Chapter 103
Chapter 103
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 103
Chapter Title: Wildness
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Sacred Golden Seal Ryu Seran had returned.
Ten years spent in the depths of the Great Spirit Forest.
Primordial Infant Realm achieved after closed-door training.
Autumn lectures scheduled to open.
This news spread across the entire Great Spirit Forest in an instant.
Beyond Taibon Valley, the outer layers of the Great Spirit Forest were home to numerous neutral cities.
Those places also had academies serving roles similar to the Scholar's Quarter, albeit under different names.
A certain middle-aged man urged his friend.
"Hey, what are you doing? Pack your bags already! We need to head to Taibon Valley as soon as possible! Sacred Golden Seal Ryu Seran has returned after a decade!"
His friend asked.
"Come on, why all the fuss over one instructor coming back? It's just lectures for Foundation Establishment cultivators anyway, right? Sure, producing several Core Formation cultivators is impressive, but for us in the Refinement Realm, isn't it someone else's business?"
Frustrated, the middle-aged man bellowed.
"She's planning to open lectures for Refinement Realm cultivators this time too! How can you be so oblivious to the ways of the world!"
His friend tossed aside the book he was reading and jumped to his feet.
"Let's head out right now!"
Similar scenes unfolded across the Great Spirit Forest.
It had nothing to do with cultivation levels.
The reason was that Sacred Golden Seal Ryu Seran was opening lectures for Refinement Realm, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation—every level.
Taibon Valley's population density exploded.
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Seran had become an instructor because of spirit stones.
She wanted to learn puppetry from the East Continent, but having arrived via teleportation array, she had nothing to her name and needed to make money.
So she started it like a part-time gig.
Of course, that didn't mean she taught half-heartedly.
Seran always gave her all as an instructor.
When she stood at the podium, at least.
In truth, she stopped lecturing after her investments paid off.
But now, she was sincere.
Truly sincere Seran.
That was why she was opening three kinds of lectures, divided by realm.
If she just wanted to earn spirit stones efficiently, she would have opened only Foundation Establishment lectures.
Refinement Realm cultivators were numerous but lacked spirit stones, while Core Formation ones had plenty but were few in number.
Still, there were benefits.
Refinement Realm lectures didn't pay much, but they built fame.
They were the largest demographic, after all.
That was why new instructors offered free seminars.
Core Formation lectures were something Seran was pioneering.
It meant she would become the teacher of famous instructors.
Absorbing even a fraction of their influence and authority was the goal of the Core Formation lectures.
Autumn had arrived before she knew it.
A vast open space was packed with Refinement Realm cultivators.
"There are too many students!"
"Can she even teach properly like this?"
"Ah, what a waste of tuition..."
No matter where they turned, all they saw was a sea of people.
It was impossible to conduct a lecture like this.
Everyone grumbled restlessly.
Then Seran appeared.
"Please form groups of five! Groups of five!"
"Put the instructor in the center and form a circle!"
"Widen the spacing! Arms outstretched shouldn't reach!"
Suddenly, a flood of ant-like Serans poured out.
Seran's clones began controlling the students.
Everyone panicked at the wave of clones surging like a tide.
"W-what? What's going on!"
"It's clones!"
"All of them?!"
Seran paid no mind to their shock.
"Form groups of five!"
"Circles! Wide spacing!"
"If you're without a group, raise your hand high!"
The chaotic scene organized itself in moments.
The Refinement Realm cultivators were still dumbfounded.
They knew about cloning techniques, but they'd never seen one person handle so many clones.
Was this the power of a Primordial Infant cultivator?
Seran immediately began the class.
"We'll now start group lessons! First, we'll warm up with bare-handed gymnastics to music! Follow the clones' demonstrations closely!"
No sooner had she spoken than music rang out.
Those at the edges spotted it.
Seran's clones were all blowing trumpets in unison.
With lively music, Seran shouted.
"One, two! One, two! Follow along!"
Legs spread wide, lower the center of gravity, arms flowing in circles like water.
It was the Black Bamboo Sect's secret physical conditioning routine, taught by Elder Ma.
Clearly an advanced training method.
The students scrambled to imitate the gymnastics.
The unfamiliar movements led to sloppy form all around.
But that was fine.
There were seasoned teaching assistants.
"There, tuck your knee inward!"
"Keep your back straight even if it's hard! Risk of injury!"
"Eyes on your fingertips! Chin up!"
Clones in the center calling cadence and demonstrating.
Clones giving instant feedback on mistakes.
Clones far off passionately playing music.
The clones kept multiplying until they outnumbered the students.
Before long, gymnastics time ended.
