"Xiao Nu! Prepare my dinner! Yes? Can I help you?" Wu Xing Qu spoke looking at Zhu Jiao.
"Oh… I'm your disciple… What do I need to do?" Zhu Jiao put down the tea cup as he replied to Wu Xing Qu.
"I have a disciple?"
"We shook on it! If you go back on it, you're not a man."
Zhu Jiao spoke casually, the Xiao Nu at the side felt a chill run down her spine. Her Master was not a calm man, usually, the slightest thing will trigger him and he'd get all angry.
While she waited for the impending explosion to happen, what happened next was contrary to what she believed.
"Oh! You're the funny kid. Okay, welcome to the core disciple courtyard. I won't teach you anything, you can just go ahead and do whatever you want."
Wu Xing Qu brushed his hair before turning around and leaving the hall.
"Wait! I still need a place to stay!" Zhu Jiao called out as he was leaving, prompting him to wave his hands toward the Xiao Nu, signifying to prepare the guest room for him.
Zhu Jiao heard Jimmy's voice from the back of his mind.
"Bro, your master has really huge issues man."
"What do you mean?" Zhu Jiao telepathically replied.
"The dude's inner demon is like woah~ It's huge!" Jimmy shook his head as he spoke through his mind space.
"Like the Egyptian Pyramids, kinda huge?"
"No like Double D, kinda huge."
"...." Zhu Jiao was rendered speechless. He didn't know what to say.
"Fine, other than his inner demon being a beautiful babe, she's also the one causing him a lot of problems. Damn, if I can recruit her to my team, I'm pretty sure she'd carry all my KPI."
Jimmy smiled as he stroked his chin.
"Sure…"
Zhu Jiao's thoughts got disrupted as Xiao Nu was trying to get his attention asking him to come along with him to settle him in the room.
Walking into the room, he decided to lie down, with no oversight, Zhu Jiao smiled to himself, he basically can do whatever he wanted to do, the previous 1 month's hiatus he had wasn't really much of a hiatus causing him to work harder than ever. Finally, he decided to rest, so he went out to find Xiao Nu to prepare his meals.
Spending time in hibernation, resting, and just lazing around, 2 months quickly passed by, his original goal was to quickly find his way back home, but his priorities changed when he remembered what internet experts had said previously. "You have to listen to your body." So he did, his body told him to rest so he rested.
"Knock knock!"
Zhu Jiao opened his door, seeing Xiao Nu standing at the doorway with a letter in hand.
"Young master, a letter has arrived for you."
Zhu Jiao nodded as he brought the letter into the room. Sitting down on the chair he ripped open the letter.
"This… this is too long to read!"
His eyes flashed blue as he activated his
The contents of the letter shrunk down only telling him the key points. Looking at the floating screen he cocked his head.
'Core Disciples are required to take a mandatory elective subject, go to the board to find one, and register.'
"Damn it! You mean I have to do something!? WAGHHHHHH"
Zhu Jiao angrily stormed out of the door as he decided to find the board with the elective subjects. Walking out of the villa, he realized that he was lost and he didn't know where exactly that damn board is, adding to his frustrations.
Zhu Jiao's eyes lit up blue,
This ability manifested when he was working as a part-timer, his mother cut off his allowance telling him that he has to learn to be self-sufficient. Feeling motivated he headed out to find a job, eventually settling with a courier job. But of course, delivering food from place to place is not easy, so to solve this issue, this ability manifested. Using this ability, all he has to do is follow the arrow above his head and he can find whatever is on his errand list.
"Bro, is this new?" Jimmy asked, looking out through his mind-space
"Yeah, I got it a couple of years back. It's quite good, it's also very user friendly, you should try it." Zhu Jiao replied.
Following the arrow, Zhu Jiao cut through grass, passing by an arena where people were fighting, walking straight through 2 people as they were fighting. Eventually finding the huge board, making him smile excitedly.
Looking up and down the board he noticed quite a lot of interesting electives. Prompting Zhu Jiao to have some inner conflicts.
'Alchemy: Requires patience and strong control over the fire, teaches you how to make pills using an alchemical furnace.'
"Too much effort… who spends freaking hours to make medicine."
'Rune Array: Requires a keen eye and strong memory, to remember the placements of the runes and build strong rune arrays to control the elements, wind, and rain."
"Rune Array? That sounds familiar could have sworn I heard that term somewhere, but nah…I'm not exactly sure what that entails though."
'Blacksmithing: Requires a strong arm, Persistence, and willpower, spend your time in the forge banging and refining metals and making strong weapons'
"Ooh Blacksmithing! I like weapons, but between the heat, the sweat, and the effort… I'd rather not."
He skimmed through the other electives on the board, Body training, Qi training, Mental training, Beast taming, and Monster anatomy. One after the other it gave him more and more reason to sigh. Nothing truly interested him.
His eyes moved up and down before finally resting on the description underneath the elective.
'Requires a steady hand, a keen eye for patterns, teaches you to put images down onto paper creating all sorts of wonderful effects.'
"That's it! I've decided what to sign up for!"