I flew on a sword at the magic academy

New regulations added in Chapter 18

The next morning, Kalman started hiking again early. Although he was still out of breath, he thoroughly enjoyed the process.

After he finished offering incense at the ancestral hall, Shi Daohan yawned and walked out of his bedroom, still half asleep.

"Good morning, Master!" Kalman greeted him warmly, seemingly already accustomed to his new role.

"Good morning," Shi Daohan replied with a bright smile.

After a quick wash, Shi Daohan summoned his natal flying sword.

The purplish-blue longsword expanded slightly in the wind, becoming over three meters long and half a meter wide, hovering in mid-air in front of her.

"What are you doing?" Kalman asked in surprise.

"Flying on a sword, huh? We can't exactly walk all the way to the Hishici residence, can we?" Shi Daohan said noncommittally, then lightly touched the ground with his toes, drawing a graceful arc in the air, and landed steadily on the longsword like a leaf falling in the wind.

"Come on up, I'll take you there," Shi Daohan said, extending her hand to Kalman with a gentle smile on her face.

"Great!" Kalman was surprised to have the opportunity to experience flying on a sword and nodded excitedly.

Shi Daohan grabbed his hand, then suddenly flung it upwards, causing it to flip 180 degrees in mid-air before landing on the longsword.

"Stand still!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the longsword flew out with a "whoosh," leaving a long trail in the air.

Kalman almost fell off the longsword due to inertia, and in a moment of panic, he instinctively grabbed Shi Daohan's slender waist.

"Kid, are you trying to take advantage of me?" Shi Daohan's voice came from beside my ear, neither happy nor angry, sounding somewhat indifferent.

Kalman quickly released his hands, protesting, "I didn't! I was just afraid I'd fall off, that's why I did that..."

Watching the surrounding mountains and buildings fly past rapidly from both sides, and hearing the constant whistling of the wind in his ears, Kalman carefully grabbed the hem of Shi Daohan's clothes.

Before long, they arrived at the Hishiji Mansion on their swords. Since it wasn't time for class yet, they decided to have breakfast at the Hishiji Mansion's dining hall first.

"Flying on a sword, will I be able to do that in the future?" Kalman asked softly, still somewhat unsatisfied with the feeling of standing on the flying sword and watching the mountain scenery fly backwards.

"Of course you can." Shi Daohan nodded, ordered a soy milk and fried dough sticks from the cafeteria window, found an empty seat and sat down, and continued, "You don't necessarily have to use a sword to fly in the sky. For example, cultivators from the medicine cultivation department can control alchemy furnaces or gourds. It just depends on which one you prefer."

"Is there anything different?" Kalman also ordered a sandwich and milk, showing great interest in what Shi Daohan was saying.

Shi Daohan talked about the various specialties of Shu Mountain. Cultivators specializing in swordsmanship, medicine, body cultivation, formation, talisman, weaponry, beast cultivation, and puppetry all have different ways of flying. Flying on a sword is just one way for sword cultivators, not the only one.

"So, for someone like me with a natural talent for water, which of the majors you mentioned would be suitable?" Kalman asked expectantly.

"In our Shushan sect, the choice of major has little to do with what kind of spiritual root you have, because different majors have cultivation methods and spells that are tailored to the five elements of spiritual root. It all depends on your personal interests."

Shi Daohan took a sip of soy milk and said slowly, "You haven't even reached the entry-level standard of our Shushan sect yet, so don't even think about choosing a major. Once you've built a solid foundation, I'll explain the characteristics of each major to you and let you choose for yourself."

Kalman nodded, knowing that this had to be done step by step and couldn't be rushed.

As they took their seats, the cafeteria gradually filled up, and what was once a quiet and empty place suddenly became noisy.

"Have you heard? Horagaka Academy added two new rules yesterday: no using the cauldrons used for brewing magic potions for hot pot, and no using magic wands as chopsticks. What kind of ridiculous rules are these? Who would do such a thing?"

Such a sarcastic remark reached Shi Daohan's ears and immediately caught her attention.

"The whole Kuisang mansion next door is buzzing with the news, don't you know?"

"What happened?"

"Just yesterday, that exchange student who transferred from the ancient East went to the underground alchemy room in the Kuisang Mansion to learn how to brew magic potions, and almost blew it up. But that's not the most shocking part. Do you know what she did next?"

"What did you do?" someone pressed.

"Afterwards, she found a cauldron and used it to cook hot pot, and she even used her magic wand as chopsticks, hahahahahaha!" The student who knew the inside story couldn't help but laugh out loud when he said this.

"Using a cauldron for brewing magic potions to cook hot pot, and using a magic wand as chopsticks—my god, this exchange student from the East is way too...daring!"

The people around stared wide-eyed in disbelief; this was something no one had ever dared to do before.

