Chapter 526
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Hao Ren went back to his dorm building no.7 extremely sweaty.
"Ren, where's your fiancée?" Zhou Liren tried to tease Hao Ren when he saw him. At the moment, he was half naked and playing cards.
He still couldn't forget the pretty and energetic Zhao Yanzi.
"She went back!" Hao Ren answered.
"You lied to me, right? That pretty girl is a high school student, right?" Zhou Liren asked as he winked at Hao Ren.
When Zhou Liren went back to their dorm, he kept thinking to himself about Zhao Yanzi. She didn't look like a middle school kid. Also, with Hao Ren's conservative personality, there was no way that he would dare to date a middle-schooler.
"Yeah, yeah!" Hao Ren nodded. He started to strip his beddings and putting them in the common washroom to wash. The beddings had been there for two months, so it was slightly dusty.
He could do these kinds of chores since he was a kid, and that was why he was able to help Zhao Yanzi with organizing her stuff in her dorm.
He didn't know when Zhen Congming was starting school. However, he supposed that the latter had a lot of fun at Wu Luoxue's place this summer.
Then,
Hao Ren went out to the balcony to look up at the night sky. He was thinking about the snow lion cubs on Fifth Heaven and was wondering whether they were starving…
Xie Yujia had planted spiritual herbs and raised those spirit beasts, turning Ethereal Summit into a small Sky Mountain Sect.
Inside his necklace were three Black Dragon Bone Grasses.
Hao Ren started to think about the Demon Sea and thought that the place was full of treasures.
If he were able to comb it, he would likely find lots of treasures.
Hao Ren turned to his left to see LingZhao Middle School. He counted the windows and floors of the dorm building to find the location of room 406. He saw that the balcony door was still closed, meaning that the four girls were still at Hongji Square.
Suddenly, a red beam of light dashed upward from dorm building no.3, and Hao Ren knew that it was Xie Yujia going to Fifth Heaven to feed the snow lion cubs.
Hao Ren stood on the balcony, sensing the natural essences.
Approximately half an hour later, the red light appeared again from the sky. It flew down and hovered beside the balcony that Hao Ren was standing on.
Xie Yujia was sitting on Little White's back, floating in front of Hao Ren's balcony.
She smiled at Hao Ren, and there was some sweat on her forehead, indicating that she had rushed back.
"I forgot to give you these herbs last time. Here are three Black Dragon Bone Grasses." Hao Ren got three spiritual herbs out from his storage space and gave them to Xie Yujia.
"OK." Xie Yujia nodded and put the Black Dragon Bone Grasses in her storage space.
Since these spiritual herbs weren't re-planted after they were pulled from the ground, they couldn't be revived. However, they were still great materials for making elixirs.
"Go to sleep earlier tonight. We have to pick our courses tomorrow," Hao Ren said.
"OK…" Xie Yujia smiled faintly. Then, she and Little White left and flew toward dorm building no.3.
"Hao Ren, who are you talking to?" Zhao Jiayi looked toward the balcony and asked; he was still playing cards. Out of Hao Ren's three roommates, Zhao Jiayi had the most sensitive ears.
"Nothing! I'm just talking to myself!" Hao Ren said.
Because of the energy sphere, they were not able to see Xie Yujia and Little White on their balcony just now.
"I think Ren's just a bit too thrilled because he has such a pretty little cousin…"
Zhou Liren couldn't stop talking about Hao Ren's 'little cousin.' He was envious of Hao Ren, and he was showing it.
"Damn. You played the wrong card again!" Zhao Jiayi hit Zhou Liren's head with a plastic water bottle.
Hao Ren turned over to look at them as he smiled relaxingly.
The red light disappeared behind dorm building no.3, indicating that Xie Yujia had successfully returned to her room. With Little White's speed, it only took half an hour for a round trip from their school to Fifth Heaven. It was so quick that no one would be suspicious of her disappearance, but it was just a bit exhausting for Xie Yujia.
The Demon Sea had dense nature essence and was filled with an abundance of spiritual herbs. Although Hao Ren didn't know how resourceful the center of the Demon Sea was, he had been to the outskirts, and there were a ton of treasures already.
To breed Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses required gathering seven of the best materials between the sky and earth. These things might not even be readily available in the Sixth Heaven. Kunlun Mountain might have them all, but they couldn't get in.
