Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Chapter 74, Day 1

Su Qianxue's dormitory door was knocked on at 6:58 a.m.

Murong Qingfeng stood outside the door, already dressed in the black training uniform issued by the training center. The design of the uniform was much cleaner than the one at the academy, with no unnecessary decorations, only a small golden dragon embroidered on the left chest. The cuffs and trouser legs were tightly fitted, suitable for high-intensity exercise.

Su Qianxue emerged two minutes later. She was wearing the same training outfit, her white face contrasting sharply with the black fabric. Her hair was braided and coiled at the back of her head, and she didn't take out her Moon Crown Staff.

Yichen perched on her shoulder, his golden cat fur gleaming in the morning light.

"I drafted the training plan last night." Murong Qingfeng handed her a piece of paper.

Su Qianxue took it and glanced at it.

The paper was covered with dense writing.

6:00 AM to 8:00 AM: Basic physical techniques and spiritual energy circulation. 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM: Simulated combat. 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM: Skill refinement. 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM: Technique deduction and meditation.

Fourteen hours a day.

Su Qianxue folded the paper twice and stuffed it into her pocket: "Let's go."

The training facilities at the training center are completely different from those at the Imperial Academy in the capital.

Yesterday, from a distance of several hundred meters, it only seemed big. But after going inside, I realized that "big" is far from enough.

The training grounds were divided into twelve independent zones, each separated by psionic barriers to prevent interference. Some zones were experiencing rain, others were swirling storms, and still others had lava-covered ground—all simulated environments.

Murong Qingfeng led Su Qianxue into Area Seven.

As soon as the door closed, the lights on all four walls came on.

"This is the Imperial military's 'Sky Dome' simulation system." Murong Qingfeng walked to the control panel and slid his finger across the control panel. "It can simulate any known battle scenario, including the type, number, and level of the alien beasts, as well as the temperature, humidity, and terrain of the environment—all of which can be adjusted. The accuracy error is no more than three percent."

She entered a series of parameters.

The scene at the training ground began to change.

The white walls disappeared. In their place lay a vast wasteland, with a high sky, a scorching sun, and the ground cracked with spiderweb-like fissures.

Then the sun began to expand.

One time, five times, ten times, twenty times.

The sun occupies an increasingly larger area of ​​the sky, transforming from a disc into half of the celestial dome.

The intensity of light radiation soared, and heat waves pressed down in layers, making even the air tremble.

Fifty times.

Eighty times.

One hundred times.

The entire simulation space transformed into a giant furnace. The concentration of light-elemental spiritual energy was pushed to an insane level, with free-floating light elemental particles filling the air and visible golden dust drifting around.

Su Qianxue squinted. A burning, stinging sensation was already spreading across her skin.

"Unleash your Light-type skills in this environment." Murong Qingfeng retreated into the isolation shield behind the control panel. "The sun is magnified a hundredfold, meaning the environmental amplification of Light-type spiritual power is a hundred times greater than normal. Every skill you use will be amplified, but at the same time, the precision required for controlling spiritual power is also a hundred times greater. A slight loss of control will result in self-destruction."

Su Qianxue raised her hand.

Shield of Light.

A golden shield of light unfolded in front of his arm, then expanded. It expanded wildly. Amplified by sunlight a hundredfold, the shield, originally two meters in diameter, instantly stretched to ten meters. Its spiritual energy structure was deformed by the impact of the external light elements, and its edges began to crack.

She frowned and pressed both hands back simultaneously. It took three adjustments to the rhythm of her spiritual energy output to stabilize it, and the diameter of the light shield shrank back to about four meters, stopping the cracking at the edges.

"Alright. Maintain this state while releasing the Judgment of Light."

Su Qianxue controlled the shield with her left hand and condensed the Judgment of Light with her right.

A giant sword formed from pure light took shape above her head.

Light element particles from the simulated environment surged wildly towards the sword, tripling its size in half a second. Sweat beaded on her forehead.