It could be considered a desecration of magic; if we were to investigate this seriously, expulsion from Horagaka Academy would be the least of our worries.

"It's not over yet. Many of the new students from the Kuisang Academy also ate her hot pot, and they all got poisoned. I heard it almost resulted in some deaths. Luckily, Kuisang Academy's chief academician, Libya, arrived in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable," the student who knew the inside story continued to reveal.

"Almost someone died? My God, this exchange student from the East is such a troublemaker! After all that, he hasn't been expelled from Horagaka Academy yet?"

Those around them involuntarily gasped.

"He's an exchange student representing the Eastern Immortal Alliance, so expelling him like this wouldn't be easy to explain to the Eastern side. I suppose that's why the higher-ups at the academy are considering this," someone speculated.

Hearing the chatter around him, Shi Daohan felt incredibly embarrassed.

"Targeted! This is blatant targeting!" Shi Daohan gritted his teeth and muttered angrily.

Sitting opposite her, Kalman couldn't help but laugh out loud, saying, "You should be grateful you weren't expelled outright. If everyone were like you, the academy would be in complete chaos!"

"Hmph!" Shi Daohan snorted, picked up the fried dough stick on the table, took a big bite, chewed it vigorously, and mumbled indistinctly:

"But your pots are really perfect for hot pot, and your magic wands, apart from being a bit long, aren't much different from chopsticks! You're targeting me! I'm going to protest to Headmaster Donaldson!"

After breakfast, they went to the classroom. Today's lecturer was not Professor Ruolan, but a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties and had a burly build.

With a thick beard and large, bushy eyebrows, he looked like someone you didn't want to mess with.

Throughout the entire class, the professor kept a close eye on Shi Daohan.

Since the incident at the underground alchemy room in the Kuisang Mansion, Shi Daohan has become famous among the high-ranking figures of the Horagaka Academy, who are all afraid that she will cause some trouble in their classes.

Today's lesson is about how to turn water into ice for defense and attack, which is one of the most common types of water magic.

The middle-aged male professor gave a brief overview and then told the students to figure it out on their own using the magic book.

Under Kalman's translation, Shi Daohan could demonstrate his skills in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

She used her magic wand to communicate with the power of water in the world, or, in the words of Western magicians, to communicate with the water goddess—the goddess Irene.

After the incantation was finished, a chilling aura enveloped Shi Daohan, and the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped. Even Kalman, who was sitting next to her, couldn't help but shiver.

"Click, click..."

A sound of ice condensing rang out, and the next moment, an ice wall formed from ice blocks appeared in front of her, more than half a meter thick, radiating a chilling aura.

Shi Daohan gestured with his famous magic wand, and the ice wall instantly transformed into a shield that he could hold in his hand.

Then it transformed into sharp, spear-like ice spikes that could attack anything within ten meters.

[Similar to the Ice Sword Technique, just with a different execution method.] Shi Daohan muttered to himself.

Aside from the different methods of execution, the effects are actually the same.

Afterwards, with Shi Daohan's explanation, Kalman also successfully turned water into ice, and successively condensed a shield and a crystal clear ice spear.

However, compared to the effect achieved by Shi Daohan, it was somewhat disappointing.

His shield and ice spear still had ripples flowing around them; they weren't completely solidified and looked like they would crumble at the slightest touch.

However, Kalman was not discouraged at all. After all, it was only his first time using it, and he was already very surprised that he could achieve this level.

Moreover, as the chief disciple of the Shushan Immortal Alliance, Shi Daohan already possesses a solid foundation and a vast knowledge base. Even if he had never been exposed to Western magic before, he could successfully cast it as long as he had a general understanding of it.

There's absolutely no need to compare yourself to such a genius.

After finishing their morning classes, they went to the central dining hall of Horagaka College, where the food was plentiful and Shi Daohan was able to find a lunch that suited his taste.

"Are we going straight back to Jingyue Lake or to another academy to study?" Kalman asked.

"I plan to find a crowded place and sell some things," Shi Daohan said with a mysterious smile.

"What is it?" Kalman asked curiously.

"Talismans".

Shi Daohan took out a piece of yellowish-brown talisman paper from his sleeve. It had some runes drawn on it that looked like dragons and phoenixes dancing, and it was a bit like a totem and a bit like writing.

"I've discovered a business opportunity. The casting animation of your Western magic is too long, while my talismans, which contain different abilities, can be used directly, like this."

As they were speaking, the talisman in Shi Daohan's hand spontaneously combusted without fire, followed by a sudden gust of wind that swept through the cafeteria, causing a chorus of exclamations.

The gust of wind appeared abruptly and disappeared just as abruptly. Many people hadn't even had time to react and were looking around in astonishment.

(End of this chapter)