Chapter 40: Happy Mindset and FA Supplement

The next day, at dawn.

Since breaking through the Celestial Qi Gathering Art to level 10 last night, Zhang Yu had purchased the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra and begun practicing it...

Constantly forced to learn, cultivate, and work by the power of the ritual, and having gradually adapted to it, Zhang Yu felt an unparalleled affinity as soon as he began practicing this Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra. His progress was faster and more powerful than he had imagined.

Especially as the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra leveled up repeatedly, Zhang Yu became increasingly able to withstand the monotony, dullness, and loneliness of cultivating the heart sutra.

Apart from using the ritual power to force himself, he hardly paused at all, advancing bravely and diligently on the path of cultivating the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra.

As the sky barely began to brighten, Zhang Yu slowly opened his eyes. His Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra had already been raised to level 7 (15/21).

Having raised this heart sutra to such a realm overnight, Zhang Yu was sometimes frightened by his own talent.

In addition to this, his Dao Heart had also made considerable progress. In particular, Zhang Yu saw new data on the Feather Script: Dao Heart level 2 (1%).

"Could it be that after cultivating the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra, my grasp of the Dao Heart has become more accurate, allowing me to perceive the specific progress of the Dao Heart?"

Zhang Yu shook his head; he still knew too little about the Feather Script.

After getting up to brush his teeth and wash his face, Zhang Yu continued to seize the time to silently practice the heart sutra on his way to school.

Based on the rapid progress he was making in cultivating the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra, he felt that he should be able to push this heart sutra to level 10 today.

……

Songyang High School.

During class break.

Zhang Yu, who was cultivating the heart sutra, frowned slightly as he heard the approaching footsteps.

He saw a tall, shaven-headed youth walk up to him and ask, "Classmate Zhang Yu, sorry to bother you."

"Could I borrow your math test from yesterday to have a look?"

After waiting for a moment, seeing that Zhang Yu was slow to answer, the youth smiled indifferently, "Sorry, it seems I'm disturbing you."

"Then you cultivate, I'll come back later."

However, after the youth turned around, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.

Zhang Yu's concentration on cultivation and complete disregard for him gave him a feeling of disrespect.

He thought darkly, "Heh, as expected of the third rank in the grade, truly arrogant. He probably doesn't even consider someone like me in the 530-point range as human, right?"

On the other side, hearing the sound of the other party's departure, Zhang Yu felt a sense of relief as if he had finally left.

"This Liang Qin kid, isn't he a little too familiar?"

Liang Qin was the youth who had just asked Zhang Yu to borrow the math test.

Since Zhang Yu's monthly exam results came out, students often approached him, trying to probe the secrets of his rapid improvement in grades.

But most people stopped coming after one or two tries. Zhang Yu was almost always diligently cultivating during every class break, and other students saw that he ignored them. Moreover, as the heat of the monthly exam gradually subsided, fewer and fewer people came to join the crowd.

Only this Liang Qin came to find him almost every class break.

And it wasn't just during class breaks.

During martial arts class, Liang Qin would bring him water.

After physical education class, he would come to give Zhang Yu a sweat towel.

When eating in the cafeteria, he would try to reserve a seat for Zhang Yu in advance.

In his words, he was always accustomed to praising Zhang Yu.

Like a diligent little bee, he hovered around Zhang Yu from time to time.

At first, Zhang Yu thought this person was pretty good.

But after a few days, he found Liang Qin increasingly annoying.

Especially since he always came to find him during class breaks, affecting his cultivation.

Moreover, while praising him, he always indirectly asked about the key to his improved grades, which Zhang Yu found quite uninteresting.

So, in the past two days, Zhang Yu had gradually stopped paying attention to this person, hoping that he would retreat in the face of difficulty.

Although this process seemed to have aroused some resentment from the other party, Zhang Yu had no other choice.

……

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and it was almost time to leave school.

During self-study class, Zhang Yu's body trembled slightly, and he felt as if a sweet dew gushed out from the depths of his sea of consciousness, nourishing his entire body and making him feel incomparably refreshed.

At the same time, a soft roar came from the mind-guarding image in his mind. The bull that Zhang Yu had outlined not only became lifelike but also raised its horns to the sky, letting out a low roar as if it had come alive.

Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra level 10

When this heart sutra reached level 10, Zhang Yu felt an unparalleled sense of satisfaction and joy in his heart.

As long as he thought that his strength would continue to steadily improve, and that one cultivation technique after another would be pushed to level 10 by him, Zhang Yu felt full of anticipation in his heart, and the happiness derived from this anticipation constantly surged.

"Is this the effect of the Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra reaching level 10?"

"As long as you have expectations for the future in your heart, then even tedious hard work, even constant suffering, can still feel happiness and satisfaction."

Zhang Yu felt that this heart sutra was becoming more and more interesting to practice. A cultivation technique that could make people feel happy in hard practice, wouldn't that reduce the pain of cultivation and increase the efficiency of cultivation? Why are so many people giving it bad reviews?

Unless many people who cultivate this heart sutra, even if they have been promoted to level 10, can no longer feel happiness, because they no longer have expectations for the future in their lives?

