by Dragon King
The Principal was not young, but his eyes were full of passion when he grabbed Lu Qing’s wrist and asked, “Who created this club?”
“Hao Ren created it,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
“Hao Ren…” The Principal repeated the name and suddenly shivered, remembering that Hao Ren was the son of Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang.
He still remembered that fighting incident, but he wasn’t in East Ocean City at that time and didn’t know the details of it, placing Lu Qing in charge of resolving the issue. He was surprised that the same Hao Ren had created the Calligraphy Club!
After the shock passed, he suddenly recalled that the work hanging at the entrance was signed with Hao Ren’s name.
“No wonder he has such great talent. After all, he is the son of Academician Hao and Academician Yue.” Realizing that he was still clutching Lu Qing’s hand, the Principal immediately loosened his grip and regained his composure. “Well, good! The activity of the Calligraphy Club is quite good!”
“Hehe. Hao Ren is a student who has his own ideas. However, his talents have caused some jealousy from other students,” Lu Qing said.
“We must support it! We must support clubs like this one! It represents the high-level achievement of our students!” The Principal stood straighter and said.
Then, he saw Zhao Guang in the library.
He was surprised that Zhao Guang had come to visit the school’s club event.
Zhao Guang’s Mingri Group had donated a lot of funds to East Ocean University, and Mingri Group almost solely funded this new school zone.
Zhao Guang could come and visit the school at any time, but he didn’t come here often due to his busy schedule. However, he had come without invitation this time, alarming the Principal.
Then, he remembered that Zhao Guang was close to Hao Zhonghua, and he guessed that Zhao Guang was here to show his support to the event that Hao Ren organized.
At this thought, the Principal felt like his heart raced suddenly, congratulating himself for coming to visit in person instead of ordering the show to be canceled.
Ding…The bell rang, signaling the end of the classes, and the square before the library was filled with students. Hao Ren hadn’t done any promotion for this club activity since he just borrowed the venue of the library so that the club members could get to know each other.
However, some students got the news and came to see the exhibition. Zhao Jiayi and Zhou Liren just got up, and they came over to see the exhibition as well.
“F*uk! Hao Ren’s writing is so good!”
Zhou Liren’s loud voice came from the gate of the library before he appeared.
He entered through the entrance and was about to yell again when he saw the Principal and the Vice Principal Lu looking at him. He immediately covered his mouth with both hands and lowered his head.
Behind them were other students who were just released from classes or on their way to classes; they came here to see the event of the Calligraphy Club.
When they saw nearly 1,000 calligraphic works hanging in the library, they were dumbfounded.
They had never seen so many calligraphic works in their lives!
There were over 500 members in Hao Ren’s club. To celebrate the first exhibition of the club, most of the members had brought two writings here.
Although the dragon cultivators lived in the city, they didn’t forget their calligraphy skills, and many of the ‘young’ cultivators who had just come out of the mountains were 100 to 200 years old!
In history, no calligraphy master could live to this age! However, for the dragon cultivators, they were still young!
Therefore, their calligraphy skills could match those of the masters’ in history!
Zhao Jiayi looked up at the pieces hanging in the air, and his jaw dropped.
He was surprised that the members of Hao Ren’s Calligraphy Club were so extraordinary! He had toyed with the idea of joining Hao Ren’s club, but now he didn’t dare to show his face around them!
Besides Zhao Jiayi and his buddies, the other students also looked astonished.
No one had imagined that their classmates and roommates could create such elegant calligraphic works! It showed that masters were hiding among them!
Even the students who didn’t understand calligraphy could tell that the works here were excellent.
The words spread fast. It didn’t matter if they liked calligraphy or not; it was a magnificent sight to see more than 1,000 calligraphic works hanging in the luxurious great hall of the library!
Hua… The drizzle turned into pouring rain.
However, it didn’t dampen the students’ enthusiasm. They poured out from the dorm buildings and academic buildings while holding umbrellas or wearing ponchos, eager to see the magnificent sight in the library!
In the blink of an eye, the library attracted more people than Jiang Yuan’s painting exhibition in the Arts Building last week.
Many girls from the Arts Program had also come to visit. Some students who studied traditional Chinese painting also practiced calligraphy. When they saw the works of Hao Ren and the club members, they were stunned!
“This is on the master-level! Handsome, talented, and charismatic…” these girls thought to themselves and regretted not pursuing Hao Ren earlier!
Looking at Hao Ren who was in his white shirt and talking animatedly with the Principal and the Vice Principal Lu, they thought that Huang Xujie was just garbage compared with Hao Ren!
“Hehehe… Club President, I’m sorry that I’m late,” Xu Ke walked across the great hall and came to the side of Hao Ren as he said bashfully. He was wearing a sporty outfit and had disheveled hair.
The Principal looked at him and paused his conversation with Hao Ren.
“I’ll hang it on the wall…” Xue Ke glanced around, searching for some threads to hang his writing. Then, he asked Hao Ren casually, “Oh, did you say that we can invite our elders to visit the exhibition?”
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“Yes. If you have any elders who want to visit, invite them along,” Hao Ren answered.
