Yun Che arrived at Class Nine's classroom and was surprised to discover that, besides Ruan Caocao, the eleven students who had accompanied him to the Wuxia Mountains that day were also there.
They were not whispering among themselves. They seemed genuinely interested in hearing his lecture.
Yun Che did not mind how many students attended. However many came, he would teach as he always did.
Of course, he still had to take what he could. Not one of them would get away.
"Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained 4 experience points." "Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained one snuff bottle." "Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained a low-grade cultivation art, the Soft Water Art." "Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained 5 Spirit points." "Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained one First-Rank Disguise Pill." "Ding! Congratulations! Divine Fortune's Turn has triggered. You have gained an opportunity to select an item yourself." [Target: Zhang Wuji] [Available items: low-grade Martial Root, low-grade cultivation art Golden Wind Art, low-grade movement technique Burst Step, 8 Strength points, 15 Endurance points, 10 Constitution points, 5 Spirit points, supreme-grade combat technique Golden Bell Shield (incomplete), pills... copper coins...] [Number of selections: 1]
Yun Che's expression shifted in surprise. He had thought triggering Divine Fortune's Turn on a student would inevitably waste the opportunity.
Who would have thought this boy named Zhang Wuji had enjoyed a fortuitous encounter of his own? He actually possessed an incomplete supreme-grade combat technique. Incredible!
Could Divine Hand's mechanism, which automatically raised acquired cultivation arts and combat techniques to perfection, also restore this supreme-grade combat technique? If it could, I'd really hit the jackpot this time.
Without much hesitation, Yun Che selected the Golden Bell Shield.
"Ding! Acquisition successful. Congratulations! You obtained the supreme-grade combat technique Golden Bell Shield (incomplete)."
A few breaths after acquiring the Golden Bell Shield, the corners of Yun Che's mouth began to rise. He could not suppress his smile. He simply could not.
His guess had been right. Divine Hand really could restore incomplete cultivation arts. This time, he had struck it rich.
A supreme-grade combat technique was something even the Great Yuan Empire's imperial family might not possess, yet he now had full mastery of two. He was practically luck incarnate, blessed with heaven-defying fortune!
What delighted Yun Che most was that, after obtaining the perfected supreme-grade Golden Bell Shield, his Strength, Endurance, and Constitution had each increased by 200 points.
His base Attack alone now reached 745 points, while most martial artists at the peak of the innate realm only had around 600.
In other words, despite having only just broken through to the early innate realm, he was already invincible below the grandmaster realm.
And that was without using the Radiant Annihilation Sword or any combat techniques. He was a veritable tyrannosaurus in human form.
My base Defense is now 888, and my HP is 6,900. After switching to the level-one Fistmaster class, Order Annihilator, I can also gain additional damage equal to ten percent of my combined Defense and HP.
This seems like an especially nasty way to catch someone off guard. When they assume my swordsmanship is my strongest asset, putting down my sword will let me unleash even more terrifying power.
The only slight regret is that Order Annihilator is a Fistmaster class, so I can't use conventional weapons to add damage.
Still, some people seem to have obtained rather obscure Fistmaster-exclusive gauntlets. Equipping those can increase Attack too. They're just far too rare and difficult to find.
In those few moments, Yun Che settled on a modest goal: find a pair of Fistmaster-exclusive gauntlets.
By the end of the lesson, Yun Che was in a wonderful mood, and the students had listened in rapt fascination. The student named Zhang Wuji had even entered a state of enlightenment, breaking through the bottleneck that had held him at the peak of the body tempering realm right there on the spot.
His face filled with gratitude, Zhang Wuji hurried up to Yun Che and bowed deeply.
"Thank you, Instructor Yun. Without you, someone with my Martial Root would have needed at least several more years to break through to the acquired realm."
Yun Che smiled faintly and encouraged him. "Diligence can make up for shortcomings. As cultivators, we must work hard, because diligent people, you see, are more diligent than people who aren't diligent. Whatever grade your Martial Root may be, the first requirement is that you mustn't be lazy. Keep cultivating. I believe you'll become a powerful expert capable of standing on your own someday."
After swallowing that dose of toxic motivation, Zhang Wuji and the others all had shining eyes. Their respect for Yun Che rose another notch.
Who said academic instructors were useless people merely collecting a paycheck? Just look at their Instructor Yun. One lesson from him had sent someone into enlightenment and made him break through on the spot.
Even the martial instructors might not be capable of such a feat. More importantly, Instructor Yun never held anything back in his lectures. That was why they respected him so deeply.
It seemed that, in Instructor Yun's eyes, the key principles of those cultivation arts and combat techniques were not particularly precious. He simply explained them for his students to study and comprehend. That was all.
The only person present who had not been dazed by his toxic pep talk was the adorably naive, well-behaved Ruan Caocao, who was already used to it.
A trace of confusion appeared in her eyes as she murmured, "Diligent people really are more diligent than people who aren't diligent! Why do I feel like Instructor Yun just said something useless?"
As soon as she finished, she hurriedly covered her little mouth, inwardly scolding herself for speaking about Instructor Yun that way. Instructor Yun certainly was not someone who would say something so pointless.
Before long, news that Class Nine's Instructor Yun Che had brought a student into enlightenment and helped him break through during a single lesson spread rapidly throughout Falling Moon Academy.
Some were shocked, some were doubtful, and some shook their heads and laughed in disbelief. Others resolved to sit in on the next lesson in Class Nine's classroom.
These were mostly veteran students who had been stuck at the brink of a breakthrough for years. They longed to advance and refused to miss any opportunity, even one that sounded somewhat absurd.
In Class Five, Yun Jin heard his classmates praising his younger brother, and displeasure and disbelief immediately flashed in his eyes.
"That's impossible. I know my brother. With his comprehension, he struggles to understand even low-grade cultivation arts. How could he explain cultivation arts and combat techniques to anyone else? There must be some mistake. Either that, or it was just a coincidence."
The classmate beside him shrugged. "I'm not sure about that, but everyone's talking about it now, and the stories are getting more incredible by the minute. Some say Instructor Yun's every utterance is priceless, every word a sacred teaching. Everything he explains is either the true essence of a cultivation art or the profound principles of a combat technique. They're practically making him out to be a Martial Arts Grandmaster."
Yun Jin curled his lip. Someone with a mere low-grade Martial Root, whose naturally weak and narrow meridians prevented him from advancing beyond the middle body tempering realm, deserved to be called a Martial Arts Grandmaster? Then surely he himself was a King of Martial Arts. Ridiculous.
It was still early, so Yun Che decided to visit the other classes and acquire something from their acquired realm instructors and students. Though his combat strength was already considerable, he remained far below a king realm expert.
"The revolution has yet to succeed. I must keep working hard!"
"Experience points! I need experience points!"
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