Chapter 42 - Upheaval in the Academy V

Fifty-seven young teens at the age of fifteen were standing amid the training field right now, formed in a semi-circle around the academy elder who was in the center, putting their focus on him.

This was a lesson to teach the students how to use the Moonlight Gu.

"The Moonlight Gu is our Gu Yue clan's symbolic Gu, just like the Xiong House's Bear Strength Gu, and the Bai House's Stream Gu. The majority of you on the field have chosen the Moonlight Gu as your vital Gu, so you must all watch properly. Soon I will demonstrate personally how to use the Moonlight Gu to attack. Students whose vital Gu is not Moonlight Gu must also concentrate on me, as this classical long-distance attacking method can also be used on other Gu; the spectrum of methods one can use is very wide."

As he spoke, the academy elder stretched out his right hand, his five fingers opening wide. He lowered his palm so that the students could see the center of it.

"Firstly, you use your mind to mobilize the Moonlight Gu, moving it to the center of your palm." Following his voice, the crescent mark that represented the Moonlight Gu moved down the elder's arm and into his palm.

"Then, you mobilize the primeval essence in your aperture, pouring it into the Moonlight Gu." A thread of white silver-colored primeval essence gushed out from the elder's body, so fine it was almost impossible to see. It entered the Moonlight Gu in his palm.

The academy elder was of a Rank three realm, and the only Rank three Gu Masters could produce white silver-colored primeval essence. Rank one Gu Master's primeval essence was commonly known as green copper primeval essence, while Rank two Gu Masters had their iron primeval essence. When they reached Rank three, it becomes white silver primeval essence.

Once it absorbed the thread of white silver primeval essence, the crescent-shaped mark in the elder's hand instantly glowed brighter and brighter. Although it was daytime, it still issued a brilliant pale-blue light.

The pale blue light was clear like water. It flickered faintly in the elder's palm. At first glance, it would seem as if the academy elder's hand was scooping a handful of moonlight. The academy elder smiled a little, "Now watch carefully, the last step is just like how I will do it, launching it out."

As he said this, his widely opened five fingers slowly closed together, then he lifted his arm up and slowly moved it forward, his arm straight. Finally, he waved his palm lightly in a cutting motion.

The entire movement was steady and powerful.

Swoosh.

The young students could hear a light brushing sound beside their ears.

Following the academy elder's movement, the condensed water-like pale blue light in his palm was thrown out like that.

The light transformed into a small moonblade in the air, the faint blue moonblade only the size of a wide-open hand, the shape just like the crescent moon in the night sky. It drew a straight line in the air before it hit a grass puppet ten meters away.

A tearing sound was heard, and the grass puppet's neck that was about thirty centimeters thick was cut clean by the moonblade. The puppet's body swayed about, the huge head suddenly falling onto the floor.

After cutting the grass puppet in half, the moonblade immediately appeared dimmer. However, it continued flying about another six meters in the air before the crescent began to gradually fade away, finally dissipating in the air.

Looking at the grass puppet's neck again, one could see that the cut was extremely flat as if it was cut away by the sharpest sickle.

The youngsters were all shocked as they saw this, their eyes wide open. After a short silence, the sounds of exclamation begun. The teenagers had shining eyes as they stared at the grass puppet, some of them staring at the elder's palm. A few of them were looking at their peers, talking and whispering excitedly.

Fang Yuan stood alone at the edge of the crowd.

Even though there were more amazing Gu and ways to use different Gu in different ways in the memories he inherited he had already decided to listen to every class in the academy carefully and if possible learn more from it. As such he was listening and carefully observing every move of the elder and memorizing it.

"All those of you who have refined the Moonlight Gu, step out. Each one of you shall take a grass puppet and follow the way I just did it, throwing out the moonblade, practice attacking."

Once the academy elder was finished, around thirty students stepped out.

The students stood in a row. Each of them faced forward, standing ten meters away from a grass puppet on the opposite.

Fang Yuan stood at the corner. The practice began.

The students all stretched out their right hands, letting the Moonlight Gu move to the heart of their palm. One by one the blue crescent mark started to give out water blue light as green copper primeval essence was poured in.

But when they drew a vertical cut with their palm, only seven or eight crescents flew out. Among these crescents, some of them only appeared for a short moment before dissipating away. Some flew out for two to three meters before disintegrating into blue light with a bang. Some flew further, but the direction was severely off-course, flying straight up to the sky.

The elder had a faint smile as he watched. He saw this scene every year and was not surprised.

After practicing for five minutes, the youngsters were gradually able to produce moon blades. For a time in the training ground, pale blue-colored moon blades flew about everywhere.

A few moon blades would fade halfway, a few unluckily crashing into another. Some flew out of the training field, twisting around. Those that were able to hit on the grass puppets were just a small few. Of course, these were all due to sheer luck.

The academy elder started to tutor and guide each one personally.

He naturally greatly focused on Fang Zheng, Mo Bei, and Chi Cheng and those others with good talent. He patiently corrected their postures, teaching them his experience. Towards those C grade talent students like Fang Yuan, he only mentioned two sentences.

Fang Yuan had his eyes closed. He was repeating the scene of the elder throwing out moonblade in his mind again and again. After a while he opened his eyes and gathered blue light in his hand and threw it out, it accurately hit the torso of the grass puppet and left a shallow cut which quickly healed itself.

This did not go unnoticed by the few students next to him and the academy elder, but it was not so outstanding either that it warranted them to pay extra attention to him. As such the academy elder went on to monitor the other students.

After checking on everyone the academy elder announced, "Listen up everyone, this will be your homework. Practice well after class, in three days I will check the results. Whoever performs the best will receive ten pieces of primeval stones as the prize. Understand?"

"Yes!" The young students all shouted. They could not help but be more excited when they heard about the primeval stone reward.