The two places on First Heaven where nature essence was dense and spiritual herbs grew freely were the Demon Sea and the Nine Dragon Palace.
In order to get his hands on the treasures, strength was paramount.
Hao Ren took out the jade slip and held it in his hand. He quietly tried to comprehend the sword techniques documented within it.
The Lu sisters weren't good with swords, and Su Han focused on cultivation rather than specific sword techniques. That was why Hao Ren was better in sword techniques than the three girls even though he hadn't reached mastery.
Zhao Kuo had fought Hao Ren with just his bare fists instead of using his tri-pointed double-edge sword. That was why when Hao Ren suddenly used the sword techniques, Zhao Kuo couldn't do anything about it. Hao Ren couldn't really call that fight with Zhao Kuo a real victory.
This set of Mystic Water Sword Techniques was indeed incredibly powerful. If he were able to reach top-tier Gen-level and comprehend the second sword technique in the jade slip, he would be able to go to the Demon Sea again with Su Han to find even better spiritual herbs, and he might even be able to pick up a few more treasures along the way.
Zhao Jiayi and the other guys played cards until midnight. Because the dorm was too hot, they decided to pull their mattresses out to the balcony and sleep there. Hao Ren couldn't escape from this glorious tradition of four men sleeping in a straight line together, and they chatted while sleeping in the light breeze.
Hao Ren was able to see Zhao Yanzi's dorm room through the balcony fence. Their light was still on, so it seemed like they were also chatting.
It was quite easy to figure out what they were talking about…
Hao Ren had to choose his courses online the next day. East Ocean University followed a course selection system, and students could choose a wide range of courses on their own. As long as students took enough credits, they could graduate from the school. That was why students had to free up two days for course selection before school officially started.
Students could only make the course selection through the internet.
According to dorm policies of East Ocean University, first-year and second-year students weren't allowed to have internet. Now that Hao Ren and his buddies were in their third year, they could have internet. However, they hadn't got the internet set up, so they could only go to the school's computer lab to make course selection.
Zhou Liren and the other guys were lazy bugs, but they had rushed over to the computer lab very early in the morning to get a spot. East Ocean University's course selection system was active starting from nine o'clock, and all students aimed for the courses which were worth a lot of credits and were easy to pass.
Before the official course selection system opened, students had already done research to see which courses were easy, and which teachers were laid back. These types of information were very important to them.
Of course… which course Su Han will be teaching this semester was the most important!
"Transducer Theory and Application." Hao Ren was forced to disclose, so he could only be honest.
"I love you, Brother Ren!" When Zhou Liren heard this, he almost ran over to kiss Hao Ren.
He thought Hao Ren's 'little cousin' Zhao Yanzi was cute, but his goddess was still Su Han!
The guys ran to Academic Building D where the computer labs were. Xie Yujia and Ma Lina also didn't have internet in their dorm yet, so they were already here.
Both the third and fourth floor in the building were computer labs, and each lab had around 30 computers. However, there were still far more students than the number of computers.
"Hao Ren, over here! Over here!" Xie Yujia stood on her tiptoe and waved at Hao Ren.
Since there were far more students than computers, the school needed to separate students into clusters to go inside for course selection. Xie Yujia was guaranteed to be in the first group to go into the computer labs because she lined up very early and was at the front of the line.
"Our trusty former class president!" Cao Ronghua looked very happy. He ran over, dragging Hao Ren along with him.
"Damn. If it weren't for you guys playing cards until late night!" The new class president, Yu Rong, ran over looking rather blue.
The guys cut the line shamelessly with Hao Ren, and they had forcefully pushed the line back four to five spots.
The students behind them in the line were about to get mad, and Xie Yujia hurried to calm them.
They rolled their eyes at her explanation and didn't further intensify the situation.
The good thing was that there were more than ten computer labs on the two floors, so it wasn't that big of a deal. In addition, Zhao Jiayi was the basketball team's captain who led the school to win the championship of the National University Basketball League, so a lot of students gave him face.
More and more students gathered on the third and fourth floor of the building. It was finally 8:30 AM, and the first cluster of students could enter the labs to start the computers and enter the course selection system.
Hao Ren's group was able to get into the first computer lab, and they took a whole row of computers.
