56: Upcoming Freshman Qualifying Tournament

The soldier who had been guarding outside heard the commotion and immediately turned to salute Clarissa, "Respected Savior Apostle! The map is ready!"

"Mm... take me there!" Clarissa nodded. Although the honorifics from the other party were a bit awkward, there was nothing she could do. It seemed to be a 'tradition' here, and she couldn't be bothered to dwell on such matters. She would let them be; as long as she completed God's task, that was all that mattered!

Clarissa's power had increased so terrifyingly that she felt this mission to save the world was actually a training ground given to her by God. Perhaps... she shouldn't be limited to the Grosster Empire, nor confined to her own world...

Her perspective needed to broaden! Her God was so great!

She should expand her perspective to the Celestial Realms!

In an instant, Clarissa seemed to understand! She got it! She comprehended! It turned out that God had always been watching her! God was training her!

Tang Ziheng: Ah, yes, yes, yes! Indeed, I am training her! My dearest Clarissa, my 'worker'.

Clarissa's thoughts shifted, but her expression remained calm: "Take me to get the map!"

"Alright!" The soldier nodded and led the way, bringing Clarissa to the main hall.

The King was also waiting there. Seeing Clarissa arrive, he quickly strode forward and respectfully said, "Respected Savior Apostle! The map has been prepared for you! Once again, allow me to sincerely thank you for everything you have done!"

"No need to be polite. Alright, you all attend to your own matters! I'll be leaving now!" Clarissa nodded, took the map, glanced at it, and immediately set off.

Time was urgent. If she went too slowly, and the place she was going to had already been massacred by monsters, then it would be a wasted trip.

When Clarissa went outside, whether it was ordinary people, adventurers, or generals and soldiers on the road, upon seeing Clarissa, each of them greeted her with respect and admiration.

"Respected Savior Apostle!"

...

Clarissa went to various places for rescue.

Tang Ziheng temporarily stopped paying attention to her and then looked at his nearly seven million source points, which were already over six million. He nodded with great satisfaction. Clarissa truly lived up to her name as the strongest 'worker'; the source points she earned were incredible! She was the ultimate worker.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

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Blade Spirit World.

Half a month had passed.

Bai Mo was living very comfortably.

With the cultivation resources provided by the Akatsuki Organization, Bai Mo, Wen Yu, and Zhang Ling had been diligently cultivating for the past half-month. As for Zhang Qier, she was busy with something unknown and had rarely been seen.

Bai Mo, Wen Yu, and Zhang Ling were all cultivating at the 'Organization Base', each having a dedicated small cultivation room that also utilized spatial power.

Their activity room alone had at least 50 small quiet rooms. Each was simply a door leading into a small room of about 10 square meters, with a very simple layout.

There were also spirit energy gathering arrays carved for cultivation.

In these past few days, Bai Mo had used the organization's resources, feeding his Blade Spirit with expensive and good materials, and he himself had been cultivating with a large amount of spirit energy crystals.

Over the past half-month, Bai Mo's spirit energy had increased very rapidly, from 195 points to 246 points.

Ice Ring Slash and Ice Seal Consecutive Annihilation had already been successfully cultivated. His comprehension was still quite good; he learned Ice Ring Slash in two days and Ice Seal Consecutive Annihilation in just over three days.

The rest was just a matter of practice makes perfect.

Then, during the classes, he also learned the three basic moves: blade, body, and Spell.

Blade refers to basic blade techniques, which are the foundation of all blade skills.

Body refers to movement techniques, including short-distance dodging and shifting during combat, as well as long-distance rushing techniques.

They also taught a Spell that everyone would learn: Spirit Shift Step. As for how proficient one could become, that depended on the individual.

Spell refers to magical arts, which can be understood as techniques or magic.

It is the use of spirit power for a special attack, divided into four types: offense, defense, restraint, and support.

Offense refers to Spells with destructive power, defense refers to Spells primarily for protection, restraint refers to Spells mainly for binding and limiting enemies, and support refers to Spells that enhance various abilities for oneself or teammates.

