26: Chapter 26 Teacher Su, how about we balance Yin and Yang?

Teacher Su slammed the bathroom door shut with a bang.

Her back was pressed tightly against the cold door panel, but her cheeks were hotter than the hot water in the shower.

The playful tone of Yun Zhuo seemed to still linger in her ears, making her heart beat erratically like a drum.

Yun Zhuo looked at the tightly closed bathroom door, listening to the sound of running water from inside, a mischievous smile curling the corners of his lips, though a hint of anticipation hid in the depths of his eyes.

Sigh, having only one bathroom is really too inconvenient; I wonder when we'll finally be able to shower together openly.

In the following time, it took Yun Zhuo a full day to reach the third level, a day and a half for the fourth, and two days for the fifth.

At this rate, wouldn't it take seventeen days to reach level ten, and eighty-five days to reach level twenty?

And this is still with the use of potions; the actual time will definitely be even longer.

But when we went to the Seventeenth Middle School last time, I heard that some Geniuses had already reached level ten.

What on earth are those guys eating to level up so fast?

Or is it that the gap between me and those Geniuses is so large that it has exceeded my own understanding?

"What are you thinking about? Come over and eat."

Teacher Su walked over and turned off the training ground's gravity engine, and Yun Zhuo immediately felt his body lighten.

On the white metal dining table, there were three dishes and one soup. In a delicate white porcelain bowl, there was glistening white rice, and Su Qingyuan thoughtfully poured a glass of water and gently pushed it to his side.

"Teacher Su, I just calculated it. At our current speed, it will take at least eighty-five days to reach level twenty.

But when we went to the Seventeenth Middle School last time, there were already people who had reached level ten. What on earth are they eating? How are they putting on weight so fast?"

Teacher Su, who was about to pick up some food for Yun Zhuo, suddenly paused, then put down her chopsticks, looked at Yun Zhuo, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

"What does this have to do with you?"

"With your talent, you should have been leveling up 20% faster than a Heaven Rank High Grade War Spirit Master."

Her hands unconsciously twisted her chopsticks, her tone full of self-reproach, "But because my absorption of Corrosion Energy couldn't keep up, I've dragged you down.

So much so that your current speed is only 20% faster than an Earth Rank High Grade."

Yun Zhuo suddenly laughed and teased her, "You can rest assured about that. Before you agree, I will never go looking for other young ladies."

"You..." Su Qingyuan glared at him instinctively, a trace of jealousy instantly rising in her eyes, but then thinking that she was the one dragging him down, she swallowed that bitterness back, simply pursing her lips and staying silent.

Seeing her trying to suppress her emotions and silently stewing in jealousy, Yun Zhuo's heart softened.

"Alright, I'm just joking with you."

After saying that, he picked up a piece of the stir-fried pork kidney with chives that she loved and placed it in her bowl.

"If you want to find someone, it's not impossible..."

"Alright~" Yun Zhuo interrupted her, "Aren't you trying to kill me? You can barely support me right now, so how could I have extra resources to feed anyone else?"

"Is that so?" Teacher Su suddenly looked up, "Well, I gave you a chance. It's you who aren't capable enough, so don't say I didn't give you a chance later."

Yun Zhuo smiled slightly and ladled her another bowl of wolfberry and pork kidney soup, "I plan to go to the actual combat training ground tomorrow."

"Mm, I'll listen to you."

After speaking, seeing Yun Zhuo pick up another piece of stir-fried pork kidney with chives for her, she couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Why do you keep picking food for me? You should eat too."

"Actually, I want to eat it too."

"Then eat it. I'll pick some for you."

"No need, Teacher Su. Can I give you a small suggestion?"

"Mm-hmm, go ahead."

"Can we change the menu in the future? Although everything you make tastes amazing, the problem is that I have no use for these right now.

You don't know, but I even had a nosebleed when I got up this morning."

"Ah? Why? I didn't poison you."

