Throne of Radiance

"Bai Yi!"

At the gate of the No. [-] Middle School in Yuanyang City, Zhang Yun, who was about to go home, suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of him.

Almost an hour had passed since school ended, most of the students and teachers had already left, and the school gate was empty.

The dusk burned up the sky, casting orange-red light and gray shadows on the ground, and the entangled light and shadow fell on the tall and thin back of the boy.He walked forward with his head buried, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Hey, are you home yet?"

Zhang Yun ran over quickly, reaching out to pat him on the shoulder.

Just when Zhang Yun's hand was about to touch his shoulder, the boy turned around suddenly, just to avoid his touch.

The moment the orange-red light shone on the pale face, and the pupils with faint black circles looked over, under the burning dusk, Zhang Yun had an inhuman illusion.

But this illusion was only fleeting. When Zhang Yun looked at it intently, he only saw the surprise that was suddenly stopped in the other party's eyes.

With just the right amount of surprise, Bai Yi blinked his eyes slowly, and asked in turn: "Zhang Yun? You just came home now? Did you practice more at school?"

"Yes! Teacher Tu said that I am very talented, but after all, I just started to learn about martial arts. I have never practiced any martial arts before, and I have no foundation at all, so I need to practice more at ordinary times. Let's lay a solid foundation as soon as possible."

"To be honest, I didn't expect it at all before. I actually have a talent in martial arts. It's the first time I experience the feeling of being regarded as a genius. I'm still not used to it..." Thinking of the enthusiastic praise of Teacher Tu, he I'm really a little uncomfortable.

Zhang Yun rubbed his forehead, grinning so much that his white teeth were showing, he forgot the question he asked Bai Yi just now.

Although after he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that the deskmate in front of him seemed to be an ordinary person who was judged to have average martial arts talent. In the whole class, he was considered to be at the lower middle level. Isn't his current behavior a bit too Versailles? ?

Especially this tablemate who used to be so good that people can't match it, but happened to suffer a decline in the new era of spiritual energy recovery, and was judged to be an ordinary person who could not achieve success in martial arts no matter how hard he tried... In other words, the extraordinary era has come, The once good-for-nothing suddenly turned into an extraordinary genius, and the once omnipotent genius became an ordinary person in the extraordinary age, and was left behind by countless guys who were originally worse than him. The taste of the villain, it will be more similar if it is blackened in situ.

Zhang Yun couldn't help but started the theater in his head again.

Bai Yi looked at him with a subtle expression: "..."

... Weird mood swings, always feeling that this guy is thinking about something that is not friendly to him?

When Zhang Yun came back to his senses, he was greeted by a pair of dead fish eyes with dark circles, feeling as if he was being despised?It's not malicious contempt, it's more like the natural expression of cats and cats when they look at the stupid two-legged beast.

He gave a guilty laugh twice.

...I seem to have accidentally brought Bai Yi into a weird script, and it's a villain script?

It's really not like that at all.

——It’s like a genius who suddenly becomes useless, surpassed by someone who was left behind, all kinds of jealousy and pain, hating one’s own incompetence, envying the luck of others, so blackening the depraved villain’s script... Once Bai Yi’s The face is substituted into this type of villain: the lazy expression, the dark circles under the eyes that cannot be erased as if they were born, and the dead fish eyes that write boring at every turn... Ah!The villain set collapsed in an instant!

——"My tablemate is not this kind of person! "

Zhang Yun has a serious face: add the title of the book to show solemnity.

That's right, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for Bai Yi to become that kind of person!

...I feel that he is more suitable for the script of #Although there is no extraordinary talent, but this kind of thing doesn't matter. With a super high IQ, it's good to become a super scientist and crush the extraordinary.#.

"Stop!" Zhang Yun's uncontrollable brain supplement theater was suddenly interrupted, and Bai Yi raised her finger and shook it in front of his empty eyes.

"Illusions and illusions are all illusions! No matter what you were thinking just now..." At this point, Bai Yi raised his hand and snapped his fingers, showing a deep and mysterious expression that must be close-up in comics. He slowly spit out four words. Words, "one, forget, all, empty!"

!!!

Zhang Yun's pupils vibrated, and his expression went blank for five seconds.

Five seconds later, his shocked eyes moved, and the big "!!!" on his head changed to "???".

...his memory seems to be intact?

