Chapter 291: Such Refinement
For a moment, 240 contestants from three echelons arrived at their respective zones!
They seized every second to sit cross-legged and began frantically absorbing spiritual energy!
The spiritual energy in the entire spirit pool rippled from their absorption!
Forming gentle breezes and air whirlpools around their bodies!
The entire spirit pool became utterly silent!
When Jiangnan calmed his mind and began absorbing spiritual energy, he was truly astonished!
What terrifying concentration of spiritual energy was this?
It was like tossing a sponge that had dried out in the desert into the sea, okay?
Zone two was already this terrifying!
Then those cultivating in zone one must be having an absolute blast?
How infuriating~
And right then, the differences between their talents became apparent!
For someone like Qin Shou with an A-rank talent, he could form an air whirlpool less than half a meter around him!
While Ye Xinghe, with an S-rank talent, could form an air whirlpool about a meter wide!
That was already considered top-tier!
Chu Tianba surveyed the entire scene and let out a disdainful snort!
He was the only one whose air whirlpool in the spirit pool reached two meters!
"Holy crap!"
Chen Xuan, who was recording the size of the whirlpools nearby, stared wide-eyed and suddenly blurted out a curse!
The exclamation echoed through the spirit pool, drawing everyone's attention!
Over at Jiangnan's spot, he had sucked up a massive air whirlpool a full three and a half meters wide!
Spiritual energy was converging madly!
And it wasn't just Jiangnan alone!
Zhong Yingxue! Xia Yao! Wu Liang! Each of them had a three-and-a-half-meter whirlpool!
At this, everyone was shocked!
"What the hell? Is this for real? All four of them have SSS+ talents?"
"Pfft! What kind of freak talents are these?"
"Did they grow up on urea or something?"
"Oh my god! Each one has a three-and-a-half-meter whirlpool? The four of them side by side create an Audi?"
"Crap! Crap! Thank goodness they're not in the first echelon, or that would be terrifying!"
Chen Xuan's head was buzzing!
How many people did you need to find to get one SSS+?
And this year, four popped out at once, all clustered together?
Chu Tianba was dumbfounded! Are you cheating or what?
[Resentment points from Chu Tianba +333]
Yu Qingqing and Guo Guo were also completely stunned. Did they have to be this fierce?
Just then, Jiangnan frowned. "The ground is so cold on my butt!"
So he pulled out a stack of seat cushions from his alternate dimension and handed them to Zhong Yingxue and the others.
Everyone watched with envy.
Why hadn't they thought of that?
Sitting on the ground for fifteen days would definitely give you hemorrhoids, okay?
But to level up, they endured!
The spirit pool fell silent again.
Half an hour passed, and Jiangnan couldn't sit still anymore.
He stood up and spread a huge woolen blanket on the ground!
The others, who had been focusing on cultivation, couldn't help but look over when Jiangnan started fussing around...
"You all come sit here! Those seat cushions aren't comfortable!"
So Zhong Yingxue and the others moved again!
Everyone ground their teeth in irritation!
Another half hour later, Jiangnan shivered violently from a cold chill!
He got up again and pulled out four small heaters, placing them in the four corners!
Then, under the horrified gazes of the crowd, he hauled out a diesel generator!
"Clatter clatter clatter~"
The generator started up, and the four small heaters began to warm the area, so it wasn't cold anymore!
In the silent spirit pool, the sound of the diesel generator running mixed with the grinding teeth of all the contestants!
Dammit!
Do you have to be this refined?
Did you come here to cultivate or to go camping?
Wasn't it already excessive enough?
Now they had to endure the noise of the generator too!
It was infuriating!
[Resentment points from Chu Tianba +1000]
[Resentment points from Leng Yan +666]
[Resentment points from Li Yan...]
[Resentment points from Hua Ling...]
[Resentment points from Ye Xinghe...]
Jiangnan's eyes lit up!
Business opportunity! This was a golden business opportunity!
At night, the temperature in the cave dropped to freezing!
Some people were already regretting not wearing more clothes!
Only Jiangnan's area was warm and toasty, making everyone wince just looking at it!
The stream of resentment points never stopped!
Jiangnan was overjoyed!
