Chapter 78: The Path of Footwork is Also a Dao, Little Qin Technician Makes His Appearance (Third Update!)

"Hey, what are you doing……"

Chen Yun, sealed under the covers, was shoved aside; she rubbed her sleepy eyes and watched her best friend get up in a hurry.

"Morning training!"

Lin Yunqing hummed a light tune, quickly changed into casual sportswear, and ran into the elevator to the garage.

"Family genetics are truly terrifying. Seeing that students can't walk the Dao, the surname Yu lost this lifetime by being Xiao Qingqing's classmate, rather than being a student."

Chen Yun buried her head in the pillow; her sleep quality these days had been terrible, nearly turning into severe neurasthenia from high-intensity work and high-pressure environments.

Didi di!

Just as drowsiness was about to come, her phone's vibration and ringtone suddenly woke Chen Yun.

This Patrol Department team leader's face was twisted, almost hideous, wishing to strangle the dog thing disturbing her rest.

"Director, this is Chen Yun, what's the matter? Nothing, I've been up for a while, exercising. You have any orders, just say them, okay okay!"

Seeing the note, Chen Yun's anger dissipated by half; by the time she answered the call, her tone was gentle and her emotions stable.

Even though she was surnamed Chen, a subordinate's basic attitude toward a leader had to be present, otherwise her old-fashioned father would find out, and she'd have to attend ideological education classes again.

"Damn working-class instinct! Balding middle-aged greasy man! Arranging work on a holiday! I curse you to never grow hair for a lifetime!"

Throwing the phone aside, Chen Yun cursed her boss wildly and viciously; after tossing and turning, unable to sleep again, she could only completely give up the plan to catch up on sleep.

She numbly washed her face, brewed herself a cup of strong aromatic coffee, and flopped herself onto the sofa.

The pain of insomnia was simply like torture, tormenting the brain's nerves, unable to focus attention, always in a state of distraction.

Not long after, Lin Yunqing entered the villa with Qin Shi.

"You really have no conscience, going out for morning training without even bringing your sister breakfast!"

Chen Yun gritted her teeth, pounced over wanting to strangle her best friend who valued romance over friendship.

"Don't go crazy and bite people here! You insisted on sleeping with me last night, tossing and turning until midnight, giving me dark circles!"

Lin Yunqing avoided Chen Yun crawling on the sofa like a strange species, her face full of disdain:

"Look at your sloppy appearance; if those youngsters in the Patrol Department saw their goddess in such a state, their filters would all shatter."

Chen Yun, enduring the torment of insomnia, had bloodshot eyes, like a frenzied woman during her period, wanting to bite anyone she caught:

"Hurry up and call A Xue, ask her to get me some sedatives; this life is really unbearable!"

She lay across the sofa with no will to live, unhesitatingly displaying her fleshy long legs and the impressive curves of her upper body.

"What happened to Sister Yun?"

Qin Shi raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Not sleeping for over forty-eight hours, also an old problem. Being a workaholic for too long led to a disrupted schedule; before she relied on medicine, later Chen Shu didn't let her take it, and hired a recuperation therapist and a Meditation Master to regulate her condition."

Lin Yunqing was used to it, taking out her phone to contact another good friend.

"It had eased somewhat, but recently it probably intensified due to great pressure."

Qin Shi glanced at her; under Inner Vision perception, Chen Yun's breath fluctuations were sometimes short, sometimes long, very unstable.

If probed deeper, one would find intense brain activity, like surging rapids, difficult to calm.

"Doesn't look like normal insomnia symptoms."

He thought silently but said nothing more, greeted Chen Yun, then went to the basement.

Regulating the spirit, calming distracting thoughts—this was a professional field that only experts who had cultivated the heart to a certain degree and obtained the Meditation Master qualification certificate could step into.

"Teacher Lin and Lao Liang both say I have Spirit-Flesh Unity and extraordinary talent. Does this mean I can both walk the Old Martial Arts path and cultivate the heart?"

He activated the Virtual Battle Room, not in a hurry to find a match, seeking that Military Martial Arts Style Tiger Fist guy for a round.

These days he persisted without cease, apart from steadily advancing the progress of 【Deep Sleep】.

Another achievement 【Muscle Memory】 was also close to upgrading.

