Chapter 53: Cultivation

Zhou Qiang also agreed, saying, “That’s right, Su Mengli had a difficult past and doesn’t have many friends around her, which is why she’s so protective of Ye Xuan.”

Lin Xu thought for a moment and said, “Take a few days off and go to Jiangcheng.”

Zhou Qiang was taken aback and asked, “Why should I go to Jiangcheng?”

Lin Xu replied, “First, go and deal with Su Mengli’s parents for me. Your abilities are suitable for this, give those two bastards a lesson!”

“Do I really have to go all the way there to deal with them?” Zhou Qiang asked.

Lin Xu patted Zhou Qiang’s shoulder and said, “Teaching her parents a lesson is secondary. There’s another more important thing I want you to do.”

Zhou Qiang paused and asked, “What is it?”

Lin Xu explained, “Su Mengli has an SSS-class talent, which is crucial. It’s fine for her to be in a relationship with Ye Xuan, but now she only has him as her only light in the darkness, which is not conducive to her healthy growth. She needs more friends around her, to create a harmonious atmosphere and experience family and friendship.”

Zhou Qiang understood Lin Xu’s meaning and said, “You mean, find some friends in Jiangcheng who have a relatively good relationship with her and arrange for them to come to our Awakening Academy?”

Lin Xu nodded and asked, “Do you have any candidates in mind?”

Zhou Qiang thought for a moment and said, “I heard that her English teacher, Qi Yue, treats her well. And Ye Xuan’s sister, Ye Xue, also takes good care of Su Mengli. As for others, I don’t know much about them for now.”

Lin Xu said directly, “Then let these two come to our Awakening Academy first.”

“But they are ordinary people. Is it appropriate for them to come to the Awakening Academy?” Zhou Qiang asked.

Lin Xu smiled and said, “I am the dean, I have the final say. What’s inappropriate about it? Besides, arranging a few people for the healthy growth of an SSS-class genius, what’s the big deal? I don’t want to force her to break up with Ye Xuan, I just hope that from now on, she won’t only see love in her eyes, but also other things.”

Zhou Qiang nodded and said, “I understand.”

On the other side, Su Mengli arrived at the separate cultivation room arranged by Lin Xu for her and sent a WeChat message to Ye Xuan: “Ye Xuan, the academy arranged for me to cultivate alone today. I’ll find you later.”

After a while, Ye Xuan replied, “Okay.”

At this moment, Ye Xuan was also quite disappointed. After all, if they were separated, they wouldn’t be able to use the dual cultivation card, which would lower their cultivation efficiency. He would see what the school thought about it. If they continued to keep them apart, he would have to persuade Su Mengli to transfer schools with him.

Ye Xuan believed that the Magic City University would never want to lose an SSS-class Awakened!

With Su Mengli not around, Ye Xuan could only cultivate alone. He entered a separate cultivation room, took out a spiritual stone from the resource pack, and placed it close to his forehead to begin cultivation.

There are many factors that determine cultivation efficiency, mainly including ability level, cultivation resources, and cultivation talent.

From C-class to SSS-class, the higher the ability level, the slower the cultivation speed, because a higher ability level means a higher limit.

If we compare a person’s body to a dried-up pond, the process of cultivation is like channeling all the water from the spiritual stone into the pond and using it to improve one’s ability development. In this process, the ability level determines the size of the pond. For example, in his previous life, Ye Xuan’s ability level was muscle enhancement at the C-class, and his pond was like a small fish pond of 100 square meters. But what about Su Mengli? It’s not a pond anymore, it’s an ocean, equivalent to the size of the Pacific Ocean.

Because of this, Ye Xuan was able to fully develop his abilities in a few years.

As for Su Mengli, as the Red Lotus Empress, she had countless cultivation resources and the full support of the country, but her ability development only reached 89% by the time of the Battle for magic city, not even 90%.

The second aspect is cultivation resources. The more abundant the resources, the faster the cultivation speed.

The third aspect is cultivation talent. There is no correlation between ability level and cultivation talent. Different people have different speeds of refining spiritual energy. The faster the refining speed, with sufficient resources, the higher the efficiency.

At this moment, Ye Xuan keenly felt the difference between himself and his previous life. His cultivation talent was no different from his previous life, but the difference was huge.

In his previous life, he had also absorbed a spiritual stone as a reward for completing a mission. It took him three hours to absorb it. At that time, he felt that he was full and had already developed his muscle enhancement to 50%. It instantly soared to 70% development.

But now, even after absorbing the spiritual stone for three hours, he still didn’t feel much. It was like adding a toothpick to a large water tank, barely noticeable!

Ye Xuan estimated that it would take him about half a month to increase his ability development by one percentage point.

And this was just the beginning. The higher the ability development, the more difficult the progress would be. Even for Ye Xuan, with his S-class talent, it was already so difficult. Su Mengli’s talent was two levels higher than Ye Xuan’s.

No wonder she had the full support of the country and still couldn’t reach 90% in more than 20 years!

At this moment, Su Mengli, like Ye Xuan, also felt the difficulty of cultivation. Absorbing the energy from the spiritual stone was like trying to collect water from a dried-up Pacific Ocean with a garden hose. It seemed endless and seemed to have no end in sight…

In fact, Su Mengli’s cultivation talent was not bad, but it was just average. However, her talent limit, the SSS-class Flame Red Lotus, was too high.

This also made her cultivation progress painfully slow. In her previous life, she was able to reach such a level not only through her own efforts but also with the help of various magical treasures that appeared as the recovery of spiritual energy intensified in the later stages. Among these precious treasures, only a few were used on the top group of people, and Su Mengli was one of them.

Perhaps, because of this, Su Mengli chose to die with the mutated beasts in her previous life. She had consumed too many national resources and had been given too much hope. In order not to disappoint these resources and expectations, she could only choose to sacrifice herself for the country.

Just think about it, if Su Mengli’s growth mostly relied on herself and not the strong support of the country, even if she had the heart to protect China, she wouldn’t choose to sacrifice herself, right?

In her previous life, Su Mengli sacrificed herself for the country, and Ye Xuan admired and respected her for it. But in this life, Ye Xuan didn’t want such a thing to happen.

Protecting one’s own homeland is necessary, but sacrificing oneself is not necessary. As long as the green mountains are still there, there’s no need to worry about firewood. This is the right choice!

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