Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

Jiu Yi was very flustered.

But actually... Yu Xietian was even more panicked than him.

Imagine a mediocre surgeon standing by the operating table. While the patient is panicking about their surgery, they never dream that the doctor next to them is even more panicked than they are!

"Damn it! I can't do winging, and how am I supposed to say cheesy pickup lines?! Jiu Yi can't say them at all. Since he can't say them, I don't need to remind him!"

Yu Xietian was filled with sorrow, and followed Jiu Yi.

Their destination was the Seven Luminaries Amusement Park and the Setsuna Circus. The meeting place chosen by Jiu Yi and Cao Cailan was not far away. After walking for a few minutes, they arrived at the amusement park. In the distance, they could see the facade of the Setsuna Circus. A comical clown with a white face and red nose opened his mouth, and a group of people filed in, as if entering a bottomless abyss.

Chapter Seven: The Alchemist Emperor

"Speaking of which, shouldn't I get a girlfriend...?"

Twenty-three-year-old, but soon to be twenty-four, lonely old man Ying Qin Guan walked along the streets of Qi Yao, filled with adulterous couples, and began to ponder this question.

At twenty-three or twenty-four, worrying about such issues is almost unheard of in a place like Qiyao. But Ying Qin Guan wasn't born on this land; he came from the countryside of Southern Qin, where many things were already shaped, including his views on marriage.

During the Northern Qin period, women could marry as young as twelve or thirteen. However, this was a minority; most women married between fifteen and seventeen, and eighteen to twenty was considered quite old. In the Southern Qin, things were slightly better, but being unmarried by twenty was still considered a grave offense. Men fared slightly better. Even if they weren't married by twenty-three or twenty-four, they were expected to at least have a boyfriend/girlfriend.

Think about it, you start dating someone when you're 23 or 24, get married two years later, have a baby two years later, and by the time the baby is born, you're almost 30!

Thinking about it that way, it really is very late.

Ying Qin Guan didn't know why all the guys around him, who were all single, seemed so unhurried. The only one, Jiu Yi, was being pressured by his parents to get married.

However, while he may think this way, getting him to actually do anything about it is still quite difficult. He wants to change the current situation, but he doesn't know where to begin...

Of course, the reason was not limited to this. This thought popped into Ying Qin Guan's mind for a moment, but was quickly forgotten.

He left the Imperial Palace today intending to find a board game cafe. He remembered doing the same thing on Qixi Festival, only to be deterred by the lewd behavior of the couple inside. But things have changed. The Ying Qin Guan of today is no longer the same Ying Qin Guan. Driven by a stronger obsession, he is no longer afraid of the dog food attacks from the lewd couple!

— Speak like a human.

—He's having a card-playing urge.

Ying Qin Guan found a board game store nearby and went inside. The owner of the board game store shared a table with him. After Ying Qin Guan entered the room, he found that the owner was also there!

—This boss is not that boss. Although two bosses appear in the same sentence, the former is just the owner of this off-campus board game shop, while the latter is a person with money power.

Their arrival here has a bit of an air of incognito travel.

"What are you doing here..." Ying Qin Guan was quite surprised to see the boss. He looked around and didn't see anyone who looked like the boss's girlfriend. He was even more surprised. On such a holiday, the boss, who was handsome and rich, was not spending time with his girlfriend, but instead playing cards in such a small shop.

Could it be... this guy doesn't have a girlfriend either?

To be honest, Ying Qin Guan had never met anyone who resembled his boss's girlfriend. But given the man's circumstances, Ying Qin Guan found it hard to believe he didn't have a girlfriend... but seeing him playing board games with a group of strangers on Valentine's Day made him more inclined to believe it.

"Just had some free time." The shopkeeper wasn't surprised to see Ying Qin Guan, and simply smiled and said, "Teacher Ying, would you like to play a couple of rounds?"

"What else could it be..." Ying Qin Guan sat down to the side. Although he had some things he wanted to say, once he was at the card table, all other words were just nonsense.

"We're one short. Let's play a game of 'Two-Two' first," the owner suggested. There were only four people in the room, which was common in board game cafes. If they didn't bring enough people, they were often short-handed.

The other three had no objections.

—The other two probably didn't recognize Ying Qin Guan. Ying Qin Guan had only appeared once in the Truth City newspaper, which was a million miles away from Qi Yao. As for the card in Time and Space Kill... the artist added a lot of artistic embellishment. Moreover, with that kind of art style, unless there are any particularly distinctive features, you can basically identify people by their clothes.

The boss started shuffling the deck.

In official matches of Time and Space Kill, event arenas and divine generals are prohibited. However, when playing privately, having fun is more important, so people are used to removing overly basic generals to achieve the effect of manually banning them. Event arenas and divine generals have naturally been added to the ban list.

Ying Qin Guan and the boss are in positions one and four. In the early days, the win rate of positions one and four was lower than that of positions two and three. However, with the emergence of various powerful generals, the value of going first has been greatly increased. Now the win rates of both sides are almost equal, but overall, the combination of positions two and three is still stronger.

