Chapter 297: A Really Big Unhatched Chicken
Benton had many tasks on his To Do List for the day, the biggest of which was crafting the Ice qi source. Which would take a lot more than the hour he had available. A lot more than that objective hour stretched to the maximum with his Time Aura as well. But he could get started at least, so that was what he did, completing several of the major steps before it was time for Zou Tian to finish his dilated session.
The boy had just emerged from the room when Benton Teleported to the corridor outside.
“How’d it go?” Benton said.
“Much like cultivating in the Wood, Master, only with the qi more concentrated and having a Shadow aspect. I feel good.” Knowing what was coming next, Zou Tian held out his hand.
Benton touched a finger and checked Zou Tian’s cultivation with Analysis. “I don’t detect any issues, which is a very good sign. One test does not an experiment make, however. We’ll stay cautious for a while, slowly increasing the amount of time you spend inside each day. For today, no more cultivating and do not use any of the dilation chambers set up for learning techniques, either.”
“Yes, Master.”
Benton gave his best wizened old master tinged with caring parental figure smile and Teleported away, wishing he’d had a mirror to see himself. He was positive he’d managed the exact right facial expression to convey his feelings, something only a grandfather as experienced as himself could pull off.
Overall, he was super happy with how the first session of using a Time dilation room with a qi source had gone. It was bit soon to count those unhatched chickens, but not detecting any immediate problems was a boon. Tomorrow, he’d let Zou Tian do two sessions, effectively cultivating for twenty hours with an efficiency more than twice normal. Four days worth of growth in one. After that, Benton would allow three sessions, which would be the equivalent of six days. By the time he capped it at ten, Zou Tian would be effectively cultivating more than twenty times faster than normal.
With the use of a Qi Condensing Pill to go from the eighth minor realm to the ninth almost instantly, the boy needed around three hundred normal days to break through to Foundation Establishment. If he instead cheated by using the Time dilation room, he’d finish in about fifteen.
Crazy.
That particular unhatched chicken was just too exciting, really emphasizing the advantages Benton could obtain by crafting and making him excited to get back to it. He quickly knocked out the Ice Source and set up another dilation room, essentially for Yang Xiu solely until they inducted another Ice aspected sect member.
Just as he prepared to send her a message, he had a thought—what were the chances she’d be waiting in the corridor outside?