"It's already 87%; today I'll break through it in one go."

"Pity, Thinking Hall is too draining on the spirit; otherwise I could deep sleep while idling to practice, and progress would surely skyrocket!"

Qin Shi felt a bit regretful; basic skills like fighting methods and practice methods could normally only be improved through hard work, bit by bit.

Thinking Hall achieved the effect of "Spirit-Flesh Unity"; whether practicing or deducing, it was twice the result with half the effort.

The flaw was that it consumed the spirit and could not be activated at any time like Combat Retrospection.

"Spirit is spirituality, flesh is vitality. As a monster of Spirit-Flesh Unity, my greatest advantage is broad choices and many career paths I can accommodate. If conditions permit, I can indeed focus on heart cultivation."

Qin Shi entered the combat room and once again began his path of seeking abuse.

About forty minutes later, he took off the helmet, a satisfied smile hooking the corner of his mouth.

Letting those famished Martial Arts Department students from Qiguang Heng University be bombarded wildly, 【Muscle Memory】 successfully reached one hundred percent progress.

"Free sparring partners with Life Force all above fifty points; at Yinma Gym, the hourly wage would start at five figures."

Qin Shi stretched his back, feeling refreshed; mastering Wind Fist Style, True Yuan One Qi, and other techniques, facing these New Martial Arts School elites, he was no longer without any means of retaliation, needing to suffer repeatedly and finally rely on "reading commands" to win.

In the dozens of matches just now, unless they completely disregarded martial virtue and launched numerical suppression right away, most would end up in a stalemate.

If word got out, Martial Arts Department university students with Life Force above fifty points had to fight desperately against a high school student around twenty-one points; Qiguang Heng University would probably become the laughingstock of neighboring Jia Kai University of Technology, talked about for a lifetime.

"Life Force, fighting methods, combat experience… these are the key factors deciding victory. My latter two are especially outstanding."

Qin Shi was full of confidence; Life Force improvement lay in gradual progress; he was now getting closer and closer to the forty-five-point passing line, so it wasn't so urgent.

He even occasionally fantasized: if he drank energy liquid every day, could he break through the hundred-point barrier before the College Entrance Exam and get special recruitment from the Four Great National Universities?

"If Teacher Lin finds out, she'll probably hack me to death! Qiguang Heng University is her alma mater, and Elder Brother is the Director of General Affairs; if he's poached by the Four Great National Universities, wouldn't it all be in vain!"

Qin Shi shook off distracting thoughts; he hadn't even set foot in a First-Rank Academy's door, so how could he prematurely pop champagne and hope for the Four Great National Universities?

Those four most top-tier academies had pitifully few enrollment slots each year, especially those allocated to a frontier place like Hengzhou—probably countable on one hand.

"Better to be down-to-earth."

Qin Shi got up and returned upstairs, while checking the effects of 【Muscle Memory】's upgrade.

【Muscle Memory: Strength requires the irrigation of sweat. As long as training won't kill you, train to the death; willpower will carry you out of the encirclement!】

【Trait: Every enhancement of your abilities will provide precise feedback in data form, and you can listen to the body's voice, making it relaxed and pleased.】

【Advancement Route: Break human limits, with stronger muscles, break free from the shackles brought by genes. With every tier the body rises, you draw nearer to perfection. (Red-White, Pink, Purple, Gold)】

"So the body's intensity is judged by color? Golden muscles... truly something to look forward to."

Qin Shi took the Elevator up to the first Floor; in the Lobby, Chen Yun was still sprawled on the Sofa with eyes wide, like a half-dead salted fish.

His eyelid suddenly twitched, and fine text emerged:

"Sternocleidomastoid, 37% depletion, fatigued.

Rectus abdominis, 42% depletion, weary.

Pectoralis major, 67% depletion, overloaded..."

Line after line of detailed data on muscle depletion throughout the human body appeared before Qin Shi's eyes.

Immediately After, solutions popped up.

"Sternocleidomastoid, needs Massage... Rectus abdominis, needs relaxation... Pectoralis major, needs burden reduced..."

Qin Shi lightly "Gasp", looking at Chen Yun who resembled a falling-apart old clunker with alarms sounding everywhere, thought to himself:

"How simple to prescribe the right remedy; otherwise, let me fill in as a Technician?"

(Chapter End)