Jackson considered his words and said slowly, "This year's Regional Selection is very crucial. It concerns the academy's budget and investments for the next year. If we can have a student get into the top ten in this year's Regional Selection, it'll be a great help to the entire academy."
Although Jackson admired Fang Xingjian a lot, what he truly valued the most was still the entire academy.
In the past, Fang Xingjian's talent was too outstanding, and he even had hopes of attaining the Divine level. Therefore, he had poured all the resources onto Fang Xingjian, hoping to make Kirst Academy famous.
However, the situation had changed. Fang Xingjian had lost his sight, and the rewards for the Regional and National Selections had increased tremendously. Who knew how many geniuses or old monsters would be born? Every academy would also invest in them crazily. It could be said that this would be the Regional Selection with the most intense competition in the past few decades.
At a time like this, although it was a pity, Jackson also knew that he could not waste any more resources on Fang Xingjian. Even maintaining the treatment of a Prefectural Champion was something he had only done after considering Huang Lin's reputation.
This was also because Edger understood this Headmaster of his too well. Now that the Empire had adjusted the rewards for the Regional and National Selections, this was the general trend. Under such circumstances, no matter how good the relationship between the Headmaster and Fang Xingjian was, it would not be able to change anything. It was because one was doing it for the academy's benefit, while the other was doing it for his own benefit. The benefits between the two were already different.
In fact, Edger had at most played the role of adding fuel to the fire. When Jackson and Fang Xingjian represented different interests, even without Edger's appearance, today's situation would still have happened. It was just a matter of time.
Jackson said, "Therefore, your cultivation resources can only be maintained at the level of a Prefectural Champion. Also, we hope that you can temporarily lend the Superior Divine Weapon forged by Governor Devitt to the academy. We'll pay you a reasonable sum of money and return it to you after the Regional Selection."
Jackson tried to maintain a gentle tone as he said, "Don't worry, Xingjian. As long as you bear with it for the next three months and three weeks, once our academy is able to achieve good results in the Regional Selection, we'll definitely repay you in double. "In these four months, I hope that you will be able to restrain yourself. If you get a good result in the Regional Selection, the budget will be doubled. With more resources, we can also give you better conditions to strive for Heaven's Perception."
As for the Divine level expert, the Holy Orison, coming personally to treat Fang Xingjian, Jackson did not harbor any hope at all.
He had asked around and found out that the last time Holy Orison had treated an injured person was three years ago. Three years ago, Holy Orison had been in seclusion on the Yalan Holy Mountain in the northeast.
The Yalan Holy Mountain was under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of Truth. The Holy See of Truth was the top religion on the continent. Even the royal family of the empire would not dare to provoke them.
After hearing Jackson's words, Fang Xingjian did not reply for a long time. However, he had no way of rebuking him. Even if he had absolute confidence in himself, even if he had reasons to pass the Regional Selection, these were all his own reasons. There was no way he could use these reasons to convince Jackson to support him.
There were no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests.
After he had lost his sight, the interests he represented and the interests Jackson represented had become two different directions. Right now, he did not have enough reason nor did he have enough power to force Jackson to do something that was in line with his own interests, Fang Xingjian's.
Therefore, Fang Xingjian did not pester him too much. He just nodded and said, "I understand."
Jackson nodded, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I'm very sorry."
After he left, Fang Xingjian continued with his cultivation. All the problems were ultimately related to his sight. The best thing he could do now was still to cultivate. If he did not attain Heaven's Perception, he would not be able to pass the stage of Pantheon Monument Observation, and there would be no hope for him in the Regional Selection.
Streams of sword intent would occasionally cut through the air, releasing a series of sonic booms. They created streams of white air currents that were dotted with sparks, shooting toward the sky.
'In my current situation, if I were to fight, I can only use my sword intent to kill my opponent within a ten-meter radius.
'Therefore, if I were to fight, I'll have to use my sword Qis to sense the environment and make the first move before my opponent makes his move. I'll then charge over and drag the fight to a close combat.
'Once an expert pulls away from me and starts a long-distance battle at supersonic speed, I won't even be able to find my opponent.
'However, if I can make the first move and make the first move before my opponent does, then not everyone will be able to take on an attack that is eight times that of supersonic speed.
'Other than that, a spot of white light lit up on his finger, shining out in all directions.'
It was the Radiant Light Sword Technique from Zhou Yong. Since I have lost my sight, then I'll make my opponent lose his sight as well.
However, Fang Xingjian still shook his head. His eyes had not recovered, and his current battle style was too simple.
'The academy's resources are running low. I'll have to think of a solution myself.'
Fang Xingjian gave it some thought and felt that there was only one solution left.
He called the maid, Lina, over and said, "Take a pen and paper and write up a notice and post it up. Remember, post it at the place with the most people in the academy. Tell them that I've reopened my classes and will be guiding Knights."
What Fang Xingjian wanted to do was, of course, to open up supplementary classes on martial arts, to guide the students in their martial arts, and to collect the school fees to earn money. Through this, he would be able to replenish his cultivation resources.
After all, his physical body was automatically cultivating twenty-four hours a day. When he was researching Heaven's Perception, he would just need to divert some of his attention to guide the students.
Although Fang Xingjian had lost his sight, his ability to guide others had been proven in the past. Almost on the second day after he put up the notice, over ten Knight students came forward to register for the classes.
There were also many people who did not come but were secretly observing. Once they ascertained that Fang Xingjian's ability to guide had not deteriorated by much due to his blindness, they would naturally come forward to receive his guidance.
Anthony, Ferdinand, Robert, and the other students who had been in the same class naturally came as well.
It was a pity that Jack had died and Lilia had been taken away by her father, never to return to the academy.
Anthony looked at Fang Xingjian, his gaze filled with pity. Fang Xingjian could be said to be a genius whom he had watched rise to prominence. But now, he had lost his sight and even needed to open supplementary classes on martial arts to earn money. Compared to the past, the difference was like heaven and earth.
Fang Xingjian could sense with his sword Qi that a total of eleven people had arrived. He smiled and said, "It's been a long time. The main reason why I'm opening up this supplementary class is to earn some money to exchange for cultivation resources. "I'll be here every day. As long as you guys are here to cultivate your martial arts, I'll guide you. "Of course, it'll be the same as before. If any of you do something that doesn't meet the standards, I'll just execute my force to correct you. There will be no words or interaction. Five gold per month."
Five gold per month … If there were as many people as the previous time, he would be able to earn one to two hundred gold per month. Adding on to the ten gold monthly allowance from the Prefectural Champion, as well as the money he had saved up in the past, he would have a total of five hundred gold. This would be enough for him to cultivate twenty-four hours a day until the Regional Selection that would be held four months later.
However, when they heard that Fang Xingjian wanted to charge five gold per month, a commotion broke out.
A Knight with blue hair was the first to complain unhappily, "Didn't you say that one would be able to receive guidance just by reading a sword arts manual? Why are you asking for money now? "
Someone else protested, "That's right, five gold per month is too expensive. The instructor's supplementary classes only charge one or two gold per month. What right do you have to charge five gold?!"
"Moreover, you can't even see now. Who knows how much martial arts you have left? What right do you have to charge such an expensive fee of five gold?"
Fang Xingjian said calmly, "Because my level is ten times higher than theirs."
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