NOVPUBEarly the next morning, just as Zhou Bai was about to lie down to sleep, a pounding knock came at the door.
Zhou Bai’s body jerked in fright, "Again?"
The voice of Ying Hui came from outside the door, "Zhou Bai, I know you’re sleeping in your room during the day. Open up so we can have a proper chat. There’s nothing that we can’t talk out..."
"Damn," Zhou Bai rolled his eyes.
Ever since he had missed the specialized class the following day, Ying Hui had come knocking on Zhou Bai’s door every day, standing outside talking to Zhou Bai, even if Zhou Bai didn’t respond. The old man could talk to himself all day long, incessantly persuading Zhou Bai to attend classes, take the right path, and not break his teacher’s heart.
Ying Hui said, "Zhou Bai, I’ve prepared a fulfilling 12-hour daily course for you, and additionally hired a teacher from the Sword Diagram route to guide you in cultivating Sword Qi. There’s also a teacher from the Blade Diagram route to instruct you in the martial arts of the Great Dream Arhat Heart Scripture. If you just follow my plan, you could reach the peak of the 0th realm in six months and even attempt to break through to the 1st realm."
"Ah!!!" Zhou Bai, driven to near-collapse, covered his head upon hearing Ying Hui’s earnest persuasion. He hadn’t had a good day’s sleep in several days.
Even plugging his ears was useless, as Ying Hui was using his Primordial Spirit’s power to vibrate the air and talk to him, blocking was impossible.
"He looks like a tough old soldier, how can he be so long-winded?!" Zhou Bai opened his eyes filled with bloodshot veins. He really hadn’t lied to Jing Xiu yesterday; these past few days he truly hadn’t slept, just staring wide-eyed at the ceiling, and heaven forbid doing anything else as that would mean no Lazy Points earned.
He could only wait until the other party left before he hurried to catch some sleep.
Almost at dismissal time, Ying Hui finally sighed, "Ah, Zhou Bai, it’s getting late. Let me just briefly say a couple more things..."
"Stop talking!" Zhou Bai called out helplessly, "I’ll go to class, okay? Isn’t it enough that I’m going to class?"
Ying Hui revealed a delighted smile, feeling his efforts had finally paid off, "It’s best that you’re willing to come to class. I’ll wait for you in the specialized class building tomorrow."
After sending Ying Hui away, Zhou Bai looked at his auxiliary system panel with bloodshot eyes.
Path of Daoization: 5.1%
Primordial Spirit Value: 290
Divine Chart: Celestial Nine Calamities
Lazy Points: 5010
"Finally gathered a full 5000 Lazy Points!"
Zhou Bai looked at the next star point, an idea forming vaguely in his mind, ’I can’t keep going on like this. If I let him nag me any longer, I’ll die of overexertion.’
He quickly added 5000 Lazy Points, but this time his body did not have any severe reactions, he just felt his thoughts were a bit sharper and his response seemed faster.
With this, all nine star points of the 0th layer were completed. However, the divine chart on the next circle of the Taiyin Roulette remained dim, without visible star points. Zhou Bai guessed he’d need to break through this realm to find out about the next layer.
Right then, a message transferred from the divine chart, letting Zhou Bai know the information about the next layer.
’The next layer, the Impoverished Chart, will be generated upon reaching the 1st realm. At that time, it will require 10,000 Lazy Points for consumption.’
"It actually requires so many Lazy Points? And first it’s Laziness, now it’s Poverty? What’s next, Ugliness?" Zhou Bai touched his own face in a panic, "Does this mean I’m doomed to never grasp the Dao and attain the pinnacle in life?"
"What about Donghua City?"
"What about humanity?"
Worrying seemed useless after a while, so Zhou Bai decided he’d better continue cultivating first.
After adding the last star point, he tried out the effect of lying face down, and sure enough, he got the same defensive power as when lying on his back. Now Zhou Bai could fight in more positions, like rolling, or practicing new martial arts.
"Haha, now I can fight not just lying down, but also face down, I can practice my Toad Skill," thinking this, Zhou Bai hurriedly pulled out a martial arts manual"Capturing Toads Strength" from beside him.
Although the martial art was named "Fishing Toad Strength," Zhou Bai felt calling it Toad Skill was more spirited.
He had specially borrowed it from the library after learning about the contents of his ninth star.
It was because of the previous fight with Jiang Ran that Zhou Bai strongly realized his lack of attack power, which led him to find a martial art with a strong explosive force.
"This Fishing Toad Strength requires long charging time, but the explosive power is tremendous, as it stimulates the whole body, including the five viscera and six bowels, even the blood, to explode all at once. Heh heh, combined with the Toad Skill, the ninth star will surely make up for my insufficient explosive power."
After testing the ability to lie prone, Zhou Bai planned to try out the next function, letting someone else operate his body.
"Tina, you try operating my body."
"Ah?"
Following the description on the star, Zhou Bai sent out his Primordial Spirit power and intertwined it with the other person’s Primordial Spirit power, then with a slight shake, he operated according to Zhou Bai’s will, using the description from the Lazy Disaster.
Zhou Bai’s vision went dark, and the next moment he felt he had entered a pitch-black space; then he was shocked to see the huge roulette beneath his feet: "Have I entered my own sea of consciousness?"
He tried sensing the outside world and ’saw’ himself still standing in the dormitory, running and jumping around, squeezing his fists with an excited expression on his face.
"Tina, are you the one operating my body?"
Christina said excitedly, "Hahaha, I’ve turned back into a human again!" But the next moment, she screamed, "It’s so disgusting having something this big in the crotch!"
Zhou Bai quickly switched Christina back and said righteously, "You were supposed to control my body, not play with it."
Christina: "Who wants to play, it’s so disgusting, men’s bodies are dirty."
"Do you still want to try then?"
Tina couldn’t resist the temptation to use a human body and switched back with Zhou Bai again, controlling Zhou Bai’s body to walk around on the ground.
As Tina controlled Zhou Bai’s body, Zhou Bai himself rested in his sea of consciousness, and he discovered his laziness points were actually increasing.
Laziness +1
Laziness +1
Zhou Bai remarked, "Being able to idle anytime, is this the ultimate realm of Lazy Chart?"
After musing for a bit, he then said to Tina, "Tina, starting tomorrow, you’ll help me attend classes. It’s perfect since you’re Sword Chart."
"Ah?" Christina thought for a moment and then nodded immediately, "Yeah! I’ve wanted to go to classes for a while, I feel like self-study isn’t fast enough..."
Listening to Christina, who loved studying and trained hard every day, chattering non-stop, Zhou Bai smiled as he seemed to see the laziness points being accumulated endlessly.
However, how many laziness points he could accumulate in this way still needed to be tested a few more times, as Zhou Bai was not certain yet.
So the next morning, Christina jumped out of bed and left the dormitory in high spirits, ready to attend the special class.
Meanwhile, Zhou Bai’s consciousness began to sleep soundly.
"Zhou Bai? You’re coming to class?" At the entrance, Qian Wangsun looked at Zhou Bai in shock.
Christina smiled, "Yes, I’m here for class, what’s so surprising about that? Eh? Is there an injury on your face?"
"It’s nothing, I accidentally hit myself while training." Qian Wangsun looked at Zhou Bai in front of him and felt something was off, "I’m going to practice Gong Tu, you should go to the hall and find Teacher Ying."
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