"On the contrary, we can also use the Seasonal Order to correct the four seasonal energies of the Great Zhou through conforming or reversing."
Lin Yuejia, who was barely keeping up, gradually showed a look of admiration.
Liu Hui also listened intently because he found that Zhao Xing seemed to explain better than his teacher Zhou Cheng.
"No, how could I think that way?" Liu Hui shook his head, "That would be a great disrespect to my teacher."
But rationally, he had to admit that Zhao Xing was indeed stronger than his teacher Zhou Cheng.
Liu Hui and Lin Yuejia had already entered the ’internship period’; they were experienced Minister of Agriculture Officials, not mere students.
The more they listened to Zhao Xing, the more they felt they benefited enormously.
Especially when Zhao Xing talked about the ’Guest Qi Test,’ it clarified the doubts that Lin Yuejia and Liu Hui had encountered during their official spellcasting.
All Minister of Agriculture Officials encounter a relatively troublesome issue, which is the sudden appearance of transformation phenomena.
For example, this year’s spring, summer, and autumn perfectly matched the classical descriptions: spring full of vitality, summer’s yang energy entered the crops, and a bountiful autumn harvest.
But suddenly, come winter, an extreme cold struck, freezing and killing countless livestock and people.
This led to soaring prices and even affected the next year’s sowing.
This was still a lower level ten-year transformation.
If they encountered a century-level transformation, their achievements for that year would be null, and the people would criticize harshly:
"How come everything was fine before, but ever since you, this Minister of Agriculture Official, arrived, we’ve been hit with once-in-a-century disasters? Ugh, incompetent official!"
Lin Yuejia and Liu Hui felt the burden immensely.
Now what Zhao Xing was teaching was precisely how to ’calm the transformations.’
Moreover, it wasn’t a one-off spellcasting, not the kind where one suppresses transformations with spells just for the year’s achievements.
Lin Yuejia and Liu Hui detested this approach because the hidden issues accumulated by previous officials made it difficult for them to go against the heavenly forces when they took over!
Time flew by, and before they realized it, this lesson had gone from dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn again.
"To solve historical drawbacks, one can use the guest and host overlap method, adding the annually exceeding or weakening ’guest qi’ of the Heavenly Time to the third qi of the host qi."
"The remaining five qi are consecutively added, and this is the guest-host overlap."
"Only by understanding normal changes can you solve special changes."
"As they say, if the qi are in harmony, all is well; if not, it leads to illness."
"Of course, if faced with a thousand-year transformation, it would be better to run away early. Such a thousand-year level transformation is beyond your realm to contend with."
"Alright, let’s stop here for today."
Zhao Xing glanced at the other six people sleeping on the desk, "Class dismissed."
Wu Chun wiped his eyes, lifted his head, "It’s over already?"
The person next to him said blankly, "I don’t know, I just woke up too."
"I think I heard the class was over."
"If that’s the case, then class is over."
"Let’s go, I’m not coming back, damn it, couldn’t understand a thing."
Lin Yuejia, however, quickly jogged to Zhao Xing’s front, "Sir, sir! Please wait!"
Zhao Xing stopped and looked at her, "Do you have more questions?"
Lin Yuejia hurriedly shook her head, "No, no, my knowledge is shallow. I need to go back and read more books before I ask again."
"Sir, please accept me as your disciple!" Lin Yuejia kneeled down with a thud, looking expectantly at Zhao Xing, "I’m willing to be your maid, serving tea and meals for you."
Zhao Xing didn’t expect Lin Yuejia to be so emotional.
To be honest, this young lady was indeed quite attractive.
But Mr. Zhao is not someone who is swayed by beauty.
He immediately shook his head and said, "I know the Xuantian Academy has a tradition of venerating teachers, but I do not follow this tradition, even if I were to accept disciples, the timing is not right."
Lin Yuejia looked aggrieved, "Then I will come back to ask you later."
"Stand up." Zhao Xing waved, smiling as he helped her up, "If you wish to listen, feel free to come often in the future."
"Mm!" Lin Yuejia obediently nodded, then respectfully saluted, "Then I shall take my leave now, teacher."
Not far off, Liu Hui watched this scene with great conflict.
He too felt the urge to kneel down and study.
But he remembered that he was Zhou Cheng’s disciple.
Seeing Zhao Xing reject Lin Yuejia made him hesitate again.
And in his hesitation, Zhao Xing was gone.
Liu Hui shook his head, feeling an inexplicable loss.
When he stepped out of the classroom (the Great Zhou’s terminology for classroom), two junior apprentices were waiting for him outside the door.
"Senior brother, how did it go?"
"The loopholes, did you find the loopholes in that heretic’s explanation? Or anything that can’t be justified?"
"Well... the heretic’s theory is too powerful, and this Doctor of Governance really isn’t someone who got here through connections." Liu Hui said, "I couldn’t find anything, so I can only take it back to tell the teacher."
"Alright, let’s go back and report."
Zhao Xing returned to Mirror Lake Courtyard, not rushing to learn in Li Boqian’s courtyard but instead organizing what was taught earlier.
"The Three Yin and Three Yang Six Qi Great Cycle Theory is a relatively accurate theory for predicting the operation of Heavenly Time."
"The Divination Skill I have learned can also be included, as it mainly predicts and resolves drastic transformation phenomena without disturbing the grand time." Zhao Xing pondered.
It’s not that all transformations can be utilized.
In century-level and thousand-year-level phenological changes, over a billion lives perish to birth a single lucky one.
People often overlook the number that has perished.
Moreover, some phenology changes are entirely unusable.