“Holy crap!”
Su Yang couldn’t help but exclaim, immediately drawing a multitude of gazes in the silent library.
Coming back to his senses, Su Yang felt incredibly awkward and quickly bowed repeatedly to apologize.
“My apologies, my apologies!”
Su Yang’s heart was filled with excitement; he never imagined his luck would be so good, instantly finding a Mind-Cultivation Technique with such a high compatibility!
“It’s a needle technique? Doesn’t that mean I have to Cultivate anew!?”
Su Yang frowned slightly.
Changing from a fist technique to a needle technique, the leap was truly too great.
The methods of exerting force and techniques for body arts and hidden weapons were not the same thing.
“Compatibility can exceed 100%!? Does that mean there might be 200% or even 300% compatibility!?”
Su Yang’s pupils contracted sharply, and he suppressed the excitement in his heart, temporarily refraining from detailed needle technique compatibility, instead continuing with broad-direction compatibility.
Perhaps there was a Mind-Cultivation Technique with higher compatibility than a needle technique.
However, after this round of compatibility checks, the 107% compatibility of the Heart-Piercing Needle Technique was far ahead!
“Does that mean Zhu Tao is suitable for Cultivating hidden weapon needle techniques!?”
“Needle techniques… are somewhat niche.”
In Su Yang’s impression, he had almost never heard of any great experts who Cultivated needle techniques.
It wasn't that this type of Mind-Cultivation Technique was particularly difficult, but rather because of the existence of thermal weapons.
To throw a hidden weapon with the same firing speed and destructive power as a thermal weapon, one would at least need to reach the Wu Zun Realm. However, Martial Venerable Realm experts were relatively rare even in a Earth-Grade city like East Sea City.
The strongest individual at East Sea Third Martial Arts High School was Vice Principal Lin Zhenguo, yet he had only reached the Half-step Wu Zun Realm, with his Bottleneck persisting from thirty to fifty years old, still unable to Breakthrough.
“However, the higher the compatibility, the higher the Cultivation efficiency!”
“If I can help Zhu Tao find a Mind-Cultivation Technique with extremely high compatibility, I might even be able to turn his -244% Cultivation efficiency into a positive number in one go!”
Su Yang performed a series of operations, filtering out all needle-type Mind-Cultivation Techniques from the Mind-Cultivation Technique library.
There were a total of seven hundred and twenty-four needle techniques.
The Heart-Piercing Needle Technique was a popular Mind-Cultivation Technique, practiced by many.
It was still early, so Su Yang decided to continue filtering.
Fortunately, martial arts schools didn't have fixed class times; most of the time, students arranged their own schedules, with teachers mainly responsible for answering questions and supervising.
However, the situation in Class Five currently made supervision largely meaningless.
It was as if their newly appointed homeroom teacher, him, expected them to listen.
They would definitely feign compliance.
As long as there were no fights, he would leave them be for now.
Su Yang opened a notepad and began taking notes.
“Profound Yin Needle Technique, 94% compatibility.”
“Nine Silken Needles, 87% compatibility.”
Su Yang secretly rejoiced.
Indeed, Zhu Tao was suitable for Cultivating needle techniques!
Several random needle-type Mind-Cultivation Technique compatibility checks all showed above 80% compatibility, but as of yet, no Mind-Cultivation Technique with higher compatibility than the Heart-Piercing Needle Technique had appeared.
After about fifteen minutes of compatibility screening, Su Yang’s breathing suddenly quickened in front of the computer.
“Lotus Severing Yang Needle Technique, 213% compatibility!”
Just as he had guessed, there indeed existed needle techniques with over 200% compatibility!
“If Zhu Tao Cultivates the Lotus Severing Yang Needle Technique, that means it can provide at least 213% Cultivation efficiency, and possibly even higher!”
“However, the name of this needle technique…”
Su Yang frowned and casually clicked open the digital version of the Lotus Severing Yang Needle Technique’s Mind-Cultivation Technique.
The name sounded very much like an ancient martial arts Mind-Cultivation Technique.
Most modern martial arts Mind-Cultivation Techniques have slightly chuunibyou-like names such as Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens, Thunder Annihilation, etc. Most of them are secondary creations and improvements based on ancient Mind-Cultivation Techniques, and their creators are Geniuses in martial arts theory!
