Natural Spirit Fruit
Category: Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure (Special)
Quality: Legendary
Consumption Effect: Greatly aids the user in developing Nature and Recovery talents, and can cause low-tier talents to evolve upwards, while high-tier talents achieve further sublimation.
Although I only obtained one, the value of this single Natural Spirit Fruit is likely far superior to Luo Qingyan's two...
This is a legendary, special category of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure!
It can directly strengthen talent power!
Its preciousness cannot be measured by conventional value at all.
Without the experience of fighting in the deep fissures or the native lands of other worlds, it would be impossible to obtain such a treasure!
Even through bartering, it would be difficult to find a market.
After all, legendary quality is likely ten times that of epic...
Lin Ran believed that after consuming this fruit, his Natural Spirit Body talent would be greatly strengthened once more.
His vitality and stamina would also further increase, reaching an extremely formidable level.
"Let's go, don't be in a hurry to enjoy the fruit. You can eat it later when we get back. Follow me first."
"Oh, right... Qiu Feng, you five continue organizing the freshman competition. I'll be taking these two with me."
"Since the top two positions are already decided, it doesn't matter much if we leave a bit early."
"After the competition ends, you can proceed with the departmental ceremony..."
With that, Matt waved his hand, carrying a powerful yet gentle energy, and took Lin Ran and Luo Qingyan soaring into the sky towards his residence.
Watching Matt and the other two drift away leisurely, the freshmen on the field couldn't help but feel a sense of bitterness.
"Is this their strength?"
"Principal Matt personally accepting them as disciples, assigning them to a separate department, bestowing valuable gifts, and taking them away early for guidance..."
"Can't be helped, who told them they had the qualifications for it?"
"If you could simultaneously defeat seven top-ranked special recruits, you could too."
"Forget it, you want me to defeat seven special recruits? Seven of me would be defeated by a special recruit!"
"I feel like just one Lu Yuan, with a casual Gale Tide coming down, I'd be done for!"
"Then what are you even talking about..."
Lu Yuan and the other seven, still undergoing treatment under the green light, were also rendered speechless by the situation.
They finally recognized the reality.
That is, Lin Ran was currently an insurmountable peak for them.
If they wanted to regain their dignity, they had to first improve themselves as much as possible.
Realm and cultivation were things that became harder to improve the further one progressed. Lin Ran would eventually hit a bottleneck.
At that time, Lin Ran's combat power growth would gradually slow down, and they would have a chance to defeat him.
Regardless, with their families as backing, they lacked nothing in terms of basic resources.
At this moment, there was only one person in the entire arena with a ashen face.
This person was naturally the second son of the Jiangdong Xu family—Xu Zheng.
He was different from Lu Yuan and the others.
Lu Yuan and the others only had minor friction with Lin Ran; it couldn't be considered a deep-seated hatred.
But he had essentially offended Lin Ran to the death.
What's more, Lin Ran had a very good relationship with his own younger brother, Xu Sheng.
It was highly possible that he would side with Xu Sheng in the future struggle for the Xu family's patriarchate.
Such a terrifying opponent made it impossible to eat or sleep peacefully!
If he didn't find a way to break the stalemate soon, the future waiting for him was likely only death...
Thinking of this, Xu Zheng's face revealed a fierce and resolute look.
...
"How is it, is the environment here quite good?"
Matt chuckled as he brought Lin Ran and Luo Qingyan into his residence, proudly showing off his various treasures.
It had to be said that his place was indeed characterized by immense wealth, almost extravagantly so.
The crystals used for decoration sealed a dazzling array of precious fruits of all kinds, each with extraordinary attributes;
The unknown flowers and trees contained life essences within them that were not weaker than Lin Ran's;
The beast skins underfoot and the casually placed beast bones, even though they had died many years ago and all their flesh had withered, still retained a profound oppressive aura—one could imagine how fearsome they were in life.
And inside the house, various tamed high-level fierce beast cubs, bound by soul contracts, roamed freely...
Even an Ice Crystal Phoenix was on the verge of breaking through to rank seven.
Seeing Lin Ran and Luo Qingyan utterly dazzled, Matt became even more pleased. He took out a small teapot and poured each of them a cup of tea:
"Actually, these are merely the tip of the iceberg of my collection..."
"Back in my youth, the resources I earned could only be described as mountains piled high!"
"Ah, I've gone off-topic. Come, drink your tea first."
"This tea is also steeped in life essence, which is greatly beneficial for improving your physiques."
As Lin Ran gently sipped his tea, he recalled the email that Gao Xian had sent him before their arrival.
"This fellow, Boss, is usually a carefree old rascal. You don't need to be nervous."
"Only in battle or when strategizing is he that peerless Dragon Kingdom hero."
"And he has a vast fortune, so just accept whatever benefits he gives you, don't be polite at all."
Lin Ran then put down his teacup and remarked with emotion:
"Good tea!"
Matt became even happier:
"Alas... in all these years, no one has been qualified to enter my room, let alone anyone as discerning as you two."
"The last time was Qiu Feng and the other five..."
"It's a shame those five children all found my tea unpleasant! Can you believe how infuriating that is!"
Luo Qingyan blinked curiously:
"Principal Matt, are there any prerequisites for entering your room?"
Matt laughed heartily:
"You mean entering this room?"
"Well... at the very least, one must be a genius capable of sweeping through the entire current batch and the previous batches of seniors by themselves."
"Fighting across levels is commonplace! Having an endless stream of secret techniques is merely the baseline!"
"Qiu Feng and the others could only be considered passable, barely qualified."
"You two far surpass them!"
"By the way... you two can also call me Boss, along with those five."
"I like that title."
Lin Ran asked doubtfully:
"Then, since Boss, you became principal, how many people have actually entered this place?"
Matt stroked his beard, swaying his head:
"On average, one every fifty years."
"Qiu Feng and the others are an exception... those few years were an unprecedented spectacle."
That means, even including Lü Qiu Feng and the other five, there are only a little over ten prodigies of Yan University that Matt has recognized so far...