Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 36 Setting a Goal for Everyone

After dinner, Chen Lingyun went to the playground to find Su Yunjin and Lin Ning.

Zhao Yuanzhen, on the other hand, went to look for Yan Yu in the boys' dormitory. Not finding him there, she turned towards the playground, just in time to encounter the scene of Yan Yu pontificating and riling everyone up.

She hid among the crowd, listening to the boys tease and mock Yan Yu, and initially, she felt a bit of secret pleasure.

"You little thief! You deserve to be pointed at by thousands and scorned by all!"

It wasn't until she heard a boy say, "If you can do it, I'll call you daddy, if not, you'll be my son," that Zhao Yuanzhen's expression changed. She finally remembered that she was that person's dao companion.

If that little thief won, she would have an idiot calling her "mom." She was in the prime of her life, looking as delicate as a flower, so how could she suddenly become a mom?

What was even more disgusting was that if the little thief lost, she would suddenly get an unwanted "father-in-law" for no reason...

Thinking this, Zhao Yuanzhen could no longer hold back, and immediately came out to stop it, saying,

"Cut your mom's crap! Claim kin with your old mother, do you think you're worthy?"

The boy was suddenly scolded, completely caught off guard, and only after a closer look did he recognize Zhao Yuanzhen's identity. Looking around, the girls were already laughing together.

Many girls had already gossiped about Yan Yu and Zhao Yuanzhen's relationship, so they guessed what she meant, but the boy didn't catch on, thinking Zhao Yuanzhen was just standing up for her husband. He didn't want to target her for fear of provoking the ire of the other girls, but his face was ugly as he continued to stare at Yan Yu and challenged,

"Do you dare? If you're so capable, then make your claim. You wouldn't only know how to hide behind a woman and let her take the bullets for you, right?"

Yan Yu was also quite troubled. He felt that his reputation among the boys in his grade was somewhat lacking, definitely because that trashy woman, Chen Lingyun, had used some trickery to incite jealousy among the boys and targeted him.

And that Demonic Sect Enchantress deliberately stirred up trouble under the pretense of helping, truly deserving to be condemned!

Just as his expression darkened, the instructor Han Zaixian who had just come over to check on the students' progress in their cultivation, also learned from the crowd about what had transpired.

He admitted that what Yan Yu said wasn't wrong, but teaching still had to respect objective reality – you need to learn to walk before you can run, right? Many students are still not proficient with the Shifting Technique, so asking them to combine it with the Cloud Ascension Technique, that's just not going to happen.

Yan Yu is probably suffering from the genius complex, thinking everyone else has the same exceptional talent as him, leading him to make those comments that were misinterpreted as looking down on others.

However, the military ultimately respects strength, so let him give a demonstration, and set a goal for the other students.

"Yan Yu." Han Zaixian cleared his throat and said, "Since the students have doubts, why don't you give them a demonstration."

"Alright." Yan Yu pondered.

He looked ahead again; the field simulated an urban combat environment and was quite well-designed. However, Yan Yu preferred practicing combat with others in such complex environments rather than simply showing off with fancy footwork – how boring is that?

However, considering that even the Shifting Technique and Cloud Ascension Technique are being trained separately in schools now, it proves that the military at this point in time has not realized the true power when the Three Arts are combined. They need a small "shock" from him.

If he could guide the Cultivator teaching program back on track, then the Rikoku Cultivators wouldn't waste time and effort on the wrong training path like in his previous life, which would be a great kindness! It's also his mission as a reborn individual!

"Does anyone have a phone?" Han Zaixian asked the students.

Last time, because he didn't bring his phone, Han Zaixian missed Yan Yu's battle with Chen Lingyun. He wouldn't make the same mistake again.

"I have one." Someone in the crowd raised their hand, and it was Chen Lingyun – seemingly she had been hiding in the crowd watching the excitement all along. "Want me to record it?"

"Yeah, record it." Han Zaixian nodded and said.

Seeing the instructor's confidence, it seemed he was certain Yan Yu would be sensational this time. The brother who was known for his hot temper couldn't help feeling anxious and asked Qiu Ze,

"That guy can't really do it, can he?"

"For this afternoon's training class, everyone else got to skip, what do you say?" Qiu Ze patted his shoulder and sighed, "This time you might have to offer a verbal apology, so brace yourself."

