Flash Sale

"This is so hard..."

"Yeah, the so-called Barrier-Breaking Power and Water Qi are completely intermingled, you can't extract them at all."

"Forget it, I need a break. My head is killing me!"

The students in the large classroom groaned in endless complaint.

Stripping Barrier-Breaking Power from a trace of spirit water already counted as high-level application of five-element spells.

Looking across the entire high school stage, it still ranked among the most difficult courses.

Teacher Zhou stood with his hands clasped behind his back, pacing slowly with a faint smile on his face.

He knew that spirit control was difficult, but it was an essential path; a qualified immortal-path cultivator had to master such methods.

In the future, no matter what jobs these kids took—whether going to pharmaceutical companies to research and develop drugs, entering magic-tool manufacturing enterprises to research production, or joining the civil service—spirit control would be the most basic requirement.

Among the ten classes and over a thousand students, most were constantly trying and failing.

Yet a portion of students quickly grasped the essence of spirit control.

For instance, Class One's top student Qi Ming, or Class Three's monitor Cheng Qian.

Class Three's students, including Jiang Ran, looked up simultaneously.

The water vapor in front of Cheng Qian dissipated, and a completely uniform, deep-blue spiritual light emerged, radiating a faint sense of deterrence.

"Cheng Qian succeeded too..."

"As expected of the monitor!"

"If only I were also at Qi Refinement Level Two."

The classmates looked on with envy; many subconsciously attributed Cheng Qian's success to her Qi Refinement Level Two cultivation.

The fact was indeed so; breakthroughs in realm brought all-around enhancements to humans. Students at Qi Refinement Level Two vastly surpassed those at Qi Refinement Level One in physical fitness, reaction speed, and the degree of spiritual power control.

Yet this was not a reason for failure.

The Ministry of Education collectively referred to Qi Refinement Level One, Level Two, and Level Three as the "Seedling Stage."

Likewise, the restrictions placed on examinees in the college entrance examination capped out at Qi Refinement Level Three.

Cultivators in the Seedling Stage received similar levels of education, and the gaps between them in various aspects were not excessively large.

Only after reaching university, when students stepped into mid-stage Qi Refinement, late-stage Qi Refinement, and even higher, would the differences among them become much more pronounced.

Of course, that was a matter for the future.

During high school, even descendants of prestigious lineages had to compete against peers nationwide within the framework of the "Seedling Stage" using cultivation no higher than Qi Refinement Level Three.

Jiang Ran had not originally held out much hope.

Stripping away Barrier-Breaking Power was simply too hard.

He possessed a very clear self-awareness of his own limits: the most ordinary low-grade Water Spirit Root, with a cultivation level of Qi Refinement Level One.

Even though he had made non-trivial progress recently, he still ultimately belonged to the category of academic slackers, and what he needed most right now was time to grow.

Yet right now, the situation seemed somewhat subtle.

The water vapor in front of him rapidly dispersed, and a deep blue light was about to manifest.

And all Jiang Ran had done was use the Qi-Collection Method.

What the hell... Even he was startled.

The Qi-Collection Method obtained from the Hundred-Yue Immortal Sect was uniquely created for gathering Ice-Lake Spirit-Water Qi, and using it to separate water-elemental spiritual qi was simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

This sensation was utterly marvelous.

The focus of the Qi-Collection Method did not lie in "stripping," but rather in the word "collect."

Jiang Ran felt as though he had sunk into the spirit water, able to sense the endless, ceaseless circulation of heaven-and-earth spiritual essence.

The Qi-Collection Method was too profound, surpassing the Spirit-Control Technique by goodness knows how many levels; this was a disparity rooted in the very "law" itself.

"Hmph..." Up on the podium, Zhou Tianfang suddenly glanced sideways, looking toward the location of Class Three.

"Qi Refinement Level One, and he separated the Barrier-Breaking Power just like that?"

When he saw the water vapor diffuse and the spiritual qi return to disorder, he could not help letting out a sigh.

"Pity, it fell just short."

Zhou Tianfang purposely glanced at Jiang Ran, committing this student's face to memory.

Jiang Ran...

A fine sapling.

Down below, Jiang Ran was covered in sweat.

