Impatience

Douluo continent

Eastsea Academy.

Fan Lin came to the class earlier than the rest but Ye Yingrong was already there and she was quite excited by his presence.

"Hello student Fan, I see that you are quite early, excited about today's class?"

"...yeah." [Fan Lin]

Fan Lin answered and took out a book to read from. Gone was the time he was going to shelve out his herbs and such.

An hour later, all the students were present and the classes started.

"I know what you are here for. It's time for combat training! Ground 7 let's go."

Ye Yingrong said with a cheerful smile and left. The Class 3s previous students all queued up in two lines, the new students following them as they marched to the training ground.

"Let's start with the usual, that is, recording your soul power for the newer students."

Ye Yingrong said while taking out a portable soul power measurement device.

The students of Class 3 informed the rest of the new students and lined up to have their soul power checked.

For them, it was a usual practice, the other students didn't find it any odd as well, seemed like everyone has already experienced this in their previous classes. Except for Fan Lin. Wu Zhangkong didn't find the need to regularly record the soul power of the Class 5.

They were sorted in the class 5 for a reason and there was no point in reminding them about that on a regular basis.

Hence, Fan Lin was the only one surprised at the sudden soul power check-up. Wu Zhangkong never did that, not was it a part of the story that he read, or barely remembered in his case.

So as the students were having their soul power check-ups, Fan Lin stared at them emotionlessly.

He just reached rank 15 the previous night and two days before that, also the day of the class reshuffling, he had reached rank 14.

Thankfully, the soul power test in the class shuffle couldn't tell when he promoted but now...

"Fan Lin."

Ye Yingrong called his name and he went to the soul power measurement device and inputted his soul power.

"Rank 15. Good. Next, Zhu Zhao..."

"Rank 14."

"Good job. Next, Xing shi."

Some time later. The soul power check-up was done, and after Ye Yingrong rechecked everything, shw put it aside and looked at the students.

"Now how about we have a little bout to check your combat skills. You guys must be pretty excited since the Class promotion exams, right?"

Ye Yingrong literally winked with a 'tehe' as the students shouted in excitement for a chance to fight. Their blood was boiling!

Fan Lin looked at them, uninterested and silent. Maybe that's why the next sequence happened.

"Let's start with Fan Lin and Zhu Zhao then."

Ye Yingrong announced and the students looked at the people whose name was called.

Fan Lin looked at the teacher and slowly went towards the fighting area in the eyes of others.

Another girl, presumably Zhu Zhao, followed behind him. They both reached the centre of the makeshift ring and faced each other.

"Fan Lin, Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, Rank 15 Spirit Master."

He proclaimed but there weren't any discussions this time around. The rest of the students looked at him in anticipation and then turned their attention to the girl for her introduction.

Pertaining to Tang Wulin, the Blue Silver Grass martial soul wasn't as tainted now.

"Zhu Zhao, wandering Rabbit martial soul, rank 14 Spirit Master."

After her introduction, the class cheered. Popularity of a girl was unmatched.

Ignoring the commotion though, they both greeted each other and the next moment, Zhu Zhao threw a giant carrot at him and Fan Lin got knocked out with a single attack.

The whole area was silent for a second before they erupted in cheers for her.

Fan Lin also got up with difficulty and saluted her before slowly leaving in the beffudled eyes of both Ye Yingrong and the girl that defeated him.

She was that strong? Why didn't she know it beforehand?

Fan Lin had enough practice in Wu Zhangkong's class that he can lose to anyone without arousing any suspicion about it.

He had lost 17 spars and not a single student had ever found out that he lost on purpose.

Wu Zhangkong wasn't satisfied with his actions though and had asked why Fan Lin never used his spirit skill, to which Fan Lin had replied that his spirit skill wasn't a combat system spirit skill.

It was barely an auxiliary skill to begin with. Wu Zhangkong didn't believe him and asked for proof which Fan Lin did by showing his white spirit soul ability- Enhanced Digestion.

Wu Zhangkong had gotten him checked at the infirmary and after getting the same answer from the nurse, Wu Zhangkong had put Fan Lin into the auxiliary section of the class 5. They were the ones who were sent first to fight and then spent the whole combat classes observing the rest of the fights or meditation.

In Wu Zhangkong's words, understanding what to expect and knowing how to counter to it was basically half the win for them.

It was the same as having a soul rifle in a fist fight, the advantage that it brought was immense.

Hence, Fan Lin's lose wasn't something that uncommon. For the Class 5 that is.

"Kids are easy to fool."

Fan Lin once said before being knocked out by silver haired girl as well.

Soon the combat classes ended and other classes started. After that, Fan Lin left the Eastsea Academy to get some fresh vegetables for him to eat(and to buy stuff for the vials).

