Chapter 127 Expectations for the Coming Year: Harmony between Heaven and Man

After today's special morning training session ended...

Li Ang went to the locker room to take a cold shower.

He washed away the sweat and fatigue from his body.

Changing into a clean and fresh school uniform, he stepped into the classroom to the sound of the preparatory bell for morning self-study.

With steady steps, he walked into the classroom of Class 1, Grade 11.

It was currently only the second week of the first semester of the eleventh grade.

The class was still filled with those familiar faces, everyone chatting away in their own little circles.

When Li Ang entered the classroom...

He looked at these groups of high school students gathered in twos and threes, chattering away, full of vigorous spirit and youthful vitality.

In a daze, he remembered his previous simulation.

In that isolated grotto-heaven, where he served as the Arch-Cardinal of the Cang Ming Divine Cult.

The 'Grotto-Heaven New Generation' that he had raised with his own hands.

Back then, they were also this age.

They were also full of longing for the future and just as vibrant.

“Time truly waits for no one...”

Li Ang sighed inwardly.

Although his physical body in reality was still in that Peak state of a vibrant seventeen or eighteen-year-old...

After experiencing the wash of memories and life-and-death trials of decades or even a century...

His current mindset when looking at these classmates...

Had long since lost any sense of competitiveness between peers.

It was like an old man nearly a hundred years old...

Watching a group of toddlers playing with mud in the yard.

However, after all, when he previously acted as the 'gold medal teaching assistant' at school...

He had always maintained an amiable and elegant appearance.

He still maintained that gentle smile now.

Skillfully responding to his classmates' enthusiastic greetings.

He didn't show any sense of difference that would arouse suspicion.

Today was the second week after the start of the semester.

The various settling-in tasks and daily tedious matters of the first week had all been settled.

The school leadership clearly felt that everyone had adapted well enough.

It was time to increase the intensity and start pumping up these eleventh-grade students!

During the morning self-study period.

The class teacher, Wang Heng, holding a thick stack of kraft paper envelopes...

Walked onto the podium with a solemn expression.

“Students, quiet down!”

Wang Heng scanned the classroom and spoke in a loud voice.

“Following the unified requirements of the school's Academic Affairs Office.”

“During today's class meeting...”

“We are going to set a clear goal for everyone!”

He gestured for the class monitor, Liao Fan, who was sitting in the front row, to come up.

Liao Fan respectfully took the stack of blank envelopes and quickly distributed them.

“Everyone, think about yourself a year from now, when you'll be facing the Grade 12 mock exams and the College Entrance Examination.”

“Write what you want to say on the stationery!”

“And, write down the Martial Arts Realm you hope to achieve by this time next year!”

Wang Heng tapped the blackboard forcefully from the podium.

“Rest assured, the school absolutely respects everyone's privacy.”

“After these letters are written, they will be collected and sealed in front of everyone.”

“Locked in the school's confidential archives.”

“They won't be returned to you until this time next year!”

“So, write freely and boldly!”

“This is also a form of self-encouragement!”

“Grade 11 is the most important year of the three years of high school!”

“It is the final window of opportunity to widen the gap between you and other competitors!”

“This year will be a year of rapid progress for you, and a year of hard work and sweat...”

Wang Heng rambled on with a lot of motivational nonsense, speaking with great emotion and passion.

Some students below were fired up, their faces turning red with excitement.

They picked up their pens and began writing furiously.

As if they would become invincible and clear their meridians in the next second.

There were also students who didn't buy into it at all.

It went in one ear and out the other as they perfunctorily wrote a few sentences.

Meanwhile, Li Ang, sitting in the corner of the back row...

Was spinning the pen in his hand with interest.

Looking at the kraft paper envelope placed on his desk.

“A martial arts goal for this time next year?”

A faint smile curled at the corners of Li Ang's mouth.

If it were his predecessor, he might have written on the paper:

“I hope to break through to the Fourth Stage of Qi and Blood.”

“I hope to pay off the debts.”

“I hope to live like a decent human being.”

Simple wishes like those.

But now...

Li Ang looked at the vast sky outside the window and asked himself softly in his heart:

“By this time next year, after going through many more simulations...”

“What kind of magnificent martial arts scenery will I see?”

He didn't write a long essay on the paper.

He simply picked up his pen and wrote a few words in a bold, flowing script.

Then he folded it and tucked it into the envelope.

...

After the routine motivational session ended...

The following morning was filled with tedious theoretical classes.

The teacher stood on the podium, explaining basic diagrams of Qi and blood circulation with spittle flying everywhere.

Although the students below tried hard to listen, most were completely confused.

Meanwhile, Li Ang took this opportunity...

To continue his 'Cultivation coursework' for today.

At the level of the Soaring Realm...

Cultivation was no longer just about refining the physical body and accumulating Qi and blood.

