ATPnovel #345 - Return to senior year
#345 - Return to senior year
“A breath's worth… should be within the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, so my inner strength should be top-notch.”
Lu Jing looked at the ashes in his hand, feeling a bit guilty. He didn't dare to think about it too deeply.
Xia Huai had mentioned the matter of perfect foundation building to him before, but at the time, Lu Jing had just taken it as a joke and didn't pay much attention to it.
Looking back now, it was not a joke at all, but a horror story.
Perfect foundation building plus unlimited stat-grinding, what a suffocating combination!
Just thinking about it made Lu Jing's scalp tingle.
Fortunately, Lu Jing's first love in high school had taught him that life is full of cruelty, and whether you like it or not, you can only accept reality.
Thinking about how he received his first breakup notice on QQ, and his girlfriend deleted him as a friend immediately after sending the message, leaving Lu Jing unable to even reply, and then looking at the current difficulties… well, there's really no comparison between the two, after all, breaking up doesn't kill you.
And you can open Netease Cloud Music and take the opportunity to lament the autumn and spring, and think about the ultimate meaning of life and the universe, but now Lu Jing doesn't even have time to be sad, because in just twelve hours, his Niwan Palace is full again.
However, this time Lu Jing was not in a hurry to practice the Sword Control Technique. He first observed the sword shadow and found that it had become much more solid compared to yesterday.
It seems that the previous binge-eating wasn't useless. Although a lot of secret power was lost in the process, at least 70% of it was absorbed by the sword shadow. Lu Jing estimated that in another ten days or so, he would be able to complete the first stage of sword nurturing, Spirit Gathering.
According to the records in the Clear Light Moon Shadow Sword, this stage of cultivation normally takes half a year.
Lu Jing didn't know whether his accelerated training method was a blessing or a curse, but he had no choice now and could only rely on the Sword Control Technique to keep himself alive.
Of course, Lu Jing didn't think that everything would be fine with the Sword Control Technique, after all, Xia Huai had also said that the Niwan Palace would continue to expand as cultivation progressed.
In fact, Lu Jing had just checked his Niwan Palace and found that it was indeed a bit larger than yesterday, although not very obvious, but enough to bring a sense of crisis to Lu Jing.
It definitely wouldn't work to just leave it alone. Although the sword spirit's ability to absorb secret power would also increase with the cultivation of the Sword Control Technique, Lu Jing didn't know which of the two would increase faster.
Moreover, his free time was a bit too short. Lu Jing did the math and found that he had to spend eight hours a day just to empty the secret power in his Niwan Palace.
In other words, he only had four hours to do other things, which included eating and sleeping, which would take up at least two more hours, meaning he only had two hours of free time each day.
This was too miserable, it was like going back to senior year of high school.
So, the most important thing for Lu Jing next was to find new ways to consume secret power.
He definitely had to learn spells. Although spells consumed too little secret power in the early stages to be of much use, those powerful spells in the later stages that required several people to cast together might solve Lu Jing's troubles with just one or two casts.
In addition to spells, Lu Jing was also paying attention to other methods, including but not limited to formations, talismans, elixirs, etc., and he also began to catch up with Xia Huai on the basic knowledge related to secret power.
However, he didn't go to classes in the lecture hall with her as the girl had hoped.
Firstly, Lu Jing's foundation was too poor, and it was basically impossible to keep up with the professors' teaching progress. He would have a hard time understanding it. Secondly, there was still the simplest and most direct problem: he didn't have time.
Lu Jing had been making full use of every minute, but he only had two hours of free time each day, and even a sponge couldn't squeeze out any more water after being squeezed to a certain extent.
Fortunately, Lu Jing's efforts were not in vain. He spent a week not only cramming a lot of basic knowledge related to cultivation, but also making some progress in expanding his free time.
However, before he had time to prepare and try, he was interrupted by an accident.
Wu Han arrived outside Lu Jing's small courtyard at 5:45 PM, ignoring the 'No Visitors' sign hanging on the wall, and reached out to knock hard on the courtyard door.
Lu Jing had to temporarily interrupt his Sword Control Technique practice and get up to open the door.
Then he saw Wu Han with a straight face and said to him, "Let's go, come with me to Mirror Lake Valley!"
Lu Jing smiled wryly, "Uncle Wu, I haven't been deliberately not helping you deliver vegetables these days. It's just that I've had some things going on here and couldn't spare the time. I'll make it up to you when I'm done with this…"
"It's not about delivering vegetables," Wu Han shook his head, interrupting Lu Jing, "I'm calling you over this time to save someone."
"Save someone?" Lu Jing asked strangely, "I'm not a doctor."
Wu Han looked at Lu Jing, "You should also know the medicine-boiling girl, I asked you to deliver vegetables to her before."
"I know her, what's wrong with her?"
"At noon, someone bumped into her and she fell outside her own thatched hut, her lips were black, and blood was flowing from her seven orifices. She looked very scary, so that person quickly sent her to Divine Doctor Ding Liu."
"As a result, he was shocked when he checked her. Divine Doctor Ding Liu found that the medicine-boiling girl had been poisoned with several kinds of deadly poisons, and the toxins had already invaded her heart meridian. Logically speaking, she should have died before being sent to Ding Liu."
"But Ding Liu examined her meridians and found that her inner breath was very strange. It seemed that she had practiced some very unorthodox internal skill, which made her body's tolerance to toxins much stronger than ordinary people. In fact, even her inner strength contained a lot of toxins."
"There's nothing to think about, let's set off now." This time Lu Jing interrupted Wu Han.