I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Chapter 43 Competitive Spirit

Shi Daohan knew that the boy definitely hadn't listened to what she said.

"Alright, let's eat first."

Shi Daohan pointed a finger at the bronze cauldron, and with a flash of light, the cauldron, which was originally more than three meters tall, became half a meter tall. Inside, various kinds of spirit beast meat and spirit medicine were being cooked, and the aroma of medicine and meat filled the surrounding area, making people's mouths water.

Fiona, George, Locke, and the others had not yet opened their internal energy channels. Shi Daohan searched through his storage ring for a long time before finally finding all the weak spiritual beast meat and spiritual herbs.

None of these people knew how to use chopsticks, but they all used their own methods to eat hot pot without any delay.

George was holding a knife and fork, stabbing wildly into the pot, stuffing whatever he could find into his mouth. In no time, his cheeks were stuffed full.

Locke's method was similar to his, but he used sharpened chopsticks, poking and pinching with them, and he was even faster than George.

As for Fiona, her eating habits were the most refined. Holding a magic wand, she would wave it whenever she saw something she wanted to eat, and the thing she had her eye on would obediently fly out of the bronze cauldron and land in the bowl in her hand.

"whispering sound!"

Looking at the three people opposite him who had used every method they could think of, Kalman's eyes revealed a hint of disdain. He leisurely picked up a piece of spirit beast meat with his chopsticks and savored it.

grace!

George, Locke, and Fiona all stared at Kalman, their eyes filled with astonishment.

How does he know how to use chopsticks?

This was the question on the minds of the three of them at that moment.

Noticing their gazes, Kalman straightened his back, a smug look on his face, and in front of the three of them, he reached out and used his chopsticks to pick up a wisteria vine and put it in his mouth.

"You guys don't even know how to use chopsticks?" Kalman's words were as if to say, "You don't know how, do you? I do! That's the difference between us!"

George pursed his lips, picked up his chopsticks, and went to Shi Daohan's side, whispering, "Miss Daohan, could you teach me how to use chopsticks?"

Locke looked at the unusual chopsticks he had sharpened, then at Fiona's untouched chopsticks beside him.

Noticing his gaze, Fiona grabbed her chopsticks and walked straight to Shi Daohan. Although she didn't say anything, it was clear from her posture that she wanted to learn how to use chopsticks.

"I think Kalman uses chopsticks quite well, why don't we have him teach you?" Shi Daohan didn't expect these people to develop a competitive spirit over two pieces of wood, but this was also a good opportunity to bring them closer together.

"I?"

Kalman pointed at himself with a look of astonishment.

"That's right, it's you." Shi Daohan nodded and said, "I'm entrusting this important task to you. Can you complete it?"

Kalman glanced at the chopsticks in his hand, then at the three people opposite him, and nodded solemnly, saying, "I can do it!"

"Teach me first."

George came closer, seemingly having already forgotten all the unpleasantness from before.

"I think you should teach me first," Fiona said directly. She was not good at socializing and rarely took the initiative to speak to people, except for Shi Daohan, of course.

"This is actually not difficult. Like this, put the two sticks side by side, and then circle them with your thumb and forefinger..." Kalman demonstrated and explained.

It was probably his first time experiencing what it's like to be a teacher. Even though they were just two very ordinary pieces of wood, they seemed to become magical artifacts in his hands. He was radiant, his eyes were sparkling, and he explained things with great patience.

When he sees George doing something wrong, he will even step in and help correct it.

Locke remained silent, watching Kalman's demonstration intently as he fidgeted with his stiff fingers.

As a viewer, Shi Daohan thoroughly enjoyed the show.

"Alright, I'll give you an extra boost of motivation. Whoever is the first to learn how to use chopsticks will receive this little magic tool as a reward."

After saying that, Shi Daohan took out a small gourd. Although it was only the size of a finger, it was exquisitely crafted, with golden dragons and silver phoenixes coiling around it, lifelike, and surrounded by dazzling divine clouds. It was truly extraordinary.

"The Fiery Cloud Gourd, a ninth-grade spiritual weapon, was the first spiritual weapon I crafted when I first came into contact with the weapon cultivation system."

