Chapter 2: We love you, Teacher Hua!

  Lingjian Mountain, Xuanxian Peak, Tengyun Hall, Professional Jiuzhou History Class starts on time.

  The teacher who was teaching walked in exactly on time, that person's feet were treading on seven-colored halo light, wearing a dazzlingly beautiful xuanjing liuli skirt, and as soon as she appeared, it almost dazzled people's eyes. At the same time, a wave of extremely warm applause and cheers erupted inside Tengyun Hall.

  "Hello, old fellow!"

  "Hello, Teacher Hua!"

  "We love you, Teacher Hua!"

  The newcomer was none other than Huayan, the young mistress of Penglai Peak and the ninth elder of the Tianjian Hall.

  Although he was called an elder, his lively and beautiful appearance seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. With a gentle and charming smile, he looked like a neighbor's girl, exceptionally kind. Adding that Huayan was straightforward and lively, without the air of an elder, his popularity among younger disciples could be said to be unparalleled in the Lingjian Sect.

  And this is also the biggest reason why professional history classes can gather more than 20 students, while another course on geography of nine states taught by Professor Liu Xian has only five or six students, which is dismal.

  "Good morning, everyone! Today I'm here to teach you all again~!" The Ninth Elder smiled and waved at the disciples as he walked up to the podium and put down a thick book.

  "Okay, everyone please sit up straight and be quiet. Those who haven't had breakfast can sneak a snack in the back row when I'm not looking, and those who need to use the restroom can get up at any time, but please don't disturb others. Then...please turn to page..."

  As they spoke, Huayun's slender hand slightly swayed, and in the Tengyun Hall, a book appeared on each of the disciples' desks. The cover read: "Professional History of the Nine States", with a line of small print below that said "Lingjian Sect". After receiving their textbooks, the disciples flipped to the designated page, waiting for Huayun's explanation.

  "Last time, we just finished the glorious ending and introduced a few talented cultivators who were born at the wrong time. The next chapter is the Dharma Ending Era, which is quite depressing as many of the heroic figures we learned about before will fall, such as Patriarch Penglai and True Person Miao Xie... I'm really uncomfortable watching this, it's heart-wrenching, so let's speed up a bit and try to finish their deaths today. Next time, I'll introduce you to the chapter of All Things Revival, where we'll meet some new heroic figures, including our own sect's ancestor!"

  After finishing speaking, there was a burst of applause from below.

  "Good!"

  "Long live the nine elders!"

  "We love you, Teacher Hua!"

  Hua Yun smiled sweetly: "I love you all too! I didn't expect so many people to come and listen to our professional Jiuzhou history class, which is usually so dry. I'm really happy and touched... But we have limited time, everyone, please don't make a fuss, I'll start lecturing now."

  Inside Hongyuntang, all of a sudden, everything fell silent, leaving only Xiaohua's sweet voice lingering around their ears.

  "In the so-called Dharma Ending Era, there has been no clear cause-and-effect analysis up to this day. The changes in heaven and earth during that era were too numerous, making it difficult to say which was the cause and which was the effect... Interested students can go and read relevant materials themselves; our Lingjian Sect's library has quite a few. However, these are not today's focus. In short, due to various reasons, over 6,000 years ago on the Nine Provinces Continent, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly underwent an extremely drastic change, so drastic that it was probably equivalent to bringing down the Nine Heavens' Gale Wind to blow on the ground... More fatal was that when cultivators reached a certain level, their communication with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was constant. External drastic changes could still be resisted or adapted to through various means, but the anomalies of the Dharma Ending Era were not only drastic, they also lasted for two hundred years. Two hundred years later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dried up, and the environment for cultivating immortality changed beyond recognition..."

  At this point, Hua Yun's face showed a hint of sadness.

