I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Chapter 66 Mutant Fish Monster

"What do you mean, 'you'? You knowingly break the law, your crime is doubled! Today, on behalf of Headmaster Donaldson, I will imprison you at the bottom of the lake for a hundred years!"

Shi Daohan immediately took action, and five chains of divine order shot out from between her fingers, binding Professor William's hands and feet. She then threw him into the lake, and finally used her hand as a pen to write the character "[Seal]" in the void, imprinting it into the bottom of the lake.

"Miss Daohan, what are you doing! That's Professor William!" Locke exclaimed, wondering why Shi Daohan would treat Professor William like this.

"William my ass, he's a fake."

Shi Daohan pouted, turned around and tapped Locke's forehead with her finger, saying with a mix of anger and helplessness, "It's such an obvious scam, yet you still foolishly fell into it. Aren't you afraid of being tricked into digging coal in some remote mountain village?"

"That Professor William is a fake?" Locke scratched his head, still somewhat confused. "Then the letter David Bella wrote to me was also fake? But why? Why would they lie to me?"

Shi Daohan shrugged and spread his hands: "Don't think too much about it. Hurry up and come back with me. If Dean Donaldson finds out, who knows how he'll punish you."

"Don't you often sneak out of the academy too?" Locke said with a smile.

"You are you, and I am me. How can that be the same?" Shi Daohan pointed at his forehead again, saying irritably.

"How is it different? We are all students of Horagaka Academy, all first-year students." Locke looked over with a serious expression.

"I'm an exchange student, I have special privileges," Shi Daohan replied dismissively, then, as if remembering something, asked, "How do you know I sneaked out of the academy?"

"Kalman told us that," Locke replied without hesitation.

[That little brat! I told him not to tell anyone, and he still dared to tell everyone!] Shi Daohan thought to himself, deciding that he would definitely teach Kalman a lesson when he got back.

Shi Daohan took Locke's little hand and they returned along the same route.

"You just mentioned someone named David Bella. Who is she to you?"

"It's a good friend of mine from childhood, and we haven't seen each other for many years."

"So, that key that can break the academy's barrier, was also given to you by him?"

"Um!"

Locke did not hide anything and told Shi Daohan everything he knew.

Shi Daohan seemed to be deep in thought. The person who impersonated Professor William was a demon cultivator. He wondered why the man had targeted Locke.

[Could it be because of that strange power within him?]

Shi Daohan guessed that this was the most likely possibility, since Locke only had that strange power within him that could attract the demon race.

"Be more careful in the future. If you hadn't met me today, you might have been kidnapped to some remote mountain forest," Shi Daohan earnestly advised.

"Okay, thank you!" Locke's pale face lit up with a grateful smile.

"By the way, Miss Daohan, what have you been doing for the past month? George, Fiona, and I wanted to go up the mountain to find you, but Kalman said you were in seclusion and wouldn't let us go up. Miss Daohan, what does this seclusion mean?" Locke looked up at Shi Daohan.

"More than a month? Has more than a month passed from when I started my seclusion to when I successfully broke through the barrier?"

Shi Daohan was somewhat surprised, because she hadn't paid much attention to the passage of time during her seclusion. She didn't expect that more than a month would have passed after everything came to an end. Time really flies.

Just as Shi Daohan was about to explain to Locke what seclusion meant, he suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure.

"I'll explain the meaning of seclusion to you later, just cover for me for now!"

She pushed Locke in front of her, and then vanished in the blink of an eye.

"Block what?" Locke asked, puzzled. He only saw the Libyan academician walking towards him and no one else. He didn't know what Shi Daohan wanted him to block.

"Where is Shi Daohan?" The Libyan academician walked over.

"what?"

Locke paused for a moment, then turned around and realized that Shi Daohan was nowhere to be seen. He immediately understood and shook his head, saying, "I didn't see Miss Daohan."

The Libyan academician frowned slightly. He had clearly seen Shi Daohan just now, but Locke told him he hadn't.

However, he didn't say much, only telling Locke not to wander off, and then left.

Meanwhile, Shi Daohan had returned to Jingyue Lake and was fishing on the platform he had previously built.

"Master?!" A voice rang out from behind.

