After hearing that the young mistress had acknowledged Zhang Xuan as her master, Yao Han rushed here furiously, oblivious to the fact that Zhang Xuan had already accepted several students.
He had just let out word that the other party would be unable to recruit a second student other than the young mistress but in the next moment, he met Wang Ying and the rest. He felt as though he was slapped in the face in public. His face immediately darkened.
“Teacher!” Zhao Ya also felt a burning sensation on her face and she felt tempted to find a burrow to hide in.
“You are alright?”
A short moment later, Yao Han recovered and stared in confusion at Zhang Xuan.
That fellow yesterday was so brutal to him, so he thought that even if Zhang Xuan wasn’t reduced to a pig head, he would at the very least be crippled. So why… did he seem to be fully intact, to the point of being unable to find even a single scratch on his skin.
Actually, even though he said that he wanted to assess Zhang Xuan’s standards as a teacher, his true purpose was to see his pathetic state after getting thrashed by the mysterious man… Yet, in the end, as a Fighter 6-dan Pixue realm expert, he went to assault him yet ended up getting beaten up while the one who he intended to assault wasn’t even wounded in the least… He feels as though he had lost greatly and he found it unacceptable.
“Why wouldn’t I be alright?” Zhang Xuan knew what Yao Han is thinking, but he replied with a stoic expression. He looked towards Zhao Ya and asked, “This disabled person is…”
“Disabled person?” A peculiar expression appeared on Zhao Ya’s face. Before she could speak, a voice interrupted her.
“You are the one who is disabled!” Yao Han suppressed the urge to vomit blood. His eyebrows shot upwards and he flung the sleeves of his robe, “I am the butler of Baiyu City Lord Residence, Yao Han!”
“Oh, since you are disabled, you shouldn’t be walking around here. Otherwise, if you were to die here, it would be difficult for me to explain!” As though not hearing his words, Zhang Xuan gestured to the door, “Send off our guest and shut the door!”
“You…”
Yao Han clenched his fist furiously and almost exploded on the spot.
Who was he?
The butler of Baiyu City Lord Residence. He possessed great authority. In the Hongtian Academy, even the executive of the Education Bureau would have to give in to him. Yet, a teacher like Zhang Xuan dared to say that he was disabled and even tried to throw him out. How could it be possible for him to not be angry?
“I want to see how you are going to teach them!” Putting his hands behind him, Yao Han stood upright proudly.
“Oh, since you know that you have to leave, make it fast. We need to maintain a silent atmosphere when teaching the students, so we don’t just allow any cats and dogs in our classrooms!”
Zhang Xuan seemed to be on a different frequency as him. As though hearing nothing at all, he gestured towards the exit yet again.
“You… Who are you calling cat and dog?” The rage burned with him and blood flowed out from his wounds. Yao Han trembled uncontrollably, “Do you think that I wouldn’t dare to kill you with a palm of mine right now…”
“Zhao Ya, send him out, so that I can solve your problem!”
Couldn’t be bothered to argue with the other party, Zhang Xuan signalled to Zhao Ya.
“Uncle Yao, please… leave for the moment! I am about to start lessons!”
Hearing those words, Zhao Ya’s eyes lit up.
“I am not leaving. I want this fellow to clarify who he is talking about! I, Yao Han, a Fighter 6-dan Pixue realm expert, is respected wherever I go. Who dares to say that I am crippled, even trying to drive me out…”
Peng!
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Ya pushed him out. The next moment, the sight before him turned dark as the door closed on him. If he didn’t dodge fast enough, he would have been smacked by the door.
“Young mistress…”
Standing outside the door, Yao Han frowned and his face twitched.
If he was driven out by Zhang Xuan, he would surely retaliate. However, since it was the young mistress who drove him out, he wouldn’t dare to lay his hands on her even if he was beaten to death. Even so, he directed all the resentment he had accumulated onto Zhang Xuan.
He was unable to understand what capabilities the fellow possessed, to be capable of deluding the young mistress to such an extent.
“Uncle Yao, I’m sorry to bother you to wait outside. We are going to start lessons!”
Zhao Ya knew about her own problem. Her own illness must not be revealed to anyone, especially to Uncle Yao. If her teacher was going to help her solve her problem, she would naturally have to drive him away.
“Fine, young mistress. I will be waiting outside. If anything happens, call me and I will rush in immediately!”
