Chapter 13: Gathering Talismans

Today is the first day of school, Luo Chen got the notice of class assignment three days ago, and he was assigned to class seventeen.

Luo Chen came to the classroom on time, the classroom was very spacious, but there were only about twenty seats, and it seemed that there would not be many students in each class.

I casually found a place to sit in the back, and by this time the people were almost all there, and the students were all about the same age, between twelve and sixteen years old. They gathered in twos and threes to talk, waiting for the teacher to come.

They didn't have to wait long before an ordinary-looking man walked into the classroom, and the students who were chatting in the classroom stopped talking.

After the man took the stage and gave a brief introduction, the students learned that his name was Song Lin, and he was not their teacher, but only responsible for managing their class and informing them of the instructions issued by the academy.

After that, Song Lin talked about some precautions as usual, and then started today's main event.

"I don't know how much you know about the history of the academy?" Song Lin glanced at the students proudly, and asked rhetorically: "Tens of thousands of years ago, our academy was one of the top universities in Blue Spirit City! At that time, the academy was able to produce many people, and the academy was in the limelight for a while, do you know the reason for this?"

Several students in the audience looked excited, obviously they knew some of the reasons, but more students were waiting for Song Lin's answer with doubts like Luo Chen.

Song Lin didn't have the appetite of the students, but paused slightly and said, "This is because our academy has a special system, that is, the sub-class!"

"Side class?" most of the students muttered a few words with puzzled faces, obviously not knowing what this side class meant.

Song Lin turned around and wrote three words on the blackboard, "Fu Array", "Dan Weapon", and "Cultivation Medicine".

"These three things are what I call a sub-class. Song Lin turned around and explained, "These three courses are all courses closely related to spirit masters, and if you master any of them, they will bring endless benefits to your future spirit master career! As a member of our academy, you can choose any one of them to study, which is not found in other colleges!"

Looking at the students below whose faces became flushed because of excitement, Song Lin secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, he still had some words that he didn't say, in fact, tens of thousands of years ago, the sub-courses were not only these three, but were divided into: spirit runes, formations, tools, alchemy, and elixir!

"None of these three courses are easy to learn! I don't know why the academy attaches so much importance to the so-called side courses. Song Lin sighed secretly, "If we pay attention to the growth of students' strength like other academies, the academy probably won't become what it is now!"

"Anyway, these are not for me, a little teacher, to decide, let's do my own thing!" Song Lin shook his head and threw those trivial thoughts out of his mind, and then explained the characteristics of each of the three subjects, before looking at the excited students below and reminding: "Everyone, please carefully choose the sub-course you want to learn, and then write your name and the selected sub-course on paper and hand it to me!"

After Song Lin finished speaking, as soon as the students in the class were discussed, Luo Chen was also secretly thinking about which sub-class he should choose to study.

Luo Chen first excluded the sub-course of Dan Weapon, although he was very optimistic about this subject, after all, who could not need some elixir and weapons and equipment for a spirit master? But Song Lin faintly mentioned that the subject of Dan was very expensive, but Luo Chen had no extra money on him to learn the subject of Dan Weapon now, so he had no choice but to give up.

"The only thing left is the rune array and the cultivation medicine," Luo Chen pondered slightly, "The rune array is too difficult to start with, and the failure rate at the beginning will be very high!

After thinking about it for a long time, Luo Chen wrote the words "Luo Chen, Fu Array" on the paper, and he thought that instead of spending time on cultivating herbs all day long, it is better to learn the subject of Fu Array, and the extra time can also grasp meditation to improve his strength, and there is also a certain failure rate in cultivating medicine.

By the time Luo Chen finished writing, most of the students had already handed in the note, "It seems that I have been thinking about it for a long time." Thinking about it, he got up and handed over the note, but when he turned back to his seat, he felt a chill sweeping over him, causing him to stiffen and shiver unnaturally.

Luo Chen looked up in the direction where the chill was coming, and a young man dressed in black walked towards Luo Chen, the young man looked about the same age as Luo Chen, his face was thin, his short black hair covered his left eye, and the exposed right eye exuded a terrifying cold light.

The young man held a note in his hand, walked past Luo Chen's side with steady steps, handed the note to Song Lin, and then turned around and walked back to his seat, until then Luo Chen's body returned to normal, but his entire back was soaked with cold sweat, and the students around Luo Chen also breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was not the only one who felt the biting coldness just now.

Luo Chen returned to his seat and glanced up at the young man's location in some surprise, he didn't understand why the young man exuded such a cold aura.

The boy was sitting in his seat with his eyes closed, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Okay, that's all for today!Let's go back and rest!" Song Lin said after cleaning up the notes he had collected and making sure that they were all handed over, and glanced at the boy in black with a little meaning, obviously Song Lin also found that this boy was a little different from others, but he didn't say anything.

