Chapter 5: The Dark Realm's Overlord (Part 2) Seeking Recommendations

  This time opening the mountain gate, Su Bao Shan has recruited more than a hundred new disciples. Although this stone house is very large, it still seems somewhat crowded.

  Some disciples sat by the window and door, looking outside at a team of neatly dressed disciples, led by an instructor, with their feet not touching the ground, quickly sweeping away and disappearing into the forest of the martial arts arena, suddenly a burst of envy.

  That was a senior apprentice who had entered the sect three years ago, whose lightness skill had already reached the top of the martial arts world "Land Flying" realm. With only three years of cultivation, he had achieved such accomplishments, and all the new apprentices were excited.

  Sun Li let out a soft sigh, not envying others. He knew that as long as he seized the opportunity and worked hard with dedication, one day he would reach that level, or even surpass it.

  Sun Lishen had three people around him, all from the same courtyard.

  Lu Da Tong is straightforward and casual, always making everyone laugh.

  While Su Lan and Jiang Shi Yu should be more silent, at least on the surface, they still look kind.

  After meeting each other, because they lived in the same small courtyard, they naturally seemed more familiar with each other than others. As for whether they would really become good friends in the future, no one could say for sure at this point.

  Inside Shi Wu's house, there are clearly two factions. One side is led by Qin Tianzhan, and the other side is naturally Tian Yingdong.

  The number of people on both sides was roughly equal, and they eyed each other coldly. The atmosphere inside the stone house was not very harmonious.

  Qin Tianzhan had arrived at the foot of Mount Su earlier, and was taken in as a disciple by the True Person of Palm Teachings early on. As a result, among this batch of disciples, the vast majority with good innate abilities had already attached themselves to Qin Tianzhan before Tian Yingdong's arrival.

  Qin Tian gave a hint with his eyes, and one of his subordinates seemingly unintentionally bumped into another person next to him, then immediately jumped up and shouted: "Are you blind, dare to hit me!"

  The person who was bumped into was Tian Yingdong's man, who sneered and said, "Hmph, how arrogant! You hit someone and then turn around and blame them!"

  "Are you looking for trouble?"

  "Bring it on!"

  The two of them immediately pounced on each other and started wrestling. The crowd cheered, while Qin Tianzhan and Tian Yingdong watched with cold eyes. The tables and chairs in the classroom were all made of wood, and the two of them knocked over several in just a few moves.

  At the moment when they were evenly matched, a yellow talisman suddenly flew in from outside the door and burned up as it flew. When it reached the top of their heads, the talisman that had been completely burned transformed into a huge palm, which swooped down and caught the two people who were struggling, and with a "whoosh" sound, threw them out.

  Two people flew out of the door and everyone rushed out in pursuit.

  Only a lean man was seen with his back to the crowd at the door, two fingers pinched together, and a spiritual symbol appeared, which immediately ignited.

  "Go!"

  That man pointed at the burning spirit symbol, and a huge wooden mallet appeared out of thin air, heavily pounding the two people who were still flying around!

  "Boom!"

  Two people let out a loud cry of pain as they were slammed heavily to the ground, severely injured and bleeding from all seven orifices, losing consciousness.

  The disciples were shocked and never expected the man to be so ruthless.

  That man slowly turned around in the fearful gaze of the crowd, a sinister scar, like a centipede, from his forehead through his left eye, all the way to his neck!

  He slightly blinked his eye, and that ferocious scar seemed to move, startling several timid disciples into a shudder.

  The ferocious man didn't even glance at the two seriously injured disciples, letting them bleed there, and strode into the classroom with his head held high.

  The disciples looked at Qin Tianzhan and Tian Yingdong separately. Tian Yingdong hesitated, but did not respond. Qin Tianzhan, however, secretly signaled to one of the disciples, who then wanted to go and treat their injured comrade. But just as he stretched out his foot, a cold glint flashed in the eyes of that fierce-looking man!

  "Whoosh!" The disciples' eyes blurred for a moment, and a pained cry echoed in their ears!

  A sharp short sword nailed that foot firmly to the ground!

  Fresh blood flowed out, and the disciple was in so much pain that he sweated all over his body, hugging his legs and screaming miserably.

  The fierce man stood in front of everyone and said coldly: "Did I tell you to go save them?"

  Tian Yingdong gritted his teeth and was the first to walk back to the classroom. The others also returned with a whoosh.

  Sun Li followed among the crowd, also with a chill in his heart.

  When all the disciples returned to their seats, the fierce man scanned around, with a fierce light in his eyes. Every disciple who was seen by him lowered his head honestly.

  The fierce-looking man nodded slightly, seemingly satisfied: "My name is Chong Ba, and I'm your instructor. Let me tell you one thing, every new batch of disciples who enter the Su Bao Academy, as long as there are no more than five deaths, I won't be held responsible for anything."

  "Hiss——"

  All the disciples took a cold breath! Even Tian Yingdong and Qin Tianzhao were secretly shocked. The two of them asked themselves that Chong Ba would not dare to kill them, but to teach them a lesson by force, to severely injure them was entirely possible.

  "In this school, there are only two official teachers. I, Chong Ba, am in charge of martial arts, and the other one, a young-looking man named Chong Yin, is in charge of literature. Simply put, he teaches you how to cultivate your inner energy, while I teach you how to fight!"

