41: Tang Ziheng: Bai Mo, you have to work hard to become a qualified worker.

Xu Duantong held the greatsword but didn't charge forward immediately. Are you kidding? Even though he had a sword, he was still a “mage,” alright!

Xu Duantong's free left hand gathered flames, forming a Fireball.

With a thought, the Fireball flew towards the crawling ghost.

The crawling ghost discovered him with his attack.

Its hands were like propellers, rapidly crawling towards him with a flapping sound, but it seemed to lack a brain.

It ignored the Fireball flying directly at it.

The Fireball went forward, and it also went forward.

Boom!!!

The Fireball hit its face even faster, exploding into a ball of flame.

The crawling ghost was blown over, and large amounts of purplish-black blood splattered out, indicating it was severely injured.

Xu Duantong used Fireball again, and another Fireball flew out.

Boom!!!

The crawling ghost exploded and dissipated.

Ding-a-ling~ Eight gold coins dropped.

"That's it?" Xu Duantong picked up the eight gold coins, looked at the dissipated crawling ghost, and curled his lips in disdain. It didn't seem like much! Two Fireballs solved it!

Xu Duantong felt his condition was still good; it seemed the consumption of Fireball was not very large.

Although there was a panel, there was no health bar or anything; he had to rely on his own senses.

Xu Duantong carefully felt it out. Two Fireballs consumed about one-tenth of his mental power, so he could probably only use about twenty shots?

Of course, it must be less than that. Xu Duantong, with his years of experience reading web novels, could tell with his toes that exhausting mental power was definitely not a good thing.

Half of that would be ten Fireballs? Then he could kill five crawling ghosts… and then rely on shockwaves and heavy attacks to fight monsters… He wondered how long his stamina would last.

Xu Duantong had many things to measure, such as mental power recovery speed, stamina recovery speed, his actual strength, and resistance to attacks.

Of course, he had to find some weaker ones to test, otherwise, he was afraid of an accident.

He couldn't afford an accident; an accident meant losing his life.

Xu Duantong also saw that by killing one crawling ghost, his source points increased by 14 points.

It's a bit little, but acceptable!

Isn't it just grinding? The evil monsters are almost endless and seem to continuously respawn.

Xu Duantong was unsure about the situation of this Different World and the current world.

But it really resembled a game world, with monster grinding, leveling up, dropping gold coins and equipment, and respawning… However, regular monsters seemed to respawn every 24 hours, meaning once a day. As for how often others respawned, Xu Duantong didn't know.

He didn't want to think too much. Right now, he only wanted to level up well, survive! Become stronger! And hopefully, find his way home… even if it meant giving up all this power!

…

After observing for a while, Tang Ziheng knew that Xu Duantong, this new laborer, could now start providing a small amount of source points. It was considered a relatively direct and fast way to officially work in a world.

Very good! The future also looked bright! Tang Ziheng was quite optimistic about Xu Duantong's world.

After all, this clearly looked like a world with a large amount of source points!

Among Tang Ziheng's current four worlds, Clarissa's Noman Ya Continent goes without saying; she is currently the strongest laborer.

However, with the war over, it would likely enter a period of weakness.

And Lin Ze's side was also slowly improving. When he started killing more monsters later, the source points would also be continuous. Xu Duantong's new world was somewhat similar to Lin Ze's side.

That is, there can be respawning monsters, allowing for repeated acquisition of source points.

Although it wouldn't yield a lot at once, it was good for its persistence.

As for Bai Mo's Blade Spirit World… Tang Ziheng had a bit of a headache. The development potential of each world was not low.

However, Bai Mo right now was like in the foreplay period, not yet getting to the main point, and source point acquisition had not reached a stable stage.

"All of you need to work harder! Laborers! The fifth world still needs you to strive for it…" Tang Ziheng said faintly.

Moreover, in the midst of it all, Tang Ziheng felt that after the fifth world opened, the system would undergo a new change!

What exactly it was, Tang Ziheng couldn't know in advance, but since there was this omen, Tang Ziheng was very much looking forward to the fifth world.

Unfortunately, the fourth world had just opened, costing 1,000,000 source points. He wondered how long it would take for the fifth world to open…

…

Blade Spirit World.

Bai Mo was currently in the Beiling Academy's training ground. There were exclusive training rooms here, which were sealed rooms.

