nucmednet Chapter 38: Immortal Magic Battle
Chapter 38: Immortal Magic Battle
The dilemma of immortality and the path to counterattack
Bi Yao snorted lightly, as if she didn't notice the mistake in her notes. Instead, she studied them more carefully.
She nodded from time to time, as if she fully understood the mystery, which made the book spirit beside her roll her eyes.
What is this girl up to?
Senior Brother Qin hid in the dark and observed, and was secretly happy to see Bi Yao working so hard.
He thought Bi Yao hadn't noticed his little trick yet, so he intensified his efforts and changed Bi Yao's notes to be even more outrageous, even inserting some low-level mistakes in them, just waiting to see Bi Yao make a fool of herself in front of Master Su.
The day of the assessment arrived as scheduled.
Master Su sat on the platform with a serious face, staring at Bi Yao with sharp eyes.
Bi Yao's answers were based on the tampered notes, which were naturally full of loopholes.
"The five elements are mutually generated and restrained. Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal... Wait, that's not right, what does earth generate?" Bi Yao "tried hard" to recall, her little face wrinkled, looking very confused.
Master Su's expression became increasingly ugly. He put down the teacup heavily, making a loud "bang" sound, which frightened Bi Yao so much that he trembled all over.
"Bi Yao, what have you been doing lately? You can't even remember something as simple as the Five Elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint. Do you still have the heart to cultivate immortality?"
Bi Yao lowered her head, looking aggrieved, and whispered in defense: "Master, I... I clearly remember that... Earth gives birth to gold..."
"Earth produces gold? That's absolute nonsense!" Master Su was furious. "I really misjudged you! You simply don't have the talent for cultivating immortality!"
Bi Yao's eyes were red and tears were welling up in them, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.
She bit her lip, said nothing, and looked pitiful.
Senior Brother Qin hid in the corner, watching Bi Yao being scolded by Master Su, and felt very proud.
After the assessment, Bi Yao walked out of the hall in a daze.
She raised her head, looked at the blue sky, took a deep breath, and forced back the tears in her eyes.
"Heh, we're just getting started..." She raised the corner of her mouth in a cold arc and turned to walk in a certain direction.
"Senior Brother Qin..."
After Bi Yao walked out of the hall, he did not cry as Senior Brother Qin had expected. Instead, he walked straight to his cultivation cave.
Senior Brother Qin saw Bi Yao's red eyes, and she looked like she was about to cry. He felt secretly happy, but pretended to be concerned on the surface: "Junior Sister Bi, what's wrong? Didn't the test go well?"
Bi Yao sniffed and nodded pitifully, "Brother Qin, do I... do I really not have the talent for cultivating immortals? Master is disappointed in me..."
Brother Qin’s inner monologue: That’s it?
Little guy, I can’t cure you!
But on the surface, he comforted her, "Junior Sister Bi, don't be discouraged. The road to becoming an immortal is bumpy and there is no such thing as smooth sailing. I believe you can do it."
Bi Yao looked at him with gratitude, a sly glint in her eyes. "Brother Qin, can you...can you help me look at my notes? I think I might...maybe I misunderstood something..."
Senior Brother Qin was stunned for a moment, then he was ecstatic: The fish is hooked!
He pretended to hesitate for a moment before reluctantly agreeing, "Okay, since Junior Sister asked, I'll help you take a look."
In the next few days, Bi Yao went to Brother Qin's cave every day to "ask for advice", pretending to be humble and eager to learn.
Seeing how "wise" she was, Senior Brother Qin misled her even more unscrupulously, and even stuffed some complicated magic techniques that he himself didn't quite understand into her.
However, Senior Brother Qin never dreamed that Bi Yao was listening carefully on the surface, but was actually secretly rolling his eyes: That's it?
When I was playing games, I saw a lot more complicated skill trees than this!
Bi Yao practiced according to Brother Qin's "guidance" on the surface, but secretly slipped into the Sutra Library.
She was not here to read books, but was eyeing the ancient formation diagrams that had been gathering dust in the Sutra Library for a long time.
These formation diagrams are complicated and difficult to understand, and even the book spirits are too lazy to pay attention to them, but Bi Yao is overjoyed.
"The five elements are mutually generated and restrained? Haha, what I'm playing with is multi-dimensional energy conversion!" Bi Yao muttered softly while studying the formation diagram.
She combined the runes on the formation diagram with the magic formulas and discovered a completely new way of understanding.
A few days later, Senior Brother Qin asked Bi Yao about his cultivation progress with "concern", but found that Bi Yao's use of magic was smoother than before, and there were even signs of a breakthrough.
