Chapter 5 Mycelium Development (1)
Notting College has a device to detect soul power. Every month, the college arranges for students to collectively test their soul power to prevent someone from making a breakthrough without knowing it.
The talent of innate fifth-level soul power is not low, but it is not high either.
Since Chi Ping learned the meditation method, he has been practicing diligently every day, doing morning exercises in the morning, attending classes in the morning, training his physical fitness and developing his martial soul in the afternoon, and cultivating his soul power in the evening.
At the beginning of school, Chi Ping's soul power test result was level five, and the test result six months later was level six.
At this rate, he will probably be promoted to a soul master in the third grade.
For ordinary people, this speed is considered fast, but Chi Ping is very dissatisfied.
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The ten people in Qishe are inseparable and spend most of their time together except in class.
The only one the students can't afford to offend is Wang Wen, and the other work-study students are soft persimmons who can be manipulated. Work-study students who are left alone will be "put in a sack". After being beaten, they don't even know who hit them.
The courses at Notting College are only arranged in the morning, and the afternoon is free time for activities and practice.
The work-study students returned to Qizhu after lunch.
Walk and eat while chatting.
——Wang Wen will graduate in half a year. There is only half a year left for stable development. If you don't find a way to push forward your cultivation progress, you will have to go through two full years of suffering! I didn’t come to this other world to be bullied. At least I have to be strong enough to protect myself before Wang Wen leaves!
“Today’s food is really good!”
"Yeah, it's really good! The big chicken drumstick is my favorite!"
"Is the principal getting rich? He suddenly added chicken legs to us."
"There are chicken legs to eat, so let's not care about him. Xiao Pingzi, do you think we can still eat chicken legs tomorrow?"
——The first test of mycelium can begin. If it succeeds, there will be great progress in both cultivation speed and real-time combat power.
"Xiao Pingzi?"
——But you still have to be cautious and don't make too much noise. It would be bad if the toilet collapses.
"Xiao Pingzi!"
"Huh? What's wrong, boss?" Chi Ping came back to his senses and looked at Wang Wen doubtfully.
Wang Wen repeated what he just said, and then asked, "What are you thinking about? You are so focused."
"Some cultivation issues."
"What's the problem?" Wang Wen said seriously.
"I feel that my soul power is improving a bit slowly, and I am thinking of ways to speed it up." Chi Ping said.
"That's right." Wang Wen suddenly realized, "However, the speed of training is related to talent, and you can't rush it. And Xiaopingzi, you have worked hard enough, but you can't increase the amount of training, otherwise your nutrition will not be able to keep up. On the contrary, it will delay the future.”
Chi Ping's heart warmed slightly, "I am sensible, boss."
Based on the superficial knowledge of work-study students, if you want to practice faster, you have to eat better and practice more. Those miraculous medicines, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, magical techniques... work-study students have no concept of these at all!
There are two ways for working-study students to get money. They are paid for completing chores arranged by the college, and Wang Wen can receive a gold soul coin as a soul master subsidy from the Wuhun Hall every month.
No one has the nerve to ask for Wang Wen's money. The salary from the college is only enough for daily life, so the daily nutrition of the work-study students is very limited. Increasing the amount of training under such conditions will really make you lose weight!
Wang Wen was still worried, "You have followed me these two days, and I have been watching you. I can't let you destroy yourself through training!"
Chi Ping smiled helplessly, "Boss, you know me well. I am a genius with innate fifth-level soul power. How could I do something that would destroy my future?"
Wang Wen clenched his fist with his right hand and smashed it into the palm of his left hand. "With the speed at which you improve one level in half a year, you will reach level ten in less than three years. You know, boss, it took me five years to be promoted to soul master! Why are you so anxious? "But boss, aren't you leaving? After you graduate, Xiao Chenyu and the others will definitely come for trouble. Brother Sheng can't defeat them, and our Qishe will be bullied again!"
Chi Ping's expression was very serious.
"I don't want to be bullied, and I want to protect everyone in Qishe from being bullied!"
We were classmates together. Although Qishe didn't carry a gun together, we had fights together. Chi Ping already recognized this group of friends!
The work-study students who had been listening to the conversation between Chi Ping and Wang Wen all laughed and looked at Wang Sheng with a teasing expression.
Xiao Wei, who was in the fourth grade, smiled and said, "Xiao Sheng, Xiao Pingzi wants to compete with you for the position of boss. Do you have any indication?"
Wang Sheng snorted, "Xiao Pingzi is the younger brother. The younger brother only needs to practice well under the protection of his elder brother. I will knock all those people down! I am a tiger, the king of beasts!"
"Yes, yes, you are the king of beasts! Then you have to work hard. Xiao Pingzi works very hard. If Xiao Pingzi surpasses you, you will be embarrassed."
"Absolutely not!" Wang Sheng said these words resoundingly.
After fighting and making noise all the way, the work-study students returned to Qisha.
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There is only one public toilet in Notting College, which is located in the southwest corner of the playground. It is very close to the area where the work-study students are active, separated by a four-meter-wide track and a small forest.
The sanitation problems of the entire school's teachers and students are solved here. There is sufficient manure and water, and the groves are growing extremely well.
Chi Ping stood on the playground lawn, feeling the weak energy continuously transmitted from the ground, and nodded with satisfaction.
——The preliminary development of mycelium is completed.
Under the unnoticed lawn, milky-white mycelium is intertwined, surrounding the cesspool under the public toilet, extending all the way to the playground, and is still expanding.
After research, Chi Ping found that summoning martial spirits does not consume mental power, or that the mental power consumed is so little that it is lower than the amount of recovery every moment.
Theoretically, as long as there is unlimited soul power, the martial soul can be summoned an unlimited number of times and maintained for an unlimited time.
However, the soul power of a soul master is limited, and the soul power that a soul master's spirit can control is also limited, so this theory does not hold true.
But what if there really is "infinite" soul power?
What is infinity?
Inexhaustible, inexhaustible, endless, or... recovery is greater than consumption, endless supply, endless life!
The decomposition ability of the fungus spirit is activated passively and does not require Chi Ping to control it. Therefore, as long as the mycelium created by Chi Ping using Wuhun can absorb enough nutrients to meet the consumption of existence, it is self-sufficient and can survive almost indefinitely.
However, the decomposition ability of fluorescent mushroom mycelium is limited, and the nutrients absorbed by decomposition are lower than the consumption of survival.
How to solve this problem?
Chi Ping couldn't improve Wuhun yet, so he thought of environment and cluster effects.
The swarming effect refers to the beneficial effects of organisms of the same species living together. Mycelium decomposes organic matter step by step. Multiple hyphae decompose the same substance and can cooperate with each other to improve absorption efficiency. The average efficiency of 10,000 hyphae decomposing organic matter will be much higher than the decomposition efficiency of one hyphae.
Suitability and environment may reduce the cost of maintaining hyphae.
Mycelium likes moisture and shade.
There are many places suitable for mycelial growth. Chi Ping went through many options and finally chose the toilet.
Feces contain trace elements needed for plant growth. Feces that have been digested by the human body are more easily decomposed by mycelium, and the feces in the toilet are replenished every day.
Chi Ping really couldn't think of a better environment than this.
The theory is feasible and experiments begin.
(End of chapter)