Although the course selection system wasn't online yet, the grade system was. With this half an hour, Zhou Liren and the others started entering their student numbers to check their final exam marks.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Three big red numbers appeared on Zhou Liren's report card
Three failed courses!
"Ahhhhh…." Zhou Liren immediately screamed incredibly loudly, just like what a pig would sound like before it was killed. It made everyone in the computer lab look toward him.
"Hey, if you're yelling and screaming, please go outside." The teacher responsible for keeping order in the computer lab pointed at Zhou Liren.
"Sorry, sorry…" Zhou Liren immediately plead. He then looked over at Hao Ren's monitor.
[90, 92, 95, 87, 86, 100… GPA: 4.28. Program Ranking: 3]
"Ahhhhh…." Zhou Liren immediately screamed again.
"Hey!" The teacher in charge looked at Zhou Liren angrily.
Zhou Liren quickly covered his mouth with both hands and looked down; he was pleading guilty.
He looked at Hao Ren with shock as he lowered his voice, "Damn. No.3 in the program! Are there errors in the system? Or did you check Xie Yujia's student number?"
He moved his body over a bit to look more carefully at Hao Ren's monitor. It was indeed Hao Ren's name and student number!
Ranking third in the program! This was a ranking that could receive a scholarship!
Zhou Liren looked at his own statistics. [GPA: 2.67. Program Ranking: 397]
East Ocean University calculated students' performances with their credits and course grade. That meant each course was weighed differently to prevent students from boosting their GPA by taking bird courses unrelated to their program.
Zhou Liren couldn't believe that Hao Ren was ranked third in the program! According to his impression of Hao Ren, Hao Ren's grades were only a little better than the rest of them. Every time, he was able to pass just slightly above failing line.
Hao Ren was actually pretty shocked when he looked at his report card.
He wasn't shocked at his overall grade but shocked that… he got 100 from Su Han in Weak Optical Signal Processing, the hardest course in his program.
"Su Han… she actually did it," Hao Ren thought. There were a few questions he didn't know the answer to, so he randomly scribbled something.
"Hao Ren, how are your grades?" Xie Yujia slanted her head over to see.
"So-so…" Hao Ren responded.
"Third in the program." Xie Yujia's eyes brightened up. "Not bad!"
Then, she saw that Hao Ren got 100 in Weak Optical Signal Processing. She was a bit shocked since she had studied the hardest in this course, and she only got an 89.
From the looks of it, Su Han didn't even look at Hao Ren's answer sheet and directly gave him 100.
"What about you?" Hao Ren asked her.
"So-so," Xie Yujia responded with a smile.
Hao Ren wouldn't believe Xie Yujia's response since she was low-key. He looked at Xie Yujia's monitor and saw she had a total score of 431, no.1 in the program.
"Hey, hey, hey… you guys over there, give me some space to go through!"
Just when Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were looking at each other's grades and waiting for course selection to start, a few guys charged into the computer lab.
Huang Xujie waved a fan and walked up from the back.
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Hao Ren went back to his dorm building no.7 extremely sweaty.
"Ren, where's your fiancée?" Zhou Liren tried to tease Hao Ren when he saw him. At the moment, he was half naked and playing cards.
He still couldn't forget the pretty and energetic Zhao Yanzi.
"She went back!" Hao Ren answered.
"You lied to me, right? That pretty girl is a high school student, right?" Zhou Liren asked as he winked at Hao Ren.
When Zhou Liren went back to their dorm, he kept thinking to himself about Zhao Yanzi. She didn't look like a middle school kid. Also, with Hao Ren's conservative personality, there was no way that he would dare to date a middle-schooler.
"Yeah, yeah!" Hao Ren nodded. He started to strip his beddings and putting them in the common washroom to wash. The beddings had been there for two months, so it was slightly dusty.
He could do these kinds of chores since he was a kid, and that was why he was able to help Zhao Yanzi with organizing her stuff in her dorm.
He didn't know when Zhen Congming was starting school. However, he supposed that the latter had a lot of fun at Wu Luoxue's place this summer.
Then,
Hao Ren went out to the balcony to look up at the night sky. He was thinking about the snow lion cubs on Fifth Heaven and was wondering whether they were starving…
Xie Yujia had planted spiritual herbs and raised those spirit beasts, turning Ethereal Summit into a small Sky Mountain Sect.
