130: Transition Chapter

Of course, this wasn't to say Xu Yan lacked resources; he just had to find a way to earn resources/academic credits to exchange for the materials needed for his attempts.

Not to mention anything else, the simplest method was to directly seek help from his own mentor, inform them of his current situation, "borrow" a batch of resources from them for his attempts, and then repay them once he could reliably produce Monarch Rank spirit food/resources.

Alternatively, he could go to his Old Man and ask him to "drop some gold," which wouldn't even require Xu Yan to "repay" the debt.

However, although doing so would allow him to obtain sufficient resources for his attempts and complete his promotion from Marshal Rank Breeder to Monarch Rank Cultivator at the fastest speed, Xu Yan did not want to proceed this way.

His mentor's side had a rule set by his Grand-Mentor: they couldn't give students too many resources at once. Although Xu Yan's current situation fully qualified for special treatment, and even Du Gui wouldn't object, Xu Yan felt the rule was good and was unwilling to be the one to break it.

As for his Old Man, it involved Xu Yan's somewhat awkward sense of self-esteem. He had previously boasted to him that he had "completed the agreement between them ahead of schedule and no longer needed his support." If he sought help again just one month later, it would be quite embarrassing for him.

Of course, this line of thinking arose because Xu Yan's current environment was stable enough, and he had sufficiently powerful backers behind him. Their existence gave Xu Yan the capital to be willful, allowing him not to force himself to grow up too quickly.

For the current Xu Yan, his three Commander Rank spirit beasts had no use for Monarch Rank spirit food and potions, while the two Wind Flame Lion Kings that could use them already had higher quality spirit food and potions provided by Mo Yi.

Successfully advancing to the Monarch Rank in cultivation would only bring Xu Yan prestige, resources, and attention from the Third Academy and even the high-level officials of Huaguo.

However, to say something that would make most people feel utterly defeated upon hearing it: Xu Yan lacked none of these three things.

As for prestige, the reputation generated by Xu Yan's current achievements was already causing him some annoyance. Without sufficient strength, excessively high prestige would not bring many benefits; instead, it would bring him more troubles and even danger.

Regarding resources, Xu Yan's strength had increased a bit too quickly. Rather than using resources for further enhancement, he needed more time for refinement and accumulation, so he didn't need to acquire extra resources.

Furthermore, how many resources could a Monarch Rank Cultivator obtain, even the youngest one? Not to mention far-off rewards, just the compensation promised by the Vermillion Bird earlier—allowing Xu Yan to choose ten items from its collection.

This promise alone meant that Xu Yan could potentially obtain one Mythical Rank item plus nine Saint Spirit Rank materials or resources from the Vermillion Bird. Could any amount of other resources surpass this?

As for the attention from the Third Academy or Huaguo's high-level officials, wasn't the focus given by Si Hong and the other Mythical Rank existences, due to that mission scroll, far more important than any so-called attention?

In summary, for the current Xu Yan, rather than directly seeking help from elders and skipping the process to reach the result, he actually needed the process of earning resources and academic credits, as well as the people and events he might encounter during that process. These valuable experiences would become Xu Yan's accumulation and foundation.

However, while this idea sounded simple, when he actually tried to earn points, he found it wasn't as easy as Xu Yan had imagined.

Participating in competitions like the Annual Grand Competition and achieving a top rank could earn a large sum of academic credits and resources. However, this type of competition only happened two or three times a school year at most, and since the semester had just begun, no such competition was scheduled soon.

As for taking on and completing tasks issued by the Academy, like those in the Combat Department, to obtain academic credits—relying on the current strength of Zhu Yan and his three spirit beasts, with the two Wind Flame Lion Kings as backup—it was a good way to earn academic credits, but the speed was still a bit slow.

Besides that, the remaining method was to rely on his cultivation techniques, find "suckers" like Lin Heng and the other three, and sell them spirit food, potions, and even cultivation plans, thereby earning a large amount of academic credits.

In this regard, the potential targets were not limited to freshmen; sophomores, juniors, seniors, and even the upperclassmen in the graduate school could become Xu Yan's customers. Xu Yan had absolute confidence in the effectiveness of the spirit food and potions enhanced by his Myriad Affinity Innate Talent.

Even within the Third Academy, which specialized in the Cultivation Department as its signature major, Xu Yan was confident that the effects of the spirit food and potions he produced were among the very best.

As for whether doing this would create competition with the upperclassmen in the Cultivation Department of the Third Academy and reduce their resource acquisition, there was no need to worry about that.

Within the Third Academy, ordinary Commander Rank cultivation resources might not be rare, but genuinely top-quality cultivation resources were always in short supply. Even in a place like the Third Academy, they were only relatively less scarce.

And what truly allowed one to earn a large amount of academic credits and resources were precisely these top-quality cultivation resources.

For the current Xu Yan, these so-called top-quality cultivation resources were merely finished products he could reliably produce just by being slightly more serious during their creation.

However, in this area, Xu Yan did not plan to sell these cultivation resources on a large scale. Instead, he intended to find long-term, stable clients like Lin Heng and his group, customize exclusive spirit food and potions for them, and thereby charge higher academic credits or rare resources of equivalent value.

If he chose this method, the first problem Xu Yan would face was: how should he find reliable, wealthy, and willing-to-spend new clients?

And just as Xu Yan was contemplating this question, the new client he had been yearning for arrived right at his doorstep before he even had a chance to promote himself or search for them.