Lina Sinclair was feeling a bit strange right now.
It was an indescribable feeling, like an invisible giant hand gently caressing her body.
It was like getting a full-body massage, making her feel warm and comfortable all over.
This was an experience she had never had before when meditating.
Unfortunately, this experience didn't last too long.
Lina opened her eyes in a daze and saw a slightly pale face.
"Alex.." Lina subconsciously called out in a low voice.
Immediately after, the boy's body swayed and fell straight down.
Lina hurriedly stretched out her hands in a fluster and pulled him into her arms.
"I misjudged.."
'Hmm, quite soft'
Smelling the faint fragrance from the tip of his nose and feeling the soft melons, Alex murmured in a low voice.
"What misjudgment?" Lina was a bit confused. She hadn't figured out what exactly had happened, but seeing Alex's unsteady appearance, her eyes couldn't help but show a few traces of worry.
"You didn't have a heart attack, did you?" Lina suddenly remembered Alex's old illness. She abruptly stood up, and the posture of holding the boy also changed accordingly, turning into a princess carry.
It's just that the roles of the two were swapped.
Lina was surprised to find that her strength had become quite frightening at this moment. Holding a peer didn't feel strenuous at all.
It was as if she had taken a super strength pill.
But the girl didn't have time to think too much. She hurriedly walked towards the stairwell, intending to carry Alex downstairs like this.
With their current posture appearing on campus, their photos would probably go viral in the class group chats the next day.
But Lina didn't care.
At this moment, the boy's faint voice came from her arms.
"No, just let me rest for a bit and I'll be fine"
Alex was a bit dazed at this moment. He really couldn't figure out how he, a Great Deity cultivator, was almost drained by a little girl who hadn't even started Qi Refining...
Although his current spiritual power was less than one-millionth of his peak.
But that was still enough to be comparable to a Golden Core stage cultivator!
It was no exaggeration to say that in this Dharma-ending era on Earth, he was the only immortal.
However, this could explain why the spirit-gathering formation he casually set up on the field at noon couldn't let Lina enter Qi Refining.
If even he himself was almost drained, how could a small formation compare?
That's why Alex said he had misjudged.
Perhaps it was due to the lack of spiritual power or the incompleteness of his spiritual platform that caused him to misjudge Lina's talent.
After all, he had only taken a casual glance.
'This little girl is indeed a genius'
"Are you really okay?" Lina lowered her head to look at him. The distance between the two was pulled very close, and they could even feel each other's breath.
That breath was warm and hot, hitting Lina's face, making her blush slightly.
Alex heard the concern in her words and shook his head.
"You can put me down now"
Hearing this, Lina seemed to finally react to something. Her face turned bright red in an instant, and that strand of hair stood up high.
But she still forcibly suppressed her embarrassment and didn't hurry to move.
She first carefully put Alex down, then took the initiative to hold his arm and support him to the side.
After doing all this, Lina felt her cheeks burning hot, as if there was a fire burning.
Even her whole body felt like it was burning up.
Her heart was also pounding rapidly. She didn't know if Alex had a heart attack, but she knew that at this heart rate, she was about to have one herself.
Alex saw her nervousness and gently comforted, "It's okay, I won't pursue the fact that you took advantage of me"
Hearing this, Lina's eyebrows shot up, and the embarrassment in her eyes dissipated a lot.
She glared at him fiercely, but it had a unique charm.
"Obviously I was the one being taken advantage of by you!" The girl cried out, sounding a bit aggrieved.
Lina: 'What the heck is going on?! How can this person shift the blame?'
Alex withdrew his hand, not wanting to dwell too much on this matter with her.
He changed the subject and said, "How do you feel now?"
Lina was stunned when she heard this.
She forced herself to calm down and carefully sensed it.
This time, unlike on the field at noon, she could clearly feel a strand of spiritual power as thick as a fingernail flowing through her meridians.
Thinking of the series of strange sensations that had just occurred, when she looked up at Alex again, her beautiful eyes were filled with brilliance.
"Did I... break through?"
She asked, still a bit uncertain.
Lina had heard her master complain more than once, saying that it was precisely because of the lack of this entry-level technique that countless Shady Mountain disciples were held back.
They could only linger outside of Qi Refining, unable to make any progress.
Her master also said that although the patriarch and the others had almost certainly developed it successfully, the conditions for breaking through were also very harsh.
Just the main spiritual materials needed were no less than dozens of types, not to mention various other supplementary materials!
Moreover, this was only the amount for a single person, and it was just barely enough to take the first step into cultivation.
From this, it could be inferred how difficult it was for mortals to truly cross this threshold.
But once one stepped into Qi Refining, the rewards obtained were also unimaginably rich.
Qi Refining had a total of nine levels.
The first, second, and third were the early stage of Qi Refining; the fourth, fifth, and sixth were the middle stage; and beyond that was the late stage.
If one could reach the middle stage of Qi Refining, ordinary modern weapons would no longer be able to harm them.
Perhaps only heavy firepower like missiles could crush them.
But if one really reached the middle stage of Qi Refining and above, cultivators often mastered many mysterious and unfathomable techniques. If they really started fighting, the ones at a disadvantage would definitely be the mortals.
"You already have the answer, don't you?"
Alex recovered extremely quickly, and his complexion was slowly starting to become rosy again.
Receiving an affirmative answer, Lina stood there in a daze.
'I really... entered Qi Refining realm'
'But what about it being very difficult? What about the entire country not having a complete set of entry-level techniques?'
'How did I just casually meditate on the spot and break through?'
'What about needing so many miraculous medicines?'
Lina clearly remembered that not only her master, but even her master's master had said that most of them would have to wait until they entered the joint cultivation university before officially starting to cultivate.
Because without entering this university led by the authorities, the resources they needed to break through would be very difficult to gather.
Perhaps a sect with a strong foundation like Shady Mountain could still support the expenses of their disciples, but in the end, it was not as solid as what the authorities could allocate.
This was also a kind of tacit understanding.
The authorities were responsible for providing the resources needed for cultivation, while the major sects provided disciples with cultivation talent. Everyone got what they needed and achieved a win-win situation together.
Although it seemed like the authorities were just drawing water with a bamboo basket and didn't get anything, in the long run, this was undoubtedly a very effective and necessary investment.
"How did you do it?"
Lina was not a fool.
The facts were right in front of her. It couldn't be that she was truly exceptionally gifted, right?
The girl stared at Alex with a complexed thought.