The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#362 - Is it a blessing or a curse?

Half a month had passed since Lu Jing and Yan Jun returned from Wujiang City.

During this time, rumors about Lu Jing starting to cultivate mystic power finally began to spread in the academy.

As a result, whenever he went to a place where people were, he couldn't avoid being observed and pointed at behind his back… However, most of the academy disciples and instructors still held a skeptical attitude.

After all, Lu Jing's mystic power cultivation aptitude had been tested by Professor Zheng before, and the result was too impressive.

Not only did it break the academy's worst record in a thousand years, but now it seemed that there would be no one to surpass it in the future.

It is said that Professor Zheng has been considering framing that word properly, maybe it can be kept until a thousand years later, when everyone has breathed their last, and even the academy is gone, that word may still remain unchanged.

However, whether it was regret, joy, or a sigh of relief… Regardless of their feelings, most people believed that Lu Jing would not be able to embark on the path of cultivation.

Even if his martial arts were high, and he was on the Tianji List at a young age, and he performed amazingly in the academy's entrance examination, and miraculously won the first place in the small competition.

But none of this could change his ridiculously poor mystic power cultivation aptitude, and he could only continue to devote his energy to martial arts in the future.

Perhaps one day in the future he could become the number one master in the martial arts world, but spells, formations, and talismans were destined to be out of his reach.

However, no one expected that Lu Jing, who had just shocked everyone in the small competition, had only been quiet for a few days, and actually came up with new tricks again.

When they heard the rumors, most people's first reaction was disbelief. After all, they had been studying in the academy for so long, and they had officially become cultivators after completing the Hundred Days Foundation Establishment. Their understanding of mystic power became more and more profound.

They were very clear that aptitude was difficult to change with external force, and besides, Lu Jing's situation was not just a little bit bad.

However, when they thought of how they had been full of confidence and planned to compete with Lu Jing in the small competition to verify what they had learned, but ended up returning with their feathers plucked, many people were not so sure now.

So, in the past few days, the atmosphere in the mystic power class has obviously become impetuous.

Even Professor Zheng, who was teaching the class, noticed that the students who came to listen to the lecture seemed to be a little absent-minded, as if they were expecting something to happen.

In the eyes of the academy disciples, if Lu Jing really embarked on the path of cultivation as rumored, then he should be back soon to listen to the true explanation of mystic power.

After all, he had missed a lot of classes before, and now that he could cultivate mystic power, he should be determined to work hard and catch up with the progress of others.

However, as time went by, that figure never appeared.

Moreover, some people who lived closer to Lu Jing discovered that Lu Jing's closed-door training frequency had increased recently. He spent most of the day locking himself at home, so more and more people began to doubt the truth of those rumors.

In fact, in the past half month, Lu Jing had not even attended the few classes he had originally attended.

Among them, the Supervision Notice and "Records of Strange Objects" exams didn't matter, because everyone had to attend them, and a large group of people sat below, so the instructor couldn't tell who was missing.

But the Celestial Observation and Deduction class was different. There were only three people in the class. Lu Jing's absence meant that one-third of the people were missing.

However, to Xie Anshi and Yan Jun's surprise, Professor Xu never mentioned this matter from beginning to end, as if he didn't know that Lu Jing was absent. He still slowly drank his tea and talked about those drowsy astrology and weather knowledge.

Seeing Xie Anshi's expression becoming more and more strange, and he looked around from time to time, Professor Xu finally put down the teacup in his hand, glanced at him, and said.

"Didn't you also learn the art of observing qi and observing stars before you came to the academy? Why are you so impetuous and unable to calm your mind?"

Xie Anshi was very embarrassed when he heard this, and quickly moved his gaze back to the star map in his hand.

However, Professor Xu didn't continue to speak after that, but paused and said, "That's all, if you have anything to say, you might as well ask."

Xie Anshi opened his mouth, but found that he didn't know what to say.

He couldn't directly ask Professor Xu if he had noticed that there was one less person in the lecture hall. First, it would be disrespectful to Professor Xu, and he would be suspected of being old and dim-sighted.

Secondly, although he and Lu Jing usually didn't have much contact, and he was thrown off by the other party in the small competition, they were still classmates after all.

If he took the initiative to mention to Professor Xu that Lu Jing was absent, it would be a bit petty, so Xie Anshi stammered for a long time, but couldn't squeeze out a word.

Professor Xu glanced at him again and smiled, "Don't you just want to know why I haven't reacted at all when Lu Jing hasn't been listening to the lectures for two consecutive classes?"

Xie Anshi's face turned red, and he waved his hand and said, "It's all because my disciples' desire for knowledge is not firm enough. I shouldn't be distracted by external things."

Professor Xu shook his head, "Curiosity is human nature. If there was no curiosity, then those predecessors thousands of years ago would not have looked up at the starry sky and studied the constellations. I only have three students in my astrology class. How could I not notice if one is missing."

"Actually, I was also very curious as to why he didn't come, so a few days ago, I performed the art of observation and deduction and calculated the trajectory of his star of destiny."

"Teacher looked at his star of destiny?" Yan Jun's eyebrows twitched.

"Not to mention Lu Jing, last night I had a whim and also observed the national fortune of the Chen Dynasty, and found that there will be great chaos in the world in at most one year. This result is obviously wrong. Although the Chen Dynasty has been declining all these years, with natural disasters above and military disasters below, judging from the news I have heard, it is obviously too early for the imperial court to completely lose control of the various states and for the world to be in great chaos."

Professor Xu seemed to disapprove of this result, and then shifted the topic back to Lu Jing, "I can't tell whether he is blessed or cursed, but he should have important things to do recently, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't come to listen to the lecture."