Thinking about the current situation on the first level of Kunxu, Zhang Yu shook his head helplessly.

"The Desolate Bull Soul-Quelling Heart Sutra is a good cultivation technique."

"But no matter how good the cultivation technique is, it is only a cultivation technique. What the future holds ultimately depends on the person."

Just as Zhang Yu was feeling emotional in his heart, a female voice came, "Yu Zi?"

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu's satisfied and happy face, scanned him from top to bottom, and then said with a suspicious expression, "Yu Zi, you didn't spill something in the classroom, did you?"

Zhang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Bai Zhenzhen's disgusted face, and said speechlessly, "Alas, I was just lamenting the beauty of cultivation and understanding the helplessness of the world, but when you, a vulgar person, opened your mouth, you completely ruined the atmosphere."

Bai Zhenzhen didn't bother to care about what Zhang Yu was talking about, some beauty and helplessness. She grabbed Zhang Yu and walked out of the classroom.

"Don't talk about these nonsense, didn't you forget that you have to attend the power law competition tutoring class after school today? You've already paid 3,000 yuan."

After Zhang Yu's power law entered the top ten in the grade last month, he and Bai Zhenzhen were selected for the first-year team participating in the power law competition.

However, the things to be tested in the first-year power law competition were things that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had never learned at school, far exceeding the classroom content.

So, Teacher Yan of the power law class organized tutoring classes to teach the items in the power law competition.

……

Inside the classroom.

Apart from Teacher Yan, who had her hair coiled up and was wearing black-rimmed glasses, only Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were present.

Teacher Yan explained, "Apart from the two of you, everyone else has private tutors to help them and has their own tutoring arrangements, so they won't come to the tutoring class."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Doesn't this mean that among the top ten in the power law grade, we are the only two poor ghosts?"

Bai Zhenzhen clenched her fists tightly, thinking to herself, "I didn't expect it to be this kind of tutoring class that would lower my campus reputation."

Teacher Yan's eyes flashed with fighting spirit, and she thought to herself, "This group of rich people is too disrespectful, they all believe in private tutors and don't believe in me?"

"Those private tutors are all glib and only know how to rip off money, how can they compare to my 30 years of solid teaching experience in key high schools?"

"Out of 10, only 2 came, doesn't this greatly reduce my campus reputation?"

"It's fine if people don't come, but they don't even pay the tutoring fee?"

If those students in Class 2 and Class 3 dared to do this, Teacher Yan would definitely make a stern phone call to the parents, calling all the parents to the school to let them know the consequences of underestimating the power law class teacher.

But thinking about the parents of these eight students in the demonstration class...

Hey, their parents are so busy at work, we as teachers should be more considerate.

She looked at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, thinking to herself, "You two poor ghosts must try your best to live up to my expectations and surpass those eight guys severely, so that they will all obediently come to tutoring classes in the future."

Various thoughts surfaced in her mind, but Teacher Yan remained calm on the surface and slowly said, "The things to be tested in the power law competition are completely different from what you usually learn. The total amount of power law is only the foundation, the key is the control of power law..."

She projected a diagram of human body energy operation and began to explain vigorously, "The power law in your bodies at this moment is the most basic form of power law."

"And by controlling the flow and route of power law, you can change the form of power law."

"For example, one direction of advancement is the martial arts use of sword energy, palm force, and so on..."

"Further, it can cause heating, low temperature, electrification, and other phenomena..."

Along with the explanation, she stretched out a finger, and a sharp fluctuation appeared at her fingertip, easily cutting open a page of paper in front of her.

After a moment, her fingertip turned slightly red, reflecting a faint flame.

"This is the most basic form change of power law."

"Of course, the basic form change relies on basic skills, on the control of power law, and the power is extremely limited."

"What is truly more advanced and has practical value is the special power law transformed by various miraculous skills and unique techniques..."

Listening to Teacher Yan's explanation, Zhang Yu suddenly remembered the cold palm force that He Dayou had used when fighting him during the monthly exam practice.

He estimated that that should be a special power law transformed by some cultivation technique.

On the podium, Teacher Yan projected an animated effect diagram of energy operation and said to the two of them, "This is the simplest sword energy conversion route, which can convert power law into a wisp of sharp sword energy."

"Follow what I just taught you and see if you can do it."

Bai Zhenzhen looked at the animated effect diagram of energy operation for a while, and after a while, she felt a little dizzy.

"This energy operation route is too complicated!"

Then she tried it herself, only to feel speechless.

The power law circled around in her left arm, but it was never able to transform into a wisp of sharp aura.

Is this really the simplest sword energy conversion route?

Is this the difficulty of the competition?

She felt as if she had just learned addition, and then the teacher took a binary linear equation problem and said to solve it.

Just then, Zhang Yu's shout rang in Bai Zhenzhen's ear.

"A Zhen, come and see!"

Bai Zhenzhen turned her head and saw that Zhang Yu was lightly tapping on the notebook with his fingertips, directly cutting out a binary linear equation.

Yu Zi, this unfamiliar face of yours makes me feel disgusted.