The Geared Immortal

An Academy Life: 13

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When the young people around the 7th prince, Sai Wu, saw the approaching figure of Shin Jiao walking towards him, they immediately turned vigilant. Sai Wu is their leader and their pillar of support because of his background.

In the academy, he is used to throwing his weight around because of his connection with the royal family. As one of the cousins of the princes in the palace, Sai Wu has a temperament and a disposition of a noble. He would always look down on others especially those commoners. When he entered the Great Wu Academy, his pride and ego soared higher than he would disdain even some of the cultivators in the academy.

Since Sai Wu was born with a silver spoon, he is used to mocking people and his sight has been drawn to the beautiful but face of Tong Lei and he would always take a chance to bully the poor guy.

But this time, he has suffered a blow and could not take it out on Tong Lei because of Gu Ouyang's presence. So he set his eyes on Shin Jiao who seems to be just a bystander.

Though he didn't know why the fatty asked the young man to be his master but he didn't care.

To him, Shin Jiao is just one of those martial technique enthusiasts and has lesser skill in other forms of arts. This is because the Great Wu Academy is well known to have the lowest level of martial technique students. Ever since the academy was founded it never had any advantages to the other schools and would always place last when it comes to martial techniques. Hence those students in that department are considered trash.

Shin Jiao stopped after reaching a meter from Sai Wu. With a smile on his handsome face, he folded his arms and said.

"Well, if you really want to challenge me, then so be it… what kind of challenge would senior want?"

The calm voice of Shin Jiao suddenly made Sai Wu hesitate for a bit.

"Why is he confident in accepting my challenge? Is he also a crafting expert?" Sai Wu thought as he frowns.

"So what kind of thing are we making?" Shin Jiao asked nonchalantly.

Though he didn't want to be a show-off, yet he also didn't want to waste his time in this place. He has already helped Tong Lei and found another talent. With Tong Lei's attitude being humble and quiet, he can be sure that the technique he can teach him would not go to waste.

What Shin Jiao wanted is to present the technology in this land as that would give him the upper hand when he conducts more experiments and improves his own cultivation in the future. In his travel, he is always thinking of the things that he left in the underground base and how far has the community had progressed in these few months. He has left a lot of things that those people in that place can do and research for at least three to five decades. So right now he is not worried that the technology would have advanced that much.

But unknown to him, the people in that place have already advanced to five decades and has already almost implemented almost all of the blueprints he has left and more. He never would have thought that the advance robotics which he had written is already a functioning machine that acts as a buffer for the mortals to fight against those god-like cultivators.

But of course, with the distance and the slow pace of the people accepting the new technology, the news in that place has not reached the kingdom of Wu which is near the border of the whole empire.

After Sai Wu heard Shin Jiao's nonchalant question, he looks at him and suddenly grinned. Since he is good at crafting he wanted to also test the ability of the proud-looking young man in crafting. Suddenly he remembers that a few months ago in the faraway kingdom of Yi, he heard some news that in the kingdom there exists a large city in the borders of the Daemon forest.

In just a couple of months, the once small town was turned into a city and was regarded by the empire as the future of the cultivation land.

Then he heard that one of the advisers of the king of Wu has actually brought with him an artifact that even the teachers of the academy were stump for words on how it was made. The object acts as a reusable message or communication stone/glyph.

As one of the students who has participated in the research, though he is just a bystander and an assistant, he still grasped a portion of its function.

"Though I can only make a one-way communication at one time like that of a communication stone. But that is enough to stump these people. Hehe…" Sai Wu thought as he grinned.

Then his gaze turns towards Shin Jiao as he acted like he was in deep thought.

"How about we make a communication artifact… anyone who can successfully send a voice signal to another person wins." Sai Wu said with confidence.

He is sure that Shin Jiao is not aware of this technology as of right now it is not well spread in the kingdom. Only some of the nobles and researchers know about this news so he is not worried that his opponent knows about this kind of artifact.

