Chapter 13 (2/2)

“That was nearly a year ago and it was after we finished drinking too, I’ve completely forgotten about it. What are we going to do?” Gao Ren had completely forgotten everything, but he was clearly not too bothered about promoting. “Ah, I’m so tired, I spent the whole night coming up with the antidote for the Multi Hallucinations poison and haven’t slept since. Why don’t we just go back? After all, it’s not too bad to just keep staying in the first year. Don’t you want to stay with the freshman girls forever?”

“I just finished arguing with the Second Elder. If I’m unable to promote, wouldn’t they use this against me? Also, don’t you want to find out about what happened yesterday?” This was nothing to Ren Jie, who simply grabbed someone and asked them where their classroom was at.

They were all at the spacious fighting arena as all the Year Ones had gathered. This was one of the three fighting arenas in the academy. The Clear Jade Dynasty prized fighting abilities and, while the Jade Imperial Academy was also nicknamed the Academy for the Pampered, it mostly referred to their background or to the minority like Ren Jie who fooled around all day. The rest were all pretty hardworking, including the royal children, the direct descendants of the major family clans, and the disciples of the powerful forces. All of them tried their best to improve themselves and expand their social network in the Jade Imperial Academy.

This fighting arena could accommodate more than 5,000 people, but this was not the largest fighting arena in the Jade Imperial Academy. The largest one was one of the three biggest ones in Jade Capital and could accommodate more than 10,000 people.

“We’ll end here for today. Those that did not make it today will be retained. The rest of you should start preparing for the final examination one month later. If you don’t pass that exam you’ll be retained as well…” The form teacher of the first class of the first years stood in the center of the fighting arena and spoke, enunciating every word clearly so that everyone could understand him well.

The whole fighting arena was quiet and the students were even controlling their breathing so they could fully concentrate on the class.

“Here, here…” Ren Jie and Gao Ren entered just then and Tie Ta immediately cracked a grin when he saw them; he was amused that these two only came when this whole thing was ending. He waved his hand and whispered for them to hurry over quietly, but his voice was much louder than everyone else and thus made no difference.

“Shh!” A few hundred students in the surrounding area looked over at Tie Ta. Good heavens, who would dare talk when Teacher Li Jun was speaking. It was one thing to talk when the principal or the vice principal was speaking, but if they did so when Teacher Li Jun was speaking they would immediately be dealt with ten times the normal amount of training. Some students were even expelled before they even finished their punishment.

Tie Ta’s father was a Lieutenant General, and while he commanded the smaller troops he was still a Lieutenant General who commanded over 10,000 men. However, with such a status, he would be lucky to even get into the 16th class out of a total of 20 without taking into account any talent in runes, array formation, medicines or equipment.

If not because he was especially talented, he would at most be able to attend the Jade Imperial Academy and would not have been able to be in the 5th class like he was now. The students in the first 10 classes all received different resources from the school according to their class and were also exposed to different social circles. Many people tried to get into the Jade Imperial Academy because they wanted their children to be able to build their own social network and better their future apart from learning.

However, Tie Ta’s father used to serve Ren Tianxing. So, even though he was only a small captain of the personal guards, he was a close relative of the Rens. Just as he was about to enter the academy he was ordered by his father to visit the Rens, and that was also when Ren Tianxing had unexpectedly come home to pass the position of family head to Ren Jie. Hence, after meeting Tie Ta once, Tie Ta was able to enter the 5th class with just a few words from Ren Tianxing.

Hence, no matter what anyone thought, Tie Ta stood by his father’s words to always remain by Ren Jie’s side.

“What did I just announce, when I’m speaking…” The fighting arena of 5,000 people was quite sizeable, but given Li Jun’s cultivation, he was able to hear everything. So, he frowned the second Tie Ta opened his mouth to speak even though he had lowered his voice.

The one thing that everyone at the Jade Imperial Academy knew was that the teacher of the 1st class was usually from the royal family, so as to be able to contain the pampered kids. Li Jun could be considered the Emperor’s cousin and was originally called Li Haijun, but as the Emperor’s name contained the character “Hai”, he changed his name to Li Jun.

The Jade Imperial Academy had students from Year One to Year Three and, apart from the special classes, the teacher of the 1st class was also the in-charge of all the other teachers aside from the principal and vice-principal. Ren Jie immediately recalled something about this Li Jun—he was famous for being strict.

Oh no, Tie Ta would be in trouble if he continued speaking.

“Bravo! Teacher, your words are brilliant. Teacher Li Jun is the best, such great words!” Clap, clap, clap. The entire fighting arena was silent as everyone listened. Even the princes and disciples of the five major family clans would not dare do this at the fighting arena, but when Ren Jie shouted bravo, everyone was still drawn to him. And when he started clapping, many remained in shock.

“What are you looking at? Don’t you think that the teacher is right? Clap!” Ren Jie ignored them and merely clapped enthusiastically.

This was going overboard. Gao Ren looked at him and started clapping too. The clapping was contagious. As most people were still wondering what was going on, they also started clapping when they heard Ren Jie shouting bravo. Soon, the whole fighting arena was filled with the sound of clapping and many people had thought that this was the end as they joined in on singing the teacher’s praises.

“Bravo. Such great words Teacher Li, bravo indeed.”

“We’ll definitely work hard to achieve stellar results in the final examination.”

“We will do the academy proud, do our year proud, and also do Teacher Li proud…”