Two Months, A Tribulation of the Human Heart

Two months later

Main world

Yan'an No. 7 Middle School

The elite class is located under the gate of a separate teaching building.

The midday autumn sun, like melted glass, poured down with clear, bright light.

The edges of the ginkgo leaves have begun to turn yellow, as if they are plated with a layer of gold leaf. When they tremble gently in the breeze, they shake off a scattering of tiny spots of light on the ground.

The young man under the tree, dressed in ancient-style white robes, wearing a jade pendant, and with his hair tied up, exuding the air of a noble young master, attracted the attention of many female classmates who were returning from lunch.

Ye Liuyun paid no attention to the stares of the women who had just returned from the cafeteria. Instead, he looked at the tightly closed transparent door, and habitually walked to the other side of the access control camera, preparing to call the smart home assistant in Li Xijun's room to open the door for him.

"Liu Yun, let me do it."

Zhou Shenghao, who had just finished eating and returned, quickly stepped forward, used facial recognition to open the downstairs door, and proactively said:

"You're here to see Li Xijun today too, right? Next time, let's have dinner together, so you won't have to call the smart doorman to open the door."

"Yeah, yeah... Brother Li has been making rapid progress lately. I heard he's already at level 7. He must be working very hard. Why don't we come upstairs for dinner sometime? My cousin recently got a box of calming tea."

Zhou Yibai smiled and spoke as if nothing had happened.

For this,

As Ye Liuyun looked at the interior decoration, which was full of technological and aesthetic design, he dealt with it in his usual easygoing, polite and somewhat indifferent manner, without giving any response.

Only after arriving at the private martial arts room where the Zhou brothers were staying did Ye Liuyun politely say goodbye and part ways.

This attitude reminded Zhou Yibai of Liu Yunmeng's considerate yet distant attitude towards Li Xijun that noon.

He instinctively wanted to emulate Li Xijun, to act calmly and confidently, showing no concern whatsoever.

But that was just a fleeting fantasy he had when he realized this estrangement.

The reality is that his fragile self-esteem was greatly hurt. On the surface, he smiled warmly, but in his heart, he hated Ye Liuyun even more.

Of course, it comes with that.

He began to hate Li Xijun again, wondering why she always seemed so confident and composed in the face of anything.

Why was he able to progress so quickly and easily, and catch the eye of a beautiful and mature teacher like Su Nianying?

Compared to others, I felt so ugly.

Why can't he do it?

With this feeling in mind, Zhou Yibai seemed to mutter to himself with a hint of jealousy as his cousin beside him also looked rather unpleasant:

"If only those two had run into the Blood God Cult members back then... If they had, that cultist would never have let those two geniuses go."

After he finished speaking, he went into his private martial arts classroom.

Zhou Shenghao remained unmoved, pretending not to hear, and after undergoing fingerprint verification, he returned to his room to continue his cultivation.

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the other side

After knocking and receiving permission, Ye Liuyun entered Li Xijun's martial arts classroom.

The entire classroom space is extremely spacious and bright, filled with the aesthetics of futuristic technology, and is fully equipped with everything from strength testing instruments and speed testing instruments to humanoid stakes and various body detection instruments.

The facility boasts a physiotherapy room, hot spring, meditation room, lounge, and equipped with a constant temperature incubator and various electrical appliances, offering a level of comfort comparable to the most expensive residences in Bocheng.

Ye Liuyun felt that if he hadn't been guaranteed to be in the top 30 of his grade by the end of the semester, he would probably be just like any other student in a regular class, and would inevitably feel a little envious.

With that in mind, he walked to the door-shaped device for detecting blood and qi.

His Qi and Blood level instantly appeared on the big screen in the martial arts classroom.

[Ye Liuyun, Qi and Blood Level: 8.1.]

"Another breakthrough! Congratulations! At this rate, you should be guaranteed to reach a Qi and Blood level of 9.0 before the college entrance exam."

Li Xijun, who had just finished cultivating, didn't sweat much because of the self-cleaning function of the black nano-integrated device. He simply took the Qi and Blood Elixir handed to him by the robotic arm from the constant temperature box and drank it all in one gulp.

Ye Liuyun shook his head, took off his coat, and began warming up on his own, saying calmly:

"Compared to you, I'm still a bit behind. You're already level 7.2, right?"

"To be precise, it was level 7.2 this morning, and it has just broken through to level 7.3 now."

Ye Liuyun paused for a moment at the other person's words, and his lips twitched slightly, breaking his composure.

Li Xijun focused his consciousness and brought up his own panel, taking advantage of the other party's warm-up to check it.

Name: Li Xijun

Age: 17

[Level: Apprentice Level 7]

[Qi and Blood Level: 7.3]

[Spiritual Level: 16.3]

[Refining Spirit System: Condensation Realm (73%)]

[Martial Arts Refinement System: Bone and Tendon Realm (61%)]

[Technique:]

[Azure Dragon Sky-Piercing Technique: (Proficient 99%)]

[Detailed Explanation of the Spirit Refining Method for Opening the Mind and Sensing (100%)]

[Visualization Method: The Twenty-Four Grades of White Lotus Crossing the Netherworld (100% Proficient)]

[Tiger Subduing Bone Refining Technique (Mastery 97%)]

[Martial Arts]

【True Martial Thirty-Six Forms (Mastery 91%)】

[Basic Knife Techniques: (Beginner 98%)]

[Convergence of the Heavens (0%)]

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"With your rate of progress... I really can't figure out what could possibly stump you?" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but complain.

"Yes," Li Xijun said, not with pride, but with genuine distress. "I'm stuck on the Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Technique. I've mastered it to perfection, but I just can't break through to the next level."

"Currently, the Qi and Blood cultivation at level 7 is indeed progressing at the level predicted by Teacher Su, with an increase of 0.1 levels every 10 days."

"But if I don't break through my 'Azure Dragon Sky-Piercing Technique' after reaching level 8, I'm afraid it will be dragged down, and the speed at which my Qi and Blood improves will slow down."

Because the current cultivation speed meets Li Xijun's expectations, he can accept it.

But if he continues like this after a while, even when he reaches level 8 in terms of Qi and Blood, he will really feel a bit uncomfortable.

Because he needs to dedicate a lot of time to cultivating his spirit and martial arts.

He is especially talented in the Spirit Refining system.

However, in just two months, he achieved minor success in refining his spirit, increasing his control time with the Blood Pattern Flying Sword to 5 or 6 minutes. His speed and killing power also improved significantly. Just as the book said, even a martial artist who has refined his spirit can successfully assassinate someone if he seizes the opportunity.

At the same time, the cultivation of the spirit also feeds back into the tendon and bone realm, which can basically guarantee that the tendon and bone will be fully developed in one month.

He was unwilling to give up either the cultivation of spirit or the cultivation of martial arts.

If one remains stuck in the "Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Technique," a fundamental cultivation method for improving qi and blood, and fails to break through, it will significantly impact the efficiency of improving one's qi and blood level.

Ye Liuyun, who had just finished warming up, opened the control panel and had the robotic arm retrieve a standard longsword for him.

"Hmm? Liu Yun, your martial arts level has reached the third stage, the level of weapon use?"

"Enough with the nonsense, take this sword strike first!"