Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 21: Skipping Class on the First Day

"The abnormal fluctuations have disappeared!" Deep Blue's voice suddenly rang out.

Yang Ning didn't respond. Instead, he put down the jade pendant, took a shower, and then returned to bed with his phone to play for over an hour. It wasn't until he couldn't stop yawning that he finally closed his eyes.

"I feel like I'm going to be trained into a movie star sooner or later!" In the Spirit Realm, Yang Ning sighed and asked, "What kind of fluctuations are they?"

"They are similar to the Grotto-Heaven Eye, but with a lower frequency," Deep Blue replied.

Even Lin Tianheng, a strong Gold Core stage cultivator, had to observe someone's Sea of Consciousness up close to check it. This meant that the observation distance of the Grotto-Heaven Eye could be very close.

Lower frequency meant a larger observation range.

"I knew someone was peeping!" Yang Ning nodded. This behavior was normal since this world was not safe. The various sects cooperated and competed with each other, so it was normal to send undercover agents. Immortal Ascension Academy naturally cared about the purity of its new students.

However, being monitored like this was still somewhat unpleasant, especially for someone with many secrets.

"Jade pendant!" Yang Ning raised his hand and summoned a piece of jade pendant. Unfortunately, he couldn't manifest spiritual energy, so it was just an ordinary jade pendant.

"I wonder how those software functions are implemented. What programming language is used? It should be something similar!" Yang Ning was quite interested in this language. He just didn't know how well Extreme Eternal Sect protected its intellectual property. If it was good, he had countless software ideas that could make money.

Closing his eyes, he entered a meditative state. From the outside, it looked like he was sound asleep.

Late at night, the fluctuations came a few more times and continued until dawn.

Yang Ning woke up groggily. He stretched lazily, then opened the window and took a deep breath of the purple qi of the sun.

The place he lived in was on the twelfth floor, not too low, but compared to a hundred-meter-high dam, it was nothing.

But Yang Ning still stared at the clean white wall with a focused expression. He knew that on the other side of the dam was the azure sea.

"I like the sea!" Yang Ning said softly.

"I like it too!" Deep Blue nodded.

Indeed, there were many comforting elements in the sea, such as uranium, protium, deuterium, and tritium.

And gold and silver.

Especially after obtaining the Dragon Ball, entering the sea felt like coming home.

"Perhaps, my future lies in the sea?"

Yang Ning put on his school uniform, picked up the jade pendant, and followed the instructions on the map. He ate breakfast first, then arrived at the classroom just in time.

Surprisingly, it was a tiered classroom. It had the same Infinite Cosmos technique, and this small classroom had over five thousand seats, but there weren't many people. There were only two thousand men.

Among the two thousand people, there were both young and old. Unlike Yang Ning, who came empty-handed, they had notebooks and pens in their hands.

After finding an empty seat at the back, Yang Ning realized that the books were placed on the desks, but they were fixed and couldn't be taken away.

The pages of the book were also exceptionally tough. Yang Ning tried to pull them lightly, but they didn't budge. Looking at their smooth surface, it was clear that they were also engraved with the Cleanse, Water-Repelling, and Fire-Repelling formations.

Yang Ning looked around but didn't see Su Bai. There were only four people on the same boat, including him, and the other three were bookboys.

In other words, each person had a different class schedule?

"Cough, hello everyone!" A young man who looked to be in his twenties but coughed like an eighty-year-old walked in with a book in his arms. He placed the book on the podium first, then loudly said, "Today, we have some new students joining us, so I want to reiterate the classroom rules. No talking, no questions, no restlessness. The books are fixed on the lectern and cannot be damaged or torn, otherwise, a fine will be imposed."

"In addition, you can transcribe the textbooks, but you cannot take them out of the academy or spread them outside. Violators will be dealt with accordingly!"

Then, he opened the book and began to read.

That's right, he started reading. Yang Ning quickly found the page he was reading and discovered that what he was reading matched the words written in the book exactly!

