3: To you a thousand years ago

Chapter 3: To You A Thousand Years Ago

After Xiao Jiu carried Jiang Chen for an hour, a small town built on a cluster of reefs slowly appeared.

Almost all the buildings here were suspended in the air above the water. Numerous stilt houses (generally divided into two floors, with people living on the upper floor and the lower floor having no walls, only a few wooden piles for placing furniture and other items) were densely arranged. The wood for the stilt houses was made from a special type of water spirit wood.

However, because Ningshui Town is a small city built on water, the lower floor usually only serves as support and is not used for storing miscellaneous items.

If a family has a Beast Tamer, then the lower floor would be built into a pet's nest.

Of course, there were also some buildings that were not suspended on the water, but rather built on the dozen or so large reefs in the city.

These dozen or so large reefs were already taken: the mayor of Ningshui Town, the Ningshui Town Beast Taming Academy, and the prominent figures in the city.

In this world filled with endless seawater, being able to own a piece of reef as a foothold was an immense blessing!

It was even more precious, harder to come by, and more enviable than villas and sea-view houses in his previous life.

The entire Ningshui Town was also built around these dozen or so large reefs.

This was a raised part of the seabed in the sea, with an average water depth of seven or eight meters, making it a rare habitat. Once outside the scope of Ningshui Town, the water depth immediately soared to tens, dozens, or even hundreds of meters!

At such deep seabeds, stilt houses could not be built.

There were countless waterways in the city, winding and flowing, eventually exiting Ningshui Village and merging into the sea.

These waterways were equivalent to the roads on Blue Star, connecting the entire town.

Upon arriving here, the surroundings immediately became lively.

All kinds of human voices, water sounds, and laughter constantly drifted over.

In the waterways, there were small boats paddling, and also people like Jiang Chen riding their tamed beasts. Some people even swam freely underwater, their figures darting like agile fish.

Xiao Jiu, carrying Jiang Chen, skillfully navigated the waterways towards home.

After lying on Xiao Jiu for an hour, Jiang Chen finally recovered a bit of strength.

He opened his eyes and saw a group of children, probably only seven or eight years old, playing and chasing each other in the waterway not far away, among the water street alleys and the supporting wooden pillars of the stilt houses.

If this scene were to happen on Blue Star, the picture might be a bit strange.

Because this group of children had been playing underwater for several minutes, yet their laughter was still like bells, chasing each other, full of vitality, without any sign of suffocating.

These were gills, post-auricular gills. Jiang Chen also had them behind his ears.

Jiang Chen had heard from his Class Teacher that, supposedly, people did not have this organ before.

It wasn't until the great cataclysm a thousand years ago, when a large amount of land collapsed, shattered, and sank into the sea, forcing humanity to move from land to sea, that they gradually evolved this unique organ capable of breathing underwater.

Jiang Chen discovered by looking through some history books that the ancient world was extremely similar to Blue Star!

For example, the Dragon Kingdom he was currently in had various ancient dynasties like Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, just like Blue Star.

However, these similarities abruptly ended after the great cataclysm a thousand years ago. It seemed that after that change, this world took a different path.

This world also had many differences from Blue Star. For example, the area of this world seemed to be much larger than Blue Star, and many regions and sea areas were in an unknown, mysterious state, unknown to humans.

Every time Jiang Chen reviewed this period of history, he always felt a sense of trance.

Perhaps he had transmigrated, but only to Blue Star a thousand years later!

…Back home, Jiang Chen went into the kitchen and found a few pieces of tender and juicy oyster meat (especially juicy), which he gobbled down, and his body finally regained some vitality.

But Jiang Chen still felt mentally drained and incredibly tired.

The sea creature illustration compendium not only drained his physical strength but also absorbed his mental energy.

“Xiao Jiu, go cultivate on your own. Try to cultivate the Whale Breath Meditation Technique and other skills to a proficient state as soon as possible. I'm going to sleep.”

“Meow~” Xiao Jiu licked his chubby cat paw and obediently replied.

Remembering the Whale Breath Meditation Technique from earlier in the day, Xiao Jiu's own eyes also sparkled slightly.

That feeling of rapidly becoming stronger was still very enjoyable.

After giving the command, Jiang Chen immediately flopped onto the bed and fell asleep. The fabric in the water world was woven from the byssus of a bivalve mollusk.

Xiao Jiu stepped forward, used her cat paw to pull up the bedsheet to cover Jiang Chen, and pouted her small cat mouth, “This poop scooper really is something, always sleeping without a blanket every day, how troublesome!”

