Nine Wonders (I)

Chapter 16: 16. Nine Wonders (I)

"Magnetic Field Martial Arts..." Ning Rongrong continued asking, embracing the honest spirit of asking whenever she did not understand, "What are Magnetic Field Martial Arts?"

Ning Rongrong discovered an astonishing fact: ever since she came into contact with Blue Tyrant Academy, she had gone from someone with extensive knowledge to someone with very little knowledge, like a country bumpkin who had never been to the city. Even though she hated this feeling, she had no choice but to endure it, because she really was like a country bumpkin who had never been to the city.

If she wanted to change this fact, she had only one choice: embarrass herself.

Either embarrass herself once in public.

Or embarrass herself once in front of someone.

Knowledge was expensive. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Self-Created Soul Skill, the Distraction Control Soul Technique, had never been passed down to outsiders, and the Clear Sky Sect's Great Sumeru Hammer had never been passed down to outsiders either. The two new systems possessed by Blue Tyrant Academy were even more valuable than Self-Created Soul Skills. Even though she only wanted to learn a little so she would no longer be ignorant, knowledge was not something she could understand simply because she wanted to!

In the eyes of many people, Gold Soul Coins ranked first.

However, that ranking was incorrect.

The correct ranking should be strength, knowledge, resources, and Gold Soul Coins. This ranking applied not only to ordinary people, but to Soul Masters as well.

Money was not omnipotent.

Money could only solve ninety-nine percent of problems.

However, the remaining one percent of problems that money could not solve were the true difficulties, the difficulties capable of affecting the balance of the world.

Therefore, rather than being mocked by others like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, she might as well embarrass herself in front of Ye Qingcang, the founder. Given Ye Qingcang's status and achievements, when he had created Stellar Martial Arts and the Soul Tool System and then popularized those two new systems at Blue Tyrant Academy, there must have been more people who did not understand them than she did now. They must have looked even more like country bumpkins than she did now. Ye Qingcang had probably long since grown accustomed to a situation where everyone except himself was a country bumpkin, so he would not take it to heart.

Besides, even if he did take it to heart, being mocked by Ye Qingcang would still be better than being mocked by others. It was like receiving guidance from a Titled Douluo and from Yu Xiaogang at the same time. You would only think that the Titled Douluo was guiding you, while Yu Xiaogang was merely making random comments, because Yu Xiaogang was only rank twenty-nine. Expecting someone at rank twenty-nine to understand the worldview of rank ninety was clearly unrealistic.

A rank-twenty-nine person could only comprehend the world seen by a rank-ninety person through one method—reading the notes left behind by that rank-ninety Titled Douluo!

Even so, they still could not comprehend it completely!

Because not every Titled Douluo wrote notes!

Ning Rongrong was very clever.

From the very beginning, she had lowered her expectations to below zero.

As long as I hold no hope, any result will be good news to me.

However, Ye Qingcang was not as stingy as Ning Rongrong imagined. If someone could comprehend his Stellar Martial Arts from only a few words, he would not be angry. Instead, he would be delighted, because that would mean he had found a fellow cultivator with whom he could discuss the Dao. All interesting ideas were born from collisions between minds; they could not be comprehended through closed-door self-reflection. Even with the Stellar Martial Arts he had created himself, he had consulted the classics left behind by various sages during its creation. In the end, he had decided to combine the Buddhist School's concept of "one flower, one world," the Taoist School's concept of embracing all things, and the School of Miscellaneous Thinkers' concept of learning from others' strengths and compensating for one's weaknesses, using scientific thinking to create it dialectically.

A fellow cultivator who could discuss the Dao with him was indeed rare.

Not to mention that something like a "path" existed to be walked from the moment it was created.

As a pathfinder, if a rising star could inherit the authority he had forged a path with, it would only ignite his fighting spirit and make him swear to return to first place.

That kind of healthy competition was precisely what he wanted to see.

However, explaining Magnetic Field Martial Arts to Ning Rongrong was a problem. Ning Rongrong could not observe molecules, so it was almost impossible for her to understand his words. "Magnetic Field Martial Arts, as the name implies, is a system and path centered around magnetic fields. If you have seen magnets or lodestones, you should have observed the attractive and repulsive forces between them. Magnetic fields are more complicated than attractive and repulsive forces, but the basic principles are similar. You can understand it this way—the martial artist who sets foot on the path of Magnetic Field Martial Arts is a magnet, while the world is another enormous magnet. Under the acceleration of a weak magnetic force, the two magnets can snap together, or be sent flying far apart with a snap. When magnetic force forms a field and the magnet is accelerated again and again, it gives one of the magnets enormous kinetic energy and destructive power."

