novelraw Chapter 8: How can someone so young sleep?
Chapter 8: How can someone so young sleep?
During cultivation, everyone was focused.
This rare opportunity wouldn't be wasted by anyone stopping their progress.
Even Little Fatty didn't dare slack off.
He felt his natural talent could be poor, but Teacher Zhao's arranged plan must be completed.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to explain himself when returning.
Jiang Man felt quite emotional.
In such an environment, how could Little Fatty maintain his mindset of being a failure?
Improving cultivation and entering the sect was the only good path forward.
Shouldn't having resources make one work even harder?
Jiang Man never tried to persuade him, just buried himself in diligent cultivation.He practiced the Qi Refinement Method over and over again.
After ten cycles, Little Fatty wanted to rest, but seeing the last-ranked student still cultivating, how could he, as the second-to-last ranked student, face himself?
After twenty cycles.
Little Fatty was sweating profusely as he looked at Jiang Man who was still continuing: "Little Jiang, let's take a break, balance work and rest."
Jiang Man glanced at him and ignored him.
Little Fatty gritted his teeth and persisted.
After thirty cycles.
Little Fatty was panting heavily: "Little Jiang, it's over, can we rest now?"
Jiang Man snorted contemptuously.
He continued cultivating.
Little Fatty continued angrily.
After forty cycles.
Little Fatty was crying: "Brother Jiang, it's over now, right?"
Jiang Man remained disdainful.
By this time, others had gradually completed their plans.
Those who finished were stunned when they saw the last-ranked and second-to-last ranked students, who should have left long ago, still cultivating.
Had they counted wrong?
Was the plan not over yet?
But after cycle after cycle, they finally realized what was happening.
The last-ranked students were making an effort.
Eventually even Fang Yong noticed.
He was somewhat puzzled.
What exactly were the last-ranked students doing?
Others also began complaining, what's wrong with you guys?
Who are you trying to show off your diligence to at this point?
But they couldn't be the first to leave either.
Fang Yong didn't speak - he could lose, but he couldn't lose to these people.
Until evening, Luo Xuan, who had been cultivating all along, stopped her cultivation and walked out of the courtyard on her own.
It was getting dark and time to go back.
At this point, others also breathed a sigh of relief.
The atmosphere was finally broken, and everyone left on their own.
Someone said: "Their foundations are too poor, so they need to act recklessly. We have our own plans and shouldn't be disrupted by them."
Hearing this, others nodded: "Indeed, there's no need to be led by them. They're different from us, not on the same level."
"We should still follow the original plan."
"They've wasted two years, this is just a temporary enthusiasm."
Others nodded in agreement.
They decided they would never do this again.
The next day, afternoon.
Looking at the persistently staying last-ranked students, they felt furious.
Again?
After waiting half the day, surprisingly no one had left again.
Where were those who swore yesterday they wouldn't be affected and would follow their own plans?
Until evening.
Luo Xuan once again broke the deadlock, taking the lead to leave.
This ended the second day of cultivation.
Before leaving, some people curiously asked Fang Yong: "Young Master Fang, didn't you go out with Young Master Yang and the others today? I heard they organized some like-minded peers to go to Moonview Pavilion for sparring."
"Are you going too, Young Master Fang?"
Others immediately gathered around: "Really? Young Master Fang is going too? What's Moonview Pavilion like?"
"I heard it's filled with countless prodigies, with dense spiritual energy - one day there equals ten days here," someone else added.
Facing the questions, Fang Yong maintained a smile and said: "I probably won't go, I happen to have an appointment with a certain famous teacher."
Others felt both regretful and envious.
Only after everyone left did Fang Yong depart. When passing Jiang Man, his eyes carried hostility.
Probably blaming him for not admitting fault back then.
Making Young Master Cheng and the others mistakenly think they had a relationship, making it awkward to interact with him.
Because of this, he missed the opportunity to visit Moonview Pavilion and experience cultivation there.
