novelraw Chapter 19: To Be Honest, I Married an Immortal Maiden
Chapter 19: To Be Honest, I Married an Immortal Maiden
After that, Jiang Man exchanged papers with Little Fatty.
In truth, Jiang Man had already seen his own paper, he was only baiting Little Fatty to take the bait.
Of course, Little Fatty must have been thinking the same.
Who wouldn't want to show off a high score?
Otherwise, wouldn't those high points be for nothing?
Soon, the words on Little Fatty’s paper appeared before his eyes.
September 17.
Cloud Front Division, Azure Cloud Pavilion.
Rear Courtyard, Sixth Courtyard.
Name: Gao Yao.Rank: 25 (out of 26).
Cultivation: Second Level of Qi Refinement.
Technique tier: Simple Qi Refinement Method Fourth Layer.
Resources obtained: Simple Qi Refinement Method, Divine Movement Steps, Six Harmonies Palm.
Plan: Practice the Fourth Layer of Qi Refinement Method forty times daily.
Score: 20.
Comment: Two years of cultivation is not as good as one month of someone else’s training.
Jiang Man was somewhat surprised, Little Fatty’s score was not low.
It was already twenty.
But he was still second to last.
So who was last?
Retracting his gaze, Jiang Man looked at Little Fatty beside him and found him frozen in place.
At first, when Little Fatty saw he was second to last, he thought he had comfortably beaten Jiang Man.
Holding firmly at second to last.
No matter how much Jiang Man improved, he couldn’t possibly surpass him.
That was a full twenty points.
So he planned to let Jiang Man see a high score, feel the gap.
However...
The moment he saw Jiang Man’s personal information, he was stunned dumb.
September 17.
Cloud Front Division, Azure Cloud Pavilion.
Rear Courtyard, Sixth Courtyard.
Name: Jiang Man.
Rank: 18 (out of 26).
Cultivation: Third Level of Qi Refinement.
Technique tier: Simple Qi Refinement Method Fifth Layer.
Resources obtained: Simple Qi Refinement Method, Divine Movement Steps.
Plan: Practice fifty times daily.
Score: 29.
Comment: One month equals two years of others’ cultivation.
Putting cultivation level and score aside.
That comment...
At first Little Fatty hadn’t paid attention to his own comment, but now it clearly felt like an insult aimed at him.
Coming back to himself, his eyes were watery as he looked at Jiang Man and said, “Brother Jiang, I admit I did speak a bit loudly a few days ago.”
Again with “Brother Jiang,” Jiang Man swapped the papers back.
Little Fatty was very curious: “Brother Jiang, were you hiding your true ability before?”
“Natural talent,” Jiang Man answered.
Little Fatty didn’t believe it. As far as he knew, geniuses never suddenly appeared; their differences showed from the very beginning.
From birth they were different, and once they began to learn they shone even brighter.
They stood apart from others from the start.
So “natural talent” wasn’t convincing. After thinking a bit, he said, “Did something happen recently?”
Hearing that, Jiang Man thought for a moment and said, “Well, something did happen.”
“What was it?” Little Fatty looked curious.
“I married an Immortal Maiden,” Jiang Man replied.
Little Fatty fell silent. He decided to believe Jiang Man’s claim of innate talent.
At noon, the rankings were announced.
But Jiang Man did not stay, he went straight to the Cloud Front Division’s technique distribution office.
There were public records here, and they managed certain techniques and spells.
They also registered cultivation qualifications and distributed techniques.
Jiang Man found the guiding woman and told her his purpose.
“To receive the Blood Qi Method for Third Level of Qi Refinement?” She just checked the score, then made the registration: “The Blood Qi Method for Third Level of Qi Refinement is called Simple Blood Qi Method, nine layers in total.”
Then she handed the technique to Jiang Man.
“Is the Visualization Method also obtained from the Immortal Maiden here?” Jiang Man put away the book and asked.
“Yes.” She nodded, then said, “Simple Visualization Method, nine layers in total.”
Hearing this, Jiang Man had wanted to ask whether Fifth Layer of Qi Refinement could be claimed first.
But he soon froze.
A little stunned, he asked, “The Visualization Method is only nine layers?”
He immediately checked the Peerless Prodigy Fate.