Shi Daohan didn't speak, but simply patted the seat next to him, gesturing for Kalman to sit down beside him.

"Master, I wanted to go up the mountain to offer incense a few days ago, but the path up the mountain was cut off for some reason. Do you know what happened?" Kalman asked with a troubled expression.

During the month or so that Shi Daohan was in seclusion, he continued to take the little wolf demon Luo Pei to the ancestral hall on the mountain to offer incense and pay homage every day.

Although they saw that Shi Daohan's bedroom was occasionally radiating divine light and auspicious colors, they dared not rush forward to disturb it.

However, just three days ago, the road to the mountain was blocked. The little wolf demon Lope wanted to fly up the mountain directly on his sword, but he was blocked by an invisible spatial barrier.

Kalman had placed the sages and ancestors of the Ancestral Hall in a position even higher than God in his heart. He was quite distressed that he had not been able to go up the mountain to offer incense and pay homage these past few days.

"It was I who blocked the way up the mountain," Shi Daohan replied calmly.

"Huh? Why is that?" Kalman asked, looking puzzled.

Shi Daohan flicked his finger and gave him a light tap on the forehead: "Don't meddle in other people's business."

Kalman covered his head, looking aggrieved.

"Did you hear or see anything down the mountain a few nights ago?" Shi Daohan asked.

Kalman thought carefully for a moment and said, "I vaguely heard some sounds, like thunder, but I couldn't see any lightning."

Shi Daohan nodded and said nothing more, thus ending this inexplicable topic.

Kalman sat down next to her, propped his cheeks up with his hands, and suddenly said, "There are mermaids in the lake."

"Mermaid? What's that?"

"It has a human upper body and a fish lower body. I heard it's extremely ferocious. Many people saw it about two weeks ago."

Shi Daohan immediately became interested. Judging from Kalman's description, this so-called mermaid seemed to be a merman.

She moved Shengdajia Peak to Jingyue Lake so long ago, yet she had no idea that there were mermaids at the bottom of the lake.

Suddenly, Shi Daohan had a thought. He smiled and looked at Kalman, saying, "Would you like to try fishing for merfolk?"

"No way! I've heard people say that mermaids eat people!"

Kalman shook his head vigorously, his face full of rejection.

"Then let me catch one and show it to you."

Shi Daohan replaced the bait with a piece of spirit beast meat, waiting for the mermaid to take the bait.

Kalman felt a surge of anticipation. He had seen the shadowy outline of the mermaid from afar and longed to see up close what the legendary mermaid was really like.

A gentle breeze stirred, causing Shi Daohan's hair to sway softly. In Kalman's eyes, her profile was more beautiful than any mountain or river in the world, and he was momentarily mesmerized by her beauty.

"Why is there still no movement after all this time?"

Shi Daohan's complaints brought Kalman back to reality, and he realized that it was almost dark.

"Fine, I'll just catch one and bring it up." Shi Daohan tossed the fishing rod to Kalman, then stretched out a hand and gave a soft shout: "Bring it up!"

"Splash!"

Suddenly, towering waves surged on the lake, and she pulled a giant fish monster ashore.

"Get out of the way!"

Shi Daohan gave a soft shout to Kalman beside him. As soon as he finished speaking, the fish monster crashed onto the platform with a thud, twisting its massive body and struggling violently.

Kalman was so startled by this sudden turn of events that he nearly fell off the platform into the lake.

At the critical moment, Shi Daohan used his magic to lift the unsteady Kalman up and then steadily sent him back to the shore.

"Splash!"

Five dazzling chains of divine order shot out from between her fingers, quickly binding and imprisoning the fish monster.

"It's not a merman, what is this thing?"

Shi Daohan swiftly brought the giant fish monster to the shore. It was neither a merman nor the mermaid that Kalman had described.

This fish monster was over five meters long, with dark green scales and teeth that gleamed with a cold luster like rows of steel knives and swords.

Kalman was terrified; his body was trembling slightly.

Shi Daohan, however, looked on with curiosity, having never seen such a fish monster before.

The fish-monster struggled violently, but the chains of divine order binding its body only tightened the more it struggled.

"If it's neither a spirit beast nor a demon beast, then it must be a mutated creature."

