C22 Coming Up With A Training Plan

“Phew.”

After releasing a breath of foul air, Meng Ran’s long night of cultivation had finally come to a close.

After teaching Soong Anqi how to play the flute last night, Meng Ran went straight home, and once he got back, he decided to start cultivating right away. As he cultivated, he could meditate and recover his spirit that way. The results were even better than sleep, so to many cultivators, cultivations were no different than a restful night of sleep.

“I can see that the cultivation environment on Earth is really terrible. With such a thin atmosphere of Spiritual Energy, even though I have an Immortal Grade Ice Spirit Root in my possession, I’m afraid it’ll still take me at least three months in order to break through to the Foundation Stage Middle Period.”

What wasn’t visible to the naked eye was that currently starlights the size of sesame seeds were floating in the air, and they actually penetrated Meng Ran’s body all on their own!

This happened to be one of the benefits of Meng Ran possessing a top-tier Immortal Grade Ice Spirit Root. Even if Meng Ran didn’t cultivate, he could still refine Spiritual Energy this way.

However, he’d never be able to level up at this rate. Even if one were to look at it under a microscope, such a thin starlight would be undetectable. From that, everyone could tell that the Spirit Energy of Heaven and Earth was very weak on Earth.

Meng Ran did a small calculation in his head and couldn’t help but shake his head and let out a long sigh.

“If only I could find a place with dense water vapor. If I mix it with the Spell Formation that gathers Spiritual Energy, my speed will increase by 10x! Also, I must think about refining some pills to increase the speed of my cultivation level. After that, my speed will be even faster than before!”

However, as he thought about arranging the Spell Formation, Meng Ran felt a big headache coming on. He’d need at least four Crystal Chalcedony to arrange the lowest grade of Acceptance Spiritual Array.

The Crystal Chalcedony was basically jade. Ten thousand jade wouldn’t be enough to produce a palm-sized Crystal Chalcedony. It usually required a whole lot of jade. Not to mention how expensive it would be. Meng Ran estimated that he’d only be able to produce only a few Crystal Chalcedony with his money and resources.

“Forget about it. If I really can’t produce Crystal Chalcedony, I’ll use the Exquisite Jade instead!”

Exquisite Jade was pretty plentiful on Earth but compared to the Crystal Chalcedony, the quality was way lower. If he used Crystal Chalcedony to prepare the array, this Spell Formation could be maintained for at least half a year. But if he were to use the Exquisite Jade, Meng Ran estimated that it could last a little over ten days.

Furthermore, Exquisite Jade was costly. It usually costs tens of thousands of yuan to obtain just one. All this talk of money was giving Meng Ran a headache. Meng Ran had just withdrawn 5,000 yuan from his bank account to help Soong Anqi register for the contest. This money was what Meng Ran had been saving for months. Now, Meng Ran had less than four hundred yuan on him.

“I have to think of a way to earn more money quick. Jade medicinal herbs can get quite expensive.”

As for using his magic technique to earn money, that was the last thing Meng Ran wanted to do. Last night, he had the sudden impulse to use magic to summon the jade flute to him. After that, the two girls pestered him for a long time and wouldn’t let the matter rest, leaving Meng Ran with a terrible headache. In the end, Meng Ran had to explain to them that ‘This was magic’ and simply left it at that.

As for “King’s Landing,” Meng Ran didn’t teach Soong Anqi the whole song. Even if she could learn its entirety, the real “King’s Landing” had to be played by Jade Pool Fairy, or else it wouldn’t be the real “King’s Landing.” Unless one was a cultivator with superhuman abilities, it would be impossible for an ordinary person to perform the complete “King’s Landing” all in one sitting.

Meng Ran only taught Soong Anqi a small portion of the song. Soong Anqi was good at portraying love songs, so Meng Ran chose one of the sad and sentimental parts and taught it to her.

But even so, from Meng Ran’s perspective, even those music masters might have a hard time mastering even a fragment of what he taught Soong Anqi.

The main reason why Meng Ran dared to teach Soong Anqi the song was because Meng Ran saw that she had some ‘heart music’ in her. The words’ heart music’ meant that the musician or singer truly saw music as an intrinsic part of themselves. So when they play music, it comes directly from the heart.

Of course, even though this sounded simple enough, it was challenging to execute it.

Luckily, after a few tries, Soong Anqi managed to finally learn it. Even though she approached the song as a beginner trying it out for the first time, in Meng Ran’s opinion, the fact that she give it her all was enough.

This song was pretty much all she needed to win the competition!

This was Meng Ran’s way of helping this kind and pure girl reach her dreams!

Meng Ran leaped out of bed and stretched his body. The sounds of his joints cracking filled the air. Every time Meng Ran cultivated, his appearance would show that of the Body Tempering. Realizing that his appearance might seem odd to ordinary people, he used his magic technique to change back to his original appearance.

“Eh? Where did the sun go? Did it rise from the south today?” Meng Ran checked the sun outside his window and muttered to himself. Right afterward, Meng Ran said, “That’s not good! I must’ve over-practiced!”

He couldn’t believe it! It was already one o’clock in the afternoon.

Meng Ran threw on his clothes at top speed and picked up his phone off the sofa where he had last thrown it. When he saw the six missed calls on his phone, Immortal Sovereign Tairan felt a headache forming behind his eyes.

Four missed calls were from his teacher, and the other two were from his mother.

Meng Ran stared at the word ‘Mom’ and felt a warmth stirring in his heart. If it wasn’t for the fact that he had so many things to attend to these two days, Meng Ran really wanted to drop everything to see the person he had missed for a thousand years.

Meng Ran quivered from head to toe as he dialed his mother’s number. After a few seconds of ringing, Soong Shuling’s berating voice sounded out from the other end of the receiver.