"Good luck..."

Ying Qin Guan drew a Divine Warrior General, for the fourth position. He chose Divine Warrior if available, and Shield if unavailable. He didn't hesitate much and covered the card.

[God? Alchemy Emperor]

Physical strength: 3/6

[Investiture of the Gods]: Omitted.

[Alchemy Source]: Whenever someone uses the equipment, you can recover or lose one point of stamina.

If you lose health at the end of a character's turn, you choose one option.

1. Increase the maximum stamina by one point.

Second: Restore an equipment slot, and if there is a corresponding equipment in that slot on the field, you can move it to your own equipment slot. You can use your universal equipment slot in this way.

[Sacrifice]: When you enter a dying state or take damage for the second time each round, you may discard an equipment slot. If you do so, you will restore your health to 1 point. Each time you discard an equipment slot in this way, you gain a Revolutionary Mark. When you have five Revolutionary Marks, you die instantly.

【Pioneer】: Awakening Skill. When you have three or more Revolutionary Symbols, you discard all your cards, then draw cards until you reach your maximum health. Reveal your hand and discard the equipment cards. For each equipment card you discard, you can choose one item, which can be repeated.

1. During the draw phase, draw one more card, and the hand limit increases by one.

Second: Gain an extra universal equipment slot, which can be equipped with any equipment.

If you draw cards using this method and none of them contain equipment, you can choose one. After making your choice, you will recover two health points, and then your peaches and wines will be considered as kills/dodges.

(A genius is one step ahead of their time... but what about someone ten steps ahead?)

The Alchemist Emperor... In his early years, he was captured and enslaved by an alien race. Although the God of War had already swept across the world, it was a large-scale, strategic victory. Even in modern times, alien cities like Night Sky still existed. How much more so in the Age of Gods! Therefore, the Alchemist Emperor could only swallow his anger and wait for rescue. To please the alien race and survive, he had to do many unspeakable things, which is the source of his second skill: "The Prince Offers His Head."

Later, the alien city was attacked, the Alchemist Emperor was saved, and he received a proper alchemical education, which sparked the first alchemical revolution. Therefore, he is also known as the source of all modern alchemy. The setting that the five revolutionary symbols lead to death comes from a crazy idea he had in his later years. He spent a lot of manpower, material resources and money to try to complete the creation of artificial magic circuits for people, to transform everyone into magicians, or to directly install alchemical equipment on martial artists.

Clearly, he failed. Even now, let alone then, only Black Dragon has completed a small portion of this technology. This failure dealt a massive blow to the entire alchemical world, and the Alchemist Emperor died in despair. Of course, leading the First Alchemical Revolution remains an undeniable feat in human history. Despite his failure, the Alchemist Emperor was still deified. In his early years, his son, Ed, was also researching in this area, but Ed was later defeated by Munan Dong, and his story ends there.

Chapter Eight: The Disguise of the Primordial Alien Race

This game lasted a long time. The boss was also a vampire, choosing a passive hero that would become incredibly powerful after being activated. He probably wanted Ying Qin Guan to give him a few hard hits. However, the fourth position player was already used to eating Le, and Ying Qin Guan was the kind of player who would discard his only flawless hero after using him. The two were at a huge disadvantage in the first few rounds.

Fortunately, the boss used his magic in succession, leaping up with fire and creating something from nothing, and finally took out the Mad Blade, cutting himself and the iron chain together, leading Ying Qin Pass to victory.

"We two are really amazing."

"Ying Qin Guan, who hadn't awakened his powers by the end of the game, sighed."

The boss chuckled and agreed, while the two players opposite him gave him a look that seemed to say, "Holy crap, you're shameless."

After playing for a while, the two opponents left. They were a man and a woman, clearly a couple. Ying Qin Guan and the boss played solo for a while. But no new players came to fill in. The boss's interest in the game was obviously not as strong as Jiu Yi's. After playing a few rounds, his attention started to wander, and he began to chat about random things.

"It's really hard to get new generals lately," the shop owner sighed. "In the past three years, apart from your two cards, there haven't been any other generals in the official card pool... But I'm a little reluctant to lower the standards."

The game is quite rigorous in its card release policy, having only released a few hundred cards in the last hundred years, with the majority of them released in the first few years, when the game was just starting out. Apart from a few generals, the release rate has remained at only one or two years for the next few centuries. The quality of the official card pool is extremely high, and it's rare to find an unknown character mixed in with a card that is stronger than a famous general.

With approximately 98 million births worldwide each year, only one or two individuals can enter the Time-Space Kill gacha pool—this calculation is certainly somewhat unfair. However, saying that the Time-Space Kill gacha pool is one in a billion isn't an exaggeration. That's why it's said that those who can enter the official Time-Space Kill gacha pool are all exceptional individuals.

