Chapter 168 (1/2)

Chapter 168: Exchange

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

Faced with Ferdinand’s question, Fang Xingjian shook his head without hesitation and said, “I’m not interested.”

Ferdinand let out a sigh. Seeing that light on Fang Xingjian’s fingertip, Ferdinand knew that he was still cultivating the Radiant Light Sword Technique. He suddenly asked, “Xingjian, could it be that you’re still thinking of participating in the upcoming Regional Selection?”

Fang Xingjian kept quiet for a while. He thought that there should be no problem for him to say this and, thus, nodded, “That’s right. I do have plans to participate in the upcoming Regional Selection.”

Ferdinand continued to ask, “Then do you know how competitive the upcoming Regional Selection will be?”

“It affects the budget for all the Prefectural Academies for the next year. It should be the most competitive one in the past few decades.” Fang Xingjian said calmly.

“Then do you know that in the Regional Selection, other than battle style competitions such as arena battles and hunting, there’s also a test for one’s talent?” Ferdinand said, “The test for one’s talent is usually to observe the Pantheon Monument.”

The Pantheon Monuments were the eight giant stone monuments the eight Divine level experts had created when the Empire was founded.

The Pantheon Monument recorded the comprehensions of the eight Divine level experts and there was one such Pantheon Monument in each of the Regional Academies in the respective regions.

The final test in the Regional Selection was to comprehend martial arts through the Pantheon Monument Observation. At the level of the Divine level experts, weapons were no longer able to hold them back. Pantheon Monument Observation allowed one to comprehend any kind of martial arts, including sword arts, saber arts, staff arts, and spear arts.

Moreover, there were a total of eight such Pantheon Monuments and some of them had words, while others had drawings. There were even those with lines, sketches or even unknown words which appeared to be meaningless to ordinary people.

As for the one in Kirst, it was one with countless weird lines and circles.

The victory for this stage naturally laid in who was able to comprehend the most from the Pantheon Monument in a shorter amount of time.

Having lost his sight, Fang Xingjian had lost the stage before it had even started. No matter how powerful his senses were with his sword Qis, it was impossible for him to even be able to sense the various prints and colors on the monument.

Fang Xingjian gave it some thought before saying, “It’s true that I had not tried to find out the content of this stage. Thank you for telling me.”

Ferdinand smiled, “But you still don’t plan on giving up?”

“I still want to attempt it.”

“Since you plan to continue despite knowing about this, then you must have thought through the consequences. I shan’t try to convince you any further then.” Ferdinand continued, “But you should still make some changes to how the classes are held. How about letting everyone have a one day trial class? With this, you should be able to get even more students.”

Ferdinand trusted that with Fang Xingjian’s ability to guide, as long as the others have tried it, they would definitely be craving for more and would, therefore, sign up for the class. This would also allow Fang Xingjian to earn more tuition fees and relieve some of his financial stress.

“And…” Ferdinand smiled and said, “You don’t have to go too hard on yourself either. Those Knights will definitely come back if they can get half the results they got today. Of course, you must still take better care of me.”

…

After Ferdinand left, Fang Xingjian went back to his training room to continue his cultivation, but he did not need to guide others now. His sword fingers glowed and as he cultivated the Radiant Light Sword Technique, his mind continued to think about sensing ether particles.

‘The ether particles are omnipresent. Since an ether particle is both a wave and a particle, based on the Earth’s theories, it should be really similar to electromagnetic waves.

‘Electromagnetism… Based on the Earth’s theories, the way to receive electromagnetic waves is to sense electric currents.