82: Chapter 82: The Power of Suppression 82: Chapter 82: The Power of Suppression The woman’s words didn’t surprise Chen Hai much.

After all, these days, it was incredibly difficult for powerless commoners to get anything done at these bureaucratic departments.

“Sister, could you please help me out?”

“I’ve already been to the school once, and they couldn’t find my exam results at all!”

“If I had any other choice, I wouldn’t have made the journey of dozens of miles from town to the county!”

…

It took nearly half an hour, but after much coaxing and pleading, the woman finally nodded and reluctantly agreed to his request.

“Name, and which school?

What’s your exam hall ticket number?” Putting aside the Zhi Yin magazine she was holding, the woman lazily stood up and asked.

“My name is Chen Hai, from Class 103 at Wuyang Town Middle School, and my exam hall ticket number is…”

Worried that the woman would forget his information as soon as she turned her head,

Chen Hai decided to write down his basic information on a piece of A4 paper and handed it to her.

“Chen Hai from Wuyang Town Middle School?

Alright, I’ve got it!”

“I’ll go check your scores.

You wait here for me and remember, don’t go running off anywhere!”

The woman nodded, gave Chen Hai a few words of caution, and, holding the piece of A4 paper, walked out of the office.

Seeing is believing.

Although the woman had agreed to check his college entrance exam scores, Chen Hai didn’t put all his hopes on her.

As soon as the woman turned her back, Chen Hai found a chair to sit on and closed his eyes slightly.

“Soul departure…” His Divine Soul leaped out from his Physical Body.

Having entered the Day Tour Realm, his soul could move freely during the day, except in stormy weather.

He planned to follow the woman

and witness firsthand his real scores on the education department’s record when she checked them.

Unfortunately, reality hardly ever went as one wishes.

The moment Chen Hai’s soul departed, a force as heavy as a mountain descended upon him,

and moving was as difficult as if he were carrying a small mountain on his back.

Grinding his teeth, he moved step by step until he reached the office door, but by then the woman had long since disappeared.

“The education department, much like a department of the old government office, carries the karma of humanity and the responsibility of suppressing evil from all sides.”

“Throughout history, those with unusual abilities tend to avoid dealing much with people from the government office, primarily due to this suppressive force, is that why?”

…

With this sudden insight, Chen Hai wore a look of helplessness as he slowly moved back to his seat and returned to his body.

Protected by his flesh, the invisible suppressive force vanished the instant he returned to his body, as if it had never been there.

The educational department, merely a part of the county government office, had such a significant impact on his Divine Soul.

Should he venture into the central authority of Yanhuang Country, his soul would probably be obliterated before it could even enter.

Up until recently, when he earned tens of thousands from Boss Li, he often felt that with his Taoist Skills, he could do anything.

But now, he suddenly realized that in the face of certain things, his skills were somewhat powerless.

“Maybe I feel this way because I’m not strong enough yet!”

“After the Day Tour Realm, the next level is the Object Controlling Realm.”

“Once in this Realm, with my ethereal Divine Soul, I can manipulate physical objects.”

“If I had the strength of the Object Controlling Realm, then surely this little suppressive force here wouldn’t affect me!”

Chen Hai thought silently to himself.

He had exhausted every effort to enter the Day Tour Realm before the college entrance exam.

But after it, without the sense of urgency, his Cultivation had become noticeably lax compared to before.

Soul departure, Night Tour, and Day Tour, these three Realms are actually just the beginning stages of Taoist skill Cultivation.

The Object Controlling Realm is entirely different.

Stepping into this Realm reveals the formidable capabilities of his skills.

At that point, even an embroidery needle in Chen Hai’s hands could become a lethal weapon.

Saying he could kill someone unseen from a thousand miles away might be an exaggeration,

yet within a few hundred meters, he should be able to dispatch someone without alerting anyone.

But advancing from the Day Tour Realm to the Object Controlling Realm was tremendously difficult.

The Nameless Ancient Book he got from Limp Zhang only recorded the first three stages of Cultivation.

It was mainly from what he glimpsed of that terrifying existence that he learned about the Object Controlling Realm.

He hadn’t forgotten to continue his Cultivation after stepping into the Day Tour Realm, but up to now, he had made only a bit of progress.

To put it in more understandable terms, Chen Hai was in the early stages of the Day Tour Realm.

This was the progress he made after consuming a third of the power from the Weasel Demon behind Mrs.

Ge.

Otherwise, with regular Cultivation, he would just be entering the Day Tour Realm, even calling it the early stages would be a stretch.

With his current pace, he didn’t know how much time it would take to advance further into the Object Controlling Realm.

‘Clomp, clomp, clomp…’

A sound of footsteps woke Chen Hai from his distant thoughts.

The woman had been gone from the office for over half an hour already.

To think it took so long just to check an exam score.

She finally re-entered the office, appearing before Chen Hai.

“Chen Hai, right?

I’ve checked your exam score for you!”

“One hundred eighty-six points.

Out of the tens of thousands in the county, you ranked eighth from last.”

“My suggestion to you is to accept your fate and face the reality.

Your score is what it is, no matter where you check, it’s going to be the same!”

Her attitude toward Chen Hai was somewhat tolerable before,

but returning now, she was colder, with an air of keeping people at a thousand miles distance.

After sizing up Chen Hai for a moment, she seemed to want to say something more, but ultimately, she didn’t speak further.