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Three months later.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged in his dormitory, and recalled the steps of making spirit runes in his mind, then opened his eyes and picked up a strangely shaped pen on the table, dipped the brush in the blue spirit ink placed on the side, and after a slight pause, he began to draw on a rectangular blank rune paper.

In the past three months, Luo Chen has been going back and forth between the classroom and the dormitory every day, living a life of two points and one line, during which the main class teaches some cultivation methods and "spiritual skills" and other knowledge, these are very basic knowledge, many students have long understood this, just when other students are bored listening to it, Luo Chen is listening to it with relish, and the homework assigned is also completed seriously, which also makes the teacher love this diligent and silent student very much.

Luo Chen didn't come into contact with this knowledge as early as other students, Luo Chen became a spirit master just by accident, and the conditions of the Basic Training Academy of the Holy Spirit Hall were too poor, which also led to Luo Chen not systematically learning these basic things at all, so he studied so seriously.

But it is precisely because of his serious attitude that he is regarded as an outlier by other students, and they all stay away from him, Luo Chen doesn't care about it, he is not good at communicating with people, such a situation may not be a bad thing for him.

However, Luo Chen was not the only isolated student in the class, the young man in black was also one of them, Luo Chen also carefully observed him a few times, and found that this young man always looked cold, and did not take the initiative to communicate with others, of course, others did not dare to go up and provoke him casually, that kind of cold breath is not something that anyone can bear.

In addition to the main course, Luo Chen also developed a strong interest in the secondary course of Fu Array.

The teacher of the Fu Array class is a sloppy old man, the old man's name is Donghe, the students call him He Lao, and all the new students who choose the Fu Array class are taught by him, so there are a lot of people who listen to the class.

In the past three months, He Lao has taught them a total of the five most basic spirit runes, but so far there are very few people who have been able to successfully make these five spirit runes, and as for the knowledge of formations, He Lao has not started teaching them at all.

The spirit rune that Luo Chen is making now is the most difficult of the five basic spirit runes, and it is also the most used one--[Gathering Spirit Rune]!

As for the other four spirit runes, Luo Chen has already been able to successfully produce them, although the success rate is not very flattering, but I have to say that Luo Chen is the best among these many students.

Making spirit runes was not as easy as Luo Chen imagined at first, thinking that it would be enough to dip it in the spirit ink and draw it on the rune paper according to the pattern that the teacher said.

In fact, this is a job that requires a high degree of concentration, and it pays attention to the spirit master's grasp of the strength when making talismans, as well as the precise control of spiritual power and spiritual sense!

At this time, Luo Chen's spirit was highly concentrated, and the spiritual power in his body continued to pour into the pen and ink with the pen, and at the same time, Luo Chen also needed to rely on spiritual sense to control the speed of spiritual power, Luo Chen controlled the strength and slowly depicted the patterns in his mind on the rune paper according to a peculiar law.

As time passed, thin blue lines appeared one after another on the originally white rune paper, and these blue thin lines seemed to have life flowing slowly.

Luo Chen's head was already covered with fine beads of sweat, and he faintly felt that this talisman should be successful, but the spiritual power in his body was already a little unsustainable, and he considered whether to give up this talisman.

It is not a fun thing to deplete the spiritual power in the body, in fact, Luo Chen consumed the spiritual power in his body when he made talismans for the first time, it felt uncomfortable, and his body was in pain as if it was about to be torn apart.

Since then, Luo Chen has done what he can every time he makes talismans, but it is not without benefit after the spiritual power is consumed, at least that time let Luo Chen directly step from a two-star spirit to a three-star spirit, but that kind of pain is not something that ordinary people can bear, and improving his strength in this way will lead to unstable realms, so Luo Chen also gave up using that self-harm method to improve his strength.

But this time, I finally have the hope of success, do you want to give up? Luo Chen recalled the number of times he failed to make this [Gathering Spirit Talisman], gritted his teeth and said secretly, "Fight!"

Most of the silent people have an unwavering heart, once they make a decision, they will never back down even if it is difficult to do it, Luo Chen is this kind of person.

At this time, Luo Chen's face was resolute, and he tried his best to drive the little spiritual power left in his body towards the talisman pen, and in the end, even his hands began to be a little unstable! Luo Chen secretly bit the tip of his tongue, and suddenly the pain pulled him to the brink of collapse, and he continued to control the output of spiritual power......

Just when Luo Chen was about to hold on, the blue light on the rune paper finally flashed, and Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the blue light flashing, and even fainted.

Before he fainted, the jade pendant in Luo Chen's arms emitted a strange spiritual power fluctuation, but he fainted before he could think about it, and the last thought flashed through his mind, "It's finally done!"