Whoosh! Christina withdrew her Sword Qi and huffed, "I can’t believe how fast you’ve become."
The next moment, the cat felt a tightening around her head as Zhou Bai had already sidled up next to her unnoticed, reaching out to touch her head and smiling, "My speed now, I’m unbeatable in the First Realm, aren’t I?"
"I can definitely win against Wang Ran, who’s ranked sixth, in the ranking challenge next month," Zhou Bai mused while stroking his chin. "I just don’t know if I stand a chance against the top five in the Second Realm. If I can raise my Daoization rate to 15%, or even 20%, then I could challenge the top five."
As he pondered, Zhou Bai suddenly laughed, "The best part is I finally don’t have to always fight while lying or crouching down, right? With my current speed, just fighting while standing up I could KO ninety-nine percent of the players at my level, couldn’t I?
With that in mind, I’m even more confident about the hospital exploration next week."
Thinking it over, Zhou Bai said, "Right, now that I’m suddenly so fast, I should find some martial arts or Taoist skills to practice a bit, just to cover it up."
His eyes lit up in an instant, "Speed-related, ah, this time I must find something super cool!"
Christina, standing by his side, thought about Zhou Bai’s future battle scenarios: initially fast and stylish, hitting the opponent so hard they can’t hit back.
But once he couldn’t overpower them, he’d lay on the ground like a weirdo, and she shuddered instantly, "Hopefully we won’t encounter any enemies that make us resort to that."
Meanwhile, Zhou Bai turned his attention to the sixth star point.
Moon Rush - Endurance: Fleeing requires not only strength but also tremendous stamina.
Cultivation method: (skipped)
Laze Points (???): (Insufficient Primordial Spirit value, unable to cultivate)
"Huh?" Zhou Bai glanced at the remaining eighteen thousand plus Laze Points he had and was surprised that his Primordial Spirit value wasn’t high enough to cultivate the sixth star point.
"Makes sense, I’ve been idly grinding during the day and studying theory at night for over a month now, hardly ever doing any Breathing Technique to increase my Primordial Spirit value. So it’s been staying at around 1000 points."
"That this Moon Rush - Endurance is the sixth star point and I lack the Primordial Spirit value to handle it makes sense."
With that thought, Zhou Bai started rubbing his chin contemplatively, "But enhancing my Primordial Spirit value is so expensive now."
After breaking through 1000 points, every single point of Primordial Spirit value increase now costs Zhou Bai a thousand Laze Points.
The eighteen thousand Laze Points he had would only increase his Primordial Spirit value by eighteen points if he used them all.
"Using Laze Points for enhancing Daoization is a better deal than using them on Primordial Spirit value."
"Forget it, I’ll save the Laze Points for now. Tonight when I come back, I’ll try to do the Breathing Technique by myself and see if I can cultivate my Primordial Spirit value."
"Sigh, I still don’t have enough Laze Points."
Back in the Zeroth Realm, Zhou Bai would skip classes to sleep during the day and catch up on lessons at night, and it would only take a hundred Laze Points to increase one point of Primordial Spirit value, so he barely tried growing his Primordial Spirit value through the Breathing Technique.
But now, after reaching the First Realm, he had mostly caught up with his theoretical knowledge, and Laze Points are so expensive for enhancing Primordial Spirit value, Zhou Bai decided to test his own Breathing Technique effectiveness.
Thus, after adding his fifth star point that day, Zhou Bai saved the remaining eighteen thousand plus Laze Points and allowed Christina to power level his body while he went to sleep.
That evening, after class, Zhou Bai and Zuo Dao came out of the building together.
Zhou Bai, looking like he had just woken up, turned to Zuo Dao and asked, "Why do you look so listless? Didn’t sleep well?"
Zuo Dao massaged his brow and said, "I tried the method you mentioned. Kept waking up startled, but I think I’m about to succeed." He looked at Zhou Bai with excitement, "It really works! I felt like I was cultivating the Great Dream Arhat Heart Scripture in my dreams last night."
"Even in my dreams, I was cultivating," Zhou Bai said with a hint of guilt, "Mmm, that’s pretty good." He turned his head and complained, "Why hasn’t Qian Wangsun arrived yet? We agreed to have dinner together."
A moment later, he saw a fellow with a face swollen like a pig’s head slowly walking out—it was none other than Qian Wangsun.
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Zhou Bai exclaimed in shock, "Who hit you again?"
Qian Wangsun grumbled, "Don’t mention it. I just challenged Wang Ran, and that guy actually released over a hundred soldier spirits to gang up on me."
As he spoke, he became excited again, "Though their formation really got to me. Over a hundred soldier spirits attacking simultaneously, the assaults raining down from all directions, it was so hard to dodge. My intuitive warning was reduced to the bare minimum. I feel like the training I got from being beaten up by him is even more effective than sparring with Lu Wanzhen."
Wang Ran, ranked sixth, was also the strongest in the special training class within the first realm.
Zhou Bai rolled his eyes and thought, "Sigh, out of the top three talents in our class, why is it that, apart from me, there isn’t a single normal one?"
Christina, who was planning to sleep inside Zhou Bai’s sea of consciousness, rolled her eyes as well, thinking to herself, "Pfft, I think I’m the most normal one here."
After the three of them had eaten, they saw Lu Wanzhen approaching. She said to Qian Wangsun, "Come with me, Xiaopei wants to see you."
"Xiaopei?" Qian Wangsun said, surprised.
Lu Wanzhen glanced at the equally surprised Zhou Bai and Zuo Dao, then added, "If you two want to come too, you can. Xiaopei is also curious about you."
Zuo Dao frowned, "No need, I have to go cultivate." With that, he turned around and left. Lu Wanzhen didn’t mind; after all, Xiaopei mainly wanted to see Qian Wangsun.
Zhou Bai was also somewhat surprised. As far as he knew, Xiaopei seemed to be Vice Principal Zhao Shouyi’s granddaughter, who had both legs severed in a battle against the Heavenly Demon and could only take sick leave at home. Furthermore...
Zhou Bai looked at Qian Wangsun, thinking to himself, "I heard that Qian Wangsun originally took the spot for limb regeneration at the expense of Xiaopei. Is she calling Qian Wangsun over because she’s upset, or just out of curiosity?"
Qian Wangsun hesitated for a brief moment, then nodded and said, "I’m fine with it. Should we go now?"
Zhou Bai patted his shoulder as a reminder, "Are you sure it’s okay? You took someone else’s spot."
Qian Wangsun said, "It’s precisely because of that, if she wants to see me, I can’t run away. I owe her an explanation, don’t I?"
Zhou Bai sighed. His feelings were a bit complicated, "Fine, then I’ll accompany you."
"Are you done discussing?" Lu Wanzhen looked at the two, impatiently saying, "Such big guys and yet you dilly-dally like old women."
Qian Wangsun chuckled, "Alright, alright, we’re leaving now."
Following Lu Wanzhen, the two made their way to a teacher’s apartment building.
The Vice Principal’s house was not as luxurious or imposing as Zhou Bai imagined, hardly different from the student dorms, just a bit bigger.
They arrived at room 502 on the fifth floor. Lu Wanzhen opened the door, and a bell-like laugh rang out.
"Lu sister, you’re here?"
Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun looked up and felt a sense of amazement.
Before them was a fair-skinned girl who seemed to shine with light.
She had a delicate frame, sitting in her chair wearing a long dress, appearing as if a breeze could make her flutter away.
Her long black hair casually draped down, fluttering with the breeze.
To Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun, the most regrettable thing was that where the girl’s legs should have been, below the hem of her dress, there was nothing but emptiness—nothing at all.