Chapter 25: Start campus life
The south bank of Dalu Lake is lined with green trees and beautiful scenery. There is a section of the lake bank that is neatly built with large stones to form an embankment. Along the embankment, there are two-story small villas built every few dozen feet. There are 28 in total, starting from the middle two The buildings are arranged from the east to the east 14th building of Cuihu Road, and from the west to the west 14th building.
This is the residence of first-year students in the inner courtyard of Alchemy Academy, but it has never been full. When Qingshi came, sixteen buildings here were already occupied. Except for Qingshi, the other sixteen people were promoted from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard after passing the examination. of.
Qingshi chose the East Ninth Building. According to Lu Chen, the second-year senior who brought him here to settle down, no one lived in the East Ninth Building to the East Fourteenth Building. A beautiful woman lived in the East Eighth Building. Lu Chen was speechless when talking about it. The eyes are glowing green.
After Lu Chen explained to Qingshi, he ran to Dongba Building to find his junior sister. The freshmen items he left for Qingshi included several sets of school uniforms. However, Lu Chen said that only students from the outer college were required to wear school uniforms, and students from the inner college could wear them. Wear it, but whether you wear school uniform or not, you also need to wear an identity badge indicating the college to which you belong.
In addition to school uniforms, there are brand new bedding and toiletries, as well as credit cards, student badges, student instructions and college regulations and other items.
At this moment, Qingshi was sitting on the waterfront terrace on the first floor of the East Ninth Building, looking at the student instructions and college regulations. After reading them for a while, he also had a general understanding of the various regulations of the college.
As a student in the inner academy, you need to complete two grades and a total of six years of study just like the outer academy.
The management of the inner courtyard is very loose, and there are not many mandatory regulations. First, within a school year, students are required to take open classes three times a week on average. Insufficient class time is considered a failure.
The second is to earn enough credits. As a first-year student in Dan Dao Academy, Qingshi’s minimum credit requirement is 1,600 points. Once the credits are earned, there will be records and no need to keep them. In fact, the college encourages students to earn as much as possible. Earn more credits and spend all the credits you earn.
Students can use credits to exchange for training resources in the academy. For example, it costs 50 credits to enter the gravity room to practice once, and 50 credits to enter the trial room. Borrowing a yellow-level high-grade martial arts or technique requires 200 to 300 credits, etc. wait.
To borrow various advanced exercises, martial arts or techniques, etc., you need more credits.
In addition to class requirements and credit requirements, there is an exam at the end of each year, and other colleges basically ignore it.
Teachers are all called elders. Except for Dean Jin, the other elders give public lectures two to five times a week, and all public lectures are held at different times.
Qingshi has the course schedule for this school year in the Dan Dao Inner Academy. Tomorrow is the first day of school. There will be four first-year teachers in the Inner Academy teaching classes tomorrow, and Qingshi decides to attend them all.
His plan was to take all ten classes offered in the first grade and then choose three or four to specialize in. He decided that the classes at Alchemy Academy would only be taught according to the minimum standard, that is, three classes per week. He wanted to take more Time is spent on martial arts and formations.
There is also the weapon path that needs to be practiced. After all, the repair of the flying sword requires both the formation path and the weapon path to reach a certain level. Qingshi estimates that the formation path needs to be level 4, and the weapon path needs to be at least level 3.
After making a plan, Qingshi began to inspect the small villa. The small building has a lawn courtyard of about five square feet, surrounded by a wooden fence. You can enter the house through the small courtyard through the fence gate. The ground floor is a large living room. There is also a kitchen and bathroom.
Across the living room there is a water-friendly terrace extending into the lake, more than three feet long and two feet wide. Upstairs there is a large bedroom with complete bathroom facilities, luxurious decoration and a large balcony, as well as a study room and a guest room.
Some time ago in Yunlu, Qingshi focused on how to pass the test. After coming out, he was busy on the road. He never had time to practice the exercises. Today he can finally concentrate on practice.
