Chapter 27: Strolling Peacefully
Countless thoughts, each igniting within his emotion of amusement and laughter hit Luo Chen's head, yes he thought that if the disaster already happened why not enjoy it. Not like there is anything better to do.
Hahaha, he laughed and laughed, releasing his emotion.
"Truly a perfect world for me, isn't it, reincarnation."
"Now I know that with comrades like you and everyone else, I will not bore myself into this world. At least when I need to step on my pride and lower my head it's to somewhat competent people like you rather than the typical young master.
Regardless, I'm still grateful, if it was the young master I would live a life of boredom, as I kneel to them, hide my power, not even using my brain since it won't be needed, and gain immortality with only patience and repetition rather than manipulation and risks, so I much prefer it this way."
Luo Chen stayed at the homeyard and didn't hurry to enter his home. He laughed and looked at the scenery.
Deep night sky adorned with small dot-like stars, tender and continuously flowing wind massaging his body, strong structured forest with vibrant and dense green leaves on each tree, numerous and condensed tightly on the tree. Each scenery occupies Luo Chen's vision, condimenting his laughter and enjoyment of a few great scenery of life.
After a while, Luo Chen stopped laughing and started thinking.
'The most important thing compared to other possible reincarnated fellows is that I don't have the legendary plot armor, at least according to the Emperor Of Heaven. I wonder what's The Administrator doing, since with the direction my path went with and the circumstances of my reincarnation, there's no way he isn't involved, he's also the overseer of this world so there shouldn't be anything he doesn't know for the time being.
If there is a plan or direction he wants to drive me through, I need to be careful and find a way to take initiative, I can't be too passive otherwise I won't know what will await me at the end of the road'
Without being obstructed by anything else, Luo Chen entered his home.
"Ah Luo Chen you came back, how was your studying," Meng Hai who arrived early asked.
"It was good, Meng Hai, got everything I wanted from."
"What did you learn?"
"Things like certain philosophy"
"What was it?"
"You sure ask a lot, Meng Hai, can't you learn on your own?"
"No, no, no, this is what friends are for, now tell me, Luo Chen"
"Nothing extravagant, just some rules of survival in harsh circumstances, like spirit beasts, or ambush from a conquering country. There was also a specific philosophy regarding the unity of people, we'll have more philosophy classes over the years, so you'll understand it soon enough."
"Tell me more details, I Wanna Know," Meng Hai imposed as he grabbed Luo Chen's garments while kneeling on the floor.
"Stop being so spoiled already, we're cultivators not brats, and if you want something then go get it yourself," Luo Chen refused the request as he pushed Meng Hai aside.
"Fine, I should call you rude for this, but you gave me quite an enjoyable night so I'll let you off for today."
"And I'll let you off in your education for the moment as well," said Luo Chen as he clenched his fist.
"You wouldn't," Meng Hai gasped.
"Want to see me try?"
"No, thank you, I had enough adventure for today," said Meng Hai as he finally abandoned the subject and went to his room.
Things went along normally as Luo Chen did his usual daily business. He prepared some bacon and eggs, ate them then went to his room to start cultivating. He had quite the time since he reached home at around 8:00 PM, he could cultivate until 2:00 AM, and sleep the last 5 hours until 7:00 AM.
Qi gathered around him as Luo Chen meditated and used his True Heaven Fusion Scripture.
From the air, from the floor, with no discernment of the place qi entered Luo Chen's body, availing it without reason.
Images of strong bodybuilders and dedicated athletes, zoomed in within his dark vision, illuminating his perception. While Luo Chen had his eyes closed he could see the images of his enlightenment, they stuck as a default procedure that carved his dao, and now everytime he cultivated, at least for rank 1 he would see these images, inspiring him, motivating him, guiding him, and constructing his body to fight against Heaven, this was his epitome of humanity. The great path of cultivation that would reveal itself over time, guided by his destiny.
When he finished cultivating he saw some progress but not too much, from his analysis, it was clear that it would take at least several months or even a year before Luo Chen could advance to a rank 2 mythological creature and step forward on his cultivation.
'Right now I need patience, even if I want to progress as quickly as possible, there's no point if it's impossible, so the best thing I can do is to make sure that I cultivate steadily and pay close attention to ensure my progress is maximized,' though Luo Chen as he went to sleep.
The next morning, his routine continued, nothing special or too extravagant, going to classroom, learning their propaganda, excuse me source material, answering some questions to stabilize a good reputation for the teachers, making sure it was good but not too brilliant, training under Xiu Long, obtaining his respect and trust.
The basic knowledge from the geography course regarded the surface of the country, by that it's knowledge of its area, the distance it takes to go from an extreme to its opposite, the distance it takes to go around the entire bordering area of the country, encircling it completely and many more like their peculiar sense of names.
For history classes there were heroic tales of folks who confronted great adversity either from wild beasts becoming a noble or even a monarch, traitors of the country, fellow cultivators engulfed by the spirit of greed, and demonic path cultivators, yes although this is not very mainstream in a rural area, here in the more dense and populated area it's not a secret people shy of.
And many more, all these events were constructed into a line that formed our knowledge of history, they are the events that Wishful Jade Godesses prides on, and Luo Chen believed that more than 90% was for either propaganda or fabricated misinformation, clearly taking it with apathy.
The chemistry and biology classes were rather useful. In biology, Luo Chen learned many skills like aperture points, other crucial places regarding the human body, and many secrets that may help in the future of cultivation.
