Chapter 150: Academy Points

After experiencing his first cultivation at the Resonance Power Tree, Li Luo's life at the Sacred Profound Star Academy began to fall into a fulfilling and orderly rhythm.

Training room.

Li Luo sat cross-legged facing Instructor Xi Chan. He extended one palm flat, and Instructor Xi Chan also extended a hand, placing it beneath the back of Li Luo's hand.

Their palms touched, and a faint, warm, moist sensation emanated.

However, Li Luo was in no mood to pay attention to such tactile sensations. On the contrary, his expression at this moment was extraordinarily solemn.

He could see two streams of resonance power surging out from his palm, displaying blue and emerald-green colors—precisely his water resonance and wood resonance powers.

The two streams of resonance power were clearly distinct.

But just as these two streams of resonance power appeared in Li Luo's palm, an irresistible force suddenly emerged. The two streams of resonance power began to tremble, and slowly started to merge together.

In Li Luo's palm, it was as if a constantly trembling orb of light had appeared.

Within the orb of light, the water resonance and wood resonance powers, forcibly pressed together by external force, desperately tried to separate.

"Feel that sensation when the two streams of resonance power briefly merge. Try your best to dissolve the repulsion between them. Keep your mind still as one." Instructor Xi Chan's calm voice came through.

Li Luo's mind gradually calmed. The two streams of resonance power between his palms—one icy and lingering, the other brimming with vitality—had completely opposite attributes. Under Instructor Xi Chan's forceful suppression, the two attributes were converging and merging.

It was like a stream gliding past the roots of a tree, following the roots and surging into the great tree.

This kind of insight lasted for a moment, and then Instructor Xi Chan released her palm.

And as that powerful external suppression vanished, the two merged streams of resonance power instantly became like wild horses freed from their tethers, suddenly scattering in disarray.

Pfft!

With a faint sound, the two streams of resonance power in Li Luo's palm simultaneously vanished.

Li Luo opened his eyes and let out a helpless sigh. This dual resonance power was truly extremely difficult to cultivate. It required a level of microscopic control, and for a beginner like him, the difficulty was clearly considerable.

"Don't be discouraged. If dual resonance power were this easy to master, then you'd be underestimating Marquess-rank powerhouses far too much." Instructor Xi Chan before him was not surprised by this, and instead offered a word of comfort.

Li Luo nodded with a bitter smile. He had now been at the Sacred Profound Star Academy for half a month. During this half month, aside from cultivating at the Resonance Power Tree every three days, he had been following Instructor Xi Chan to learn how to master dual resonance power. But clearly, he had still underestimated the difficulty involved.

Even with the guidance of a Marquess-rank powerhouse like Instructor Xi Chan, the progress of this cultivation remained slow.

But as Instructor Xi Chan had said, dual resonance power was originally the privilege of Marquess-rank powerhouses. Li Luo was currently nothing more than a mere Resonance Master realm cultivator. This was like an infant trying to wield a heavy axe—wanting to master it was not that easy.

"Take it slow. If you can initially master dual resonance power, your strength will rise by a significant step. When the time comes, dealing with Wang He Jiu won't be much of a problem," Instructor Xi Chan said.

Li Luo said solemnly, "Teacher, that's not right. I have no intention of dealing with Wang He Jiu. We're all classmates—getting along lovingly would be so much better."

Xi Chan smiled without a word. Getting along lovingly? If given the chance, you, Li Luo, would be the first to act and beat Wang He Jiu until his head bled. Of course, that Wang He Jiu should also be waiting for an opportunity to step on Li Luo, taking the chance to show off some boring sense of presence in front of the girl he admired.

She couldn't be bothered to expose Li Luo's words not matching his heart, and simply said, "Although you possess dual resonance, don't look down on the others. Those who can rank among the new students are no ordinary people. They lack neither talent nor potential. Now that they each have their own instructor's guidance, their progress can be called divine speed."

Li Luo nodded. Looking down on others—how could he possibly do such a thing? Because he was the type who waited for others to look down on him, then caught them off guard and flipped them over.

"Instructor... is there any treasure in this academy that can make a person's cultivation speed faster?" Li Luo suddenly asked.

Xi Chan was startled, looking at him: "How fast?"

Li Luo thought for a moment, then revealed a subtle smile: "For example, something that could let a person become a Marquess within five years, that sort of thing."

"Become a Marquess in five years?"

Xi Chan's gaze lingered on Li Luo for several breaths, then she nodded.

"There really is?" Li Luo was overjoyed.

Instructor Xi Chan nodded again, seriously saying, "After we finish cultivating later, go back, take a bath, and get a good sleep. In your dreams, not only can you become a Marquess in five years, even becoming a King in five years, or above a King, is possible!"

Li Luo's smile instantly stiffened. Bai Bai Mengmeng beside him couldn't help lowering her head, her shoulders shaking. Even the corner of Student Xin Fu's mouth beneath his hood slowly tugged upward.

