Chapter 34: Mental Power Guidance – Qin Yizheng’s mental power should be quite high too…
After a few days of adjustment, Yu Xia’s life finally got on track.
Professor Wen’s team had already prepared the schedule for Yu Xia’s subsequent physical workouts. It was said that in order to ensure Yu Xia’s constitution steadily improved, Professor Wen had specifically consulted several colleagues in the field of somatology. This was to ensure that Yu Xia received the most appropriate workout schedule for each subsequent stage.
Fortunately, although Yu Xia leaked some pheromones during his constitution rank upgrade this time, it ultimately remained just a pheromone leak and didn’t escalate into a true heat cycle. However, this incident sounded an alarm for Yu Xia, finally awakening him to the fact that he had actually become an Omega.
Omegas had heat cycles, and he needed to be prepared.
Meanwhile, the freshmen of Imperial Star Academy were finally starting classes.
Due to Yu Xia’s mental power issues, he specifically took a close look at the class schedule he was given before classes officially began.
The Mechanical Department’s coursework was extremely complex. Among them were many specialized courses that he couldn’t easily self-study. The number of elective courses that the homeroom tutor had mentioned at the start of the term—the ones he could pass just by relying on himself—were actually quite few.
On the first day of class, Yu Xia took his textbooks from Xiao Yin and headed toward the academic building. Halfway there, he ran into Gao Zhou and Wen Luo.
Wen Luo was very enthusiastic. The moment he saw Yu Xia, he waved his arm at him. “Yu Xia, Yu Xia, over here~”
Yu Xia walked over to them with his textbooks. “What a coincidence, running into you guys.”
Wen Luo wagged a finger in front of his face. “Nope. We were specifically waiting for you here.”
Now Yu Xia was confused. “Waiting for me for what?”
Wen Luo shrugged. “It’s all because of Senior Qin. He said he was worried about you going to class alone. Especially since Shao Yan is in our class. After what happened during military training, Shao Yan probably finds the sight of you more displeasing than a furrowed brow. So Senior Qin asked us to go with you. Even if something happens, at least you’ll have someone to back you up.”
Gao Zhou added from the side: “The most important thing is to keep you calm. Even though your constitution is a bit better than before, you still can’t have major emotional fluctuations. Senior Qin said that if you run into anyone and it looks like a conflict is about to start, we should immediately grab you and run. We shouldn’t let you get angry at them.”
Yu Xia’s eyes curved in amusement. “You don’t need to panic about that. I’ve had an incident before, so I know how important it is to maintain a good mindset. I won’t get into conflicts with anyone.”
Walking beside Yu Xia, Wen Luo said, “Still, you have to be careful. Sometimes, even if you don’t go looking for trouble, you won’t necessarily be left in peace. Some people will just come and cause trouble for you. Look at Shao Yan—he didn’t even know you before, but didn’t he stir up a huge mess anyway?”
Yu Xia walked with the two of them toward the academic building, asking as they went, “Speaking of which, how is Shao Yan doing now? He won’t still try to make things difficult for me, will he?”
Wen Luo chuckled “Heh heh”. “How could he? He was pretty arrogant at first, but then something happened, right? A student from the Pharmaceutical Department apparently leaked information about ultra-high mental power and was taken away for questioning. Then it was rumored that you should also fall into the category of ultra-high mental power. After that, he didn’t dare say another word.”
Gao Zhou also said, “It’s hard to say if he’s completely let go of his conflict with you, but after going through all that, he probably won’t go out of his way to cause trouble for you anymore.”
In fact, it was exactly as they said. After entering the classroom with them, the first thing Yu Xia saw was Shao Yan glaring fiercely at him. However, Shao Yan merely glared, then let out a cold snort and turned his head away, refusing to look at him any further.
Wen Luo whispered, “During the month of military training, he was arguably the one disciplined the hardest by the instructor. At the very least, for the near future, he wouldn’t dare cause trouble for you.”
Yu Xia didn’t say much either. He just gave Shao Yan a glance before finding an empty seat with Gao Zhou and Wen Luo. “By the way, who is the class monitor now?”
“It’s the vice monitor who was elected previously, named Ju Wei. A pretty good-looking guy, and very responsible. Completely different from Shao Yan,” Wen Luo explained to Yu Xia. “Oh right, he asked me for your contact number before. He said he wanted to have it on hand since we’re in the same class and he’s the monitor. He might need to reach you for something in the future, so I gave it to him. Did you get it?”
Yu Xia nodded. “I received a message from him before, but he only said he was the new class monitor and didn’t mention his name. I felt awkward asking him exactly what his name was, so I just exchanged a few pleasantries.”
Gao Zhou burst out laughing “Pfft”. “Haha, he’s in the same dorm as me. He actually mentioned it to me before, saying you seemed so aloof because you didn’t even use his name when messaging. At the time, I thought it was weird, but it turns out he forgot to introduce himself to you! When I get back to the dorm, I’m going to tease him about it.”