For chemistry, Luo Chen learned how to process materials, what temperature to use, what cauldron is used for specific materials, and how to identify them, how to identify the cauldron quality, then the quality of the ingredient, various steps in refining materials and identifying if the results are good or bad, the use of materials in creating talismans and soul artifact, the backlash in case that the refinement of the soul artifact failed.
Naturally, chemistry served only as theory, the building block for the real classes that the students would take in the future, so they did not have many opportunities to use real-world practice, still, the students wouldn't complain, after all this is precious information that will help them greatly when building their foundation, so after getting so much what right did they have to complain?
Other than these classes Xiu Long also used his experience in these subjects and established Luo Chen's foundation, helping him greatly and enlightening him on many questions.
What Luo Chen found interesting was the religious classes. The professor this time was a woman who looked completely apart compared to the others, a true jade-skin beauty, skin so white and jade-like that it could blind other people's eyes.
She looked like she was in her early twenties.
She had a tender-slim body, long
ebony-wood black hair that reached below her neck, long legs, heavenly sculpted curves that stood out with an imposing aura, delicate and innocent face with a good arrangement of nose, mouth and eyes, elevating her beauty and innocence.
The most important part, two treasures that gave people the impression of Mount Tai, bouncing freely along her body, it gave Luo Chen the impression that if someone had a needle, something might pop off like a balloon.
Her name was Mei Shan, she was this classroom religion teacher, and she was very beautiful.
But for Luo Chen how was she, was she able to garner his interest and use him in some way? No.
She was just an amalgamation of flesh, blood, and bones, condensed and sewn into a tapestry that manifested her beauty, absolutely no different than the most ugly man or woman in certain areas. Regarding such a thing what was there to love, nothing, for Luo Chen there was nothing to love, just another copy made from certain circumstances and luck on fate, if she was to generate her fortune based only on that then who would be idiotic enough to fall for it? Certainly not Luo Chen.
What was interesting for Luo Chen was the religious class altogether. In this world there were no gods, at least the world did not know of them on the surface, but they did talk greatly about the Dao, Heaven, and many aspects of cultivation like enlightenment and the proper way of things, this class was important because they were restructuring their concept of cultivation and their methods of doing it, studying them and adding spiritual ideologies, giving people the chance to better understand their techniques and further their progress on the path of cultivation. Luo Chen considered this information very useful, so it goes without saying that he wouldn't miss any of it.
At last, the final working day of the week came, where they would study the profound arts of mathematics.
Xiu Long presented himself, then took Luo Chen towards his mansion, giving importance to his growth and not caring for the filler.
Of course, none of the students were the wiser as the illusion did its job, in place of Xiu Long and Luo Chen, two marionettes who looked exactly like them did their job.
In the spacious room, Luo Chen and Xiu Long did their tutoring, making Luo Chen progress abundant in the art of wind talismans, he got more used to them with each passing day as his proficiency towards the wind path increased from none to bottom-intermediate.
A fact that represented Luo Chen's immense talent. Even Xiu Long was surprised by such a result, and with the constant progress Luo Chen's expenditure of mental energy towards the wind path or the use of wind talismans decreased.
His execution was also much faster, and the progress made his hypnotized self be more appreciative of Xiu Long, it was so much that Luo Chen would gladly give his life for Xiu Long.
Some of these feelings even if manipulated, worried Luo Chen greatly, enforcing him to make more preparations
Sigh, Luo Che sighed, knowing he needed to take risks if he wanted to complete this task, at the very least some preparations and adjustments towards the True Heaven Fusion Scripture protection needed to be taken in case Xiu Long ordered Luo Chen ordered something too disadvantageous that could cost him his life.
This could become a major risk since Xiu Long or his master could inspect Luo Chen's thoughts everytime and they may find certain conflicts within him, but it's not like Luo Chen had a choice.
It's either that or certain death, he needed to give in his all, to keep his lucidity to a certain level, find out if this method worked and could be kept as a secret from Xiu Long, convincing him of his sincerity and still fooling him with the fake thoughts and the sense of control while Luo Chen was hiding behind this curtain leaving only a small trace of lucidity to protect himself at a critical moment.
To simplify things, compared to leaving control to Xiu Long in favor of 100% and leaving his fate in his hands Lio Chen needed to take 5% back and leave Xiu Long with the rest of 95%, tricking him, but also keeping his safety. The biggest problem is if Xiu Long could observe some imbalances in his work of art and figure out the problem, putting Luo Chen's life at risk, but what thing was perfect in this world.
One had to know that if someone wanted to gain something from life, he needed to take risks, otherwise, he would not rise from the average, becoming a victim to society, forever entrapped in its game.
If Luo Chen didn't change his situation, his fate would be in Xiu Long's hands forever, in the future when Xiu Long wanted to use him to death, Luo Chen wouldn't be able to refuse. What if a special situation arrived where Luo Chen's survival depended on his lucidity, how would Luo Chen handle it. If he was still under control Xiu Long would force him to sacrifice himself, without any personal will, Luo Chen would be forced to his death, not having any chance to control his fate. What a pathetic death would that be.
He still thought of many things and made preparations for his future, focusing only on his benefits and the path that granted him the highest chance of success. These actions and peaceful moments where he would look for progress and stroll through life where the calm before the storm, waiting patiently a Luo Chen while gnawing their teeth towards him, waiting and acting with excitement, wishing to catch him off guard and throw him into the warzone.
Eventually, they will succeed and Luo Chen's preparations could only count on his ability.
Right now he had no choice but to repeat these actions, attaining progress and gaining benefits while repeating these repetitive actions of the sect's weekly curriculum, strolling peacefully through life, hoping for the best.
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