Published: February 19, 2025
CHAPTER 6: Heavenly King
In this world, the pressure of studying is not high. High school classes start at 8:30 in the morning for cultural lessons, followed by martial cultivation classes at 1:30 in the afternoon, and by 4:00, school is over.
After class, students can participate in school club activities or go home.
As the school bell rings, the campus instantly becomes noisy, with thousands of students pouring out of various buildings.
Soon, soccer, basketball, and tennis balls are everywhere, and students can be seen everywhere in the hallways, especially those heading to participate in club activities, chatting and laughing.
For most high school students, cultural classes are boring, martial cultivation classes are difficult, but club activities are interesting.
Especially for those students in the second and third years who lack cultivation talent and chose cultural classes, they exude an aura full of youthful energy.
They celebrate youth and enjoy a relaxed campus life.
In contrast to the lively literary district, the martial cultivation district is much quieter, with everyone staying in their training rooms, cultivating hard, creating a feeling of two completely different worlds.
Chen Chu walked out of Building B, carrying a shoulder bag and rubbing his shoulders.
From the excitement about true martial to now feeling sore all over and mentally exhausted, it only took a few hours.
The meditation technique goes without saying; it is inherently mentally exhausting. However, at least with the school's help, he was able to get started, and his initial performance in class was average.
But the progress of the body forging technique was too slow.
By the end of school, he could barely complete eighteen postures, feeling the so-called qi and blood under the glow of the Essence Blood Stone, placing him at the bottom of the class.
While the fastest student completed the first cycle in just over thirty minutes, others finished in around twenty minutes.
In the hour-long body forging class, the fastest student managed to practice four times and started to take less and less time each round.
In contrast, after Chen Chu completed one cycle, he felt a lack of qi and blood, and his physical strength couldn’t keep up.
This meant that his mental talent in cultivation was fair, but his physical talent was very poor due to a weak constitution.
Or rather, his mental talent was actually quite good; even in the case of soul division, it was above average. If his soul were whole...
Looking up at the blazing sun hanging in the sky, Chen Chu smiled faintly: "It's alright; as long as I can cultivate, it's mostly as I expected."
He had long anticipated this situation, even though he had previously harbored fantasies of being a genius.
But reality is harsh; his comprehensive cultivation talent was quite average, placing him in the lower middle tier of a class of forty, not to mention the entire grade of over a thousand students.
However, lacking talent can be compensated for with external aids.
Thinking of this, Chen Chu summoned his attribute page with a flick of his mind.
Constitution: 7.1
Strength: 7
Agility: 6
Spirit: 10.1
Talent: Soul Division
Techniques: Lotus Platform Meditation Technique [Progress 5/100] Body Forging Technique [1/100]
Clone: …
The attribute page now displayed the meditation and body forging techniques he had learned today, along with progress notes for each.
Additionally, his constitution and spirit had both increased by 0.1, likely due to the effects of cultivation. He didn’t expect that even basic techniques would have the effect of enhancing attributes.
Furthermore, Chen Chu had tested that once techniques were recorded on the attribute page, his body wouldn’t forget them.
For instance, when he first practiced the body forging technique and reached the tenth posture, he had to stop because it was too painful.
After resting for a while, when he tried practicing again, his body smoothly executed the previous nine postures without any difficulty.
This phenomenon, similar to muscle memory, had brought him much closer to those 'genius' students.