Beyond Sound
Ever since she had witnessed Yun Jing's strength in the first two rounds of the Foundation Establishment Exam and understood the gap between them in both power and wealth, Bai Zhenzhen had quickly realized something.
"If I simply improve my strength step by step, then even if I give it everything I have and eventually reach roughly the same level as my opponent, the odds of winning in a fight would only be fifty-fifty."
"So if I want to secure a Foundation Establishment Certificate, blindly burying my head in cultivation won't be enough."
"And it's not as if I have no advantages... My advantage is that I was weak enough in the first two rounds—so weak that he would never take me seriously at all."
Yet from the very moment the groups had been assigned, she had regarded Yun Jing as her greatest opponent, constantly observing him, learning about him, and gathering intelligence.
"I know his Dharma Skeleton, his cultivation arts, his Dual Dantian Technique... But he barely knows anything about me."
This information gap, born from her weakness, was Bai Zhenzhen's advantage.
"If I want to make good use of this information advantage, I must grow stronger with a purpose."
"My goal isn't to surpass my opponent, but to defeat him in the arena."
"These are actually two different directions."
For example, surpassing a Songyang High School student in strength required relentless cultivation day and night.
But defeating a Songyang High School student might only require a dump truck—or slipping a pirated secret manual into the panel beneath their desk.
It was after realizing this that Bai Zhenzhen began gradually adjusting the direction of her cultivation.
Whether it was choosing new cultivation arts, using her True Spirit Root to derive their evolution paths, or changing her fighting