For two straight days without sleep or rest, Lu Qingshan immersed himself completely in comprehending the Lightning Origin Law.
Only now did he truly experience the intoxicating pleasure of comprehending laws.
It was like the instant a top student in his previous life solved a difficult problem, reaping happiness and a sense of accomplishment.
Comprehending laws was just the same!
Comprehending laws was a process of constantly solving universe-level problems, one after another, without end. And the sense of breakthrough as the difficulty climbed brought the ultimate thrill of leveling up.
This was a pleasure poor students could never imagine.
His consciousness returned to reality, and Lu Qingshan exhaled in satisfaction. Had Nasus not reminded him that the open lecture was about to begin, he would probably still have been adrift in that ocean of laws.
"A genius... is this what being a genius feels like?"
He could not help marveling.
No wonder people often said that those more talented than you often worked harder than you, too.
Because even if fools worked hard, it was useless!
His gains from just two days actually rivaled a year of arduous cultivation in the past. Lu Qingshan felt utterly exhilarated, with a pleasure that was almost addictive.
"Nasus, how long until the open lecture begins?"
"Master, twenty-three minutes."
"Mm." Lu Qingshan gathered his thoughts. This was his first lecture, so he needed to take it seriously.
He quickly organized his thoughts and did some simple lesson preparation to avoid leaving a bad impression on the students.
After all, large-scale open lectures benefited him as well, although he did not quite understand what those benefits actually were.
While Lu Qingshan prepared his lesson at the estate, tens of thousands of talented Star Level and Planetary Level students had already gathered in the Ganwu Dojo's elite district. Instructors held only three open lectures each year. Such opportunities were precious, and no one wanted to miss them.
Especially since this instructor was reportedly a newcomer.
"Adams? What brings you here?" A familiar voice rang out. It was Harley, whom Lu Qingshan had met once in the Virtual Universe. He walked over and sat beside Adams. "Isn't this supposed to be a Lightning Domain instructor's lecture?"
"Harley, haven't you heard? This new instructor is no ordinary person!" Adams said quietly. "I read his introduction. Not only is he proficient in the Lightning Domain, but he's also mastered the ninth stage of the Light Domain! I've been stuck at the bottleneck of the second stage of the Light Domain for ages, and I've accumulated quite a few questions. If I'm lucky enough to be called on during the question period, I want to ask him about the Light Domain..."
A trace of anticipation showed in his eyes. "The instructor specializes in lightning, so most students' questions will probably revolve around the Lightning Domain. A different question like mine might actually get a more detailed answer."
Harley laughed. "Haha, those abacus beads of yours are clacking away! Still, there are tens of thousands of students here, and the question period will last half a day at most... it'll depend on your luck."
"That's all I can do." Adams shrugged helplessly, then leaned closer to Harley and asked goss ipingly, "I heard a fierce new guy showed up on your Lightning Domain side? He even sent Yalun flying yesterday?"
"You're pretty well informed!" Harley lowered his voice and discreetly pointed at a single-horned youth sitting alone nearby. "That's him. His name's Lei Ming. He clashed with Yalun when he first arrived a few days ago and got beaten pretty badly. Who could have imagined that in just a few days, he'd break through to Star Level Eighth Stage, and his domain would shoot up to the fourth stage! The beating he gave Yalun... tsk, tsk."
He warned, "Be careful if you run into him next time. Don't blame me for not warning you if you get beaten up. Still, I hear he's not a bad guy. That time, Yalun's underlings provoked him first, trying to lay down the rules for a newcomer."
With the single-horned youth not far away, Harley and Adams did not dare say much more and tactfully changed the subject.
"Remember that Two-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner we met in the Virtual Universe ten years ago? Still haven't heard anything about him?" Adams asked curiously. He knew his friend had never stopped thinking about that expert.
"No..." Harley shook his head. "I asked the elders in my family, but none of them knew him. He was probably a newly promoted Ganwu Practitioner. Maybe he was sent out to oversee some branch dojo."
"What a pity," Adams said regretfully. "That lord seemed to think quite highly of you back then. If you could get a little guidance from him, your strength..."
"It's not easy." Harley smiled bitterly.
Although they were elite dojo students who had mastered domains at Star Level, obtaining guidance from a First-Class Instructor whenever they wished was still extremely difficult. Open lectures were their only opportunity. Only if an instructor accepted them as a personal disciple might they be kept close and taught.
Yet at dojo headquarters, aside from those few top students and the true monsters already admitted to the Ganwu Mystic Region, how many could catch an instructor's eye?
"The instructor's here!" someone shouted, and the clamorous square instantly fell silent.
Under everyone's gaze, a handsome, imposing man in purple robes, with two golden leaves embroidered on his chest, slowly approached.
The identity of a Two-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner appearing in the teaching district spoke for itself.
Harley and Adams looked up at the same time, then both froze.
"Harley, am I seeing things?" Adams found it unbelievable. He blinked hard and reached out to tug at Harley.
