"You old geezer of a system! You've been hiding the good stuff from me?"
Zhou Fan immediately opened the newly unlocked lottery interface.
A circular wheel appeared before him, displaying all sorts of rewards.
[Genjutsu: Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique, Ninja Tool · Kubikiribōchō, Ninja Tool · Uchiha Gunbai] [Kekkei Genkai · Transparent Release, Kekkei Genkai · Storm Release, Kekkei Genkai · Lava Release] [Sealing Jutsu · Fire Style: Heavenly Prison, Sealing Jutsu: Reaper Death Seal, Barrier Ninjutsu · Four Violet Flames Formation] [Notice: Each draw costs 10,000 emotion points!] [The prize pool automatically refreshes every 10 days!]
"Holy crap, that's a ton of good stuff!"
Zhou Fan stared wide-eyed, practically drooling with desire.
Landing any one of these would be a massive win!
But...
"Ten thousand emotion points for a single draw? That's way too expensive!"
He only had a little over seven thousand emotion points in total, not even enough for one draw.
"All this system does is tempt me with good stuff. Why won't it give me eight hundred thousand or a million emotion points?"
For now, Zhou Fan could only drool over the rewards.
There was no helping it. He was too broke.
"I'll redeem the Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack first, then try the lottery once I've saved up enough emotion points."
He closed the lottery wheel.
He chose to spend 5,000 emotion points on an Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack.
[Spent 5,000 emotion points. Successfully redeemed 'Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack'!]
"Open the gift pack."
[Opening "Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack"!] [Obtained the following rewards-] [Fire Release · Ghost Lantern] [Fire Style: Great Flame Arrow] [Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame] [Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation] [Fire Release · Dragon Flame Song Technique] [Fire Release · Dust Concealment Technique]
"Six advanced Fire Release Ninjutsu in one go. Not bad." Zhou Fan was quite satisfied.
He might not have been able to try the lottery.
But these Fire Release Ninjutsu were powerful too!
Besides, what Zhou Fan needed at this stage was something that would directly improve his strength.
These advanced Fire Release techniques would take his strength to the next level!
"I'll have to find a chance to test how powerful these advanced Fire Release techniques are," Zhou Fan muttered.
The next day.
When Zhou Fan woke up, he discovered that another 2,450 emotion points had been credited to his system.
These emotion points had all come from people online.
People were still watching the video posted by his school's official account.
As long as someone watched it, they could generate emotion points.
Although the conversion rate for Emotion Points generated online wasn't great.
These emotion points were completely free, so why turn them down?
After washing up and quickly finishing breakfast, Zhou Fan headed to school.
Although they had already completed their awakenings.
They still needed to attend school for a few more days before the college entrance exam.
The school would guide them in familiarizing themselves with their superpowers and gradually growing stronger.
Then, when the college entrance exam arrived, they would all take it together.
"Zhou!"
Just as he reached the school gate, Zhao Qiu came running over from a distance.
"Little Ball." Zhou Fan greeted him too.
The two headed back to their classroom together.
When Zhou Fan arrived, he found a pile of things on his desk.
There was breakfast, snacks, and gifts.
There were even several love letters!
"What's with all this stuff?" Zhou Fan asked curiously.
"Holy crap! Zhou, you're incredible!"
"These must all be gifts from girls who secretly admire you. There are even a few love letters!" Zhao Qiu looked envious.
Zhou Fan was quite the campus celebrity now.
Actually, he had been a campus celebrity before, too.
Top of his year!
That title carried quite a bit of weight.
In the past, someone would occasionally leave him a love letter, and quite a few girls had even confessed to him, but he had turned them all down.
So much had happened over the past two days.
Zhou Fan's popularity had risen and fallen like a roller coaster.
His performance in yesterday's combat test had once again set the whole crowd buzzing.
That had prompted quite a few more girls to give him gifts and love letters.
Of course, Zhou Fan wasn't interested in any of it.
What a joke!
Women would only slow down his sword draw!
How could he let such worldly distractions stand in the way of growing stronger?
The others in his class, however, didn't see it that way.
[Jealousy +1] [Envy +2] [Jealousy +1] [Envy +1]
Seeing so many girls giving Zhou Fan things left quite a few boys in the class seething with envy and jealousy.
All sorts of emotions kept shooting up.
[Resentment from Liu Kun +100]
The system suddenly sounded a separate notification.
Zhou Fan raised an eyebrow.
A hundred points of resentment??
Well, damn!
This was the first time he had received so many emotion points at once.
Other people generally produced only a few Emotion Points at a time, not even ten.
Zhou Fan looked toward Liu Kun in the corner of the classroom.
The guy was staring at Zhou Fan with resentment in his eyes.
Of course Liu Kun deeply resented Zhou Fan!
Zhou Fan had beaten him up last time, and he was still furious about it.
Now that he saw Zhou Fan receiving so many gifts, his resentment grew even stronger.
But when Zhou Fan looked over, Liu Kun hurriedly turned his head away in fright, not daring to meet his eyes.
This guy was terrible at picking fights, yet he just couldn't stop!
The number of emotion points depended on the strength of the person producing the emotion, as well as the intensity of their emotional reaction toward Zhou Fan.
Clearly.
Liu Kun's feelings toward Zhou Fan were the most intense right now!
"Riiing-!"
The bell rang for class.
Their homeroom teacher, Old Li, walked in.
"Quiet down, everyone."
"Today's training will focus on 'essence core absorption.'"
"Come with me."
They no longer needed theoretical lessons now; all their classes were practical.
After all, theoretical knowledge could no longer do much to improve their strength.
Only practice mattered!
The group arrived at the school's training room.
Every student in the senior year was there!
Today, Principal Wang Daochuan was once again overseeing the lesson in person.
If they had all been ordinary students, he wouldn't have needed to come himself.
But now that he had two prized students, Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan, he naturally had to teach the class personally.
"Come inside, everyone."
Wang Daochuan led several hundred people into the training room.
The training room was huge-essentially an indoor sports field!
"Today's training will focus on 'essence core absorption.'"
"As we all know, an 'essence core' is the core of an Esper."
"The core formed inside our bodies as we absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy is called an 'essence core.'"
"The stronger your essence core, the stronger you are." Wang Daochuan began the lesson.
He took a fist-sized white crystal core from his Storage Ring and held it up.
"Do you recognize this?"
"Is that... a Mutant Beast's crystal core?" someone answered.
"That's right. This is a Mutant Beast's 'crystal core.'"
"A crystal core is the core of a Mutant Beast. Like our human essence cores, it forms by absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy."
"The crystal core is the most valuable thing in a Mutant Beast's body. We can improve our strength not only by absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, but also by absorbing the energy within Mutant Beast crystal cores."
"Your training today will be to absorb the energy in crystal cores and convert it into your own spiritual energy!"
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