Chapter 13: Concentration is the biggest hang-up
Chapter 13 Concentration is the Greatest Hangover
“Launch, [Absolute Concentration].”
When Lu Yuan unleashed [Absolute Concentration] this time, he immediately experienced a different feeling than before.
His utilization of the textbook knowledge points he had already mastered reached an unprecedented level of incomparably thoroughness.
When a topic was in front of him, the relevant formulas, theorems, and guidelines . One by one, they popped out of his mind, combining them into different solutions as fast as possible.
In language subjects, the manifestation was even more outrageous.
Large passages in foreign languages, after Lu Yuan swept through them with a single glance, immediately presented in his mind, word by word and sentence by sentence, an Italian translated version composed in his most familiar native language.
If there were outsiders present, they would definitely be greatly surprised by Lu Yuan’s speed in doing the questions.
Because it was as if he didn’t need to think at all.
After a question was read, the answer had logically appeared on the paper.
“Ding–“
It was like the beeping sound of a microwave oven after it had finished heating up.
Lu Yuan detached himself from the state of [Absolute Concentration].
A faint sense of exhaustion swept up.
Yet it was better than any previous state.
“The alarm clock didn’t go off.
An hour’s not even up?”
Lu Yuan checked his cell phone with a slightly surprised expression on his face.
The effect of lv2 [Absolute Focus] was even better than he expected.
The homework that was originally predicted to take an hour and a half to complete, he only spent forty-five minutes and finished it all in one session.
Efficiency had increased by a full double!
And.
“Wow…”
Lu Yuan quickly flipped through those homework and test papers he had finished.
Even though there were no standard answers to compare against, he still had an extremely strong intuition.
“The correctness rate of the homework this time has definitely increased!”
The lv2’s [Absolute Concentration] allowed him to enter a state of concentration that was even deeper than before.
In this state, the 10-point intelligence attribute that was higher than normal seemed to be fully developed.
“Even if other people have the same 10 points of intelligence, their thinking speed and other aspects are absolutely no match for me.”
Lu Yuan had this confidence.
Turning back to check the panel.
The accumulated information prompts gave him another small surprise.
“The vocational experience gained every ten minutes has become two points!
The basic skill experience gained each time has almost doubled as well?!”
The experience value gain from forty-five minutes of time was surprisingly no less than what he had gained in the previous two hours.
“Efficiency has doubled, and so has the harvest of experience value!”
This was undoubtedly great news for Lu Yuan.
It meant that the speed of his upgrades had also become twice as fast!
“We’ll have to see if it can still have this effect when applied to the [Fighter] profession”
Lu Yuan couldn’t wait for his stamina to recover either.
He directly carried his training cooler to the living room.
[You have focused on professional training for ten minutes, professional experience value +2]
[Your skill Elementary Body Forging has been improved, experience value +4]
[Your skill Elementary Body Forging has been improved, experience value +6]
After the two sets of strength training were done, the feedback received satisfied Lu Yuan.
The experience value gained under the [Fighter] panel had similarly doubled.
“Absolute concentration applies to any career field.
As expected, concentration is the greatest hangover!”
After two sets of strength training, Lu Yuan began to switch to practicing the basic leg techniques he had just learned this morning.
This time, the feeling was even more pronounced.
As he practiced, his mind kept popping up like a movie in the morning when Lin Zhiqin made one movement demonstration during his lesson.
It was so clear that every detail could be recalled at once.
And under the state of lv2 [Absolute Concentration], Lu Yuan seemed to have increased his control over the muscles of each part of his body.
In the past, when I practiced on my own, I would more or less “know it when I see it, but lose it when I learn it”.
Now it’s much better.
I can learn 7 or 8 points by recalling in my head and seeing with my eyes, and I can get 4 or 5 points of results after I start practicing.
That’s pretty impressive.
After all, Lu Yuan himself was not a martial arts practitioner with exceptional talent and amazing understanding.
All he could do was to work as hard as possible, and focus.
