Li Tiansuo knew very well that when it comes to getting by in life, it’s best to turn a blind eye to certain things.
Especially when her own student was in such a good state in every way.
She didn’t even ask Li Yunxian what had happened during this period. Instead, she just smiled gently and handed Li Yunxian a long reading list.
“These books are unique to Wenwu. While you’re still here, you should take a look. Reading can’t possibly get you into trouble, right?”
Li Yunxian, oblivious to Li Tiansuo’s “hidden motives,” agreed obediently.
The next day, Li Tiansuo went to repair the Wenwu Tower, while Li Yunxian made her way to the library once again.
It had been half a month since Li Yunxian had deposited the three introductory jade slips. The people who wanted to read them had all finished, and the library had mostly returned to its usual state.
Li Yunxian quickly found the books recommended by Li Tiansuo. There were both traditional books and jade slips, so Li Yunxian simply sat down in the library and quietly began to read.
As she was reading, she suddenly sensed someone pacing back and forth beside her table, hesitating. At least a dozen times, they had “accidentally” walked past her.
Finishing the chapter in her hand, Li Yunxian looked up at the other party and asked, “Excuse me, is there something you need from me?”
The person realized that they were disturbing Li Yunxian, smiled awkwardly, and quickly said, “When I was reading ‘Introduction to Talismans,’ I didn’t quite understand the section on the Rapid Talisman…”
“I asked everyone I know, but none of them have studied that part yet.”
“Do you know anything about the Rapid Talisman?”
When Li Yunxian first arrived at Wenwu, she noticed that students often gathered in small groups to chat and share knowledge and ideas.
Guiding each other was actually the norm at Wenwu Academy.
Moreover, when Li Yunxian had found “Introduction to Talismans” and “Introduction to Arrays,” she had managed to draw the basic talismans and arrays on her first try, and she was never stingy about helping others.
That’s why this person had the courage to approach her.
Li Yunxian hadn’t expected them to come to her about this.
She had never been stingy with people from other worlds in “All Things,” let alone in her own reality.
Li Yunxian closed the book in her hand and smiled. “Yes, I know about it. Let me explain.”
The other’s eyes lit up and then, emboldened, they asked, “My friends also want to learn. Can they join us and listen in?”
Li Yunxian smiled. “Of course.”
So, in front of Li Yunxian, five more people suddenly appeared.
Then, as she explained, more and more people began eavesdropping nearby. From time to time, someone would interject with questions they didn’t quite understand.
There were even people who arrived late and could only barely catch bits and pieces of the discussion.
“Let me in—just give me a spot, I’m skinny, I won’t take up space!”
In the end, the cacophony of voices was even louder than Li Yunxian herself.
With a helpless look, Li Yunxian said, “Why don’t we change locations? This is too disruptive. After all, this is the library.”
Although small group discussions were always allowed in Wenwu’s library, there was never a strict rule of complete silence. Still, their current situation was indeed disturbing others.
Everyone looked around at the situation and agreed with Li Yunxian, but—
“There’s nowhere that can fit this many people, right?” The Wenwu students were at a loss.
They liked to chat in groups, but usually only five or so, maybe ten at the most. But now…
At a glance, there were nearly fifty people gathered around.
“Forty-six. With this many people, only a classroom can fit us,” someone counted and complained.
“Then let’s go to a classroom.” Li Yunxian didn’t hesitate, making the decision on the spot.
Everyone was taken aback by Li Yunxian’s decisiveness.
The Wenwu Academy culture encouraged group discussion and debate, and then, after everyone had spoken, a decision would be made collectively.
When teachers and students at Wenwu exchanged ideas, this was always the process.
To have someone make a decision so decisively after just a few words was a rare experience for them.
But…
Li Yunxian’s suggestion did make sense.
Besides, they were asking Li Yunxian for guidance; she had been answering their questions the whole time, without any discussion from their side.
As the knowledge sharer, Li Yunxian had the highest authority.
So, a whole crowd of people, led by Li Yunxian, marched from the library toward the teaching building at Wenwu Academy.
At that time, in the Maintenance Area between the library and the teaching building, Li Tiansuo:
Sensed, with her spiritual sense, that Li Yunxian was leading a large group toward a certain direction, with more people continuously joining her ranks.
Li Tiansuo’s hand paused as she was inspecting the Wenwu Tower.
This sudden pause made the other Wenwu Academy teachers nervous.
“Professor Zeng, is there a major problem here?” Qi Ke asked hurriedly.
Qi Ke had never seen Professor Zeng with such a grave expression.
Professor Zeng lowered her gaze to a loose part in her hand, pressed it, and said calmly, “No, it’s a minor issue.”
Yes, no matter what, it’s always a small problem.
That’s life… “You don’t mention it, he doesn’t know, he finds out, you’re surprised—how could that be? Amazing!”
No matter what, in Professor Zeng’s memory, Li Yunxian had never caused any real trouble.
As for what might happen at Wenwu Academy next, and how she should handle it…
Ahem.
Professor Zeng glanced at the Wenwu Tower in her hand.
When repairing this thing, she should probably be even more careful…
***
Meanwhile, Li Yunxian had already led everyone to the teaching building.
She originally wanted to find a medium-sized—
But as a whole crowd marched along, people heard it was the most popular class on the three new introductory jade slips, and they joined in.
By the time they reached the teaching building, the group behind Li Yunxian had swelled to over eighty people.
Li Yunxian:
There were only a few large classrooms in the teaching building that could fit so many people.
Finally, the good news was that after searching, they found a suitable classroom.
The bad news was, it was the three-hundred-seat Multimedia Lecture Hall usually reserved for major public lectures by regular teachers.
