Chapter 40: Time For A Shower To Cool Down
Early to bed and early to rise makes one healthy.
Li Wei’s biological clock had long since shifted from falling asleep at 2 AM and waking up at X AM the next day to a punctual 10:30 PM bedtime and a 4:30 AM wake-up time.
Because during the first month after transmigration, he was slightly uncomfortable with “regular life” such as daily studying and exercise; the fatigue caused by overwork has now given him a good habit of falling asleep as soon as he hits the pillow.
The daily two-hour nap also makes his six hours of sleep each night not too difficult to bear.
After living such a regular life for over a month, Li Wei could hardly believe that he was once a shut-in, a nocturnal otaku who never slept.
Getting out of bed, he pushed away the tail of the Dragonair that was draped across him, patted the three sleeping little ones, and Li Wei went to the bathroom to freshen up first.
After a simple face wash and teeth brushing, he came out of the bathroom to find Riolu already obediently holding a small towel and standing at the bathroom door.
He patted its head, and Li Wei’s gaze fell on Eevee, who was still sound asleep on the bed.
“Alas, I really didn’t want to go on a killing spree.”
After sighing emotionally, Li Wei walked to the bedside and picked up Eevee by the scruff of its neck.
He waved to Riolu, who was standing at the sink brushing his teeth, signaling him to move aside.
After dropping it into the sink, he turned on the faucet and filled it with cold water.
“Eevee!!!!!!!”
With a shriek as high-pitched as Teacher Guo’s, Eevee also woke up.
Watching Eevee’s tragic fate, Dragonair, who was lying on the bed pretending to be asleep, silently floated over to the bathroom and turned on the shower in the shower stall.
He felt he needed a shower to calm down.
Half an hour was an extremely luxurious amount of time for Li Wei in the past.
Isn’t washing up something that should take no more than 10 minutes from start to finish?
He had always firmly believed this, until now, when he had become a stay-at-home dad with dependents.
These thirty minutes are truly packed, and any slip-up or sloppiness could lead to being ‘late’ for morning exercise, with time being so scarce.
Going downstairs, he saw the instructor wearing camouflage pants and a dark green t-shirt, a baseball cap, hands behind his back, and a completely expressionless face.
Honestly, looking at the instructor staring at him with a blank expression was a little bit startling. If he were a bit more fragile, he might have fallen to the ground and cried, just like Dragonair.
If you were to take a picture of the current instructor and post it online, his fierce look might become a terrifying urban legend, similar to the ‘big bad wolf who snatches crying children’.
“Hmm, very good, no lateness.”
Looking at the time on his phone, 4:58:37, the instructor nodded at Li Wei with satisfaction.
Hearing this, and then thinking about the instructor’s expression, Li Wei felt that if he had been late today, his morning exercise would probably have become: Escape! Survive the instructor!
“Morning run?”
The instructor looked at Li Wei, who had a unique posture, and asked.
“Run.”
“Just like that?”
“Uh…”
After a moment’s thought, Li Wei dropped Eevee from the top of his head and said to the instructor.
“Run like this.”
“Fine.”
Looking at Dragonair, who was still stubbornly clinging to Li Wei, the instructor twitched his lips, looking a bit helpless.
“Then run to Zone 12.”
After saying this, he turned and started running forward.
Li Wei, Riolu, and Eevee quickly followed suit.
The instructor’s so-called morning run was slightly different from his impression of a jog.
While the speed might have been manageable for Riolu and Eevee, Li Wei had to run at full speed to keep up.
Even though he had done some stretching and relaxation the previous night, his legs still felt a bit sore and swollen today.
“Alas, how long has it been since I experienced this feeling?”
If he remembered correctly, the last time he felt this way was during the standing long jump special training in the second year of junior high.
For him, this was a memory that could be traced back three years.
He felt a mix of nostalgia and emotion, but the feeling of running at full speed was still pretty good.
As long as he didn’t feel tired, he quite liked it.
Listening to the sound of the wind rushing past his ears, and seeing the scenery whizzing by, after more than half an hour of full-speed running, they finally arrived at District 12.
It is said that District 12 is the ‘intermediate’ area closest to District 1.
Recalling the treatment of high-level training areas vaguely described in the manual, Li Wei was full of curiosity and expectation for District 12.
“Alright, this place is the training ground. Do you remember how you got here?” the instructor stopped and turned to ask Li Wei.
……
“I vaguely remember? Maybe??”
“Having an impression is enough. How long will you be training? I’ll take you back when you’re ready to leave.”
“Um…”
He thought about the time.
