22: Refined Food Formulas

During the first public class, Xu Anmin mainly lectured on basic firearm knowledge and tactical theory.

The core mission of First University is to Cultivate Cultivators with top-tier combat power to deal with unknown crises.

Whether it is Refining Essence into Qi or the Qi Sea Realm, they are ultimately Mortal flesh and blood.

Even a Cultivator in the Qi Sea Realm, if they take a high-explosive grenade head-on, they will be severely injured if not killed.

Therefore, learning firearms and tactics is essential.

After more than an hour of theoretical instruction, everyone still needed to go to the Training Hall for practical firearm operation.

Given the students' current Physique and mental acuity, they generally mastered the basic theory after just one run-through.

As for more advanced knowledge of weaponry and tactical theory, every student can log into the Campus Network and study freely.

After all, the most important thing is to Cultivate, and the public class serves mostly to introduce people to the Beginner stage.

Inside the training room,

Zhang Sheng loaded the bullet, and with a “Bang!” the bullet hit the target.

The announcement of “Two Rings” sounded in his headphones.

“Detected deployable Skill—Firearm Shooting. Do you wish to learn?”

“Learn!”

“Skill: Firearm Shooting (Beginner: 1/10)”

Bang!

Bang!

Bang, bang, bang!

... “Skill: Firearm Shooting (Proficient: 1/100)”

Various shooting techniques flooded into Zhang Sheng's mind, and Zhang Sheng instinctively adjusted his grip!

“Bang! Six Rings!”

“Bang! Bang! Five Rings! Seven Rings!”

The shooting accuracy improved significantly.

As rounds of bullets left the muzzle, Zhang Sheng's Firearm Shooting Skill rapidly increased.

“Skill: Firearm Shooting (Proficient: 90/1000)”

Zhang Sheng's speed and hit rate had increased to nearly 99%, but he couldn't practice anymore today. Today's free quota of 200 rounds was used up, and continuing to practice shooting would require using academic credit.

Zhang Sheng was definitely reluctant to use his academic credit for this purpose.

After finishing the training, Zhang Sheng and Wu Xingyang couldn't wait to head to the canteen for a meal.

“Brother Sheng, have you eaten spirit rice?” Wu Xingyang asked.

“No, but I've eaten essence food pills.”

“You animal! I haven't even seen an essence food pill before. Let's go, I heard our staple food is spirit rice.”

“Unfortunately, it's rationed. Everyone only gets a free quota of ten kilograms per day. Eating more requires spending academic credit,” Wu Xingyang said helplessly.

The canteen auntie didn't have shaky hands, but the rice needed to be weighed. Because spirit rice has extremely high density, like metal, 10 kilograms was only about the size of a regular vegetable basin.

Taking the first bite!

Unexpectedly, the cooked spirit rice melted in his mouth, was extraordinarily sweet, warmed his entire body, and provided an extremely strong sense of satiety.

Zhang Sheng ate the spirit rice while simultaneously circulating the Gluttonous Eating Method to digest and absorb it.

After finishing the meal and parting with Xingyang, Zhang Sheng did not return to his apartment to Cultivate, but instead headed to the Planting Base.

The Planting Base was located in the suburbs ten kilometers outside the school. Given Zhang Sheng's current Physique, running there only took a little over ten minutes.

He brought 170 kilograms of gold spirit rice grain, 70 kilograms of which he brought from Huaxia Agricultural University.

Zhang Sheng took the campus bus connecting the two locations and quickly arrived at the Planting Base. Next to the base was a tall building containing exclusive cultivation rooms arranged by the school.

Passing by some farmlands, he saw various spirit plants he had never seen before. Their growth stages varied, and some students were casting various Spells to promote their growth.

A Spiritual Cloud ten meters in diameter was dazzling. Zhang Sheng knew this was the Proficient-grade Spring Breeze Turning into Rain Technique. It seemed that First University truly had many talented individuals.

Heroes under heaven are as numerous as the carp crossing the river, and he was merely a Mortal.