According to Li Ang's eighty years of deductions and insights in the grotto-heaven...

The leap from the Soaring Realm to the Mountain-Sea Realm lies in the pursuit of deep communication between the 'inner heaven and earth' and the 'outer world.'

With the goal of eventually reaching the legendary Realm of the Unity of Heaven and Man.

Therefore, the tempering and refining of the Origin Power within the body became extremely important.

Internal and external resonance, correspondence between man and nature.

The more pure and flawless the Origin Power in the body was refined...

The thinner that invisible barrier between the inner and outer worlds would become.

The smoother the communication between the Divine Soul and the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi would be.

“Whew...”

Inside his body...

Li Ang repeatedly circulated the Heaven-Sea Canglan Body Divine Seed Origin Art.

Taking that vast, azure Origin Power within him...

And compressing and purifying it over and over again.

“Without the free resources in the grotto-heaven, and without the faith-based computing power provided by the believers...”

“Refining step-by-step like this is indeed much less efficient.”

Li Ang privately assessed his progress in his heart.

He shook his head slightly.

But he was not discouraged.

The so-called cultivation is like sailing against the current; persistence wears down stones.

Accumulating bit by bit might seem slow...

But it was building the most indestructible foundation for a skyscraper, step by step.

At noon, during the lunch break.

Li Ang didn't squeeze into the cafeteria but instead went to the Advanced section of the school's reference room.

Using the special permissions granted by Wu Changhe...

He was flipping through several thick volumes of the Federal Martial Arts High School Development Yearbook.

And some fragmented high-level theoretical manuscripts collected by Wu Changhe.

He hadn't paid much attention to these things in his previous simulations.

Before, Li Ang was more focused on materials like College Entrance Examination questions.

But for him, who was already in the Soaring Realm, those were no longer significant.

What Li Ang wanted to understand now was the specific situation of the Twin Stars.

With the support of his powerful Divine Soul, his reading speed was practically superhuman.

He truly achieved reading ten lines at a glance and never forgetting what he saw.

The massive flow of information was quickly categorized and stored in his memory palace.

Just then, a somewhat distressed and frustrated voice interrupted his reading.

“Agh... how is this supposed to flow?”

“Why does the Qi and blood get stuck here?”

“Is this damn diagram printed wrong?”

Li Ang turned his head slightly and happened to see his classmate Zhang Li.

Sitting at a nearby table.

Scratching his head in frustration over an Advanced Martial Skill borrowed from Wu Changhe.

At this moment, Zhang Li's chubby face was full of questions.

His finger traced back and forth over a 'Force Circulation Diagram.'

He was sweating profusely from anxiety, clearly completely stumped by this difficult problem.

Li Ang didn't want to meddle in others' business.

But catching a glimpse of Zhang Li's frustrated appearance...

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

“This kid Zhang Li is a VIP customer who paid in full.”

“As a gold medal teaching assistant, providing some after-sales service is only right.”

More importantly, the rules after the System upgrade were very clear.

Casually giving pointers to break through someone else's martial arts Bottleneck...

Also fell under the category of 'changing others' destiny.'

He could conveniently harvest a few destiny points.

Though it wasn't much, every little bit helps.

Thinking of this, as Li Ang got up to go to the photocopier, he stopped by Zhang Li's table.

Combined with his experience, almost instinctively, Li Ang saw through the core issue of that manual at a glance.

“Don't fixate on the 'Tianchi Point.'”

Li Ang reached out and lightly tapped a spot on Zhang Li's manual, speaking calmly.

“That's a redundant route the author added just to force a sense of cosmic Perfection.”

“Skip it and press the force directly down from Quze, through to Yanglingquan.”

“The diagram is fixed, but people are flexible.”

After casually leaving those two sentences, Li Ang didn't linger for a second.

He walked away with several thick volumes of reference materials.

Sitting in his seat, Zhang Li was stunned for a moment.

Subconsciously following the route Li Ang had given...

He tried to simulate the circulation of his Qi and blood.

“Boom!”

The Qi and blood knot that had troubled him all weekend...

Suddenly cleared in that instant!

“Incredible... it really was redundant!”

“So the force exertion in actual combat can be changed like this!”

When Zhang Li suddenly snapped out of it and wanted to stand up excitedly to thank him...

He only saw Li Ang's retreating back.

Recalling the ease with which Li Ang had seen through the essence of the problem just now...

Zhang Li swallowed hard, a sense of awe irrepressibly rising in his heart.

“Assistant Instructor Li's level... it would be enough even if he really became a teacher, right?”

...

At night.

After easily finishing teaching those VIP students who were becoming increasingly respectful toward him in the training hall...

Li Ang returned to the Teachers Apartment.

He finished washing up, sat at his desk, and turned on the lamp.

On the desk lay a thick stack of materials he had photocopied today from the Advanced section of the reference room.