Qingshi set up two simple first-level magic arrays on the water-friendly terrace. One is the spirit gathering array, which can make the spiritual energy within the terrace more intense. There is also a shielding array, which can block the outside world's sight. This is what Fu Yun learned at the beginning. Hao found out his tricks in the courtyard of Maozhu Town.
Qingshi sat on a big futon in the center of the terrace, first activated two magic circles, and then used the Great Huang Gong to absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone for practice. The spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven, earth and lake water also gathered to supplement it.
The spiritual energy in the air was abundant and pure, and Qingshi couldn't help but sigh that this No. 1 academy in the continent was indeed a treasured place for cultivation.
After concentrating on practicing for nine weeks, Qingshi slowly finished his work. After a brief moment of perception, Qingshi found that the zhenqi in his Dantian Qi Sea was close to overflowing. He couldn't help feeling happy, and then thought that he had reached his current level of cultivation on New Year's Eve. At that time, the fullness of the Dantian Qi sea seemed to be the same as it is now, and it didn't seem to have increased much. Well, it seems like it’s time to work hard on practicing the techniques.
Looking at the amount of spiritual stones he consumed, he actually used one hundred and three low-grade spiritual stones. Adding in the amount of spiritual energy absorbed from heaven and earth, it was estimated to be close to one hundred and fifty. This shows that the results of cultivation are good and improving.
Speaking of spirit stones, Qingshi found that the remaining low-grade spirit stones were less than one thousand. Qingshi knew that the credits in the academy were the most effective way to exchange for training resources, and besides the credits, there were spirit stones.
Except for part of the academy's training resources, which must be exchanged for credits, the rest must be exchanged for spiritual stones. Even credits can be purchased from other students using spiritual stones.
In addition, daily practice will also consume a lot of spiritual stones. Generally, when a monk reaches the Qi Gathering Realm or above, it is impossible to maintain his practice only by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, not to mention the massive demand for spiritual energy from bluestone.
Qingshi is not very worried about the lack of spiritual stones. As an alchemist, he naturally has no worries about not having enough spiritual stones.
With Qingshi's skills, he could refine a furnace of three-star elixirs and six elixirs of high quality, which would be able to sell for at least seven or eight thousand low-grade spiritual stones. With the mental strength of the blue stone, there is no problem in refining ten furnaces a day.
The next day, Qingshi washed up and went out to class. The freshman information given by Lu Chen included a detailed map of the entire college. Qingshi looked at the logo on the map and found that the teaching building of the inner courtyard of Dandao Academy was about three miles southwest. At this time, it was about 3 miles away from class. It was still early, so Qingshi was ready to walk around and go slowly.
Slowly walk along a tree-lined avenue towards the teaching building. The roadside is full of carefully tended lawns, flowers and trees. After walking for a few hundred steps, a large pond appears in front of you. The pond is crowded with lotus leaves and lotus flowers. The fragrance smells very good.
There are pebble paths and wooden trestles around the pond, as well as several pavilions and waterside pavilions. The pond is connected to Dalu Lake by a waterway, and there are two exquisite wooden bridges on the waterway.
Walking around the lotus pond, there is a low hill in front of you. There are stone stairs that lead to the pavilion on the top of the hill. Then walking around the hill, you will see a building with red walls and blue tiles. That is the teaching area of the inner courtyard of Dan Dao Academy. .
Qingshi walked along the stone road towards the gate, but saw about ten people gathered not far to the right of the gate. Judging from their clothes, they were all students from the inner courtyard of the martial arts academy. Several people gathered together to talk, and the others were on an independent screen wall. Go down and stick something on the wall.
Qingshi was a little curious. He slowed down and was wondering if he should go take a look, but he heard a female voice behind him: "Senior Brother Qingshi!"
