Meet the Gentleman

Chapter 1176: Holy Land for Scholars
It is late spring and the sun is shining brightly.

The willow trees on the river bank are thriving, and the dense willow branches are slender and soft, cascading down like a waterfall.

Twisting her waist in the breeze.

At this moment, under the green shade, two girls around fifteen or sixteen years old came.

They were wearing gray-blue uniforms with the words "Tanxiang Academy" embroidered in white on the left chest.

The word "four" represents that one is a formal student of Sandalwood Academy.

That is, the disciples of the academy.

The disciples of the academy are Mr. An’s disciples.

Although Mr. An never said it, he never denied it either.

If you want to become a formal student of the academy, you have to pass the academy's assessment. Of course, the assessment is not done by Mr. An, but by the academy.

Mr. An doesn't care about these trivial matters.

Therefore, it is not easy to become a disciple of the academy.

Sandalwood Academy has been established for nearly half a year, but there are only a few dozen students in the academy.

This also includes some teachers in the academy...

Yes, some teachers in the academy are not only students of the academy, but also teachers of the academy. Because learning never ends...

No matter how high their realm is or how profound their knowledge is, they can never catch up with Mr. An. Standing in front of Mr. An is like standing in front of a towering mountain, and they are left with only insignificance and humility.

They can always learn knowledge from Mr. An.

Mr. An is like a vast ocean of books, as if he has hidden everything in the world in his heart.

The universe is hidden in my heart.

No matter what you ask.

You can get the best answers from Mr. An.

This shocked the prospective scholar so much that his mind was shaken, because only by knowing more could he gradually understand what the three words "Mr. An" stood for.

Sometimes, they all doubted whether Mr. An was a saint.

If he is not a saint, how can he contain everything and accommodate the universe in his heart?

and so.

Even the would-be great scholars had to behave like disciples in front of Mr. An. For example, Ning Song, who was already in his sixties and the dignified master of Sandalwood Academy...

and also.

After all, there is only one Mr. An and he cannot split himself into two. He cannot answer or teach every student in the academy one by one. Therefore, some disciples at the level of university scholars serve as teachers to teach students at the level of scholars or those who have not yet opened up their minds.

So there came into being the strange existence of someone who was both a student and a teacher in the academy.

This is mainly because.

There is only one real teacher in Sandalwood Academy, and that is Mr. An.

Although anyone can now study at Sandalwood Academy and anyone can listen to Mr. An’s lectures, it is not easy to become a disciple of the academy.

Someone strictly limited the number of people.

It’s not Ning Song, but the Seventh Princess.

Now most of the affairs in the academy are decided by the Seventh Princess.

However, she would report everything to Mr. An, but Mr. An would just say a few words occasionally and didn't pay much attention.

At this moment, two girls were walking in the green shade. Because they were disciples of the academy, they were respected by all the students.

In fact, the students did not respect the two girls, but Mr. An.

"I've met two senior sisters."

"I've met two senior sisters."

The students around saluted.

"Everyone is polite."

The two girls returned the greeting and looked towards the bamboo building.

"Hey, why are these school uniforms a little different?" A student asked in surprise, pointing at the cuffs of the two girls, "Is it fake?"

"Who dares to wear fake school uniforms in the academy?"

Some students shook their heads.

"What about their cuffs?"

A student asked doubtfully.

"Oh, you mean the two phoenixes?" One student understood, smiled and whispered, "You don't know?"

"I don't know what?"

"I heard that a music club named Fengming was established in the academy not long ago." The student smiled and said, "If you become a disciple of the music club, you can embroider a phoenix on each of your sleeves..."

"Fengming Qin Society?"

"What is Fengming Lute Club? Are they still recruiting people? What are the requirements?"

"I have heard that as long as you enter the rank, you can get an invitation from Fengming Qin Society. However, it is not easy to become a disciple of Fengming Qin Society. You still need to take an assessment."

"Enter the rank? No wonder, they are here to invite Ji Lun?"

"Maybe."

"To become a disciple of Fengming Lute Club, it seems that you don't need to be a disciple of the Academy. You just need to pass their assessment."

"is it?"

"It's just a zither club. There are so many zither clubs in this world..."

"Who is in Fengming Lute Club? Who is in charge?"

"Are there any state officials?"

"I heard that it was led by the Seventh Princess, but there was no national scholar. Who is a national scholar? How could such a great and unparalleled national scholar join a small zither club..."

