Mimicry Training Zone, Thunder-Fire Hall Training

Yu Hengqing knew that Dugu Yan wouldn't do anything out of line, and besides, he truly needed medicinal herbs to accelerate his cultivation speed.

"Alright, Senior! Since you believe I have the strength for it, it would be wrong for me to continue refusing."

Upon receiving Yu Hengqing's reply, Dugu Yan's eyes filled with delight as she shoved the box containing the Century-Old Purple Vein Ginseng into his arms.

"Then I'll be waiting for you at the No. 3 Training Ground at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon!"

After telling Yu Hengqing the time and location, Dugu Yan turned and walked away.

"Understood, Senior Dugu Yan, I will be there on time."

Yu Hengqing called out toward Dugu Yan, and she, still basking in the joy of achieving her goal, responded subconsciously.

It wasn't until she had walked quite a distance that Dugu Yan realized something—she didn't think she had ever told Yu Hengqing her name, had she?

Oh no, if this is the case, will my plan fail?

Dugu Yan's mood shifted instantly from joy to sorrow, and she became quite anxious, worrying about her scheme.

Yu Hengqing accepted the Century-Old Purple Vein Ginseng and walked toward the cafeteria with a light, brisk step.

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy was luxuriously built, and the cafeteria was naturally no exception; it used only the finest medicinal herbs and spirit beast meat.

The cafeteria had many service windows and a wide variety of dishes, all to cater to the tastes of young noble masters and misses.

However, Yu Hengqing didn't mind; he wasn't a picky person, so he simply chose a few dishes to eat.

After paying, Yu Hengqing carried his food away from the window, clicking his tongue in wonder—who would have thought that these two meat dishes and one vegetable dish would cost several hundred gold soul coins!

Fortunately, the taste was good, and after finishing, Yu Hengqing felt a warmth spreading through his body.

Having sampled the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's cafeteria, the next step was to check out the simulated cultivation area.

Yu Hengqing's current cultivation speed was slow, but with the assistance of the simulated cultivation area, his progress could be improved to a certain extent, ensuring he wouldn't fall too far behind others.

The lightning-attribute simulated cultivation area at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy was called the Thunder-Fire Hall, a place where those with lightning and fire attributes could cultivate together.

According to his father, the Thunder-Fire Hall was built using a thousand-year-old spirit beast's left leg bone that possessed both lightning and fire attributes, combined with the earth's ley lines.

The academy had spent a massive fortune to transform that left leg bone into a device capable of absorbing energy from the ley lines and converting it into lightning and fire dual-attribute spirit power.

Yu Hengqing was actually quite curious about the principle of this conversion, but Yu Yuanzhen said he didn't know either, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect didn't possess such methods.

From this, it was clear that the Heaven Dou Empire had a deep foundation, which was why it could exist to this day and stand on equal footing with the Star Luo Empire.

Because the Heaven Dou Royal Academy had built the simulated cultivation area quite far away, it took Yu Hengqing nearly an hour to walk from the cafeteria to the foot of the mountain.

There was a massive cave halfway up the mountain, and the Thunder-Fire Hall was located inside, absorbing the energy of the ley lines.

As Yu Hengqing stepped onto the stone stairs leading up the mountain, he brushed past a group of chattering noble children, whose conversation was entirely about debauchery and indulgence.

However, once Yu Hengqing was far enough away, the group suddenly stopped, and their topic of conversation shifted to him.

"Did you see that? Another reckless junior is heading to the Thunder-Fire Hall to cultivate! How long do you think this one will last?"

"I'll bet half an hour. You know, even Yu Tianheng, that genius from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, only lasted sixty-five minutes his first time."

"Wow, that long? I only lasted a quarter of an hour my first time. Truly, the difference between people is greater than the difference between humans and spirit beasts!"

"Tsk, can you compare your innate level three spirit power to a genius with innate level nine? Besides, since the junior dared to come, it means he's already a one-ring Spirit Master!"

"By the way, didn't I hear that the third young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect also came to study at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy? Why have we never seen or heard anything about him?"

