A single training meal, excluding the Twin Cyclops brains, had cost nearly ten thousand Gold Soul Coins in ingredients alone for the other dishes Lu Yi ate.
Most of the ingredients had been eaten "as they were" to preserve their unique effects. They could hardly be called delicious, but the results were remarkable.
Taking advantage of the mental stimulation the food brought, Lu Yi picked up where that day's lesson had left off and continued studying the basics of Soul Tool manufacturing.
Thanks to his deliberate practice and the circulation system the Gold of Life had built inside him, Lu Yi could now cultivate steadily while doing other things, as long as he did not use Soul Power.
It was slower than concentrating fully on Meditation, but he could do it anytime, anywhere.
For someone with as much to study as Lu Yi, it was like stretching every twelve-hour day into twenty hours.
Meanwhile, Electrolux was helping him tackle a difficult problem.
"Elder Yi, I've absorbed my Third Soul Ring, and you saw the process. How is the Soul Spirit coming along?"
Lu Yi thought about how absorbing that Soul Ring had sent him straight to level thirty-eight. Even if he spent this period doing nothing but stabilizing his foundation, he would probably need to obtain his fourth Soul Ring within six months, before the school year ended.
If he could create a Soul Spirit for his fourth ring, the boost to his strength would be enormous.
"It's only been five hours since you finished absorbing that Soul Ring. Do you take this old man for a wishing lamp? Say the word, and I produce results?"
After spending so long with Lu Yi, Electrolux could not help feeling exploited.
He was only a wisp of a remnant soul. Why was