The competition ended with the champion receiving a one-year scholarship. Duong, Sinh, and Chung Tran were blocked on their way back to the dormitory by a group of second and third year students.
“Is there a problem?” Yang asked coldly, these people blocking the road to bully children with arrogant faces were unbearable.
“I came to demand justice for my brother Lang!” The leader raised his chin and spoke, his face quite similar to Lang’s.
“Nguyen Cuu Khoi Tay, 3rd year student, level 7 Spiritualist.” Google said.
“If you’re bad, you’ll lose, what are you asking for?” Sinh coldly snorted in contempt.
“Who gave you permission to speak here?” A sharp-tongued guy like Xeko standing behind Tay looked at Sinh with contempt.
“Nguyen Van Tan, 2nd year student, level 5 Spiritualist.”
“So what right do you have to bark?” Duong asked back.
“Fuck! Big brother, let me slap him in the mouth!” Tan rubbed his fist.
“Okay, just be gentle or it will be troublesome if it dies!” Tay nodded.
Duong raised his hand to stop the Sinhs who were about to charge forward and risk their lives. With their level 2 Spiritualist strength, charging forward would only serve as punching bags. Even Duong was not confident because his level 1 spiritual power was very weak compared to Tan’s level 5 spiritual power. The difference in strength was too great, and Duong’s endurance became meaningless.
“I don’t care what kind of genius you are, but when you meet a senior, you have to bow your head and greet him!” Tan stepped forward to face Duong and raised his voice.
“You’re only old enough to be my grandchild!” Duong put his spiritual power into his legs and arms, and in a flash, he moved behind Tan, but Tan managed to turn around and punch him. Unlike Lang who only put his spiritual power into his fist, Tan was able to put his spiritual power into his entire arm, so his attack speed was very fast. Duong saw it but couldn’t dodge in time, so he raised both hands to block it.
Soldier!
Duong was thrown back, Tan took the opportunity to kick him, forcing Duong to put his spiritual power into his stomach to take the blow.
Pop!
Yang Gong’s weak spiritual power could not block Jin’s kick. Yang was pushed back several steps before he could regain his footing. A sharp pain was felt in his stomach.
Khoi Tay raised his eyebrows. He was sure that Duong would be kicked to the ground by Tan, but unexpectedly he was still standing strong, but even so, he was not a threat to Tay at all.
“You guys! Are you fighting?” Teacher Dung passed by and saw the fight and shouted loudly.
“Let’s go!” Tay beckoned his men to leave, not forgetting to give Duong a contemptuous smile.
Duong gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath: “You guys just wait!”
The story of a guy considered a waste winning the championship of the freshman competition caused a stir in the entire Goddess Academy for a whole week, but Duong continued to keep his record of skipping school, burying himself in cultivation all day.
The clash with Tan made Duong realize how weak he was, he was very angry so he decided to cultivate to beat Tay and Tan up. But the cultivation speed of the 0th level of Thon Thien Dia was too slow, while Sinh, Chung, Tran were almost at level 3 Linh Si, Duong was still at level 1, wanting to fight with level 5, level 7 Linh Si, even if Duong had mastered the Linh Luc Nhan Can realm, he would only get beaten up.
Duong sighed, those bastards had only been cultivating for 1 year longer than him.
“That’s right!” Duong suddenly remembered something, ran into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face, then rushed to Nhu Mong’s lab.
It’s true that Duong lost in terms of cultivation time, but he knows how to create treasures!
Treasures are divided into 5 ranks: Spirit Treasure, Immortal Treasure, Holy Treasure, Divine Treasure, Supreme Treasure, each rank is divided into 4 levels: Low-grade, Intermediate-grade, High-grade and Super-grade.