  "In the face of catastrophic changes, even those cultivators with great divine powers appear fragile. The first batch of victims were the extraordinary geniuses born in the glorious final years, whom we discussed last time. Their cultivation progressed the fastest, their techniques were top-notch, dreamlike, and they had the strongest communication ability with the heavens' spiritual energy, making them seem boundless. However, when the Dharma Ending Era arrived, all these advantages became a burden. Once external changes occurred, they were the first to collapse. Then... you can also see it in your textbooks, your beloved Han Ziyu fell in the first year of the Dharma Ending Era, just after she had advanced to the Unity Realm and was hailed as an quasi-True Immortal."

  Huayun raised her head and found that the atmosphere in the hall had become somewhat gloomy, so she sighed: "Alright, if we continue to talk about this part of the content, it will be too heartbreaking, so I'll speed up the pace a bit..."

  Time flies in class, and soon Hua Yun has finished speaking with a flourish.

  “…And so, the Red Sound True Person, who had shaken the cultivation world for a thousand years, ended his glorious life in despair and suffering. This was also the last great cultivator to die from going mad due to spiritual energy depletion after the Dharma Ending Era. After the Red Sound True Person, no matter how much cultivators deceived themselves, they had to admit that most of the fantasy-level cultivation methods could no longer be practiced after the heaven and earth spiritual energy changed. Forcing oneself to practice would inevitably lead to going mad, and even gods couldn't save them. Since not even the Red Sound True Person was an exception, there was no need for others to try. And so, in the hundred years that followed, there were finally no more large-scale cultivators going mad phenomena. However, at the same time, the top-level cultivation methods of the cultivation world were also lost by half. Of course, saying this seems regrettable, but if it's a cultivation method that would lead to death after practicing, losing it is actually better...Alright, this chapter on the Dharma Ending Era ends here.”

  At this point, a warm applause broke out from the audience, marking the end of this wonderful and unparalleled history lesson.

  The lesson of Mofa era is not easy to teach.

  More than 6,000 years ago, the Dharma Ending Era that caused the ancient immortal cultivation world to shatter and scatter lasted for a full two hundred years. During this period, the weather was chaotic, countless cultivators went mad and died, the original order collapsed, the immortal cultivation world was in chaos, and life was miserable. More than 80% of the cultivators fell during these two hundred years, and more than 90% of the sects returned to dust... Even until today, six thousand years later, it has not been possible to recover its former prosperity.

  Of course, just saying this is quite empty and it's hard to give people a direct impression. How bad was the Dharma Ending Age? Just look at one aspect and you can see the whole situation.

  Hua Yun lectures, in order to speed up the pace, highly condenses and compresses the teaching materials. In the end, the chapter that should have been divided into three classes, with a large amount of homework assigned for self-study, was turned by her into a recitation of the dead names list.

  "Far Moon Elder Penglai Ancestor Fang True Taoist Immortal Yun Chan Master Mingjiang Elder Miao Xi True Person... Violent Yang Demon Lord Zi Li Sword Immortal North River Fairy Treading Snow True Person."

  Even so, this lesson took up almost half a time, Hua Yun as the Yuan Ying level elder, has a long breath, and views the sentence as nothing. The dead list is not worth mentioning how tragic it is.

  In fact, this list of teaching methods is also the Lingjian Sect's helpless measure after many years of exploration. In the early days, history classes were usually set up by the elders with large-scale illusions, making students feel like they were there in person. However, during the late law era, that bleak and bloody history, even if it was just a reproduction of the images at the time, would leave students with severe psychological trauma.

  Especially fifty years ago, the five elderly people who undertook teaching tasks were so mischievous that they increased the simulation degree of illusions to a level that could scare students into losing control. After that class, even three black and white disciples in the virtual Dan realm at the time crawled out of the classroom with their pants wet, not to mention others. It was also after that that the five elderly people were cancelled as teachers, and the relevant teaching materials for the end of the law era were greatly simplified, cancelling the illusion teaching, and the teaching materials were reduced by more than 80%. By the time Huayun became a history teacher, it was simply simplified to a death list, which was highly praised.

  "The lesson is over, Hua Yun tidied up the podium and said: 'Alright, next time I will teach you the chapter of All Things Revival, also the heroes of the Dawn Era. I hope everyone continues to attend classes on time. As for this lesson's homework...I won't leave any, just make sure to do a good job on your preview, that's all! Class dismissed, see you next time!"