Inside his necklace were three Black Dragon Bone Grasses.
Hao Ren started to think about the Demon Sea and thought that the place was full of treasures.
If he were able to comb it, he would likely find lots of treasures.
Hao Ren turned to his left to see LingZhao Middle School. He counted the windows and floors of the dorm building to find the location of room 406. He saw that the balcony door was still closed, meaning that the four girls were still at Hongji Square.
Suddenly, a red beam of light dashed upward from dorm building no.3, and Hao Ren knew that it was Xie Yujia going to Fifth Heaven to feed the snow lion cubs.
Hao Ren stood on the balcony, sensing the natural essences.
Approximately half an hour later, the red light appeared again from the sky. It flew down and hovered beside the balcony that Hao Ren was standing on.
Xie Yujia was sitting on Little White's back, floating in front of Hao Ren's balcony.
She smiled at Hao Ren, and there was some sweat on her forehead, indicating that she had rushed back.
"I forgot to give you these herbs last time. Here are three Black Dragon Bone Grasses." Hao Ren got three spiritual herbs out from his storage space and gave them to Xie Yujia.
"OK." Xie Yujia nodded and put the Black Dragon Bone Grasses in her storage space.
Since these spiritual herbs weren't re-planted after they were pulled from the ground, they couldn't be revived. However, they were still great materials for making elixirs.
"Go to sleep earlier tonight. We have to pick our courses tomorrow," Hao Ren said.
"OK…" Xie Yujia smiled faintly. Then, she and Little White left and flew toward dorm building no.3.
"Hao Ren, who are you talking to?" Zhao Jiayi looked toward the balcony and asked; he was still playing cards. Out of Hao Ren's three roommates, Zhao Jiayi had the most sensitive ears.
"Nothing! I'm just talking to myself!" Hao Ren said.
Because of the energy sphere, they were not able to see Xie Yujia and Little White on their balcony just now.
"I think Ren's just a bit too thrilled because he has such a pretty little cousin…"
Zhou Liren couldn't stop talking about Hao Ren's 'little cousin.' He was envious of Hao Ren, and he was showing it.
"Damn. You played the wrong card again!" Zhao Jiayi hit Zhou Liren's head with a plastic water bottle.
Hao Ren turned over to look at them as he smiled relaxingly.
The red light disappeared behind dorm building no.3, indicating that Xie Yujia had successfully returned to her room. With Little White's speed, it only took half an hour for a round trip from their school to Fifth Heaven. It was so quick that no one would be suspicious of her disappearance, but it was just a bit exhausting for Xie Yujia.
The Demon Sea had dense nature essence and was filled with an abundance of spiritual herbs. Although Hao Ren didn't know how resourceful the center of the Demon Sea was, he had been to the outskirts, and there were a ton of treasures already.
To breed Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses required gathering seven of the best materials between the sky and earth. These things might not even be readily available in the Sixth Heaven. Kunlun Mountain might have them all, but they couldn't get in.
The two places on First Heaven where nature essence was dense and spiritual herbs grew freely were the Demon Sea and the Nine Dragon Palace.
In order to get his hands on the treasures, strength was paramount.
Hao Ren took out the jade slip and held it in his hand. He quietly tried to comprehend the sword techniques documented within it.
The Lu sisters weren't good with swords, and Su Han focused on cultivation rather than specific sword techniques. That was why Hao Ren was better in sword techniques than the three girls even though he hadn't reached mastery.
Zhao Kuo had fought Hao Ren with just his bare fists instead of using his tri-pointed double-edge sword. That was why when Hao Ren suddenly used the sword techniques, Zhao Kuo couldn't do anything about it. Hao Ren couldn't really call that fight with Zhao Kuo a real victory.
This set of Mystic Water Sword Techniques was indeed incredibly powerful. If he were able to reach top-tier Gen-level and comprehend the second sword technique in the jade slip, he would be able to go to the Demon Sea again with Su Han to find even better spiritual herbs, and he might even be able to pick up a few more treasures along the way.
Zhao Jiayi and the other guys played cards until midnight. Because the dorm was too hot, they decided to pull their mattresses out to the balcony and sleep there. Hao Ren couldn't escape from this glorious tradition of four men sleeping in a straight line together, and they chatted while sleeping in the light breeze.
