Chapter 184
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And because it also accepted students of non-noble heritage, there was a lot of competition to get in. Even so, it was quite popular because it was unlike the other schools around the continent who demanded a minimum cultivation level for applicants and even provided for those not of the rich upper class. It also needed to be noted that the Chengyuan School was here since the founding of the kingdom. It originally had the same mindset as the other Schools and sects. However, that changed when the current principal took over and this new system of welcoming everyone was implemented. Maybe it was the changing times or maybe it was because he saw something during one of his wanderings but it definitely opened up a lot of opportunities for the lower-class and allowed for more class fluidity. Many of the formerly poor students were extremely grateful and alumnis also donated more to the School to show their support, especially the rare few that had come from unfavorable backgrounds that managed to get in before the current principal. Which, of course, were used to further the principal's agenda, one of them being the on-campus dorms. As long as one was a student at the school, they were allowed to stay in the dorms for as long as they wanted, make it their second home even. They were allowed to stay there even if the School was on break.
Taking in the scenery of the various buildings at the side of the road, Shen Tianyu finally arrived at the Main Hall. It looked just like the entrance to an ancient Chinese mansion with red beams holding up the roof and a large plaque holding a scroll of an elegant yet powerful calligraphy of the building's name. The slanted roof was also painted a lacquered red. The plain wooden doors didn't have a knocker, possible because this building was open to all, and was easily pushed open. As the door creaked open, Shen Tianyu saw the mass of people that were waiting to or were already registered for the entrance exam. The room was so full, she thought it would burst, and there was a constant murmur of conversation flooding her ears that she hadn't heard previously.
'Was there a silencing talisman on the door? I didn't see a one, though.' She thought as she stood still outside the door and looked around. However, she didn't find the talisman she thought would be there. 'Is it inside?' She thought as she finally stepped over the threshold and closed the gate behind her, feeling for anything out of place to maybe find the Silencing talisman. She didn't feel anything where her hands were so she turned back around and looked over the door to find an almost invisible paper talisman at the top. It was almost the same color as the wood beneath it and was placed quite high up. Normally, people wouldn't crane their necks to find a talisman that had nothing to do with them after all. 'Ah, it was an Internal Silencing Talisman. No wonder I couldn't find it outside.' The difference between an Internal Silencing Talisman and an External one was that the former prevented sound from inside a space, such as the sound from this hall, from getting out. The latter, on the other hand, prevented others on the outside from hearing what was going on inside a space. An Internal Silencing Talisman, aside from being placed inside a structure rather than outside, acted a shield to keep the sounds inside while an External Silencing Talisman, along with being placed on the outside, was something akin to jamming an outsider's senses. Though the two were named the same thing, they worked in slightly different ways.
"Um, excuse me. Where do I go to register for the exam?" She asked the person closest to her. Due to the disorderly mass of people that didn't form any kind of line, she had no idea where to go. And rather than wondering around until time was up and not having registered, she figured it was better to ask around.
The person she had questioned was a man in a white robe embroidered with yellow peonies at the seams with a particularly big branch on his chest. The man had a stone-cold face, however, and ignored her completely as if she didn't exist.
'Oi, we're all here to take the exam, even if you won't tell me doesn't mean someone else won't. What are you being so unfriendly for?' She complained with her head but didn't bother to scold him. He'd probably just ignore her anyways, it wasn't worth the waste of her energy. Better to use the energy to ask someone else.
Just as she was turning away to find someone friendlier to ask, another man beside the previous one she had questioned stuck his head out from behind and answered her. "Um... you're here to take the entrance exam, right? The regiatration area is over there." Shen Tianyu turned to the voice of the man and he pointed across the room, where the crowd was somewhat thicker. She looked back at the man to thank him, only to find that he had completely stepped out of the other man's shadow by now. He was wearing a similarly white robe but woth bamboo instead of peony embroidery. A willow branched was intertwined with the bamboo on his chest. 'Are they from the same clan or something?' Shen Tianyu wondered to herself.
She bowed to the other and thanked him as she had intended. "Thank you very much for your assistance, kind Young Master. I will surely repay this someday, may I perhaps get your name so I know my benefactor?"
The man let out a small, good-natured laugh. "This Miss is exaggerating, it's only a small matter. Though I would be glad to give my name. I am Ningwu Liushan, hope we can be friends in the time to come." He replied with cupped hands.
"Liushan... Mr. Ningwu is certainly as flexible as a willow and extremely kind."
