Chapter 113: Turbulence
Li Lang had occasionally met up with his friends even while he was obsessed with his research. He may have been a rare sight, but he had been there enough to keep up with the latest updates.
Both Wei Ping and Long Yi had reached the next stage of cultivation. At some point after the stimulation from his fights, Long Yi successfully broke past his bottleneck and reached the seventh stage of Energy Gathering. Li Lang planned to speak with him about his experiences once he was free.
His other companions all made adequate progress as well. Both Sima Xue and Tang Yulian had managed to pass the third round of the brushweaving trial, successfully inscribing a talisman with two overlaid runes. Li Lang had tutored them in the past and guided them in the right direction. To Li Lang, it wasn’t surprising they had succeeded. After all, they both had better control of Qi than him and were hailed as geniuses.
As their mentor, he had also seen how the two girls had trained vigorously in keeping their brush strokes consistent. They also had gotten better at employing their brushweaving techniques due to the various inks Li Lang got them to test out. Forcing themselves to adapt to their makeshift ink exercised their brushweaving abilities to a new extent. It made it so that when they returned to working with regular ink; they managed to inscribe with ease.
Their work had given valuable data to help optimize Li Lang’s research. However, the materials they had on hand were vastly limited. They had never planned to craft ink, so they didn’t have many useful resources in stock.
“Hey, how’s everything going?” Li Lang voiced as he sat himself at the table.
His approach had already silenced the group as they all turned to him. Usually, Li Lang only came for meals and kept the talking to a minimum. Their curiosity grew when they noticed Li Lang’s jovial tone in his greeting.
“B-boss, we were just t-talking about how I managed to p-pass another round of t-the woodsmithing trials!”
“Congratulations. It’s about time. You’ve been working on that for quite some time, right?”
“That’s rich, coming from you,” Sima Xue teased. “At least he hadn’t lost any trial points while he worked on it. You, on the other hand, have lost quite a few points, I heard.”
Li Lang calmly smiled at her words. He knew she was simply trying to provoke him in order to motivate him.
“I’ll make those points back soon enough. I happen to have successfully found a method to inscribe a three-rune talisman.”