With the vast amount of knowledge from Google, as long as there is enough spiritual power, time and materials, Duong can create all kinds of Treasures known to mankind, but that is in theory, because the higher the level of the Treasure, the more difficult it is to create and the rarer the materials required, for example, to create a Divine Treasure, a Divine Master needs to spend his entire life researching and creating the blueprint, then the next Divine Master also needs his entire life to create it, not to mention finding enough materials can also take another Divine Master’s lifetime.
Three generations of Divine Masters can only create one Divine Treasure, but a Divine Master only appears once every few hundred or even a thousand years, that is why until today, all of Vietnam has only recorded 12 Divine Treasures, including many names that Duong hears very familiarly such as Dong Son ancient drum, Thuan Thien sword, Vinh Lang stele, Dai Hong bell, Sac Menh Chi Bao an, Cuu Pham Lien Hoa tower…
Just having a Divine Treasure is like holding the world in your hands. For example, there is a legend that Lac Long Quan, when he was young, single-handedly used the Thuan Thien Sword to cause chaos in Long Thanh to save his mother from the Dragon Emperor, destroyed the Underworld right in front of the Emperor of Hell, and rushed to Heaven to slap the Jade Emperor in the mouth. Later, Le Thai To also used an incomplete Thuan Thien Sword to unify Dai Viet. Today, the incomplete Thuan Thien Sword is said to be lying at the bottom of Hoan Kiem Lake, guarded and worshiped by the Hoan Kiem sect as a true God.
But high-level treasures also require the owner to have a corresponding rank, otherwise it would be like a fool carrying a steamroller to fight. Duong also knew his place so he only wanted to create a few Spirit Treasures for self-defense, to avoid being blocked like last time.
Duong was busy tinkering with his creation when he suddenly felt a warm breath on the back of his neck, followed by two soft balls pressing against his back, creating a very comfortable feeling.
“What are you doing, kid?” Nhu Mong’s soft voice gently entered Duong’s ear, making him feel goosebumps.
“I’m making a self-defense treasure, but there aren’t enough materials here!” Duong gave Mong a list of materials, hoping she would have them.
Mong looked over the list of ingredients and couldn’t help but frown: “Are you planning to make an intermediate-grade Spirit Treasure?”
“That’s right! Do you have those?”
“Let’s see, there are all kinds of spirit metals, but no level 2 thunder beast soul! This kind is very rare so you have to go to the Saigon Alchemy Association to get it!”
“So can you order it for me?”
“Okay, on one condition!”
“What conditions?”
“You must follow me to take the Alchemist exam!”
“What do you do with that degree?”
“Are you planning to spend it all for free? All these ingredients cost me two months of salary!” Mong pouted as if she was sorry for the money, but in fact she had another intention.
“Okay, let’s try it out!”
The Saigon Alchemy Association is considered the holy land of alchemists in the whole South, a place to grant practice licenses, register copyrights, and is also the most prestigious center for consignment, purchase, sale, and auction of raw materials and products.
“Out here, you have to call me Miss and address yourself as Em!” Sitting on the carriage, Nhu Mong instructed, her face red from the two peaches being messed with by Duong. Although Duong was currently impotent, Mong still did not forget the first impression she gave to her 13-year-old student in a fit of crazy lust.
“Yes, I know, miss!” Duong is not stupid. He knows how embarrassing it is for a 24 year old beauty to call a 13 year old boy “husband” in public.
Duong followed Mong into the large Alchemy Association area that looked like a shopping mall in his world.
The Wizard and Grandmaster exams take place every day during office hours for anyone to register. Mong helped Duong register for the exam with a fee of 500,000 VND. The reason for such a high fee is because there is a part of the exam that requires the creation of a low-grade Spirit Treasure nucleus. Once created, the candidate will be able to keep it as a souvenir, not because of corruption and inflation like in Duong’s old world.
“Ah! Miss Nhu Mong brought her students to see the examination hall?” A handsome man around 30 years old just entered and immediately came to greet Nhu Mong, even pretending to be a senior and tried to pat Duong’s head, but he immediately avoided him.