Spells were created by a legend ten thousand years ago. That legendary Blade Spirit had an E-grade talent, but his spirit power talent was SSS, and his Blade Spirit had no special abilities, and his comprehension in blade techniques was extremely poor.

He had immense spirit power but was unwilling to accept his limitations! He was an unprecedented super genius with SSS-grade spirit power talent!

So, he painstakingly researched and finally discovered another path, which was Spell!

Through Spell, with his terrifying spirit power, even without a Blade Spirit, without blade techniques, and without special abilities, he still became a top-tier super expert of his time.

Most importantly, he pioneered a brand new path, and at the same time, provided a way out for those similar to him!

It could be considered a blessing for all ages! Naturally, he also became a legend whose name was etched in history!

Of course, what was taught was mostly theoretical knowledge and some basic Spells. If you don't follow this path, you naturally don't need to delve into it, but you still need to understand it, because you will always encounter people who use Spells, and quite a few of them!

If you don't know anything, then you'll suffer losses when the time comes!

Sparring is fine, but if it's a life-and-death battle, then what you lose is your life!

So even if they don't learn it, they will specifically try to understand it.

And during this half-month, nothing happened, as they were either cultivating or attending classes. There weren't many classes, and Bai Mo hadn't even gotten to know anyone in his class yet.

Of course, besides the limited contact and the fact that everyone was just there for classes, it also had to do with the small circle of three formed by Bai Mo, Wen Yu, and Zhang Ling.

During this period, the Akatsuki Organization trio occasionally went out together to complete a mission. As a senior, Zhang Qier had her own things to do, in addition to being busy with some matters for the Akatsuki Organization, and her strength was so great that it wasn't good for her to follow them.

During this time, everyone's strength improved significantly.

Bai Mo also gained a lot of source points, and additionally, he found that his source points increased significantly every day, but the amount of increase varied, with no discernible pattern.

But it didn't matter; for Bai Mo, it was all free gains anyway.

Bai Mo opened his eyes and exited his cultivation state.

He glanced at his source points, which had finally just surpassed 100,000!

Bai Mo chose to improve his spirit power talent.

He spent 100,000 points to upgrade his spirit power talent from B-grade to A-grade!

"The difference between B-grade and A-grade is not small!" After his spirit power talent improved, Bai Mo could clearly feel that he was more sensitive to spirit power. After a careful cultivation session, it was two or three times faster than when he was B-grade!

No wonder the difference in talent can lead to such a huge difference in strength!

Bai Mo looked again, and good heavens, upgrading to the next level would require 1,000,000 source points! It directly increased tenfold!

Alas, it's a long and arduous journey! Bai Mo sighed. The freshman ranking competition was tomorrow... at that time, he should be able to earn a lot of source points!

Bai Mo felt that the freshman ranking competition should yield a large amount of source points.

Therefore, he had been diligently cultivating, resisting the urge to constantly stay in the secret realm to earn source points.

His current strength allowed him to enter only very small permanent secret realms, and the source points he earned were not much, ranging from 100-1000 per entry.

Bai Mo finished his cultivation and walked out of the small quiet room, seeing Wen Yu sitting in a chair with a cup of hot tea and a dessert in front of her.

"The freshman ranking competition is tomorrow, are you nervous?" Wen Yu was facing Bai Mo. Seeing him come out, she immediately showed a sweet smile: "Finished cultivating?"

"Yeah! It's alright, what's there to be nervous about... It's just a ranking, not a big deal, and it's not a life-or-death situation." Bai Mo nodded and naturally walked over to sit beside Wen Yu, then picked up a fork, dug a large piece from Wen Yu's already eaten dessert, and stuffed it into his mouth with an 'aww' sound.

"..." Wen Yu watched as two-thirds of her dessert instantly disappeared. The sparkle in her eyes immediately vanished, and the smile on her face stiffened.