Chapter 48: Attending Class
Translator: JL Editor: X
After opening his first natal palace, Ai Hui realized that his previous experiences were not as useful now. There was a drastic difference in the rotation of his current elental energy compared to the past. Every move was composed of many minute details. If a small detail was not perford properly, it diminished the impact and power of the overall move. How to distribute the energy, how to revolve the elental energy, when to speed up, when to slow down—all these details determined the ultimate power of a move.
Due to his wealth of practical experiences, Ai Hui was an ardent individual.
He had not spent ti contemplating abstract ideas, and he did not believe himself capable of such conceptualizations. While he was able to achieve so level of success in the Suspending Golden Pagoda, he was not complacent. Teacher Dong was clear in his explanations and he himself had spent a long ti in the Wilderness. Eventually, he was able to comprehend the ideas after putting in much effort.
Ai Hui possessed high self-awareness and knew that he was not talented. Most of the knowledge that he acquired was not learned conventionally.
The elental energy thods in the Induction Ground had been progressing for a thousand years, polished by many geniuses and seniors. They would definitely be better than him. The only thing he could do was persevere, practice hard, and be diligent in learning what the teachers taught.
What was considered studious?
It was to understand every detail that the teachers taught. Why was it fast here and why was it slow there? One would only be considered well-educated after breaking the information into smaller pieces, thoroughly deciphering these segnts, and properly executing based on this knowledge.
The ticking ti bomb of academic dismissal was no longer a threat with the opening of his natal residence. He now had four years to learn at his own pace without rushing through. As long as he was diligent and steadfast in his studies for these four years, he could probably beco registered as a docunted elentalist.
While the outco was uncertain, this was a goal he was working hard to achieve.
Having seen so much life and death, Ai Hui had a clear understanding of the different facets of life.
He saw the frailty which prevented people from having ambitious thoughts and unrealistic plans.
While the teacher explained the basics in the training class, Ai Hui paid very close attention. Only a quarter of the class was present, with the rest of the seats empty. Most of those in attendance were from the Old Territory. As this was a really basic class, there was little content that the students from the Avalon of Five Elents had not already learned.
Central Pine Academy allowed students to have the freedom of choice in their lessons. Since the background of every student varied, the guidance they required differed as well. Students similar to the genius Duanmu Huanghun were way ahead of the other normal students. Typical classes had no aning for them. Central Pine Academy considered this scenario and appointed the most outstanding teacher to guide those exceptional students. Outside the classroom, outstanding students also had the guidance of the Society of Excellence.
Ai Hui never thought of himself as a genius, but he also never felt that Duanmu Huanghun was a genius—that disdainful, childish, rude youth!
Ai Hui greedily absorbed whatever the teacher was teaching. The teacher’s surna was Wang. He taught the fundantals, such as what to take note of during training after the opening of the natal residence, what new moves could be learned, and which teacher to consult to learn those moves.
Every aspect of the Avalon of Five Elents was closely tied to elental energy. More than once, Ai Hui heard from the teacher that in order to establish a more comprehensive five elents elental energy, the system must be perfected to attain the level of the Cultivation Era from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The teacher’s high regard for the Cultivation World caught Ai Hui by surprise, but he gradually understood why. The Avalon of Five Elents was established from the ruins of the Cultivation World. From a certain point of view, they originated from the sa source. However, the Avalon of Five Elents only had one thousand five hundred years of history. It was not even considered an infant when compared to the long history and glory of the Cultivation World.
When the teacher lectured about the proliferation of elental energy training system in the Old Territory, Ai Hui could very well relate to the topic.
Before entering the Wilderness, he had always lived in the Old Territory. Compared to the Avalon of Five Elents, the Old Territory was a completely different world. It was once the center of the Cultivation World, but now had regressed to the level of a rural area. Life in the Old Territory was very slow and quiet. Under the protection of the Avalon of Five Elents, there were no dire beasts or barbarian tribes.
The Old Territory was not a place where training was often discussed. The concentration of elental energy was very low; it did not have dire beasts, and it also lacked the materials for training. Furthermore, it lacked the guidance of teachers and the environnt for training was very weak, though this situation had improved in recent years. Many elentalist who originated from the Old Territory would return to their hotowns when they reached a certain age and set up training halls to guide the locals in elental energy training.
The teacher could not stop blabbering during his lecture and occasionally criticized so of the policies of the Avalon of Five Elents.
Ai Hui realized that the teachers in the Induction Ground had their personal preferences. For example, Teacher Dong liked to talk about the history of the Avalon of the Five Elents and Teacher Wang, who was in front of him, loved to speak about the future. This probably had to do with the influence of the Induction Ground. Regardless of whether it was an influential family or the Thirteen Divisions, it was difficult to sway the Induction Ground.
Not only did Ai Hui not think these lectures were boring, he actually listened with avid interest. No matter if it was the past or the future, they were all things that he had no prior knowledge of, so he listened to expand his horizons.
“Suppose that each of you just opened your natal residence. I would not recomnd imdiately starting the training of new moves. Why? Because these techniques can easily limit our understanding towards elental energy. Much of our understanding toward elental energy was superficial. So disagreed, arguing that the five residences and eight palaces were perfect and complete. Certainly, when compared to the old elental energy system, the current five residences and eight palaces system is far more mature and complete. It is widely known that, to date, the developnt of elental energy had only been in progress for a thousand years. Look at the previous Cultivation Era. The Cultivation System was so boundless and vast, yet so detailed. Comparatively, the five residences and eight palaces thodology was ager and crude. Therefore, everyone should be familiarized with their own elental energy. Understanding this would be like understanding a partner.“
However, the students were evidently uninterested in this viewpoint.
The academic atmosphere in the Induction Ground was very liberal, especially for the teachers who faced even fewer restrictions. As long as the teachers completed their work, the school would not intervene in their personal affairs.
The lively and progressive atmosphere enabled the Induction Ground to have the most nurous theories and schools of thought in the Avalon of Five Elents. It was also touted that the number of teachers in the Induction Ground was equivalent to the number of researchers and schools of thought.
The students had long beco accustod and immune to each teacher’s “personal research interest.” Not every teacher’s theories were of interest to the students.
Apparently, the teachers were used to such reactions.
Those extravagant and flashy moves were the most attractive for beginners. In their eyes, flamboyance was an indication of power. The teachers were once students and also familiar with such mindsets.
“Alright, alright. I know what you students want to learn. No matter how easy a move is, to properly practice, you must take note of your personal attribute. The easier the move, the more details you must take note of.”
The teacher saw that the students had long since lost their interest, so he decided to end the class.
He felt slightly helpless. It seed that since he was born, nobody else was interested in whatever topics he wanted to learn about.
While there were many lectures on topics like this in the Induction Ground, it still made him feel emotional.
The students could not wait to leave, eager to prepare and practice their own combat techniques.
The teacher was collecting his stuff and preparing to leave when a voice rang out.
“Teacher, could you explain further? How do we improve our comprehension of our elental energy?”
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