In other words, why did he subconsciously believe that his deskmate knew magic?

Is it because the tablemate's acting skills are too realistic, or his temperament is too unique, and now that extraordinary powers have appeared, it is not against harmony to say that he knows magic?

No, no, now is not the time to think about this at all.The point now is - he, society, dead, dead!

Click.

There was a soft sound, and the flash of the mobile phone camera shone on his bewildered face. Zhang Yun's dull eyes slowly moved up, meeting the face of Bai Yi, who was holding the mobile phone, and the corners of his mouth were still crazily raised.

"Ah, I captured a very funny expression." Bai Yi shook his phone, with a smile of a successful prank on his face, found Zhang Yun's account in the class group, and he casually sent the photo, "...the future The precious black historical photos of the great master of martial arts must be very valuable if they are taken out in the future, right?"

Although I heard Teacher Tu and other people call themselves #FutureWuDao大大师# more than once in a joking or serious manner, this is the first time I have heard Bai Yi say this. At the same time ashamed, Zhang Yun has an inexplicable feeling of being idolized. He couldn't help but grin out a smirk because of the fan psychology of praise.

"Haha, it's too early to talk about the future. In fact, I think I..."

"So come on, future martial arts master." Bai Yi patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him in a brisk tone, "When you become famous in the future, I will be able to stay at home and play games every day. History has come to feed itself!"

"???" Zhang Yun was instantly covered in question marks.

When he reacted, he found that Bai Yi had disappeared at some point.

Looking at the empty school gate, he could only say a slow tone, "...huh?"

...By the way, what did I want to ask before?It seems to be asking Bai Yi why he left school so late?

·

"La la la la la la la la~"

Bai Yi bounced around like a primary school student on a picnic, stepping on the stone road home, every step accurately hitting the grid.

He hummed a tune that he had forgotten the words, and walked all the way to his apartment building, only ten steps away from the stairs, when the antenna radar in his subconscious suddenly gave an alarm!

——It was a sudden attack from above, and at his normal walking speed, it would hit the top of his head after one step.With that kind of speed and strength, if he was still a mortal body, he would definitely be bleeding from the head in an instant, and in serious cases, he would end up dying.

——And once his head is not bleeding, it will inevitably reveal the secret that he is no longer a mortal body.

In less than a second, her brain analyzed the situation she might face next, and Bai Yi retracted her raised foot.

In the eyes of ordinary people, one second is enough for him to complete "instinctive perception of danger" → "brain analyzes the next situation and judges that as long as he stops, he will just avoid the attack" → "body stops in place according to the judgment of the brain" This series of things.

And the second after Bai Yi stopped in his tracks, he heard a loud shout from behind——

"careful!"

The voice fell, and a figure rushed over quickly.

The figure rushing towards Bai Yi like a rocket did not stop. When she came to Bai Yi, she jumped high into the air, using her waist as the axis, her lower body rotated half a circle, and kicked off with a kick of inertia. go out!

boom!

A group of black shadows flew out of the sky one step away from Baiyi, and then slammed heavily on the wall of the apartment building. A large amount of soil was splashed, accompanied by the sound of porcelain fragments falling to the ground.

—It was a flowerpot filled with soil.

Among the broken pots and scattered clods lay a cluster of deformed flowers, petals speckled with mud.

"Huh..." The people in mid-air floated down to the ground lightly, their blushing faces floated up due to the sudden burst of speed and strength just now, and there was still anxiety and worry that hadn't dissipated.

Xia Jiajia let out a sigh of relief, then turned her head to look at the person she was protecting behind her, "Bai Yi, are you alright..." Right?

She met a pair of overly calm eyes.Not to mention panic and fear, not even a little bit of surprise and curiosity.

Xia Jiajia's unfinished words got stuck all of a sudden.

It was Bai Yi who took the initiative to help her start the topic to avoid embarrassment: "Sister Jiajia, are you on vacation?"

It's the beginning of February, and their high school seniors still have classes, but it's time for college students to have their holidays.

"Yeah, it's almost a holiday." Xia Jiajia reacted and replied, "I just finished the last test yesterday, and I will officially have a holiday when the results come out. Anyway, I am a local, and I don't want to stay here like my classmates from other places." Waiting at school, I just came back directly, at worst, go to school again."