“Ok!” Xu Ke nodded and took out his writing from his bag before handing it to two club members who had carried a ladder over.
Then, they hung Xu Ke’s work on the wall.
[It will be the Eighth of September when the wind blows in the autumn, and the chrysanthemums are going to blossom while all other flowers are dead. Fragrance rushed into the sky of Chang’an City, and golden armors will be everywhere.]
Written on a wide scroll, Xu Ke’s characters were as big as two fists, and the word ‘dead’ stood out aggressively.
The poem was said to be written by Huan Chao, an ancient rebel leader, and the words seemed matching for the Autumn after the Moon Festival.
However, with Xu Ke’s identity as a metal-elemental dragon, the poem seemed to have a hidden meaning. The young dragon cultivators changed their expressions when they saw Xu Ke’s work.
The strokes of the characters revealed intense murderous spirits despite the poetic words.
[Golden armors will be everywhere.] It meant that the metal-elemental dragons who were golden in their dragon forms would soon break into East Ocean City and take charge!
“Your writing is very good,” the Principal looked at Xu Ke’s work and said in appreciation.
“Thank you, Principal.” Xu Ke smiled bashfully and walked away like any of the students who were a little afraid of him.
Hao Ren looked up at the poem which was written by Xu Ke and gritted his teeth.
[The chrysanthemums are going to blossom while all other flowers are dead.] The metal-elemental dragons always thought that they were above the other elemental dragon clans including the East Ocean Dragon Clan.
The metal-elemental dragon cultivators admired ultimate strength and were even indifferent to the lives of their own cultivators while they pursued higher realms, let alone the lives of other cultivators. For the metal-elemental dragons
, they would kill anyone who offended them!
“Club President, should we take it off the wall?” A vice president of the club proposed to Lu Qi as they walked to Hao Ren’s side and asked in a low voice.
“Forget it. Leave it here.” Hao Ren waved his hand.
Xu Ke’s work showed his arrogance and provocation, but Hao Ren could tolerate it since Xu Ke was a club member and the literal meaning of the words of the poem was fine.
After all, strength was determined through fights, not words.
“Gongzi!”
While Hao Ren was distracted by the writing, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili who were wearing cyan and green short skirts walked in and ran to Hao Ren’s side cheerfully. Xie Yujia was behind them.
They had wanted to help Hao Ren set up the venue, but they had classes in the morning, and Hao Ren had enough members to do all the work.
After two classes, they decided to skip the other two and came to visit Hao Ren’s club event.
Seeing the Lu sisters, the Principal smiled at Lu Qing who looked helpless. Lu Qing’s two ‘granddaughters’ liked Hao Ren, and he could say nothing about it.
Disregarding the Principal, the Lu sisters pulled Hao Ren with them to admire the works. Not wanting to keep the Principal company, Hao Ren liked the Lu sisters’ interruption.
Watching the Lu sisters holding Hao Ren’s arms on both sides while the beautiful Xie Yujia followed them, the other girls lamented that they had no chance with Hao Ren.
It would take at least an entire day to see all the 1,000 plus pieces, but the Lu sisters had a high standard, and they only commented on the really good ones.
Although Xie Yujia had practiced calligraphy when she was young, her skills were no match for the works on exhibition, and she could do nothing but admire them.
However, what she admired more were Hao Ren’s leadership and charisma. After all, 500 students were a large group, and it was the first time that the great hall of the library exhibited over 1,000 works at the same time.
However, Hao Ren had set up the venue within two classes. The seemingly random order of the works created aisles, so one could study four to five works at one spot or glance at them on a quick tour.
Hao Ren had arranged all this in his mind, just as a general did with his troops.
“Yujia, this is for you.” When Xie Yujia looked back at him, Hao Ren quickened his steps and placed an object into her palm.
The background of the black characters and white rice paper accentuated Xie Yujia’s elegant figure.
Xie Yujia opened her palm and saw the red jade thumb ring.
The red color looked warm and low-key. Like a precious red stone, it lay on her white palm quietly.
“This is…” Xie Yujia looked up.
“Thumb ring. It can protect your thumb when you shoot arrows,” Hao Ren said.
“Ok.” Xie Yujia put it on her thumb, and the red thumb ring looked like a pretty finger ring on her white and tender thumb.
“Thank you,” Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren and said gently.
“It’s nothing. We can change it if we get a better one.” Hao Ren caressed her hair.
With a blush, Xie Yujia smiled sweetly.
“Gongzi, you’re not fair! We want gifts too,” the Lu sisters leaned over and said.
Hao Ren flicked his fingers and lightly knocked their foreheads. “These are for you!”
“Auch…” The Lu sisters pouted unhappily.
It was almost noon, and the Principal told the cafeteria to send over 500 lunch boxes to the Calligraphy Club at the school’s expense.
This calligraphy exhibition was the best club event that the Principal had ever seen!
“Hahaha! Principal Liu, you called us to visit a small club event at your school. Aren’t your overdoing it?”
