Chu Yuan stayed up all night, cultivating while keeping an eye on the time;
When it passed midnight, the system panel in his mind changed exactly as expected!
He watched with his own eyes as the number of conversions went from 0 to 1...
He eagerly took out the Martial Arts Pills Huang Bo had given him that day.
He picked up a bottle of Blood Qi Pills and was about to have the system convert them when he suddenly remembered something...
So he poured the pills from several jade bottles into the Blood Qi Pill bottle... He was exploiting a bug.
The system hadn't said how many pills it could convert, after all...
"Convert!"
[Converting... Obtained 5 Qi Gathering Powders! Conversions remaining today: 0!]
"..." Chu Yuan felt a little disappointed. He hadn't managed to exploit a bug;
Maybe he just hadn't gone about it the right way...
He didn't dwell on it. After pouring out the overstuffed bottle, he saw five pills at the bottom, glowing faintly.
Although they were called Qi Gathering Powder, they were still shaped like pills;
He took one and placed it in his palm. Aside from sensing the abundant spiritual energy inside, he couldn't see anything special about it.
Chu Yuan stopped fussing over it and swallowed it;
In an instant! Vast spiritual energy spread throughout his body...
The sounds outside the window came to life in his ears. In the kitchen, his mother was cooking;
It sounded like she was frying eggs?
A faint snore came from Chu Ying's room...
Chu Yuan abruptly opened his eyes. A streak of light flashed across them, then vanished.
Looking around his small room, everything seemed different from before;
He could even make out the shapes of the tiny specks of dust on the floor!
He could hear and see more clearly. That was what it meant to have keen senses...
Feeling the power flowing through him, he was quite satisfied;
According to the Foundation Establishment Method, he should be at... the third level of Qi Refining!?
He'd gone from a beginner to the third level of Qi Refining in just one night!
The price was that he'd used up all five Qi Gathering Powders he'd converted... Could it be that he wasn't just a martial arts genius, but a cultivation genius too?
No new impurities had been expelled from his body during the night's cultivation.
After a brief moment of smugness, he heard his mother call from outside, "Yuan-yuan, Ying-ying, get up and eat!"
After washing up, he sat down at the table;
Chu Ying held a bun in one hand and chopsticks in the other, then suddenly leaned over to Chu Yuan and sniffed him twice.
"..." Chu Yuan pressed a hand against her head and pushed her away in disgust.
"Bro, did you put on perfume?"
"Are you sick?"
Han Cui didn't mind them fooling around at the table. Their family had never had many rules;
She sniffed too and smiled. "There is a nice scent."
Chu Yuan paused, set down his chopsticks, and raised his arm to sniff it;
Maybe he hadn't noticed before, but now he could indeed smell a faint fragrance.
It wasn't the smell of perfume, though. It was more like plants and trees, with something else mixed in... If he had to describe it, it was the scent of nature?
He had a guess, so he explained, "Maybe it's because I took the pills yesterday."
"Your skin looks better too!" Chu Ying stared at his arm, still amazed;
"Enough, enough. Can't you keep quiet while you eat?"
Although Huang Bo had said they could cultivate at home, very few people actually did;
The Energy Gathering Array's support was simply too effective! And it wasn't something ordinary people could set up... Never mind the cost of keeping it active, the materials alone cost over a million yuan!
Chu Yuan wasn't about to pass up the chance to take advantage of it;
The name alone made its function obvious. Maybe it could gather spiritual energy too?
He also had another idea. If the system could convert cultivation methods and pills... could it convert arrays too?
If it could, Chu Yuan could already guess what it would be called;
The Spirit Gathering Array!
It appeared in every cultivation novel, no matter what!
He'd have to find a way to get one... But he had no capital yet. Even the resources he needed for his early cultivation had been sponsored by the school...
As expected, everyone chose to cultivate at school when he arrived.
Quite a few people secretly watched Chu Yuan, wondering if he'd cause another sensation today...
When the clock hand reached 8:30, Huang Bo took two transparent crystals and inserted them into the holes above the blackboard;
Nothing unusual happened, but the concentration of a certain kind of energy in the classroom began to rise!
Students who had already mastered the Essence Tempering Technique felt it especially clearly!
"Don't waste time. Start cultivating!
The Energy Gathering Array will shut down for an hour at noon. That time is for you to eat." After reminding them, Huang Bo sat down and started scrolling through videos on his tablet;
The month before the annual college entrance exam was his easiest time of year. All he had to do was keep an eye on the array in the classroom.
Still, he glanced at Chu Yuan, his expression complicated;
The transfer student from the Li Family the principal had mentioned had enrolled. He was in Class One next door... But Chu Yuan's sponsorship slot hadn't been decided yet.
Resources were secondary. The principal could give Chu Yuan the resources provided by the Li Family;
But that slot would be useful in many ways in the future.
Could the first-place scholarship really be worth the same as the second-place one?
Chu Yuan had already entered a state of cultivation;
His guess didn't quite match reality... The Energy Gathering Array mainly gathered the type of energy Warriors needed!
As for the increase in spiritual energy... It was probably only about ten percent...
But even a tiny bit was still something. Beggars couldn't afford to turn their noses up at food.
The classroom was utterly silent. Not even a single person went to the bathroom;
By noon, everyone sensed the energy gradually weakening and slowly ended their cultivation.
Some went to the school cafeteria for lunch, while those from better-off families had brought meals made from exotic beast ingredients, similar to medicinal cuisine;
Chu Yuan didn't have that kind of money, so he went to the cafeteria for something simple. He hadn't reached the stage of needing no food yet.
But when he came back, he saw a familiar sight... His classroom was surrounded again?
As he approached, someone shouted angrily, "Chu Yuan!"
He looked up. It was the same not-so-bright, burly boy Yang Yi had made back down yesterday;
Chu Yuan frowned. "What is it?"
The boy said indignantly, "You dared to mess with me yesterday? We're not done with this."
Chu Yuan thought something was off. Bringing up yesterday again? The guy had been afraid of Yang Yi, but after one night, he wasn't anymore?
So he asked, "What do you want?"
"Apologize!"
"Fine, fine. I'm sorry." Chu Yuan answered casually, then pushed past him and headed for the classroom;
A flash of confusion crossed the boy's face. This wasn't right... A martial arts genius, and he didn't have any fire in him? He just apologized when told to?
But once he recovered, he actually raised his foot and kicked at Chu Yuan from behind:
"You son of a—"
Hearing a rush of air behind him, Chu Yuan's expression turned cold;
He twisted around at a speed the students present couldn't see and kicked back!
Their legs collided, and the crisp sound of a bone cracking rang out!
"Ah! My leg! My leg!"
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