Hao Ren was able to see Zhao Yanzi's dorm room through the balcony fence. Their light was still on, so it seemed like they were also chatting.
It was quite easy to figure out what they were talking about…
Hao Ren had to choose his courses online the next day. East Ocean University followed a course selection system, and students could choose a wide range of courses on their own. As long as students took enough credits, they could graduate from the school. That was why students had to free up two days for course selection before school officially started.
Students could only make the course selection through the internet.
According to dorm policies of East Ocean University, first-year and second-year students weren't allowed to have internet. Now that Hao Ren and his buddies were in their third year, they could have internet. However, they hadn't got the internet set up, so they could only go to the school's computer lab to make course selection.
Zhou Liren and the other guys were lazy bugs, but they had rushed over to the computer lab very early in the morning to get a spot. East Ocean University's course selection system was active starting from nine o'clock, and all students aimed for the courses which were worth a lot of credits and were easy to pass.
Before the official course selection system opened, students had already done research to see which courses were easy, and which teachers were laid back. These types of information were very important to them.
Of course… which course Su Han will be teaching this semester was the most important!
"Transducer Theory and Application." Hao Ren was forced to disclose, so he could only be honest.
"I love you, Brother Ren!" When Zhou Liren heard this, he almost ran over to kiss Hao Ren.
He thought Hao Ren's 'little cousin' Zhao Yanzi was cute, but his goddess was still Su Han!
The guys ran to Academic Building D where the computer labs were. Xie Yujia and Ma Lina also didn't have internet in their dorm yet, so they were already here.
Both the third and fourth floor in the building were computer labs, and each lab had around 30 computers. However, there were still far more students than the number of computers.
"Hao Ren, over here! Over here!" Xie Yujia stood on her tiptoe and waved at Hao Ren.
Since there were far more students than computers, the school needed to separate students into clusters to go inside for course selection. Xie Yujia was guaranteed to be in the first group to go into the computer labs because she lined up very early and was at the front of the line.
"Our trusty former class president!" Cao Ronghua looked very happy. He ran over, dragging Hao Ren along with him.
"Damn. If it weren't for you guys playing cards until late night!" The new class president, Yu Rong, ran over looking rather blue.
The guys cut the line shamelessly with Hao Ren, and they had forcefully pushed the line back four to five spots.
The students behind them in the line were about to get mad, and Xie Yujia hurried to calm them.
They rolled their eyes at her explanation and didn't further intensify the situation.
The good thing was that there were more than ten computer labs on the two floors, so it wasn't that big of a deal. In addition, Zhao Jiayi was the basketball team's captain who led the school to win the championship of the National University Basketball League, so a lot of students gave him face.
More and more students gathered on the third and fourth floor of the building. It was finally 8:30 AM, and the first cluster of students could enter the labs to start the computers and enter the course selection system.
Hao Ren's group was able to get into the first computer lab, and they took a whole row of computers.
Although the course selection system wasn't online yet, the grade system was. With this half an hour, Zhou Liren and the others started entering their student numbers to check their final exam marks.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Three big red numbers appeared on Zhou Liren's report card
Three failed courses!
"Ahhhhh…." Zhou Liren immediately screamed incredibly loudly, just like what a pig would sound like before it was killed. It made everyone in the computer lab look toward him.
"Hey, if you're yelling and screaming, please go outside." The teacher responsible for keeping order in the computer lab pointed at Zhou Liren.
"Sorry, sorry…" Zhou Liren immediately plead. He then looked over at Hao Ren's monitor.
[90, 92, 95, 87, 86, 100… GPA: 4.28. Program Ranking: 3]
"Ahhhhh…." Zhou Liren immediately screamed again.
"Hey!" The teacher in charge looked at Zhou Liren angrily.
Zhou Liren quickly covered his mouth with both hands and looked down; he was pleading guilty.
He looked at Hao Ren with shock as he lowered his voice, "Damn. No.3 in the program! Are there errors in the system? Or did you check Xie Yujia's student number?"
He moved his body over a bit to look more carefully at Hao Ren's monitor. It was indeed Hao Ren's name and student number!
Ranking third in the program! This was a ranking that could receive a scholarship!
