In the following days, Zhou Bai began to live a life of sleeping in his sea of consciousness during the day and studying cultivation theory and Dao School materials at night.
His physical body was entirely left to Christina to "idle," and under her diligent, hard training regimen, coupled with a diet of abundant extraordinary food, his physique climbed new heights each day.
As for laziness, considering the indolence he could accrue from the cat controlling his body to "idle," the laziness Jing Xiu brought about through cleaning, and the laziness Zhou Bai gained by sleeping during classes, he managed to amass approximately 1500 points of laziness a day.
Zhou Bai’s 0th layer of the divine diagram was complete, making it difficult to raise his Dao conversion value at will while he was silently gathering knowledge about spirit and the Dao School materials.
Thus, Zhou Bai allocated all his laziness points to his Primordial Spirit value. While amassing the power of his Primordial Spirit, knowledge, spirit, and physique, he planned to wait until all these were at their peak before delving into the Dao School materials, aiming to elevate his level to the pinnacle of the 0th realm in one fell swoop.
’This is precisely the method many geniuses choose, gathering their physical strength, spirit, and their own power to the utmost before making a burst through to enhance their Dao conversion degree, a determined effort rather than wavering back and forth in the middle, leading to a waste of time and energy.
However, this method also requires absolute confidence in oneself. Otherwise, it’s not as practical as quickly realizing one’s strength.’
While Zhou Bai pondered, he read the Dao scriptures in his hand, and his aura seemed to grow even smoother and more rounded.
Before long, a month and a half passed, and there were just two more weeks to go until the special class’s internal assessment.
Christina’s progress was remarkable; her Dao conversion degree had reached 6.2%, her Primordial Spirit value was 581, and her Sword diagram at the 0th layer was complete.
Zhou Bai, however, was solely focused on reading and enhancing his Primordial Spirit power, bringing his Primordial Spirit value to an astonishing 999 points, reaching the peak state of the 0th layer, far surpassing his peers of the same age group.
With the boost of a 999 Primordial Spirit value, Zhou Bai’s thinking became increasingly agile and his memory greatly improved, making strides in studying cultivation theory.
According to Zhou Bai’s own estimates, his theoretical foundation should have caught up with the average level of his cohort.
As for the Dao School materials, he had thoroughly grasped everything from Dao School materials 05 to 10, including the solutions and matters needing attention.
Zhou Bai exhaled, "It’s time to start increasing my Dao conversion degree. If I can increase it to 10%, I will break through to the 1st realm. That way, I can climb the ranks in the assessment two weeks from now and gain more points.
And after the breakthrough to the 1st realm, I can also spend 10,000 laziness points to generate the second layer of the Poor diagram."
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While Zhou Bai lived a reclusive life, silently enhancing his cultivation,
somewhere in a secret room in East City,
a young man was kneeling on the floor and said to the Guang Ying in front of him, "Master, after inquiring about it, Zhou Bai’s progress has been extremely rapid, with a complete Sword diagram, a last tested Primordial Spirit value of 581, and a Dao conversion degree of 6.2%. I fear I won’t break through to the 1st realm and may not be able to cripple him during the duel."
The Guang Ying frowned, "This child’s progress is so rapid? Could it really be related to the Clear Serenity Ascetic?"
After a moment’s thought, the Guang Ying said, "Tell me about the current situation in the special class."
A few minutes later, the Guang Ying nodded with understanding, "In that case, you should also break through to the 1st realm."
With that in mind, the Guang Ying shifted and revealed lines of small characters.
"I’ll teach you the Heavenly Dragon Collapse and the Heavenly Demon Concealing Technique. The Heavenly Demon Concealing Technique can hide signs of your cultivation, and as long as you don’t exert power beyond the 0th realm, no one will know you’ve broken through.
Once the Heavenly Dragon Collapse is activated, you can sacrifice your own flesh and blood to unleash a Primordial Spirit power that surpasses the 1st realm. However, after the outburst, you will suffer severe injuries, which will impede any further cultivation progress."
"But after that, I will initiate you into transforming into a Heavenly Demon, granting you immortality and a lifespan as long as the heavens. Discarding your human flesh is of no consequence."
Hearing this, the young man’s face lit up with joy as he said, "Thank you, Master, for your generous gift. I will not fail you; I will definitely cripple Zhou Bai, that brat, and make him leave the Dao School."
"Remember, you can cripple him but not kill him. I want him to leave the Dao School, not to die."
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Inside the training room, Zhou Bai’s limbs moved swiftly as he rapidly ran up and down the walls, jumping back and forth.
Then, with a flash, he appeared behind a steel column. His fists and feet, like a storm, swept across the back of the column.
In the midst of the thunderous booms, Zhou Bai’s hands and feet hammered away like massive iron mauls against the column without using the power of the Primordial Spirit, relying solely on the strength of his body, causing the pillar to tremor continuously and gradually become twisted and deformed.
Finally, with a fierce whip kick, accompanied by the shrill sound of the rushing air, Zhou Bai’s right leg whipped against the column like a thick, black steel whip; but at the same time, his foot slipped, and he fell to the ground.
Christina said, "That won’t do. Your awareness is simply not up to par; your legs can’t keep up with my hands at all."
Zhou Bai retorted, "It’s clearly your hands that are too fast. I always have to spend time maintaining balance, you know."
At that moment, Zhou Bai and Christina in the room were practicing controlling a body simultaneously—one person and one cat.
This was something Zhou Bai had suggested because he felt that if two could operate a body at the same time, they could fight with coordinated movements potentially like fighting with hands and feet in harmony.
As it turned out, he was overthinking it.
The human body is a single entity, and pulling one hair affects the whole body.
This is even more the case in battle, where every movement of any part of the body is connected to the entire physique. Every punch or kick requires coordination of muscles and bones from all over.
Right now, with two of them operating the body at the same time, they were only getting in each other’s way, decreasing their combat ability rather than increasing it.
"It looks like it’s better to have one person operate the body and the other just to exert the power of the Primordial Spirit," Zhou Bai said. "Hmm, Tina, you’ve been training in martial arts every day. From now on, you’ll control the body in fight. My Primordial Spirit’s power is high; I’ll focus on fighting with the Primordial Spirit’s power from now on."
Zhou Bai thought to himself that from now on, just by giving a command, he could watch Tina fight and then apply the Primordial Spirit’s power, which would be much more relaxed for him indeed.
Christina complained, "You’re just too lazy. Nowadays, you don’t even want to fight your own battles."
"You’ve trained so well in martial arts now that it would be a waste not to let you fight," Zhou Bai turned to look at Elsa who was nearby. "That’s right, there’s also Elsa."
In recent times, Zhou Bai had noticed that Elsa’s physique seemed to be continuously improving, her strength growing ever greater. So today, he specifically brought the dog along to see just how far Elsa had come.
"Elsa!"
"Come leap at me."
Elsa, seeing Zhou Bai open his arms to her, immediately got excited, stood up, and with a powerful leap, crashed into Zhou Bai’s embrace.
Zhou Bai, who was standing, had less defensive power than an average cultivator practicing axe diagrams, grunted, staggered back several steps, and said in surprise, "Elsa, your strength is almost catching up with mine, isn’t it?"
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