NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 7: Chapter 7
"Boy, you really reached Rank 10! And only eight years old, that's pretty impressive." The dean of the Nuoding Academy was impressed and praised Ju Ran.
Like many Xianxia history clichés, the place of early history is often weaker place in the world. Nuoding city has a very low average power of spiritual masters here. A spirit master with white rings can be considered a very strong one here but in front of great powers such as the spiritual hall or in the capitals of the two empires this is nothing but ordinary waste.
The normal at Nuoding Academy is that students can get to the level where they can get their first spirit ring when they are 10 or 11 years old. Getting a spirit ring and becoming a spirit master is a requirement for graduating from the Nuoding Academy and enrolling in a Higher spirit Master Academy. If a student has not yet been able to get a spirit ring until he is 12, then he will be expelled from the gym and disapproved.
"Ju Ran, how did you get to rank 10 so fast? Your innate spirit power wasn't just level 2?"
The gym dean could not fail to be impressed with Ju Ran after he verified his spirit power on his own. He asked for pure curiosity because every year he worked at the Nuoding Academy, this was the first time one of the students reached rank 10 before 10 years of age. This was mainly because of Ju Ran's innate talent, which was very low to the point of being strange that he could advance so fast.
Yu Xiaogang that was on the side was shining with interest to Ju Ran. He thought that after so many years here he could have found something close to a gross diamond to prove his theories and show everyone the value of Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang was thinking about how to make this child become his disciple to prove to the world that he is not a waste.
But when Yu Xiaogang heard about Ju Ran's innate talent their thoughts took a 180 degree. His interest in making his disciple from his disciple completely evaporated and now he did not consider him worthy of his teachings (plagiarism of common sense).
Yu Xiaogang was able to disguise his expression well so that no one perceived his emotions at that moment. But of course this did not go unnoticed for Ju Ran. During the era of the peerless Tang sect he forced himself to understand his jailers' emotions so that he could act according to the situation to avoid putting himself in uncomfortable situations, at first he did so to survive avoiding irritating them so as not to be killed, although he just wanted to die as soon as possible.
'This shit plagiarist thought of turning me into his guinea pig but then he thought I am not worthy of the research he plagiarized from the spiritual hall? How much arrogance from a garbage that was born with only 0.5 of innate spirit power. '
When Ju Ran realized that this was Yu Xiaogang's line of reasoning he got angry but he didn't let it appear on his face.
Different from those fanfics that Ju Ran read in his first life, here is the reality. If he openly confront Yu Xiaogang things will not end well for him for two reasons.
The first is the simplest, personal strength. Even though Yu Xiaogang is a waste as a spiritual master he is still a Great Great spirit Master of Level 29. At this moment the plagiarizing would not even need to use his martial spirit of his sake, just a punch to his to Ju Ran, who has no spiritual ring, to kiss the asphalt after taking a punch.
The second is the support behind the trash. Yu Xiaogang has three forces supporting him from behind.
The first is the rector of the Nuoding Academy, which is Yu Xiaogang's weaker support at the moment. After staying at the Academy Nuoding enough time Ju Ran realized that the dean really considers Yu Xiaogang as a friend. Even when Yu Xiaogang live and eat for free at the gym without giving a single class the director gave no complaints.
It is quite possible that Yu Xiaogang has distributed all his points to charisma instead of strength to be able to deceive so many people with his words.
Although the rector treats Yu Xiaogang as a friend the other teachers do not think the same, they really despise Yu Xiaogang for being a useless profiteer who contributes nothing while boasting of his theories (plagiarism) that he does not share with others. But for fear of the rector, teachers can do nothing but insult the plagiarizing in the back.
If Ju Ran tried to cause problems for Yu Xiaogang there would be the possibility of the rector to intervene and even kicked out of the gym.