Zhou Liren looked at his own statistics. [GPA: 2.67. Program Ranking: 397]
East Ocean University calculated students' performances with their credits and course grade. That meant each course was weighed differently to prevent students from boosting their GPA by taking bird courses unrelated to their program.
Zhou Liren couldn't believe that Hao Ren was ranked third in the program! According to his impression of Hao Ren, Hao Ren's grades were only a little better than the rest of them. Every time, he was able to pass just slightly above failing line.
Hao Ren was actually pretty shocked when he looked at his report card.
He wasn't shocked at his overall grade but shocked that… he got 100 from Su Han in Weak Optical Signal Processing, the hardest course in his program.
"Su Han… she actually did it," Hao Ren thought. There were a few questions he didn't know the answer to, so he randomly scribbled something.
"Hao Ren, how are your grades?" Xie Yujia slanted her head over to see.
"So-so…" Hao Ren responded.
"Third in the program." Xie Yujia's eyes brightened up. "Not bad!"
Then, she saw that Hao Ren got 100 in Weak Optical Signal Processing. She was a bit shocked since she had studied the hardest in this course, and she only got an 89.
From the looks of it, Su Han didn't even look at Hao Ren's answer sheet and directly gave him 100.
"What about you?" Hao Ren asked her.
"So-so," Xie Yujia responded with a smile.
Hao Ren wouldn't believe Xie Yujia's response since she was low-key. He looked at Xie Yujia's monitor and saw she had a total score of 431, no.1 in the program.
"Hey, hey, hey… you guys over there, give me some space to go through!"
Just when Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were looking at each other's grades and waiting for course selection to start, a few guys charged into the computer lab.
Huang Xujie waved a fan and walked up from the back.
Hao Ren went back to his dorm building no.7 extremely sweaty."Ren, where's your fiance?" Zhou Liren tried to tease Hao Ren when he saw him. At the moment, he was half naked and playing cards.He still couldn't forget the pretty and energetic Zhao Yanzi."She went back!" Hao Ren answered."You lied to me, right? That pretty girl is a high school student, right?" Zhou Liren asked as he winked at Hao Ren.When Zhou Liren went back to their dorm, he kept thinking to himself about Zhao Yanzi. She didn't look like a middle school kid. Also, with Hao Ren's conservative personality, there was no way that he would dare to date a middle-schooler."Yeah, yeah!" Hao Ren nodded. He started to strip his beddings and putting them in the common washroom to wash. The beddings had been there for two months, so it was slightly dusty.He could do these kinds of chores since he was a kid, and that was why he was able to help Zhao Yanzi with organizing her stuff in her dorm.He didn't know when Zhen Congming was starting school. However, he supposed that the latter had a lot of fun at Wu Luoxue's place this summer.Then,Hao Ren went out to the balcony to look up at the night sky. He was thinking about the snow lion cubs on Fifth Heaven and was wondering whether they were starvingXie Yujia had planted spiritual herbs and raised those spirit beasts, turning Ethereal Summit into a small Sky Mountain Sect.Inside his necklace were three Black Dragon Bone Grasses.Hao Ren started to think about the Demon Sea and thought that the place was full of treasures.If he were able to comb it, he would likely find lots of treasures.Hao Ren turned to his left to see LingZhao Middle School. He counted the windows and floors of the dorm building to find the location of room 406. He saw that the balcony door was still closed, meaning that the four girls were still at Hongji Square.Suddenly, a red beam of light dashed upward from dorm building no.3, and Hao Ren knew that it was Xie Yujia going to Fifth Heaven to feed the snow lion cubs.Hao Ren stood on the balcony, sensing the natural essences.Approximately half an hour later, the red light appeared again from the sky. It flew down and hovered beside the balcony that Hao Ren was standing on.Xie Yujia was sitting on Little White's back, floating in front of Hao Ren's balcony.She smiled at Hao Ren, and there was some sweat on her forehead, indicating that she had rushed back."I forgot to give you these herbs last time. Here are three Black Dragon Bone Grasses." Hao Ren got three spiritual herbs out from his storage space and gave them to Xie Yujia."OK." Xie Yujia nodded and put the Black Dragon Bone Grasses in her storage space.Since these spiritual herbs weren't re-planted after they were pulled from the ground, they couldn't be revived. However, they were still great materials for making elixirs."Go to sleep earlier tonight. We have to pick our courses tomorrow," Hao Ren said."OK" Xie Yujia smiled faintly. Then, she and Little White left and flew toward dorm building no.3."Hao Ren, who are you talking