【Name: Chen Mobai】

【Age: 18】

【Realm: Qi Refining Fifth Layer】

【Spiritual Root: Gold 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, Earth 10】

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In a classroom by the window of the fifth high school of the Immortal Gate in Danxia City, a handsome young man took out his slim and jade-like phone and opened his personal interface data.

Just as the new school year began, the homeroom teacher wanted to check the progress of their cultivation during the break. Chen Mobai edited some of the content that needed updating.

He connected to the teaching network and was about to send his personal panel to the homeroom teacher when he heard a voice in his ear.

“Hey, you actually went into seclusion and practiced during the break, and broke through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.”

After his desk mate sent his own panel, he glanced at Chen Mobai’s and saw that he had filled in “Qi Refining Fifth Layer” in the realm column, his tone slightly sour.

Although the content on the personal interface was filled in by oneself, the school could easily verify its authenticity through various exams. Basically, no one would fill it in randomly because if caught falsifying, it would be recorded in the file, affecting future academic advancement and even the allocation of war resources in the future.

Within the Immortal Gate, punishment for deception was quite severe.

“I’m different from you. I have a true spiritual root, and as long as I work hard, I will definitely cultivate faster than your pseudo-spiritual root.”

Chen Mobai spoke with a hint of pride. Besides being taken by his mother to the temple during the break, he spent the rest of his time in seclusion at home, finally breaking through the bottleneck with the help of elixirs and advancing to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

“Your spiritual root attribute can actually be classified as a true spiritual root, it’s so unfair.”

His desk mate was angry, but there was nothing he could do. That was the Immortal Gate’s rule.

If the spiritual root attribute exceeded 20, it was considered to have that attribute. When he was in his mother’s womb, the heavens didn’t pay attention and allocated his talent a little more evenly, with four attributes, so he was classified as a pseudo-spiritual root.

But in reality, his spiritual root attribute points were not much different from Chen Mobai’s, and they were more or less the same.

“Well done, many people have improved during the break.”

At this time, the homeroom teacher had finished looking at everyone’s panel, and a rare smile appeared on his usually serious face.

Then, he praised each student who had made progress by name, including Chen Mobai.

The homeroom teacher’s praise made two beautiful female classmates in front of him turn their heads, and made Chen Mobai unable to resist raising his head and chest, looking very pleased with himself.

The Qi Refining Fifth Layer realm was already in the top twenty of the entire class. Now that he was in his third year of high school, if he worked hard, he might be able to advance to another level before the Immortal Gate’s college entrance exam.If one reaches the sixth level of Qi Refining, there is no hope of entering the top four prestigious academies, but it is still possible to hope for the second-tier academies. The third-tier academies, such as the local Danzhu Chixia two major academies, are even more certain.

As long as one can enter the academy after the college entrance examination, they will not be recruited by the Immortal Gate to participate in the opening war within ten years. There may be hope for Foundation Establishment.

“Finally, I want to commend Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan here. I never thought that in my lifetime, I could still bring out two students in the later stage of Qi Refining.”

Chai Deyun became a homeroom teacher six years ago. This class was the first one he had fully taught, and he was feeling sentimental. He put down his tablet with emotion written all over his face. His usually serious gaze suddenly became gentle, and he looked at the two students who stood up with everyone else in the classroom.

They were the two academic leaders of their class and had the most outstanding spiritual roots. They did not disappoint expectations and had entered the seventh level of Qi Refining before the college entrance examination.

With such results, they were basically stable in the second-tier academy and could strive for Foundation Establishment within ten years. If they succeeded, they would become Golden Elixir cultivators. Even in the Immortal Gate, they would be the objects of key cultivation.

Chen Mobai also looked envious. Unlike him, who had a fake spiritual root, Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan had genuine spiritual roots, with one of their spiritual root attributes exceeding 40. Cultivating the techniques related to that attribute would be twice as effective.

“Okay, class is over for today.”

Hearing the bell ringing from the highest building in the school, Chai Deyun collected the test papers and announced the end of class.

All the students immediately dispersed.

Even Chen Mobai, who only took his phone, jumped out of the window and headed straight to the cultivation room. Fortunately, he had made a breakthrough during the holiday retreat, and his speed had increased by three points. He arrived at the cultivation room before most people.

He did not have time to choose and saw an empty cultivation room with an open door, so he rushed in.

“Beep.”

Chen Mobai used his electronic student card on his phone to swipe the card, and the word “vacant” on the electronic screen at the entrance of the cultivation room disappeared instantly, and then the door slowly closed.

“Damn!”

Outside the door, a student who was a step too late cursed and quickly ran to another empty cultivation room.

It was not their fault that they were so eager.

It was because spiritual energy was hard to come by.

After six thousand years of development by the Immortal Gate, the resources on the Earth Star were almost depleted. All the spiritual veins and elemental energy in the territory occupied by the 36 caves and 72 blessed lands had been nationalized. The spiritual energy that remained between heaven and earth was at most enough for cultivators to maintain their basic breathing and breathing exercises. If cultivators wanted to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate, they had to pay the Good Deed fee to the Immortal Gate.A first-grade lower-level spiritual vein’s spiritual energy is transported to the dwelling cave, and 10 Good Deed points are required to be paid every month.

Chen Mobai is at the fifth level of Qi Refining, and the first-grade lower-level spiritual energy is of no use to him.

The first-grade middle-level spiritual energy requires 20 Good Deed points per month.

And for the first-grade upper-level spiritual energy, the monthly Good Deed cost has reached 40 points.

For Chen Mobai, the amount of first-grade middle-level spiritual energy can only help him stabilize his cultivation and make slight progress. If he wants to improve quickly, it’s best to use the first-grade upper-level spiritual energy.

Of course, it would be even better if he had access to second or even third-grade spiritual veins.

But that’s just wishful thinking.

Feeling the concentration of spiritual energy in the cultivation room, which is about three square meters in size, Chen Mobai opened the spiritual energy testing software on his phone.

After waiting for nearly a minute, the value on the screen finally stopped changing.

【Spiritual Energy Value: 10】

The grade of the spiritual veins can be measured by the spiritual energy value.

According to the rules of the Immortal Gate, a spiritual energy value of 1-10 is a first-grade spiritual vein.

A spiritual energy value of 10-100 is a second-grade spiritual vein.

A spiritual energy value of 100-1000 is a third-grade spiritual vein…

And so on. The highest grade in the whole Immortal Gate is said to be the cave where the two Deification ancestors reside, which is a sixth-grade spiritual vein.