Perhaps it was because the reversal of the Demon Child identity was too striking, the merged and upgraded [Demon Child] medal, in addition to retaining the abilities of the original two medals, gained a brand new ability of multiplication—Spiritual Wisdom Derivation.

With this medal, Ma Ran can bestow wisdom and spirituality upon any non-living object.

Even if it’s a rock, Ma Ran can make it become a thinking stone.

A white cloud, with enough energy infused, can turn into a cloud lifeform.

All “lifeforms” enlightened by “Spiritual Wisdom Derivation,” regardless of their temperament, are under Ma Ran’s control.

If Ma Ran wishes, with just a thought, he can cause those lives to perish.

“This already touches upon the domain of life creation…”

Feeling the power brought by the [Demon Child] medal, Ma Ran raised his eyebrows slightly: “A rather impressive ability.”

“I can create a multitude of ‘lives,’ spreading them across the country and even globally, to do my bidding.”

Pushing the Youwen Text Illusion to its limit, Ma Ran quickly arrived 500 kilometers east of Grass Hut Academy.

This was the maximum range of the radiation from the Sword Master medal and spiritual power while Ma Ran was at Grass Hut Academy.

Finding an unremarkable small mountain, Ma Ran activated the new ability of the [Demon Child] medal, gently infusing inner qi into it.

Spiritual Wisdom Derivation and imparting life, of course, requires the consumption of energy.

If one doesn’t wish to use inner qi, it’s actually possible.

However, during this life enlightenment process, there will be a massive exhaustion of physical and spiritual power, so overall, using inner qi is more efficient in the enlightenment process.

Strands of resplendent inner qi gradually infused into the small mountain.

After consuming about one-tenth of the inner qi, Ma Ran stopped.

The mountain’s capacity had already reached its limit.

Forcing more into it would make it explode!

When Ma Ran disconnected the inner qi transmission, he noticed that the previously lifeless rocks had breath that transformed; suddenly, it gave off a feeling of having come to life.

“Creator! Thank you… for bestowing… life!”

A mountain with derived spirituality, of course, cannot speak—it lacks that function.

Like Little Walnut 98725, it expresses emotions through spiritual power.

Although this spiritual mountain now has life and has become a rocky lifeform, it still cannot move, cannot take human shape, and cannot freely communicate with people.

With a steady nature, patient in solitude, even without the freedom to move, staying in place, feeling the changes of the sun and moon, wind and frost, it remains highly content and even moved and grateful for receiving life.

“Good.”

Ma Ran nodded slightly, a smile emerging on his face.

This spiritual mountain, derived from one-tenth of his inner qi, now serves primarily as a “signal relay station.”

With its help in radiating spiritual signals, Ma Ran’s operational range extended to 550 kilometers!

“I’ll be going now, try not to show any abnormality, especially when other creatures approach, act as a normal mountain.”

“Following your command, Creator.”

After a simple exchange, Ma Ran continued to fly forward, creating one lifeform after another.

Ancient trees, stubborn rocks, statues, street lamps…

Each spiritual lifeform that was created had different personalities.

Some were compassionate, some were aloof, some were wise, some were indifferent…

These spiritual beings, regardless of character, held gratitude towards Ma Ran and absolutely obeyed his commands.

Upon reflection, it’s quite logical.

The [Play] ability always reflects parts beneficial to Ma Ran, and if the “master-servant relationship” wasn’t a hundred percent certain, the effect of Spiritual Wisdom Derivation would be minimal.

After some operations, Ma Ran’s “remote operation distance” extended to 700 kilometers.

There was still plenty of inner qi left, but time didn’t permit him to continue.

In “The Prophet’s Inner Qi Small Lecture Hall,” several “apprentices” were waiting.

Ma Ran disliked waiting for others, nor did he want others to wait for him.

He was always punctual.

Bestowing spirituality to non-living objects and transforming them into true living forms is a long-term project.

Given time, Ma Ran could cover the globe with a “life network.”

