The bright moon hung high in the sky. Unlike the Sword Sun, the moon of the Spirit Inception Era was still the same as it was in people's memories. It emitted a gentle light that illuminated the entire Lower Academy Island.
On Ethereal Dao College's Lower Academy Island, among the peaks of the various faculties, the Dharmic Armament Peak had the richest Spirit Qi. Although it was not the best, it was still outstanding.
After all, all the Dharmic Armament faculty students cultivated daily by refining Spirit Stones. They expended a lot of Spirit Qi.
Furthermore, unlike the students of the other faculties, the nearly unlimited supply of Spirit Qi and the unique refinement techniques were not given for free. Instead, they had to pay a certain amount of Spirit Stones every year as part of the yearly assessment. It was a hefty fee in itself.
At the same time, in the Dharmic Armament faculty, other than the free lectures in the three main halls, everything else, such as meals and special cultivation chambers, required Spirit Stones. As such, the Dharmic Armament faculty students made use of their time to refine Spirit Stones.
It was the same for the Alchemy faculty, but it was not as exaggerated as the Dharmic Armament faculty. As for the other faculties, their method of earning money was even simpler. Some cultivation grounds that were only open to the students of their own faculties were also opened to the other faculties. However, such cultivation grounds were extremely expensive for students from other faculties.
For example, the Monster Taming faculty's Scenic Cloud Mountain, the Array Runes faculty's Eight Treasures Map, the Machinery faculty's Frost Ice Tower, and the Combat faculty's Lava Chamber were cultivation grounds that aided in breaking through to the Physical Seal realm. Large numbers of students from other faculties went there every day. Just this alone was enough to support more than half of the faculties' daily needs.
At that moment, invisible Spirit Qi was slowly flowing on Dharmic Armament Peak. It was split into tens of thousands of portions that were slowly drawn by the Dharmic Armament students. However, when compared to the portions given to others, near the peak of the mountain, beside the cave abodes of the specially-recruited students, the Spirit Qi surged in lumps.
Inside the cave abode, Wang Baole was in high spirits as he constantly circulated the Great Void Qi Devouring Art. Large amounts of Spirit Qi entered his body through the sucking and gathered on his palm through his arm. As he watched the Spirit Stone rapidly appear in his palm, his eyes lit up.
"I broke through! Haha, I broke through!" Wang Baole excitedly sensed that the purity of the Spirit Stone in his hand had broken through to seventy-five percent. When it reached seventy-six percent, he couldn't contain his excitement. After finishing the first stone, he pulled out a bag of snacks and began to munch on them.
After finishing a few packs of snacks, Wang Baole wiped his mouth and was about to refine again when he suddenly became alert. "Let's work harder and strive to break through to 80% purity as soon as possible!"
'I have to be more careful. I can't be like before, where I accidentally turn into a fatty …' Wang Baole thought deeply. The previous experience of losing weight was too painful. Even though he had stepped into the Vitality level from the Ancient Martial Realm, this process … he really didn't want to experience it again.
"The road to losing weight is long and arduous. Only a persevering person like me can succeed." Wang Baole encouraged himself emotionally. He was very satisfied with his vigilance. At this moment, he felt that he should encourage himself as he reveled in it. Thus, he took out another pack of snacks and finished them with crunching sounds. He patted his stomach and began to refine the Spirit Stone …
Perhaps his luck was good, or perhaps the effect of the Cleansing Pill was too thorough. In the next few days, the purity of the Spirit Stone refined by Wang Baole continued to increase. However, his body didn't accumulate spirit fat like before.
It was as if after removing a large amount of impurities from his body, Spirit Qi would no longer accumulate and form spirit fat. Instead, it adapted to the speed at which Spirit Qi emerged and flowed smoothly. While increasing the purity of the Spirit Stone, it was also imperceptibly strengthening Wang Baole's physique, causing his Vitality level to slowly improve.
As such, it made Wang Baole even happier. When he realized that his body remained slender even after refining the Spirit Stone to 80% purity, he slowly relaxed his vigilance and began to immerse himself in it.
Gradually, time flowed like water. And at that moment, in the Combat faculty, Zhuo Yifan, who was in pain from the brutal beating, was gritting his teeth in his cave abode. However, there was nothing he could do. He and Wang Baole were in different faculties, so there were many methods and means that he couldn't use.
"Wang Baole!" Zhuo Yifan felt indignant. He pondered for a long time before his eyes lit up. He recalled that he had friends in the Dharmic Armament faculty. Although he wasn't on good terms with the Head Prefect of the Spirit Stones Hall, Jiang Lin, he was still on good terms with him. Such a small favor shouldn't be a problem. Therefore, he immediately took out his voice transmission ring and communicated with Jiang Lin. After putting it down, Zhuo Yifan laughed.
"Wang Baole, even if you are in the Dharmic Armament faculty, I still have ways to let you know my prowess!"
Days passed, and soon, two months had passed.
In the past two months, Wang Baole's Spirit Stone purity had been slowly increasing, reaching 84%. His Blood Qi realm had also been increasing, gradually nearing the perfected realm.
If the Combat faculty were to know of this, they would definitely go crazy. After all, Wang Baole's improvement in ancient martial arts was much faster than the Combat faculty students who specialized in ancient martial arts.
"Haha, it looks like the side effects of the Great Void Energy Devouring Art have been completely resolved by the Cleansing Pill!" Wang Baole was excited as he increasingly felt that the Cleansing Pill was worth it.
