Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
“Achoo!” Ling Yun sneezed forcefully. He was in the midst of picking his teeth and almost bit his own tongue.
“Someone must be talking about me behind my back!”
If Ling Yun had heard Zhang Ling’s suspicion about him, he would have stumbled so badly and injured his tongue!
On the other side, Cao Shanshan placed her hand gently on Zhang Ling’s forehead. She was checking if Zhang Ling was healthy and sane to make such a deduction about Ling Yun.
“I think you’ve been reading too many fantasies to have such a wild imagination!” Cao Shanshan asserted as she knew the reason for Ling Yun’s sudden change.
Whether it was through deliberate training or pure coincidence, a person would go through drastic changes as long as he fulfilled the criteria for overcoming his own physical limits.
The most obvious enhancement would arise in his fitness level. As for the others traits, it would depend on his bone potential, as well as his ability to comprehend and analyze situations.
As she assumed all these were the reasons for Ling Yun’s sudden development, Cao Shanshan missed out on the truth. Zhang Ling’s suspicion was right.
“Oh and…” Zhang Ling was stopped before she could even continue.
“Can’t you just say everything at one go? It’s getting on my nerves!”
“Well… I can keep my mouth shut if you really don’t want to hear this,” Zhang Ling gave Chao Shanshan a face of disregard.
“Fine, tell me,” Cao Shanshan pleaded politely in order to get her best friend to speak.
“You shouldn’t have asked to meet Ling Yun outside just now”.
“Why not? I need to teach him a lesson for humiliating me in front of other students!” Cao Shanshan said as she started to be riled up.
“No… What I meant was that you had the wrong choice of words,” Zhang Ling responded with a pitiful tone.
“What? What do you mean by that? Which word did I use wrongly?” Cao Shanshan clarified worryingly.
“The words you used were along the lines of daring Ling Yun to meet you alone outside, the students at the sides were all ridiculing this particular sentence.”
It didn’t take too long before Cao Shanshan understood Zhang Ling’s point. She became flustered.
“If those blabbermouths are to twist and tell tales about this, you should know better than me what the consequences will be…” Zhang Ling uttered, not wanting to comment too much.
Shanshan’s mood did not stay cool for too long before the situation drove her hopping mad again.
“It’s all that fat ass Ling Yun’s fault!!” Cao Shanshan shouted, with steam rising out from all over her body.
Zhang Ling gazed at her furious pal, pondering in deep thoughts.
There’s no love without hatred…
Over at Hostel 305…
“Ling Yun, twenty minutes more to the start of the lesson. Are you going for it?” Chai Hanlin, who just woke up, asked in awe.
“Sure, of course I’ll be going,” Ling Yun said as he proceeded to get ready.
“There will History and Geography lessons later. Both the subject teachers don’t have a good impression of you. So don’t take it to heart if they say anything unpleasant, alright?” Chai Hanlin advised.
At this stage, all the Grade 12 students were already streamed into either Liberal Arts or Science classes. Class 6 was one of the Liberal Arts classes. Other than the compulsory languages they had to take, they would learn a combination of three subjects. Namely History, Geography and Political Science.
Ling Yun assured Chai Hanlin everything would be fine before making their way for classes.
“Ling Yun, I want to apologize for what happened yesterday night. I’m sorry for not being able to stop Wei Tiangan and his people from locking you outside the hostel gate,” Chai Hanlin finally got his words off his chest.
“It’s fine, I don’t blame you,” Ling Yun forgave Hanlin as he understood the importance of depending on himself instead of others.
“But… Ling Yun, you have never retaliated before, why did you do it this time?”
Ling Yun slowed down before looking into Hanlin’s eyes to explain. “I have my own limit. I can stomach it for the first few times. However, if they decide to continue playing with fire and cross that line, I will teach them a lesson!”
“No wonder… Given your build, you could have easily beaten them to a pulp. Your tolerance level must be high to put up with their shameless acts,” Chai Hanlin got overly excited as he recalled Ling Yun’s majestic bearing last night.
High tolerance level? No way! Instead, I am probably the most unforbearing individual in this world.
Ling Yun giggled at Chai Hanlin’s comment.
The guys’ hostel was only a 200 meters walk from the classroom. Before they realized, the two of them had reached their destination.
Ling Yun found Grade 12 Class 6 and went into the room, only to hear someone announcing his arrival before receiving stares from his classmates.
