The Path of Cultivation

What did supplies worth 240,000 mean?

It meant Chu Fei could replace all three meals, late-night snacks, and treats with exotic beast flesh!

In the morning, after finishing the Meat Porridge he had prepared the night before, Chu Fei had already begun his grueling training by the time Li Honggang and the others started their run:

He ran down the mountain to Dawn Team, where Huang Gang provided plenty of training equipment and the team members offered him training guidance.

Geniuses had privileges—and people liked them, too!

He trained continuously until breakfast, then returned up the mountain to eat at the cafeteria—mainly to maintain a balanced diet.

After that came a day of studying. Attending class was still necessary.

While everyone else rested at noon, Chu Fei drank a mouthful of Meat Porridge and ran down to Dawn Team to train. He returned in the afternoon, drank more Meat Porridge, then went to class, utterly full of energy.

Chu Fei did not train at night. After dinner, he reviewed his lessons and even prepared for class, leading his classmates in review during evening study hall.

The hand that gives roses retains their fragrance. Through these review sessions, Chu Fei continuously organized his own knowledge and accumulated a drop of Wisdom Dewdrop.

After lights-out, he consumed Meat Porridge, used a drop of Wisdom Dewdrop, and began frenzied meditation—thought training pushed to the limit.

Days passed one after another, and Chu Fei rapidly grew stronger and sturdier.

With the effects of exotic beast Meat Porridge, Wisdom Dewdrop, and proper training, Chu Fei's physical changes were visible to the naked eye as his body quickly became stronger.

Yet compared to the "bulky" builds of Sun Xiangqing and the others, Chu Fei's physique was lean and well-proportioned, more like an agile cheetah.

Sun Xiangqing and the others trained like mad. Although this kind of training was effective, it led to unbalanced physical development, especially in the muscles, making them look bulky and clumsy.

It was not that they did not know Chu Fei's training method was better. They simply had no money and no resources!

Cultivation required money.

With limited resources, they could only use the most efficient training methods.

By comparison, the total value of supplies Chu Fei consumed each day was no less than 5,000 yuan!

Most of that went toward exotic beast flesh.

And that did not include the service fees at Dawn Academy's cafeteria, the support provided by Dawn Team, or the Wisdom Dewdrop, Superbrain Potion, and so on.

"The way of man diminishes the deficient to serve the abundant!"

Faced with the envious looks of others, Chu Fei merely continued training in silence.

If he did not train hard, he would be the one envying others instead of being envied.

Greedy Wolf Team had truly bled heavily this time. Supplies worth 240,000 yuan were no small sum. Chu Fei reckoned there would not be a second time.

As his Cultivation Level rose, it would also become difficult for his Potential Index to make any more dramatic leaps.

So the odds of receiving another major investment were slim.

At the same time, Chu Fei was well aware of his own crisis—if he failed to break through, the resentment accumulated from killing Huang Dapeng and Tang Zhengang, as well as openly confronting Liu Tingyun, would inevitably erupt.

There was only one way out: break through!

In the blink of an eye, two weeks passed.

During another morning run, Cao Liwen led Li Honggang, Lu Hong, and the others in more intense training—they began running with weights and changed their running route.

Suddenly, Li Honggang heard the howl of wind behind him. A black shadow swept past his side and quickly charged up the hillside.

Looking closely, he saw Chu Fei's agile back!

Chu Fei was running with weights too, and his load far exceeded that of Li Honggang and the others. Yet Li Honggang only saw Chu Fei's figure flash once before he vanished around a bend in the mountain road.

"So fast!" Lu Hong could not help crying out. "Could that speed have broken through the limits of the human body?"

Cao Liwen watched Chu Fei's retreating figure, his voice carrying a trace of amazement and envy. "He hasn't broken through the limit yet. Just now, his speed was about eleven seconds per hundred meters. He's still a little short of an ordinary person's hundred-meter limit."

A little short?

Li Honggang and Lu Hong exchanged a glance and fell silent.

Looking at the numbers alone, he was indeed a little short.

But Chu Fei was running uphill on a mountain path, over a long distance, while carrying weights—and he had already been running for at least twenty minutes!

He was not an ordinary person sprinting one hundred meters on a track without a load!

Of course, everyone understood what Cao Liwen meant—regardless of one's condition, a limit was still a limit.

The ordinary human limit—or rather, the physical limit of a human body in its normal state—was 9.5 seconds for one hundred meters. That was the limit of flesh and blood!

Unless one broke through that limit—shattered Life's Lock.

Otherwise, even hormones and similar methods could not break through that limit. Instead, they would strain the muscles and overload the internal organs, causing damage.

In truth, "the limit" was only a surface phenomenon. Its essence was the shared upper threshold of the human nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, energy system, internal organ capacity, and more.

Now, Chu Fei was challenging that limit and drawing infinitely close to it.

And in Cao Liwen's eyes, Chu Fei had already achieved "partial" breakthroughs in certain areas, such as his nerves, bones, and muscles. He simply had not achieved an "all-around" breakthrough yet.

As for Li Honggang and the others, they had not even touched a single limit.

The gap was enormous.

After breakfast, Cao Liwen found Chu Fei and handed him a note. "The Principal said this. He asked me to pass it on to you."

Chu Fei thanked Cao Liwen and accepted the note with both hands. The handwriting was very familiar—it was Cao Liwen's.

The Principal must have called Cao Liwen, and Cao Liwen had written it down.

There was not much written on it, but neither was there little:

"An Awakened's breakthrough is not merely a breakthrough on the material level—nerves, bones, muscles, internal organs, and so forth. The more important breakthrough is one of the spirit, a breakthrough on the immaterial level.

"Billions of years of life's evolution have already brought humanity's material evolution to its limit—the limit of flesh and blood.

"But one kind of evolution in humanity has only just begun: wisdom!

"Big Data Cultivation uses scientific wisdom to guide us in continuing to evolve.

"Cultivation is the evolution of the individual.

"Evolution in the past required billions of years of trial and error, accumulation, and the relay of countless lives.

"The evolution of cultivation gathers the wisdom of billions of elites into oneself and uses the power of science to compress 'evolutionary time' into a few short decades, ten-odd years, or even years, months, days."

Was cultivation, in essence, a form of individual evolution?

Its driving force was science and wisdom.

So my choice was correct; those who chose frenzied training and battle to break through had taken the wrong path?

Chu Fei immediately asked Cao Liwen.

Cultivation had to be understood clearly. That was being responsible for oneself.

Cao Liwen shook his head. "Not necessarily! Because they have no choice!

"They must break through within a set period, or they will be eliminated, or miss the golden period for cultivation.

"The greatest feature of Big Data Cultivation is that it can be reset and started over from the beginning.

"So for the vast majority of people, breaking through is what matters most. Any method will do.

"Only a very small number of geniuses are qualified to choose a better way to break through."

Chu Fei asked again, "Teacher, what does it feel like after breaking through the First Limit?"

"Above heaven and below earth, I alone am supreme."

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