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Chapter 15: The Opportunity
"Heh~" Ye Lingling's eyes flickered. "You talk a better game than you play."
"Setting aside the fact that support system Titled Douluos are extremely rare in this World, do you really think you can become a Titled Douluo?"
"Otherwise?" Zhao Liuyun raised an eyebrow, asking back as if it were a matter of course.
"If one harbors doubts about themselves, how can they ever hope to scale the heights of the Titled realm?"
"I will only hold firm to my convictions, charging forward without ever looking back!"
His courage, naturally, came from the Profession Panel.
It wasn't that Zhao Liuyun hadn't considered what would happen if he didn't have this heaven-sent opportunity... but there are no 'ifs' in life!
On a path already set, why bother with hypotheses?
There is only forward!
His almost blind confidence was like a beam of scorching light, piercing through the layers of bewildered haze in Ye Lingling's heart.
Just like a ray of brilliant golden light breaking through the clouds when dark clouds press down upon a city.
Or like a lighthouse suddenly lit on a dark coast, guiding a lost, lonely boat.
Ye Lingling stared blankly at the person before her, etching this somewhat flamboyant face deep into her heart.
Using this deep impression as a catalyst, Zhao Liuyun performed Hypnosis, completely transforming her stagnant heart—which had been shrouded in loneliness but was gradually becoming active—into living water.
Solitude and loneliness gradually dissipated like morning mist; though other emotions would take time to settle, her entire being no longer bore the look of death.
Her eyes, clear as autumn water, lingered on Zhao Liuyun's face for a long time.
"I'm leaving~"
It wasn't until he felt puzzled that Ye Lingling suddenly turned around, her sleeves fluttering as she left in a hurry.
"She actually said goodbye..."
Watching her receding back, Zhao Liuyun felt joy at this tiny change.
It wasn't a waste of his effort to twist that lifeless personality around.
These two months hadn't been for nothing... and so another two months flew by.
In his fourth month in Heaven Dou City, Zhao Liuyun practiced tirelessly and successfully broke through to Level 25.
Every day, the Ye Family's Library continued to steadily provide 120 points of general experience.
In the afternoons, he saw patients at the Medical Hall. Most of the patients' ailments were common, but the sheer volume of people made up for it.
Zhao Liuyun could gain nearly 40 Physician Profession experience points a day; accumulated over time, it was close to 1,200 points a month.
In four months, that was 4,800 points.
The Physician Profession originally had 5,319 points, and he had successfully reached the cap of 10,000 Professional Experience.
[Profession: Physician Lv1 (10119/10000)]
After reaching the cap, the experience bar continued to accumulate.
As Zhao Liuyun expected, the other condition for the second Change Profession—besides experience—surfaced.
[Successfully treat over a thousand people (592/1000), or cure an extremely difficult-to-heal illness]
The former was time-consuming and laborious, but it could be achieved gradually.
The latter seemed like a slim hope; after all, an illness recognized by the Panel as extremely difficult to cure must be beyond the reach of medicine and Spirit Masters alike.
However, Zhao Liuyun's heart stirred; he happened to know a perfect candidate—
Dugu Bo.
Poisoned to the marrow, terminally ill!
The solution only required following Tang San's example.
At this thought, Zhao Liuyun's mind became active.
Many of the plans involved could not bypass the key figure of Dugu Bo. He began to calculate how to use Ye Lingling to get in touch with Dugu Yan.
It wasn't necessarily that he needed a deep friendship; he just needed a chance to see her up close, and then he could seek out Dugu Bo for contact.
He was still thinking about how to make it more natural, but he didn't expect the opportunity to arrive on its own.
In the two months since their last conversation, Ye Lingling had watched Zhao Liuyun's spirit power progress steadily. Matching the conviction he had shown before, the vague silhouette in her heart became increasingly clear.
The ice in her heart melted, and her emotions became more distinct.
These changes reflected outwardly as more luster in her beautiful eyes and more diligent cultivation.
The men were careless, and Ye Lingling was habitually silent, essentially an invisible person in the team, so they didn't notice.
However, as one of the only two women on the Tiandou Royal Academy team, Dugu Yan keenly captured this subtle difference.
