Chapter 125 Training 03

Jiang Yuelu placed a few bags of potato chips and Oreos on the scroll, quickly closed the bamboo slips, and checked them one by one, "What is this? Foreign food? I actually prefer snacks and fruits..."

Hearing the old man's complaint, Jiang Yuelu smiled and said, "Try it first."

The package was torn open, and a snapping sound was heard, accompanied by surprise: "--Oh oh!"

Jiang Yuelu smiled: "Do you still like it?"

"Not bad, it tastes good." The scroll made continuous chewing sounds, and soon burped comfortably, "Good boy, what's your name?"

Now you know to ask my name. Jiang Yuelu curled her lips and gave her own name.

"The meaning of the stars, what a nice name." Intent on showing off his knowledge, the old scroll cleared his throat and began to talk nonstop.

"There are four stars in the sky. In the east is the Azure Dragon and in the south is the Vermillion Bird. The moon is the deer, which is the fifth of the Vermillion Bird's seven stars. It is located exactly where the bird's body and wings meet. If there were no star like you, the bird would not be able to fly... Your parents must love you very much, so they gave you such a good name."

Jiang Yuelu shook her head, "Maybe. But I haven't seen them."

The old scroll was surprised: "Have you never seen your parents?"

"Not long after I was born, I was placed at the door of the orphanage."

The old scroll stopped eating for a moment. He felt a little embarrassed. He had actually started such an embarrassing thing. "Um... this, this." He hesitated for a long time and became angry. "Is there any parent in the world who doesn't love their children? Is the world now full of such ruthless people?"

Jiang Yuelu: "Maybe it's not the current world, but it has always been like this."

"It has always been like this..." The old scroll fell silent. "I didn't expect that you, at such a young age, would have such profound insights. I feel very close to you."

Jiang Yuelu asked curiously, "This is the first time I've heard of my name. I didn't expect it to have such a long history. Southern Vermillion Bird... uh, the fifth constellation, right?"

"Yes." The old scroll explained: "Well, Ghost, Willow, Star, Zhang, Wing, and Zhen. These are the seven constellations of the Vermillion Bird."

Jiang Yuelu was stunned for a moment, "Wing? The wing as in wings?"

"Who else could it be? You're right next to Yi." The old scroll slowly floated in front of him. "Why are you daydreaming? Do you have any other questions?"

"Oh, oh." Jiang Yuelu came back to her senses and repeated the question about gods and ghosts that the stroller had asked.

"An era where gods and demons coexisted? Why do you want to know about such a long time ago? That happened a long time ago."

Jiang Yuelu told the story of her trip to the Ghost City, and Old Scroll, who never left his house, was amazed. "Wizards and ghosts have always been at odds with each other. Although we are neutral and objective, we still despise these deadly evil ghosts. Since it is very helpful to eliminate ghosts, it is a good thing, a good thing."

"I will pick up my teaching job which I haven't done for a long time and give you a lesson."

Under his narration, the long history is played out in the old museum.

"That was an ancient time when there were few living people anywhere. Flowers, birds, and animals still lived actively on the earth. The sky and the earth were separated by a great distance. Gods lived in the sky, and ghosts lived underground, and they did not disturb each other..."

"It's too long ago. Even the fall of God happened a long time ago."

"You know what? We wizards used to only have to worship one god, but later he stopped sending down oracles. Some wizards believed that he had fallen, while others refused to believe that the great master had disappeared, insisting that he had simply chosen to sleep in the era of human rule."

“Now you see it too.”

"The power of the gods was divided and scattered among the wizards' families and clans, becoming ancestral gods and clan gods, each of which preserved the power of their own family." The old scroll sighed, "Now wizards believe that the clan gods of the four major families are the most powerful forces, but in the past, they were not worth mentioning at all."

Jiang Yuelu knew that the old scroll had no intention of ridiculing him, he was just making an objective evaluation. But he simply said such blasphemous words without giving the four major families any face... I'm afraid his status must be very high.

He digested the information slowly.

Regarding this supreme deity, he had heard from Leng Wenhan and Tong Mian that He was in a state of sleep. It seemed that the Leng family and the Tong family had been instilling the concept of sleeping gods into their descendants. Judging from the proportion of these two families in the academy today, the sleeping theory was probably the mainstream in the wizarding world.

He could understand the feelings of these wizards.

Just like when he joins a guild and holds on to the biggest thigh when playing games, if someone suddenly comes over and says, hey brother, your thigh is gone, he will definitely want to punch him back, thinking that the thigh will definitely come back, but just quit the game temporarily and not go online...

He was awakened by his own divergent thinking.

Since he was a layman, he might as well understand these things from the layman's perspective. Anyway, no matter how hard he tried, he could never catch up with the top students.

