: Did I hear wrong?

Monday morning.

Before leaving home, Zhou Yu spent 10,000 yuan to buy a stimulant and a body-strengthening agent and injected them into his body. Then he left his bedroom, ate a simple breakfast, and prepared to go to school.

Just before he was about to go to school, Zhou's mother suddenly stopped him and asked, "What did you do the day before yesterday?"

Zhou Yu answered honestly, "Me? I went out and found a temporary job to earn some pocket money, so what?"

Zhou's mother frowned slightly. "When I was washing your clothes last night, I smelled a strong perfume on them. What kind of work did you do?"

Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, Zhou Yu finally answered, "I went to work as a male model at KTV."

"What!" Zhou's mother's expression changed drastically. "Your mother's..."

"My mom's?"

Zhou's mother angrily rebuked, "Your father and I raised you all these years, and this is the kind of job you do? Do you know you have two younger sisters? I don't expect you to be a top student, but at least you should set a good example! How can you help your two sisters grow up like this?"

Zhou Yu squinted, "I made 200,000 yuan in one day."

"But then again..." Zhou's mother changed the subject, smiling as she patted Zhou Yu's shoulder, "There are 360 ​​professions, and every profession can produce an expert. I know you're the best, keep it up!"

Zhou Yu: "...I'm starting to doubt whether you can set a good example for my two younger sisters."

Zhou Zaozao and Zhou Wanwan were eating breakfast, "huffing and puffing..."

……

After leaving home, Zhou Yu arrived at school and went into the classroom.

As soon as she entered the classroom, Gao Ying rushed up to him with a beaming smile and asked, "Brother Yu! How's work? Is it going smoothly?"

Zhou Yu glared at her. "What kind of job did you introduce me to?!"

"Huh?" Gao Ying said, somewhat aggrieved, "You...you don't like it?"

"Why didn't you introduce me sooner?" Zhou Yu said earnestly. "If you had introduced me earlier, would I have needed to humbly seek investment from others?"

Gao Ying: "Is that so...?"

As soon as they sat down, Liang Yanbo asked Zhou Yu, "So, what are your work duties on weekends?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu glanced at Liang Yanbo.

"what?"

Zhou Yu turned his head away and sighed meaningfully, "Sigh...we're not on the same path anymore. I'm all grown up now, there's no point in talking to a childish guy like you..."

Liang Yanbo: "???"

Gao Ying: "???"

What exactly happened over the weekend?!

After morning self-study ended, the bell rang for class. Gao Ying and Liang Yanbo packed up their textbooks. Seeing this, Zhou Yu asked, "What classes did we have this morning?"

"Physical education class," Gao Ying picked up the textbook "Spiritual Consciousness Gathering Technique" and waved it in front of Zhou Yu. "Didn't the PE teacher say last week that we'd be checking your learning progress on Spiritual Consciousness Gathering Technique this class?"

"Check learning outcomes?" Zhou Yu was taken aback. "How?"

Liang Yanbo explained, "Of course, it's real combat."

The Spirit Gathering Technique is a cultivation method that combines combat and physical training. Its essence is to refine and condense spiritual energy and then use it to strengthen the body.

When necessary, one can also ignite the blood to boost physical strength to a high level in a short period of time, unleashing burst damage.

Similarly, the higher the level of mastery of a technique, the greater the increase in strength. If one can master it to level five or above, one can achieve high damage with both the left and right fists.

The three of them had just stepped out of the classroom when they ran into their homeroom teacher.

"The three of you are perfect," the homeroom teacher called out to Zhou Yu and his two friends. "I have something to tell you."

Zhou Yu asked curiously, "What is it?"

"I recently saw on the news that some students who are struggling academically are putting drugs in their food in an attempt to harm the high-achieving students. Please be careful lately."

Is this even possible?

Liang Yanbo and Gao Ying nodded repeatedly, "Understood!"

The homeroom teacher nodded.

Zhou Yu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'll be careful."