Yichen had already jumped off her shoulder and squatted down next to the control panel.

[Dual-wielding Light-based skills under a 100x solar environment—this training intensity is something the academy wouldn't even dare to design in their wildest dreams. But for Qianxue, this is precisely the most effective method. Forcing her to re-honed her spiritual power precision under high pressure is ten times faster than slowly meditating.]

He glanced at Murong Qingfeng.

What did this woman do on the control panel again?

Five phantom figures appeared out of nowhere on the wasteland.

Five ninth-tier exotic beasts—two fire-type griffins, one dark-type shadow serpent, one wind-type thunder phoenix, and one ice-type frost giant—formed a semi-circle and approached Su Qianxue.

Su Qianxue held up a shield with one hand and controlled her sword with the other, while also having to deal with threats from five directions.

The first fire-type griffin charged forward.

The greatsword of Light's Judgment struck down, its power three times greater than expected. The sword's light pierced through the ground of the simulated space, cleaving the fire-type griffin in two. However, Su Qianxue's spiritual energy output was briefly interrupted by this strike; the light shield in her left hand trembled and shrank by half a circle.

The Dark Serpent seized the opportunity, emerging from the crack in the ground, its black fangs lunging towards her waist.

Su Qianxue dodged to the side. Her reaction speed was fine; the fighting instincts of the Empress from her previous life were ingrained in her bones. However, her body couldn't keep up, and her dodge was half an inch off. The Shadow Serpent's fangs grazed her training clothes at the side of her waist, leaving a gash.

"Not fast enough." Murong Qingfeng's voice came from inside the isolation barrier. "Your judgment is correct, but the efficiency of your spiritual power driving your muscles is still lacking. Try again."

A new batch of simulated alien beasts has been spawned.

This time there are five peak ninth-tier beasts.

Su Qianxue wiped the sweat from her forehead and raised her right hand again.

The training continued until noon.

In six hours, Su Qianxue fought forty-seven simulated battles and was "killed" twenty-two times. There were more than a dozen tears of various sizes on her training uniform, and several strands of hair came out of her braids, sticking to her forehead and neck.

Her face was very pale, but her eyes were brighter than in the morning.

Yichen jumped back onto her shoulder.

[Ding! Warmth value +200! (Owner's hard work in training has boosted the cat's adorable appearance!)]

His tail swayed.

[Training hard also gives you warmth points? System, just how many kinds of bonus mechanisms do you have? Oh well, whatever the name, as long as it brings in money.]

At noon, in the restaurant.

The training center's cafeteria is on the first floor of Building 2. It's not very big, with eight long tables. The decor isn't fancy; it has gray and white walls, a steel frame structure, and not even a single decorative painting.

But the dishes are different.

Every dish on the serving counter had an absurdly high concentration of spiritual energy in its ingredients.

The rice being steamed is Qingyuan rice, produced deep within the Lingmai Mountains. Each grain of rice is so plump that it glows with a pale blue luminescence.

It's a soup made from the bone marrow of a sixth-tier spirit beast. A layer of golden oil floats on the surface of the soup, and the aroma is rich. You can feel the spiritual energy swirling in your nasal cavity with just one sip.

The dish features dragon's breath chili peppers paired with nine-leaf fungus, creating a striking red and green contrast. The surface of the chili peppers is coated with a very thin layer of fire element crystals.

Su Qianxue carried her tray to a corner table and sat down.

Yi Chen squatted on the table, a plate of thinly sliced ​​sixth-tier spirit beast meat in front of him. He lowered his head and took a bite.

The meat was tender and fresh, and spiritual energy seeped into his meridians from his taste buds, so smooth that he couldn't help but snore.

[Delicious. The spiritual energy contained in this dish of meat is equivalent to three days' worth of cultivation outside. How much does the food cost at the training center in a year? I dare not calculate it.]