"From the looks of it, I should be able to reach 85%. I want to reach 90% as soon as possible and become Head Prefect. I want to reach the pinnacle of my life!" The moment Wang Baole thought of this, he became excited. He gathered the surrounding Spirit Qi and condensed it in his palm, planning on reaching 85% purity.
However, ever since school began, Wang Baole had been immersed in the Great Void Energy Devouring Art. He rarely attended classes in the Spirit Stones Hall, so he did not know … that 85% Spirit Stone purity was a natural bottleneck!
To be precise, although Spirit Stones below 50% purity could be used, they were more commonly referred to as ordinary Spirit Stones.
Only at 50% purity could it be considered inferior-grade. Above 75%, it was considered medial-grade.
As for the dividing line between medial-grade and superior-grade, it was 85% purity!
At 85% purity, it was considered superior-grade. If it reached 95% purity, it was considered a supreme-grade Spirit Stone. Any one of these Spirit Stones was extremely valuable, and only a master could refine them.
As for this bottleneck … to other students who cultivated in the Qi Fostering Art, they needed opportunities and proficiency in the technique to break through it. However, the Great Void Energy Devouring Art's overbearingness was directly reflected when they encountered this bottleneck.
Almost at the instant Wang Baole refined the Spirit Stone in his hand to 84% purity and was about to reach 85%, his body suddenly trembled. An unprecedented suction force suddenly erupted from the slowly rotating devouring seed in his body!
The magnitude of the eruption exceeded Wang Baole's expectations and expectations. Almost instantly, all the Spirit Qi in his cave abode was sucked dry by the sucking!
The vacuum here seemed to form a natural black hole. It was as though a hole had appeared in the sea of Spirit Qi. Immediately, large amounts of Spirit Qi seemed to tilt as it surged over. Thankfully, the Dharmic Armament faculty's mountain peak had a Spirit Gathering array. It instantly adjusted itself and dissolved the Spirit Qi.
Furthermore, Wang Baole's sucking was fast. Although the amount was massive, it was still very little compared to the Spirit Qi of the Dharmic Armament faculty's mountain peak. Therefore, it did not attract the attention of others.
At most, they would feel the Spirit Qi around them pause for a moment.
However, to Wang Baole, the sudden increase in the sucking caused the Spirit Qi that surged into his body to surge like a river. He felt his mind buzzing. His body could not even channel all the Spirit Qi into his palm in time due to the astonishing amount of Spirit Qi. Therefore, it rapidly accumulated into spirit fat.
As the spirit fat increased at a visible rate, the Spirit Stone in his hand finally broke through the 84% mark and reached … 85%!
This was no longer a middle-grade Spirit Stone but a superior-grade Spirit Stone!
Streams of light flowed in all directions. It was resplendent and crystalline. Although it was inferior to the one Teacher Zou had refined in the hall, the difference was not huge. It was also a superior-grade Spirit Stone and was worth quite a bit!
However, Wang Baole could not bring himself to be happy. He stared blankly at his indescribable body. The Spirit Stone in his hand fell onto his stomach and slid to the ground. When he lowered his head, he could only see his stomach and not the Spirit Stone.
After a long time, a miserable shriek rang out from within the Immortal's Cave. Wang Baole was on the verge of tears. He looked anxiously at his raised hands, then at his stomach, and began to wail.
"No! My once perfect body!!"
"How could this be …?" In his grief and indignation, Wang Baole tried to get up, but found that he could not …. The sight of it drove him mad. He could vaguely feel a cold wind blowing around him, as if countless Fat Grandpas were walking toward him from all directions, smiling and waving at him to reunite.
"I just want to become Head Prefect. Why is it so difficult …?" Wang Baole sighed and struggled to his feet. He squeezed his way out of the Immortal's Cave.
Realizing that he could still get out, he breathed a sigh of relief. He had been really worried that he would be so fat that he couldn't get out. Then … he would really be finished.
Thankfully, it was late at night, so no one was paying attention to him. If not, they would definitely be appalled, thinking that some ferocious beast had descended. Amidst his grief, Wang Baole gritted his teeth and ran like a madman. He began running around the island again.
However, this time, it did not seem to be effective. Even though he went to the weightlifting field to crazily lift weights while no one was around, to the point of increasing the weights, the effects were minimal. He could not achieve the state he wanted.
"Heavens, what should I do!?" Wang Baole was completely anxious. His forehead was covered in sweat. Finally, he could only seek help from the Spirit Internet and search for clues on how to lose weight.
The Spirit Internet, which could be said to be omnipotent, was filled with all sorts of information. However, this was not a problem for a fatty who only had the word 'lose weight' in his mind. A fatty would always be able to acutely find clues that could lead him to weight loss from what others would find to be normal information.
For example … the Combat faculty's Lava Chamber.
"The Combat faculty's Lava Chamber is practically hell. It's too painful. I'm sweating profusely in there."
"That's a place of torment. I was in there for five minutes, but when I came out, I lost half a kilogram. My heart aches for myself …"
Upon seeing the various criticisms of the Lava Chamber on the Spirit Internet, Wang Baole's breathing quickened as his eyes lit up.
"Lava Chamber … Lava Chamber!" Wang Baole was like a drowning man who had found a straw. He raised his head abruptly, looked at Combat Martial Peak, and ran toward it.
Under the moonlight, one could see a massive body that resembled a ferocious beast. It was flying at an astonishing speed.
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