Chapter 108: Middle Age
After a life-and-death disaster, Ling Qingyun and Jin Xuanxuan finally tasted the long-awaited river fresh in the restaurant, which was really delicious. In all fairness, the craftsmanship and ingredients of this restaurant are still inferior to the famous chefs of Nanming College, but when the two of them think of their previous relationship, they naturally feel that this meal is extremely rare, and it is the most impressive meal in this trip.
"Brother Qingyun......" After the meal, Jin Xuanxuan suddenly called softly, looking demure and dignified, but stretched out her snow-white wrist and handed a thing to Ling Qingyun: "This is a little bit of my little sister's heart." ”
Ling Qingyun stretched out his hand to take it, it turned out to be a peace charm with blue paper and gold characters, this peace charm was sewn quite roughly, and the embroidered words on it were also crooked, but Ling Qingyun saw it and felt a warm current flow from the palm of his hand into his heart.
"Thank you. Ling Qingyun's voice softened a lot, he knew that Jin Xuanxuan, as a young lady of the Golden Lion Sect, had been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she didn't know anything about female red and the like, and it wasn't much worse, although this peace charm was small, it was more troublesome than the last golden silk armor.
"Brother Qingyun came to Anjiang County to accompany me, this time I almost died when I met a killer, but I only cared about running for my life...... Brother Qingyun, I was really worried when you were unconscious, so I had to sew this peace charm to pray for Brother Qingyun's safety. Jin Xuanxuan snorted, her big smart eyes were misty, like a delicate flower that could break at any time, which was extremely pitiful.
Ling Qingyun smiled, he leaned forward, but reached out and gently stroked the girl's little brain.
"Brother Qingyun?" Jin Xuanxuan exclaimed, but she didn't dodge, and two blushes floated on her little face.
"Someone is eyeing me, even if I don't come to Anjiang County, I will be assassinated, what does this have to do with you?" Ling Qingyun caressed the girl's silk-like green silk, and persuaded gently, but hearing this, Jin Xuanxuan's delicate body trembled slightly: "I ......"
She didn't say anything after all, but Ling Qingyun had already seen through her thoughts from her expression, and she also sighed in her heart, what a smart girl in ice and snow.
Both sides vaguely understood what the other party was thinking, but they didn't reveal what they were thinking at this time, Jin Xuanxuan just let Ling Qingyun stroke her head and gently wiped the wet marks from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.
"Xuanxuan, I also have a gift for you. Ling Qingyun withdrew his hand, but smiled and stretched out his other hand.
"Brother Qingyun's gift?" Jin Xuanxuan was stunned and took the light gold ring in Ling Qingyun's palm, and as soon as she started her hand, she felt that this ring was not gold or jade, but had a sharp feeling that made her skin ache faintly, and saw that this ring was engraved with many strange patterns, neither words nor patterns, but it could not be regarded as exquisite jewelry.
"This is?" Jin Xuanxuan gently held the ring in her palm, feeling that the weight of this small ring was extremely heavy.
When giving gifts to girls, you should generally pick something precious or beautiful, right? This ring looks like a broken copper ring worn by a village girl and peasant woman, isn't it a humble person to give this kind of gift? Although Jin Xuanxuan is not a vain woman, she also feels extremely puzzled when she receives this gift, and her previous worries and entanglements have been alleviated a lot.
"This ring is ugly, but you can store the true qi of the golden line in it, and use it to shoot sword qi during battle, which is also a little more self-preservation. Ling Qingyun said very seriously: "With your current cultivation, you should be able to store three true qi with mid-level martial arts, but when you reach the Stone Spirit Realm, it is not very suitable, and then I will find a way to make a better one for you." ”
"Brother Qingyun made it himself?" Jin Xuanxuan opened her cherry mouth in surprise, Ling Qingyun would not be too surprised even if she gave a gift worth a thousand gold, but she actually sent a hand-made ring?
"Brother Qingyun, when did you have this ability? This is the refiner's method, right?" Jin Xuanxuan had no doubt that Ling Qingyun was lying, and looked at the young man in front of her in surprise.
Ling Qingyun just smiled closely, obviously not planning to reveal her skills, this look made Jin Xuanxuan can't help but pout, feigned anger and left the table, but the moment she turned around, she flicked her ring, and a heartfelt smile spread on her little face.
Brother Qingyun, you are really ...... Foolish!
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After recovering from his injuries, Ling Qingyun and Jin Xuanxuan continued to stay in Anjiang County for two days, and returned to the academy after seeing the rumored golden scale carp, and heard that Ling Qingyun had been assassinated, classmates and friends came to visit and scolded such killer organizations as a harm to the world, but after seeing that Ling Qingyun had recovered from his injuries and his spirit was still the same, he also relaxed his heart, and did not ask more questions after a few days.
And Ling Qingyun, who had just gone through life and death, did not waste time, and in the following days, he still cultivated hard, and none of the swords, books, and runes fell, and he almost did not encounter bottlenecks, which can be described as rapid progress.
It's September, which means the end of the holidays and the beginning of the new school year.