Jiang Man just glanced at him without caring, his whole heart was focused on cultivation.
Feeling the changes brought by these two days of cultivation.
Tonight he wanted to attempt the ninth level of the Qi Refinement Method.
After reaching the eighth level yesterday, he had been constantly thinking about improving to the final level.
After courtyard cultivation ended, he returned to complete his stable work, then continued cultivating.
Until late at night.
Jiang Man sighed.
He still couldn't enter the ninth level.
But he felt he was close.
It was too late now, he needed to rest.
After greeting Old Yellow Ox at the door, Jiang Man went inside to lie down.
But after lying down for only a short while, his mind kept thinking about the ninth level.
He was still young - how could he sleep when facing the imminent breakthrough to the highest level of the technique?
Whoosh!
Jiang Man jumped up.
He continued cultivating.
Watching Jiang Man go out, Old Yellow Ox was surprised: "What are you doing?"
"Cultivating," Jiang Man replied.
"It's midnight, what cultivation?" Old Yellow Ox asked.
"Haven't seen it before? Now you've seen it," Jiang Man said casually.
Then he immediately began cultivating again.
Old Yellow Ox frowned but didn't think much of it.
Until faint light gradually began to appear on Jiang Man's body, it finally realized what the person before it was doing.
This advancement speed... was somewhat fast.
As dawn began to break.
A faint light fell upon Jiang Man.
At this moment, his Qi Refinement Method was operating wildly.
The speed wasn't fast, as it was operating automatically.
This was the manifestation of the ninth level of the Qi Refinement Method.
"Three days plus, ninth level of Qi Refinement Method?"
Old Yellow Ox felt its understanding was being gradually rewritten.
"Senior, do you still think I can't complete the second requirement of the Peerless Prodigy Fate?" Jiang Man asked as he finished his cultivation.
Old Yellow Ox smiled without speaking.
Jiang Man frowned - even this couldn't change its mind?
Afterwards, Jiang Man took the opportunity to fully operate the technique and began absorbing spiritual energy.
As the external cultivation technique operated, the surrounding spiritual energy began to be absorbed by him.
Simultaneously, the pill in his dantian was also covered by the technique.
After the technique completed one full cycle, large amounts of spiritual energy gathered in his dantian, and some of the pill's efficacy was consumed.
If the first level of Qi Refinement was viewed as filling a gourd with water, now the spiritual energy had opened this gourd and begun filling it, with a thin layer of moisture even appearing at the bottom.
The moment the "gourd" opened, Jiang Man felt his body was injected with a fountain of life, full of vitality, his hands and feet brimming with strength.
Fatigue also rapidly receded.
Feeling the changes in his body, it was completely different from before.
He had entered the first level of Qi Refinement.
But only the lowest level of the first level of Qi Refinement.
Estimating, with the pill's assistance, he would need to operate the technique about two hundred more times to fill this "gourd" completely.
Then, perhaps he could try to open the second gourd.
"Now I'm at the same level as Little Fatty. In a few days I'll surpass him."
"I wonder what cultivation levels the people ahead have reached."
"I need to find out what level of Qi Refinement Fang Yong is at. Surpassing him will get me the qualification."
Currently, he still had about a hundred days left.
Time was still relatively ample.
But when he went to the Sixth Courtyard in the rear courtyard today.
Fang Yong stopped him.
"Young Master Fang, is there something?" Jiang Man asked.
Fang Yong looked at him and spoke calmly: "Today is the day for cleaning the old courtyard, you need to go there."
Jiang Man frowned: "I never heard about this before?"
"Before it was on rotation, this time it's the last-ranked student's turn, and coincidentally you're the last-ranked," Fang Yong said looking at Jiang Man.
After a pause, he continued: "Next month the courtyard cleaning will still be done by the last-ranked student, I wonder if it will still be you."
Jiang Man: "..."
You'll find out next month.