After covering him with the blanket, Xiao Jiu went downstairs to cultivate in the pool on the lower floor of the stilt house.

Time flowed quickly, and when Jiang Chen reopened his eyes, the sky was dimly lit.

Jiang Chen was startled for a moment, then looked at the electronic clock beside him. It was six o'clock in the morning, and the date was the next day. His stomach also conveniently rumbled loudly.

He had returned at 1 PM yesterday, which meant he had slept for 17 hours straight… Jiang Chen was a bit speechless. Had he slept for too long?

This was just extracting one Whale Breath Meditation Technique skill. If he extracted more powerful skills later, or the Unicorn Iron Whale bloodline, wouldn't he have to sleep for a week or a month straight?

He not only became a young master with kidney deficiency but also a legendary sleeping beauty?

Jiang Chen: “...”

Jiang Chen's head began to ache. He had to find a way to improve his physique quickly!

Otherwise, if one day he were to sleep forever, wouldn't he just die on the spot?

As Jiang Chen moved on the bed, he felt a round, furry, warm creature snuggled next to him. It was Xiao Jiu.

This stinky cat had burrowed into his bed again!!

Jiang Chen shook his head, checked Xiao Jiu's cultivation progress, and was immediately surprised.

After he fell asleep yesterday, this big cat hadn't been lazy. It was commendable!

The amount of spiritual energy in Xiao Jiu's body had surged significantly. Originally, at the Early-Awakening Stage, the spiritual energy in her body was only about the thickness of a strand of hair, but now that strand of hair had slightly expanded by a circle!

It was the effect of the Whale Breath Meditation Technique, which instantly doubled Xiao Jiu's cultivation speed!

At this current speed, after another effort at the Nanhu Underwater Grassland next month, she should be able to break through to the Mid-Awakening Stage!

This was a speed Jiang Chen had not dared to imagine before!

“Being a young master with kidney deficiency and a sleeping beauty doesn't seem so bad...”

Pulling the blanket over Xiao Jiu, Jiang Chen made breakfast before waking her up.

The human and cat quickly finished breakfast. After storing Xiao Jiu in his beast taming space, Jiang Chen slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked towards the Ningshui Town Beast Taming Academy.

The Ningshui Town Beast Taming Academy was situated on a huge reef. Although it was called huge, its area was less than a hundred square meters. To Jiang Chen, who had seen countless vast lands in his previous life, this was not particularly remarkable.

But for other ordinary students, this reef was a rare, even the only, piece of land they could touch on the sea.

More than half of the Ningshui Academy was still suspended above the water, built with a special kind of water spirit bamboo into various classrooms and rooms.

Quickly arriving at Senior High Class 3 (3), Jiang Chen saw that his deskmate, Nangong Yan, had already arrived.

However, this deskmate was currently sitting in his seat, his eyes fixed on his left hand, which was in a cast, his face full of sorrow.

The day before yesterday, Nangong Yan accidentally injured his left hand while cultivating.

“What are you doing? Staring at your left hand?” Jiang Chen sat down and asked curiously.

“Thinking about my wife,” Nangong Yan sighed.

“What wife?” Jiang Chen was stunned. “Didn't your dad say he'd set you up with a blind date after you graduate high school? Where do you have a wife now? And what does your injured left hand have to do with a wife?”

“It's precisely because my left hand is injured that I'm thinking about my wife,” Nangong Yan turned his head and looked at Jiang Chen with a melancholic expression.

“Huh???” Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen was a bit speechless. This deskmate was becoming more and more repressed!

In this water world with various powerful sea beasts, humans were only in the middle of the food chain. All kinds of crises appeared at all times, greatly reducing the average human lifespan.

With reduced lifespans, people married and had children at a much younger age, generally getting married at eighteen.

Some Beast Tamers from well-off prominent families would even marry earlier. After all, life and death were unpredictable in battles with sea beasts, so it was very necessary to leave behind bloodline descendants in advance.

“Ding-a-ling-a-ling~~~”

The two talked a few more sentences, and then the class bell rang.

Almost at the moment the bell rang, a female teacher, probably around 20 years old, dressed in simple jeans and a blue top, with long flowing hair and extremely highAppearance (beauty), walked in right on cue with the bell.

Her skin was like congealed cream, her loose hair framed a fair, oval face, her lips were thin and rosy, her eyes were large and spirited, and her prominent nose gave her features a three-dimensional quality, making her exquisite and beautiful.

