In a certain villa, Su Chen paced back and forth in his room. He picked up his phone, then put it down again, repeating the motion countless times.
The imposing aura he had when sending people to capture Lin Hao was gone; now he just seemed like a timid secret admirer, too afraid to send a message to Yue'er.
"Should I message her like this... or maybe like this..." He muttered, constantly typing out messages but finding none of them satisfactory.
After thinking for a long time, he finally sent a message.
Su Chen: Have you eaten yet?
Yue'er was wandering around the hospital looking for food. After Lin Hao was admitted, an acquaintance inside had contacted her.
Seeing a message from Su Chen, she frowned in confusion because he had never privately messaged her like this before.
Yue'er: ???
Receiving such a strange message made Yue'er feel utterly bewildered. Their relationship was just that of ordinary friends, not close enough to be asking about meals.
"There's no way he'd message me just to chat nonsense. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Yue'er muttered, her thoughts involuntarily turning to Lin Hao.
Su Chen: [Sent a video]
Yue'er didn't even need to open the video to see Lin Hao's picture in the thumbnail. Sure enough, worrying about something often brings it about.
"Damn it, if you're the one who put Lin Hao in the hospital, I'll skin you alive," Yue'er glared, murderous intent flaring.
So what if Su Chen had some status? Compared to her family, the Su family wasn't even worth mentioning.
She clicked on the video and heard Lin Hao's words of discouragement and resignation. Honestly, she had already sensed a bit of this feeling from him.
"You idiot, I like you. It seems I have to make things clear. Otherwise, that fool really will run away from me." Yue'er massaged her forehead and sighed, feeling a bit of a headache over Lin Hao's way of thinking.
Su Chen: See? He doesn't even have the confidence to believe he's worthy of you, so why bother with him?
Block!
Yue'er couldn't be bothered to listen to any more of Su Chen's nonsense and decisively blocked his account.
"Hmph, who I love doesn't need your guidance." She snorted coldly and went back to her own business.
On the other side, Su Chen's face turned pale, then green; he seemed to have lost all his strength.
"No, no, no. Why is it like this? She... she blocked me?"
He felt like crying but had no tears, collapsing onto the expensive sofa.
Now he didn't even have the courage to pick up his phone again. All his efforts, his clever plan, had backfired.
"I don't believe it! I must still have a chance. Once we're at Eastern Wind University, she won't have any opportunities to see Lin Hao. The long-term advantage still belongs to me."
Thinking of his own cultivation talent, Su Chen straightened up.
A surge of confidence filled his mind. He felt he could do it!
...
After receiving basic cultivation education from Daotian, Lin Hao was now eager to start practicing immediately.
"So, what are you going to do to increase my cultivation talent?" Lin Hao said, his impatience clearly showing.
"Calm down, calm down. Strictly speaking, it's not increasing your talent, but rather me sharing my ability with you, because now we can be considered as one entity," Daotian explained.
Lin Hao frowned, not fully understanding the meaning.
"Do you think I'm just stuck to your hand? The connection between us is much tighter. I have a way to indirectly share my affinity with spiritual energy with you," Daotian continued.
"What exactly does that mean? You're making it more confusing," Lin Hao said.
"Watch my demonstration and you'll understand," Daotian said.
He clapped his hands together, then pulled them apart, creating a transparent sphere as if made of water.
He threw the sphere forward, and it quickly enlarged to a size where a person could comfortably fit inside.
"Not done yet," Daotian said, his hands beginning to form mysterious seals.
Inside the transparent sphere, changes gradually occurred. Something translucent flickered in and out of sight, becoming clearer and clearer.
This was something he had just obtained earlier; he hadn't learned anything like it before.
Before Lin Hao could react, Daotian was already staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed into the sphere.
"How is this possible? This density of natural spiritual energy..." he muttered, then closed his eyes to focus his spirit.
Through the sensations transmitted by the sphere, he probed upwards towards the sky and downwards into the earth.
'This is strange. Spiritual energy should be distributed everywhere in the world. The range has shrunk significantly, only a short distance below the ground and a few thousand meters at the highest point. Moreover, why is the density of natural spiritual energy so concentrated?' Daotian pondered silently, trying to understand the current situation.
"Is something wrong?" Lin Hao frowned, sensing that something seemed off.
'It seems this world is supporting humans to cultivate faster. Compared to that space, it's far more excessive here. I couldn't cultivate, so I didn't sense this strangeness initially. Doesn't this mean Lin Hao has a higher chance of reaching the peak of the Great Ascension stage?'
The more he thought, the brighter the future seemed. The possibility of him reaching that dream realm felt closer and closer.
"No, nothing's wrong. This is good, extremely good. Hahahaha!" Daotian burst out laughing.
Seeing him like this, Lin Hao felt inexplicably much more at ease. His future on the cultivation path might not be so bad after all.
"Do you see that hazy substance inside? That's spiritual power I've gathered—extremely dense spiritual power. Because we are linked, you can directly use that spiritual power. Effectively, your cultivation ability now is slightly higher than someone with low-grade talent," Daotian analyzed.