Chapter 3

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**"Creak!" The Eastern girl pushed open the door to Class 3, Grade 1, and led Li Yan inside. Li Yan thought the door would lead to a classroom, but he was wrong. Inside the door was a courtyard, quite spacious, where several dozen boys and girls were practicing martial arts. Most of them were very young, some looking only seven or eight years old, and the older ones were at most fourteen or fifteen, about the same age as Li Yan's current body.**

**In the corner stood a rack with eighteen types of weapons and a row of cushions for sitting and practicing internal skills. The Eastern girl left Li Yan at the courtyard entrance and went in to talk to the homeroom teacher.**

**Li Yan, now free, scanned the dozens of boys and girls in the courtyard, thinking: Are these my classmates? Although I don't understand what they are practicing, it looks very impressive!**

**Seeing someone come in, the forty-odd boys and girls stopped practicing and turned to look at Li Yan. Li Yan, determined to shed the label of a bookish top student, smiled warmly and loudly said, "Hello, everyone. My name is Li Yan. I don't know any martial arts and was forcibly brought here for the nine-year compulsory education as a beggar. Let's be friends!"**

**Murmurs came from the crowd: "He doesn't know any martial arts, so he must be the worst student. Everyone, ignore him." Most of the boys and girls turned their heads away.**

**"Yeah, making friends with a bad student will make us bad students too. If we keep failing and can't complete the nine-year compulsory education, we'll be stuck in school forever."**

**"Alright, decided, let's isolate him!"**

**After a brief discussion, the boys and girls turned back to their practice.**

**Li Yan: "..."**

**What the heck? Seriously? Being a top student with full marks gets you isolated, and being a bad student also gets you isolated? Come on, be reasonable, please? How can I make friends? Do I have to be an ordinary person to make friends?**

**At that moment, a girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes, looking honest and simple, walked over to Li Yan. She was about ten years old, not particularly pretty, but her large, bright eyes and a missing tooth when she smiled made her look quite endearing. She was in the process of losing her baby teeth...**

**The girl with the missing tooth smiled honestly at Li Yan, "My name is Guo Jing, and I'm also a bad student. I want to be your friend." Her speech was a bit slurred due to the missing tooth.**

**"Wow, a girl! A girl wants to be my friend!" Li Yan was overjoyed. In his previous life, this was a luxury: Wait, what? What did she say her name was? Guo Jing? Li Yan's heart raced with sweat.**

**The other students laughed sarcastically, "Ha, bad students really do stick together..."**

**A boy laughed at the girl who called herself Guo Jing, "Guo Jing, you must be happy now. With a new student who doesn't know any martial arts, you can move from last place to second-to-last."**

**"No, that's not true!" The honest and serious Guo Jing said, "I really want a friend..."**

**"Wait, don't get involved with them yet." Li Yan pulled the girl aside and asked, "Your name is Guo Jing?"**

**"Yes!"**

**"A Han person raised on the Mongolian grasslands?"**

**"No, I'm an orphan, a beggar who was picked up!"**

**"You have seven masters, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan?"**

**"No! I'm an orphan and a beggar, with no masters. I was brought here for compulsory education three years ago." Guo Jing said earnestly.**

**Ah, it's just a coincidence of names, then. This Guo Jing is not that Guo Jing! Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief. If it were really that Guo Jing, the great hero, he would have been overwhelmed. Wait, there's something wrong with what she just said...**

**Li Yan's mind clicked, "You said you were brought here for compulsory education three years ago, so why are you still in first grade?"**

**"Well..." The girl with the missing tooth looked a bit embarrassed, "My talent is very poor. I can't learn martial arts well, so I've been held back every year..."**

**"Pfft!" Li Yan almost fainted, "You've been held back in first grade for three years? How poor can your talent be?"**

**Forget it, the real Guo Jing is a bit slow, and if this female version of Guo Jing were smart, it would be more troublesome. Li Yan shrugged and put the thought out of his mind. It's rare to have a girl willing to be his friend, so he decided to cherish this friendship, regardless of whether she was smart or not, good or bad at studies, or whether she was called Guo Jing or Ouyang Ke.**

**"Let's be friends." Li Yan said earnestly.**

**The girl with the missing tooth was delighted, "Yes, yes, let's be good friends." Her face lit up with genuine joy, which made Li Yan feel very happy.**

**"The homeroom teacher is coming..." someone in the crowd called out, and the boys and girls quickly stood straight. Although they didn't form a line, they all stood up straight. Li Yan looked around and did the same.**

**The Eastern girl accompanied a very attractive older sister out of the inner courtyard. The older sister was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, and like all young female teachers in anime, she dressed very fashionably, with a low neckline that revealed a deep cleavage. Despite her striking appearance, she didn't overshadow the elegant and refined Eastern girl.**

**The Eastern girl pointed to Li Yan's position and whispered, "A new student came today. I'm placing him in your class." The older sister nodded, acknowledging the information.**

**As the two women approached, Li Yan thought: The Eastern girl is a noble and graceful woman, while the older sister teacher has a fiery beauty. They are like orchids and chrysanthemums, each with their own charm. But I still think the Eastern girl is more beautiful. Although, the Eastern girl might be a cross-dresser... In that case, I'll reluctantly think the older sister teacher is more beautiful.**

