Cultivation Online

After leaving the store, Yuan and Lan Yingying returned to their living quarters to clean off the sweat and grime they had accumulated throughout the day. Since their buildings lacked individual bathrooms, they had to make their way to the public bathing area to wash themselves.

Once they were clean and refreshed, Yuan and Lan Yingying headed to the cafeteria for dinner. This time, the atmosphere was noticeably different—everyone there looked worn out and exhausted from spending the day working hard to meet their quotas. Of course, the number of people there was also vastly declined due to the ongoing punishment, where the majority of participants are only allowed to eat breakfast.

After quickly finishing their meals, Yuan returned home and immediately began cultivating while patiently waiting for his privilege to activate.

Exactly an hour after dinner, Yuan sensed a significant leap in his cultivation progress, accompanied by a sudden surge in spiritual energy around him. When he opened his eyes, he could see a faint white mist filling his room.

“This is even better than I anticipated,” Yuan muttered to himself, a satisfied smile forming on his lips. “Looks like I’ll keep spending points on this privilege in the future.”

His gamble had paid off handsomely, and the increased spiritual energy had amplified his cultivation speed several times over.

If he continued cultivating at this rate, Yuan estimated he could achieve a breakthrough to Spirit Apprentice in just six months—far faster than the year he initially anticipated.

The following day during breakfast, Yuan revealed his progress to Lan Yingying.

“In that case, I’ll give you my points so that you can speed your cultivation even more,” Lan Yingying said.

“Are you sure? Even if you cannot cultivate yet, you can still save your points until you can.”

Lan Yingying nodded, “I want to fulfill my role and be useful to you. Also, it’ll benefit me if you become a cultivator faster. I’ll feel safer, too.”

“If you insist, I’ll accept your offer. Thank you, Yingying.”

After breakfast, Yuan wasted no time and quickly returned to his living quarters to continue cultivating, as the privilege lasted until an hour after dinner.

The following day, Yuan chopped 10 bamboos instead of the usual 5 since he didn’t chop any yesterday. Then, Lan Yingying used her 10 points to purchase a day of increased spiritual energy at Yuan’s home.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and another week had ended. This time, everyone had fulfilled their quotas.

Senior Zhou was pleased with the results and said, “This is good. Continue behaving and we won’t have any problems. Unless someone misses their quotas or I have something to announce, we won’t need to meet every week.”

Senior Zhou dismissed everyone and quickly disappeared.

Afterward, everyone went to get breakfast. During breakfast, Yuan noticed that nearly everyone seemed to be discussing the same topic.

“Did you hear? We can use our points to speed up our memorization process!”

“What? How much does it cost? And how effective is it?”

“It costs two points per page, and it guarantees that we can memorize a page in a day. There are 40 pages in the cultivation technique.”

“So 80 points in total, huh? That’s eight weeks of quotas.”

“If you don’t try to memorize the cultivation technique yourself, you’d need to spend the full amount. I have already memorized six pages by myself, so I saved twelve points so far.”

“The privilege of memorizing the cultivation technique faster, huh?” Lan Yingying mumbled.

Seeing her pondering face, Yuan smiled and said, “You don’t need to worry about me. You can use those points for yourself if you want.”

“Huh? Oh, I wasn’t thinking about that. While it does sound interesting, I am satisfied with my current progress. I have already memorized 15 pages, after all. I should fully memorize the cultivation technique within a month.”

“15 pages already? You could barely memorize a page at the beginning.”

“I think it was mainly because I wasn’t familiar with human cultivation techniques,” Lan Yingying said. “Now that I’m somewhat used to it, I find it much easier to memorize the contents.”

Unexpectedly, Lan Yingying was progressing much faster than most of the participants despite being a beast.

After breakfast, the two of them went to collect water.

However, on the way there, they were stopped by a young man and a young woman.

“Hey, are you two from the Sixth Heaven?” the young woman asked them.

“Why do you want to know?” Yuan calmly responded.

“Judging by your response, you’re most definitely from the Sixth Heaven. We’re both from the Duan Family in the Eighth Heaven. If you assist us, we’ll make sure to compensate you greatly once the trial is over,” said the young man.

“Duan Family from the Eighth Heaven? Sorry, never heard of them.” Yuan shook his head.

His response caused the pair to frown, but they quickly fixed their expressions and said, “If you haven’t heard of us, you can ask around. We’re an elite and prestigious powerhouse in the Eighth Heaven.”

“And what does your elite and prestigious family want from us?” Yuan asked.

“It’s quite simple. Help us with this trial by giving us your points,” said the young woman.

Yuan did not appear surprised at all by their request. In fact, he anticipated it.

“Sorry, but we’ve already spent our points.”

“That’s fine. You can just give us your future points.”

“Unfortunately, we’ll be using those, too.”

The pair frowned at Yuan’s clear defiance, and the young man spoke coldly, “Okay, I am done being nice. Listen here, you bastard. If you don’t give us your points, I will make your life a living hell in here and once we return to the outside world.”

“…”

After a brief silence, Yuan let out a sigh and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender. “Alright, you win. We’ll give you our future points. Just don’t hurt us.”

Hearing this, the young man and woman exchanged smug glances, haughty smiles spreading across their faces as they reveled in their apparent victory.