9 Dodging a bullet to be hit by a truck

"Dude, what the fuck happened to you? You're like on steroids or some shit."

Hearing this, Lin Feng didn't particularly know what to say.

How the hell did Xie Yue even know about steroids? Pretty sure that shit like that still doesn't exist in this day and age.

Retracting his spear, Lin Feng pretentiously twirled it a few times before he slammed it down beside him.

With a serious voice, he spoke, "Would you believe me that I found an amulet that has a grandpa who is actually a great immortal from another world? He told me that I had some supreme cultivation roots and wanted to take me as his disciple to soar the heavens and dominate the myriad planes."

"Yeah… you should probably have that head of yours checked. Everyone knows that those old grandpas come only in the form of rings."

Hearing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but let out a laugh as he unsummoned his martial spirit.

Taking deep breaths, Xie Yue rubbed his Adam's apple a few times as he unsummoned his martial spirit as well.

"So can you tell me the truth now? What type of 'profound treasure' did you get during these few days?"

"I dunno. Maybe it's name would be 'training' and 'hard work'?"

Xie Yue rolled his eyes as he waved Lin Feng off. "Hardy har har. Very funny. If you don't wanna tell, then don't then. I won't pry."

Hearing this, Lin Feng let out a sigh of relief.

He didn't have to come up an entire web of lies that he would probably have to continuously weave in the future.

Then, he would probably fuck up somewhere along the line then ruin everything for himself.

He would like to avoid that fate quite a bit thank you very much.

After that, Lin Feng bade Xie Yue goodbye as he ran off back to his room.

— — — —

Classes the next few days went on as usual. Lin Feng's return to class had drawn quite a bit of attention but it quickly diminished after he just brushed it off.

During this time, he finally managed to catch up with the Spirit Academy syllabus for studying spirit beasts.

It fricking sucked balls, but he had to suck it up.

Luckily for him, his Int managed to gain a few levels from all this studying. It began slowing down on the 15th level, but nothing a bit more of studying couldn't fix.

Don't look down on someone who got straight A* for all his science subjects hahaha!!

Not only that, he got his [Will] and {Concentration} skills leveled up!

Truly two for the price of one, even though he may have been questioning his sanity slightly after he was done studying.

He sparred a few more times with Xie Yue during these few days as well.

Xie Yue was such a great friend. He completely agreed to be a whetston— training partner for Lin Feng to increase his stats!

His agility didn't gain any level, but it was his highest stat so it was understandable. He got some strength gains in terms of levels along with a bit Endurance.

Spearmanship was doing well, but Xie Yue's skill in his Moonblade wasn't particularly good.

Along with the fact that my spear naturally countered his Moonblade, him suffering quite a few losses to Lin Feng was understandable.

However, Lin Feng was pretty damn sure though that he still wasn't a match for Yan unless he caught him off guard with his spirit ring ability.

Unlike Xie Yue who he countered, Yan countered him instead.

In the future, Xie Yue would surpass Yan, but that was because he went on the path of the illusionist.

If he went on the pure combat path, like Lin Feng was doing, Yan would continue to counter him until he reached Rank 70.

Walking down the hallways of the Spirit Hall Academy. Lin Feng continued to look at his stats.

He tried to use [Observe] on it, but surprisingly, it didn't activate for the status screen.

Since it was like that, Lin Feng just shrugged. He stopped using [Observe} on the status screen, but he continued to grind it with other stuff.

He had a lot of stat points on him at the moment, and he kinda wanted to dump it all into his shitty luck stat.

However, he stopped. The [Luck] stat never said whether it was good luck or bad luck.

It was just 'neutral' luck.

Meaning?

It meant that if he got lucky, he would be super duper lucky. Maybe he could get some Immortal Taoist shit and become a God in one go.

But…

Option B: He got unlucky. And then he would die.

SImple right?

And yeah… with him getting the worst type of system compared to all those protagonists out there, he wasn't willing to bet that he would get good luck more often.

Maybe he was wrong, and the Luck stat was only for good luck.

