Chapter 202

Alchemy elective course,

is situated on a mountain peak with exceptionally lush vegetation.

Although it is an elective, almost everyone has come.

Because there are benefits.

Ding!

With a light chime of the jade bell, a person-sized, continuously trembling alchemy cauldron stabilized, and the fragrance of medicine wafted out.

"This is a Tier 1 top-grade Green Flower Foundation-Nurturing Spirit Pill."

The alchemy teacher is a gentle and beautiful woman, with a Golden Core peak cultivation base, a Tier 4 alchemist, and rich teaching experience.

"It can significantly improve a mortal's martial arts aptitude, up to a superior level at most. I am giving it to you students as a gift for our first meeting, to commemorate the occasion."

Teacher Liu Shulan's voice was extremely gentle.

Streaks of pale green light flew out and landed in the hands of all the students.

"Thank you, Teacher Liu!"

Jiang Ding accepted his own pill and carefully put it away.

"Um, can you give yours to me?"

He whispered to Jin Lingfeng beside him, showing none of the cold aloofness of a sword cultivator.

Of course, this was also because Jin Lingfeng came from an extraordinary background and did not need this.

"Of course you can."

Jin Lingfeng smiled and tossed the pill, bottle and all, to him.

"You can have mine too, I don't need it."

An Siyan also said.

"No need, thank you, this is already enough."

Jiang Ding thanked them repeatedly.

The Tier 1 top-grade Green Flower Foundation-Nurturing Pill is considered the highest tier among Tier 1 pills; in the hands of someone with a special need, it is even comparable to a Tier 2 pill, and it is of great value.

Even if one doesn't need it, it can be exchanged for what one requires.

An Siyan nodded and put away her pill.

"Among you all, which students want to continue on the path of alchemy? Or is there anything you would like to ask?"

Liu Shulan asked softly.

Similar to the teaching spell used by Master Dinghai, although she was clearly speaking to everyone, each person felt as if she were speaking to them individually.

"Teacher Liu, I have a question."

Jiang Ding looked a bit embarrassed and transmitted the medical examination reports of Lin Wanqiu and Jiang Yuan from the cultivation room's formation spirit: "If I want to let these two cultivate, at least to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, is there any way?"

He was attempting to get a freebie from a Tier 4 alchemist.

"Student Jiang, do you not plan to take alchemy as an elective?"

Liu Shulan looked at him with a half-smile, did not refuse, picked up the medical reports, and her expression froze.

She pondered for a long time without speaking.

Jiang Ding's heart sank.

"Cultivators will encounter many helpless situations in their lives; this is the Dao of Heaven."

Liu Shulan weighed her words and said: "Student Jiang, you must not be too insistent; the mandate of heaven cannot be defied."

"I ask Teacher to speak plainly."

Jiang Ding understood something, and the flying sword in his sleeve clanged.

"Your younger sister, if you invest a large amount of spirit medicine to improve her aptitude and accelerate her cultivation speed, the Daoist path is still hopeful." Liu Shulan sighed lightly: "This Ms. Lin, over forty years old, has already passed the peak period of a mortal's physical fitness, and she has practiced an internal energy technique other than the 'Chick Taking Flight Art', so her Dao path... is already broken."

"No amount of spirit medicine can make up for it."

"Is the mandate of heaven like this?"

Jiang Ding's expression became increasingly calm.

"Teacher, if the Dao of Heaven is an obstacle, it can be cut down. The mandate of heaven is nothing more than this. A mere Foundation Establishment will absolutely not have obstacles that are impossible to overcome. You don't need to worry about my so-called Dao heart."

Liu Shulan was slightly startled.

Although the words were plain, they carried an infinite sense of bloodshed that permeated the entire world; she seemed to see a scene of thousands of cultivators wailing and dying in droves.

"Great Sun sword cultivator..."

Liu Shulan whispered, then smiled at herself.

"It was Teacher who underestimated Student Jiang."

"For Ms. Lin's situation, ordinary spirit pills and medicines, even Tier 3 or Tier 4 pills, are useless. You must have very special things, such as Golden Spirit Fruit, Wood Spirit Fruit, etc.

Although they are not necessarily extremely precious, they are extremely rare. The last time I saw them was over two hundred years ago; they were too expensive, and I couldn't bear to buy them at the time."

