Seeing pieces of delicate pastries being wiped clean by Nie Li, Du Ze, and Lu Piao, the noble kids felt depressed and heart broken. Why didn’t they have such treatment?
Xiao Ning’er also ate a few pieces of the pastries. Watching her leisurely eat was a sight that warms the heart and delights the eyes.
After chatting with Nie Li for awhile, Xiao Ning’er returned to her seat.
Lu Piao patted Nie Li’s shoulder, winked, and asked, “Since when did you get hooked with our Ning’er goddess? Justify yourself.”
Nie Li shrugged, “We’re just normal friends!”
“Tsk, who’ll believe that!”
Whether if it’s Du Ze or Lu Piao, both of them looked at Nie Li with contempt.
“If you’re just normal friends, why would Ning’er goddess make breakfast for you?” asked Du Ze.
No matter how Nie Li explained it, Du Ze and Lu Piao wouldn’t believe in him. Several noble kids in the class looked at Nie Li. Their faces were full of hostility. Nie Li stole one of their goddesses. How could they give him good faces?
“Maybe she needed my help,” Nie Li replied.
‘Nie Li, this brat, is actually so tight-lipped, thought Du Ze.
No matter how Du Ze or Lu Piao tried to get something out of him, Nie Li just wouldn’t tell them anything. They realized that they could only, bitterly, give up. They decided to investigate the relationship between Nie Li and Xiao Ning’er.
(TLN: Do note that the both of them don’t “LIKE” Ning’er, they’re just curious about their relationship as friends)
As the bell for lesson to start rang, Shen Xiu twisted her waist, and walked into the classroom. Unlike her usual arrogant attitude, the smile on her face looked like a chrysanthemum.
“The three of you return to your seats!” Shen Xiu said, looking at Nie Li, Du Ze and Lu Piao. There’re VIP’s here to observe her lectures, naturally she wouldn’t dare to be rash.
“Today I’m going to talk about Inscription Patterns. Whether if it’s fighters or demon spiritists, Inscription Patterns are very important. Inscription Patterns are separated into two parts, respectively the Enchanting Patterns and the Battle Patterns. Enchanting Patterns can be inscribed on armours and weapons. As it can greatly enhance the combat abilities those armours and weapons, especially if it’s used by a Demon Spiritist, they can make use of weapons and armours with Enchanting Patterns on it to release far more power than their base strength. As for Battle Patterns, they are used with Inscription Pattern Scrolls. By inscribing it onto the scroll and then activating it, can have a sudden burst of fighting power!”
The shocking thing is, Shen Xiu began saying substantial content today.
“Inscription Patterns are extremely profound and mysterious. They have been around since the Snow Wind Empire’s age. They are being continuously improved on as time goes by. But during the Age of Darkness, the mainland was under the attack of many demon beasts. Glory City only managed to inherited a small portion of them, coming from three categories. Snow Wind Patterns, Sacred Flaming Patterns, War Prime Patterns. Which are the Snow Wind attributes, Fire attributes and Neutral attributes.”
“Today we will be talking about Enchanting Patterns.” Shen Xiu said softly, her tone became more gentle compared to the usual tone.
Outside the classroom, three elderly men sat together, listening to the lecture.
“The knowledge from the members of the Sacred family is quite profound. Having her teach these students is definitely more then enough!” one of the elderly men said with a smile. He is Ye Sheng, the vice-principal of Holy Orchid Institute.
“A few students in this class are quite good, no matter if it’s Ye Ziyun, Shen Yue or Xiao Ning’er,” one of the elderly men said sounding very pleased. He is a professor in Holy Orchid Institute named Lu Ye.
Other than Ye Sheng, a grey robed, elderly man sat beside them. Lu Ye doesn’t know this grey robed elder’s identity. This grey robed elder just casually sat down but he gives off a powerful, prestige aura, causing Lu Ye to be careful with his words when he spoke. He didn’t dare to make a slight mistake with his speech.
