Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 138 Words become law, the power of fire!

"One hour of self-study time."

The corridor was quiet, with the midday sun casting its warm rays on Lu Mingfei. Stacks of books lined the passageway, and the cold wind, no longer biting, even carried a hint of warmth, rustling the still-green leaves.

As Lu Mingfei walked, he leaned against the railing and gazed into the distance. In a daze, he felt as if summer had arrived, and he had just left the Chinese college entrance examination hall, marking the beginning of the end of his high school life and the start of a brand new stage in his life.

Fortunately, his down jacket brought him back to reality.

He went downstairs to the floor where the second-year high school classrooms were already open for the holidays.

Classrooms on holiday are naturally locked, both the doors and the windows.

But this blockade is actually ineffective.

Unlike the north, where school buildings are mostly enclosed by stainless steel security netting or designed as completely closed structures, southern school buildings have open, unobstructed windows in corridors and classrooms. The classroom windows are horizontal sliding windows with plastic edges. The locking mechanism is a crescent-shaped lock that latches when pushed upwards.

Because the design typically provides ample space, opening up this type of old-fashioned structure is quite simple.

Lu Mingfei grabbed both sides of a window, gently pulled it outwards, and then swayed it left and right. With a soft "click," the latch came off. With a gentle push, it slid open with a whoosh.

Almost everyone in the class knows this trick. Shilan Middle School had considered replacing the windows with aluminum alloy ones, but the students collectively opposed it—they rely on this trick when they forget their keys and want to get into the classroom!
There's nothing valuable in the classroom anyway. What thief would bother causing trouble here for a bunch of books that can't be sold?
Lu Mingfei nimbly jumped in through the window. He had intended to start studying right there, but in the south, winters without air conditioning are colder indoors than outdoors. Thinking of the perfect weather outside, he simply moved a chair and sat in the empty corridor.

After finishing this process, he had just saved three minutes from the countdown timer on his schedule.

Basking in the sun, Lu Mingfei was about to begin his leisurely activity when he saw semi-transparent characters appear before his eyes.

[Warning: Exam scheduled has been completed. It is time for your study session...]

The content was as expected.

But an idea suddenly popped into Lu Mingfei's mind.

Does studying on your own necessarily require learning subject-specific knowledge?
When filling out the schedule, he was lazy and simply wrote "self-study" without specifying "what to study".

Therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as it conforms to the behavior of "learning," then...

With this in mind, Lu Mingfei decided to give it a try.

But besides academic subjects, what else is worth learning?

The answer came naturally—the piano.

To be precise, it is an "arrangement" of the true meaning of fire.

On the one hand, it had been almost five or six days since Lu Mingfei obtained the term "Words Become Law," and he hadn't used it yet, so he was a little itchy to try.

On the other hand, if the arrangement speed is not increased... by the time the piano lesson is finished tomorrow and the sheet music is completed, Chu Zihang may not have enough time to turn it into a duet.

As for the method, it's actually very simple. You don't need to look for a piano. When it comes to arranging music, if you want to find the notes that match your own feelings, what's the difference between humming them yourself and trying to play them on the piano?
If an uninformed arranger heard this absurd logic, he would probably be furious.

Is composing music such a simple and casual thing?
But Lu Mingfei just felt he could do it, so he actually did it... and he actually succeeded!
The warning countdown did not sound.

This phenomenon delighted Lu Mingfei! It seemed his guess was correct; self-study did not restrict the direction of learning?
If we were to try learning about "rest"...

[Warning, electric shock countdown...]

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I've confessed!"

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself, but in reality, he began to make more attempts.

After a simple experiment and using up several warning opportunities, he successfully concluded that there were indeed limitations; during self-study, one could only study items on the schedule!

As expected, the schedule clearly wouldn't give him a chance to slack off...

The notes formed a silent melody that flowed through his mind. Lu Mingfei hummed softly to ensure that each note corresponded to the scenes and insights he had experienced.

This is the correct way to use the phrase "Words become law"—by chanting.

He needs to "speak" the true meaning of fire, and the way to do that, of course, is through his mouth.

You can't really carry a piano with you around, set it up before a fight, and tell the enemy, "Don't rush, let me play a tune first"... If you have that kind of free time to cosplay Zhuge Liang, the enemy might not be willing to cooperate and act as Sima Yi!

Just like the dragon's Word of Power, many Words of Power require "incantation" to be activated at a high intensity when used, and the two are quite similar in principle.

