A Certain Teacher's Illusion

The three women exchanged glances and shook their heads.

Xue Ning looked Wen Xiancheng over, somewhat speechless. "What goes on inside that head of yours? What's so worth experiencing about that?"

Wen Xiancheng was left speechless.

Men's and women's minds really did work differently!

Back before he had transmigrated, when he was in college, he and his Roommate would hole up in their dorm on weekends, furtively watching adult movies from the Island Nation, excited beyond all measure. Even now, the memory made him laugh.

Later, after watching so many of them, always through a screen, his interest had dwindled.

Back then, whenever he heard about Virtual Reality Technology, he would think how blood-pumpingly exciting it would be if that technology were applied to adult movies from the Island Nation!

Yet, right up until he transmigrated, he had never seen society achieve that technological breakthrough.

Waving at Xue Ning and Xue Ruigao, Wen Xiancheng said, "All right, I'm playing the lute to cows! Go do your own things. Cui Qianqian, stay behind. I have something to discuss with you."

Wen Xiancheng had made up his mind: he would complete this arduous task all by himself!

For now, though, he could not create an illusion that lasted very long.

The construction of human figures and the concepts governing their logical existence were far more complicated than those of animals and plants!

Rich facial expressions and bodily movements, combined with different settings, could give rise to millions of meanings!

So he would try starting with something brief!

Cui Qianqian looked at Wen Xiancheng in confusion. "What is it?"

Wen Xiancheng cleared his throat several times. "Cui Qianqian, I know this isn't really appropriate, but could you teach me how to conjure people using illusion arts? And the concepts governing their logical existence? I practice illusion arts too, but compared with you, I'm nowhere close."

Cui Qianqian said, "If it's just teaching you to conjure people and the concepts governing their logical existence, that's fine. But I can't tell you anything beyond that. That knowledge belongs exclusively to my teacher. Without her permission, I can't teach it to others as I please."

Cui Qianqian quietly added, "But you can secretly practice from my notes!"

Wen Xiancheng hurriedly thanked her. "Then shall we start tonight when we get back? Sorry for the trouble!"

Over the next few days, every evening after returning to their lodgings, Wen Xiancheng would take a notebook and a pen into the living room and wait for Cui Qianqian to explain how to conjure realistic human figures using illusion arts.

That course alone took nearly three evenings.

After that came explanations of the concepts governing human figures' logical existence.

Cui Qianqian spent seven evenings explaining this subject, illustrating her points with countless video examples of people.

Seeing how serious Cui Qianqian and Wen Xiancheng were, both Xue Ning and Xue Ruigao could not help sighing in wonder.

Xue Ning, in particular, felt her scalp prickle.

This was the part she hated most!

Even now, she had only a hazy understanding of the concepts governing human figures' logical existence.

No!

It was not just her. In their entire class, the people who had mastered those concepts could be counted on two hands.

And Cui Qianqian was far ahead of all the rest!

That was also one of the reasons she had become closer to Cui Qianqian than anyone else had.

While everyone else thought Cui Qianqian was as fat as a pig, she alone had recognized Cui Qianqian's talent for illusion arts.

Besides, as far as Xue Ning was concerned, what was the point of spending time with beauties?

However pretty they were, how much prettier could they be than her?

Rather than admire them, she might as well admire herself!

And if someone truly was prettier than her, Xue Ning would absolutely choose to keep her distance.

When two people stood together, one was bound to be the red flower and the other the green leaf.

She certainly did not want to be the green leaf that set someone else off!

As for Xue Ruigao, she was not particularly interested in illusion arts either.

She only wanted to help Wen Xiancheng as much as possible.

In fact, she had her own field of cultivation-spearmanship!

She was one of the most outstanding spear practitioners among the Royal Academy's recent cohorts!

Now, seeing the earnest expression on Wen Xiancheng's face, Xue Ruigao broke into a happy smile.

Although Orange's aptitude was a little poor, he had his own determination.

That was a good thing!

As long as he could spend each day happily, her heart could rest easy.

On the morning fifteen days later, Wen Xiancheng yawned and rose from his desk.

After ten days of instruction from Cui Qianqian and another five days of working things out himself, he had finally created a brief illusion featuring a person-

An illusion of Teacher Cang walking in a bikini.

The entire sequence lasted just ten seconds!

Yet even Wen Xiancheng, who had created this brief illusion scene himself, could not quite keep his body from heating up as he watched it.

He sealed the illusion inside a button.

Anyone who touched the words "Teacher Cang" on the button would be drawn into the illusion, which would end only after ten seconds!

His gaze fell on the Mouse Clone, who was leafing through Xiao Xiao's notebook. Then Wen Xiancheng hurried out of the room and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Over those fifteen days, Xiao Xiao had observed quite a few more rat gestures and expressions, adding them to the notebook.

The Mouse Clone had become completely immersed in studying her notes.

Every day, the Mouse Clone used the gestures and language he had learned to communicate with the ten little rats.

Perhaps they could no longer be called little rats; their bodies had grown a size larger.

By now, through continual breakthroughs, the Mouse Clone had become capable of simple everyday communication with the ten rats.

He no longer needed to personally take the ten rats along whenever they went to steal medicinal herbs from the Royal Academy's herb garden.

He only needed to explain clearly using gestures and rat language.

Studying rat gestures and language during this period had given the Mouse Clone a profound appreciation of the significance of language!

With language, so many things became much simpler!

Right now, the ten rats should have been on their way back from stealing medicinal herbs from the Royal Academy's herb garden.

What herbs were they stealing?

The ingredients for the Aptitude Marrow-Cleansing Pill!

The Mouse Clone had been sending the ten rats to steal them one herb at a time.

So far, they had gathered enough for four sets of ingredients, with only the final three herbs missing.

Thinking of the ten rats' return, the Mouse Clone climbed onto the wardrobe and dragged out a box of biscuits.

These were their reward!

While the Mouse Clone waited for the ten rats to return, Wen Xiancheng finished making breakfast, ate a quick meal, and went out.

Where was he going?

To find a cultivation academy and pitch his illusion arts classes?

No, no, no!

This time, he headed straight for the Royal Academy's training grounds.

Quite a few students had stayed there over summer break to train.

Naturally, there was no shortage of rich young students among them!

Those rich students were his targets this time!

When he reached the Royal Academy's training grounds, sure enough, many male and female students were already practicing.

Wen Xiancheng stood in the tiered stands and surveyed everyone.

Finally, he settled on a rather sleazy-looking young man.

The young man looked seventeen or eighteen and was slightly hunched. His eyes shone as he stared at the female students training on the grounds, swallowing every so often.

From his expression, he seemed to wish he could press his eyes right against their bodies.

His clothes were not shabby.

His looks, however, were truly difficult to compliment.

That was probably the main reason for his current situation.

The Royal Academy was an academy run by the Yue Kingdom's Royal Family, and its students were all either wealthy or highborn.

As such, those female students might genuinely not spare an ordinary rich young man a second glance.

With looks like his, it was only natural that this young man could not find a partner at the Royal Academy.

(End of chapter)