"There’s really no secret," Yuan said, shaking his head. "If you don’t want to believe me, there’s nothing I can do."
He glanced at them briefly before adding, "Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go work on my quotas."
Without waiting for a response or giving them a chance to press further, Yuan turned and walked away, leaving the group behind.
Once Yuan left, the people who stopped him approached the young man and asked, "What privilege did you sell that young man just now?"
"I’m sorry, but I cannot disclose such information," said the young man.
"Then do you sell privileges that can strengthen our bodies?" one of them asked.
"No, we do not have such privileges."
Hearing this, the people began speculating how Yuan acquired his strength.
"Although he is not a cultivator, he didn’t say that he hadn’t started cultivating. There’s a good chance he’s already fully memorized the cultivation technique and began cultivating. That would explain his overwhelming strength."
"That’s quite hard to believe, honestly. It’s only been three weeks since we arrived at the Hidden Domain. Most of us have barely memorized ten pages, let alone the whole thing, and I do not believe he’s more talented than all of us. Even if he used all of his points to memorize the cultivation technique quicker, I doubt he has enough to fully memorize the technique."
"What if he had help from others? With enough assistance, any of us could afford it."
"Even if that’s the case and he had enough points, he’d still need a day to memorize a single page. Moreover, to achieve that level of strength, he must have cultivated for some time. None of this is adding up."
"Let’s forget about how he achieved his strength for now. Do we even know his identity? I recognize most people in this Bamboo Garden, but I don’t recognize him at all."
"Nope, I have never seen him before. I don’t even recall seeing him entering the Hidden Domain, and I entered later than most."
These people were now more intrigued by Yuan’s background than by the source of his strength, and they decided to pay more attention to him from this moment forth.
Meanwhile, after leaving the store, Yuan reunited with Lan Yingying to continue chopping bamboo. Thanks to his significantly enhanced strength from cultivating, he was now able to effortlessly chop down 20 bamboo stalks in a single day, far surpassing his previous efforts.
"Did anything happen at the store?" Lan Yingying asked him as they worked.
"A little. I threatened those two idiots, so they probably won’t be bothering us for some time."
"Only for some time? So they’ll be back?"
"Idiots like them tend to return once they regain their confidence. However, if they do, I won’t let them go a second time. I only let them go with a warning this time because there might be consequences for hurting other participants. Once I become a cultivator, that should no longer be an issue."
"Are you close to reaching Spirit Apprentice?" Lan Yingying asked.
Lan Yingying took Yuan’s advice and joined a small group with two other female participants, both of whom were also Divine Beasts. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Cultivation Online