  Hua Yun finished her lesson and floated away amidst the cheers and applause of the students.

  The morning class came to an end, and the disciples in the classroom left in groups of three or five. Most of the Blue and White Sects returned to Xuanxu Peak, while some of the Black and White Sects meditated before lunch, exchanging ideas with other disciples.

  As for Wang Lu, this red and white true transmission, staying here is not very interesting. Although thanks to Master's blessing, a long-term meal ticket was issued on the Misty Peak, which can be used to eat and drink unlimited times. However, the true transmission disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect have been eating at the Misty Peak for a long time, which is unique in the sect, so they are highly sought after. And every time he eats, people surround him like a lucky charm, even Wang Lu's shamelessness feels some pressure.

  Moreover, the cafeteria of Qingyun Peak is notorious. Many years ago, the head chef had a feud with his disciples and often cooked rare and precious vegetables and spiritual meats into something that looked like dog feces. When asked about it, he would make excuses about nutritional value, which infuriated both heaven and man.

  What's even more shameful is that last year, the master of Ling Jian Peak, Liu Xian, decided to spend a lot of effort to renovate the cafeteria and improve the food. Then, who knows who instigated him, using reform as a means and innovation as a goal, following the principle of "good things come from outside", he hired a famous chef from the Western Continent at a high salary to serve as the head chef, claiming to provide Western-style meals for Ling Jian Peak. The chef was also very dedicated, and on his first day in the Spiritual Sword Sect, he learned that the sect leader lived on Starry Sky Peak, so he creatively cooked up a dish called "Gazing Up at the Stars" as a tribute - more than a dozen dead fish heads were inserted into a pancake, seemingly cursing the world.

  Seeing those ten or so dead fish heads, Liu Xian's face was as dark as a pancake, but since things had come to this point, he couldn't back down - his hands had moved too quickly earlier, and the contract had already been signed!

  Every year, tens of thousands of spirit stones are spent to hire a starry sky chef. This face is naturally lost, but the contract is in hand, and it can't be regretted that the remaining door will be ruined. It's better to break the jar and take the starry sky chef as the head chef of the Xuan Mi Peak cafeteria. Since then, the black and white disciples have been running to the Xiao Yao Peak to grab food, which has become more common, and it's actually promoting the internal communication within the sect...

  On the other hand, the long-term meal tickets of Xianyun Peak have been devalued again and again, until one day, the Fifth Elder discovered that these meal tickets were so cheap that even Wang Lu, who had been eating on credit for years, was moved... So he changed Wang Lu's freeloading location to Xianyun Peak.

  "Alas, I don't know if today's menu is fried fish with fries or fries with fried fish. Please, for the love of God, don't let it be stuffed lamb intestines again, I really can't eat that..."

  Wang Lu secretly prayed in his heart that today's dishes would have a bit of humanity, but thinking of the consistent style of that Starry Sky Chef, he couldn't help but feel pessimistic. Especially when he thought about the time when several perverted brothers came from Xīyóu Fēng and loved the heavy flavors, saying things like "Gazing at the Starry Sky", "Meat-filled Sheep's Tripe", "Waist-shaped Pudding"... they ate with great relish! While eating, they also shouted in praise, making that Starry Sky Chef roll around on the ground in joy, promising to continue working hard and bring more traditional delicacies from the Western Continent.

  Damn it, people from the Western Continent are living by eating shit?

  Just as he was thinking, a small stone suddenly flew over and hit his head. Wang Lu reacted quickly, stretched out his hand and caught the stone, stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  He looked around and indeed saw a familiar figure under a certain tree.

  That person wore a coarse linen long gown, simple yet unable to conceal her beautiful figure and face. A smiling face was lovely and lively, with a hint of wildness. Wang Lu saw it, suddenly delighted, wiped his mouth, and quickly walked over!

  Braised pork, no, landlady, I'm here!

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