"Wait!"
A clear voice with a hint of gentleness came from behind him, causing Su Yuan to stop.
He turned his head in confusion and saw the face of a girl who left a deep impression. It wasn't because of her stunning beauty, but because he clearly remembered that this girl was Liu Muwan, one of the Perfect Spiritual Roots.
He didn't expect to run into her on the road, and that she would call out to him?
Su Yuan scanned the surroundings; indeed, only the two of them were on the road.
"Are you calling me?" Su Yuan asked.
"Mm!" Liu Muwan nodded.
Observing Su Yuan up close, she could feel the faint fluctuations of spiritual power emanating from him. With her Perfect Spiritual Root Aptitude, her perception of qi and spiritual power was extremely sharp. She could vaguely sense that Su Yuan's Realm was indeed at the second level of Refining Qi, and it was not just a simple initial entry!
This made Liu Muwan feel it was quite unbelievable, because she had already recalled Su Yuan's test results from yesterday, confirming he had undoubtedly two spirit apertures. Yet, in just one day, he had already advanced to the level of four or even five spirit apertures!
This was truly too abnormal!
"Is there something?" Su Yuan asked in confusion, seeing that she hadn't spoken.
Liu Muwan tidied her hair and said, "I'm a little curious. The next Lecture Hall class is about water-attribute Cultivation Techniques. You seem to have gold, wood, and fire Spiritual Roots, so why are you going to listen?"
Su Yuan was a little surprised, not expecting Liu Muwan to know about his Spiritual Roots.
"Oh, the Senior Brother guarding the Library Pavilion told me that on the path of cultivation, if one technique is mastered, all techniques are mastered. Many principles contained within water-attribute Cultivation Techniques are also the Foundation of cultivation. Listening more is always beneficial!" Su Yuan explained casually.
Liu Muwan was taken aback upon hearing this, and a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.
"Time is almost up. I need to go to the Lecture Hall. If I go late, there won't be any seats! I'll be going now!"
Su Yuan said this, then quickly left.
Liu Muwan didn't pay much attention to Su Yuan's unconventional reasoning. She kept pondering the reason for Su Yuan's progress, but with her knowledge and experience, she really couldn't figure out the cause, unless she could get Su Yuan to explain it himself.
Liu Muwan suddenly sensed something and turned her head to look.
She saw a figure that seemed slow but was actually approaching rapidly.
Before long, Ye Bufan's figure appeared.
"What did you say to him?" Ye Bufan asked calmly.
"Nothing, just asked a few casual questions." Liu Muwan paused, then replied, "Is my business any of yours?"
Ye Bufan calmly said, "To be able to attract your attention, he is not simple."
"Really? Then he's definitely not as good as you!" Liu Muwan said.
"Of course." Ye Bufan smiled faintly.
"But that might not be the case in the future!" Liu Muwan added.
Ye Bufan said nonchalantly, "You should still work harder yourself, don't fall too far behind!"
After speaking, Ye Bufan continued to walk forward, and his figure quickly disappeared.
Liu Muwan shook her head and said, "Until I reach the Nascent Soul stage, I won't talk about romantic relationships."
She lightened her steps, leaped onto a tree by the roadside, and then traveled through the treetops, not taking the usual path.
After Liu Muwan left.
The Valley Master appeared on a rock, raising his pen to write something in a notebook.
"Liu Muwan has a firm will for cultivation and keen observation."
"Ye Bufan may face a romantic tribulation in the future and is overly arrogant."
"This Su Yuan, his aura is a bit off. This kid is deliberately hiding his abilities!"
The Valley Master hesitated for a moment, then moved Liu Muwan's name to first place, dropped Ye Bufan to second place, and Su Yuan remained in third place.
Afterwards, the Valley Master put away the notebook and disappeared like a wisp of green smoke.
Su Yuan was walking on the road when he heard the System prompt sound.
[Ding, Fame Value +4]
"Huh, it added 4 again? My fame experience has reached 24!"
Su Yuan looked back in the direction he came from.
"Could it be because of Liu Muwan?"
He had already discovered that if it was an ordinary person, many people would need to know about him together to increase his fame value by a little, but for someone with high talent or strong power, just one person could provide fame value.
This kind of "knowing" was not as simple as just hearing the name; it required having a certain understanding of him and paying attention to him.
This was his guess, but it should be roughly correct.
Su Yuan shook his head and continued walking forward.
Suddenly, he sensed a force approaching from behind him.
He turned his head to look and saw Ye Bufan, another Perfect Spiritual Root, rapidly approaching him.
Su Yuan naturally moved to the side of the road, yielding to Ye Bufan.
Ye Bufan passed by in a hurry. As he passed Su Yuan, he glanced at his face, then turned his head away disdainfully and continued walking forward.
Su Yuan didn't notice Ye Bufan's change in expression at all.
What he was focused on was Ye Bufan's feet. The green whirlwind swirling around his feet should be a Gale Spell, a Spell that could increase movement speed.
In an instant, Ye Bufan was gone.
"Tsk, tsk, I should also learn a Spell. Pure spiritual power isn't very useful."
Su Yuan thought of the Scripture Pavilion. That was where Cultivation Techniques and Spells were kept. He remembered that after advancing to the second level of Refining Qi, he could get one free opportunity to exchange for a Spell. However, he couldn't go yet; he would do it later.
Not long after.
The Lecture Hall was once again filled with Disciples.
Su Yuan sat in a corner, enviously looking at the positions in the first row. There were two fixed seats there, belonging to the two Perfect Spiritual Roots!
