Immortal Sect Fifth High School

Immortal Sect Fifth High School Name: Chen Mobai

Age: 18

Realm: Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer

Spirit Root: Metal 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, Earth 10

In Vermilion Cloud City, at Immortal Sect Fifth High School, in a seat by the window of a certain classroom, a handsome, clear-browed youth took out his slim jade-like phone and opened his personal interface data.

School had just started, and the homeroom teacher wanted to check everyone's cultivation progress over the break. Chen Mobai edited a few items that needed updating.

He connected to the Teaching Network and was just about to tap send on his personal panel to the homeroom teacher when he heard a voice beside his ear.

"Huh, you brat, you actually spent the break in seclusion cultivating and broke through to Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer."

After his Deskmate sent off his own panel, he glanced at Chen Mobai's and saw that Chen Mobai had filled in Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer under the realm section. His tone was faintly sour.

Although the contents on the personal interface were all filled in by the students themselves, the school could easily verify truth and falsehood through all kinds of tests. Basically no one filled things in randomly. After all, if someone was caught faking it, it would be recorded in their file and affect their later advancement to higher schools, even their assignment in the World Opening War.

Within the Immortal Sect, punishments for trickery and falsification were still rather severe.

"I'm not like you. I have a True Spirit Root. As long as I work hard seriously, I'm definitely much faster at cultivating than you and that False Spirit Root of yours."

Chen Mobai's words carried a faint trace of smugness. Over this break, aside from being dragged by his mother to burn incense at the temple, he had spent the rest of the time at home in closed-door bitter cultivation. At last, relying on the power of pills, he had broken through the bottleneck and advanced into Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer.

"With Spirit Root attributes like yours, you can actually be classified as having a True Spirit Root? That's too unfair."

His Deskmate looked indignant, but there was nothing he could do. The Immortal Sect's rules were simply like this.

If a Spirit Root attribute exceeded 20, it counted as possessing a Spirit Root of that attribute. When his Deskmate had been in his mother's womb, heaven had not paid attention while handing out talent and had made things a little too even. Four attributes, and he was classified as a False Spirit Root.

But in reality, his Deskmate's Spirit Root Attribute Points were not much different from Chen Mobai's. It could be said they were half a catty against eight taels.

"Mm, not bad. Quite a few people improved over the break."

At this moment, the homeroom teacher on the podium had already finished looking through everyone's panels. A rare smile surfaced on his normally stern face.

Afterward, he called out and praised every student who had improved.

Chen Mobai was among them.

The homeroom teacher's praise made the two beautiful female classmates at the Front Desk turn their heads. It made Chen Mobai unable to stop himself from lifting his head and puffing out his chest, his face full of self-satisfaction.

The realm of Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer could already count as top twenty in the entire class.

He was already in his third year of high school now. If he worked a little harder, perhaps he could climb another floor before the Immortal Sect College Entrance Exam.

If he reached Qi Cultivation Level 6, the four top-tier Dao Academies were still hopeless, but he could still dare to dream about the next tier of second-level Dao Academies. As for third-level Dao Academies, such as the local Two Great Academies of Danzhu and Chaxia, those were as steady as ten grabs in nine.

And as long as he could enter a Dao Academy after the College Entrance Exam, then for ten years he would not be conscripted by the Immortal Sect to take part in the World Opening War.

Perhaps there might even be hope of reaching Foundation Establishment.

"Lastly, I want to give special praise here to Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan. I never imagined that in my lifetime, I would actually be able to teach two students in Late Qi Cultivation."

Chai Deyun had only transferred into the role of homeroom teacher six years ago. This class now counted as the first cohort he had fully guided from start to finish, so his feelings were at their richest. With a face full of emotion, he put down the Tablet in his hand. His always stern gaze suddenly turned gentle, and together with everyone in the classroom, he looked toward the boy and girl who had stood up.

They were the two top students in their class, and also the elite students with the most outstanding Spirit Root attributes. As expected, they had not failed expectations and had entered the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation before the College Entrance Exam.

With such results, they were basically certain to enter a second-level Dao Academy. Within ten years, they could make an attempt at Foundation Establishment. If they succeeded, they would be future Golden Core Dao Seeds. Even within the Immortal Sect, they would be key targets for cultivation.

Chen Mobai's face was also full of envy. Unlike a True Spirit Root like his, which had only skimmed the edge, Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan had genuine True Spirit Roots. Among their Spirit Roots, one attribute exceeded 40, and cultivating a method of that attribute would get twice the result with half the effort.

"All right, today's classes end here."

Hearing the bell ring from the school's tallest building, Chai Deyun gathered the test papers that had been handed in, then announced the end of class.

All the students immediately scattered in a swarm.

Even Chen Mobai did the same. Taking only his phone, he jumped out through the nearby window and charged straight for the Cultivation Room.

Thankfully, after his closed-door cultivation over the break, his cultivation had risen by one layer and his Levitation Technique was three parts faster. He arrived at the cultivation field ahead of most people.

He had no time to choose. Seeing an empty Cultivation Room with its door open, he rushed straight inside.

There was a "beep."

Chen Mobai swiped the electronic Student Card in his phone, and the word "empty" on the electronic screen at the entrance of the Cultivation Room vanished instantly. Afterward, the door slowly closed.

"Fuck!"

Outside the door, the classmate who had been one step slower cursed, then hurriedly charged toward another free Cultivation Room.

No wonder they were in such a hurry.

Spirit energy was truly hard to come by.

After six thousand years of development by the Immortal Sect, Earth Origin Star's resources were nearly exhausted. Within the territories occupied by the Thirty-Six Cave Heavens and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands, all the vital energy of the spiritual veins had already been taken into state ownership. The spirit energy that flowed and spilled between heaven and earth was, at most, only enough for cultivators to maintain basic breathing and circulation.

And if cultivators wanted to absorb spirit energy for cultivation, they had to pay Merit Points to the Immortal Sect.

To have Grade 1 Low Rank Earth Vein Spiritual Energy delivered to one's residential Cave Mansion required a payment of 10 Merit Points per month.

Chen Mobai was at Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer. Grade 1 Low Rank spirit energy was already of no real use to him.

Grade 1 Middle Rank spirit energy required 20 Merit Points every month.

And Grade 1 High Rank spirit energy had already reached a monthly Merit Points fee of 40.

For Chen Mobai, the amount of Grade 1 Middle Rank spirit energy could only allow him to stabilize his cultivation and make barely any progress. If he wanted to improve quickly, Grade 1 High Rank was still best.

Of course, if there were Second Tier or even Third Grade Earth Vein Spiritual Energy, that would be even better.

But that was only something he could think about.

Only families with Foundation Establishment Cultivators, or companies, could apply to the Immortal Sect to use a Second Tier Spiritual Vein.

Sensing that the concentration of spirit energy in the roughly three-square-meter Cultivation Room had already started to rise, Chen Mobai opened the Software on his phone that tested Spirit Energy Value.

After waiting nearly a minute, the number on it finally stopped changing.

Spirit Energy Value: 10

The grade of Earth Vein Spiritual Energy could be measured using Spirit Energy Value.

According to the Immortal Sect's statutes, a Spirit Energy Value of 1-10 was a First Tier Spiritual Vein.

A Spirit Energy Value of 10-100 was a Second Tier Spiritual Vein.

A Spirit Energy Value of 100-1000 was a Third Grade Spiritual Vein...

And so on. In the entire Immortal Sect, the highest grade was said to be the Cave Heavens where the two Spirit Transmutation Ancestors resided, which were Sixth Tier Spiritual Veins.