Chapter 94: Information Exchange
Resting his body in his familiar office chair within Ruby’s artifact space, Li Lang got comfortable as he examined the new technique he was rewarded with.
Progress was vital to being able to stay longer in the pocket realm. Trial points were consumed every day that was deemed unproductive, and earning points became harder and harder. Only those who could keep improving would remain. Whoever had set up the trials obviously highly valued the ability to learn quickly. It could be said that they weighed learning ability as the most valuable talent one could have.
They had set it up so that challengers would gain access to techniques they currently needed, and the longer they took to master it, the more trial points it would cost. It added an extra layer of pressure for all the participants.
Despite knowing this truth, there wasn’t much anyone could do about it. That was why all the young cultivators inside the pocket realm were desperately doing their best.
Reading through the Qi Injection Art, Li Lang found it particularly fascinating. It wasn’t because it had novel effects. Instead, it inspired multiple ideas on how he could mass-produce talismans. It would take further research, but a path was revealed.
This was because the technique involved crafting another tool that could control the output level of Qi while one was inscribing a talisman. While one normally had to do that by oneself, the ability to offload this tedious task to a tool would free up a lot of concentration for the practitioner. It was like having cruise control on a car.
I’m getting ahead of myself. I can save it for after we’re done with the pocket realm. I have to focus on learning the technique itself first.
Li Lang read it over again and familiarized himself with the Qi Injection Art.
Just when he was about to go over another time, an alarm in his lab rang out. He had set it to remind himself about the dinner plans he had made with his companions.
While he was reluctant, he exited the artifact space and returned to the tiny room he was teleported to after his trial. He carried along the cultivation manual despite having already recorded all its contents.
Exiting the room, he found himself inside a long corridor with numerous doors like the one he came out of. Picking the direction of where the noise was coming from, he soon found himself coming out of the passageway and into the grand hall.
From the signs there, he was able to navigate to the mess hall. As expected, there weren’t many people here. The other cultivators had better things to do than eat. They were either taking the trials or in closed cultivation to learn new techniques.