88: Chapter 88 The Divine Turtle Technique (Second Half)

The capital city, a small courtyard in the east of the city. Outside the window, the torrential rain continued to fall.

"Village Chief Grandpa..." Tang Liu woke up startled from his bed, covered in sweat.

He gasped for air, his entire body looking as if he had been fished out of water.

After a brief moment of confusion, his eyes quickly scanned his surroundings with vigilance.

This was an extremely sparsely furnished room, his own bedroom.

"How am I here?" Tang Liu muttered to himself, "Didn't I fall down in the courtyard?"

Immediately after, as if remembering something, he violently threw off the quilt to check his body.

At this sight, he was completely stunned.

The bones that had been brutally shattered by Chen Shanzhi on the Martial Arts Arena had miraculously recovered!

Not even a single scar remained, and the icy True Qi within his body had instead become even more solid than before.

"This is not a dream!"

In Tang Liu's mind, that hunched figure who had draped a straw raincoat over him in the rain flashed by, and his eyes instantly turned red.

Village Chief Grandpa, he was not dead!

Back in the tragedy that slaughtered his entire village during his childhood, Village Chief Grandpa had actually survived!

And he had quietly appeared in the capital to save him!

"Grandpa!"

Tang Liu didn't even bother to put on his shoes; he jumped off the bed barefoot and searched frantically around the room and the courtyard like a madman.

However, apart from the puddles of water on the ground and the remains of the furniture he had smashed to pieces, there wasn't a single soul.

Filled with disappointment and confusion, Tang Liu returned to the room.

Just as he sat heavily on the edge of the bed and buried his head in his hands, falling into agony.

His gaze inadvertently swept over the broken wooden table with a missing leg at the head of the bed. Then, his pupils suddenly constricted!

On the table lay an ancient Jade Slip, quietly emitting a faint blue light!

"This is..."

Tang Liu knew very well that previously, there was absolutely nothing on this table. He walked forward with rapid breathing, extended his slightly trembling right hand, and gently touched the Jade Slip.

"Hum!" The Jade Slip emitted a soft chime and instantly transformed into a stream of light, drilling into the center of his brow.

A massive amount of information surged into his mind!

"This is... the Divine Turtle Art?"

Tang Liu's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief. This was actually another scroll of the Divine Turtle Art!

He had always thought that the biggest characteristic of the Cultivation Technique he practiced was being "slow." Because every time he achieved a Breakthrough in his acupoints, the amount of True Qi reserve required was ten times that of a Martial Artist of the same rank!

But today, after the information in this Jade Slip was completely integrated into his memory, he suddenly realized! It turned out that what he had been practicing before was only the first half of the Incomplete Manual of the Divine Turtle Art!

The first half emphasized a heart like still water, stable emotions, and accumulating slowly like a turtle retracting its head. But now, the second half he had obtained was the exact opposite! The general outline of the Mind-Cultivation Technique for the second half clearly stated: Emotion is power!

As long as the practitioner's emotions fluctuated more intensely. When anger, jealousy, hatred, despair... these extreme negative emotions were more intense, the circulation speed and conversion efficiency of the True Qi in his body would increase exponentially!

Because of the solid foundation laid by the first half, once the Mind-Cultivation Technique of the second half was injected into his mind, Tang Liu didn't need to deliberately comprehend it; his body instinctively mastered the entire Cultivation Technique.

Then Tang Liu closed his eyes tightly, deliberately letting his thoughts run wild.

In his mind, the image of Tang Xiaowu holding hands with Chen Shanzhi as she got off the carriage, the cold look in her eyes when she looked at him, and Chen Shanzhi's heart-piercing mockery on the Martial Arts Arena... played back frantically like a revolving lantern!

Jealousy gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake, and anger burned his reason like a raging fire!

"Boom!" As his emotions fluctuated violently, the complete Divine Turtle Art within his body roared to life like an ignited, violent engine, running frantically!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the outside world, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, poured in through his pores as if it were free. Then it was converted into extremely pure, icy True Qi!

Feeling the cultivation in his body rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, Tang Liu suddenly opened his eyes, full of excitement. This cultivation speed was simply several times faster than before!

"Chen Shanzhi... just you wait!"

Tang Liu clenched his fists tightly until his knuckles clicked, and a chilling, sinister look flashed in his eyes: "The matter between us is not over yet! When I reach Major Achievement in this divine art, I will personally tear you to pieces and take Xiaowu back!"