Qingshi turned around and saw that it was the little girl who was at the registration desk yesterday. Qingshi quickly returned the greeting: "Hello, senior sister. If you dare to ask Gao's name, I don't dare to claim to be senior."
"My name is Xiang Wan," the girl said, "I was just promoted from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard this year, but I'm older than you. Well, I'll call you junior brother. Junior brother, what are you looking at? "
"Excuse me, senior sister, why are there people from the martial arts academy over there and what do they do?" Qingshi asked.
"Oh, they're all here to buy elixirs." Xiang Wan said, "If you have nothing to do, just wait there for someone to sell them. If you have something to do and can't wait, just post a note on the wall with information about purchasing elixirs."
Qingshi suddenly realized, thinking that it would be easier to sell elixirs like this. Then he and Xiang Wan walked into the teaching area.
The first class was alchemy and medical skills taught by a middle-aged teacher named Yang Qian. Fifteen of the seventeen first-year students from the inner courtyard came. Elder Yang was very satisfied and taught very hard. Qingshi listened I feel it is quite rewarding.
The second class was taught by a teacher named Zhang Hanting on Materia Medica. There were eleven people in the class. Qingshi originally thought that this class was not very interesting. After all, he had the Dahuang Jade Alchemy Sutra in his memory. He wanted to talk about the understanding of worldly herbs. Qingshi thinks he can't lose to anyone.
However, the teacher did not just give an introduction to these herbs. Instead, he not only described the efficacy and usage of an herb in detail, but also compared and analyzed it with other similar herbs, pointing out their differences and why they cannot be used together. Or the principle of replacement.
Only then did Qingshi feel the benefit of having a teacher to guide him. He couldn't help but think of Shitou's experience, and even more felt the correctness and importance of entering a high-level academy. He thought in his heart that two hundred low-grade spiritual stone flowers were worth it.
Yes, you need to pay tuition for classes. Each of these two classes contains one hundred low-grade spirit stones. Of course, these spirit stones are just a symbolic tuition fee, which means that the teacher does not teach it lightly and it is not easy for students to learn it. The academy and the elders do not live on this mere spiritual stone.
After a half-hour break after these two classes, Qingshi walked out of the door and came to the elixir sales area he had just seen.
As soon as I walked over, a guy with oily hair and a pink face came quickly and said hello from afar: "Hi, brother! I'm exchanging pills for spiritual stones. I guarantee the price is fair and I won't cheat anyone. Brother looked at me with surprise. I haven’t come here to sell elixirs much before. Don’t worry, I, Zhang Hao, have been collecting elixirs for several years. Who in the Alchemy Academy doesn’t know that we are fair and fair in buying and selling. Brother, how much do you sell? What is the elixir and what grade is it?”
Qingshi secretly thought that this was an old medicine dealer. He didn't say anything. He only took out the elixirs that were not in use for the time being. However, there were second-grade Qi-Returning Pills, Zhenqi Pills, Detoxification Pills, and third-grade Qi-Returning Pills and Anti-Toxin Pills. About twenty pills.
Zhang Hao, however, was not picky and took them all in. He paid a total of 8,500 low-grade spiritual stones, and the price was not bad. After that, this guy pestered Qingshi and insisted on his name and address, saying that he wanted to form a comprehensive strategic partnership with him. He would underwrite Qingshi's elixirs and be responsible for purchasing raw materials and so on.
Qingshi ignored him and went back to class.
Qingshi looked at the course schedule yesterday. The third class today was taught by Elder Zhong Buli on how to make a fourth-grade elixir, Critical Strike Pill. Qingshi thought that classes usually teach the theoretical basis and directly teach how to refine a specific elixir. It's quite special.
This crit pill can greatly increase or even double the infuriating output of a person in a short period of time when used in battle. It is a magic medicine for combat. However, the side effects after use are very serious. Most of them are bought by wealthy owners to be used in emergencies, so the demand is not very big. Moreover, the preparation of this elixir is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it requires a lot of alchemists, so the price is high but low. Someone refined it.
