During the three days of the holiday, Su Yuan made nearly four thousand yuan from various small jobs.
For ordinary people, that amount is enough to comfortably live for a month, but if spent on cultivation, it's clearly not enough.
Not to mention the various elixirs used for cultivation, just the rental fee for the artificial spiritual root could consume all his hard-earned money within a few hours.
Seeing such a large deduction from his account balance, Su Yuan felt a bit pained.
However, the function of the artificial spiritual root is indeed worth the price.
He opened the box that stored the artificial spiritual root. As soon as he opened the sophisticated fresh-keeping box, cold air gushed out.
A silver-white patch, resembling a navel patch, appeared before Su Yuan.
After years of development in artificial spiritual root technology, it no longer needs to be implanted within the body; just slap it onto the skin.
He took out the patch and lifted his shirt to stick it onto his stomach.
Instantly, a cooling sensation gushed from the patch, probing into Su Yuan's body like plant roots, establishing a connection with his dantian.
With the artificial spiritual root taking effect, the surrounding spiritual energy actively began converging around Su Yuan, now simply running the breathing technique could increase his normal cultivation speed by more than ten times.
"If only Tongzi could send me a spiritual root someday."
Feeling the changes brought by the spiritual root, Su Yuan silently hoped in his heart.
Even in an era where everyone cultivates, those born with spiritual roots are as scarce as ancient times, one in ten thousand, and current cultivation technology hasn't developed to the point where newborns' genes can be altered.
Ninety percent of geniuses born with spiritual roots could gain entry to major universities, and even have a chance at the top ten immortal mansions.
If he could obtain a spiritual root of his own, he'd be willing to drive luxury cars and live in grand estates!
Su Yuan repeated this wish in his heart several times, hoping the system could hear it.
He suppressed his distractions, focusing on running the basic high school breathing technique with unwavering concentration, centering on his dantian, creating a small spiritual energy vortex around him.
Entered meditation instantly.
This is the benefit brought by the Brahma Purifying Demon Heart, normally Su Yuan would take over three minutes to enter the cultivation state, often getting distracted.
None in the class could enter meditation instantly.
Even the top student Chen Nuoyi would need about thirty seconds to get into the state.
Thus, within the class, Su Yuan's performance was quite noticeable.
Seeing the spiritual energy within the class quickly converging in one direction, Yue Lin glanced over, stunned at seeing Su Yuan absorbing spiritual energy wildly.
This kid, why so fast? Did he make a breakthrough?
Or was Su Yuan's instant meditation just a coincidence, unsustainable in the long run?
Yue Lin couldn't help but pay more attention to Su Yuan.
As time slowly passed, the entire class of forty-eight basically entered into their cultivation states.
However, breathing technique demands unwavering focus; even a moment's distraction or a disturbance in breathing rhythm significantly drops the spiritual energy absorption speed.
Yue Lin stood on the lectern with arms crossed, glancing at the students coolly:
"When you hear the following statement, you'll find that swallowing saliva will change from automatic to manual mode."
With these words, several students subconsciously swallowed, disrupting their breathing rhythm.
A student forced to exit the cultivation state opened his eyes, flickers of fear in them!
It's coming! The Five Big Challenges of Breathing Technique!
Yue Lin continued:
"From now on, blinking will change from automatic to manual mode!"
"From now on, there will definitely be a place on your body that will itch!"
"Feeling sleepy? Think of all the yawning scenes you've seen in life!"
"From now on, your breathing will be manual!"
Each time Yue Lin spoke, part of the students on the field couldn't hold it together, their cultivation rhythm instantly disrupted.
This is the Five Big Challenges faced by each cultivator when breathing in spiritual energy!
Blinking, breathing, swallowing saliva, yawning, and an itch due to psychological effects—each physical instinct, when reminded by external forces, is forced into manual control.
For students who must remain completely focused and breathe in spiritual energy, this equates to a thunderous blow!
After Yue Lin addressed all Five Big Challenges, over two-thirds of the class broke their cultivation, trying hard to regain their physical state, but the more anxious they became, the less their instincts could recover.
Yue Lin said coldly:
"Distracted thoughts, unstable Dao Heart, a few words lead you to daydream for half an hour out of an hour's breathing technique! Practice well!"
After scolding the students for not being focused enough in cultivation, Yue Lin then turned his gaze to Su Yuan, with a hint of surprise.
This kid, surprisingly undisturbed by the Five Big Challenges, continuously cultivating at the most efficient speed; this focus, even compared to Chen Nuoyi, is slightly superior.
Has he opened a new level of understanding?
With such high focus, his Dao Heart scores can't be poor.
However, Yue Lin realized his student representative's Dao Heart scores were just above average—missing for three days made him look anew?
There was something curious about it.
Compared to cultivation that can be aided by external forces, Dao Heart can only improve gradually.
A significant increase in Dao Heart scores indicates either encountering a major life turning point, gaining a goal worth striving a lifetime for, or… developing a mental illness.
Hmm, many mental disorders exhibit unusual thinking, maintaining focus far beyond ordinary people in certain matters.
Su Yuan's situation… a hint of it perhaps!
Thinking of Su Yuan's family background, an orphan without parents, an incomplete family, high exam pressure along with life's stress, Yue Lin's previously cold and stern gaze naturally bore a concern.
Two hours later, the bell rang marking the end of class.
Su Yuan looked at the account balance decreased by a thousand yuan and, like sending off a plague, tore off the spiritual root patch and stored it back into the fresh-keeping box, sent away by an unmanned flying sword.
However, considering the significant advancement in his cultivation within two hours, Su Yuan felt the spending was worth it.
In the basic high school breathing technique, a self-testing technique for cultivation results is integrated, a slight run by Su Yuan resulted in appearing data in his mind.
[Spiritual Power: 57.5 (Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer)]
This isn't system data, but a roughly calculated result from him, incomparable to the precision of professional cultivation testing instruments that can calculate to three decimal places, but fairly accurate.
Two hours prior, his cultivation data was only 57.0—an increase of 0.5 in cultivation progress—a notable enhancement.
"Using Brahma Purifying Demon Heart really makes a difference, previously using the same amount of time and artificial spiritual root resulted at most in a 0.2 to 0.3 cultivation progress, system brother is quite capable."
Su Yuan felt a sigh of admiration in his heart.
Right then, Su Yuan noticed his homeroom teacher Yue Lin walking towards him.
A thought struck him:
"I performed so well in this class, Teacher Yue must have noticed, maybe he's seen my talent and will give me specialized guidance."
Thinking of this, Su Yuan couldn't help but feel excited.
Then, he saw Yue Lin reach out and pat his shoulder, speaking with a tone of concern:
"Su Yuan, if there's any difficulty, feel free to come to the office, don't keep things bottled up, one must always look forward in life, don't think negatively."
Su Yuan: "???"