A simple announcement caused a huge stir in the 5012th class.

Ding, ding, ding!

Chen Mobai hadn’t even left his office when his phone started ringing incessantly. Ming Yihua, Yun Yangbing, and other acquaintances were all calling him almost simultaneously.

With no other choice, he had to answer them one by one.

Meanwhile, those who couldn’t reach him started chatting in the “Divine Transformation Class” group.

Ming Yihua: [Damn, Old Chen is awesome!]

Lu Zixuan: [So amazing!]

Gong Ranran: [Treat us, hurry up and treat us]

Wang Xingyu: [I have to say, I contributed a third to this. Without the Qi Refining Spirit Water I made, he wouldn’t have progressed so fast.]

Li Zimo: [I’ve never seen someone as shameless as the one above.]

Wang Xingyu: [Do you still want the elixirs I make?]

Everyone: …

Chen Mobai: [Tonight, at the usual place, let’s all gather.]

At this point, Chen Mobai finally finished his calls. His message immediately received a wave of likes and cheers.

Inside the library.

Zhuang Jialan and Si Guanyu, who were researching to repair an ancient talisman, were shocked when they saw the pop-up notification on their phone screens. They stopped their work.

“He actually succeeded in Foundation Establishment so quickly?”

The scholarly Zhuang Jialan adjusted her glasses, her eyebrows slightly raised. Her words revealed a hint of disappointment she herself hadn’t noticed.

“Last semester we caught up with his grades, and this semester we even surpassed him. We thought he had reached his limit, but it turns out he was focusing on Foundation Establishment.”

Si Guanyu sighed.

However, he didn’t know that after Chen Mobai took the Enlightenment Pill, he had learned the content of the talisman course up to the third year.

Even so, Chen Mobai only managed to score close to these two talisman course geniuses at the end of the term, barely getting one more point and maintaining his position as the top student of the third year.

But after entering the fourth year, Chen Mobai’s grades started to plummet, and he fell to the bottom in the two monthly exams.

At this point, some people began to doubt Chen Mobai’s abilities.

Especially Si Guanyu and Zhuang Jialan, who had passed the second-level talisman maker exam this year.

The Immortal Gate’s second-level talisman maker exam is known for its strictness.

After registration, each person will receive ten randomly generated second-level talismans, and they are required to find the textbook tutorials to practice. A year later, they will go to the exam site to make talismans on the spot.

The time limit is one day and one night. If you successfully make eight out of the ten talismans, you pass the exam.

Over eighty percent of second-level talisman makers are Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Those who can become second-level talisman makers at the Qi Refining stage are generally considered geniuses in talisman making.

After Si Guanyu and Zhuang Jialan registered last year and passed the exam this year, they completely overshadowed Chen Mobai in the Talisman Department.

Some people even removed Chen Mobai from the “Top Ten Talisman Makers of the 5012th Class” and put the title of the best talisman maker on them.

“He sees things more clearly than all of us.”

Zhuang Jialan sighed. She had been proud of passing the second-level talisman maker exam, but after seeing the news of Chen Mobai’s successful Foundation Establishment, she felt that her achievement was so insignificant and illusory.

“After repairing this ancient talisman, I will devote myself to practicing the Critical Method.”

Si Guanyu also understood this. The average level of the Weapon Dao Academy to master the Critical Method is the sixth year. So they didn’t worry about not understanding it before.

But after Chen Mobai became the second student in the 5012nd class to successfully establish his foundation, a sense of urgency arose.

After all, Zhong Li Tianyu was too far ahead of them. Even if the former made rapid progress, they didn’t have any substantial comparison or feeling.

But they had been with Chen Mobai for these four years, attending classes together every week.

The huge impact of a close friend’s success ignited their fighting spirit.

I must become the third person in our class to establish a foundation!

At this moment, Chen Mobai also appeared in the Talisman Class group and sent a location.

He was treating everyone to dinner tonight to celebrate his successful Foundation Establishment.

“Are we going?”

“Yes, I want to eat him out of house and home!”

Zhuang Jialan waved her little fist, speaking with a hint of defiance.

On the training field of the Sword Control Department, two bright swords clashed like lightning under the control of two young men, sparking brilliant sparks and rumbling echoes.

After about twenty or thirty clashes, one of the practice swords let out a mournful cry and fell from mid-air, plunging straight into the ground.

“You’ve mastered the basics of swordsmanship, but your spiritual sense is weak. Your sword control technique is proficient, but rigid. Your judgment of offense and defense is also problematic. You need more real sword fights.”

“Thank you for your guidance, Senior Zhai.”

After pulling out his flying sword, a second-year genius swordsman bowed respectfully to a young man with a horse-like face.

He was Zhai Jianbai, one of the top ten geniuses of the 5012nd class, known as the number one in sword practice, and considered the most likely to achieve Foundation Establishment after Zhong Li Tianyu.

It was said that during a sword practice, he entered a divine and enlightened state and swung his sword to produce the “Sword Qi Long Rainbow”, the third realm of sword cultivation.

After unleashing that sword strike, he had to rest for three full months to recover. However, he was personally recognized as an “unparalleled swordsmanship genius” by the head of the Sword Control Department, Taoist Master Zuo Gong, a sword cultivator at the Core Formation stage!

“Hmm, let’s have another sword duel, this time I will use fifty percent of my power…”

Just as Zhai Jianbai was preparing to give pointers to this junior he had high hopes for, a young female swordsman with her hair tied up ran over with her phone.

“Senior Zhai, there was a pop-up on the campus network.”

Zhai Jianbai was about to comment on how uninteresting the campus network pop-ups were, always filled with the leaders’ nonsense.

Then, his sharp eyes, honed from sword practice, caught sight of the content on the phone screen.

【Congratulations to our school’s 5012th student, Chen Mobai, for successfully achieving Foundation Establishment】

Chen Mobai?

Isn’t he the top student in the Talisman Department?

He’s even faster than me?

I thought I was the first one in this class to comprehend the critical law.

“Senior?”

Seeing the strange look on Zhai Jianbai’s face, the two people next to him called out softly.

“Let’s call it a day, I’m going back first.”

After saying this, Zhai Jianbai put away his practice flying sword and left the sword practice field.

“It is said that every once in a while, there is a golden age, where many world-class heroes, the pride of heaven, gather in one class. It seems that this 5012th class is the most recent golden age of our Taoist Academy.”

Achieving Foundation Establishment in the fourth year of the Taoist Academy, such an achievement, even in the entire history of the Dance Weapon Taoist Academy, can be ranked in the top 3%.

“I believe Senior Zhai can definitely catch up with this Chen Mobai!”

The young swordsman from the Sword Control Department said this with a somewhat hollow tone.

That’s the real genius who is number one in Talisman, Puppetry, and Agriculture.