Chapter 1: The Decline of the Academy
The Spirit Sword Academy used to be the top martial arts academy in the Yuanling Continent, and it rose rapidly like a comet back then, from a little-known to the well-known Yuanling Continent.
For this reason, becoming a student of the Spirit Sword Academy is something that countless martial artists dream of. They all sharpened their heads and squeezed inside, as long as they could be chosen, it would be the honor of the glorious ancestors!
However, its decline is like a shooting star, and its brilliance is only for a moment, and then it disappears into darkness.
Today's Spirit Sword Academy ranks first from the bottom in the Yuan Ling Continent.
Moreover, it is the first place in the 100-courtyard competition, which is held once in ten years, for three consecutive years.
Such an achievement surprised countless supporters who were optimistic about the Spirit Sword Academy.
The glory and strength of the past can only make the Spirit Sword Academy look even more embarrassed and unbearable at this moment.
Disappointment again and again has made more and more people turn from support to abuse and ridicule.
The dean of the Spirit Sword Academy has become the place where the people of the Yuanling Continent have fun chatting after drinking, eating, tea, and chatting.
After all, the leader academy directly transitioned from the top ranks to the bottom one, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
The dean of the Spirit Sword Academy was also "crowned" by the people of the Yuan Spirit Continent with a resounding name of "Cute Pet Dean" for this reason, even though his actual age was over half a hundred......
The tree is generous and shady, the academy has fallen to this point, the dean has been humiliated, and as a student of the Spirit Sword Academy, he can only be ridiculed and can't raise his head.
What's even more ridiculous is that in the Yuanling Continent, where force is respected and the weak eat the strong, even ordinary people will sneer at the Spirit Sword Academy and sneer at it!
Faced with such a situation, this "cute pet dean" is still struggling to support the academy and not let the name of Spirit Sword Academy disappear in the Yuanling Continent.
Even though there are only 29 teachers and students including the dean of this college.
Such a scale in the Yuanling Continent could not be named after an academy at all.
If it weren't for someone secretly helping, I'm afraid that the Spirit Sword Academy would have disappeared into the long river of history, and in the most humiliating way!
However, the Ling Emperor, the controller of the Yuan Ling Continent, also clearly issued a rule that if the number of people in the academy does not reach fifty in the next competition of the hundred academies, he will be forcibly disqualified from running the academy!
Sounds incredible, but it's just 50 people? Is it going to be difficult? But the truth is!
Liu Qing, the dean of the Spirit Sword Academy, personally goes to Luoshui County every year to recruit students.
At this time of year, Luoshui County is extremely lively, overcrowded, and pubs, inns, shops, and places of pleasure will take advantage of this to make a lot of money.
The reason why so many people poured into Luoshui County was that the "famous" Spirit Sword Academy was located here, and the legendary "cute pet dean" personally enrolled students.
Therefore, whether it is ordinary residents, casual cultivators, martial artists from other academies, members of super families, and members of the royal family, they will all gather here.
It seems that the Spirit Sword Academy has returned to the original moment of strength and glory.
But in fact, it's all to pay homage to this "cute pet dean", and to see if you can really recruit fifty people.
Originally, there were some martial artists with poor qualifications and ordinary family backgrounds, who thought about joining the Spirit Sword Academy, after all, no matter how bad the academy was, it was much better than having no exercises and no one to guide them.
But when I saw that the previous students couldn't bear the pressure and had a nervous breakdown, they all escaped from this land of gods and demons, and they all completely strangled this idea in the cradle!
Therefore, in the first recruitment, although ten people were recruited, in the end, fifteen people ran away! This is really worse for the Spirit Sword Academy.
Such a ridiculous thing has made more people interested.
The enrollment of the second year is unprecedented, as if overnight, the people of the Yuanling Continent have gone to Luoshui County, and they are shoulder to shoulder everywhere they go, which makes the industry of Luoshui County develop rapidly.
The merchants of Luoshui County are grateful to this "cute pet dean...... Pray that you don't recruit students this year! In that case, next year will be another good year......!
The major casinos in Luoshui County also couldn't bear it, and opened handicaps one after another, all thinking that the Spirit Sword Academy would not recruit anyone this year, and the ratio reached a terrifying one to one hundred!
This kind of temptation is not something that ordinary people can resist, and this is an opportunity to get rich overnight.
Many people took out their wives' books and broke the boat! All pressed on the body of the "cute pet dean", praying that the brave warriors would join the Spirit Sword Academy!
As a result, the major casinos are making a lot of money!
After a period of time, the tallest restaurant in Luoshui County became a beautiful landscape.
Every day, someone will stand on the top floor blowing a refreshing cool breeze, drinking intoxicating wine, and then waving the last majestic posture in their lives to jump down!
This restaurant, called Zuixianlou, also announced its closure soon after, and no one dared to approach the vicinity of the restaurant, otherwise they didn't know how they died......