Hearing the words of the young mistress, Yao Han knew that he would be unable to enter. He was on the verge of erupting but without a choice, he could only grit his teeth and bear with it.
After Yao Han left, only Zhang Xuan’s five newly accepted students and him remained in the room. Zhang Xuan surveyed the surrounding, “Since all of you have acknowledged me as your teacher, you all would be fellow peers. Make sure to take good care of one another so as to not sully my prestige!”
“Prestige?”
Hearing this word, the five students stared at one another…
[Teacher, you don’t seem to have any prestige?
Cough cough, even if we wanted to sully it, there is nothing there to sully…]
“My way to teaching is slightly different from the others. I pay particular importance to cater teachings to the student’s personal condition. The way to guiding everyone is different! Thus, there is nothing to compare between you all!” Zhang Xuan seemed oblivious to the expressions of his students and put on the airs of a teacher, “Right now, I will go to the little room by the side. When I call your name, enter the little room!”
Zhang Xuan’s classroom wasn’t big, around one hundred square meters. Even so, there was a partition in which, the teacher was able to give specific guidance to a student.
These five students were different from one another. If he were to guide them together as a whole, it would be troublesome and highly ineffective.
“Wang Ying, you are my first student. Come in!”
After which, Zhang Xuan led the way into the small room.
“Yes!” Given Wang Ying’s obedient nature, she didn’t dare to retort and walked closely behind him.
………………………………………………
Wang Ying felt a little regretful.
Yesterday, she got lost and came over to ask for directions. Yet, she was scammed into acknowledging this teacher as her mentor.
Initially, she didn’t know what was going on but after thinking through it, this teacher didn’t seem to be truly capable.
Other teachers were able to tell the problem with her leg through her punching routine. However, not only was this fellow unable to tell, he even bragged about being able to cure the injury on her leg…
For this injury, her father even found the most famous of physicians, but it was to no avail. Even so, the man before her claimed that he was able to treat her. If this wasn’t a scam, what could this be?”
Furthermore, Liu laoshi told her many things regarding this teacher.
Only then did she realize that this teacher had such a ‘radiant’ background. The first teacher to score a zero in the Teacher Qualification Examination and the weakest in terms of strength among the teachers… Why was she so unfortunate to be scammed by him and to believe his words!
“No wonder big brother said that there are many bad guys outside…”
When her elder brother told her that there were untrustworthy people outside, she didn’t believe him. Now, looking at the teacher before her, she felt wronged, that she had been lied to.
Just as she was thinking about how she should withdraw from the lessons of this teacher, that at most, it would simply end with a scolding and she could find her elder brother to help her find another teacher, she heard a familiar voice sounding out.
“Display your battle technique once more!”
Zhang Xuan sat at the center of the room and looked over with a calm expression.
The previous time, when he tried to coax Wang Ying into joining him, the Library of Heaven’s Path wasn’t activated yet, so he still had no idea what flaws Wang Ying had.
“Alright!” Although Wang Ying was tempted to withdraw from the lessons, she nodded her head after hesitating for a moment. Once again, her fists generated gusts of wind and soon, her punching routine came to an end.
“Un!”
Zhang Xuan nodded his head.
Although Wang Ying’s character might be a little dense, her punching routine was quite satisfactory.
“Teacher, actually I want to…”
Wang Ying wavered for a moment and just when she was about to express her intention to withdraw from Zhang Xuan’s lesson, the young man opposite of her spoke.
“If I’m not wrong, your leg was probably struck by someone during a duel two years ago!” Zhang Xuan said.
“You… How did you know?” Wang Ying was taken aback. Her words jammed in her mouth as her beautiful eyes widened in circles.
She only talked about the injury on her leg yesterday, and not the origin of it. She didn’t expect the other party to be capable of telling that it was an injury from someone’s blow and even the time of the injury. She couldn’t help but be shocked.
“There are three acupoints on a person’s leg and individually, they govern strength, speed and dexterity. When you battled with someone else, the other party accidentally struck the acupoint which governs strength! When this acupoint is struck, it closes, resulting in your blood to flow in reverse, thus preventing you from exerting strength on it like any other normal person!”
Zhang Xuan stated calmly.
“That…” Wang Ying’s body trembled. Her face flushed completely red.
For her leg, Wang Ying’s father had invited all of the renowned doctors in the kingdom, including the famous Master Yuanyu. He seemed to have spoken similar words, but even he was unable to identify where the acupoint which governs strength is, thus he was unable to treat her.
