Time flew by, and two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
With a 'ding,' the lights around the cultivation room changed, and the arena and opponent all disappeared, as if time had flowed backward.
In a moment, the cultivation room returned to how it looked when Han Lin first entered.
Han Lin was panting, his face filled with a lingering expression.
In two hours, he didn't know how many times he had been knocked down by the virtual opponent.
Although the damage caused by the virtual opponent was only one-tenth of actual damage, Han Lin still felt sore all over after the fight.
"Just one realm difference, and the combat power is so much worse!" Han Lin rubbed his shoulders and walked out of the cultivation room, looking back every few steps.
As soon as he came out, a classmate waiting in line immediately rushed in, swiped his card, and closed the door in one smooth motion.
"What a pity, only two hours.
If I could stay inside for a whole day, my Ancient Beast Fist might have already reached the Perfected Realm!" Han Lin's face was full of regret.
After Han Lin came out of the cultivation room, a group of students, including Han Lin's deskmate Lu Yunjie, also walked out of other cultivation rooms.
"Hey, how was it?
I advised you to cultivate an additional movement technique back then, now you know why, right?" Lu Yunjie winked at Han Lin.
"Consider it a favor owed to you!" Han Lin said with a smile.
The Willow Leaf Movement Technique was not taught at school; it was given to him by Lu Yunjie.
Although it was only a first-tier low-grade movement technique, it could be worth tens of thousands of star coins on the market.
"Hey, let's not talk about that between brothers."
Lu Yunjie's face was full of pride as he whispered, "If it weren't for you, my cultural class grades wouldn't have improved so quickly.
My uncle said that when the College Entrance Examination comes, he'll arrange for us to sit front and back.
Then, for the College Entrance Examination cultural class grades, I'll be relying entirely on you!"
The reason Han Lin was valued by his homeroom teacher, Wang Hongguo, besides his slightly stronger root bone and higher cultivation realm than others, was that his cultural class grades could rival those of the top students Song Tong and Song Yanan in the entire class, and even the entire grade.
As long as Han Lin's Qi and blood value and root bone value increased to ten points or more, he would be fully qualified to apply to a One-Star Immortal Sect University.
As for whether he could get in, that would depend on Han Lin's efforts in the last three months.
"Alright, now that I'm done with the cultivation room, I'm going home.
See you tomorrow!" Han Lin greeted Lu Yunjie, then left school and walked towards the bus station.
After returning home, it was empty.
His parents weren't home.
His father, an Acquired Realm Eighth Level martial artist, had a fixed Hunting Team and often left the Base City to hunt exotic beasts in the wilderness, selling their body materials for money.
His mother worked at a grain processing factory, and recently the factory had many orders, so she had to work overtime until very late every day before returning.
Han Lin cooked a pot of rice and took a piece of exotic beast meat from the refrigerator, placing it in a dedicated defrosting oven.
A few seconds later, with a "hiss," a puff of hot air came out of the defrosting oven's vent.
The originally frozen and hard exotic beast meat completely softened, while retaining most of its nutrients.
Since the release of large amounts of active factors into Blue Star's atmosphere three hundred years ago, various organisms on Blue Star began to undergo mutations.
This substance could quickly improve the individual quality of organisms, and even cause them to develop various incredible supernatural abilities.
Ordinary wild beasts gradually transformed into exotic beasts, and even ferocious beasts, their temperaments also becoming violent, and they began to actively attack humans in cities.
Humans named this gas 'spiritual energy' and called the era in which it appeared the 'Spiritual Energy Resurgence Era.'
After the appearance of spiritual energy, many large-scale destructive weapons created by humans began to suffer extensive damage.
The more precise the weapon, the more severe the damage.
Nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, long-range missiles, drones, and all other precision weapons became ineffective.
Even simple firearms began to experience numerous problems.
Scientific research discovered that spiritual energy seemed to react with gunpowder in a peculiar way; even if gunpowder was placed in a completely sealed space, it would deteriorate after not too long, though the principle of this mutation is still not understood.
The period of spiritual energy resurgence was humanity's darkest hour.
Countless cities were destroyed by hordes of exotic beasts and ferocious beasts, and hundreds of millions of humans died.
The entire process lasted for nearly a century, and humanity was almost extinct!
Afterward came the history of humanity's struggle against wild exotic beasts.
Humans began to develop their own strength and cultivate martial arts, especially after the advent of personal biological supercomputers.
Humans established one Base City after another, protecting a large number of people and allowing humanity to continue to multiply…
Humanity's centuries-long development of technological civilization suffered a severe setback.
However, when God closes one door, He will surely open a window!
As the world plunged into panic, humanity made continuous major breakthroughs in biological technology research, the most significant being the birth of the personal biological supercomputer!
A personal biological supercomputer is created by injecting a biological chip in liquid form into the human body, where it fuses with the human brain.
A personal biological supercomputer can not only develop the human brain but also assist humans in most aspects of life and combat through computation…
Han Lin took out the exotic beast meat and simply made some stir-fried pork with green peppers.
Once the rice was cooked, he sat alone at the dining table and ate dinner.
Wild exotic beasts have massive bodies, but their entire musculature is filled with unknown toxins, and very little of it is edible.
In the Base City, exotic beast meat is expensive.
Han Lin's father, as a member of a Hunting Team, would bring back some exotic beast meat every time he completed a mission.
Han Lin's rapid cultivation improvement was largely thanks to this exotic beast meat.
After finishing dinner, Han Lin cleaned up and began cultivating the Ancient Beast Fist in the living room.
Through two hours of sparring with the virtual opponent in the school's cultivation room who possessed the Perfected Realm, Han Lin gained some insights, feeling that his Ancient Beast Fist was not far from breaking through to the Perfected Realm.
Just then, a virtual screen suddenly popped up in front of Han Lin, displaying a line of information:
【Incoming call from "Mother Dear" in contacts.
Answer?】
"Why is Mom calling me at this time?
She's not going to work overtime all night again, is she?" Han Lin muttered to himself, tapping the virtual screen with his finger.
The next moment, his mother's face filled the entire virtual screen.
"Linlin, Mom has to work overtime all night today, so I won't be coming home tonight.
Take good care of yourself!" his mother said, sounding slightly tired.
"Got it." Han Lin nodded.
Life in the Base City was not easy; everyone was trying their best to survive.
"Oh, right, Linlin, Mom got you a string of prayer beads from the Lingfo Temple.
A master blessed them.
Remember to wear them; they can bless you with good grades in the College Entrance Examination!"
"Mom, Buddha doesn't handle the College Entrance Examination.
To pray for the College Entrance Examination, you should pray to Wenchang Dijun!" Han Lin said somewhat helplessly, "Besides, if I wear a string of prayer beads to school, my classmates will laugh at me!"
"Oh, Linlin has grown up and started not listening to Mom!" His mother's face showed a hint of sadness, looking as if she was about to cry from sorrow.
"Alright, alright, I'll wear them, isn't that enough?
You always do this…" Han Lin mumbled softly, his face full of helplessness.
"Linlin is the best!" His mother's face finally broke into a smile, and she nodded at Han Lin, saying, "I put the item on your bedside table in your bedroom.
Remember to wear it.
Mom has to work now, don't cultivate too late tonight, remember to go to bed early!"
After a few instructions, his mother hung up the phone.
Han Lin sighed.
He was going to learn the Visualization Method tomorrow, so he could appropriately reduce his cultivation time today, get good rest, and ensure he could learn the Visualization Method in his best state tomorrow.
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