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Chapter 11: Threatened

Seeing how furious Shen Xiu was, Nie Li chuckled lightly and said, “Teacher Shen Xiu is so knowledgeable, saying the book doesn’t exist because you’ve never seen it before. Does that mean that teacher Shen Xiu has read all the books in the world?”

In his previous life, Shen Xiu was also unreasonable.

“Book of Divine Lightning Fire? Oh I remembered, I think I’ve borrowed such a book from the library!” a commoner student suddenly said in a frightened voice. He borrowed three books, one of them was the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. However, the content inside the Book of Divine Lightning Fire was too profound. He couldn’t understand any of it. He forgot to return the book back after he looked in it.

The voice of this commoner student caused Shen Xiu’s face to darken. This commoner student flipped the Book of Divine Lightning Fire open. This book is a copied version, not the original copy. It was written with words that belonged to the language of Snow Wind Empire. The first volume was translated but not the other volumes. The language written in the Snow Wind Empire’s age is very obscure Ordinary people couldn’t understand it.

Never expecting that this book actually existed, even Vice-Principal Ye Sheng and Lu Ye looked at each other with surprise. Although they are the Vice-Principal and professor of Holy Orchid Institute, the amount of books in the library easily numbered hundred thousands and 90% of them were left behind from the ancient times. Even they couldn’t say the names of every single book. There are also many books that even they couldn’t translate.

During his roaming on the continent during his previous life, Nie Li was proficient with seven languages. Upon reaching Legend rank, he read various books and never forgot their content. Not to mention, in his previous life, Nie Li stayed in the stationary space-time realm within the Temporal Demon Spirit Book for hundreds of years, reading millions of books while he’s inside.

There isn’t any obstacles in reading the words written by the language of Snow Wind Empire for Nie Li.

Even the grey robe elder sitting beside Ye Sheng and Lu Ye had his face coloured with surprise. Even he has never read the Book of Divine Lightning Fire before.

“Ye Sheng, send someone to the library to retrieve the Book of Divine Lightning Fire!” the grey robed elder ordered.

“Yes!” Ye Sheng looked at Lu Ye beside him. Lu Ye dared not to neglect and quickly bolted away.

Every student in the class focused their eyes on the Book of Divine Lightning Fire that the commoner student was holding. Both Ye Ziyun and Shen Yue were also very surprised. Being a member of the three major families, they also read a lot of books, but they didn’t know that such a book called the Book of Divine Lightning Fire existed. This book is too side door, therefore very few would take the initiative to learn from it.

Within Glory City, there are three types of inscription patterns that are more complete which are the Snow Wind, Sacred Flame, and War Prime. Almost everyone practices these three types of inscription patterns. Since Lightning Fire inscription patterns have been long lost during the Age of Darkness, there were only a few books, such as the Book of Divine Lightning Fire, lying around. All of these were untranslated, so they were shelved. Occasionally, there would be some students borrowing them, but after realising that they couldn’t understand the content, they would immediately put them back.

“Let me see, Book of Divine Lightning Fire volume seven.”

The commoner student immediately began rummaging through the book. This Book of Divine Lightning Fire was several hundred pages thick. Inside, the book was filled with illustrations, text, and Lightning Fire inscription pattern diagrams. There was no translation for it after the first volume. The complex, ancient words caused many people to have a headache just by looking at it. After turning to volume seven, the commoner student realized that this volume alone had hundreds of inscription patterns. He started comparing them one by one with the one on the board, searching for the one that looked similar to the Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern.

Everyone in the class was getting impatient. When is the search going to end?

Shen Xiu’s face frosted coldly and said, “You probably found this book in some corner of the library and don’t even know what was written in it. Yet, you say that the Scarlet Sunburst originated from that book! Arrogant child, you dare defile the ancestors of my Sacred family! If you can’t find the inscription pattern, I’ll go to the Saint Judgement Hall to sue you for defiling my ancestors!”

Nie Li laughed loudly and said, “Teacher Shen Xiu, it’s still too early to say this kind of stuff. This book was left over during the Snow Wind Empire’s time, existing over a few thousand years. The timing of its creation is far longer than the creation of the Sacred family, right?”

“Correct!” answered Shen Xiu nodding her head. This was a hard fact that she couldn’t deny.

