Chapter 12

Xu Bo and the black-clad woman passed by outside the classroom; they restrained their aura, and since they didn't observe for too long, Li Yuan didn't notice them at all.

He was completely immersed in his own cultivation.

When Li Yuan studied academic courses, although he was very serious, the essence was with the mentality of 'completing a task', so it was difficult for his efficiency to reach the maximum.

But when practicing fist and spear techniques, feeling the gradual improvement of his physical constitution and fist technique skills, Li Yuan felt joy from the bottom of his heart.

Focused to the extreme.

To do one thing, only by immersing oneself in it and truly loving it from the heart can one achieve the greatest progress.

Time passed second by second.

Suddenly.

【Your fist technique realm has increased from Third-Stage 88% to Third-Stage 89%】

【Your fist power has increased from 426 kg to 427 kg】

【Your speed has increased from 14.4 m/s to 14.5 m/s】

Three consecutive prompts appeared out of thin air in Li Yuan's field of vision, and his Spiritual Palace panel data also changed.

But immersed in cultivation, he didn't even notice the slight improvement in his physical constitution.

Until his smart ring watch suddenly vibrated.

"It's already five-thirty? Time really flies." Li Yuan was startled awake.

He was covered in quite a bit of sweat.

"Hmm? Physical constitution improved slightly again?" Li Yuan only then noticed the reminder on the Spiritual Palace panel.

He felt increasingly satisfied in his heart.

"A little progress every day, persevere." Li Yuan thought to himself.

Since awakening his Spiritual Palace a year ago and learning the 'Great Sun Starry Sky Scripture', as long as Li Yuan meditated for two hours every day and endured the hellish mental torture of being roasted, his physical fatigue would be eliminated, which was far better than going to sleep, resting, or deep physical therapy.

From then on, he developed the habit of coming to school to cultivate at three in the morning.

Even during holidays, he would find a place to cultivate alone downstairs in his residential area.

Diligent to the extreme.

Only in this way did he have the rapid progress in his martial arts grades over the past year.

Li Yuan wiped the sweat off his body and put the towel back.

Suddenly sensing something, he looked back.

"Tianyou? Here so early?" Li Yuan smiled at the thin figure with a backpack.

"You came even earlier than me." Li Tianyou also looked at Li Yuan with slight surprise.

"I just arrived a while ago, just put down my bag," Li Yuan said with a smile while taking out his large spear: "I left the evening self-study later than you yesterday, so I naturally have to work harder in the morning self-study."

"Is that so?" Li Tianyou stared at Li Yuan suspiciously.

He couldn't remember how many times this had happened.

Every evening self-study, he was the last one to leave the classroom, so he was called the 'Number One Grind King' by others in the class.

But!!

Only Li Tianyou knew that whether he arrived at the classroom at 6:30, 6:15, or even 6:00, there was always one figure already in the classroom—Li Yuan.

Today, he deliberately arrived early at 5:40.

Li Yuan was already standing in the classroom.

"Pfft!"

Not far away, Li Yuan took out his large spear and had already silently started practicing his spear technique.

"Could it be that Li Yuan arrives at school every day at 5:30? Or even earlier?" Li Tianyou looked at Li Yuan and couldn't help but think.

Then he shook his head to himself.

Impossible!

"My home is just one street away from the school, which counts as living very close."

"I occasionally arrive after 5:00, and I'm a bit sleepy during the day," Li Tianyou thought to himself: "If I want to keep my spirit full for the day, I still have to get up at 6:15."

Li Tianyou was also extremely self-disciplined.

"Li Yuan's family background is only slightly better than mine, he can't afford high-end physical therapy, and he lives so far away... If he arrives at school at 5:30, he has to get up at 5:00, his body can't take it."

"He should be like me, only occasionally arriving at school to cultivate after 5:00."

"It's just that these few times, we happened to bump into each other." Li Tianyou guessed.

He didn't think much more and started practicing the basic cultivation method alone.

Until 6:30.

The sky was already bright, and a few students began to arrive at the martial arts classroom one after another.

"You two grind kings, arrived again?" A few students teased, and then they all started cultivating on their own.

It wasn't that the students in Class 2 of the third year weren't diligent, but most students focused on academic courses, and even if they arrived early, most would go to the academic classroom to review academic subjects.

"Clang~"

Li Yuan put his large spear into the weapon cabinet and left the classroom, heading toward the cafeteria.

