“Is there really no solution?” Yuan Hanshuang was unwilling to accept it.

“It’s not that there is absolutely no solution.”

The doctor pondered, “If the Luminous Temple has experts specializing in healing, and a high-ranking individual like the Cardinal is willing to help with several high-level healing techniques, it should work.”

Yuan Hanshuang: “…”

What is the Luminous Temple? It is one of the top powers in the interstellar world, and there are only a hundred or so Cardinals in the entire interstellar realm, each one a heavyweight figure.

The difficulty of fulfilling this condition is just as challenging as the Black Gold Medical Capsule.

So she had to resort to the most primitive method and use the money she had saved to buy some herbal medicine.

The ancient methods handed down by her ancestors also worked in the interstellar world. After persistently taking them for a year, her father could finally speak in complete sentences intermittently and began learning how to write. The results were satisfying.

“Dad, take your medicine.”

After seeing her silly father lovingly put away the star coin, Yuan Hanshuang went to the thermos and brought the freshly brewed medicine. She watched her father drink it, then satisfied, returned to her room and sat cross-legged on the bed, starting to study her newly acquired supernatural ability.

“Alright, now let’s study the new superpower I obtained.”

Due to her family’s financial situation, Yuan Hanshuang couldn’t afford a light brain.

Fortunately, the staff at the psychic awakening base gave her a basic paper booklet that contained some simple scientific information.

Following the instructions in the booklet, she sat cross-legged and summoned her manifestation.

After a moment, a pale blue spiritual ripple appeared, and a red and white koi fish swam out from the void, shaking its head and tail before landing lightly in her hand.

Upon closer inspection, Yuan Hanshuang noticed something was off.

“Huh? Why does it seem like you’ve grown bigger?”

She remembered that a few hours ago, when she first awakened, her manifestation was only the size of her palm. But now, it had clearly grown to be almost the length of her forearm and had increased in width.

The booklet did mention that manifestation could increase in weight and size, but that required long-term practice or class advancement.

She had only awakened a few hours ago, so she didn’t meet the requirements.

“Could I have remembered incorrectly?” Yuan Hanshuang wondered and pulled at her golden hair.

After all, she had been in a hurry during her awakening and was busy chatting with the staff, so it was normal to overlook some details.

Perhaps this koi fish itself is naturally this big?

She didn’t dwell on it and put the matter aside, focusing on studying the meditation techniques described in the booklet.

Interstellar people classified talent users into ranks from zero to nine, with each rank further divided into low, intermediate, high, and peak levels.

The higher the rank, the stronger the combat power. The ninth rank, known as the Saint rank, was currently the highest known level in the interstellar realm. The appearance of any Saint rank talent user would cause a sensation throughout the entire interstellar realm.

However, none of this had anything to do with Yuan Hanshuang.

As a newly awakened rookie, she only had a zero-rank low-level talent. If she wanted to improve, she could only work hard to cultivate her psychic abilities. Meditation was the simplest and most accessible method among many psychic training techniques.

“Hold your breath, calm your mind, keep your focus, concentrate your energy.”

Perhaps due to Yuan Hanshuang’s previous experience as a professional martial artist in her previous life, she had some insights into yoga and meditation. Even on her first attempt, she successfully entered a deep meditative state.

If anyone had witnessed this scene, their eyes would likely have popped out in shock.

After all, meditation and cultivation were not simple matters. Newly awakened talent users usually took half a month to a month to even achieve a basic level of meditation.

Moreover, this was happening to a D-rank talent user.

In fact, she hadn’t paid much attention to the words of the staff.

Talent was indeed important, but having lived another life, Yuan Hanshuang deeply understood that it did not represent everything. In her previous life, she had reached the pinnacle of martial arts and had seen it all. A simple talent couldn’t shake her firm determination.

“Hoo…”

After an unknown amount of time, Yuan Hanshuang woke up from her deep meditative state and took a deep breath.

She felt a refreshing sensation throughout her body, as if every pore was relaxed and filled with energy. Looking at the time, the entire afternoon had quietly passed, and now it was dusk.

