Hungry Tiger Arrives (Part 2)

Four lackeys stood up and surrounded Zhou Nan in the center. Zhou Nan felt a pang of fear. According to the information he had, Teng Chaoguo had caused a major incident when fighting someone in middle school. It was said that he had grabbed a pickaxe from a construction site and struck someone in the waist, completely destroying one of their kidneys. If Teng Chaoguo's family hadn't had some connections, he might have ended up in jail.

Zhou Nan had met all of the Four Heavenly Kings except for the one in the third year. Liu Shufeng was a good fighter, and Brother Da Long was even better. But even though they could fight, they didn't exude the same malicious aura as Teng Chaoguo, an aura that suggested he didn't care about people's lives or dignity.

However, since things had come to this, Zhou Nan decided to kill two birds with one stone. He would deal with the new kid and also get rid of the blame for losing the cigarettes. So, he mustered his courage and continued to play along: "I know I didn't handle this properly, but Brother Guo, you can't blame me entirely for this. Someone else was trying to cause trouble!"

"Cause trouble?"

"Yes, Brother Guo. A kid deliberately led Zheng Fangtou to me, deliberately making Zheng Fangtou investigate me! Zheng Fangtou never came to our dorm at that time. This was definitely premeditated, aimed directly at me. Brother Guo, everyone in the entire high school knows you get cigarettes from me. His targeting me is fake; he's most likely targeting you, Brother Guo."

"Targeting me?" Teng Chaoguo was taken aback, then he chuckled sinisterly and dismissively. "Who? Who's tired of living and dares to target me?"

"The new kid in our class. I asked around and heard he was transferred from the Key Class."

"Heh heh, Zhou Nan, do you think I'm an idiot?" Teng Chaoguo patted Zhou Nan's face. It wasn't a hard slap, but it wasn't light either, making a clear sound. "A bookworm transferred from the Key Class, targeting me? I'm telling you, if it weren't for your brother's face, you..."

Slap, slap, slap. He delivered three more slaps, harder than before.

"Brother Guo, I'm absolutely not lying to you!" Zhou Nan swore vehemently. "I swear to heaven, that guy was definitely doing it on purpose, no doubt about it!"

Teng Chaoguo didn't care. "Then tell me, who is this guy, and why would he target me?"

"Why that kid targeted you, Brother Guo, I don't know. But I spent the whole morning asking around, and I finally found out his identity." Zhou Nan looked around, then leaned in and whispered to Teng Chaoguo, "He was originally from Key Class 7, his name is Shi Tiexin."

"Who?" Teng Chaoguo's eyes widened upon hearing this, appearing very surprised. The other four lackeys also froze for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Shi Tiexin? Hahahaha! Good, good, so it's him!" Teng Chaoguo's eyes lit up with a dangerous glint. "This kid... is asking for trouble!"

Seeing Teng Chaoguo's reaction, Zhou Nan secretly smiled.

Just as he predicted, it worked.

For what comes next, he wouldn't have to do anything; someone else would charge in.

He would rely on Teng Chaoguo to gauge Shi Tiexin's true strength. If Shi Tiexin was formidable, he would first let Teng Chaoguo fight him to a mutual destruction, and then he would strike when the opportunity arose. If Shi Tiexin was weak, just a showy facade, then heh heh, he'd make that kid lose some skin!

Zhou Nan's scheme was proceeding perfectly.

Shi Tiexin's plans, however, were fraught with worry.

He had the secret manual, he had the Auxiliary Cultivation Manual, he had the environment and time to focus on cultivation, and he even had a mentor – and the mentor's skill far exceeded Shi Tiexin's expectations.

Class 28 truly lived up to its name as the Trash Class. The homeroom teacher paid no attention to it, and even a new student was just glanced at without any interaction with Shi Tiexin. However, the skill of these teachers was not bad. These teachers' primary responsibilities were elsewhere, and they didn't seem to care much about the students in the Trash Class's attention. They just taught on their own, lacking enthusiasm but not diligence. They taught what they were supposed to, in a standard and acceptable manner.

Shi Tiexin couldn't understand, but he knew these people were skilled. It was a way to supplement the shortcomings in his Heart Arts cultivation.

But he was still worried.

The reason was simple: he discovered a major problem in his Heart Arts cultivation that urgently needed to be solved. If this problem wasn't solved, his Heart Arts would likely make no progress. That problem was—

His own skill level was too low!

The manual was complete?

He didn't meet the cultivation requirements at all!

The mentor taught well?

No matter how well they taught, it was useless to him!

The Heart Arts here had generally progressed to the third level, but he only had three items in the first level that were above satisfactory. In other words, when they taught content for the second level, he could only stumble through it with great difficulty, and the third level was completely incomprehensible.

He had eagerly taken out the Auxiliary Cultivation Manual earlier, but after trying it left and right, it didn't react at all. He couldn't even understand the questions in the Auxiliary Cultivation Manual, so how could he attempt to break through and solve them?

A whole stack of Auxiliary Cultivation Manuals lay before him, but he couldn't use them at all, which made Shi Tiexin anxious and scratch his head. He felt like he had unexpectedly inherited billions in foreign assets but couldn't actually get his hands on them.

For the entire first math class and the second Chinese class, Shi Tiexin was completely unable to focus on the lectures. Of course, he knew he wouldn't understand even if he listened, so he completely gave up and focused on thinking of ways to solve his current predicament.

After thinking for a long time, the only solution Shi Tiexin could think of was to start from the beginning and catch up on the basics.

Through the dissolved memories, Shi Tiexin deduced that what he should be studying now was not the first-year textbooks of Fengming First High School, but the elementary school content here.

The first level of Basic Mathematics was called "Numbers and Operations," and the first level of Basic Rhetoric was called "Reading and Writing Characters." If you substitute them, wouldn't that be elementary school math and elementary school Chinese! Therefore, the most important thing for him to do now was to catch up on elementary school textbooks and find ways to purchase some Auxiliary Cultivation Manuals corresponding to elementary school, or even lower elementary school levels.

Only material at that level would suit his condition.

However...

Did his current abilities here only equate to those of a seven or eight-year-old child? No, no, in his memory, another consciousness achieved perfect scores at seven or eight years old, which was at least a dual-excellent level. As for himself, with one satisfactory and one unsatisfactory, he would be at the absolute bottom in an elementary school class of seven or eight-year-olds, and he would be easily defeated by upper elementary school students.

It was truly shameful!

Fortunately, his thick skin wasn't very sensitive, otherwise, it would be as red as a purple eggplant right now.

Just as Shi Tiexin was contemplating how to get his hands on some elementary-level Auxiliary Cultivation Manuals in his mind, the bell rang, and the second Chinese class ended. The teacher left immediately without any delay, and the students rushed out of the classroom like wild horses.

But then a scream was heard, and a boy ran back into the classroom in a panic, shouting, "Black Hand Hungry Tiger is here!"

After putting the child to sleep, it's this time. I apologize.