27: Chapter 27 Things Everyone Who Has Taken a Driver's License Test Knows

"How could that be? If you don't believe me, you can call Principal Ren to verify."

"Forget it, just go in. If it needs verifying, that's a matter for the school teachers." The old man returned the student ID to Yun Zhuo. "Teacher Wu is probably in the cafeteria right now, go find him there."

Following the smell of cooking fumes, he arrived at the cafeteria.

In the desolate cafeteria, a middle-aged woman wearing a chef's hat and a middle-aged teacher were each sitting at a separate table, slurping noodles.

When Yun Zhuo and Teacher Su walked up to him, before Yun Zhuo could introduce himself, the man raised his head first and smiled: "Yun Zhuo?"

Yun Zhuo nodded: "Hello, Teacher Wu."

"Not bad, kid. I thought you would have to wait another week to arrive, didn't expect you to come today. Have you had breakfast?"

"I have."

"Good thing you did. If you had said you hadn't, I wouldn't have made any for you today."

After speaking, he looked toward Teacher Su, his eyes lighting up involuntarily: "I heard from Principal Ren that you were a teacher at No. 8 Middle School before?"

Teacher Su nodded expressionlessly, having no desire to speak.

"Hey, how did you take a liking to this kid?" Teacher Wu pointed at Yun Zhuo with his chopsticks.

Teacher Su originally had no desire to speak, but upon hearing the disdain for Yun Zhuo in his words, she immediately glared down at him: "I'm also curious how your War Princess took a liking to you."

"Fine, pretend I didn't ask."

Teacher Wu hit a wall, then turned his head to say to Yun Zhuo: "There's a vending machine over there, go buy whatever you want to drink."

Yun Zhuo looked in the direction he pointed. The vending machine was basically a small supermarket; besides drinks, it even had sanitary pads.

Wait a second, if Teacher Su uses that stuff, can she still perform Body Integration? And since our nervous Systems are shared after Body Integration, will I also want to drink hot water?

Just then, Yun Zhuo saw cigarettes in the vending machine and suddenly realized.

"Huh, they actually sell cigarettes there. Teacher Wu, I'm new here, could you introduce them to me? Which brand is better to smoke?"

Teacher Su heard this: "You brat, you smoke?"

Teacher Wu smiled: "The yellow bird tower brand is pretty good, it's not harsh, and the price isn't expensive, suitable for you young people to smoke."

Yun Zhuo said: "Teacher Su, what would you like to drink?"

"The same as you, whatever you drink, I'll drink. You are not allowed to buy cigarettes; you're still young, don't learn bad habits from others."

After finishing, she glared at Teacher Wu again. A teacher actually teaching a student to smoke, how could he even think of that?

Teacher Wu chuckled: "I think I know now why you took a liking to that kid."

Teacher Su ignored him.

Yun Zhuo bought two bottles of drinks and spent nineteen yuan to buy a pack of yellow bird tower for Teacher Wu.

Upon returning, he handed the cigarettes to Teacher Wu and said: "I only remembered after buying them that I'm a student and shouldn't smoke. It's better to give them to Teacher Wu so they don't go to waste."

Teacher Wu took the cigarettes and smiled: "You're a sensible kid. I dare say among all the students at Seventeenth Middle School, there is no one more sensible than you."

Yun Zhuo muttered to himself: That's because they haven't passed their driver's license test.

"So when can we start combat training?"

"That's hard to say. The main thing is I don't know when my wife will wake up, but generally, it won't be past ten o'clock."

Then Yun Zhuo changed the subject: "By the way, Teacher Wu, I heard there are already people in the school who have reached Rank ten or higher. How do they train?"

"Because they have good talent, how else would they train?" As he spoke, he sized Yun Zhuo up: "There aren't many people with the same talent as you who started Cultivating earlier than you and are now at Rank five. How fast do you want to be?"

"I want to reach Rank twenty before the Martial Arts Examination."

Wu Song lit a cigarette for himself and smiled: "You probably don't know, but for talent, there are three Ranks and nine Grades. In terms of absorbing and converting Corrosion Energy, each Grade is almost three times that of the previous one."

"Your talent is Earth Rank Medium Grade, right? Then you calculate it, how many times greater is Heaven Rank Medium Grade than yours?"

"Twenty-seven times?"

Wu Song paused for a moment: "Is it that much? Never mind. But even for a Genius with Heaven Rank Medium Grade, not many can reach Rank twenty before the Martial Arts Examination. Do you still want to try?"

"Why not try? If I try, I might regret it for a moment, but if I don't try, I will regret it for a lifetime."