He was puzzled and couldn't help asking, "Junior sister, have you...have you had any adventures recently?"
Bi Yao blinked, looking innocent. "Adventure? No, I've been practicing according to the method taught by my senior brother." She paused and added, "It's just... I just feel that the method taught by my senior brother is a little... unique."
Senior Brother Qin: “…” Senior Brother Qin’s face looked uglier than if he had eaten a fly.
He originally thought that Bi Yao would be like other disciples who had been "guided" by him, either becoming possessed or his cultivation would stagnate and become a laughing stock.
But now, not only is Bi Yao not useless, but he is soaring up like a cheat.
How could he swallow this?
"Unique? Ha, I think you've gone astray!" Senior Brother Qin finally couldn't help but sarcastically said, "With your training method, you'll go astray sooner or later! Don't cry and beg me to save you when that happens!"
Bi Yao covered her mouth with a look of horror: "Ah? Really? Senior Brother Qin, don't scare me!" But she secretly complained in her heart: I was used to your little tricks when I played online games back then. How dare you show off your skills in front of an expert?
Seeing her "fearful" look, Senior Brother Qin thought that his intimidation had worked, and he was very proud of himself. He spread rumors even more vigorously, and even exaggerated that the magic method practiced by Bi Yao was unorthodox and would absorb other people's spiritual energy.
However, what he didn't expect was that Bi Yao was not as isolated and helpless as he had expected.
At a fellow disciple exchange meeting, Bi Yao actually combined the "wrong" magic taught to her by Senior Brother Qin with the dusty formation diagrams in the Sutra Library, and proposed a brand new idea for cultivation, which stunned all the fellow disciples.
"So it can still be like this?"
"Junior Sister Bi, your ideas are so unique!"
"Why didn't I think of it before?"
Fellow students expressed their sudden enlightenment and expressed their admiration for Bi Yao's "unique" insights.
Senior Brother Qin listened at the side and his face turned green.
Not only did the rumors he spread fail to work, but they made Bi Yao a genius in everyone's eyes. This was simply shooting himself in the foot!
Seeing his conspiracy exposed, Senior Brother Qin was furious and was about to explode, but Bi Yao seemed to have sensed something and suddenly turned and walked towards the training room, leaving behind a few words:
"Excuse me everyone, I feel like... I'm about to have a breakthrough."
The training room was filled with spiritual energy. Bi Yao sat cross-legged, surrounded by a faint golden light.
She closed her eyes tightly, beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, and it was obvious that she was practicing martial arts with all her strength.
The dusty formation diagrams she had seen in the Sutra Library before flashed through her mind like a kaleidoscope. The obscure symbols gradually connected into lines, eventually forming a complete pattern.
"Now!" Bi Yao muttered to herself, quickly forming seals with her hands. A powerful spiritual power gushed out from her body, instantly filling the entire training room.
The surrounding spiritual energy was also attracted and surged towards her like a tide, forming a huge vortex.
"What the hell, what's going on?" Outside the training room, several disciples passing by were startled by the sudden fluctuation of spiritual energy and stopped to watch.
"Is this... someone about to break through?"
"This spiritual energy fluctuation is too strong! Could it be that one of the elders is practicing in seclusion?"
Just as everyone was talking, the door of the training room suddenly opened, and Bi Yao walked out slowly, with a hint of fatigue on her face, but more excitement.
"It's done!" She clenched her fists, feeling the spiritual power filling her body, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.
Although she only successfully performed a part of the magic, it was already a huge progress for her.
"Junior Sister Bi, you... you have made a breakthrough?" a disciple asked cautiously, his tone full of awe.
Bi Yao waved her hands modestly: "It's not that fast, it's just a small success." But she was secretly happy in her heart: This is called pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, do you understand?
However, at this moment, a cold voice came from the crowd: "Humph, you dare to show off your skills in front of an expert!"
Bi Yao knew who it was without turning around. She slowly turned around and looked at Senior Brother Qin, who had a gloomy face. A cold smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Senior Brother Qin, how are you?"
Senior Brother Qin snorted coldly, a fierce look flashing in his eyes: "You think you can beat me like this? I tell you, this is just the beginning!" He left with a flick of his sleeve, leaving behind a meaningful sentence: "The best is yet to come!"
Bi Yao looked at his back, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and she murmured to herself: "Then... let's wait and see." She turned back to the training room, sat down cross-legged, and closed her eyes again.
In the air, only her light words remained: "Heh, system, add some!"