Star Sky Professional
Chapter 633 - 531 School

Chapter 633: Chapter 531 School

Green Forest Academy.

It is located in Green Forest City and is the most expansive and grandest building.

When Fang Xing entered, he could still see the white square and the fountain garden...

’A bit strange... This world obviously resembles ancient Eastern times, yet the greatest power is the Heart Chapel...’

’Even the academy is established by the Heart Chapel. It worships the one God - the Master of Heart! Chapels are built in various regions, enlightening eligible children with the Heart Image, along with a series of rulers such as priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the pope...’

’However, the ruling power of the chapel is very weak, and it often adopts the tax collector system, which is more like a hierarchical feudal system in the West, giving away most of the local power...’

’For example, in the countryside, there are many landlords, like the Fang family, occupying Sanshan Township, able to control the "Village Brave Team" and just need to complete certain taxes each year, becoming the local tyrant...’

’Even Green Forest City and the vast neighboring territories belong to the lord-level farming family of Tamers...’

’The history of this world is very peculiar... Might look for some history books to read someday.’

He smoothly completed the registration process and then chose a single dormitory.

The next day.

In a classroom.

Fang Xing and twenty others of the same age sat on mats, respectfully looking at a person in front.

That person, around forty years old, wore a green scholar’s robe, carrying a somewhat elegant temperament.

"I am the academy instructor - Wen Lun, you can call me Instructor Wen."

After Fang Xing and others paid respect, Instructor Wen smiled: "Next, everyone introduce themselves, get to know each other first, then I will start teaching you the cultivation of Heart Power..."

As soon as the words fell, a chubby kid stood up: "I... my name is Feng Sanjiao, my Heart Image is a Black Iron-quality ’Mountain Pig’..."

"I am Lin Linglin, my Heart Image is a Black Iron-quality ’Iron Tree’..."

After Feng Sanjiao introduced himself, another small, dark-skinned girl stood up.

Fang Xing did a count and found that of a class of twenty-five, twenty-two have Black Iron-grade Heart Images, without significant opportunities, their fate is to be Soldier-level Tamers for life.

"My name is Pei Ziyue, my Heart Image is Bronze-quality ’Thunder Cloud’!"

At this moment, a girl stood up tall and said.

Fang Xing looked over to see that this girl had crescent eyebrows, appearing very gentle and calm.

"Bronze quality... likely to cultivate to ’Commander level’ in the future... if lucky, might become a lord."

Instructor Wen laughed in his heart: "Very good, next."

"My name is Ning Jian, my Heart Image is Bronze-quality ’Longquan Sword’..."

A tall, skinny boy stood up.

Fang Xing followed after him and stood up: "Fang Xing, Bronze-quality ’Black Fire Wolf’..."

"Very good, everyone has introduced themselves, now let’s start the lesson."

Instructor Wen nodded: "Before delving into the cultivation of Heart Power, we first need to understand the origin of Heart Beasts... They come from the inner spiritual world, so they might be a beast, a wisp of wind, a bowl, or a knife, a sword, a shadow..."

"Among those beast groups, heart beasts occasionally emerge because beasts also possess inner spirits and Heart Images... Even those mountains, rivers... this realm, they possess ’inner spirits,’ but their thoughts might take hundreds or thousands of years to evolve... Thus, the concept of ’beasts’ in ’Heart Beasts’ is inherently inaccurate, the world is vast and full of wonders, a flicker of flame, a breath of wind, even formless will, destiny... might ’congeal’ into heart beasts!"

As Instructor Wen explained, Fang Xing gained a deeper understanding of this world.

’So that’s how it is... Animals have less spiritual capacity than humans, but when their numbers amass, various spirits converge, possibly giving birth to ’Heart Beasts’...’

’Moreover, powerful Tamers after death sometimes leave behind ’Heart Beasts’ that don’t dissipate, instead they flee to the wild, becoming wild Heart Beasts... thus the variation is even more bizarre.’

’And the cultivation of Heart Power, it becomes even more intriguing, requires stages like meditation and Gathering Essence...’

The more Fang Xing listened, the heavier his expression became: ’The cultivation of Heart Power seems higher than will?’

The soul has three layers, will is just the middle layer, the deepest True Spirit cultivation is a field that even Peak Civilization struggles to touch!

Even if the cultivation reaches the Dharma Master level, it may not sense the existence of True Spirit.

Only Fang Xing, with his cultivation of will reaching a certain level, relying on the attribute panel, vaguely sensed something.

"This world is not normal!"

"I wonder what kind of divine being is that Master of Heart... The Heart Power taught seems connected to True Spirit cultivation? Heart Images... can a mortal’s Heart Image reach this degree?"

"Even Panwu Martial, that Fifteenth Realm eternal-grade existence, in the ’Panwu Holy Scripture’ only mentioned will cultivation, without the secret of True Spirit cultivation... Could it be that the Master of Heart, suspected to be a Sixteenth Realm Transcender? At least related to Transcenders, receiving part of their legacy?"

