Qin Yan leaped into the air and landed atop the lotus platform.
The lotus platform was not large, just enough for one person to sit cross-legged.
The moment he sat down, he felt a dense surge of spiritual energy rise from beneath the platform, pass through his body, and flow into him.
Its spiritual energy was several times denser than outside, almost intoxicating.
At that moment, the other Prodigies nearby saw Qin Yan seated on the Golden Lotus Platform, and their expressions immediately changed.
There was envy, jealousy, resentment, and clenched teeth.
Though they were all lotus platforms, their spiritual energy conversion rates were worlds apart!
The White Lotus Platform could convert only thirty percent of spiritual energy, giving it the lowest absorption efficiency.
The Purple Lotus Platform could convert sixty percent, doubling the effect.
The Golden Lotus Platform, meanwhile, could convert more than ninety percent of spiritual energy!
Cultivating on a Golden Lotus Platform for one hour was equivalent to cultivating on a White Lotus Platform for three!
Who wouldn't be green with envy over such a gap?
For new disciples like them, there was only one way to cultivate on a Golden Lotus Platform—
Become a Special-Class Disciple.
Only Special-Class Disciples could possess their own exclusive Golden Lotus Platforms.
Everyone else? No matter how many Mystic Points they had, they could only use the Purple Lotus Platforms and White Lotus Platforms.
They could forget about the Golden Lotus Platforms.
That was the privilege of a Special-Class Disciple.
On the Golden Lotus Platform, Qin Yan sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, just about to begin cultivating.
Yet the undisguised murmurs around him drifted into his ears intermittently, like buzzing flies.
"Is that brat Qin Yan from Blue Star?"
A burly young man pointed at Qin Yan, making no effort