Cheng Yuexian, the daughter of Elder Cheng Qingyuan, who oversees the teaching of the second generation of the internal family department.
Although her gravitational bloodline power is only ninth-grade, her ability and achievements in scientific research far exceed this.
At the age of sixteen, she obtained doctoral degrees in three disciplines from Jiankang University.
Now in her early twenties, she is the head of the family's teaching and research group, the deputy head of the scientific research group, overseeing nine projects, and all the research funds of junior bosses must be approved by her.
Even doctoral students must show utmost respect in her presence, including those who are in their thirties or forties and are seventh or eighth-grade powerhouses.
Such an academic giant now has to come to the classroom and teach a group of newcomers who know nothing.
Children from humble backgrounds are newbies who don't understand anything, and children from aristocratic families thinks they understand everything but still don't understand anything.
For her, there is no difference— at most it's like the difference between a high school graduate and a sophomore in college.
The reason she came to class is for two reasons: firstly, there is chaos outside the city of Jiankang: there are threats from demons in the ruins of Songjiang to the east, and Wang Chuzhong's Longxiang Army is eyeing greedily from the west.
Inside the city, there are also numerous gangs of refugees causing trouble everywhere, forcing the Cheng family to mobilize a large number of people to respond to the call from the Taicheng, safeguard the security near the clan's territory, and temporarily expand the team of Tianluo assassins to undertake the skyrocketing number of assassination tasks.
This has led to a shortage of teachers within the clan, forcing Cheng Yuexian to personally take action.
The other reason is the recent situation of her cousin, Cheng Jinyang.
It was originally thought that with the recent political stance of the Cheng family and her grandfather's support, along with the significant redeployment of manpower from Cheng Qingxin's faction, Cheng Jinyang's situation within the family should quickly improve.
However, last night, someone leaked a major piece of news: The Xing family intends for Xing family's Qingfeng, Xing Yuanzhi, and Cheng Jinyang, who just merged into the family, to be engaged.
This is indeed not a secret, but it shouldn't have spread so quickly among non-core members of the family.
Cheng Yuexian has already investigated the family network and found no dissemination nodes: obviously, this news initially spread on external networks, fermented enough discussion targeting the Cheng family, and then spread into the family's internal network.
This means someone is plotting against her cousin Cheng Jinyang, and their methods are quite crude and immature.
The Xing family's decision to arrange an engagement between Xing Yuanzhi and Cheng Jinyang will undoubtedly spark jealousy and resentment among some young people in the short term.
However, behind this decision lies the Xing family's recognition of Cheng Jinyang's innate potential and the significant assistance it will provide in establishing his influence within the family.
However, if the sole purpose is to assert his authority, gentler means of public opinion manipulation could be employed.
The rapid spread of rumors only indicates that certain individuals are solely interested in causing trouble for him, without considering the deeper implications.
From this perspective, suspicion can be narrowed down to a limited number of individuals.
Of course, before addressing this issue, she must also maintain order in her class and ensure that the intensity of the students' struggles is kept within a certain range.
Otherwise, if someone foolishly provokes her younger brother and instigates him to act, resulting in harm, it will be troublesome to resolve the aftermath.
When Cheng Yuexian walked into the classroom and approached the podium, she casually placed the materials she was holding on the desk.
Someone in the back whistled.
The young Cheng family members didn't expect that today would be the day when the legendary Sister Yuexian would come to teach, so some of them started frivolously trying to catch her attention.
Cheng Yuexian remained unfazed and snapped her fingers. A chalk flew out from the chalk tray and accelerated abruptly, shooting towards the person who whistled.
There was a yelp as the person's head jerked back, and the chalk shattered, leaving a faint white mark between his eyebrows.
"The gravitational manipulation ability is not all-powerful. Even if you're not planning to delve into the microscopic quantum perspective to deeply understand the relationship between family abilities and gravitons, at least don't boast outside that the Cheng family controls the four fundamental forces. Such remarks, when heard by knowledgeable people, only serve to make you a laughingstock."
Cheng Yuexian glanced around the room, her gaze landing on Cheng Jinyang in the corner, before continuing:
"In the past, to harness the gravitational supernatural ability during the era of supernatural development, you would have needed to finish reading at least three major textbooks: quantum mechanics, celestial mechanics, and the grand unified theory. Thankfully, after years of diligent research, the Shendu Cheng Family has deeply analyzed, transformed, and encapsulated most of these theories, known as the 'family algorithms.' All you need to do is imprint them into your minds through brain domain development, without needing to understand the underlying principles, making it easy to use the supernatural abilities."
"So, remember, the brain domain development you're about to undergo is built upon the accumulated research achievements of the Shendu Cheng Family over the years, providing a shortcut. However, if you ever have the opportunity to break through to the seventh grade in the future, in order to further enhance your combat power, you'll still need to supplement the neglected theoretical knowledge—this is also why the family offers foundational courses."
"Of course, if you think you don't have a chance to reach the sixth grade, you can choose to only focus on brain domain development in the future, skipping basic courses. After all, just memorizing formulas is already sufficient for seventh grade supernaturals."
Once again scanning the entire classroom, indeed, no one spoke. Or rather, those who came to attend the first brain domain development class were mostly young people with optimistic outlooks and ample self-confidence about their future, so they obediently continued to listen.
"Of course, some may ask me: What if we don't have time?" Cheng Yuexian said coldly.
"You need to eat, play games, pursue romantic interests, and even get jealous of your love rivals. There isn't much time to study theoretical knowledge, so what do you do?"
"People who say this basically haven't faced the harsh reality. Let me be clear: from the moment you become supernatural ability users of universal gravity, the treatment the family can provide depends on the achievements you can reach in the future."
"If you choose to lie flat, then the family will only provide you with the meager resources needed for lying flat: barely passable accommodation, food vouchers to keep you from starving each month, and other essential supplies for life; besides that, you won't have any status within the family, nor can you hope that the goddess you secretly admire will fancy you. After all, for the core members of the family, nobody will respect a slacker!"
With these words just spoken, although the students in the classroom remained silent, their expressions clearly became serious.
Because Cheng Yuexian's words just now reminded them of an obvious but often subconsciously ignored fact:
That is, in families of supernatural abilities, free love does not equal free marriage. To win over the goddess, it depends on whether you have the strength that matches hers.
In other words, the Xing family wants to engage with Cheng Jinyang because they see his strength.
So as long as someone here has the strength to surpass him, wouldn't there be an opportunity to compete with him for Miss Ah Zhi's engagement partner?
Ah!
So everyone's fighting spirit was thoroughly ignited, and the atmosphere around began to subtly change: it was no longer the sour atmosphere as if squeezing lemon juice, but rather a fervent eagerness to improve their strength openly and defeat someone with righteous fervor.
Regarding Cheng Yuexian's rhetoric and the corresponding changes in the collective mood of the students in the classroom, Cheng Jinyang naturally noticed and secretly admired it.
Indeed, for elite family offspring, the skill of expression and negotiation must be top-notch.
Xing Yuanzhi was like this, Wang Wanrou was like this, and now this cousin was also like this.
He found himself at a disadvantage due to his humble background.
Although he relied on his own talent, he was not far behind in bloodline density and calculation power.
However, in terms of political literacy, emotional intelligence, vision, and expressive ability, he was far inferior to these offspring from influential families who were immersed in it from a young age.
He really needed to study hard in the future.
Thinking like this, Cheng Jinyang suddenly heard Cheng Yuexian say on stage:
"It seems everyone is eager, right? Alright then, next I'll randomly select two students to demonstrate what 'brain domain development' is."
"Cheng Jinyang, Li Ang, come up to the stage!"