“How is it?” Ye Sheng asked, looking at the grey robe elder.
“Mhm,” Grey robed elder non-committally replied.
Lu Ye whispered in his heart, ‘What’s the identity of this grey robed elder. He actually treated Lu Sheng vice-principal with indifference. His status mustn’t be low. I fear that his status might even be higher than Holy Orchid Institute’s principal.’
After thinking about it, Lu Ye dared not to speak any more.
The students in the classroom didn’t know that there were people outside the class observing to the lecture. It was hard to imagine that Shen Xiu actually talked about some substantial stuff, so everyone paid attention and listened.
Shen Xiu slightly raised her chest. Her face, which was full of pride, and said, “Today I want to talk about Sacred Flaming Patterns! In the research on Sacred Flaming Patterns, the Sacred family is no doubt has a well-deserved lead!”
“The Sacred Flaming Patterns has 66 foundation patterns. This pattern, for example….,” Shen Xiu drew a totem formed from many patterns coming together on the blackboard, “This is the Scarlet Sunburst Pattern. This pattern was created by Sacred family’s first generation house master. It’s the most powerful Bronze pattern! This pattern is made up of 36 foundation patterns combined together. It’s, also the most complex pattern among the Bronze patterns. Next we’ll talk about these 36 foundation patterns.”
Shen Xiu began to talk non-stop.
Most of the students in the class were listening with great interest, however Nie Li was the only one not paying attention. He doesn’t have any interest with these foundation patterns. Further more there are more than 600 foundation patterns in the Sacred Flaming Pattern, not 66.
If it wasn’t for Ye Ziyun and the treasure in the Holy Orchid Institute, Nie Li wouldn’t even be staying in the class listening to Shen Xiu’s pointless teaching. In his view, her knowledge itself was full of flaws. Her lesson simply cannot be listened to. Stating that a simple Scarlet Sunburst Pattern was claimed to be the strongest bronze inscription pattern is simply bragging.
Shen Xiu’s gaze swept across the students in the class, and lastly fell onto Nie Li. Previously, Nie Li contradicted and looked down on her. He even made a bet with her. She had been hating him in her heart all this time. When she saw that Nie Li was not paying attention to the lesson, she laughed in her heart. She finally found her chance! Shen Xiu continued gabble about the 36 foundation patterns. Nie Li doesn’t have a single interest in it and simply lied down on the table.
At this moment, Ye Sheng Vice Principal, who has been sitting outside, wasn’t very happy when he saw that. He looked at the grey robed elder beside him. There’s a important figure here today to observe the lecture and that student was actually sleeping in class. He was simply throwing mud on the Holy Orchid Institute’s face. He didn’t know the name of that student. if he did, he would definitely expel him from the institute and never let him back!
Seeing that the grey robed elder didn’t have any reaction to Nie Li’s action, Ye Sheng Vice-Principal was secretly relieved.
Lu Ye, who is sitting beside them, sternly said, “In the Fighter Apprentice class, it would inevitably have good and bad students mixed together. I will certainly punish this student later! Parents spend so much money on him to send him to school, not to let him sleep!”
Ye Sheng nodded his head. Lu Ye knows his stuff.
Because Nie Li fell asleep, everyone saw that Shen Xiu’s face went heavy. Isn’t a student sleeping in class imply that her lesson is boring?
“Nie Li!” Shen Xiu spoke in a deep voice as she walked towards the side of Nie Li.
Nie Li was sleeping happily as he hadn’t had any good sleep for the past week. He barely opened his eyes, seeing as he’s still quite sleepy, and said, “What’s the matter?”
Seeing Shen Xiu wake Nie Li up, a bunch of noble kids secretly laughed. They wanted to see Nie Li in trouble the most. Who asked him to steal the goddess of their heart from them?
“He’s doomed this time!”
