[*Crunch*]
[A friendly reminder from the Bask-in-the-Glow System: Li Luoyun's body contains a Super-Grade Earth Spiritual Root. When you are close to her, your cultivation speed can become 10,000 times as fast. Would you like to bask in her glow? (Yes/No)]
This was the first time Chen Shaojie had connected to Li Luoyun's WiFi. He was so excited that he could feel his heart beating wildly, as if it was about to jump out of his throat.
We're talking about a super-grade spiritual root here. It belonged to him from now on. No one else could lay their hands on it. This pleasure of enjoying a forbidden fruit alone was so intoxicating.
Li Luoyun sat on the bed with her legs folded. She carefully placed the White Tiger Technique jade talisman on her forehead and concentrated on "absorbing" the technique.
Chen Shaojie did the same with his Grass and Wood Technique jade talisman.
The jade talisman was warm. When it touched his forehead, he felt a surge of information rushing into his head from the jade talisman like a stream of water.
After a while...
The jade talisman on his forehead broke into pieces with a crack, and the wild influx of information stopped.
Chen Shaojie opened his eyes and looked at the jade talisman in surprise. He found that it had become no different from an ordinary stone. After thinking for a moment, he casually threw it aside.
He looked up. Li Luoyun had also opened her eyes, and her jade talisman had also shattered, just like his.
"Is there any problem with your technique?"
Chen Shaojie asked Li Luoyun.
"No," Li Luoyun's face was full of excitement.
"Great! Let's start cultivating!"
"Okay!"
Li Luoyun once again closed her eyes and cultivated according to the White Tiger Technique in her mind.
Chen Shaojie looked enviously at Li Luoyun. He was still pining for Li Luoyun's White Tiger Technique. Unfortunately, it was not the technique that was compatible with him. He had no choice but to close his eyes and concentrate on cultivating his Grass and Wood Technique.
It took no time at all for both of them to breath according to their respective techniques and enter the zone.
When Chen Shaojie cultivated the Qing Yu Body Forging Technique before this, he inhaled spiritual Qi passively by opening up his body and letting the spiritual Qi pour in.
But now, the situation was completely different. He was now practicing a Qi-Consumption technique, so the inhalation of spiritual Qi was now an active action rather than a passive one.
The breathing pattern was similarly nine shallow exhalations and one deep inhalation, but along with his breathing rhythm, all the spiritual Qi nearby would gather in front of him, and he would swallow it in big mouthfuls.
When the White Tiger Technique consume spiritual Qi, it looked like a white tiger roaring and biting while brandishing its fangs and claws. It was like the king of the mountain out on a hunt.
Meanwhile, when the Grass and Wood Technique consume spiritual Qi, it looked like a tiny but strong grass filled with vigorous vitality. It braved the wind, braved the rain, braved the cold and braved the heat, and through it all, it kept growing towards the light.
While they cultivated, a strong wind rose outside. All the nearby spiritual Qi surged towards Li Luoyun's room, causing the doors and windows of the room to flap on their hinges.
But the two were not aware of it. They were completely immersed in their cultivation.
It was especially so for Chen Shaojie. Cultivation simply felt too good.
Li Luoyun may have gotten used to her own talent, so she did not feel too excited when she cultivated fast.
But it was different for Chen Shaojie. He understood all too well the sensation of cultivating as an untalented person. The current cultivation speed that was akin to a speeding Lamborghini made him tremble with excitement.
The 10,000-fold increase in cultivation speed was the same as what he had experienced at Grandmaster Qing Zhu's residence.
The difference was that this place was not as saturated with spiritual Qi as it was in Grandmaster Qing Zhu's grass hut. Otherwise, it would have been perfect.
One cycle, two cycles, three cycles...
Chen Shaojie could hardly stop. His resentment towards the Grass and Wood Technique had also lessened considerably.
Who cares what technique it was. He was content as long as he could keep cultivating like this.
A period of time passed...
Chen Shaojie was completely clueless to the passing of time when he cultivated. Every time he awakened from cultivation, it was because he got disconnected from the WiFi signal. It was the same this time.
"Eh?"
When Chen Shaojie opened his eyes, he found that Li Luoyun was tiptoeing towards the door, trying to leave quietly.
"Why did you stop, Sister Luoyun?" Chen Shaojie asked in a soft voice.
Li Luoyun stopped in surprise. After a brief pause, she said, "I'm getting too dirty. I'm going to take a shower."
"Too dirty?"
Chen Shaojie was a little confused.
He was just about to ask further when his nose detected a sour smell...
"Hmm?"
He quickly looked down and discovered that there was somehow a lot of greasy black dirt on his body.
The stench his nose detected came from these dirt.
Noticing Chen Shaojie's gaze, Li Luoyun explained, "These should be the Five Toxins expelled from our body after we started practicing the Qi-Consumption technique."
Only now did Chen Shaojie realize that these dirt were also present on Li Luoyun's body. Girls liked to be clean, so she was probably unable to stand it and was anxious to go wash them off.
He thought about it and asked, "After shower, do we still keep on cultivating?"
Li Luoyun seemed surprised at the question. She looked outside and said, "But it'll be dawn in four hours..."
Chen Shaojie replied, "That's right, there are still four more hours until dawn. It's still early. I'll go back for a shower, then come back here."
Li Luoyun could not help but feel something strange when she looked at Chen Shaojie. 'So what he said was true. There's only the Dao in his heart...'
Chen Shaojie climbed up from the floor. While walking outside, he said, "I go back to take a shower now. You shower too. When you're clean, wait for me in bed. I'll come back in no time."
After saying that, he ran back to the boys' dormitory in large strides.
When you're clean...
Wait for me in bed...
Staring at Chen Shaojie's back, Li Luoyun could not help blushing. She just stood there like an idiot and only recovered after a while.
Li Luoyun washed the dirt off her body and went back to her room.
She looked at her bed, pondered a little, and finally decided not to sit on it. Instead, she pulled out the chair she had never sat on and quietly waited for Chen Shaojie at the desk.
After some time, Chen Shaojie finally came back.
"Okay, Junior Sister, let us continue."
He closed the door behind him and urged Li Luoyun, "Get onto the bed, Junior Sister. Let's not waste time."
Li Luoyun recalled the ambiguous words from before and felt her face heating up despite herself. She found it hard to move her legs.
Chen Shaojie, however, was very direct. He sat down on the floor and said, "Okay, like before, you'll be on the bed and I'll be on the floor. Let's continue."
He did not even wait for Li Luoyun to get onto the bed before he reconnected to Li Luoyun's WiFi and started cultivating by himself.
Seeing the single-minded Chen Shaojie, Li Luoyun's eyes slowly reverted back to their previous coldness. She sat back down on the bed and crossed her feet to cultivate.
Four hours quickly passed...
Li Luoyun once again severed the connection, waking Chen Shaojie up.
Chen Shaojie left in a hurry while it was still dark outside, lest he be found spending the night in Li Luoyun's room.
While he left, he told Li Luoyun, "Let's do this again tonight, Junior Sister. Is that alright?"
This guy was really a cultivation maniac...
After spending a night together, Li Luoyun was no longer so awkward with Chen Shaojie. After thinking about it, she nodded and replied, "Okay. I'll wait for you tonight."