If she wanted to be treated once and for all, she had to invite a Fighter 8-dan Zongshi realm master who possessed superior zhenqi to treat her. Otherwise, it was impossible for the treatment to succeed!
Initially, she thought that this teacher who claimed that he would be able to treat her leg was just trying to coax her to come under his tutelage. Yet, she didn’t expect that he would say the exact same words as what Master Yuanyu said, so how could she not be shocked?
“Teacher, are… are you able to treat me?” Wang Ying couldn’t resist asking.
“It is just a small matter!” Zhang Xuan replied her question blandly.
“A small matter?” Wang Ying’s eyes narrowed as her breathing quickened.
Even though she had no problem walking normally with her leg injury, she faced great difficulty in her training. It felt as though poison had soaked into her bones. In the past half year, there didn’t seem to be a single day she spent in happiness.
Precisely so, she became the current her who was a little fearful towards strangers, as well as reticent.
Initially, she thought that her injury would stay with her for her entire life. Yet, she didn’t expect that the Zhang Xuan laoshi, whom everyone thought was trash, would say ‘It is a small matter!’. She found it hard to believe what her ears were hearing.
If it was a moment ago, she might have thought that Zhang Xuan was simply bragging. However, from the instant he pointed out the reason behind her injury, expectation started to well up in her.
“The reason why I had you to come into this room individually is to treat you! Alright, relax your entire body!”
Zhang Xuan retrieved a medium-sized jade box from the room and opened it gently. Within it lied numerous silver needles of different lengths.
During the training sessions of a martial artist, it was easy for one to incur injuries. Thus, the academy prepared a kit of such in every single classroom to help boost the blood circulation of the wounded, as well as to temporarily ease the injury.
“Yes!” Wang Ying listened to the voice of the young man, which was steadfast, confident but without a trace of arrogant, and replied. Somehow, Wang Ying trusted the man before her from the depths of her heart and her tense body relaxed.
Sou!
Sitting on his original spot without moving, he grabbed a silver needle and flicked it over.
A soft sound and the silver needle he infused with zhenqi shot tautly towards Wang Ying and pierced her leg.
“This is… Zephyr Acupuncture?” Wang Ying widened her eyes as her slim body trembled yet again.
Zephyr Acupuncture. It was a method which made use of a martial artist’s control over his strength to control the pathway of the silver needles to pierce the correct spots without coming into contact with the patient’s body.
In this way, a male physician would be able to apply acupuncture without coming into proximity to a female patient. This way, awkwardness between the two was able to be avoided.
Such a method of practicing acupuncture might seem simple, but it was actually incredibly complicated. Firstly, it required the martial artist to hold absolute control over his strength. If there was a slight imprecision, there was a high possibility that it would result in failure! Furthermore, one’s eyes must be sharp. It was difficult to recognise the exact acupoints beneath the patient’s clothes. If the physician were to recognise the acupuncture inaccurately, all kind of troubles could happen!
Master Yuanyu had once said that one must at least attain the cultivation level of Fighter 5-dan Dingli realm to practice Zephyr Acupuncture!
Had the teacher termed as trash in the academy reached such a level?
Impossible!
Those who have reached Dingli realm were all famous figures in the academy, such as the famous teacher Lu Xun. According to Liu laoshi, Zhang Xuan laoshi was only a Fighter 3-dan Zhenqi realm. There was still a huge way to go before he reached 5-dan Dingli realm!
A Fighter 3-dan Zhenqi realm was capable of executing Zephyr Acupuncture?
She found it unbelievable!
Sou sou sou sou!
While she was still in a state of disbelief, the young man flicked a few more silver needle towards her.
A few gusts of wind whipped up and the silver needles pierced into her leg with the exact same depth. This showed that the other party had already reached a rather advanced level of his control over his strength.
The silver needle pierced into the flesh of her leg. Just as Wang Ying was about to ask Zhang Xuan how he intended to treat her, his hand slid past the needle and the zhenqi that was contained in the needle activated and probed into her body.
“Ah…”
As the zhenqi entered her body, she felt a tingling sensation in her leg. The acupoint which was sealed previously immediately opened under the surge of the zhenqi.
“This… this… this is superior zhenqi?”
As the tingling sensation spread across her entire body, Wang Ying clearly ‘saw’ the look of the zhenqi in her body.
[Clear like water, deprived of any impurities.
