Looking back on the actual combat in the morning, Dugu Yan treated Lu Buliang as an imaginary enemy, and in her mind, she was simulating an actual combat sparring.
As her mind became more focused, the simulated sparring scene in her mind became more and more real, but the sparring result was so unreal.
In every simulated sparring match, the result was that Dugu Yan's green phosphorus snake venom tortured Lü Buliang half to death. Dugu Yan also enjoyed this result, but she felt it was too unreal. If she could beat Lü Buliang repeatedly like in the simulated sparring, would she have lost so badly in the morning?
In Dugu Yan's opinion, no matter how many times she defeated Lu Buliang in the sparring in her mind, it was always a fantasy and too unreal.
Dugu Yan could simulate Lu Buliang's fighting style, but she couldn't simulate his ability to adapt to the situation. After all, the most important thing for a control-type soul master is the ability to adapt to the situation. Every soul master has a different personality and fighting mentality, which can't be simulated at all.
With a dejected sigh in her heart, Dugu Yan wanted to rush to the grass mimesis field to find Lu Buliang for another soul battle.
Unfortunately, she lost in the morning. According to the set rules, she could not ask Lu Buliang to fight with her during this period of time, and she also had to find a treasure from her grandfather to give to Lu Buliang.
Thinking of this, Dugu Yan's eyes suddenly opened, and a bit of resentment appeared on his face, "That bastard, what kind of mimesis training is he doing now? I was fighting him back and forth yesterday, but today I don't have the energy to resist him at all."
Eight o'clock in the evening.
The simulated training field and the playground have been closed. The hardworking students have returned to the dormitory to rest after a day of training. Most of the lazy noble students have also returned to the dormitory after being tired from going out for fun.
Female dormitory building.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling walked back to the dormitory together. Their dormitories were also on the top floor, Room 7 and Room 8 respectively.
Rooms one to six are occupied by their seniors, all of whom are over twenty years old and are also outstanding female geniuses from the nobility.
On the way to the dormitory, Dugu Yan suddenly asked, "Lingling, are you and Lu Buliang practicing in the same mimesis field?"
Ye Lingling nodded.
"Then what kind of practice is he doing? Is he meditating like us?" Dugu Yan asked.
Ye Lingling shook her head.
"No?" Dugu Yan was a little surprised. "So the training he is doing is indeed different from ours, which is why there is such an obvious difference in strength? What kind of training is he doing?"
"I don't know." Ye Lingling shook her head again and said, "He and I were both training in the grass mimesis field, but I haven't seen him since the first day. Maybe he went to some remote place to train."
"Didn't Teacher Qin Ming say that the Grassland Mimesis Field is most suitable for him?" Dugu Yan asked curiously, "Where else can he go to practice?"
Ye Lingling shook her head again, walked to the door of her dormitory, and smiled faintly, "Yanyan, if you want to know, why don't you go ask him yourself."
After saying that, she walked into the dormitory.
Watching Ye Lingling close the dormitory door, Dugu Yan sighed and returned to her dormitory. How could she go to ask Lu Buliang in person? She had hated shadows since this morning, and she hated people who could control shadows even more.
Late at night, Dugu Yan walked out of the dormitory and went to the roof to look at the moon.
Her life has been almost smooth sailing since she was a child, so failure hit her harder than others.
The successive failures and the non-lethal venom of the Green Phosphorus Snake were heavy blows that made Dugu Yan very depressed and unable to sleep, so he went to the rooftop to admire the moon and relax.
Standing quietly on the roof, feeling the evening breeze, gazing at the bright moon in the sky, and the refreshing atmosphere of the mountains and forests, all these things came together to make Dugu Yan's depressed mood suddenly improve.
Breathing the fresh air, Dugu Yan felt that she had put all her worries aside.
But when she accidentally saw the shadow under her feet, the irritable mood suddenly reappeared. Every time she saw her own shadow, Dugu Yan would always think of the fight earlier in the morning. Her own shadow suddenly came to life and wrapped around his body, almost strangling him to death.
This feeling was truly terrifying. Dugu Yan would now feel uneasy whenever she saw a shadow. She was also unwilling to lose to Lu Buliang, so she naturally felt irritated.
"Is that the light of the spirit ring?"
Dugu Yan noticed a flash of light on the roof of the boy's dormitory opposite. The yellow and purple lights blended together, and she could faintly sense the changes in the soul power. "Could it be that someone secretly went to the roof to practice? Besides Tianheng and his friends, who else in the boy's dormitory is so diligent? The Shi brothers must be sleeping like dead pigs at this time. Is it Oslo? Or Yufeng? Lu Buliang!"
Dugu Yan's guess was correct.
In the afternoon, Lu Buliang learned that the room full of light was used exclusively by Qian Renxue, so he didn't dare to sneak in to practice anymore. As a result, the effect of his mimesis practice in the afternoon was much worse than before.