Du Ze and Pu Liao smiled bitterly at each other. No matter what, sleeping in class is something they didn’t dare do.
Nie Li’s attitude made Shen Xiu even more furious. She said in a deep voice, “You are actually sleeping in my class. Do you already know all of this stuff?”
“Yeah,” Nie Li calmly said.
“You…..” Shen Xiu became speechless from being choked by Nie Li’s words. Since the start of the lesson Nie Li has been sleeping. He actually said that he knows it already. Who would believe in his words?
Shen Xiu coldly sneered, “Since you already know, why don’t you tell us about the inscription pattern on the board?”
Nie Li’s eyes swept across the inscription pattern and said, “This is a low-graded Sacred Flaming Pattern. It can barely be considered a Bronze pattern. With 38 patterns in it’s structure, it’s power is weak, but if used to boil water, it would be good enough”
Hearing what Nie Li just said, the whole class started laughing.
“Haha, I almost died from laughing. He really did not listen to anything teacher said. To actually say that this Scarlet Sunburst Pattern has 38 foundation pattern in it’s structure when, earlier on, teacher Shen Xiu just introduced that there are 36 foundation patterns in it’s structure!”
“I laughed to the point that tears began to come out. He actually said that it’s used to boil water!” one of the noble kid said while he’s laughing.
While Ye Ziyun couldn’t help but smile, Shen Yue became a little angry. Nie Li just said that the Bronze pattern that’s been passed down in his family is actually used to boil water. This, simply, cannot be tolerated! Among all the students, only Xiao Ning’er remained calm, Xiao Ning’er feels that Nie Li didn’t avoid doing something that would cause others to feel depressed. These people don’t know of Nie Li’s real talent.
At that moment, outside of the classroom, Lu Ye also laughed. “This student is really funny. That smart aleck actually said that there are 38 foundation patterns in Scarlet Sunburst’s structure and even said that it is only used to boil water!”
While he’s laughing, he noticed that the Vice-Principal, Ye Sheng, and the grey robed elder did not laugh. He suddenly stopped by pushing his laughter back into his stomach.
“What’s so funny? The Scarlet Sunburst is indeed made from 38 foundation patterns.” Vice-Principal Ye Sheng calmly said. At his and grey robed elder’s level, with in-depth investigation they would find that there are 2 foundation patterns in the Scarlet Sunburst pattern that are actually not only made from 2 foundation patterns, but made from 4 foundation patterns. However, what made them feel shocked is that this information actually came from a student. Was this student randomly guessing? And for experts like them, the Scarlet Sunburst, this sort of rubbish inscription pattern, can only be used to boil water; it’s actual effect in battle is very small.
A light flashed across the grey robed elder’s eye, but he did not say anything and remained silent.
“Bullshit!” Shen Xiu grunted angrily. Her face turned grim. As a member of the Sacred family, naturally, she couldn’t tolerate anyone degrading the Scarlet Sunburst pattern in front of them.
Nie Li did not pay any attention to the students that were laughing at him and continued,”This inscription pattern was originated from the seventh volume of the Book of Divine Lightning Fire. The original name of this inscription pattern is called Lightning Flame Burst Pattern. It consisted of 60 foundation patterns. It can be considered a little complicated, but some smart ass went and cut part of the inscription pattern, slightly changed it, and turned it into this nondescript Scarlet Sunburst Pattern. With no real combat capabilities, it could only be given to the Sacred Flame Pattern practitioners to study.”
Book of Divine Lightning Fire, what is that? The students in the class looked at each other.
Nie Li actually said that the first generation house master of the Sacred family is a smart ass? Shen Xiu was beyond furious. She doesn’t know of any Book of Divine Lightning Fire or what was recorded in the seventh volume of it.
“Ridiculous! Such book does not exist in the world!” Shen Xiu thought for awhile and countered. ‘What seventh volume of the Book of Divine Lightning Fire? It was probably one of Nie Li’s nonsense!’
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.”
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