooth surfaces, it was clear that they were also inscribed with cleaning, water-repelling, and fire-repelling formations.

Yang Ning looked around again and didn't see Su Bai. Of the people on the same ship, there were only four including himself, and the other three were all book attendants.

This meant that everyone had a different class schedule?

"Ahem, hello everyone!" A young man who looked only in his twenties but coughed like an eighty-year-old entered, holding a book. He placed the book on the podium and said loudly, "We have some new students joining today, so I will reiterate the classroom rules: no talking, no asking questions, and no fidgeting. The books are fixed to the desks and must not be damaged or torn, or you will be fined."

"Furthermore, the textbooks can be copied, but they must not be taken out of the academy or spread outside. Violators will be treated as spies!"

Then, he opened the book and began to read.

That's right, he started reading. Yang Ning quickly found the page he was on and realized that what he was saying was exactly the same as the words written in the book!

Wait, what's the point of you reading like this? Can't I just read the book myself?

Yet, the other students didn't seem to have any complaints, as if they were used to it. They opened their pens and notebooks and were diligently taking notes.

"I remember the school has a library, right?" Yang Ning took out his phone and checked. It did.

Then why not go to the library to copy it? It would be the same.

Yang Ning checked the schedule and understood. There was more than one subject to learn. If all the classes were like today's, there would be quite a lot to copy.

Just copying during the time after class in the library might not be enough.

As for why they weren't printed into booklets, didn't the teacher just say they weren't allowed to spread them!

"I love it, I love it!" Yang Ning didn't have any objections to this. He quite liked this teaching method, especially since he had the Spiritual Realm.

If the teachers just read from the book, he could just read the book himself.

Opening the first page of the book, Yang Ning's expression darkened.

As expected, it was the familiar style of the Vast Universe Records.

Even the Compendium of Materia Medica knew to categorize herbs, but this book didn't categorize minerals and didn't even have a table of contents. One could imagine how perfunctory the compiler of the textbook was.

Forget it, I'll do it myself!

Mineral Identification and Cognition was another massive volume, totaling 1400 pages. Each page introduced 2-3 types of minerals, with some simple ones even listing over ten.

In total, it covered 7420 types of minerals.

Yang Ning had already categorized the minerals when archiving the Vast Universe Records, so he could use that now.

The minerals of the Taiheng Realm were divided into five types: Water Mineral, Metal Mineral, Stone Mineral, and Crystal Mineral. In terms of grade, they were divided into Mortal Mineral and Spirit Mineral.

Distinguishing between mortal minerals and spirit minerals is simple: if spiritual energy is integrated into it, it's a spirit mineral. For example, iron ore is a mortal mineral, while spirit iron is a spirit mineral. Water is a mortal mineral, while spirit water is a spirit mineral.

For the same type of mineral, spirit minerals are tens or even hundreds of times more effective than mortal minerals, and they often possess many incredible effects.

Spirit minerals are also the materials used for forging various spirit artifacts, treasure artifacts, dao artifacts, and even immortal artifacts.

The teacher spoke very quickly, able to read a page of a book in a minute, but Yang Ning's page-turning speed was even faster. After flipping through twice, he even found a way to turn pages without making a sound. Before the class ended, he had already finished reading the book!

""Mineral Identification and Cognition" complete!"

"The next class is "Mineral Blending and Conflict," held in Classroom C 517!"

"Classroom C what? Not going. The teacher never takes attendance anyway!" After class, Yang Ning didn't go to the classroom but headed straight for the library.

He was a habitual truant. If you dared not to take attendance, he dared to skip.

Besides, his photographic memory had already been exposed in the Yue Kingdom, so there was no need to hide it.

Self-deprecation, you see. A genius who was exceptionally talented but loved artifact forging, a genius who had gone down the wrong path. Perfect.

"What a huge library!" Yang Ning knew the library was large when he looked at the map; it occupied an area of 5 mu.

Only after arriving did he realize he had underestimated it, because this library wasn't just one floor!

It was a complex of buildings. The tallest building was the Central Ding Tower, with eighteen floors. Four smaller buildings were attached to the sides of the tower: North, South, East, and West, each 9 stories high, symbolizing the Nine Cauldrons suppressing the Eight Directions.

Four V-shaped angled buildings were attached to the four corners of the Ding Tower, each 12 stories high and 36 meters tall, named Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

Yang Ning took out his phone and opened the library app. The library on the software only had an introduction and a map; it didn't have actual book collections, and it couldn't even search for the location of any book.

However, an introduction was enough. Yang Ning's plan was to move the entire library into his Spiritual Realm within six years, so the location of each book didn't matter!

"Since I'm going to forge artifacts, I'll start with books related to metal!" Yang Ning identified the direction and headed towards the White Tiger Tower.