Zhang Manqian's Hallucination

"What a boring day!"

"What a miserable day!"

By evening, the two met up again after finishing their classes at the academy.

"Were your classes boring?"

"Did your period come again?"

Zhang Manqian and Zhang Xuezhou each asked the other a question, only to see the other shake their head.

Zhang Xuezhou shook his head because he hadn't run into Ren Yisheng at Canglan Academy.

Zhang Manqian shook her head because she had never cared about her period. Someone in excellent physical condition wouldn't have their normal life disrupted by bodily functions, much less be made miserable by them.

What made Zhang Manqian miserable was that she had no lead on the Tiger Form Fist, leaving her heart feeling empty.

Having all her arrangements thrown into disarray felt awful, and she could hardly be happy about it.

Her plans, her task, her money, the first pot of gold with which she would build her fortune-everything had come crashing down on the Tiger Form Fist.

Without the ability to fuse a fourth-grade combat art, a newbie like her wasn't even qualified to be exploited.

Zhang Manqian knew perfectly well that someone would inevitably use her, but now she couldn't even meet the standard to be used. That undoubtedly left her feeling dejected.

"I discussed the Heart Incantation with Professor Ren Yisheng at the academy, but it's been a long time since he took those cultivation techniques of mine back with him, and he still hasn't replied," Zhang Xuezhou said, spreading his hands. "I can't go to his house and see what's going on, either."

"The Heart Incantation? Your cultivation techniques? Professor Ren Yisheng?"

Zhang Manqian picked three key terms out of what Zhang Xuezhou had said.

Every one of them surprised her.

Zhang Xuezhou had actually discussed cultivation techniques with a