Chapter 87: Soul Avatar

Chapter 87: Soul Avatar

There were multiple sources from which people in this world were able to gain levels, and Evelyn was well aware of most of them.

The first one was a passive acquisition of energy that naturally flowed into their bodies with time. This meant that the older someone was, the more experience they would acquire simply by existing. This was how most non-cultivators gained their levels, and it was how most people who leveled up before they even acquired their cultivation technique got their 'experience' or 'energy'.

Of course, this 'passive trickle' also varied from person to person. A human with a regular body would have a much lower rate of acquiring experience like this naturally than someone with a spirit physique. This was why most of the commoner children that Evelyn had encountered on her way to the ancient academy were still level one.

Aside from their inherent advantages in cultivating and progressing later on, this 'early start' that the children with spirit physiques got was also a great cause of envy among the commoners.

As someone got higher up the levels, however, and their cultivation advanced, they would soon realize that the passive trickle actually didn't matter that much, and what mattered much more was the experience they harvested from the world using their cultivation technique.

And this was where the grade of the cultivation technique, as well as their comprehension of its core principles, came into play.

Although her system showed her the actual grade of the cultivation techniques, and the academy classified them as such too, Evelyn knew that they were commonly separated by ranks.

Her red mission rewards, for example, were separated into three categories one from grade one to three, one from grade four to six, and the last one from grade seven to nine. The cultivation techniques in these three categories were generally referred to as rank B, rank A and rank S cultivation techniques, respectively.

There was an even lower grade of cultivation techniques, rank C.

These categorizations weren't meaningless, they existed to make it easy to know at a glance what the 'peak' point of the cultivation technique was.

A rank C cultivation technique would allow one to become a rank C ranger at most, which meant that realistically, that person would never be able to exceed level seventy in their lifetime.

This meant that not only would their rate of growth be slower, but the limits of their growth would also be lower. Considering all this, Evelyn knew how enviable she was to be able to acquire a grade nine cultivation technique one of the best even among rank S.

However, she already knew all of this.

The reason she was shocked, was because this grade nine cultivation technique, which was already the very best among those in rank S allowed her to further increase her efficiency of acquiring experience through cultivation.

If she cultivated normally using 'Searing Soul', or another cultivation technique of the same grade, the rate at which she would 'acquire' experience would be around forty to fifty experience points in a day.Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

But now was not the right time for Evelyn to ask such questions, and she knew that very well.

Aurora, who had completely ignored Cecilia's previous questions, much to the ash blonde's shock actually took the initiative to approach Evelyn. "How was your 'vision'? Did everything go well?"

Cecilia could only lament in her heart. 'Really! The inheritors are treated quite differently from us lowly plebs! Hmph. I'm gonna have to annoy her at least twice as much as revenge!'

If Aurora knew what the girl was thinking, she would surely feel a little wronged. Didn't she treat everyone the same? Where was this 'discrimination' that this girl kept thinking about?

Fortunately, she was too focused on Evelyn to bother guessing Cecilia's thoughts.

Evelyn didn't think she should let Aurora know exactly what happened in the visions. It might make things quite awkward, after all.

But when she thought about the fact that there had been others who had previously used this array to learn the same cultivation technique, even if Aurora didn't already know about it now, which was already unlikely, she might know of it in the future.

So knowingly concealing it would just make things more awkward between them.

Evelyn cleared her throat before deciding to just come clean. "My vision was about the headmistress"

Aurora nodded, not looking very surprised, and Evelyn was relieved in her heart. Thankfully, she didn't try to lie. Even if Aurora didn't mind at that time, she would have felt a little awkward, and it might create needless distrust between the two of them.

As someone she was probably going to be 'learning' from, Evelyn thought it would be quite detrimental to her growth.

Evelyn continued recounting a little of what she went through in her vision, and Aurora didn't interrupt her much, other than clarifying a few of the past events that Evelyn hadn't been quite sure of such as the invasion of the spirit lands, as well as what the courtyard of spirits was. The latter was a topic of great interest to Evelyn, considering it seemed to be the source of the headmistress knowing about the lotus throne.

"This courtyard of spirits is?"

Aurora waved her hand as a 'map' of what Evelyn assumed to be the continent they were in appeared in the air formed from sparkling particles.

Considering that all the maps Evelyn had been able to find so far were heavily localized to just certain limited zones, and even then did not contain much information, she knew how terrifyingly valuable the information in front of her was.

Aurora pointed to one corner of the map as it lit up brighter than the others. "This is the area that is commonly referred to as the 'Spirit Lands', a holy land for the spirit beasts, and the group of beasts who rule over it call themselves the 'Courtyard of Spirits'. In the past, it was led by an old fox, but she already passed away when I was but a child."