The other person immediately put on a mournful face. A verbal apology... Being embarrassed was the least of his worries; he feared even the right to choose a partner at the university might be gone.

Chen Lingyun switched her phone to camera mode, aimed at Yan Yu's back, and crisply said:

"Ready."

"I'll say start, then you take off," Han Zaixian declared loudly.

Without turning his head, Yan Yu gave an OK sign.

"Start!"

As soon as Han Zaixian gave the order, Yan Yu instantly activated his Shifting Technique, surging forward like lightning, instantly reaching his top speed.

So fast! A thump resounded in most of the students' hearts.

The Shifting Technique could take one to top speed in an instant right when both feet left the ground, but this top speed wasn't fixed. To put it accurately, the more True Yuan you pumped into it, the faster the Shifting Technique became—just like how a car accelerates faster the more you press on the gas pedal.

Since the acceleration could be completed in an instant, if too much True Yuan was given and the highest speed exceeded the range of control, once the cultivator's front foot landed, the back foot would fail to step out in time and continue to surge forward, leading to an inevitable outcome—kneeling on the ground with face braking the fall, a sight too horrible to witness.

Hence, most students would start cruising at low speed when activating the Shifting Technique and then gradually increase the supply of True Yuan, slowly approaching their controllable speed limit. This was also the practice method emphasized by the instructors.

But Yan Yu skipped this process. He seemed very clear about his limit of controllable speed, so he pushed it to the maximum from the start. As swift as a galloping horse, quick as lightning, before anyone could react, he had already charged to the location of the first low wall.

Without slowing down or pausing, his rapidly moving figure defied inertia and gravity, turning almost a 90-degree angle upward along the low wall in an emergency maneuver, making Han Zaixian immediately widen his eyes as if to imprint every one of his movements into his memory.

Interrupting the Shifting Technique, he instantly started the Cloud Ascension Technique, negating the forward inertia and reassigning upward velocity. If even a fraction of a second was wasted in this sequence of movements, he'd crash into the wall with a bleeding head.

Yan Yu's figure soared as if flying, and after he crossed the top of the low wall and began to fall, he suddenly transformed into a bolt of lightning shooting forward, drawing gasps of awe from many classmates.

His change of speed was so swift that they lost sight of him in a blink.

Han Zaixian could roughly guess that he had probably canceled the Cloud Ascension Technique right after crossing the top of the low wall. As his body was pulled down by gravity, Yan Yu used the momentum before his feet fully touched the ground to kick off the wall. Taking the forward speed from that and starting the Shifting Technique once again, his speed peaked in an instant.

While everyone thought he would continue falling, he was already charging forward at full speed.

The reason it was only a "rough guess" was that Han Zaixian hadn't seen Yan Yu's movements clearly either—such "slow-to-fast" speed transitions were too taxing on the eyes. One couldn't anticipate when and in which direction he would move; one could only rely on on-the-spot reactions, making Han Zaixian afraid to even blink.

One blink, and he might lose sight of him entirely.

Luckily, he had Chen Lingyun record it beforehand. They could review and watch it at a slower pace later... Han Zaixian thought with relief, just as he saw Yan Yu had already jumped onto the high wall, beginning the rooftop route.

To simulate a real urban close-quarters battle environment, the rooftops of these buildings were also uneven in height.

Moving between rooftops trained the direction control capability of the Cloud Ascension Technique. After all, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Moving in a straight line to the opposite rooftop with the Cloud Ascension Technique was definitely faster than moving in a zigzag or curved line.

However, Yan Yu completely ignored the school's design intent here.

If the opposite rooftop was lower, he would just activate the Shifting Technique at full speed, sprint and jump straight over in one go.

But if the opposite rooftop was higher, and a regular jump wasn't enough, he would abruptly stop at the edge using the Cloud Ascension Technique, calculating the right jumping angle. As he leaped, he would activate the Shifting Technique again, his figure shooting out diagonally upward like an arrow leaving the bow.

What should have been a leisurely flight over using the Cloud Ascension Technique was forcibly passed at high speed by Yan Yu with the Shifting Technique... The Shifting Technique couldn't defy gravity, so he still fell downwards mid-air, resulting in a parabolic trajectory.

But each time he landed just right at the edge of the opposite rooftop, never even close to a misstep.

As precise as if he had measured it beforehand.