Wait until the announcement was over!
After Luo Cheng told Jiang Hao to collect this month's A-Class Treatment after school!
Jiang Hao found a quiet corner in the Virtual Training Hall. He slowly closed his eyes, and his mind sank into that wondrous state.
He paid no heed to the gazes around him!
Spear Intent.
He wanted to fully master this newly awakened power.
"Rise!"
With a thought, Jiang Hao summoned that razor-sharp will, which stood above ordinary vitality and blood.
The virtual spear in his hand gave a faint quiver.
Jiang Hao's eyes flew open!
He thrust the spear!
The thrust was swift as a startled swan, carrying an unflinching resolve to press forward!
Yet the instant the spear shot out,
a powerful feeling of emptiness surged from the depths of his soul, as if the thrust had drained away most of his spirit.
Jiang Hao's face paled slightly, and even his body swayed in the virtual space.
"Only one strike."
Jiang Hao reached his conclusion at once.
"My Spear Intent is still too weak. I can only use it as a trump card; I can't wield it regularly."
Just as he was pondering this,
a dignified voice rang out beside him.
"Did you feel it?"
Jiang Hao turned his head. Luo Cheng had appeared beside him at some point.
"Instructor."
Jiang Hao bowed respectfully.
After bowing, Jiang Hao nodded and answered frankly:
"Yes."
"I felt it. That one strike took an enormous amount of mental energy. I could feel it even in the Virtual Immersion System; I was almost completely drained. I can only unleash one strike."
A hint of approval appeared on Luo Cheng's stern face.
"Your instincts are right."
"Martial Dao Will is a fusion of the mind and martial arts."
"You've only just kindled this spark, and it's still very faint."
"Forcing it into use would be like draining a pond to catch fish. You might even damage the very source of your spirit."
Luo Cheng's voice rang out like a great bell, clearing away Jiang Hao's confusion.
"What it needs most right now isn't use, but nourishment and tempering."
"Nourishment means using your increasingly refined vitality and blood to feed it, allowing it to grow stronger little by little."
"Tempering means doing as you did just now in the virtual system: seeking to understand and control it again and again, improving your command over it."
Jiang Hao listened in silence, etching every word into his heart.
Luo Cheng continued:
"Once your Spear Intent breaks through to Minor Accomplishment,"
"you'll truly be able to wield it at will and weave it into every move."
"Only then will your Spear Intent have truly crossed the threshold."
"For now, it's only your trump card."
Jiang Hao looked at his hands, feeling the weakness in his mind slowly recede, and nodded firmly.
"I understand."
After a brief moment of thought, Jiang Hao looked up again, curiosity in his eyes.
"Then, Instructor, what would Great Accomplishment and Perfection look like after Minor Accomplishment?"
Luo Cheng froze at the question.
Then, for once, a wry, helpless smile appeared on his stern face.
"Heh."
Luo Cheng couldn't help laughing at the boy's greed.
"You really are something..."
"You've only just learned to walk, and you're already thinking about running?"
Luo Cheng shook his head and clasped his hands behind his back.
"That's still a long way off for you."
"Ask me again when you've actually trained your Spear Intent to Minor Accomplishment."
What Luo Cheng didn't say was that
reaching Minor Accomplishment in Martial Dao Will was an arduous feat.
Even a day-rank Prodigy like Su Qingning had only barely touched the threshold of Sword Intent after her vitality and blood reached 14.0.
In his view,
Jiang Hao might have exceptional comprehension, but he wouldn't reach Minor Accomplishment until at least after he entered Martial Arts University.
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At dusk,
the school bell rang.
Jiang Hao logged out of the Virtual Immersion Device and stretched. He felt completely refreshed.
Aside from practicing Spear Intent twice and feeling a little mentally drained, everything else felt crystal clear!
"Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence."
[Spear Intent (2/100)] [Tidal Wave Spear Technique · Minor Accomplishment (31/100)]
Just one afternoon of insight and practice had brought another substantial increase in his proficiency.
Best of all, his body wasn't tired at all.
"The Virtual Immersion System really is a marvel."
Jiang Hao marveled to himself.
"If only I had one of my own. I could train nonstop, twenty-four hours a day."
"But that astronomical price is far beyond what I can afford right now."
Jiang Hao shook his head, banishing the impractical thought, then walked out of the Key Class's Teaching Building.
Beneath the evening sun,
Jiang Hao was in a great mood.
As soon as he reached the school gate, he spotted a familiar figure.
Lin Qiu.
Lin Qiu happened to see him too.
Their eyes met.
Jiang Hao's expression remained calm.
Lin Qiu's face, however, darkened in an instant. As if he'd seen something filthy, he abruptly turned his head away.
Without a word, his face taut, Lin Qiu hurried past Jiang Hao.
He acted as if staying one second longer would be an insult to him.
Jiang Hao watched him go.
He saw Lin Qiu hurry to a black, extravagant-looking hovercar that had been waiting by the roadside.
He yanked the car door open!
Then ducked inside.
"Bang!"
The door slammed shut.
Jiang Hao merely shrugged at the sight.
He was in a good mood and couldn't be bothered to squabble with a clown like that.
With a light step, Jiang Hao even hummed a little tune as he strolled past the luxury car and merged into the crowd heading home.
Inside the car,
the soundproofing was superb!
Deathly stillness.
Lin Qiu sat on the expensive leather seat, staring through the one-way privacy window.
He glared at Jiang Hao's retreating figure.
The other boy's relaxed, carefree air stung his eyes!
In the past,
sitting in this car, he would have looked down at Jiang Hao as if he were an ant!
But now,
everything had been turned upside down!
"Damn it!"
Lin Qiu gripped the leather seat beneath him so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
His face twisted with jealousy and fury.
The flames of jealousy in his heart
made Lin Qiu wish Jiang Hao would disappear from before his eyes—right now, this instant!
What's more,
Lin Qiu felt
that everything Jiang Hao had gained should have been his!
How could a piece of trash like him put on such a dazzling display? Someone with a performance like that should have been Lin Qiu, with his privileged upbringing and excellent education from childhood.
"Jiang Hao!"
"You piece of trash!"
"Just you wait!"
Lin Qiu glared at Jiang Hao's departing figure.
"Just wait until the Monthly Exam!"
"Just wait until my brother makes his move!"
"I'll watch you get ruined with my own eyes. I swear!"
Jiang Hao knew nothing about any of this. But even if he had, he wouldn't have cared!
After all,
by the time the Key Class's Monthly Exam came around at the end of the month, perhaps... even the older brother Lin Qiu regarded as a genius wouldn't be his match.
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