Oh my god! Life was just too good, right?
He could cultivate and earn resentment points at the same time!
Unable to sit still, Jiangnan got up again!
Chu Tianba finally couldn't hold back. "What the hell are you moving now?"
"Why don't you just move a bed in here?"
Jiangnan was stunned. "How did you know?"
Right then, Jiangnan pulled a bed out of his alternate dimension...
Chen Xuan's face turned black!
In all the previous batches of contestants in the spirit pool, who hadn't been desperately cultivating?
But this time, they got an outlier!
[Resentment points from Chu Tianba +1000]
You actually moved one in when I said that?
Dammit!
Even if you have an alternate dimension, you can't be this willful, right?
All the contestants nearly popped their eyes out!
Was Jiangnan really going to sleep now?
But Jiangnan tucked Xiao Mila into the blankets!
Then he started cultivating again!
"Boom!"
His rank smoothly broke through from Silver III to Silver IV!
At that moment, on the hotel's big screen!
The names and ranks of all 240 contestants from 60 teams were displayed!
Because the internal conditions of the spirit pool were strictly confidential and not allowed to leak out!
Countless cameras were aimed at the screen, broadcasting the contestants' breakthrough progress and points earned in real time!
In just one afternoon, 17 people had already risen by one star!
Each worth 10 points, recorded after their team's total score!
"What the hell? Boss Nan finally went up a star!"
"Don't focus on Boss Nan! They're in the second echelon! No hope of winning the championship!"
"Right? They'll fall behind sooner or later! Of the 14 people who broke through so far, 12 are from the first echelon!"
"The gap in spiritual energy is too big!"
"Sigh... what a shame! They were originally a hot favorite!"
"One step behind, every step behind!"
Just as everyone was feeling sorry for Jiangnan's "Every Team Says" team!
Jiangnan opened his eyes with a bored expression. "Ah, this is so slow!"
Everyone was speechless!
You just went up a star! How is that slow?
Don't act so cocky!
It really wasn't Jiangnan showing off!
Throughout his journey, Jiangnan had never actually sat down and cultivated so quietly before!
He was naturally restless by nature!
If he had to go into seclusion like those immortal cultivators for a hundred or eighty years to cultivate,
Jiangnan would definitely die of boredom by the third day!
Just as he was thinking about how to speed things up, Jiangnan suddenly slapped his forehead!
Damn! Hadn't he still had those "Heart-Pounding Pop Rocks"?
Holy crap!
How could he have forgotten about them?
They increased the speed of absorbing spiritual energy by ten times for 24 hours!
Using them here was a perfect match!
He originally had only over 200,000 resentment points left, but thanks to the lovely contestants' little contributions this afternoon,
it had somehow increased to over 700,000!
Without hesitation, Jiangnan exchanged for five packs!
He looked left and right to make sure no one was watching him,
then secretly tore open the packaging, being very careful!
If anyone caught him sneaking a snack of pop rocks in the middle of the night,
how would he live that down?
Taking a deep breath and bracing himself, Jiangnan tilted his head back and poured all the pop rocks into his mouth!
One pack in one go!
"Crackle pop bang bang pop!"
The pop rocks exploded in his mouth, completely stunning Jiangnan!
He covered his mouth, fell to the ground, and started twitching all over, drenched in cold sweat!
He hadn't eaten pop rocks in a while,
and his body's tolerance had dropped, right?
Damn! Last time, one pack at once was still manageable!
Xia Yao caught sight of Jiangnan, saw him twitching on the ground, and was terrified!
She rushed over to help him, panicked. "Little Nan! Little Nan! What's wrong? Where does it hurt? Is it your stomach?"
Zhong Yingxue was extremely worried. "Little Nan? Where's the discomfort? Say something!"
Jiangnan: !!!
He absolutely dared not speak now!
At that moment, everyone noticed Jiangnan's abnormality!
Chu Tianba sneered. "Ha! Didn't he go into qi deviation, did he?"
"Serves him right!"
Jiangnan's eyes bulged. "I just... da da da bang pop~"
As soon as he opened his mouth, a burst of sound like a machine gun or榴弹炮 came out!
Instantly, all the contestants in the entire spirit pool panicked!
What was going on?