The students' bodies were perfectly warmed up.
Time for serious martial arts training.
One clone attached to each student.
A truly luxurious one-on-one lesson.
The class only wrapped up after cooldown gymnastics.
Seran announced notices.
"Tomorrow is meditation class, the day after is equipment-based physical training! No one miss it—attend without fail!"
It was a packed schedule worth every tuition spirit stone.
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The Refinement Realm lecture materials were a straight copy-paste of the Black Bamboo Sect's secret physical conditioning methods.
Of course, it wasn't unauthorized distribution.
Seran wasn't insane.
The insane ones were the joint leadership of the Black Bamboo Sect and Golden Forge Sect.
Seran's bank run plan had been sent to the joint leadership beyond the teleportation array in report form.
In summary, it was about raiding the warehouses of the top ten sects, who were likely to hold virtue fruits.
An extremely dangerous idea.
But the joint leadership wasn't afraid.
The Black Bamboo Sect had once nearly bankrupted itself by uprooting a sect foundation root for Seran's Core Formation ritual.
Like having a twenty-year-old leap off a cliff without a rope just to make the youngest Core Formation cultivator ever.
No madness like this madness.
The Golden Forge Sect was no slouch either.
The moment they smelled a secret succession technique, they unhesitatingly tied members of both sects by blood relations.
Fortune favors the bold, but this was overkill.
In short, the leadership of both sects brimmed with gambler's spirit.
The moment opportunity approached, they feared nothing and went all-in.
That was how they became the five great sects of the West Continent.
The joint leadership analyzed Seran's report.
No matter how they pondered, it was the only chance to obtain virtue fruits in the short term.
Now was the moment to take the risk.
Once the joint leadership decided, the full might of the Black Bamboo Sect and Golden Forge Sect mobilized.
All talents from both sects gathered to brainstorm.
Their mission was singular.
Create the world's greatest lectures.
Secret leaks? Not even on their radar.
They'd win succession anyway.
If they could ascend to the Immortal Realm, nothing was too precious.
In the end, the Black Bamboo Sect and Golden Forge Sect pulled it off.
Their think tank of shining intellects produced the world's finest lectures.
Even they were astonished by their own masterpieces.
The think tank's Core Formation cultivators crossed to the East Continent with the materials.
Time was extremely tight.
Less than half a month until autumn.
Seran needed to master all three lecture types perfectly before the first class.
Naturally, it was easy for her.
Refinement Realm lectures.
Bare-handed gymnastics, martial training, meditation, physical conditioning.
Foundation Establishment lectures.
Upper, middle, lower class system, knowledge on Core Formation rituals.
Core Formation lectures.
Heavenly Tribulation countermeasures, cloning techniques and mind-splitting cultivation.
Lectures infused with thousands of years from both sects.
Over a hundred past Primordial Infant cultivators, uncountable from Core Formation down.
This was the power of great sects.
The joint leadership's sincerity reached Seran.
The think tank cooperated with full effort.
And Seran repaid their expectations once more.
The day before lectures began, Seran became the God of Education.
Of course, that wasn't the end.
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As the Refinement Realm cultivators, drenched in satisfying sweat, began leaving the outdoor lecture hall, someone shouted.
"Instructor Ryu Seran is insane! Refinement Realm pills, half price today only! Pills are cheap, so cheap!"
The weary students' heads snapped around in unison.
"Pills?"
"What, pills?"
"Did she just say pills?"
"Pills?"
The students swarmed the seller (Golden Forge Sect Core Formation cultivator, intelligence agent).
"Pills? Did I hear that right?"
The seller shouted loudly.
"Yes, pills! You've all heard of Instructor Ryu Seran's life story, right? Her master left her heaps of pills, letting her advance realms so quickly!"
The students buzzed in unison.
"Yeah, I've heard!"
"I remember now! One of the lecture assistants with the Dan surname said something like that!"
"Right, Dan Wonpyo! That was definitely the name!"
The seller calmed the students.
"Now, now! Since you all know, I can skip the explanation! Yes, Instructor Ryu Seran grew up eating pills like rice and drinking decoctions like water for her cultivation!
Thanks to that, she became a Core Formation cultivator far younger than most! But here's the twist: her talent was so outstanding that she reached the next realm before finishing all the pills!
Suddenly, she was a Primordial Infant cultivator! Puzzled over what to do with the leftovers, she decided to offer the Great Spirit Forest's fellow cultivators a chance to buy them!
Note that Refinement Realm pills are half price today only! From tomorrow, full price! Those interested in Foundation Establishment or Core Formation pills, inquire discreetly!"
A nuclear bomb had dropped on Taibon Valley.