The homeroom teacher glanced at him and said, "I'm warning you, don't drug the high-achieving students. You have the lowest total score out of the three of you!"

Zhou Yu: "..."

I only took one exam! I only took one exam!!

You only look at the scores and not the facts, huh?

Alright, alright, just wait for the monthly exam. During the monthly exam, I'm going to rub your faces into the ground!

Zhou Yu walked ahead angrily, leading the two to the playground.

At this moment, most of the second-year high school students who had awakened their spiritual energy had gathered on the playground, while only a small number of students had gone elsewhere due to some special arrangements.

"Ah... good morning!"

From the crowd, a slightly petite figure emerged and rammed her head into Zhou Yu's chest, nearly killing him instantly.

"N-no... I'm so sorry!" Mo Ci quickly apologized, "I... I wasn't watching where I was going..."

Zhou Yu touched his chest and replied, "It's nothing, it's nothing..."

Thanks to the continuous improvement of the injections over this period, Zhou Yu's physical condition has also improved significantly; otherwise, he would have needed half a day to recover from such an injury.

"Huh?" Gao Ying looked left and right, not recognizing any familiar faces in the crowd. "Why don't I see Liu Bei?"

Mo Ci quickly said, "As for Liu... Liu Bei, he was taken away by the spiritual energy class teacher. He should be undergoing individual training and pre-competition preparation for the spiritual energy competition, right?"

Zhou Yu squinted. "Individual instruction?"

Liang Yanbo: "Don't think that I'll criticize everything you say."

"gather!"

Several low, menacing roars echoed from different parts of the playground. Zhou Yu and the others quickly found their respective classes and lined up.

In physical education class, the students line up not according to height, but according to their grades.

Similar to the seating arrangement in the classroom, the higher the total score, the more likely one is to stand in the front row. However, people like Zhou Yu and Mo Ci, whose total scores are at the bottom, can only stand at the back of the line, and sometimes they can't even hear what the teacher is saying.

"Very good!" The teacher in charge of Zhou Yu's class's physical education class was a tall, burly man who was also bald and shone like a light bulb in the sunlight.

He pointed to Liang Yanbo, who was standing in the front row, and said, "Starting from you, count off! Make sure you do it loud and clear, so I can hear you!"

Liang Yanbo replied, "One!"

"It's no power! I can't hear anything at all!"

Liang Yanbo's face flushed red this time, and he roared, "One!"

"Say it again!" the PE teacher roared, his voice booming. "Trying to cultivate immortality with such a low voice? I'll fix your dam! Use your spiritual energy gathering technique!"

You should have said so earlier!

Liang Yanbo mentally scoffed, then activated his Spirit Gathering Technique and roared, "One!"

"Very good! Very energetic!" The PE teacher pointed to the second student. "Next!"

"two!"

"three!"

"Four...four!"

……

On the playground, the sounds of counting off, imbued with the power of spiritual energy gathering, rose and fell.

The PE teacher crossed his arms and stared at the crowd in front of him.

The counting-up in physical education class is definitely not just for show. Only when physical strength reaches a certain level will the counting-up technique not be needed.

However, it seems that none of these students who have recently awakened their spiritual energy have yet managed to successfully count off without needing the Spirit Gathering Technique.

Watching the students use techniques to successfully count off and satisfy themselves, the physical education teacher shook his head helplessly.

"You guys are truly the worst class I've ever taught..."

next second.

"Forty-seven!"

A voice reached the ears of the physical education teacher, who suddenly looked up.

Standing next to Zhou Yu, Mo Ci mustered all her strength and used a level one spiritual awareness gathering technique to report the number.

"Four...forty-eight!"

As the two students with the worst overall grades in the class, Zhou Yu and Mo Ci were the only ones left to say their numbers after they finished.

The physical education teacher hesitated for a moment.

It seems one student called out a number without using the Spirit Gathering Technique, but still met the requirements?

He scratched his head.

Did I hear wrong?