The moment of talking was enough for Xia Jiajia to sort out the messy emotions just now. She frowned and looked at the flower pot in the corner, and then looked up - this apartment building is adjacent to the apartment building where the two live. The first floor, placed on the side of the old city where the buildings are generally not high, is quite conspicuous.

There are flower pots on almost every balcony of the apartment building.This makes a certain gap in the center of the balcony on the ninth floor stand out.With Bai Yi's eyesight, he could clearly see the obvious gaps in the row of flowers.

Compared to Bai Yi who obtained the answer through direct observation afterwards, Xia Jiajia noticed the flowerpot falling when she went out. Her frown deepened, and she looked up at the ninth-floor balcony motionlessly:

"The railing seems to be broken and hasn't been repaired. Just putting the flower pots there is too careless. It will fall when the wind blows. It is not a joke if it hits someone. No, it has already hit someone. If I hadn't just bumped into it."

"No, this is too disgraceful, I have to go up and talk to them." The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, she rolled up her sleeves and pulled Bai Yi up to find someone, "At any rate, you were also the victim who was almost hit Or, although there is no accident, there is no need for any compensation, but at least I have to remind them to pay attention next time..."

But Bai Yi, who was pulled by her, remained motionless. Xia Jiajia, who had just taken a step, didn't notice what it meant that she didn't pull this seemingly thin high school student at all. She turned her head in surprise and urged: "Let's go!" !us……"

"No, you shouldn't be at home."

...I haven't been mentally polluted from the room on the ninth floor next door for several days in a row. Obviously, there is no one at home.

Of course, the reason cannot be said. Bai Yi casually gave an explanation: "I saw them go out a few days ago, and it seems that they have never been back. Let them remind them when they come back."

"Compared to this," he looked at Xia Jiajia, and his eyes swept over her leg that just kicked the flowerpot away, "Sister Jiajia, when did you have such fast reaction speed and strength?"

...Obviously she was just an ordinary house girl before.

Since people are not there, there is no way.Xia Jiajia also changed the topic in a second. She showed an expression of "you finally found out" and smiled mysteriously: "After three days away, you should look at it with admiration. The me now is not the me I used to be."

"So, sister Jiajia also practiced martial arts?"

The two casually sat down in front of Xia Jiajia's doorstep.

"That's right, it's not just you high school students who offer martial arts classes. Although our university is a little later than you, it's not a few days later." Xia Jiajia sat on the steps, resting her chin with one hand, and said with a smile.

"However, university is not like high school. There is no special martial arts class, but a martial arts club. It does not force everyone to learn martial arts, but only recruits talented people to join the club. Of course, you can learn if you are interested, but the salary is not as good as that of regular members. .”

Bai Yi nodded thoughtfully: "It's understandable. College students have actually passed the best age for practicing martial arts. People with low talents don't need to invest too much in martial arts training. It may not be worth the loss. Anyway, they have already been admitted to college. It’s no problem at all. Middle school students are different. They are more suitable for martial arts at their own age. If they can’t study well, there is another way to go. I think the above should be out of this Consider it?"

"I guess it's the same." Xia Jiajia agreed, and she has nothing to complain about. "So, now, junior high school students get the most martial arts resources and training, followed by high school students, and then college students. People with skills like me Those who are talented can get certain discounts and free resources when studying in the Martial Arts Club. For students who are not talented but interested, although the Martial Arts Club teaches basic knowledge for free, more will cost money.”

"...As for the social people who are already working, I heard that martial arts training classes will be opened in the society, but it may take a while. After all, there is not enough manpower now. The first batch of martial arts practitioners are basically sent to schools as teachers. gone."

Speaking of this, she showed a bright smile: "So, we are really lucky. But if it is a year or two later, we will not have the current treatment at all."

Xia Jiajia clasped his palms together solemnly, closed his eyes and bowed earnestly three times: "Well, thank the Lord of Heaven for choosing this time to come back!"

When she opened her eyes, she saw that the boy beside her also laughed. Those black pupils, which were purer than opals, reflected the burning light of dusk, and he spoke softly:

"Yeah, really lucky."

"...However, the Lord of Heavenly Capital probably doesn't like the title 'old man'."

Xia Jiajia froze for a moment, then waved her hand: "It's okay, the Lord of the Heavenly Capital won't hear me shouting like that."

"is it?"

