Income and Expenses Out of Balance

Six days later, in the bedroom.

Locke used the Advanced Meditation Method and entered a meditative state. After the night passed, he placed his palm on the Amethyst Matrix and frowned slightly.

450.

A bitter smile appeared on Locke's face. Ever since leaving the Newbie Benefit Period, using the Advanced Meditation Method had increased his Mental Power by roughly one point every five nights.

At this rate, he could only increase his Mana by seventy-five points in a year.

And that was with his resources maxed out, using large quantities of potions—the Bloodweeping Nightshade Potion, Tears of the Stars Potion, Energy Potion, and Four Seasons Fruit-Kernel Incense—to improve his conversion efficiency.

If he did not max out his resources and spend more than four hundred Magic Stones per day on cultivation resources, his efficiency would probably be only a quarter of what it was now.

Locke fell into thought. After all, my innate talent was only Grade 3. Slow cultivation is only natural. With the cultivation speed of a Grade 3 talent, it would probably originally take around twenty nights to gain one point of Mana.

My Mana wouldn't increase by more than nineteen points a year. Even if the growth rate didn't slow as my Mana increased, it would still take five to six years to gain one hundred points of Mana.

Locke's expression changed slightly. And it will definitely become harder later on, with the difficulty increasing geometrically. For someone with Grade 3 talent, without resources and relying entirely on personal cultivation, it would take twenty or thirty years just to get their Mental Power close to 600.

Locke thought, *But with my resources maxed out, my cultivation speed is four times what it originally was. So my Mental Power should only need five to six years to