Fortunately, the crystal ball given by Xue Qinghe also has an auxiliary effect on the cultivation of shadow martial soul. Just inject soul power into the crystal ball to make the surrounding light stronger.
That's why Lu Buliang thought of going to the rooftop to practice with the help of moonlight.
At this moment, Lu Buliang was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a crystal ball in both hands. Three yellow and purple soul rings were rhythmically moving on his body. As the soul power was injected into the crystal ball, a light blue soul power aura also emanated from his body, lingering around.
Under the effect of the crystal ball, the intensity of the moonlight shining on Lu Buliang is comparable to the sunlight at noon. The enhanced moonlight is not as strong as the sunlight, but it has a considerable auxiliary effect on the cultivation of shadow martial spirit. In addition, there are mountains and forests near the dormitory, and the shadows of various plants and buildings are reflected on the ground.
Such an environment can fully bring into play the cultivation effect of the mimesis field.
Lu Buliang closed his eyes and concentrated his energy on controlling the amount of soul power injected into the crystal ball. He inhaled slowly through his nose and exhaled slowly through his mouth. The soul power fluctuated subtly with his breathing. The inhalation was continuous and the exhalation was slight, forming a wonderful cycle.
The three spirit rings stopped at the bottom and rotated at a slow speed. With the help of the crystal ball, the light of the spirit rings was also strengthened, making Lu Buliang's shadow on the ground even darker.
"Although moonlight is sunlight reflected by the moon, there is still a difference between the two. When practicing under sunlight, the shadow spirit will be extremely active, but when practicing under moonlight, the shadow spirit behaves so docilely. Could it be that the shadows produced under the light of day and night will be different?"
While sensing the shadows and light of objects within a radius of hundreds of meters, Lu Buliang was also pondering the different feelings that occurred during the practice. He felt his head was itchy, as if a brain was growing out of it.
After two hours of meditation, Lu Buliang slowly opened his eyes. What came into his sight was not the night view, but Dugu Yan's green eyes.
"Yanzi?" Lu Buliang was obviously startled by Dugu Yan who suddenly appeared in front of him, "Why are you here? This is the boys' dormitory!"
Dugu Yan frowned, "What's wrong with the boys' dormitory? There's no sign saying girls are not allowed to enter!"
"You're really a genius." Lu Buliang didn't say this out loud, but just complained in his heart.
Why is it that the girls' dormitory has a sign saying "No Boys Allowed" but the boys' dormitory doesn't?
"No wonder there is such a big gap between us." Dugu Yan said in surprise, "Lü Buliang, it turns out that you have been practicing secretly at night without telling us!"
Lü Buliang took back his soul ring and soul power, and sneered, "Yanzi, don't try to comfort yourself. Even if you practice secretly every night, you can't beat me. The gap between us is not as simple as you think."
Dugu Yan couldn't stand Lü Buliang's sarcastic tone, so she put her hands on her waist and shouted, "Can you please speak properly? How come your tongue is more poisonous than mine?"
"Really?" Lu Buliang smiled jokingly, "Have you ever tasted it? How do you know my tongue is more poisonous than yours?"
Dugu Yan felt even more annoyed. She couldn't beat him, and her sharp tongue, which she was proud of, couldn't defeat him. How could she have such a disgusting guy in her college life? It was really unpleasant to be suppressed in every way.
"I've finished my training. You can stay here as long as you want." As he spoke, Lu Buliang stood up and walked towards the stairs.
"Wait a minute." Dugu Yan suddenly stopped him, "So this is what you meant by 'still need to practice'."
"What do you mean?" Lu Buliang was puzzled.
Dugu Yan said, "In the practical class this morning, you said that we should have the courage to face failure. If we lose, we lose, which means we have to practice more. It turns out that you were not talking nonsense. You have always practiced more diligently than us."
"Not really." Lu Buliang explained, "I neglected my training in the afternoon, so I wanted to spend some time to make up for it at night. It just happened that you saw me. It's getting late, Yanzi, go back to bed. If you are too lazy to walk back to the girls' dormitory, you can sleep in my room. My bed is big and comfortable."
"Your bed is not as big as mine, nor as comfortable as mine!" Dugu Yan replied unwillingly.
Lu Buliang smiled, "Then let's compete to see whose bed is bigger and more comfortable."
"How do we compete?" Dugu Yan challenged.
Lü Buliang smiled and said, "You sleep on my bed tonight, and I will sleep on your bed tomorrow night."
"Do you really think I'm stupid and easy to fool?" After saying that, Dugu Yan rolled her eyes at Lu Buliang and jumped off the roof, then walked back to the girls' dormitory.
Back in the dormitory, Dugu Yan stayed up late to practice. She had already lost to Lu Buliang in control ability, and she didn't want to lose in diligence as well.
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