Unifying the Heavens, Nourishment Meal Set

Seeing that Li Xijun had corrected his mistake and improved, Zhang Haifeng nodded in satisfaction and continued inspecting the other students.

Still standing where he was, maintaining the stance of the Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Method while continuing to circulate his blood essence, Li Xijun carefully examined the information before him. A sudden feeling arose in his heart—that he would be able to maintain this state from now on and never regress.

Is this... One Proof, Eternal Proof?

Realizing something, Li Xijun hurriedly focused his mind and looked at the words before him.

Gradually, he felt his consciousness and spirit flowing toward the spot between his brows like a stream descending from a mountain.

Gloom!

Stillness!

Eternity!

He seemed to have sunk into a dark, silent sea. The concepts of time and space vanished, leaving only endless gloom and emptiness, enduring through the ages like deep space.

He did not know how long had passed. Only when a sound like a bursting bubble rang out did his consciousness come alive again, regaining the ability to think and his sense of self.

A golden mark beyond words, touch, and imagination had somehow risen and hung above his Sea of Consciousness. It emitted an indestructible, eternal aura, ever-present throughout all time and space. Like a blazing great sun, it illuminated the Myriad Worlds.

Li Xijun was almost uncontrollably drawn to this Grand Luo quality. His soul and consciousness instinctively stared at the great sun within his Sea of Consciousness.

Gradually,

That Grand Luo Mark, both seemingly present and absent, seemingly within his Sea of Consciousness yet also suspended above the heavens, seemed to grow clearer and clearer.

Just as Li Xijun felt he could finally see it distinctly, the golden radiance abruptly filled his entire field of vision like boundless light.

What was that just now...? Li Xijun murmured inwardly as his consciousness returned to reality.

Although what had happened in his Sea of Consciousness had seemed to last for an eternity,

When Li Xijun came back to his senses and looked up at the time on the large screen at the front of the Martial Arts Classroom, he discovered that less than a second seemed to have passed outside.

Before he could further recall the Grand Luo Mark he had seen in his Sea of Consciousness, he suddenly noticed wisps of golden light appearing in his vision. They slowly condensed, seemingly sluggish yet actually swift, forming a golden Light Screen before him.

Name: Li Xijun

Age: 17

Realm: Apprentice Level 5

Blood Essence Level: 5.7

Spirit Level: 8.2

Cultivation Method:

Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Method: (Proficient 59%)

Martial Skills

True Martial Thirty-Six Forms (Proficient 87%)

Basic Saber Technique: (Beginner 98%)

Unifying the Heavens (1%)

Looking at the golden panel before him, Li Xijun, who had read plenty of webnovels, understood it instantly.

Clearly, this was his Attribute Panel.

Thrilled, he decisively began exploring this golden finger of his.

Unfortunately, he found none of the legendary plus signs after the figures for his Blood Essence Level, cultivation methods, or martial skills. Even after diligently practicing the Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Method for a while, there was no guaranteed progress from Heaven Rewards Diligence.

However, while cultivating, he felt that every adjustment and improvement he made was perfectly fixed in place, without the slightest regression.

Moreover, even after practicing for nearly two hours, though he could clearly feel that he had almost no strength left, whenever he performed stance training and its accompanying movements, he still did so in his perfect state, without the slightest drop in efficiency.

So this data panel is actually an outward manifestation of the Grand Luo Mark's qualities in my Sea of Consciousness?

With this ability and my own talent, my chances of getting into Martial Arts University will indeed be much greater.

It's just a pity that I only have twenty thousand yuan a month. Nutritious meals alone cost nine thousand a month, and a single Blood Essence Potion costs two thousand five hundred. That doesn't even include things like hiring private instructors for guidance...

Thinking about how Zhang Haifeng had merely pointed out one mistake in his stance training and raised the Azure Dragon Heaven-Reaching Method's progress by 3%, Li Xijun could not help envying those people in the Elite Class.

The first four realms of martial arts were Apprentice, Mortal Shedding, Artistic Conception, and Outer Scenery.

Experts at the Outer Scenery Level were already the backbone of this world. They would have been qualified even to serve as the principal of No.7 Middle School, yet now they were teaching Elite Class students. Such teaching resources were even more important than Blood Essence Potions—something money alone could not buy!

Resources... Martial arts cultivation ultimately cannot be separated from all kinds of resources.

Without stopping his physical training, Li Xijun turned his gaze to the final entry on the panel.

Unifying the Heavens (1%)

If One Proof, Eternal Proof was the manifestation of the Grand Luo Mark's qualities, then could this Unifying the Heavens be what I suspect—traveling to one of the worlds in the Myriad Worlds?

If that's true, then I can't buy Blood Essence Potions this month. I need to save the money for necessities for exploring another world instead.

The time for martial arts practice passed quickly. As the bell rang, the entire school instantly became noisy.

After practicing for an entire morning, Li Xijun felt hungry enough to eat a cow. Famished, he turned around and saw a short, thin boy waving to him from the back door. He immediately quickened his pace and went downstairs beside him.

"Brother Li, I feel like you were in especially good form today. I ran out of stamina twice this morning and had to rest, but you were still practicing, and your movements were all standard."

