You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

"I'm almost home, I have to go now." After saying goodbye, Lu Jinnian chose to leave.

At some point, Lu Fengqing, who had been inseparable from him at the beginning, stopped appearing by his side frequently.

Lu Heng, who was focused on cultivation, didn't care about this.

Watching my friend's departing figure.

"I didn't expect Jin Nian to have above-average talent. Even in the martial arts arena, she would be considered a little genius."

After making a remark, he stopped thinking about it and walked slowly towards his home.

After reading "The Evolution of Mortal Martial Arts", he went to the library and borrowed a book similar to a monster encyclopedia.

I plan to finish reading it in the next few days and then return the book.

It's worth mentioning that I didn't see the genius girl Lu Qingyan on either of my two visits to the library.

Lu Heng didn't think much of it, but when he mentioned it to Lu Jinnian, the guy covered his face in embarrassment, which was kind of funny.

As for him now, it's time to put some necessary things on the agenda.

………………

A room with flickering candlelight.

Lu Heng sat at the wooden table, holding a charcoal pencil in his hand, sketching on scrap paper.

For him now, nothing else is necessary.

Aside from spiritual practice, there's only one other thing that can be considered truly important.

That is, making money.

For practitioners, the needs are usually respectively: resources for cultivation, companions on the path, methods of cultivation, and spiritual lands.

This is also known as wealth, companionship, Dharma, and land.

Of these four, Lu Heng currently has no urgent need for the latter three.

Only the first one remains, which is the one that lacks the most cultivation resources.

Regarding cultivation resources, the needs of cultivators are almost limitless.

Even Lu Heng, who has not yet reached the Foundation Establishment stage, is no exception.

For example, in the Lu family's family canteen, after the first free serving of low-grade spiritual food, you can buy it if you want.

Even though Lu Heng deduced from the other richly dressed youths that before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, one could only consume a maximum of three servings of low-grade spiritual food per day.

But you should know that a single serving of low-grade spiritual food represents one cultivation session.

These young people who haven't even reached the Foundation Establishment stage can only cultivate three times a day at most if they don't have low-grade spiritual food.

However, if three portions of low-grade spiritual food are added, the number of times one can cultivate will double.

In this situation, even those with subpar talent have the opportunity to artificially inflate their abilities through resources.

If Lu Heng had enough low-grade spiritual food, he would have been able to enter the Foundation Establishment stage earlier and complete the early accumulation more quickly.

With enough low-grade spiritual food, one can cultivate more times a day.

The evolution points he receives each day can be visibly doubled.

Only then can we hope to undergo the first evolution earlier.

Regarding the first evolution, although he lacked knowledge about evolution, Lu Heng thought that the earlier the better.

The reason is that if the first evolution is as expected, it will definitely improve one's cultivation talent.

However, since this is the first evolution, the resulting improvement cannot be too outrageous.

The corresponding talent boost might be enormous in a Body Refining Secret Realm, but it might seem insignificant in a Qi Refining Secret Realm.

Therefore, the sooner he completes his first cultivation evolution, the greater the benefit to him.

It's just about making money...

Using his memories from both lifetimes and his knowledge of modern life from his previous life, Lu Heng came up with countless methods.

But in the end, they could only deny it helplessly.

There's no special reason; it's simply because...

In this world where there are cultivators, it's one thing to be able to come up with a way to make money, but it's quite another to be able to stick to that way.

Without sufficient ability, one can only be a stepping stone for others.

He was thinking about ways to make money, but the smaller ones were time-consuming and laborious, and not worth the effort.

As for the larger ones, he, who hadn't even entered the Foundation Establishment stage, wasn't qualified to guard them at all.

It's one thing if it's taken away directly, but it's another thing if the other party intends to eradicate it completely.

Therefore, despite thinking of countless ways to make money, Lu Heng ultimately had no choice but to give up.

But what frustrated him even more was...

The money-making methods devised in my past life will most likely only allow me to earn ordinary currency.

By the time he truly has the ability to maintain these ways of making money, he will most likely no longer need ordinary currency.

He's really stubborn, and ended up blocking both ends.

But is there really no way to make money?

Lu Heng rested one hand on the wooden table and the other on his chin, his eyes flickering slightly.

That's not necessarily true!

Sometimes, there are no positive ways to make money.

Perhaps we could consider some unconventional ways to make money.

In the eyes of my past life, it seemed incredibly unreliable and unorthodox, but in this world, perhaps it might actually work?

It's just not the right time yet.

It was late at night again, and Lu Heng put down his book and stopped thinking about it.

………………

As the days slipped by, the atmosphere on the training ground grew more and more restless and anxious.

During the first seven days, very few teenagers left.

Ultimately, the bloodline of the Lu family can only guarantee a low-grade cultivation talent.

Even those children dressed in fine clothes, whose fathers had been involved in spiritual cultivation.

While the descendants of cultivators do have a certain probability of possessing higher talent, those standing in this martial arts arena are all descendants of branch families.

Even if their elders embark on the path of cultivation, they mostly only linger in the Body Refinement Realm, and the blessings they can provide are negligible.

Even though they receive three portions of low-grade spiritual food every day and have two more opportunities to temper their bodies than ordinary youths, few can still open the door to the Foundation Establishment stage in the first seven days.

On the fifteenth day, the scene on the training ground quietly changed dramatically.

Most of the young men in fine clothes were gone, but many of the ordinary young men from branch families broke through their limitations and left with their heads held high.

Half of the month had passed, and the atmosphere on the training ground was no longer one of restlessness, but rather a deep-seated anxiety.

The harder you try, the more you see the insurmountable barrier built by talent, and the more despair follows you like a shadow.

………………

Lu Heng stood calmly in the center of the room.

His body was like a dragon, and his twelve body-refining techniques flowed smoothly, revealing a sense of harmony and enlightenment reminiscent of Tai Chi from his previous life.

With the final retraction, attention returns to reality.

[Technique: Basic Body Refinement Method (Beginner Level 66/100)]

The clear progress of the cultivation technique appeared before his eyes, and he looked around.

Another day of training came to an end, and the various aspects of life unfolded on the training ground.

Some were overjoyed at the slightest progress, some were gloomy at the setbacks, and some stared at the seemingly endless threshold with eyes full of resentment and despair.

Lu Heng didn't feel any sense of superiority because of this. He knew that if it weren't for the panel that clearly showed his cultivation progress, he wouldn't have felt any sense of superiority.

He may not be as mentally capable as these teenagers.