Chapter 82: Chapter 76: Completely Defeating Zhang Xuan
Both girls had their own thoughts and were not very attentive in class. It was Hong Yi who, experiencing this for the first time, excitedly shone with light in his eyes, memorizing each word of Zhang Xuan’s speech to digest slowly.
“Alright, I’ll stop here for now,” how much have you remembered, and how much have you learned?”
Zhang Xuan looked over with a smile.
Of the three, he had been the least exposed to cultivation and had the worst talent, like a child from the countryside encountering Olympiad math for the first time, surely very perplexed.
“Reporting to Teacher Zhang!”
Hong Yi’s face was a mixture of embarrassment and shame, “I… remembered only about thirty percent!”
“Thirty percent?”
Zhang Xuan was taken aback, his eyes immediately brightened, “Your talent may not be much, but your memory is not bad; thirty percent is enough. Would you like to try cultivating?”
The fundamentals he explained were from the Heavenly Library of Heaven’s Path, wrought with immense power from the heavenly dao; normally, if someone remembered ten percent on their first hearing, it was considered good. Even Zhao Ya, Wang Ying, and others had not surpassed this amount before, but he managed to memorize a tough thirty percent…
He had thought this student might not accomplish much in the future, but now, it seemed uncertain!
A strong memory is a talent in itself.
Just like himself, any book he had seen was memorized immediately, understood in an instant.
“And you two?”
After his musings, Zhang Xuan turned to the two girls before him.
“I… didn’t understand a single sentence, I know nothing!”
Liu Mingyue looked totally puzzled.
“Didn’t understand a single sentence?” His heart that had just uplifted sank.
The least gifted Hong Yi could remember thirty percent… and you didn’t understand a single sentence?
And yet, you absorbed 24 heavenly mandate vitality fragments to become the third in the school?
How lenient is this?
“Yeah, I really didn’t understand anything, Teacher Zhang, could you explain it again?”
Seeing his furrowed brow, Liu Mingyue’s heart smirked coldly, while she pleaded anxiously with her mouth.
Humph, let’s see if I can annoy you to death!
“And you?”
Seeing how dense she was, unable to grasp even the most basic concepts, Zhang Xuan dismissed the idea of teaching her a specialized cultivation method and turned to look at another girl not far away.
“Reporting, Teacher, I understood everything, and I have already grasped it all…” Yu Xiaoyu spoke earnestly, her eyes firm.
“Understood… everything? And grasped it all?”
Zhang Xuan was stunned again.
He had taken three students, and each one was different from the others, leaving him somewhat baffled…
“Yes!” Yu Xiaoyu nodded vigorously.
Her father had said, whatever Teacher Zhang spoke of, she should show understanding and give him face, so she spoke confidently, without any burden.
After all, it was only the basics of cultivation; later, learning the “Five Directions Energy Storage Technique” would surely be many times more powerful than what he had explained…
Earn the credit of teaching even though Dad would have taught it… just keep gleefully reaping the benefits!
“Good, very good!”
Seeing her confidence, Zhang Xuan nodded approvingly, a trace of satisfaction in his eyes.
This girl’s aptitude was extraordinarily high, almost catching up to a tenth of his own.
With just one session, she fully grasped the modified cultivation method from the Library of Heaven’s Path, combined with her 27 heavenly mandate vitalities talent and the Peak of Pinnacle Furnace…
Without a doubt, just by seriously cultivating, she would break through the Accumulative Realm in a short time, charging her physique and muscle membranes to rightfully become the top newcomer.
“Since you’ve understood it all, go there to practice, and I will check in a while; aim to refine several meridians today…”
Zhang Xuan waved his hand.
“Yes!”
Yu Xiaoyu nodded her head, briskly went to one side, and sat down cross-legged.
Practice?
Better not, as cultivation methods should not be recklessly practiced; if it conflicted with the Five Directions Energy Storage Technique her father intended to teach her, that would be a real loss!
As for the check, even mastering one meridian in a class wouldn’t increase her strength by much, and wouldn’t she still be free to report whatever she wanted about her condition since he couldn’t possibly catch her out?
“Hmm!”
Seeing this obedient girl, Zhang Xuan nodded his head satisfactorily, then turned to the other one: “As for you, I will explain it once more; grasp as much as you can grasp, and if you really can’t understand, then perhaps you’re not suited to be my student!”
“Really?”
Her eyes immediately brightened, and Liu Mingyue clenched her fists excitedly.
She hadn’t even spoken yet when he had already brought it up… fantastic!
Zhang Xuan frowned, “Why, you’d be happy not to be my student?”
“This… Teacher, please start the lesson! I’ll try hard this time!”
Liu Mingyue laughed it off, diverting the topic.
“Hmm!”
Zhang Xuan nodded, just about to repeat the previous lesson, when a loud call came from outside the classroom.
“Teacher Zhang Xuan, we students would also like to hear your explanations about the Accumulative Realm, if possible…”
Before he finished speaking, the tightly closed door “creaked” open, and Elder Chen, leading dozens of students, strode in.
As for Zhou Qingkai and Wang Yuxing, they were not with him, presumably still waiting outside the door for apothecaries Chen Xiao and Liu Tianzheng.
“A lesson?”
Zhang Xuan frowned, waving his hand: “This is not a public lecture; the content is only for my students, please leave!”
He was teaching a small class, not a large one, and naturally wouldn’t allow other students to come interrupting.
Firstly, it would be an invasion of his privacy; secondly, if these students decided not to follow their original teachers after listening, wouldn’t that mean he was poaching someone else’s students?
Of course, most importantly, a teacher has the right to decide whom to teach and when to teach… this Elder Chen had always been against him, and even though he had apologized on his knees the day before, the defiance in his eyes was clearly not gone.