“Then, it’s simple.” Nie Li looked at the commoner student and said, “Flip thirty pages backwards from volume seven. The sixth diagram in page thirty. Compare it with the Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern.”

Seeing Nie Li’s face full of confidence, Shen Xiu’s heart sank. If Nie Li were to find out the origin of Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern, it would be the stain of Sacred family. Because Sacred family had publicly announced that the Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern, as well as 16 other inscription patterns, were self-created by the first generation house master of the Sacred family. This caused a huge increase in the Sacred family’s reputation. If the public were to find out that Sacred family’s inscription patterns were plagiarized from the ancient book, then the reputation of the Sacred family would be greatly affected.

Seeing Shen Xiu’s face show traces of fear, Nie Li secretly smiled. The Sacred family’s fame mostly came from being the bearer of the Sacred Flame inscription patterns, which was claimed by many past house masters, to have been self-created inscription patterns. Their extraordinary talent is what saved the Glory City from distress. However, truth is, the Sacred family is just a bunch of hypocrites!

In Nie Li’s previous life, during the destruction of Glory City, every family was fighting for the survival of the city. The Sacred family was supposed to guard the west gate of the Glory City, but during the outbreak of the war, in order to save their own strength, they got every single one of the family’s experts to enter into the St. Ancestral Mountain. This caused the west gate to be breached, and allowed the Snow Wind demon beasts to march into the city. Nie Li still remembers the horrifying scene caused by the demon beasts massacre.

Nie Li and the rest had no choice but to leave leaving Glory City! After his rebirth, Nie Li didn’t have any good impressions towards the Sacred family.

‘In this life, I will let this hypocratic family be removed from Glory City!’

If he wanted to have the Sacred family to be disdained by all the citizens in Glory City, then he will need to reveal the true nature of this hypocratic family, first!

“Page thirty, sixth diagram?” The commoner student murmured. After being guided, he found the Lightning Fire inscription pattern.

“Ya!”

The crowd of students let out a sound of surprise. The Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern consisted of two-parts. with one part looking exactly like the Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern. The Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern was much more simple compared to the Lightning Fire inscription pattern, which was the same as cutting out half of it.

Nie Li is actually correct!

Shen Xiu clenched her fist tightly, her fingers turned white. When Shen Yue who was among the crowd of student, looked towards Nie Li, his eyes became full of hatred. Nie Li is discrediting their Sacred family!

Nie Li, naturally, noticed both Shen Xiu and Shen Yue’s hostile look and coldly laughed in his heart. Sacred family are all exactly the same. When they didn’t find the reason out themselves, they will push the blame onto others. ff it wasn’t their own flaws, why would they worry about other people exposing them?

“So what if the first generation house master of my Sacred family took it from the Book of Divine Lightning Fire?” Shen Xiu coldly replied.

Nie Li laughed, “Teacher Shen Yue, looks like you’re not familiar with the Demon Spiritist code of conduct. Do you want me to explain it to you? The Demon Spiritist code of conduct has been around for three thousands years. Almost every demon spiritist follows the code of conduct. Demon Spiritist code of conduct article 161: taking inscription patterns or copying inscription patterns from other demon spiritists must indicate their source and cannot claim them to be self-created. This is the ethics of Demon Spiritists!”

“You….you……” Shen Xiu trembled from the anger. Nie Li’s words directly hit on the weak spot. He directly said that Sacred family did not follow the Demon Spiritist’s ethics, but even so, she couldn’t refute Nie Li’s statement.

“If they were learning from the Lightning Flame inscription patterns in order to create their own inscription pattern, then it’s fine. However, the Sacred family’s first generation house master directly took half of it and claimed it to be his own. Isn’t it a little too….. absurd? Could the first generation house master of the Sacred family have some unspeakable difficulties?” Nie Li blinked his eyes aws he talked innocently.

Nie Li’s sharp words were directed at the Sacred family’s weak spot, and still pretended to look innocent. This caused Shen Xiu and Shen Yue to want to kill someone.

The students all whispered their discussions.

“So the first generation house master of Sacred family is such a person.”

“It’s said that, although the first house master of the Sacred family was only a gold rank demon spiritist, in the studies of inscription patterns, he was a great master who self-created several Sacred Flame inscription patterns. Has the Sacred family always been the torch bearers of the Sacred Flame Inscriptions?”