"..." Ning Rongrong's face was full of question marks.

"..." Yu Xiaogang, who prided himself on being Grandmaster, also remained silent.

"..." Tang San and the others understood even less.

Although they had all seen magnets, they truly could not imagine how much momentum and power could be produced when two magnets collided or repelled one another.

Wasn't it just a snap?

Perhaps they could crush a sheet of paper.

Could they really crush an apple, a plate, or even a steel ball?

Ye Qingcang was also helpless.

These people had no concept of magnetic force at all.

If he used a "Gauss Rifle" or something else as an example, they would understand even less.

He could only avoid the topic.

He continued to roll his "Nine Sons of the Dragon" bracelet between his fingers.

Before long, he passed through the park area of Blue Tyrant Academy closest to the school gate. He nodded in response to the students who were dating in the park and, upon accidentally seeing him, hurriedly stood up to bow and greet him. He did not disturb those young people in the throes of love. Passing straight through the park, he arrived before a perfectly straight road ten kilometers long—that was, ten thousand meters long.

Ye Qingcang himself did not notice anything unusual.

But his figure looked entirely different in the eyes of the Shrek group. It was not that there was anything wrong with that familiar back, but on both sides of the ten-thousand-meter road before it, more than a hundred trees of different species, appearances, and ages offered up their flowers at a speed visible to the naked eye the moment Ye Qingcang stopped. Some were crimson, resembling sparks; some were dazzling white, like falling snow; some were black as ink and filled the air with a deep fragrance; and some were as elegant as water, resembling crystal. At a glance, flowers bloomed everywhere, each competing to display its beauty, as if welcoming Ye Qingcang's arrival in the most enthusiastic manner possible!

If those trees had been flowering from the beginning, the Shrek group would not have been so astonished. They might have immersed themselves in the beautiful scene, because the romance of flowers raining from the sky could strike not only a young girl's heart, but also make anyone with a normal sense of beauty stop and watch. But if the trees had not been flowering from the beginning, and then bloomed the moment Ye Qingcang stood there, this wonder was even more astonishing than a sky full of flowers. It left them speechless!

As mentioned before, the Soul Master system was twisted.

Plant-type Soul Masters could stimulate the growth of plants.

The prerequisite was that the plants had to be of the same species.

Embracing her precious spirit of honesty, Ning Rongrong finally recovered after being rendered speechless for a moment. The first thing she did upon regaining her senses was ask enviously, "What... is this?"

Flowers filled the sky, and a hundred trees welcomed him.

She truly could not find a suitable description.

If she asked Ye Qingcang what this rain of flowers was, she would realize the contradiction in her own question without waiting for his answer: You already said it's a rain of flowers filling the sky, so why are you asking what it is?

Isn't it simply a rain of flowers filling the sky?

That question is no different from not asking at all!

Therefore, after thinking for a long while, Ning Rongrong could only ask in such a wordless manner.

Fortunately, Ye Qingcang understood what Ning Rongrong meant.

"Flower Path." Ye Qingcang lifted his foot and stepped onto the ten-thousand-meter road, which had been scattered with various petals in only a moment. "Blue Tyrant Academy has nine wonders: Flower Path, Pavilion in Water, Edge of the Sky, and Corner of the Earth are the first four; Boulder Beach, Tomb of Ten Thousand Weapons, Heaven Burning Peak, Peach Blossom Forest, and White Bone Marsh are the latter five. Every wonder is part of Blue Tyrant Academy's deepest foundation. Take Flower Path, for example. There are eighteen True Meaning Trees planted by me along Flower Path. The remaining hundred or so True Meaning Trees were planted by other students who comprehended true meaning. Sword intent is the most common, accounting for roughly one-fifth. The students of Blue Tyrant Academy can enter Flower Path by paying academic credits and choose the true meaning they like to comprehend. This is also one way for tree planters like us to have academic credits added to our accounts without doing missions..."