Morning class was at 8:40, so there were almost three hours left. He needed to take a quick shower, then prepare bento for his bad friends as ‘atonement,’ and also grab some breakfast for himself…
“An hour and a half.”
Considering it would take another half an hour to run back, Li Wei stated a relatively conservative time.
“OK, then wait for me here in an hour and a half.”
With that, the instructor waved goodbye and ran off in another direction.
Perhaps it was because there were no training sessions currently in Zone 12, but their training grounds were still very quiet, with no trainers in sight. The few people training on the grounds were all dressed in camouflage uniforms, clearly belonging to the instructor’s group.
Obviously, Li Wei didn’t realize that his head instructor had brought him not to the ‘Zone 12 Student Training Ground’ at all, but to the ‘Zone 12 Instructor Training Ground’.
The head instructor was very clever.
He thought that he shouldn’t be the only one demoralized by this fantastical newcomer. He wanted to bring this rare specimen out to show off, so that his bad friends who laughed at him yesterday would, out of curiosity, challenge Li Wei and be utterly defeated.
He was full of confidence in Li Wei, believing that in a few days he would give those bad friends a big surprise.
For this reason, he even decided to give him private lessons starting today, and even specifically train him with combat strategies against his old comrades.
If Li Wei still couldn’t win after that, then… he would let him go when he could win.
After all, the old comrades would definitely be using newly nurtured Pokémon, which wouldn’t take much time.
Regardless, he wanted everyone to experience his despair.
Heehee.
Even though he was the head instructor, his psychological age was still equivalent to that of Dragonair.
Perhaps this is the legendary, “Easier to change the mountains and rivers than to change one’s nature; a dog cannot change its…”
After the instructor left, Li Wei took a good look at the training grounds in Zone 12.
Compared to the monotonous training grounds in Zone 1, this area was much more diverse.
There weren’t just simple ‘arenas,’ but also many variations in the terrain.
The most obvious difference was that besides the basic arena, there were also rocky, jungle, and lake areas extending along the boundary.
The diversity of terrains allowed for more room for targeted training.
Furthermore, the most intuitive feeling Li Wei got from these training grounds was that the quality of the training ground beneath his feet was significantly better than that in Zone 1.
At least it wasn’t at a level that could be destroyed by casually throwing a frisbee.
It felt like Riolu wouldn’t cause the same dust storm effect if he slammed Onix here as he did last time. The grounds in Zone 1 had a lot of dust, and the broken ground would expose the soil, which helped cushion Onix’s impact, making it not fun at all. If he were to slam it hard on this ground, chipping off a small stone block and forcing the instructor to use Super Glue wouldn’t be a problem.
After a moment of slightly malicious fantasy, Li Wei also hurried to choose a spot and begin today’s special training.
After much deliberation, Li Wei decided to move the training location near the lake.
Firstly, it was safer to be away from the instructors in the training area; secondly, training there offered many conveniences, facilitating his plan to trick… train his Pokémon.
“Riolu, do you know what Lingbo Weibu is?”
Arriving at the lakeside, Li Wei immediately turned to Riolu and asked with a profound expression.
“Lu?”
【 You mentioned it when you were telling stories a while ago. 】
“Yes, yes, it’s good that you remember.”
Li Wei nodded with satisfaction at Riolu, his perfect model student.
“Lingbo Weibu” is a very powerful footwork technique from Jin Lao Ye’s martial arts novel, “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.”
Its creative prototype is derived from the I Ching.
In the novel, it is a unique light footwork technique from the ‘Free and Easy Sect.’
Legend has it that it is incredibly profound, based on the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, where the user moves according to specific hexagram directions. During practice, combined with a unique breathing method, it can also increase inner strength. （ Xiaoshuo Junshen is still under review ）
Since Riolu could already perform Tai Chi, Li Wei, who had been thinking about “Lingbo Weibu” for a long time, was determined to give it a try as long as Riolu’s strength allowed.
“Do you remember the table you were asked to memorize the day before yesterday?”
“Lu!”
【 I remember! I even reviewed it last night before sleeping! 】
Li Wei had absolutely no need to worry about Riolu’s eagerness to learn.
Riolu was in a completely different league from Eevee above his head, who would tremble at the mention of ‘memorizing.’
As an otaku who had been looking forward to transmigration and spiritual energy revival for nearly ten years, he hadn’t done any preparation work.
He was ready for both the spiritual energy revival and transmigration to another world, having prepared sufficient knowledge.
What he was most proud of was the knowledge of the Eight Trigrams he had memorized on a whim when he was obsessed with “One-Punch Man.”
He had developed a system for memorizing and writing down both the symbols and names, and it finally came into use today for Riolu’s development.
