Yousti had decided to rename the Martial Academy into Sumeru Academy.
It was a much better name and far less generic.
It a proper proper noun too.
Now that the issue had come to mind.
But as Yousti briefly contemplated Gao Luen’s suggestion he observed himself and his martial arts.
Yousti had now reached it.
The sixth realm of martial arts.
Yousti stepped forward into the void.
Stepping in the Void (虛空踏步)
He began ascending into the sky as he truly walked in the air.
‘I’ve reached the stage of martial arts where I am truly superhuman.’
He could even breath through his skin with his martial physique now.
His sweat glands and tears could produce silk.
It was truly the ideal body for his martial arts.
His physical traits had also been amplified which fortunately or unfortunately caused his effeminate traits to be amplified.
He was now fully androgenous.
With the martial robes he always wore, it was now difficult to discern his gender.
His hair had become a long silver white as well when before it was black.
(Image) Yousti looks similar to Pyo Wol from Reaper of the Drifting Moon.
But Yousti wasn’t concerned with his appearance and focused more on the practical aspects of his new body.
‘I can finally stop buying or taking donations of silk.
But more importantly I can finally use more of the Heavenly Escape.’
Heavenly Escape wasn’t just a method to sever consciousness.
It contained a myriad of consciousness techniques such as harmonizing with consciousness, dividing consciousness, and compressing consciousness.
With a divine consciousness that expanded beyond his brain his consciousness covered a radius of a couple meters and now had more than enough capacity to partition his thinking into several thought processes.
Within it he could also sense any intent without relying on his five senses and finally repel the world intent with Heavenly Escape without having to physically move.
Being able to interact directly with consciousness, he could now even attack the minds of others with martial arts, a distinctly different category of attack compared to psychic attacks.
And with Heavenly Escape he could now endlessly train in manipulation of his own consciousness, becoming more precise and mastering tiny details.
Martial arts that reached his limits were now far easier than before with true multitasking.
Forms one through five were fully available to Yousti now.
Center Cut, Center Winding, Center Torque, Center Binding, Center Resonance.
Yousti had mastered all five forms of the Center variation of Silk Song.
Combining the five principles of each form: Centrifugal Force, Potential Force, Torque, Tension, resonance, and vibration.
It was now a unified Martial Art
basic form: Center
A martial art that maximized the properties of a string.
Creating the most extreme string possible that could possibly conceived of in nature.
‘Now that I’ve learned Center, I suddenly feel like the moment I take any more steps forward with this martial art it will become horrifying beyond my comprehension.’
Yousti marveled once again at the Martial Records eldritch nature.
But most importantly of all!
He was now approaching an immortal lifespan.
He could now live for 1,500 or even possibly 2000 years before dying of old age.
That was nearly enough to reach the premodern era of the 3rd millennium.
‘I finally have all the time in the world to walk the path of martial arts.
Not only that but my ability to use the Genesis Qi Connection Mantra has been amplified.
I might be able to do it.’
Yousti in a sense couldn’t help but be relieved.
Now that he had crossed the threshold he could guarantee to himself that he could live out to the era of the 41st Millennium as long as he continued training in martial arts.
It was so easy to forget that he was in the world of Warhammer 40k.
~
‘It’s nearly been a year since teacher left.’
Aurora sighed to herself as she managed the Martial Academy as its sole peak martial artist.
‘Progress has been slow for my martial arts.
I’m so busy making sure the academy is running properly.
It’s nearly the deadline for the next final preliminary exam.’
She recorded the names of the recent influx of students that came the week after Yousti left.
‘There have been two more first rate martial artists this year.’
She felt swamped with work.
‘I know teacher has only spread around qi with that mantra of his for not even a full decade but I wish we had more higher realm martial artists.
Then I could delegate and go back to training with my knife and teaching students.’
She thought back to her favorite student who had reached first rate after six years.
‘I wonder how he’s doing.
I wish he stayed here.
He’s probably adventuring around the world at the peak realm with that talent of his.’
Internal energy flowed through her hand as she wrote down the affairs of the Martial academy.
She had been writing so much that she had been working on creating a martial art for writing.
So far the best she could do was alleviate pressure on her fingers and wrist using internal energy.
‘If I put the people learning sound arts here in the middle, everyone else will complain.
But nobody in the sound arts class wants to spend time walking off campus just to avoid distracting other classes.
Looks like I’ll have to request for a new building to be constructed.
But the officials don’t even understand sound arts as a form of martial arts and just think they’re learning music for elite school reasons.’
Aurora’s eyes fiercely read through every document.
As she felt the burden of organizing thousands of students.
She would have prayed to the gods for some kind of help, but Yousti always told her that time spent praying was better spent contemplating martial arts.
She was so frustrated with management that she grabbed her knife and stabbed it deep into her desk.
The desk was of course riddled with countless stab wounds over the last year, so one more didn’t hurt.
She turned her head as she heard the door open.
“Aurora we are changing the name of Martial Academy into Sumeru Academy immediately!” Yousti demanded as he slammed open the door to the office.
She didn’t care anymore.
Didn’t matter how her teacher was young again, or how he was completely surrounded by a sphere of intent, or his girlish look.
Or the paperwork on her desk.
Her rage and irritation at sitting still at this desk for tons and tons of all nighters boiled up from the depths of her soul.
She grabbed her knife that was still hilt deep in her desk with all her grip strength.
“DO IT YOURSELF!” She screamed.
BOOM!
The entire office and the building was bisected into halves and blown apart.
Yousti just stood there looking at the bright red angry intent of Aurora before responding.
“Ok.”
Aurora grabbed all the paperwork from her somehow still intact desk and stacked it on Yousti’s arms.
“We have a perpetual guest visiting in a week. We need to have a new building for sound arts. We nearly spent all our funding on repairs from stupid duels in stupid places destroying everything! We have gotten one thousand more students since you left and we need to get the next final preliminary exam done AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!” Aurora screamed to Yousti’s face.
“Perpetual, building, funding, dumb duels, and exam. Got it.” Yousti nodded as he listed each point.
“But uh.” He looked around at the obliterated office.
“Maybe tone it down yourself.”
A throwing knife bounced off of Yousti’s silk clothes.
“I have been toning it down!” Aurora yelled.
Yousti disappeared before heading away to his own office to work on the papers himself.
Aurora even with how angry and irritated she currently was.
She did an amazing job at holding the academy together in his absence.
Yousti was not expecting for a thousand new students to show up after he left placing such a burden on Sumeru Academy.
Not even Aurora did herself, it was bad luck for her.
‘First things first.
Officially change the name to Sumeru Academy.
The next exam will be a great way to announce the new name.’
Yousti with his divine consciousness easily processed everything within his mind.
‘The main thing that perpetual wants to do is meet me, so it’s not a big concern to prepare the academy itself.’
‘I can easily pull some strings to get that building for sound arts built soon.
Hmm, pun not intended.’
Yousti flipped through the various reports of property damage from spontaneous duels between students.
‘And I can put in a rule for instructors to stop anybody who damages property.
Seriously we have an arena for that.
I respect the spirit.
But why are students challenging each other in a bathroom of all places?’
He took another look at the report.
‘I can’t believe this.
They were naked at the same time too.
And it caused both of them to reach First Rate.
They’re the most recent first rate instructors in the academy too now.’
Yousti expected many things.
He knew martial arts could lead to eccentricities.
That was just the way of martial arts.
But they were also both hand to hand fighters too.
And Lovers at the same time!
‘Well I can’t judge them since I’m planning on doing something crazy soon too.’