Chapter 87

: A new trick (Part 1)
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Those who have never lived under someone else’s roof would not understand how it really felt like. It was as though you were a guest and there would a fear of damaging things or the owner might not let you use some of them. After a while, even though the place may be small, you would have subconsciously limited your own living space and act very cautiously.
With hopes of no longer having to live under someone else’s roof, Lu Shu started his training.
After the second nebula had been unlocked, the amount of celestial energy needed to light up subsequent stars had increased exponentially. The rhythm was no longer that of lighting up one star every day.
Furthermore, his self-training speed had reduced and this wasn’t due to his aptitude or him being lazy but because he had to practice his swordplay at 3 am every day.
As a result, the training period at night was reduced.
Li Xianyi must have considered this situation but was not as concerning to him. Improving swordplay at a steady rate was more important.
He might not have realized that Lu Shu’s training wasn’t the Yinyang Kinship of the Three but even though self-training time had decreased, he could still eat celestial fruits to make up for it.
Others were envious that Lu Shu was given magical stones but never thought that he totally had no use for them. Two stones a month were considered very little to him. Even if he could practice the Yinyang Kinship of the Three, this small amount of resources wouldn’t mean much.
The Daoyuan students were still relying on others as they needed to wait for the Heavenly Network to impart them the methods and also to distribute training resources.
While the Heavenly Network was in control of everything, Lu Shu was able to maintain his level of freedom.
Without relying on anyone else, he could train with Lu Xiaoyu.
This was the reason why he could secretly maintain his footing in this unpredictable and chaotic world.
Without this foundation, what would he have to hide? Like the rest, he would have to fight his way to the top.
As Lu Shu practiced his swordplay, Li Xianyi stood aside and watched quietly and started reminiscing about the times he was learning swordplay for his teacher.
He was still young at that point in time- just turned 16 and playful.
His teacher always allocated a certain amount of practice but Li Xianyi was a lazy child. Told to do 1000 swings, he would do 500 and claimed he finished but his teacher never exposed him.
Li Xianyi only found out later that 500 swings daily were enough. At that time, tens of swings would have already tired him out and only by practicing a little at a time for a whole day could he complete it. Li Xianyi had thought that it was his own lacking or that he was too lazy and playful only to find out that his teacher was just a very sly man…
And now, he had wanted to use his teacher’s tactic to teach Lu Shu but was shocked to find this young man seriously and properly completing 1000 swings every day without fail.
Given Lu Shu’s this kind of metahuman’s physique, completing 1000 swings would not pose a problem but the key point was ‘full effort’.
Li Xianyi watched on with mixed feelings and he never told Lu Shu that 500 swings were enough.
Like a glass bottle, promises made were easily broken and words written down were also easily forgotten. Human beings are just forgetful creatures.
But Lu Shu seemed to remember all the promises he spoke and hopes he had written down and used them to fuel his continuous effort.
This young man was just as he said, doing his best to survive.
There was one more thing he did not tell Lu Shu. In the era of scarce magical energy, they had to find an alternative which was the use of their own body’s vitality in place of magical energy to gain life-changing powers. He requested Lu Shu to practice swings mainly because that was the compulsory process in order to gather vitality.
This was different from training which you can rely on resources to do so but swordplay, this was the legitimate kungfu achieved with your own efforts.
You may be digging a canal for three years and no one could predict the results until the day the canal was finally connected. The water could then be transferred to the fields and the rewards can be reaped.
Seeing Lu Shu’s focus, this young man must be born with a strong vitality and could be incredibly focused on whatever he did.
At this rate, the completion of the canal may be in the near future.
The atmosphere between the two was rather quiet. Besides instructions and teaching Lu Shu the correct stance, Li Xianyi never said anything. Neither did Lu Shu.
Lu Shu’s swings were starting to improve. In the past, he felt that hitting someone was most effective when using your brute strength.
But now he realized that to utilize 100% of your strength required training!
It was like tennis lessons where the teacher would never emphasize on your arm strength but about the twisting of your waist to convert the most power to your arms.
After Lu Shu had realized this, he felt like he had unlocked a new realm of knowledge and although it was tiring, it was meaningful.
Li Xianyi saw Lu Shu’s focus and thought that if he had been as hardworking as Lu Shu, he would have achieved Class A much earlier.
Before the completion of the canal, aptitude was useless and you could only wait and persevere. But Li Xianyi was looking forward to what Lu Shu can achieve upon his completion!
Whether he had the perseverance to complete the canal and whether he had the aptitude to dig wide!
…
In the morning sale of stinky tofu, Lu Shu once again carried out his usual act which had started to provide a stable income of distress points.
But this could not be a long-term solution. After agitating everyone for a period of time, they would not approach him anymore.
His sales would not decrease as long as there was still tofu in his crate and customers can still see his unsold tofu. He would, however, need to constantly think of new ways to gain distress points from his customers.
Lu Shu was really proud of himself to have thought of having an alternative plan. Who else could be as meticulous as him?
Reaching the classroom, Lu Shu immediately glanced at Liu Li’s hair. Wow, it’s gotten lesser.
Is Liu Li not concerned about his hair loss? Lu Shu felt that this class rep was going to the extremes in order to train…
He thought for a moment before sending out a message on the group chat: sudden death should not be teenager’s main concern, hair loss is.
Lu Shu wanted to earn some distress points from Liu Li. After all, he was the kind of person who wouldn’t even let those boys and girls on ‘message in a bottle’ off.
But Lu Shu waited half a day and noticed Liu Li finally checking his phone. There weren’t any distress points.
What’s going on?
Fck, did that scum block me?!
Lu Shu immediately direct messaged Liu Li: sudden death should not be teenager’s main concern, hair loss is.
Liu Li was about to explode with anger. Damn you, I already blocked you on the chat group and you still…

From Liu Li’s distress, +999!