I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Chapter 17 Nominal Disciple

"Embracing Yin and Yang, like this." Shi Daohan gave a demonstration.

After paying their respects to the sages of past generations at the Ancestral Hall, Shi Daohan led Kalman down the mountain.

"Before your primordial spirit is reborn, there will still be a constant stream of evil spirits coming after you. However, with me here, they cannot harm you. Moreover, you must repay the karmic debts for the immoral things you did before, otherwise you will surely suffer divine retribution in the future. This is the sin you committed yourself, and I will not help you." Shi Daohan said slowly with his hands behind his back.

Although Kalman didn't quite understand, he kept nodding.

"Aside from offering incense at the Ancestral Hall every day, don't come to the mountaintop to find me unless there's something important to say." Shi Daohan walked ahead with his hands behind his back.

"Why?" Kalman asked, puzzled.

Shi Daohan stopped, tapped him on the head, and said, "Don't you understand privacy? I live on the mountaintop. What's the meaning of you always coming up here? If any rumors get out, you won't be able to explain yourself!"

The moonlight was cold and clear on the white marble steps. Two figures flashed past like the wind.

"Can you slow down a bit! You're going too fast!"

Kalman's shout came from the mountains.

Shi Daohan used a magic spell to shrink the distance between the two places, and in a few flashes, he arrived at the foot of the mountain.

"If you were really asked to walk down from the top of the mountain, you probably wouldn't even make it halfway down by dawn."

"Ugh~"

Kalman braced himself on his lap, feeling dizzy and nauseous but unable to vomit.

"Alright, you can stay here from now on. You don't need to go back to your old dorm."

As they were speaking, Shi Daohan pointed his finger, and an antique-style pavilion appeared out of thin air on the site of the villa ruins by Jingyue Lake, right next to a towering ancient tree.

"I've already asked for leave for you, so you don't need to go to class tomorrow. Just get a good night's sleep tonight, and I'll teach you how to cultivate tomorrow."

After giving a few simple instructions, Shi Daohan left.

So much happened that night that Kalman was unable to calm down for a long time.

Instead of going into the pavilion to rest, he sat down by the Jingyue Lake, feeling the cool evening breeze on his face and processing everything that had happened that night.

The fact that gods and demons actually exist is what shocked and terrified him the most.

It's not just because the demon wants to take over his body, but also because the things he did in the past, relying on his status, might also be punished by the gods.

"If I'm not mistaken, you have a murder charge against you, don't you? You think you're special and that the laws of the world can't touch you, but what if Heaven is angered? Do you think the gods can do anything to you?"

The words Shi Daohan had spoken then echoed in his mind, filling him with immense fear.

No one is unafraid of death, especially a rich young master like him who was born on a mountaintop and lived a life of luxury.

"Please forgive my sins. I promise to sincerely repent and never do such a thing again."

Kalman knelt on the ground, devoutly repenting and praying.

He didn't sleep all night and sat by Jingyue Lake until dawn. At the same time, he made up his mind to start anew and wash away his sins.

The sky was beginning to lighten, and the eastern horizon was turning a pale white. He got up and started walking up the mountain.

With each step he took up the stairs, his belief became even stronger.

He treated this process as a form of self-cultivation, imagining himself as an ascetic monk.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he was almost completely exhausted, and his legs were trembling violently.

He was leaning on a green bamboo cane, which he had picked up halfway up the mountain. It was only with the support of this bamboo cane that he was able to successfully reach the top of the mountain; otherwise, his legs would probably have been ruined long ago.

"call!"

Kalman took a deep breath and went to the ancestral hall to offer incense and pay his respects.

Shi Daohan witnessed the entire process, including the green bamboo staff that Kalman found, which she secretly cast a spell and placed halfway up the mountain.

She originally intended to teleport Kalman directly to the mountaintop, but then felt that hiking from the foot of the mountain to the summit would better temper Kalman's character, so she chose not to do so.

"You're up pretty early, huh?" Shi Daohan appeared in the Ancestral Hall.

"Hmm." Kalman nodded, without mentioning that he hadn't slept all night.

"Alright, come out after you've finished offering incense. I'll help you open the barriers in your internal energy channels first."

The unobstructed flow of Qi throughout the body is the first step on the path of cultivation. If this step is not taken, then everything that follows is just empty talk.

As the first rays of dawn appeared, Shi Daohan and Kalman sat cross-legged on a cliff, basking in the warm sunshine.

With the help of Shi Daohan, Kalman successfully cleared the various obstacles on the body's internal energy circulation path.

"There is boundless power in this world, which ordinary people cannot see or touch, but they can sense its existence."

