Classes started and I don't know how, a week passed. It was hectic. I have a holiday today.
Studies were fine. There was no Wu Zhangkong to motivate the students. The class teacher looked quite uninterested in the classes, except for the combat one. The other subjects were normal; no, better than before. Harder than before. Even the way they teach history was amazing because now they were talking about things that I have no idea about. Maybe I should pay better attention to history. I have just read the novel but I don't remember it now.
After classes was lunch time and I have been re-learning how to cook so I usually sit in the corner drinking vegetable soup and stir fried veggies that I prepared.
I am 100% vegetarian. The food should not be cooked near flesh, or on utensils that were used for flesh. I am quite strict on that. The cafeteria doesn't have vegetarian options like the way I want.
I knew how to cook and sometimes I want to eat cooked food as well. Sometimes.
And although I have been re-learning for just a week, I can make eatable stuff. For the past week I have been cooking and eating and it's an improvement each time.
I should re-learn how to knit and sew as well, who knows when I would need them.
I am eating thrice a day, followed with exercise in the morning and night, cooking practice in the evening and eating it the next day, classes in the morning, combat classes in the afternoon, meditation at night and then exercise in the morning.
Now its the weekend holiday. I don't have classes today. Now this was horrifyingly amazing cuz I don't know what to do.
I brought a sewing kit a few days ago and I did sew a few holes that I found in my casual clothes and then I ran out of things to sew. I am putting aside knitting for the next month or the month after that.
I don't want to sleep. I don't have a good feeling about it.
I am kind of lost on what do I even do now. I don't have a particular goal at the moment and I can't just manifest one without desire.
Should I... try to remember my past? Maybe I can get some memories and feelings and I can start something. Anything.
Let's go to Shrek for now. Yeah, I should set my goals higher. Let's go to the Shrek Academy with my qualifications. They are the best. They should have a good training chamber. Meditation method as well.
And I need to be at least level 27 to 29 if I want to get selected at Shrek Academy, meaning more hardwork.
Entering the school with low soul power level was impossible. The Soul Power isn't just a simple level indicator but each level adds strength and power. The difference can't be seen in one or two levels but if the difference is of four or five levels then it's one sided even if the opponent has more practice.
The students who came to Shrek are all the best cream of the crop of their respective schools. Underestimating them is just plain stupid, more so with my combat history.
I don't plan on fighting them. As I previously said, I abhor violence.
I need a reason to lash out and me being in the academy all the time isn't going to suddenly fill me with a reason to kill people.
That's why I don't leave the academy to begin with.
I should just meditate. I am too free. I will think about Shrek later.
A week later.
Test no.7. The second test that succeeded in increasing my Soul Power. Just one big problem.
Excess energy. Too much absorption lead to much energy in the body. Energy that I couldn't deplete even with heavy exercises or work.
Results,
Boom!
I nearly died. The energy went rampant in my body, destroying it from inside out.
(Basically Electro from The Amazing Spiderman. He got overcharged and then exploded)
Additional effects. No exercise, meditation for a month due to internal injuries. No change to studies though. I did sit out the combat classes.
The injuries were internal and didn't show much on the outside. It was a slow death though. Instead of my body exploding in a mush of organs and flesh, only my artilleries bursted and my bones were charcoaled and broken. If not for my healing toxin, I would have died long ago.
I should create better healing items next week.
I survived though!
If I could somehow control the situation, my cultivation speed would be double of my current speed, and I would be able to reach Soul Grandmaster level in just 1 and a half year, maybe even faster.
What was the hurry though?
Nothing. At least for this month, I can do nothing but wait. My bones had been properly regrown and attached and I have been using my toxins to heal the body regularly and my body is actually at the peak condition but I can't cultivate because I explode.
Pertaining the help of a teacher who diagnosed that I may have ingested a soul herb that was above my current absorption rate and now I have gotten internal injuries and destabilized my inner sea. It will fix itself in a few months.
Simpler terms. It's related to spiritual power. I don't know much about it. I just need to sit it out and wait for it heal on its own and it would likely take a month or more.
*Two months later*
In a small forest of Eastsea city aka Eastsea Park.
A tanned kid of around 11 or 12 was panting heavily while laying down on the ground, covered with blood and dirt all over. Broken wood splinters and chips were scattered all around him, most of them stained with blood. If someone were to pass by this place they would scream in horror since this looked like the child was brutally mutilated here.
He was not.
"I feel like I am turning into a masochist."
He was smiling, chewing on the wood that had gotten in his mouth.
This guy's weird.
"Finally. Finally ~ The officer has returned to the headquarters after arresting 27 criminals and announcing them as the criminals behind the Glorybound City massacre."
"I am finally free from his clutches. The people he arrested were all serial criminals so I have no guilt about it. At least that's what he claimed. He won't lie, right?"
The boy swallowed the wood and murmured.
Three months have passed since the Glorybound killings and the case has been finally closed. With the perpetrators behind the bars, there's nothing to worry about and people can sleep in peace.
Fan Lin got up and changed his clothes.
"I wonder how I should proceed with the Shrek's admission."
"From what I have gathered over the past few weeks, Shrek has a low admission rate and even the chance to get admitted has a quota that is sent to only the best of the schools."
"Then there are many other alliances and schools who will send their students to participate in the Shrek's admission test.""
"And then the different families and what not with their direct admissions."
"I need to snatch a place among that group. From students who had given their all, maybe trained even harder than me. Can I do it justly?"
"Can I?"
He gathered his stuff and left the forest.
"I should try fairly."
Thoughts emerged in his mind but he put them down.