Grinding Skills in a Supernatural World

“Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will reveal itself. That really is a timeless truth!” Tian Lin discovered that simply reading any cultivation technique once was enough to increase his proficiency in it. So even though he’d hated studying in his previous life, now he’d learned to steal the light through a hole in the wall. Unfortunately, no one understood his diligence and love of learning. He often heard uncouth complaints like: “Which plague-ridden thief drilled through my wall and stole all the Daoist books in my house?” As it happened, the nastier their insults, the more disdainfully Tian Lin replied: “As Confucius said, can you really call it stealing when it’s a scholar doing it?”