Seeing Du Bing frown, Liu Xian chuckled and continued, "But don’t worry, I won’t violate school rules. Anyway, in the assessment three weeks from now, there will be plenty of chances to teach him a lesson."
Du Bing sighed and looked at a few of Liu Xian’s classmates standing next to him: "Chi Huo, Yun Kong, do you feel the same?"
Chi Huo, who ranked 12th in the entrance test with his head of red hair, and Yun Kong, ranked 14th, a curvaceous girl with a pair of seductive lips.
These two, along with Liu Xian, were pretty good friends; they usually attended classes, ate, and cultivated together.
From their expressions, Du Bing could tell that they shared Liu Xian’s view, finding Zhou Bai’s actions unbearable.
On the other side, Zhou Bai was unaware of all this and had just taken a few bowls of rice before leaving the cafeteria to find the dog.
As he walked back, he sighed silently to himself: "Trouble, only a little over 100 points left. Elsa has been sneaking too many snacks lately."
"Alas, I also lost the point reward for finding the scripture last time. No idea what’s happened to Xing Jun. I heard he hasn’t been teaching Zuo Dao for a long time now."
"If this goes on, I won’t make it until the end of the month, I can’t starve Elsa."
Thinking of Elsa’s past and her current form as a dog, a resolute look appeared in Zhou Bai’s eyes. No matter what, he couldn’t let Elsa go hungry, nor could he let people at Dao School know she could grow big.
’I wonder when I can go to the place left by the professor; maybe there’s a way to turn Elsa back.’
’If push comes to shove, I’ll just have to scrounge meals with classmates. Jing Xiu should be easy to talk to, and Zuo Dao cares so much about his face, might as well try...’
But just thinking about scrounging meals made Zhou Bai blush, feeling it was a bit shameful. He’d never scrounged meals from anyone in his two lifetimes.
When he arrived where Elsa was waiting, Zhou Bai suddenly widened his eyes in surprise.
Before Elsa, someone had thrown a meat bun.
Elsa had eaten half of the bun and was now staring at the remaining half, constantly swallowing saliva. She had purposely refrained from eating it, wanting to save it for Zhou Bai.
Zhou Bai approached with a surprised look and said to Elsa, "Elsa, where did this bun come from?"
Elsa barked a few times, and naturally, Zhou Bai couldn’t understand. He just stroked his chin, wondering to himself, "Could it be a handout from someone?"
Elsa picked up the bun, offering Zhou Bai a taste.
Zhou Bai looked at the half bun, still with its full meat filling, and smiled, shaking his head, "You finish the rest. I won’t have any."
As he stroked his chin, watching Elsa happily eating the bun, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.
"Elsa, let me teach you a new way to walk."
"Imagine you don’t have back legs."
"That’s right, just use your front paws to walk, and pretend the back ones are broken."
"Stop laughing! I’m not playing! Don’t keep grinning."
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"Your eyes! Pay attention to your eyes. Look sadder... Um... Just imagine you woke up to find I ate all the food in secret... Yes! That’s the look; keep it going."
"Good, just like that. Now, take this bowl and make a couple of rounds in front of the cafeteria entrance."
Half an hour later, Zhou Bai, looking at Elsa who brought back a bowl of rice, touched her head with a look of joy, "Good job, Elsa, you can earn your own food now!"
Hearing Zhou Bai praise her, Elsa wagged her tail non-stop and smiled happily.
Elsa quickly finished her meal and wanted to try her luck at the cafeteria again, but Zhou Bai stopped her.
Zhou Bai looked at Elsa’s somewhat dirty paws, pondered for a long time, and finally sighed, shaking his head: "Forget it, Elsa, it’s too unfair to you. You can’t really become a dog. One day, I’ll help you turn back."
"When I’m strong enough, I’ll go find the coordinates the doctor left behind."
Elsa tilted her head, looking at Zhou Bai, not fully understanding what he had just said.
Zhou Bai took Elsa’s hand and led her away, "Let’s go, let’s go. I’ll mooch some meals from Jing Xiu and the others at the end of the month. I’ll pay them back next month. You just focus on eating your meals."
In the following days, Zhou Bai slept during the day and studied and read the Dao scriptures at night. In between these activities, he also practiced the Great Dream Arhat Heart Scripture a little.
However, this martial art required a lot of innate talent. Zhou Bai didn’t have a pure enough Dao heart and found it almost impossible to truly fall asleep while cultivating. So, he just practiced it casually, planning to use it solely to conceal his Primordial Spirit.
Zhou Bai spent nearly a week diligently cultivating like this, until finally, only two weeks were left before the bi-monthly assessment.
Dao Infusion: 3.8%
Primordial Spirit Value: 211
Divine Diagram: Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man
Laziness: 4170
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Sumeru - Healing: Enhances the flexibility and explosive power of the flesh body while transforming laziness into treasure. Through the consumption of laziness, it can heal one’s own injuries.
Cultivation method: (Zhou Bai skipped directly)
Laziness (0/3500)
Zhou Bai infused 3500 points of laziness into the seventh star point in one go and instantly felt changes in his flesh body. It was as if streams of warm air were meandering through every muscle and bone, strengthening the resilience and explosive power of his physique.
After a long while, Zhou Bai stood up from the bed, feeling the enhanced body. He swiftly threw out two punches and then saw his hands leave behind a series of afterimages. More than ten punches were thrown out in rapid succession, as if bursting the air, creating loud popping sounds.
But this was just the beginning. Zhou Bai moved his body, countering with his fists, as booming sounds echoed back and forth in the room, as if thundering.
After over five hundred punches, Zhou Bai finally stopped, panting slightly. He lay flat on the ground, motionless, instantly feeling his strength rapidly recovering.
In just a few seconds, his depleted strength was restored to full.
This was the effect of the previously acquired Sumeru - Immovable. As long as the body remained still, the recovery power would greatly enhance, including regaining stamina and healing injuries.
Now, Zhou Bai wanted to try out the healing effects of the seventh star point, Sumeru - Healing.
"Laziness can be consumed to heal injuries."
Zhou Bai examined his body, made a few gestures, and thought about where it would be good to sustain an injury. Then he thought again and lay back down on the bed, "Forget it, I better save up some laziness. After all, the assessment is in just two weeks."
Then Zhou Bai looked at the eighth star point.
"Only two star points left. Once the tenth star point of the 0th layer of the Divine Diagram is cultivated, it will be complete."
Sumeru - Inner: Enhances the resistance of internal organs and the brain to strikes and shocks.
Cultivation method: (Zhou Bai skipped directly)
Laziness (0/4500)
"Sure enough, it’s still about enhancing defensive power. Defensive power, physique, recovery strength, self-healing ability, resistance to strikes... Now I’m really getting tougher." Zhou Bai shook his head, and upon seeing the required 4500 points of laziness, he frowned slightly:
"4500 points of laziness? It needs that much? Right now, I earn at least 400 laziness points a day, and it doesn’t exceed 600 even on a good day. At this rate of increase, I’m afraid I won’t be able to cultivate all nine star points of the 0th layer before the assessment in two weeks."
Thinking of this, Zhou Bai started to feel a bit nervous. Although he was confident in his own special abilities and efforts, far surpassing students of the same cohort, he had never actually compared himself to anyone else and always felt unsure in his heart.
Zhou Bai looked over at Christina, who was still making an effort to raise her Primordial Spirit value, and asked, "How’s it going? How’s your cultivation? In the assessment two weeks from now, you’re the main damage dealer."