Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 104: Academy Needs Experience

Lanyuan, missionary house.

As soon as Juanshan Shou came back, he angrily told Qiu Ci what the dean and the others had just said, and apologized for his crime.

"I think it's okay." Unexpectedly, Qiu Ci agreed without thinking.

"What?" The old man from Juanshan was stunned and looked at her in disbelief. "How can this be possible? You are the Master of Blue Star."

"People from Blue Star are human too." Qiu Ci didn't expect him to be so excited, and quickly comforted him, "Besides, didn't you teach me the art of splitting my body? At least we have a master-disciple relationship, right? Isn't it normal for me to call you teacher?"

"But..." The old man from Juanshan still felt a little offended.

"Besides, Shuangxing Academy is your hard work. As its teacher, it's a good opportunity to enhance its reputation." Qiu Ci thought it was okay to take the old man from Juanshan as his teacher. It would save him a lot of trouble. After all, he was one of us. So he stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and said a wise words, "Today I am proud of the academy, tomorrow the academy will be proud of me."

"But with your identity..." How could he be worthy of it, Juanshan Shou said in confusion.

"Old Guard!" Qiu Ci sighed and said seriously, "You know we on Blue Star have never cared about these things." Let's learn about freedom and equality.

The old man from Juanshan was stunned for a moment, and after a while he seemed to remember something. He chuckled and said, "Master, please forgive me, I was wrong." Yes, how could the master whom he respected like a god care about these false titles?

"Then I'll inform them that I agree to this." The old man from Juanshan finally relaxed his frown. After a moment's thought, he added, "This can also serve as a pretext for accepting me as a disciple, letting them know that I will no longer sleep."

She had no objection, and the old man from Juanshan gave her a few more instructions before turning and leaving.

Qiu Ci then began to meditate and circulate her spiritual energy again. Although the duration of the thunder tribulation had not been shortened much since she tempered her body again, she found that her tolerance for the thunder tribulation had increased dramatically. In other words, she could withstand the release of more thunder and lightning power. In a sense, this also accelerated the consumption of the thunder tribulation.

Plus, there was a clone outside, which could also consume some of the lightning power, and the speed was doubled. When the clone left the tower, she had split the bracelet of the psychic machine body into two, each retaining a part of the lightning.

These days she has been madly studying the tower's thunder-related skills (junior high school version) to make her control over thunder and lightning more precise, with the aim of speeding up the consumption of stored electricity. Qiu Ci is confident that if she persists, it will not take three years at all for her to completely digest these thunders.

Qiu Ci's real body was frantically dealing with the thunder, and his clone was also not idle. Soon the task assigned by the academy arrived.

"Experience!" She was stunned for a moment, glanced at the list in her hand, and then looked at Chai Duo who notified her and said, "Didn't the dean say that I should accept those challenges? How did it become taking students on an experience again?"

"It's all the same, we won't miss out on either." Master Chai explained with a kind smile, "Training is something every class of students must participate in, and this one happens to be scheduled for a few days from now. After all, cultivation can't just be about seclusion and hard work; you also need to go out and sharpen your mind. As for your challenge, Master Chu, the dean said that he'll choose a few locations close to the four major colleges for your team to train in. You can choose one of them, and then contact your opponent to arrange the time and place for the challenge."

"..." So, I have to do two jobs for one trip. Qiu Ci was very upset. "Who are these students who need training? How many of them are there in total?"

"Usually, each of us teachers leads about fifteen to twenty people, and the students have to sign up for the specific list on their own initiative." Teacher Chai pointed to the list in her hand and said, "Master Chu, you won the top spot on the Heavenly Ranking this time, and the news has spread throughout the academy, so almost 80% of the students have signed up for your training. The academy has already eliminated some of them, and it's up to you to choose the ones who have been eliminated. It will be no less than fifteen people." Qiu Ci glanced at the densely written list. There were disciples from every pavilion, but she was not very familiar with any of them, so she simply said, "Except for Feng Ting, Zhen Yi, and Jing Hong who will follow me, you can help me choose the others." Anyway, she had to bring the three little ones with her, and she was almost crazy busy in the past few months and had not had much time to take care of them. This time, taking them out for training together was just right to see how their training was going.

"Okay, then I'll have them wait for you in front of the mountain gate at noon three days later." Master Chai obviously knew the relationship between her and the three disciples, so he didn't ask too much. He casually gave them a few instructions about the training and then left. Anyway, the people who were training were students from various pavilions, and the main responsibility of the masters was just to follow behind and protect them.

"Oh, right!" As they approached the door, Master Chai turned back and added, "Training as a guardian will earn you an additional 1,000 mid-grade spirit stones per month."

Qiu Ci: "..." Humph, she doesn't love money that much.

Just a thousand mid-grade spirit stones...

It's done!

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Qiu Ci spent the next three days busy, making all the necessary preparations for the trip before heading to the gathering place. Sure enough, he saw a group of more than ten people waiting there from a distance.

Feng Ting was the first to notice her. Her expression immediately lit up with joy. She waved in her direction and was about to pounce on her. "Xiao Ci..." She was halfway through her words when she suddenly thought of something. She stopped and put down her hands, and bowed politely like the others.

"Greetings, Master Chu!" Everyone bowed.

"Well, hello, classmates." Qiu Ci replied, looking at the three little ones who were extremely honest. It seemed that Zhen Yi, the shrewd man, had reminded the two of them in advance not to show too much intimacy with her in front of outsiders, so as not to affect the unity of the team.

"Master Chu, shall we set off now?" asked an older young disciple.

Qiu Ci glanced at everyone and counted exactly fifteen people, but he still took out the list and said, "No hurry, I'll call out the names first. Just respond when you hear your name."

After saying that, he named them one by one, and everyone responded. Every time he named someone, Qiu Ci took a closer look, trying to remember what they looked like. Only after everyone had been named did he put away the list and said, "Okay, everyone's here, let's go."

"Yes, Teacher Chu." Everyone's face lit up with joy, and then they turned around and walked out of the academy. Everyone's face had some excitement on it, eager to try.

Qiu Ci followed at the end of the team, acting as a qualified protector and would never intervene unless they encountered danger. Feng Ting would look back at her eagerly from time to time, but she held back from rushing over because of the large crowd.

She took a closer look. Although the team consisted of fifteen people, most of them were at the Jindan stage. Only Jinghong and the older disciple at the front were at the Yuanying stage. Jinghong was almost at the middle Yuanying stage, which was a bit higher than that person's cultivation. Logically, he had the highest cultivation level in the team, but the group was clearly led by the older disciple.

Qiu Ci thought about it and understood. It was because of Jing Hong's social anxiety that he probably didn't say a word after these people gathered. He had a cold face the whole time, looking arrogant and aloof, but in fact, his whole body said: Don't come over! Don't come over! Don't come over!

So apart from Feng Ting who was dragging her feet and wanted to get closer to her, Jing Hong was the last person walking.