Flying Pig

Li Ming felt that his condition was exceptional at that moment. The Sunflower's soul power had been absorbed by him, and his soul power surged directly, breaking through his soul power bottleneck.

Furthermore, the four-hundred-year-old Sunflower's soul power was naturally extraordinary. Not only did it allow him to break through the tier-ten bottleneck, but it also propelled him forward all the way.

Right now, he had a full thirteen ranks!

His innate talent was average, and he cultivated soul power slowly, but absorbing soul power directly was fair, and everyone was the same.

In addition, he felt as if his body had undergone evolution and transformation, and all aspects of his physical constitution had clearly grown stronger.

Was this what a Spirit Master was?

"What is your soul skill?"

Seeing Li Ming finish digesting, Xiao Wu impatiently stepped forward to ask.

Tang San was also very curious.

Information regarding the soul skill had already appeared in Li Ming's mind at that moment, like his instinctive memory.

Li Ming could not help revealing a satisfied smile, exactly as he had guessed!

"My soul skill is to absorb sunlight energy, which can draw weak power from sunlight to improve soul power and physical fitness."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu was immediately somewhat disappointed. As expected, did it not have any offensive utility?

"Are you trying to make up for your cultivation speed through this soul ring?"

Tang San realized something and asked immediately.

"That's right."

Li Ming did not deny it.

However, Tang San was quite puzzled and asked doubtfully.

"If it could truly improve cultivation talent, I'm afraid it would have been popular long ago, and I believe quite a few people would flock to it.

Even Teacher didn't make any special mention of this Sunflower, so presumably this enhancement is very weak."

"It is indeed very weak, otherwise a hundred-year Sunflower wouldn't be this weak."

Li Ming confirmed Tang San's conjecture. The Sunflower had been absorbing solar energy for a full four hundred years, yet it was still easily battered by Xiao Wu, which showed the effectiveness of this energy absorption.

"Then you still—"

"Something is better than nothing, after all my innate soul power is only rank three.

According to Grandmaster's theory, innate soul power concerns a Spirit Master's upper limit.

I don't have much else to do usually, and just basking in the sun makes me stronger. It sounds pretty good indeed."

Li Ming smiled slightly and answered.

Upon hearing this, Tang San spoke no further. Although he still did not understand, this was Li Ming's own choice, and it was not his place to say much.

"Let's go, let's head back."

The three of them then returned, only getting back to Nuoding City the next day.

Xiao Wu bid farewell to Li Ming with a solemn expression.

"Remember what you said, to catch up to my pace and not slack off on your cultivation!"

With this farewell, Xiao Wu would leave Nuoding City and head to Shrek Academy.

Li Ming returned home.

At that moment, he finally had time to properly experience his soul skill.

He had waited many years for this soul skill.

Just as Tang San had said, if the Sunflower could truly make up for the gap in talent, it would have been slaughtered clean by people long ago; how could it have waited for him.

During the journey back that day, he tried to sense the energy drawn from the sun. It was extremely weak, not even a tenth of when he meditated.

His innate soul power was rank three, and his meditation efficiency was already a notch slower than others to begin with. Now the enhancement brought by this Sunflower was still only one-tenth of the original efficiency, which was simply negligible.

The introduction of the soul skill stating that it extracted a trace amount of energy from sunlight energy was indeed correct—it was extremely trace amounts. And this was still a four-hundred-year soul ring; if it were those ten-year or hundred-year soul rings, the absorption efficiency would probably be even slower.

Moreover, this trace enhancement had to be determined by the brightness of the sunlight.

The absorption efficiency could only reach its peak at noon when the sun was brightest, and this required direct sunlight to be effective.

If clouds blocked the sunlight, he would have to constantly move spots.

All in all, it was extremely tasteless.

Yet Li Ming was not only not depressed at the moment, but rather extremely excited.

Because his Martial Soul could also be used to replace his body in absorbing sunlight.

And the thousands of satellites he had launched into space could all serve as his body, absorbing the sun's rays!

Compared to the weakened sunlight energy on the ground, the sunlight energy absorbed by the satellites in orbit was much more abundant.

Furthermore, as long as he was willing, his thousands of satellites could achieve being illuminated by sunlight almost all year round.

The sunlight energy absorbed by one thousand satellites would be a terrifying figure.

Each satellite was equivalent to one of him, and the energy drawn was only one-tenth of what he refined from soul power.

As for one thousand satellites, a simple mathematical calculation yielded the improvement in his cultivation efficiency.

It was equivalent to a hundred times his current meditation and cultivation of soul power!

Even though there was a certain gap in cultivation speed between full innate soul power and rank-three innate soul power, any gap was not worth mentioning in the face of this hundredfold difference!

Besides, it was more than a hundredfold; the sunlight energy absorbed in orbit was bound to be more than the energy absorbed on the ground.

And this figure had already been calculated by his Satellite AI.

If the solar energy absorbed on the ground was 1, then the solar energy absorbed by the satellites in the sky was 1.4.

Equivalent to a hundred and forty times the cultivation speed bonus, how exaggerated.

And this was the reason Li Ming had been able to maintain a stable state of mind over the past few years.

He immediately wanted to give it a try.

However, to make the satellites bathed in sunlight twenty-four hours a day, adjustments to their current orbits were required.

And adjustments required soul power. With his current soul power, sending over a thousand satellites one by one was truly too massive an engineering project.

Therefore, he could only launch new satellites into specific Terminator orbits so they could be bathed in sunlight twenty-four hours a day.

Even so, the remaining satellites could still maintain twelve hours of sunlight bathing a day.

Thinking of this, Li Ming could not wait to officially start it up.

Yesterday, because Tang San and Xiao Wu were around, he had held back and not truly activated the soul skill.

Now he finally had time.

He activated his soul skill, and all satellites activated their soul skills at this moment.

If one could rise above space, one would see a yellow soul ring appear on every single one of Li Ming's satellites.

The next moment, his body involuntarily trembled, his face flushed, and he felt his soul power continuously improving—very noticeably. That was something meditation could not achieve; wave after wave of soul power poured in, and his soul power was improving visibly, feeling so comfortable that his body kept trembling.

In addition, the soul skill was also improving his physical fitness.

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days passed.

At this moment, Li Ming's face was glowing, his mental state was excellent, and his mood was very joyful as he sat in a carriage, leisurely hurrying along the road toward Heaven Dou City.

His family was undergoing a migration. Just as he had mentioned before, his family was heading to Heaven Dou City to settle down. That was the imperial capital of the Heaven Dou Empire and a much larger stage.

He heard that Spirit Kings and Spirit Emperors walked all over the place inside the city.

This was the stage that belonged to him.

At this moment, he was still absorbing sunlight energy, but his soul power did not grow at all.

Because in just over twenty days, he had risen from rank 13 to rank 20, getting stuck directly at the bottleneck.

However, while soul power could not grow, physical fitness was not restricted by rank.

This was simply a miracle.

He had cultivated for a full six years from rank three to rank ten, but from rank 13 to rank 20—a full seven ranks—he had only used a little over twenty days.

He was certain that no one in this world could better deserve the two words "genius".

As long as he waited to absorb his second soul ring, broke through the bottleneck, and became a Great Spirit Master, he would be able to continue leveling up rapidly. How much time would it take to reach rank 30!

Perhaps by the time Xiao Wu and the others started school, he would have already surpassed them.

Why wait thirty years in the east and thirty years in the west; when the wind blows for a day, I shall transform into a flying giant pig!