"Not at all, Miss is exaggerating." After getting his name, Shen Tianyu walked toward the direction the man had pointed out and found that it looked like a congested crowd from afar because there were multiple lines, which shouldn't come as a surprise. They were quite fast too since a lot of the people were just standing around and waiting for the exam to start. She stood aside for a moment and watched which line moved the fastest and quickly stepped into that line. Usually, in situations like these, the shorter lines were actually slower, hence why people did not enter them.Liu=willow & Shan(liang)=kindness
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And because it also accepted students of non-noble heritage, there was a lot of competition to get in. Even so, it was quite popular because it was unlike the other schools around the continent who demanded a minimum cultivation level for applicants and even provided for those not of the rich upper class. It also needed to be noted that the Chengyuan School was here since the founding of the kingdom. It originally had the same mindset as the other Schools and sects. However, that changed when the current principal took over and this new system of welcoming everyone was implemented. Maybe it was the changing times or maybe it was because he saw something during one of his wanderings but it definitely opened up a lot of opportunities for the lower-class and allowed for more class fluidity. Many of the formerly poor students were extremely grateful and alumnis also donated more to the School to show their support, especially the rare few that had come from unfavorable backgrounds that managed to get in before the current principal. Which, of course, were used to further the principal's agenda, one of them being the on-campus dorms. As long as one was a student at the school, they were allowed to stay in the dorms for as long as they wanted, make it their second home even. They were allowed to stay there even if the School was on break.
Taking in the scenery of the various buildings at the side of the road, Shen Tianyu finally arrived at the Main Hall. It looked just like the entrance to an ancient Chinese mansion with red beams holding up the roof and a large plaque holding a scroll of an elegant yet powerful calligraphy of the building's name. The slanted roof was also painted a lacquered red. The plain wooden doors didn't have a knocker, possible because this building was open to all, and was easily pushed open. As the door creaked open, Shen Tianyu saw the mass of people that were waiting to or were already registered for the entrance exam. The room was so full, she thought it would burst, and there was a constant murmur of conversation flooding her ears that she hadn't heard previously.
'Was there a silencing talisman on the door? I didn't see a one, though.' She thought as she stood still outside the door and looked around. However, she didn't find the talisman she thought would be there. 'Is it inside?' She thought as she finally stepped over the threshold and closed the gate behind her, feeling for anything out of place to maybe find the Silencing talisman. She didn't feel anything where her hands were so she turned back around and looked over the door to find an almost invisible paper talisman at the top. It was almost the same color as the wood beneath it and was placed quite high up. Normally, people wouldn't crane their necks to find a talisman that had nothing to do with them after all. 'Ah, it was an Internal Silencing Talisman. No wonder I couldn't find it outside.' The difference between an Internal Silencing Talisman and an External one was that the former prevented sound from inside a space, such as the sound from this hall, from getting out. The latter, on the other hand, prevented others on the outside from hearing what was going on inside a space. An Internal Silencing Talisman, aside from being placed inside a structure rather than outside, acted a shield to keep the sounds inside while an External Silencing Talisman, along with being placed on the outside, was something akin to jamming an outsider's senses. Though the two were named the same thing, they worked in slightly different ways.
"Um, excuse me. Where do I go to register for the exam?" She asked the person closest to her. Due to the disorderly mass of people that didn't form any kind of line, she had no idea where to go. And rather than wondering around until time was up and not having registered, she figured it was better to ask around.
The person she had questioned was a man in a white robe embroidered with yellow peonies at the seams with a particularly big branch on his chest. The man had a stone-cold face, however, and ignored her completely as if she didn't exist.
'Oi, we're all here to take the exam, even if you won't tell me doesn't mean someone else won't. What are you being so unfriendly for?' She complained with her head but didn't bother to scold him. He'd probably just ignore her anyways, it wasn't worth the waste of her energy. Better to use the energy to ask someone else.
Just as she was turning away to find someone friendlier to ask, another man beside the previous one she had questioned stuck his head out from behind and answered her. "Um... you're here to take the entrance exam, right? The regiatration area is over there." Shen Tianyu turned to the voice of the man and he pointed across the room, where the crowd was somewhat thicker. She looked back at the man to thank him, only to find that he had completely stepped out of the other man's shadow by now. He was wearing a similarly white robe but woth bamboo instead of peony embroidery. A willow branched was intertwined with the bamboo on his chest. 'Are they from the same clan or something?' Shen Tianyu wondered to herself.
She bowed to the other and thanked him as she had intended. "Thank you very much for your assistance, kind Young Master. I will surely repay this someday, may I perhaps get your name so I know my benefactor?"
The man let out a small, good-natured laugh. "This Miss is exaggerating, it's only a small matter. Though I would be glad to give my name. I am Ningwu Liushan, hope we can be friends in the time to come." He replied with cupped hands.
"Liushan... Mr. Ningwu is certainly as flexible as a willow and extremely kind."
