Chapter 8 - Shakima Academy

“Hey, old man, Foundation Tang's treatment can't be too low, I came here because of him!” Amory said to Old Man Wei in a very righteous manner.

Tang Tian instantly had a great impression of the fly cow, good guy!

The old man mused, “Alright, 2x subsidy, no more. Bronze cards can be picked at random, second and third rank, the school can provide them all, but for any of them, you have to practice to perfection before you can pick a new card. After all, this is only for your cultivation, greed is not good enough!”

The old man's calculator was very smart, the second rank martial arts want to practice to perfection, which is so much easier, the third rank is even more difficult, the old man actually paid not much.

“Deal!” Tang Tian was quite satisfied.

Tang Tian, who originally had to go to work for the Soul General Card, was already satisfied to have the Soul General Card.

Being able to focus on cultivation, there was nothing better than this.

“Right, what's the name of our school?” Tang Tian suddenly remembered this question.

“It's called that ...... that ......” Then Amory had to look at Old Man Wei.

“Shakima Academy.” Old man Wei laughed.

Tang Tian had a head full of black lines, how much this founder should love sachima ah. But he quickly put this odd name behind him and asked with a fist pump, “Where is our school?”

Although the name was unfamiliar, Tang Tian didn't think it was a big deal. Due to Star Wind City's strong subsidies, it led to Star Wind City's forest of colleges, and the ones that could kill the top ten like Ander certainly belonged to the ranks of famous schools in Star Wind City. But more than that, they were small academies with very small scales, unheard of normal as hell.

“Ho ho ho, young people are really full of vigor, I like it! Well, it's not that far.” Old man Wei smiled so much that his face was so full of pleats that he couldn't even see his eyes.

Two hours later, the deserted and uninhabited dense woods.

Tang Tian looked at the several broken and tattered wooden houses that were about to collapse in front of him with a dumbfounded expression.

On a broken wooden pole, there was a rusty iron sign, on which the words “Sachima Academy” were written in a twisted manner. The sign was snapped by the wind, and Tang Tian's heart was cold.

“This is Shakima Academy?” Tang Tian turned his face with a dumbfounded expression and reached out to point at the several small wooden huts that were about to collapse in front of him.

“Hahahahaha! Although the conditions are a bit grueling, noi, teenagers should be honed and sharpened!” Old man Wei's face was not half embarrassed.

Amory exclaimed with a wow, “Old man Wei, you're also mixed up too miserably! Didn't you say your school was in the top fifty?”

“That's definitely not a lie, fifty years ago, Shakima Academy had killed its way into the top fifty.” Old Man Wei had a gambling look on his face.

“What about now?” Tang Tian was skeptical.

“Aha, now, although I've encountered some minor difficulties, but ......” Old Man Wei snorted.

“Rankings!” Tang Tian's eyes glared.

“Ranking ...... Oh, ranking, three hundred and fifty second.” Old man Wei blinked his small eyes.

Tang Tian turned his face and asked Amory, “How many schools are there in Star Wind City?”

Amory frowned and thought, “It seems like three hundred and fifty.”

“Nonsense!” Old man Wei jumped up at once, “It's clearly three hundred and fifty-four!”

Tang Tian's face brushed black, “Third from the bottom!”

Old Man Wei innocently blinked his small eyes.

Amory came to a realization, “No wonder you're willing to put down such a huge amount of blood, you must have too few points and are about to be disqualified from the academy. Hey, old man, can you pay for our treatment or not?”

Old man Wei patted his chest, “Don't worry about this you guys, Shakima Academy has already had a history of eighty years, so how come there's a bit of family money. I can pay a portion of it to you guys now.”

“Where are the students? It won't just be the two of us, right?” Tang Tian asked.

Old man Wei continued to blink his small eyes innocently, “The last student transferred two days ago.”

“Where's the teacher?” Tang Tian continued to ask.

“Me.” Old man Wei rightfully pointed at himself.

Tang Tian turned his face to ask Amory, “How do you know him?”

Amory revealed a coy look, “It seems like I met him once when I was a kid, and he complimented me for being a genius. I praised him once when I met him, and after praising him for several years, I became familiar with him.”

Amory didn't forget to add, “I think he's right.”

Tang Tian had no words now, looking at the academy that was close to ruins in front of him.

“Does this difficulty scare you guys?” Old Man Wei blinked his small eyes.

“Scare us?” Tang Tian stared at Old Man Wei with a tiger's face, unkindly.

Tang Tian let out a cold snort from his nose, grimaced, and began to roll his sleeves.

“Well, Basic Tang, what are you going to do? Are you going to beat him up? Actually, he does quite owe a beating.” Amory cocked his head at Tang Tian and asked curiously.

“Building a house.”

Without looking back, Tang Tian turned around and walked towards the woods.

“Building a house?” Amory glanced at the dilapidated cabin, suddenly realized, his eyes glowing, “As expected of a god-like man! I told you, this difficulty is simply not worth mentioning to you, Basic Tang ......”

Tang Tian was impatient to listen to his nagging, pointing deeper into the woods, “You go get some wood over here!”

“No problem!” Amory thumped his chest and turned around to furiously rush into the woods.

Tang Tian began to calculate, this place was too far from Starwind City, there must be a place to stay. One for each of the three, that was three wooden huts. Simple cultivation facilities like wooden stakes were also a must. Inside those dilapidated cabins, there was said to be one that was a library, Tang Tian estimated that it was all stuff that had no use, but still decided to build a cabin, well, to pile up these sundries.

