Chapter 391: Practicals [PART 1]
The water clone that was now Xiang Yu’s teaching clone walked through the corridors of the Secondary Professions Pavilion.
After reset, Xiang Yu’s bloodline condensation cooldown had refreshed, allowing him to condense bloodline once again. He first upgraded the light clone into the research clone, the wood clone into the farming clone, and finally, the water clone into the teaching clone.
Xiang Yu opened the door to his office and walked inside.
He moved over to his chair and sat down. As he began retrieving items from his storage bag, someone entered.
He continued his work without bothering to look up.
“Grand Elder, here are the assignment submissions,” Liu Qing said, handing him a bundle of papers.
Xiang Yu finally looked up. He took the papers from her hands and lightly tapped her on the head with them.
“That’s Teacher Xiang,” he corrected.
“I understand… Grand Elder,” Liu Qing replied.
Xiang Yu sighed. Since he held the position of Grand Elder, the disciples naturally felt hesitant to use his teacher title. Generally, the higher-ranking title took precedence. It seemed he couldn’t become a teacher in this life after all.
He placed the submitted assignments on the table and walked over to a hanger where he grabbed his lab coat. He walked back over to her. “I’m suddenly in the mood for a RAT,” he said.
Liu Qing looked surprised by this but nodded. “I’ll go tell the others,” she said.
“No, not a normal one. Today, it’s practical,” he said. “Gather everyone outside.”
She nodded and left.
Xiang Yu walked out of his office. He thought to himself that it had been two weeks since the establishment of the Secondary Professions Pavilion. Although it was just two weeks, it felt like it had been ages.
Well, it’s been two hundred chapters after all.
He reflected that although only two weeks had passed, he felt the students had progressed quite nicely. At first, it seemed as though they weren’t improving, but as time went on and his researcher profession grew, he was able to more easily understand each student and pass along information effectively.
Although enlightenment definitely played a huge part in learning professions, it was more based on understanding.
It made sense that people with higher enlightenment would understand much more easily. But with his researcher profession, he was able to more easily transfer knowledge and help them understand.
Considering his level of researcher profession, this was even more OP, to the point that his students were picking up information much faster than those geniuses with high enlightenment. Well, excluding people like him and Li Yao.
As he was thinking about this, he had already arrived at the test zone where hundreds of students had gathered.
He quickly scanned their faces.
There were quite a few more than before. This was because he had done recruitment twice since the first day. This was mainly because he needed more farming students to take care of the external farms, but he felt bad just picking farming since some disciples wanted to enter the Secondary Professions Pavilion so badly that they would take farming even though it might not necessarily be their best fit.
It was better to give all professions a chance. Even if many wanted to join the pavilion for the status that came with it, they could at least pursue what they were best at. A win-win situation.
…
Hundreds of students stood scattered across the test zone, each positioned at their individual workstations.
The disciples were filled with nervous excitement as they prepared to showcase their skills in the practical assessment. Although they had done many written tests and even a few practicals on their own, having to do it in front of the grand elder was quite nerve wracking.
When they thought about how the grand elder taught them all day, and even sometimes gave one-on-one lessons, they felt they had to prove themselves. Their expressions hardened as they stared at their workstations, they couldn’t disappoint the grand elder.
They needed to show him that he wasn’t mistaken for investing in them. They couldn’t fail.
Xiang Yu positioned himself at the center of the area, his gaze sweeping across the group.
“Begin!” Xiang Yu called out.
The cooking students frantically reached for ingredients, their movements quick and sometimes clumsy in their eagerness. Pots clattered, spices scattered, and the occasional yelp could be heard as someone grabbed a hot pan handle.
However, among the chaos, Zao Shen moved calmly.
He casually placed butter onto his heated pan, watching it sizzle gently as he thought to himself that cooking was all about patience and understanding the ingredients. While others rushed around him, he methodically prepared each component, remembering the Grand Elder’s teachings about the harmony between fire and food.
For medicine, Xiang Yu had thought it would’ve been the hardest to find materials to do the practicals for as the so-called materials were sick disciples. But surprisingly, there were quite a few of them.
Some disciples even wanted to get themselves sick to help him with the test. He smiled as he watched the medicine students work, they were the first students he had taught, he hoped they wouldn’t disappoint him.
The medicine students carefully examined their assigned patients, some fumbling with diagnostic techniques while others showed more confidence.
Wang Cheng’s hands were steady as he checked pulse points and meridian flows.. He had learned that medicine required both knowledge and intuition. Not everything was as simple as it seemed as some diseases could mimic others and there was no easy way to tell other than experience.
When dealing with cases like these – rushing could mean the difference between healing and harm.
In the talisman section, most students struggled with the intricate brush strokes required for proper symbol formation.
Since talisman making and formation making both relied on having a spiritual sea to draw the blueprints, and the alternative runesmith method had quite the high bar of entry, Xiang Yu had developed a different unique method for his students.
This method relied on using specially grafted brushes. These brushes were all high level spiritual weapons and could imitate the calm qi from the spiritual sea. The disciple just needed to inject qi into it and slowly draw the blueprints.
The only problem with this method was that the margin of error was quite high as it all depended on the body which was harder to control than something like the spiritual sea.
It also favored those with art skills more.
The disciples’ hands shook as they attempted to channel qi through their brushwork.
Fu Yue, however, maintained steady breathing as he held the talisman in his hand. Since he was a golden core realm cultivator, he didn’t need to struggle with a brush. He concentrated his spiritual power onto the paper and the blueprints slowly began coming to life.
He drew each line with care, understanding that talisman creation demanded absolute focus and spiritual clarity.
Daily (1/2)