It's all because the "cute pet dean" didn't recruit a single student!
At this time, in a pavilion of the Spirit Sword Academy, there was an old man with gray hair, the old man looked melancholy, and he couldn't stop sighing! The wrinkles on his face seemed to have increased out of thin air.
Next to the old man stood a middle-aged man in a white robe, with black hair on his head, his face like a knife, resolute and extraordinary, and his black pupils as black as ink contained grief and unspeakable unwillingness!
The middle-aged man said with a sad face: "Father, why are you so suffering? With your strength, why should you suffer this kind of ridicule and shame at this age! If you want me to say that you will give up this academy, you have already achieved this point, what else can you do! I believe that the spirit of the master in the sky will not blame you!"
"What do you know? Back then, the qualifications of the father were the most ordinary, but the teacher excluded public opinion and entrusted the academy to the father, how do you say the father repays this trust and kindness? Now that the academy is in decline, and even facing the danger of extinction, the father has no face to face the teacher, if he leaves it alone, the father will not be blind even if he dies!" The old man said angrily.
"I know my father, I just can't stand it, these people who are like dogs treat you like this, to our academy, I feel aggrieved, I really want to beat these dog mongrels down!" said the middle-aged man gloomily and coldly.
"Alas, this is also something that can't be helped, the academy has become what it is now, and it is normal to be ridiculed and ridiculed, only blame the ...... back then" The old man stopped talking, and his face was extremely sad!
"Father, what happened back then, every time you swallow and spout, what do you have to hide from me! The children are so old, what can't you know!"
The middle-aged man's face looked very unhappy, and he was angry about what his father had been hiding from him.
He felt that something big had happened to the academy back then, so that the academy would change from the overlord to the current fish belly status!
The old man's eyes were confused, his face was sad, and he seemed to be caught in the memories of the year, and then sighed faintly: "I will tell you later, there is no benefit in saying it now!"
"Father!" the middle-aged man shouted dissatisfiedly, and was about to say something, but the old man hurriedly waved his hand to stop him: "Don't ask again, so be it, my father is also tired, so go back and rest first!"
"Young Master, Young Master......!" At this moment, a rapid cry came quickly from far and near!
A woman of about forty or fifty staggered over, after the woman saw the middle-aged man and the old man, she had an uncontrollable smile, the woman gasped and said happily: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the young master!"
"What's the matter, nurse, it's rare to see you so happy, what's the happy event, let's hear it. The middle-aged man saw the nurse who raised him, and his voice became softer, his mother died in childbirth when he was born, and it was the nurse who brought him up, so the nurse was like a mother in his heart.
"Sister-in-law Li, don't worry, why are you running so fast at this age! The old man also said with a rare smile.
"Master, young master, you two have really big hearts, such a big happy event, you are calm!" Sister-in-law Li pretended to be mysterious.
The two men glanced at each other, their faces were dazed, and the middle-aged man suddenly said uncertainly: "Nurse, is it ......" The smiles on the faces of the man and the old man were accumulating......
Sister-in-law Li looked at the expressions of the two of them and knew that the other party had guessed it, and said excitedly: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the young master, the young lady has given birth!
"Hahaha......" The middle-aged man's accumulated smile completely bloomed! "Bing'er is fine, great, I'm a father, I'm a father!" The middle-aged man shook the old man's shoulder excitedly: "Father, I'm also a father!" and then threw himself into the nurse's arms: "Nurse, I'm a father! I'm a father!"
When the old man heard the news, he saw his son, who was excited like a child, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to disappear a lot, and lotus flowers bloomed on the old man's dry face, which was like dead wood.
God knows how sad he has been behind him over the years, and how much pressure he has been cared on, so that he who has entered the Spirit Feather Realm can grow old like this!
Now that he finally heard the good news, the old man breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart!
"For the sake of these children, this academy must bring it to life!" the old man thought firmly.
Sister-in-law Li held this child raised by herself, she was very satisfied and proud, seeing that he was now in her arms, she cried with joy, Sister-in-law Li pursed her lips and tried her best to control her emotions, but she still couldn't help but leave tears!
"Okay, why are you two still stunned here, why don't you hurry up!" Sister-in-law Li secretly wiped away her tears with her sleeve and reminded!
The middle-aged man patted his head and secretly scolded himself for being stupid, "Father, nurse, I'll go first......" The middle-aged man couldn't wait, and disappeared from the eyes of the two of them in a puff of smoke!
"This kid!" the old man laughed and said, "Sister-in-law Li, is it a boy or a girl?"
"Master Hui, it's a girl, she opened a pair of big eyes when she was born, she is very watery, she will definitely be a big beauty in the future, and I heard the young lady say that the young lady is extremely talented, and she was born with a water spirit mark!"
"What?" the old man's face suddenly changed.
"Sister-in-law Li, the old man will also go to see my granddaughter first!" Before the words fell, the old man had disappeared!