Chapter 52 (1/2)

Chapter 52: Exchanging Practice Resources

“And you said there’s something wrong with Xing Jun. But think about it: is it really suspicious that a teacher who saw a mutant attacking students at school would kill the mutant?”

Hearing Zhou Bai’s questions, Christina closed her eyes and fell deep in thought. Finally, she sighed. “Humans are so complicated.”

“All right, my urgent task at hand is to continue training and obtain stronger power more quickly, to have the ability to defend myself. There’s no point in putting any more thought into these matters. I don’t have enough power to change these things.”

He glanced at the clock; it was nearly time for class. Zhou Bai remembered what he needed to do.

Christina needs things like elixirs and runes to proceed in her practice of the Divine Map, he thought. I remember the school prepared these things for me since I said I was practicing the Sword Map.

In the zeroth realm, the school provided for free all the resources required for practicing the zeroth layer of the Divine Map.

After all, students were only getting started at this stage. They had gifts but lacked power, so they needed the school to allow them to grow and realize their potential.

Zhou Bai was thinking of providing Christina with resources, then he remembered his tasks. Currently, his star point and Primordial Spirit Value were all at their bottlenecks. His next problem was Degree of Taoifiction.

Although Primordial Spirit Value could be directly added with the auxiliary system, Zhou Bai didn’t plan on doing that.

“Raise Degree of Taoification…” Zhou Bai said. “Tina, do you know how to do it?”

“Of course I do.”

Zhou Bai’s eyes lit up. “How do you raise it?”

Christina said confidently, “I’ve just forgotten, but I know it.”

Zhou Bai said, “You good-for-nothing.”

He walked in the direction of the academic building and thought to himself, Perhaps I have to ask Old Lu, or should I go borrow Jing Xiu’s notes first and see if they’ve learned how to increase Degree of Taoification yet.

Technically, I can increase Degree of Taoification with Laziness, but raising it is too dangerous. I should try to prepare myself as well as I can.

Recalling the heavy price Sakurako paid to increase Degree of Taoification, Zhou Bai warned himself not to let down his guard. He would have to be extremely alert about this, even if he had the auxiliary system to raise it.

Zhou Bai asked around and finally found the place that provided the materials for practice—the Logistics Department.

When he arrived at the Practice Materials Management Office in the Logistics Department, Zhou Bai took out his student ID to check in. The person responsible for distributing resources was a middle-aged man in a suit.

He glanced at Zhou Bai and said, “Student, I have to let you know, even the practice resources for the zeroth realm can’t be carelessly given to you when you ask, even if we provide them for free.

“Which point have you practiced up to on the Sword Map? Usually, we provide resources depending on which point you’re on according to a list of practice necessities.”

Zhou Bai nodded. That was reasonable. They couldn’t provide everything at once.

Thus Zhou Bai said, “I’ve already finished practicing the first star point, Sword Aura.”

“Oh? It’s only been two weeks since school started. Let me see…you had a 99-point Primordial Spirit Value when you entered school? No wonder.”

The middle-aged man reviewed Zhou Bai’s materials while praising him, “It’s only been two weeks since school started, and you’ve already finished practicing the first star point. Not bad. You’re quite gifted. Keep up the good work.”

Christina yelled in Zhou Bai’s brain, “Five days! It was five days! I finished practicing the first star point in five days! I’m the most gifted person in this entering class.”

Zhou Bai knocked his head, saying with a frown, “Stop shouting. My head hurts.”

The middle-aged man led Zhou Bai to a room. A row of metal stakes neatly lined up there.

“It’s very easy to test the first star point, Sword Aura. Just unleash your sword aura, and cut a metal stake.”