Chapter 44 I’m Desperate for a Cure
Once Sun Lingli finished her tutoring session.
Feng Zhichen’s attitude towards Xu Lingjun was no longer that of a simple junior.
He was almost one hundred percent sure that as long as Xu Lingjun didn’t prematurely die, he would inevitably achieve Upper Realm strength in the future.
He would sooner or later stand shoulder to shoulder with him, or even surpass him...
Seeing his most beloved disciple come out, he smiled and asked, "How was it, did Teacher Wang’s teaching suit you?"
Sun Lingli looked utterly confused, her thick glasses unable to hide her helplessness. She softly said, "I don’t know what’s going on, I can understand what Sister Yaya says to me, but once she talks about what’s in the books, I can only grasp the meaning of each word separately, but can’t understand them put together..."
Feng Zhichen looked helpless, glancing at Xu Lingjun and then at Sun Lingli, finally sighing secretly in his heart.
Although he had already intended for Sun Lingli to inherit the Wind Fist Style he painstakingly created in his youth, some people and some things just can’t be compared. At the moment, Lingli’s strength might still surpass Xu Xiaoyou, but being surpassed is only a matter of time.
Oh well... The best children are always someone else’s, but my own disciple is decent too. Although her academic performance is bad, her martial arts talent is quite commendable, which is like me.
And Xu Lingjun had already comforted her, "Perhaps it’s not a matter of diligence, I believe you must have put your heart into it. It’s just that your brain has a problem, it can’t understand anything, clearly, you’ve heard it with your ears, but your brain keeps telling you no, you haven’t..."
Sun Lingli was about to cry.
She nodded, lowering her head, and said sadly, "Well, maybe I’m just brainless."
Xu Lingjun said, "I didn’t mean to insult you, I just want to tell you that my grades were actually pretty bad too."
Sun Lingli looked up hopefully and asked, "Really?"
Xu Lingjun nodded seriously and said, "I always fluctuated around the hundredth place in Qingyang High School, never getting into the top fifty."
Sun Lingli’s eyes were genuinely wet, "I’m always outside the twenty-five hundred mark."
"No, I meant to say that the reason I was able to get to the first place was thanks to one thing."
"What was it?"
Sun Lingli excitedly stepped forward and held Xu Lingjun’s hand.
Xu Lingjun seriously said, "Life No.1, it supplements brain nutrition, promotes calcium absorption, and enhances memory... Really, after taking it, I felt my memory improved a lot, even if I didn’t understand something, I could memorize it just by looking at it once, and after thinking about it, I quickly understood it."
Sun Lingli’s expression turned forlorn.
She said gloomily, "I’ve drunk that thing before. I actually wondered if I’m stupid because my body lacks some nutrients, so I tried Anshen Buperoral Liquid, Naobaijin, Life No.1, Hao Taitai Oral Liquid... I even tried Huiyuan Shenkang, but none of them worked..."
Feng Zhichen sighed beside her, "Lingli is already trying any means without rhyme or reason. She wants to get into the West Origin Martial Mansion, but you know how high the standards of the West Origin Martial Mansion are, with the integration of martial arts and technology, her current grades, unless I pull some strings... but she’s unwilling to use connections..."
"My medicine is different, you can try it. It’s not as if a brain supplement would somehow backfire and harm you, right?"
"Alright."
Sun Lingli’s face flushed slightly, and she said softly, "Thank you for your concern, Xu Tongxue. Since you want me to try it, I will."
Xu Lingjun nodded and took out a bottle of Life No.1 from his pocket that had already been enriched with Talent Source.
Handing it to her, he said, "Give it a try."
Sun Lingli took it, gently rubbed it for a while, and her expression of despair had diminished a bit.
She took a straw and directly drank it down.
"How do you feel?"
Xu Lingjun asked with concern, "Does your brain feel cooler?"
"I feel like my mind has cleared up a lot, I’ll try it out when I get back home to see how it works."
Seeing Xu Lingjun’s concerned look, Sun Lingli replied.
Xu Lingjun understood in his heart.
When he drank Life No.1, his brain really felt cool... it wasn’t just psychological, but a physical coolness.
Now, it seems that even if something was enriched by me, it has little effect when others take it.
Xu Lingjun nodded and smiled, "Next time I’ll buy you more, drink more of it... it must work, it worked for me, there’s no reason it wouldn’t for you."
"Mhm, thank you, Xu Tongxue."
The mentor and disciple bid farewell.
Xu Lingjun went back to his room to visit Wang Qingya... only Sun Lingli had stepped out just now, Sister Yaya hadn’t come out yet, I wonder what’s going on, she’d better not be in trouble, right?
.........
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
Qingzhou City.
Inside a simple hostel.
In a room of more than twenty square meters, there were at least more than ten people... to avoid attracting attention, these twenty or so people had been eating and sleeping in this one room over the past days.
After a few days, everyone looked exhausted.
But even so, their eyes remained bright, as these past days of waiting had yielded results.
"Feng Zhichen seems to be here for leisure, the City Lord of Qingzhou City has invited him several times, but he has refused, his route is very fixed."
Shang Youya respectfully knelt before Chi Yu Xing Hen and said, "During the day, he goes to a place called Baoyan Martial Arts Hall, where he doesn’t do much, just watches the apprentices train, occasionally guiding them when he’s in the mood..."
"What exactly is he trying to do there, did you find out?"
"No."
Shang Youya smiled bitterly, "I paid a tuition fee of ten thousand pieces, intending to sneak in and figure out his purpose, but instead, I ended up being pestered by the deputy hall master, sending me flowers every day... I’ve been exposed to the entire martial arts hall, and whenever I enter the hall now, I attract everyone’s attention, it’s inconvenient to gather information, so I only know that he stays in the hall every day, but why, I’m not sure."
She continued, "And in the afternoon, he goes to a private house, where his disciple seems to go every day for tutoring."
"Whose house is it?"
"It’s a plain and ordinary young man’s."
Shang Youya paused, "Besides being good-looking, everything else about him is plain... Although he’s a Qi Gathering novice, he’s just a rookie, he should be kept by someone, the one supporting him is a teacher who goes to school every day to teach and comes home in the afternoon to tutor Feng Zhichen’s disciple."
"It seems keeping a high school student nowadays is quite expensive."
Another Chi Yu Race member, Ming Step, sneered, "Even teachers are going out for side gigs, these humans... really are very decadent..."
Shang Youya thought for a moment and explained, "Maybe he’s just expensive, after all, he is indeed very handsome."
"Let’s not talk off-topic."
Chi Yu Xing Hen asked, "So, does this mean that Feng Zhichen’s disciple goes to that private house alone for tutoring during the day, avoiding Feng Zhichen?"
Shang Youya nodded.
"Who else is in the house during the day?"
"Just that very good-looking man alone at home."
"A Qi Gathering Realm Martial Artist..."
Chi Yu Xing Hen pondered for a while and said, "Continue to investigate, find a chance to capture Sun Lingli alive and use her against Feng Zhichen, we have a good chance of succeeding! Remember, we must not expose ourselves, have absolute certainty before making a move, understood? Do not be careless."
"Yes!"
Shang Youya stated earnestly, "Subordinate will not disappoint your expectations!"