Free Web NovelChapter 398: Chapter 385: You’re Starting Your Own School
"You are now listening to the fourth revised edition of Professor Zhang’s *Spiritual Fragment Analysis*."
"Compared to the third edition, this version incorporates the latest research findings on the Primordial Dream Butterfly Memory Essence from the Yichuan Ruins."
Gu Ming’s spirits lifted when he saw the subtitles pop up on the system’s screen.
"From condensing memories with solidified thoughts to reconstructing them with dynamic New Techniques, the approach to analyzing Spiritual Fragments is constantly being updated. For example, Gu Ming’s recently published Dynamic Change Array..."
’Huh? What’s this?’
Gu Ming grew a little confused as he watched.
’My recently published... Dynamic Change Array? I guess that did happen.’
’But the system—the world 32 years in the future—is already incorporating something I just published?’
Then again, the Dynamic Change Array Gu Ming created wasn’t entirely his own invention.
It was based on the layout of the Array Points for the Dynamic Change Array, which he obtained through a system glitch, combined with Lu You’s Talent.
It wasn’t exactly a groundbreaking innovation, to be honest.
Gu Ming listened for a while and realized that the material Professor Zhang was lecturing on was already on a completely different level from what was being taught in the present.
In the future, Spiritual Fragment Analysis wouldn’t just use Dynamic Change Array methods; it would also integrate techniques like Spiritual Power extraction and combination into the Dynamic Change Array module.
The paper he published on the Array had actually become a universal module that everyone referenced.
"You have listened to the Great Dao Insights of an Eight-star Beastmaster and gained profound understanding."
"Your understanding of the Dynamic Change Array has deepened..."
By the end of the class, Gu Ming was a bit dazed.
When the class ended, Professor Zhang naturally noticed his zoned-out expression and immediately called on Gu Ming:
"Gu Ming, why don’t you answer this: which of your Pet Beasts do you plan to have extract memories?
"And what method will you use to condense them into Memory Fragments?"
Teacher Zhang’s questions directly summarized the core content of the entire class.
Anyone who hadn’t been paying attention would surely stumble through their answer.
And from the looks of it, Gu Ming had clearly understood the beginning and then tuned out for the rest.
Teacher Zhang had no idea how much he had actually learned or to what degree he had mastered it.
Besides, a thorny student like him needed to be put in his place.
He wanted to see if Gu Ming was just arrogant or a true prodigy.
Gu Ming subconsciously blurted out the new understanding that had just popped into his head.
’It might be called Spiritual Fragment Analysis, but the analysis also includes the fundamental methods of recalling, extracting, and condensing memories.’
"I plan to have my Cyan Treasure apply the variation module of the Dynamic Change Array in its mind, translating memories into discrete, variable factors, and then use a Memorization Array to extract them,"
Only after he finished speaking did he realize his method was a major departure from the basic techniques Professor Zhang had taught.
The "Dynamic Array," for one, had never even been mentioned in class before.
Professor Zhang’s face turned red upon hearing this, and he nearly burst out cursing.
’A perfectly good student, and after just one class, he can’t resist trying to innovate on his own and forge a new path?’
’Where would that leave his authority?’
’And what would the students in the lecture hall think of him?’
’Besides, there was a high probability that this path would lead him astray!’
However, given Gu Ming’s heaven-defying titles, such as "Creator of the Nine-Colored Technique" and "Author in the journal *Peak*,"
Professor Zhang managed to suppress his anger and pressed for the specific details:
"What kind of Great Dao Array are you using?
"Is it the Natural Force? Or the Humanity Daoist Power?"
Professor Zhang, you see, had also studied the Dynamic Change Array.
But Gu Ming’s work on it was clearly not on the same level as his Foundation Establishment Evolution Method.
It was riddled with errors and flaws, giving him plenty of material for a harsh critique.
Gu Ming immediately answered that it was the Natural Force, but as soon as he finished, Teacher Zhang barraged him with follow-up questions.