After arriving at a patch of empty spirit fields, Zhang Sheng turned on his phone's positioning to confirm it was his assigned plot.

Zhang Sheng first cast the Proficient-grade Thick Earth Art to increase the Earth Qi of the spirit fields, and then dispersed the 170 kilograms of grain for planting across the two mu of spirit fields.

This process took a full half hour. It would have been great if the Armed Police Officers could help.

But this was Zhang Sheng dreaming. At First University, Zhang Sheng could only rely on himself.

He then began casting the Transcendent-grade Spring Breeze Turning into Rain Technique. A Spiritual Cloud ten meters in diameter slowly formed, quickly completing the irrigation of the two mu of gold spirit rice.

In order not to attract unnecessary attention, Zhang Sheng did not cast the Spring Breeze Turning into Rain Technique with a hundred-meter diameter. He would only show it off when others were capable of casting it.

But even so, his consumption was only one-tenth that of others.

Across two mu of land, Zhang Sheng planted a total of 8,500 seeds. Now, all he could do was continuously irrigate them and wait for the harvest three days later.

As a member of the Spiritual Plant College, the school assigned Zhang Sheng a separate cultivation room in the tall building next to the base.

This was to facilitate students of the Spiritual Plant College to Cultivate while growing spirit plants.

The cultivation room was very simple: a bed, a cabinet, and a bathroom, no different from a hotel room.

After completing one cycle of Refining Essence into Qi, Zhang Sheng found that the 10 kilograms of spirit rice had been completely consumed.

This... one kilogram of spirit rice was only equivalent to 10 kilograms of ordinary food. Zhang Sheng was a little disappointed.

Fortunately, due to the extreme density, his stomach could hold quite a lot at once. He didn't have to be a painful “feces-making machine,” eating and defecating simultaneously, like before.

Right, he still had free Spell Secret Manuals he hadn't chosen yet.

Every enrolled student could freely choose three Spell Secret Manuals from the school's online mall for free.

He opened the mall on his phone and navigated to the Spell Secret Manual section.

“My heavens, so many?”

There were hundreds of Spells listed in the mall: Fireball Technique, Wind Blade Technique, Spiritual Qi Shield... Zhang Sheng was dazzled. Zhang Sheng wanted all of them, but unfortunately, there were only three free slots.

If he wanted to learn more, he would have to spend academic credit.

In fact, Zhang Sheng had long had an idea, and that was Alchemy.

The Proficient-grade Heavenly Circulation Method required the consumption of 100 kilograms of ordinary food, or 10 kilograms of spirit rice, or 10 essence food pills each time.

The consumption was enormous, and if he Cultivated to the Transcendent stage and Perfected State, the consumption would be an astronomical figure.

Possessing the SSS-level Talent “Once Certified, Forever Certified,” Zhang Sheng was determined to Cultivate the Heavenly Circulation Method to Perfection and achieve the strongest Qi Sea Realm!

Search—essence food pill.

Zhang Sheng found the essence food pill Formula, which belonged to the category of Magical Technique Classics. He immediately selected it, and then Zhang Sheng chose the Object Manipulation Art.

He hadn't decided on the last Spell yet.

Both Spells were sent directly to Zhang Sheng's phone as electronic texts.

A warning was also attached: Strictly forbidden to disseminate to other students. If discovered, expulsion will follow!

Furthermore, the electronic text must be forcefully memorized within one day; after expiration, it becomes invalid, and if he wants to learn it again, he must spend academic credit to buy it once more.

This was the school's customized phone, and no one dared to transfer the files to other students; such behavior was purely courting death.

In just half an hour, Zhang Sheng completely memorized the essence food pill Formula and the cultivation route of the Object Manipulation Art.

No wonder the essence food pill couldn't be mass-produced through industrialization. It turned out that the Spirit Tempering process was required during the Alchemy of the essence food pill. Spirit Tempering required a person to concentrate, invoke Spiritual Power, extract the essence from the spirit plant, and condense it into a pill.

The Materials for the essence food pill were not fixed; gold spirit rice, Wood Spirit Potatoes, and the like were all acceptable.