With a smug look on his face, Sai Wu showed a jeering face at Shin Jiao. He is already confident of his win in this crafting match. Though he didn't know how Tong Lei won, however, he could not accept it if this young man from the martial technique department could win as he already has all the advantages.

"Young Sai Wu… this… this is impossible. What you are referring to is the new artifact…" Gu Ouyang suddenly said.

Gu Ouyang is actually a part of the research team that is conducting research about the new artifact from the Yi Kingdom. He was taken aback when Sai Wu extended this challenge. When he saw Shin Jiao he already know who he is and has an idea of his ability. But when the challenge was presented he immediately doubted if Shin Jiao can win.

"Teacher Ouyang, please don't bother to help him. Don't tell me that you are going to be biased against me, a student of the crafting department right?" Sai Wu said with a jeering tone.

When Shin Jiao saw the concern in the middle-aged teacher's eyes, he was a little touched and his respect for the middle-aged man grew by a bit.

"It's alright teacher Ouyang. I have a bit of knowledge in communication array. So…" Shin Jiao said with an assuring smile.

Seeing that Shin Jiao didn't want to step, Gu Ouyang just shook his head and advise the two to prepare. He also asked the other students to get some materials for the match as the materials in the hall are not compatible with what they have to craft.

"Hehe… you're a dead man… I will take back what I've lost and more." Sai Wu thought as he smiled and lifted his hand.

"Before we start, I want to propose a bet." Sai Wu said with a smile.

When Shin Jiao heard this he showed a worried face.

"Young prince, are you sure about this?" Shin Jiao asked looking worried.

"Haha… Are you afraid? For me, I'm not!" Sai Wu said in disdain.

"I'm just worried that all your credits would be wasted…" Shin Jiao said with a smirk.

"You…" Sai Wu shouted while pointing at Shin Jiao.

Although he was angered by the sarcastic remark from Shin Jiao, yet he never would have expected that the foolish young man doesn't know what's good for him. So Sai Wu decided that he would bleed all of the young man's credits and get his revenge.

The two decided to make the same amount of bet and they started the match.

Sai Wu began to use the furnace to make many separate parts of the artifact. It didn't take him long enough as his goal is not to make the whole artifact but enough to be able to send his voice towards the other end.

When Shin Jiao saw what Sai Wu is doing, he suddenly shook his head.

"These people don't know the core principle in making a communication device. This rune and array pattern that he is writing is like the usual communication stone. He only made some decorations to cover its true form, what a loser…" Shin Jiao thought as he sneered in his heart.

It took the two of them around 5 hours to finish the artifact they are making. For Sai Wu, it took him that long because he needed to make some intricate coverings for the one way communication glyph. But he didn't know that Shin Jiao and Gu Ouyang has already known his plan. He can only fool those people standing behind him. Even Tong Lei looks depressed upon seeing the intricate design of Sai Wu's artifact.

Meanwhile, Gu Ouyang is the only one focusing on Shin Jiao and when he observed what he is doing he was dumbfounded. Even though Shin Jiao put up an illusionary array to cover what he is doing. Gu Ouyang accidentally discovers this. So, he put his full concentration on the illusion array and his spiritual sense broke through it.

Then he can clearly see that Shin Jiao is not using the furnace but instead, with a dexterous hand, he quickly formed a simple framework. What Shin Jiao is making is a simple diagram of a communication device.

When he saw that Sai Wu can form an old-style mobile phone casing, he almost has an idea that the town of Dis has already implemented the usage of such tools. Then he knows that phones are already functional in that place.

So in his mind, if he can push this technology in this place, then there is a chance that he can communicate with the town of Dis and know the situation in that place. So right at this moment, he decided to show Gu Ouyang the technology that they seem to be familiar with but not in total control of yet.

When Gu Ouyang saw the diagram and the array, his eyes suddenly lit up.

And in that instant, he decided to do something. As from what he can see, the young man called Shin Jiao is not that simple and he needed to present him to the academy as soon as possible.

After walking forward, Gu Ouyang raised his voice.

"Prince Sai Wu… I think we have to stop."