Just now, he almost didn't get a seat. After it was full, Liu Muwan arrived leisurely and then naturally sat in one of the first-row seats. There was no need to worry about having no seat after it was full; no one dared to occupy that spot!
This was something Su Yuan greatly envied.
"As expected of a Perfect Spiritual Root, the benefits are truly great!" Su Yuan thought to himself. "But even if it were given to me, it would be useless. Being right under their noses, how could I slack off?"
Suddenly, there was a burst of sound in the sky!
Everyone looked up and saw layers upon layers of white clouds forming a white cloud ladder!
Zhuge Jian slowly stepped forward. With each step he took, the white clouds behind him would transform into colorful rays of light and explode, looking incredibly magnificent.
Su Yuan's mouth twitched.
Only after Zhuge Jian landed and sat down did everyone recover.
Ye Bufan's face was also stern, almost unable to maintain it. He hated it the most when others were so arrogant in front of him, but Zhuge Jian was too strong. He endured it, believing that in ten years, he would definitely surpass Zhuge Jian!
"Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters, I am very happy to meet you all again!"
Zhuge Jian smiled slightly. "This is my second lecture. Some Disciples should have attended my first lecture. I am a person who likes to talk about fate. Since that's the case, I plan to give you a test. If you can complete it, I will give you a reward!"
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Even Ye Bufan raised his head, his eyes gleaming.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Zhuge Jian was very satisfied in his heart.
He said, "The test is very simple. It's about the content of my first lecture. I have extracted the key points from it and compiled a test with a total of five questions. You can answer them within a quarter of an hour. If you answer all of them correctly, the reward will be yours!"
After speaking, Zhuge Jian waved his hand, and two hundred and ninety scrolls of white paper flew out from his sleeve, landing precisely in front of the 290 Disciples. As for the remaining 70 Disciples, because they didn't attend the first lecture, they didn't even get a test paper, which made the remaining 70 people feel quite helpless, wearing expressions of having suffered a great loss.
In front of Su Yuan, a rolled-up white paper also appeared, with a pen clipped onto it.
He watched speechlessly as the Disciples unfolded their white papers, carefully studied the questions, and prepared to answer. This scene truly exceeded his expectations.
He also unfolded the white paper. There were indeed five questions on it. Just by glancing at them, he had an idea.
This was indeed the content that Zhuge Jian had lectured on in the first class. The first four questions could be quickly scanned, but the last question was much more interesting.
It not only required a complete understanding of Zhuge Jian's lecture content but also needed to be combined with other cultivation knowledge, making it quite difficult.
But for Su Yuan, this was a piece of cake. He had already thoroughly mastered it before. The knowledge from hundreds of books in the Library Pavilion had long since made Su Yuan's knowledge base and perspective surpass that of ordinary Disciples.
[Question: The qi of heaven and earth is qi, and the qi cultivated by Daoists is spiritual power. What is the difference between the two?]
[Answer: Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit Transformation. Qi is the breath of heaven and earth, not easily used by ordinary people. When qi enters the body, it merges with a person's essence, qi, and spirit. Only when these four combine does it become spiritual power, which is controlled, used, and mastered by people.]
[Question: Qi attributes are divided into the Five Elements, wind, cloud, thunder, snow, ice, mist, illusion, etc. However, as far as the eye can see, qi is colorless, odorless, untouchable, and insensible, seemingly without attribute divisions. Why is this?]
[Answer: Qi is easily changed. Metal can transform into water, thunder can transform into fire. Qi attributes can transform into each other; this is the natural way of heaven and earth! The human body is also like this. Spiritual power entering the heart can transform into fire, entering the lungs can transform into metal. Change is the principle of permanence! Heaven and earth are vast, encompassing all qi, unifying them into one. All is nothing, and cannot be manifested! Seemingly without attributes, it actually contains all attributes! The wonders of heaven and earth are vast and profound!]
Su Yuan answered the questions casually, filling in his understanding for each of the five questions.
For these kinds of "liberal arts questions," Su Yuan felt there was no need to hide anything. Cultivation focused on cultivation Realm and extraordinary Spells. As for answering questions? It was just a minor skill. Showing a little ability in this area was nothing much. Su Yuan felt it was very safe. He was actually quite envious of Zhuge Jian's reward. This guy was the Inner Sect Senior Brother!
The Inner Sect Senior Brother could definitely have been promoted to Core Disciple long ago. Such a person couldn't be regarded as an Inner Sect Disciple. This guy's goal was even to become a True Disciple. For a person like this, the reward given shouldn't be bad, right?
Su Yuan thought to himself.
Unconsciously, he had finished answering the five questions.
After a while longer, the quarter of an hour was up.
Zhuge Jian waved his hand, and all 290 papers returned to Zhuge Jian's hand, stacked into a pile.
Then, in Zhuge Jian's hand, a white light inexplicably flashed!
That pile of white papers was divided into five piles. One pile was the largest, the second pile was also quite large, and then the subsequent ones were very few, with the smallest pile only having a rough few sheets.
Su Yuan watched with wide eyes. This was "grading the test papers." With just a flash of white light, it was done? This was too cultivation-like!
Zhuge Jian picked up the pile with the fewest papers, holding it in his hand so that everyone could see at a glance that there were only a sparse five sheets of white paper there.
Under everyone's gaze, Zhuge Jian flipped through all of them a few times, his face full of satisfaction. Finally, his gaze stopped on the last piece of white paper, his eyes paused, and his brows furrowed slightly.