Otherwise, once you really move up to the second year, it becomes quite troublesome.
The challenge rules are within the top fifty.
That is to say, if you're ranked one thousandth, you can only challenge students ranked between nine hundred fifty to one thousand.
Although the challenged cannot refuse challenges from those ranked lower, this method of challenge would greatly slow down Jiang Yuan's ranking progress.
Of course, if Jiang Yuan hasn't advanced to the second year and is still a first-year student, he can initiate challenges to second-year students, but the second years can refuse them.
So, this opportunity is great.
After defeating Erin Mountain, then see if there's a chance to continue advancing in challenges.
Time is money.
And what Jiang Yuan lacks the most is money.
"Oh, I see."
After Shi Ji explained, Jiang Yuan understood why Shi Ji had accepted the challenge.
Of course, for Jiang Yuan right now, money is the most important.
"Can I tell them they can replace the resources with Star Spirit Stones?"
With this thought in mind, Jiang Yuan looked up at Shi Ji and asked.
"Of course, you can."
"Cultivation resources are hard to gather, but Star Spirit Stones are quite simple. Are you sure you can break through in the next couple of days?" Shi Ji asked Jiang Yuan after shaking his head slightly.
To be honest, Shi Ji actually prefers cultivation resources.
After all, cultivation resources can be exchanged for Star Spirit Stones, but Star Spirit Stones cannot be exchanged for cultivation resources.
Most cultivation resources in the Academy need to be exchanged with credits.
That's also why the second-year students took so long and yet haven't assembled them.
After all, holding onto credits is more cost-effective than spending them to enhance one's own strength.
"Don't worry; if nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to break through by tonight or tomorrow."
Jiang Yuan was very confident because he could feel the bottleneck of his breakthrough loosening.
Just one more push, and the breakthrough will be successful!
It must be said that thanks to the Gathering Star Array, his strength has been increasing rapidly.
But it's somewhat slower for Mu Qianshan.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan slapped his forehead.
"Oh no! I forgot to tell Mu Qianshan about the Gathering Star Array!"
Jiang Yuan chuckled bitterly; no wonder Mu Qianshan's rate of breakthrough was so slow.
After all, Mu Qianshan's breakthrough to the mid-stage of Xingji had been even faster than his own.
But it's not a big problem.
Just find an opportunity to tell him in the next couple of days.
He still needs Mu Qianshan by his side.
Other things aside, as the heir of a prominent family, Mu Qianshan's knowledge and experience are much greater than his own.
Sometimes some issues need to be resolved by Mu Qianshan.
Under such circumstances, Jiang Yuan cannot allow Mu Qianshan to fall too far behind himself.
During this time, Mu Qianshan has been running around assisting with card making and retreated quite a bit.
When Jiang Yuan is making cards, he doesn't go out much, but if certain cards are not available in the market, he has to buy them from the wild market.
Usually, Jiang Yuan would message Mu Qianshan whenever he needed a card, and Mu Qianshan would purchase it while out after class and bring it back for Jiang Yuan.
Both have been helping each other.
Jiang Yuan assists Mu Qianshan with combat.
And Mu Qianshan assists Jiang Yuan with his daily life.
Having made up his mind, Jiang Yuan began card making.
Continue card making for a while; once the Gathering Star Array is filled with Star Power, then continue cultivating in the Gathering Star Array.
Jiang Yuan's spiritual power is already very impressive now.
Continuous card making has spurred rapid growth in Jiang Yuan's spiritual power.
The division of spiritual power is roughly gas and liquid state.
The spiritual power of someone in the early stages of Xingji is akin to a small cluster of mist.
At the later stages of Xingji, the spiritual power is like a large cloud of mist.
Mist of spiritual power.
If measured proportionally, the mist of spiritual power in the late stages of Xingji would occupy about five percent of the Spiritual Sea.
But now, Jiang Yuan has far exceeded this ratio.
His current mist of spiritual power occupies about fifty percent of his Spiritual Sea.
Once the mist of spiritual power completely fills and saturates the Spiritual Sea, Jiang Yuan's spiritual power will enter the next phase.
Raindrop form of spiritual power!
The mist of spiritual power is sublimated into raindrops of spiritual power that fall.
Once the falling raindrops of spiritual power fill the entire Spiritual Sea, spiritual power will enter a new level.
Since it's already full, the elevation of raindrops of spiritual power will expand the Spiritual Sea.
From the Spiritual Sea expanding into a Spirit Pool, then into a Spirit Lake, and finally a Spiritual Sea.
These three stages, if you cannot continue to expand at any one of them, it means that you've reached your limit.
Everyone has different limits, which is what's known as talent.
However, Jiang Yuan is still far away from this point.
First, break through the Xuanxiao Period, take the first place among second-years, and acquire the various cultivation resources of the top second-year student.
Eventually, Jiang Yuan settled on the card "Flames Sitting."
Compared to not being harmed by the temperature of flames, he thought isolating flames would be somewhat better.
Especially considering his goal is the first rank in the second-year students, inevitably he will encounter the two opponents Hu Qingwei just mentioned.
The top ten is a ladder to be climbed one step at a time.
It's not to say that once you reach the fiftieth rank, you can directly challenge the first rank.
While Jiang Yuan is working hard on his end, Erin Mountain and his peers are also striving on their own.
After glancing at Jiang Yuan, Shi Ji followed his request and replied that "Star Spirit Stones can be used to replace cultivation resources."
This made it much easier for Erin Mountain and the others.