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Chapter 5: Chapter 5 – Golden Meridians

At this time, the people following behind Ye Qingyu, also started discussing noisily.

Everyone wanted to enjoy the show, and it caused the entire testing grounds to become jam packed. The faces of all were filled with excitement, but the expressions in their gaze differed. Everyone wanted to know what medicine Ye Qingyu was selling in his gourd.*

"What's happening? Why is there suddenly so many people?"

Facing such chaos, the second year students who were responsible for maintaining order was astounded.

"Very well, young man, you can go through the appraisal. I wish you luck." After a small consideration, the old man smilingly accepted Ye Qingyu's request.

"Thank you, instructor."

Ye Qingyu respectfully said a word of thanks, then turned around and walked towards the [Bronze Meridian Human] located in the middle of the grounds.

"This is against the rules of the academy…" Within the crowd, someone loudly protested. It was of course the wealthily-dressed teenager whose eyes were filled with the gleam of hatred, trying to stop the appraisal.

Who would have guessed that the white-haired old supervisor would not even spare him a glance.

The majority of their vision was settled onto Ye Qingyu.

Ye Qingyu was not nervous like the other examinees but slowly raised his hand and placed his palm on the back of the [Bronze Meridian Human].

Nearly at the same time, within the bronze statue a vibration began. A strange heat flowed into the arm of Ye Qingyu, and into his entire body.

It was an extremely mysterious feeling.

The next instant, changes began appearing on the [Bronze Meridian Human].

The two most important meridians seemed to be bursting with some sort of strange energy, suddenly brightening with a golden glow.

"This…" The white-haired old man was about to sit down when he saw this change, his body suddenly freezing in place.

"Golden meridian?" The sophomores responsible for recording has eyes wide with disbelief and two of them uncontrollably let out sounds of shock.

The body's meridian could be separated into four classes, with the golden meridian being the highest and the rarest. The person possessing such meridians when training would find it much more easy and effective, truly a child beloved by the heavens.

This scene was witnessed by the crowd, and caused an explosion of sound.

"Heavens, golden meridian? Ye Qingyu really has golden meridian?"

"Is this really the trash that was eliminated four years in a row?"

"This is hard to believe!"

"Was the words of the Dean truly not wrong? Today, is his words going to come true?"

"What is happening in this year's White Deer Academy selection process? There has already been four appearances of golden meridians Ye Qingyu will be the fifth. You need to know that when admitting students, a person with golden meridians might not appear even within ten years!"

The entire crowd was excited.

No one would have thought, those who had come to witness a show would see such a result.

It was too shocking!

"Impossible, this is impossible, how can it be possible?" The wealthily- dressed youth hidden within the crowd looked like he had seen a ghost rubbing his eyes furiously as if he did not believe in what he saw.

The widely acknowledged trash by the entire Deer City, the laughing stock, was he really going to change his fate today?

That poor garbage, how was it possible that he had golden meridians?

Liu Ye himself only possessed bronze meridians.

"Wait, what if his meridians are brilliant? There are still five appraisals the passing mark is done by combining all six before you are allowed to enter White Deer Academy…" Liu Ye said, not willing to accept this grinding his teeth, his face hideous but in heart he was in turmoil.

HumHumHumHum!

The [Bronze Meridian Human] looked like it had come alive, endlessly producing sounds of vibrations.

Those who saw this were all tongue tied, then the abnormality happened —-

The lines engraved on the [Bronze Meridian Human] representing the meridians, one after another began to brighten. The purest golden colour, bringing with it a dream-like radiance, began to spread out throughout the entire body of the statue, enveloping the entire appraisal grounds in its golden splendour.

In the blink of an eye, [Bronze Meridian Human], over eighty percent of the meridians was shrouded in a golden light.

The entire crowd was stunned.

There was a deathly silence.

"This is not right, if this continues, then all the meridians within the [Bronze Meridian Human] will be illuminated. This is no longer simply golden meridians…" The white-haired old man suddenly thought of something.

