Chapter 9

"Beep—beep—beep—"

The alarm clock rang five times, and Mom Zheng Qiuling's wake-up call came three times.

Lu Yuan finally struggled to get out of bed.

"It's even worse than I expected."

Lu Yuan sat on the edge of the bed, his face full of helplessness.

What are the consequences of a person who has been lacking in physical exercise suddenly engaging in intense training one day?

Just look at Lu Yuan now.

Lu Yuan felt that there was not a single part of his body that did not hurt. Even when brushing his teeth, he had to use one hand to support the bathroom mirror.

If it weren't for it being Monday, he would have wanted to lie in bed all day.

Breakfast was congee, baozi, and youtiao, along with two boiled eggs.

Lu Yuan ate slowly.

What usually took fifteen minutes to prepare for school now took over half an hour.

Fortunately, after eating breakfast, he felt more energized, and his limbs were more flexible. By the time he went downstairs with his backpack, his condition had improved somewhat.

At least it was better than when he first woke up.

Originally, Lu Yuan had planned to run to school this morning, but in his current state, that was definitely out of the question. Walking was already a struggle, and time was not on his side.

He decided to take a taxi to school, a rare luxury.

Perhaps seeing that Lu Yuan was a high school student, the taxi driver drove very fast.

Despite the morning rush hour, Lu Yuan arrived at school five minutes earlier than usual.

"Lu Yuan!"

As soon as Lu Yuan walked into the classroom, a figure darted to him like an arrow.

"You finally made it."

Cheng Peng was about to take Lu Yuan's backpack, "Quick, give me your homework to copy."

"What's in it for me?"

Lu Yuan held his backpack in front of his chest, deliberately teasing him.

Cheng Peng glanced at the digital clock above the podium and said urgently, "Anything! Please, bro, hurry up, we have fifteen minutes until morning study."

"Two meals, the best kind."

"Deal!"

Cheng Peng nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and only then did Lu Yuan take out his homework from his backpack.

Cheng Peng snatched it and didn't even bother to go back to his seat. He sat right next to Lu Yuan and started writing furiously.

The black pen in his hand moved like a mad snake, impossible to track.

"Cheng Peng, go back to your seat, this is my seat."

A chubby boy with glasses tried to pull Cheng Peng up.

Cheng Peng glanced at him, still writing, "Did you finish all your homework?"

"What's it to you?"

The chubby boy replied irritably.

"Let me sit here for a while, and you can find what you need."

Cheng Peng slapped a stack of Lu Yuan's homework and test papers in front of the chubby boy.

The chubby boy was taken aback, then looked at Lu Yuan. Seeing that Lu Yuan didn't react, he quickly pulled out two books from the stack and started copying.

After copying for a while, he seemed to think of something, "Wait, if all our answers are the same, won't the teacher notice? Forget it, I'm not copying."

"Stupid, can't you intentionally make some mistakes to avoid the correct answers?"

Cheng Peng scolded him, and the chubby boy suddenly understood.

"Right, why didn't I think of that?"

"Physics and chemistry homework, Cheng Peng, Group 4 is missing just yours."

At the podium, a girl holding a stack of test papers shouted over.

"Wait, I'll be done in a minute."

"Morning study hasn't even started, why are you in such a hurry to collect homework?"

Monday morning was always the busiest.

No. 4 High School wasn't a key school in Jiaoyan City, and Class 3 was just an ordinary class. Students like Cheng Peng were not uncommon.

At one point, Lu Yuan was one of them.

Then one day, he suddenly stood out.

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Lu Yuan took out his foreign language textbook, flipped to a random page, and laid it out in front of him.

His eyes seemed to be focused on the textbook, but in reality, he was looking at his career panel.

[Fighter lv1 (35/100)]

[Basic Career Skill: Beginner Body Training lv1 (71/100)

Basic Boxing lv1 (53/100)]

The intense training last night had boosted his Beginner Body Training by nearly fifty points.

His career experience also increased by about twenty points, a significant improvement.

"Career experience has reached 35 points, and I need 65 more to level up to lv2.

Considering the time needed for recovery, a week should be enough."

"[Student] lv3 to lv4 also needs about a week."

"Once both careers level up, I will have two free attribute points and two skill points.

At that time, my overall strength will undergo a significant transformation!"

At this stage, Lu Yuan did not plan to spend attribute points and skill points on the [Student] career or intelligence attribute. He intended to use the benefits from the [Student] career panel to support his martial arts training.

For him, [Student] had become a secondary career, while [Fighter] was now the main career.

He even developed a new leveling strategy—

"If I can unlock more secondary career panels and use them to support one main career, the main career's advancement speed will be very fast!"

Regardless of the career, the early levels are the easiest to advance, and the difficulty of obtaining attribute points and skill points is relatively low.

However, he was still unclear about the conditions for unlocking new career panels and needed to study it further. He also hadn't thought of a suitable new career identity for himself.

"Ring—ring—ring—"

With the shrill sound of the bell, the morning study at Jiaoyan City No. 4 High School began.

The sound of foreign language recitation filled each classroom, signaling the start of a new week.

The morning classes were language, math, physics, and chemistry.

With the [Absolute Focus] state, these classes were all "experience-grinding dungeons" for Lu Yuan.

After lunch in the cafeteria and a brief nap, there were four more classes in the afternoon.

By 4:45 PM, the day's learning tasks were finally over.

"Finally, school's out. This day has been exhausting."

Cheng Peng, carrying his backpack, walked listlessly along the school's tree-lined path, complaining to Lu Yuan, "I always feel that Monday is the most tiring, and time passes so slowly, it feels like an eternity."

Lu Yuan didn't bother to respond. Compared to Cheng Peng's fatigue, he found classes much easier than martial arts training.

In the [Absolute Focus] state, a 45-minute class flew by.

During the ten-minute break, he would stretch and move around in the corridor outside the classroom. By the end of the day, his condition was much better than when he first arrived at school.

At least his body no longer hurt like it did in the morning.

"By the way, are you going to the martial arts gym?"

Cheng Peng suddenly perked up and asked Lu Yuan, "I'll take you for two hours before we go home."

Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "I'll pass today.

I trained too hard at home yesterday, and my body is still sore."

"No wonder you've been walking funny all day. I thought you had hemorrhoids. I didn't want to ask in the classroom."

Cheng Peng looked enlightened.

"Get lost!"

"Ha, just kidding."

Cheng Peng put his arm around Lu Yuan's shoulder, thought for a moment, and said, "Considering that you let me copy your homework every week, I'll treat you today. I'll take you somewhere.

Guaranteed to make you feel refreshed and pain-free afterward."

Lu Yuan's eyes widened as if he were meeting Cheng Peng for the first time.

"Cheng Peng, how old are you, and you're going to places like that?

Do you think I won't tell your mom?"

"???"