Volume 1: Cold Star City Chapter 136: An Unconventional Academy

  Su Dong was truly surprised when he saw the Wonders Academy, discovering that it was actually located on top of the Dragon Vein of Dao Xing Mountain, occupying an extremely prominent Feng Shui location!

  Dragon Vein, also known as Emperor's Pulse, is a very important indicator in Feng Shui.

  The so-called dragon vein and the ordinary feng shui have a big difference. Feng shui has good or bad fortune, which can make a person better or worse, while the dragon vein is extremely polarized - either you become the number one person in the world, or you suffer a disastrous defeat and are torn to pieces by five horses.

  The struggles of emperors throughout history have always been the same, after all, there can only be one emperor, and those who fail to become emperor will inevitably meet a tragic end, this is a fixed pattern.

  After the evolution of Qimen's generations, the definition of Longmai has been re-evolved, dividing Longmai into many categories such as Da Long, Xiao Long, Ming Long, An Long, Xiong Xian Zhi Long and so on.

  Normally, there would be only one dragon vein within a few thousand miles. The dragon vein occupied by the Academy of Inquiry stretched for thousands of miles, obviously a great dragon vein. The academy was built at the end of the dragon vein, and although the feng shui was good, it wasn't too exaggerated.

  Longmai is the work of heaven and earth, and relying solely on the eyes can't see much. It also needs to be surveyed on site. Su Dong observed briefly from a high place and then went to find the reporting location of the college.

  There was no doubt that the Wudang Academy occupied a superior feng shui location, and Su Donghai had a good impression of this unfamiliar place.

  The Wudang Academy is built in a very special way, with a narrow corridor along the valley, only one road leading to the depths of the valley, one side are various buildings, and the other side are rivers and trees. The southern four seasons are like summer, birds chirping, insects buzzing, never-ending, making people feel quite comfortable.

  The more he entered the academy, the more abundant his spiritual energy became, conforming to the typical characteristics of Longmai Jiling. The large Dharma instrument jade in Su Dong's abdomen was operating well, transmitting a large amount of spiritual energy into his body.

  "This place is not bad, after a period of seclusion here, the level should be greatly improved." Huan Yu also felt the extraordinary atmosphere here and muttered to herself.

  Su Dong smiled and said: "This is indeed a great place, it's quite secluded. Haven't you followed the Ice God here before?"

  Su Dong inferred that Bing Shen had studied and lived here before, so he asked this question.

  Genyu Tao: "No, after Ice God sealed the gods, he was sent to the North Territory. I don't know what happened before that. This is also my first time coming to the South."

  ……

  The Wudang Academy was in a mess, and it was hard to find anyone in charge. Su Dong finally managed to get the information after much effort.

  Arriving at the small building where Director Shuǐdàozi lived, it was an old-fashioned two-story building. An elderly man was tending to flowers in the courtyard. Sū Dōng asked and found out that this unassuming old man was actually Shuǐdàozi. He wore coarse linen clothes and looked no different from a farmer who worked the land.

  Shui Daozi glanced at the letter handed over by Su Qun and threw it into the trash can, saying: "Oh, you're from the Su family, rare, actually a god clan is willing to run to this poor mountainous place."

  Su Dong hastily put on a smiling face and said, "Master, you're being too modest. My grandfather and I have talked about it before - the Academy of Inquiring Tao is the best in the world, its reputation is well-known..."

  Su Dong's flattering words immediately pleased the old man by the waterway. He invited Su Dong to sit down and brought out two bowls of coarse tea for him to drink.

  "You're an interesting kid, the descendants of the gods are usually a bunch of arrogant guys who look down on us cultivators. You know how to talk, I like that." Shui Daozi stroked his chin whiskers and said with a delighted smile.

  Su Dong took a sip of tea. It was quite hard to drink, but Su Dong didn't show any expression.

  "This is tea foam, how can you actually drink it?" Shuǐ Dàozi asked curiously.

  Su Dong said: "To be honest, I actually grew up in the North. This tea is placed in the North and it's not bad at all, didn't feel like there was anything hard to drink."

  Shuǐdàozi nodded slightly, looking thoughtful. "Oh, I remember now, you're the son of Su Jia's third child, just back from the north."

  "That's right," Su Dong said.

  "No wonder, you don't have the airs of those rich and noble descendants either. It's better this way, it won't ruin the atmosphere here. The Academy usually doesn't accept descendants of the God Clan, even if they do, they're mostly fallen gods. Most students are ordinary people."

  "I'll have someone arrange your food and accommodation. As for your studies, the Wudang Academy is a bit different, someone will explain it to you in detail later." said Shui Daozi.

  Soon, Shuǐ Dào Zǐ called over a girl of twenty-four or five years old, dressed in martial arts attire, looking quite spirited and not bad-looking.

  "This is Mizuki, just follow her." Mizuho instructed.

  Shuǐ Dào Zǐ's surname is Shuǐ, and Shuǐ Jìng also has the surname Shuǐ. Looking at their appearance, they seem to have a few similarities. Su Dong asked and it turned out that this was indeed the case, as Shuǐ Jìng is actually Shuǐ Dào Zǐ's younger daughter.

  Walking forward for about two miles along the valley, the mountains on both sides suddenly became steep, and a large complex of buildings appeared in front of Su Dong.

