Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 1051 - 1049: Studying Diligently

In just a few days, under Zhou Bai's pressure, Zuo Dao, Qian Wangsun, Jing Xiu, Xia Li, and others learned a vast amount of knowledge from the Heavenly Demon's data, belonging to Homo sapiens.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry, history, politics, and then biology and computer science added by Zhou Bai later, allowed them to gradually understand the essence of the Heavenly Demon's existence and operate mechanical familiars for various courses of study.

Using the cultivators' ability to rapidly input information with their Primordial Spirit power, alongside their already highly developed brains, and the incredible learning capability enhanced under high pressure, they learned everything at an astonishing pace.

Zuo Dao, under Zhou Bai's urging, even pushed his path transformation degree to over 90% in less than three months.

Even with such high learning efficiency, forcing nine or more years of knowledge into their brains in just a few days still required immense perseverance and endurance.

Especially since the learning content was no longer various physical training or indescribable, elusive insights, but a completely different type and style of knowledge than what Zuo Dao and the others had encountered before,

Zhou Bai decided to constantly encourage them 24 hours a day, using love to inspire them to have more learning motivation.

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In the temporary classroom, Zuo Dao, Jing Xiu, Xia Li, Lu Wanzhen, Liu Bingxin, Xu Qizhang... each student sat on metal chairs, or rather, had their hands and feet firmly bound to the chairs with nanomaterial by the Heavenly Demon familiars.

Even their necks were fixed directly with metal frames, preventing them from turning their heads, forcing them to stare intently at the giant screens before them, which were playing various courses at several hundred times the normal speed.

Of course, the playback speed varied for each person, as everyone's learning capability differed, so Zhou Bai chose to play the courses at the maximum readable speed limit for each individual.

For example, Zuo Dao had a playback speed of 151 times, while Jing Xiu had a playback speed of 125 times.

But in any case, these speeds were nearly the limits of their Primordial Spirit power and brain capacity to learn the knowledge; they had to invest themselves wholly to learn, absorb, understand, and think.

This process was anything but easy; it was extremely exhausting and painful.

Besides focusing on the screen for studying, they also had to use their Primordial Spirit power to operate keyboards for input, solving numerous problems.

This part was even more tedious and wearisome than the learning itself.

In just a few days, they progressed from elementary to middle school, then from middle school to high school. The entire process was akin to studying without pause, without play or rest, for seven or eight continuous years, inflating their study fatigue to a frenzied level.

"If learning doesn't kill you, then learn until it does!" Zhou Bai shouted with his Primordial Spirit power: "Endure the toughest hardships to become the best among men!"

"Jing Xiu! You've been eating for a whole 6 minutes already, haven't you had enough? You still have 22,000 math problems left to solve today!"

Jing Xiu closed her eyes and said painfully: "It's too much! Mathematics, physics, chemistry, just learning them every day is already exhausting, so why so many problems as well? I say, Brother Zhou..."

"Don't call me Brother, once you're in the classroom, call me Teacher Zhou!"

Zhou Bai shouted: "Studying without solving problems is like studying in vain! If you don't solve problems, how will you change your previous way of thinking? How will you engrain the knowledge you've learned into your mind? You not only need to do more! You need to do them crazily! To an explosive degree! To integrate this knowledge into your very bloodstream!"

Seeing Jing Xiu's pained expression, Zhou Bai patted her shoulder and said: "Jing Xiu, I also don't want to make you suffer like this. But you are not a supreme genius like me, for geniuses like you who are ordinary but excellent, apart from problem tactics, there are no other ways..."

"Ugh!" Xia Li, seeing the densely packed problems before her, suddenly vomited.

"Xia Li?" Zhou Bai walked over, surprised and concerned: "You've studied so much you've started vomiting? Are you alright?"

Xia Li looked pitifully at Zhou Bai: "I feel like if this continues, I'll mutate... Can I... Can I rest for half an hour?"

Zhou Bai laughed: "Silly child, who ever heard of developing mutations from studying math? You just ate too much."

"It's just right, I noticed in the Heavenly Demon Database there's a record of nutritional paste, from today on you'll be eating that."

Xia Li stared speechless at Zhou Bai, wishing she could swallow back all the vomit from earlier.

Then Zhou Bai turned his attention to Zuo Dao, who was distracted beside him, his Primordial Spirit power surged forward, engaging in high-speed communication with him.

"Zuo Dao, discuss the content of socialism's public ownership economy. Also discuss the ownership structure at the primary stage of socialism."

"Also talk about the impact of culture on people and society."

"What are the basic principles of dialectical materialism?"

After listening to all of Zuo Dao's answers, Zhou Bai nodded reluctantly: "Keep working hard, your current level is just about equivalent to an ordinary 16-year-old Homo sapien."

"Homo sapiens learned this stuff at 16?" Zuo Dao looked horrified, unable to help but wonder what kind of childhood those ancient Homo sapiens had, were they not driven insane? Were they all monsters?

This learning experience over the past few days made him feel tangibly that studying Homo sapiens' knowledge was far more troublesome than practicing the Dao, unlike Daoist canons which are primarily about enlightenment, which one either understands or doesn't.

But now, after studying these past few days, he finds sometimes he feels he's understood something, only to later find he hasn't, then later thinks he understands again.

The number of 'whys' he's pondered these past few days is almost more than all the 'whys' he's thought about in the past decade.

Zuo Dao thought to himself: "This aligns with the principle that things always develop spirally and progress in waves..." He suddenly clutched his face: "Damn it... Why did I suddenly think of that?"

However, Zuo Dao also couldn't deny that this knowledge seemed so reasonable that he could find various theories in reality to explain the phenomenons he observed. This summary of the entire world and society was knowledge he had never encountered before.

Many past misunderstandings about the present human world seemed to have clarified over these past few days.

'But this stuff can be studied endlessly without worrying about madness or mutation, you can study it without rest, without end…' Zuo Dao couldn't help but wonder to himself: 'Is this bliss or torture?'

On the other side, Liu Bingxin looked at Zhou Bai coming towards her, the senior sister who had once practiced sword diagrams with him now looked pale and haggard, suddenly feeling a current of electricity directly enter her body from her back, causing her to shudder.

Liu Bingxin quickly shouted: "I wasn't distracted! I wasn't distracted!"

Zhou Bai sighed: "Liu, the electricity is on you, but the pain is in my heart. Remember, studying isn't for me, it's for yourself, for all of humanity. I hope you study well and make progress every day, don't waste the hard-won opportunity before you."

Looking at Zhou Bai's smug appearance, she couldn't help but ask: "Zhou Bai, don't you have to study with us?" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Zhou Bai looked down at them disdainfully: "These past few days, you've learned from elementary schoolers of Homo sapiens, progressed to middle schoolers, and now you're studying high school material, but I've already learned all this stuff long ago.

I've not only finished learning high school content, I've even gone beyond high school level and reached the realm of a university graduate."

"From my perspective as a university graduate, the things you high schoolers are learning don't even count as surface level knowledge."

The others couldn't help but look over, and Jing Xiu was shocked: "Brother Zhou… Teacher Zhou, is university learning much harder than this?"

Zhou Bai: "Hmph, what is university? Beyond university, there's graduate school, doctoral studies. Even after becoming a PhD, that's just the beginning; beyond that, there are associate professors, professors, Changjiang Scholars, academicians..."

Hearing this, everyone present felt a chill down their spines, speculating in their hearts what kind of things would they possibly be learning above that, and would they really not go mad or mutate?