Chapter 124: Life 65, Age 16, Martial Disciple 3
In the evening, I returned to our group’s primary classroom for Instructor Sun’s cultivation training.
The instructor spaced the five of us out around the room so that he could watch us all at the same time while giving us enough separation so that we didn’t interfere with each other.
“You already have the cultivation techniques you will use for this portion of your training. I hope you have all been studying them carefully.”
I hadn’t been, but I didn’t expect that to be an issue. He had given me a very basic Peak-Yellow earth qi cultivation technique. I only needed to pull it up in my mental library as a reference to know exactly how to place my filters and vortices. There wasn’t much to it.
“You will come here every night and cultivate it to the best of your ability. Your requirement is to break through a stage of cultivation exactly once every week.” He looked at us and smiled evilly. “That means you will be Peak Disciples in only a few weeks, right? Not so fast.”
He reached into his storage bag, pulled out a small pill, and held it up for all of us to see.
“At the end of each week, I will give you one of these. It will expel all the energy you cultivated that week, returning you to your previous state.”
I looked at the pill in his hand. It was a variant of a Perfect Rank 1 Qi Expelling Pill that was formulated to only affect one’s most recent stage of cultivation. I couldn’t help but think that even if these only cost a gold each, between the formations, pills, and instructors, the school was investing a lot of money in this class.
“Right now, you are all Martial Disciple 3. This will remain true until every single person in this room is able to form a pristine foundation for Martial Disciple 4. At the end of the week, if even one person’s cultivation base is lacking, the entire group will take a pill and try again. Is that understood?”