Elder Luo looked at Xiang Beifei with suspicion.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that again?" Xiang Beifei asked, wiping his face.
"Your awakening was a UR-level system, wasn't it?" Elder Luo asked, staring at Xiang Beifei.
"Why bring that up again?"
"I've been to your school!" Elder Luo did not conceal the fact and said directly, "With you entering the Meridian Opening stage so quickly, I just couldn't help myself and sneaked off to your school to inquire about it, Li Nanxing told me."
"About the event that day when you awakened, with the thunder stones flashing chaotically," said Elder Luo.
Xiang Beifei didn't know how to explain.
The day of the awakening ceremony, the thunder stone burst forth with golden flashes, and everyone thought he was at the UR level, but later, because the thunder stone ran out of power, it was downgraded back to N level, and the matter was left at that.
Elder Luo lowered his voice and said, "Don't worry, I've already handled the necessary secrecy using our school's capabilities, but I'm just itching with curiosity! A UR-level Awakener should reach the late Qi-Controlling stage upon awakening, right? You clearly reached it only after quite some time."
He just couldn't figure out this matter because whether it was his Leisure System, or Ye Changfeng's Supremacy of Ten Thousand Swords System, or Guo Zhenghong's Counterattack System, all three were SR-level, and yet Xiang Beifei merely learned a move or two taught by each of them and their systems started acting crazy.
For the systems to make such a judgment, Xiang Beifei's system should at least be at the SSR or UR level, but he inexplicably did not reach the late Qi-Controlling stage immediately.
"So I'm not," Xiang Beifei retorted.
"But you have already reached the Meridian Opening stage!"
"That's because I've been practicing diligently, hardly ever slacking off," Xiang Beifei said earnestly.
"This... seems to be true."
Elder Luo found no excuse to refute, as he could see Xiang Beifei's diligence. Nearly every day, Xiang Beifei was by his side practicing, then asking questions, endowed with talent, serious about his training, and with a good temperament to boot; Elder Luo was delighted to see such a student.
Thinking this way, Elder Luo suddenly chuckled with joy: "Nevermind, it doesn't matter. In the end, I will take you with me to fiercely slap those fellows in the face and teach them a lesson."
He tossed a late-stage Meridian Opening Beast Pill to Xiang Beifei: "Take it, do whatever you need to do, go for it, I've got your back if anything happens. If I get the chance to encounter any God Refining desolate beasts next time, I'll also slaughter one or two for you."
Xiang Beifei accepted the Beast Pill, finding it good to follow the big shot Elder Luo.
It was getting late, so they did not linger any longer, and Elder Luo brought Xiang Beifei back to the university.
Back at the school, Xiang Beifei couldn't wait to run to his dormitory and rushed into the cultivation space there. He had obtained five Beast Pills today: three were early-stage Meridian Opening, one mid-stage, and one late-stage.
He had killed the three early-stage desolate beasts himself, the mid-stage one was slain with Elder Luo's guidance, and he wasn't even a match for the late-stage beast; it was Elder Luo who killed it by spitting out a melon seed shell.
Xiang Beifei eagerly let Xiaohei fuse the Beast Pills and quickly lit up the fifth star!
[Star Ability: Stand Aside]
[Ability Description: Can use spiritual power to create a domain that prevents other unrelated persons or desolate beasts from interfering with what happens inside the domain; effective only when there are at least two opponents. Cannot affect opponents who are an entire realm higher.]
Xiang Beifei pondered over the newly lit star; this ability seemed to be made for one-on-one fights, meaning that if he were to be ganged up on, he could forcibly drag one of the opponents into his domain to fight one-on-one first.
The others could only stand aside and watch helplessly!
This was a handy tool!
If he encountered a group of desolate beasts in the wilderness, he wouldn't have to worry about a mob attack.
Last time when Xiang Beifei was chased by a group of Claw-tailed Monkeys in the wilderness, he suffered a lot because he couldn't face a group of Claw-tailed Monkeys at once. If he had this ability then, he wouldn't have needed to run; he could just stand there and punch one little monkey to death while the others could only fret from the sidelines.
Of course, if the opponent was a realm higher, then Xiang Beifei wouldn't be able to make them stand aside. This means he couldn't apply this ability to God Refining cultivators.
But he could accept this drawback.
After illuminating this star, Xiang Beifei didn't get too cocky, considering star abilities as only a complement to his cultivation, which was the most important thing.
With that in mind, he started cracking melon seeds again, ready to seriously start broadening the ninety-six thousand kilometers of his meridians.
Meridian Opening had to be done step by step. Currently, Xiang Beifei managed to open the meridians in both palms, which took him half a month, suggesting it might take quite a while.
According to Xiang Beifei's estimation, to advance to the mid-Meridian Opening stage, he would need to open the full meridians in both arms and both legs, which at this pace, might take another month or two.
Meaning that after reaching the Meridian Opening stage, the progress of one's cultivation would slow down.
Of course, compared to others, his speed was already defying the heavens. After all, many SR-level individuals took a year just to barely enter the Meridian Opening stage, and some S-level individuals hadn't even reached it yet.
Xiang Beifei devotedly studied spiritual power; his spiritual power had reached a certain level, and he was also working on his defensive power.