Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 41

Chapter 41: The catastrophe of Tiansha Pavilion

“Have you heard? There’s a beauty taking the exam this year!”

“Beautiful? How beautiful? Prettier than the beauties in our academy?”

The two seniors chatted casually, flirting with their knowledge, which the latter dismissed.

Their Great Zhou Imperial Academy was the academic heart of the entire Great Zhou. Any accomplished cultivator, official, or businessman would seek affiliation with the academy to demonstrate their status. These high-ranking officials would go to great lengths to send their children to the academy. It’s safe to say that the entire upper class’s children attended the academy. While

these cultivators, officials, and merchants might not be particularly attractive themselves, they could easily find beautiful wives through their influence, and their children were often quite attractive as well.

For example, Li Changyue, the daughter of the mighty general; Princess Huailing, the daughter of Prince Gong; and Nan Jin, the granddaughter of the Grand Secretary; all were of exceptional beauty, difficult to distinguish, and teemed with admirers.

“That’s incomparable!” his companion was a little excited, and he only hated his own words for not being able to describe the woman’s charm. “You haven’t seen the new junior school girl. She is absolutely a rare beauty in the world. Meeting her once will make you unforgettable!”

“Hey, hey, hey, she hasn’t even passed the exam yet, how can she be your junior school girl?”

“She will definitely pass. If she doesn’t, I will help her cheat!”

The man rolled his eyes at him. “Don’t you know how strict our academy’s exams are? Cheating is almost like courting death. The Vice Dean personally supervises the exams, and the Dean personally grades the papers. How can you cheat? With your strength of the eighth level of Qi training?”

In other dynasties, being able to attend the best academy in the eighth level of Qi training is unimaginable. In their words, is Qi training qualified to attend our school? This

is the biggest difference between the Great Zhou Imperial Academy and other imperial academies. The Great Zhou values law and is less competitive. Cultivators in the Great Zhou are not required to be strong fighters. This has led to a strong academic atmosphere in the Great Zhou. The admission standard of the Great Zhou Imperial Academy is not based on the level of cultivation, but on the memory and comprehension of the textbooks.

Memory depends on spiritual awareness; the stronger the spiritual awareness, the stronger the memory.

The Nascent Soul stage is the beginning of spiritual awareness, and it can’t be cultivated until the middle or late stages of the Nascent Soul. The Great Zhou Imperial Academy requires students to be under twenty-five years old to enroll.

If anyone can reach the middle or late stages of the Nascent Soul before the age of twenty-five, the Great Zhou Imperial Academy will not recommend admission, but instead recommends joining the Dao Sect as a Daoist leader.

However, the man, intrigued by his companion’s attitude, asked, “What’s the name of that beautiful woman?”

“Jiang Jingxin.”

Passing by and overhearing their conversation, Jiang Li paused, feeling that the name evoked something absurd.

“Is that the woman you’re talking about? Long, flowing hair, eyebrows as slender as willow leaves, eyes as bright as water, skin as delicate as jade, a beauty as ethereal as a dream, one that makes you unable to sleep after seeing her?”

The man seemed to understand, understanding the beautiful junior schoolmate his companion was referring to.

“Yes, yes, yes, you finally understand what I mean.” The companion was overjoyed, but then became wary. Could there be another competitor?

“Is that the beautiful schoolgirl you were talking about?”

His companion looked in the direction the man pointed and saw a plain-looking man standing with his unforgettable schoolgirl, seemingly extremely close!

Jiang Li was surprised to see the Pure Heart Saint, whose appearance remained unchanged.

“Emperor Jiang, I never thought we’d meet here. What a fate!” the Pure Heart Saint exclaimed delightedly.

She’d been feeling down after the sect’s recent changes, so she’d wanted to visit Jiang Li’s past for a change of pace. Unexpectedly, she’d meet him right here.

What a pleasant surprise!

Jiang Li always had to slightly alter his appearance to avoid recognition. He was so well-known that statues of him were everywhere in Kyushu.

The Pure Heart Saint had only come down from the mountains for a few years centuries ago to train, and since then, she’d rarely left the mortal realm. Few knew her, so she could use her true appearance without fear of recognition.

“So you’re Jiang Jingxin?” Jiang Li thought the name was odd.

“Hmm.” Saint Jingxin hummed softly, her cheeks slightly red. This name was naturally given for selfish reasons, but who would have thought that she would see Jiang Li here? It was so embarrassing!

“What’s your name now?” Saint Jingxin didn’t think Jiang Li would use his real name.

“Kong Li, the Kong Li of Kong Rong giving up the pear.”

Saint Jingxin didn’t understand the latter part, but she understood that Jiang Li’s current name was Kong Li.

She felt that she had to be a smart girl so that she could be liked by the man she liked, so she didn’t ask what the Kong Rong giving up the pear meant in the latter part.

“Are you here to take the entrance exam?” Jiang Li couldn’t understand why he saw Saint Jingxin here.

What is there in the Great Zhou Imperial Academy that is worthy of a saint from the mortal world to study?

Even if there is, there is no need to pretend to be a student.

Saint Jingxin looked at Kong Li, who was also here to take the entrance exam, and smiled without saying a word.

Jiang Li coughed dryly. “Recalling my childhood, recalling my childhood.”

“I remember you entered the academy at the age of twenty. Kong Li, you had a long childhood.”

Although he didn’t know why the other party knew his age when he entered, Jiang Li felt a little embarrassed by such a blunt revelation.

The Pure Heart Saint chuckled and stopped embarrassing Jiang Li. “Since we’re all here to take the exam, why not have a competition and see who can take first place?”

Jiang Li piqued his interest and replied, “Okay. Let’s add a prize. The loser has to agree to a condition from the winner!”

The two of them high-fived and signed a contract, making the two seniors look at Jiang Li with envy.

“Speaking of which, has Fairy Hongchen woken up yet?”

More than two months had passed, and it was time for Fairy Hongchen to wake up.

“She’s woken up a few times, longer than before, but she still sleeps longer than she wakes. The Patriarch didn’t talk much after waking up. He just walked around in the Pure Land, spending the longest time at the Fairy Peach Tree.”

“It seems Fairy Hongchen’s condition is still unstable,” Jiang Li continued. “I’ve already told Emperor Mengjiang and Emperor Wei to keep their mouths shut. You must keep Fairy Hongchen’s affairs a secret. If any news gets out, who knows, some old man who saw Fairy Hongchen back then might rush into the Red Dust Pure Land.”

“I understand. But if the ancestor wants to escape, we can’t stop him.”

The two chatted casually, walking away under the envious gazes of the seniors, and then murderous intent arose in their hearts.

“Kill that man?”

“I’ll hire an assassin from the Tiansha Pavilion!”

“I don’t have any money.”

“I don’t have any money either.”

“Forget it.”

“Oh.”

A catastrophic disaster for the Tiansha Pavilion was averted in the casual conversation between the two seniors.

(End of this chapter)