**The older sister teacher walked straight to Li Yan, looked him over, and said, "Your bones and muscles are good, and your development is balanced... Strange, a beggar with such a good physique, you're a good candidate for martial arts."**

**How could someone from the future have an unbalanced physique? At least I've been taking various vitamins. Do you even know what vitamins are? Li Yan thought.**

**The older sister introduced herself, "I am the 'Mighty God' Fan Song, the homeroom teacher for Class 3, Grade 1. The Eastern girl has entrusted you to me. From now on, you must listen to me and not disobey, or... I'll suffocate you!"**

**"I'm dizzy, teachers can't physically punish students!" Li Yan protested, thinking: Suffocation is beyond the definition of physical punishment. How exactly does one suffocate someone? By drowning them in water? Or locking them in an oxygen-deprived container?**

**The older sister teacher ignored his protest and smiled seductively, "Alright, now choose a subject to study. Boxing, weapons, lightness skills, hidden weapons, internal skills... Oh, I'm too lazy to list them all, just guess and choose."**

**"First grade students can choose subjects?" Li Yan asked in disbelief, "I thought that was only for college students."**

**"What are you talking about? Choose quickly!" The older sister teacher's temper was clearly not good.**

**"Alright, I'll choose all of them!" Li Yan, known as the "Perfect Score Boy," didn't hesitate. He was a well-rounded student, excelling in all subjects, whether it was Chinese, math, music, or sports. So he confidently said, "All subjects, I'll study all of them!"**

**The older sister teacher: "..."**

**The Eastern girl: "..."**

**The girl with the missing tooth: "..."**

**The whole class: "..."**

**"Hey, are you looking down on our school's curriculum? How can you study everything?" The older sister teacher was angry, "Martial arts are vast and diverse. How can one person learn everything? It's impossible!"**

**"Is it impossible?" Li Yan was a bit unsure. Although he was a perfect score boy in another world, he hadn't yet tested his martial arts abilities. What if he was a genius at studying but a mediocrity at martial arts?**

**"Teacher... it's possible... isn't there a Huang Yaoshi who..." The girl with the missing tooth, now considering Li Yan a friend, was the type who would stand up for a friend. Although she respected her teacher, she still spoke up.**

**"Cough!" The older sister teacher was taken aback. She didn't expect the usually slow-witted Guo Jing to be able to retort. An honest person's retort was powerful, and the older sister teacher almost couldn't handle it.**

**After a while, she angrily said, "Guo Jing, you stupid student, you're talking back to me. You've only chosen boxing and swordsmanship, and you can't even master those two subjects. You've been held back for three years and haven't even moved to second grade. How dare you say someone can study everything? Do you have any credibility? Go practice the Yue Nu Sword Technique. If you don't learn the 'Branch Striking White Ape' move today, I'll make you go without food for ten days."**

**"Ahh... ten days without food? Oh no!" The girl with the missing tooth was terrified by the threat and cried as she retreated to the side.**

**The older sister teacher felt her face was losing, and she glared at Li Yan, "If you dare to study everything, I'll teach you... hmm..." She reached into her chest and seemed to be searching for something. After a moment, she pulled out a sword manual. The cover read "Pine Wind Sword Technique."**

**"This is the Pine Wind Sword Technique of the Qingcheng Sect. Take it and memorize it." The older sister teacher said, "I left in a hurry today and only brought this manual. Since you're studying everything, it doesn't matter which subject you start with. Start with the Pine Wind Sword Technique."**

**"Teacher, I don't think this is right," Li Yan said seriously, "I've heard that to practice martial arts, one should focus on a high-level skill and immerse oneself in it for decades to achieve success. Please don't give me a trashy manual like this, it will waste my time. Isn't it a waste to spend my youth on useless martial arts? Please give me something like the Nine Swords of Dugu or the Heaven and Earth Shift to study."**

**"Pfft! Where did you hear that? You must have been tricked," the older sister teacher said dismissively, "True experts practice all sorts of things. They pick up whatever techniques they find, and even the most useless skills can become powerful with enough practice... So my teaching philosophy is the same. I teach whatever I have on hand. Whether you become a genius or a sidekick depends entirely on your talent."**

**Li Yan wanted to retort but then thought about it. Yes! In Mr. Jin Yong's novels, almost every protagonist picks up whatever skills they find and eventually becomes a great hero. For example, Guo Jing started with the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan's mediocre skills, Yang Guo practiced many strange techniques, and Zhang Wuji knew a bit of everything.**

**Alright, Pine Wind Sword Technique it is!**

**He carefully examined the sword manual, which was quite thick and looked very ancient and impressive. It might really be a powerful technique. He opened the first page and immediately cried out in frustration. It turned out that ancient people wrote with brushes, so the characters were very large. The paper was also rough and thick, but the manual was actually only a few dozen pages long. The entire manual contained only a few hundred words, with the rest being illustrations of sword techniques. For someone who had just finished the college entrance exam, this was incredibly simple. Li Yan read through it once and had already memorized the entire content. Was such a simple and easy-to-learn manual really useful? Wasn't this just a scam?**

**"What a short manual! Teacher, I memorized it in a glance. Can you give me a few dozen more to study at once?" Li Yan said, "This manual is too simple, like something you can buy for five copper coins on the street. What's the point of practicing such a skill?"**

**The older sister teacher: "..."**

**The Eastern girl: "..."**

**The whole class: "..."**

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