Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 1035 Wouldn't you learn it after getting slashed a couple more times?
"Oh..."

Ding Shian's talent is quite good. In the past few days of fighting, although Ding Shian has not learned the combination of sword energy, magic and strange techniques that Lu Jin has used, he has finally figured out some of his own tricks.

With just this little gadget, Ding Shian is already much stronger than he was before.

Of course, it had no effect on He Songling, but it made He Songling appreciate Ding Shian even more.

“Okay, perfect. Since you’ve already chosen this area, I’ll start teaching you from here.”

He Songling looked at the obstacle spell in Ding Shian's hand and nodded, saying, "Are you familiar with Western magic?"

"Not yet." Ding Shian shook his head.

"So you see, people still need to go out and see more of the world; working in isolation won't work."

He Songling shook his head.

Flamel Academy is a legitimate magic school that, in addition to accepting students, also welcomes foreign scholars for exchange and study. If Ding Shian had learned some English earlier and traveled abroad a few times, even with the demigod Taber holding him back in England, he would have been considered an undisputed powerhouse.

Given Tabor's perspective, he wouldn't hesitate to exchange ideas with Ding Shian about the use of Qi between the East and West. At the very least, he wouldn't mind letting Ding Shian learn all the standardized teaching content from school textbooks.

"Come on, let me give you some basic training. How's your English?"

"English? What would an old man like me need to learn English... Ugh!"

Before Ding Shian could finish speaking, He Songling gave the egg-shaped head a hard slap, leaving an exaggerated bump that looked just like Conan's after being beaten up by Kogoro Mouri.

"Fools, you're all closed-minded and narrow-minded. That's how the community of supernatural beings was back then. How come almost a hundred years have passed, and our Old Zhong has been open to the outside world for thirty or forty years, and you supernatural beings are still like this?"

He Songling was furious: "The most important basic knowledge you need in life is to learn English. You don't even need to learn math, but language is the basic tool for you to communicate with the outside world."

He Songling was genuinely angry. Back in the Republic of China era, he had brought back a lot of magic from the West. He had done so several times in a row, and while he didn't have much more, he had all the basic textbook knowledge from grades one to five at Flamel Academy.

Even if Lao Zhong only studies Western magic, he wouldn't have any problem taking the so-called OWLS ordinary wizard level exam.

Not to mention that during his active years, many sects had already begun to modify Western magic to make it more suitable for Old Zhong Yiren's "Qi" to use. At the same time, they also made corresponding changes to suit the style of each sect.

This is already at the stage of in-depth research.

But unexpectedly, seventy or eighty years later, Ding Shian didn't even know a word of English.

"I wouldn't say it's impossible, I did go to primary and secondary school..." Ding Shian said, rubbing the large bump on his head. "I can handle the basics. If you put me in a foreigner's class, I could handle simple daily conversations. But these specialized terms and academic research..."

Ding Shian wasn't lying; mastering one method often leads to mastering a hundred. Ding Shian's talent and comprehension were evident not only in his methods of cultivating Qi as a supernatural being, but also in his excellent academic performance during his school years.

"Then go in and learn English properly first, and then I'll start teaching you magic."

It has to be said, having a time chamber is really convenient. This time, He Songling had no interest in leaving Ding Shian with any time flow relative to the outside world; he directly adjusted the time flow to the maximum, making it infinitely large, so that Ding Shian wouldn't stop until he scored above 8 on the IELTS. "Come on, magic, it's very simple. You don't need to master too much; most of the courses at Flamel Academy are nonsense. You only need to master two things: spells and transfiguration."

Flammel School is almost a one-to-one replica of the Hogwarts curriculum from Harry Potter. Ding Shian naturally doesn't need to learn things like astronomy and divination, since he doesn't follow the Western path anyway.

As for Polymorph and Defense Against the Dark Arts, they all require adaptability in actual combat. And to be honest, in terms of combat experience and fighting awareness, apart from Tabor, there probably isn't another person in the entire West qualified to teach Ding Shian.

That's the advantage of having a pre-made product; you don't have to teach it from scratch.

He Songling boasted to himself, finally experiencing the ease that Lao Zuo had taught him back then.

The spells were simple, and Ding Shian didn't need to learn much dark magic. He mastered the standard spells for grades one through seven at Flamel Academy in less than two days. For him, as long as he understood their meaning and found the key to converting between Qi and magic, learning them was a piece of cake.

Potions are a bit more difficult to master, but He Songling didn't expect him to reach the level of Victor, the Potions Master who resembled Snape and whom Taber brought this time. Having the potions and poisons that Tang Jiaren had back then, enough for emergencies or special environments, would be sufficient.

Ding Shian studied these things for a total of five days.

He Songling didn't even have much time to speed things up before he had already mastered these things.

"Hmm, very good. A good start is half the battle." He Songling nodded in satisfaction. He didn't expect these things to hold Ding Shian back. If it took him half a day to learn even this little thing, then Ding Shian's title of "unrivaled among those under 100 years old" would be meaningless.

"But this is just a warm-up, to familiarize you with the conversion and integration between different systems. The real work is about to begin, so get ready."

"Okay, come on!"

Having succeeded in the first phase, Ding Shian was full of confidence.

Then, several "sizzling" sounds of flesh being cut were heard as Ding Shian was chopped into mincemeat by He Songling's invisible sword energy.

?

A question mark slowly appeared on Ding Shian's minced meat.

No offense, old sage, but you went to all this trouble to bring me here to learn, and you didn't just do it to torture me, did you? I already had your wife kill me once before, and now you're doing it again. Do you two have any violent tendencies? By the way, do you commit domestic violence at home?

Although Ding Shian was completely dead, his soul resided in the world created by He Songling, so He Songling heard his doubts and thoughts before his death very clearly.

"Little Ding, you need evidence to spread rumors."

"Can you call it spreading rumors if you have evidence?" Ding Shian, whose body had been reconstructed and resurrected by He Songling, was speechless.

"Didn't you realize that I'm using a superior sword technique? Get ready, I'm about to switch to another superior sword technique to strike you."

(End of this chapter)