Zhang Haoran also felt that Li Changsheng seemed a bit off.
But he didn't dwell on it; he had indeed forgotten to exchange items: "Li Teacher, give me two bottles of ordinary Qi and Blood Pills. Also, since I'm learning your sword style, please help me choose a sword. A C-level Alloy one will do."
As soon as he heard Zhang Haoran was buying things, Li Changsheng became happy: "Two bottles of Qi and Blood Pills, 60 academic credits. A C-level Alloy sword, that needs to be custom-made. It's estimated to require 20 kilograms of C-level Alloy. I won't charge you for the custom-making fee, so that's 800 academic credits. A total of 860 academic credits. You don't have enough academic credits, do you? Will you pay with cash?"
Zhang Haoran nodded, handing over his bank card, and 25.8 million was deducted.
This time, there was nothing else. He greeted Li Changsheng and was about to leave.
But he was stopped by Li Changsheng. Li Changsheng hesitated for a moment, then still asked, "Let's be clear first, I have no intention of prying into your secrets. If you're comfortable talking about it, then speak. If not, just turn around and leave. Just pretend this old man is spouting nonsense."
Zhang Haoran basically guessed what Li Changsheng wanted to ask. However, this wasn't a big secret. Besides, Lü Fengrou and Huang Jing already knew. One more Li Changsheng wouldn't make much difference.
He pretended to hesitate for a moment, as if making up his mind: "Li Teacher, I trust you. To be honest, I feel quite a connection with you. I can tell you what I can. But you must keep it a secret once you know. And if others try to investigate, you have to help me stop them."
Li Changsheng's eyes immediately lit up upon hearing this. Good heavens, there really was a secret. To be honest, who wouldn't be curious about other people's secrets?
Since Zhang Haoran was willing to speak, the request he made wasn't excessive. It was only right to help him keep the secret if he was willing to tell it. As for someone investigating and having to help stop them, that was no big deal; it was a teacher's duty to protect Magic Martial Arts University students.
Li Changsheng nodded with relief. He asked with a curious expression, "How exactly did you temper your bones? How did it happen so fast? At this rate, you must be tempering several bones a day, right?"
Zhang Haoran knew that Li Changsheng was definitely curious about this. So he looked left and right but said nothing.
Li Changsheng also looked around and felt that this place was indeed not suitable for discussing secrets. This was a bustling exchange office; what if someone else came to exchange things in a moment?
He shouted to the back, "Xiao Liu, come here."
Soon, a middle-aged teacher walked out from behind the exchange office.
Li Changsheng directly instructed, "You watch the exchange office here."
After speaking, Li Changsheng didn't explain, directly pulling Zhang Haoran and leaving the Logistics Department.
He and Li Changsheng arrived at a small courtyard area in the Magic Martial Arts University South District. According to Li Changsheng's introduction, this area was inhabited by Magic Martial Arts University teachers who had suffered severe injuries and were basically very difficult to recover from.
They were just waiting for a crisis to appear in the Catacombs, so they could go down and take an enemy with them.
To the Catacombs, these people were a group of terrorists, human bombs.
But to humanity, they were all heroes, a group of heroes ready to die at any moment.
Listening to Li Changsheng introduce the people living in these courtyards one by one, Zhang Haoran was filled with reverence. Before entering Li Changsheng's small courtyard, he turned and solemnly performed a Martial Dao salute.
Li Changsheng saw it and said nothing, because he was also one of those waiting to die.
Regarding the Catacombs, Li Changsheng didn't hide anything from Zhang Haoran. However, he didn't say too much, only mentioned it briefly. Seeing that he was not surprised at all, he assumed that he had learned about the Catacombs through other channels.
This was not strange; it was common for ordinary people from Martial Artist families to know about the Catacombs. Even if they didn't know, they usually had a rough guess.
The two arrived at Li Changsheng's small courtyard. They sat down in the room. Li Changsheng looked at Zhang Haoran with burning eyes: "You can speak here; don't worry. No one will eavesdrop."
He organized his words and said, "My mentor and Huang Jing both know about this. I've basically created a new method of bone tempering. Actually, it's nothing major; it's just about condensing Qi and Blood during bone tempering. This makes the tempering effect better and the tempering speed faster."
Li Changsheng listened and nodded. Theoretically, there was no problem with this. But it wasn't enough; even so, tempering one bone a day should have led to reaching First Rank Peak after two months, not eight days.
So, Li Changsheng continued to stare at Zhang Haoran with those burning eyes.
He found Li Changsheng's expression quite amusing. So he relaxed, walked around the room, found some tea leaves, and brewed two cups. He handed one of them to Li Changsheng.
He sat on the sofa and leisurely sipped his tea.
Only when Li Changsheng's gaze was almost murderous did he slowly say, "All of my foot bones were tempered as a whole. That is, the entire foot bone was treated as a single bone for tempering. After tempering this way, each foot gains an additional ten calories of Qi and Blood."
Li Changsheng heard this, and then it became much more reasonable. Others tempered 62 bones. Zhang Haoran tempered 12, so of course it was faster.
Li Changsheng sighed, "Tempering as a whole, you're truly bold, kid. If you couldn't hold on, you would have been crippled."
Zhang Haoran leisurely said, "Not to that extent. I can endure tempering for over ten hours. Besides, Dean Huang and my mentor were watching, right? Even if something really went wrong, they could still rescue me."
Li Changsheng heard that with Huang Jing and Lü Fengrou watching, there shouldn't be a big problem. The key was that he couldn't understand how Lü Fengrou and Huang Jing had agreed to Zhang Haoran's complete tempering.
The two chatted for a while longer. After bidding farewell, he walked out of Li Changsheng's small courtyard.
Zhang Haoran bought these two bottles of ordinary Qi and Blood Pills wanting to use them as Bigu Pills. He was about to ask the System to help optimize them when he suddenly remembered if the System directly sold Bigu Pills.
He opened the System and checked, and indeed there were, and in two types. One was ordinary Bigu Pills, 30 value points per bottle. That is, three value points per pill, and this was after System optimization.
It could provide the energy needed for a First Rank transcendent's body for one day.
The premium Bigu Pills were 100 value points per bottle. They could provide the energy needed for a First Rank transcendent's body for three days.
Zhang Haoran thought about it and directly bought a bottle of premium Bigu Pills. It was too troublesome to always go eat.
After exchanging, he directly took out a pill and ate it. He could feel a mass of energy slowly radiating in his stomach; it should last for three days.
Zhang Haoran did not go to the dormitory but went directly to Lü Fengrou's house.
Upon seeing Lü Fengrou, Zhang Haoran directly stated his purpose. Actually, he just wanted to go to the Combat Arts Room to view combat arts. However, the combat arts in the Combat Arts Room were generally not lent out. At the very least, he couldn't borrow them with his current status.
But if he had a mentor as a guarantor, then there would be no problem.
After Lü Fengrou heard his purpose, she observed Zhang Haoran. He had tempered one bone this morning. No wonder he had time to look at combat arts.
"Don't just look at combat arts; there's a lot of useful knowledge in the library too. You should go read that. Also, I'll help you open up borrowing access to the Reference Room . For now, your main focus should be the Combat Arts Room and the library. Wait until you're Third Rank before going to the Data Room."
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