Chapter 607 - 592: A Grand Shopping Spree

"Hello, Student Lin Xinghai. Given your higher-level clearance, your application has been approved directly. All you need to do now is pay with Credit Points, and you can send someone to pick up these resources."

"Okay!" Lin Xinghai nodded. He was a little surprised, but not completely taken aback.

After all, he was a First Class Seed. To some extent, his status was even higher than a Third Class Seed like Zuo Wenya.

Lin Xinghai quickly paid all the fees.

He spent 2.1 million Credit Points on Body Tempering Pills and 1.5 million on Nine Yang Blood Pills. The important materials for crafting his legendary-grade Mecha were valued at around 10 million Credit Points, so after his 50% discount, he paid 5 million.

Lastly, he purchased various potentially useful items for his trip to the 11th Abyssal Passage, spending another 400,000 Credit Points.

All in all, the total cost came to a staggering 9 million Credit Points.

His total of 21.59 million Credit Points instantly shrank to 12.59 million.

And that was with the 50% discount. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been much left of his twenty-million-plus Credit Points.

"Credit Points really don’t go very far," Lin Xinghai said with a sigh. "But I never expected this 50% discount to be so impactful. I feel like over a year, it could save me tens of millions of Credit Points."

The female attendant glanced at Lin Xinghai, looking as if she wanted to say something but was holding back. In the end, she couldn’t resist. "You might have some misconceptions about a normal student’s financial resources. I’m even starting to suspect the school might cancel this 50% discount policy next year."

Lin Xinghai rubbed his nose. "If the school really does cancel the policy, you have to help me keep it a secret. This has nothing to do with me."

The female attendant was speechless, while Liu Miaomiao, who was standing to the side, couldn’t help but suppress a smile.

Of course, this was just a small interlude. Soon, a staff member delivered the Elixirs Lin Xinghai had purchased.

As for the special metals for crafting the Mecha, Lin Xinghai had the staff hold onto them and arranged for Little Fatty to send someone to pick them up.

"Here, this is for you." After receiving the Elixirs, Lin Xinghai directly handed a large bottle, containing a full 1,000 Nine Yang Blood Pills, to Liu Miaomiao.

"Ah!" Liu Miaomiao was stunned.

When she came to her senses, she bit her lip and finally took it. "You don’t have to buy so many next time. It’ll be a waste if I can’t use them all, and besides, I have my own Credit Points."

"There’s no need to distinguish between what’s yours and what’s mine. After all, even you are mine." Lin Xinghai’s words made Liu Miaomiao’s lovely face flush crimson.

However, he immediately added with a serious expression, "Cultivate with me tonight, and you’ll see just how quickly you’ll burn through these Nine Yang Blood Pills."

What Lin Xinghai didn’t expect, however, was that his words only made Liu Miaomiao’s face turn an even deeper shade of red.

"Er! What’s wrong?" Lin Xinghai asked, confused.

"N-nothing!" Liu Miaomiao said hastily.

Of course, she wouldn’t dare admit she’d gotten the wrong idea. She hadn’t expected that the "dual cultivation" Lin Xinghai mentioned was *actual* Cultivation.

...

The next morning, a radiant Liu Miaomiao walked out of Lin Xinghai’s room.

The effects of the dual cultivation Lin Xinghai had mentioned were, to put it mildly, explosive.

In a single night, Liu Miaomiao had absorbed a full 60 Nine Yang Blood Pills. She not only broke through to the Peak of the Blood Qi Realm, but the total amount of her Blood Qi Power also increased by an extra 50 points.

For geniuses like them, the only things they ever truly lacked were resources and time. But with Lin Xinghai, Liu Miaomiao discovered she was short on neither.

Last night, they had started at 7 p.m. and cultivated straight through until this morning—a total of about 12 hours.

Of course, for anyone else, that would have been just 12 hours. But for Liu Miaomiao, that time was multiplied by ten, amounting to a full 120 hours.

Now she finally understood why Lin Xinghai’s Cultivation Speed could reach such a terrifying level. His Superpower could actually be used to aid Cultivation.

What’s more, he could use it continuously for 12 hours.

That’s right. Last night, Lin Xinghai had continuously used his Superpower for a full 12 hours.