“None of your business!” Nhu Mong coldly said. From her tone, Duong guessed that the guy was a stubborn and unpleasant guy, which was why Nhu Mong hated him so much.
The man smiled wryly and went to register for the exam. As if afraid that Duong would be jealous, Nhu Mong explained: “That guy is Tong, he is said to be a genius who will become an Alchemist before the age of 30, but he just turned 30, he has taken the exam more than ten times but still likes to act like he is something else!”
The profession of alchemy requires a huge amount of knowledge, so it’s normal to get a magician degree at the age of 30 to 40, and to become a grandmaster at the age of 30 is an absolute genius, but for the 22-year-old beauty who already has a grandmaster degree, Nhu Mong, any genius is overshadowed.
After receiving the exam paper, Tong approached Mong to start a conversation, but suddenly saw Duong holding the exam paper in his hand. He raised his eyebrows: “Oh! You let him enter the magician exam? That’s good, letting him experience failure a few times will become motivation to improve!”
Tong looked at Duong: “Try your best, at worst I became a magician at 20, as long as you try hard you can become a magician like me before 30!”
Duong curled his lips in contempt: “Only becoming a magician at the age of 20, I might as well dig a hole and die!”
“Haha! What a reckless youth! Nhu Mong, you were right to bring him here, falling once will make him less arrogant!”
“Don’t think everyone is as useless as you!” Duong didn’t even glance at Tong, he walked straight to the registration counter, handed out his exam ticket and said: “Please change it to my Grandmaster exam!”
“Master’s degree, exam fee 5 million VND!” The cashier raised her eyebrows and looked at Duong then said, even though she knew he would fail for sure but still didn’t care, she had seen this kind of arrogance quite often.
“Here’s the money!” Nhu Mong stepped forward and gave Duong money. She believed that Duong would easily get his alchemy license, even though she knew this would cause a stir in the entire alchemy industry.
Tong stood there with a smirk on his face, a 13 year old wanting to get a Grandmaster degree, what a fantasy!
The Grandmaster exam consists of three parts, the first is a theory test, the next is intermediate nuclear fabrication without seeing blueprints, and the last is assembling intermediate Spirit Treasures using available materials within a limited time.
In the evening, Tong walked out of his exam room dejectedly. Despite his best efforts, he still couldn’t complete the final steps of the Linh Bao assembly test, and didn’t get enough points for the theory test.
When Tong went out to the waiting room, he saw Mong stand up and ask him with concern: “What’s the result?”
Song thought Mong cared about him, a warm feeling rose in his heart, he shook his head and was about to speak when from behind he heard a sigh, then Duong’s angry voice said: “Unacceptable!”
Knowing that his joy was short-lived, Tong tried to find a way to cover up his embarrassment: “I told you! The Grand Master Exam is not a child’s game. If you fail, then you fail. What’s there to be unable to accept? Try to study for another 10 years!” After Tong finished speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong. The boy Duong looked at him as if he was something disgusting stuck on the toilet.
Duong did not bother to reply to Tong, he walked over and continued speaking to Mong: “I can’t believe they used the materials to assemble high-level Spirit Treasures to force candidates to assemble intermediate-level Spirit Treasures, what a waste!”
Tong coldly snorted, this brat clearly lost and was looking for a way to blame, about to make a sarcastic remark when an old man ran out from inside, this was an Alchemist Grandmaster named Vu, commonly known as Grandmaster Vu.
Tong quickly bowed: “Hello, Master Vu!”
But Master Wu didn’t even bother to look at Song, ran to Duong, held out a treasure and asked: “Did you make this?”
Duong nodded: “Yes!”
“Using intermediate materials to craft high-grade spiritual treasures, who is your teacher?”
“It’s her!” Duong calmly pointed at Mong.
The old man nodded: “So it is Miss Nhu Mong! The younger generation is truly formidable. Congratulations on training such a top genius!”
