The next morning.
Xu Ran let out a soft breath and slowly opened his eyes.
After sensing his current condition, he could not help looking a little surprised.
Meditation was a rather arduous undertaking. Not only did it require clearing away distracting thoughts and emptying the mind to sense the surrounding power, it also required actively drawing on that power through willpower, merging the power that existed between heaven and earth into one's Contract Power to improve oneself.
So, unlike resting with one's eyes closed, prolonged meditation caused sustained fatigue. After meditating for a certain length of time, one needed sleep or some other form of rest to recover the mental energy expended.
The purple item Xu Ran had used before, the Meditation Acceleration Card, offered a hundredfold acceleration, but it neither made him feel a hundred times as tired nor reduced the fatigue caused by normal meditation.
Even with a Meditation Acceleration Card, Xu Ran still felt tired as usual.
That was also why he could only meditate during the first half of each night and still had to sleep during the second half.
Now, however, Xu Ran discovered another remarkable effect of the Advanced Meditation Acceleration Card: it completely eliminated fatigue during meditation.
After an entire night of meditation, he did not feel the slightest bit tired. Instead, he felt as refreshed as if he had slept.
This meant he could meditate for longer stretches in the future. Previously, he could only meditate for half the night; now he could meditate all night.
His meditation time had nearly doubled. Combined with the six-hundredfold acceleration from stacking the two different Meditation Acceleration Cards, his meditation efficiency was twelve times what it had been when he used the Meditation Acceleration Card alone.
Such was the terrifying power of a red