As he spoke, Shi Daohan uncorked the gourd bottle, and a burst of flames shot out, instantly scorching a patch of grass in front of him.

With a flick of his wrist, Shi Daohan unleashed another burst of flames from the gourd's mouth, hurtling straight toward Kalman.

"Be careful!"

George screamed in alarm.

"Get out of the way!"

Locke's pupils contracted sharply, and he shouted at Kalman as well.

Fiona was the most direct, grabbing Kalman by the back of his collar and pulling him back forcefully.

"brush!"

The spot where Kalman had just been was now completely charred.

Seeing their reactions, Shi Daohan smiled with satisfaction.

Kalman snapped out of his daze and realized that Shi Daohan had done it intentionally, but he didn't understand why she would do it.

Shi Daohan winked at him and said, "If you teach all three of them, I'll give you a reward too."

She didn't reveal what the reward was, leaving everyone curious.

"Cool! I love this gourd that breathes fire!"

George stared intently at the exquisite gourd in Shi Daohan's hand for a long while, then hurriedly ran to find Kalman to teach him how to use chopsticks, determined to get his hands on the gourd.

Locke and Fiona, two people who don't like to talk, had already been trying it for a while.

Shi Daohan put away the Fire Cloud Gourd, found a large rock nearby, sat on it, propped his cheek with one hand, and watched with great interest as the others scratched their heads and cheeks trying to control the two pieces of wood.

"I did it!"

After an unknown amount of time, Locke suddenly cheered.

He successfully picked up a piece of soft, tender spirit beast meat with his chopsticks, already understanding how to use it.

"How could it be so fast?"

George looked at George, who had successfully learned to use chopsticks, and then at the two chopsticks in his own hand that were completely unresponsive, and muttered to himself in disappointment.

Fiona, standing to the side, was also somewhat incredulous, never expecting that Locke would be the first to learn it.

She already knew how to hold chopsticks, but when she tried to pick something up, she couldn't manage it and couldn't control the force skillfully.

"Great, great! This reward is yours!"

Shi Daohan clapped in celebration, then tossed the exquisite little gourd in his hand to Locke.

"Hurry up and eat, I'm counting on you guys to help me with the work later." Shi Daohan blurted out his thoughts without realizing it, but luckily Fiona, Locke, and George didn't hear it.

But Kalman's expression changed, and he immediately thought of the time he helped Shi Daohan dig and cultivate the medicinal herb field last night.

Soon, the entire bronze cauldron of food was devoured by the group, leaving only a tiny bit of broth.

"They can all use chopsticks now, what about the reward you promised me?"

After finishing his meal and putting down his chopsticks, Kalman immediately found Shi Daohan and reached out to ask for his reward.

"I'll give it to you later. If I give it to you now, I'm afraid they'll get jealous," Shi Daohan said with a raised eyebrow and a light laugh.

Kalman thought there was some truth to it, so he suppressed his curiosity and said, "Don't lie to me!"

"When have I ever lied to you?" Shi Daohan asked with a smile.

Kalman thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there really wasn't one.

"Alright, take them to the mountainside. I've decided to turn that area into a medicinal herb garden, which will make planting and cultivating medicinal herbs more convenient in the future," Shi Daohan said.

"You really want them to do the work for you?"

"They ate so much of my spirit beast meat and spirit medicine, their bodies are now full of spiritual energy. If they don't dissipate some of it, they'll have big problems." Shi Daohan used the same excuse as last night.

"Weren't you going to teach me how to draw talismans? Why are you taking us down the mountain?" Fiona asked, puzzled.

"When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it will first test their physical and mental abilities..." Shi Daohan muttered mysteriously, basically saying that he wanted to test their practical skills first.

Upon reaching the mountainside, Shi Daohan handed each of them a hoe. Without uttering a word of nonsense, Kalman immediately buried himself in the work.

Fiona and the other two had never done farm work before, and when they held hoes, they didn't know where to start, so they could only watch Kalman imitate them.

Because of the hot pot, they all felt full of energy. Although they weren't tired, they were working very hard.

