The Top Efficiency Cultivator

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◎ Mental Power = Spiritual Sense Development ◎

Meng Zi draped in the black cloak of the Annihilation Pavilion, wore a bamboo hat, and stacked two black masks on his face.

“The Annihilation Pavilion is here to apprehend Liu Ba of the Golden Hammer.”

He had a green bronze token on his waist, bearing the character “annihilation,” which flew to the three in front of him, including Lin Shuang.

“Please bear with me for a moment.”

As he spoke, Meng Zi’s sharp gaze fell on Liu Ba, who was covered in talismans and had a look of despair.

“Assassin from the Annihilation Pavilion?” Zhou Xuanwu halted his sword cautiously.

Meng Zi cleared his throat and looked at Lin Shuang, who was leisurely reclining on the broadsword, and then at Zhou Xuanwu, who was similarly dressed in Clearwater Sect robes. He stiffly touched the mask on his face.

The Annihilation Pavilion, born from insignificance a hundred years ago, had gradually become a prominent assassin organization known in both the Eastern and Western realms. It was said that as long as you paid enough spirit stones, they could assassinate anyone you wanted.

The top ten assassins were at a level close to crossing the tribulation and ascending.

But assassins always conducted their dealings in secret, everyone wearing masks and bamboo hats. No one had seen their true faces.

After all, they shunned the light; everything was about the reward.

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Meng Zi turned his head, lowered his bamboo hat, and avoided the inquisitive gaze of the other.

Thankfully, he was in disguise, and he wasn’t afraid to meet his fellow sect members.

Thinking this, Meng Zi lowered his voice, “Indeed.”

However, his gaze under the bamboo hat was fixed on Lin Shuang, who was still lying flat.

From within the Clearwater Sect to outside the sect gate.

Did she do this even when she was on a mission?

Meng Zi’s eyes flickered, he withdrew his gaze and nodded towards Zhou Xuanwu and Xiao Qi. “Annihilation Pavilion’s bounty mission for the Vajra Hammer, Liu Ba, valued at five thousand spirit stones.”

“I was with another assassin earlier, and I cut off his right arm. However, he escaped. Since you two captured him, you’ll get the bulk of the reward. We’ll take two thousand, is that okay?”

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He completely disregarded Lin Shuang as he said this.

But Zhou Xuanwu and Xiao Qi turned to her, “Junior Sister Lin, what do you think?”

Meng Zi: “?”

Under the sunlight, Lin Shuang scrutinized the newcomer from the Annihilation Pavilion.

Before acting or speaking, conducting thorough observation can greatly reduce the time cost of misunderstandings, bad impressions, and even communication failures.

She propped her forehead with her hand, sat up on the broadsword, and her gaze wandered over the intersecting edges of the mismatched masks. It paused briefly on the disarray of the black cloak, one corner of it caught in the belt, and the apparent mismatched sock colors peeking out of his boots.

Then, her gaze lowered and landed on the plain square wooden table under his feet—a table leg had a familiar dent.

It was the same table corner that was bumped into when Little Ai was pouring tea.

Lin Shuang looked up at the sky.

This was the most generous thing that bought her the table.

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This messy appearance was quite similar to the disciple who led the patrol outside the No. 99 wooden house that day, with his clothes in disarray.

At this moment—

A person standing on the table, with the table standing on the sword, this acrobatic posture was truly… shocking.

This design… she didn’t want to try it!

In the future, whether it’s for personal use or drawing symbols on a table, it might be better not to do so.

“Uh, he’s already here with injuries. We’ll take three thousand spirit stones, which is quite fair.”

Lin Shuang had no objections.

Haggling wasn’t on her schedule.

After draining this Foundation Establishment evil cultivator, whatever remained of his ill-gotten wealth, gained or lost, was inconsequential to her.

With a balanced mindset and heightened emotions, efficiency could be improved.

She nodded to the other party and quickly reclined again.

Meng Zi’s forehead twitched, and he averted his eyes.

He counted out three middle-grade spirit stones and shot them toward Zhou Xuanwu.

Zhou Xuanwu flew his sword forward and abruptly caught them.

“Goodbye!” Meng Zi turned around, carrying the limp Liu Ba away.

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Leaving Zhou Xuanwu standing there, his gaze fixed, “This table… is a third-grade talisman?!”

Xiao Qi turned to look at Lin Shuang.

“Drawing symbols involves guiding spiritual energy into the paper’s patterns… the complexity of this spiritual wood table’s patterns far surpasses that of a thin piece of talisman paper. How would you even inscribe symbols on this spiritual wood table…”

“There’s always someone better than you. Truly, there’s always someone better…”

Zhou Xuanwu, who always wanted to be the best, once again realized the vastness of the world and fell into a self-enclosed state of “Why am I not good enough.”

Lin Shuang closed her eyes to rest, seemingly indifferent to all of this.

Xiao Qi couldn’t help but reach out and poke her from behind.

Lin Shuang dodged away with disgust, giving him an unusual look.

“What’s wrong? Split your spiritual perception into one hundred and eight parts, enter the wood table’s patterns, while seeking the most abundant wood essence positions for the symbols, communicate with the power of heaven and earth, and draw with your other hand. Isn’t that simple?”

“???”

Xiao Qi staggered.

What? Do you have one hundred and eight parts to your spiritual perception?

【Lin Shuang’s Experimental Notes】

【First Year, First Month, Third Day】

Today’s training covers the odd-numbered parts 1-25 of spiritual perception, along with the newly added parts 26-30 of this month.

Gradually becoming proficient.

【Second Year, Second Month, Seventh Day】

Today, I mastered the transition between ‘using odd-numbered spiritual perception to draw first-order symbols, and using even-numbered spiritual perception to learn the second-order Haoran Technique.’

I’ve preliminarily verified two theories I’ve proposed.

1. The division of labor between the left and right brains in humans can be applied to the development of different abilities using odd and even-numbered spiritual perception.

2. Speculated similarity between the development of the human brain and the development of spiritual perception: Frequent use of the brain with conscious training can make spiritual perception more active, and powerful, and generate more abilities.

【Second Year, Twelfth Month, First Day】

Today, my spiritual perception has finally crossed from the 107th to the 108th strand.

I feel like this is the limit to developing my mental power in this body.

I will continue to alternately train the different abilities of odd and even-numbered spiritual perception.

One month later, in the alternating training, I’ll focus on the flexibility of spiritual perception at multiples of 1, 2, and 3.

Half a year later, I’ll strive to manipulate all 108 strands of spiritual perception simultaneously.

【Second Year, Twelfth Month, Ninth Day】

Sigh.

The experiment of using 108 strands of spiritual perception to perform 108 tasks separately has failed.

I was being too optimistic.

It seems that I can only quickly advance to the Nascent Soul stage, and master the art of clones, to do everything at once!

【Third Year, First Month, Third Day】

Mm, I’ve made some progress again.

Using all 108 strands of spiritual perception simultaneously, focusing on one specific task increases efficiency by nearly 100% to 999%.

Continuing to develop the sharpness of my spiritual perception, there’s hope for further improvement.

And what about the Dantian? Can my current 36 Qi Condensation Dantians practice 36 different techniques simultaneously?

Forget it, Lin Shuang, focus, that’s the way to be faster.

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【—Lin Shuang’s Summary of Spiritual Perception Cultivation Experience (Draft 137) 】