The True Expert

"First, when we were all dressing up for Zhao Liya, you were still dressed like a slob, not paying any attention to your image at all. This morning we were laughing at you, saying you were hopeless, but later we found out you had planned it all along. Your strategy was to surprise them. When everyone else was dressed up and looking dazzling, you appeared so simple and out of place. This is how, in the first round, your unique image was immediately noticed by the beauty! If it were just this, you wouldn't be a master. What's even more impressive is that when everyone else was ogling Zhao Liya like perverts, you showed utter disdain, not even glancing at her. A woman as beautiful and well-born as Zhao Liya is very confident in her attractiveness, but you challenged her confidence. So, she refused to admit defeat and, not believing it, sat down next to you!" Chen Youmi's analysis was meticulous, leaving everyone impressed and exclaiming "Brilliant, brilliant!" Zhang Hupan, however, was thinking, Damn it, you can become a master at picking up girls just like that!

"Actually, the youngest missed one point, and this is the point that I believe shows the fourth brother has reached the pinnacle of picking up girls!" Hu Zhiming suddenly interjected.

"What do you mean?" Almost everyone asked in unison. Even Zhang Hupan perked up his ears, genuinely curious. He really couldn't figure out what other pickup tricks the eldest brother could possibly uncover from him.

"I think when Zhao Liya sat next to the fourth brother and he didn't even budge, you all must have been wondering if the fourth brother was gay, or perhaps impotent, right?"

Everyone nodded. Zhang Hupan was so annoyed he wanted to blast everyone with lightning. What kind of society is this? Ignore a beauty and you're gay or impotent... He couldn't believe they'd imagine such things. Would even Zhao Liya think that? Although Zhang Hupan didn't really care much about Zhao Liya, being wrongly accused by a beautiful woman still made him feel incredibly uncomfortable.

Hu Zhiming surveyed everyone, very pleased with their reactions, and continued, "I think at that moment, everyone, including Zhao Liya, would have thought the same thing! If it were as you all thought, Zhao Liya would have felt at ease. But the fourth brother's perverted gaze at the Scottish beauty was even more intense than anyone else's! Zhao Liya's confidence suffered a fatal blow! Based on my years of experience, beauties always have an extraordinary confidence in their looks. They have an unwavering resolve not to lose when it comes to their appearance. She will definitely sit next to the fourth brother again next time. This is the fourth brother's brilliance – provoking Zhao Liya's competitive spirit, making her consciously and proactively follow him!"

"Brilliant, truly brilliant!" Everyone gave Zhang Hupan a thumbs-up, looking at him with admiration.

As for Zhang Hupan, the person involved, he was dumbfounded. After cultivating for nearly a hundred years, his mind had never been so muddled and chaotic as it was now. In Zhang Hupan's judgment, even going into qi deviation wouldn't make his mind this confused.

"I propose that our dorm elect Comrade Zhang Hupan as the leader. I'll step down to second place, and the rest will follow suit. Does anyone have any objections?"

"No!" Everyone, of course, except for Zhang Hupan, replied loudly and without hesitation. Joking aside, a master-level pickup artist! As long as we're with him, what's there to fear about not getting girls in college!

In reality, based on his actual age, Zhang Hupan was indeed the rightful leader of the dorm. However, Zhang Hupan never expected to gain the position that should have been his for such an absurd reason. It truly left him speechless and amused.

A month passed quickly. During this month, Zhang Hupan was deeply shaken by another civilization created by humans. He felt profoundly fortunate that he had chosen to study at a university as a path for his worldly cultivation. Otherwise, he would never have experienced such a vibrant, colorful, and profoundly deep alternative civilization. Just one month of study brought a qualitative leap in Zhang Hupan's understanding of cultivation. It could be said that no one in the entire cultivation world right now could understand the true meaning of cultivation better than Zhang Hupan. This was because no cultivator had reached the Nascent Soul Stage, or rather, no cultivator diligently studied the civilization created by beings they considered as weak as ants. They pursued power and the Heavenly Dao for eternal life. Yet, it was precisely this overlooked human civilization that revealed many of the most fundamental truths. Unlike the cultivation world, which liked to explain the Heavenly Dao with esoteric concepts, science used a rigorous attitude and sound logic to deduce and explain the mysteries of the universe. Although it was only a tip of the iceberg, it was far more than what the immortals struggling in their cultivation knew. Of course, the magical, almost supernatural abilities of the cultivation world, like moving mountains and draining seas, were certainly not something current scientists could comprehend. Those required flashes of genius and hundreds of years of enlightenment to grasp the profound truths. Otherwise, Zhang Hupan's four senior brothers would not have regretted their lives for failing to enter the Nascent Soul Stage.

It could be said that science and the cultivation of the Heavenly Dao were two completely different systems. Science was a discipline that dealt with facts and reasoning, a field that could withstand scrutiny. As long as one was willing to learn, they could generally learn and understand it. The Heavenly Dao, on the other hand, was an esoteric discipline, something that could be understood but not explained in words, and not everyone could learn it. If a scientist were to cultivate the Heavenly Dao, without exceptional talent, they might never even enter the Innate Realm in their lifetime. However, if a cultivator were to study science, with their powerful spiritual energy and physique that ordinary people lacked, their learning speed would be incredibly fast. Just like Zhang Hupan, who learned in one month what would take ordinary people several years. But what cultivator would be willing to spend time studying a civilization created by beings they considered as insignificant as ants!

However, all things are interconnected. When science and the Heavenly Dao are mastered by the same person, it is destined to inevitably forge an unprecedented path of cultivation, creating a peerless genius, an unparalleled immortal of all time. Just as ordinary charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur, when mixed together, can create a bomb of immense power.

Universal gravitation – the reason I can't fly to the moon right now is that my speed hasn't reached the point of escaping Earth's gravity. Plants can grow because chlorophyll absorbs solar energy. If I could create something within my body similar to chlorophyll, couldn't I also absorb the sun's powerful energy, which is even purer than spiritual energy... These were the strange thoughts that arose in Zhang Hupan's mind after studying human knowledge. To ordinary people, some of Zhang Hupan's ideas might seem like wild fantasies, but for the powerful Zhang Hupan, these ideas were entirely achievable through research and practice. However, the scientific knowledge Zhang Hupan currently possessed was still very limited, and there was much more he needed to learn. Moreover, Zhang Hupan currently had no desire to improve his cultivation. After all, his state of mind was still a considerable distance from his cultivation level. Despite Zhang Hupan's efforts to avoid increasing his cultivation, the impact of science had brought him such enlightenment that his cultivation had unknowingly broken through from the stagnant early Nascent Soul stage to the mid-Nascent Soul stage. This frightened Zhang Hupan so much that he dared not cultivate recently. However, the benefits brought by studying science made Zhang Hupan tirelessly learn and absorb the scientific knowledge created by humans, further solidifying his determination to pursue advanced studies at the university. (To be continued)