Only My Way

【Snowdeer Province Prodigy Rankings – Sixth place.】

【White Mist Nation Prodigy Rankings – Ninety-fourth place.】

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Staring at this ranking, the young girl immediately fell silent.

The entire 【White Mist Nation】 consisted of twenty-one large provinces, and 【Snowdeer Province】 was one of the stronger ones.

Whether it was the abundance of resources, land area, population size, development status… it was all in the upper-middle tier.

Therefore, the 【Snowdeer Province】's 【Prodigy Rankings】 had always been overflowing with people.

Those who could barely make it onto the local 【Prodigy Rankings】 in weaker provinces were often far behind here, only able to rank in the hundredth or two-hundredth place as backup material.

This was also the main reason why Ling Wuyuan, after ranking sixth in the 【Snowdeer Province – Province Rankings】, could rank ninety-fourth in the 【White Mist Nation – National Rankings】.

If the strength of each province was truly similar.

He would probably rank outside the top hundred, becoming one of the 【National Rankings】' reserve members.

Of course, the overall strength of 【Snowdeer Province】 being relatively strong didn't mean much to casual cultivators who were just passing through.

After all, the vast majority of resources were in the hands of various forces.

This directly made the situation faced by the various casual cultivators even worse.

There was no way around it, the gap between the strength of individuals and groups was even greater.

This meant that it was truly difficult for the self-employed casual cultivators to snatch various benefits.

One. No numbers.

Two. No discipline.

Three. No strength.

Damn it!

And this made Ling Wuyuan's successful climb onto the rankings as a casual cultivator even more impressive.

After all, even if he was able to get to where he was today, even if the so-called mysterious inheritance truly had an indelible contribution.

But… for the various large forces, wasn't the so-called inheritance a standard configuration from the start?

What was so strange about it?

They even came with famous teachers and the most professional elixir configurations, did casual cultivators have that?

Obviously not at all.

This group of wildlings could only dream about it.

To put it bluntly.

Even if they were lucky enough to obtain the so-called inheritance.

Whether or not they could understand the inheritance and comprehend its mysteries was another matter entirely.

The vast majority of casual cultivators were at most a group of second-rate goods who could barely read and write.

They had all their stat points allocated to martial force.

Of course.

Due to the scarcity of points, even if they allocated all their skill points to martial force, they would still be half-baked…

In short.

1. Insufficient strength.

2. No culture.

3. Scarce resources.

4. Poor connections.

5. Shallow inheritance.

……

This was the true reality for the vast majority of casual cultivators!

Even if the opportunity was placed in front of them, they might only be able to scratch their heads in frustration.

This was also the main reason why the various local large forces in Snowdeer Province had always looked down on the various casual cultivators.

They were truly just a rabble.

However.

The results that Ling Wuyuan displayed made it impossible to equate him with other casual cultivators.

That was overwhelming talent…

What was the concept of 【Qi Nourishment Realm】 at only fourteen years old?

This meant that Ling Wuyuan could easily rank in the top ten, top five, or even the top three in the entire 【Snowdeer Province】's recent thousand-year history.

Even if those who were born into large sects and large families, who could enjoy various medicines from the moment they were in their mother's womb, were included, it was still the same.

It must be understood that 99.999% of the cultivators in this world, even if they cultivated for a lifetime, spending hundreds of years, would basically only be able to wander around in the 【Body Refinement Four Realms】…

Ling Wuyuan's fourteen years old, for them, had absolute crushing power!

A crushing power that made them want to go crazy with jealousy!!

As for Ling Wuyuan being able to easily crush his opponents of the same level twice without injury, that further illustrated that he was not someone who only possessed the realm.

The two leaders of the 【Crimson Fire Bandits】, although they were only insignificant small fries in the eyes of the various large sects.

But the fact that they could continue to live freely for decades while a bounty was on their heads, without needing much thought, meant that they must have personally killed a large number of 【Qi Nourishment Realm Cultivators】, and were definitely true combat experts among their peers. Even cultivators of the same realm from large sects might not be able to win against such vicious people!

'A great enemy…'

'The senior sisters have another opponent…'

After lightly sucking in a breath of cool air with a grin.

Without much hesitation, the young girl quickly thought with a serious expression:

'Born into poverty, yet still able to successfully emerge… a peerless genius who became famous overnight…'

'I imagine it will immediately attract the attention of many, many people.'

After thinking about it.

She looked at the sentence said by the 【Ranking People】 of the 【News Report】 who specialized in ranking the 【Prodigy Rankings】 – 【He should have a bigger stage.】 and felt a heartfelt sense of emotion.

It was as if she saw a rising star.

Then.

The young girl turned to recall her own cultivation homework for the day.

For a moment.

She actually felt a sense of discouragement!

Clearly, the other party was only one or two years older than her.

But she, who had been cultivating martial arts since she was eight years old, had only barely reached the 【Strengthening Blood Realm】 last month.

According to the saying that each realm was more difficult than the last.

When she was the same age as Ling Wuyuan, she estimated that she would still be wandering back and forth in the 【Strengthening Blood Realm】, and wanting to successfully reach the 【Fortifying Organs Realm】 would probably be an extremely difficult task…

'Damn it!'

'I should at least be considered a genius with excellent talent, right? How is the gap so big…'

However, soon, the young girl rekindled her burning competitive spirit:

“I will be able to make a name for myself one day as well!”

“I’ve decided, starting today, I will increase my daily cultivation time by four hours, cultivating for fourteen hours a day!!”

It was also at the moment when she had just made her bold statement.

Another rather surprised voice sounded.

“Oh?”

“So hardworking?”

“So self-aware?”

“In that case, I will have to find someone to supervise you!”

The speaker was a beautiful long-haired woman who appeared to be about thirty years old.

Wearing a blue fitted long dress, although her face was beautiful, her skin was fair, and her temperament was elegant and mature.

But at this moment, she did not have any sense of solemnity.

When she spoke, there was a clear smile on her face.

Accompanying her slow walk, her waist-length black smooth hair was also gently fluttering behind her, making people unable to resist taking a few more glances.

And behind her was a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years old, with ice-blue long hair and ice-blue eyes. Although her face was a few points more beautiful than the former, her expression was even more indifferent and cold, completely lacking any gentleness. Coupled with her ice-blue waist-length hair and incomparably fair skin, she was simply like a perfect ice sculpture. Even, faintly, one could see strands of cold air permeating around her…

The moment she saw the two people.

The young girl who had just made her bold statement immediately changed her expression and decisively changed her words:

“Master, you misheard me!!”

“I didn’t say anything just now!!”

What was the concept of cultivating for fourteen hours a day?

The answer was that there was a wonderful feeling of corvée laborers working hard under the scorching sun and the whips of the overseers to build the Great Wall.

Cultivation itself was something that required concentrated attention.

Sometimes it also required intense exercise and continuous circulation of qi and blood.

It was by no means an easy thing!

Ordinary people would feel mentally and physically exhausted after continuously cultivating for five or six hours a day, consuming almost all of their physical and mental strength.

And fourteen hours a day.

Was truly equivalent to building the Great Wall while being whipped, it was a very life-shortening thing…