[Suck... suck...] [Can't suck anything... can't suck anything...] [Broken... broken...] [Fuck... fuck... fuck...]
Watching the text notifications keep appearing before him, Gu Qing felt pretty good.
Every April, he used to be tormented by mosquitoes. Now the tables had completely turned, and he was the one tormenting them.
All he could say was, Mosquito Heavenly Emperor, what goes around comes around.
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29. Supernatural tags
The next day.
Gu Qing woke before dawn.
He was in no hurry to get up.
He simply lay quietly in bed, staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.
The things Xia Shuran had told him last night kept circling through his mind.
One person taking on dozens of people.
Living in seclusion for hundreds of years.
I really never expected this world to have beings who might actually be supernatural.
And here I thought I was the only one with special powers, and would soon fulfill my dream of saying, "I don't eat beef."
Once I unlock knotted muscles and my strength increases dramatically, I'll find time to meet that Old Ancestor of hers and see how strong he is.
If even an old monster who's lived for centuries is no match for me, then my dream of saying, "I don't eat beef," shouldn't be hard to fulfill.
Come to think of it.
When Ningyu broke up with me, she said we no longer belonged to the same world. Could she have come into contact with the supernatural?
Too bad she blocked me on everything. Otherwise, I could sound her out.
There's something else.
If the supernatural really exists in this world...
Then does that mean...
There'll also be corresponding supernatural tags?
Such as...
Hero, Superman, immortal cultivator, Ultraman, mage, Kamen Rider, psychic, and so on?
At those thoughts.
Gu Qing couldn't help feeling a surge of excitement.
Just then, the dorm's alarm went off, interrupting his thoughts.
His three roommates got up one after another to wash up.
Half an hour later.
Gu Qing left with his roommates for class.
Once they reached the classroom.
As usual, he ditched his three roommates and sat with Yang Yuntong, the top student preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam, to work through practice questions.
Yang Yuntong was noticeably colder this week than last.
Gu Qing knew she still hadn't recovered from the awkwardness of having her movie invitation rejected last week.
But he didn't care about any of that. All he cared about was whether they could sit together doing practice questions and grinding attributes.
Four hours passed in a flash.
The morning's two long classes ended.
[You have studied with your classmate Yang Yuntong for over one hour]x4 [Focus +1]x4 [Learning ability +1]x4 [Accumulate 100 points of learning ability to obtain the attribute-exceptional comprehension] [Current points obtained: 42]
Forty-two points now.
Another fifty-eight hours of doing practice questions together, and I'll get the attribute-exceptional comprehension.
Fifty-eight hours. Excluding weekends, it'll only take two weeks to grind it out.
After lunch.
Gu Qing didn't return to the dorm.
Instead, he wandered around the campus, searching for rats.
After nearly three hours of wandering, he had found only three.
The animal-language information he collected was:
[Cat, fierce, scared...] [Garbage, tasty...] [Hole, big, nice...]
It was all useless junk information.
But Gu Qing wasn't impatient at all.
As long as he was patient enough, he would eventually collect useful information and root out the deranged cannibal hiding on campus.
Seeing that it was almost four in the afternoon.
Gu Qing stopped looking for rats.
He turned and headed toward the sports field.
He was going to learn the Mountain-Crushing Palm from Xia Shuran.
As soon as he reached the field, Gu Qing saw Xia Shuran already waiting there.
He had no idea how early she had arrived.
"Here early again, junior?"
He walked up with a smile and greeted her.
Xia Shuran wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and said with a bright smile:
"I wasn't that early. I just finished class and came over from the gym."
"Earlier than me, at least."
Gu Qing smiled. Without wasting any more time on small talk, he got straight to the point. "Junior, are we practicing your Old Ancestor's Mountain-Crushing Palm today?"
Xia Shuran nodded. "Yes, that's what we're practicing."
Soon.
The two walked to a corner with fewer people.
Xia Shuran didn't rush to start teaching.
Instead, she first asked Gu Qing:
"Senior, do you know why the Mountain-Crushing Palm can unleash such terrifying impact force when it looks so unremarkable?"
"Because it uses a special technique for exerting force?"
"Exactly."
Xia Shuran nodded. "It's precisely because of that special technique for exerting force that the Mountain-Crushing Palm can unleash such tremendous power."
Without drawing things out, she began explaining to Gu Qing:
"Senior, this special technique actually involves mobilizing the qi and blood power inside your body, gathering it in a particular part, and releasing it in a concentrated burst."
"So, to learn the Mountain-Crushing Palm, you first have to learn to sense your qi and blood, then learn how to mobilize it."
"Only after you're proficient in both steps can you execute the Mountain-Crushing Palm."
"Senior, don't think it's easy just because there are only two steps."
"My Old Ancestor said that back in his day, someone with mediocre talent would need at least two months of practice just for those two steps."
"But I mastered them in only two days. My Old Ancestor praised me as a one-in-ten-thousand martial arts prodigy."
At that point, Xia Shuran made no attempt to hide the pride on her face.
After hearing her description, however, Gu Qing's expression turned a little odd.
Sensing qi and blood?
Mobilizing qi and blood?
I think... I can already do that?
With that thought.
Gu Qing clenched his right fist hard.
The next second, the qi and blood throughout his body surged. A large amount rushed into his right arm, all of it gathering in his right fist.
I really can sense and mobilize qi and blood.
And it's instinctive.
I don't need to spend time specifically learning it.
And I only gained this instinct the moment I obtained the physical constitution attribute.
Could it be...
That martial arts is essentially a path of continually developing the body and growing stronger step by step?
And all I need is the corresponding tag and a few points of physical constitution to easily gain the martial arts foundation others spend years training for?
For the time that followed.
Xia Shuran became a martial arts grandmaster, patiently teaching Gu Qing how to sense and mobilize his qi and blood.
Her teaching method was simple: she had Gu Qing practice the Mountain-Crushing Palm along with her, sensing and trying to mobilize his qi and blood as he struck with his palm.
Gu Qing didn't mention that he already knew how. He silently followed his Junior Schoolmate's instructions throughout.
He wasn't wasting time. He was grinding the physical constitution attribute.
Just like when they had practiced with the Red-Tassel Spear together.
Meanwhile, the unsuspecting Xia Shuran was utterly absorbed in patiently teaching him, thoroughly enjoying the feeling of being Gu Qing's teacher.
After all, after having her talent so thoroughly outclassed by Gu Qing for so long, she had finally found an area where he wasn't as good as her.
It was hard not to enjoy that.
[You have practiced martial arts with your classmate Xia Shuran for over one hour]x3 [Martial arts technique +1]x3 [Physical constitution +1]x3
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