Ling Yun cast his gaze across the classroom and managed to pick out a few familiar faces. They were the infuriated Chao Shanshan, her best friend Zhang Ling, the bootlicker Gu Yuanlong as well as Wei Tiangan, who deliberately gave a poker face.
“Wow! He actually turned up!”
“Of course! So that he can boast about his out-of-this-world doings just now!”
“But the next lessons are History and Geography. Let’s watch him make a show out of himself!”
“Have you guys heard the story of how he made Cao Shanshan angry…hehe.”
Students exchanged comments between themselves softly, as if Ling Yun’s majestic prowess exhibited last night and earlier today deterred them from mocking him out loud. This was especially after Jia Meng had two of his teeth knocked out by Ling Yun. This showed how much people hated to have pain inflicted upon them.
Ling Yun gave zero concern to what came out from the mouth of those gossip mongers as he went on to get himself a seat instead, picking a seat at the last row, at the corner of the class. A lofty and beanpole-looking student by the name of Zhang Dong gave up his seat to Ling Yun before taking the seat beside. Zhang Dong’s results had always been above average, which posed no problem for him to admit into a second-grade university.
“Hey brother, that was savage!” Zhang Dong murmured after both of them sat down.
“Haha… It was just so-so,” Ling Yun replied despite not entirely comprehending what his tablemate meant.
“History’s next?” Ling Yun queried after checking out Zhang Dong’s timetable.
“Yup, and sad to say, it is two periods long. You have to be careful brother, Mr. Wu might find trouble with you”.
Subsequently, Ling Yun retrieved all his History textbooks from Grade 10 to 12 out and put it on his desk.
Hey, this history textbook is so new. It looks like the previous Ling Yun has never touched it before.
As he had just arrived in this world, he had to seek his own methods to attain resources and learn about this world’s history and civilization. This book’s insubstantial content might have been inaccurate, but it was still better than having zero knowledge at all.
Zhang Dong could not believe his eyes as he witnessed Ling Yun reading a Grade 10 History textbook.
“Stop kidding me. The examination is in two months’ time. You won’t be able to improve much by being hardworking now.”
“I wanna enrich myself,” Ling Yun replied and his eyes never left the pages.
Having no other option, Zhang Dong unreservedly pulled out a book from his stack and passed it to Ling Yun. After all, better to start late than to never start.
“Take this, I have marked the key points. It should be able to aid you tremendously in enriching yourself.”
As long as one was enriched with the philosophies and beliefs to live a life with the corresponding values, they would not die a meaningless death.
Ling Yun took a glance at Zhang Dong’s debilitated textbook and rejected him sincerely. “Thanks for the offer but I don’t need it.” Thereafter, he continued browsing his own textbook.
Looking at the way Ling Yun read through his book, Zhang Dong doubted that he actually absorbed any information. He thought he was probably just skimming through instead.
Sigh… He’s just doing it for the sake of looking good Zhang Dong sighed as he placed his book back into his pile.
*Ring Ring*
Mr. Wu, the history teacher, made his way into the classroom as the alarm rang. As Mr. Wu paced towards the center of the stage, he sent sharp stares over the classroom. He was enraged and disgusted upon the sight of Ling Yun.
“Class, greet!” Chao Shanshan announced in her crisp voice. The school belle was also the class monitor of Grade 12 Class 6. The students stood up subsequently, one after another, except for one.
Ling Yu was so engrossed in reading about the classical school of thoughts by the sages during the Qin Dynasty and its history. He had no idea everyone else was waiting for him to stand up.
Mr. Wu, who had been staring at Ling Yun from the beginning, let out a deep hum to express his unhappiness with him. Zhang Dong frantically tapped Ling Yun to alert him.
As Ling Yun looked up to see his classmates on their feet, he instinctively got his a*s off his chair and paid attention to the front. However, in his mind was a discourse by Lao Zi, the founder of Taoism Philosophy.
“The Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets the Ten Thousand Things… The person reflects the Earth. The Earth reflects Heaven. Heaven reflects Dao. And Dao reflects its own nature…”
This must be the way to cultivation! Ling Yun thought to himself.
The chant repeated itself inside his mind, over and over again. While all his classmates had already taken their seats, he stayed erect, unconscious of his surroundings.
Mr. Wu’s face darkened, as he yelled furiously at Ling Yun. “Ling Yun, you either stop playing a fool and focus on my lessons or you get the d*mn hell out of here!”