"Indeed... this world is of great use to me."

Initially, Fang Xing thought the direction of the Gate of All Heavens was somewhat off, but now it seems perfectly fitting.

Thus, he listened even more intently.

’It’s rare to visit, I don’t need to do anything too outrageous, just what I’m supposed to do...’

’I was already in the top three of the class, as long as I perform well, I don’t need to be too extraordinary...’

’According to Instructor Wen, a Black Iron level Heart Image requires three to five years to complete cultivation, to summon the "Lifebound Heart Beast"... Bronze quality is much better, taking about two to three years... Additionally, at the final step, if some special items are added, it might even lead to the Lifebound Heart Beast’s quality improving... of course, this is difficult, extremely difficult, impossible without great fortune, regular students shouldn’t hope for it... but from his tone, it seems the academy has some, though the requirements are very strict...’

’In the future, taming other heart beasts and even nurturing heart beasts will be a significant daily expense...’

’One must also learn to identify heart beasts, wilderness survival skills, various advanced techniques, and even secret transmission...’

’All these require accumulation, and even attracting investment...’

’At crucial moments, it might be possible to leverage this body’s betrothal to bind a powerful wife family and gain the wife’s family’s support?’

Fang Xing silently drew up plans for future cultivation.

This was based on over ten years of memories from this body, forming the optimal path...

...

Time flows like water, years pass like a fleeting shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, three years have swiftly flown by.

To Fang Xing, he chose a low profile, naturally avoiding attracting trouble.

The only major event was a letter from home stating that the heart beast wolf turned out to be very cunning and was eventually tamed by a passing Tamer, becoming the other’s pet beast.

However, the village of Three Mountain finally got rid of the menace, ordinary people no longer need to live in fear.

This day.

Inside the academy.

"Students, after three years of cultivation, some of you have reached a certain level of heart power, allowing for true forming of Heart Images and summoning of Lifebound Heart Beasts..."

Instructor Wen appeared almost unchanged from three years ago, his voice gentle: "Pei Ziyue, please explain the precautions during heart beast summoning..."

"Yes."

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with a scholarly air stood up: "During heart beast summoning, besides the Lifebound Heart Beast, other tamed heart beasts cannot be housed within the body, they must be nurtured outside... Internal cultivation involves using heart power to open up a ’heart image space,’ where only the Lifebound Heart Beast can reside... External cultivation requires heart beast space tools, the most common and widespread being the ’Heart Image Sacred Scripture’ of the Heart’s Holy Hall, different ’Heart Image Sacred Scriptures’ not only have varied internal spaces but also contribute differently to heart beast growth, and come with some inquiry functions..."

"Hmm, Ning Jian... how many kinds of heart beasts are there currently?"

Instructor Wen then looked at Ning Jian.

"According to last month’s ’Heart Report’ from the Heart’s Holy Hall, we’ve discovered around 3.5 million heart beast species, and this number is still increasing..."

Ning Jian stood up and replied.

"Sit down, Fang Xing, how do we determine the strength of a heart beast’s cultivation?"

Instructor Wen turned to Fang Xing.

Regardless of the teacher, they tend to favor high-achieving students.

In his class, there’s no doubt that Fang Xing and the others are in the first tier.

Fang Xing stood up, having grown into a sixteen-year-old boy, and answered: "Heart beast cultivation is generally judged by cultivation years, typically Fighter level heart beasts have between one to ten years of cultivation... even a newly summoned Lifebound Heart Beast has a minimum of one year’s cultivation, and one to five years is Lower Soldier Level, six to ten years is Upper Soldier Level, ten to fifty years is Lower Commander Level, fifty to a hundred years is Upper Commander Level... Here, ’one year of cultivation’ refers to the heart power accumulated by a Black Iron quality heart beast in one year of cultivation in a regular natural environment..."

"Both heart beast quality, feeding, and even special environments can produce different effects, for instance, a Bronze quality heart beast might have two years of cultivation after one year of cultivation..."

"Note that Black Iron quality heart beasts often struggle to break through the ten-year cultivation bottleneck, upon reaching this limit, no amount of training can help them break through, unless one finds some opportunities, like consuming Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, or having exceedingly abundant accumulation and, by chance, breaking through in a life-and-death battle..."

After answering these, Fang Xing sighed inwardly.

In this world, the awakening of Heart Images is even stricter than Spirit Roots in the Cultivation World, essentially deciding a person’s ceiling by the quality awakened.

Black Iron quality, ceiling at ten-year cultivation of Fighter level.

Bronze quality, ceiling at hundred-year cultivation of Commander level, Commander quality, ceiling at thousand-year Lord level.

This is still accessible to ordinary people.

It’s exceedingly rare to reach King quality’s ten-thousand-year Monarch level, and the hundred-thousand-year Emperor level.

As for cultivation beyond one hundred thousand years? That’s truly various meanings of ’legend’...

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