"Or, a Soul Transformation cultivator could expend their primordial energy to cleanse her marrow and reshape her roots and bones."

She sighed lightly.

"I will write a list for your sister. If all the things on it can be obtained, Foundation Establishment is also hopeful."

"Thank you, Teacher Liu."

Jiang Ding bowed deeply.

After class, Jiang Ding returned to the dormitory, facing the sea of clouds.

He thought for a long time.

"Jiang Yuan, this little weakling—if all the things on the list are gathered, over a hundred thousand spirit stones will have to be spent. Fortunately, after selling the Blood Spirit Iron, I can manage to scrape it together. Big brother is also very rich."

"But Mom..."

Jiang Ding remained silent.

"Could it be that I really have to face the fact that in a mere eighty years, I will have to watch Mom's life end and see her leave me on a hospital bed?"

The maximum lifespan of a mortal is one hundred and twenty years, regardless of what kind of life-extending pill is used.

"This is the fate of a cultivator."

"No matter how powerful a cultivator is, when they are weak, they can only watch their closest relatives grow old, helpless."

"By the time they have grown up and have the ability, it is already too late; their relatives have long since been dead for thousands of years."

"But eighty years—this is not enough, it is too short, I cannot accept it!"

Jiang Ding said coldly.

"The Nine Heavens ruins have a great background; it is no coincidence that the Great Sun remnants could escape here."

"The inheritance ladder cannot be touched, but other places belong to me, including all places that might have holy fruits. Whoever does not recognize this, then they die."

It took a long time to settle his mood. He packed up the two top-grade Green Flower Foundation-Nurturing Spirit Pills, a series of supporting cultivation resources ordered for Jiang Yuan, and the four Tier 1 top-grade life-extending pills bought these days, and mailed them to Rongcheng.

The life-extending pills were for his maternal grandfather, grandmother, mother, and uncle.

The Green Flower Foundation-Nurturing Spirit Pills were for his mother and sister.

Jiang Ding paid a library credit fee and specifically entrusted the formation spirit of the cultivation room in Rongcheng, which is open to the public for a fee, to supervise his mother taking them, so as to avoid any trouble from those who don't want to waste them.

Study, rest...

Study, rest...

"Electromagnetism", "Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves", "Electrodynamics", "Classical Field Theory"...

"Spirit Magnetism Art", "Geomagnetism Law", "Thousand Changes Spirit Magnetism Canon"...

Language techniques, mathematical formation methods...

Every day was incomparably fulfilling, without holidays, year after year, almost enough to drive one crazy. Many students from Qingfeng University who were competing fiercely couldn't bear it and had to apply to the school to slow down the teaching pace, which was approved.

This did not affect others; the Golden Core and Nascent Soul teachers had individual teaching plans for every student.

Only Jiang Ding, Jin Lingfeng, An Siyan, and Ou Daocheng did not change, reading the sect's massive amount of techniques and immortal science books like a starving person, understanding and absorbing the essence within, turning it into their own foundation.

Jiang Ding also applied to the teacher to accelerate the teaching speed, which was approved.

Time flew, and eight years passed.

During this period, with the hard investment of massive resources, Jiang Yuan managed to get into the Daoist Department of Qianling University with a score one point above the cutoff. Jiang Ding sent a brief congratulation on his phone and did not leave the school.

On this day,

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged on the edge of the cliff, like a withered stone, having remained so for seven days.

Zzz...

At a certain moment, the first trace of subtle electric current appeared within a radius of a thousand meters. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth became restless, and the electric current spread rapidly like a spider web, crisscrossing, turning the vast green mountains into a piece of charred charcoal in an instant, pitch black, with wisps of green smoke.

After a long time,

The electric current web converged toward the center, passed through the Heavenly Spirit, and merged into the dantian and meridians of the young man in green, leaving a deep blue crisscrossing magnetic sensing pattern between his eyebrows.

His aura gradually converged.

Jiang Ding opened his eyes; without any magic power fluctuations, his whole body floated up more than ten meters out of thin air.

"Twenty-four years old, successful transition, Qi Condensation Level 7..."

He felt the electromagnetic magic power in his body, which was far more powerful than the Chick internal qi, and sighed lightly.

Swish!

The Taiqing flying sword flew over and merged into the magnetic sensing crisscrossing pattern between his eyebrows, extremely fond of this brand-new home.

(End of chapter)