  "Those who are good at fighting usually can fight well. But I'm stuck in this crappy school and it's really frustrating, we can't even have a decent fight all year round...... So I warmly welcome you to break the rules."

  Sun Li's back was emitting a cool breeze.

  Wu Yao burst out laughing: "This kid is quite to my taste, haha..."

  "Alright, now that I've said everything there is to say, do you all understand?"

  "I understand!" The disciples' voices were exceptionally loud.

  Chong Bao smiled slightly, the venomous centipede on his face twitching: "Alright, now go and get someone to bring those three idiots back for me."

  The disciples rushed out with a whoosh, and the first two were still unconscious, with the fresh blood under them having accumulated into a pool!

  The disciples were about to lift them up in a flurry, when a voice sounded from behind everyone: "Their internal organs are injured and their ribs are broken. They can't be moved around randomly, or the ribs will pierce their heart and they won't be able to be saved."

  Everyone turned their heads back and saw that the speaker was wearing a green shirt and hat, not very tall, with fair skin, looking like he was only in his teens.

  "Are you also a new apprentice? How come I don't remember at all?"

  The disciples were all very curious.

  Chong Ba stood at the classroom door, smiling smugly. The man pointed at Chong Ba and said: "I'm that guy's so-called 'little white face', your instructor Chong Yin."

  "What?!"

  Chong Yin slowly walked over and fed each of the three disciples a spiritual pill: "Alright, don't worry about them anymore. They'll be able to move on their own after lying down for a while."

  The disciple whose foot was pierced by the sword had already retrieved his short sword, and the wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The eyes of the disciples looking at Chong Yin were not without a hint of affection.

  ……

  "The rules in the academy are very simple, as long as you don't provoke our two professors, everything will be fine. As for other things, whether you want to secretly plot against each other, pretend to be harmonious on the surface but actually be at odds with each other, engage in secret duels, or even cut sleeves and divide peaches, it's all none of our business, as long as we don't find out about it, we'll just pretend we don't know, go ahead and make a ruckus..."

  "But remember, after the seventh exam, when you graduate from the college, you must at least reach the third level of Mortal Realm, otherwise you will be swept out."

  Chong Yin said it lightly, and as he spoke, he raised his hand, and out of thin air, dozens of ancient books with blue cloth covers flew into the palms of each of his disciples.

  On Sun Li's desk was also a book. He lowered his head to take a look, and on the ancient book in seal script were written four large characters: Da Xing Dao Yan.

  "The 'Dahang Dao Yan' is the most basic scripture in the Xiuzhen world, and the 'Dahang Dao Yan' in everyone's hands is annotated by our sect's ancestors, which is absolutely more than a hundred times stronger than those circulating outside."

  "What I'm going to talk about today is this book, 'The Grand Sutra of the Great Way'."

  Chong Yin began to lecture, while Chong Ba had already turned around and left without saying a word, seemingly extremely impatient with such things.

  Chong Yin seems harmless to humans and animals, always smiling, and his words are also extremely cautious, not attacking those disciples who are not good at it, trying to treat everyone equally.

  Having just experienced the cruel and tyrannical rule of Chongzhen, the reign of Chongzheng gives everyone a feeling of spring breeze.

  A figure suddenly appeared in Sun Li's mind, Wu Yao coldly snorted: "This smiling tiger, I don't like him!"

  "How can you be so sure he's a hypocrite? Can't there be a good person in the sect?" Sun Li didn't believe it.

  Wu Yao said bluntly: "I've never been wrong about people, believe it or not."

  Sun Li stopped talking and listened carefully.

  Chong Yin was talking about the most basic theory of yin and yang, which Sun Li had also learned from Fuzi in Lianhuatai Village. However, the theories in the secular world were much more superficial, while this "Dahang Dao Yan" involved the essence of this world.

  Chong Yin was speaking when Luo Huan hummed a sound.

  Sun Liben thought he was going to say something, but Luo Huan fell silent again.

  After a while, Soongnyeong was talking about the five elements, and Rohwan hummed again. But then, there was no sound again.

  Sun Li was puzzled for a moment, and Wu Yao finally couldn't bear it: "You don't say I'll say!"

  "This stupid teacher is misleading his students, what kind of nonsense is he talking about? He can't even get the most basic theories right, does he have any clear understanding of this world?"

  Wu Yaofei quickly said, completely overturning the three-chi theory that Chong Yin had previously talked about!

  What was discussed today is all the most basic things. Don't look at Wu Yao's three-ten and Chong Yin being different, these three-ten directly make Wu Yao's basic theory and Chong Yin's results differ by 180,000 miles!

  But this difference is not obvious at the beginning of cultivation, and the higher the level, the greater the impact will be in the future. No wonder in recent years, there are fewer and fewer high-level cultivators in the Cultivation Realm.

  Sun Li didn't know who was right after all, vaguely feeling that he should listen to Chong Yin's words, after all, the two voices in his mind had some "ulterior motives".

  But he also hesitated a bit, when they first entered the mountain gate, Wu Yao and Luo Huan's evaluation of the entire Su Bao Mountain, he still remembered clearly, many places were indeed correct.

  Sun Li was struggling in his mind, when he suddenly felt the surroundings quiet down. He looked up to find that Chong Yin, who had been lecturing at the front, was now standing beside him, a pair of eyes staring at him with an ambiguous smile.

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