Chapter 3: The Dean of the Barren Mountains

Barren Mountain Town, Near Forest Lodge

For the first time, Cangqing dragged his tired and heavy steps out of the Yikou trading area, and after passing through the street gate of the mountain city, he left the smooth bluestone-paved city path and walked deep into the barren mountains and forests in the north of the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Walking along the mountain path, the forest became denser and stronger, and the straight red shirt trees and cedars were densely clustered together.

The snow of early winter slowly accumulates in the silent mountain forest, and unlike the streets of the town, the snow here barely melts.

In the empty and quiet forest, except for the occasional birdsong, there is only the sound of the cangqing stepping on the middle layer of winter snow and fallen leaves.

A heavy sense of helplessness suddenly rose in the young man's heart, yes, in this world where strength is the criterion, the right of ordinary people to choose has become a kind of illusion, and mortals can only live cautiously under the rules set by the strong, live, and live.

In a conversation with Uncle Guanyi District, the boy learned that this year was the last chance for the Desert Academy, because the results of the first four assessments were dismal.

The empire has decided to abolish the Barren Mountain Academy, and make the entire city of Barren Mountain City a branch of the highest academy of the empire, the Jingqi Academy, and the ordinary residents of the entire small city will be assigned to the west to do unpaid labor for the production of military materials.

The boy raised his eyes, and before he knew it, he found that he had arrived home. Surrounded by towering trees rising from the ground, the small cabins look full and shaded in the dim light of the forest in the early morning.

The cliffs on both sides are covered in snow, and a small stream flows out that does not freeze in winter, and my mother used to wash clothes by the stream.

Today's stream was unusually calm, and without the figure of his mother washing clothes, Cangqing felt empty, and unconsciously accelerated his pace towards the wooden house.

"Brother--! you're finally back"

There was a baby's voice in the air, and a very young child, only three or four years old, suddenly popped out in front of the wooden house.

At that time, my mother brought it back by the stream three years ago. Now the baby who was still swaddling back then is the heart of their mother, and the mother and the teenager love it tightly.

The little guy looks very white and tender, the big eyes are round and the eyes are black, the whole person looks like a white porcelain doll, very cute, and this naïve appearance does not match the little guy at this time looks anxious...

"My mother fell asleep again..., I'm so scared!" Little

The guy cried and said...

Jingqi Empire-Tianhuang County, County King's Mansion

The Imperial Palace

The king of the county, please read it...

The old man's calm voice showed an unquestionable sense of power under the eerie quiet atmosphere of the council hall. Under this voice, the king twitched the corners of his mouth, wiped the will on the proclamation, and read it out carefully and rigorously...

"Tianhuang County, the major event of the empire, the country is a good talent.........

The barren mountain city is rich in materials, and it is a good place for military resources, and the academy is here, and there is no ......... of talents, so it will go to the west and serve the country......

Chin this. ”

The old man closed his eyes lightly under the unhurried tone of the county king, as if he was a thinker, and as if he did not take his will to heart at all. The moment I finished reading, I opened my eyes, and my cloudy eyes suddenly returned to clarity, and there was not much fluctuation...

"Good!"

Nalan Guangyu is really anxious, I'm not in the imperial capital, so I'll dismiss the academy, hmph, old man, I'll really teach a top ten students in the county next year, see what this little emperor can do to me...

The old man suddenly popped out of this paragraph, and the whole hall became quieter...

Even the king of the county didn't say anything, and all the deans present understood that the old man in front of him was the imperial soldier nine years ago, the powerhouse of the Spirit King Realm, and the six masters of the Jingqi Empire...

Nine years ago, he suddenly resigned from the country's worship, and came to the Imperial Academy in this wild town as the dean, and he stayed for nine years, and the Barren Mountain Academy was not as good as a year in the nine years, and the five-year academy was promoted to ten years compared to the unqualified standard students, but no one dared to question, without him, the strong people in the Spirit King Realm were only a handful in Jingqi.

After finishing speaking, the old man recited a sentence, "This group of unfortunate things... Alas. ”

After speaking, he flashed and disappeared, and after disappearing, the old man's words came from the air

"Tianhuang County King, you tell the little emperor that he will go back when the old man wants to return to the imperial capital, and the old man will not break his rules this time, if the students of the Barren Mountain Academy do not enter the top ten in the county competition, the Barren Mountain Academy will be dismissed, and the matter sent by the people to the west can be discussed later......"

After the echoing sound in the main hall stopped, everyone wiped the sweat from their heads slightly...

