Chapter 304: Experience Growing Stronger? Sorry, Pure Personal Talent!

It was almost ten o'clock.

Song Qiuyun collapsed like a puddle of mud into the bedding, while Xu Jingming was still full of vigor.

"Told you you couldn't handle it, yet you still insisted on competing with me. Still showing off now?"

Standing by the bed, the tall Xu Jingming shook his head and set the Earth Spirit Spring on the nightstand:

"Rest a while longer. I'm heading to the gym first."

Before leaving, he gave a pat to those plump, peach-like, perky curves, making Song Qiuyun's delicate body tremble faintly.

At that moment, Song Qiuyun's pretty face still bore a lingering flush in the bedding, as if immensely satisfied.

She knew Xu Jingming had a powerful physique, but only last night and just now did she experience exactly what kind of powerful that was.

The saying "no field gets ruined by plowing, only the ox gets worn out."

In her case, it seemed to be the other way around......

"And this is only the normal form. If it's the enhanced form......"

Not knowing what she thought of, Song Qiuyun's pretty face instantly turned a deep crimson.

She instinctively buried her head into the blanket, only to discover that the entire blanket was somewhat damp.

So her already flushed little face instantly reddened all the way to her ears.

"Looks like I'll have to wash the blanket later......"

"Jingming, you're here. Let me introduce you. This is from the Yaoguang Legion's......"

Just as he arrived at the gym, Xu Jingming was led by Teacher Yang Zhentian into the conference room to meet the second-in-commands of various powers.

These people were at the very least eighth-rank lower Weida Sect!

Just a single glance from them could make a fourth-rank ability user's heart tremble.

But Xu Jingming had long grown accustomed to being around Vice Principal Hearing Ling Shuang, and had even met the ninth-rank Martial Saint twice.

Moreover, Teacher Yang accompanied him the entire time.

The pressure from these people naturally had no effect on him whatsoever.

And any force that could possess an eighth-rank Weida Sect was no small force.

Nearly all of them had been seen on major news websites of the Great Xia Nation or had their names heard of.

The recruitment conditions offered were therefore extremely generous—money, power, combat techniques, equipment, even women, all were involved.

Some conditions even made Yang Zhentian, a seventh-rank peak Master Zongshi himself, click his tongue in amazement.

But when Xu Jingming asked whether they had any SS-rank Spirit Refinement combat techniques, whether legion or guild—

The earlier swaggering attitude of "whatever you want, I have it" instantly died out.

For Xu Jingming, who possessed the Deep Blue System, resources were merely icing on the cake, nothing particularly important.

Only combat technique manuals were fundamental.

Faced with this situation, Xu Jingming naturally chose to refuse them all.

"What a pity......"

Conference room,

Wu Yuan, the Deputy Director of the National Education Bureau, who had likewise been refused, could not help but sigh and shake his head.

After a pause, he asked with some anticipation:

"However, Student Xu, could you share your experience of how you grew stronger?

We are willing to spend an SSS-rank cultivation resource package to purchase it alone."

The elite students of every top university all used top ability training methods to cultivate.

Yet generally they only reached third-rank upper at around their junior year, around 21 years old.

This cultivation speed was largely the same, generally differing by only one minor rank.

But Xu Jingming was entirely different—third-rank upper at 19!

Even when he first enrolled, he was still merely an Awakener!

In just half a year, he had forcibly skipped three major ranks!

Such an astonishing rate of advancement—if it could be generalized to every student, the entire Great Xia Nation would become even more prosperous because of it!

"Experience of growing stronger?"

Xu Jingming was briefly stunned, then replied with a smile:

"As for my advancement speed, it's purely due to personal talent, not a universal experience.

Director Wu needn't spend that resource......"

Indeed, couldn't the system's stat allocation also count as his talent?

"Personal talent?"

Although he had anticipated this possibility beforehand, when Wu Yuan heard it from Xu Jingming's mouth, he still could not help but feel somewhat disappointed.

"True. If such a universal experience really existed, in the more than two hundred years since Origin Energy appeared, it couldn't be that no strong expert had discovered it."

Shaking his head, Wu Yuan also prepared to rise and take his leave: "If that's the case, then I'll take my leave first.

Wishing Magic University good results in the upcoming Survival Competition as well.

Additionally, the conditions I mentioned earlier remain valid at all times. Student Xu is welcome to contact me anytime to join the National Education Bureau."

After leaving his private contact information, Wu Yuan promptly rose and left the conference room.

"So basically I did nothing this whole morning except save a huge pile of phone numbers."

After Wu Yuan left, Xu Jingming, who had just saved the new contacts on his phone, could not help but complain.

"You brat, you got the bargain and you're still playing coy! So many people want their contact info and can't even get it!"

Yang Zhentian, sitting beside him, scolded with a smile, though a faint sigh welled up in his heart.

As a seventh-stage peak adept, having grown to this point, he had built his own network of connections.

But he felt that the network he had spent decades cultivating might not match Xu Jingming's gains in a single morning...

"I was just saying it offhand."

Xu Jingming chuckled, glanced at the time on his phone—it was exactly noon—and asked:

"Teacher, are there any other factions I need to meet?"

"Two guilds and two military legions still need meetings. After lunch, we continue at two in the afternoon."

"There are still four factions?"

Xu Jingming sighed, but knowing these were all eighth-stage Grand Masters, he could only nod:

"Then I'll go back to have lunch first and return later."

"Aren't you eating here in the gym?" Yang Zhentian was surprised.

During this period, the Mo University team had been eating in the gym's cafeteria.

"No, it's better to eat at home," Xu Jingming shook his head.

Although he had left Song Qiuyun a bottle of Earth Spirit Spring, it was their first time—he should show her more care...

After Xu Jingming left the gym, Xu Ping from Jing University also received confirmation from Jin University agreeing to cooperate.

He immediately gathered all members of the Jing University team.

"Jin University has agreed to cooperate. Tomorrow's Survival Contest will be a joint effort between our two schools."

"Once we eliminate all Mo University competitors, we'll compete against each other. Do you understand?"

In the villa's living room,

Vice President Xu Ping's deep voice rang out.

"Understood!"

Before Xu Ping, all eight members of the Jing University team, including captain Wang Qi, nodded.

"Good. Dismissed."

Xu Ping waved his hand decisively, and the team members left the villa.

"Cooperating with Jin University—Mo University can't possibly lose now!"

"True. With Jin University's captain life-sharing, even Xu Jingming can't defeat us!"

"It's a bit unsportsmanlike, but we have no choice."

"..."

As the Jing University team walked out of the villa, they murmured among themselves, each feeling a quiet sense of sorrow.

Before the league began, who could have imagined that they, as top-tier university students,

would one day need to cooperate with another school just to defeat a rival?

But the name Xu Jingming loomed over them like a nightmare.

Some felt this behavior seemed to violate martial spirit.

Yet as members of Qingjing Energy University, facing imminent graduation,

they wanted to win as much glory as possible for their school before leaving.

So when Vice President Xu Ping proposed this, none of them refused.

"Xu Jingming, this time we win by unfair means. When you graduate from Mo University,

if our paths cross again, we'll make amends to you face-to-face..."

Wang Qi silently thought to himself.

As for the possibility of Xu Jingming winning, he hadn't even considered it.

After all, Jin University's captain Han Shan's life-sharing ability was simply too monstrous.

The more people involved, the less damage each person bore!

With both schools combining their strength, Xu Jingming's victory with Mo University was already impossible...