By then, not only could he manifest anywhere around the world with a mere thought, but he could also monitor sudden events everywhere and respond promptly.

Although during the operation of the “Life Signal Network,” there might inevitably be disruptions of some signal relay nodes due to natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons or man-made calamities like alien invasions…

Problems are normal, but they can be “repaired” promptly.

Building a complete system of information and spiritual power transmission meant that many operations that existed only in Ma Ran’s imagination could become a reality.

…

Seven o’clock sharp, Grass Hut Academy.

“The blueprint for the future looks beautiful, but implementing it will take a great amount of time.”

Ma Ran gradually suppressed his excitement.

By the time he entered the small lecture hall, his expression had returned to calmness.

“Hello, Prophet!”

“Greetings, Senior Ma Ran!”

“Brother Ran is as punctual as ever! When he says exactly seven, it’s exactly seven, not a minute late!”

In the small lecture hall, four students had been waiting for a while.

Originally, Ma Ran held temporary sessions here to fulfill his promise, providing individual guidance to He Zi, Luo Xianli, and Wu Di, helping improve their accomplishments in Inner Qi cultivation.

Subsequently, Li Xing, citing “preservation of precious educational materials” as a reason, thick-skinnedly came to eavesdrop daily. Ma Ran didn’t mind, and also gave him plenty of pointers on cultivation issues.

Under these circumstances, the progress in Inner Qi cultivation of the four students advanced rapidly.

Unfortunately, Li Xing, He Zi, and Luo Xianli started too late, with mediocre talent. Even with their leap in progress, they only just reached the First Rank of Inner Qi, still a bit shy of the Second Rank.

Meanwhile, Wu Di became the big winner of the small lecture hall.

In just a few days, he surpassed the Second Rank of Inner Qi, reaching the Third Rank, with accelerated metabolism and cell activity, his hair grew quickly, no longer resembling the previous shiny bald head.

“From the Third Rank of Inner Qi to the Fourth, the greatest difficulty doesn’t lie in deducing the acupoint positions or accumulating inner qi, but in the word ‘control.’

Ma Ran calmly stated: “Try releasing inner qi daily, making an A3 printed sheet hover between your fingers, gradually increasing the number of sheets to up the difficulty.”

“When you can simultaneously control ten A4 sheets to hover between your fingers for a minute, breaking through to the Fourth Rank of Inner Qi will pose no bottleneck.”

This training method may sound simple, but it was meticulously summarized by many Civilization Guardians from the previous age, highly effective and not at all easy.

“You’ve all made fast progress these past few days.”

Ma Ran slightly smiled: “I’ve tailored methods for each of you from the First Rank to the Fourth Rank of Inner Qi. At least, before reaching the Fifth Rank of Inner Qi, you wouldn’t face too many bottlenecks.”

To teach according to one’s aptitude, though simple to say in four characters, is difficult to execute.

If not for having the [Academic Demon] and [Martial Arts Celestial Pride] medals, with his own Inner Qi cultivation reaching the Fourteenth Rank of Inner Qi, seeing from a high vantage point and grasping everything, Ma Ran couldn’t guarantee achieving such an extent.

“This session of the Inner Qi lecture is concluded.”

At this, Ma Ran glanced at Wu Di beside him: “Even though you’ve reached the Third Rank of Inner Qi, the ‘Inner Qi Opportunities List’ is already full.”

“Unfortunately, you missed this chance.”

“But don’t be discouraged.”

“On the opportunity list of Seven Vortex Swordsmanship, you should be able to secure a place.”

Ma Ran smiled: “I have faith in you.”

After speaking, he turned to leave.

The invisible Golden Little Walnut 98725 in the air quickly caught up, flying in front of Ma Ran, reminding him, “Half an hour ago, two more people arrived at the Academy!”

“The ten on the Inner Qi list are all here!”

“Hehehe… I’ve been eagerly awaiting the opportunities you mentioned for so long! Finally, I can witness it now!”

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