Do You Hear What You're Saying?

Jiang Chuan went to the homeroom teacher's office.

Then...

He discovered that the entire office was empty.

Or, more accurately, not a single demon was there.

Left with no choice, Jiang Chuan returned to the classroom with his head hanging.

Since the last two classes of the afternoon were elective courses, there were already only a handful of people left in the classroom.

They had either gone to formation, talisman, or pill-making classes, or to Shooting Class to learn about firearms and artillery.

As for classes like math and language arts...

What first-year freshman who had just enrolled would think they could not become a cultivator?

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Chuan decided to continue cultivating.

As the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique circulated, Jiang Chuan sensed golden Transcendent Factors continuously flying in through the window, then burrowing into his body.

His entire body felt as though it were soaking in a hot spring, warm and comfortable.

The Transcendent Factors transformed into wisps of warm currents that spread through Jiang Chuan's flesh and blood before finally entering his dantian.

He could clearly feel the spiritual power in his dantian steadily increasing.

When his dantian was completely filled with spiritual power, Jiang Chuan felt as if a blazing fire had ignited in his abdomen.

As spiritual power continued pouring in, the flames seemed to surge out from his dantian.

In an instant, Pea-sized Sweat Beads continuously slid down from Jiang Chuan's forehead.

Jiang Chuan felt as though he had been plunged into scalding, boiling water.

"This is way too hot! Could the senior who created the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique have been a masochist?!"

Jiang Chuan gritted his teeth and persevered, circulating the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique. The intangible, formless spiritual power obeyed his control, surging out of his body and wrapping around his skin.

If Wu Jing had been in the classroom right now, he would definitely have been shocked.

As Jiang Chuan's spiritual power gushed out, the temperature throughout the classroom rapidly rose!

The spiritual power cultivated by ordinary second-realm cultivators was intangible and formless, incapable of affecting reality. Jiang Chuan's spiritual power could affect reality, which meant it was already transforming toward mana!

Second by second, Jiang Chuan continuously sensed the changes in his body.

In his perception, his skin gradually became tougher, while his strength also grew stronger.

Once the skin on both his hands had finally been tempered, Jiang Chuan stopped cultivating and excitedly looked at his palms.

"Now I should have completed Skin Tempering. Once ordinary Skin Tempering is complete, the skin can withstand slashes and thrusts from blades and swords."

Jiang Chuan's thoughts churned. My talent far surpasses that of ordinary people. The skin I tempered with the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique must be stronger than normal too. I wonder if it can block bullets?

However, Jiang Chuan himself also knew it clearly.

Bullets came in small, medium, and large calibers, and there were even special bullets such as armor-piercing rounds.

At most, his skin could probably block small-caliber handgun rounds.

The round-nosed bullets many ordinary people talked about.

Rifle rounds with stronger penetration—the pointed bullets—would most likely still be impossible to block.

Ding-ling! Ding-ling!

Along with the ringing bell came the rumbling sound of students running, reaching Jiang Chuan's ears.

He could not have been more familiar with that sound.

School was over!

Jiang Chuan had just been about to pick up his backpack when he realized he did not have one at all!

Wei Dong entered through the back door of the classroom. The moment he saw Jiang Chuan, he began pouring out his woes.

"Jiang Chuan, you have no idea. The cloud seal script the teacher taught in talisman class was like heavenly script. Huh? Why are you drenched in sweat? Don't tell me you..."

Wei Dong wore a lewd grin.

Seeing this, Jiang Chuan hurriedly denied it three times. "It wasn't me, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense. I didn't go to the woods behind the school."

He was someone who cared about his reputation too. If word got out that he had taken a female classmate into the woods...

How was he supposed to survive three years of high school?

"There aren't even any woods behind our school. You can't even make up a lie properly."

Wei Dong patted Jiang Chuan's shoulder, leaned close, and whispered, "Were the girls in the gym pretty? Don't keep all the good stuff to yourself. Pick one out for me too."

