My Master Only Breaks Through on the Edge of Death

"One year’s tuition is 35,000, it’s 3.5 million for 100 years, 35 million for 1,000 years, 3.5 billion for 10,000 years, and for 360,000 years..."

Overwhelmed by this colossal figure, Xu Fan felt a sensation of helplessness come over him.

"It seems I won’t be able to reach the Golden Immortal level in the short term," Xu Fan sighed.

"It’s more reliable to focus on teaching my disciples and the sect disciples," Xu Fan declared.

Given the whole Hidden Spirit Sect’s ability to generate income, his promotion to True Immortal within ten thousand years should be feasible. However, the thought of progressing further from True Immortal to Golden Immortal was too daunting even to contemplate.

At this moment, a visit from the Guardian True Immortal of the Gold Device City came about.

"Greetings to the Great Master," said Guardian True Immortal Shang Ling, his face showing a tinge of delight.

"Judging by your cheerful expression, it seems the Gold Device Academy is doing well." Xu Fan said cheerfully.

Remembering the Guardian True Immortal reminded him that the academy had already been enrolling students for a while now.

"Thanks to your blessings, Great Master, the academy currently has 3 million students, all who have come attracted by our reputation from the nearby Giant Cities."

"If we can successfully teach this batch of students and garner recognition from the Will of Heaven, we could easily muster more than ten million students in the next recruitment wave."

"The academy may need to expand again within a millennium," said the Guardian True Immortal, laughing.

His visit’s purpose was to express gratitude for the Illusion Teaching Immortal Tool Xu Fan had granted him. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He originally assumed the Illusion Teaching could only instruct common cultivation techniques and divine abilities.

However, to the students’ surprise, they found the Illusion Teaching could instruct on cultivation techniques and divine skills, as well as an assortment of other teachings: artifact refining, pill alchemy, talismans, formations and even various other branching disciplines.

He capitalized on this feature for promotion, which allowed him to enroll millions of students from the surrounding giant cities.

This move had placed him in the spotlight at the Star Moon Immortal Domain’s Guardian True Immortal Conference.

"I came here firstly to express gratitude to your sect and the Great Master, and secondly to present the share from this term’s tuition fees." said the Guardian True Immortal, handing over a storage bag.

The storage bag contained 3.1 million Immortal Jade, which represented an 80% share of the tuition fee profits.

Upon receiving and scrutinizing the storage bag, surprise showed on Xu Fan’s face.

"3.1 million Immortal Jade? That seems a bit excessive," said Xu Fan.

"It’s not excessive. The academy has crafted courses teaching Qi Refining, Pill Alchemy, Talisman, and Array Techniques that take in more fees than standard courses," explained the Guardian True Immortal.

"That’s good, feel free to ask for my help whenever needed," said Xu Fan. He didn’t anticipate such a pleasant surprise this time.

"I’m grateful for your generosity, Great Master. I indeed have a favor to ask," said the Guardian True Immortal, holding out several Jade Discs.

"They are the academy’s top-tier cultivation techniques and corresponding divine abilities. I hope the Great Master could have a look."

Upon briefly inspecting the Jade Discs handed to him by the Guardian True Immortal, Xu Fan crinkled his brows.

Compared to the Hidden Spirit Sect’s teachings, these techniques and abilities fell considerably short. An individual equal in cultivation level but following the Hidden Spirit Sect’s techniques and divine abilities could easily vanquish a group of their practitioners.

These techniques and abilities could be considered slightly better than the average ones in the Immortal World, but the difference was marginal.

"So these are your family’s techniques and abilities? They’re a bit lacking," Xu Fan commented.

"Hence, we would like to acquire some slightly better techniques and divine abilities from your sect to make our academy more competitive."

"Of course, we’d make it worth your sect’s while. All the proceeds from selling the techniques within the academy will go directly to your sect," the Guardian True Immortal earnestly requested.

"That can be arranged easily," Xu Fan promptly whipped out several Jade Discs.

These discs contained techniques and divine abilities he had discovered in the Immortal World. They were comparatively superior within the Immortal World.

"Thank you, Great Master!" the Guardian True Immortal said with appreciation.

Shortly after, the two had a brief chat about the matters of the Immortal Realm, and the Guardian True Immortal left.

"3.1 million Immortal Jade, not bad, it can almost accelerate over 90 years." Xu Fan chuckled.

At this moment, the measuring unit in his mind had changed.

At the Golden Device Academy, all the students are now studying in the Illusory World of the Immortal Realm.

Some students are reviewing cultivation techniques, and some are practicing divine abilities.

Each student employs this illusion to learn through competition.

In addition to that, there’s another special illusion area.

At this time, a ten-year-old boy is working hard to invoke Spiritual Fire with his own spiritual power, trying to smelt the Spirit Iron in front of him.

As he is forging, he is trying to concentrate spiritual energy into a large hammer to hit the Spirit Iron.

With the smelting of the Spiritual Fire below, and the beating of the spiritual power hammer above, a spiritual sword began to form gradually.

Then the boy, despite his exhaustion, inscribed three runes onto this spiritual sword.

After that, the exhausted little boy withdrew from the Illusion Teaching World.

At this time, a congratulatory voice echoed around the space where the little boy was originally stationed.

"Congratulations to the student, Guang Xu, who successfully forged the first excellent-level magical treasure of the academy, with a reward of 1000 contribution points."

At this moment, in the underground space supervising work at No.1 and No.2, Xu Fan suddenly received a message from Pu Tao.

"Master, a refining genius has been discovered inside the Golden Device Academy."

A light curtain appeared in front of Xu Fan, showing a little boy refining a device.

Xu Fan at first was indifferent, but as the boy forged the Spirit Iron with a large energy hammer, his expression became serious.

"Initial refining, to reach this extent."

Looking at the spiritual sword the boy had forged, despite it being just a simulation, the discrepancy between it and reality was negligible.

Xu Fan shifted his gaze to the sword and finally raised his hands, a black spiritual sword appeared in his hand.

This was the first magical treasure Xu Fan had refined, the Spirit Sword Tongyou. Although he hadn’t used it much, he always kept it with him as a memento.

The spiritual sword now forged by the small boy could be almost comparable to the Tongyou in his hand.

"The little boy named Guang Xu comes from Evergreen City. His parents are a pair of Combined Loose Cultivators…"

Pu Tao went on describing the boy’s and his parents’ experiences growing up.

"His cultivation talent is average, his comprehension level is average, but he has only shown outstanding talent in the Refining Path."

"Good, he’s a promising seedling." Xu Fan said, stroking his chin.

"Pu Tao, when the boy enters the illusion space again, arrange an entrance test for him into the sect." Xu Fan ordered.

"As you command, Master."

So, just as he had rested and recovered his spiritual power, Guang Xu, upon entering the Illusion Teaching World, had a dream.

But when he woke up from the dream, he didn’t remember anything.

"Strange, why did more than half of my just recovered spiritual power disappear? It seems like I didn’t rest enough." After saying that, Guang Xu exited the illusion teaching space, planning to go back to his room to rest.

"Master, Guang Xu has passed the sect examination, with a full score." Pu Tao reported.

"It’s about time I took in a disciple specializing in refinement." Xu Fan said, stroking his chin.

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