Shi Daohan made this judgment and came to the fish monster. But the fish monster suddenly opened its blood-red maw and lunged at her.

"Bang"

Shi Daohan slapped the fish monster with his backhand, sending it flying dozens of meters away, crashing into and breaking a large tree.

"You said the mermaid you saw before, could it be this monster?" Shi Daohan turned to look at Kalman.

"I guess so." Kalman wasn't too sure either, since he had only seen it from afar and didn't know if it was a mermaid or not.

"It's almost dinnertime, so let's see what this mutated fish monster tastes like."

A long knife appeared in Shi Daohan's hand, ready to finish off the fish monster.

"What?! You're going to eat it?!"

Kalman was shocked and rushed up to stop him.

Shi Daohan was somewhat puzzled by the question and said, "If we don't eat it, what should we do with it? We can't just put it back in Jingyue Lake, can we?"

"It's too ugly... I don't want to eat it." Kalman's little face was full of rejection.

Hearing him say that, when Shi Daohan looked at the fish monster again, he also felt that he had no appetite.

"You'd better behave yourself on my turf. If you dare hurt anyone, I'll skin you alive!"

Shi Daohan removed the chains of order, threw the fish monster back into Jingyue Lake, and then took Kalman back to the ship moored on the lake shore.

"Take out the Crimson Sun Heart Flame I gave you before. Anyway, we don't have anything to do tonight, so I'll refine it into your body first."

Kalman carefully took out the Crimson Sun Heart Flame, which was enveloped in purple gas, from his backpack, but his face turned deathly pale when he heard Shi Daohan tell him to swallow the flame.

"It's not swallowing, it's refining," Shi Daohan corrected.

"They're all the same!"

Kalman shook his head frantically. What's the point of refining? In the end, isn't it all inside his own body? What's the difference between that and swallowing?

Shi Daohan was so angry that he laughed. He patiently explained, "If you were to swallow it whole, your internal organs and your entire body would be burned to ashes."

"What I mean by refining is to merge this Crimson Sun Heart Flame with your body, making it a part of you, a power you can unleash at will, understand?"

After saying that, Shi Daohan gave a personal demonstration. She raised her hand and snapped her fingers, and immediately a ball of crimson flame, as red as blood, flickered and danced in her palm.

"Once you refine it, it won't be able to harm you anymore, understand?"

Kalman was somewhat intrigued, but still asked hesitantly in a low voice, "Will the refining process be painful?"

Although there was no direct contact, he could still feel waves of intense heat emanating from the flame in Shi Daohan's palm. Could this really merge with his body?

"There will be pain, of course, but once you've refined it, it won't be able to harm you in the slightest."

Shi Daohan said this.

Kalman opened his mouth, but immediately closed it again, still unable to accept it.

[It seems that spreading the gospel in the West isn't as easy as I imagined.]

Shi Daohan sighed, knowing that Kalman had never been exposed to these things before, and it was normal for him to feel fear and unease. Therefore, he did not force him and decided to teach him a fire manipulation technique to deal with it first.

Shi Daohan withdrew the Crimson Sun Heart Fire from his palm, then flicked his finger, breaking the seal on the flame in Kalman's hand.

"Whoosh!"

The temperature on site rose instantly, and Kalman felt as if he were in a furnace. His clothes were quickly soaked with sweat, and he felt extremely thirsty.

"This is the fire manipulation technique. Watch closely."

As Shi Daohan's voice rang out, the ball of flame in Kalman's hand was guided by her to transform into a majestic fire dragon in mid-air, and in a daze, the sound of a dragon's roar could be heard.

"Although the Fire Transport Technique is not as convenient as direct refining, it's still barely enough to get by."

Shi Daohan imprinted the scriptures of the Fire Manipulation Technique into Kalman's mind to help him comprehend its true meaning, and then taught him hand gestures step by step.

It wasn't until late into the night that Kalman was finally able to successfully cast the fire spell.

But with his meager magical power, he was almost exhausted after only casting the fire spell once.

"Any magical technique or supernatural power requires magical power to activate it. The more profound the magical technique or supernatural power, the more magical power it requires," Shi Daohan explained.

(End of this chapter)