20 Future Choices

The bearded man stood outside Zhou Bai's room after escorting him there.

He looked at Zhou Bai and said, "You have awakened the power of your Primordial Spirit, so now you have more choices. You can join the army directly to fight the demons. You can also join some small sects, where the pay is high and they offer cultivation knowledge for you to learn. Or you can wait for the Heavenly Court to assign you a job."

"But if you ask me," the bearded man said, "I recommend you go to the Dao School. If you go to the Dao School, you have the opportunity to advance further. The cultivation resources you get are far beyond what other channels can offer. You can take the Dao School's entrance test and try your luck."

"I will consider it carefully," Zhou Bai said. "Thank you. By the way, I don't know how to address you."

"Zhang Aidao," the bearded man curled his lips, "but I don't like that name. I don't like the Heavenly Dao. You can just call me Old Zhang. Tomorrow, officials will come to talk to you to decide your future. Don't rush, consider it slowly."

After Zhang Aidao left, Zhou Bai lay on the bed, noticing that his laziness points had not increased. He knew it was because it was not yet midnight.

Zhou Bai thought, "Christina, why haven't you said anything?"

"I'm organizing my memories," Christina said solemnly. "Since coming here today, I have awakened many memories about humans. Damn, I know so much. Was I the leader of the human race before?"

"By the way, Zhou Bai, you must choose to further your studies at the Dao School tomorrow," Christina said.

"Why?" Zhou Bai asked.

"How can you be lazy in the army or sect? Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death? Only at school can you really shine. With your laziness, you'd soar in school," Christina said.

"I feel like you're insulting me," Zhou Bai remarked.

"No, no," Christina thought to herself, "Hmph, the Dao School shouldn't be that strict. They probably won't find me out. I'll slowly control you, train you, and eventually steal your auxiliary system. I'd definitely use it better than this idiot."

Zhou Bai thought, "Hmph, this damn cat must be up to no good. Watch how I trick all that you know out of you and completely drain you."

…

After a comfortable sleep, Zhou Bai woke up the next morning feeling that his injuries had improved significantly, barely affecting his normal walking and turning anymore.

He then eagerly checked his auxiliary system's panel, consuming 100 laziness points and increasing his Primordial Spirit value by 10 points to a total of 60 points.

It seemed that because he previously had 50 points of Primordial Spirit power as a foundation, the sudden increase of 10 points only caused a slight dizziness that passed after half a minute.

"Seems like I'm getting stronger. Let's add some more and see."

Excitedly, Zhou Bai added all the remaining laziness points to his Primordial Spirit value, which immediately broke through to 70 points. This time, the dizziness was even milder, lasting only a few seconds before Zhou Bai felt completely normal again.

Then, with a thought, a chair not far away was suddenly lifted up and instantaneously crushed into a ball of metal with a loud snapping sound before being discarded on the ground like trash.

"Phew... 70 points of Primordial Spirit power. If I were in the old world, I would've made it big."

After boosting his Primordial Spirit power, Zhou Bai looked at Christina in his consciousness, finding her lying twisted with all four legs in the air, sleeping soundly.

Bang!

With a thought, the silly cat was thrown to the ground, startling her into jumping up.

"What are you doing? I was sleeping!"

"What sleep? You don't have the system, so why do you sleep so much?" Zhou Bai grabbed her, frowned at the gemstone hanging around her neck.

Since that incident which was either a time reversal or a prophecy, the gemstone had turned gray and showed no signs of change.

Zhou Bai asked, "Can't this gemstone be restored?"

"It should be able to be restored," Christina pondered. "I feel like using your auxiliary system might allow us to use laziness points to restore the power of the gemstone!"

With a thought, Zhou Bai used his Primordial Spirit to grab Christina and cuddle her furiously.

Christina thought angrily, "This bastard, wait and see, I'll cuddle you to death one day."

After trying for a while and finding no way to restore the gemstone's power, Zhou Bai gave up altogether.

"If the gemstone can't be used for now, my most advantageous condition is still the system," Zhou Bai mused. "I need to think of other ways to increase my laziness points."

As he thought, he went out to find some food and then returned to his room to wait for the officials to arrive.

They arrived quickly, and just like yesterday's checkup and treatment, there were no extra pleasantries or tests. After asking him about his intentions, they recommended he take the entrance test one week later. If he passed the test, he would get the qualification to enter the Dao School.

It's worth mentioning that, through their introduction, Zhou Bai gained a basic understanding of the situation.

Currently, Earth was still engaged in a global battle between humans and Heavenly Demons.

Most of Earth's land had been occupied by the Heavenly Demons. The Western Continent had completely fallen, and humans on the Eastern Continent were only holding onto about one-third of the territory.

Zhou Bai and the others were located in the southeastern corner of the remaining human territory.

To more effectively concentrate resources on fighting the Heavenly Demons, humans had united all countries and sects under the leadership of the Heavenly Court five hundred years ago.

To counter the distortion of the Heavenly Dao and cultivate human powerhouses more effectively against the Heavenly Demons, the Heavenly Court gathered the most powerful sects of the time a hundred years ago, establishing four Dao Schools in the east, south, west, and north, sharing various cultivation methods and resources.

While some minor sects still existed, the most powerful cultivators mainly came from the Dao Schools.

However, due to limited resources, they couldn't train students without restriction, so one had to pass an entrance test to get into the Four Great Daoists Schools.

The nearest school to Zhou Bai was the Donghua Dao School on the eastern coast in the human territory.

"Right, a week from now is Donghua Dao School's entrance test. I'll arrange for you to take the flight to Donghua City tomorrow, but after that, it's all up to you."

Zhou Bai nodded, knowing that this was the best they could do, and asked, "Do you know what the entrance test at Donghua Dao School entails? I'd like to prepare in advance."

The man smiled, "You can ask Old Zhang, oh... Zhang Aidao, who picked you up yesterday. He took the entrance test but failed. Still, he knows the contents of the test."