Tong stood there with his mouth open, his face pale with humiliation, knowing his place, he slunk away.
At the age of 13, he had a Grandmaster degree. From ancient times to the present, perhaps only Duong had one, because the mountain of knowledge of a Grandmaster, even if he started studying since his father was born, he still could not have learned it all. It required a supreme intelligence and a great master. Yet Duong completed all 3 exams with absolute scores, even excelling far beyond the requirements, causing a terrifying shock to the alchemists of the Alchemy Association. It could be said that if Duong wanted to, he would be famous throughout Vietnam in a few days. Yet he humbly asked to hide his identity, making the grandmasters and saints extremely satisfied.
No one knows that Duong is just afraid of being too famous and being kidnapped for ransom so he hides it. After all, he has the mentality of a 69 year old fox and is not as immature as he appears.
Breaking the record for age and score, Duong was awarded 10 billion VND by the Alchemist Association, considered as an investment for him and creating a good feeling with the association, avoiding competition from Alchemist Associations from other regions.
Putting the ATM card containing 10 billion in his pocket, Duong couldn’t help but laugh, alchemy really makes you rich quickly. Speaking of ATM cards, this is a spatial treasure that can be held in the palm of your hand but can hold a lot of cash, you just need to draw a password on the card to withdraw the money you have stored inside.
Duong smiled because he had money and Mong smiled because he was famous. Although he was only famous, having a genius student who was also her lover made her very proud.
“I have already bought the ingredients you need. I also bought you a Backpack ring. Feel free to put your things away!” Mong smiled and put the silver ring on Duong’s hand.
Backpack Rings are also Space Treasures, they can hold a lot of things without feeling heavy at all. Backpack Rings are more advanced than ATM cards in that in addition to having a larger storage space, they also have the ability to recognize the owner’s soul. After recognizing the owner, unless the owner’s soul disappears, only the owner of the ring can take the items inside.
Being cared for by Nhu Mong, Duong was moved and gave her his ATM card: “You keep this bonus!”
“I won’t take it, you can keep it for later when you need it! Oh, the auction is almost time, do you want to go take a look?”
“Okay, let’s go see!”
Auctions in the spirit world are quite special, the bidders are secretly led into separate rooms that are resistant to spiritual power to ensure information security, even the bidding is done by the auction house staff. This is because there are extremely precious items, causing many people to be greedy to block and rob, so this type of auction was established. As long as you don’t know who the buyer is, it will be difficult to rob.
Duong followed Nhu Mong into a small room. Only then did Duong know that Nhu Mong was the young lady of the Hoa family, the leading family in the Alchemy Association, and also the family that managed the auction house.
The auction was quite exciting, mostly about formulas for creating treasures, various treasures and precious materials. Thanks to Google, Duong knew clearly the origin and uses of each item. Duong also took the opportunity to buy some rare materials, spending nearly half a billion in total. As expected, alchemists spend money like water.
“Next is a strange alloy.” The beautiful, scantily clad PG gracefully opened a small box, inside was a piece of material the size of a thumb, black and non-reflective with one side looking quite sharp.
She continued: “In fact, the grandmasters and saints of the alchemy association cannot determine what material this is. It is quite light, non-reflective, waterproof, non-meltable, non-freezing, and non-conductive…”
While she was explaining, Duong suddenly heard an unusually excited Google voice in his head: “Nghich Thien! It’s a fragment of the Nghich Thien sword!”
“Heaven Defying Sword?”
Google didn’t bother to explain, directly transmitting the information into Duong’s brain. It turned out that the legend of Lac Long Quan possessing Thuan Thien Sword was only half true, and the number of Divine Treasures in Vietnam was not 12 but 13!
The thing in Lac Long Quan’s hand in ancient times was not the Divine Treasure Thuan Thien Sword but the Supreme Treasure: Thien Sword.
