After JoyBoy explained everything about his spirit ring and the conditions required to repeat the process, Grandmaster advised him to register in the Nuoding city spirit hall as a spirit master to get his monthly stipend of one gold from them.
He also advised JoyBoy that when asked about his spirit ring ability, he should just say that it amplifies his strength by 100% and it only affects him.
Grandmaster told him that first they till will go to the spirit hunting forest the next day and spend 2 days there so that everyone believes that he hinted his spirit ring there because they couldn't let anyone find out about his ability to get spirit ring without killing a spirit beast. After that he should get registered in the spirit hall as they just discussed.
They did everything according to their planning in the next few days before everything went back to the same monotonous routine for the rest of the year.
One big change which happened was the way students looked at him. Previously everyone just called him a cultivation maniac but after he got his first ring, everyone would look at him with respect.
Even though he didn't change his routine and still spent most of his time cultivating, he became a source of motivation for other students to try their best in cultivating, especially the working students.
The other big change was in the intensity of his daily workouts. After getting his spirit ring, he was a rank eleven spirit master as all of the remaining spirit power was used up in his spirit ring.
But he wasn't worried about his cultivation speed because he had noticed that after getting his spirit ring, the rate at which he absorbed spirit power from the Power Gem and the amount of spirit power absorbed had increased.
This made it so that the speed of his cultivation i.e. the speed at which he was moving towards the next rank had remained the same.
"Power Gem rocks!" he thought.
Of course he didn't know that this was because his martial spirit was sentient and assisting him in his cultivation. If it wasn't upset with him all that time, with all the cultivation he did, he would have already reached rank twenty four and become a two spirit ring spirit grandmaster.
He stopped increasing the sets of daily workouts after he reached 1000 per day and 100 Km run. He felt that anymore than that would start to affect his daily cultivation. Instead, he started increasing the speed at which, he was finshing his workouts.
He also started practicing the Tang sect movement technique and throwing technique he had memorized and learned after watching Tang San using them in the village snd in the village and in the spirit hunting forest.
He practiced them in the mountain at the back of the Nuoding academy, intially at his normal strength. Once he was satisfied with his mastery of the techniques, he started using them after increasing his strength using his spirit ring.
This way, he started getting used to his strength boost and become proficient in it upto 100 times amplification. He noticed that after boosting his strength, his other physical attributes would also increase but just enough to support his increased strength.
He was satisfied with this result and thought
"Thank goodness its not just increasing strength and leaving other physical attributes. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to use this skill to its full potential.
I don't want to end up like midoria and break my body every time I use my skill. I am not a masochist!"
He noticed that after his strength boost went past 100 times, his senses wouldn't be able to keep up even with the little boost they got indirectly as a result of the strength increase.
After his strength boost went past 150 times, everything would appear like a blur. He almost ended up hurting himself badly but luckily his wounds weren't that bad. He was completely healed after five days because of his spirit power and increased vitality.
Another important trick he learned as a result of this was just sitting down calmly and increase his strength upto 500 times. This would also indirectly increase his vitality which helped him heal faster.
One thing he had to make sure of after his strength was boosted past times 100 was to keep his breathing in constant control as he had accidentally caused powerful gales while he was training in the back mountain and that was only with 150 times strength boost when he was wounded.
Just like that time passed and his first year at Nuoding primary spirit master academy was over.