The Undying Immortal System Chapter 154: Life 68, Age 25, Martial Master Peak

Yan and I arrived together at the eting with the rest of our classmates. We were both agitated as we sat, and seeing this, JiaQi decided to break the ice.

“I’ve decided to leave the Academy,” she said while holding her small deer. “I want to give LuLu a chance to live outside as she grows up. I’ll co back for the first term as a Grandmaster, but I’ll skip next term. I know I’m not going to be a Sovereign anyway.”

I continued to hesitate, so YuLong announced his decision. “I’m going ho too. I know my limits. I’ve tried to learn to make talismans, but I have no talent for it. I only know how to fight. The best I can do is join soone else’s retinue. I need to talk with my father about my future before making any decisions.”

LiTing was nervous as she spoke. “I am going to take the regular Grandmaster courses. I wasn’t given enough funds for anything else.”

I looked at Yan. He signaled for to speak.

“We all need to stay in the Academy. I know you all have your own paths to follow, but we all need to remain in our classes.”

I reached into my storage space and pulled out all the letters they sent last ti. After sorting the pile into three stacks, I slid each stack to the person who wrote them.

“These were provided to by a powerful cultivator. They are letters from a phantom future. I don’t know what they say, but they should contain hints about what will happen if you leave the Academy.”

This was the story Yan and I had created. If anyone was testing the truth of our words from hiding, it would all check out. I considered using another shield for this conversation, but neither of us liked the idea. It might draw too much attention, so things were better off not shared, and personally, I didn’t want to spend the credits it would take.

“Fang…” JiaQi looked at with a worried expression.

“Please, trust . Everyone needs to stay in the Academy, and we need to all stay in the sa class. I can pay for everything. Don’t worry about that. My backer will make sure there are no issues.”

If Emperor Li was going to act as so cheap master in the shadows, I would use his shadow as best as I could to keep us as safe as possible.

Yan added his thoughts to back up.

“I’ve read part of what Fang gave . I agree that everyone needs to stay here. The information he provided has made aware of dangers that our position in the Academy is protecting us from.” He looked at YuLong. “Remaining here is also protecting our families.”

No one was overly happy about the scant information Yan and I were willing to tell them, but they all agreed to read the letters.

When we t back up the next day, no one wanted to talk about what they had read, but they all agreed to stay in the Academy. JiaQi and LiTing weren’t exactly happy about the situation, but they accepted it well enough. YuLong, however, seed especially torn up about being unable to return ho.

It wasn’t sothing I was overly comfortable doing, but I knew I had to try and help him. After our eting broke apart, I pulled YuLong off to the side for a private discussion.

“Hey, are you okay?”

His face twisted through a few emotions before he finally shook his head helplessly.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Don’t worry about it.” He put on a fake smile and snorted a small laugh. “Just ans I get to practice so more, right?”

He turned to leave, but I put a hand on his shoulder. He froze at my touch.

“YuLong… I’m sorry… I just… I know this situation is hard, but we’ll get through it. We just have to keep walking forward.”

He didn’t turn around to face . He just spoke into the empty air in front of him.

“I didn’t co here for myself. I didn’t co to the Academy to improve my own strength or cultivation. I ca here to help my family, you know? We might be connected to an imperial clan, but we’re just an unimportant branch family. I thought… I thought that I could co here, do well, and improve the lives of my brothers and sisters.”

His voice started to choke up. “Now, because of who I was put in a class with, they are all destined to die, and the only way I might be able to save their lives is by never seeing them again. So, no. No, I am not okay.”

“YuLong… I…”

I didn’t know what to tell him to reassure him. I couldn’t tell him everything. It was too dangerous, but I had to tell him sothing.

“YuLong, we’ll get through this. If you trust what you’ve read, you can trust when I tell you this. While you won’t be able to see your family again for a long ti, decades, possibly longer, you will see them again. You will be able to improve their lives beyond anything you’ve ever dreamt possible. Your future… your family’s future… will be limitless.”

He didn’t speak. He only silently nodded his head and pulled away from to return to his room. I could only hope I had said enough.

Return to classes was difficult for everyone, but it was sothing that needed to be done. We had to set our focus on doing our best at the Academy so that we would be able to excel in the sect and be able to avoid the sches of powerful clans.

