The bright light shone down onto the paper as everyone turned their head toward Zhu Jiao's direction. Da Hua Jia had her shield talisman in hand ready to toss it immediately.
Smiling widely, Zhu Jiao lifted the talisman up to inspect it, nodding in satisfaction. There was a stirring in his soul as he started to feel the motivation to exercise, to run, to do push-ups, squats, and everything in between.
Da Hua Jia shouted across the class asking Zhu Jiao to raise his talisman and show it to her and everyone.
Zhu Jiao lifted up the talisman and raised it up, in an instant a warm feeling spread amongst the students in the class, and each and every one of them started to feel a stirring in their hearts. They wanted to do something, they wanted to achieve something bigger than themselves, they wanted to be something bigger than what they were before.
Da Hua Jia looked at the talisman as she felt her heart's desire, her hopes and dreams, how her memories resurfaced from the times when she was younger,
"I want to be an immortal cultivator! Nothing can shake me from my path."
As the years went on, her cultivation speed began to slow, and as her interest in talisman creation started to peak, others supported her, saying it was the right decision. How her talent in talisman creation far surpassed her talent in cultivation.
She began to fully commit to the talisman creation and fully threw herself into it. Eventually losing the heart to cultivate.
Looking into the talisman, the stirring in her heart surged, as she began to wonder what life would be like if she had continued cultivating, will her path be different? Would she be out there fighting demons on a flying sword dominating the 3 worlds?
Her heart stirred as it seemed to have reached a breaking point. Her years of regret turned into willpower as it pushed her cultivation to a new breakthrough. She felt the energy flow through her body as she let out a shrill cry before calming back down again.
Looking towards Zhu Jiao she hurriedly rushed over and made him keep his talisman.
"You've passed… You needn't come to the class anymore. To think you can create a passive talisman of Motivation. As for the rest of the class, I'll extend the class for another 2 hours, those who want to leave can leave."
The class nodded and fervently started to create talismans harder than before. As if they were possessed they repeated the steps quickly and accurately, even though it failed it didn't deter them.
"This… I can just leave?" Zhu Jiao asked again.
"Yes, the talisman you created is a good one, if you can continue on this path, your future will be limitless."
Zhu Jiao scratched his head in confusion, to him, all he wanted was to create a motivational poster, he didn't know what exactly the effect of the talisman was and at this point, he couldn't really be bothered. She had already said that it was a talisman of Motivation, so he had already accomplished his goals.
As he left the classroom he looked back and watched the rest of his classmates fervently drawing, he shrugged his shoulders and left, heading back towards the villa to rest.
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In the coming week, the gym officially opened, drawn in by the initial marketing of Shi Tou's transformation. They soon figured that they were more and more motivated and soon began to pay for a year's worth of classes.
Not only that, It seemed that Shi Tou was more than able to do his job. In fact, he was so good that he regularly had many students joining him for classes and even for lunch. His popularity now was one of the key reasons why it had attracted so much hype.
Shi Tou went from a nobody, who always believed that might is right to an absolute celebrity within the school. He couldn't go without having people come up to him to say hi. Naturally, this made Zhu Jiao a bit tired because he couldn't go anywhere with Shi Tou without getting disrupted by someone one way or another.
Needless to say, Zhu Jiao understood that it was his fault that he created such a demon. Of course, not only was Shi Tou getting attention, but by association the gym was gaining attention too. But not all the attention was good, there were people with unsavory thoughts looking towards the gym as well.
Neither of them would imagine that a storm would appear shortly that would shake up the school.
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In a villa situated deep in the center of the school a knock could be heard on the door as 2 young men entered the room with an older elderly gentleman.
"Grandfather! It is me, Wu Lie. I have humbly come to ask you to seek revenge!"
The old man sat on his chair and blew his tea before taking a sip, putting it down on the desk he looked up and stared directly at Wu Lie.
Wu Lie felt his soul shudder when his eyes came into contact with his grandfather, even though he was still his grandfather's grandson, he knew how much his grandfather hated weakness. But even though it was the case, after approaching his elder brother and telling him the news.
His elder brother just told him to seek his grandfather for help. Left with no choice, he succumbed to the pressure and went with his elder brother to seek an audience with his grandfather.
"Little Lie, who would be so bold to attack a member of the Wu family, on top of that, who would be so brazen to attack the grandson of the disciplinary elder? Is he seeking death!?"
There was a glint in the elder Wu's eyes as Wu Lie just kneeled down with his head looking downwards.
"Grandfather, little Lie was wise to seek an audience with you, when he approached me, I already gathered all the information about his background and everything. There are some crucial points that I discovered, maybe we can use this to our advantage."
Elder Wu smiled as he looked at his elder grandson.
"Little hu, I trust your judgment. Come tell grandpa your plan and let me know what's happening."