to?" Zhao Jiayi looked toward the balcony and asked; he was still playing cards. Out of Hao Ren's three roommates, Zhao Jiayi had the most sensitive ears."Nothing! I'm just talking to myself!" Hao Ren said.Because of the energy sphere, they were not able to see Xie Yujia and Little White on their balcony just now."I think Ren's just a bit too thrilled because he has such a pretty little cousin"Zhou Liren couldn't stop talking about Hao Ren's 'little cousin.' He was envious of Hao Ren, and he was showing it."Damn. You played the wrong card again!" Zhao Jiayi hit Zhou Liren's head with a plastic water bottle.Hao Ren turned over to look at them as he smiled relaxingly.The red light disappeared behind dorm building no.3, indicating that Xie Yujia had successfully returned to her room. With Little White's speed, it only took half an hour for a round trip from their school to Fifth Heaven. It was so quick that no one would be suspicious of her disappearance, but it was just a bit exhausting for Xie Yujia.The Demon Sea had dense nature essence and was filled with an abundance of spiritual herbs. Although Hao Ren didn't know how resourceful the center of the Demon Sea was, he had been to the outskirts, and there were a ton of treasures already.To breed Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses required gathering seven of the best materials between the sky and earth. These things might not even be readily available in the Sixth Heaven. Kunlun Mountain might have them all, but they couldn't get in.The two places on First Heaven where nature essence was dense and spiritual herbs grew freely were the Demon Sea and the Nine Dragon Palace.In order to get his hands on the treasures, strength was paramount.Hao Ren took out the jade slip and held it in his hand. He quietly tried to comprehend the sword techniques documented within it.The Lu sisters weren't good with swords, and Su Han focused on cultivation rather than specific sword techniques. That was why Hao Ren was better in sword techniques than the three girls even though he hadn't reached mastery.Zhao Kuo had fought Hao Ren with just his bare fists instead of using his tri-pointed double-edge sword. That was why when Hao Ren suddenly used the sword techniques, Zhao Kuo couldn't do anything about it. Hao Ren couldn't really call that fight with Zhao Kuo a real victory.This set of Mystic Water Sword Techniques was indeed incredibly powerful. If he were able to reach top-tier Gen-level and comprehend the second sword technique in the jade slip, he would be able to go to the Demon Sea again with Su Han to find even better spiritual herbs, and he might even be able to pick up a few more treasures along the way.Zhao Jiayi and the other guys played cards until midnight. Because the dorm was too hot, they decided to pull their mattresses out to the balcony and sleep there. Hao Ren couldn't escape from this glorious tradition of four men sleeping in a straight line together, and they chatted while sleeping in the light breeze.Hao Ren was able to see Zhao Yanzi's dorm room through the balcony fence. Their light was still on, so it seemed like they were also chatting.It was quite easy to figure out what they were talking aboutHao Ren had to choose his courses online the next day. East Ocean University followed a course selection system, and students could choose a wide range of courses on their own. As long as students took enough credits, they could graduate from the school. That was why students had to free up two days for course selection before school officially started.Students could only make the course selection through the internet.According to dorm policies of East Ocean University, first-year and second-year students weren't allowed to have internet. Now that Hao Ren and his buddies were in their third year, they could have internet. However, they hadn't got the internet set up, so they could only go to the school's computer lab to make course selection.Zhou Liren and the other guys were lazy bugs, but they had rushed over to the computer lab very early in the morning to get a spot. East Ocean University's course selection system was active starting from nine o'clock, and all students aimed for the courses which were worth a lot of credits and were easy to pass.Before the official course selection system opened, students had already done research to see which courses were easy, and which teachers were laid back. These types of information were very important to them.Of course which course Su Han will be teaching this semester was the most important!"Transducer Theory and Application." Hao Ren was forced to disclose, so he could only be honest."I love you, Brother Ren!" When Zhou Liren heard this, he almost ran over to kiss Hao Ren.He thought Hao Ren's 'little cousin' Zhao Yanzi was cute, but his goddess was still Su Han!The guys ran to Academic Building D where the computer labs were. Xie Yujia and Ma Lina also