Young Ling Xi

Lu Yuan's expenses were definitely different from those of ordinary people.

This was not merely because he was in the Heavenly Realm.

Nor was it merely because Qing Yan Jing required vast resources.

More importantly, All Things in the World were conserved in a certain sense. If one wished to surpass other cultivators within the same realm, whether in effort expended or resources consumed, one was destined to exceed what other cultivators spent at that realm.

For example, if both sides were in the same realm.

The side with stronger cultivation would inevitably have consumed more resources than their opponent. Part of the reason might lie in the differing grades of their cultivation arts, but even differing cultivation art grades could only determine the quality of spiritual energy. It was not as if having an excessively high-grade cultivation art meant one no longer needed resources to cultivate.

Likewise, the side with stronger Spirit Skills would have put far more effort into their Spirit Skills than their opponent. Even with the advantage of talent, where a Spirit Skill that took an opponent three days to grasp could be learned with a single glance, talent itself was undeniably an innate advantage.

Surely one could not learn it without even looking at it once.

Therefore, assuming an ordinary Heavenly Realm cultivator's total expenditure within the Heavenly Realm was two million spirit value points, enough to build themselves up from the Heavenly Realm Initial Stage to Great Perfection, then geniuses on Luo Li, Ji Xuan, and Wen Qingxuan's level would need at least twenty million spirit value points just to get started. For geniuses on Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing's level, even two hundred million was merely the most basic foundation, with no upper limit.

This was also a form of fairness under