Of course, they are not completely similar.

The biggest difference is that Lu Mingfei learned from Chu Zihang that the hybrids' ability to "recite" the Word of Power is not actually learned, but is activated entirely through a method called "bloodline inheritance" of the dragon bloodline within them.

All you need to do is awaken your bloodline, and you'll naturally acquire it.

However, his "words become law" were entirely based on his own summarization, induction, transformation, and writing.

To give a more common example, the former is someone who inherits his ancestors' wealth, while he is a self-made man who built his fortune from scratch!

"Something that went through so much trouble to get can't be that bad, right?" Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

He became completely immersed, entering a state of "flow" that he was already accustomed to. He simply hummed the corresponding sounds, rather than having to find the corresponding keys on the piano, which naturally reduced the difficulty considerably.

With the added experience from the previous writing, Lu Mingfei's progress can be described as "lightning fast".

He finished in just twenty-three minutes, before the bell rang to signal the end of the Chinese exam!
"call……"

Lu Mingfei let out a long sigh of relief.

"Try?"

This idea popped up like a spark, instantly igniting a prairie fire.

A long-lost, tingling sensation, almost like an itch, welled up in my heart. It was a subjective feeling projected by adrenaline and noradrenaline entering my bloodstream, a sensation that usually appeared before the starting gun for a 100-meter sprint.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down and think things through carefully.

"Although this entry will consume a lot of mental and physical energy, it depends on the scope and intensity of the influence. As long as I control it a little, and exert a slight influence in a very small area, it should not be a problem with my current physical and mental strength!"
Besides, the exam wasn't over yet, and there was no one else on campus..."

Of course, Lu Mingfei did not forget that there was still surveillance footage.

But putting aside the fact that Lu Mingfei only intended to "dabble" in it, even if he accidentally caused a bit of a commotion... he was just "humming a song," and humming a song isn't illegal!
Unlike dragon-like incantations, the use of the schedule entry is not like having a pair of golden eyes brighter than a light bulb; it happens without warning.

Who can connect the two?
With the reasons sound, let's begin.

Lu Mingfei began to sing softly.

[Words become law], activated!

A brand new, completely unfamiliar world opened its doors to Lu Mingfei.

He stepped inside.

These past few days, Lu Mingfei has felt that he can now clearly perceive those elusive "little elves" again.

They are the essence of "fire," the element called "fire"!

Like ascending the final throne, all that can be seen is their submission!

Never before had the power of fire been so clearly held in his hands. In that instant, Lu Mingfei felt omnipotent. From the smallest place in front of him, to a street, a district, or even a city... he could command and control everything related to "fire"!

It only requires a tiny bit of physical and mental effort...

wrong!

Lu Mingfei suddenly woke up, his back instantly soaked with cold sweat. The feeling of having absolute power in his hands was so wonderful and so hard to let go that he almost let himself go!
If I could really control changes across an entire city, wouldn't I instantly turn into a dried-up corpse?
But if you only control an area the size of a fingernail, it would be such a waste for a "first time"...

As Lu Mingfei pondered this, his gaze fell upon an area on the playground—the school's basketball court. It had been repaired and upgraded, but remained fenced off and not yet open to the public.

"Just there."

He had a thought in his mind.

He selected an area the size of a full-length basketball court, and then...

"leave."

So, in this sunny weather, with temperatures nearing 20 degrees Celsius.

The fire element began to retreat at breakneck speed!

It's as if God drew a region with a wave of his hand and said to that place, "Be cold."

The temperature began to plummet at an alarming rate, instantly dropping below zero! The water vapor in the air was forced to condense upon encountering the sudden cold, and silvery-white frost began to spread at a visible speed, covering the basketball court in the blink of an eye!

"Cancel!"

Lu Mingfei canceled the phrase "Words become law".

He had to cancel; as that surreal scene unfolded, his physical and mental strength was draining away at an alarming rate!
"Even using a water pump wouldn't be this fast..."

He thought to himself, then sat down wearily in a chair, but then laughed.

It doesn't matter how much energy is consumed... As long as it's strong, all this hard work will be worthwhile!

He had confirmed that this control over "fire" was not just a boast, but truly all-powerful!

It only requires a thought.

"If in the future, when I have enough physical strength and energy, then the legendary King of Bronze and Fire will come..."

He couldn't help but start daydreaming.

"I wonder who has the better control over fire?"

(End of this chapter)