paranoianovel Chapter 6 Great Luo Dao Fruit
Chapter 6 Great Luo Dao Fruit
After parting ways, Zhou Qing walked towards the dormitory.
As a key martial arts high school in the city, Kaiyang High School has ample financial support and provides substantial benefits to its students, making it far more conscientious than schools in his hometown county.
This dormitory is a single room, about the size of a regular bedroom, with a balcony and a private bathroom. You don't have to fight for a spot to shower, and there's a balcony to dry your clothes. It's practically the best of the best in student dorms.
Moreover, the accommodation fee is only 500 yuan per semester.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was given away for free.
Renting such a nice single room outside the school would cost at least a thousand a month.
However, the fact that this benefit could be implemented was not only because the school had money, but more importantly because the number of students was pitifully small.
Kaiyang High School is a pure martial arts high school with only thirty students in each class. There are ten classes in each grade, and the total number of students across the three grades is less than a thousand. Boarding students are even scarcer.
Most of the boarding students are like him, who came from the lower-level counties, while the local students are mostly day students.
Otherwise, it should at least be a double room, or even a four-person room, or even an eight-person room.
Even with decent school benefits and policy support, the path of martial arts is still a pay-to-win game.
Even in a family like Zhou Qing's, where both parents are alive and the family is relatively respectable, they still live a very frugal life. Their monthly living expenses are barely enough to make ends meet, and they have to grit their teeth to buy a cultivation manual.
Those truly orphaned children who have lost both parents would not be able to persevere in martial arts without the help of kind-hearted people in society.
In the end, most of them can only switch to being students with special cultural talents and get into junior colleges to make a living.
"Luckily, I have a cheat code to back me up."
Zhou Qing sighed, then quickly arrived at the dormitory building, scanned his face to enter, and returned to his single room.
As soon as the door closed, Zhou Qing had a sudden thought, and he instantly disappeared from the dormitory.
When he reappeared, he was in a pitch-black space.
The surroundings were almost empty, with only a faint golden mark floating high in the sky, emitting a dim halo.
It was that broken Great Luo Dao Fruit.
Beside the Great Luo Dao Fruit, a white star floated, representing the martial arts world where Zhou Qing resided.
Zhou Qing knew that once he had gathered up the "selves" from other worlds, more stars representing different worlds would appear in this dark space, and he would be able to travel through them to explore.
More importantly, the time flow in other worlds will be synchronized as the convergence occurs.
Don't worry about being gone for a day and returning a hundred years later.
In addition, this pitch-black space has a super practical function.
Storage!
You have to understand, this is just a martial arts world where you cultivate your physical body. There are no storage magic treasures like those in novels that allow you to store and retrieve items at will. If you want to carry something, you have to carry it by hand, which is very troublesome.
Using this dark space as storage is incredibly convenient.
Zhou Qing had even started to imagine it.
Even if the path of martial arts doesn't go smoothly in the future, and one ends up doing poorly, one can still make a fortune by using this dark space as a personal shopper or engaging in smuggling.
At this moment, in the corner of the dark space, there was a jumble of random things piled up.
There were specially made training sticks issued by the school, and another set of inexpensive training clothes.
The most eye-catching items were two bottles of body enhancement agents with labels.
Zhou Qing doesn't usually take drugs.
Firstly, he simply didn't have the money to buy it. A single bottle of body enhancement agent cost several hundred yuan, equivalent to several days' living expenses for him, and he felt the pinch when he tried to buy it.
Secondly, federal policy does not allow students to rely excessively on drugs, and the martial arts college entrance examination has strict regulations on drug use.
While drugs can indeed accelerate skill improvement, they also damage martial arts potential, essentially forcing growth.
Therefore, only substances like physical enhancement agents, which are essentially high-energy supplements, can be used normally; all other hormone-based drugs that promote physical growth are contraindicated.
Even if some drugs are not prohibited, their use is absolutely forbidden during the college entrance examination.
That's why whales spend so much money to eat expensive monster meat, hire professional trainers and nutritionists, and use legitimate methods to boost their power.
Zhou Qing snapped out of his thoughts, picked up the training stick from the corner, and prepared to leave the dark space to practice his stick techniques on the playground.
But at that moment, a crimson star suddenly appeared out of thin air in the dark space, landing on the other side of the Great Luo Dao Fruit mark.
The next second, with a muffled thud, a corpse fell straight down from the sky, almost hitting Zhou Qing on the head.
"Damn it! Who's so inconsiderate? Throwing things from a high-rise like that!"
Zhou Qing was startled and jumped back, but when she looked closely, she was completely stunned.
This corpse is not human at all.
It was a clear, bright blue, soft blob of liquid that turned out to be a viscous, semi-transparent liquid.
"This...this is a slime?"
Zhou Qing's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.
He had only seen such things in novels and games; even among the mythical beasts of the martial arts world, there was no such beast.
I never expected to see it in my own cheat code space.
Before he could think any further, the slime corpse transformed into countless golden specks of light, rushing into his body all at once.
In an instant, countless fragmented memories flashed through his mind like a fast-forwarded movie, the short life of this slime.
Zhou Qing then realized that in the world represented by that crimson star, "he" was actually an ordinary slime on the first floor of the Kara Dungeon, the lowest rung of the dungeon's food chain, someone that any passing monster could bully.
In its short two-month "demon life," it did only two things: scavenge for food from garbage and desperately hide from predators to survive.
Unfortunately, the dungeon had too many natural enemies, and in the end, it couldn't escape its fate. It was swallowed up as dessert by a mimic monster, and died a very frustrating death.
"This person... their life as a demon is just too tragic..."
After reading the memories, Zhou Qing couldn't help but sigh for the other "self".
Although it's just a slime, it's still another version of myself from another world, and I can inexplicably empathize with that feeling of frustration.
Zhou Qing then discovered that his mind was completely unaffected by the slime's memories.
Even though that slime was of questionable intelligence, with its mind filled with nothing but eating and hiding, it didn't lower his IQ by the slightest bit, and it didn't even have the slightest thought of picking up trash to eat.
After thinking it over, Zhou Qing concluded that it was most likely the Great Luo characteristic of [Converging All Heavens] that was the safety net, preventing him from being assimilated by "himself" from other worlds.
Otherwise, if you capture a slime and it becomes stupid, spending all its time thinking about where to scavenge for garbage to eat, then that's how its life will be.
Immediately afterward, Zhou Qing brought up the panel to check the gains after the convergence:
Name: Zhou Qing
Physical Strength: 11.73
Energy Intensity: 1.73
【Features: One certificate grants eternal proof, infinite transformations, and the ability to unite all heavens】
[Skills: Dissolve and Absorb (Mastery), Slime Transformation (Beginner), Stomach-Expanding Swallowing Technique (Beginner), High School Basic Body Tempering Method (Minor Mastery), High School Basic Fist Technique (Mastery), High School Basic Staff Technique (Mastery)...]