18- The reason for the dry spirit spring of the Liu clan

Soon a week passed.

"Humans are above all creatures, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth. In this world there are thousands of species, countless number of Gu. They live everywhere around us – In the soil, in the bushes, even on the bodies of wild beasts."

"As humans continue to propagate and grow, the scholars of the past gradually uncovered the mysteries of the Gu. Those who have opened the aperture, using their own primeval essence to feed, refine and manipulate these Gu – people who have achieved these various purposes are what we call Gu Masters."

"And all of you have successfully opened your aperture in the Awakening Ceremony 7 days ago. With the coagulation of the primeval sea, right now you are all Rank one Gu Masters."

In the village academy, the academy elder talked with confidence and composure. In front of him were 89 students, seated and listening attentively.

The mystery and strength of a Gu Master had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the youths a long time ago. Thus everything that the elder taught and said, the students were very interested in.

At this moment a young teen raised his hand. With the elder's permission he stood up and asked, "Elder sir, I've known this since I was small. There are Rank one Gu Masters, Rank two and so on, can you explain in more detail to us?"

the academy elder nodded and waved his hand to ask the young man to sit down. "Gu Masters have 9 ranks, from bottom to the top – Rank one, Rank two, Rank three all the way up to Rank nine. Every rank is considered a big realm, and it is divided into 4 small realms – initial stage, middle stage, upper stage and peak stage. You have all just become Gu Masters, so all of you are Rank one initial stage."

"If you all work hard in your cultivation, your cultivation base will naturally advance to rank two, even rank three. Of course, the higher your talent the bigger your chance of promoting."

"For D grade talent, the primeval sea takes up about 2-3 layers of the aperture, the highest promotion reachable is Rank one to Rank two. For C grade talent, the primeval sea is 4-5 layers of the aperture. Usually the progress stops at Rank two, but with luck a small percentage of people can advance to Rank 3 initial stage. B grade talents have a primeval sea that takes up 6-7 layers of the aperture, they are able to cultivate to Rank 3, even as far as Rank 4. As for A grade talent, the primeval sea is plenty; it takes up 8-9 layers of the aperture. This kind of talent in a person is naturally the most gifted and the most suitable for a Gu Master's cultivation, being able to reach Rank 5."

"As for Gu Masters who are Rank 6 and above, they are all legends. I am not clear about the specifics either. In the Liu clan, there has never been the appearance of a Rank 6 Gu Master, but Rank 4 and Rank 5 Gu Masters we have had before."

The teenagers' ears all pricked up, their eyes shining brightly as they listened.

Many of them couldn't help but look at Liu Yang who was sitting relaxed at the last row. He was an A grade talent after all. Their eyes were filled with feelings of envy and jealousy.

Then they looked at the girl who was next to him. Leaning against the window at the corner was Liu Yin, who was bent over the desk sleeping soundly.

"Look, she's still sleeping," someone whispered.

"She's been sleeping continuously for a week, yet she's still not awake?" Someone cut in.

"Although she also possesses an A-grade talent like Liu Yang, unlike her brother, she does not care about lessons at all."

"She's wasting her talent with this laziness." The fellow schoolmates whisper here and there, letting all kinds of small gossip spreading around quickly.

"If I had her talent, I would have trained hard and would have become the next clan leader."

"Are you dreaming? Even if you have her talent, don't forget that Liu Yang is also an A-grade talent."

As the discussion amongst the students got louder and louder, the academy elder's brow deepened into a frown. In the whole classroom all the teenagers were sitting respectfully, showing liveliness. This made Liu Yin who was sleeping on her table stand out so much that it hurt the eyes.

"It's been a week and you are still ignoring my lessons. I have to tell the clan leader, this wrong behavior of Liu Yin must be corrected." The elder thought disgruntledly. He had spoken many times to Liu Yin regarding this matter, but to no effect – Liu Yin still did whatever she liked. She would sleep through every class, making the elder in charge of teaching have a very frustrated headache.

While the academy elder thought about all this, he was also replying to the latest question. "In the clan history, there has been many strong masters. For Rank five masters there were one. Everyone knows that the current clan leader is the first person to reach Rank five Gu Master in the entire history of the clan. Rank five Gu Master is very rare and even the clan founder was only a Rank four Gu Master."

Awoken by the classroom's noisy chatter, Liu Yin opened her sleepy eyes.

'Damn, this is annoying. Why do we have to come here?' She stretched her body and thought with resentment in her heart.

She possesses more knowledge than the academy elder who teaches them, after all she was personally trained by Liu Yang, that's why she didn't bother with these trivial lessons given by the academy elder.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, verdant mountains stretched into the distance. In the vicinity was a trees grove. This was Feng Jing Mountain's unique Stormy wind trees, each trees stick as straight as a line, The trees are so named because when the wind passes strong near the trees, the wind will turn into a small stormy, then it will bring rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.

Not too far away, the woods were already turning green. The tender shoots sprouted in a sea of yellow green color. Every now and then, beautiful and colorful sparrows would perch on the branches. The wind of spring blew, wrapping up the freshness of the mountains and rivers, and dispersing it into the world.

Without knowing it, the class was almost over. The academy elder finally informed, "This week I have taught you all how to contemplate and check your own aperture's primeval sea, and how to meditate and shift around the primeval essence inside your body. Now is the time for you all to refine your vital Gu. After this class ends, you will all go to the academy's Gu room and pick a Guworm. After choosing your Gu, please go home and focus on refining it. When you have finally refined your Gu, then you can come back to the academy and continue attending class. At the same time, this is your first assessment. Whoever can finish this assessment first will be rewarded a generous sum of 30 primeval stones."

All the teenagers were happy when they learned about the reward, and they planned to work hard for the first place.

'why is this academy elder so stingy?' When she heard about the reward, the first thing that came to Liu Yin's mind was that the academy elder was stingy.

She couldn't be blamed for that because she had a lot of primeval stones and every month their mother gave them a large amount of primeval stones in order to train her and her brother.

Their family possessed more than 100 million primeval stones, in fact their family was very rich because of something Liu Yang had done before, but no one in the clan or clan elders knew that the clan leader possessed such a large amount of primeval stones.

In fact, the reason for the drought of the spirit spring of the Liu clan in Zhu Xin Mountain was Liu Yang. He created a time path formation around the spirit spring and then accelerated the time by more than 10 times, causing the spirit spring to dry up very quickly.

Liu Yang knew that spirit spring would dry up. So he planned to move the clan to Feng Jing Mountain because according to the inheritance given to him by Crystal, there were five spirit springs on this mountain.

It was reported that the clan had one spirit spring but the truth was that it had five and even the clan elders didn't know they had five spirit spring.

All primeval stones that came from the other four spirit springs were given to Liu Yang, and the only two people who knew why Liu Yang needed so many primeval stones were Liu Liu and Liu Yin.