"Our predecessors discovered them and summarized how to use them. Unlike the 'borrowing' of Western magic, we use ourselves as a vessel to absorb this invisible power into our own bodies, and then refine it into our own magical power..."

"Now try to sense their existence." Shi Daohan instructed Kalman to try to sense the vast power of the universe.

Kalman nodded, took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and used his heart to feel the unseen and intangible vast power between heaven and earth.

At first, all he could see was darkness, but as time went by, mountains and rivers slowly began to appear before his eyes.

Unlike the world as we normally see with the naked eye, every majestic and ancient mountain, every magnificent river, and even the plants and rocks are radiant with light and color, exuding a spiritual power that flows between heaven and earth, forming a dreamlike world.

"This... is this what they call spiritual power?" Kalman was shocked.

"Did you see that?" Shi Daohan's voice came from beside my ear.

"Yes! I saw it!"

"Then try to absorb them into your body using the method I taught you."

Following the method taught to him by Shi Daohan, Kalman attempted to absorb and capture the spiritual energy that flowed and circulated between heaven and earth.

The whole process went smoothly without any unexpected incidents.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was absorbed into his body, and then circulated throughout his body like a warm current, making him feel warm and comfortable all over.

"Now try to refine them and condense them within your inner world, which is located between your chest and abdomen," Shi Daohan guided step by step.

Kalman used the cultivation technique taught to him by Shi Daohan to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within his body little by little, eventually gathering it in the cave between his chest and abdomen.

"I did it?!"

Kalman opened his eyes in surprise, his face full of excitement.

Shi Daohan sat on a rock at the edge of the cliff, propping her cheek with one hand, raising an eyebrow at him: "How are you feeling? Is there anything uncomfortable?"

"No, I feel full of energy!" Kalman's face was filled with surprise and joy.

After not sleeping all night and hiking from the foot of the mountain to the top, all his fatigue vanished. He felt full of energy and could smash a rock with one punch!

Shi Daohan got up and jumped down from the rock on the cliff edge, clapped his hands and said, "Let's stop here for today. I'll teach you some simple spells when I have the chance in the future."

"Huh? You can't teach me now?" Kalman was a little surprised. He couldn't wait to be like Shi Daohan, able to command thunder and lightning and summon wind and rain.

"Everything has to be done step by step. Let's talk about other things after you've laid a solid foundation. Besides, you have to go to class tomorrow, so there's not much time to teach you," Shi Daohan said.

Hearing this explanation, Kalman was somewhat disappointed, but he quickly accepted it.

Shi Daohan came to Horagaka Academy to study Western magic, so it's impossible for him to spend all his time on one person.

Moreover, he is currently a student at Horagaka Academy. If he were to study both immortal arts and magic at the same time, he would definitely not be able to digest them all in a short period of time. He can only take it one step at a time and cannot be impatient.

"Then... Teacher, shall I head down the mountain now?" Kalman called Shi Daohan "Teacher" somewhat awkwardly, still a little unaccustomed to this change in status.

Shi Daohan leaned forward slightly, pinched Kalman's cheek with one hand, and smiled as her beautiful eyes narrowed into crescent shapes. She playfully corrected him, "What teacher? According to our Eastern way of addressing people, you should call me Master."

"Master, revered master."

Kalman felt even more awkward.

"Hahaha, my good disciple." Shi Daohan laughed heartily, never expecting that this arrogant and domineering rich young master would be so easily subdued by her.

As Kalman prepared to descend the mountain, Shi Daohan reminded him, "Although we are now master and disciple, I will still charge you the same fee next time you encounter evil spirits."

Kalman nodded, indicating that this was the proper thing to do.

His calm and composed reaction surprised even Shi Daohan. She hadn't expected the young master's temperament to change so drastically overnight. It seemed he had truly said goodbye to his past self and started a new life.

Perhaps it was because he had opened up the energy channels in his body and absorbed and refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the journey from the mountaintop to the foot of the mountain, which would normally take three hours, only took Kalman two hours.

Moreover, he didn't feel very tired, unlike when he climbed the mountain in the morning, when he was so exhausted that he could hardly breathe.

Back at his residence by Jingyue Lake, Kalman didn't rest. He sat cross-legged on the sofa, feeling the wonderful sensation of absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy into his body and circulating it throughout his body.

He could feel the warm current flowing through his heart, spleen, and lungs, reaching his limbs and bones, nourishing every inch of his flesh and blood.

This was a feeling of exhilaration he had never experienced before, a feeling that money and power could not replace.

It was only at this moment that he realized that everything he had done before was nothing but indulgence and self-degradation.

(End of this chapter)