Baiyu returned to his room, sat at the table, and cleared his mind of distractions.
At the center of the room.
A large wooden tub filled with blue Spiritual Water, containing various herbs, emitted a captivating fragrance.
This was the auxiliary ingredient needed for cultivating the second volume of the Extreme Demon Bone Tempering Technique.
"Baiyu, let me have a sip, just one sip, okay?"
Cang Yan leaned in front of the medicine barrel, his eyes aglow, drooling.
"Get lost, keep the door well watched."
"It’s bathwater, you still want a drink? Have some decency!"
Baiyu took off his clothes, jumped into the tub, closed his eyes and ears, lowered his senses to the minimum, and quietly absorbed the medicine from the barrel.
This whole tub of herbs.
Directly cost him five hundred GPA points.
This was the discounted internal price for school students.
If purchased in the social market, the price would be much higher.
All resources from the Martial Arts School come at an internal discounted rate for students.
The burning sensation on Baiyu’s skin slowly subsided, as the medicinal power gathered inside, stimulating the growth of Blood Qi.
Taking advantage of this time.
Baiyu opened the second volume of Extreme Demon Bone Tempering Technique, following the Blood Qi circulation paths and special Secret Spells, combining with various peculiar postures of the Bone Tempering Technique, and began focused cultivation.
The second volume of Extreme Demon Bone Tempering contains 108 postures.
It consumed roughly one hour.
Baiyu felt the medicinal power within was completely exhausted, as clusters of Blood Qi gathered in the Blood and Qi Central Hub below his abdomen.
His skin was burning hot, like a cooked shrimp.
It took a good while to recover.
"This thing even comes with a sauna feature."
Baiyu clenched his hand.
The surging Blood Qi roiled within his body, a force hidden within, like a slumbering beast.
Each volume of Extreme Demon Bone Tempering brings significant improvement.
At this moment, Baiyu’s Blood Qi had directly doubled, reaching the terrifying value of 3000 cards.
"The Blood Qi limit for a Tier Eight Martial Artist is five thousand cards; generally, a Tier Eight Martial Artist’s Blood and Qi Central Hub can only bear this much Blood Qi, once exceeded, there might be a risk of body explosion.
Yet I’ve reached three thousand cards with just two volumes of cultivation."
Baiyu felt his Blood and Qi Central Hub was filled with Blood Qi.
Among them were seven droplets of Blood Qi beads, bright red and enchanting, exuding waves of terrifying power.
Which is also something that only Tier Eight Martial Artists can compress to achieve.
The more liquid Blood Qi in the Blood and Qi Central Hub, the greater the potential of the Martial Artist, with each droplet of liquid Blood Qi exponentially increasing in power.
The cultivation of Martial Artists.
Is essentially a repetitive process of tempering the body, enhancing Blood Qi, and compressing Blood Qi.
Spirit Technique and the like are merely methods to use Blood Qi.
"Indeed, there were no illusions this time. The last time I experienced abnormal phenomena was because my knowledge in Mysticism was too low and my spirit wasn’t strong enough."
Baiyu activated his thoughts.
The panel within Scholar Realm recording his Blood Qi surfaced in his mind.
[Blood Qi]: 3000 (ka), Tier Eight Martial Artist
[Core Technique]: Ice Skin Jade Bone Skill
[Spirit Technique]: Extreme Demon Bone Tempering Technique, Ancient Quenching and Forging Technique, Spiritual Prayer Ceremony, Myriad Beasts Battle Technique, Pupil of Chongming, Thousand-Change Hand, Qi Armor Technique, Blood Escape Technique...
[Scholar Secret Technique]: Purification, Fusion, Energy Perception, Scholar Realm
[Extraordinary Professions]: Prayer Technique Apprentice, Sequence Nine
[Items]: Rock Defense (Magic Elixir Recipe), Shark Kiss, Soaring Eagle Gloves, Eighteen Swords of Abi Hell Set, Rugged Diary
[Special]: Black Moon Mark, Blood Worm
[Dark Surveillance]: None
Baiyu, who hadn’t called up this panel for some time, felt a bit emotional as he looked through it.
He had mastered so many techniques already.
There were many things he hadn’t yet used.
For example, the Scholar Realm, which was inconvenient to use, as each use raised the Pollution Level.
Unlike Energy Perception which was more handy.
Yet he also keenly noticed something different on the panel.
Such as [Dark Surveillance].
He had never seen this before; it seemed to have appeared on the panel at some point unknown to him.
Baiyu’s gaze moved to the line above the text, quickly receiving feedback in his mind.
[Dark Surveillance]: This records the number of mysterious presences spying on you, which may be people, or may not be. Could be living beings, or they could be non-living. Being watched by mysterious presences greatly increases your Pollution Level, significantly raises the risk of mutation, and causes unknown impacts.
So it’s a recorder...
Baiyu opened his eyes, intending to continue studying the Mysterious Element subject at the library, striving to establish the foundational frame for other subjects, to improve Mysticism further and continue with the Bone Tempering endeavor.
But just then his door was knocked on.
The visitor was Geoffrey, the Research Academy assistant he had met in the morning, following a girl with a respectful expression.
The girl had a student association emblem on her sleeve.
She resembled a busybody from Baiyu’s past neighborhood committee.
Baiyu frowned but said nothing, silently observing the two.
Geoffrey felt a bit apprehensive under such scrutiny but gritted his teeth and said:
"Baiyu, students need to meet an attendance standard each month, if failing to do so, tasks must be completed to make up."
"Such regulations exist?"
Baiyu glanced at him, shifting his attention to the student association girl.
"I am your task liaison, responsible for your future assignments."
The girl pulled a small notebook from her pocket: "Due to your special situation, the student association will independently assign monthly attendance tasks for you.
Many students like you miss attendance.
As long as tasks are completed, skipping classes is something no one dares to question."
General students picking tasks.
Do so at the task hall of school.
Registering with their student card inside to choose tasks they are capable of.
But for Baiyu, who had to undertake tasks compulsorily due to class absence, the student association took responsibility.
Baiyu fiddled with his phone for a while and indeed found this regulation in the school code.
Though he had sufficient GPA points currently.
The school provided abundant cultivation resources, even rare ones could be found, so there was no need to go outside.
Knowledge, Spirit Technique, medicine, venue, everything was available.
As long as there were GPA points.
This was a paradise for learning and cultivation.
Baiyu obviously wasn’t going to waste time doing tasks outside now.
He was about to send the two away, but the student association girl earnestly explained the various types, requirements, and rewards of tasks listed in the small notebook, displaying full seriousness and stubbornness.
One of them indeed piqued Baiyu’s interest.
Joining the investigation team to probe Zenith City’s third underground level of mines, as residents reported possible appearances of special Exotic Beasts there.
This task wasn’t about solving the Exotic Beasts.
But gathering information.
Not to mention following alongside the investigation team.
What attracted Baiyu was the term "special Exotic Beasts."
He hadn’t forgotten his elite task to "discover rare extraordinary creatures."
Currently his progress.
Had only uncovered the Blood Worm and Moth of All Beings.