Ding Sanshi: “…”
He forgot the brat could remember things after seeing them.
“Since so, cultivate well tonight. If you can cross the threshold of the ‘Big Dipper Falling’, in tomorrow’s competition, seize the chance and attack at the right timing, then you’ll be able to tackle Mu Xinyue’s ‘Star-picking Strikes’.”
Ding Sanshi said then and reviewed many tips for the move.
Lin Beichen pretended to be listening carefully.
After that, Ding Sanshi shifted the topic to say, “If you win first place in tomorrow’s competition, you can enter the Talent Battle preliminaries. It’s been a long time since there had been students joining the Talent Battle. It’s very promising for you this time. Seize the chance.”
Lin Beichen said, “I didn’t say I wanted to join the Talent Battle.”
That’s funny.
He took part in the college’s Midyear Competition simply to keep himself in school.
As for winning first place, it was due to Wu Xiaofang’s trap.
“I’ve been forced.”
As for taking part in Talent Battle?
He hadn’t even given a thought to it.
It was no fun at all.
He would rather lie in the college, sunbathing like a loser and studying the cell carefully.
Trying to find a way back early was the right thing.
Why did he have to battle?
Ding Sanshi felt surprised. “What? You don’t want to get in the Talent Battle?”
Lin Beichen nodded as if it had been very justifiable.
Ding Sanshi said in great surprise, “So you’re going to give up the 50 gold coins and many other prizes of winning first place in the competition?”
Huh?
Lin Beichen became dazed.
“There are prizes for winning first place?”
He said in ultimate surprise.
Ding Sanshi asked in reply, “You don’t know?”
“Well…” Lin Beichen gave an awkward yet polite smile and said, “I really haven’t paid attention to this kind of small prize.”
Ding Sanshi went speechless.
However, when he thought about it, he found the 50 gold coins prize was really nothing for Lin Beichen in the past.
“Listen. Top four of the college’s Midyear Competition are all qualified for the Talent Battle preliminaries of Cloudy Dream City. Now you’re already in the top four. Then you’re qualified. If you win first place tomorrow, you’ll get 50 gold coins, a one-star martial arts book, a highest-grade scholarship package consisting of pills and potions. But there’s a condition. You have to join the Talent Battle preliminaries for the college. Otherwise, the college will decide you have given up the prizes.”
Ding Sanshi explained in detail.
Lin Beichen got a little interested after the description.
There turned out be so many prizes.
Martial arts, herbs, pills, or potion didn’t mean much to him.
Nevertheless, the 50 gold coins were deadly tempting.
After all, the cell was consuming power every second; it’s like burning his money away.
In the past few days, only six had remained out of the 20 gold coins he coaxed out of Wu Xiaofang. Except for the money he used for daily life, he had spent the rest on charging the phone.
It was obviously impossible to reduce spending.
That only led to increasing income.
50 gold coins equaled five opportunities to charge the phone full.
Lin Beichen considered and said seriously, “Actually, I don’t care about gold coins or stuff. I’m not that type who likes money. I really want to gain the glory for Third College. So I decide to join in the Talent Battle preliminaries.”
Ding Sanshi looked suspicious.
The little brat must have changed his mind after hearing the gold coin prize.
Nevertheless, it wouldn’t matter.
As long as he would take part in the game.
Ding Sanshi added, “Very wise choice. Joining Talent Battle is nothing but benefits for you. Especially, if you win the preliminaries and get a Talent Token, your life will be protected by the empire’s law. You’ll be like a noble. Your enemies in Cloudy Dream City will have to think carefully before they lay a finger on you again.”
Huh?
Lin Beichen got dazed again.
What?
Talent Token?
He again fell into deep silence.
What the heck? Why hadn’t anyone told him these things?
He felt very upset.
Ding Sanshi had embarrassed him again and again.
However, looking back, he found that maybe he’d become so ignorant because he didn’t listen carefully during classes in school?
“Alright, I see.”
Lin Beichen said, “I’ll fully prepare myself and try hard to pass the preliminaries and enter the game, and get a Talent Token.”
“Yes, very well.”
Seeing a goal-oriented and ambitious Lin Beichen, Ding Sanshi smiled in satisfaction and said, “Hurry up to practice the sword… Go to sleep. There’s everything in dreams. Practice the sword hard.”
After that, he handed the sword in his hand to Lin Beichen and said, “The sword has been with me for 20 years. Today, I’ll gift it to you. Remember the inscriptions on the sword. It represents the characters and morals a real swordsman should have.”
After he finished that, his figure dashed and disappeared.
Lin Beichen got startled.
Well?
That’s cool.
The old teacher could really move fast.
In the past, when he read novels or watched TV series or movies, Lin Beichen was constantly questioning one issue. Why did those masters have to fly past the eaves or climb over the walls when they could completely walk without any difficulties?
Didn’t they think it a waste of energy?
Now he understood.
Because it was freaking cool.
He looked down at the sword in his hand.
He found one word carved on the plain and simple sword body—
Morals!
Lin Beichen was stunned at the sight of it.
Didn’t the old teacher say the word on it represented a real swordsman’s characters and morals?
Why did it sound so insulting?
He subconsciously turned around the sword body.
He saw other two words carved on the other side—
Were Unparalleled.
When they were combined, they read like this: morals are unparalleled.
Lin Beichen covered his forehead.
It turned out to mean this.
In that case, the sword was a sword of morals.
When he used the sword to slash people in the future, he would be considered to be convincing people with morals, right?
Lin Beichen thought delightedly and turned around to return to the tent happily.
He unlocked the phone and directly opened the App Store.
“Gee? There’s no cultivation app for ‘Big Dipper Falling’?”
Lin Beichen felt stunned.
He observed carefully and found a new alert below the app icon of the Basic Close Triple Sword Strikes—
“Updated version of the app detected. Do you want to download the update package?”
It seemed that there had been a version update within the app, adding in the “Big Dipper Falling”.
After all, the move was a hidden strike after one reached the peak of the Triple Sword Strikes. It was from the same origin as the Triple Sword Strikes.
Lin Beichen chose: Update.
“The update package needs data of 500MB, and you currently have data of 3G. Do you want to download it?”
An alert window popped up.
Lin Beichen felt stunned.
What?
Data of 3G?
That meant his current Mystery Energy at level 6 equaled data of 3G.
It was already a lot.
Moreover, this time’s update needed data of 500MB, which was 246MB more than that of the complete Basic Close Triple Sword Strikes app previously. It could be seen that the phone put much more value on the Big Dipper Falling move than the Triple Sword Strikes.
He tapped to download it.
A small green progress bar appeared on the phone’s screen.
After three minutes, the download was completed.
He went on with the installation process.
Another three minutes passed, and the installation finished.
Lin Beichen tapped on the new icon on the desktop and entered the inside of the app.
There were still the ink painting and the figure that looked like him performing a sword dance against an ink-and-wash painting. He was performing undoubtfully the Basic Close Triple Sword Strikes. When he finished the Triple Sword Strikes, Big Dipper Falling followed.
“I guessed it right.”
Lin Beichen got very satisfied and fell deep asleep feeling assured.