At first, he could keep up for a few exchanges.
Soon, however, running on nothing but bursts of inspiration and system prompts, he was questioned into a corner. His replies slowed.
Often, he would propose an application of the Array that had just popped into his head, only for the professor to refute it with a version of the Dynamic Array’s force that was better suited for the Little Cyan Snake.
After a few minutes, Gu Ming was left speechless.
But Gu Ming wasn’t discouraged. On the contrary, the more they battled, the more fired up he became.
On a battlefield of smoke and fire invisible to outsiders, the "fifty-year-old geezer" was debating the Dao with an Eight-star master.
No, to call it a debate would be giving himself too much credit.
In truth, he was asking for guidance.
He spoke of the Memory Fragments from the Yichuan Ruins, while Professor Zhang, in the future, reminisced about the past, explaining the reasons for the iteration between the New Techniques and the old.
In reality, the more Professor Zhang spoke, the more details about that iteration emerged from the system.
Even if Gu Ming couldn’t keep up with the professor’s train of thought and was slow to respond, he could still, more or less, pose new questions. This put Professor Zhang in a position where he couldn’t back down and had to keep pressuring Gu Ming in return, trying to squeeze out his talent until he could no longer answer.
The two went back and forth, gradually perfecting the Dynamic Change Array step by step.
They eventually worked through all the anticipated difficulties of the Dynamic Change Array, integrating it into the extraction process for Memory Fragments.
It wasn’t until the next class began and another high-level Beastmaster walked into the classroom that the scene was interrupted. The newcomer paused, stunned.
"Teacher Zhang, what are you still doing here?"
Teacher Zhang coughed a few times, glared at Gu Ming, and huffed, his mustache twitching in frustration:
"You! Come with me. We’ll continue this debate in my office!"
Gu Ming was more than happy to oblige and immediately got up to follow Professor Zhang.
Only then did the other students in the class snap out of it, feeling like the show had ended too soon.
Their minds were reeling, their thoughts a chaotic jumble. Some stayed behind, while others hurried to follow.
The sharper students had already caught the scent of a "scholarly duel"—a clash of Great Dao and talent.
"As expected of an author from the journal *Peak*... creating a new path and establishing his own school of thought on the very first day!"
The students in the audience were chatting excitedly. Even after the new teacher had taken his place, no one stopped rehashing the profound words and golden phrases that had emerged from the debate between the two.
The newly arrived Professor Zeng was completely bewildered.
After taking a dozen or so seconds to understand the situation, a fine sweat broke out on his forehead.
’I never thought a class with Gu Ming in it would be this dangerous!’
’Even the teacher’s authority isn’t safe!’
He subconsciously had one of his students check the list of first-year students registered for his course to see if Gu Ming was on it.
His head student quickly replied, "Reporting, Professor. Gu Ming is not on the list."
He breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness, thank goodness..."
"However," the head student added, "his little follower, Lu You, has registered for your course."
Upon hearing this, Professor Zeng broke into a violent fit of coughing.
...
In the office, a circle of teachers had already gathered.
Professor Zhang was slapping the table and flipping through ancient texts.
"This Dynamic Array of yours—I don’t agree! You can’t just do things recklessly!"
"But Cyan Treasure’s Light and Grass Attribute Dual Spiritual Roots can patch this vulnerability."
When Elder Huo squeezed his way in, he saw Gu Ming at the blackboard, drawing an Array Diagram with a piece of chalk.
Chalk dust drifted down onto a copy of *Spiritual Fragment Analysis*, next to which lay a newly drawn draft of an Array Map.
"Oh? Trying to turn Old Man Zhang’s class into a course on Arrays?"
His eyes swept over the Dynamic Array Map on the blackboard, which incorporated the growth patterns of plants, and he suddenly laughed. "Interesting. You two carry on. I’ll just pull up a stool and listen in."
This was no longer the original Dynamic Array. It had been custom-modified and integrated with a vast amount of knowledge about Arrays, which made his eyes light up.