This old man remembered a legend he had once heard.

He squinted his eyes, an extremely shaken light emitting from his eyes.

"This can't go on, if this child performs too brightly, then when the news comes out, it will not go well for him…"

Mindful of this, the old man opened his mouth to speak, "The appraisal ended, number 8888 examinee Ye Qingyu, golden meridian, passed!"

His voice emitted across the entire grounds.

The golden light in the [Bronze Meridian Human] began to dim gradually.

Ye Qingyu hesitated slightly, he had this feeling that the heat within the [Bronze Meridian Human] still had not reached its climax, it was still possible to go on but it was suddenly forcefully stopped. It was slightly perplexing.

But he did not think too much, stopping the appraisal and turned around to say thanks to the lead supervisor.

The white-haired old man carefully examined Ye Qingyu from top to bottom, only after ten breaths of time did he smile and nod his head saying, "Good, very good, extremely good, it looks like this year our White Deer Academy will again produce a young genius!"

Ye Qingyu gave a slight laugh, and unabashedly said, "En, I too feel I am a genius."

The white-haired old man was slightly taken aback, then started laughing vigorously. He passed back the nameplate and said, "An extremely interesting fellow. Very well, your meridian examination results are recorded in your name plate, you can continue on to the next appraisal."

Ye Qingyu respectfully said his thanks.

He had always felt that he was a young man who could separate love and hate.

Heart to heart, if someone gives him warmth, then he will return with sincerity. If someone treats him coldly, than he will repay with his fists.**

The instant Ye Qingyu left the appraisal grounds, the crowds from their silent state suddenly exploded like a fryer when a handful of salt was tossed in.

Those who had previously verbally mocked Ye Qingyu, suddenly understood something.

Many people began to feel that, today, something mysterious was going to happen.

"Quick, follow, Ye Qingyu is going to his next appraisal."

"The next test is to test his natural talent!"

"Is his natural talent going to be first class too?"

The crowd was like the magma in an exploding volcano, the atmosphere filled with a burning excitement. People quickly walked, impatiently following. At the same time, the events that happened here today seemed as it grew wings and spread out across all directions.

The storm, was currently brewing.

The wealthily-dressed youth was dumbfounded for a moment, then grinded his teeth and followed on.

After 10 minutes.***

Within the natural talent appraisal grounds.

"Heavens, how can this be possible?"

"Natural talent of ninth grade?"****

"This is not natural!"

"This… how did Ye Qingyu do this?"

Within the natural talent appraisal grounds, a noble pale golden light spread out like a surging wave the radius of over a hundred meters. And this golden light was emitted from a four-meter- high obsidian structure.

[Talent Torch!]

This was the treasure that White Deer Academy used to test for natural talent.

The [Talent Torch] was said to have been made with materials outside Heaven wasteland, and the mysterious scriptures within was from the hands of Snow Country's royal family rune masters. The torch was extremely effective, as long as the examinee held the torch, through the rune engraved, the torch could test how high the natural talent of the torch holder was.

When Ye Qingyu held the end of the [Talent Torch], even the nine stones flame flowers embedded on the torch began to emit a golden light.

The blossoming of the nine flame flowers, meant that Ye Qingyu was a ninth grade talent.

It was the highest natural talent in the history of White Deer Academy.

Everyone around was tongue tied, after seeing the shabbily-dressed handsome teenager with straw shoes hold the torch. In the golden glow of the torch, they had this feeling for an instant that they were in the presence of the War God of the human race holding a divine artifact.

"Number 8888 Ye Qingyu, natural talent classification ninth grade first class, successfully passed the appraisal.

The head supervisor swallowed a mouthful of saliva and loudly announced the results of the appraisal.

This was the third time this year's examination someone was able to make the nine flame flowers bloom on the [Talent Torch].