"Isn't it? Could it be that he can sense the whole world with his spiritual sense like in fantasy novels? Hiss... no way?"

Xia Jiajia suddenly remembered the legend about the Twelve Cities of the Heavenly Capital. Even the sword world, a blessed place, could be opened up. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a fairy.Could the Lord of the Heavenly Capital really be able to do it?

She stated that she was severely frightened.

"I'm going home for dinner first. As for the answer to this question..." Bai Yi slowly got up from the steps and walked towards the stairs. His voice floated softly from the dark corridor.

"Well, who knows?"

·

[Who knows what these guys think?Yao Kingdom has already made public its plan to popularize martial arts for the whole people, and the phased plan from school to society is very clear.Countries around Yao Kingdom, such as the Sang Kingdom and the Islands Alliance, which belong to the oriental cultural circle, were also affected, and each implemented a policy of spreading martial arts.Although it is mainly in the form of opening martial arts and gymnasiums.As a result, what about our Morning Star Empire?There was no movement at all! ]

[Outrageous, really outrageous!It’s okay for them to block Chaofan’s information on the Internet before, and I can’t bear to push all the news of martial arts to Yao Kingdom to spread rumors. Now that the whole world knows what the truth is, the upper echelons of the empire actually want to hide their ears and steal the bell. Deaf and dumb, no movement for a month, really enough!Do they really think that we are all so easy to deceive, so easy to fool? ]

[No way, no way?You people of the Morning Star Empire don't think that the big figures at the top of the empire must be smarter, more rational and far-sighted wise men?Truth be told, sometimes it might just be a bunch of orangutans sitting in those chairs.All the orders they issue are just to protect their bananas and loot more bananas from others. ]

[...Anyway, many people are dissatisfied with the deception of the upper echelons. A few friends and I have made an appointment to join the parade in three days' time to protest against the empire's arbitrary policy.We are entitled to know the truth, we are entitled to the keys to the divine.This is the right granted to every citizen by the empire! ]

[I don't think the protest is useful, it's just something for the upper echelons of the empire to fool people.A shitty parliament, a shitty cabinet, a shitty emperor!I can see through them! ]

Because of the influence of the rhythm of all things, Bai Yi deliberately waited until the crowds were sparse before leaving the school, and was delayed by Zhang Yun and Xia Jiajia. When he returned to the second floor of the apartment, it was already late for dinner Not a lot.

Too lazy to cook, he simply boiled a pot of boiling water, then lay down on the sofa, and swiped his phone while boiling the water: "It's decided, today's dinner is clear noodles!"

It was another extremely lively day on the Chaofan Forum.This forum, which does not require confidentiality, has long since become a gathering place for extraordinary people recognized by many people with the spread of martial arts.

There were all kinds of discussions about exchanging information, searching for supernatural clues, discussing the world situation, but sure enough, most of the discussions were related to Yao Kingdom's national martial arts policy.

The people of Yao Kingdom naturally discussed enthusiastically. Needless to say, students who have already started to practice martial arts, experience posts, teacher apprentice posts, and learning exchange posts are refreshed almost every minute.The same is true for countries such as Sang, which followed Yao to promote martial arts.There is an unexpected harmony between them who are devoted to martial arts practice.There are also many people from other countries who are frantically advocating the rainbow farts of these countries, and seem to wish to change their nationality on the spot to be taught.

In contrast, the group of stubborn countries headed by the Morning Star Empire were sprayed miserably.

Foreigners are okay, their minds are all on martial arts training, and they are all concerned about their own martial arts practice progress. At most, they occasionally eat melons and watch the jokes in the circle of the Morning Star Empire.The domestic talents of the countries around the Morning Star Empire are the main force of the trolls, especially seeing that the East side is promoting martial arts, and their government has done nothing, as if they are going to pretend to be blind to the end, and they are being coaxed into fools The people almost exploded.

——If it weren’t for the countries in that circle still following the ancient traditions, not only did they not ban the aristocracy, but most of the military power of the country was in the hands of the aristocrats, and ordinary people had no power to contend with it for the time being, so they would not just quarrel on the Internet, It's as simple as parading a few laps on the street.

Gulp.gurgling.

The sound of water boiling came from the kitchen, Bai Yi lifted the lid of the pot, and looked at the bubbling water through the curling white mist.

"...it's boiling."