Chapter 107: Grade Five Ningxin Pill! Spiritual Power Breaks One Thousand!

Every class at the Metropolis Psychic University is assigned one counselor.

Unlike the instructors who teach classes, counselors are only responsible for relaying class announcements and organizing class activities.

In short, they're just higher-grade workers.

Therefore, counselors rarely hold high ranks.

Take this Su Yu, for example—her aura had barely entered the third tier.

"Good morning, Teacher Su," Xu Jingming said politely.

"Student Xu, I'm officially handing you this fingerprint-locked safe."

Counselor Su Yu smiled and handed over a silver-white safe.

Xu Jingming took the safe, and Su Yu immediately added:

"By the way, here's our Class 2 group chat—add it when you get a chance.

I'll post all future notices directly to the group.

Also, here's my contact info; if anything comes up at school, feel free to reach out and I'll help you handle it."

Xu Jingming pulled out his phone.

He added himself to Class 1, Group 2's group chat, and saved Counselor Su Yu's contact.

"Alright, I've got other students to notify—I'll be off then."

After finishing everything, Su Yu hurriedly left.

"Ming-ge, how was it? Did anything break out between them?"

After Counselor Su Yu left, Liu Wentao rushed over eagerly.

His left eye bore the character "八," his right eye the character "卦."

"Breakout? What breakout?" Xu Jingming asked, puzzled.

He placed the silver-white safe flat on the coffee table.

"Song Qiuyun and Senior Jiang!" Liu Wentao exclaimed anxiously.

"What breakout between them? I just brought them back to their dorms."

"No conflict happened? So peaceful?" Liu Wentao widened his eyes.

This wasn't at all how he imagined the plot unfolding!

After thinking for a moment, a sudden realization struck him.

No wonder he's Ming-ge! He must've settled everything already!

"Ding—permission granted—"

Xu Jingming was unaware of Liu Wentao's inner thoughts.

He placed his finger on the fingerprint sensor, and the safe clicked open.

Inside lay two items: a ring and a pill.

The ring was ornate, its surface a noble white-gold hue.

The pill, about the size of a glass marble, was pitch-black as ink, emitting a faint, elusive medicinal fragrance.

These two items were precisely the 10-cubic-meter space ring and the A-grade cultivation resource awarded to the top newcomer.

Xu Jingming picked up the ring, imprinted his spiritual mark upon it, and immediately sensed a 10-cubic-meter space within.

"Now I won't have to carry weapons around all day."

A faint glow from the ring caused the Dark Cloud Wind Spear, leaning beside the sofa, to vanish into its interior.

"You've got a real diamond-daddy vibe going on, Ming-ge."

As he looked at the three rings on Xu Jingming's right hand, Liu Wentao joked, half-envious.

As a top fifty newcomer, he'd received only 400 academic credits as his reward.

It paled in comparison to Xu Jingming's first-place prize.

Of course, he knew full well the life-and-death crisis Xu Jingming endured in the Wildlands—it was rightfully his.

"I've got too many rings on my hand—I'll visit the Equipment Department tomorrow; they should reclaim these."

Xu Jingming already owned two 1-cubic-meter space rings.

One was given by the chief administrator of the Source Water Supply Base; the other was taken from the slain third-tier elite psychic squad.

Now that he had a larger-capacity space ring, the other two were useless.

"And this pill—no instructions on what it does."

Xu Jingming frowned slightly.

The school shouldn't make such a basic mistake.

"Identify the pill? Easy—Eva, come out."

Liu Wentao directly summoned Eva: "Eva, analyze this pill."

"Understood."

A pale blue light emanated from Eva's holographic projection, enveloping the entire pill.

Moments later, the result appeared:

"This is a Grade Five Ningxin Pill, produced by the Metropolis Psychic University's Pharmaceutical Division.

Effective for psychics of Tier Five and below; can be consumed only once. Upon ingestion, it significantly enhances spiritual power. Rated as an A-grade cultivation resource."

"Eva can analyze pills too?" Xu Jingming was stunned.

"I only discovered this after buying a pill from the school's official website."

Liu Wentao explained with a smile. "And it's not just pills—Eva can identify demonic beast materials, rare flowers, and exotic herbs too."

"Of course—as an AI, those functions should be standard."

Xu Jingming also realized it.

Unfortunately, the top-tier AI 'Eva' is exclusive to the Magic City Psychic University.

Otherwise, he'd have wanted one for himself.

Then he wouldn't need to memorize the characteristics of heavenly treasures and earthly gems—just let the AI identify them.

"Wait, such an AI might already be on the market."

"When I have time later, I'll check the school's official website."

Where there's a market, there's demand; creating an AI like Eva is difficult.

But an AI just for identifying rare flowers and herbs should exist.

After all, Xu Jingming had already seen Jiang Chuxuan's AI capable of autonomous driving.

"Liu Wentao, I'm going up."

"Got it."

After confirming the item was fine, Xu Jingming carried the safe to the second-floor training room of the villa.

He prepared to directly consume the Grade Five Ningxin Pill.

Before taking the pill, Xu Jingming specifically checked his attributes on the Deep Blue System:

【Physique】: 1321 Qi Blood (+)

【Spirit】: 987 He (+)

Physique and Spirit are the two fundamental attributes of psychics.

Among two psychics with the same ability, the one with higher base attributes will sustain their ability longer and wield greater power.

And these two attributes, besides daily training,

can only be increased through advancement, consuming pills, ingesting heavenly treasures and earthly gems, or eating rare flowers and herbs.

Yet each psychic rank has a maximum attribute limit, like a genetic lock.

Once the attribute limit is reached, only breaking through to the next rank can increase them—no matter how much training is done.

When he was still at Upper First Rank, Xu Jingming had tested this.

He could raise Qi Blood and Spirit to only 600 points before further gains became impossible.

The plus sign after the system panel attributes would also disappear.

Of course, ordinary First Rank psychics rarely even reach the attribute limit.

Xu Jingming only discovered this secret because of the Deep Blue System.

Additionally, as rank increases, the base attribute value obtainable per psychic point decreases.

When he first obtained the system, one psychic point equaled 0.2 attribute points.

But after entering Second Rank, one psychic point could only yield 0.1 attribute points.

Xu Jingming guessed it might be because, after entering Second Rank, his Physique and Spirit had become too strong, making further increases harder than in First Rank.

To break from Upper First Rank to Second Rank, he consumed 1200 psychic points, raising his Physique by 200 points and Spirit by 150 points.

Those 1200 psychic points, if directly converted to base attributes, would have yielded only 120 Qi Blood or 120 Spirit points.

Thus, exchanging psychic points for base attributes became an unprofitable deal.

Therefore, even if he had leftover psychic points now, he would only let them accumulate rather than use them to boost base attributes.

"The Grade Five Ningxin Pill—I've never taken a pill like this before."

Xu Jingming took the Ningxin Pill from the safe, observed it briefly, then swallowed it in one gulp!

Boom!!

Shortly after swallowing it, Xu Jingming felt his thoughts become much clearer.

He instinctively opened his system panel:

【Physique】: 1321 Qi Blood (+)

【Spirit】: 1037 He (+)

"Spirit increased by 50—over a thousand!" Xu Jingming's eyes glowed slightly.

Due to practicing the S-Rank body cultivation technique 'Lei Ting Immortal Body,' his Physique had always been stronger than his Spirit.

His Physique had long surpassed a thousand, but his Spirit had only now broken the threshold, remaining relatively behind.

Still, compared to ordinary Upper Second Rank psychics with only seven or eight hundred Spirit, this was already monstrous.