9: There's one more cyclone, she's going to get serious

Why don't you just rob someone?

"One hundred spirit stones, that's acceptable." Zhuang Sanming readily took out one hundred low-grade spirit stones and received a ticket.

Su Duo's eyes widened. "No way, you actually bought it!"

Zhuang Sanming raised an eyebrow. "Hurry up and buy it. You're not short on those one hundred spirit stones. Don't think I don't know, Auntie always gives you a lot of spirit stones."

Hearing him say that, Su Duo felt a bit embarrassed. She scratched her head and said, "So you knew all along..."

"She's your mother, isn't it normal for her to give you more spirit stones? It's a pity my mother isn't around anymore, otherwise I could also receive special treatment."

Zhuang Sanming currently lives with Su Duo's family. A large portion of the beast crystals he hunts each time he goes out are given to his Auntie, which has led to his cultivation speed being much slower than Su Duo's.

Su Duo is two years younger than him, but their cultivation levels are the same; both are Level Three Martial Artists.

"Cousin, I..."

"Alright, it has nothing to do with you. Hurry and buy a ticket. There must be something strange about this car, otherwise those two wouldn't be sitting there motionless, would they?" Zhuang Sanming urged.

Su Duo thought about it and it seemed right, so she also took out one hundred low-grade spirit stones and exchanged them for a ticket.

Seeing their names written on the ticket, Su Duo became even more confused. "Our names are on the ticket!"

Zhuang Sanming said, "See, this is the strange thing about the car."

Selling eight tickets in just two days, Lin Feng was practically laughing in his dreams.

These spirit stones were enough for him to reach Level 2 Warrior, with three hundred to spare.

"Come quickly, let's also sit down and try it." Zhuang Sanming waved to Su Duo and went directly to sit cross-legged beside Chu Feiyue.

"Oh." Su Duo was still very pained by her one hundred spirit stones, but since they had already been spent, it seemed unrealistic to get them back. She could only listen to her cousin for now.

At home, her mother often told her that her cousin was a smart person and that she should learn more from him so that her parents could rest assured when she grew up.

Su Duo also sat cross-legged. This is a common posture for them as Martial Artists, as cultivation requires full concentration.

"Huh, there's so much spiritual energy here?" Zhuang Sanming had just begun cultivating when he noticed something was off. "Xiao Duo, quickly try to absorb the spiritual energy. This is truly a pleasant surprise!"

"Ah? Oh." Su Duo also began to circulate the Qi Vortex within her body. A Level Three Martial Artist has a total of four Qi Vortexes. She had just broken through half a year ago, and after cultivating for so long, she still hadn't been able to condense a fifth Qi Vortex.

Just a few seconds after sitting down, Su Duo was so excited she almost jumped up!

How could there be so much spiritual energy here?

Su Duo quickly opened her eyes to look at her cousin.

At this moment, Zhuang Sanming was fully focused on absorbing the spiritual energy. After all, places with so much spiritual energy were rare, and it would be a huge waste not to concentrate!

Seeing this, Su Duo didn't disturb him and quietly began to cultivate.

A minute later, she suddenly realized that she had one more Qi Vortex in her body!

This was too fast!

She had cultivated for half a year previously and hadn't been able to cultivate a fifth Qi Vortex!

It had only been a short minute... Su Duo couldn't help but swallow. She no longer felt that the one hundred low-grade spirit stones for the ticket were expensive.

It was simply too worth it!!!!

A single second-order beast crystal costs over one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and the elemental energy it adds after refining is only so much.

But on this car, she only spent one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and the elemental energy she absorbed allowed her to gain an additional Qi Vortex!

A Level One Martial Artist has one Qi Vortex, a Level Two Martial Artist has two Qi Vortexes, and a Level Three Martial Artist requires four Qi Vortexes.

A Level Four Martial Artist needs eight Qi Vortexes.

Currently, she still needed three more Qi Vortexes to reach Level Four.

She had to get serious!!

Ten minutes later.

The words they least wanted to see appeared before Chu Feiyue and Wang Dapeng:

[Destination reached, passengers please disembark.]

"Why so fast?" Chu Feiyue was now truly enjoying it and couldn't bear to get off the car.

Wang Dapeng said helplessly, "Didn't you complain earlier that one hundred low-grade spirit stones were expensive? Why are you now complaining that the car is moving too fast?"

Chu Feiyue blushed. "Hurry up and get off. We'll come back tomorrow!"

Su Duo heard their conversation and also blushed. Wasn't she one of those who complained about the ticket price at the time?

Now she was also truly enjoying it.

After Wang Dapeng and Chu Feiyue got off and left, Su Duo cultivated even harder, and because she felt that the one hundred low-grade spirit stones she had just spent were truly worth it, she actually entered a meditative state.

A faint blue glow emanated from her body.

That was the light from her Qi Cavity, indicating that she was in meditation, deep cultivation.

Zhuang Sanming didn't expect her to enter a meditative state. In this state, the cultivation speed would be faster, and the foundation of the Qi Vortexes cultivated would also be stronger.

Su Duo's Qi Cavity color was blue, a low-grade Qi Cavity, which was inherently more talented than Zhuang Sanming's purple, ordinary Qi Cavity.

Zhuang Sanming gently shook his head and continued to cultivate. He understood the principle of the slow bird flying first. Talent can determine a person's upper limit, but effort can raise a person's lower limit.

After about another ten minutes, they both heard a "ding."

[Destination reached, passengers please disembark.]

The two opened their eyes simultaneously. The spiritual energy in the car seemed to disappear instantly. Even if they didn't want to open their eyes, they couldn't cultivate anymore.

"So fast!" Su Duo sighed. "If only I hadn't worried about the ticket price when I first got on the car and just sat down to cultivate. Thinking about it now, I wasted at least a minute!"

Zhuang Sanming laughed. "Who told you to complain about the price?"

Su Duo pouted. "Well, I didn't know then. Oh, can we ride the car again? I still have spirit stones."

Actually, she was a bit confused as to why the two people who got on the car earlier than them just got off directly after arriving at the station, without thinking about taking another ride, only saying they would come back tomorrow.

"Just ask and you'll know." Zhuang Sanming said, walking a few steps towards the car door. "Can we take another ride?"

Soon, the following words appeared before their eyes:

[A passenger can only ride the train once within twenty-four hours.]

"Only one ride per day!" Su Duo's eyes widened. "No wonder those two said they'd come back tomorrow. So you can't ride the car twice in one day."

She snorted. "They're not even making money, one person is one hundred spirit stones!"

Zhuang Sanming was amused by her. "These are the train's rules, we can't break them. Let's go, we'll come back tomorrow."

"Oh." Su Duo was very frustrated, but there was nothing she could do.

At that time, she really felt that after the fifth Qi Vortex formed, even though she was still Level Three, her strength had a huge gap compared to before!

If she could take a few more rides, she might quickly form a sixth Qi Vortex, getting closer to Level Four.

After the two left, Lin Feng went to perform maintenance again.

The maintenance time alone takes sixteen hours every day, and it's unscheduled maintenance. The system said that if his kind of car isn't maintained for a long time every day, it will fall apart.

Then he wouldn't be able to sell even one ticket.