Consultation

"Alright, alright. Thank you, school leaders. Thank you, teachers!"

Huo Liren excitedly saw off the several school leaders and homeroom teacher who had come from the high school.

Southern Heaven University was indeed efficient. The day after the agreement was signed, they delivered the admission letter.

Then the news reached the school. The homeroom teacher knew about Huo Ling's family circumstances and applied for a scholarship.

The school leaders also went with the flow. The next day, they brought the scholarship to Huo Ling's home, chatted with his parents for a while, and only then left.

"Our Huo Ling just succeeded in awakening his spirit, and he's already earned a huge sum of money! Not bad at all!" Bai Xiaolan happily looked at the hundred thousand yuan laid out on the living room table.

She grabbed several bundles and swept the stacks of cash into her arms.

"Xiao Ling, our family can't offer you much support on the path of studying the supernatural. You earned this scholarship yourself, so take it and buy something that can help with your studies."

Huo Liren picked up some money and turned it over in his hands before putting it down and speaking to Huo Ling.

Looking at the ten stacks of cash, Huo Ling did not show much emotional reaction.

A hundred thousand yuan was only equivalent to one credit.

Once again, he felt the enormous gulf between the supernatural and ordinary people.

A freshman who had only just enrolled could obtain credits worth more than ten million yuan, and that was only because he was merely an apprentice.

If he wanted to keep walking this path, he would probably have to spend even more money in the future.

At that thought, Huo Ling shook his head. "Dad, Mom, keep this money at home. I applied to Southern Heaven University, and once I enroll, they'll give me some resource subsidies too. I won't need this money for now."

"My son is amazing!" Hearing this, Bai Xiaolan wrapped her arms around Huo Ling and pulled him into an embrace.

"Alright, then I'll deposit it in the bank first. Just tell me when you need money." Huo Liren said nothing more after hearing that.

The family chatted for a while longer in the living room. Then Huo Ling returned to his room, while Huo Liren went to deposit the money.

"Hello, Second Sister? Yes! Our Huo Ling succeeded in awakening his spirit. Mm! He has second-class spellcaster aptitude, got into Southern Heaven University, and even received a scholarship!"

"Hello, his auntie? Our Huo—"

In his room, Huo Ling listened as his mother continuously called relatives in the living room to share the good news. It was not hard to sense her joy from her tone.

With nothing to do in his room, Huo Ling found that his meditation had been ineffective these past two days. After experiencing the efficiency of meditating in the Spirit Realm, feeling Blue Star's meditation speed again was simply unbearable—slow as a turtle's crawl.

After thinking it over, Huo Ling took out his phone and sent Guan Borong a message.

Over the past few days, he had asked this teaching assistant about quite a lot of information, and the two had chatted often.

"Senior Guan, I'm meditating on Blue Star right now, but the speed is very slow. Is there any good way to solve this?" Huo Ling asked.

After waiting around ten minutes, Guan Borong replied. "Mm... Blue Star's spiritual energy concentration is insufficient. Not only is meditation slower for spellcasters, even combat professionals' breathing techniques can't achieve good results."

"As for solutions, there are some. At Southern Heaven University, for example, we have a small spatial passage leading to the Spirit Realm. The school built a cultivation base at the passage entrance, and cultivating there is much more efficient than elsewhere on Blue Star."

"Another option is traveling through that passage to the Spirit Realm. Cultivating there is even easier, but I'm afraid you'll only have the chance to experience either of those once you arrive at school."

"Besides those two, there's another method: use magic stones for cultivation. The effect is even better than going to the Spirit Realm, but it burns money like wildfire."

Looking at the three methods on the screen, Huo Ling revealed a bitter smile. "Senior, magic stones are far too expensive. They're not something I can afford."

A single magic stone was worth a hundred thousand yuan, the same as his high school scholarship. Besides, they were scarce commodities—if you tried to buy one, the seller might not even be willing to sell.

"Hahaha, forget about you not being able to afford it. Even I can't afford it."

"Of course, besides those mainstream methods, there's one final way: use your own Spirit Realm Beacon to teleport to the Spirit Realm and cultivate there."

Guan Borong continued typing from the other side of the screen.

"After all, everyone who succeeds in awakening their spirit has a Spirit Realm Beacon. As long as that part of the Spirit Realm is safe enough, there's no problem with teleporting there to cultivate."

"Of course, it has to be safe. If there's danger on the other side, you'd be better off waiting until you get to school before meditating and cultivating. For these next two months, just enjoy yourself."

"By the way, is the Spirit Realm on your end safe?" Guan Borong asked.

Safe?

Huo Ling thought of the horde of corpses racing below the building, the sight of thousands of walking corpses passing by, the goblins' hunting party, and the giant dragon circling overhead that night.

Did that count as safe?

But then he thought of the little nest he had spent several days building.

"It's safe. Relatively safe," Huo Ling typed.

"If it's truly safe, then you can teleport to the Spirit Realm to cultivate. Quite a few tough people at the school do exactly that. As long as the Spirit Realm on the other side is safe, they go there to cultivate."

"That not only saves a huge amount of resources, but also lets you seize the initiative from the very beginning. You have to know, at school, one step ahead means every step ahead. One step slow means every step slow!" Guan Borong said.

Looking at the message on his phone, Huo Ling realized it was true. As a top-tier university, Southern Heaven University recruited nothing but geniuses.

With his second-class aptitude, perhaps he would only be an ordinary student there. If he wanted to stand out, if he wanted to succeed, he would have to put in even more effort.

There would certainly be many descendants of supernatural professionals at the school. Those with family resources supporting them definitely would not be like him, cultivating on Blue Star at a turtle's crawl.

Over these two months of vacation, the wealthy and poor people like Huo Ling would probably be pulled apart by no small gap.

"Senior, if I want to cultivate in the Spirit Realm, do you have any advice?" Huo Ling asked.

"Think it through carefully. If the Spirit Realm on the other side is really safe, then the most important thing when you go cultivate is to be a coward."

"A coward?"

"That's right. For an apprentice like you who has only just started meditating, anything at all could be dangerous. If you go there to cultivate, find a safe place to hide, come back after you finish cultivating, and don't do anything else. You don't have any means of attack right now, so don't go stirring up trouble."

"Wait, you have Spirit Realm's Blessing. Does your inheritance contain any offensive spells?" Guan Borong suddenly remembered that the kid on the other end had Spirit Realm's Blessing.

"I have one offensive spell, White Bone Fangs," Huo Ling answered honestly.

"Have you learned it?" Guan Borong asked nervously from the other side.

"I have. I can already cast it successfully."

Damn it, I hate geniuses. Guan Borong stomped his feet and beat his chest on the other end.