An Easy Read-Through

After lighting up [Mind Enlightenment], Li Yuan found that this mysterious ability seemed to have made his mind clearer.

This was clearly a Talent Tree.

Lighting up a box meant lighting up a talent for himself!

Li Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

He pulled a booklet out from beneath his desk.

It had been written by Grandmaster Fang Jianxian, with a focus on analyzing Cloud Extreme Fist.

Many people had encountered the martial skill Cloud Extreme Fist, but few could grasp the basics, let alone use it in actual combat.

The outside world considered this technique easy to read superficially but extraordinarily difficult to truly understand.

Li Yuan's comprehension had originally been quite good. He could grasp the basics of Cloud Extreme Fist.

But after starting work, he had not been able to devote as much energy to his own cultivation.

Cloud Extreme Fist was genuinely difficult. In the past, Li Yuan needed an entire day to carefully ponder just one page of this analytical booklet.

Yet now, Li Yuan read through the booklet with remarkable ease.

That sluggish, stumbling feeling had completely vanished.

When he had read the Grandmaster's explanations before, they had clearly seemed obscure and difficult.

But now, he only felt that the Grandmaster's analysis was precise and clear.

Closing the book, Li Yuan felt as if even his eyes had brightened.

This talent was even more powerful than he had expected!

After hesitating for a moment, Li Yuan closed his eyes again and let his consciousness sink into the Light Screen in his mind.

Li Yuan had already clearly experienced the strength of the talent he had gained.

If he obtained another Talent Point, his path of cultivation would become even smoother.

Although he could not see the effects of the other talents, if the first one could provide such tremendous help, how bad could the others be?

He looked at the experience bar below the Light Screen: [186/200].

He only needed fourteen more experience points to gain another Talent Point.

With that thought, Li Yuan got up and began searching the school for Light Points.

The scattered Light Points were mostly found in the training rooms.

But just as he stood up, Li Yuan discovered a Light Point beside him.

Pickup: [Experience +3]

Looking at the experience he had gained, Li Yuan guessed where these Light Points came from.

He had just been studying the booklet here and had gained some insight.

This Light Point must have dropped there because of that...

That seemed to explain why Light Points often appeared in the training rooms.

Whenever students improved in cultivation and gained insight, Light Points would drop.

If the insight was shallow, the Light Point would add one experience point.

If the insight was deeper, it could add three or even four experience points.

Over the next half hour, Li Yuan made a full round of the school's training rooms.

He picked up seven Light Points in total and gained ten experience points.

With so many students around, he had only found that many Light Points.

One reason was that Li Yuan had previously picked them up whenever he saw them.

The other was that most students simply did not train very diligently.

Closing his eyes and checking the Light Screen again, he saw the experience value below: [196/200].

He only needed four more experience points. If he went back and studied cultivation techniques for a while, picking up the experience he dropped himself should be enough.

He returned to his office to tidy up and prepare to head home.

At this moment, Li Yuan was completely different from before, brimming with energy and spirit.

With the two-day weekend break ahead of him, he had plenty of time to properly test the talent he had just acquired.

He boarded the bus home and set off.

The school was somewhat far from the place he rented. His income was limited, so he saved where he could on rent.

The city demanded order. Apart from certain specially licensed martial artists, using movement techniques and lightness skills was forbidden.

Naturally, vehicles had become the most common mode of transportation.

Besides, riding was easier. Traveling on foot always consumed some stamina.

He found a window seat and looked outside, just in time to see Director Ma and Principal Yin walking out through the school gates.

At the same time, the principal's driver arrived with the car, and the two got into the Private Car.

"A teacher like that, with no sense of the bigger picture and only concerned with personal gain, should have been singled out long ago, Tingde.

"Thankfully, it was only the Weekly Meeting, and no outside leaders were present.

"Otherwise, we would have been utterly humiliated."

Sitting in the car, Principal Yin was still complaining about the matter.

Director Ma, seated beside him, nodded repeatedly and admitted that his management had been inadequate.

"For teachers with poor character and little talent or potential, we can try dismissing them.

"According to the rules, the school can dismiss a teacher rated D."

Principal Yin's words surprised even Director Ma. The principal was even angrier than he had expected.

Not only did he not want Li Yuan to participate in the Youth Martial Tournament, he even wanted to dismiss him...

"Principal, it may be difficult to give Li Yuan a D rating.

"There really is nothing to criticize about his work..."

Director Ma replied hesitantly.

In the school's rating system, D represented violations or serious mistakes at work.

But Li Yuan was more conscientious in his work than most teachers.

Giving him a D rating would be far too forced.

"Then give him a C Rating. Two consecutive C Ratings are also grounds for dismissal.

"If he thinks we school leaders have treated him unfairly, then he need not stay at Lingshan No.1 High School."

A C Rating meant one's teaching ability failed to meet requirements and one was unable to handle current teaching needs.

Giving Li Yuan a C Rating would also require some assessment results as evidence.

But it would be far easier than giving him a D.

With a C Rating, his income subsidies would plummet. Two consecutive years of C Ratings meant he could be dismissed outright.

Being dismissed for a C Rating would also severely affect his future job prospects.

Director Ma's expression turned somewhat awkward.

After thinking it over, he finally nodded. "There's an Open Class next week. I'll arrange for Li Yuan to teach it, and we'll put the results into his Evaluation Document."

To give a teacher a C Rating, they needed to produce a reason.

The school was not the principal's private property. He had to follow the rules as well.

But there was room for maneuver within those rules.

They could suddenly raise the difficulty during an evaluation, or make an impromptu arrangement that caused the teacher to make a public mistake.

Then, a poor evaluation result could serve as the reason to give Li Yuan a low rating.

An hour later, Li Yuan had arrived at the Residential Complex where he rented his place.

He bought something to eat downstairs for dinner.

Whenever Li Yuan returned home before, he always felt an indescribable exhaustion throughout his body.

He never wanted to do anything, only lie down and rest.

But today, Li Yuan felt no fatigue at all. Instead, he felt full of strength.

That was the power of hope.

Li Yuan was now full of confidence in the road he would take in the future.

The qualification to participate in the Youth Martial Tournament would be decided through a match.

Principal Yin's arrangement could be said to completely favor Jin Fan.

Teacher Jin Fan had only been at Lingshan Martial Arts No.1 High School for a year, but during that year, he had participated in nearly every training opportunity, selection, and competition.

He had indeed achieved impressive results.

In Lingshan City, he had even earned the title Top of Fourth Grade.

No one at the same level could compare to him.

The city's educational seminars even invited him to serve as a guest lecturer.

But Li Yuan did not understand. Why should the qualification he had fought so hard to earn be handed over to him?

So what if he was outstanding? Why should I help him secure a spot in the Youth Martial Tournament?

No matter what, he had to fight for it this time.

He was already thirty. If he did not wake up now, it would truly be too late.

After quickly finishing the dinner he had bought, Li Yuan continued his cultivation.

Li Yuan's talent was not poor. It could even be called exceptional.

He had advanced to Fourth Grade at twenty-one and had drawn plenty of attention back then.

But after he started working, Li Yuan had poured a great deal of energy into his job. As a teacher, he did not want to let his students down.

During the years when martial cultivation advanced the fastest, he had wasted some of them.

Fortunately, he had gained this mysterious ability. The Talent Tree in his sea of consciousness could help him catch up.