Geniuses, well, it’s normal for them to be a bit chuunibyou, many live in their own worlds.
When Su Yang clicked on the Lotus Severing Yang Needle Technique and scanned it, he decisively decided to find another one.
Ancient people’s Cultivation methods… were too extreme.
The Lotus Severing Yang Needle Technique required one to violently pound one's private parts during Cultivation, using intense lower body pain to force one's Qi to flow backward, and it also required the assistance of a plant called Lotus White.
Therefore, the first page of the Mind-Cultivation Technique had large red letters stating: 【The plant required for this Mind-Cultivation Technique is extinct, cannot be Cultivated, for reference only】.
“What reference value does this thing have!”
Su Yang rolled his eyes, annoyed that he had gotten excited for nothing.
...
Inside Class Five’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Ten people sat in a circle in the study area, with strange expressions, whispering ceaselessly.
“The one surnamed Su is actually a Martial Venerable!?”
“Impossible, absolutely impossible. He doesn't look like a Martial Venerable at all with that pathetic demeanor!”
“Besides, how old is he!? To be able to Cultivate to Martial Venerable at twenty-seven or twenty-eight!? Isn't that a one-in-a-million martial arts Genius! My damn peerless Genius self only got into a second-tier martial arts normal university!? With that Aptitude, he should be specially recruited and admitted to the National Defense Martial Arts University!?”
“Moreover, if he were a Martial Venerable, would he need to be a teacher at a martial arts high school!? Damn it, how much is the salary!?”
“A Martial Venerable can easily earn hundreds of thousands a month. Wouldn't it be better to just hunt Yao Beasts!?”
“Exactly! I don't believe it anyway!”
“Right! Tao Zi, you must be overthinking it!”
Zhu Tao frowned tightly: “But how do you explain these two needles? If he wasn't a Martial Venerable who had Cultivated an iron body, there’s no way he could have blocked the Thunder Needle!”
“This…”
The group looked at each other, genuinely unable to explain for a moment.
“Is there a possibility…” Li Yiming frowned: “that he stuffed special steel plates into his leg? Prepared in advance!?”
Everyone suddenly realized.
“It must be like that!”
“He definitely prepared in advance!”
Zhu Tao, however, couldn't help but wonder: “But his walking posture didn’t look like he had steel plates stuffed in…”
“Alright, alright, what’s there to guess about!” The Wolf Tooth Club Girl placed her Wolf Tooth Club on the table: “Wouldn’t we know if I snuck up and hit him twice!?”
…
Students or teachers passing by the door inexplicably felt that the atmosphere in Class Five today was very strange.
“What the hell, Class Five isn't causing trouble today!”
“Didn’t they say a new homeroom teacher came?”
“I know, it’s Su Teacher. He taught a few martial arts theory classes for us before.”
“Holy crap, Su Teacher managed to subdue Class Five as soon as he arrived!? That powerful!?”
“This morning, Class Five just drove their homeroom teacher away, and I didn’t expect them to be subdued so quickly by Su Teacher!”
Everyone discussed animatedly, and naturally, many teachers also noticed the quiet and peaceful atmosphere inside Class Five’s classroom, a stark contrast to their usual chaotic demeanor.
The news spread like wildfire and quickly reached Team Leader Liu Zhen’s office.
The teacher who came to hand in documents laughed and said, “Team Leader, this young Su is quite capable! He subdued Class Five as soon as he took office! It really shows your keen eye!”
Liu Zhen, who was drinking tea, spat it out with a “pfft,” splashing tea everywhere: “What? Subdued!?”
“Yes!”
“Really or fake!?”
“It’s real!” The teacher handing in documents quickly said: “I just passed by Class Five’s classroom. A bunch of people were quietly sitting, not making trouble, and they were even discussing and researching. The learning atmosphere was quite good! Completely different from usual!”
…
“Team Leader, why are you knocking on the table?”
Liu Zhen, who was knocking on the marble table, looked up with a depressed expression.
“I’m looking to see where would be a good place to start…”
The teacher handing in documents: ?