She leaned close to Ye Lingling, and after looking her over carefully, asked with a playful smile, "Has some happy event befallen you recently, little sister? I see a sparkle in your eyes; it's like your whole person has come to life."
One's spiritual aura is the best reflection of their state of mind.
This was what it meant to be radiant.
"What happy event could there be?" Ye Lingling shook her head gently.
"I don't believe it!" Dugu Yan gave a light snort and reached out to grab her arm. "Let me guess—could it be that this block of wood has finally wised up and has someone she likes in her heart?"
She blinked with a hint of mischief: "Which young master is it? Tell me so your big sister can help you vet him."
Ye Lingling subconsciously bit her lower lip. A lean figure flashed through her mind, and a faint blush couldn't help but rise on her cheeks, like the sunset reflecting on snow.
"It's not liking, just amazement," she hurriedly changed the subject, her voice soft. "Do you remember what I told you before, about the Reserve Guest Elder my father recently recruited?"
"The one named Zhao Liuyun?" Dugu Yan raised an eyebrow.
A minor Spirit Master newly recruited by the Ye Family wasn't famous; he was supposedly a genius discovered among ordinary low-level Spirit Masters.
But which family didn't have a few geniuses?
She hadn't taken it to heart before.
Ye Lingling wouldn't blabber about her family's Reserve Guest Elder's cultivation speed to outsiders either.
She nodded, but a hint of amazement couldn't help but leak from her eyes: "When I went home last time, I heard he already broke through to Level 25. He was only Level 24 when he arrived. It won't be long before he catches up to me!"
"That is quite fast..."
Dugu Yan was stunned for a moment, then her eyes darted around as her smile deepened: "Don't try to gloss over it. Do you like him?"
"Sister Yan!" Ye Lingling became anxious.
She couldn't explain that hazy feeling in her heart, but it was certainly different from how she felt about ordinary people.
"Hehe, you're shy, aren't you?" Dugu Yan chuckled, tightening her grip on her arm for fear she would turn and run.
Then she reached out to gently stroke her soft hair and whispered in her ear:
"How about bringing him to the academy to hang out next week? Let big sister help you vet him properly."
"I..." Ye Lingling wanted to say something,
But she was stopped by Dugu Yan raising her hand.
"You're simple-minded, like an innocent little white flower. How can I not keep an eye on things for you?"
A pair of emerald eyes stared fixedly into Ye Lingling's deep blue eyes.
"No refusing!"
After a long time, Ye Lingling gave in and lowered her head, softly replying, "Then I'll bring him over next week."
...Returning home for the weekend, Ye Lingling tossed and turned in bed alone. After thinking for a long time, she finally chose to seek out Zhao Liuyun while he was reading in the Library.
"Liuyun."
She omitted his surname, carrying a hint of intimacy.
"Does Sister Lingling have something to say?" Zhao Liuyun looked up calmly, a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Ye Lingling rarely appeared in the Library; at least in all the time he had been browsing the records, he had never run into her once.
"Could it be that Aunt Yun told you to take me out to play again?"
Yun Ying knew it was Zhao Liuyun's lofty ambitions and full-blooded passion that had influenced her daughter.
Whether a marriage could be formed was one thing, but this already made her quite pleasantly surprised.
Over the past two months, she had repeatedly used the excuse of having Zhao Liuyun familiarize himself with Heaven Dou City to arrange for Ye Lingling to take him out.
"Um... Mom asked me to take you to see the academy I attend." Ye Lingling had been weighing her words, and Zhao Liuyun's words happened to give her an excuse.
Only that "Um" had a slightly emphasized tail note.
Zhao Liuyun could sense that her heart was racing like a frightened deer, with shyness mixed with a bit of nervousness.
A lie... If you can't lie with a straight face and believe the lie yourself, how can you fool others?
You still need practice, young lady~
Smiling inwardly, Zhao Liuyun asked, "Okay, when?"
Presumably, it was her teammates who wanted to see him.
What had Ye Lingling said?
Whatever, it wasn't important; as long as he could see Dugu Yan, it was fine.
"Tomorrow, I'll take you there tomorrow," Ye Lingling answered softly, her fingertips unconsciously gripping the corner of her clothes.
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