Yun Zhuo rolled his eyes, "You didn't poison me, but I am a hot-blooded young man, just like the sun at eight or nine in the morning.

You keep giving me Yang-warming and kidney-tonifying food every day, which causes my Yang Qi to be excessive, generating internal heat, leading to blood heat, which is basically poisoning."

"Oh, alright then. I'll make it lighter in the future. I thought all boys liked eating these."

"No, haven't you thought about detoxifying me?"

"Detoxify?"

"Yes, if we harmonize Yin and Yang, not only can it detoxify the Yang poison in my body, but it might even have the effect of improving our cultivation, you know?"

Teacher Su's cheeks flushed, showing a hint of shyness, "Hmph, keep dreaming."

"Then you are doing this to mess with me on purpose?"

"No, I didn't do it on purpose."

"Do you think I'll believe that?"

"Then what do you want?"

"Unless you help me detoxify."

"No."

"Why?"

"High school students are not allowed to date."

"You... do you believe I might spray you with a mouthful of blood out of frustration?"

Teacher Su giggled, "Alright, alright, when you get into a Martial Arts University, I'll help you detoxify then."

The next day, just as the sky was barely brightening, Yun Zhuo rode with Teacher Su straight to the city gate.

The early morning streets were empty and sparse, so Yun Zhuo simply twisted the throttle to the limit. The engine let out a low roar, and the speed instantly shot up to five hundred yards, faster than a high-speed train.

The vehicle turned into a blurred afterimage, "whooshing" past the street. The streetlights on both sides connected into streaks of light flying backward, and even the morning mist was split into a fleeting gap.

The thick steel city walls gradually appeared in the morning mist, like a silent silver giant suddenly rising from the ground, standing majestically at the end of the horizon.

The cold metal surface was covered in morning dew, gleaming with a chilling light under the morning sun.

On the city wall, huge automatic turrets were lined up one after another, their muzzles pointing menacingly at the wilderness outside the city.

This dense and murderous defensive formation seemed to be telling everyone leaving the city about the terror of the Mutated Beasts outside.

Seeing it made one's heart tighten inexplicably.

But there were still quite a few people leaving the city, some in groups and others lone wolves like Yun Zhuo.

When registering at the gate to leave the city, the registration officer glanced at him, "Student?"

"Mm."

"What are you doing going out of the city?"

"Going to the school's actual combat training ground."

"Where is your teacher?"

"The teacher said to wait for us at the training ground."

"Your teacher is really bold." After saying this, he returned Yun Zhuo's identity crystal card and continued, "For the sake of us both being alumni of the Seventeenth Middle School, I'll give you a piece of advice: don't trust anyone after you leave the city."

"So you're a Senior Brother."

"Alright, hurry up and go. When there are more people later, there will be more people eyeing you."

After leaving the city, a red desert crashed into his field of vision. Broken stones, dried gravel, and a few scattered clumps of withered yellow grass were tenaciously rooted in the crevices, trembling slightly in the morning breeze.

A black asphalt road spread out over the desert like a ribbon of ink, winding with the undulating terrain and extending to the end of the horizon.

In the desert on both sides of the road, towering giant towers could be faintly seen, arranged regularly in the desert, looking like a row of silent sentries from afar.

That was the sentry tower. What Yun Zhuo saw was only the first layer, and there were three such layers in total; the further out you went, the more dangerous it became.

As he approached the first layer of the sentry tower, he followed the road signs and turned onto a side road. After driving a short distance, he saw the school's actual combat training ground in the distance under a barren mountain.

It looked like a small desert village, with rusty walls and rusty houses, as well as dust-covered solar collectors, and a weathered metal plate that read: Seventeenth Middle School Actual Combat Training Base.

The old man at the gate inserted Yun Zhuo's student ID into the terminal and looked at it over and over again, then frowned.

Yun Zhuo watched his constipated-looking expression and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, old man? Is there a problem with my student ID?"

"The student ID is fine, but why did you come half a month early? You didn't sneak out here without your teacher's knowledge, did you?"