didn't have internet in their dorm yet, so they were already here.Both the third and fourth floor in the building were computer labs, and each lab had around 30 computers. However, there were still far more students than the number of computers."Hao Ren, over here! Over here!" Xie Yujia stood on her tiptoe and waved at Hao Ren.Since there were far more students than computers, the school needed to separate students into clusters to go inside for course selection. Xie Yujia was guaranteed to be in the first group to go into the computer labs because she lined up very early and was at the front of the line."Our trusty former class president!" Cao Ronghua looked very happy. He ran over, dragging Hao Ren along with him."Damn. If it weren't for you guys playing cards until late night!" The new class president, Yu Rong, ran over looking rather blue.The guys cut the line shamelessly with Hao Ren, and they had forcefully pushed the line back four to five spots.The students behind them in the line were about to get mad, and Xie Yujia hurried to calm them.They rolled their eyes at her explanation and didn't further intensify the situation.The good thing was that there were more than ten computer labs on the two floors, so it wasn't that big of a deal. In addition, Zhao Jiayi was the basketball team's captain who led the school to win the championship of the National University Basketball League, so a lot of students gave him face.More and more students gathered on the third and fourth floor of the building. It was finally 8:30 AM, and the first cluster of students could enter the labs to start the computers and enter the course selection system.Hao Ren's group was able to get into the first computer lab, and they took a whole row of computers.Although the course selection system wasn't online yet, the grade system was. With this half an hour, Zhou Liren and the others started entering their student numbers to check their final exam marks.Bam! Bam! Bam!Three big red numbers appeared on Zhou Liren's report cardThree failed courses!"Ahhhhh." Zhou Liren immediately screamed incredibly loudly, just like what a pig would sound like before it was killed. It made everyone in the computer lab look toward him."Hey, if you're yelling and screaming, please go outside." The teacher responsible for keeping order in the computer lab pointed at Zhou Liren."Sorry, sorry" Zhou Liren immediately plead. He then looked over at Hao Ren's monitor.90, 92, 95, 87, 86, 100 GPA: 4.28. Program Ranking: 3"Ahhhhh." Zhou Liren immediately screamed again."Hey!" The teacher in charge looked at Zhou Liren angrily.Zhou Liren quickly covered his mouth with both hands and looked down; he was pleading guilty.He looked at Hao Ren with shock as he lowered his voice, "Damn. No.3 in the program! Are there errors in the system? Or did you check Xie Yujia's student number?"He moved his body over a bit to look more carefully at Hao Ren's monitor. It was indeed Hao Ren's name and student number!Ranking third in the program! This was a ranking that could receive a scholarship!Zhou Liren looked at his own statistics. GPA: 2.67. Program Ranking: 397East Ocean University calculated students' performances with their credits and course grade. That meant each course was weighed differently to prevent students from boosting their GPA by taking bird courses unrelated to their program.Zhou Liren couldn't believe that Hao Ren was ranked third in the program! According to his impression of Hao Ren, Hao Ren's grades were only a little better than the rest of them. Every time, he was able to pass just slightly above failing line.Hao Ren was actually pretty shocked when he looked at his report card.He wasn't shocked at his overall grade but shocked that he got 100 from Su Han in Weak Optical Signal Processing, the hardest course in his program."Su Han she actually did it," Hao Ren thought. There were a few questions he didn't know the answer to, so he randomly scribbled something."Hao Ren, how are your grades?" Xie Yujia slanted her head over to see."So-so" Hao Ren responded."Third in the program." Xie Yujia's eyes brightened up. "Not bad!"Then, she saw that Hao Ren got 100 in Weak Optical Signal Processing. She was a bit shocked since she had studied the hardest in this course, and she only got an 89.From the looks of it, Su Han didn't even look at Hao Ren's answer sheet and directly gave him 100."What about you?" Hao Ren asked her."So-so," Xie Yujia responded with a smile.Hao Ren wouldn't believe Xie Yujia's response since she was low-key. He looked at Xie Yujia's monitor and saw she had a total score of 431, no.1 in the program."Hey, hey, hey you guys over there, give me some space to go through!"Just when Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were looking at each other's grades and waiting for course selection to start, a few guys charged into the computer lab.Huang Xujie waved a fan and walked up from the back.