"Our Nanming College has always been merit-based admission, and even if the students are not talented, they are also from famous families, but even so, every class of students cannot be fully promoted. The college enrolls 1,000 students every year, and the number of students who are promoted to the middle age is around 900, so the probability of our school being promoted to the middle age is only 90%. A middle-aged man in a bright yellow robe was talking eloquently on the high platform of the academy, his voice was like thunder and the students' hearts were shocked, and they had to listen carefully, his eyes swept across the square like a fireball, and the young man in the audience had been swept by this gaze, so he had to hold his head high, and he stood very neatly for a while.
The orderly standing posture of the students made a faint smile appear on the faces of the middle-aged people: "You have done a good job this year, and the number of people who have been promoted is 952 people, which is much higher than usual! Among them, 644 people have been promoted to the first level in the original junior years, 282 people have been promoted to the second level in the original junior years, and 26 people have been promoted to the third level in the original junior years! You have cultivated hard and worked hard to make the country strong, which is the joy of the academy!"
Hearing this gentleman's praise, some teenagers couldn't help but show joy, but they were quickly shocked by the thunderous voice: "But you must not get carried away, advancing to middle age is just a small passing scene on your learning road, and you must be more motivated to meet more severe challenges in the future!"
"Have you ever heard what I said?" asked Mr. Yellow Robe as his blazing gaze swept the room again.
"Student hear!" The students in the audience replied loudly, they are all strong people in the Stone Spirit Realm, thousands of people shouted together, there is really a mountain and a tsunami, Mr. Huang Pao stood on the slightly trembling high platform and nodded with satisfaction: "I hope you all remember today's words." Next, I will tell you about the difference between the middle age and the lower age. ”
"First of all, you who have advanced to the middle-aged stage are no longer rookies, but Shiluo Realm monks who have already experienced training and can barely be counted among the 'strong'. We at Nanming College have always cherished our students, and every time you have experienced in the lower grades, you have been protected by your husband and issued amulets to protect yourself, but in the middle age, it is very different. You will still be protected by Mr. in the Experience, but the protection will be reduced in the lower grades, because we will give priority to the weaker junior students. ”
"And the amulet is no longer issued every time you have experienced, the talisman of the lower years is mostly used to resist the enemies of the Stone Spirit Realm, unless the experience is special, the specifications of the Golden Body Realm will be used, and you have become the Stone Spirit Realm, the training area will be far more dangerous than in the past, the Stone Spirit Realm amulet is almost useless, and it is extremely difficult for the academy to be equipped with so many Golden Body Realm talismans. ”
"Ninety percent of the students who advance from the lower grades to the middle age stage have less than fifty percent of the students who have advanced from the middle age to the higher grades, and more than one percent of them die on the way to the training. ”
Mr. Huang Pao's words shook the hearts of the young people like a hammer, they knew that the middle-aged experience would be much more dangerous than the younger ones, but they could not help but feel cold when they learned that one tenth of them would die for it, the road of the strong was originally a thorny bush, and it was normal to die in danger, but the mortality rate of low-age students was often less than one percent, but their consciousness was reduced.
The square was silent for a while, the teenagers couldn't help but worry about the danger of training, and the cultivation of the weaker ones was even more fearful, if they wanted to die, it was naturally the priority of their strength, no matter which teenager could not ignore it.
This atmosphere lasted for half a cup of tea before Mr. Huang Pao cleared his throat and spoke again.
"The first priority is safety, and you must also put your lives first in the future. The second is the middle-aged system. ”
"You have all experienced at least one year of study in the lower years, and you should have memorized the teachings of our school, and you don't need to be bitter. As a result, the number of compulsory courses you take will be greatly reduced, and the elective courses will be opened up to more subjects, and it is up to you whether you go or not. Middle-aged students are much freer than the younger ones, they can enter more important places in the academy, and they are also allowed to exchange for the resources needed for the Stone Spirit Realm, and every experience in the middle-aged stage is voluntarily participated in by you. ”
Hearing this, the eyes of the young people in the audience flashed, and they could voluntarily participate in the training? Wouldn't that be able to avoid a life-and-death crisis? The students who were most worried before couldn't help but smile with joy on their faces.
"But—although you may choose your own experience, you must accumulate enough credits each academic year, otherwise you will be punished or even expelled. The more dangerous the experience, the more credits you will earn, and since the academy aims to train talents, the arrangement of the experience means that the experience will be of great benefit to you, and it will not cause you to be in danger. Mr. Huang Pao's words added that even the students who had been happy with it could not help but blush.
In this way, there is less discipline in the middle age, and it takes more self-control to be diligent. Ling Qingyun stood under the stage and secretly thought to himself that Mr. Huang Pao's words had made him foresee a cultivation life that was very different from that of his lower years.
"The third point is also closely related to you. As soon as Mr. Yellow Robe spoke, the whole square fell silent, and he could not help but smile at the puzzled eyes of the boys—a smile that made some of the perceptive teenagers shudder, and a little uneasily awaited the words of the gentleman, who seemed to have suddenly turned into an old fox.
"After the middle age, your daily ration of cultivation resources is still the same as that of the lower years. Mr. Huang Pao threw out this sentence with a smile, and nearly a thousand students were stunned, and the next moment, the noise flooded the square.