Chapter 307: Chapter 188: The Admissions Office Takes Action, Treatment for the Top of the Top 100 Contest!
The flying craft soared across the sky, breaking through the clouds, heading towards the Tai’an Metropolitan Area.
Qin Shi sat in first class, placing the Perfect Level Electric Shock Saber to his side.
“Sir, here is your lemon water. We also offer meals here, take a look and see what you would like to eat.”
The slender, beautiful stewardess knelt down to present the menu to Qin Shi.
Due to the energy blockade, most civilian aircraft choose hard-bodied flying crafts for easier route application.
“Just give me a portion of nutritional paste.”
Qin Shi rejected the dazzling array of self-heating foods. Despite having gone a month without eating, the nutrients provided by the Cultivation Furnace were sufficient to sustain him.
In fact, this was a sign of nearing the Specialized Domain.
No longer needing to rely on daily eating habits to maintain bodily functions.
The demand for absorbing advanced energy, on the other hand, greatly increased.
“Alright. Let me know if you need anything else.”
The stewardess smiled sweetly and swayed her waist as she left.
On the seats across the aisle, Xu Sheng gulped down fragrant rice and then said:
“Your self-discipline makes me wonder if you are a robot.”
He had stayed at the Great Rift Valley for a whole thirty days, eating canned food all day, which made his mouth bland.
After boarding, he immediately ordered a cup of iced soda and a portion of braised pork with rice.
“I thought that specialized domain experts don’t care much about food. Theoretically speaking, Brother Xu, even if you ate dirt, chewed bark, or metal chunks, you would survive.”
Qin Shi cast a puzzled glance, wondering if energy absorption bringing enhancement wasn’t more comfortable than flaunting food?
“That may be true, but as humans, we must find some joys in living. Why did we study, cultivate martial arts, and climb paths since childhood? Aside from so-called power and status, isn’t it still all about those mundane pleasures like drinking, wealth, lust, eating, wearing, housing, and traveling?”
Xu Sheng rubbed his mouth after eating half-full, took a deep breath, and then happily sipped his iced beverage.
“Enjoy! Young Qin, you must learn to enjoy! Otherwise, how can you have the motivation to move forward! Listen to Brother Xu’s advice, fall in love with pretty girls, travel, relax your mind. You’re so young, wasting your great youth is too pitiful.”
Qin Shi smiled without a word, knowing that women would only slow down the speed of drawing a saber.
“Brother Xu, for those of us who walk the Limit-Breaking Road of the Old Martial Sect, time can never be squandered. Before turning twenty-five, if I can pass through the Seven Great Limits, only then would I have a chance to strike at Grandmaster Level and hope to touch the threshold of Martial God.”
Xu Sheng looked solemn, a hint of admiration in his gaze towards Qin Shi. The youthful ambition was like an untamed horse, often hard to rein back. To see a calm and composed supernova like young Qin was rare indeed.
“My mentor used to say the same, but at that time, it was hard to listen or deeply understand. When I woke up to it later, feeling I had wasted years, it was already late.”
Xu Sheng sighed, he was once a prodigy invested and cultivated by the Martial Arts Association.
His martial arts path was smooth, touching the Specialized Domain before twenty, and fully reaching it at twenty-six.
But nearing fifty, his physical ability began to slightly decline, never reaching the edge of Grandmaster Level.
This life was likely to stop here.
“Your thoughts are correct, grasp every possibility for progress. Grandmaster Level, and even Martial God Extreme Realm, have conditions that are incredibly demanding.”
Then he ordered another iced beverage and some nut snacks from the stewardess.
He couldn’t compete anymore, accepting his “mediocrity” and enjoying the remaining life was also good.
Qin Shi chuckled, acknowledging that each person must pursue their own goals. Every person entering the martial arts path, joining different sects, must choose their direction firmly and unwaveringly.
Thus, the Specialized Domain of the martial arts path often birthed zealots or martial fanatics, whose methods often deviated from common sense.
Upon further contemplation, this might be one reason why the Old Martial Sect declined, not supported by Dongxia.
No government favors unstable natural factors.
“Tai’an Metropolitan Area… It’s been so long since I returned, wonder what changes have occurred.”
Qin Shi sipped the lemon water, then closed his eyes and operated the Cultivation Furnace and Meditation Technique to absorb external energy particles.
Compared to the Great Rift Valley and the Void Space attracting heavenly light, the closer to urban areas, the scarcer the energy particles.
“Is it because the space is too stable?”
Qin Shi slightly frowned. The energy particles needed by both the spirit and mortal body derived from the small dimensions of the Netherworld fissures.
Places like the urban area equipped with the Iron Curtain Defense System had relatively stable spatial nature, hence unable to emit dense energy particles.
“No wonder Old Zhang emphasized repeatedly that bathing in heavenly light is a rare resource. Staying long in the Urban Circle or Central City would slow cultivation speed.”
Qin Shi felt the disparity, it was like using double or even triple experience cards in the Great Rift Valley, returning to the Tai’an Metropolitan Area, restoring to normal.
He cut off any discomfort to avoid affecting his mood, then thought of the Inspection Department’s executive agents, who preferred staying outside partially for this reason.
Tai’an Metropolitan Area, the central district’s Black Flame Hotel.
Originally a property of the Qin family, it was quickly sold off and became someone else’s possession after the successive deaths of Qin Lihao and Qin Yixiong.
Several suites on the top floor had been booked by the Education Department’s admissions office stationed in the Central City half a month ago.
After the top hundred results were released, Qin Shi’s stunning performance had shot him into the public view like a rocket.