After the wild joy, Tang Liu calmed down, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Village Chief Grandpa not only didn't die, but he also healed my injuries and gave me the second half of the Divine Turtle Art..."

"Then why didn't he stay to see me? You know how much I have missed them all these years. Or is it that Village Chief Grandpa is avoiding some enemies, or does he have some concerns?"

Tang Liu looked at the curtain of rain outside the window, his eyes gradually becoming profound. In any case, he must become stronger as soon as possible. Only by becoming stronger could he resolve these doubts and control his own destiny!

... One day later. Four Seas Academy officially opened.

Outside the Martial Arts Arena, a brand new red list for class assignments had been posted.

This year's Heaven Class originally had 110 students. Adding the ten Martial Artists recruited from the Earth Class after this Martial Arts competition, the total number of people reached exactly 120.

According to the academy's rules, to ensure the quality of teaching and the balance of resource allocation, these 120 people were shuffled from their previous ranking order, redrawn by lots, and divided equally into three classes. Namely: Heaven Class A, Heaven Class B, and Heaven Class C. Each class had 40 people.

Chen Shanzhi stood in front of the red list, with a dogtail grass he had plucked from somewhere hanging from his mouth. He squinted his eyes, scanning the dense list of names.

Soon, he found his own name and the names of two other "acquaintances."

[Chen Shanzhi: Heaven Class A] [Tang Xiaowu: Heaven Class B] [Tang Liu: Heaven Class C]

Because it was a blind assignment with a shuffled order, the overall strength of these three classes looked roughly the same on paper.

For example, Lu Yuchen, who shone brilliantly in this Martial Arts competition and ranked second on the academy wind and cloud ranking, was assigned to Class B. And Xing Zhige, who ranked third on the wind and cloud ranking, was assigned to Class C.

As for the Class A where Chen Shanzhi was... it had the strongest Profound Gate Realm Martial Artist, Princess Jiang Yueli, who was ranked first on both the academy wind and cloud ranking and the hidden dragon ranking, presiding over it.

It was just a bit awkward that this Princess was a total martial arts fanatic. She usually cultivated in the Cloud Sword Palace, one of the three major Sects, and rarely showed her face at the academy throughout the year.

This resulted in Class A currently being leaderless. Its overall immediate combat capability was slightly inferior to the other two classes that had Xuanguan Peak Martial Artists.

However, the focus of Chen Shanzhi's attention was not here at all. He looked at the dazzlingly gorgeous list for Class A on the board, and his brows involuntarily furrowed into a " river" shape.

"This class assignment... why is it completely different from the game?"

Chen Shanzhi spat out the dogtail grass in his mouth, unable to help but complain crazily in his heart.

According to the script of the original eroge, this class assignment should have been the protagonist Tang Liu, taking his childhood sweetheart sister Tang Xiaowu, both assigned to Heaven Class A. Then, in Class A, he would start various campus dungeon arcs of acting cool, slapping faces, and playing the pig to eat the tiger. By the way, he would encounter various top-tier heroines and start the harem-collecting routine.

But now, it was the opposite. The original protagonist and his white moonlight sister were all sent to Class B and Class C! And he, the villainous playboy who was originally assigned to another class, had actually entered Class A.

Chen Shanzhi looked further down at the list for Class A: Princess Jiang Yueli, Prime Minister's daughter Ouyang Wanqing, and the incredibly wealthy Shen Lingfu. Good grief! Chen Shanzhi exclaimed, good grief!

The core heroines in this Four Seas Academy, except for Tang Xiaowu who was assigned to Class B, were actually all fucking bunched together in Class A!

"Is the butterfly effect this intense?"

Chen Shanzhi rubbed his throbbing temples, feeling a headache. It seemed now that because he had won against Tang Liu on the Martial Arts Arena, the personnel allocation and plot lines of the entire academy seemed to have undergone some irreversible shifts!

"Although only the class assignment has changed, the hidden tasks behind these people and the trigger conditions for plot branches must have also changed accordingly."

Chen Shanzhi rubbed his eyes, his expression somewhat helpless. It seemed that some of the game guides in his brain could no longer be used.

"However..." Chen Shanzhi looked at the names of Ouyang Wanqing and Shen Lingfu on the list, and a playful arc suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"But since we are all in the same class, we see each other every day. If I manage this well, maybe the difficulty of romancing them will actually decrease?"

"Let's take it one step at a time; this doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing now."