Chapter 35

Looking at it this way, these guys are blind to Mount Tai, Xun-ge, I've decided—once I open the Heaven Earth Meridian, I'll also join Fei Tai'a.

Li Bu fan slapped his thigh hard, his eyes lit up.

You've got no chance, Fei Tai'a clearly said he only takes me as a student.

Lu Xun spoke up to dispel his thought.

Fei Tai'a's 'treasure' is aimed solely at Lu Xun.

If Li Bu fan ends up with Fei Tai'a, all he can do is cry.

Alright, I'm going to cultivate. I will definitely open the Heaven Earth Meridian; then I'll join Fu Xue—such a great beauty, you don't want her, I do.

Li Bu fan took off like he'd been injected with chicken blood, disappearing in a puff of smoke.

This kid,

Then you're bound to be disappointed.

In the tutor-selection app, there's simply no option for Fu Xue.

After Li Bu fan left, Lu Xun continued his own loafing.

Lu Xun discovered that loafing in different places really isn't the same.

Loafing at Rong Cheng No. 1 High can't compare to loafing at the top-tier Beidou University.

Beidou University's cafeteria puts Rong Cheng No. 1 High's to shame by ten blocks.

The campus is big and beautiful, making Lu Xun's strolls even more comfortable.

Moreover, watching others painfully cultivate every day, Lu Xun's cultivation rises on its own without effort, which truly lifts his mood.

Only with comparison does it become more valuable.

Murong Wan doesn't know when she'll come to the capital.

These past few days, Murong Wan has been quiet again.

Murong Wan has already been taken as a disciple by an elder of Beidou Palace, will be cultivated at Beidou University, and she will surely come sooner or later.

She hasn't come yet, possibly because Murong Zhan's injuries haven't fully healed.

On Chu Youqing's side, she hasn't messaged Lu Xun these past few days; she must be in closed-door cultivation, aiming to open her meridians.

【Chu Youqing breaks through to the tenth level of body tempering; the host gains twenty times the harvest from Chu Youqing's body tempering.】

Well then,

The harvest has arrived.

Chu Youqing's body tempering has reached the tenth level.

She used to be at the ninth level of body tempering, and now she has made a further breakthrough.

"20 times..."

After binding a second person, the system's return multiplier increased, from 10 times to 20 times.

The return became more potent, and Lu Xun's body-tempering realm rose four levels in a row, reaching the twenty-eighth level.

"Lu Xun, I've reached the tenth level of body tempering, preparing to open my meridians tomorrow; tonight let's go stroll on Qingbei Jie?"

Chu Youqing sent a message.

"Good."

Lu Xun agreed.

Qingbei Jie lies between Clear Void Academy and Beidou University, and it's the top pick for interschool couples to walk the streets.

"Youqing, why is your mom following us?"

"Never mind her."

Lu Xun discovered he and Chu Youqing now have a little follower.

Murong Yan.

These past few days, the mother and daughter are still at an impasse.

The He family's offer is too generous, especially a heaven-tier cultivation art, inclining Murong Yan toward marrying into the He family, though they haven't forced Chu Youqing.

Murong Yan has set up a shop on a street of Qingbei Jie, rented an apartment, and seems prepared to accompany her studies long-term.

To be precise, it's to prevent Chu Youqing from retracing her mother's old path and suddenly showing up pregnant one day to force a confrontation.

Chu Youqing's secondary card is still suspended.

After enrolling in the Clear Void Academy, she also received a subsidy of one thousand Dark Energy.

One thousand Dark Energy may seem a lot to ordinary people, but when truly cultivating, it's actually far from enough.

Especially for geniuses with fast cultivation speed.

"Fifty thousand Dark Energy! Lu Xun, is Fei Tai'a really this generous, giving you all that Dark Energy at once?"

"Mm, I said earlier that Fei Tai'a is a treasure tutor; now you believe it, right?"

"Mm-hmm, this time you've really picked up a treasure."

"Take it."

"Too much..."

"Just take it; once you open your meridians, your need for Dark Energy will grow, and if your cultivation doesn't improve, it proves choosing me was wrong—and you wouldn't want your parents to laugh at you, would you?"

"Alright, but this can only count as a loan; once I have money, I'll definitely pay you back."

Lu Xun slipped the ten-thousand Dark Energy card to Chu Youqing.

Not far away, Murong Yan saw Lu Xun's move, and anger flared in her beautiful eyes.

Because after Lu Xun slipped the card, he naturally took Chu Youqing's little hand.

This is tantamount to watching one's own cabbage being eaten by a pig, helplessly.

