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

"How significant is the improvement?"

Lu Heng continued to inquire, and if he remembered correctly, the price difference between each grade of spiritual food was about three times.

If it's not too big, then for him, mid-grade spiritual food might not be as cost-effective as low-grade spiritual food.

However, there are times when you can't calculate it that way.

Reality is not a math problem.

At this stage, a low-grade spiritual food allows him to cultivate once more each day.

But that might not be the case once he truly becomes a cultivator in the Body Refinement Secret Realm.

Even top-grade spiritual food can only increase cultivation speed by 20% to 30% at most.

Lu Jinnian replied with a hint of helplessness.

"Then the effects of high-grade spiritual food are not as great as its actual value." Lu Heng was puzzled by this.

Is it true?

Nobody's a fool. If low-grade spiritual food had the best cost-performance ratio, then high-grade and mid-grade spiritual food wouldn't have inflated in price so drastically.

It can only be said that there were some key factors that he failed to consider, or rather, to confirm.

"Of course, things can't be said that way. After entering the Body Refining Secret Realm, we cultivators can cultivate a maximum of ten times a day."

In addition to the basic five sessions, you can add five more sessions of practice through spiritual food.

Do you know why someone with the worst treatment, Rank D, gets three free low-grade spiritual foods every day?

If one could cultivate eight times a day, then even someone with poor talent shouldn't be eliminated so easily.

Lu Jinnian didn't try to be mysterious; instead, he asked a question in return.

He believed that his friend in front of him already had the answer in his heart, more or less.

"The consumption of daily cultivation?" Lu Heng's lips curled into a bitter smile.

Even if you have some expectation that cultivation is impossible, it is becoming simpler and simpler.

But without even thinking about it, he knew that three portions of low-grade spiritual food could not possibly support a cultivator in the Body Refining Secret Realm to cultivate eight times a day.

That would be utterly a fantasy. In my past life, it would have completely violated the law of conservation of energy, the kind of thing that would have made Newton rise from his grave.

"That's right." Lu Jinnian confirmed his friend's guess, and then added.

The reason why the D-level staff in the outer courtyard receive at least three servings of low-grade spiritual food every day is that this is not a privilege, but a basic necessity.

A cultivator in the Body Refining Secret Realm needs at least three servings of low-grade spiritual food to sustain their daily five cultivation sessions.

"This is even worse than before I established my foundation," Lu Heng said speechlessly.

Before entering the sect, although one can only practice three times a day, with the addition of three portions of low-grade spiritual food, one can practice a total of six times.

Now that I've gotten the hang of it, six times has actually become five times.

It's truly frustrating.

"Then the high prices of mid-grade and high-grade spiritual foods must be due to this reason, right?"

Thinking about their previous conversation, Lu Heng raised this question.

"Of course, otherwise how could mid-grade spiritual food be sold?"

Low-grade spiritual food is a necessity for us cultivators who have just entered the Body Refinement Realm.

However, once you reach the fourth level of Body Refinement or the middle stage of Body Refinement, it will no longer meet your daily cultivation needs.

At this point, the only way to maintain daily cultivation is through mid-grade spiritual food.

Upon reaching the seventh level of Body Refinement, the later stage, the daily requirement shifts to high-grade spiritual food.

Lu Jinnian answered in silence, clearly indicating that thinking about these things still put him under immense pressure.

Lu Heng opened his mouth, but was speechless for a moment.

Almost instantly, the previously vague difficulty of cultivation skyrocketed to an absurd level after the understanding was perfected.

I originally thought that the initial stage of cultivation was difficult enough, but I didn't expect that compared to the later stages, it was nothing.

………………

The two then went to the Internal Affairs Hall.

With Lu Jinnian's help, Lu Heng gained a better understanding of some seemingly minor but extremely important details.

When discussing the tasks of the Imperial Household Department.

Lu Jinnian suggested that the mission be carried out in the first three stages of the Body Refining Secret Realm, while the mission was carried out in the early stages of Body Refining. Not only was the risk too great, but the reward was also extremely low, and the two were not proportional at all.

Trying to earn cultivation resources through this method will most likely only result in losses.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, it is best to go out on missions after reaching the fourth level of Body Refinement or the middle stage of Body Refinement.

Prior to this, for the tasks that the Foreign Languages ​​Department was required to perform once a month, some relatively basic daily tasks could be selected.

Lu Heng immediately thought of the young man in blue at the Foreign Languages ​​Department's registration office.

If nothing unexpected happens, the other party is probably too lazy to go out and carry out the task, so they chose the outside court registration office as their enforcement task.

While thinking, Lu Heng asked Lu Jinnian about the origins of the young man in blue.

If there was only one person in blue, Lu Jinnian would most likely not recognize him.

However, if you add Qing Tong to the mix and awaken your family's bloodline talent, then it's absolutely impossible for the other party to remain unknown in the outer courtyard.

As expected, Lu Jinnian knew the other party.

Although it's only a one-sided understanding...

"Aheng, you haven't offended him anywhere, have you?"

Lu Jinnian asked nervously.

Lu Heng immediately understood; the young man in blue was indeed someone he couldn't afford to offend in his current state.

In the outer courtyard, attacking others is usually not allowed, but you should know that when the young man in blue was explaining, he mentioned that there is also a martial arts exercise held once every ten days in the outer courtyard.

Unsurprisingly, at this point, they would be able to attack others under the guise of martial arts practice.

Not to mention, if you want to earn money to exchange for cultivation resources, you need to leave the outer courtyard to carry out missions.

Lu Heng had a certain understanding of how dark this world was.

It is entirely possible for a person to disappear without a trace.

"Of course not. I met him at the registration office of the foreign language department. I was a little curious, so I asked him."

It was just mentioned, is there any need to be so nervous?

Looking at his nervous friend, Lu Heng was somewhat puzzled.

"Of course it's necessary, because his name is Lu Mingze."

The top student in the School of Foreign Languages ​​is now fifteen years old.

If all goes well, I should be able to break through before the age of sixteen and become a Qi Refining Realm cultivator, thus entering the Inner Academy.

Offending him could ruin us, even if we're just trying to curry favor with him.

It is said that a year ago, after only two years of cultivation, he had already advanced the Basic Body Refining Method to the Great Perfection level.

If it weren't for the desire to achieve the perfect level of the "Basic Body Refining Method," I could have broken through long ago.

Lu Jinnian sighed, looking at his friend in front of him, and could only say that ignorance is bliss.

"I see." Lu Heng nodded thoughtfully.

Three years?

I wonder how long it will take him to surpass his opponent.