The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#219 - Go one step ahead

Chapter 218: Taking a Step Ahead

An hour later, Professor Zheng's throat was feeling dry, so he picked up the teacup beside him and moistened his throat.

He looked down again at the Xuan paper, which still had only two words, one gold and one black.

This time, even Professor Zheng was shocked, as he didn't seem to expect that someone's secret power cultivation aptitude would be so bad.

The worst record that the academy had maintained for nearly a thousand years was actually broken by him, to the point that Professor Zheng felt a sense of unreality in his heart.

Moreover, upon closer inspection, the black character had not only not turned gold, but it didn't even show a hint of gold color, and compared to an hour ago, there was simply no change.

Terribly steadfast.

In other words, it meant that he still had time to wait.

Professor Zheng already didn't know what to say.

You should know that this is the academy, and the secret power itself is much richer than outside, so as long as the affinity isn't too outrageous, after writing the characters for so long, there should be some movement.

However, when he noticed the look of surprise and uncertainty on Lu Jing's face, he felt a pang of pity and comforted him, "Well, you don't need to worry too much, perhaps, perhaps my bellflower seeds have been stored for too long…"

However, halfway through his words, Professor Zheng also didn't know how to continue, because just now, Xia Huai had written and produced gold, proving that there was no problem with the materials he used to test affinity.

However, this time he misunderstood someone, Lu Jing's horror was not because his aptitude for cultivating secret power was too poor.

In fact, he was already mentally prepared for this.

Because when he entered the academy, he wasn't very sensitive to secret power, and before in Worry-Free Village, the secret power was so rich that it was almost tangible, yet he still couldn't feel it, coupled with Supervisor Huang's inexplicable comfort not long ago.

All of this made Lu Jing realize that his talent in secret power cultivation might not be very good.

However, although disappointed, he didn't feel panicked, because his biggest purpose in coming to the academy was to solve the problem of his dantian, and learning spells was only secondary.

Moreover, even if he couldn't practice, understanding some basic knowledge and knowing how to better deal with those practitioners with ulterior motives in times of crisis, he could accept this result.

The reason why Lu Jing was now starting to feel panicked was actually because the scene in front of him was too familiar to him.

It couldn't help but remind him of the beginning of his nightmare.

You should know that when he first started learning martial arts, he also didn't have a sense of Qi for a long time, and even now he is still different from all martial artists.

He can't absorb the heaven and earth energy from the outside world first through breathing, and then convert the energy into internal force and store it in the dantian like others.

His internal force is completely self-produced and self-sold, and has nothing to do with the outside world, so he still doesn't have a sense of Qi.

It can be called a wonder of the martial world.

And now Lu Jing has discovered that not only does he not have a sense of Qi, but he can't even feel secret power.

Doesn't this mean…

Lu Jing didn't dare to think about it any further, and without regard for etiquette, he stood up and said to Professor Zheng, "I suddenly remembered something urgent, can I take a step ahead?"

Professor Zheng nodded and said gently, "Of course, it's not early, let's end here today."

Afterwards, he seemed to be worried that Lu Jing would be unable to think it through, and persuaded him again, "Don't worry, I'll go and pick some more bellflower seeds in the next two days, and you'll be able to write again soon."

However, Lu Jing smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Professor Zheng, can I not come to listen to your lectures anymore?"

As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, one is afraid of well ropes for ten years.

This is the safest thing to do.

If someone else had said these words, Professor Zheng would have already reprimanded the other party for being lazy and unwilling to learn, and for not being ambitious.

However, for Lu Jing, he found that he couldn't open his mouth at all.

Because the young man in front of him was so bad at cultivating secret power, Professor Zheng asked himself, if Lu Jing still came to listen to his lectures afterwards, it would only be a waste of effort in the end.

Even if he could luckily cultivate one or two small spells in the academy, when he left here, the concentration of secret power in the outside world would not be enough to support him to use the spells he had learned.

Although it was cruel, perhaps giving up from the beginning was the best choice for Lu Jing.

Professor Zheng nodded and made his tone even more gentle, "If you don't want to come again, you can do as you please afterwards. In fact, cultivating secret power is not a rigid requirement to become a supervisor. There are many supervisors in the Department of Celestial Observation whose martial arts are stronger than spells, and there are even supervisors who don't cultivate spells."

"However, the opportunity to study at the academy is rare. You can not practice secret arts, but you must not waste this time. Listen to the lectures of other professors. There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the academy, and there are also some senior experts who live in seclusion here. If you have extra time, you can also try to visit one or two."

"Maybe they have a way to solve your problem of being unable to practice secret power."

After Professor Zheng finished speaking, he encouraged him a few more times. Looking at Lu Jing's departing back, he still couldn't hide the regret in his eyes.

Because among this year's newcomers, Xia Huai and Yan Yun were geniuses who had been recognized by everyone early on, but then Lu Jing suddenly emerged.

First, he and Yan Yun climbed onto the Tianji Ranking at the age of less than twenty.

Then, he refreshed the time spent in the ancient desert tomb and obtained the opportunity hidden in it.

So he also completely broke into the sight of a group of instructors with unparalleled amazement, and more and more people were interested in him, including Professor Zheng himself.

However, he didn't expect that Lu Jing's secret power affinity would be so bad.

If those professors who wanted to pass on their mantle to him knew the results of his test this time, they would probably sigh with regret along with him.

When Xia Huai saw Lu Jing leaving, she bowed to Professor Zheng and hurried out.

But she almost bumped into Yang Tao, who had been waiting outside.

"It's great that you're both okay." Yang Tao was happy to see the two of them. "I waited until sunset that day and didn't see you come out, so I quickly came to Professor Zheng according to the agreement and asked him to help, but he seemed to report this matter directly to Supervisor Huang afterwards."

"After Supervisor Huang knew about it, he punished me to take twenty bamboos from Quzhu Path. I heard him say that he would punish you again after you came out, how about... did he also punish you to chop bamboo?"

"Take one hundred bamboos from Quzhu Path, cultivate the experimental field for two months, plus sort five thousand books in the library. This is the price we paid for trespassing into the forbidden area," Lu Jing said.

"So heavy?" Yang Tao was stunned when he heard this, but soon he thought of something, but asked a question that all the new students were curious about today, "Could it be... did the disappearance of Another World really happen because of you guys?"