1 The Academy Awaits
From the gates of Hua Yin academy ebbed an indescribable sense of power that oozed and demanded respect. The gates themselves were wrought from pure onyx and agate, and gleamed
translucent blue and black in the winking light.
Today was the day before the school year began, and all the teachers and staff were rendezvousing to make sure that everything would be perfect for their new arrivals. Hua Yin academy was notorious for only accept those with talent, that is, geniuses, into their academy. Everything in the school, from the classrooms to the teachers teaching, were perfect and state-of-art. Everything was a masterpiece, from the library containing cultivation techniques you wouldn't find anywhere else on the continent, to highly respected and renowned six-cauldron alchemists teaching their mastery to anticipating students. This academy, was where heroes and geniuses were born.
The principal was a highly respected man who been revered by all. He did not undergo any form of underhand methods to establish this place, and did not often give out preferential treatment to others. He was a good man who both respected the strong, and respected those weaker. He acknowledged those who grew at a slower pace, for he knew that not everybody was destined the title of genius.
He himself hadn't been one either, a genius. But it was through hard work and perseverance that he had attained what he now owned today: a golden core, or more specifically, a mid-rank golden core.
Though Hua Yin academy was well-known throughout the continent to only accept those with talent, the actual selection process couldn't be further from the truth. What Principal He wished to achieve wasn't a school full of geniuses, it was a school where students tried hard to attain their dreams. Students who persevered in the face of overwhelming power. Students who tried and tried again - students who tried harder than all those so-called geniuses. Because the difference between a genius and a hardworking, ordinary person wasn't that much of a difference, really. In Principal He's dictionary, only those who'd actually worked hard could truly be titled as genius.
From the eyes of an outsider, only people such as Luo Yunfeng, Bei Chenyu, and Kai Moling had the right to be titled geniuses from the younger generation. Sure, they had better talent than most, but in all honestly, only people like the dark horse Lan Xiaofei had the right, because Principal He could tell just how hard he'd worked, like himself. The others just had better status, better backings, and better resources. Principal He would bet that without these materialistic things, they would just be ordinary citizens of the Hua Xia continent.
As it was the day before school started, teachers were in a frenzy. Some had to prepare teaching material for their students, others prepared elixirs to show their alchemy class. Not only that, the quarters where the students stayed had to be aired out, freshened up and beds and blankets washed. It was a very busy day.
