Cultivation by Trial and Error

Chen Hai, who always got up early and rarely overslept, didn't wake up until the next afternoon, dragging his exhausted body out of bed.

Despite having slept for such a long time, he still felt groggy, as if he hadn't slept in days.

All afternoon, he couldn't muster any energy.

Taking advantage of the setting sun, Chen Hai ate his dinner early and then went back to bed.

"Head of the house, what do you think is wrong with Hai? Today, no matter how I look at him, something doesn't seem quite right."

"The college entrance exams are next month, and he promised us that if he doesn't get into college, he'll go down south to work in a factory. I reckon the child is feeling too much pressure, that's why he's like this now!"

"With his grades, I don't have high expectations for him getting into a university, but if he really goes down south to work, I feel a little uneasy."

"A kindly mother makes a spineless child, Meixian, no offense, but Hai is almost eighteen. In the old days, a person his age would already be a father, maybe with several children. Letting him go down south to work is nothing to worry about!"

...

As usual, Chen Zhonghua and Jiang Meixian, the couple, sat at the entrance of the main hall.

One drawing on a dry pipe with smacking sounds, the other slowly weaving shoe soles in the evening sunlight.

Their idle conversation inevitably centered on their son, Chen Hai.

It was not too bad when they didn't talk about Chen Hai, but as soon as the topic shifted to him, Jiang Meixian would start to sigh heavily, and Chen Zhonghua's brows would nearly merge into a single straight line.

Lying in bed, Chen Hai took a deep breath, and his soul leaped directly out from his physical body.

He was no amateur to such actions, quite the contrary, he was so adept it could not be more familiar.

However, unlike before, today he only felt his soul body warm and snug; the agonizing pain of his soul melting and burning did not revisit him.

"Day Tour Realm, this is definitely the Day Tour Realm!" Chen Hai's heart was already filled with boundless joy.

After testing walking around the house, he didn't feel any discomfort.

However, when he stepped outside the house and allowed the residual light of the sunset to shine upon him, he still felt a scorching heat that was hard to bear.

But this slight discomfort was still within his range of tolerance.

He thought that this must be because he had just entered this realm, making his soul body somewhat weak, leading to this situation.

Perhaps, after some time, once his soul body grew stronger and got used to the sunlight, he could truly walk freely under the sun.

"Dad, Mom, rest assured, I will definitely get into college and let you both live a better life..." Chen Hai vowed secretly, standing close to his parents, listening to their casual conversation.

He had read in some miscellaneous books that demons and such cultivated by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.

While in the Night Tour Realm, he indeed could absorb moonlight.

The Moonlight Power contained in the moonlight was indeed beneficial to his soul body.

He had hoped that upon entering the Day Tour Realm, he would be able to absorb the Power of Sunlight for his own use.

After trying and suffering for a while, he realized he had been too optimistic.

Souls are inherently of the Yin Attribute; unless the extreme yin gives birth to yang, producing a strand of Pure Yang within him.

Otherwise, his hopes of absorbing Sun Essence were nothing but a joke.

Entering the Sun-swallowing Realm, at most, could give his soul body some resistance to sunlight, allowing him to walk during the day.

The sun had not completely set yet, and Chen Hai, having just entered this realm, still struggled a bit to withstand sunlight's exposure.

After aimlessly wandering around his home for a while and his novelty wore off, he returned to his body.

The sense of weakness from using Geomancy Inspection Skill was still quite intense.

On the damaged Turtle Shell, Geomancy is as such, and the other ability, Divination, should be the same.

Every time it's used, it significantly drains vitality.

Chen Hai himself didn't know how many days this feeling of weakness would last before he would fully recover.

As for the lines on the Turtle Shell that turned dull after employing the Geomancy Inspection Skill.

To Chen Hai, that was easy to resolve.

He just needed to infuse soul power into it again, and that should relight them.

However, given his current great weakness, pouring Soul Power into the Turtle Shell seemed like something he should wait to do until he was recovered.

In his poorly mental state, he lay in bed, not knowing when he had fallen into a deep sleep.

The next afternoon, Chen Hai returned to Wuyang Town Middle School.

In the last month before the college entrance examination, the atmosphere at school was noticeably tenser than before.

In the dormitory, all his roommates were there, even Liu Jian, who was usually hard to spot, was in the dorm looking through revision materials.

As the saying goes, sharpening your weapon just before battle isn't too late.

Having entered the Day Tour Realm, with soul separation, he could now roam during the day.

Slightly relieved, Chen Hai shifted most of his focus from cultivation to studying.

As a typical academic underachiever, although he felt drowsy the moment he picked up a book, he was able to learn a few things nonetheless.

In the midst of intense study, he had temporarily put aside everything related to Geomancy and divination.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was June 6th, the day before the college entrance exam.

At the entrance to a bungalow made of red bricks in Yanbei Village, Liuyuan County,

"Sis, I'll be troubling you these next few days!"

Carrying a plastic bag of fruit, Jiang Meixian smiled broadly and greeted the middle-aged woman in front of her, who sported an explosive hairdo and was dressed in workout shorts.

"We're all family; what's there to trouble about?"

"Is Hai taking his exams at Ninth Middle School? Is he confident about getting into a university?"

The woman, looking friendly, turned her gaze to Chen Hai behind Jiang Meixian and asked with a smile.

The woman's name was Chen Dongmei, and her father was the blood brother of Chen Hai's grandfather.

In terms of relationship, Chen Hai was supposed to call her aunt, though not the direct kind.

During the New Year, the two families always visited each other, which could be considered pretty close.

"Auntie, I've been desperately revising for the past few months."

"As for whether I can get into university? I definitely don't have full confidence, but I roughly have a seventy to eighty percent chance!"

Blushing, Chen Hai responded with a shy smile.

He was assigned to take the college entrance exam at County Ninth Middle School, and he had already checked out the exam site during the day.

Compared to the town middle school he attended, the Ninth Middle School had undoubtedly better conditions.

The only disappointment for Chen Hai was that there were none of his classmates in the same exam room.

However, his roommate Liu Jian was assigned to a seat not far from his.

Speaking of academic performance, Liu Jian had always been one of the bottom three in their class.

Compared to Chen Hai, the two were on such term that the big brother wouldn't object to the little brother.