Chapter 1274 - 399 Shariputra, Grace and Love_3
Upon hearing that the Merit Pearl could only be used at the Ninth Level, Mo Yan couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on. Despite her long efforts and not a small accumulation of virtues, the amount required to go from the Seventh to the Eighth Level was immense, and she was still falling short.
Before long, another batch of retired veterans would arrive from the frontiers, which might enable a breakthrough from the level seven, but the virtues needed to reach the Ninth Level from the Eighth would have to double at least, something she feared could not be possible without another eight to ten years.
Xuetuan was much more optimistic than Mo Yan and comforted her cheerfully, "This is already very fast. Think about it, back in the modern era, it took over a decade just to barely reach the Sixth Level, and now in just over four years here, you’re almost at the Eighth Level. Besides, in eighteen years, that great epidemic will outbreak. If you work hard these few years and resolve that epidemic, you will smoothly ascend to the Ninth Level. Once there, use the Shariputra, and you’ll jump straight to level ten. All things considered, in at most eighteen years, I’ll be free."
Eighteen years? Mo Yan’s lips twitched slightly. In eighteen years, she might already be a grandmother—if she married at the beginning of next year and had a daughter by the end of that year or early the following year.
Thinking of how Xuetuan had been imprisoned in that Space for countless eons, Mo Yan’s heart ached. Perhaps it was the long wait that made eighteen years seem short, but those eighteen years to her were but a small fraction of its endless millennia!
No matter what, she could not let up over these eighteen years. There was much to be done. Now, the assistance mechanisms of all the Academies in Jing City were in operation. There had been quite a few issues, but after improvements, it was getting more and more perfect, gaining high praise for Emperor Huian and Chu Heng.
Mo Yan had no need for such empty fame; the tangible virtues she sought had indeed fallen upon her. Recently, the red stripes on the Merit Pearl increased a little every day. Although the increase was minute, even a mosquito was meat; accumulating virtues was a process after all.
Once the educational aid mechanisms spread to other areas next year, the accrual of virtues would accelerate even more. But this alone was far from enough. If she could reduce the cost of education, it would be excellent to enable not everyone but at least those who wished to study to have access to books.