However, our first task in forging our way forward was to take several steps backward. Everyone had used suboptimal techniques when creating their ridians, so we needed to spend several weeks dispersing them and creating new ones.

Instructor Yuan passed along a technique to make the process of ridian dispersal much easier than what I had done in the past, and she ordered us to use it as we cultivated our true techniques through the Master realm. If we noticed even a hint of a problem with a ridian, we were to use the technique to disperse and reform it.

Aside from just making the process easier, it also allowed us to capture a portion of the dispersed qi and apply it to the new ridians we were forming. By using this technique, I was able to completely disperse my old ridians and form two new ones by the end of the term.

Now that I had returned to the school tiline, the 'real' tiline, I returned to using the Writ of True Earth so that I would be able to cultivate essence again in the future.

On the last day of class, we all left together to register for another five years of classes. After paying another 14 spirit stones for everyone’s tuition, I was ushered into a private room to have my affinities examined.

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“Three mid five-stars… and that static has grown slightly.”

She looked at , but I didn’t provide a response. Next ti, I might need to purchase sothing to hide certain affinities.

“Your results are disappointing. With so many opportunities, it was hoped that you would advance more broadly.” She spoke in a clipped, harsh tone. “While there may be mitigating circumstances, they do not change your results.”

She retrieved a ledger from the storage bag and made a few notes.

“Your instructor will be inford of our decision about your future training.”

That was a solid dismissal, but I had to ask sothing before I left.

“Will we still be punished if we raise our affinities outside the Trials now that the term has ended?”

“No. If you have the ans to do so, it is allowed as you will not be allowed to enter any Trials during this term. However, you should be aware that depending upon your results, if you wish to return as a Grandmaster, you may be allowed inside them as part of your coursework at that ti. The number of opportunities you are granted, if you are granted any at all, will be determined by your performance during this term. Take that into consideration if you decide to improve your affinities in other ways.”

I thanked her for the advice and departed, ready to return to class.

Instructor Yuan stood before us to explain how we would spend our next five years.

“Your most important task during this term is taking Disciples under your tutelage. As you were taught as Disciples, so will you teach others. The Disciple course is four years. I will spend this first year teaching you how to teach. Then, you will spend the next four putting these lessons into practice.”

She looked at Yan. “You will be responsible for a class of five Disciples of your choosing.”

She looked at JiaQi, YuLong, and LiTing. “You three will each be assigned a Disciple and beco their personal trainers.”

She turned to . “You get a choice. You can either be a personal trainer, or you can be assigned to teach a class of my choosing.”

“Is there a reason I should pick one over the other?”

“You will find teaching a class of Disciples far more rewarding in both experience and credit with the Academy. However, it will be far more challenging. Especially for you.”

Was that a threat or a dig at my potential teaching skills? Both?

After only a slight pause, I knew what I wanted. There was no reason to take the easy path here.

“I’ll take the full class.”

Instructor Yuan smirked at my decision but didn’t comnt further.

The next day, LiTing, JiaQi, and YuLong were sent to study under separate teachers while Yan and I were to be trained by Instructor Yuan personally. Once class started, it was clear she intended to maintain her approach of only explaining what we were supposed to do after first letting us fail.

“Your Disciples will all be from wealthy or powerful families. While they will have never cultivated before, they will be familiar with the basics. Think back to what you knew when you first entered the Academy. Your students will all know as much or more than you did.”

This prepared speech was… questionable. My own history was one thing, and it was fair that she didn’t know it, but the person beside was Zhuge Yan…

“That’s one of the reasons we take the approach that we do. Your Disciples will be young and brash. Most will think they know everything you want to teach them already, so your first task is to show them how much they have left to learn.”

She motioned for to stand and walk to the front of the room. As I did, she moved to take the seat I had vacated.

“This is the first day of class. Teach us.”

I blinked. What was I supposed to do?

During the classes, I had felt that both Instructors Sun and Yuan could have done a better job in explaining certain things, but I was willing to follow their examples. At least, I was willing to follow them until I had a firr idea of how to try and improve upon them.

So, what should I do? She said to show the students how I could help them. How was I supposed to do that? I could try and demonstrate my prowess in so way, but if the students were from cultivation families with Lords and Kings, there wasn’t much I could do that would shock them.