Yu Xiaogang's second support is the clan of the Blue Lightning Tyrant, Yu Xiaogang's family. They are one of the three upper sects of the Douluo continent. The martial spirit of this clan is the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, which is considered the maximum existence between beast martial spirits. However, the martial spirit of Seraphim still exists in this age, so they do not occupy the first place.
Among Yu Xiaogang's three supports, this clan is a more unlikely case to help Yu Xiaogang if he is in trouble, after all the clan despises Yu Xiaogang because of his lack of talent, and not to mention that because of Yu Xiaogang's marriage to Liu Erlong that plagiary may have become a joke inside his family since he and Liu Erlong are marriage and unaware. from that.
But although Ju Ran finds the chances of the Blue Lightning Tyran Dragon Clan to come to the aid of Yu Xiaogang almost nonexistent, he does not dare to risk, after all he does not know much about Yu Yuanzhen, he is the father of Yu Xiaogang and the Patriarch of the dragon dragon lightning blue beyond the fact that he is an Titled Douulo with 9 spirit rings.
How did someone who woke up with innate spirit power, how did Yu Xiaogang reach the level of Grand spirit Master Rank 29?
By logic, Yu Xiaogang should not even be able to reach rank 10 throughout his life because of his innate talent. So how did he get?
One assumption that Ju Ran has is that Yu Xiaogang's father used his authority as a patriarch to give Yu Xiaogang many valuable cultivation resources to advance in cultivation. The amount of valuable resources that were spent on Yu Xiaogang may not have been small.
Even in the current situation, Ju Ran is unsure about Yu Yuanzhen's feelings for Yu Xiaogang.
And the last support is the scariest and most dangerous of all ...
It is Bibi Dong, the Pope of the Spirit Hall.
It's been two years since Qian Xunji died and Bibi Dong ended up taking command of the Spirit Hall, Ju Ran lives in a small town far away from the Spirit City so he can do nothing but hear some uncertain rumors about Bibi Dong, although Ju Ran speculate that Bibi Dong is still having a hard time gaining influence within the spiritual hall. After all, for thousands of years, the Spirit Hall has always belonged to the Angel clan of the Qian family. All the popes before Bibi Dong had the Seraphim martial spirit, so Bibi Dong's current influence on the Spirit Hall can at the moment.
But as someone who knows about the future plot of this world, Ju Ran knows that eventually, Bibi Dong will have almost complete control of the Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong is extremely passionate about Yu Xiaogang. No, the correct way to say it is that she is madly obsessed with him, to the point that her madness even destroys the entire clan dragon Tyran lightning blue in the future just because they despise Yu Xiaogang for being the waste he is. Just a little of the Blue Lightning tyrant dragon clan could survive because they were out of the clan during the massacre.
Bibi Dong is a very obstinate woman with a strong willpower to wait for the right moment to take revenge.
Ju Ran is very afraid of Bibi Dong. Even though she doesn't have much authority at the moment, she can still mobilize high-level Spirit Masters under her command. If it were for Yu Xiaogang, she would be willing to do anything for him, regardless of the consequences.
And it is to put a cause that Ju Ran does not want to have a hostile relationship with this ungrateful hypocritical plagiarizing.
This is why even if Ju Ran despises this garbage he will not yet make any movement against him so as not to gain the hostility of either part of the mentioned parts.
"Dean, I never stopped training hard and whenever I had time I meditated and cultivated my spirit power." Ju Ran spoke respectfully to the director.
Ju Ran's words are not a lie, after all he has always worked hard on the cultivation of spirit power, but he has not spoken the truth about his methods either.
"Was it really just that?" The director asked a little doubtful. It is not that he did not want to doubt Ju Ran but with his years of experience as a director make it difficult to believe in his words.
"Dean, even I was shocked when this boy said he arrived at Rank 10, but I do not doubt his effort. While the other children were relaxing in their free time I saw this boy practicing intensely without pause, he just did not cultivate spiritual power when he was studying, working, or sleeping and eating." The librarian spoke his opinion.