"Not at all, Miss is exaggerating." After getting his name, Shen Tianyu walked toward the direction the man had pointed out and found that it looked like a congested crowd from afar because there were multiple lines, which shouldn't come as a surprise. They were quite fast too since a lot of the people were just standing around and waiting for the exam to start. She stood aside for a moment and watched which line moved the fastest and quickly stepped into that line. Usually, in situations like these, the shorter lines were actually slower, hence why people did not enter them.Liu=willow & Shan(liang)=kindness
And because it also accepted students of non-noble heritage, there was a lot of competition to get in. Even so, it was quite popular because it was unlike the other schools around the continent who demanded a minimum cultivation level for applicants and even provided for those not of the rich upper class. It also needed to be noted that the Chengyuan School was here since the founding of the kingdom. It originally had the same mindset as the other Schools and sects. However, that changed when the current principal took over and this new system of welcoming everyone was implemented. Maybe it was the changing times or maybe it was because he saw something during one of his wanderings but it definitely opened up a lot of opportunities for the lower-class and allowed for more class fluidity. Many of the formerly poor students were extremely grateful and alumnis also donated more to the School to show their support, especially the rare few that had come from unfavorable backgrounds that managed to get in before the current principal. Which, of course, were used to further the principal's agenda, one of them being the on-campus dorms. As long as one was a student at the school, they were allowed to stay in the dorms for as long as they wanted, make it their second home even. They were allowed to stay there even if the School was on break.Taking in the scenery of the various buildings at the side of the road, Shen Tianyu finally arrived at the Main Hall. It looked just like the entrance to an ancient Chinese mansion with red beams holding up the roof and a large plaque holding a scroll of an elegant yet powerful calligraphy of the building's name. The slanted roof was also painted a lacquered red. The plain wooden doors didn't have a knocker, possible because this building was open to all, and was easily pushed open. As the door creaked open, Shen Tianyu saw the mass of people that were waiting to or were already registered for the entrance exam. The room was so full, she thought it would burst, and there was a constant murmur of conversation flooding her ears that she hadn't heard previously.'Was there a silencing talisman on the door? I didn't see a one, though.' She thought as she stood still outside the door and looked around. However, she didn't find the talisman she thought would be there. 'Is it inside?' She thought as she finally stepped over the threshold and closed the gate behind her, feeling for anything out of place to maybe find the Silencing talisman. She didn't feel anything where her hands were so she turned back around and looked over the door to find an almost invisible paper talisman at the top. It was almost the same color as the wood beneath it and was placed quite high up. Normally, people wouldn't crane their necks to find a talisman that had nothing to do with them after all. 'Ah, it was an Internal Silencing Talisman. No wonder I couldn't find it outside.' The difference between an Internal Silencing Talisman and an External one was that the former prevented sound from inside a space, such as the sound from this hall, from getting out. The latter, on the other hand, prevented others on the outside from hearing what was going on inside a space. An Internal Silencing Talisman, aside from being placed inside a structure rather than outside, acted a shield to keep the sounds inside while an External Silencing Talisman, along with being placed on the outside, was something akin to jamming an outsider's senses. Though the two were named the same thing, they worked in slightly different ways."Um, excuse me. Where do I go to register for the exam?" She asked the person closest to her. Due to the disorderly mass of people that didn't form any kind of line, she had no idea where to go. And rather than wondering around until time was up and not having registered, she figured it was better to ask around.The person she had questioned was a man in a white robe embroidered with yellow peonies at the seams with a particularly big branch on his chest. The man had a stone-cold face, however, and ignored her completely as if she didn't exist.'Oi, we're all here to take the exam, even if you won't tell me doesn't mean someone else won't. What are you being so unfriendly for?' She complained with her head but didn't bother to scold him. He'd probably just ignore her anyways, it wasn't worth the waste of her energy. Better to use the energy to ask someone else.Just as she was turning away to find someone friendlier to ask, another man beside the previous one she had questioned stuck his head out from behind and answered her. "Um... you're here to take the entrance exam, right? The regiatration area is over there." Shen Tianyu turned to the voice of the man and he pointed across the room, where the crowd was somewhat thicker. She looked back at the man to thank him, only to find that he had completely stepped out of the other man's shadow by now. He was wearing a similarly white robe but woth bamboo instead of peony embroidery. A willow branched was intertwined with the bamboo on his chest. 'Are they from the same clan or something?' ShenTianyu wondered to herself.She bowed to the other and thanked him as she had intended. "Thank you very much for your assistance, kind Young Master. I will surely repay this someday, may I perhaps get your name so I know my benefactor?"The man let out a small, good-natured laugh. "This Miss is exaggerating, it's only a small matter. Though I would be glad to give my name. I am Ningwu Liushan, hope we can be friends in the time to come." He replied with cupped hands."Liushan... Mr. Ningwu is certainly as flexible as a willow and extremely kind.""Not at all, Miss is exaggerating." After getting his name, Shen Tianyu walked toward the direction the man had pointed out and found that it looked like a congested crowd from afar because there were multiple lines, which shouldn't come as a surprise. They were quite fast too since a lot of the people were just standing around and waiting for the exam to start. She stood aside for a moment and watched which line moved the fastest and quickly stepped into that line. Usually, in situations like these, the shorter lines were actually slower, hence why people did not enter them.Liu=willow & Shanliang=kindness
