Chapter 53: Just a "Little" More Self-created Spirit Skills, the End of the Holidays, and a Breakthrough in Cultivation
After leaving Director Xue, Lin Mo and Tianlin went to the academy cafeteria together.
At this hour, the cafeteria was almost empty, with barely anyone left.
After getting their food and sitting down, Tianlin shoveled food into his bowl and asked, "Lin Mo, the holidays are starting in a few days. The break is almost 20 days long. Are you planning to go home, or stay at the academy?"
Lin Mo's hand paused slightly on his chopsticks. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head.
"I'm not going back. The time is too tight, and the trip there and back is too troublesome. I'll just stay at the academy and Cultivate."
Traveling from here back to Emperor Village would take nearly 20 days just for the round trip. The holiday itself would not even be enough to cover the time on the road, so there was no point in going back.
Moreover, he had already planned to move into the Ye Family Medical Hall during those 20 days of vacation.
The Medical Hall had rooms specifically prepared for apprentices, making it the perfect place to focus on Cultivate more quietly during this period.
It would also save him from running back and forth between the two places.
Of course, there was no need to tell Tianlin about that part of the plan.
Hearing this, Tianlin only gave an "oh" and did not think too much about it, continuing to bury his head in his food.
Students like Lin Mo, who chose not to return home during the holidays, were quite common in the academy.
Still, using Tianlin's help to reveal the Flame Vortex skill today had been a good thing for Lin Mo.
It gave him a chance to use this skill openly in the future.
After all, with how many skills Charmander had already mastered, it was neither appropriate nor realistic to keep hiding them forever.
And Self-created Spirit Skill was a perfectly reasonable explanation.
It was just that the number of Self-created Spirit Skills Charmander had mastered was only a "little" higher than normal...
Soon enough, the holidays arrived as expected, much to the excitement of the students.
Lin Mo packed his belongings simply and moved into the room prepared for apprentices at the Medical Hall.
Regarding Lin Mo's plan to stay at the Medical Hall for a month, although Ye Lingling seemed a little surprised, just as Lin Mo had expected, she said nothing.
Her emotions remained as calm as ever.
After several months of getting along, even without deliberately trying to learn more about her, Lin Mo had already formed a general understanding of her situation.
Ye Lingling was 6 years older than him, but because she was both a Tool Spirit Master and an auxiliary-system Spirit Master, even with her excellent talent, her cultivation speed was much slower than that of a Battle Spirit Master.
Although her spirit power had already broken through to the realm of a 2-ring Spirit Grandmaster, her actual rank was only 24.
Contrary to Lin Mo's initial guess, although Ye Lingling's strength had long met the entrance requirements for Heaven Dou Royal Spirit Master Academy, she was not yet a student there.
Even though he had never asked directly, based on Ye Lingling's current state, Lin Mo could more or less guess the reason.
It was likely because of her solitary personality. She simply disliked and was unwilling to have too much contact with others.
That was probably why she had never enrolled.
Moreover, for someone like Ye Lingling, who had an elder like Ye Linyuan, an 8-ring Spirit Douluo, personally teaching her at home, the education of Elementary and Intermediate Spirit Master Academies was essentially meaningless.
The knowledge taught there, as well as the resources they could provide, certainly could not compare to what she could get from staying by such an elder's side.
But that was only true for Elementary and Intermediate Spirit Master Academies. Advanced Spirit Master Academies were a different matter altogether.
That was why many children from powerful families were still willing to enter Advanced Spirit Master Academies and study there for a significant period of time.
There, they could not only access higher-level resources, but also make connections with the most outstanding members of the younger generation.
That was extremely beneficial both for current Cultivate and for future plans.
Time passed quickly. Not only did the holiday end in the blink of an eye, but even 20 days of the new semester had already slipped by.
During the holiday, Lin Mo had lived and eaten at the Medical Hall, and his life had become even more fulfilling than before.
