Keep Improving, the Third Talent Point

Upon hearing this, Principal Yin nodded. He did not think it was a big deal.

"There's no need to pay too much attention to the students' opinions.

What do these kids know about who is more suited to compete in the Youth Martial Tournament?

Just follow the plan. Once Jin Fan wins, immediately take Li Yuan to register him on the entry list."

Li Yuan had exchanged his academic credits for the qualification to compete in this Youth Martial Tournament.

Li Yuan himself had to confirm the registration.

The overall process was that Lingnan No.1 High School submitted the recommendation, and Li Yuan confirmed the use of his credits to exchange for the qualification.

"I'm still worried. What if Li Yuan loses the match but keeps making trouble and refuses to give up the qualification?"

Another Director beside them spoke with a frown.

It was not impossible that this might happen.

Cases of people refusing to honor the result after a match were hardly rare.

Principal Yin's expression turned stern. Just thinking of that possibility made him angry.

"If he dares to make trouble after losing, then don't blame me for being ruthless.

Not only will First High School expel him, but I, as the principal, will use every bit of influence I have against him!

He can forget about finding work for the next three to five years!"

Hearing this, the Vice Principal spoke up to persuade Principal Yin not to get too angry.

"This matter involves Jin Fan. If Li Yuan dares to cause such trouble, the school will not even need to teach him a lesson.

Jin Fan's sect will give Li Yuan a proper lesson."

After the Open Class ended, Li Yuan spent some extra money to buy more nutrient solution.

Not only had he suffered no losses from this Open Class, he had even gained some benefits.

He had received an A+ in the Open Class evaluation, and there would be a decent bonus in next month's paycheck.

With a little more money, he could be more generous when buying nutrient solution.

Of course, the nutrient solution Li Yuan bought was still D-Grade.

With every increase in grade, the price of these nutrient solutions rose drastically.

After returning to the dormitory he rented, Li Yuan transferred one thousand yuan home and called his parents.

He was short on money himself right now, so transferring one thousand yuan was merely a token gesture.

Li Yuan's parents were not martial artists, and their physical condition was not particularly good.

They were nearly sixty, and their health was genuinely getting worse by the day.

If Li Yuan saw a call from his parents in the middle of the night, it would scare the soul out of him.

He was truly afraid that one of them had fallen seriously ill.

Beyond that, there was something else Li Yuan worried about even more.

He feared that when a disease could still be treated, he would not have enough money to pay for it.

After chatting for a few moments over the phone, his parents began asking about his love life.

He was thirty and still unmarried. Of course they would ask.

As they talked, they started trying to arrange blind dates for Li Yuan.

Li Yuan did not reject them outright. He understood their worries very well.

It was just that he truly had no energy for blind dates at this point.

He told his parents to schedule the blind date three months later.

When the time came, he absolutely would not refuse any blind date they arranged.

After hanging up, Li Yuan felt somewhat more at ease.

His parents had not said anything like, "We're both in great health."

The less they mentioned it, the more reassured Li Yuan felt.

If one day they told him over the phone that they were both in great health and that he should not worry—

If such words came up, Li Yuan would be even more worried instead.

Once he obtained a qualification for the Youth Martial Tournament, he should be able to use that opportunity to advance to Fifth Grade.

At Fifth Grade in martial arts, he could apply to become an Intermediate Teacher.

An Intermediate Teacher had a higher base salary, and the city also provided a subsidy for martial arts talent.

By his calculations, that would be nearly fifty percent more than his current salary.

Only with that extra money each month could he save up some funds.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan felt that he should arrange a medical examination for his parents first when the time came.

Neither of them had had a checkup in years.

Whenever Li Yuan thought of it, he did not even dare bring it up.

He was afraid they would find some problem, while he still would not have the money to deal with it.

Knowing the illness but being unable to treat it...

Li Yuan also knew that he was deceiving himself.

But there was nothing he could do. With neither money nor resources, he could only cover his ears and close his eyes to ease his anxiety by a few degrees.

After hanging up, Li Yuan continued his cultivation.

Whenever he returned to his residence these days, he was always full of drive.

With both motivation and nutrient solution, he had enough energy for cultivation.

Over the past few days, Li Yuan's cultivation had mainly focused on tempering his physique and increasing his physical strength.

He would first raise his current strength to the limit of Fourth Grade.

The Zhou Tian Dao Yin Technique, a basic cultivation method, continuously circulated through his body.

What had originally been a long path of cultivation had been accelerated severalfold for Li Yuan.

He cultivated until midnight. The Zhou Tian Dao Yin Technique was still circulating within him and tempering his physique, but Li Yuan was ready to rest.

Lying on his bed with his eyes closed, Li Yuan looked at the Light Screen again.

[Experience Points: 185/300]

He was not far from three hundred experience points.

During the Open Classes over the past two days, he had not found time to properly collect Light Points.

Just by attending the Open Classes, he had picked up quite a few.

More than forty of those points had been collected during his own Open Class.

He had spent forty minutes explaining the Flickering Shadow Steps, and the results had been excellent. Light Points had dropped beside most of the students in that class.

Over the past two days, the learning atmosphere among all the first-year classes had been extremely intense.

Class Nine and Class Fourteen had learned the Sinking Mountain Fist, and after learning it, they had been showing it off in other classes.

The students in the five advanced classes had their competitive spirit ignited all at once.

The regular classes had learned it. If their advanced classes could not, what kind of advanced classes were they?

Yet even with that competitive drive, it only made them work a little harder.

On the path of cultivation, willpower and momentum alone were not enough.

It was not as though working hard meant you would definitely succeed.

Some thick-skinned students from the advanced classes began looking for every opportunity to ask Li Yuan questions.

When they asked him questions, they avoided their own teachers to spare them embarrassment.

Li Yuan was not stingy either. If the students were willing to learn, he was willing to teach.

It was material from the textbook to begin with, and Li Yuan had always lived up to his identity as a teacher.

The advanced-class students were actually quite confident, both in themselves and in their teachers.

They had heard many people say that Li Yuan taught well, which was why they had learned the Sinking Mountain Fist this time.

Most of the advanced-class students had been skeptical of that.

But after coming to seek Li Yuan's guidance, they believed it.

The difficulties that had hindered them, as well as the troublesome points their veteran teachers had told them to figure out on their own—

Li Yuan clearly pointed them out.

He even pointed out the directions in which they had gone wrong.

As he explained, Li Yuan naturally gained quite a few Light Points and collected a considerable amount of experience.

With the first-year students' learning atmosphere so intense lately, Li Yuan felt that he could still collect plenty of experience during this period.

The Third Talent Point would not be far off.

The match to compete for the Youth Martial Tournament qualification was scheduled for next weekend.

With a week left, collecting another hundred-odd experience points would not be a problem.

The harder the First High School students studied, the more experience Li Yuan could gain.

Of course, the students would also gain a great deal from their efforts.

It was a win-win situation!