“Spiritual cultivation is truly mysterious.”

Since awakening her manifestation, Yuan Hanshuang not only clearly felt an increase in strength, but her training efficiency also far surpassed what it used to be. She dared to say that an afternoon of meditation surpassed three days of intense physical training. It greatly improved her time utilization.

This cultivation method also piqued the curiosity of Yuan Hanshuang, who had previously been focused on increasing her strength through physical training.

As her master woke up, the koi fish floated back into the air.

Yuan Hanshuang lightly touched its fish body with her finger and murmured to herself, “Let’s work hard together. Once we reach the first rank, I can become a talent fighter in the fighting arena, earning more star coins.”

Even in the washroom, she had made up her mind to make the registered koi fish her public manifestation. As for the other unknown form of the little black bird, she had no intention of revealing it.

Yuan Hanshuang was only nine years old now and had limited knowledge of the interstellar world. She was also in the dark about her unusual awakening. All of these things could be gradually understood later on.

The most important thing in front of her now was the precarious financial situation at home.

The wages of talent fighters were three times higher than those of ordinary fighters, and she had been longing for it for a long time.

Only a first-rank talent user could apply to become a talent fighter.

With this goal in mind, Yuan Hanshuang didn’t leave her house for half a month. Instead of going to work at the fighting arena, she took a long vacation and spent every day in her room, meditating and practicing.

Thanks to her unwavering efforts, after half a month, she successfully advanced to the zero-rank intermediate level.

“It took half a month to advance by just a small level. It feels a bit slow.”

Because she didn’t have a teacher to guide her and lacked peers for comparison, Yuan Hanshuang wasn’t aware of how terrifyingly fast her cultivation speed was, unprecedented and unparalleled. She just felt that she wasn’t fast enough.

“The higher the rank, the harder it is to advance. At this rate, it will take me at least another two months to break through the first rank.” She frowned in distress. “That’s too long. Can the family hold on for two more months without me working?”

Economic pressure caused Yuan Hanshuang to worry and feel increasingly anxious.

“No, in the end, it must be because I’m not working hard enough. I need to figure out a way to see if I can use meditation to replace sleep and make full use of the eight hours of sleep time.”

When it came to studying, no one could match her who had experienced nine years of compulsory education. Especially in her current situation where her manifestation was only at the low-level D-rank, and she had to be the early bird, Yuan Hanshuang decided to use the all-nighters she pulled during the college entrance examination in her previous life and immediately start studying!

Under constant meditation, time passed quickly.

However, just as Yuan Hanshuang successfully stepped into the zero-rank high-level and was ready to push forward, something happened.

Under the moonlit sky, in the silence of the night, when people were supposed to be immersed in sweet dreams, Yuan Hanshuang clutched her stomach, her face filled with pain, as she climbed out of bed.

For some reason, she suddenly felt extremely hungry, to the point of feeling dizzy.

“What’s going on? Why am I suddenly this hungry? I drank the nutrient solution just last night…”

Fortunately, her family had recently purchased a new batch of cheap liquid nutrients.

Trembling, Yuan Hanshuang took out two bottles from the shelf, bit open the seal with her teeth, and guzzled them down.

The sweet aroma enveloped her senses.

At this moment, she couldn’t help but miss the rich taste of the free high-grade liquid nutrients from the empire.

After drinking five bottles of liquid nutrients in a row, Yuan Hanshuang realized that something was not right.

She was only nine years old and didn’t have a big appetite. One bottle of liquid nutrients should have been enough for a meal. But today, it seemed as if the amount that normally filled her up was useless. Her stomach still felt empty and panicked.

With no other choice, she had to reach for the remaining stock of liquid nutrients at home.

After drinking all thirty bottles of cheap liquid nutrients she had in stock, Yuan Hanshuang finally managed to alleviate her stomach pain from extreme hunger, reaching a state where she could endure it, although she still hadn’t eaten enough.

She looked at the empty storage box in her house and then at the empty test tubes, her expression blank.

“Do I have such a big appetite?”

What Yuan Hanshuang couldn’t have imagined was that this was only the beginning.