Perhaps because his mind had been especially clear during that period, Lin Mo felt that both his own and Charmander's Cultivate had become much faster.
He had already reached the spirit power bottleneck that he originally thought would take another 2 months to touch.
Meanwhile, his dormitory neighbor at the academy, Tianlin, had not Slack Off at all during those 20 days of vacation and had still been diligently Cultivating.
Before the new semester began, he finally managed to raise his spirit power to rank 17, which was a great joy for him.
This meant he might not even have to wait until the 5th or 6th grade to raise his cultivation to rank 20, officially becoming a noble Spirit Grandmaster and meeting the graduation requirements for the Intermediate academy.
Besides his improvement in cultivation, another thing that slightly surprised Lin Mo was that, with the help of the Flare Blitz Spirit Ability it had already mastered, Charmander had successfully derived the use of Flame Charge.
Like Flame Vortex, after continuous practice during this period, Flame Charge had finally reached the level where it could be displayed on the status panel.
3 more days passed in a flash.
That day, while Lin Mo was holding a prescription and preparing to gather the last dose of medicine for a patient, the Qi and blood in his body suddenly surged, and a burst of flame even began leaking from his palm, instantly burning the prescription to ashes.
However, the flame came and went just as quickly, and Lin Mo soon brought the abnormality inside his body back under control.
"Sorry, sorry..."
Lin Mo looked apologetically at the patient in front of him, but a trace of excitement that he could not suppress flashed through his eyes.
Soon, Lin Mo somewhat hastily helped the patient retrieve the final medicinal herb, then quickly transcribed the prescription again using his memory, which far surpassed that of ordinary people.
After handing everything over intact to the bewildered patient, Lin Mo turned to look at the senior brother beside him, his voice carrying a bit of apology.
"Senior Brother, I'll have to trouble you to cover this shift for me for a while. Something happened with Charmander, and I need to go check on it."
"Go, go." The honest-looking senior brother waved his hand at Lin Mo, then took over the remaining work for the day.
"Thank you, Senior Brother."
Lin Mo let out a sigh of relief.
"I'll treat you to dinner tonight."
After greeting his senior brother, Lin Mo immediately hurried toward the backyard of the Medical Hall.
The change in his condition just now had not been a bad thing.
It was because the cultivation breakthrough he had originally expected to need another day or 2 had happened ahead of schedule.
Precisely because the breakthrough had come so suddenly, the spirit power inside his body had fluctuated a little just now.
He was level 20.
When he quickly arrived at the backyard, the scene before him still surprised him a little.
The area around Charmander had been scorched black, and Ye Lingling, who had been feeding Charmander, was standing there blankly.
Clearly, an uncontrollable burst of flame had also erupted from Charmander's body just now.
But as a darling of flames, the disturbance Charmander had caused was obviously much greater than Lin Mo's.
"Sister Lingling, are you alright?" Lin Mo asked with concern.
"I'm fine."
Ye Lingling shook her head, then stopped feeding Charmander and put the jerky away.
"What happened to it? Why did it suddenly lose control just now?" Ye Lingling pointed at Charmander, who was looking innocent, and asked.
"It's nothing."
Lin Mo gently shook his head. He glanced at Charmander's bulging belly and immediately understood why the breakthrough had happened so suddenly.
"This little guy has been eating too much lately. Its spirit power just broke through to level 20 ahead of schedule, and its power suddenly became much stronger. That's why some of the flames in its body burst out all at once. It's good that Sister Lingling is fine…"
"What... did you say?"
Ye Lingling's voice carried a rare trace of surprise, and her beautiful purple eyes were filled with disbelief as she looked at Lin Mo.
At that moment, she even began to wonder whether she had misheard him.
"I'm level 20," Lin Mo repeated calmly in front of Ye Lingling.
Lin Mo's repeated words finally made Ye Lingling realize that she had heard correctly.
An unprecedented look of surprise and shock immediately appeared in the usually calm Ye Lingling's eyes.
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