If you think about it this way... gods and ghosts, and their respective audiences, aren't they just like the anchors of a PK match? On the wizard side, the four major families are ranked first to fourth, while the big fans on the ghost side are the twelve chaotic ghost wizards. Of course, the ghosts' faith is not as solid as the wizards', but they are too crazy.

For example.

The wizard was still devoutly and honestly burning incense and lighting candles according to the rules, but the evil spirits could do anything, cutting open his stomach and swearing wildly, willing to pay any price... He didn't know what believers meant before, but now he has believers, although it was by accident. But when the group of high school girls called him, he felt the power transformed from his prayers multiplied, and finally defeated Ji Hongcha at the cost of being shattered to pieces...

Believers may seem insignificant, but their combined strength is indispensable to God.

In this way, although the power contributed by the evil spirits is very ungodly and unorthodox, they can have a great advantage in the short term.

"So the four major families now still hope that the gods will wake up?" Jiang Yuelu probed.

"I don't know what they think anymore. Time keeps passing outside, and we are just a bunch of old stubborn people who are closed in themselves."

The old scroll sighed: "If it were the four great families in the past, maybe I would understand a little bit. The people back then were purer and easier to understand."

"In the past?" Jiang Yuelu was a little confused. "Weren't there these four families in the past?"

The old scroll curled his lips. He felt that this student even needed to catch up on his history lessons.

"Kid, count them all. Who are the four members of the family today?"

"I know this." Jiang Yuelu answered quickly: "There is the Leng family, which is the official of the underworld, the Tong family, which is a family of witch doctors, the Kong family where the dean is, and the Mo family, which is rich in geniuses."

He had dealt with the first three families, but had not met the last one, the Mo family. But Jiang Yuelu remembered Tong Mian's words, who said that the young chairman of the academy who was unanimously approved was from the Mo family.

When he went to report to the class, he seemed to have met a student with a stern face and an armband. The student who stopped him was very respectful to him. Was that the president of the Student Union?

The wandering thoughts were called back by the old scroll, "Young people understand their own era."

"Then do you know why there are always four people in the family when the family changes generations?"

Jiang Yuelu didn't react: "Four every time?"

"That was when these families didn't have clan gods yet, and all the divine power was attributed to the first and only god. The four wizards who served closely under the throne held a meeting and divided their responsibilities. Some were responsible for listening to the oracles, some were responsible for taking care of the holy body of the god, some were responsible for pleasing the god, and some were responsible for being driven by the god to fight."

"They are people who are very close to God and still survive. Perhaps we can no longer call them human. After they are infinitely close to the world of God, they have become extraordinary beings just like us."

"They firmly believed that the god was in a deep sleep and could not respond to their calls. The four of them swore together at dusk in the past that they would never betray the god in the long time to come. They would definitely wait within his reach, waiting for the day when he woke up."

"During such a long period of time, they multiplied and formed a large family. This is the origin of the first four families."

"Based on the functions they had originally divided, the four families extended their own witchcraft fields. The witch who listened to the oracle was alone and had no family. It is said that she integrated a trace of her consciousness into the examination room built by Vice Dean Tong, and transformed it into the divine voice that guides witchcraft students, which is what you call the system."

"The Tong family is responsible for taking care of the divine body. They settled in Yaowang Valley and were active in history as medicine sellers. They were closest to the human world, but each generation was cursed with weakness and sudden death."

"The wizard who pleased the gods and fought against the gods, they married and became a huge family. However, this beautiful story that was widely circulated in the wizarding world has now become a laughing stock."

Jiang Yuelu was stunned. "A laughing stock?"

The old scroll said, "You must have heard of a wizard who rebelled against the academy a hundred years ago, joined forces with evil spirits, and opened up a ghost city. He was the descendant of the conquering wizard who symbolized the sun, but no one expected that crows would defile the clean sunlight, turning the glory they carried into a joke."

Jiang Yuelu asked anxiously: "Really?"

The old scroll was surprised, "Why are you so excited?"

Jiang Yuelu replied: "To be honest, I came to the college just to find my younger brother and sister. They received their admission letters and were dragged into the examination room, but they were not admitted." He briefly recounted the whole process.

The old scroll was stunned. "Wait, so you didn't receive the notice, but your brothers and sisters received it first... Then how did you get in?"

Jiang Yuelu replied: "I also received it, but it was a year later, when I burned myself to death."

Burning himself, the old scroll's eyelids twitched, he shook his head, "But this is not right, sending invitations to a family in succession is not the style of the academy. You are ordinary people, not a wizard family passed down from generation to generation. This is not right at all... Have you asked Dean Kong, what did he say?"

Jiang Yuelu perked up: "Dean Kong said that my brother and sister are in Ghost City!"

"Ghosts. Ah..." The old scroll suddenly realized, "That's why you are so excited. You suspect that their admission is related to Wu Yeming. Well, yes, he can indeed make a fake admission letter and deceive the eyes of the college. Moreover, this seems like something he would do."