"Who knows? My second uncle in the Academic Affairs Office said he took a half-year leave of absence; he should be coming back soon!"

"Then there will be a good show to watch. I really want to see the battle between uncle and nephew; after all, the position of the Upper Three Sects' leader is a hot commodity."

"That's for sure, though I wonder what Yu Hengqing's talent is like..."

For these noble children, cultivation was not the priority; watching the spectacle was.

Since they wouldn't be the heirs to their families anyway, working hard at cultivation served no purpose other than inviting suspicion from the actual heirs.

It was better to find some amusement and enjoy each day as it came.

Yu Hengqing, who had already walked far away, naturally didn't hear the noble children's chat, but even if he had, he wouldn't have thought much of it.

He had no interest in the position of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's leader; he would eventually become a god and ascend to the God Realm, and an extra title would only bring more trouble.

If he had that spare time, he might as well think about how to reach level one hundred spirit power sooner, or how to obtain hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and spirit bones.

Just as he reached the entrance of the Thunder-Fire Hall, waves of heat rushed toward him, and the air was filled with the smell of scorched feathers.

"It seems the effect of the Thunder-Fire Hall is indeed quite good! I haven't even gone in yet, and the fire-attribute energy is already this active."

Yu Hengqing looked up at the plaque inscribed with the gilded characters "Thunder-Fire Hall," secretly looking forward to the results of his upcoming cultivation.

Pushing the door open, a training ground the size of a football field appeared before him, with Spirit Masters scattered in groups throughout the area.

However, after taking a closer look, Yu Hengqing discovered that the lightning-attribute Spirit Masters and fire-attribute Spirit Masters were actually sitting mixed together.

Before entering, he had assumed they would be strictly separated! It seemed he had overthought it.

If the people present knew what Yu Hengqing was thinking, they would surely consider him a fool.

The lightning and fire dual-attribute energy within the Thunder-Fire Hall was extremely active; absorbing only one type of energy easily led to an excessive concentration of the other type in one's surroundings, which could cause self-injury.

To avoid this, Spirit Masters of both attributes tried their best to stay close to one another, stabilizing the energy concentration within a safe range.

Even so, there were still people injured by the overly dense energy from time to time; otherwise, why did he think there was a smell of scorched feathers outside the Thunder-Fire Hall?

Yu Hengqing was unaware of this; he only knew that both the lightning and fire elemental energies within the Thunder-Fire Hall were highly active.

Naturally, the knowledgeable Leiyi had noticed this issue and immediately spoke to Yu Hengqing with a serious expression:

"Xiao Qing, the lightning and fire energies in this Thunder-Fire Hall are a bit too active! When you cultivate later, remember to circulate the Cangming Lightning within your body; its inherent water elemental energy can neutralize those active fire elemental energies."

Hearing Leiyi put it this way, Yu Hengqing straightened his expression. Indeed, anything taken to excess would produce negative effects.

"Go to that empty corner on the left. The energy concentration is lower there. Let's first confirm how much fire elemental energy the Cangming Lightning can withstand."

Considering that Yu Hengqing had only refined one-third of the Cangming Lightning so far, Leiyi prepared to let him test the effects first to avoid a situation where the Cangming Lightning could not withstand too much fire elemental energy.

Following Leiyi's guidance, Yu Hengqing went to the corner, sat cross-legged, and summoned his martial soul to attempt resonance with the environment.

As soon as Yu Hengqing sat down, several curious gazes were cast upon him.

They were all curious whether this junior student was unaware of the dangers of the Thunder-Fire Hall or simply stubborn, otherwise, why would he be cultivating alone in a corner?

At this moment, a girl saw Yu Hengqing cultivating by himself and was about to get up to warn him, but she was held back by her companion.

"Wait a little longer. Let him suffer a bit so he learns his lesson; otherwise, it'll be like that junior student we met last time—you spend all your effort trying to persuade him, and he just thinks you're meddling in his business."

Hearing her companion say this, the girl who had wanted to speak sighed helplessly, sat back down, and continued her cultivation.