The Heavenly Sword originally had two halves, Thuan and Nghich. During a great battle, the Heavenly Sword broke into two parts. The transparent Thuan Thien Sword remained intact and later fell into the hands of Le Loi. The black Nghich Thien Sword continued to break and disappeared, its name was erased from history.
Even though it is not intact, Thuan Thien Sword is still one of the 12 Divine Treasures, so Nghich Thien Sword is the 13th Divine Treasure to be sunk by history!
“Must buy at all costs!” Google urged Duong.
No need to remind, Duong was happy to hear, the starting price was 5 billion VND, after a while it was raised to 6 billion 800 million then stopped because although it sounds strange, not many people want to spend a lot of money to buy a useless item that even a Saint Master doesn’t know how to use.
“7 billion!” The waitress helped Duong make an offer.
Meng rolled her eyes. Did Yang show off because he just got rich? Even a Saint Master couldn’t find a use for this thing, so 90% of it was useless. Yet Yang spent all the reward money!
“Transaction successful!”
Late at night, Duong returned to his room. Sitting holding the Nghich Thien sword in his hand, Duong asked with a trembling voice: “So now how do we make it stronger?”
Google was silent and then answered curtly: “I don’t know!”
“Fuck you, you’re playing me!”
“You bastard! Give me back the 7 billion!”
Duong kept cursing under his breath, holding a pillow with both hands and continuously slapping himself on the head. 7 billion was an amount of money he couldn’t even dream of having in his previous life, yet he suddenly bought a useless piece of scrap metal.
“What’s there to be sorry for? If it weren’t for me, how would you have that much money?” Google said disdainfully. Duong felt that Google’s voice now had more emotion than before.
“That money can do so many things, and you tricked me into buying something useless!”
“It’s useless to you, but very useful to me!” Google said, Duong heard excitement in Google’s voice.
“What good?” Duong asked.
“I will teach you how to sense the attributes of spiritual energy. Feel the attributes of this broken sword piece yourself!” Google said, then transmitted a stream of thoughts into Duong’s mind, causing him to immediately become familiar with how to sense the elemental and non-elemental attributes of spiritual energy.
Yang curiously raised the broken sword piece in his hand, closed his eyes and felt it. Extraordinary streams of feeling were transmitted into Yang’s soul, bold as Thunder, crazy as Wind, fierce as Fire, cold as Ice, gloomy as Darkness and passionate as Light, there was also the feeling of vitality of Life, the gloomy aura of Death, the unpredictable and ungraspable feeling just like when Yang met the Goddess of Time, and the boundless vastness of Space, Yang’s heart was stirred by Love and his body was gradually heated by Lust…
Yang felt a chill down his spine, what kind of material was this? With the knowledge he learned from Google, elemental properties were very difficult to reconcile, for example, Ice and Fire combined would immediately explode in thermal shock, Light and Darkness would cancel each other out into nothingness, Thunder meeting Wind would cause spiritual energy to be chaotic like a storm, yet this fragile piece of material could powerfully contain all 3 pairs of opposing elements and 6 non-elemental properties, and on top of that, there was something in the world that could cause it to shatter into pieces, and who could forge this thing?
“Huh!” Duong suddenly felt that besides the 12 attributes above, there was also a profound and incomprehensible feeling…
Just as Duong was feeling that inexplicable feeling, something in his soul suddenly separated and moved towards his hand that was holding the piece of the N造天 …
Duong hugged the egg with both hands and placed it on the bed, worriedly asking: “Google, what is this?”
“I don’t know…” Google returned in an emotionless voice.
Duong breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing was fine, but if Google got into this egg, he would be in trouble. Duong searched Google for all kinds of spirit beast eggs but couldn’t find any eggs like this one, so he gave up, wrapped the blanket around himself, put it in the Backpack ring, then sat cross-legged and used the Heaven and Earth Devouring Technique to absorb spiritual power.