The next time Lu Yuan completely devoted himself to training. Normally when he went to school, he only had a few hours in the evening to spend on martial arts training.
On the rare occasion that he had two days of free time during the weekend, he naturally had to scramble for time.
Lu Yuan made a schedule of training and rest.
According to his physical state, the length of each training session was controlled to be as appropriate as possible.
The last time he practiced until his whole body was so sore that he could barely walk anymore was not allowed to happen again.
Excessive practicing would instead slow down his cultivation progress.
The afternoon passed by in a flash of focused training.
During dinner time Lu Xinghua made a trip back, and his entire state looked as if it had gotten a little worse.
Although Lu Yuan was worried, he didn’t say anything.
Two days ago, the hospital side of the news, grandfather’s brain infarction surgery seems to have to be delayed for two days.
During this period of time, he heard more than once his father, Lu Xinghua, use a pleading tone to call someone to borrow money.
Even though he has been a man for two lifetimes, Lu Yuan’s heart still feels bad.
He hid in the closet of his parents’ room that more than a thousand dollars also do not know whether it was found.
But in fact, even if it was found that little bit of money would not solve anything.
“School, martial arts school.
Making a breakthrough in whichever field will ease the pressure the family is facing right now.
I still need to work harder before I can do that”
The only way to barely wash away the deep sense of powerlessness in Lu Yuan’s heart was to study and train desperately.
The evening hours were still spent in training.
During this time, his sister, Lu Jing, called back with a video.
It was past eight o’clock in the evening in Jiao Yan City, and the sky was still bright on the Xisu side.
Lu Jing had a dry cake with clean water, and while eating it, she told Lu Yuan that their archaeological team had almost dug to the gate of the temple ruins.
It is estimated that they will be able to go in for exploration in two more days.
Unfortunately, her seniority was too low and she was not qualified to be selected in the list of the first batch of people to enter.
Lu Yuan listened to her tirade and just wanted to comfort her with a few words.
As a result, the video call hung up with a thud because of the poor network signal.
When he called again, he couldn’t get through.
I had to stop.
Wait until eleven o’clock at night, close to bedtime.
Lu Yuan’s [Fighter] profession panel data had changed to –
[Fighter lv2 (81/200)]
[Basic Occupational Skills: Elementary Body Forging lv3 (2/400)]
Basic Fist Technique lv2 (153/200)
Basic Leg Technique lv2 (89/200)]
Occupational experience went up by more than seventy points, and Primary Body Forging went up by more than sixty points to lv3.
Basic Fist Technique went up by almost a hundred points.
The Basic Leg Technique, which was mainly practiced, went up the most, almost two hundred, directly breaking through lv2 and drying up to nearly half of lv2’s progress.
“The difficulty of gaining experience value increased significantly after the Primary Body Forging was raised to lv3.
Sometimes after a set of training is done, only one or two points of experience value can go up.
Is it because of my enhanced physique?”
Lu Yuan finished his shower and lay on the bed wearing only a pair of boxer briefs.
The curtains were undrawn, so he could see the light coming in from the streetlights outside and hear the occasional car driving by on the road.
“It looks like I’ll have to increase the intensity of my strength training to make it work.
Increasing the intensity will have to be coupled with equipment, so let’s go to the martial arts center every day after school next week.”
Lu Yuan now thought back and felt that his decision to directly add attribute points to Physique was still rash.
The way to add points to maximize returns should have been to wait until after the growth in strength and physique from the Primary Forging Skill had slowed down.
After the Elementary Body Forging was raised to lv3, he clearly felt that the muscles in his thighs and calves, arms, as well as his chest and waist and abdomen became firmer, and his skin seemed to become more elastic as well.
The whole person was like a piece of iron ingot, under the constant pounding of external forces, discharging some of the impurities and becoming more compact and solid.
Tapping on the reading software on his phone, he casually found a novel to flip through.
Eleven twenty-five.
The bright light from the cell phone on Luyuan’s bed went out, and he had already entered dreamland.
(End of chapter)