He had already seen the previous results of the appraisal on Ye Qingyu through the nameplate. Golden meridians plus ninth grade first class talent, this result even without undergoing any more testing was too frightening. Even if Ye Qingyu did not participate in any more appraisals he was already well qualified to enter White Deer Academy.

"Who would have thought that our White Deer Academy, will have another genius seedling!"

In his heart he had already decided, that in the future he would have to give more attention to this teenager.

If no accidents happen, this child was destined to be this year White Deer Academy selection process' star pupil. It was a pity that this youth came from a poor background, his cultivation was fated to be a little harder than normal.

Ye Qingyu thanked the head supervisor and left for the next appraisal.

The crowd stared at the back of this youth. From now on, no one will ever look on Ye Qingyu with mockery, scorn or contempt.

Because they understood, from today onwards, the entire Deer City will revise their judgement of this teenager.

"How can this possibly be?"

The wealthily-dressed youth was dumbfounded, his vision going black and as if he had gone crazy, kept repeating the same phrase.

...

The name of the middle-aged goateed man was named Liu Heng. ****

He had already been in the White Deer Academy for over thirty-one years.

Thirty-one years ago, Liu Heng with the worst results, managed to enter White Deer Academy. His natural talent had always been average, and he had not been hard-working at all when cultivating so he has always been unknown.

His classmates had already successfully graduated, all except for him where he finally managed to use ten years of time to finish the four-year course.

Luckily the Liu family was a large merchant company in the city, where their financial power was not low. Relying on the family's resources and money, and through a lot of thought and attention, he had finally managed to stay on at White Deer Academy as a supervisor.

He was a miscellaneous supervisor, and was not responsible for teaching, but was only responsible for back line operations.

Liu Heng did not have much of a position within White Deer Academy but he still liked to rely on his position to bully the students. When facing people from outside the academy, he was very arrogant, not daring to do large wrongs but constantly performing small misdeeds. Because of the relationship between the Liu family and the White Deer Academy, the higher ups of White Deer Academy had always turned a blind eye to the actions of Liu Heng.

*Chinese Idiom: Basically what is he hiding.

** the translation here is a bit literal… but yeah, you get the gist of it right? xD *** Technically they used an archaic Chinese measurement for time, (tea time lol), but its roughly around 10 minutes.

****Hallelujah, we have a name now xD


Chapter 6: Chapter 6 – The Shadow of the Divine Ancient Mountain

This time, hindering Ye Qingyu was partly to help Liu Ye take out his anger.

The wealthily-dressed youth was also part of the Liu family. If you thought about it, he could be considered Liu Heng's nephew.

The other part was because someone had secretly instructed him to do so, and the person who instructed him to do so was an important figure that he had always wanted to ingratiate himself with.

Liu Heng naturally allowed the boat to flow along with the water*, and did a big favour for this person. Besides, in his eyes, Ye Qingyu was nothing but a trash that he could easily manipulate.

"Haha, the world has always been realistic. A trash should have the self- awareness of a trash… "

Liu Heng sat on his chair, lifted his teacup and sipped a mouth of tea.

His eyes were almost shut, patiently waiting for Ye Qingyu to come back and beg him.

He dared to threaten the head supervisor, he really thinks of himself as a big shot?

A garbage from the poor, if he didn't let him go through the appraisal what could he do to me?"

This feeling of casually deciding someone's fate from far above gave great pleasure to him.

At this time—

"Supervisor, supervisor…" a hurried voice travelled over, it was the recording student who he had sent over to investigate. On the student's face, was a strange expression.

"What is it?" Liu Heng casually asked.

The student's expression was slightly odd, hesitated for a bit, then related all that he saw about Ye Qingyu's actions later in detail.

Pak!

Before the student had finished, the purple teapot in his hand had fallen to ground and shattered to pieces.

The purple teapot was once his treasured possession and normally he would treat it like a precious pearl where if even a small mark appeared he would fuss over it for the majority of the day. But right now, Liu Heng whose heart was hammering like mad, did not have the heart to worry about the shattering of the purple teapot.