Almost as soon as this female teacher walked in, the originally noisy classroom quieted down slightly. Even Jiang Chen and Nangong Yan couldn't help but turn their gaze to this Class Teacher.

Even when she stood poised on the podium, it seemed as if the dust motes in the air revolved around her, exuding a statue-like beauty.

This person was their Class Teacher for Senior High Class 3 (3), Jian Qingqiu.

For some reason, every time Jiang Chen saw Jian Qingqiu, he always had the illusion that this female teacher was light and ethereal, full of immortal energy, as if she were a fairy stepping on clouds.

To be honest, even though Jiang Chen had seen countless films in his previous life... *cough cough*, don't misunderstand, he meant all kinds of movies and TV dramas, and had seen countless beautiful and glamorous female stars, Jiang Chen still felt that his Class Teacher was absolutely no less stunning!

Moreover, because this world was a transcendent water world, one could become stronger and more beautiful through cultivation, so most people generally didn't wear makeup.

At this moment, Jiang Chen could also tell that Jian Qingqiu was completely barefaced, without any makeup.

Her barefaced beauty was outstanding!

In typical transmigration novels, a female school beauty who is as beautiful as a celestial fairy and cold and arrogant would always be the protagonist's first love.

But Jiang Chen's transmigration posture was clearly more impressive; his first love had been upgraded. She wasn't a female classmate, but a female teacher.

Nangong Yan also looked at Jian Qingqiu with a lovestruck expression: “The Class Teacher has once again stunned me, making my heart flutter just a tiny bit!”

Jiang Chen said: “Me too. I actually fell for my teacher, I'm despicable!”

Nangong Yan: “...”

Jiang Chen: “...”

Jian Qingqiu paced onto the lecturer's platform, scanned the classroom, and after confirming that all the students were present, a faint dimple appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she smiled elegantly, “Good morning, students.”

“Because we will be going to the Nanhu Underwater Grassland for cultivation and combat training next month, today I will impart a skill to everyone. You must study hard, as it will be of great use when we go to the Nanhu Underwater Grassland.”

Almost as soon as Jian Qingqiu finished speaking, the entire classroom immediately erupted!

All the students present were ecstatic!

A skill!

The Class Teacher was actually going to impart a skill to them. This was too wonderful!

Jiang Chen's eyes also lit up, because skills were divided into pet-exclusive skills and general skills.

When taught in school, it would naturally be a general skill.

Jiang Chen had just obtained a skill yesterday, and Xiao Jiu's cultivation speed immediately increased by 2 times!

So the importance of skills was self-evident!

Today, Jian Qingqiu was going to impart another skill, which would further accelerate Xiao Jiu's cultivation speed!

In this dangerous water world, the faster one's cultivation speed, the stronger one's power, so this couldn't help but make people excited!

Jian Qingqiu waited for the crowd to cheer for a while, then gently waved her fair, lotus-like arm, and a powerful spiritual pressure was released from her body, forcing everyone to shut their mouths.

“Alright, everyone, listen carefully now.”

“The skill I am going to impart today is called the 'Turtle Breath Meditation Technique'.”

“After learning this skill, at the introductory stage, it can increase spiritual energy absorption speed by 20%. At the proficient stage, it increases by 50%. At the mastery stage, it's 80%, and at the perfect stage, it doubles.”

“The increased cultivation speed is quite good. For the next month, everyone should try to cultivate this skill to the proficient stage as soon as possible. That way, when we go to the Nanhu Underwater Grassland, the cultivation effect will be increased by half.”

As soon as Jian Qingqiu finished speaking, the entire classroom immediately erupted again!

Jian Qingqiu smiled slightly and withdrew her spiritual pressure.

The students cheered and rejoiced, their faces full of excitement!

This Turtle Breath Meditation Technique was truly amazing. It instantly accelerated their spiritual energy cultivation speed, giving them greater confidence and assurance for next year's Beast Tamer College Entrance Examination!

Perhaps they could even get into a good Beast Tamer university because of it!

However... while everyone was happily cheering and shouting, Jiang Chen's originally joyful face subtly stiffened.

What?

My dear goddess, is this the skill you're imparting?

Even if this Turtle Breath Meditation Technique is cultivated to a proficient state, it only increases cultivation speed by 50%!

It's truly too disappointing!

The skill impartation quickly ended, and after everyone cultivated a few times, the class bell also rang.

As Jian Qingqiu was leaving, she said, “Jiang Chen, come with me to the office.”

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