All these years Tang Tian had been living alone, repairing things and such had been done a lot, his style was already thunderous, and he soon cleared out an empty space.

Not long after, boom boom boom, the ground trembled.

Tang subconsciously turned his head and was immediately petrified.

Amory was carrying a large tree with a diameter of more than three meters on his shoulders, the other end dragging on the ground, like an oncoming bison, rumbling and crushing over.

“Ho ho ho ho!”

Amory's strong body looked pitifully small under the huge tree. His mouth circled into an o-shape and his muscles puckered up, each step inevitably sinking deep into the dirt. The huge canopy of trees behind him was like a giant broom, hard sweeping out an avenue.

Even a guy like Tang Tian, who had absolute confidence in his own strength, was dumbfounded by the sight of this inhuman brute.

Dang!

Rushing in front of Tang Tian, Amory threw the tree trunk on his shoulder onto the ground, and the ground under Tang Tian's feet trembled.

“Is it enough? Do you want me to get a few more trees!” Amory had an overly energetic look on his face.

Tang Tian immediately made an extremely wise decision, finding a broken knife from the pile of clutter and handing it to Amory, “Split them into planks.”

“This thick will do.” Tang Tian gestured, his expression solemn, “This is a very practical cultivation! The requirement is that it should be absolutely precise.”

“No problem!”

Amory's eyes instantly glowed, and as he snatched the broken sword, he rushed towards the giant wood like the wind.

What a perfect humanoid machine! Tang Tian's heart was filled with emotion as he re-buried his head and continued to work.

“Young people are really full of vigor!”

Not far away, after old man Wei finished lamenting, he laboriously climbed onto the dilapidated hammock under the shade of the tree and huffed and puffed.

Looking at the brand new wooden house in front of them, Tang Tian and Amory were both filled with a sense of accomplishment. Amory split out the planks as smooth as planed, while Tang Tian's carpentry skills are also quite good. The two were tired after tossing and turning for a day.

“Rest.” Tang Tian waved his hand and drilled into his own wooden house.

Amory also yawned, rolling and crawling into his own wooden house to sleep.

Tang Tian didn't go to sleep right away, he spread out his letter paper and was writing a letter to Chie.

“Chie: I changed schools today, my new school is called Shakima Academy, interesting isn't it. This school is full of nature ......”

Under the night, old man Wei under the hammock opened his eyes, glancing at the small wooden house lit up with hazy orange light, a smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth, and his cloudy little eyes were deep and profound.

The night passed.

Early the next morning, Tang Tian woke up.

Although he was exhausted from yesterday's exertion, the biological clock formed by his regular weekday life still allowed him to get up on time. Next to the academy was a small stream, and the cold water of the stream immediately woke him up.

“Young man, you really have energy!”

Old man Wei's voice came from behind him, and Tang Tian didn't turn his head back, “Principal actually got up this early too?”

“Ai, I'm getting older, my sleep is not as good as you youngsters!” Old man Wei said with a helpless face, he then said, “Right, what kind of Soul General Card do you need?”

Hearing the words Soul General Card, Tang Tian immediately came into the spirit.

“A second-ranked one will do, well, let's start with the Fist Technique class.”

Tang Tian's cultivation talent was average, but he didn't know if it was because he had been fighting a lot lately, and the feeling of punching someone with his fists felt cool and painful to him.

“Boxing ah, not too many people learn it, I'll look for it.” Old man Wei clattered several bronze soul general cards in his hands, placing them in front of Tang Tian: “Here, these are all of them, you pick one.”

Tang Tian was overjoyed, and hurriedly picked one by one.

The Bronze Rank Soul General Card's card face was bronze in color, and in the middle of the card face, there was a blurry silhouette of a human figure standing with an empty hand and a fist. The posture of the human figure inside would be different for different cards.

On the back of the card was a description of this Soul General Card.

When a martial artist's cultivation of a certain martial art reached perfection, he or she would be able to create a Soul General Card. The texture of the crafted Soul General Card was categorized into three grades: bronze, silver, and gold.

The Soul General Card contained the martial artist's soul imprint, and contained part of the martial artist's realization of that martial art; the higher the texture, the more realization it contained. The Bronze rank was only thirty percent, the Silver rank was sixty percent, and the Gold rank contained all of the senses.

The Soul General Card has two functions, one of which is to summon a Soul General for one's own use, and the other is to possess a body. When a Soul General Card was possessed, the information inside the Soul Brand would be received by the user.

Whether it was summoning or possessing, there was a time limit.

In the beginning, possession was a form of combat, but as people realized that it was easier and more convenient to learn martial arts in this way, the Soul General Card began to rapidly gain popularity. By now, Soul General Cards had developed and become popular for thousands of years, and the system had become huge and refined.

Tang Tian picked them up one by one and carefully selected them.

[Thousand Vortex Fist Technique], the fist resembles a whirlpool, with a hundred turns and no gaps. Needs to be catalyzed by water line true power.

[Proud Sun Fist Technique], fist like the sun, radiant, overbearing. Needs to be activated by Fire True Power.

Withered Wood Fist Technique】, the sword is like a withered branch, using clumsiness to win over cleverness, using defense as offense, requiring wood line true power to activate.

......

Seeing these ones that required five elemental true power to catalyze, Tang Tian didn't hesitate to discard them. Soon, there were only two Soul General cards left in front of him.

[Flash Fist], as fast as lightning, can be catalyzed by all kinds of true power.

[Heavy Fist], powerful and heavy, using weight to break tricks, all kinds of true power can be activated.

Thinking of a power freak like Amory beside him, Tang Tian decided to choose [Flash Fist].