"Adams, calm down! I see him!" Harley drew a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his shock, though he could not hide the excitement on his face.
The expert they had just been discussing had actually become their instructor!
"Harley, the instructor saw us!" Adams could barely speak coherently.
Harley tried to settle his emotions. Their instructor was an expert among Domain Lords, so spotting them among tens of thousands of students was naturally effortless.
I can't get too excited. If the instructor remembers me, he should come to me himself...
On the raised platform.
Lu Qingshan stood in the center, his gaze sweeping over the tens of thousands of Star Level students arranged in a fan before him. Without exception, every genius admitted to Ganwu Dojo headquarters and rated as an elite had mastered a domain.
"Hello, everyone." His clear voice carried throughout the square. "I'm your new instructor, Lu Qingshan. You may call me Teacher Lu from now on."
"Today is my first open lecture. Regardless of your current progress, I'll begin with the first stage of domains..."
"First, I'd like to discuss the birth of a domain..." Lu Qingshan's voice carried a peculiar rhythm. "Domains cannot be obtained directly by practicing a cultivation method. At least, within the Ganwu Universe Country, no such method should exist."
"A domain is the sublimation of a conceptual state, a transformation that occurs when comprehension of that state reaches its pinnacle. Its birth is often connected to comprehending heaven and earth, becoming one with nature, experiencing profound enlightenment, or the cycle of life and death... There are tens of thousands of students sitting here, and I dare say no two of you gave rise to your domains through exactly the same process."
Lu Qingshan raised his hand, and an edited combat recording appeared before everyone.
It showed Lei Ming's battle on Illusory Color Star, though Lu Qingshan had directly erased the appearances of both combatants.
That instance of a domain's birth was quite a classic example, making it ideal teaching material.
"Life-and-death combat is the most direct and dangerous method of bringing forth a domain, yet often the most effective. Other paths have higher requirements..."
Lu Qingshan explained the nature of domains and the process of their birth in profound yet accessible terms.
This also told the geniuses below that to cultivate a domain, they first had to know what a domain was!
For many people, the birth of their domain was often tied to an accident. This meant that even after acquiring domains, many geniuses knew that they worked, but not why they worked.
That made it easy to become stuck.
"Once a domain is born, the next step is to improve it. How? The best path lies in comprehending the way it changes."
Before his words had faded, a dim glow rose around Lu Qingshan.
The initial embryonic form of a domain quietly appeared, then began to evolve.
The first stage, the second stage, the third stage...
The domain's level climbed steadily, its range expanding rapidly until it enveloped every one of the tens of thousands of students in the square.
Had Lu Qingshan been a spy from an alien race, he could have reduced these tens of thousands of geniuses to dust with a single thought.
Of course, Lu Qingshan had undergone rigorous screening to join the Ganwu Dojo and become a First-Class Instructor, so there was no such concern.
Only by experiencing it firsthand could they grasp its true essence.
As Lu Qingshan explained in detail, he simultaneously demonstrated every stage of the domain's transformation.
The domain, thousands or tens of thousands of times larger than an ordinary student's, shimmered with a dim purple light.
Every student held their breath and concentrated, afraid of missing even the slightest detail. Those whose attention wandered briefly looked up again in horror to find they could no longer follow the explanation at all. Everything that followed was like listening to a heavenly scripture.
Some clever students hurried to commit everything to memory, saving it to study when their cultivation realms advanced in the future.
The domain had reached the eighth stage, then the ninth... Vast lightning completely engulfed the enormous square.
What a terrifying domain!
Countless students were shaken.
It was not that they had never experienced other instructors' domains, but none had ever been as terrifying as Teacher Lu Qingshan's before them.
The disturbance here was so great that even the instructors teaching in other distant squares could not help pausing their explanations and looking toward this sea of lightning in astonishment.
This instructor's teaching method seemed... somewhat unusual...
After domains came laws...
Lu Qingshan's domain slowly contracted and condensed, finally becoming a crystalline lotus with purple light flowing through it. It slowly rose like a giant lotus platform, hovering silently high in the air.
The students seemed to awaken from a dream, gazing entranced at the purple lotus as though they had witnessed the most beautiful sight in the universe!
"Laws... the Lightning Origin Law!"
Several distant instructors looked shocked. "This new instructor, Lu Qingshan, actually has such a profound understanding of the Law of Lightning!"
As fellow First-Class Instructors, most of them had mastered a law themselves. Precisely because they understood, they knew how terrifying this new instructor's control over the Lightning Origin Law was!
It was a level far beyond their reach.
Although the students had not mastered laws, they could clearly sense the tremendous power of law contained within the purple lotus. Their shock could not have been greater.
This new teacher had already won them over completely with his profound knowledge.
Lu Qingshan lectured for an entire day and night. Rather than dwindling, the number of students below quietly increased.
Many students who did not specialize in lightning came after hearing of his reputation, wanting to see this new instructor for themselves.
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