"By the way, how about your talent?" Lu Ye turned to ask. 520 Official Website
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Although from Yu Xiaodie's expression, it was clear that her talent wasn't too bad, Lu Ye couldn't help but want to compare. He needed to know just how poor his talent was, which had led to the third senior brother's drastically different words before and after.
Yu Xiaodie was holding her jade token. Upon hearing Lu Ye's words, she instinctively pulled it back. This wasn't because she wanted to hide anything, but rather she didn't want to打击Lu Ye too much.
Lu Ye teased, "Do you look down on me? Men, this kind of creature, the more they are hit, the more spirited they become!"
Yu Xiaodie said helplessly, "Big Brother Lu, do you really want to see?"
Lu Ye smiled, "Since the result is already out, it won't be that bad, right?"
Yu Xiaodie thought for a moment and said, "You're right, Big Brother Lu is truly a carefree person." She looked at him with admiration.
Since Lu Ye had said so much, how could she refuse? The information on the jade token wasn't something that couldn't be shown to others.
She extended her hand and handed her jade token to Lu Ye.
Lu Ye took it and looked closely. On the side facing him was Yu Xiaodie's name. He flipped it over to the other side, where her elemental attribute was written, a single character for wood. It seemed that Yu Xiaodie's primary element was wood, and below the wood character was a number.
"Thirty-eight?"
Lu Ye was a bit stunned. This was... a bit different from what he had expected.
He asked, "But Yu Xiaojie, how can it be thirty-eight? Isn't the highest number eight?"
He remembered clearly that there were only eight saplings on the disk. How could there be a ridiculous number like thirty-eight?
"The highest is sixty-four." Yu Xiaodie was a bit confused by Lu Ye's words and started to count on her fingers, muttering, "Eight trees, eight leaves each, that's sixty-four, right? Theoretically, the highest talent is sixty-four leaves."
Lu Ye looked up at her, his eyes slowly losing their luster...
Yu Xiaodie was startled and called out softly, "Big Brother Lu? Are you okay?"
Just a moment ago, he was saying that men become more spirited the more they are hit. How could he be so affected now?
She blamed herself for showing him her jade token.
"Cheer up, Big Brother Lu."
"Let me have a moment!" Lu Ye waved his hand at her, looking up at the sky with a blank expression.
He finally understood. The single character on the back of his jade token didn't represent a sapling, but a leaf on a sapling!
In the talent test, each sapling could produce eight leaves, with a total of eight saplings, making the maximum sixty-four leaves.
Yu Xiaodie's thirty-eight meant that in the talent test, she had made the saplings produce thirty-eight leaves, while he had only one leaf, not one sapling!
Lu Ye was truly hit hard.
He had already lowered his expectations as much as possible, but in the end, he realized that his lowest expectation was nothing at all.
Being at the bottom of the eight levels was completely different from being at the bottom of the sixty-four levels.
"Big Brother Lu..." Yu Xiaodie looked at him with concern, feeling that Lu Ye was enveloped in a grayish aura, all his previous vitality gone. "Although talent is important, it doesn't represent everything. Big Brother Lu, I once heard a saying, 'Heaven rewards diligence...'"
"But you must have also heard, 'Heaven is impartial and treats all things as straw dogs...'"
"Huh?" Yu Xiaodie felt something was off.
Lu Ye took a deep breath and recovered. Although he was still a bit uncomfortable, as he had said, the result was already out, so he could only face it calmly.
Besides, he still had the talent tree!
Even if his talent wasn't high, this magical talent tree should be able to make up for it.
"Tell me, what is the basis for testing talent?" Lu Ye asked. Although he had tested himself in the tent, he didn't know the specifics of how it was done, as he had kept his eyes closed throughout the process.
Yu Xiaodie didn't explain immediately but looked at him seriously.
There was still obvious concern in her eyes. Lu Ye smiled, "I'm really fine."
Yu Xiaodie sighed and said, "Since Big Brother Lu wants to know, I'll tell you what I know."
She immediately explained the principles of the array and the testing process.
Lu Ye understood: "So, it means that it's very difficult for me to absorb spiritual energy into my body, which is why my talent is low?" He couldn't help but recall his own experience during the test, where the external spiritual energy tried to enter his body but couldn't, causing him pain all over.
Yu Xiaodie nodded, "Exactly."
"I see!" Lu Ye understood, but then had another question, "But what does this prove? How can you determine a person's talent based on these phenomena? Yu Xiaojie, don't misunderstand, I'm not concerned about my low talent; I just want to know the reason."
Seeing his determined expression, Yu Xiaodie couldn't help but laugh and cry, patiently explaining, "Does Big Brother Lu know what cultivators rely on to become stronger?"
Lu Ye said, "Taking spirit pills, absorbing spiritual energy, refining essence into qi, and using spirit stones?"
"Exactly." Yu Xiaodie nodded, "But the main methods are absorbing spiritual energy and using spirit stones. The other two are just auxiliary. If it's difficult to absorb external spiritual energy, the cultivation efficiency will naturally be low, and the talent will be low. With the same time and resources, cultivators with high talent can open more spirit orifices, and their future achievements will naturally be higher. Since Big Brother Lu has already opened a spirit orifice, I'm sure you've felt the difficulty of cultivation."
Lu Ye thought back to his days in the mine, eating blood qi pills every day and refining essence into qi, feeling himself gradually become stronger. It didn't seem very difficult, and it was even a bit... enjoyable?
Yu Xiaodie said that cultivators mainly rely on absorbing spiritual energy and using spirit stones, while taking spirit pills and refining essence into qi are auxiliary methods. But it seemed he had it the other way around.
He felt something was off and asked, "Yu Xiaojie, how long did it take you to fill your first spirit orifice after opening it?"
If he had a direct comparison, he could judge his own cultivation efficiency. He didn't think his talent was that low.
"About twenty days or so." Yu Xiaodie replied. She didn't ask about Lu Ye's situation because she thought it would hit him again.
With a talent of one leaf, it would probably take several months to fill the first spirit orifice, even with the help of spirit pills.
Because of Lu Ye's previous kindness in saving her, she still felt grateful towards him. The more she looked at him, the more she felt sorry for him...
Sure enough, after she said that, Lu Ye was stunned, muttering, "Twenty days?"
Yu Xiaodie quickly said, "Big Brother Lu, our situations are different. I was taken by a disciple of the Evil Moon Valley, who probably wanted to use me to cultivate some evil technique. She helped me open my spirit orifice and gave me a spirit-nourishing pill, which is why I was able to fill my spirit orifice in about twenty days."
This was the cultivation speed with the help of a spirit pill?
Lu Ye, on the other hand, had been eating the cheapest blood qi pills. From opening his orifice to filling it, it had only taken about ten days, which was even faster than Yu Xiaodie's.