“Never thought that the Scarlet Sunburst is actually copied from an ancient book.”

“I looked at the Snow Wind inscription pattern’s record. The inscriptions inside has been reproduced or taken from ancient books but they always indicated their source. They never claimed it to be self-created.”

“This is the ethics of Demon Spiritists. Every noble demon spiritist would do the same!”

A group of students began to wondered, could the great master of inscription patterns in their hearts be nothing more than someone who’s fishing for compliments?

Listening to the discussions of the students, Shen Yue’s heart became even more unhappy, he already saw Nie Li as an enemy.

With his face ashened, he stood up from his seat and said, “Nie Li, my Sacred family has been passed down for three hundred years. We are one of the three major families in Glory City. We aren’t something someone like you, who’s from an ordinary noble family, can criticize! This Scarlet Sunburst is written in the first house master’s notes. Originally, it was not publicly announced. We younger generations found it when we were arranging the first house master’s notes. So we thought that it was created by him. That’s normal.”

Nie Li looked at Shen Yue. He was indeed a member of the Sacred family. He made an excuse of this to wash the responsibility off!

Shen Yue deepened his voice when he mentioned “Major Family”, and pointed out Nie Li as a member of the ordinary noble family, making his words very clear. If Nie Li were to pursue it further, then, as the Sacred family, being one of the major families definitely wouldn’t let him off.

As for Shen Yue, Nie Li also disdained him. Before Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun’s marriage, the war began, and Shen Yue immediately ran away. Hearing Shen Yue’s words, Nie Li became even more unhappy.

“Student Shen Yue is an arrogant bully. Ah, fortunately there’s a strict law in Glory City. Otherwise, I’d really be worried that the Sacred family would…..” Nie Li being like a pig who’s unafraid of the boiling water, blinked his eyes and said “Believe that a big family like the Sacred Family would protect my safety. If anything were to happen to me, I’m afraid the Sacred family wouldn’t be able to wipe that stain off.”


Chapter 12: Soul Realm

Nie Li put it this way, if Sacred family were to go after Nie Li, wouldn’t that indicate that the Sacred family is a villainous bunch?

No matter if it’s Shen Xiu or Shen Yue, both were angered to the point they almost vomited blood.

Ye Ziyun couldn’t help but to look at Nie Li again, never did she think that Nie Li is so daring to actually offend the Sacred family, one of the three major family in Glory City. Recently, Nie Li’s actions made her unable to ignore his existence. Curiosity rose from Ye Ziyun’s heart, what kind of person is Nie Li actually?

As for Xiao Ning’er, hearing how Nie Li uses his sharp words to attack the weak spot of Sacred family, she couldn’t help but to feel happy. Her family has always been wanting to marry her off to the Sacred family, but in her heart she is conflicted. From the start her impression towards the Sacred family hasn’t been good. Hearing how Nie Li subdued ShenXue and Shen Yue with his words to the point that they are speechless all while playing a rascal, she couldn’t help laughing. At the same time her heart is deeply filled with adoration for Nie Li. How profound must one’s knowledge need to be in order to tell the source of Scarlet Sunburst inscription pattern with just a glance? So while these people are busy wasting their time, Nie Li has been reading books all along.

At this moment outside the classroom, Lu Ye hastily ran towards the grey robed elder and the vice principal’s direction and passed the Book of Divine Lightning Fire to the grey robed elder.

Vice-Principal Ye Sheng repeatedly directed his attention to the grey robed elder’s expression.

The grey robed elder flipped the Book of Divine Lightning Fire to page 30, diagram six. Seeing the Lightning Fire Inscription Pattern on the book, then comparing it with Scarlet Sunburst Inscription Pattern, his face became sullen and did not say anything.

Ye Sheng dared not speak. This truly is a scandal of the Sacred family. This matter involved the upper level of Glory City, therefore on this matter he dared not say anything.

Grey robed elder looked at the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. The words on it are very complex, even he only recognizes small part of the words. Nie Li actually had such profound knowledge, causing him to be astonished. He remained silent for a moment before saying ,”This student, how is the innate talent 0f Nie Li?”

Ye Sheng looked at Lu Ye. Regarding such nameless student, the Vice-Principal wouldn’t know much about the student.

Lu Ye hastily reply “I just looked him, he only has a red soul realm.”