But there was no way he was gonna test it out!

This was his life on the line dude! He wasn't going to play around with it until he got some more info.

Shitty system didn't wanna say jack shit.

Seems that he would be stuck with the crappy luck of a Lancer.

"Lin Feng? Can I speak with you?"

Hmm? Who was that?

Lin Feng looked up from the status screen that he had been looking at before searching for the speaker.

He was met with the figure of a young girl, around the same age as he was.

This girl was someone that he was pretty familiar with. Though he hadn't interacted much with her, she was Xie Yue's sister.

[Hu Liena Rank 19

Description: Xie Yue's sister. Was orphaned before picked up by (&(*&*^(*&>. Was chosen to become the disciple of the *$#&*&$ because of her amazing talent. Has the Fox Martial Spirit.]

Well, Lin Feng would take a guess and say that the &*&(&**(& was Bibi Dong.

[Intelligence + 1]

Oh yeah baby. He was a real big brain.

It wasn't like he had read the original Douluo Dalu and knew the main plot or something right?

Nope. He had completely deduced that himself.

"What is it Hu Liena?" he replied politely.

He wasn't the biggest fan of her, but she was Xie Yue's sister. Hence, he would be courteous.

Also, he rather pitied what she would face in the future. Her teacher and her entire organisation was completely annihilated by the one that she loved and she accidentally helped him with that.

Then that same person didn't give a shit about her again and just went with his own lover.

And if 'that person' sounded like an MC template, that's because it completely was. That guy was Tang San.

"Well, I just wanna apologise what happened a few days ago with Yan…"

"Oh that? Don't worry about it. I've already forgotten about that. It's just changing seats."

He wasn't lying. He disliked Yan because of his shitty attitude, which was also the reason why the majority of the class hated Yan as well.

His lackeys were just masochists who enjoyed getting their asses beat by him.

Hu Liena just smiled, hearing Lin Feng's words.

"Really? In that case, I'm relieved. But in any case, do you want to grab a drink with me? You're Xie Yue's only friend, and I don't wanna be the reason that the two of you might fight…"

Oh? She's surprisingly caring for her brother.

Makes sense though. He's her only real relative left.

Unfortunately…

"I refuse."

"Great! Then—" Hu Liena suddenly paused as her mind seemed to register Lin Feng's words. "Wait what?"

"You heard me. I refuse."

There was no way that Lin Feng was going to fall into that trap.

Everyone knew that hanging out alone with a beauty that had countless simps— admirers would be more trouble than it's worth.

[Intelligence +1]

See! Even the system agrees with him!

Lin Feng ignored the completely dumbfounded expression on hu Liena's face as he swaggered off with a stride in his step.

He just dodged the biggest fucking bullet with that one.

It was at this moment that a notification decided to pop up.

[Tutorial Stage 2/???

Description: Kill 50 hundred-year-old spirit beasts and 5 thousand-year-old spirit beasts.

Failure Conditions: Death

Failure: No more extra lives]

Oh him and his big fucking fat mouth...

[Martial Spirit: God Killing Spear (Sealed)]

[Cultivation: Rank 14 Spirit Master]

[Stat Points: 47]

[Strength : Rank 16 Spirit Master (4/15) > Rank 18 Spirit Master (3/15)

Agility : Rank 19 Spirit Master (0/15) > Rank 19 Spirit Master (14/15)

Endurance: Rank 16 Spirit Master (14/15) > Rank 16 Spirit Master (14/15)

Intelligence: Rank 13 Spirit Master (5/15) > Rank 16 Spirit Master (2/15)

Luck: 6]

[Skills: Concentration Lv. 11 (23%)

Will Lv. 7 (39%) > Will Lv. 9 (39%)

Observe Lv. 7 (2%) > Observe Lv. 9 (2%)

Pain Resistance Lv. 9 (49%)

Spearmanship Lv. 13 (12%) > Spearmanship Lv. 15 (12%)

Danger Sensing Lv. 9 (51%)

Poison Resistance Lv. 6 (15%)]