"You should do it like this, take bigger steps, and use your waist to generate power..." Kalman instructed everyone like an expert professor.

"This really does seem a bit easier!" George exclaimed in surprise, then looked at Kalman and said, "You've never done farm work before, how do you know all these techniques?"

"It's just some of my own experience," Kalman said, unusually refraining from sarcasm.

"You're really amazing."

"You're not bad either."

The tension between the two of them gradually eased.

Meanwhile, Fiona appeared beside the taciturn Locke at some point, and looking at the two figures in front of her, she sneered with a provocative tone: "Look, your good friend has abandoned you so quickly."

Locke didn't care much. Instead, he looked at Shi Daohan, who was sitting leisurely under a big tree not far away, and muttered to himself, "Miss Daohan is really good to Kalman."

Fiona glanced at Shi Daohan and said, "She's nice to everyone."

Although the academicians and professors in the college had many opinions about Shi Daohan because she repeatedly violated the college rules, she was very popular among the first-year students and was sought after by many students.

"This is much more interesting than learning to use chopsticks! How about we have a competition?" George suggested immediately after learning how to use a hoe to dig the ground more easily.

Locke had been eyeing the magical gourd that could breathe fire that he had just won.

"Alright, then let's have a competition." Shi Daohan also felt that this could give them some motivation, so that her herb garden could take shape more quickly.

"Among the three of us, Kalman has more experience than us, so it wouldn't be fair if he joined in," George winked at Shi Daohan.

Kalman watched from the side without saying a word.

Although he had no interest in participating in this boring competition, George's words were still somewhat unpleasant to hear.

Shi Daohan nodded, then raised his hand to divide the area into three sections: "Whoever cultivates their area first will be number one."

"What's the reward for first place?" George asked impatiently, determined to win first place.

"A jade-green Qilin." A sculpture appeared in Shi Daohan's palm. It was emerald green all over, only the size of a palm. It was a Qilin riding on the moon, lifelike and looking majestic.

George's eyes lit up immediately, and he turned around and began to vigorously cultivate the medicinal herb field with his hoe.

"Naive!" Kalman muttered under his breath, then ignored them and began cultivating the area that Shi Daohan had allocated to him.

On the other side, Fiona's competitive spirit was also aroused, and she wielded the hoe with great speed, not slowing down George at all.

The two of them each occupied half the space, and their speeds were surprisingly similar.

Locke was the slowest. He was already physically weak, and even though he had eaten the hot pot that Shi Daohan had carefully prepared and had too much energy, he still couldn't do this kind of rough work.

"You're doing it wrong. You need to use your waist to generate power, not just rely on the brute force of your arms," ​​Kalman came to his side and corrected him with a frown.

Locke remained silent, but still tried to use his waist to generate power, just as Kalman had suggested.

"That's still not right. If all else fails, try rocking it with your waist and swinging the hoe with the swing." Kalman stayed close to Locke, correcting his mistakes.

"Why are you following me?" Locke finally couldn't help but ask, looking at Kalman with great confusion. He didn't seem to know this person very well.

He felt very uncomfortable having someone constantly by his side.

"Do you think I wanted to follow you? It was Master who made me follow you," Kalman said, shrugging and raising his hand with a look of frustration and helplessness.

He was just focused on digging the ground when he suddenly heard Shi Daohan's voice in his mind.

That's right, it wasn't a voice coming from his ears, but from the depths of his heart.

Shi Daohan sat under a big tree not far away, without even moving her lips. If Kalman hadn't seen her wink at him, he would have wondered if he was hallucinating.

"call!"

Just then, a fierce gust of wind suddenly arose, and everyone clung tightly to something sturdy and reliable, preventing them from being blown away by the wind.

The sky instantly darkened, with thick, dark clouds obscuring the sun.

"What's going on?!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Shi Daohan slowly stood up from under the tree, his eyes fixed on one direction.

"brush"

A dark shadow appeared in the gale, heading straight for Locke at an extremely fast speed.

"Lying down is the right way!"

Kalman, who had been following Locke, saw an extremely ugly face approaching him and instinctively swore.

(End of this chapter)