After weaving around several girls in the stairwell who were linking arms and moving like obstacles, Zhou Yibai casually started chatting as they ran out of the Martial Arts Classroom building.

"Yeah, maybe my basic cultivation method made a breakthrough."

After leaving the teaching building and reaching the main road leading to the two cafeterias, Li Xijun gave a casual brush-off.

Unlike those novel protagonists who were always surrounded by loyal and dependable brothers, his relationship with Zhou Yibai could only be considered that of ordinary classmates.

They lived relatively close to each other, were in the same class, and had similar grades, so they usually just kept each other company when eating or heading home after school.

Li Xijun was not worried that Zhou Yibai would notice anything unusual about him now.

Zhou Yibai did not dwell on it either and simply continued chatting. When they turned onto the road leading to the Martial Arts Class's dedicated cafeteria, he looked at the students from the academic classes on the other side. Whenever he caught the occasional envious glance from them, he unconsciously straightened his back, and his steps became a little lighter.

The two entered the cafeteria, tossed their keys onto their usual table to claim it, then headed off in separate directions to get food.

Already starving, Li Xijun quickly chose the hundred-yuan nutritious meal he usually ate. Carrying it back to his seat, he immediately dug in.

Its main staple was not ordinary rice or flour, but a large lump of transparent high-energy nutrient paste. The side dishes were supplements fortified with various trace elements. This widely recognized, best-value hundred-yuan nutritious meal tasted truly awful.

This is even worse than boiled chicken breast. The original owner actually ate this for over a year? With this kind of dietary endurance, he was practically born with the Innate Fitness Saint Body in my previous life.

After only a few bites, Li Xijun grimaced. He desperately wanted to dump the stuff into the trash and buy a set meal containing meat from creatures of the Mythical World.

But he was badly short on money right now. Especially with plans to explore other worlds, he needed to save even more, so he could only hold his nose and swallow large mouthfuls.

"Another hundred-yuan set meal? Brother Li, your willpower really is impressive."

Zhou Yibai returned from another serving window with his tray and sat down. Looking at Li Xijun, who always ate the same things, he sounded somewhat impressed.

"When I was getting the food, I asked the auntie to give me an extra ladle of Braised Pig-Turtle Beast broth. I poured it over your nutrient paste, okay?"

"That's great!"

Li Xijun hurriedly mixed in the broth and continued wolfing down his food.

Zhou Yibai, seated opposite him, appeared to be in a good mood. He leisurely picked up a piece of meat and began eating as well.

He had bought a two-hundred-and-fifty-yuan nutritious meal. Its staple was Spirit Rice from the Mythical World, each grain distinct and resembling a white jade pearl. Its side dish was braised meat made from Pig-Turtle Beast, a fairly common creature in the Mythical World.

Both its nutritional energy and taste were quite good. It was already a mid-to-high-end nutritious meal in the martial arts student cafeteria.

This gave Zhou Yibai a sense of superiority whenever he ate with Li Xijun, making even his meals taste better.

Naturally, that sense of superiority did not last long.

A group of students wearing black one-piece Nanofiber Suits also entered the cafeteria. Under the watchful eyes of many students, they headed straight upstairs.

The second floor of this cafeteria for martial arts students did not sell ordinary high-energy nutritious meals made from Mythical World creatures. Instead, it sold Nourishment Meal Sets developed by refining and innovating upon medicinal recipes and dietary formulas left behind by ancient martial artists.

They were mainly prepared by combining herbs and ingredients from the Mythical World, effectively strengthening the body and making up for the depletion caused by cultivation.

However, while these nourishment formulas extracted from the old era before the Great Cataclysm were highly effective, they were costly and time-consuming to prepare. The number of Nourishment Meal Sets available on the second floor was therefore limited, so the school required students to show Elite Class IDs before purchasing them.

Of course, there were loopholes.

For example, Elite Class students could buy meals with their own IDs and share them with friends. As long as it was not too excessive, the school turned a blind eye to it.

"Speaking of which, there's usually a Martial Dao Spirituality test at the start of senior year. If I can awaken Martial Dao Spirituality this time, I'll let you try a Nourishment Meal Set, Brother Li."

Watching the Elite Class students stride upstairs amid everyone's attention, Zhou Yibai's eyes were filled with envy and jealousy. He was practically one sentence away from saying, "A real man should be like this."

"Martial Dao Spirituality is too elusive. Getting into the top thirty of the grade is more realistic."

Martial Dao Spirituality referred to one's compatibility with the advanced cultivation methods created by the Seven Sages. After reaching the required standard, one's corresponding basic cultivation method would first progress much faster than that of ordinary people, allowing Blood Essence Level to rise more quickly.

Then, after Level 9, one could smoothly advance to cultivating the advanced methods of the Seven Sages. It was equivalent to proceeding down a broad road paved by a Martial Saint. Compared to other martial artists who had to painstakingly forge their own paths, the chances of advancing to higher realms were indeed greater. At the very least, one would begin at the level of major completion in the Mortal Shedding Realm.

But Li Xijun, who had the panel, knew perfectly well that he possessed no Martial Dao Spirituality at all—only a Grand Luo Mark, and

Unifying the Heavens (11%)

That's much faster than I expected. At this rate, I should be able to activate this function in around three days.