I tried to think back to my first lessons under Master Sun. He had forced us to cultivate an awful technique under conditions that led to drawing in mountains of impurities. Was I supposed to do that? But… I ca to class a month late. What happened before that?

The first lesson had to be about creating qi filters, right? So… The student would need a cultivation technique. I took a quick check around the front of the room and found a storage bag that had been placed out of sight. Inside were several manuals, including five Low-Yellow cultivation techniques.

I handed one of these low-level manuals to both Yan and Instructor Yuan.

“Cultivate this.”

Instructor Yuan showed Yan what he should do. She created a false qi filter and vortex above her palm to simulate a Disciple trying to cultivate the technique. These false filters were nonfunctional and only served as a prop for the lesson.

I looked at Instructor Yuan’s faulty creation and frowned. How should I correct her?

“You will pull in a significant amount of impurities with this. You need to fix it.”

Instructor Yuan fumbled around, making a poor show of fixing her mistakes. What was I supposed to do here? I didn’t know an easy way to explain what she was doing wrong. The only thing I could think to do was repeat the sa tactic I’d used in the past. It might not be what Yuan wanted, but it was the only plan I could co up with.

After a bit of hesitation, I looked at Instructor Yuan.

“One mont, please. I need to make a slight change.”

She nodded graciously.

At this point, the spirit fla in my body was the wood-based one I had used to complete the Earth Trial. Using my spatial bag as cover, I pulled an empty jade box out of my storage space, forced the wood fla out of my body, and stowed it in the box.

Returning this box to my storage space, I then retrieved a fire-based fla and absorbed it.

With this complete, I returned to Instructor Yuan’s ‘lesson,’ and she resud her fumbling with the filter.

Using the spirit fire, I created a ghostly apparition and overlaid the correct form on top of what she was doing.

“It should look like this.”

She adjusted her qi to align it with my example.

“Here and here still need adjustnts.” I pointed to the problem areas.

She quickly fixed them and began ‘cultivating’ properly.

I backed off and waited for her judgnt silently, but she just continued acting out her role for several more minutes.

When it was clear to her that I would say nothing else, she stood, gestured for to retake my seat, and moved back in front of us.

“That was an interesting technique to clarify the problems with the qi filter. Lord Ning ntioned sothing like this previously and wished for you to attempt to use it in your classes. I believe it may work.”

She turned to Yan. “What can he improve?”

He looked at . “Don’t talk about impurities at this point. There isn't any value in it. Just tell them what they are doing wrong without the why. Adding in talk of impurities can muddy the explanation of what they are doing wrong and how to fix it.”

Instructor Yuan nodded. “I agree partially. Such details may benefit so students, but if you want to bring it up, you need to make it aningful. Don’t just say ‘impurities.’ If you want to talk about them, talk about them. If you don’t, then don’t ntion them.”

She kept her focus on . “What else could you improve?”

“I’m not sure… You corrected the filter quickly and would have been cultivating well. I don’t know what more could have been done.”

“What did I tell you? Show the students how much they have left to learn. You didn’t do this at all. You had make a few minor alterations and were satisfied with the result.”

I didn’t understand. “Because it was correct. Wasn’t it?”

“Yes, it was. That is the problem. Cultivating correctly so easily doesn’t teach them the lessons they need. They need to cultivate poorly. The worse they do, the better. Don’t start them with Low-Yellow techniques. If they already have a Peak-Earth technique, make them use it. If not, provide the ones in that bag you found. Then you can use your little trick. Even with its help, they will still fail without sufficient practice. Being able to clearly see what they are doing wrong and not be able to fix it will be far more helpful at this stage.”

She looked at Yan. “What was his biggest mistake?”

He turned to . “She said to teach ‘us.’ You didn’t teach .”

My jaw dropped slightly at that. Yan hadn’t tried to do the false cultivation even after the instructor showed him how. Why would I…

Instructor Yuan gave Yan a look of approval and then looked at to explain.

“Try to involve the whole class. I am focused on your actions right now, but I have been making an effort to include Zhuge Yan during the process. This will be difficult, especially when there are large differences in abilities between your students. However, as you will both be teaching a full class of Disciples, it is a skill you must work to improve.”