No, what's the use of saying that? Can't I read books on my own?

Unfortunately, other students don't seem to have any objections. It seems like they're used to it. They spread out their pens and notebooks and hurriedly started taking notes.

"I remember the school has a library!" Yang Ning took out his phone and checked, and it was indeed true.

Then why don't you go to the library and copy it?

Yang Ning looked at the schedule and understood that there was more than one subject to study. If all the courses were like today, there would be a lot to copy.

It's probably not possible to copy everything just by going to the library during break time.

As for why it's not printed as a book, didn't the teacher say not to spread it?

"Love it, love it!" Yang Ning didn't have any objections to this. He quite liked this teaching method, after all, he had the Spirit Realm.

If the teachers just followed the book, he could just read it himself.

Opening the textbook to the first page, Yang Ning's face darkened.

Sure enough, it was the familiar style of "Universal Records".

Even "Compendium of Materia Medica" knows how to categorize herbs, but you don't categorize minerals. There isn't even a table of contents. It's clear how careless the people who compiled the teaching materials are.

Forget it, I'll do it myself!

"Mineral Identification and Recognition" is another thick book, with a total of 1400 pages. Each page introduces 2-3 types of minerals, some of which are described briefly, and some even include more than ten types.

In total, there are 7420 types of minerals.

When Yang Ning was organizing "Universal Records," he had already categorized the minerals. He can just continue to use that now.

The minerals in Extreme Eternal World are divided into five types: water minerals, metal minerals, stone minerals, crystal minerals, and two levels: ordinary minerals and spiritual minerals.

It's simple to distinguish between ordinary minerals and spiritual minerals. If there is spiritual energy infused, it's a spiritual mineral. For example, iron ore is an ordinary mineral, while spiritual iron is a spiritual mineral. Water is an ordinary mineral, while spiritual water is a spiritual mineral.

The effects of spiritual minerals of the same type are dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than ordinary minerals, and they often give rise to many incredible effects.

Spiritual minerals are also materials for refining various Spirit Weapons, Treasure Weapons, Dao Weapons, and even Immortal Weapons.

The teacher speaks quickly, finishing a page of the book in one minute, but Yang Ning's speed of flipping through the book is even faster. After flipping through it twice, he found a way to flip through the book silently. Before the class was over, he had already finished flipping through the book!

"The collection of 'Mineral Identification and Recognition' is complete!"

"The next class is 'The Fusion and Conflict of Minerals,' location is Room 517 in Building C!"

"Building C? I'm not going. The teacher doesn't take attendance anyway!" After class, Yang Ning didn't go to the classroom. Instead, he headed straight to the library.

He's used to skipping classes. If the teacher doesn't take attendance, he dares to skip.

And his photographic memory ability has long been exposed since Yue Kingdom. There's no need to hide it at all.

Self-deprecatingly, he's a genius who deviated from the right path but loves refining. There's nothing wrong with that.

"What a big library!" Yang Ning knew from the map that the library was quite large, covering an area of 5 acres.

But when he arrived, he realized that he had underestimated it because the library wasn't just one floor!

It's a complex of buildings, with the tallest one being the Central Ding Tower, consisting of eighteen floors. There are also four small buildings attached to each side of the tower, each nine floors high, representing the meaning of the Nine Tripod Towns in all directions.

On each side of the Ding Tower, there are four V-shaped corner buildings, each with twelve floors and a height of 36 meters, named Azure Dragon White Tiger, Vermilion Bird Black Tortoise.

Yang Ning took out his phone and opened the library app, but the app only provided an introduction and a map of the library, without any actual collection of books. It couldn't even search for the location of a specific book.

But the introduction was enough. Yang Ning's plan is to move the entire library into the Spirit Realm within six years, so it doesn't matter where each book is!

"Since I want to refine, let's start with books related to metals!" Yang Ning identified the direction and headed towards the White Tiger Building.

(End of this chapter)