Knowledge desert.

Under the silver sun, a crack with dim light appeared in the boundless desert. From three tents not far away, a gray-haired old man, a middle-aged scholar and a beautiful young girl emerged one after another.

All three of them wore gray robes from head to toe, with only one face exposed.

The old man was holding a staff, his body was old but his spirit was strong. He almost ran all the way to the crack and said happily: "He is worthy of being the first place in this year's 'Knowledge Competition' and the most potential 'artist' in a hundred years."

Even if you encounter a crack, you can still pass the level successfully. I must accept him as my student and teach him the knowledge I have gained throughout my life."

"Come on!"

The young girl opened her gray hood and looked sarcastic: "Don't you take a fancy to his potential and want to share every piece of knowledge he has gained from his experience? As long as he is not a fool, he will definitely not choose you.

You had the good luck that I envied. You were assigned to a brother and sister as temporary teachers by the Knowledge Academy, and you were lucky enough to enter into a temporary contract with Ru Di. Who would have thought that when the crack opened, you did not respond to his cry for help."

The old man wanted to argue that he could not leave because he had important things to do at the time, such as: his wife gave birth to a child, the child took the entrance exam, and the shelter in the house burst the water pipe.

The crystal headband on the girl's head emitted colorful dark light, turning the lies on the old man's lips into truth.

"To respond to the call for help, you have to go into the crack with him. Who knows if you can come out? What if you die in there? Damn it, you are trying to trick me!"

The middle-aged scholar who had been staring at the crack and was not involved in the dispute between the two turned his head and looked at the old man.

The old man gradually shrank his shoulders under his gaze, like a rabbit with a bad stomach.

"If you learn the truth in the morning, it's okay to die that night. You are afraid of death and have no determination to ignore life and death in order to gain knowledge. No wonder your studies have stagnated and you are getting older year by year. Maybe I shouldn't stop sharing your knowledge...

…”

"I was wrong! Teacher."

The old man lowered his head, as if he would correct his mistakes after he acknowledged them. But he was thinking in his heart, if you hadn't shared so much of the knowledge I gained over the years, my life would not have passed so quickly.

But he didn't dare to say a word.

The current academic progress is only enough for him to barely survive without dying. If the middle-aged scholar insists on taking part of it, he will soon turn into a handful of yellow sand.

The middle-aged scholar ignored him and said to the young girl: "I am determined to win the first place. If the little girl in the third place is still alive - she is yours."

The old man's heart skipped a beat: It seems that the college was very angry, so they sent the teacher here.

The academy assigned the genius Ru Di to him in order to save his life and kill two birds with one stone. Now, it cannot bear the possibility of the genius' demise, and its sense of him has dropped to its lowest point.

The young girl weighed it for a moment, shook her head and said, "Even if I break up with you, I will still fight for the possibility of becoming Ru Di's teacher."

With Ru Di's potential, being an alchemist is definitely not his end. Once the truth contract is concluded, it cannot be eliminated. If he can become his teacher and share his knowledge, even if he cannot go further, he can still have a long life. He will not be like

Like an old man, he gradually loses knowledge and dies.

For an alchemist, as long as he keeps learning, he will never die.

"Then let's each rely on our abilities."

The middle-aged scholar shifted his gaze to the cracks again.

Suddenly, the crack contracted violently, like a mouth that had eaten its stomach. It made two grunts and spit out two people, one large and one small, who were Ru Di and Ru Xiaoya.

The old man immediately stepped forward and wanted to tell the lie he had made up, but he was overtaken by the middle-aged scholar. He disappeared and then reappeared. He actually teleported to Ru Di's side, showing a teacher's unique expression of approval for his disciples.

, patted Ru Di on the shoulder and said: "Good boy, not only did you come back alive, but you also brought Xiaoya back. Thank you for your hard work! The college will punish those who neglect their duties. I am the new temporary teacher assigned to you by the college, and I have been here.

Waiting for you to come out here."

The old man no longer had any delusional thoughts, and began to fear that he would be used by the teacher to please his "underclassmen", so he quickly spoke for the teacher.

"This is the first of the alchemists..."

At this time, the middle-aged scholar saw the pattern on the back of Ru Di's hand with sharp eyes, "This... this is..."

The old man was equally shocked, "Truth contract???"

The young girl was equally surprised, "Which magician made the contract with you?"

Ru Di is already an artist. To accept him as a student, the minimum requirement is to be an alchemist, otherwise the truth will not agree to the contract.