Based on the horizontal and vertical axes, he could recall all sixty-four hexagrams. （ Xiaoshuo Junshen ）
And based on the eight short verses, he could recite the names of the hexagrams on the Eight Trigrams Compass in the correct sequence. （ Xiaoshuo Junshen ）
In a circular arrangement, the first 32 are counter-clockwise, and the latter 32 are clockwise. （ Xiaoshuo Junshen ）
Memorizing this was much more comfortable than doing physics short answer questions, mathematical definitions, or chemical balancing. He imagined that in some other world in the future, when he shone brightly, he would be reciting even more invigoratingly, as if with a cheat code.
It was at this point that Li Wei would agree with his former teacher’s words, “If you put this same energy into studying?”
Just like playing King or League of Legends, consciously or in order to become stronger, one would specifically spend time to understand the skills and mechanics of all heroes, with the goal of creating a good laning and teamfight effect, so as not to be instantly eliminated when ignorant.
Everything was for the sake of becoming stronger.
Li Wei’s purpose in memorizing these things was the same: to one day crush others and achieve the sense of superiority that a transcended being destined to become the strongest in the world.
His thoughts returned to his perfect Bagua diagram and the deduction of Lingbo Weibu.
According to the order of Fu Xi’s sixty-four directional diagram, a forward sort of the sixty-four hexagrams written out would result in a roulette of disordered numbers sorted.
Thus, the footwork of Lingbo Weibu was ingeniously deduced by Li Wei. （ Xiaoshuo Junshen ）
This was a conclusion he had reached in nearly half an hour, it was logical and well-founded, and if practiced within a radius of about five meters, it did indeed have a ghost-like, evasive effect.
It’s just a shame that his research on the five elements wasn’t very good, so this gap could only be left for Riolu to perfect.
After writing out this diagram, Li Wei handed it to Riolu to memorize.
Taking advantage of the terrain today, while practicing the Lingbo Weibu footwork, he could also do a round of ‘Treading Snow Without a Trace’… well, ‘Water Walking.’
Since there was no snow, he could only make do with the lake.
But the difference wasn’t that much.
Both Water Walking and Treading Snow Without a Trace tested one’s control and coordination of their body.
The Guinness World Record for Water Walking in the past world even achieved a feat of 125 meters.
If humans could do it, what about Riolu, who controlled Aura?
In training Riolu like this, Li Wei had no other aspirations than to realize his long-awaited wish of spiritual energy revival through Riolu and Eevee.
After instructing the heavenly spiritual root Riolu to cultivate his footwork, to understand the steps and movement directions before going into the lake to practice, and to pay attention to safety, he extended his wicked hand towards Eevee.
Today’s plug: 《 Global Naruto Era 》, I, Su Chen, am a Transmigrator! I transmigrated into a modern society where one can cultivate chakra with talent! I discovered I was very strong! Now it’s my turn to show off!
He’s a Big Shot, hehe.
If you like it, search for it yourself today. The author’s notes are too long to fit. I’ll add the link tomorrow.
Timo’s Flop Diary
【 July 12th, 850 Recommendation Votes, no extra chapter, alas, our Schrödinger’s emotion 】
Today…
I have nothing more to say.
Really, my dao heart is broken.
Just laugh at me.
I’m truly in tears.
Also, today’s Lingbo Weibu was very meticulously researched.
I made two phone calls and got evidence from a Daoist priest I know on Longhu Mountain.
Because if it were to be 100% realistic, it would require a compass. The reality is too complex to explain in 2000 words, and I don’t have the brain for it （ mainly because I’m lazy ）. The complete version of the compass is truly incomprehensible （ if any knowledgeable Daoist priests can explain it, I went bald trying to figure out that compass ）, so the Daoist priest finally suggested that I just tamper with it while ensuring the basic Taoist knowledge is correct and guarantees a certain degree of authenticity.
So I tampered with it.
The sequence of the Eight Trigrams and the order and orientation of Fu Xi’s sixty-four hexagrams are completely correct.
As for the footwork of Lingbo Weibu, it’s a perfect replication based on the Baidu Baike definition and novel explanation provided by Grandpa Jin.
Simply put.
It’s a perfect Lingbo Weibu for the modern world, presented with a straight face and logical reasoning that even an argumentative person cannot refute. （ It just lacks the corresponding five-element power and feng shui theories ）
Don’t underestimate Timo’s preparations for the spiritual energy revival!! (#`O′)
Don’t underestimate chuunibyou!! (#`O′)
I’m being very serious!! (#`O′)
So, why haven’t I awakened yet?