Several bearded men and seniors walked up from the stairs while holding umbrellas, and they teased the Principal who stood at the gate of the library.
As renowned calligraphy masters in East Ocean City, they were all of the prestigious statuses, and Principal Liu invited them to the exhibition through the phone.
From Principal Liu’s phone call, they learned that East Ocean University’s Calligraphy Club had an event which according to Principal Liu was awesome. They were invited to the exhibition to give some feedback to the students, but they didn’t think that the young students at the university could produce any good works. However, to show their respect to Principal Liu and to help the juniors, they came anyway even though it was raining.
“Hahaha! Don’t say that I didn’t give you a warning.” Principal Liu who was usually a serious man laughed louder than the guests and ushered them into the library.
“This is good. I guess that it took at least one day to finish.” The leading calligraphy master stroke his beard and praised Hao Ren’s work at the entrance before entering the great hall of the library.
Judging from Hao Ren’s work, they thought that there were indeed some talented young people in here. Nodding, the calligraphy masters walked in to see the rest of the works, ready to leave some writings here to encourage and inspire the juniors in East Ocean University.
The Arts Program of East Ocean University was quite famous, but it was renowned for western arts, and its traditional Chinese painting branch was not as good as the other schools.
As a calligraphy lover, Principal Liu often showed these calligraphy masters his calligraphic works, but he could never reach their level. It was just entertainment among friends.
These masters were all professors in other schools, and those schools had their own calligraphy clubs.
Without first-class calligraphy professors, East Ocean University had established the Calligraphy Club.
“This…” However, when they walked into the great hall of the library, they were dumbfounded.
Pieces of calligraphic works came into their sights, and they felt as if someone had stolen the original works of the ancient calligraphy masters from the museums!
The levels of these writings far surpassed their imagination! They probably couldn’t even produce such high-level works!
Their astonishment was no less than that of Principle Liu’s when he first saw the works!
“Hahahaha… The works of the kids are passable, right?” Seeing their astonishment, Principal Liu asked with a laugh.
He felt great! These masters belittled his calligraphic works, but now he was feeling great!
“I’m not talented, but the students in my East Ocean University are the first-class calligraphy masters in the country! The Calligraphy Club of East Ocean University is the best in the country!” he thought to himself.
Proud! He felt proud!
No other school could produce more than 1,000 masterpieces!
The calligraphy masters who thought of coming here to inspire the juniors blushed and didn’t dare to mention leaving writings in East Ocean University!
Any of the calligraphic works here was better than theirs! The calligraphy masters who were used to people begging for their works couldn’t believe their eyes!
After the shock passed, they began to study the works they liked!
Two of them walked to Xu Ke’s work and began to study it in earnest.
When they saw the word ‘dead’ at the end of the second row, they retreated half a step with shock.
Snap! Snap! Someone walked up and supported them so that they wouldn’t fall.
They looked back and saw a guy in a white shirt support their backs with his hands.
“Club President, many elders have arrived at the entrance of the library,” a young girl said to this guy after running over.”
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“Ok, I’ll go check it out.” Following the girl, Hao Ren went to the gate of the library.
The library of East Ocean University was built splendidly. In front of the main gate, there was a small square. Down the terraced stairs, there was a huge square.
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nwhile, in the huge square, there parked many luxury cars. All the elders and mid-aged men were walking toward the library while their servants held umbrellas for them.
Hao Ren circulated his nature essence. Through his inspector’s token, Hao Ren found out that these elders and mid-aged men were all powerful dragon cultivators from the wood-elemental, earth-elemental, fire-elemental, and water-elemental dragon clans. Except for the metal-elemental dragon clan, the other four elemental dragon clans were all here,
These dragon cultivators were all invited by the juniors. Therefore, they flew here from other cities after a quick preparation, and they decided to drive to East Ocean University instead since it was raining in the East Ocean region and they didn’t want to disturb the mortals.
Zhao Guang had already received the news that many representatives of various dragon palaces would gather in East Ocean City. Thus, he went to the main gate of the library, planning to welcome the guests.
Plenty of the dragon cultivator who studied at East Ocean University were sons or nephews of the prominent elders and the dragon kings. Therefore, the representatives were all of the prestigious statuses.
Accompanying Zhao Guang, Lu Qing smiled with satisfaction as he watched the long line of cars driving inside the campus and the group of dragon cultivators who were coming up along the curved stairs.
It had been so many years since the East Ocean Dragon Clan last had its leadership position. However, the visit of so many dragon clans at the same time had brought up his memory again this time.
Standing in front of the main gate, Zhao Guang noticed that many dragon kings were coming from all directions, so he decided to stand still and wait for them to come up.
Seeing Zhao Guang walking out of the library with the company of Lu Qing, Principal Liu thought that Zhao Guang was planning to go back and was about to walk out with him. However, Principal Liu suddenly saw a huge crowd of people coming up from all directions and became stupefied.
Obviously, the students were the most surprised.
As the students of the best university in a prosperous city, they had seen luxurious cars driving around the campus frequently. However, it was the first time for them to see luxurious cars gathering in such an enormous and intensive way!