Grey robed elder nodded his head “Such a pity, this child is so well educated. A pity that his innate talent is only this much, otherwise his future would be promising. Lu Sheng, arrange for him a library clerk position!”

“Yes!” Lu Sheng hastily nodded his head, he knew of grey robed elder’s love for talented individuals. Although Nie Li’s innate talent is poor, he is knowledgeable and could even read the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. By becoming a library clerk, he could also research and study more books like these. Everyone in Glory City has their priority on training their cultivation. Very few would research and study these kind of ancient books. This arrangement of the grey robed elder is in order to protect Nie Li. After all, the job of library clerk is to work inside the school, this way Sacred family wouldn’t be able to suppress Nie Li.

But, would Nie Li fear the suppression of Sacred family? If it was in the past life, Nie Li would definitely have his tail between his legs, fearing Sacred family to the extreme. But in this life Nie Li definitely wouldn’t swallow his grievances.

This resentment , Nie Li has kept tabs on it all and still has to repay the Sacred family!

Shen Xiu looked at Nie Li with enmity. Her hatred for Nie Li has reached the limit, coldly saying, “Today’s matters, I will remember it!” Shen Xiu is a vindictive person, and, as Nie Li’s teacher, she naturally had a lot of ways to cause trouble for Nie Li.

Heh heh, Nie Li sneered incessantly. As a teacher, she actually threatened a student in her class, so shameless! Even if Sacred family doesn’t look to trouble him, he will take initiative to trouble the Sacred family!

This is still the first battle, Nie Li still has a lot of tactics to deploy. However, he didn’t want to reveal his hand at the moment as his current strength is still not enough. He couldn’t offend the Sacred family too much, after all they are still one of the major family of Glory City. Nie Li clearly understands that he desperately needs to enhance his strength.

After that, Shen Xiu didn’t have the mood to continue the lecture, and hastily ended the lesson.

The things that happened in the lesson spread quickly among the students, passing from one to another. The usually lofty Sacred family, no matter how much they try to cover it, this kind of action violates the demon spiritist’s code of conduct and thus would be disdained by all demon spiritist. Sacred family can only see Nie Li as the thorn in their side, but can’t do anything to Nie Li. On the contrary, if anything were to happen to Nie Li, everyone would suspect the Sacred family. Such a blatant action, even the Sacred family couldn’t dare do it, after all Sacred family couldn’t hide the truth from the masses.

After this incident, Sacred family’s prestige was greatly affected. It’s said that the house master of the Sacred family tried to visit Ye Ziyun’s father, the city lord of Glory City, but was rejected.

For Nie Li, this is something to be happy about.

Although he doesn’t know how to get near to Ye Ziyun, if he could destroy the marriage between Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun, then it’s something to be happy about.

After today’s incident, Ye Ziyun’s image of Shen Yue was reduced by quite a bit.

Vice-Principal’s office.

Shen Xiu’s sharp voice sounded.

“Vice-Principal Ye Sheng, this student Nie Li has no respect for his elders. He openly contradicts his teacher in class. Simply, nasty to no extent. I request the approval of vice principal to have him expelled from school!” Shen Xiu said emotionally.

Even without the elder’s words, with Nie Li’s profound knowledge, even if he couldn’t become a powerful demon spiritist in the future, he could still become an important individual of some powerful demon spiritist, how could Ye Sheng expel such a student? Moreover Nie Li had the appreciation of that elder. But after all, Shen Xiu is a member of Sacred family, he still needs to give her some face, smiling as he reply “I will consider this matter. To let a student be expelled from school would still have great impact.”

“Vice-Principal Ye Sheng, there’s nothing to consider. I request the immediate expulsion of Nie Li, otherwise I will not teach the class!!” Shen Xiu said angrily.

Ye Sheng’s eye flashed, Shen Xiu this woman doesn’t know when to stop. Putting on a smiling face, he said “That being the case, how about I transfer you to other class then?”

Shen Xiu slightly hesitated, she thought that Ye Sheng would give some face to the Sacred family, but in his words, Shen Xiu heard some meaning, Ye Sheng has firmly decided to protect Nie Li. If she was transferred to other class, she wouldn’t have any way to trouble Nie Li. Shen Xiu cursed Ye Sheng in her heart, and swallowed this feeling and said, “No need then. Let’s forget today’s matter. Two months later there’ll be the apprentice fighter test. If he’s ranked in the the last three in the fighter apprentice class, then vice-principal Ye Sheng would have nothing else to say right? According to the rules of Holy Orchid Institute, being ranked in the last three would require them to be expelled from the school!”

