After dinner, Zhou Bai and Jing Xiu returned to the dorm to study.
By 11 p.m., after Jing Xiu had left, Zhou Bai stood up excitedly, "After idling this afternoon, I finally have enough Laziness Points to light up the first star point of the Poverty Chart."
He turned his attention to the panel of the auxiliary cultivation system:
Dao Synthesis Degree: 10.0%
Primordial Spirit Value: 1000
Divine Chart: Nine Tribulations of the Heavenly Man
Laziness: 7130
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Zhou Bai had been saving all his Laziness Points during this period, not spending any on Dao Synthesis Degree or Primordial Spirit Value, in order to first focus on the Divine Chart.
Based on his experience with cultivating level 0, he knew that the star point skills on the Divine Chart often provided a qualitative improvement to his combat power.
So, he planned to focus all his efforts on the Divine Chart next.
Moreover, he had tried it out; aside from the previous breakthrough at the 10% mark, which required 10,000 Laziness Points, Dao Synthesis Degree still needed 1000 Laziness Points to increase by 0.1%, and each point of the Primordial Spirit Value also needed 1000 Laziness Points.
He thought to himself, "I’ll focus all my Laziness Points on the Divine Chart until the Primordial Spirit Value is insufficient (as some star points have a minimum Primordial Spirit Value requirement), then increase the Primordial Spirit Value until it can’t be raised any further.
Since I can’t read the Dao scriptures right now anyway, I might as well maximize the Divine Chart and Primordial Spirit Value as far as they can go."
Having determined his cultivation plan, Zhou Bai sighed again.
"Alas, there are never enough Laziness Points. I hope the next star points on the Poverty Chart will bring about some changes."
Zhou Bai looked at the star points on the Taiyin Roulette.
Chasing the Sun - Naked: A state of no clothing, light and agile. Bare-chested, you can obtain a speed bonus.
Cultivation Method: (Skipped)
Laziness (0/7000)
Zhou Bai added the Laziness Points, and suddenly felt as if the blood in his body boiled, his entire body lay on the bed, twitching slightly as if an invisible force was emanating from within him, spreading into his limbs and body.
After a long while, the boiling sensation in his blood slowly faded, and Zhou Bai exhaled, looking at his body soaked in sweat: ’I’ll need to take a bath later.’
However, thinking about the function of the star point, he stood up first and walked back and forth in the dorm room, noticing no obvious changes in his body.
Then, he took off his shirt.
Almost as soon as he took off his shirt, he felt the entire body become much lighter, as if he had become more agile and flexible than before.
Zhou Bai hurriedly ran to the training room to test his current state.
Inside the training room.
There, bare-chested, Zhou Bai streaked through the room, creating afterimages as he rapidly punched and kicked, sweeping through like a tornado.
"Christina!"
With Zhou Bai’s call, Christina spat out pink Sword Qi toward him.
Zhou Bai laughed lightly, stamping heavily on the metal floor, leaving a footprint, and his body already shot out like lightning, hitting the nearby metal wall and ricocheting off again.
Man and sword were like two bolts of lightning, shooting back and forth in the training room.
Sword Qi finally made a turn and slashed onto Zhou Bai’s body.
But Zhou Bai was seen clinging to the wall, taking the slash of Sword Qi without a scratch.
Zhou Bai exclaimed, "I feel like my speed and reflexes are at least twice as fast as before. And my long-distance linear speed can even catch up with Sword Qi, but my short-distance acceleration, turning, and agility are still far inferior to Sword Qi."
Then, Zhou Bai was seen with both hands and feet clinging to the ceiling, moving swiftly across the wall like a spider.
Sword Qi followed closely behind, with Zhou Bai dodging most of the attacks. The rare hits did no damage at all.
Christina cursed, "Damn! This guy is getting harder and harder to deal with. No, I must break through the zeroth realm this month and step into the first realm!"
On the other side, Zhou Bai was extremely satisfied with the acceleration while shirtless: "The speed of getting down is a bit slow, but the defensive power is high."
Zhou Bai felt that he currently looked like Spider-Man with incredibly high evasion, and when someone finally caught up to him and landed a slash, they would find that he also had the Hulk’s endurance.
"High evasion, strong resistance to hits, I’m really getting better at surviving."
Zhou Bai smiled contentedly, very satisfied with the first star point of Poverty and Laziness. Then, he looked towards the next star point.
Chasing Sun - Poverty and Laziness: Turn poverty into laziness, and laziness into poverty, by selling off family property to acquire laziness.
Cultivation Method: (Zhou Bai pretended to look and then skipped without mentioning it)
Laziness (0/9000)
"This is good," Zhou Bai looked at the introduction and immediately got excited: "Doesn’t this give me another source for laziness points?"
Zhou Bai really wanted to light up this star point right now, but looking at the requirement of 9000 laziness points, he estimated it would be another week before he could do so.
In the following days, Tina and Zhou Bai took turns attending the hellish Body Refinement classes. Because they were determined to attend Body Refinement classes seriously, strengthening their physical bodies and tempering their wills, Zhou Bai and Tina no longer avoided the classes but actively faced Kuang Tu, enduring the harshest training to enhance the effects of Body Refinement.
The rest of the time, Zhou Bai still farmed experience, while Christina attended classes, and each cultivated and studied in their spare time.
That morning, after finishing the Body Refinement sessions, Zhou Bai looked at the gemstone in his sea of knowledge, which had gradually begun to emit a golden light.
"It looks like the cooldown will be over tonight. It’s time to resolve the issues with Jiang Ran and Meng Hao."
"After figuring out what they’re really here for, I’ll decide whether to explore the secrets left by the professor."
On the other side, after Kuang Tu had thrown the three into the medicinal bath, he pondered as he walked away: ’Zhou Bai’s progress this week, why isn’t it as fast as Zhao Xiu? Even compared to Jiang Weishan, it’s far too little. Could it be that the method of Body Refinement isn’t right?’
Kuang Tu felt somewhat disappointed with Zhou Bai’s progress.
But then he tilted his head, and on second thought, he didn’t give up immediately: "I can’t waste this kind of genius. Starting next week, I’ll try a different Body Refinement method for him."
...
That night, inside the small building, Meng Hao sat on a chair, looking at the woman across the table.
This woman was sent from above a few days ago to assist them in Donghua City.
The woman’s face looked ordinary, a thoroughly average face that would disappear into a crowd.
Meng Hao suspected this was not her real appearance; he didn’t even know her true identity, only that her code name was Hong Hu and her strength was in the third realm.
’The third realm is just right, sturdy enough to suppress Zhou Bai, but not so much as to draw attention.’ Meng Hao thought, ’Starting from the fourth realm, monitoring by the government and the Heaven’s Court becomes more stringent, and it’s almost impossible to leave on one’s own from the sixth realm onwards.’
He heard the woman open her mouth, her voice raspy as she spoke, "Is everything ready?"
Meng Hao nodded carefully, "I’ve investigated thoroughly. Zhou Bai was initially rescued from the wilderness by Zhang Aidao and then taken care of by Zhang Aidao’s father. If something happens to Zhang Aidao’s mother that he learns about, he should leave Dao School."