“Is this really going to do anything…”
Lin Jiaxin pulled off the black mask covering her face and rubbed her cheeks, which were flushed red from being covered.
Then she picked up a black notebook lying by the bed, her eyes full of disdain. “Sigh, I shouldn’t have chosen this…”
Nine Heavens Manifesting Saint True Solution.
That was the full name of the cultivation method she had selected.
The cover was inscribed with six large, flamboyant characters in some special gold-hot-stamped paint.
They sparkled and shone—completely over-the-top.
Back when she finished reporting for enrollment and it was her turn to choose a cultivation method, she dawdled in there for a long time, picking and choosing, never satisfied.
Either she disliked that the effect of one method wasn’t flashy enough, or she hated that the attribute of another didn’t suit her.
Finally, with time running out, she spotted that mysterious, hidden scripture in the corner of some bookshelf—pressed down, shining differently from all the other methods around it.
Nine Heavens Manifesting Saint True Solution!
“Scooping the moon from the Nine Heavens, manifesting sainthood before others!” Such a domineering name—it had to be extraordinary!
Shining so brightly, yet nobody had taken an interest?
What a tragedy! A waste of a divine treasure!
At that moment, Lin Jiaxin was brimming with confidence! She even looked down upon all those ordinary people who had missed such a great opportunity.
She believed that she, having traveled through time to save people, was the true protagonist!
Otherwise, how could she be the only one to discover such a colossal stroke of luck?
So, without hesitation, Lin Jiaxin took that dazzling Nine Heavens Manifesting Saint True Solution and walked out of the Scripture Depository with utter confidence, handing it to the teacher on duty at the entrance.
But the other party just looked at the dust on the book, opening their mouth as if to say something several times, yet somehow restraining themselves.
They handled it procedurally, processed the registration for her, and then silently handed her a replica that only she could view.
At that time, Lin Jiaxin was bursting with heroic pride, completely immersed in the beautiful fantasy of cultivating this method in the future, overpowering a host of formidable enemies, and standing aloof above the world.
So she didn’t notice the strange expression on the other person’s face at all.
…
The National Inter-School Regulations state that any successfully admitted student may enter the academy’s Scripture Depository on the day of reporting and choose one cultivation method as their primary one.
There is no official recommendation—which one you pick is entirely up to your own karma!
At the same time, this is meant to make students understand the rigor and importance of the path of cultivation.
For this elective cultivation method, there is no regret medicine to take.
Once a certain method is chosen, one can only cultivate that single method for the rest of their life. This is not just a limitation of the rules; the cost of switching methods is also extremely high.
Therefore, they believe that people must always pay the price for their own choices.
However, the academy’s upper echelons don’t actually want to see students pick trash methods and remain obscure for life.
Any cultivation method qualified to enter the Scripture Depository has an extremely high upper limit.
It’s just that each of them requires a different method of cultivation…
For example, that Nine Heavens Manifesting Saint True Solution that Lin Jiaxin confidently selected…
Its method of cultivation, as the name suggests, requires manifesting sainthood before others!
All kinds of manifestation! And it has to be a very special, very extreme kind of manifestation.
It’s completely different from ordinary people’s normal showing off, because showing off is something done after you’ve actually accomplished something.
In simple terms… it’s not pretentious enough, nor distinct enough.
And if you don’t manifest sainthood during cultivation, then your thoughts won’t be unobstructed.
If your thoughts aren’t unobstructed, the speed of spiritual power flowing through your meridians will slow down, or even stagnate!
When Lin Jiaxin returned to the temporary dormitory and flipped open the first page of the manual, she felt like the sky had collapsed!
What the hell?
Shouldn’t such a domineering name signify some kind of invincible technique—a transcendent, ancient, eras-conquering immortal method that could crush peers of the same generation?
What the hell is “must manifest sainthood before others”?!?!
And ordinary bragging or showing off won’t cut it—it has to be a unique, out-of-the-ordinary behavior to count as true sainthood manifestation.
So what counts as “unique”?
Running alone in the rain wearing a hoodie with a melancholy expression?
Or, in the classroom, in front of a bunch of classmates, opening Steam on the multimedia whiteboard, browsing the store page, only to end up with a failed connection because you can’t start the accelerator, and then helplessly opening the browser to browse stocks and funds and start researching the financial industry?
This… isn’t this forcing her to be a Jiahao?!
Oh, right—in this life she’s a girl…
Uh, so that would be Jiaxin…?
No, her given name is Lin Jiaxin!
Lin Jiaxin abruptly looked up at the sky!
She vaguely sensed some kind of power, as if an invisible, massive hand was secretly manipulating everything.
【♫ Turned to ashes in the mist, gone to perfection… ♫】
…
Lin Jiaxin hadn’t been without struggle.
She didn’t hesitate at the time; she immediately took the replica and went to find the teacher in charge of registration.
She spoke with great emotion, even adding in a few tears, trying to move the other person with reason and sentiment.
But the other party seemed to have expected this.
As soon as Lin Jiaxin finished speaking, she handed her phone over to the other person.
On it was a picture—a screenshot taken from the School Rules and the Imperial Laws.
It was densely packed with a ton of tiny text, making Lin Jiaxin dizzy and her eyes blur.
But what it ultimately boiled down to was really just two words:
[No way]
So, after learning that she really couldn’t switch methods, Lin Jiaxin bitterly swallowed her pride and began all kinds of attempts.
The first time, blushing with embarrassment, she gritted her teeth and deliberately put on an act in the school supermarket, pretending ‘Oh, things are so cheap here.’
But before she could finish, she spotted a expressionless female classmate sweeping half a shelf of snacks into her cart, which was then pulled away by two underlings using a small handcart…
Lin Jiaxin fell silent and didn’t continue.
She lowered her head, grabbed a box of Exclaim-brand strawberries, paid, and hurried out of the supermarket.
The second time.
Having learned her lesson from the last time, Lin Jiaxin thought maybe her background was too ordinary, and that kind of flaunting wealth wasn’t suitable for her.
So she decided to try a different angle…
For example… running in the rain while wearing a hoodie!
This was one of the most typical Jiahao behaviors from her previous life, Lin Jiaxin remembered it clearly.
And as luck would have it, it started raining that very afternoon, and it even got heavier and heavier.
Lin Jiaxin was overjoyed!
The right timing (heavy rain), the right place (large sports field), and the right people (lots of passing students)—all of them had appeared!
This rain seemed to be falling just for her…
…or was it?
After changing into shorts, putting on a black hoodie, and pulling up the hood—fully prepared—Lin Jiaxin rushed excitedly to the sports field, ready to begin her first true “manifesting sainthood before others,” when…
Lin Jiaxin was astonished to find that there were no shortage of students running on the field in the heavy rain!
In fact… you could even say it was overflowing with them!
She suddenly recalled—in this life, because physical education scores are included in the college entrance exam, everyone is basically a sports student…
The physiques of different people are indeed different, but that’s only when compared to the students from her previous life…
When comparing students from this side with each other, there’s basically no difference!
So… running in the rain isn’t considered a Jiahao at all. Or rather, everyone here is a Jiahao!
If everyone is a Jiahao, then Jiahao ceases to exist!
Thus, the more Jiahaos there are, the fewer Jiahaos there are!
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