Cultivation and Attribute Enhancement

Wei Hailong was still staring at the geometric sculptures.

Fang Yuan was not sure whether he had discovered the star core inside the cone, but whether he had or not, he could not be allowed to keep looking.

I have to get him away.

Fang Yuan walked over and greeted him. "Instructor Wei."

Wei Hailong turned and asked in the cold, hard voice peculiar to the military, "What is it?"

"I'm a little curious. What exactly does your Star Power Flash ability do, Instructor Wei?"

Fang Yuan deliberately asked this to expose a weakness.

A trace of surprise appeared on Wei Hailong's face. "How do you know what my ability is?"

He was absolutely certain that he had not revealed any information about his ability when introducing himself during yesterday's martial arts class.

In fact, every qualified soldier in the military would hide as much information about themselves as possible to prevent enemies from finding weaknesses.

Fang Yuan pointed at his eyes and answered, "Iris Data."

The school already had records of his ability being Iris Data, so there was no need to hide it.

Saying it outright would instead make him seem guileless, honest, and trustworthy.

"I see."

Hearing that it was Iris Data, Wei Hailong did not suspect anything and answered, "You can think of Star Power Flash as a flashbang."

"That's a pretty good ability. It's extremely useful in the military," Fang Yuan praised.

That praise was actually sincere.

Wei Hailong's ability was equivalent to a flashbang with unlimited uses.

Moreover, since it was an ability, it surely allowed for finer control, making it far more useful than a flashbang in practice.

Besides, the power of this Star Power Flash was still unknown.

If it was powerful enough, it might even blind enemies outright.

"Is there anything else?" Wei Hailong's voice remained as cold and hard as iron.

Fang Yuan's goal was to get him away from the geometric sculptures, so he said, "I've finished my required classes and want to practice the Star Power cultivation model. Do you have time now, Instructor?"

"Then let's go to the lecture hall."

Wei Hailong did not refuse and led Fang Yuan straight to the lecture hall.

Since the Star Power cultivation model was stored on that engineering laptop and could not be copied, anyone who wanted to practice had to go to the lecture hall and play it on that laptop.

The two chatted as they walked toward the lecture hall.

"I read your file last night. Your academic grades are good, but your martial arts grades are near the bottom. Why do you insist on taking martial arts classes?" Wei Hailong had read through the files of every student in both classes last night.

"Because the sea of stars is every boy's earliest dream deep down, isn't it?" Fang Yuan said with a smile.

"Actually, the Imperial Capital Military Academy has liberal arts programs specifically for training military staff officers. Your Iris Data ability is also well suited to becoming a staff officer. Future warships will need staff officers, too. Charging into battle on the front lines isn't the only way to be a hero." Although Wei Hailong was a martial arts instructor, he still wanted to point Fang Yuan toward a path where success would come more easily.

However, Fang Yuan was hiding a major secret, and only he knew which path he should take.

"Thank you for the advice, Instructor. I'll consider it."

As they spoke, they arrived at the lecture hall.

Wei Hailong opened the engineering laptop, entered the password, and launched the Star Power cultivation model program.

Fang Yuan stared at the projection screen, controlling the Star Power in his body to flow through the cycle demonstrated by the cultivation model as he reviewed what he had memorized yesterday.

After finishing his review, Fang Yuan began considering which attribute to train.

According to the law of diminishing returns, training the attribute with the lowest value would yield the fastest improvement.

However, ordinary Awakeners would not do that.

Most Awakeners were desperately focusing on a single attribute, trying to raise their main attribute to its limit.

Fang Yuan was completely different.

Thanks to his miraculous ability to absorb rage, his strength was now at 19 points and his spirit at 20, both essentially at the limit for Lv. 1.

At this point, he could certainly start cultivating a third attribute.

Fang Yuan felt that if he kept this up, he really might be able to max out all four attributes.

His two remaining attributes were agility at 15 and constitution at 13.

Although constitution was the lowest, cultivating it would not produce particularly noticeable results.

Increasing constitution required a corresponding diet.

Simply put, the fastest way to increase constitution was to eat.

Just like Beef Meatball, if he stuffed himself and ate his way to a body covered in fat, his constitution would naturally become very high.

By comparison, Fang Yuan felt that agility mattered more when facing powerful enemies.

So Fang Yuan decided to train his agility first and asked, "Instructor, if I want to cultivate agility, what kind of exercise should I use?"

"Agility cultivation mainly involves training your neural reaction speed and maximum running speed. Establish a Star Power circulation through your legs according to the Star Power model, then just run. At your current level, running a thousand kilometers should raise your agility by about one point," Wei Hailong explained.

"A thousand kilometers? Wouldn't I run myself to death? Is there a faster cultivation method?" Fang Yuan asked again.

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"Weighted running." As Wei Hailong spoke, he removed the pair of ten-kilogram weights from his ankles and tossed them in front of Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan sat on the floor, picked up the weights, and began strapping them onto his ankles.

As he fastened them, he studied Wei Hailong and probed, "Instructor, have you heard of the Spear of God?"

Wei Hailong suddenly turned his head. "Why are you asking about that?"

"Nothing. Just curious," Fang Yuan replied casually.

"That's an extremely dangerous overseas Awakener organization. You'd better not have any connection to it," Wei Hailong warned.

Fang Yuan had brought up the Spear of God mainly to sound him out.

Judging from his reaction, though, he did not seem connected to it. Fang Yuan did not know whether he was pretending.

After fastening the weights, Fang Yuan stood and hopped a few times. "I remember reading in a book that attribute enhancement abilities improve attribute cultivation. Is that true?"

"That's true. Attribute enhancement abilities greatly improve cultivation."

"Then if using an attribute enhancement ability pushes an attribute beyond the level cap, will that trigger diminishing returns?"

"No. The military has precise experimental data on that. But there's no point in you asking, since you don't have an attribute enhancement ability," Wei Hailong answered.

A hint of a smile appeared at the corner of Fang Yuan's mouth. He dropped the subject, waved, and ran out of the classroom. "Then I'm off to the field."

Quite a few students were already exercising on the field.

Fang Yuan swept his gaze across them, searching the crowd for students with an Agility Enhancement ability.

He soon spotted the Agility Enhancement ability on a boy playing basketball.

However, it was only Basic Agility Enhancement, which increased agility by 20%.

Fang Yuan was not very satisfied, so he kept looking.

Soon, he found an Intermediate Agility Enhancement that increased agility by 30%.

Advanced attribute enhancement abilities were indeed rare. Finding an intermediate one was already pretty good.

Fang Yuan walked over, ready to copy the boy's Intermediate Agility Enhancement.