Ru Di knew their intentions in his heart. Every piece of knowledge in the was marked with a price. The only way to share the results of others without paying was to establish a teacher-student relationship - this is the tradition of the desert. Students obtain knowledge from teachers, and then

Turn it into your own knowledge, and the results will be fed back to the teacher in the form of experience points. Both parties will grow quickly.

However, students' feedback is to discard three points from ten points, leaving only seven points. As students grow, even if the knowledge they acquire does not come from the teacher, they still have to continue to produce results.

Therefore, students are the weaker party to the contract.

Even if the contract gradually evolves into a choice of the scope of sharing knowledge results, and the proportion can be adjusted as needed, students are still the disadvantaged party, because teachers cannot directly instill knowledge into students’ minds. How much they learn depends on the students’ efforts and understanding ability.

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A teacher can accept multiple students, but a student can only have one teacher.

In this case, there are countless cases where teachers use knowledge to coerce students. Generally speaking, the sharing ratio that can be adjusted according to needs still maintains the highest seventy-three points.

Ru Di also knows the middle-aged scholar and the young girl, and knows that they have a pivotal position in the . In other words, they want to be shameless and will not go too far. If they must choose a teacher,

, they are indeed high-quality choices, at least much, much better than the old ones.

However, he has gotten the best... "I have a teacher!"

He was able to gain experience points by clearing the cracks, and the teacher did not share his experience points. This was a model of selfless dedication. His excellent character directly broke Ru Di's inherent concept of the word "teacher".

Furthermore, the teacher saved the brothers and sisters from danger several times, and he felt a great debt of gratitude to them. Even if he had to part with some of his knowledge achievements, emotionally he was willing to do so.

Ru Di thought of the cold night, the warm body that blocked the wind and rain like a mountain and gave him an infinite sense of security. His cheeks turned red and he said firmly to the three of them: "I will always follow her."

Three people: "..."

Ru Xiaoya made a fist with one hand and encouraged herself.

"When I grow up, I will become her student."

The three people who were lost in envy and jealousy took a long time to come to their senses and asked who this lucky alchemist was.

There are only a limited number of alchemists, so it is impossible for them not to know them.

However, what Ru Di described was a woman with completely unfamiliar features.

The young girl shook her head, "There is no such alchemist in the desert of knowledge. She is an alchemist living outside the desert of knowledge. Ru Di, she will not be able to guide you all the time."

"What does it matter?"

Ru Di smiled, her face full of hope for a better future: "The truth will help us communicate."

…

On the other side, in the crack of "The King's Prince".

Xu Erlin pointed to himself and asked: "Teacher, where am I?"

Who is your teacher? Forget it.

Lin Hui held back the complaints that had rushed to her lips and said with a chuckle: "You go too, we will meet again if we are destined."

Xu Erlin nodded, bent down at 90 degrees, bowed deeply to her, and said goodbye loudly: "Goodbye, teacher!"

Lin Hui: "..."

They all left.

No one could see the turbulent undercurrent between Lin Hui and Granny Jin.

With the crack as the boundary, only two people were left.

There are three minutes and twelve seconds left before the end of the career adventure.

"I promise not to say anything depressing until I clear the level, and you promise to 'have a chat with me before leaving after you clear the level'. That's fair, isn't it?"

Grandma Jin smiled like a cunning fox, walked towards her favorite prey with a bowed waist, and said in a clear tone: "Magician, you seem to only be able to apply knowledge and not have the skills to fight."

Although she was not a magician, Granny Jin did not misjudge her. Compared with her opponent, she was indeed a scumbag.

Lin Hui frowned: "What exactly do you want to do?"

"Well, you didn't refute, it seems I was right."

Lin Hui realized that she had fallen into the other party's language trap again, but she didn't take it seriously.

Granny Jin was so proud that she narrowed her eyes with a smile, "I want your body."

Lin Hui:???

This sentence must not be understood in a strange direction.

Lin Hui asked: "Can you be more specific?"

"This body is gradually decaying, and I need a fresher shell with greater room for improvement. For example, an incredibly weak alchemist comes to my door."

Lin Hui humbly asked: "You can change your body! How to achieve this?"

"As long as..." Granny Jin narrowed her eyes: "You will know in a moment."

Lin Hui flatly refused: "That won't work, I want to know now."

Granny Jin had the uncomfortable feeling that the prey she had targeted rushed in the opposite direction in front of her. How could a little white rabbit be skinned and bled in a hurry and eaten by a fox. She even stopped moving forward because of huge doubts and looked at it suspiciously.

Lin Hui: "Why are you more anxious than me?"
To be continued...