35: Chapter 35 Ancient Ruins in Shanghai University

Early the next morning, just as Jiang Ling was preparing to go out for a meal, the doorbell rang.

Jiang Ling opened the door and saw a tall, red-haired beauty standing at the doorway, dressed in a tight-fitting, fiery-red martial arts uniform.

The beauty looked to be about twenty years old; she had a stunning figure, was youthful and beautiful, possessed an innate charm, and radiated a tremendous attraction toward the opposite sex.

"Who are you?" Jiang Ling was momentarily stunned.

"You must be Jiang Ling!" The beauty looked Jiang Ling up and down, then giggled, "You really are a handsome little guy!"

"Master's eye for talent is truly excellent!"

"Uh!" Jiang Ling scratched his head and asked, "Are you another Disciple of Master Zhao Kailai?"

Jiang Ling hadn't expected that the other Disciple of Zhao Kailai would be a girl, and such a bewitching, charming beauty at that.

"That's right!"

The beauty walked into Jiang Ling's villa with a familiar air, "My name is Ye Honglian. I am Master's third Disciple. You can just call me Senior Sister from now on!"

"Master asked me to show you around the school today!"

"Have you had breakfast yet?"

"Senior Sister will take you to eat!"

"So, Master has three Disciples!" Jiang Ling realized, saying, "I haven't had breakfast yet!"

"I'll treat you to breakfast!"

"How can that be?" Ye Honglian waved her hand, "I am the Senior Sister; of course, I should be the one treating you!"

"Let's go!"

Ye Honglian took Jiang Ling out of the villa and led him to the nearest restaurant to eat.

As they walked, Ye Honglian explained some basic common knowledge and precautions about the school to Jiang Ling.

At Magic Capital University, everything generally had a high degree of freedom.

As long as you have the strength and can earn enough credits, nobody cares what you do every day.

"Credits are an important indicator of a student's achievements in a semester, and they are also the currency used for spending at the school!"

"When you purchase Materials, Medicinal Pills, Cultivation Techniques, and so on at school, you need credits!"

"Credits can be traded between students, but these traded credits do not count towards the semester assessment!"

"Only the credits distributed by the school that you earn yourself count as your grades!"

Jiang Ling nodded.

"Then how are credits generally earned?"

"There are many ways to earn credits. The school has various leaderboards, and you can get credits for making it onto any of them!" Ye Honglian introduced.

"Besides that, you can also complete school missions, or perform exceptionally well in class, and so on!"

Jiang Ling nodded.

The food at the Magic Capital University restaurant was excellent, all processed from the meat of various exotic beasts, which could provide Martial Artists with a large amount of nutrition.

Martial Artists consumed a huge amount of Qi and blood every day; if they only ate ordinary food, they wouldn't be able to handle it.

Ye Honglian was very generous; even though it was breakfast, she had a whole table full of food prepared for Jiang Ling.

Jiang Ling didn't stand on ceremony and devoured it all like a whirlwind.

After breakfast, Ye Honglian took Jiang Ling to learn about the functions of various areas of the school.

Which building was used for which classes!

Arriving at a plaza, Jiang Ling saw a long stone path in the very center.

On the path, strange-looking footprints were carved.

"Huh?"

"What is this?"

Jiang Ling asked Ye Honglian, "Is it some special artwork?"

"Oh, this is an imprint of a footwork technique brought back by the school from a relic. Students can learn a very advanced footwork technique by imitating these footprints!"

A glimmer of cunning flashed in Ye Honglian's beautiful eyes.

"You can go up and try it, see if you can comprehend it!"

"So that's how it is!" Jiang Ling realized.

"Okay, then I'll give it a try!"

Jiang Ling jumped onto the path immediately, wanting to test if he could comprehend anything.

Jiang Ling first roughly observed the arrangement of the footprints on the path, then stepped onto them according to the positions of the footprints.

Some passing students saw Jiang Ling actually stepping onto the path and immediately revealed expressions of schadenfreude, stopping their footsteps, seemingly waiting to see Jiang Ling make a fool of himself.

"Ye Honglian!"

"Who is this?"

"Is he a relative of yours?"

Some students who knew Ye Honglian came over to greet her and ask about Jiang Ling's identity.

"Oh, this is the new Disciple my Master just took in!"

Ye Honglian said with a smile, "A freshman this year!"

"I'm showing him around the campus!"

"To be a Disciple newly taken in by Dean Zhao, his background must be extraordinary!"

"But you're quite insidious, not telling him the origin of these footprints before letting him try. I wonder how many steps he can take before he coughs up blood!"

"My Master said his talent is extremely high, much stronger than the three of us. So, it's a perfect chance to see if he's really that strong!" Ye Honglian giggled mischievously.

"To be so highly regarded by Dean Zhao, I guess he should be able to take at least ten steps, right?"

"There are very few freshmen who can take ten steps the first time they step on the Tiangang Step Imprint!"

"I tried it again a while ago, and by the seventeenth step, my Qi and blood were churning, I almost vomited blood, and I had to stop immediately!"

"Hehe... The Junior Martial Brother who just arrived is being so pampered by Master, it's inevitable he'd be a bit arrogant. I'm just using this to temper his Heart-Nature!" Ye Honglian blinked her eyes, watching Jiang Ling step up, waiting for the scene where Jiang Ling would make a fool of himself and fall off.

Jiang Ling had already stepped onto the footprints at this moment and could not hear their conversation.

As soon as he stepped in, Jiang Ling felt as if he had stepped into another dimension, with countless Laws and Dao essences filling the surroundings.

The whole world seemed to have turned into an endless ancient starry sky, filled with ancient, mighty power evolving everywhere.

"Hiss!"

"It really is extraordinary!"

"This ancient relic contains traces of the Great Dao, profoundly deep!"

"However, if I can keep walking, it's really possible to comprehend a footwork technique from the ancient era!"

At this moment, the footprints in front of Jiang Ling had already turned into mysterious curtains of light.

Every step he took felt like stepping onto the long river of time.

Jiang Ling's Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability began to play a role at this moment; all these Dao essences and Laws were continuously analyzed by him, turning into mysterious Dao patterns that surged into his mind.

"How magical!"

"This kind of power is completely incomparable to the martial arts I have cultivated; it is the true ancient Great Dao!"

"To think Magic Capital University has something like this; it truly lives up to its reputation as the nation's premier university!"

"I must cherish this opportunity, grasp the Laws and Dao essences within it, and make them my own power!"

Jiang Ling entered a mysterious state, as if his Soul had flown out of his body and merged into this infinite Great Dao.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Jiang Ling moved forward step by step, and with every step, his gains were unimaginably huge.

Ye Honglian and the others watched Jiang Ling starting to take steps so quickly, and they couldn't help but reveal expressions of surprise.

"Ye Honglian, this Junior Martial Brother of yours seems really quite extraordinary; he's already taken three steps!"

"He took another step, four steps now..."

"Hiss!"

"His talent is indeed quite good!"

"It is indeed good; no wonder Master values him so much!"

Ye Honglian had surprise in her eyes, "I thought Master was bragging a bit too much!"

"It seems he really has some extraordinary qualities!"

"Perhaps he can really reach ten steps!"