“No problem with that!” Ye Sheng laughed.

Shen Xiu lets out a grunt, turned around walking towards the door.

Seeing Shen Xiu leaving, Ye Sheng’s eye flashed a hint of chill. Shen Xiu relied on being a member of the Sacred family and was a little too arrogant and domineering. Ye Sheng thought again, even if Nie Li’s results are poor, with his profound knowledge, he wouldn’t be in the bottom three. Even if he is in the bottom three and is expelled from school, that elder would probably reach out to recruit Nie Li.

At this moment in the school library’s 3rd floor, there’s a lot of small rooms Originally meant as Holy Orchid Institute’s student reading rooms, but at this moment, they became the base of Nie Li and his group because Nie Li has been hired by Holy Orchid Institute to be a library clerk. Being a clerk doesn’t require one to do anything and would receive three hundred demon spirit coin every month, getting these kind of benefits who wouldn’t agree?

The action of Holy Orchid Institute hiring Nie Li is very strange, but once giving it a little thought for a moment, Nie Li understood why. The higher level of Holy Orchid Institute did this to protect Nie Li from the suppression of Sacred family! Although the position of library clerk isn’t big, but is still a clerk of Holy Orchid Institute, even if it’s Sacred family, would still worry about repercussions.

In this matter, Nie Li is grateful towards Holy Orchid Institute.

Vice-Principal Ye Sheng doesn’t know that, because of the elder’s words that caused Nie Li to be hired as a library clerk, Holy Orchid Institute would greatly benefit in the near future.

“Nie Li, offending Sacred family like this, wouldn’t it be bad?” Du Ze spoke after being silent for a momen. He’s more of a cautious man.

“Who cares if it’s good or not, it’s fine as long as it feels great.” Lu Piao curled his lips. Seeing Shen Xiu’s face become distorted from anger, he felt great about it. In any case he had been unhappy about this woman.

Nie Li looked towards Du Ze nodding his head “I know! In the last few days we haven’t gone to class, Shen Xiu is probably anxious.”

Since Nie Li already put it this way, Du Ze also didn’t say anything else.

At this moment beside Nie Li,Du Ze, and Lu Piao, there are still three more commoner students. They were the ones who stood at the back of the class with Nie Li. Their innate talent wasn’t that good as well, only having red soul realm. As for these three commoner, their names are, Wei Nan, Zhu Xiangjun and Zhang Ming. Nie Li still trusts them, in the previous life they were all Du Ze’s direct subordinates, their relations with Nie Li couldn’t be considered good but they were all loyal towards Du Ze. In the battle with the demon beast before Glory City was destroyed, they defended the city to their last breath and died in the battle with Du Ze, are all blood brothers!

And in this life, the small group of them are being led by Nie Li.

“I just spent more than six thousand demon spirit coins to purchase six primary soul crystals. I want to test your aptitude!” Nie Li said while looking at them.

“Test aptitude? Didn’t we already have our aptitude tested when we enrolled into school?” Du Ze asked feeling puzzled.

Nie Li mysteriously smiled saying “My test are different from that one!”

Everyone in the room had their doubts. Ever since the establishment of Glory City, they have been always using the usual method. Their soul force has already been determined, what does Nie Li want to test? One primary soul crystal cost one thousand demon spirit coin and Nie Li actually brought six in one go! Although they had some doubts regarding Nie Li’s words, due to the profound knowledge that Nie Li showed earlier on, they were convinced in Nie Li’s words without any discussion.

“Generally, unused soul crystals are the most sensitive. If it is used to test a person’s soul realm they will be extremely accurate. But once there is more than one person who has used the same soul crystal, the soul crystal will have interference and can barely test the soul realm’s type and the strength of the soul force,” Nie Li said, laughing.

“Other than soul realm’s type and the strength of the soul force, what else can be tested?” Lu Piao asked curiously.

“The attributes and form of the soul realm!” Nie Li answered with a smile.

Du Ze, Lu Piao and the rest all looked at each other, what Nie Li just said sounds very profound.


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