  Shuijing Road: "What you see now is the core of Wenda College. Don't think you can easily get here, if I didn't lead you, the college's hidden guards would have captured you. Anyone can pass through the first gate, but this second gate can only be approached by people from the college. Currently, there are over 70,000 registered students in Wenda College, all concentrated here to study and practice."

  Su Dong couldn't help but furrow his brow, the scene before him was a far cry from the dilapidated state of the academy when he first arrived. Although the buildings were still very old, they exuded an air of grandeur, with numerous venues packed tightly together, stretching as far as the eye could see. Su Dong even felt that this place was not inferior to the Divine Martial Battlefield.

  "I admit, this is the largest martial arts hall I've ever seen, but why can't it rise in ranking?" Su Dong said with confusion.

  "Rankings? Who cares about those things? We've always said that rankings don't matter, as long as a warrior has talent, no matter how good or bad their family background is, we're willing to accept them."

  "In the eyes of the gods, the rules of the Academy of Inquiry are too lax, so few people are willing to let their own children enter our academy. And we don't care about these things either. Many students from other academies won't serve the gods after graduation, which also makes the gods very dissatisfied with our Academy of Inquiry, thinking that we are destroying the foundation of the divine realm."

  Su Dong smiled slightly and replied, "I understand. You're asking about cultivating true warriors, not those divine race's lackeys who only know how to sacrifice themselves for their masters."

  The water mirror was taken aback, and curiously said: "My father said you are also a god of the divine tribe, and a direct descendant of the famous wind god tribe, but I think you are quite different from most gods."

  Su Dong rubbed his head, he certainly couldn't be the same as others, after all, he had lived two lifetimes, inherited the legacy of the Qimen Sect, and had many differences with these pure out-of-worlders.

  Shuijing led Su Dong to continue walking forward, and handed over the college badge to Su Dong. On it was written only one Tao character, while the badge of the Ice God had two characters "Wu Dao" (Non-Tao). It seems that asking about Tao and Non-Tao are indeed not the same thing.

  "With this, you can come and go freely, but the academy's headquarters has some secrets that it doesn't want outsiders to know. So even if your relatives or friends come, they can only get as far as the first gate and absolutely cannot be brought into the core of the academy. Of course, even if you wanted to bring them in, I estimate you wouldn't be able to." Shuijing said to Su Dong.

  Su Dong nodded seriously and entered the core area of the academy, where everything began to take on a more academic appearance. Under the trees, several students were discussing something in hushed tones, their voices rising and falling as they debated the merits of each department's spiritual energy. The discussion was quite heated.

  Shuijing Dao: "The Academy of Inquiring Tao does not hope to cultivate simple warriors, but rather inclines towards technical training. Our Dan medicine department, casting department, searching department, and heavenly fate star department are all quite good, it's just that we lost to the four major academies in the combat department, so we were recognized as second-rate."

  Su Dong thought for a moment and asked: "Is there an Array Sect?"

  Shuijing shook his head and said, "No, the entire divine realm doesn't have this lineage. Because array techniques are something from the demon realm, none of the gods are skilled in array techniques either. In the beginning, we should have tried to get a few powerful demons who knew array techniques to come to the divine realm. That way, the entire divine realm wouldn't be so ignorant about the mysteries of array techniques."

  Su Dong was taken aback and asked curiously: "Those who fought for the Demon Realm can go to the Divine Realm? Can they still do that?"

  Shuijing smiled and said, "I knew you'd be surprised. This is also one of the reasons why Xuanmen Academy isn't welcome everywhere. We in Xuanmen insist that gods and demons are of the same origin. To us, gods and demons are essentially the same thing - they're all very powerful warriors, just from different factions with differing views."

  "Don't tell me that as a member of the divine bloodline, you don't know how many war gods in the divine realm have transferred from the demon realm?"

  Su Dong shook his head repeatedly and said, "I really don't know about this."

  Shuijing Guai said, "What kind of divine bloodline are you from? Don't you even know this? Let me tell you, Huashen Huacheng was originally a demon, but because he had a bad temper and injured someone, he ran to the Divine Realm. And there were some people who ran from the Divine Realm to the Demon Realm."

  "In short, the Divine Realm and the Devil Realm aren't as clearly divided as you think, this kind of back-and-forth thing happens all the time."

  Su Dong was shocked, it turned out that Hua Yingyue's grandfather was actually a big demon head! No wonder his reputation was so bad, the other gods didn't get along with Hua Laohei either.

  Su Dong thought for a moment and asked: "I remember that people in the Demon Realm have wings, can the Divine and Demon tribes be of the same clan?"

  Shuijing Dao: "It's impossible for us to be of the same clan. Whether it's in the divine realm or the demon realm, there are many clans with wings, so having them isn't unusual."

  Along the way, Su Dong said a lot and understood that it was a very open-minded college, with almost no stance of its own, even if the students under its banner went to serve in the Demon Realm in the future, the college did not object.

  Such an unorthodox academy would naturally be suppressed in the Divine Realm, and the gods rarely allowed their own children to ask about the Dao Academy, fearing that they would learn bad things here and run back to the Demon Realm, which would lose face for all the gods.

  Su Dong himself was also an outcast, studying demonic magic and befriending the spiritual beast tribe. Perhaps only this unorthodox Wonders Academy could accommodate an outcast like Su Dong, which might have been something Su Qun had considered as well.

  Shuijing led Su Dong into a rather old building, saying: "New students in the academy must undergo the first round of assessment to see how strong you are. Be prepared later, as the results of the assessment will directly determine the treatment you receive here."