Time for breakfast.

Three meals a day, eaten at the prescribed time, with extra or reduced meals according to the body's needs.

This was the basic cultivation of a martial arts student.

After finishing breakfast.

Li Yuan headed straight to the academic classroom and began a morning of academic study.

Day after day.

Li Yuan cultivated step by step.

The study of the third year of high school, whether for students focusing on academic courses or martial arts students.

The process was very boring and bitter.

But Li Yuan knew very well that there was never a genius in the true sense.

A genius was always 99% sweat plus 1% talent; sometimes when breaking through a bottleneck, 1% talent was indeed more important.

But without 99% sweat, then no matter how high the talent, it would eventually be a castle in the air.

Because this world never lacked geniuses.

What was lacking was always the diligent genius.

Day after day, in the blink of an eye, it was mid-September.

During this period, Li Yuan took time to go to the 'Starry Sky Martial Hall Guanshan District Branch', found Uncle Zhong to buy a whole box of Basic Qi and Blood Medicinal Liquid, and spent 19,000 Blue Star coins.

Uncle Zhong was a good friend of his uncle Li Zhangzhou, an entry-rank martial artist, and also a member of the Starry Sky Martial Hall, so there was a discount for helping to buy the Basic Qi and Blood Medicinal Liquid.

Even so, this expense made Li Yuan's heart ache.

But he had to spend it.

Without the Basic Qi and Blood Medicinal Liquid, the speed of his physical constitution improvement would be reduced by at least half.

Even, his body wouldn't be able to bear such crazy cultivation and would become depleted.

Martial arts not only required talent and diligence but also required money to pile up.

None of the three could be missing.

And now, more than ten days had passed since the 'third-tier financial aid' promised by his teacher Xu Bo.

Although Li Yuan yearned for it in his heart.

But during this period, whether in martial arts class or meeting teacher Xu Bo between classes, Li Yuan never mentioned this matter.

It was as if the conversation had never happened between the two parties.

"For this financial aid, I can only wait, I must never ask for it," Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

Because he wasn't qualified.

Since teacher Xu Bo hadn't mentioned it, he must have encountered difficulties.

Actively asking would only make the other party unhappy.

In the blink of an eye, another five days passed.

The moonlight was hazy, casting cold radiance on the asphalt road outside the third-year teaching building.

In the spacious martial arts classroom of Class 2 of the third year, a dozen students were cultivating on their own.

On one side of the field, Li Yuan was immersed in spear technique cultivation.

He stood there, his whole person like a giant rock that wouldn't fall, containing an invisible pressure, holding the spear with both hands.

Repeatedly practicing various techniques of the long spear.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!" The spear tip drew invisible arcs in the air, forming phantoms, suddenly as fast as a gale, attacking and thrusting fiercely.

"Boom!" Suddenly it was as firm as a rock, the spear shadows flowing and turning.

Every turn, lift, thrust, block, and flick of Li Yuan's spear landed accurately on the preset points in his heart.

Accompanied by the arching of his spine and the twisting of his waist, his whole body's muscles and tendons moved with the long spear, having already reached an extremely high realm where body, mind, and weapon were combined.

Suddenly.

Li Yuan, who had just blocked in a defensive posture, suddenly thrust forward with the spear, like a giant dragon lurking in ten thousand rock ravines, its power bursting forth.

Before this spear burst forth, it was hidden to the extreme.

But when this spear burst forth, its power was also terrifying to the extreme.

"Boom!" The spear shadows became blurred in an instant, and the air was faintly exploding.

This scene.

Surprised the surrounding students, who couldn't help but turn back to look at the move Li Yuan had performed.

"Finally, completely perfected this killing move."

"Dragon Hidden in Rock Ravine!" Li Yuan retracted the spear, a glimmer of light faintly in his eyes: "With this killing move, combined with the killing move 'Rock Pillar' I created before, one attack and one defense combined."

"I have full hope of being able to get my Gold-tier points over 500 on the Starry Sky Fighting Network."

The Starry Sky Fighting Network had long had regulations.

If one could reach 500 points in the Gold tier before the age of eighteen, they would be rewarded with 50,000 Blue Star coins.

"Hmm?" Li Yuan suddenly noticed the reminder on the Spiritual Palace panel.

【Your spear technique realm has increased from Third-Stage 40% to Third-Stage 46%】

(End of chapter)