"Wu Yeming? Is that his name?"

Jiang Yuelu couldn't help but feel her heart beating wildly, "Where the hell is he now?"

The old scroll shook his head, "With your current strength, you can't see him yet."

"But I killed two of them!"

The old scroll looked at the extremely manic Jiang Yuelu calmly, "The strength of the city masters is divided into echelons. Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue don't have their own ghost dens, so they can't be considered the leaders of the evil ghosts. The Jin Muxi you just met is a natural evil, but did you really kill him?"

Jiang Yuelu was silent. The academy did not find Jin Muxi like they found the remains of Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue. He was missing and no one knew whether he was dead or alive.

"but……"

"Yes. You did defeat the evil spirit with your mortal body, which is commendable. But kid, Jin Muxi values pleasure, and he has no intention of fighting you to the death. You were able to defeat him because you destroyed his cognition on a psychological level. The difference in strength between the two of you cannot be ignored."

Jiang Yuelu opened her mouth, "I know..."

"Is there nothing I can do? I only have these three relatives left." He regretted very much why he didn't go downstairs and stay with them.

Even if they die, they should die together.

The old scroll comforted him, "It's not completely hopeless. As far as I know, after the four ghosts of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, there are three more ghosts and two evil ghosts. Wu Yeming is among them. As long as you keep moving forward, you will definitely meet him, but you must also be prepared and improve your strength."

Jiang Yuelu had a glimmer of hope. "Is there any way to increase my strength in the short term? Uh, should I buy more equipment and weapons?"

"These are secondary." The old scroll said, "The acquisition of any knowledge and skills requires gradual progress. No one can become fat in one bite. It's like you are just a small ant now, but if you force the power of a horse into your body, you will definitely not be able to bear it."

"God's way is to follow nature. Trying to change your fate will only lead to your death. Let's take it slow."

The old scroll looked at the silent Jiang Yuelu. His shoulders seemed to slump instantly, but he reluctantly added: "Maybe there are other ways."

The droopy-faced deer suddenly came to life, "What is it?"

"Since the shortcomings cannot be quickly improved, then find other strengths." The old scroll smiled and said nothing. "The evil ghosts are the ones who know the evil ghosts best. You need to use your brains and launch a battle of wisdom."

Jiang Yuelu thought for a while, "Then I..."

His paused voice spread throughout the silent library.

The old scroll was gone, leaving only an empty ground and countless book galleries in front of him.

Jiang Yuelu bowed towards the empty space and said, "Thank you for your teachings, senior." He turned around and was about to leave, but then he paused and went to the bookshelf to find some elementary books on spells and a book called "Guide to the Use of Weights", and then left the library.

-

After Jiang Yuelu returned, he put in as much effort as he would in the college entrance examination and studied hard all night long. He fell asleep only after the rooster crowed at around five o'clock.

I don’t know how long it was before I was awakened by a shaking sound.

He smoothed his messy hair and noticed that the cell phone provided by the college was vibrating non-stop.

...He should still have one or two days left on his vacation, so why are there so many calls now? Jiang Yuelu opened his mouth and was about to call the system, but when he heard an extremely unpleasant and hoarse voice coming out of his mouth, he was stunned, "...Is this my voice?"

It’s better not to say it, but it’s even more unpleasant to say it.

This sentence came out like a quack of a duck.

The female voice of the system reminded at the right time, "You stayed up all night last night and didn't go to bed to rest. In addition, it rained a little in the middle of the night, so you must have caught a cold."

Jiang Yuelu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Can the temperature drop here in your academy?"

"We are still connected to the human world, but most people cannot see where we are. The rotation of day and night and the seasons are still the same as in the real world."

"Okay." Jiang Yuelu poured a glass of water and drank it, feeling a little better.

"Did anyone see me last night?"

"Yes. Today is the beginning of the training period. Every student in every grade must participate, so your vacation will inevitably end early."

That’s nothing, he just doesn’t want to be idle.

"What is the training period?"

"Students are assigned to various remote suburbs, wilderness, ruins and deep mountains to conduct field exercises. This is what Vice President Tong asked for. He thinks theoretical knowledge cannot solve all problems, and the examination room cannot simulate the real scene. Students still need to go to the actual place to experience it in person. He thinks this is a kind of practice."

"Vice President Tong's point of view is very interesting." Jiang Yuelu admired this teacher very much.

"It sounds a lot like a battle royale game, with players scattered across different maps... but it won't be as brutal as a battle royale. Well, maybe it's more like a test of courage combined with folklore and horror stories?" Jiang Yuelu summed up his understanding.

The system replied: "Although I don't understand what you are saying, it feels very similar."

"What about me, where am I going?"

"That's probably what your phone message is saying."

Jiang Yuelu opened it immediately and two lines of words appeared on the screen.

【Niu Shou Mountain】

【3:00 PM】