Combat Emperor: Zhang Yu's Journey
Chapters... 47: Challenges of the Teacher
"Zhang Yu!"
A voice came out of nowhere. Zhang Yu who was preparing to go to the dragon stage suddenly stopped in the doorway while holding the open door leaf.
His facial expression looked puzzled, he looked out and in but still did not find the owner of the voice.
"Sound! Did I hear wrong?" Zhang Yu was silent for a moment to concentrate his hearing.
One breath, two breaths and still no sound was heard. Zhang Yu thought it was indeed his mishearing self, but when he was about to step foot the voice was again heard.
"Zhang Yu!"
This time it was clearer and louder. Zhang Yu raised his face upwards looking at the tile with a strange look.
"Well, it's free if you check on the tile. There will be no one. It's me talking."
Zhang Yu's eyes were completely rounded hearing this sentence. His mouth unconsciously muttered, "Teacher!"
"You finally know your own teacher." The voice followed the strengthening laughter Zhang Yu grew increasingly curious about his teacher.
"Teacher, are you around here now? Tell me where you are, I'll come see you." Zhang Yu couldn't wait to meet. Want to break down the mystery about the book of body cultivation.
But the teacher's answer was not as expected. "No need to rush. I'm not leaving this place, so now you better go to the dragon stage."
Uh! Dragon stage?
Zhang Yu who had planned to go there from the beginning was also seen frowning. "Teacher, I'm going there. Besides, are you going to give you a reward for being able to enter the ranking list?"
"..."
There was no response from the teacher for a moment. But after being silent for some time finally the teacher agreed to Zhang Yu's challenge.
"If you can get into the rankings, I'll grant you one wish."
"One request? Aren't you lying teacher?" zhang Yu asked to make sure.
"of course. Do you think your teacher is a liar?"
"Thank you teacher I'll think of his request."
"Don't be too quick to be happy. You haven't even gotten on stage yet. You need to know, it's not gonna be easy."
"I know, but this student of yours sure can do it!" Zhang Yu involuntarily exclaimed in a loud voice. When several people passed by and noticed it, they whispered to each other and definitely kept their distance.
"Isn't he a new student? It seems like he's gone crazy talking to himself."
"Dearly enough. Getting into the Imperial Academy was not easy, but he had instead wasted a place that could be filled by healthier people."
Zhang Yu bent his face displeased at the words of the two passing disciples. He's not crazy talking to himself. Did they not hear any sound floating in the air?
But the more heeded it indeed seemed that no one had heard his teacher's voice. Evidently from some people who passed by they walked normally like there was nothing.
"Other times if you want to talk just say it in your heart. If you talk to yourself in a public place it would obviously be considered crazy."
Eghh...
"Teacher, why didn't you tell him in the first place? Now that they consider your disciple crazy," Zhang Yu protested inwardly.
"You yourself didn't ask. So this is your fault. Besides, why take care of unimportant problems? Quickly to the dragon stage. Or do you no longer want a gift?"
It didn't take long for Zhang Yu to get there. From a distance, seven land masses floating in the air piled up and connected dozens of stairs.
The seven lands are called the stage. Starting with the first stage until the seventh stage.
A hundred more people were on the first stage. There were dozens of people trying to climb the stairs to reach the second stage. But it seems that it is not easy because it is visible from the sweat on their face that is pouring.
Zhang Yu walked towards the stairs. As he was about to step up an old man suddenly appeared beside him.
"What are you doing?" ask the old man.
"..."
Zhang Yu did not have time to answer, the two outer court disciples replied. "Chairman Roxie, he must have wanted to take the dragon stage without paying. The students seem to have to be finished immediately. Don't let it get away!"
There was no need to know these two disciples to know they were outer court disciples, just seeing that they were not wearing robes which meant that they were not inner court disciples.
The old man named Roxie sharpened his gaze and looked at Zhang Yu full of warning. "Right as they say? You intend not to pay?"
Zhang Yu's forehead shriveled. He didn't even know if climbing the dragon stage would have to pay. What is that with gold coins? Or something else?
At the moment one new disciple appeared and he walked over to a large rock before attaching an identity token on the surface of the stone.
Soon the surface of the stone flickered by emitting a red-colored light twice, then bringing out the appearance of the identity of the disciple on the top.
Name ... The outer court disciple of class 173. The remaining contribution points 2500.
Zhang Yu cleared his throat twice with a loud voice. "Sorry Elder, I'll pay for it now."
In this identity token there are two sets of numbers. The first is obviously the year of the army. The second is worth 1500 it should be the initial contribution points.
Zhang Yu placed the identity token on the surface of the stone on the far right side of the first rung. Not long ago the boulder blinked twice and displayed its identity.
Zhang Yu, outer court disciple of class 175, contribution points of 1000.
Since it had already deducted the cost to take the dragon stage, the remaining contribution points in the identity token were only 1000.
Elder Roxie who saw the look of Zhang Yu's identity definitely began to fuse his brows. He spread his hands blocking Zhang Yu who was intending to step up the first step of the stairs.
"Wait a minute!"
"Yes, what's the elder?"
"So you're a new student?"
It was not only Elder Roxie who was shocked to learn that Zhang Yu was a new disciple. The two outer court disciples who had accused were also shocked.
The reason, this was the first case of a new student who had not even even a month in the Imperial Academy already intending to take the dragon stage.
There is no prohibition on this. But usually the newest generation disciples would start taking the dragon stage in the range of one to two months from his arrival. What Zhang Yu did was obviously too bold.
"Chairman, is there anything else?" zhang Yu asked casually.
But this made Elder Roxie blink a few times. "All right, you can try. But don't be too pushy if it's not strong enough to hold the pressure."
"Thank you for the elder's concern, I'll be careful."