The good news in the bad news was, as they searched, more people who got word hurried over, bringing the number above one hundred.
Their original choice of ordinary large classrooms wouldn’t have been enough—they really did need the big lecture hall.
Everyone sat nervously below, all eyes on Li Yunxian.
But they weren’t nervous about whether Li Yunxian could teach well.
They were all students, and since she was voluntarily helping them with their questions, who would dare pick faults?
Anyone who tried would soon find out that Wenwu Academy was just as good at “wu” as they were at “wen.”
What really made them anxious was whether Li Yunxian, standing on the stage for the first time and facing so many students, would be able to speak smoothly.
Many teaching assistants, their first time teaching, would stammer in front of a small class of thirty-five. Being tongue-tied under so many gazes was not unusual.
But clearly, their worry was unnecessary.
Standing on the stage, Li Yunxian looked up slightly.
Everyone could see the calm, unruffled look in Li Yunxian’s eyes, not a ripple in the face of so many people.
The crowd was stunned.
For a moment, they felt that the aura emanating from Li Yunxian was on par with the high-level professors who gave the big lectures—they couldn’t help but focus intently on her every word.
Unknowingly, an hour passed.
Then two hours.
By the third hour, the doors to the lecture hall were suddenly pushed open.
The abrupt sound drew everyone’s gaze.
It was another student, who jumped back in surprise, checked the room number, and stammered, “Is this Professor Zeng’s Dao Heart lecture?”
He had come especially early to grab the best seat, but why was the whole room already packed?
Was he the last to arrive?
At that moment, the whole class snapped out of the lesson’s atmosphere.
Right—they were just a group of students occupying an empty classroom, not attending an official lecture, so they’d have to give up the room.
Once they realized this, they all felt a pang of regret.
Not because they had to leave, but because Li Yunxian was a student herself—a temporary student from Tiantong who wouldn’t stay at Wenwu for long and was only helping them out of goodwill.
It was already asking a lot to have her do this once; it was unrealistic to hope she’d keep teaching them.
Who could bear the pain of having a lesson cut short halfway?
They desperately wanted to keep learning.
But Li Yunxian didn’t think much of it.
She simply felt that teaching these Wenwu students was so much easier than teaching the deeply ingrained adults in “All Things.”
Of course, it might also be that Wenwu Academy students were already highly screened and talented in every respect.
How far they could go from here was up to them!
Li Yunxian stepped aside to vacate the classroom without hesitation.
Just as everyone had guessed, she only planned to teach this one class.
—She hadn’t even finished reading the list of books her teacher had given her!
As Li Yunxian finished packing her things at the podium and walked down, a sharp-eyed student grabbed her hand, eyes shining with hope.
“Classmate, I can pay you spirit stones if you can teach me the whole introductory book,” the student said directly, “twenty spirit stones an hour.”
That price was no less than what teaching assistants at the Four Great Academies would get.
When Hua Shunyu paid Li Yunxian for a substitute class, it was only four spirit stones for a two-hour session.
But…
“I don’t need spirit stones,” Li Yunxian refused. Seeing the student about to say more, she added, “I don’t need magic artifacts or materials either.”
“My teacher is a master artifact maker—I lack for nothing.” Previously, Li Yunxian had only taken on part-time teaching because she was short on funds. She wasn’t fond of regular, binding work.
She liked freedom.
After these blunt refusals, all the students who wanted to throw money at Li Yunxian fell silent.
Ahh, they wished that one day, they too could say “money’s not an issue” about a job that paid twenty spirit stones an hour!
But someone was still unwilling to give up.
He listened to all the things Li Yunxian said she didn’t lack, and then said,
“How about academic credits? One credit per class!”
Li Yunxian was left speechless.
For a moment, she seemed to hear the words of her merchant friend drifting by her ear.
—Everyone can be bargained with; it just depends on whether what you offer can move their heart.
After all, credits at the Four Great Academies were interchangeable, and Li Yunxian was tempted.
She didn’t refuse right away.
The other students quickly realized that this could work.
Most importantly…
They had credits!
Credits were a bit hard to earn, but for students at the Academy, after a year of participating in activities, it was normal to have a dozen or so.
Some even secretly bought credits from ordinary students to enter the Blood Pool or the Heaven Stairway.
Otherwise, with the limited amount of credits, not many could get in after a year.
“I can pay with credits too!” someone immediately chimed in.
Then a third, a fourth…
Seeing so many eager to continue, Li Yunxian couldn’t help but smile under all their expectant gazes.
“One credit per class is too much—let’s do one credit per book.”
Looking at the crowd, that price would be enough for Li Yunxian to never worry about credits for the Blood Pool again.
“I’ll go to your Academy to apply for a classroom and try to go over all three books with you before I leave Wenwu.”
At those words, all the students exclaimed in delight.
Li Yunxian’s lessons could cost twenty spirit stones per hour, or one credit per class, but with one credit per book—everyone could afford it.
Their eyes blazed as they looked at Li Yunxian.
So…
When Professor Zeng finally finished repairing the Wenwu Tower and left the Maintenance Area in a cold sweat, she heard that Li Yunxian had applied for a three-hundred-seat Multimedia Lecture Hall to give lessons.
For a month.
And that wasn’t even the most outrageous part.
The most outrageous part was, within that month, every single one of Li Yunxian’s scheduled classes was fully booked.
Three hundred seats—not a single spot left.
Professor Zeng:
Professor Zeng:
She wanted to curse.
She’d never had a hundred people fill her own class in her own Academy!
So who was the real professor here—her, or Li Yunxian?!
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