Chapter 157 Steady Improvement, Visitors from Changjing

Half a month has passed.

At this moment.

You have already optimized the Yuan Power circulation method you explored, "cangming Circulation", to version 3.0.

The circulation efficiency of your Yuan Power within your body has reached a terrifying level.

Every breath you take can resonate with the surrounding Origin Qi of heaven and earth.

At the same time, the number of Yuan Power Nodes in your body has finally broken past a single digit.

It has reached ten!

Mid-October.

In the previous simulation, the transfer student "Snow Maiden" Liu Xiyue, who was supposed to appear at this time, did not arrive as scheduled this time.

You guess that the Investigation Bureau must have intervened in advance.

They notified Liu Xiyue personally and informed her about the mystic ice twin lotus in Changlin Park, revealing the truth that it was actually a cult trap.

Since she knows there is a death trap set for her in Longnan, Liu Xiyue naturally has no reason to transfer to this remote backwater.

You watch the falling leaves outside the window, your thoughts drifting far away.

However, what exactly is the Liu Family hiding that makes the Myriad Ages Pure Eye Burning Body God care so much, and even go to such great lengths to lay out a scheme by sending down the Two-Life Blood Soul Demon?

You are indeed a bit curious about this.

However, it is only a little bit of curiosity.

You do not intend to dig deeper.

After all, curiosity killed the cat.

Improving yourself is the most important task right now.

In fact, just as you guessed, because of the early intervention of Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian, and being clearly informed that the "guidance" she received was actually a Mental Suggestion from a cult evil god, she broke out in a cold sweat.

She abandoned the idea of going to Longnan City to "retrieve the treasure."

However, the power struggle within the Liu Family of Haicheng still exists.

To escape that vortex, with the help of her father's friend, she ultimately chose to transfer to another big city in Jiangnan Province, Ningzhou, to prepare for the College Entrance Examination there.

However, this time, without the help of a "dimensional secret treasure," will she still be able to protect her own interests in the vortex of Family struggles?

All of this has become an unknown.

However, none of this has anything to do with you anymore.

After that, every day of yours was incredibly fulfilling.

The insights regarding Martial Skills and the understanding of the essence of Yuan Power that you accumulated over nearly eighty years in the Xuan Shui Cave Heaven were released fully in this reality where the environment is rich in Origin Qi.

You can clearly perceive that you are becoming stronger every single day.

While frantically improving yourself, you have not forgotten Old Wu.

Every time you engaged in high-intensity sparring with Old Wu, you would secretly use your Divine Thought to carefully examine his physical condition.

You wanted to know if it was possible, with your current abilities, to repair Old Wu's body and continue the path of martial arts that had long been broken for him.

After these days of unobtrusive observation, you reached a regrettable conclusion.

Old Wu's body is actually very healthy and full of Qi and Blood.

It might even be stronger than many young people in the Origin Opening Realm.

However, Old Wu's Sea of Consciousness and Soul are extremely weak and rigid.

That feeling is like a dry and cracked riverbed.

Although the framework is still there, it has lost the soil to nurture life.

This indeed matches what Old Wu said himself in the last simulation: "My Sea of Consciousness suffered irreversible damage in my early years."

You also find this quite tricky.

You have no solution for the moment.

If it were only physical damage, you could help Old Wu slowly nourish it, and there would be a good chance of recovery.

However, regarding deep damage involving the Sea of Consciousness and Soul, you are somewhat powerless.

Perhaps only the legendary, extremely rare, high-quality wood-element dimensional secret treasure, a divine object containing the vitality of heaven and earth, could help Old Wu reshape his Sea of Consciousness and continue his martial arts path toward the Soaring Realm.

You secretly noted this in your heart.

However, you are still quite confident about this.

You clench your fists, your eyes firm.

As long as you can develop smoothly in this simulation and keep getting stronger, it is not impossible to obtain a wood-element dimensional secret treasure.

Although you haven't been able to fundamentally cure Old Wu yet, under your high-level "guided sparring" and the secret nourishment of your Spiritual Form techniques, Old Wu's condition is visibly getting better and better.

He is full of energy every day, glowing with health.

Now, as the acting principal, his speed in approving official documents in the principal's office has increased.

When teaching, his voice is three points louder than before, appearing even more spirited.

Old Wu, who is in the Origin Opening Realm, spars with you every day, which has such good results.

Those high school senior Qi and Blood Realm students you are guiding go without saying.

Under your "devilish training" and guidance where you break down knowledge points for them to digest easily, their overall strength has skyrocketed as if they were riding a rocket.

Everyone has made significant progress.

These huge teaching achievements have brought you much gratitude from parents.

Many students' parents ran to the school specifically, and with gongs and drums, presented you and Old Wu each with a large red, gold-lettered banner.

The one given to you read: "Exerting efforts to forge strong physiques, carefully cultivating outstanding talents."

The one given to Old Wu was: "Diligent teaching and hard training promote improvement, strict guidance reveals true mastery."

For this, Old Wu, who loves Face excessively, was happy for several days.

Not only did he hang the banner in the most conspicuous place in the office, but he also walked with a spring in his step.

At the school-wide senior year oath-taking rally, he greatly praised your achievements.

He praised you as the most outstanding student in the history of Longnan No. 1 High School.

Time passed quickly in such a fulfilling and busy life.

October, November, December.

Soon, the time came to January of the following year.

At this time, during your daily sparring with Old Wu, you had already revealed very powerful strength.

As time passed, you slowly and layeredly increased the strength you displayed in front of Wu Changhe.

This was to highlight your martial arts talent.

In the most recent sparring session, Old Wu had almost used his full strength.

"You kid..."

Old Wu put away his blade and looked at you, panting.

His eyes, however, were full of unconcealable excitement.

He evaluated your current strength very excitedly.

"Li Ang! Based on the combat power you are displaying now,"

"I feel... your current level"

"should already be among the very best in Jiangnan Province!"

In Old Wu's mind, he seemed to have already seen half a year later, you slaughtering in all directions, taking out one opponent with one strike, stepping on the heads of countless geniuses from noble families, and strongly winning the title of provincial top scholar—a shocking scene.

That's right, Wu Changhe had already started to "pre-loan" the provincial top scholar title to you.

However, Old Wu was an old Jianghu hand after all.

He quickly came to his senses.

He felt it was not good to say such big words in front of his student.

It easily makes people arrogant and complacent, losing their enterprising spirit.

He immediately stopped, cleared his throat, put on a serious Face, and said to you:

"Ahem, of course, this is just my personal guess."

"You kid still need to guard against arrogance and impetuosity!"

"In this world, there is always someone better, understand?"

"Don't think that just because you are invincible in Longnan, you are invincible in the world!"

However, although he was sternly admonishing you with his words, his crazily upturned, uncontrollable corners of his mouth and his glowing, radiant expression betrayed him.

You helplessly muttered in your heart:

"Old Wu, oh Old Wu."

"I think the person who needs to calm down right now"

"is you, right?"

Life was calm as water and full of hope.

You originally thought that as long as you kept "turtling" in this small place of Longnan, attending classes, sparring, farming reputation, and developing in secret every day, you could just live peacefully and steadily wait for the day the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination opened.

However, on this day, a visitor from Changjing broke your peaceful life.