This is… the quality that only superior zhenqi would possess!
Superior zhenqi?
That is something that can only be cultivated if one possesses a god or saint cultivation technique. In the entire Tianxuan Kingdom, it is unheard of for anyone to cultivate superior zhenqi. Yet, to think the lousiest teacher in the academy possessed it? It can’t be that I am seeing things…]
“Done!”
While she was still overwhelmed by shock, her body relaxed completely and slumped. By then, the silver needles had already been retrieved by the other party.
Following which, Wang Ying felt a surge of relaxation in her leg, a comfortable sensation which she had never experienced.
After her injury, although she was still able to move normally, her legs felt as though they have been plastered, plagued with a stiff sensation at all times. At this moment, wave after wave of pleasant sensation surged through her leg, as though it had broken through some shackles. Her leg felt incomparably nimble and lively.
“My leg…”
She might be slow-witted, but it was clear to see that the injury on her leg had been cured!
“Teacher, thank…”
Wang Ying’s knees slackened and she kneeled onto the floor. Her eyes were entirely red.
For this day, she had waited for a very long time. In fact, she even felt despair at her situation. Never in her dreams would she imagine that… such a stubborn illness would be cured by the academy’s worst teacher!
“It seems that the fact is that… He is a very capable person, just that he maintains a low profile…”
Such a thought popped into her head.
If he wasn’t intentionally maintaining a low profile, regardless of how his lessons were like, just the fact that he was able to cure her legs means that he was more than capable of building up his reputation in this academy. How else was it possible for him to be the last in the Teacher Qualification Examination?
With such a thought in mind, Wang Ying kneeled to the floor and acknowledged Zhang Xuan as her teacher from the depths of her heart. All thoughts of withdrawing from his tutelage were dispelled.
“Un, now that your leg injury has recovered, go out and train properly. If you have any other problems, come over and find me afterward!” Zhang Xuan gestured and entrusted her with a task, “By the way, call Liu Yang over!”
“Yes!” Wang Ying replied excitedly before walking out of the room.
………………………………
“I intend to withdraw from his lessons later, are any of you all with me?”
In the classroom, after Liu Yang, Zheng Yang, Zhao Ya and Yuan Tao had introduced themselves to one another, Liu Yang said.
To tell the truth, he felt extremely dispirited.
Scoring within the top hundred, there were many top teachers who were vying for him. Yet, in the end, due to the bet made between two teachers, he was lost to the worst teacher in the entire academy!
The intense feeling of being wronged made him go into a frenzy.
[No matter what, I have to withdraw from his lessons today. Even if it means that I have to withdraw from the school… No one will be able to halt my footsteps!]
“I… also want to withdraw from his lessons. But if Zhang Xuan laoshi were to be angered, it is hard to tell what he might do!” Fatty Yuan Tao couldn’t resist saying.
“Angry? Hmph, so what if he is angry? What can he do? I don’t want to go berserk from his misguidance!” Liu Yang scoffed.
“Berserk?” Zheng Yang looked over doubtfully.
He only knew that the teacher before him scored badly for the Teacher Qualification Examination, being the last of the lot. He had never heard of the incident of a student going berserk from his guidance.
“Un!” Liu Yang continued, “If you don’t believe it, just wait and see. When Wang Ying walks out later, her face will surely be awful! She will feel like she has been scammed! I have already long heard of Zhang Xuan laoshi‘s teaching standards. If he was able to offer proper pointers, he wouldn’t have landed in such a state, being viewed in contempt by the other teachers…”
Jiyaaa!
Just as they were speaking, the door opened and Wang Ying walked out with an excited look.
“Un?”
Liu Yang was taken aback. Initially, he thought that she would be depressed, yet contrary to his expectations, she was smiling happily.
The other few students were also puzzled.
That joy came from the depths of her heart. She must have reaped some great rewards for such an expression to appear.
Could it be that the teacher with such a horrible reputation could give proper pointers?
To get a student to be so excited in just a single session, as though she had attained some precious treasure, probably even the famous Lu Xun laoshi wasn’t capable of such a feat!
“Liu Yang, teacher called for you to enter!” Oblivious to what the others were thinking, Wang Ying informed him before going to one corner to start training.
“Me?” Liu Yang clenched his jaw. “I would like to see what pointers you are able to offer me! If you can’t offer me any good pointers, I will withdraw from your lessons!”
Muttering silently in his heart, he walked into the room.
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