Effort is My Greatest Talent

Half an hour later, once the dust had settled, Wang Xian arrived from his home.

Upon returning to the dormitory and seeing the new dents in the wall and Li Xi's disheveled bed, he couldn't help but freeze.

He looked at Zhao Yan: "Did a thief break into our room?"

"What are you talking about? Ye Li and Li Xi just had a fight. Ye Li is facing the wall for three days, and as for Li Xi... heh, his skills were inferior, so he's lying in the infirmary. He won't be recovering for at least a month."

Zhao Yan, who had also arrived late, relayed the news he had heard from other disciples.

Wang Xian hadn't expected this turn of events. He tightened his grip on his parcel and asked, "Then where is Brother Ye? Where is he facing the wall?"

"It should be that small grove as usual. You know he doesn't like the noise; being punished to face the wall is just a chance for him to have some peace and quiet," Zhao Yan replied.

Having received his answer, Wang Xian grabbed his parcel and headed out.

As for Li Xi's injury, neither of them cared much.

They had long been dissatisfied with this roommate who acted superior all day, and at this moment, they even felt a bit of schadenfreude.

Meanwhile, in the small grove, Ye Li exhaled a long breath of clear air.

A visible arrow of energy caused the leaves several feet away to rustle loudly.

After refining it for some time, he had once again calmed the surging blood energy from the Body Tempering Pill.

Mortal (506/862)
Azure Dragon Force (1426/100)

Looking at the values displayed on the panel, combined with the last Body Tempering Pill in his hand, he calculated that as long as he spent over 14 hours a day practicing, he would definitely be able to enter the realm within 20 days.

Hard work? That's exactly what I'm good at! Ye Li thought silently to himself.

Even in his previous life, Ye Li could be called an inspiration!

Ye Li's high school grades were not ideal!

As an orphan, after discovering he had no talent for academics, he accurately seized the traffic of the short video circuit and decisively navigated across various platforms.

He had waved his hands on Kuaishou, twisted his waist on Douyin, and finally earned his first pot of gold on Bilibili relying on a 2D avatar!

Following that, he used the money to buy traffic, get recommended, farm tips, and snowball his operations!

As the last existence to achieve physical deification on the internet in 2026!

Someone asked during a livestream how "Prisoner Ye" reached this point.

Ye Li's answer was simple: Hard work!!!

The protagonist of a web novel is just like a hardcore tough guy from Tongliao.

You can be bad, you can be stupid, you can be lecherous...

But you absolutely cannot be lazy!

Strong execution is the most basic requirement!

It took him three years to reach that realm!

2 hours on Qidian!

2 hours on Bilibili!

Then another 2 hours on Xiaohongshu!

And don't forget the most important Weibo and Baidu Tieba!

He checked them every day, rain or shine! Three years without wavering!

If he thought of something perverted, he had to record it and shock everyone with a premiere in the livestream!

The remaining time was all used to drop legendary quotes!

Gu Zhenren, Genshin Impact, Lord of the Mysteries, Zhihu, Kuaishou, Douyin, Hachimi, Luo Tianyi, Brother Hu, Ma Niubi, Nezha, Ding Qu...

Each of the above had their own unique skills.

Each one became his nourishment for the Immortal Dao—refined in an instant!!!

8 hours a day searching for classics, 8 hours livestreaming to drop them, and the last 8 hours for rest to maintain a stable mental state!

This was the secret to his internet deification!

Those who knew Ye Li called him Ye the Godly Person.

But those who could understand and "get" Ye Li's memes also possessed the potential for deification; their lives were set!

So, perhaps the next protagonist will be...

Today, Ye Li was simply replacing his efforts in livestreaming with the practice of cultivation!

What is a little pain? It's nothing but a bit of frost and wind!

He would carry the martial arts talent of this life to the very pinnacle of this world!

"So... time to train!!!"

A flash of determination crossed the eyes of Ye Li! But just as he was about to begin, a crisp ringing sound echoed in his ears.

"Jingle—"

"Who's there?" Ye Li looked toward the sound and saw Wang Xian watching him from several dozen meters away.

"A bell..." Wang Xian looked down in astonishment at the bell tied to a red string at his feet; this was something Ye Li had set up beforehand.

This was because the Azure Dragon Force he practiced was different from that of the other disciples.

To prevent others from sneaking close to watch him train and discovering his secrets, Ye Li had tied bells to red strings within a radius of several dozen meters.

Once someone approached, it would trigger the bell alarm, giving him a warning!

"Brother Wang, why have you come over?" Ye Li asked, looking puzzled.

Wang Xian stepped closer, took a foot-long wooden box from his pack, and handed it over:

"My father asked me to give this to you!"

Taking the wooden box with suspicion, Ye Li opened it cautiously, and what he saw made his pupils shrink!

Inside the wooden box, nestled in golden silk padding, lay ten milky-white pills.

The fragrance wafting from the ten pills was so potent that just by smelling it, Ye Li felt his calmed blood and qi begin to surge.

"Ten *Body Tempering Pill*s!!! What does your father mean by this?" Ye Li looked up at Wang Xian in surprise.

Wang Xian smiled and said, "We're brothers, aren't we? My father heard about your situation and decisively spent the money to buy ten *Body Tempering Pill*s! He said he wanted to sponsor you!"

"This is too valuable!" Emotion flickered in the depths of Ye Li's eyes as he said, "I am unworthy of such a gift!"

Wang Xian raised his hand to block the wooden box Ye Li was trying to return and said, "Don't dawdle, just take it!"

"My dad said he's seen too many geniuses die halfway through their journey due to a lack of resources, so he doesn't want to see his friend become one of them!"

"If you truly don't want to let down his expectations, then break through early and use your results to prove that our judgment was correct!"

Handing the box to Ye Li, Wang Xian laughed, "I heard you were punished with three days of wall-facing, so I won't disturb you any longer."

"With these ten *Body Tempering Pill*s, you'll save a month of bitter cultivation. Work hard and strive to enter the Body Tempering Realm within two months."

"As for your family, the Li Family is powerful, but at the end of the month, you can have your family members register under my Wang Family's businesses."

"When my family goes out for trade and armed escorts, they can stay away for a few years. Once you break through to the Post-Heaven Realm, you can bring them back."

With that, Wang Xian waved his hand nonchalantly and departed under Ye Li's gaze.

Clutching the wooden box in his hand and watching the other's retreating back, Ye Li fell into silence.

Someone once said that once you make a name for yourself, you'll be surrounded by good people; this saying was indeed true!

The retaliation of the seemingly powerful Li Family had appeared to push him, a man with no power or influence, into a dead end.

But in the blink of an eye, the situation had turned around, offering him countless new choices.

Tightening his grip on the wooden box, a surge of resolve welled up in Ye Li's heart!

They were not investing in his present, but in Ye Li's future, and he had to convert his potential into strength as quickly as possible!

The greater his potential within a controllable range, the more investment he could attract.

Only by getting more and more people to take his side, and making their sunk costs higher, would he be truly safe!

"Full power to break through!!!"

"Ten days! Ten days to conquer the Body Tempering Realm!"

A burning flame seemed to flicker faintly in the eyes of Ye Li!