Chapter 1624: Chapter 1624
Chapter 1624: Chapter 1624: Jade Island Cultivation School
The cultivators with children eagerly raised their hands, showing great interest in the school Long Fei mentioned.
Long Fei pointed to a woman and asked with a smile, “Fellow Daoist, what would you like to ask?”
“Young man, what do you mean by school? Can people from other sects also come to your place to study?”
This woman had a bold personality and spoke very straightforwardly.
She was holding a child who seemed to be around three or four years old, with a pacifier made of stone in his mouth.
Long Fei nodded and said, “Of course, they can. My wife prepared the Jade Island Cultivation School a month ago, and it’s already mostly complete, divided into primary, middle, and high school sections. The primary section is five years long, with the youngest enrollment age being three. The middle and high school sections are three years each, and by the time they are fourteen or fifteen, most children can graduate. At that time, they can choose to return to their own family or cultivate elsewhere.”
The group of women below exchanged excited looks. Although it’s the cultivation world, they also understood the importance of nurturing children from a young age.
Someone raised a hand and asked, “Is there any tuition fee?”
Long Fei laughed, “Our school operates entirely on compulsory education, providing food, drink, and basic cultivation resources for the children. Of course, the master leads the disciple, but the cultivation depends on the individual. Each child’s talent varies, and we will have a suitable system of the survival of the fittest. For example, only children who have successfully established their Foundation can advance to middle school after graduating from primary school. After graduating from middle school, only those who have successfully broken through the Enlightenment Realm can advance to high school. Upon graduating from high school, a large portion of the children should have successfully reached Core Formation.”
Someone questioned, “Doesn’t Jade Island have an ulterior motive? After our kids finish school, will you force them to join your Yin Yang Sect?”
Long Fei laughed heartily, “Fellow Daoist, please don’t view us from a mundane perspective. We won’t force anyone. We simply want to contribute to the cultivation world.
The cultivation world became the way it is today because we weren’t bound by rules from a young age and lacked moral education, leading to actions that go against conscience.
We aim to cultivate each child into an elite disciple of the cultivation world, letting them know the distinction between honor and disgrace, understand modesty, care for all beings, and act righteously, not allowing them to grow up in disorder as it is now.
During this process, they will make numerous friends and classmates, and once they step into the cultivation world, they will have a broader network, significantly aiding their careers.”
Without him having to say it, everyone understood the rationale behind gathering to study.
Especially some of the less fortunate offspring of loose cultivators whose parents didn’t have any cultivation resources, let alone spare ones for them.
If sent to the school with Jade Island’s free nurturing, they would receive a better education and make friends with those from big sects.
Someone exclaimed with interest, “Can we take a look at the school later?”
Long Fei smiled, “Of course. Before our conference begins, you are free to explore the island. However, I would like to inform everyone that there are restrictions on the island, and it’s best not to fly. Jade Island also strictly prohibits cultivators from flying in the air; using our Jade Island special vehicle is more convenient.”
“Shall we go take a look now?”
The crowd burst into excitement, especially those with children.
Long Fei glanced around, noticing quite a few of these half-grown children, numbering at least a thousand.
Out of a hundred thousand loose cultivators, only a thousand children—a somewhat low birthrate indeed.
Long Fei summoned the buses that were just transported from Songshan to the island. Each bus opened its doors, inviting the parents with children to go for a visit.
Each of these buses could seat a hundred people.
They were all powered by modified engines using spirit stones as energy to drive the vehicle, similar to mundane electric vehicles.
However, instead of charging, they replaced the electricity with spirit stone matrix boxes that could be changed directly.
Once the spirit stones in a box were exhausted, replacing it with another box allows continued operation.
This modification method was the simplest, with no technical content, merely replacing gasoline and electricity with spirit stones.
Otherwise, the mechanics were the basic gear structures.
Compared to the current development, this was the most grounded and cost-effective modification.
Indeed, there was another scheme akin to a flying saucer, but it consumed too many spirit stones and wasn’t very practical, remaining in the lab for the time being.
A group of cultivators looked at this novel iron box, having never seen such a thing before.
When the Jade Island disciples invited them aboard, they even thought they were going into the belly of a demon, too frightened to board.
Other cultivators without children found it intriguing and went up to touch and study the vehicle.
In the end, everyone got caught up in the excitement. Ten thousand people either took the vehicle or flew low on their swords, all heading together to visit the newly built school by Lin Yingying.
This school was on the outermost ring of the island, where according to Lin Yingying, one could enjoy views of the sea.
According to the Mo Family disciples’ plan, the island was divided into three rings.
The innermost ring served the Yin Yang Sect disciples for office work, and only inner sect disciples could enter.
The second ring was the place for outer sect disciples to cultivate and live.
The third ring was where children from various sects lived and cultivated.
This school was built around a hundred-meter-high hillside.
The top of the hill was where the principal lived and worked.
North of the hill was the high school section, south was the middle school section, westward toward the island’s center was the primary school section, and eastward near the sea was the entrance and comprehensive office area of the school, where teachers of all grades lived and worked.
Upon entering, the first sight was a huge plaza.
The plaza was still under construction, paved with bluestone flooring engraved with seismic mystic patterns, and around it, Coiling Dragon Pillars were still being erected.
These pillars were all built to serve as a defensive barrier.
This plaza was used for school-wide events and inter-grade communication.
What fascinated the crowd was the construction of the classrooms, each resembling an external university lecture hall.
Built from marble from surrounding islands with a hint of European style, resembling the Roman Colosseum.
Some, bringing their children, excitedly felt the ambiance in the classrooms.
The spacious and bright lecture halls, approximately thirty meters high, could accommodate three thousand students attending class simultaneously.
On the ceiling of the classrooms, Light Gathering Stones were embedded, illuminating the room brightly.
Each student section had its own sports field.
The fields were covered with green grass, now fully grown, providing a pleasing view.
Everyone finally believed that Long Fei was not joking.
Jade Island indeed intended to run a school, and the scale of this school was anything but small.
A group of loose cultivators were full of excitement as they finally had a platform for their offspring to develop.
However, some spies from major sects were a bit tense, sensing that Long Fei was seizing the cultivation world’s talent source, aiming to gather all the oceanic talent of the cultivation world around their Jade Island.
Even though the children aren’t obliged to join Jade Island, having this teacher-student bond is almost as good as joining Jade Island.