It was he who had intentionally given up on continuing to "collect" the Barrier-Breaking Power just then.

The existence of the Qi-Collection Method could not be leaked—at least, absolutely not right now.

The spell class lasted for a full half-day.

As soon as class ended, the students surged toward the direction of the cafeteria.

The consumption brought on by practicing spells was no less than body tempering, and everyone found themselves in a ravenous state.

Jiang Ran's mind, however, was not on that at all.

Clutching the "get-out-of-jail-free card" given by Director Ji Linchun, he walked straight out of the school gates.

Returning home, he retrieved his phone.

With practiced familiarity, he opened the shopping website page.

Flying Sword Network, the ace industry under Divine Firmament Company, belonging to the Divine Firmament Sect among the top ten sects.

Flying Sword Network was currently Tianlu's largest online shopping platform, occupying nearly eighty percent of the market share.

Aside from its core selling point that "everything under heaven can be sold," it possessed another enormous advantage: speed!

The Divine Firmament Sect founded its lineage on the sword, and its sword-flight techniques were peerless across the nation.

Flying Sword Network made excellent use of this advantage.

As long as one purchased spiritual resources on Flying Sword Network's Flying Sword Flash Sale, delivery to one's doorstep was guaranteed within twenty-four hours at most.

Twenty-four hours was the upper limit; in large cities like Pingjiang, the delivery speed of flying swords was vastly faster.

[Heaven-and-Earth Treasures - Five-Element Spiritual Resources - Water-Element Spiritual Resources - Spirit Water - Tier-1 Spirit Water]

Jiang Ran rapidly clicked into the interface, unable to conceal his impatience.

Just moments ago, he had thought of an exceptional idea.

Buying water—purchasing spirit water!

His experience in the spell class had proven one thing.

--The Qi-Collection Method was universal in this world as well!

With things coming to this... Jiang Ran naturally understood instantly what he needed to do.

Qi-Consuming Initiation was an exceptionally difficult task in the Grand Ruins Realm.

The greatest obstacle did not merely lie in the fact that immortal-path inheritances were monopolized by major sects and powerful cultivators.

There was another massive hurdle: "Qi Collection"!

Why was the Hundred-Yue Immortal Sect so generous as to bestow cultivation techniques upon miners, even issuing a strand of True Qi to each person?

That was because cultivation techniques could be copied infinitely, whereas a single strand of True Qi was insufficient to carry most people across the threshold of Qi-Consuming Initiation.

Even with the assistance of an initiated cultivator, the probability of achieving initiation from a single Qi consumption was minuscule.

Disciples within immortal sects typically prepared multiple strands of True Qi, making repeated attempts in hopes of achieving initiation.

So the problem arose: ordinary people, even if they mastered the Qi-Collection Method, would find it extremely difficult to harvest a True Qi belonging to themselves.

Take "Ice-Lake Spirit-Water Qi" as an example; one needed to wait patiently amidst an extremely frigid Icebound Spirit Lake just to harvest a single trace of True Qi.

A hundred traces formed a thread, a hundred threads formed a bundle, and a hundred bundles formed the Dao.

Average people did not even know where the Icebound Spirit Lake was, let alone stand a chance of harvesting True Qi in such harsh environments.

Although the "Autumn-Grass Frost Qi" passed down through Old Man Liu's family had a slightly lower collection difficulty, it still required locating the exact spot of spiritual essence and corresponding with the proper celestial timing to succeed.

Consequently, every strand of True Qi in the Grand Ruins Realm was immensely precious.

Now, here in Pingjiang, everything was different!

Jiang Ran's gaze swept across the screen, his heart pounding wildly.

[Spirit Water (Spirit-Source Grade 5) --- Black-Sand Spirit Water (1 tael) --- 550 yuan]

[Spirit Water (Spirit-Source Grade 7) --- Auspicious-Cloud Spirit Water (1 tael) --- 760 yuan]

[Spirit Water (Spirit-Source Grade 9) --- Yellow-Ginseng Spirit Water (1 tael) --- 880 yuan]

[Spirit Water (Spirit-Source Grade 10) --- Icebound Spirit Water (1 tael) --- 1080 yuan]

In Pingjiang, everything could be bought with money!