Chapter 33 - Advancing Leg Techniques
If he wasn't so mentally exhausted, Lu Yuan actually wanted to try testing the abilities of the instructor with the surname Qin that he had also met on the second floor of the martial arts school.
Unable to fight off his drowsiness, Lu Yuan hurriedly ate dinner and went back to his room to crash.
He slept until he was hazily woken up by the heat.
Opening his eyes, it was still dark outside, and the time on his phone screen showed 3:14 AM.
Since he obviously couldn't fall back asleep, Lu Yuan got up.
He remembered that he had turned on the air conditioner before going to bed, but when he woke up, it was off again. His mom, Zheng Qiuling, must have secretly turned it off after coming home and closing up the shop.
Whenever he went to bed early, his mom would sneak in and turn off his AC.
Lu Yuan was helpless about it.
Without even washing up, Lu Yuan threw on a light jacket and went out.
On the street, the night was cool as water, much cooler than his room.
The big road was empty and quiet, without a single person, only the streetlights faithfully shining.
In a bit, the city's beauticians would probably clock in.
Lu Yuan jogged aimlessly forward along the road. Seeing a shop selling breakfast foods already lit up, with the husband and wife inside, one rolling dough and the other wrapping buns, busy at work.
As he was about to pass the street where he had previously "performed heroically" by defeating eight kidnappers.
Lu Yuan thought about it, and deliberately detoured around it.
Twenty minutes later, he finally ran to the riverside in Jiaoyan City.
There was a park here that was usually quite lively all day.
Of course now there definitely wouldn't be many people.
Only a few fishing uncles who probably had been up all night, sitting on small stools at the riverside without making a sound or moving, Lu Yuan was even worried they had fallen asleep and would topple into the river.
Finding an open spot with good visibility, Lu Yuan started training directly.
He had slept from dinner time yesterday, wasting a whole night of training time, so he had to hurry and make up for it now.
He was mainly practicing his leg techniques.
Time flew by quickly in the state of [Absolute Focus].
When Lu Yuan regained awareness, daylight had already brightened.
And in the space he had occupied, a group of old men and women in exercise clothes, each holding a sword, had come at some point.
They were getting speakers and finding spots, probably about to start their morning practice.
Lu Yuan hurriedly moved to the side.
Taking out his phone, he saw it was already 6:15 in the morning.
"I trained for nearly three hours?"
Lu Yuan felt surprised.
Sustaining [Absolute Focus] for three hours, he didn't feel very tired now.
It seemed like his intelligence attribute had increased again.
Although there were no changes shown on his stats panel, it was probably an increase of less than 1 point, so it didn't display.
The most direct manifestation was that two nights ago when he tried using [Imaginary Enemy] for a mental battle, after three battles he already felt extremely exhausted.
Yesterday afternoon he was able to sustain five full battles.
Today he could probably increase the number of attempts again.
"An unexpected added benefit, looks like in the future there's a way to increase intelligence without spending attribute points too."
Looking at the [Fighter] profession panel.
In three hours, his profession experience had increased by thirty-seven points, but his basic leg techniques experience had increased by a whopping two hundred and twenty points.
The exp bar for lv4 was already close to half full.
At this rate, tomorrow, or at most the day after, his basic leg techniques would reach lv5!
Lu Yuan was in quite a good mood.
Suddenly feeling his stomach rumbling, he realized it had already been close to 12 hours since he last ate anything.
Seeing it was about time, he quickly exited the riverside park and ran towards home.
Lu Yuan ate a full fifteen big meat buns.
He had truly been starving.
In the morning, Lu Xinghua had unusually not gone to the hospital, and specially chatted with Lu Yuan for a bit.
They talked about the fight he got into two nights ago.
What surprised Lu Yuan was that
Lu Xinghua didn't scold him like his mother had, but instead said, "At your age, with hot blood, getting into fights and conflicts with people is normal. But remember, don't intentionally cause trouble. Also, if the other person has a weapon, run away immediately. There's no shame in that!"
"I'll remember, Dad."
Thinking about it, Lu Yuan also conveniently mentioned to Lu Xinghua about going out that night.
"Dad, my friend Cheng Peng asked me to go play games with him tonight, I want to go out for a bit."
"Go, go, relax a bit after exams, that's good too.
But don't overdo it.
After this monthly exam there's still two weeks until the finals right, don't get lazy with studying."
"I know."
Lu Yuan wanted to ask him how the "debt collection" went the other day, but felt like asking would only get a "go on, go on, why are you asking so much as a kid," so he let it go.
After breakfast, Lu Yuan went to the martial arts school.
There were no classes at the school today, he planned to spend the whole day there.
He needed the gym equipment to train strength, the training room also had punching bags, and he could practice his leg and fist techniques.
Just shadowboxing by himself wasn't very effective.
Lunch was also eaten at the school.
Regular members had to pay, premium members were free.
Lu Yuan regretted not borrowing Cheng Peng's membership card.
4:45 pm in the afternoon.
"Bang!"
The whip kick cut through the air with a whooshing gust, heavily kicking the big black punching bag imprinted with the large "Yuan" character.
This kick carried tremendous force.
Even the over 100 kg training bag shook violently a few times before stabilizing.
【Your skill Basic Leg Techniques has gained experience, +8 exp】
【Congratulations, your skill Basic Leg Techniques has leveled up!】
Lu Yuan looked at the popup message on the Profession Panel with some delight while catching his breath.
Finally, his leg techniques leveled up!
From 7:30 in the morning until now nearing 5 pm, other than necessary strength training, he had devoted almost all his energy into training his leg techniques.
He had also entered the mental space during breaks to recover and find the middle-aged man to verify his gains.
He had rushed to get his leg techniques to level up before nightfall.
"Leveling up once a day, I really went all out."
Lu Yuan couldn't help but sigh.
Both his legs were swollen now, sore and fatigued, just like the first day he started learning martial arts and overdid it.
Considering he had trained his 10 Physique body to this extent, it was imaginable how hard he had pushed himself today.
This was where having the Profession Panel showed its advantages.
Like playing a game, he could see the experience bar in real time.
Lu Yuan felt he could get his leg techniques to lv5 today, so he just kept up the mad training.
If he couldn't see the experience bar, he definitely would have rested earlier or trained something else.
"After a whole day, my profession experience also went up about a hundred points, total experience is now at 165.
If I can maintain this rate, [Fighter] can reach lv5 in less than a week.
With school, probably around ten days."
"Huh?"
Lu Yuan suddenly let out a light surprised sound.
He saw that after Basic Leg Techniques reached lv5, the experience bar behind it had disappeared on the virtual light screen that only he could see.
In its place was the word "(Full)".
Not only that, on the Profession Panel, the tree diagram representing Basic Leg Techniques started extending upwards.
Soon, a higher positioned node silently lit up.
【Initial Profession Skill Unlocked!】——
Advancing Leg Techniques lv1 (0/100)