One could try various powerful moves inside. The internal space was specially designed to withstand explosive forces of over 100,000 spirit power and also had some analysis and recording functions. Of course, all of it was absolutely private.

Each use would automatically reset and clear all data.

No traces would be left behind. In terms of privacy protection, Beiling Academy did a very thorough job, and there were no hidden backdoors or information storage operations.

"Hoo~" Bai Mo exited the Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan state.

These past few days, he had figured out his current situation.

His special ability, Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan, did indeed increase his spirit power with each use, but this increase was not without limit.

Instead, it required his continuous cultivation, but this cultivation seemed to add a certain hidden potential, and when his Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan was activated, it would develop these hidden “potentials.”

This was why his spirit power increased with each use.

He had been cultivating these past few days, and his spirit power had reached 195 points.

The rate of improvement was quite good.

These past few days, Bai Mo also noticed that his source points seemed to increase from time to time, though not by much, only thirty-odd points. He now had 188 source points.

After all, Bai Mo had been in “seclusion” these past few days, usually just eating with Wen Yu, attending classes together, returning to the dormitory, cultivating separately, or going to the training room.

These days had indeed been a bit “decadent.”

He had to find a way to get some source points! Bai Mo rubbed his chin, pondering this problem.

Because of his previous display of power, no one had come to challenge him for his “position” these past few days.

Influencing world changes, altering world destiny… Bai Mo had indirectly influenced the challenger's destiny when he defeated him, so he gained source points?

What about the butterfly effect? Only this little bit of source points as a reward? Bai Mo pondered this question and then found another reason: it seemed that only definite changes yielded source points, while unmanifested ones were like “Schrödinger's Cat” and could not be obtained.

It should be like this… Bai Mo was a bit troubled. Although he was in Beiling Academy, everyone was working so hard, cultivating all day long.

"Just bear with it a bit longer. Next week, we should be able to enter the secret realm!" Bai Mo thought about what the teacher had mentioned in class yesterday.

It was called a practical combat test, and it was also a form of assessment.

They would enter a permanent secret realm that wasn't very dangerous for exploration. All resources obtained would belong to them, but they would need to register upon exiting and would receive academic credits based on the resources acquired.

There was also one very important point: they could plunder others!

Of course, there would be no life-threatening danger, as everyone would wear safety devices.

In this world, everything had to be fought for! After all, with the emergence of various secret realms and the confrontations between nations.

Every battle was a matter of life and death. From the moment they entered the university, their lives were already on the line.

Even if university was at the level of “combat exercises,” there was still a possibility of death.

"This week, I need to find a Blade Technique to practice!" Bai Mo rubbed his chin. The academic credits given upon enrollment were enough to exchange for a Blade Technique. Of course, it wouldn't be a very powerful one.

Blade Techniques also had ranks: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow.

There was no upper, middle, or lower distinction, which meant that even among Yellow-rank Blade Techniques, the difference could be vast.

But it still came back to the same point: everything was based on spirit power. Spirit power was the foundation.

Secondly, the higher the rank of the Blade Technique, the more difficult it was to learn and the greater the consumption.

If one's spirit power was insufficient, forcibly learning and using high-rank Blade Techniques would be harmful, and once activated, it would drain you! It was truly 'drain you'!

So, there was a lot of careful consideration when it came to Blade Techniques. This was learned through blood and tears.

Of course, Beiling Academy wouldn't stop you from learning high-rank Blade Techniques. The dangers were there; if you were willing, then do it.

Everyone was an adult; no one would constantly remind you or protect you.

Thinking of this, Bai Mo decided to go to the Library to find a Blade Technique to practice. Cultivating Blade Techniques also helped with the growth of spirit power.

Mainly, Bai Mo had been busy cultivating spirit power recently. Although Blade Techniques came with Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan, he couldn't rely entirely on Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan; he also needed to improve himself.

According to Bai Mo's understanding, Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan was equivalent to his special form. When not in use, it was his normal state.

So, the normal state was his lower limit, and Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan was his upper limit. What he needed to do was to infinitely raise his lower limit, and the upper limit would naturally also be infinitely raised.

No sooner said than done, Bai Mo quickly arrived at the Beiling Academy Library with the help of navigation.

He swiped his student card and entered the Library.