Chapter 294 (1/2)

Chapter 294 The Wait

The group advanced once again and, in the blink of an eye, appeared at the third stage’s Heavenly Waterfall Lake. Looking at the plunging Heavenly Waterfall, everyone’s faces revealed astonishment of varying degrees.

Hoppes sighed and said, “The work of the second generation Headmaster is still soul-stirring no matter how many times I see it. This Heavenly Waterfall Lake is really an uncanny work of great splendor.”

Head of Department James laughed, “Hahahaha, there’s no one again? To be clearing all the stages of the Killing Techniques Palace within a day… Hahahaha… Hoppes, has there ever been such a person in the history of the Great Western Region Regional Academy?”

“No.” Hoppes shook his head and said, “Forget about the Great Western Region, there hasn’t even been such a case across the Empire’s eight regions. Fang Xingjian is the first.”

James nodded in satisfaction and said, “Then he must be learning the Lightless Sword in the fourth stage. Let’s not disturb him and just wait here.”

With that, James took the lead and sat down on one side of the Heavenly Waterfall Lake, as if he was admiring the scenery.

All the other Conferred Knights looked at each other helplessly. One guy with a saber scar on his face frowned and said, “Sir, although Fang Xingjian has outstanding talent, I don’t think it’s good to let so many teachers and seniors wait for him here. It’s bad influence for the others, and even he would probably be terrified.”

In other words, he meant, ‘Aren’t you treating Fang Xingjian with too much reverence? We’re giving him respect by waiting for him, but this is at the expense of our pride.’

It was a pity that Head of Department James did not care for his pride at all. What a joke. The only reason he had become the head of the Sword Arts Department was because he had taken a liking to Fang Xingjian’s talent and wanted to persuade Fang Xingjian to share the Pantheon Monument’s seven levels of mysteries with the Regional Academy.

What status did James have? He was the Headmaster from two generations ago, and, at his age, it was impossible for his martial arts to have much progress, and what he cared about was something beyond status. What he cared about was the academy’s future, the Empire’s future.

Looking at Fang Xingjian’s astonis.h.i.+ng performance once again, this student was now like a piece of extremely delicious meat to him. A thought appeared in James’ mind, which was to protect and to escort Fang Xingjian.

Hearing the words of the guy with a scar, James’ lips curled and he said, “If you were to clear the Killing Techniques Palace in a day, I’ll wait for as long as you want me to.”

The scarred face guy was put into a bad spot and could not help but retort, “You can’t possibly rely on the rate of learning to determine that someone is better, right? There are so many seniors here. Which of them are not above him in terms of their level, abilities, ether synchronization rate, reputation and status?” He was bringing in other people to support his stand.

However, no one else joined in. Head of Department James let out a cold laugh and said, “We’re all martial arts pract.i.tioners here. What are we competing in other than martial arts? Are we going to compare who is older? Who eats more?”

He sneered, “Why is there the National Selection? It’s to see who the real talents are, and who’s more superior.

“Let me ask you here. Were any of you here even half as amazing as Fang Xingjian is when you were at his age? He’s a seventeen year old genius, and there’s still at least twenty to thirty years for him to be in his fast growth stage.

“When he’s at your age, what level would he have reached?”

Regardless of who it was, the scarred face guy or other teachers, none of them had anything else to say. It was because the talent Fang Xingjian had shown now was that impervious to reason.

James, who had laid out everything, now nodded in satisfaction. Although Fang Xingjian’s talent was amazing, in this world, not everyone would listen to you or help you just because your talent was great.

Back then, even the previous Pope whose battle prowess were unrivalled across the world was still unable to unify the whole world, nor could he get everyone to heed his words. So how could anyone else do it, even if the person had the world’s best talent?

This was the reason why James had a strong urge to take care of this talent and to protect Fang Xingjian.

Another teacher pointed to Hoult and the others who were nearby and asked, “Should we get them to leave?”