Nutritious Food in the Cafeteria? (Middle)

The four of them fell silent. They really didn't dare. What if they angered that distinguished gentleman and were also thrown into a urine bucket to be made into Urine-Soaked Phoenix Claws? They would have nowhere to cry.

"If you don't dare, then be my grandsons honestly. Keep being my grandsons until I get tired of it, or until some people get expelled from school." Zhou Nan whistled, a look of schadenfreude on his face. "I don't even know how long you'll have to be my grandsons for. I'll let you have your fill in one go."

"Don't act like you're not involved, damn it. You were the one who told us to deal with him at first!"

"Exactly, exactly! If we go tell him, you won't get away with it either!"

The four of them started to clamor.

Zhou Nan sneered, "What idiots. Let big brother teach you a lesson: Did I tell you to deal with him? I only told you that Big Head Zheng was led here by him. You were the ones who went to his door, you were the ones who arranged the fight in the Black Toilet, and you were the ones who got beaten up in the end. It has nothing to do with me."

"You—!" The four of them were furious and about to make a move.

"Alright, you fools. Don't be too hasty. Let big brother teach you another lesson." Zhou Nan said leisurely, "Do you want to get rid of that guy?"

The four of them looked at each other, and after a long while, they all nodded dully. One of them said resentfully, "Get rid of him? What good idea do you have, damn it?"

"I call you stupid and you still don't admit it. Think about it, if a student is beaten, extorted, or threatened, who should they go to at that time?"

Hearing this, the four pairs of eyes on the opposite side all widened, seemingly shocked by Zhou Nan's brilliant plan.

Zhou Nan grinned like a fox, "Yes, find that person, and you can get rid of Shi Tiexin."

The four of them glared at each other. After a long while, the fatty finally spoke cautiously.

"Who should we find?"

"Holy crap! They're all idiots!" Zhou Nan was about to go crazy. No wonder these people couldn't even get by. Their brains were really not working well. He beckoned the four of them closer and whispered a name.

Hearing this name, the four of them were truly shocked this time, and they all started shaking their heads in unison. "No, no, don't be ridiculous. You want us to go find him? Isn't that asking for death?"

"What are you afraid of? You are the victims this time, not the perpetrators. What's wrong with defending your legal rights? Besides, the former Scholar Stone is now the Five Finger Mountain. You can't beat him, and if you want to call for backup, who can you even call with your reputation? Everyone wants to beat you, brother!

"You have no choice. Unless you really plan to be crushed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years. Zhou Nan patted the dining table, making the messy dishes on the tabletop clatter. "From now on, you'll be eating vegetarian and chanting scriptures."

The four of them looked at their own plates and hot pot bowls, and fell silent together.

In their hearts, they seemed to have made up their minds.

On the other side, Shi Tiexin walked out of the cafeteria without returning to his dormitory. He turned and headed for the sports field. The first stage of Essence Cultivation Technique was called Essence Storing, which was to accumulate raw vital energy that had not been specially refined. In ancient texts, this stage was called "Hundred Days Foundation Building" because it generally took a hundred days to complete. The entire process was precise and tedious, with no room for error, and certainly no leakage of vital energy, otherwise, all previous efforts would be wasted and one would have to start all over again.

However, in Shi Tiexin's world, it was no longer necessary to take a hundred days to build a foundation. It was a prosperous era where martial arts texts were constantly being updated, and many people used scientific methods to deduce Essence Cultivation Technique methods. Even the most widely circulated and common basic Essence Cultivation Technique was much more efficient than ancient texts.

Depending on one's physique, food, and the level of the basic Essence Cultivation Technique, the time required for Essence Storing varied. When Shi Tiexin was storing essence, if there were no other factors affecting it, the estimated time was about seventy days.

However, at that time, he had only initially cultivated the basic Essence Cultivation Technique, and his level had barely reached the qualified standard. Now that he had cultivated the basic Essence Cultivation Technique to an excellent level, its efficiency was much higher than qualified. Moreover, he was already very familiar with it, so his speed could be increased by another third.

The basic Essence Cultivation Technique required performing some special movements and postures, and the balance between static and dynamic exercises needed to be carefully managed. However, after reaching the excellent level, some of the tedious procedures were simplified and no longer so rigid.

As he walked slowly on the sports field, performing the corresponding simplified movements unobtrusively, he focused his attention on his lower abdomen. During the cultivation, the food and vegetables in his stomach were digested and absorbed at a speed exceeding that of ordinary people, turning into nutrients that flowed through the small intestine and bloodstream to all parts of his body.

After being transformed by the five internal organs, the nutrients from water, rice, meat, and eggs were converted into a kind of primitive vital energy that was imperceptible but truly existed. This primitive vital energy was like wisps of mist, drifting and circulating in the entire lower abdominal cavity. With each increase, he felt his body become more substantial and his spirit more vigorous.

"Hmm?"

After spending half an hour circulating the technique, Shi Tiexin suddenly discovered a problem.

"The speed... is so fast!"

Shi Tiexin couldn't help but be surprised because the progress of storing essence this time was faster than he had expected. Even with his experience and excellent level, the basic Essence Cultivation Technique shouldn't have such an exaggerated effect.

After all, it was just a basic foundation, and how much miraculous effect could a common item have?

But after actually practicing it, he found that the efficiency of essence cultivation was exceptionally high.

Could it be that because this body was cultivating for the first time, the effect was better, and it would slow down after a while? Shi Tiexin was puzzled and decided to continue storing essence.

Lost in a trance, Shi Tiexin completed another round of cultivation, and another wisp of primitive vital energy mist appeared in his lower abdomen. Shi Tiexin felt it carefully and was once again puzzled. According to his rough perception, the speed of storing essence had not decreased after completing this second round of cultivation.

What exactly was going on?

"It's a pity that my Heart Arts level is too low..."

If his Heart Arts level were high enough and his brain had enough psionic energy, martial artists would have stronger control over their own bodies, and at that time, they could accurately estimate the increase in primitive vital energy after each round of cultivation.

Shi Tiexin's current Heart Arts cultivation was far from sufficient, so he could not accurately grasp it. But based on his rough estimation, Shi Tiexin had already discovered that the speed of storing essence this time was about thirty percent faster than he had estimated.

Thirty percent, this was simply a difference between heaven and earth!

If he could maintain this speed, Shi Tiexin estimated that it would only take about ten days to complete the first stage of Essence Cultivation Technique, Essence Storing.

Completing Essence Storing in ten days was an absolute record that no one in the Orphanage, or even in the Star Engineering Federation's affiliated school, could achieve. Shi Tiexin was excited, and then felt confused. Where did this thirty percent bonus come from?

As far as he knew, the only thing that could increase the speed of Strength Arts cultivation was Body Nourishing Essence Food. The more Body Nourishing Essence Food he ate, and the higher its quality, the faster the essence cultivation would be. Shi Tiexin had never eaten it before and didn't know how much it could speed up. But the only factor that could possibly affect the speed of essence cultivation was this.

Could it be that the meal he just ate at the cafeteria, the Trash Class set meal, was all legendary Body Nourishing Essence Food?

Impossible, impossible, Shi Tiexin absolutely did not believe that such an absurd thing could exist in the world.