Barren Mountain City, Barren Mountain Academy

With the sound of the quaint and majestic bell on the side of the college tower, the distant and majestic sound...

Boom...

On the martial arts practice square with a radius of more than hundreds of zhang, there is a group of neat teenagers and girls standing at this time, the teenagers and girls are crowded, whispering to each other, and some students who have received the news are exchanging the matter of this martial arts...

"Did you hear about it, but the new county court competition will be held in the early spring of next year..."

"Hmm, yes. Ha ha... It's finally time for me to show off what I'm capable of!"

"Alas, you don't know that the results of our academy are very bad every time they compete, and if the results are not good this time, it seems to be very bad for our academy..."

"Yes, the dean seems to have gone to the county king's mansion to discuss this matter, I hope it will be fine."

As the news of the square below spread, an atmosphere of sadness and unwillingness began to spread among the students, who had to accept the fate of others at a young and arrogant age...

Looking ahead, there was a podium made of square gold and marble.

In front of the majestic stage, the most striking thing is a huge mountain-shaped carved stone in the center, the shape of the mountain is strange, it looks like a giant tree in the sky, and an inexplicable sense of oppression emanates from the tree-shaped mountain, enveloping the academy.

There are four majestic characters on the mountain stone carvings...

"Barren Mountain Academy"!

On the podium, standing side by side were dressed in seven indigo cyan robes, and the chest of the robe had the word "chair" woven of black and gold threads.

Obviously, they are the people with the highest spiritual cultivation in this barren mountain city... As the students' eyes moved with reverence and envy, the chair standing in the middle took a step forward.

He looked at the students in the square with a little disappointment, looked up, and found that the student named Lan Lian had a slightly slower face, and nodded with satisfaction, obviously having high hopes for her.

The sunlight shone through the huge mountain stele, and the sprinkling of light shattered from the stele and projected onto the podium. Sprinkled on the chairs to make their image in the academy seem to be covered with another layer of sacredness, dazzling and unusual...

The chair standing in the middle slowly raised his hands, and a faint light slowly overflowed from the palm of his hand, and the power fluctuations that were not dazzling but powerful showed the condensation and strength of this spiritual power.

The chair continued to lift his hands upward, dividing a thin film of spiritual power light into every corner of the Zhi Square...

"Tsk, this is the realm of spiritual power echoes, the spiritual power of the first chair is really unfathomable, and it covers the entire square in just a moment" The students below sighed in admiration.

Of course, the realm of echo is just a small means of spiritual power, and sound transmission can also be used to wrap the sound with spiritual power to transmit it to distant places, but the students here have not yet reached the realm of spirits and can't withstand the impact of this spiritual sound wave...

"You students probably already know about the relevant matters of this county-wide academy competition, this academy, as the Nine Great Imperial Colleges of Tianhuang County, originally had a hundred places to be tested, and students with tested qualifications must reach the seventh stage of blood refining and spirit transformation..."

Speaking of which, the atmosphere in the square became even quieter, as if the gentle morning breeze blowing through the arc of the early winter leaves was mocking their spiritual cultivation...

Yes, every spirit on this continent must go through the experience of refining blood and transforming the spirit into the Nine Heavens, and the origin of spiritual power is to make various uses of the spiritual power contained in this heaven and earth.

Everyone has the talent of perceiving spiritual power, and the strength of this talent determines whether they have the innate conditions to become a spirit person. The boys and girls in this square are the group of people with the highest spiritual talent in this small town...

People with talent need to carry out arduous cultivation on their bodies, so that they can feel spiritual power more sensitively, and even absorb and store until they become a spirit person, with great power...

The process of refining blood and transforming the spirit is to temper the body to the extreme, so that the body can adapt and go through the refining of spiritual power, the whole process is arduous and long, and all the large and small blood vessels are tempered by spiritual power.

Spiritual power flows from the body to Zhou Tian, and when the spiritual power meridians of the whole body are opened. The spiritual power reacts with the body, greatly enhancing the strength, speed, and ability to use the spiritual power of heaven and earth.

"There are twelve people in our Barren Mountain Academy in the seventh stage of blood refining and spirit transformation, and there are thirty-six people in the sixth stage, you thirty-six people have cultivated well in the past few months, and I hope to be able to represent our Barren Mountain Academy in the early spring competition..."

The first chair said lightly, but the constricted brow hinted at his uncalm heart. He looked into the distance and let out a long breath.

"Dean, I hope I can bring back good news..."The first chair muttered to himself, could it be that this is the last time for Barren Mountain Academy?

To be continued...