Jiang Chuan: ???

What the hell did you mean, pick one out for you?!

Where exactly did you get the idea that I went to the gym?

Seeing Jiang Chuan remain silent, Wei Dong continued while the iron was hot.

"Isn't it just going to the gym to pick up girls? What's there to be embarrassed about? The school doesn't allow dating, so date in secret. The school won't know."

"Women will only slow down my cultivation!"

Jiang Chuan picked up the first volume of the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique and headed toward the back door.

Wei Dong grabbed his backpack and chased after Jiang Chuan.

"Women really do slow down cultivation, but rich older women don't! There are plenty of second-generation cultivators at our school. Find one, and you'll save who knows how many years of detours."

"I'm afraid what awaits me won't be treasures from my father-in-law's family, but a sword from my father-in-law."

"Not that bad. At most, he'll blast you to death with a drone."

"..."

Dongzi, do you hear what you're saying?

Being blasted to death by a drone and left without a corpse was worse than being pierced through the heart by a Flying Sword!

As the sun set in the west, its golden afterglow spilled across the gates of Immortal Gate High School, lending the otherwise ordinary entrance an unexpectedly resplendent, magnificent air.

Jiang Chuan looked at the streams of traffic outside the school gates, took a deep breath, and stepped out of Immortal Gate High School.

The instant he walked through the gates, even though he was shrouded in the glow of the setting sun, he still felt a bone-piercing chill.

It was as if the followers and elders of the Blood Sea Divine Cult had already bared their fangs at him and would devour him the next moment.

"I will definitely kill every last one of the Blood Sea Divine Cult!"

Thinking this, Jiang Chuan headed home.

After Jiang Chuan and Wei Dong had walked five streets, Wei Dong waved goodbye to him and entered Chuan Nan Community.

Their homes had originally been on the same street, but after the old neighborhood redevelopment, they had been assigned to two adjacent but different residential communities.

Jiang Chuan had just been about to continue home when he suddenly remembered something. He abruptly turned to look at the towering buildings of Chuan Nan Community.

"In the other world, Aunt Lu lived in Chuan Nan Community."

"In this world, the person who hit me was from the Blood Sea Divine Cult. Was that person Aunt Lu? If it was Aunt Lu, then was Aunt Lu also part of the Blood Sea Divine Cult? Was her home still in Chuan Nan Community?"

Jiang Chuan pondered in secret, then sprinted toward home.

The moment Jiang Chuan arrived at the entrance of Jiang's Pet Store, he saw his biological mother feeding Director.

"Mom, who was the person who hit me yesterday?"

"I don't know."

As she spoke, Ji Min poured a large box of pet milk for Director.

"Because of the Golden Reaper, Nandu's power plants and all sorts of equipment were damaged. The surveillance cameras on the street where you were hit, as well as several nearby streets, couldn't be powered."

"After hitting you, that person abandoned the car and fled. The Public Security Bureau only said that, based on descriptions from passersby, it was a Bald Man."

"A Bald Man..." Jiang Chuan frowned slightly.

"Dinner is ready. Go upstairs and eat. Once I'm done feeding Director and the others, I'll come upstairs to eat too."

Hearing Ji Min's words, Jiang Chuan nodded, then walked into Jiang's Pet Store.

When the demolition relocation happened, Jiang Chuan's family had a fairly large home. On top of that, his parents had saved up a little money, so they received a storefront and unit 201 above it.

During the renovation, a staircase was built inside the shop to make it easier to go up and down.

Going upstairs along the staircase, Jiang Chuan saw stir-fried pork with chili peppers and steamed egg with minced meat on the kitchen table.

After wolfing down two bowls of rice, Jiang Chuan put down his chopsticks and stood up, preparing to return to his room to cultivate. Then he suddenly froze, swiftly turning his head to look in every direction.

"Is it just my imagination? Why do I keep feeling like a pair of eyes is watching me?"