Lu Xun put his arm around Chu Youqing's waist; the two clung tightly, chatting as they walked the streets.

Only Murong Yan, that beautiful woman, remained there, feeling sulky.

"Miss, you look like my first love; can I add you on WeChat?"

"Get lost."

"Spare my life, I was wrong, I won't dare again..."

A young person wanting to avoid detours became Murong Yan's punching bag, pressed by her Third Realm martial artist's aura until they knelt and begged for mercy.

"Is your mom's temper that fiery?"

"She looks too young; whenever we go out together, people always mistake me for her sister. In Rong Cheng, whenever we go shopping, there are always many people hitting on us."

Lu Xun and Chu Youqing noticed this scene.

Murong Yan indeed looks young, but she is actually over forty; life experience has given her a maturity and charm that a girl does not possess.

Furthermore, she comes from a wealthy family, has an elegant demeanor, and both her looks and figure are top-notch.

Such her, her lethal power against some youngsters is comparable to a nuclear weapon.

Thus, the two of them pressed the road all night under Murong Yan's murderous gaze.

"Lu Xun, let's meet again next weekend."

At eight o'clock in the evening, Chu Youqing said goodbye to Lu Xun and returned to Pure Void Academy.

After Lu Xun saw her to the school gate, he turned back and glanced at Murong Yan, who was tailing from not far away, then leisurely returned to Northern Dipper University.

"Xiao Bai, it's been a week; where is the princess inside your body?"

In the middle of the night, Lu Xun woke Xiao Bai up and kept looking back and forth.

After a week passed, that princess seemed to have disappeared.

This made Lu Xun a bit less amused.

"Meow~"

Xiao Bai affectionately rubbed against Lu Xun.

Alright, this is fine too.

"Youqing, let's start."

"Okay, teacher."

Next morning.

Chu Youqing early came to the cultivation chamber.

She was ready to open the meridians.

"The components of Dark Energy are complex; use your spiritual root to filter them, store them in the dantian; when you feel your lower abdomen heating up and your dantian slightly swelling, you can then attack the first spiritual meridian..."

Chu Youqing's instructor supervised and guided her the whole time.

Having a spiritual root, one can actually cultivate directly.

But the reason we add the 'ancient' prefix to the spiritual root is that cultivation methods directly using the spiritual root are basically incomplete.

Moreover, cultivating by absorbing Dark Energy through the spiritual root is low efficiency and slow speed.

Dark Energy contains many components; different cultivators absorb different components.

The components of Dark Energy that martial cultivators can use are actually a bit more than those that immortal cultivators can use, and there are many more.

Just like a car, martial cultivators can add 92, 95, 98, while immortal cultivators can only add 98, and they consume refined grain.

Therefore, the demand for Dark Energy by immortal cultivators is much greater than that of martial cultivators.

The benefit of opening the spiritual meridians is that, through the spiritual meridians, immortal cultivators can absorb more Dark Energy, and their cultivation speed will also become faster.

This is equivalent to equipping the spiritual root with a turbo supercharger and expansion tank.

So, even with an ancient spiritual root, one still needs to open the meridians.

Spiritual meridians are different from martial meridians; they are not the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, but are formed by the flow of Dark Energy in the body, forcibly creating spiritual meridians.

The constructed spiritual meridians differ in each person's body.

The benefit of having an ancient spiritual root is that the spiritual meridians rely on it as a foundation, the success rate of opening them is 100%, and one can open more spiritual meridians.

The more spiritual meridians, the faster the cultivation speed naturally.

Chu Youqing took out Dark Energy and inhaled it; through the ancient spiritual root, she absorbed all the absorbable components of Dark Energy.

"Teacher, my lower abdomen is heating up."

After ten or so minutes, Chu Youqing felt her lower abdomen heating up.

"So fast?"

Her instructor Qin Ruolan was somewhat surprised.

Qin Ruolan also has an ancient spiritual root, but when she initially opened her first spiritual meridian, it took her over forty minutes to absorb enough spiritual energy from the Dark Energy.

"Now using the breathing method I taught you, control the spiritual energy to spread within the body, find the fastest spreading path."

"Hmm!"

Chu Youqing did as instructed.

"Teacher, I found it."

Not long after, there was a result.

"Good, mobilize all spiritual energy and attack with full force."

Qin Ruolan's eyes showed surprise, her voice rose eight degrees.

Chu Youqing is practically a genius born for immortal cultivation; this speed is too fast!

Upon hearing that, Chu Youqing mobilized all spiritual energy and surged forward.

"Buzz~"

The first spiritual meridian was easily opened by her.