As they chatted, the bell rang, and the professor teaching the course stepped into the classroom. The surroundings gradually quieted down.
Standing at the podium, the professor immediately opened his optical computer and projected its contents onto the large screen. He gave a light cough and officially began the lecture: “This is your first class since advancing to Imperial Star Academy. And this course of ours is the most fundamental course upon entering university. However, it is also the most important cornerstone for our Mechanical Department: Mental Power Guidance.”
“In fact, I believe many students here have already come into contact with mental power guidance in their daily lives. But the focus of our class is the theoretical foundation of mental power guidance, as well as the correct method of using it. If any students realize they have developed bad habits, they can also take this opportunity to correct them…”
Wen Luo flipped through the textbook in his hands. “Who casually uses mental power guidance in their daily life? Isn’t mental power guidance only used when couples are being intimate with each other? What does that have to do with single dogs like us?”
Gao Zhou retorted, “Between couples, that’s called mental power blending! Mental power guidance should be what happens when someone first differentiates their mental power at age fifteen. To ensure the child’s mental power doesn’t have any accidents, they undergo mental power guidance to soothe their unstable mental power. Though it probably isn’t very useful in daily life.”
Yu Xia chimed in from the side: “Generally speaking, doctors use it more often. Especially doctors in the Mental Power Department. Even for ordinary people, as long as they’ve differentiated mental power, they often experience unstable mental power states. They’ll go to the hospital for doctors to guide them, and then get some mental power soothing agents prescribed.”
Wen Luo suddenly understood. “Oh right, you’re probably the one who gets guided more often.”
Yu Xia fell silent for a moment. “Actually, no one is capable of guiding me.”
Wen Luo & Gao Zhou: …
True.
After all, this was the freshmen’s first class, so it was indeed foundational content.
After covering the foundational theories, the professor instructed the students to practice mental power guidance on each other. However, he clearly knew there was a unique student in the class, so he walked over to Yu Xia’s side. “Student Yu Xia, your guidance partner will be me.”
Yu Xia blinked. “Do I have to try?”
The professor nodded. “I know you’ve been constantly oppressed by your mental power in daily life, so you might not like doing this. But, you must be brave enough to try.”
Yu Xia sighed. “It’s not just because of that. The main reason is that I can’t really control my own mental power. If I absolutely have to try, I’ll have to trouble you to be extra careful, Professor.”
The professor smiled reassuringly at Yu Xia. “Of course. Since I’ve made this decision, naturally I am already prepared.”
Since the professor had said so, Yu Xia calmed his mind and released the mental power from his brain.
Even though the professor said he was prepared, when he actually faced Yu Xia’s mental power, he realized it wasn’t as simple as he had imagined. An SSS-rank mental power was completely incomparable to an SS+ rank mental power.
However, when actually facing it, it wasn’t too terribly difficult either. Yu Xia was consciously trying to control his mental power, though as he himself had stated, his control wasn’t very good.
As long as he could control it, that was enough. As for the rest, he could adapt slowly.
The professor slowly guided Yu Xia’s mental power, allowing him to get used to the grip on his own mental power. Given time, he would be able to achieve perfect control over it.
After a full session of mental power guidance, the professor finally let out a sigh of relief. He patted Yu Xia’s shoulder. “Not bad. Even though your mental power control isn’t very steady, you can still manage to hold it together overall. That’s quite an accomplishment for you. With more practice, you should be able to extend and retract it freely. The Mechanical Department has quite high requirements for mental power. Current mental power guidance is just the most basic course. Later on, there will be refined mental power testing, micro-level mental power manipulation, and so on. The Mechanical Department requires utilizing mental power to its utmost limits, so you still need to overcome this hurdle.”
Yu Xia understood this logic as well. He nodded. “I will practice later.”
“Actually, your grip on your mental power is decent. But, your mental power is too vast. With my SS+ mental power and decades of mental power guidance experience, even I struggled to control it when facing your mental power. Let alone a person like you who only differentiated their mental power three years ago. It’s normal to temporarily lose control. If possible, for example, if there is someone around with mental power similar to yours, you can have them supervise your practice. If you practice alone, you must have a robot supervising you.” The professor spoke to Yu Xia earnestly. “Your mental power rank is much higher than ordinary people, so you need to be exceptionally careful.”
Yu Xia very solemnly promised the professor: “I will practice my mental power manipulation while ensuring my own safety.”
The professor was satisfied. “As long as you know what you’re doing.”
As for the candidate to accompany him in practicing mental power guidance…
Yu Xia almost immediately thought of someone.
It felt like Qin Yizheng’s mental power should be quite high, and their Command Department should be relatively proficient in the use of mental power. He just didn’t know if the other party could withstand his mental power. Also, it seemed like it might be troubling him a little too much. He’d have to ask him later.
Qin Yizheng’s mental power should be quite high too…
The author has something to say: Update (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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