"That's true."

"Since there are no national scholars, it doesn't matter. Even if I become a disciple of the Qin Society, what's the use? Will it help me become a disciple of the Academy? In fact, the disciples of the Academy are the same as us. They can also listen to Mr. An's lectures..."

"The disciples of the academy are Mr. An's disciples, how can they be the same?"

"Now that we are enrolled in the academy, are we no longer Mr. An's disciples? Mr. An is no longer our teacher?"

"That's what I say, but can it really be the same?"

While the students around them were talking, the two girls walked to the bamboo building and said to Huanlun in the corridor: "Ji Lun, are you willing to join our Fengming Qin Club?"

"What is Fengming Lute Club? I've never heard of it. I won't join it."

Ji Lun was in agony, and he refused without a second thought, saying, "Does any random music club have the qualifications to invite me? Are you trying to take advantage of my fame? Is my fame so easy to take advantage of?"

"Heh, it's just like the legend, arrogant and conceited." A young girl sneered and said, "My Fengming Lute Club invited you because of the Ji family's reputation. Do you think that not everyone can join my Fengming Lute Club? You are just a ninth-grade, do you really think you are an unparalleled national scholar?"

"Only ninth rank?"

Ji Lun was stunned for a moment, then pointed at his nose and said, "I am only a ninth-rank official?"

"If it's not just the ninth rank, could it be that he is also a national scholar?"

The girl said.

"Do you know how old I am? I know how many years I have been trying to suppress myself in order not to enter the realm of rank." Ji Lun snorted coldly, glancing at the two girls and said, "I tell you, if I want to break through, I can do it now."

"The eighth rank can be broken, the seventh rank can be broken!"

“Even if it’s the sixth level, it can be broken in three days.” Ji Lun raised his head slightly, looked down at the two girls, and said, “Do you know what a genius is? This is a genius. Give me three days, and I can break through three levels in a row. Can you do it? Forget it, what nonsense am I talking about with a loser…”

He froze for a moment.

"Alas, geniuses are always criticized..."

"Life is as quiet as snow."

Ji Lun ignored the two girls, and the students around him. He really didn't take them seriously, because in his eyes, they didn't even exist...

They were just a fleeting scene on his journey to becoming a countryman, not even passers-by.

"Breaking through three realms in three days, bragging."

“Haha, you make it sound like you can really break through…”

"It was suppressed for four years, so I just laughed it off."

The students around couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

They did admit that Ji Lun was a genius, but they did not believe what Ji Lun said. Could he break through three realms in three days?

This is simply impossible.

"Xiao Ning, let's go. I told you not to invite this guy, but you insisted on inviting him. What a genius." One of the girls couldn't help but say, "In my Fengming Qin Club, no one is a genius..."

These two girls were the two vixens from before, one was called Tu Ning, the other was called Tu Lu...

She has a typical oval face, very delicate, and a bit charming, but in the charm, there is also a bit of heroism, giving people a very special feeling. She seems to be very charming, but not promiscuous.

They are the two heroes of the academy.

"Ji Lun, my name is Tu Ning. Today, my Fengming Qin Club sincerely invites you to join my Fengming Qin Club." Tu Ning said, but Ji Lun shouted "Get lost" in return.

"..."

Tu Ning frowned.

"That's what I said. Let's go. I don't want to bother with this guy."

Painted Deer Road.

"Ji Lun, do you know who came up with the name of my Fengming Qin Club?" Tu Ning said, suppressing his anger.

"It's none of my business. Don't disturb me while I'm playing the piano."

Ji Lun sat down cross-legged.

"The word Fengming was given by our teacher." Tu Ning said, and motioned to Tu Lu, "Let's go. Our Fengming Music Club will surely soar to the sky and make a stunning debut in the near future..."

"It will surely shock the whole world!"

Tu Lu took over.

"Ah--"

Ji Lun sneered when he heard this.

Although now, he finally realized who the teacher Tu Ning was talking about. But, what about Mr. An? Mr. An is not a national scholar...

He admitted that Mr. An was very powerful and amazing, perhaps even the great sages of the Holy Academy were inferior to him.

But he is a zither player.

As long as the person is not a pianist, he would not bother to pay any attention to him.

However, he still respected Mr. An very much, but respect and joining Fengming Qin Society are two different things.

He really doesn't think highly of a music club without any national talents.