"You… what did you say?"

Liu Heng's voice was inexplicably croaky, his face pale. He reached out for the chair to support him standing up, his entire body quivering.

An enormous wave of fear and regret nearly drowned him.

He had actually refused someone with golden meridians and ninth grade first class talent to enter the blood qi appraisal?

Heavens, even if you only used your toe to think**, such an error, when discovered by the higher ups of the academy, would definitely affect his position which was inherently unstable in the first place.

How could things develop in such a way?

That Ye Qingyu, was he not a useless trash?

"You… Did you look clearly?" Liu Heng sank to his seat, powerless.

The student with a pitying gaze, seriously nodded his head.

Within Liu Heng's heart, a low moan was emitted.

At this instant, he finally understood something —

At that time Ye Qingyu was not wrong, he would really have to go beg him.

This time, no matter what costs he had to pay, he had to go bitterly beg

Ye Qingyu to enter the blood qi testing before the higher ups found out.

If not…

"I am really regretful, I should never have fucking participated in this…

Liu Ye you little bastard, I'll definitely beat you to death!" Liu Heng ferociously thought.

...

Perseverance examination grounds.

Ye Qingyu's was sitting cross-legged, as if he was in meditation.

Within the examination grounds, the green-grey stone floor had already been activated, waves of invisible energy surging out. Above Ye Qingyu's head in a thirty foot radius, a mirage of a mountain appeared.

Layers and layers of mountains, it was towering and majestic like an ancient divine mountain.

This mirage, was as if Ye Qingyu was carrying countless mountains.

If you look carefully, there were nine layers on the ancient divine mountain.

"Nine layered ancient divine mountain mirage… Nine overlapping peaks this is the symbol for ninth grade first class perseverance."

"For the examinees, the divine mountain mirage is not an illusion. In reality, their consciousness is now enduring the true weight of the divine mountain!"

"This appraisal tests for perseverance. The higher the perseverance, the more divine mountain mirages you can withstand. Being able to withstand three is a pass, enduring five can be counted as good enduring seven is excellent, and the mirage is only complete when you can endure nine. This is extremely rare, even throughout the entire history of the test!"

"This Ye Qingyu is too terrifying, he has been silently enduring the divine mountain mirage for over ten minutes. Such perseverance, he can already place in the top three of this year's selection test!"

"Nine peak mirage has appeared, too frightening!"

Everyone discussed animatedly.

Right now, the bystanders were not solely composed of people who had come to enjoy the show.

As the news spread out, more and more people of status had come here. Seeing this incident, and combining it with what they heard about Ye Qingyu's meridians and natural talent results, they instantly realised an event that would shock the entire Deer City was about to happen.

The prophecy of the old Dean, was it going to come true?

"Number 8888 Ye Qingyu, withstanding nine peaks of weight, ninth grade first class talent…" the head supervisor of the perseverance examination loudly announced the results of the appraisal, recording the results into the nameplate.

Ye Qingyu said thanks, receiving the nameplate.

The bystanders already numbered well in the hundreds, and their eyes were locked onto Ye Qingyu.

Within this crowd, there were people from the city leader, from various aristocrats, from different merchant companies, from different mercenary groups. Of course, there were also people wearing a white-robe with silver antlers embroidered, the high class teachers of the White Deer Academy. They were all unmovingly regarding Ye Qingyu.

In reality, every year that White Deer Academy recruit students, for those groups entrenched within White Deer Academy, was an extremely gluttonous feast.

This was a world where the strongest rules, where the rules were written using fists and weapons. Apart from cultivation techniques and treasures, a youth possessing extreme talent was a resource treated with great attention by all groups.

Therefore, every year when the White Deer Academy recruitment process began, many interest groups would place great attention onto this process.

