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Nutritious meal?
Su Wen listened to Xiao Zhan's explanation and learned that it was specially made by the academy's food-system Spirit Masters. It included food made using spirit skills, which contained gentler energy that was more easily digested by Spirit Masters.
"Isn't this pretty much the same as Old Jack's sweet potatoes?" Su Wen thought.
However, upon closer comparison, there were still some differences.
Although both involved the rapid integration of nutrition for Spirit Masters, Old Jack's sweet potatoes were supplementary in nature, while the academy's nutritious meals were developmental.
To put it simply, Old Jack's sweet potatoes were better for recovery after a Spirit Master had expended a great deal of energy. The academy's nutritious meals, however, were convenient for a Spirit Master to absorb after eating in order to cultivate spirit power.
Old Jack's Little Sweet Potatoes did have a promoting effect on Su Wen's cultivation, but it wasn't the merit of the sweet potatoes themselves. Rather, the sweet potatoes complemented his external techniques, which in turn, due to the relationship between his external and internal techniques, created a chain reaction, thereby achieving the effect of accelerating his cultivation.
After trying the nutritious meal and feeling the rich, gentle energy continuously and autonomously integrating into his body, Su Wen made a judgment: "If I have the nutritious meal as support, plus Old Jack's Little Sweet Potatoes, my cultivation speed will likely be thirty percent faster than my normal cultivation."
His calculations were constantly evolving.
Back in New Moon Village, cultivating both internally and externally with the aid of the Little Sweet Potatoes, his cultivation speed was already fifty percent faster than his conventional cultivation. Without the sweet potatoes, it was thirty percent faster.
Now, he considered cultivating both internally and externally without external aids as his "normal" cultivation. On top of this baseline, the Little Sweet Potatoes and the nutritious meal should be able to provide him with an additional thirty percent cultivation speed.
This was the importance of resources.
Using food made by food-system Spirit Masters to complement one's cultivation could yield twice the results with half the effort.
Of course, food-system Spirit Masters who possessed this kind of spirit skill were inevitably hot commodities. They would be guests of honor in any faction.
"And then there's the library."
After finishing his meal, Su Wen roughly assessed the nutritious meal's effects and headed for the library.
Factoring in the effects of mimicry cultivation...
Su Wen didn't even dare to imagine it.
His cultivation speed would far surpass that of Spirit Masters with the same spiritual power and spirit quality as him. The gap would be at least double.
If compared only to ordinary Spirit Masters with the same spirit quality, the gap would be even greater.
It could be said that under all these enhancements, Su Wen's cultivation speed would be no less than any genius.
Of course, those with "cheats" didn't count.
"My internal and external techniques are still awaiting perfection; their effects can hopefully be improved further. The efficiency of mimicry cultivation can also be increased..."
Mimicry cultivation, in the end, was just simulation. Its fundamental principles had not yet been fully utilized. The visualization method Su Wen wanted to develop wouldn't just replicate the mimicry environment's cultivation effect.
After replicating the mimicry environment and breaking free from its physical limitations, the visualization method could be improved even further.
The environment is immutable.
But the visualization method can be perfected. It can be taken a step further!
Su Wen's growth had never been about just coasting on his innate aptitude. It was about constantly creating new conditions, relentlessly raising the upper limit of his cultivation speed.
The Library.
"Hello, Teacher. I've come to the library to cultivate."
"Mm. Register your information."
Su Wen registered his information with the administrator, then began to select a suitable cultivation spot within the library.
"In this entire library, this place is still the most suitable for me." Arriving at the 'Miscellaneous Books' section, Su Wen frowned.
He didn't quite understand why his spirit's activity was highest and his cultivation efficiency fastest when he was here.
Still, this was a good thing.
"The 'miscellaneous books' give a greater boost to my spirit cultivation. This means the effect of mimicry cultivation in the academy library is definitely even better than in the Spirit Holy Temple's library."
Sitting cross-legged in the spot that felt optimal, Su Wen began to refine the gentle energy within his body.
"Food-system Spirit Masters are very special. They actually provide energy that is 'half-transformed' heaven-and-earth energy."
With his experience from the Little Sweet Potatoes, the addition of the nutritious meal, and the enhanced perception from his second spirit skill, Su Wen had gained a preliminary understanding of the energy within food made by food-system spirits.
"So-called food-system Spirit Masters actually activate their spirit skills, using the heaven-and-earth energy as 'ingredients' to create food and imbue it with special effects."
His thoughts began to diverge, and he started to ponder and refine this new knowledge he had uncovered.
"No, that's not right. It should be that a small portion of food-system Spirit Masters have special spirit skills that work this way."
"Food-system spirit skills that can convert heaven-and-earth energy, refining it to a certain degree, are rare. The majority of food-system spirit skills use the Spirit Master's own spirit power as the ingredient, imbuing that spirit power with a characteristic to achieve various effects."
Food made from those rare 'heaven-and-earth energy-converting' skills, if their characteristics are compatible, are top-tier spirit skills that can assist other Spirit Masters in their cultivation.
The majority, which convert their own spirit power, are the norm. Although they also have wondrous effects, they are, in the end, slightly inferior.
Of course, regardless of whether they possessed a top-tier skill, every food-system Spirit Master was a hot commodity. Su Wen was just judging them from the specific viewpoint of their utility in assisting other Spirit Masters' cultivation.
This new knowledge was refined by Su Wen at high speed, deduced by him bit by bit in a scientific manner.
"My thoughts seem to be flowing more smoothly."
The spirit power in Su Wen's body was still circulating. He had long since completed the 'grand cycle' of his internal technique. Even if his mind was distracted with thoughts, he could still circulate his spirit power instinctively.
"Cultivating in this mimicry environment... my thoughts seem to be enhanced as well."
This wasn't an issue with the mimicry cultivation method itself; rather, Su Wen's mimicry cultivation was strengthening his Book Spirit.
Knowledge!
A book is what carries knowledge, records knowledge, and acquires knowledge.
Moreover, Su Wen discovered that not only were his thoughts smoother and more agile in this state, but he also gained a cultivation boost.
Dividing his attention to think actually made his cultivation slightly faster.
"Perhaps... this could be called another form of mimicry cultivation."
Or, to be more precise, while in the mimicry environment, "acting" as his spirit, aligning as closely as possible with the spirit's functional characteristics, was also part of mimicry cultivation.
"Mimicry cultivation isn't just about the environment; it's also about attuning to the spirit."
The Acting Method.
Su Wen began to try and think.
He wasn't just deducing new knowledge; he was testing whether the process of learning and accepting new knowledge would grant him a buff.
"It does!"
He then tried pure thinking.
His knowledge didn't increase, nor did it deepen, but Su Wen just kept thinking.
"There's a slight effect, but not much."
Trying again and again, Su Wen began to summarize the scope of the "Acting Method" within mimicry cultivation.
"If this is the case, it's not exactly good news for me."
Learning is endless, but there would inevitably be times when Su Wen ran out of new ideas.
He just learned things too quickly.
For the first time, he felt that learning quickly wasn't such a wonderful thing.
"I'll try... reviewing."
Reviewing old knowledge to gain new insights, as they say.
(End of this chapter)