When Mo Shen saw the courses, he was pleasantly surprised. From the 44 courses, he had to spend 132 hours out of the 168 hours in a week. What made him happy was that for the first 4 days of lectures, he only had 3 hours free each. On the 5th day, he had 6 hours free. On the 6th and 7th day, he had 5 classes each. It was like they were specially arranged for him. And on those 2 days, the classes were all together, so the remaining part of the day was free for him. Between those 2 days, there were 12 hours together, which was a very convenient time to go home.
"There are 4 types of hostels for students in the campus." Wan Jue started to explain after Mo Shen had looked over the schedule with a satisfied smile. "The first type is the 10-man courtyard. In a big courtyard, there will be 10 rooms for 10 people in the building. It costs 10 merit points per month."
"The next one is the 5-man courtyard. There are 5 rooms here for 5 students. It costs 50 merit points per month. The similar 2-man courtyard cost 100 merit points per month."
"The last one is the Imperial suite. It is meant for 1 student alone. It has a big room for the students, and some side rooms in another courtyard. Only students in this suite are allowed to bring other people to the academy to stay, like servants or other family, although their movements will be limited. They courtyard has a small lake, and the spiritual energy there is abundant. It costs 2,000 merit points per month."
"I'll take the Imperial suite." Mo Shen said without hesitation. What else could he have chosen when he so wanted his privacy. "And I'll pay for 6 months upfront."
Everyone at the table was shocked once again. Normal students would usually try to save their points to the best of their abilities, till they have in abundance. Presently, in the academy of over a million students, there were only 5 students using the Imperial suite. That was how rare using it was.
No one would expect Mo Shen who had just entered the academy to choose the Imperial suite. And he even paid upfront for 6 months, wasting a good sum of the points he had. Only Wan Jue wasn't too shocked. Only he knew the large amount of points Mo Shen had.
Mo Shen wasn't interested in their reactions. All he wanted was his privacy, and he didn't have much need for the points other than visiting the library. He was planning to spend all the free time he had in the first 4 days in the library. He didn't really need sleep, so it was all convenient.
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Classes were going to start in 2 days time, so Mo Shen decided to go to the library after seeing his Imperial Suite. He made his way there immediately.
10 points were required to use the library every time. To go to a higher floor, additional 20 points were required. The library had 9 floors. Normal students could only go to first 6 floors. Only students with at least 20,000 points could go to the 7th and 8th floor. To go to the 9th floor, you must have at least 50,000 points. That showed you were either an elder or a student with many merits. After all, elders also had their points similar to the students.
An average student of the academy will only have around 5,000 points. The best out of them all would have an average of 15,000 - 20,000 points. So unless you have such excess points, you won't be able to visit the last 3 floors.
Mo Shen currently had 88,000 points after paying for his Imperial Suite, so he decided to go straight to the 9th floor to see what was there.
When he got to the library, he saw that the keeper of the 1st floor of the library was an old man in the 3rd stage of the Empyrean realm.
"Young man, are you a new student?" The old man asked Mo Shen with a bit of curiosity in his tone. He discovered that he couldn't see through Mo Shen at all. As the keeper of the 1st floor library, he had seen all kind of students. He seemed to have even made a skill to differentiate the good eggs from the useless eggs. But now, he didn't even feel anything from Mo Shen. He had a feeling that if he just closed his eyes there, he wouldn't even know whether Mo Shen entered the library or not.
"Yes old man, I am a new student." Mo Shen replied. "I want to enter the library."
The man didn't waste anymore of Mo Shen's time seeing as he was a man of few words, and directly swiped his card at the desk and deducted 10 points from it.
Like that, Mo Shen climbed up till the 9th floor. He didn't try to engage in a conversation with any of the keepers of the library to avoid wasting any time. He had so many things to learn, it would be good if he could read all the books in the library during the 6 months he could stay at the school, otherwise there was nothing he could do about that.
At the 9th floor, there was a young looking woman. She was quite beautiful. Her beauty didn't lose out to Gu Xian'er in the slightest. Mo Shen was surprised that she was at the 7th stage of the Empyrean realm. "She should be the one of the vice-deans, my aunt." Mo Shen thought.
His father told him that one of the 2 vice-deans in the academy was his cousin. They were both grand-children of the former monarch of the empire. She was insanely talented, as talented as Mo Wudi himself. Even though she was younger than him, she was already in the 7th stage of the Empyrean realm. But Mo Shen noticed that the aura she gave off was of the 5th stage of the Empyrean realm. It seemed no one in the academy, not even the dean, knew of her true cultivation. Even his father told him that she was in the 5th stage of the Empyrean realm.