"In that case, you'll just have to risk your life against Mutated Beasts."

"You should have realized by now that when you Cultivate via Body Integration, your leveling speed increases. Similarly, when you fight Mutated Beasts, the speed will be even faster."

"At the same time, killing Mutated Beasts can also earn you corrosion crystals. Let your Teacher Su absorb the corrosion crystals; this is faster than her absorbing Corrosion Energy directly from the air."

"However, there is a limit to this. Even if different people have the same talent, their limits are not the same; you'll have to rely on yourselves to try it out."

In order to open slots for Teacher Su, Yun Zhuo had always viewed corrosion crystals as money and had truly forgotten that corrosion crystals themselves were also a type of Cultivation resource.

Next, Teacher Wu introduced him to the Mutated Beasts in the training ground.

There were all levels from one to ten, and he suggested Yun Zhuo start by practicing on the level one ones.

At the same time, although the Mutated Beasts in the ground were artificially raised, they could still drop corrosion crystals after being killed, and the drop rate was no different from wild ones.

Mutated Beasts above level five also had a small chance to drop runes and crystals, which could be embedded onto the War Princess to add attributes or increase combat power.

Runes and crystals could also be synthesized; three low-level ones could be synthesized into one Advanced one. The higher the level, the lower the success rate of synthesis, and at the same time, it required consuming corrosion crystals to synthesize.

From Teacher Wu, Yun Zhuo also learned that when it comes to leveling up, every ten levels is a hurdle, and at that point, the required Corrosion Energy increases exponentially.

At the same time, there were level requirements for embedding crystals and runes. Except for the lowest level one crystals, which could be embedded at level five, all subsequent ones required ten levels to advance.

That is to say, to embed level two crystals, one needs to be at level twenty.

Runes, however, did not have levels; their quality depended entirely on their attributes, but they had embedding requirements. Because there were no unified standards, Teacher Wu did not introduce them one by one.

In general, crystals directly increased combat power, while runes provided additional attributes, such as the most common one, which was increasing the drop rate of corrosion crystals.

Finally, Teacher Wu also cleared up something that had puzzled Yun Zhuo for a long time.

That was why, whether it was Zhou Libin or Ren Honglin, or the previous Teacher Wu and the current Teacher Wu, they could tell his Rank and talent at a glance.

It turned out there was a Martial Skill that wasn't exactly a Martial Skill called Qi Observation Technique.

One could deduce the other party's Rank and talent based on the aura on them, combined with one's own experience.

Apart from this, one could only look at the other party's file, which could be checked online directly.

But files could be faked, so Teacher Wu suggested that once he got into university, he must learn the Qi Observation Technique.

This skill could not only see the Qi of people but also the Qi of Mutated Beasts. As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles; it was a very useful skill.

If he wanted to learn it in advance, he could also go to the black market to buy it. Anyway, for something like the Qi Observation Technique, others wouldn't know if you used it, so it didn't matter if you had a certificate or not.

Hearing this, Yun Zhuo spent fifty thousand directly to upgrade the Breaking Delusion and Seeing Truth technique rewarded by the System from the standard version to the Advanced version.

Now he could see the target's information clearly without contact. If the Qi Observation Technique was 1080P quality, what Yun Zhuo saw was 8K.

He immediately used Teacher Wu to conduct an experiment.

His real name was Wu Song, Rank forty-five, possessing two uncertified Martial Skills: an Earth Rank Medium Grade Wind Breaking Slash and an Earth Rank High Grade Lightning Slash.

Teacher Wu was smoking the cigarettes Yun Zhuo bought, unaware that Yun Zhuo had already seen right through him, and still answered every one of his questions.

This included teaching him how to go to the black market to buy the Qi Observation Technique, and he even told him the address of the black market and its opening hours.

Around nine-thirty, Teacher Wu's wife woke up.

The teacher's wife's surname was Ban, named Jinlian, a woman who was round but not fat, with very long hair and very short pants.

Yun Zhuo called her "Teacher's wife" with every sentence, and she kept praising Yun Zhuo for having a sweet mouth.

After a simple breakfast, she took Yun Zhuo to the training ground.

Ban Jinlian transformed into the beast god mecha, and after Body Integration with Wu Song, she released a level one Mutated Beast for Yun Zhuo.

Then she stood by and watched, ready to rescue him at any moment.

Because no matter how much of a Genius a person was, no one wasn't scared silly the first time they saw a Mutated Beast.

When Yun Zhuo saw the Mutated Beast, he was also startled.

Teacher Su was even more frightened, unable to speak.