"I understand, in this case you did very well to reach Rank 10 Ju Ran. In all my years in this gym I never met a young man as hard as you." The dean of the Nuoding Academy congratulated Ju Ran.
"Thank you dean, about my spirit ring ... how are we going to proceed?" Ju Ran asked.
"I sigh, let me see, hunting Spirit Rings happens twice a year here at the academy. Teachers take students to a forest of spirit beasts, teachers help students get their spirit rings. Unfortunately a month has passed a month since the last hunt of academy spirit rings, so unfortunately you will have to wait 5 months to get your spirit ring." The dean spoke with a little weighing; after all, he understood how much someone would like to get his first spiritual ring then reach the bottleneck level.
But now Ju Ran is the only student who needs to get a spiritual ring and this a little complicates things for the rector because getting a spirit ring is not so simple that someone gets into a forest and just killing a spiritual beast.
First, you need to get permission from the Spirit Hall to get a pass to enter a forest of spiritual beasts, and this takes a while due to bureaucratic processes.
The spirit hall controls most of the continent's spiritual beast forests, the only exceptions are the great forest of spiritual beasts like the Star forest.
It would take a week or two to get a permission on the branch of the Nuoding City spirit Hall. But the big problem is the teachers.
Teachers are also spirit masters, when they are not working at school they need to prioritize their own cultivation and hunting spirit beasts is not something fast, in fact it is very long a few times because of finding a suitable spiritual beast for the martial spirit.
The forests of spirit beasts are also very dangerous places, and I need to be very careful with them. Spirit Beasts are usually hostile to humans, and if the spirit master who comes in there is not strong enough, that person will turn food from some beast.
Teachers need to go very carefully when they take students so as not to meet a centennial spiritual beast.
Because of this, teachers prefer not to go to the forest unless they receive an appropriate payment. After all they are putting their lives at risk by the students, they don't want to get hurt for little.
If the student who wanted the spiritual ring were a nobleman willing to pay a decent amount of money, then they would form a group to hunt for the spiritual ring. But Ju Ran is a commoner without money, so it's not worth rushing things.
"Dean, how about I take Ju Ran to hunt the spiritual ring? Last year I got my second spirit ring so there should be no problem that I take him through the edge of the forest, right?" The librarian said offering to help Ju Ran.
He knew Ju Ran well enough to know that he would not be reckless in the forest, and given their little friendship, he didn't mind helping a little.
"Are you sure?" The dean asked.
"Yes, dean. And I promise we will try to be fast in hunting for the library to be opened." The librarian spoke in a confident and respectful tone.
"Okay then, I'll try to get permission from the spirit hall. You two can go." The rector spoke and sent Ju Ran and the librarian out of the room.
After walking a little and moving away from the rector's room.
"Thanks." Ju Ran gave simple thanks to the librarian.
"Nothing, but couldn't you try to be a little more emotional with this thanks?" The librarian sighed with a ironic smile.
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Two weeks have passed since Ju Ran asked for hunting the spirit ring.
At this moment Ju Ran and the librarian are inside a carriage that is going to a hunting forest of spirit beasts.
'Are you excited to hunt your first spirit ring?'
A graceful and calm voice spoke inside Ju Ran's mind. This voice belongs to none other than the Angel Goddess Qian Renxue.
'At the very least I'm a little worried. After all I have never done something like absorbing a spirit ring before. ' Ju Ran spoke in his thoughts.
"Haha you don't have to be so nervous. Everyone spiritual master goes through this nervousness. Knowing you, as long as you don't try to absorb a spirit ring that exceeds the boundaries of your body you will look good." Qian Renxue tried to calm Ju Ran with a small laugh.
'Qian Renxue, how is your situation?' Ju Ran asked the goddess that she cannot appear in her field of vision.
"In addition to the fact that I can disappear in 6 months if you don't get your first spirit ring, I'm very well thanks for asking. ' Qian Renxue responded in a carefree tone while talking about the risk situation she was going through.
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Author's Note: I will post another chapter later.