He wanted to prepare.

....

The next day.

Classes ended like normal. The teacher kept glancing at him. Fan Lin decided to make some memories erasures vials as well.

Classes ended and he left the school. The whole afternoon and evening was then spent on creating vials while cooking food.

Food was for necessary life.

"Let's halve the amount of food from yesterday. This should be enough for safe cultivation."

"If this goes well, I will create the rest of the vials. If not, no need to create unnecessarily."

Fan Lin thought. He had agreed on slowing down his cultivation to one small rank a week and not using this risky method but that had a small problem in the long term.

His Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was called the trashiest martial soul for a reason and the reason being that the cultivation speed of the Blue Silver Grass slowed down by a huge margin with every single rank upgrade.

Let's say that he kept advancing at his current pace of one small rank per week, then he would be Rank 20 in five weeks ( Hypothetical scenario, reality could be different)

The moment he gets his second Spirit ring or spirit soul, his cultivation speed will drop by a margin of 40-60%.

This wasn't him saying it, it was the 20,000 years of intensive research on the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul that was done due to the popularity of a Certain Tang Sect founder, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.

By this point, it was pretty much public information among the Soul Masters.

He just had around seven months and he had to be above rank 25 Soul Grandmaster to enter Shrek.

If his cultivation speed dropped 50 percentage and with the increased difficulty of cultivation in higher ranks, the other necessary tasks that would take his time and the uncertain future.

In an all, Fan Lin was being hasty and impatient. All because of the changes in him from the Spirit Ascension Plane.

For those that thought it was a joke. They remembered the case of Tang Ya, awakened with rank 7 innate soul power and still took 8 to 10 years to reach Rank 30 Spirit Elder.

This was his ready to go excuse for his actions.

The cultivation speed of an innate rank 7 and innate rank 2 was like Heaven and Earth.

So even though his incomplete Energy body had increased his cultivation speed, having it halved at each rank upgrade would make it useless in the future.

He had to find ways to increase his cultivation speed as he progresses his cultivation or he would be the next Tang Ya except he wouldn't get help from others. He had to take it from them.

Therefore, with a heavy heart and extreme need, Fan Lin decided to give the rapid ascension a chance again.

Guess what?

Fan Lin layed in a pool of his blood, his body still healing at different places.

"Halving the amount of food just reduces the implosions by 50 percentage. From an hour to 30 minutes. But low amount of food gets digested quickly and the implosions happens faster."

He weakly said while looking at the shades of moonlight peering through the dense canopy of the trees.

"By that logic, wouldn't I face no implosion if I reduced the amount of food to zero!"

"Such a genius I am."

Fan Lin deeply sighed and flapped his legs in the blood pool.

"Still need time to recover my legs before I could walk."

He added while checking his nearly torn apart lower body.

"I am still alive but for how long? The implosions were intenser than yesterday. Are the implosions increasing in force or is my body unable to take too many damages continuously for two days? If it's like that, then using masochism to increase my rank won't be possible since it will be just depleting the potential of this body for faster gains, aka using poison to quench the thirst and creating weakness in body that could be exploited by others or what many called as internal injuries. My lifespan is also reducing with each healing."

"It wouldn't matter now but at a later time, this will either destroy everything I have achieved or leave me crippled cuz even this incomplete Energy body has its limits on the amount of times it can heal, I just don't know how many times though? Further testing needed."

"At the least, I now have an idea of how to proceed. I need to make my physique stronger, that way I can do far more strenuous activities, which in turn will deplete my excess energy as a faster rate and I would be able to reduce the implosions or maybe even stop the implosions for once and for all."

"I should increase my daily workout, if I can call that, by the time my physical capabilities are at least five times better than my current body, I may be able to stop the implosions."

"For now, I should not use my first spirit skill/ability for the meantime and I need to reduce my food intake as well. That should not cause any energy explosion."

"Considering my energy body has the passive ability of always keeping my body in the optimal state, I don't have to worry about muscle straining or losing my muscles if I stopped exercising."

"I should add a maximum state in the new Energy Serum as well, that way, I will always have the passive optimization through the optimal state and sudden shift to be battle scenarios from the maximum state. I should combine and create better effect for the newer Energy body where my body could always be in the peak condition all the times, having the passive of peak optimization and peak adaptable state in relation to my physique."

"I miss you friend."

"Although doable but I would need around three to four years to do that. I am not me... That's not effective in my present case and I don't want to bet my life of physical combat."

"If only I can explore the various areas of this world, I can expand my knowledge and then it would be possible to create them, easily at that."

"Yeah, unfortunately I don't have time."