[As a Peerless Prodigy, your cultivation is like drinking water. As long as the body allows, you can certainly practice one hundred times daily, and can raise the Visualization Method to the thirteenth layer within a hundred days.]
Raise to the thirteenth layer within a hundred days.
But the Visualization Method only had nine layers, how could he reach thirteen layers?
Pausing, he looked at the guiding woman and asked, “Immortal Maiden, do you think it’s possible that the Visualization Method has thirteen layers?”
“The Simple Visualization Method only has nine layers,” she said firmly.
Jiang Man felt anxious. No wonder the Old Yellow Ox had kept looking at him that way.
He was waiting for him here.
“Immortal Maiden, techniques should vary from one another. Is it possible a thirteen-layer Visualization Method exists?” Jiang Man asked.
This time the guiding Immortal Maiden only looked at him without speaking.
Jiang Man understood, and immediately slipped a ten-unit Spirit Source into her book.
Seeing that, the guiding Immortal Maiden finally smiled and spoke: “Of course there is. Simple techniques belong to the most ordinary mortal grade, and mortal-grade techniques are divided into three subgrades: lower, middle, and upper.
Simple techniques belong to the lower grade, with nine layers.
Mortal middle-grade has eleven layers.
Mortal upper-grade has thirteen layers.”
Listening, Jiang Man’s feelings were complex.
So the Peerless Prodigy Fate meant the Visualization Method he should practice had to be at least a mortal upper-grade.
“Where can I find that upper-grade technique?” Jiang Man asked.
The guiding Immortal Maiden thought briefly and said, “For the Visualization Method, the Cloud Front Division should have one copy; I don’t know about others.”
Afterward, Jiang Man left with the Blood Qi Method. He deeply felt why the Old Yellow Ox wanted him to join a sect, and why he had said Lucky Cloud City couldn’t support the Peerless Prodigy Fate.
This was just the beginning and already required a mortal upper-grade technique.
If higher-tier techniques were needed later, even great talent wouldn’t meet the requirements.
Indeed, he had to enter a sect as soon as possible.
But now he had to go back and ask the Old Yellow Ox how to obtain a mortal upper-grade Visualization Method.
Halfway there he suddenly remembered he had forgotten to claim spells and returned to the office, collecting Six Harmonies Palm and Three Talents Force.
Divine Movement Steps could be claimed by Azure Cloud Pavilion students.
Six Harmonies Palm could be claimed for ten points or more.
Three Talents Force could be claimed for twenty points or more.
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At this moment, everyone in the Sixth Courtyard was checking the rankings.
Because they hadn’t asked others’ scores, they needed the rankings to determine scores.
Whether it was Luo Xuan or Fang Yong, they were very concerned.
Soon, the rankings were released.
First place, Luo Xuan, sixty-three points.
Second place, Fang Yong, sixty-two points.
Third place, Chang Qiwen, sixty points.
Fourth place, Cheng Yu, fifty-nine points.
Everyone’s scores had risen.
Especially third and fourth, their improvement was rapid.
They already threatened the first and second spots.
The rest of the rankings were not high enough to threaten these four.
The final slots would be chosen among those four.
Just as they were about to leave, someone shouted, “Why am I last? Where’s Jiang Man?”
Only then did people start to pay attention to the last place.
Last place was Qiu Cheng, nineteen points.
Second to last was Gao Yao, twenty points.
The bottom three all wrote ‘last place,’ how insulting.
Little Fatty felt many emotions.
Brother Jiang had abandoned him and already gone ahead.
Everyone saw Jiang Man’s ranking.
Eighteenth, Jiang Man, twenty-nine points.
Twenty-nine points, Third Level of Qi Refinement, Fang Yong lowered his brow, finding it hard to believe.
This rate of progress was a bit fast.
Luo Xuan was equally surprised.
Cheng Yu smiled: “Could Luo Xuan possibly be the one teaching him?”
Suddenly everyone came to the same guess.
“Could it be Miss Luo wants to train a bodyguard?”
“Why would someone who was always last be worth training?”
“Maybe that’s what gives you a sense of achievement?”
“Dreadful rich brat.”
In an instant, everyone thought Luo Xuan would groom Jiang Man into a bodyguard.
Even Luo Xuan squinted, thinking she might give him a chance.