Chapter 149: Depleted Vitality and the Accidental Scholar

“Have you lost too much blood Qi?”

“In that case, you’ll have to take some medicine to replenish your vitality.”

“Unfortunately, I don’t have any here right now.”

“I’ll need to go pick some up after school and give it to you tomorrow,” Mo Qingyan said.

Bai Yue chimed in casually,

“Replenishing blood Qi is simple.”

“I demonstrated it for you that day.”

“Just use the Ironwire Gu and find any random vagrant or beggar.”

“No, I don’t want to use that method,” I immediately refused.

I knew what Bai Yue meant.

She wanted me to use the Ironwire Gu to absorb someone else’s blood Qi to supplement my own.

But that would require letting the Ironwire Gu parasitize my own body first, and then using it to pierce someone else’s flesh.

Whether it was being a host for a venomous insect or draining someone’s life force, I couldn’t accept either.

“Then you’ll just have to wait until I get the medicine tomorrow.”

“You should be able to endure it for one day, right?” Mo Qingyan asked.

I could only nod.

One day was manageable.

Then, a thought occurred to me, and I added,

“My skin feels very itchy, and a few wrinkles have even appeared.”

“Is that because of the loss of blood Qi?” I asked, lifting my arm.

“Hmm? That shouldn’t happen.”

“Generally speaking, losing blood Qi only makes you feel fatigued and dizzy.”

“I’ve never heard of it causing skin irritation.”

“Let me see?” Mo Qingyan said doubtfully.

I extended my hand.

Xiao Qing, Bai Yue, and Xu Shan all leaned in to take a look.

Mo Qingyan soon frowned and said,

“This isn’t right.”

“These don’t look like symptoms caused by a loss of blood Qi.”

“It feels more like the skin is aging, and there’s that itching sensation.”

“Could it be some kind of curse?”

“I once heard of a patient whose skin was so itchy they literally clawed themselves into a bloody mess and died,” Xu Shan remarked.

“No way, right?”

“It doesn’t feel itchy to that extent, it’s just very slight,” I said, feeling a bit frightened.

The idea of scratching oneself to death was far too agonizing.

“Could it be the Curse of Years?”

“It can make a person wither and die of old age instantly.”

“Maybe someone tried to assassinate Senior Sister Xia with it, but it was blocked by the Dharma artifacts on her body, which is why it only caused minor skin aging,” Bai Yue proposed a possibility.

“That can’t be it, right? Who would want to harm me?”

I found this even more far-fetched.

The ‘Curse of Years’ sounded like something terrifying.

I hadn’t provoked anyone, so why would I be cursed?

“We’ll know once Yubing brings out her Dharma artifacts for a look,” Mo Qingyan said.

So, I took out both the prayer beads and the jade pendant.

The Buddhist light emanating from both artifacts was very abundant.

“Protected by two Dharma artifacts, and both are the defensive type… it’s really enviable,” Xu Shan said as he looked at the beads and the pendant.

“Is this the artifact you received from that old lady? Not bad.”

Mo Qingyan adjusted her black-rimmed glasses and scrutinized the two items seriously.

Mo Qingyan’s glasses were also a Dharma artifact, but their primary function was to allow the wearer to see spiritual light and ghosts.

This was different from the protective nature of my two items.

“Hmm, there’s no trace of ominous aura clinging to them, and the spiritual light is quite full.”

“It doesn’t look like they’ve been attacked by any powerful curse.”

“If it were just some minor ‘dirty thing’ causing itchy skin and wrinkles, the artifacts should have blocked it directly.”

“It shouldn’t have affected the owner at all,” Mo Qingyan said, her brow furrowing.

“I only started feeling the itch after I was hit by the car and used the printed Rejuvenation Talisman to heal myself.”

“Could it be an issue with the talisman?” I offered my own guess.

“That shouldn’t be the case either.”

“How about this, I’ll go ask Senior Brother Liang.”

“The rest of you go back to class for now.”

“I’ll let you know during the club activity period,” Mo Qingyan finished and took a photo of me.

It was almost time for class, and if we didn’t leave now, we’d be late.

Consequently, I had to return to the classroom with Xiao Qing.

Then, I experienced a truly bizarre sensation.

Clearly, due to the loss of blood Qi, I felt mentally exhausted and drowsy.

Yet, my ears were perfectly capable of picking up every word the teacher said.

And unlike before when I was just listening to words, this time I actually understood it all.

I didn’t feel like falling asleep the moment I heard the lecture.

Instead, the more I listened, the more I was able to concentrate.

On one hand was my increasingly focused mind, and on the other was the fatigue from the vitality drain.

As a result, I entered a very strange state.

My body felt incredibly tired, but my brain was operating at high speed.

At that moment, the physics teacher noticed my head nodding up and down in a drowse.

With some dissatisfaction, he said,

“Student Xia Yubing, please come up and answer this question.”

In the elite class, every student listened attentively.

My drowsy performance was particularly conspicuous.

Startled by the teacher calling my name, I panicked and quickly replied,

“Yes!” before standing up and walking to the blackboard.

It was only then that the physics teacher seemed to remember my “amnesia” setting.

His tone softened as he said,

“Student Xia Yubing, it’s okay if you can’t solve it.”

“Uh, I think it should be fine,” I replied.

The problem on the blackboard was a circuit analysis.

I had studied the basic knowledge before, but if I were to use those old axioms and laws to analyze it, I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it.

But that was then, and this was now.

In this moment, my brain was spinning rapidly.

The textbook knowledge that I hadn’t fully grasped before was now being integrated at lightning speed.

The circuit diagram before my eyes seemed to come to life.

It quickly simulated its functions in my mind.

The process, which was originally complex and obscure, became clear and easy to analyze.

I picked up the chalk and began marking various points on the circuit.

I labeled every electric potential, the voltage of each component, the resistance, the power, and the direction of the current flow.

Now it was the physics teacher’s turn to widen his eyes.

This circuit diagram was quite complex.

He had originally only intended for Xia Yubing to explain one small part of it.

A large portion of the material hadn’t been taught yet.

But she had taken it upon herself to start deconstructing and analyzing the entire circuit.

The most absurd thing was that she wasn’t even using a calculator.

Even the physics teacher would need a moment to think to calculate these parameters.

And even then, he couldn’t guarantee absolute accuracy.

Yet, the interval between every digit she wrote didn’t exceed a second.

Finally, I wrote out the formulas, filled in the numbers, and naturally arrived at the final answer.

For the first time, I understood what top students meant when they said ‘you just plug the numbers into the formula.’

“Teacher, I’m finished.”

I turned my head to look at the physics teacher.

Only to find him staring at the blackboard with a dazed expression.

I had to ask again,

“Teacher, may I go back to my seat?”

The physics teacher finally snapped out of it and said with satisfaction,

“Mhm, very well answered.”

“Please sit down. Student Xia Yubing’s knowledge is very solid; everyone should learn from her.”

He didn’t suspect anything was wrong.

Although the circuit diagram was relatively complex, it didn’t exceed the scope of the curriculum.

As long as one had seriously mastered the textbook knowledge and previewed the material, it could still be solved.

The only strange thing was that Xia Yubing had solved it far too quickly.

However, she was an honors student to begin with.

Being a bit faster wasn’t that unusual.

As for Xia Yubing’s earlier drowsy state, the physics teacher assumed she had already mastered the lesson’s content and was simply bored.

At least, that was what the physics teacher chose to believe.

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