This is probably the advantage of not being confined to one era. If this game were called "God Era Kill," and only featured generals from the God Era, it would probably be different. At the beginning, you would definitely pick the most famous ones, but after that, you would have to find a way to pick two from the back alleys. By then, it would be less than one in a billion, but probably one in a million or even one in a hundred thousand, and the overall quality would be much lower.

Ying Qin Guan squinted and said, "Aren't you guys very active in organizing events..."

—In the official gacha pool, it's true that very few generals are drawn, and the release rate is quite slow. But the event pool is a different story. As everyone knows, the event pool is also known as the entertainment pool or the money-making pool. You can get generals from folk tales or novel collaborations!

"How can the event arena compare to the official arena?" The shopkeeper shook his head, flipped open his general card, which was an event arena card with a giant spider on it. This kind of spider is called "Cheng Kong Spider".

Ying Qin Guan had met her once before; there was Nocturne at the card table then, and she gave Ying Qin Guan a brief explanation.

This is a creature recorded in the Hidden Chronicles. Legend has it that it weaves webs in the heavens and earth, feeding on the Butterflies of Existence. After consuming a Butterfly of Existence, it can regurgitate the 'existence' that the butterfly has eaten, returning it to that creature's 'existence,' but that creature is already dead, so returning the existence is useless. Therefore, the Void Spider occasionally transforms into the creature devoured by the Butterfly of Existence, experiencing the lives of other creatures.

This collaboration between mythical creatures is quite intriguing. The existence of the Butterfly is already impressive enough, but then a Spider-like being appears that revolves around the Butterfly...

Furthermore, Nocturne also said that the things in the Secret Records should not be completely disbelieved, but they should not be believed entirely either, as many special alien races may not even exist; they are merely disguises of the primordial alien races.

Ying Qin Guan's mood was strange, and he took out his Fighting God and beat up the boss.

The boss immediately lost interest in playing.

Not every man is as strong as Jiu Yi—in other words, he's weak but addicted.

"No wonder the dean was forced to quit gambling after being beaten..."

Because Ying Qin Guan repeatedly beat him with the God of War, the boss's mood changed, leading to some strange misunderstandings.

Fortunately, someone knocked on the door at that moment, saving the boss who was destined to be beaten up by the God of War despite having shuffled the cards many times.

Ying Qin, being nearby, opened the door, and the two entered. The one in the lead had long purple hair, a magnificent knight's sword at her waist, and a tall, dashing figure—it was Ji Fa. The person behind her had hair of such complex colors that even Saint White Lotus couldn't describe it. Yet, there was a strange harmony and subtle variation, preventing her from looking like a frivolous young woman; instead, she possessed an inexplicable air of sophistication... It was Ji Fa's younger sister, Ruo Ye.

The two sisters pushed open the door and entered, their eyes meeting in an awkward silence.

The boss was completely unaffected by the awkward atmosphere and, having been rescued from the hell of battle, greeted everyone cheerfully.

"Oh, you two are free today too?"

High emotional intelligence: having free time.

Low emotional intelligence: Single dog.

Ji Fa sat down to the side, took a slight breath, and spoke rapidly, giving Ruoye no chance to stop her.

"Hmph, it's not that I had nothing to do, it's just that those two guys were too annoying. They wanted to set me up on blind dates again. Don't be ridiculous, who wants to fall in love with a stranger? Of course I just ran away!"

Ruoye, with a deep expression, said, "Based on my experience, if my sister runs away, I'll be in trouble, so I ran away too."

The Warner family has few male heirs and lacks successors. Even Ying Qin Guan, who doesn't usually pay much attention to gossip, would overhear a few words about it while eating in the cafeteria. Moreover, it seems that Ji Fa is always running around on special holidays like this, so the situation is quite serious.

Ying Qin Guan wasn't interested in other people's family affairs, but the boss, still recovering from the Battle God Hell incident, wanted to continue the conversation.

"So what do you plan to do? Keep hiding like this?"

Ji Fa sneered and looked at her younger sister, only to find that Ruoye was also secretly watching her.

Some things are self-evident.

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you!

The elder sister and younger sister were respectful and modest, which is appropriate.

"It seems everyone is suffering from this kind of trouble..."

The boss seemed to be deep in thought, and some ideas began to form in his mind.

The four of them played another round of 2v2. The boss suspected that Ying Qin Guan was going to draw the God of War again, so he chose to team up with him. As a result, Ying Qin Guan pulled out an Immovable White, which was then countered by a Divine Steed that kept the enemy at bay. He drew and discarded cards in one smooth motion, making him a hero among AFK players.

The boss was brutally beaten by the sisters, suffering excruciating pain. In the next round, he immediately abandoned Ying Qin Guan, the vampire who sucked the lifeblood of his teammates. As soon as the fight started, Ying Qin Guan flipped out the God of War...

After the fight that afternoon, the boss lay in bed for three days and three nights and still couldn't recover.

Chapter Nine: The Momentary Circus