B2 - Chapter 11: Young

B2 - Chapter 11: Young

He didn’t hesitate to use it.

[-150 Spiritual Energy]

Name: Mei Lingxi

Age: 19

Level: 186

Cultivation: Foundation Establishment (Late Stage)

Health: 2900/2900

Spiritual Energy: 2290/2290

Spirit: 458

Strength: 273

Stamina: 327

Agility: 302

Mei Lingxi’s relaxed expression was broken as her sharp gaze met his eyes. She sensed it, obviously. But he didn’t regret his decision. In fact, he wanted to see her Luck, too.

[The skill Detailed Observe is not available on target]

[The cost to use Detailed Observe is 600 Spiritual Energy]

William wasn’t too surprised it wasn’t possible. The cost to do so had always been four times Observe, but he had some hope it wouldn’t carry since the initial cost was already so great. Still, it gave him an idea of the value of Mei Lingxi’s Luck attribute.

More than Li Xinyue’s two hundred, at the very least.

It made sense to him that the greater the cultivation, the greater the Luck since they likely influenced how far a cultivator reached on their path to immortality.

Leaving that aside, the thing that stuck out the most from Mei Lingxi’s information was her age. He had been under the impression that she was much older, mainly because he thought Lan Yin, his senior sister who was also a sentinel, was an older cultivator.

William couldn’t, for his life, remember why he had thought Lan Yin was much older, but it caused him to apply that thinking to Mei Lingxi. How they had spoken to each other like rivals led him to that conclusion.

Now that he knew Mei Lingxi was under twenty, it likely meant that Lan Yin was around the same age. It also explained why the Grand Elder thought so highly of her.

“I’m not,” she said, “I would have preferred you if you just asked me, but it isn’t a big deal.”

That was good. William found a silver lining to the Grand Elder acknowledging that Observe was a type of divination skill. He could do what Mei Lingxi just mentioned. Ask the older disciples if they could allow him to use Observe to gather more data on the most popular point allocation cultivators preferred.

That way, he would be able to see if ordinary cultivators had different allocations compared to ‘elite’ or ‘genius’ cultivators. Before allocating his unused points to the attributes, he wanted all the information possible.

“Well?” Mei Lingxi prodded, “Are you going to tell me?”

William decided to be vague but still truthful. “You’re really young, under twenty years old. And you’re in the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.”

Mei Lingxi stared. “That’s it?”

“Well, no,” William admitted, “I can tell the amount of Qi you have and your strengths, but I don’t know how to compare it to others since you are the first cultivator not in the Qi Gathering Realm I tried it on.”

“Then what about yourself?” Mei Lingxi asked curiously, “Not your normal state, but when you activated your martial skill. You took care of those two trespassers with little issue even though I was having trouble.”

He wondered when this question would come up. She didn’t last for long when they were finally alone.

“My strength would be twenty-five percent above yours. The same applies to my speed,” William told her the truth, “But you would still have far more Qi than I could imagine.”

“Amazing,” Mei Lingxi sighed, “I knew the sect values you. It’s obvious with how much attention Elder Yu gave you, and even more so when the Grand Elder, but I didn’t know it went as far as to give you such a broken martial skill. It must be an Earth-tier, at the minimum.”

He felt his pride stoked to higher levels as she praised his Force Multiplier.

“Nobody gave me that martial skill, Sister Lingxi,” William said smugly, “I created Force Multiplier myself in the Shard.”

There was a blur before he found himself staring into Mei Lingxi’s eyes at a much closer distance. She had moved her chair directly next to his, and her hands were placed on his shoulders to stop him from moving away.

He felt like he was being stared at by a dragon. One that was filled with greed.

“The more I learn about you, the more impressed I am, Young Master,” Mei Lingxi’s voice had no hint of teasing like it usually did, “I hope you know to keep this to yourself.”

William nodded rapidly. Elder Yu had told him the same, but Mei Lingxi wasn’t just anybody. She was his attendant for the foreseeable future, and they were in the heart of the Jade Healing Sect’s power, where he had support directly from the top. He saw no harm in telling her.

“Good,” a stunning smile formed on her lips, “So, when will you teach me this Force Multiplier.”

The door to the room opened, conveniently stopping him from answering.

“Excuse-” Su Qinglian stopped, giving them a strange look, “I apologize for interrupting, but Elder Yu has requested Junior Wei Liang to meet her outside.”

Mei Lingxi didn’t bat an eye at being caught in an odd position and stood from her chair. “Thank you. My Young Master will leave immediately.”