They did not possess the terrifying calling power of White Deer Academy, able to summon teenagers everywhere from thousands of kilometers to take part in the selection. But what they could do, was in the White Deer Academy's selection process, take in these genius youths as part of their group.

Because White Deer Academy was not a sect, nor a family clan, they would not place too many restrictions on the students or prevent them from joining the interest groups within the city — Quite the opposite White Deer Academy has always encouraged their students to choose their own paths and learn for themselves so they could sooner learn the rules of this world.

So a large part of youth who exhibited prodigious talent within the selection process, apart from those who came from noble backgrounds the majority would join big or small interest groups within Deer City.

After both sides had signed a contract, these interest groups would provide for free resources for the student's cultivation. After graduation the student would become part of the interest group and work for them.

After all, the path to martial cultivation was a journey that needed to expend a vast amount of resources and money. Even for those above average wealthy families, even if they spent their entire wealth, they may not be able to support the needs of someone cultivating.

So for the students, this was an important choice.

A mutually beneficial relationship.

Of course, if after graduation, the students would exhibit even greater talent like Yi Ling-er and be selected by sects with colossal resources and become a disciple, this was another matter altogether.

At that time, the contract between students and the interest groups would automatically be nullified and they would regain their freedom.

And these interest groups would receive suitable compensation from these sects.

In this scenario, everyone was happy.

In this year's White Deer Academy selection process, in the previous nine days, all the interest groups had already recruited not an inconsiderable number of youths that they were satisfied with. At this time, they should have been heading back, feeling pleased.

But the talent that Ye Qingyu exhibited was too great and caused these peoples to be attracted here.

The previous three appraisals, were all the very best results.

For such a result, even if you did not take part in the other three appraisals, entering White Deer Academy was no longer a problem. And these results were also enough to cause the major groups of the city to go wild.

Furthermore, Ye Qingyu was a well-known child from the poor. He had no one to rely on and thus making him easier to recruit.

"Little brother, I am a guard from the Qing Luo Merchant Company Luanping. This is our president's invitation." A tall, skinny middle-aged man with a horse face containing a faint smile, handed over a gilded card and said, "Would little brother Ye be willing to find some time to have a conversation?"

After his words, the surrounding people exclaimed and chatted excitedly.

The financial power of Qing Luo Merchant Company, could be ranked in the top five of the entire Deer City. And what was given out was the president's invitation gilded with gold, this was definitely a sign that the most precious spot of this selection process would be given to Ye Qingyu.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, Ye Qingyu only faintly smiled. "I want to first enter the academy, then return and think about such things."

The guard from the Qing Luo Merchant Company hesitated for a bit then nodded his head. "That's fine too."

He retrieved the invitation.

Ye Qingyu said this blandly, but anyone could see this was a refusal to Qing Luo Merchant Company.

Everyone thought he would consider it for a bit, no one thought that he would reject it so crisply.

"Haha, little brother Ye is really a person with ambition. A mere merchant company, how can it be fit for such a young genius," an exaggerated laughter travelled across.

From the crowds, came a short and fat person like a winter melon. He held a gilded fan and had a pale face with a bearded jaw.

The fatty came closer, and said with a smile, "I am from the northern military leader, General Wei. I am a warrior under his command, Lam Dong. Little brother Ye, my master admires you very much…"

Ye Qingyu did not wait for him to finish when suddenly a cold smile appeared on his face. "The northern military leader? Lam Dong? Haha, I remember you damn fatty but I also remember four years ago when I entered the academy selection process this was not what you said…"

Lam Dong's face was filled with awkwardness.

Ye Qingyu was a person who remembered his grievances.

Four years ago, Lam Dong had already said the same compliments to Ye Qingyu.

Because at that time, the Northern Military Leader, like many other groups, also believed in the old Dean's prophecy. To recruit Ye Qingyu they spent a large amount of money.

*Chinese idiom, kinda means to go with the flow of things.

** Not an idiom but this was too good to not keep literal xD


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