Midlife Awakening: Unlocking Heaven-Defying Insight
Chapter 25

Making Money Is Like...

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After returning home, Li Yuan carefully analyzed these questions.

The Light Points that dropped were most likely closely connected to him.

Only he could see the Light Points, and only he could pick them up to gain Experience Points.

Insights gained through his guidance would, as expected, make Light Points more likely to drop.

Li Yuan had once gone to Lingnan No.2 High School to proctor exams and wandered around the campus.

Lingnan No.2 High School had fewer classes, but it still had quite a lot of students.

Yet after checking every Practice Room at No.2 High School, he had only picked up ten Light Points.

In places that were farther away and had little connection with him, Light Points really dropped far less frequently.

Based on that trait, there was no need for him to spend energy collecting experience from even more distant places.

No matter how many people other schools had, he would not gain much from them.

He might as well search more thoroughly at Lingshan No.1 High School.

Having clarified the rules behind Light Point drops, Li Yuan calculated his progress again.

If he kept up this pace, he should obtain his fourth Talent Point before the Youth Martial Tournament began.

Li Yuan had not yet decided how to use that fourth Talent Point.

After thinking it over, he needed both the Enlightenment and Combat branches.

No matter which branch the fourth Talent Point went into, the benefit would not be small.

But for the Skill branch, he probably would not spend Talent Points on it anytime soon.

At that thought, Li Yuan, who had been lying on his bed resting, could not help sitting up and moving to his desk to take stock of everything in detail.

Previously, the thing limiting the improvement of his Martial Dao strength had been resources like Nutrient Fluid.

But he would soon participate in the Youth Martial Tournament, where he would receive a full thirty bottles of B-grade Nutrient Fluid.

For the time being, resources like Nutrient Fluid would be plentiful.

Now, Li Yuan was discovering for the first time that he lacked cultivation methods and martial skills.

For his basic cultivation method, Li Yuan was currently using the Zhou Tian Dao Yin Technique.

Although he had seen through its core and understood the crucial principle of guidance, circulation, and tempering,

this cultivation method still could not keep up with his pace.

A martial artist's physical foundation was jointly built upon the strength of their cells, bones, and fascia.

The Zhou Tian Dao Yin Technique was highly effective at tempering and strengthening cells.

But its effects on bones and fascia were extremely ordinary.

It was only because Li Yuan's Martial Dao realm was still low. Once he reached Fifth Grade, he would immediately realize that this basic cultivation method was no longer enough.

There were also martial skills. Li Yuan wanted to learn more refined and powerful ones.

In the past, fully mastering a martial skill usually took years.

Martial skills like Collapse Extreme Fist, Cloud Treading Step, and Six Martial Chain Blade were enough to study for a very long time.

But now that he possessed the Martial Recruitment Accelerator Talent, he had more energy to study new martial skills, even exceptionally difficult ones.

Before, he simply had not had the energy or time to spare.

Now, Li Yuan could not gain access to more profound martial arts.

As a high school teacher, it was difficult for him to access in-depth basic cultivation methods and refined martial skills.

A High-grade Martial Skill like Cloud Extreme Fist was a rather special case.

It was too difficult. Perhaps its former owner had believed that even if it were made public, no one would be able to learn it.

High-grade Martial Skills with less demanding cultivation thresholds could not be found simply by borrowing books from the city library.

Over the past few days, Li Yuan had considered many possible paths, but none seemed particularly feasible.

Could he only work hard to save money and trade for them?

He was already short on money, yet he still had to spend money to obtain cultivation methods and martial skills.

Li Yuan did not approve much of that path.

For one thing, making money was too hard, and he was reluctant to spend it.

There was a saying: spending money was as easy as taking a dump, while making money was as hard as eating shit.

Second, the cultivation methods and martial skills that could be learned with money were honestly lacking in quality, and Li Yuan did not think much of them...

With that in mind, Li Yuan placed more of his hopes on the Youth Martial Tournament.

If he achieved a good result in the Youth Martial Tournament, he might have a chance to access more refined cultivation methods and martial skills.

There were still twenty-six days until the Youth Martial Tournament.

Besides his regular teaching, he also needed to set aside time to learn more about the Youth Martial Tournament.

The Youth Martial Tournament was held once every two years. This competition was not a martial arts contest, nor was it a stage for martial artists to fight one another.

The significance of martial artists to every nation was not simply having them battle each other.

It was to deal with crises at the borders and fight Fierce Beasts that devoured humans.

The Martial Dao experts revered by the public were not those who were especially good at dealing with humans.

They were those who killed Fierce Beasts and eliminated dangers at the borders.

What the Youth Martial Tournament tested was the ability of martial artists under such circumstances.

After graduating from university, Li Yuan had joined Lingshan No.1 High School.

Only during his university internship had he gone to that kind of frontline environment for training once.

At Lingshan No.1 High School, he had focused most of his attention on teaching.

He truly did not know enough about the Youth Martial Tournament.

He needed to arrange his teaching duties more tightly, then take around ten days of leave to properly study it.

Li Yuan was thirty years old and handled matters with plans and structure.

Even with three mysterious Talents, he was neither arrogant nor conceited.

He simply had no experience with the Youth Martial Tournament's format.

He needed to acknowledge the facts and make the necessary preparations based on them.

Having entered middle age, perhaps he truly no longer possessed the daring drive of his youth.

But heaven had given him steadiness, and that steadiness could also accomplish things.

At that thought, Li Yuan simply arranged his classes properly.

He explained the lessons scheduled for later in advance to Class Nine and Class Fourteen.

The workplace was required to make leave arrangements convenient for martial artists participating in the Youth Martial Tournament.

Li Yuan would certainly have no problem requesting leave, and he could also find someone to substitute for him.

But Li Yuan did not want to delay his students, so he taught them the lessons ahead of time.

For Li Yuan, being able to pick up more Experience Points was also clearly beneficial.

During his leave later on, Chen Yong only needed to help maintain discipline.

After a night passed, Li Yuan submitted his scheduling request as soon as he arrived at work.

When Director Ma saw it, he had just been about to say something.

But the words that had risen to the tip of his tongue were suddenly blocked there.

He saw that Li Yuan's scheduling request actually involved many class adjustments.

Previously, whether it was Yin Yi or Jin Fan, they had simply asked someone else to substitute.

In other words, all the classes during their leave were handed over to other teachers.

They could not even be bothered to care, since they had legitimate reasons for taking leave anyway.

Li Yuan was an exception Director Ma had seen.

He had prepared some words, but now he was too ashamed to say them.

As a Martial Dao teacher, Li Yuan truly was excellent.

After hesitating for a moment, Director Ma silently nodded and ultimately said nothing more.

Over the next few days, the classes taught by Li Yuan for Class Nine and Class Fourteen would have to become more intensive.

Compared with the previous teaching pace, making it more intensive would have an impact.

But that small impact was still better than having other teachers teach them.

Moreover, Li Yuan's teaching ability had improved greatly now.

His own understanding of cultivation methods and martial skills was profound.

Even with a more intensive teaching schedule, Li Yuan was confident that he could teach them well and make them understand everything completely.

In the blink of an eye, Friday arrived, and it was once again the Weekly Meeting before the holiday.

Li Yuan heard from others that someone from the Education Bureau would attend the meeting today.

In addition, Gu Yu, who had lost in that martial match the other day, was said to have come again...

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