Qingshi can refine fourth-level Qi pills and Qi-restoring pills, but his overall level is not up to the fourth-level alchemist qualification. He doesn’t know how to refine this critical pill and doesn’t have a prescription for it, so he thinks he should take this class. .
Qingshi thought to himself: Since he is learning to refine it, he can naturally see the elixir recipe, and he can make a lot of money by secretly writing down the elixir recipe.
Qingshi found the classroom and saw that the class time had arrived, but there was no one in the classroom.
Qingshi thought he was in the wrong classroom, so he turned around and was about to exit, but was blocked by a man at the door. This man was tall and fat, with a round fat face, a pair of bulging goldfish eyes, a big red round nose, and a chin. A goatee.
"It's class, where are you going?" The fat man shouted, "Go in and sit down."
"This..." Looking at the empty classroom, Qingshi felt a little uneasy, but he had no choice but to walk into the classroom.
"I am absolutely punctual in my lectures," said the fat man. "Anyone who is late will not be kept waiting." He walked up to the podium.
Qingshi murmured in his heart why he was late, maybe I was the only one here. But the fat man stretched out his hand and said, "Bring me the tuition fee."
Qingshi just had two classes. In both cases, a wooden box was placed next to the podium, with the tuition fee of 100 written in writing, and the students placed the spiritual stones in the box themselves. The fat teacher didn't have a wooden box, but he just reached out and asked for money.
Qingshi quickly took out a hundred low-grade spirit stones and piled them on the podium. The fat man glared and said, "There are three hundred low-grade spirit stones in one class. Are you kidding me that I don't know how to count?"
Qingshi was startled, gritted his teeth and took out another two hundred low-grade spirit stones and handed them over. He secretly comforted himself and said, "It's okay. Three hundred low-grade spirit stones and learning the refining method of the fourth-grade critical strike pill are still worth a thousand dollars." Worth a thousand dollars.”
The fat man collected the spirit stones and said: "The refining of the fourth-grade crit pill is divided into ten classes. Each class has three medium-grade spirit stones. I hope the students will not get these small stones next time. Refining the violent pill The first five lessons of Alchemy Attack are theoretical, and the last five lessons require practical operations. Students are asked to prepare the materials used for these operational exercises. If they have not prepared them themselves, this elder can also provide them for them. Only middle-grade spirits are required. Ten stones is enough, of course, ten stones per class. If you still can’t learn it after ten classes, it doesn’t matter. You can privately find an elder to make up lessons and keep learning until you learn it. The make-up fee is normal. On top of the tuition fee, only 30% is added..."
Qingshi finally understood why he was the only one attending the fat elder's class.
After class, Qingshi walked out of the classroom angrily. The fat elder chased him out of the door and shouted from behind: "Students, the next class is at the same time and in the same classroom next week. Please tell each other not to be late again..." ..”
Qingshi was very depressed, not that he felt sorry for Lingshi.
The fat teacher Zhong Buli talked for more than half an hour. Not to mention the complete prescription of the elixir, he did not mention even a single medicinal material. Instead, he talked about the functions of the crit elixir and how to prevent and reduce side effects, etc., and quoted from many sources. There are a lot of cases that I don’t know are true or false:
On a certain year, month and day, someone took a crit pill and defeated one of the stronger ones, crippling eight of them.
On a certain year, month, and day, someone was allergic to crit pills and his intestines burst.
Another person took the crit pill to defeat the enemy and then used the thug gun method to successfully reduce the side effects and so on.
He seemed to be afraid that Qingshi wouldn't understand, so when he talked about gun guns, he specifically asked: "Do you students know what gun guns are? The male students should all have experience, you know this," he said. He folded his hands into semi-clenched fists and rubbed them twice in front of his fat belly.
Qingshi just wanted to get away from this wretched fat man quickly, turning a deaf ear to his shouts from behind and going without looking back.