This wasn’t because his breakthrough had extended the duration he could use his Superpower, but because he had purchased items that accelerated its recovery.

Of course, items capable of accelerating Superpower recovery were generally very expensive. In the case of Elixirs for restoring Superpowers, a single one could cost several hundred thousand Huaxia Coins.

As for other types of recovery items, none cost less than 100,000 Huaxia Coins.

The cost was too steep, so of course, the Lin Xinghai of the past had been unwilling to spend so extravagantly.

But now, with the opening of the 11th Abyssal Passage, his sense of urgency had grown even more intense, and he could no longer afford to be frugal.

Of course, Lin Xinghai wasn’t so extravagant as to directly purchase those expensive, single-use Elixirs. Instead, he bought the most cost-effective recovery item: the Elemental Crystals of Mutated Zombies.

Unlike the Elemental Crystals from Ordinary Zombies, which can only be used to create things like Genetic Medicine Liquid, the Elemental Crystals from Mutated Zombies have many uses.

For example, the Energy within can be used directly as a power source for Battle Armor, or it can be made into certain rare potions.

And of course, restoring Superpowers was another one of its functions.

Directly absorbing the Energy from an Elemental Crystal could increase the recovery speed of one’s Superpower by a full tenfold.

Normally, Lin Xinghai needed 10 hours to fully recover his Superpower. Now, by using a Mutated Zombie’s Elemental Crystal, he could recover in just one hour.

Of course, this process could also be sped up using his Time Acceleration Ability, meaning his Superpower could be fully restored in what amounted to 0.1 hours—just six minutes—of real-world time.

Under these conditions, his recovery rate was faster than his consumption rate, allowing Lin Xinghai to use his Superpower continuously without interruption.

The only catch, of course, was that he had to be willing to burn through money.

After all, Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystals weren’t cheap. Even a Tier One Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystal cost anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 Huaxia Coins.

To accelerate his Superpower’s recovery, he had to use Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystals of an equivalent or higher Level.

In other words, Lin Xinghai needed at least Second Level Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystals.

The price for a Tier Two Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystal was a tenfold increase, with a market value ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 Huaxia Coins.

Lin Xinghai had only bought a few of the cheapest "Hunter" Elemental Crystals.

Of course, cheaper Elemental Crystals naturally contained less Energy. A Hunter Elemental Crystal would be completely depleted after allowing Lin Xinghai to recover his Superpower five times at most.

This meant that in a single night, Lin Xinghai would consume at least two Mutated Zombie Elemental Crystals. This was a rate of consumption that no ordinary person could possibly sustain.

The results were, of course, remarkable. If Liu Miaomiao could absorb 60 Nine Yang Blood Pills in one night, Lin Xinghai’s progress was naturally even more terrifying.

Previously, by relying on his immense Perception Power and the system’s Refinement function, he could reduce the time it took to absorb a single Elixir to under half an hour.

Now, with the addition of the incredible digestive and absorptive capabilities from his stomach’s transformation, his speed increased even further, allowing him to absorb an Elixir in just 25 minutes.

If he were absorbing a Blood Qi type Elixir, with the aid of his heart’s blood-generation function, Lin Xinghai believed the time could be compressed even more.

In just one night, he had absorbed 288 Body Tempering Pills.

But even so, his Cultivation progress for the Divine Demon Body had only increased by 5.76%.

He could now say he understood why many people took one or two years to break through a single Small Realm after reaching the Body Shaping Realm.

Both the resources consumed and the time required for advancement were immense.

"Ah Xing, can we... dual cultivate like this every night from now on?" Liu Miaomiao, who was walking ahead, suddenly turned back and asked in a quiet voice.

"Of course," Lin Xinghai said with a smile.

Hearing the answer she wanted, Liu Miaomiao couldn’t resist planting a kiss on Lin Xinghai’s cheek. "That’s wonderful! This way, I’ll be able to keep up with you."

"Mmm! Keep it up," Lin Xinghai encouraged. For now, he didn’t want to tell her about the harsh realities that came after breaking through to the Marrow Tempering Realm.

Chatting and laughing, the two of them soon arrived at the assembly point in the square.

Thousands of students were already gathered there, fully equipped and ready to depart.