Path Of The Lilies - Chapter 390 Learning Basic of Runes

Qi Huan passed the young man a sidelong glance. “Why are you so surprised? Didn’t you also get a similar question?”

“Well, yeah, but it’s only after I see the teacher’s ability and also a few hours of partial begging.” Lu Wan’s face darkened. He was impressed by his teacher’s ability, so he asked to be his disciple. However, that eccentric master didn’t want to receive a disciple randomly. Even now, he still didn’t have any proper guidance.

“You can search for other masters?”

“He’s the best in Hua Shan Academy.” Lu Wan’s face scrunched. “You don’t even have any teacher, Qi Huan.”

“I have. Also, you need to call me politely,” Qi Huan reminded.

“Fine, Senior Brother Qi. Wait, you say that you have a master? Since when?”

“Since the second day. Do you remember our homeroom teacher? I ask her to be my teacher, and she agrees.”

Lu Wan’s mind spun hard as his jaw dropped. He pointed to Qi Huan. “Why did you ask that without trying to find more talented teachers?”

“Teacher Chen is the best water element teacher in Hua Shan Academy,” Qi Huan explained. “As for illusive…”

His eyes landed on the middle-aged man in front of Ye Jiao. He had heard about Elder Qian’s capability and knew that this seemingly ordinary man was actually one of the strongest elders in Hua Shan Academy. His prowess in illusive was the best, but he hasn’t taken any disciple lately because he was focusing on his array mastery.

“Sorry?” Ye Jiao was stunned.

Elder Qian smiled. “I’m also a teacher in the Hua Shan Academy. You can come to me to learn much more if you become my disciple.”

Ye Jiao blinked. She knew that she would learn a lot, but she hadn’t made any decision in regards to her master. Turning her head to Qin Zheng, she was hoping that he could give her some explanation.

“Elder Qian specializes in wind elements and illusive specialization,” Qin Zheng said plainly. “However, he’s also known as a perv….”

Bletak!

Qin Zheng’s forehead was red because Elder Qian had thrown something at the man’s forehead with his wind element. “Brat, don’t spout lies!”

“I’m not.”

“Yes, you are.”

“It’s the truth that your half disciples are mostly females, so I just conclude that you must be a perv…”

This time, Qin Zheng managed to narrowly evade the attack from Elder Qian. He smirked a bit when he saw the teacher fumed in anger. Even though Elder Qian was a calm man on the outside, Qin Zheng always tried to find something to prank his teachers. Of course, Elder Qian was not an exception.

“Most of the disciples with illusive talent are females,” Elder Qian rolled his eyes. “Besides, half disciples mean that they’re just learning a bit from me.”

To become a formal disciple of a teacher in an academy, they needed to be at least Elite Disciple or Core Disciple. Also, not all Core Disciples could get formal master because they needed to reach at least top 50 and stayed in that position for a year. If they dropped due to a challenge, the time reset again.

Besides, those Elite Disciples would be learning the school’s greatest technique when they reached rank 4. This was the reason the academy put the utmost importance to these Elite Disciples. They could lose their position only if the principal deemed them to be unsuitable.

“Females?” Lu Wan turned his head to look at Qin Zheng and Qi Huan. If he was not wrong, these two have talent in the illusive.

“Normally, Lu Wan.” Qi Huan’s tone was dangerous as killing intent brewed within his eyes. If his junior brother dared to say that he’s a female, he didn’t mind sending Lu Wan a course of beating.

“Yes!” Lu Wan turned his head away as he didn’t wish to meet with Qi Huan’s eyes. That young man would definitely kill him.

Ye Jiao tilted her head. “But I’m not going to specialize in wind elements nor illusives.”

“He’s not planning to become your teacher in your specialization,” Qin Zheng sighed. There was no teacher suitable to teach Ye Jiao in that regard in this academy. “Elder Qian is also the greatest Rune Master in this academy.”

“Really?” Ye Jiao was astonished.

“Yes,” Qin Zheng nodded. “He should be in yellow rank….”

Bang!

“It’s light green rank, Brat!” Elder Qian felt that his patience was tested by this annoying brat over and over.

“That’s amazing!”

“So, do you want to become my student, Little Lass?”

“Let me think about it first,” Ye Jiao replied back. She was still not sure whether she would want to study runes or not. Even though it was interesting, if she didn’t have any talent, it would be better if she thinks more about it.

Elder Qian nearly dropped to the ground when he heard Ye Jiao’s answer. Even the shopkeeper behind him felt like crying. A lot of people wished to be Elder Qian’s student and even becoming his half disciple was already satisfying for them.

Yet this girl said that she would think it over.

Elder Qian scratched the back of his head. “If you’re worried about talent, you’ve got a really good talent.”

Hell, it was not just good, but he didn’t want to tell the truth. Even though she was unfamiliar with the words, she was able to activate the runes by following after their words. It was not something ordinary people could do. Even those who have S talent might not be necessarily able to do so. After all, the complicated words need a different amount of Eon Energy.

“Is that so?” Ye Jiao looked at the headpiece on her hand.

“I’ll teach you from the very basics about runes,” Elder Qian replied. He would feel a bit bad if this girl didn’t learn runes when she clearly has great talent with it. “Within a few years, I’m sure that you can reach my level.”

A few years?

Qin Zheng arched his eyebrows. He knew that Elder Qian looked like he was in middle age, but this man was already pretty old. It was only because he had reached rank 5 that he could look younger. This man spent around four decades to reach light Green Rank, and he said that Ye Jiao could reach the same rank in just a few years.

His lips curled up. It seemed that his little junior had another talent she could nurture.

“You should accept it, Jiao’er. It’s not a bad deal,” Qin Zheng suggested. Just as Elder Qian cheered up, he heard Qin Zheng continued. “But you should ask for more rewards from this stingy Elder.”

“Qin Zheng, should I punish you by giving you more weights tomorrow?” Elder Qian threatened.

Qin Zheng’s face darkened. He had already got a few hundred kilos, thanks to Lin Cai complaining to Shen Dian. If he had to add more weight, he might not be able to finish the training.

Ye Jiao giggled. She looked at the headpiece. Originally, she only came here because this headpiece looked interesting. Who would have thought that she would also gain the chance to learn runes from the best master in the academy?

She turned towards Elder Qian and kowtowed. “Disciple Ye Jiao greets Teacher Qian!”

Elder Qian laughed. “Good! My good disciple. Master naturally won’t be stingy with you, so this is Eon Energy gathering array for you.”

He took out a round plate and handed it to Ye Jiao. The young girl could see some drawing on top of the plate, but she couldn’t recognize any of the words. It would take her a long time to learn them all.

“Here are some of the basic books,” Elder Qian took out several dozen books from his Spatial Ring. He handed them all to Ye Jiao. “I want you to first read them all and memorize all 1000 existing runes in this era.”

1000?

Ye Jiao was stunned. She did expect that there would be a lot of runes but didn’t think that it would be this many.

“There are 100 basic runes, 300 Intermediate runes, and 600 advanced runes,” Elder Qian explained. “Aside from these 1000, there are other special runes, but you should just memorize them all first. Also, you need to know their characteristics by heart.”

“Yes, Master!”