The dean of the academy was also in the 7th stage of the Empyrean realm. He was said to be the only one in the academy that had reached that realm, but Mo Shen knew that there was another old demon in the academy that was in the 9th stage of the Empyrean realm. He could feel the person's presence in the academy.
"Good day vice-dean." Mo Shen greeted the woman. She was the only one in the academy that knew he was here, but she hadn't seen him before, so unless he introduced himself, she might not recognize him.
The vice-dean, Mo Qianyue looked at Mo Shen for a while, as if examining him. "You must be Mo Shen, my nephew." She said, with a slight hint of suspicion. It seemed like she wasn't too sure of it. She looked at Mo Shen's face for any slight change in expression, unfortunately, she was bound to be disappointed in that area.
Mo Shen didn't say anything. He just looked on at the woman, curious to know what brought about her claims.
Seeing Mo Shen's silence like a bit of a tacit agreement, she continued. "Although I have never seen you before, and you are more handsome, you do have my cousin's build, and sister-in-law's type of beauty."
"Greetings aunty." Mo Shen greeted her once again, this time with another address. He had now recognized her as his family member. Not many people will be able to trace the similarities in their stature, except they were close family.
"Oh! I was thinking you were going to deny me with the way you were looking." Mo Qianyue said, as if she were complaining.
"If aunt recognized me, then I would recognize you, but if you didn't, then I will have to recognize you at a later time. Maybe when we meet in the palace." Mo Shen said honestly.
"You this kid, you really know how to say some cold words." Mo Qianyue said. Although she said that, she didn't feel unhappy in the slightest. She was quite happy to see this her nephew. She had gone to visit the palace a lot of times after Mo Shen was born, but Mo Wudi told her that he wasn't in the palace and would only come back at a later time.
"I didn't know I would meet you so fast aunty, who would have thought you would be the keeper to the 9th floor of the library." Mo Shen said in a calm tone.
"Indeed, it's really a coincidence. I was originally here to find something, and I decided to be the keeper here for today. Who knew it would give me the luck to meet my expensive nephew who I haven't seen since his birth. It's like I would have to pay a great deal to meet you." Mo Qianyue said in a serious tone, as if enquiring why he was unwilling to meet her in the past.
Hearing that, Mo Shen was a bit shocked. He didn't expect this aunt of his cared so much for him. "For some reasons, after I was born I went to the lower realm with Mo Fan, so it's not a surprise that you haven't seen me."
Mo Qianyue nodded her head but didn't comment on that. It seemed like Mo Shen didn't want to talk much about it. Although she was very curious, she decided not to ask, at least not now.
"Oh my dear nephew, your dad told me you want to keep a low-profile while you're here. With this your appearance, it will be quite hard to do so." Mo Qianyue said as she walked round Mo Shen as if trying to see every part of him. Her previous serious personality completely gone from her face.
"And this your cultivation..." Mo Qianyue said before pausing to look at Mo Shen's face. "Why does it feel like you're quite stronger than me. I can't even feel anything from you. It seems like you've reached the mental state of perfect control."
The mental state of perfect control was when one could have perfect control over their aura and wouldn't leak anything. Even some people with very high mental states couldn't attain this state. It wasn't a level in regards to the mental states, it was just a particular state.
The next version of that state was the state of Infinite control. In this state, one could kill without exuding killing intent. On a normal sense, no matter how trained or skilled one was, it was impossible to kill without exuding killing intent, even for just a brief moment, because one must always have that thought to kill, so the intent will always be exuded. Some were trained to hide their killing intent, but that method wasn't invincible. People with higher soul power could feel it.
The state of Infinite control was different. It would look as if killing someone was a normal thing. Something that didn't need to be thought about. This was the state that Mo Shen reached when he was talking to the spirit of the Golden cauldron.
"Although aunt hasn't reached that state, you don't have much problems concealing your cultivation." Mo Shen said, without denying anything.
Mo Qianyue was stunned for a moment. "As expected, you can see through my cultivation. I really wonder how you've trained for only 18 years and have reached this stage. It was 2 years ago that I broke through after getting this thing, so I haven't gone back to see your father. I've been quite busy, so he doesn't know of my breakthrough."