The First Academy in the Cultivation World

Meeting Lan Lian's disbelieving gaze, Ling Yan'er pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps I'm the same as you, except that at least you know you signed the contract, while I came here without knowing why. You came here to listen to my arrangements, and I came here to run the academy well."

Moreover, she was not given any cultivation, and was left guarding a mountain of gold without being able to spend it.

At first, Ling Yan'er also thought about the kind of reward for cultivation that her own Golden Finger novels had, or let herself practice and then become invincible by leaps and bounds.

But in a year, he had seen all kinds of rewards, but had never seen any cultivation. Now Ling Yan'er, who had no cultivation, had realized it.

If she had cultivation skills, if she could practice, her goal would be to improve her own cultivation skills and give all the resources to herself. How could she have the mind to teach others to practice and become a principal or a teacher?

"Are you also bound to this academy?" Lan Lian asked.

"That's about right." Ling Yan'er nodded. "It's a little freer than you, but as you can see, I can't go out during classes. I can only leave the academy during holidays."

Lan Lian didn't know whether he believed it or not, so he just asked, "I remember you went to Lingyun City for several days during class."

"That's a mission," Ling Yan'er said. "You guys follow my instructions, and I follow the academy's. If there's a mission, we have to find a way to complete it."

"Then what is the purpose of this mysterious person asking you to open an academy?" Lan Lian pondered.

Of course he could tell that what Ling Yan'er said was true. To be honest, at Ling Yan'er's age, she seemed a little clever to him, but he could tell at a glance whether she was telling the truth or not.

"Maybe it's to cultivate more people with high cultivation." Ling Yan'er said.

"Cultivate? High level of cultivation?" Lan Lian's mouth twitched. "Listen to what you say. Do you believe it?"

He glanced in the direction of the dormitory. Eighty to ninety percent of these people were of four or five spiritual roots. If ten percent could reach the Nascent Soul stage, it would be considered hard work and they would have high cultivation.

Ling Yan'er nodded affirmatively: "I believe it. We are studying systematically. You haven't told me how the sect trains disciples yet."

Now that the topic has come to this, Lan Lian said, "My master is a casual cultivator. He only taught me one thing. I guess he taught me by example."

Seeing this, he sighed a bit, but still said: "I only know that my former Taoist partner's sect has inner disciples and direct disciples. Direct disciples are taught by the master and senior brothers, and inner disciples are taught uniformly. However, they don't have as many fancy courses as you."

"There are only mental methods and training classes, and not every day." Lan Lian thought for a moment and said, "When I first started practicing, it seemed like there were seniors giving me lessons to get started, but later on, I had to figure it out on my own. Besides training, I also needed to find a master for swordsmanship and alchemy and weapon forging."

"If you don't become my disciple, you'll have to find the recipes and materials yourself and practice on your own."

"Did you also teach yourself music?" Ling Yan'er asked curiously.

Lan Lian shook his head: "My master taught me."

"Do inner disciples need to become apprentices before learning alchemy and weapon forging?" Ling Yan'er asked curiously, "What if I wanted to learn swordsmanship when I first became an apprentice, but later became interested in alchemy? What if the master doesn't know how to do it?"

"It depends on whether the seniors can do it. If they can, you can ask them to teach you. If not, it depends on whether the master's friends are willing to give you guidance. If none of them are willing, you can only learn it by yourself." Lan Lian said indifferently.

Ling Yan'er asked, "If the inner disciples are like this, what about the outer disciples?"

"Outer disciples also have lectures given by seniors, but not as frequently as inner disciples. It all depends on who is free and willing to go," said Lan Lian.

"Do outer disciples still need to plant spiritual herbs or something to complete tasks?" Ling Yan'er asked.

Lan Lian nodded. "Yes, they don't have any resources from their teachers, so they have to do odd jobs everywhere, and then use their points to exchange for resources for cultivation."

Ling Yan'er propped up her head and said, "So, originally, the outer disciples' spiritual roots were not as talented as others, nor were they given as many cultivation resources and opportunities, but in the end, they blamed it all on their spiritual roots."

Lan Lian was stunned, but he had to admit that Ling Yan'er was right, but he only said: "Yes."

Ling Yan'er said, "So our school is fair. We all start from the same point and take the same classes, but those who work hard after class will definitely improve faster."

"People with high spiritual talent can cultivate faster." Lan Lian said.

Liu Lingyi, the only person with natural spiritual roots in the academy, has now reached the fourth level of Qi Refining. However, he had not yet introduced Qi into his body before entering the academy.

Refining Qi to the fourth level in one year, practicing in this academy is not like practicing in a sect, where resources are piled up.

If he took elixirs and spiritual herbs, a year would be enough for him to build his foundation. But without them, if he just practiced, reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining would be a very fast progress.

After all... making a breakthrough directly in Fang Yichen's Chinese class is a very rare opportunity.

However, the more talented people are, the better off they are not to take elixirs in the early stages of cultivation. Only by relying on the strength gained through one's own cultivation can one go further.

Although Lan Lian didn't say it, he agreed with Ling Yan'er's course concept.

Ling Yan'er was unaware of Lan Lian's thoughts: "It's normal for some students in a class to learn quickly and others to learn slowly. Rare geniuses are always different from ordinary people."

People like Liu Lingyi are geniuses, while the others are normal people.

"So what's the meaning of your music and art classes?" Lan Lian asked.

At first he thought it was music or sound modification, but the textbook clearly showed that it was just ordinary music.

He thought art was drawing symbols, but in fact it was just some simple flowers, plants and trees.

Ling Yan'er didn't know either, and said, "Maybe it's to change the course."

After pondering for a moment, Ling Yan'er continued, "Then select some of those who are more talented and interested in these two things and develop them into artists?"

Lan Lian didn't understand what Ling Yan'er meant by an artist, but he still agreed with what Ling Yan'er meant by selection.

Indeed, it is much better to let them learn music first and develop those with musical talent into music repairers than to let a tone-deaf person be a music repairer. Otherwise, a tone-deaf person will not be able to distinguish between friend and foe.

Those who are good at drawing will also be more talented when drawing formations and talismans.

Lan Lian didn't ask any more questions, but nodded in agreement: "It seems that these two courses are not so meaningless after all."

"Of course." Although Ling Yan'er was not good at drawing, she was still good at copying. At least others would not accuse her of plagiarism when they saw the copied pictures.

"By the way, for music class, you can go to the equipment room and choose some. I remember there are quite a few musical instruments in there. You can go in and use them during class."

"Okay." Lan Lian said.