"I should focus on now, my cultivation... I currently have no way of increasing it anymore without suffering from the backlash. I should be just content with what I have then. I will think about the future in the future, that's two months later..."

Fan Lin thought out loud while checking his legs once again.

"Completely healed."

He got out of the blood pool made out of his blood and went towards his storage ring.

"I should buy a bucket to wash the bloodied body the next time it happens."

"I should have made the cleaning vials today."

"I should also add some soap and loose clo-"

As Fan Lin was turning to erase the blood pool to completely rid of any evidence while talking to himself, he saw a figure that made him blank out for a second.

'What are you doing here?' is what Fan Lin wanted to say.

"Don't run, don't scream. I will kill you." Is what he said to Gu Yue who stood at a distance away from Fan Lin, looking at him. Old habits die hard.

"Tch,"

*sigh*

"I can explain. It's definitely not what you are thinking,"

Fan Lin said while moving towards Gu Yue. His body drenched and dripping with blood as wounds healed and opened with each step of his. A pool of blood visible in her sight.

Gu Yue silently looked at him, trying to make sense of what he was trying to do here. Fan Lin came in front of her and immediately caught her by her chin while forcing something in her mouth.

Gu Yue lost her consciousness before she could struggle and fell down on the ground with a thud as he released her unconscious body.

''What is she doing here?"

Fan Lin wondered as he took his poison suitcase and found a green coloured poison in one of tye vials.

'From the Eastsea Park's entrance till here takes around 28 minutes by walking, 5 minutes if you run and the fact that I didn't see her when I left the pool, it isn't that long when she first saw me then, but she could've been hiding as well.'

'Let's erase half an hour of her memory then.'

'This is a paranoid being, if alerted, my future might be in trouble.'

Fan Lin took out a clean cloth and wiped his hands and Gu Yue's face with it.

He opened her mouth again and dropped a few drops of the green liquid.

The green liquid was a memory erasing poison while the one that he gave her before was a really strong sleeping poison, a drop of it was enough to put a whole town to sleep for years to come.

Fan Lin checked if Gu Yue was properly unconscious and looked at the surroundings.

'Need to take care of everything here.'

He took out some other vials from his suitcase and with a thought and a quick throw, the vials disintegrated into various smoke clouds that filled the area.

In a blink of an eye, all the blood disintegrated, the destroyed grass and trees recovered to their younger forms and the area looked more lush and filled with life than before. Some patches were even full of grass that wasn't there

He looked around one more time while storing everything in his soul guide.

'I should have created a diluted version of the blood vanquisher and I could have used it on me. I should have created them before exercising.'

He had indeed made a plan to create more vials in the morning but time was unfortunately not on his side AND he had decided to focus more on other things first.

'Using the actual blood vanquisher on me will just leave a dried up husk.'

"The normal way then, Fan Lin took out a few shirts and use them to wipe the blood from his body. He changed into a cleaned set of clothes and looked at Gu Yue."

'Why do I just have a single handkerchief with me?'

"What to do with her?"

"Should I call Tang Wulin and ask him to pick her? I need to prepare an excuse on why I know his number then."

"Should I call Wu Zhangkong? Am I trustworthy enough that he won't pursue this matter anymore after my words?"

"Should I just leave her?"

He looked around the emptiness of the park and decided to not do so.

Fan Lin grabbed Gu Yue's foot and started to drag her towards the entrance of the Eastsea Park while avoiding people.

30 minutes later, he reached the park and carried her on his shoulders when he saw the guards. He was taking his time, allowing his body to be completely recovered.

"Wait, what are you doing to that girl?"

The guards obviously stopped Fan Lin and inquired about the situation.

"I found her fainted in the Park so I am taking her to the academy nurse. She is a student of the Eastsea Academy, so am I. Here."

Fan Lin showed the guard his Eastsea Academy ID card.

"But-"

"Let them go, he is a regular in the park and he doesn't leave till the morning, he's leaving now must be because of her."

Another senior guard said to the first guard. It was the guard that Fan Lin bribed for night time entries in the beginning of the school term.

The first guard reluctantly allowed Fan Lin to exit the park and looked at his senior.

"But his clothes are different, he was wearing another set of clothes when he came and don't you think he looks weak and battered?"

The another guard listened to his junior and thought for a minute,

"You go and check with the school."

He said to his junior who left in a hurry. He may take some bribes to allow the children in for some fun and training but he wasn't a bad person, just a little greedy but not a bad person.

On the other hand, Fan Lin rushed to the Eastsea Academy, showed his ID card and Gu Yue's face to the school guards and entered the school.

The guards knew of Gu Yue's face more than Fan Lin who regularly left for night-outs and immediately informed the infirmary about her while asking Fan Lin to deliver her to the infirmary.

....

Cliffhanger