The desk of miss Hira was cluttered and Lirian took a while to sort through it, he picked up the school handbook and browsed through it. Miss Hira was just their homeroom teacher and they would have to go to other classes but they were given no direction.
As he flipped through, he found out that the first hour and a half of the day would be spent in the homeroom, and he was happy to find that reason was something he was very familiar with.
"Alright everyone step away from your desk platforms for a moment." as he waited for them to move, he looked through the drawers until he found a switch, he tapped it and the desks began to descend through the platform and a cover closed the top of the platform, with another tap of the switch several cylindrical chambers came down from the roof and lock into the platforms.
"Everyone take out the suit from the chamber and go into the changing room at the back of the class, girls on the left and boys on the right, and do not put the mask on until I tell you to."
The first lesson could be said to be his specialty and that was cultivation, in was the reason that they would spend so much time in the homeroom, an hour of cultivation.
When they returned, he started his own personal lecture, "Those chambers are designed to help you on your road to cultivation, and all of you will spend an hour in it every morning, while good grades are important the most important thing in our world is cultivation, it is what will determine a great deal of your future and anyone attending this school will certainly have a great future, so long as you are able to become successful cultivators."
"Now before we begin you need to know the basics of what you will be doing in those chambers, as all of you know every cell of our bodies can gather, hold and release energy, however, there are 108 key points on all living beings where the energy is most focused and these are the points we must focus on."
"The points are split into three categories, body, mana, and mind, each one has 36 points of focus, during the next few years we will be focusing on opening these energy points, opening them means taking control of the energy flowing through them."
"The average person only has 5-8 points naturally opened and to use an elementary cultivation technique you will have to have 4 points of any category open, the school however will not give out the techniques unless you have opened at least 4 points of each category."
"Inside the pods, a fluid will surround you and it will gather data on your energy points, while inside you have only one task and that is to rotate the energy in your bodies around your energy points, the machine's AI will show what you need to, and with its help, you will be able to determine which energy points are ideal for you to use, and which ones will prove more difficult to use."
"You can use this data to determine your future cultivation paths, now remember even if you have four energy points open in any category, do not try to cultivate, if you make a mistake, you can damage your energy points and in the worst-case scenario, we will have to clean you of the walls of the pod when you self-implode also by beginning your cultivation you will lose all progress you made on opening other energy points."
They all excitedly climbed into their pods, pulled their masks down, and allowed the blue fluid to surround them, Lirian sat on the side not bothering to enter his own, he was born with 107 energy points open and the last energy point would take him a few more years to open.
He was extremely happy with his body, his cultivation road had never been so easy in the earlier stages, and the longer it took to open all your energy points the harder it became as time passed on, it could take millions of years for someone to open all their energy points.
When you consider that opening energy points is very time-consuming, and that you never have a guarantee that you will get a better technique, and that the time that it takes to learn and master new skills, also that every time you get a new cultivation technique you will have to restructure your accumulated cultivation before you progress any further, it was not every cultivator's favorite pass time.
After 45 minutes he turned off the pods, they were a bit late due to their teacher not caring to do anything with them so he had to stop them early.
As he looked through the results, he was only impressed by one score and it wasn't the highest scorer with 13 open energy points, "Karen that's an impressive 13, it seems that the Eden super world has been feeding you all the right things, you have 6 on mana, 4 on the mind and 3 on the body, in a few months you should be able to receive your first technique."
He then focused his gaze on Hinata, "A big congratulation to you Hinata, you are the first in our class that will receive a cultivation technique."
She was embarrassed as all eyes fell on her, and her cheeks turned rosy in seconds, "If you go to the office and submit your request, you will be free to choose whichever path you want, think about it carefully, this will affect your entire life, but don't take too long you have a head start on the rest of the class but achieving first-grade will still take at least three years to achieve."
He gave the results to everyone and there were no underperformers, the lowest was eight and that was 9 members of the class, and while a few of them had 12 energy points open no one else met the requirements to start cultivating.
He started to grin slightly for the next part, it was the key to getting the headmaster to visit him personally, he needed to cause a scene, one that would help with spreading his fame but also give him infamy, and what better way to do that than to get a bunch of snot-nosed brats from the great civilizations riled-up.
In truth, there was something about the headmaster that bugged, but he couldn't quite understand why, the only thing he had to base his feeling on was the system, after all, it told him that if he could unravel the secrets of Telamon Dao by himself, it would provide the necessary fate particles to ensure he could complete his 'Samsara' and 'Eight Truths' technique merges.
He grinned slightly and began, "Those of you from influential and wealthy families shouldn't be happy with your results, after all, you've been raised on many delicacies that make it easier for you to open your energy points it's incredibly sad that all of you have opened so few energy points by now," he sighed while doing his best to look at them with pity
"In the future, you will find it more and more difficult to open more energy points as well, as for those that can't afford such delicacies,", he glanced at the students on scholarships, ", so long as you achieve a 70% average you will be granted some items, weekly, to aid you in your cultivation and with every 5% increment you will receive better rewards."
Everyone was frowning when he finished paraphrasing what he read in the booklet, the influential and wealthy didn't like being called out as people that bought their success and the scholarship students were terrified by what they had to achieve just to even out the playing field by a little.
"Hey man," Lucas called, ", why didn't you go in, I would like to see how the child of the empress does!", the entire class shared his sentiment and murmured in agreement.
"Sorry, but I'm a prince candidate all data on me is strictly confidential, in this entire school the only one privy to some of my information is the headmaster." he smiled and answered.
"I bet you're just like the rest of us, hell it would be embarrassing if someone raised with the empire's best resources couldn't beat our classes highest, no wonder you don't want to show your results."
Lirian merely chuckled at his response, "I'm afraid that as a prince candidate, I'm forbidden from any form of cultivation before I reach twenty." he answered perfunctorily but he didn't stop himself from sounding condescending, not could rile up a person more than making them feel small.
"Come on what's the matter are y..." before he finished, Lucas got the shock of his life as the entire room became filled with silver energy and the power surged all around him.
"If you are unhappy, why don't we play a little energy tug of war, I may not be a cultivator but controlling the natural flow of energy and utilizing it has been something I could do since I was two, you should be capable of stealing this much energy away from me if everyone works together.", he said with a mocking tone, if he told them that he could do such a thing from the time he was born he feared that they would lose all motivation of cultivating.
The energy surrounded them all and engulfed them, it pushed them to their knees and they all fought in vain to stand up against it, "What's the matter this is just energy in its purest form, surely all of you are capable of controlling it to, all you need is a basic understanding of energy control to do this, I'll even make things easier for you if all of you together can take away 1% of the energy I control I'll allow all of you to treat me like your dog."
He slowly increased the pressure on them and spoke of energy control as if it was the easiest thing in the world and even after several minutes passed none of them managed to utter a word in response, as he stood calmly challenging all of them.
The door slammed open and the headmaster of the school rushed in, he felt a tremendous pressure in the school but he couldn't understand it and soon half the school was filled with silver energy, that's when he realised that someone was using energy control, the big problem was that he didn't recognise the energy source and he rushed to confront the source, he had a heart attack when he saw which class it was in.
After his many conversations with the empress, he knew that she was extremely attached to her newest child, if anything happened to him while he was at the school, she would not let him off easily despite him being her teacher.