Now the Ji family does not have any national masters, but how many national masters have the Ji family produced in the past five thousand years? It can be said that in the past five thousand years, nearly one-third of the national masters of Qin born in Yanyun Territory are from the Ji family or have a relationship with the Ji family.

This is the heritage and pride of the Ji family.

The Ji family can look down on any zither club, even any so-called zither family.

However, over the past five thousand years, it was precisely because of the Ji family's pride that they were beaten several times...

But he never learns his lesson.

What is strange is that every time he was beaten, his potential seemed to be stimulated and he would move towards glory again.

The national scholar of the zither is probably equivalent to a great scholar.

In other words, in the world of reincarnation, it is roughly equivalent to the level of a zither master.

and so.

Even when facing Mr. An, the Ji family has their own pride, not to mention that Mr. An just gave the piano club a name.

He came to Sandalwood Academy not to join the academy.

Instead, Sandalwood Academy became a holy place for scholars, and geniuses all came here. So, they came here to have fun, make some friends, or to show off their background.

After all, the Ji family still has a very high status in the Song Dynasty.

This is a family with a history of five thousand years.

Over the past five thousand years, the Seven Kingdoms have disappeared, and the Great Yan Dynasty has also disappeared, but his Ji family has remained standing, and even its heritage has not been broken.

I don’t know how many zither players go to the Ji family every year and want to become their disciples.

If Sandalwood Academy is a holy place for scholars all over the world, then the Ji family is a holy place for zither players all over the world.

Rather than saying that Ji Lun is arrogant, it is better to say that the Ji family is arrogant.

It was the Ji family that created Ji Lun and shaped his personality.

At this time, Ji Lun simply stopped suppressing himself. Since he had already entered the realm of the melody, he would continue to enter the realm of the melody. So, he calmed down and started playing again...

Although many students around had not left and were still making a lot of noise.

but.

It doesn't affect him at all.

In his eyes, they didn't exist at all.

As the piano sounded, white mist rose up, and then gradually turned pink. And the pink gradually became thicker and turned into red...

Red and white complement each other!

Eighth grade.

At this moment, the students outside the bamboo building were stunned for a moment, and their hearts skipped a beat. Has this guy really made a breakthrough?
isn't it?
This, this is really a breakthrough?!
This shocked all the students around.

Although most of the students around were scholars, some were ninth-rank, some were eighth-rank, and some were even seventh-rank. However, there were few who could play the qin...

The sound of the piano is echoing, like elves dancing, floating in the bamboo building and floating in the Wei River.

The sound mist behind Ji Lun gradually took on a third color.

Three colors!

Seventh grade!

At this moment, the students around couldn't help but stare with shock on their faces.

"No way, another breakthrough?"

"Seventh grade?!"

"This this……"

The students around were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.

At this time, even Ji Lun's warrior guards were shocked. They had never even heard of breaking through the third realm.

but.

But their young master did it.

Their young master was indeed arrogant and foul-mouthed, but he did have an extraordinary talent for playing the zither.

He is a rare talent in the art of playing the zither in a thousand years.

The more powerful their young master is, the higher their status is.

Half an hour later.

The sound mist behind Ji Lun has turned into four colors.

Four colorful colors!

That is the sixth grade!

He has reached the sixth level, he is not bragging, and it doesn’t take three days.

A moment later, the news that Ji Lun had broken through four realms in a row spread quickly throughout the academy like wings, leaving countless people stunned.

Even Tu Ning and Tu Lu were shocked.

"This guy……"

Tu Lu was suddenly speechless.

Although she is a disciple of Fengming Lute Club, she is only a seventh-grade disciple now.

Of course, it only took three years for someone who had never learned the piano to reach the eighth level, which is also very impressive.

He deserves to be called a genius.

Tu Ning is only of the ninth rank.

However, Tu Lu only practiced the zither, and didn't read much, and had no interest in the classics. But Tu Ning was different, she was now a fourth-rank scholar...

The same three years.

But she has already broken through seven realms...

So the seventh princess was a third-rank university scholar, and she broke through nine realms in three years, becoming even more extraordinary.

Ning Song is a fourth-rank Confucian scholar, and he only needs to break through one more realm to become a great Confucian scholar.

However, the news of their breakthrough was not spread widely, and most people didn't know about it. If they knew about it, it would definitely cause a sensation throughout the Song Dynasty...

There are so many students who have achieved breakthroughs in Sandalwood Academy.

The number has long exceeded one thousand.

……

……

(End of this chapter)