"Teacher, aren't you just messing with me?" Li Luo said awkwardly.

Instructor Xi Chan said indifferently, "Weren't you the one who started messing with me first? Becoming a Marquess in five years—do you think just because you possess dual resonance, you can be this arrogant?"

Li Luo laughed dryly, "Then how long does the instructor think it would take for someone with my talent and potential to become a Marquess?"

"Becoming a Marquess indeed requires talent and potential, but it also requires disposition and opportunity. How could that be accurately predicted? However, I estimate that with your talent, perhaps around ten years."

Li Luo's face darkened. Ten years to become a Marquess? Then in five years, you could just collect my corpse for me—what's the point of even talking about becoming a Marquess.

After all, his lifespan was less than five years remaining.

And hadn't he given his all to enter the Sacred Profound Star Academy precisely because the cultivation resources and instructor resources here could allow him to become stronger at the fastest possible speed?

Instructor Xi Chan glanced at Li Luo. She could sense that Li Luo seemed to have a sense of urgency about improving his strength, but she didn't find it too strange. After all, the current situation of the Luo Lan Mansion was beset by internal and external troubles, with various forces watching covetously. Coupled with Li Luo's worry about his parents trapped in the Wang Hou battlefield, wanting to rapidly improve his strength was only human nature.

Thus, her voice softened a little as she said, "Li Luo, although cultivation matters cannot be neglected, you also cannot be impatient for quick progress, or else it's easy to go wrong."

Li Luo nodded with a bitter smile. The matter of his lifespan was something he couldn't possibly tell Xi Chan, so she also couldn't understand this anxious feeling of time slipping away.

"However, if you want to increase your cultivation speed in a measured way, the Sacred Profound Star Academy actually has quite a few methods. There's no need to mention cultivating at the Resonance Power Tree—that's indispensable. Besides that, you can seek out higher-grade energy guidance arts. These can likewise accelerate cultivation speed. From what I observe, the energy guidance art you cultivate doesn't seem to be a Marquis-grade guidance art, does it?" Instructor Xi Chan said.

"Energy guidance art..." Li Luo found this very headache-inducing, because the energy guidance art he currently cultivated was only the General-grade superior quality 'Mystic Pu Breathing Method'. Although it was considered decent, there was still some gap compared to true Marquis-grade energy guidance arts. But Marquis-grade energy guidance arts mostly required one's own affinity rank to reach Seventh Rank or above.

Yet his Water-Light resonance was stuck exactly at Sixth Rank.

Although he had already been doing his utmost to elevate his Sixth Rank Water-Light resonance, within a short period of time, he clearly still couldn't reach it.

Instructor Xi Chan clearly knew where Li Luo's headache lay, and immediately said, "Generally speaking, the vast majority of Marquis-grade energy guidance arts do indeed have requirements for the corresponding rank, but this is not absolute. The Luo Lan Mansion might not have one, but that doesn't mean the Sacred Profound Star Academy doesn't either."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo's spirit was greatly boosted, and he said in pleasant surprise, "The Sacred Profound Star Academy has this kind of energy guidance art?"

"If I remember correctly, the Sacred Profound Star Academy houses a Marquis-grade energy guidance art called 'Twelve Brocades'. The affinity rank requirement for this method is exactly Sixth Rank."

Li Luo was overjoyed. This was truly like a pillow arriving just when sleep was needed. This 'Twelve Brocades' was simply perfectly suited to his current situation.

"And besides switching to a higher-grade energy guidance art, the Sacred Profound Star Academy also has another thing that is very beneficial to cultivation, able to make your cultivation speed faster by one step without harming yourself," Instructor Xi Chan continued.

"What?" Li Luo asked impatiently.

Instructor Xi Chan smiled: "Energy Liquid."

"Energy Liquid?" At this utterly ordinary name, Li Luo was also stunned for a moment.

"Don't underestimate this item. Energy Liquid is a specialty of the Sacred Profound Star Academy. It is refined from the sap of the Resonance Power Tree. If we were to rank the things most beloved by students in their hearts, Energy Liquid would definitely be in the top three," Instructor Xi Chan said.

Li Luo was practically moved to tears. Where could one find such a wonderful academy?!

Coming to the Sacred Profound Star Academy was truly the wisest decision.

"Mentor, how should I obtain these two things?" Li Luo asked excitedly.

Mentor Xi Shan's lips beneath the black veil seemed to curve upward.

"It's very simple. The 'Twelve Brocades' costs three thousand Academy Points, and one vial of Energy Fluid costs three hundred Points."

Li Luo's smile stiffened slightly. After pondering for a moment, he asked sincerely, "Teacher, may I ask whether the points of the Saintly Star Academy can be put on credit?"

Mentor Xi Shan chuckled.

"What do you think?"