Jing Xiu pressed Christina down onto the desk and Zhou Bai said, "You should let someone finish speaking. Act normal for a bit later. Everyone knows I keep a cat."
Although Zhou Bai often took Christina with him and concealed her in his sea of consciousness when they went out, he never hid her presence in the room. He simply told others that he liked to keep a cat.
As long as he connected his Primordial Spirit power with Christina, they could communicate with each other through their consciousness, just like how Christina was in her own sea of consciousness.
Christina: "Tch." She lay on the desk, squinting her eyes in the direction of the door.
Zhou Bai, controlling the power of the Primordial Spirit, opened the door, which also served to protect himself.
After all, having recently experienced the Heavenly Demon incident, Zhou Bai was still maintaining a high level of vigilance.
Especially since Xia Li had been attacked and nearly died, Zhou Bai was intent on cultivating his own sense of caution and to not relax his guard.
Having activated the power of the Primordial Spirit, Zhou Bai saw Jing Xiu outside the door and asked, "What’s up?"
Jing Xiu looked at Zhou Bai and said, "Big Brother Zhou, I have some issues with my cultivation that I want to consult you about." This was because Jing Xiu had felt his own weakness during the martial arts event and the Heavenly Demon incident, and he wanted to learn from Zhou Bai, the strongest of their cohort.
Zhou Bai paused, then spoke with conviction, "Cultivation is something you have to do on your own. How could you rely on others? Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving forward on your own."
Jing Xiu: "Ah? So can I ask what your daily cultivation routine is?"
Zhou Bai: "I just spend all the time others use for classes on cultivating."
Feeling he had gained nothing, Jing Xiu left disappointed.
After closing the door, Zhou Bai wiped the sweat from his brow, "What could I possibly teach?"
In the following week, Zhou Bai practiced his cultivation diligently. He forced himself to sleep during the day against the urge to study, and studied at night against the urge to sleep, with his laziness score rising daily.
The 2000 points from the rewards and the 200 basic points received this month, in addition to the extra 200 points for the special class, were all spent by Zhou Bai in a frenzy, leaving just over 500 points.
But Zhou Bai had spent all those points on supernatural food that enhances the flesh, and his body was quietly growing stronger, full of vitality, greatly increasing his physique and accumulating a large amount of supernatural substance within his body, which he digested slowly every day.
He was constantly enhancing his physical abilities, enriching his flesh, blood, tendons, and bones.
Now, Zhou Bai felt that his strength had increased by at least 50% compared to a week ago, and he was gradually developing a skin as tough as copper and bones as strong as iron. Even simply standing, he could withstand the blows of ordinary weapons.
The night before going to the special class, Zhou Bai lay in bed and turned his gaze to the interface of the auxiliary cultivation system.
Degree of Dao Integration: 5.1%
Primordial Spirit Value: 290
Divine Diagram: Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man
Laziness: 4730
"Tomorrow I’ll start attending the special class, and it’s time to increase my cultivation," thought Zhou Bai. "I have to at least go to the special class on the first day, understand how it operates, what the rankings are, and how to increase the extra points each month."
"I’ve been quietly accumulating laziness score and studying theory to lay a solid foundation. Now that I have enough laziness score, I should first focus on the Divine Diagram.
Once I have completed the 0th layer of the Divine Diagram, making my body and spirit stronger, and advanced my understanding of cultivation theories, it will be time to boldly make a new breakthrough in my degree of Dao Integration."
"As for the Primordial Spirit Value, after I finish the 0th layer of the Divine Diagram, all the remaining laziness can be used to improve the Primordial Spirit Value, so there’s no need to worry about slow progress."
With that thought, Zhou Bai turned his attention to the eighth node.
Sumeru - Inner: Strengthen the resistance of internal organs and brain to physical shocks and impact.
Cultivation method: (Directly skipped by Zhou Bai)
Laziness (0/4500)
Bite down on a towel.
In an instant, he invested 4500 points of laziness, and the eighth star point lit up brightly. Zhou Bai felt a stirring in his organs, as if they were being torn apart in all directions.
This time, the pain lasted for over half an hour before subsiding.
Immediately, Zhou Bai felt rejuvenated from head to toe, with a feeling of clarity and refreshment.
After all, the organs contained the entire body’s circulation and are one of the most important components of the human body. Now that his ability to withstand hits has increased, this actually means that his original organs have been overall enhanced, improving abilities like digestion, blood circulation, respiration, detoxification... and so on.
Although his combat power hasn’t been greatly improved, his vitality has become even stronger.
Especially since this enhancement is not a one-time thing. As time goes by, with stronger organ functions, Zhou Bai’s physical body will undergo a subtle transformation and enhancement.
’I’ve become stronger, and more sturdy, too.’
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’I feel like I could lie down and take hits from ten Zuo Daos without getting hurt.’
Zhou Bai nodded contentedly, turning his gaze to the last star point of the zeroth layer, the ninth star point.
But when he saw that the name of the star point was ’Laziness Disaster’, his eyes lit up.
Laziness Disaster: Lie down as one, govern through non-action.
1. Gain the same effect as lying on the ground when laying down flat 2. Allows others to manipulate the body to increase laziness.
Cultivation method: (Directly skipped by Zhou Bai)
Laziness (0/5000)
"Laying down as one is great," Zhou Bai saw this and his eyes first lit up; although his defensive power skyrocketed when he lay down, the restriction on his movements was too great to perfectly utilize his combat abilities.
If he could lay down as one, then the range of movements he could perform while maintaining the highest defensive power would increase, allowing him to roll and crawl around.
However, upon seeing that others could manipulate his body, he was slightly stunned.
"Why would I let others control my body? Wouldn’t that just be giving them an advantage? Even if it could increase laziness..."
Zhou Bai frowned, somewhat unsure whether this ability was good or bad, so he decided to set it aside for now and would experiment after unlocking this star point.
...
The next day, Zhou Bai arrived at a spacious hall, only to find that more than a dozen men and women had already gathered there, standing together in pairs or small groups. When Zhou Bai suddenly appeared, they all turned their heads, looking at him with an evaluative gaze.
"Newbie?" A young man with a crew cut looked at Zhou Bai: "You’re that ’Lying Down Demon’ Zhou Bai?"
"Ah?" Zhou Bai was completely bewildered: "Who’s ’Lying Down Demon’? When did I get that nickname?"
"You don’t know? They say you defeated the whole 503rd class by lying down, you’re now called the ’Lying Down Demon’ out there." The crew-cut young man walked up with a grin, extending his hand toward Zhou Bai.
Zhou Bai had a look of annoyance: ’What a terrible nickname.’
The two shook hands, and the crew-cut continued: "I’m Jiang Ran, a sophomore, came here a year before you."
Putting the whole nickname thing to the back of his mind, Zhou Bai started to inquire about the special class from the other person.
After speaking briefly, Zuo Dao and Qian Wangsun also arrived. Only today, Qian Wangsun wasn’t in a wheelchair, but had grown out both arms and legs, showing no signs of his previous gloom, the picture of radiant confidence.