April 2.
It was already summer.
After last month's rain ended, the skies stayed clear for days, and the temperature in Jade Capital shot straight into summer. At noon, when the sun was strongest, anyone walking outdoors had to shield themselves from it. The cicadas outside the window were loud enough to drive people to distraction.
Under the supervision of Qingqing, his temporary guardian, Chen Shu returned to the laboratory in the Ancient Cultivation Building.
Today, he had to modify Swordlight Art.
Sword Light Art was already effective enough in every respect. The main thing was that Chen Shu had recently obtained quite a few new Third Tier penetration Runes from the teachers. He wanted to put them to use before the Martial Body Meet began and give his Sword Qi greater penetrating power.
He had already been working on it, and now he was in the final stages.
"Ugh..."
Chen Shu struggled to get started.
He could not use the laboratory's spell simulator for this. The simulator had no record of these Runes or how to use them. In fact, Third Tier Runes were so complex and varied in their applications that the simulator was of little help with any spell that used them extensively.
Chen Shu could only test it himself, attempting the spell again and again, then modifying it whenever it failed.
The schedule for the first round of the campus Arena Tournament had come out today. His opponent was Zhang Yunyan, a senior from his own college. Opponents in the Arena Tournament were assigned with some purpose in mind: the university hoped students would learn from one another and grow through the matches.
As the competition drew nearer, Chen Shu felt a little nervous, which somewhat blunted his laziness.
Of course, the main reason was that