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

"How long can my current resources last?" Lu Heng thought calmly.

The final calculated answer is... a little over a month.

The cultivation resources he obtains from the gang will be completely exhausted.

The reason I was able to hold out for a little over a month longer was because the Outer Court's Class B treatment allowed me to receive a medium-grade spiritual food every three days.

If he hasn't been able to earn enough cultivation resources before his resources run out, he'll probably have to rely on the outer academy's minimum living allowance.

As for how to earn cultivation resources?

Taking out more loans was definitely not an option, so Lu Heng did consider secretly taking down all the gangs in Qinghe City.

But what can be done? This world is never short of smart people!

The trick Lu Heng came up with had already been used by predecessors.

From then on, the gangs in Qinghe City shared loan data and personnel information, and kept public ledgers.

It's better to earn less than to avoid this possibility.

The ancestors cut down the trees, and the descendants are left to suffer in the scorching sun!

Lu Heng sighed inwardly.

Apart from that, he can only think of three other ways to earn resources.

First, he diligently carried out his duties in the inner affairs hall of the outer courtyard.

Second, they fight underground boxing matches.

However, after careful consideration, Lu Heng ultimately rejected both of the first two options.

The reason is simple: the resources earned through these two methods must ultimately be exchanged for spiritual food in the outer courtyard.

Later, because he planned to pursue the perfect level of the "Basic Body Refining Method", the consumption of resources was terrifying.

If all these resources were exchanged through the outer courtyard.

Even if the spiritual food in the outer courtyard is only one-third the price of the food in the outside world.

However, it's important to know that the resources of other departments are regulated and cannot be allowed to flow out.

Even a pig should realize that something is wrong with the administrators of the foreign language department.

Is there a way to obtain the necessary cultivation resources, namely spiritual food, without going through the outer court...?

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The art of making spiritual food!

This is the third way Lu Heng could think of to obtain cultivation resources.

He had previously rejected it because there was simply no way to obtain it.

Now it seems that this approach is not without the possibility of being realized.

As the only granddaughter of the second deacon of the branch family, Lu Qingyan is definitely capable of acquiring knowledge about making spiritual food.

However, Lu Heng was not so confident as to believe that everyone owed him something.

Lu Qingyan owed him nothing, and while asking nothing of him, she even unconditionally protected him.

Based on his current understanding of the girl, Lu Heng had made a promise once before.

He believed that if he had simply asked, he would have been able to obtain knowledge about making spiritual food.

At the time, because he was unfamiliar with the area, his only request was to help find an easy task to meet the mandatory requirements of the outer department.

Lu Heng no longer regrets it, since it's too late to say anything now.

As for showing off one's talents in exchange for future investment, like with Lu Jinnian back then.

After thinking about it, Lu Heng felt that this was not a reliable idea.

The reason he had shown so much talent to Lu Jinnian before was because he had misjudged her comprehension ability.

I never imagined that even a negligible amount of proficiency on the panel could be equivalent to a genius with superior comprehension.

The talent that followed was also revealed based on superior comprehension.

Acting without testing human nature is the only way to be responsible to yourself.

Fortunately, Lu Jinnian was one of the few who could withstand the test, and the two became friends as a result.

Lu Heng felt that he and Lu Qingyan could now be considered friends.

But they were ultimately unequal in status.

But then Lu Heng suddenly slapped his forehead…

He realized that everything he had been thinking about before was based on his previous talents.

Now that he has undergone his first life leap, the talent he openly displays is actually not much less impressive than the talent he showed in front of Lu Jinnian before.

A cultivation genius with superior cultivation talent, suspected of possessing exceptional comprehension talent, and suspected of being a top-tier combat genius.

Even if it's just the tip of the iceberg on the surface, it seems enough!

A genius of this caliber is destined to achieve greatness in the Qi Refining Secret Realm.

Even to the Second Deacon, a cultivator from the Qi Refining Secret Realm was not insignificant.

Seeking investment is an easy thing!

"It turns out that the talent I've shown on the surface is already equivalent to that of the previous geniuses."

Lu Heng was momentarily dazed.

The boost brought about by the first life leap was so great that he didn't react for a moment.

Otherwise, the previous idea wouldn't have led to the misjudgment.

………………

In a single thought, Lu Heng, suddenly feeling a sense of vastness and openness, began to wait silently.

Having completed a day of cultivation, I have now experienced my first life leap, and the enhancement of my cultivation talent has been verified.

However, he has not yet clarified the evolutionary accumulation required for the second leap in life.

[Evolution Point +1]

As the panel logs refresh, a new day begins.

One step a day, and in three hundred days, or ten months, one can undergo a second life leap.

Lu Heng seemed to be deep in thought.

"It's really shrunk a lot," he couldn't help but complain.

Even though he already knew that the accumulation of evolution points required for the second life leap could not be as simple as the first life leap.

However, in addition to the upper limit tripling, the difficulty of accumulating evolution points has also increased fivefold, which is quite frustrating.

Of course, it was just a helpless situation, not a state of despair.

Three hundred days is merely the amount of accumulation that can be achieved through daily practice of the Basic Body Refining Method at the minor completion stage.

After that, there's the Great Completion and the Perfection!

Lu Heng anticipates that he should be able to complete the accumulation for his second life leap around the time he achieves the Qi Refining Secret Realm.

When that time comes...

Whether or not one's talent can truly awaken is another matter.

But recalling the destiny he touched during his first life leap, Lu Heng had a strange premonition.

There should be other changes during my second life leap!

………………

Three days later.

Since resources have not yet been exhausted and the first rating is imminent.

Lu Heng did not seek investment from Lu Qingyan.

Instead, he chose to cultivate himself quietly in his room.

On the very day the first rating was given.

But then an unexpected turn of events occurred.

It was not due to external changes.

Rather, it's a kind of unseen connection...

Lu Heng's belief in unseen forces couldn't possibly be due to superstition or similar reasons.

But...

This feeling stemmed from the "Child of Destiny" fate he had just received.

For some unknown reason, according to his understanding, the event described on the panel as a "fateful event" had been triggered!