Chapter 59: The Absolute Advantage of Noble Families

Standing opposite, Lin Xue perceived Du Yuhan's remorse.

Offering no words of comfort, she simply told Du Yuhan that the explosive rise of the refined gold market was merely the beginning.

Hearing this, Du Yuhan's eyes lit up.

Mindful of the previous lesson, she placed immense trust in Lin Xue's judgment this time.

Hesitation leads to defeat!

Consequently, she began reaching out to friends and family, borrowing money to trade futures while the crowd remained oblivious and the price of refined gold was still relatively low.

As the young mistress of a top-tier family in Jiangcheng, Du Yuhan possessed formidable borrowing power.

In a mere moment, she secured loans that ordinary combat teams could never hope to obtain even if they mortgaged everything and sold both their bodies and souls.

Her father was the head of the Du family.

Her mother also hailed from an illustrious and influential aristocratic lineage.

Thus, after coaxing money out of her grandparents with sweet words, she went to her maternal grandparents and did the exact same thing.

In short, this time she was determined to make her parents look at her with new eyes!

She set a small initial goal: to form a combat legion before graduation and astonish everyone around her.

In March of the 126th Extraordinary Era, you withdrew from the refined gold market.

Normally, if the Red Heart Combat Team had already taken shape and possessed formidable combat capabilities, you should have reinvested this massive sum into shorting refined gold through the leverage of the futures market.

Such an action, however, would inevitably trigger turbulence in the refined gold market.

Harvesting the masses using refined gold clearly bore the fingerprints of the Federal Third Combat Team behind the scenes.

By now, the funds were already sufficient.

Therefore, there was no need to offend the Third Combat Team merely for a bit more money.

This was the third strongest combat team in the Federation; should they grow enraged and come eradicate you on the spot, truly no one could save you.

You were not foolish enough to waste a simulation opportunity for a trifling sum of money.

Meanwhile, Du Yuhan also decisively pulled out of the market.

Through this period of interaction, her trust in Lin Xue grew deeper by the day.

She felt that Lin Xue was practically a deputy tailor-made for her by the heavens; no matter how intricate the problem or chaotic the situation, whenever it was handed over to Lin Xue, everything was handled in an orderly fashion.

She had even mentally prepared herself for the possibility that Lin Xue might embezzle a colossal fortune, yet who could have imagined that upon receiving the resources, Lin Xue distributed them downward at the very first opportunity.

This was quite simply the capable and virtuous retainer every master dreamed of!

Yet the more she understood Lin Xue, the more surreal a person Lin Xue felt to be.

It was a strange and somewhat unreal sensation.

If Lin Xue cared nothing for transcendent resources or wealth, why had she chosen to join the Jade Club under the enticement of a double salary?

Aristocratic scions, however, have always cared only for results.

Since everything Lin Xue did after joining the Jade Club developed in a positive direction and aided her in cultivating her combat team and establishing her legion, she dared to delegate absolute authority to her.

In April of the 126th Extraordinary Era, after gathering all your funds, you began frantically developing the Red Heart Combat Team.

That same month, you spent a substantial sum purchasing a large-scale instrument codenamed Crystal-3.0 from the Sky Crystal Group, which possessed an auxiliary refining upper limit of High-tier Divine Blessing Crystals.

Following the arrival of this instrument, the professional level-up speed of each member in the Red Heart Combat Team accelerated significantly.

In May of the 126th Extraordinary Era, you expanded the Red Heart Combat Team to eight hundred members.

Fueled by your massive financial supply, the members of the Red Heart Combat Team rapidly completed their first-transition trials and successively became First-Transition Professionals.

In June of the 126th Extraordinary Era, you broke through to level 28.

That same month, Du Yuhan polished her bronze-tier mana to perfection and began her charge toward the second transition.

You felt somewhat perplexed by this.

During the last simulation, despite utilizing the school's cultivation chamber along with all manner of rare herbs and transcendent resources, it had still taken you several years to polish your bronze-tier battle qi to perfection.

How had Du Yuhan accomplished this process in just a few months?

Did she possess some secret recipe?

Or had she utilized some high-grade transcendent resources?

Upon receiving your cryptic message, Lin Xue remained outwardly nonchalant, yet her focus began to gradually shift.

She started pouring the majority of her mental energy into refining Divine Blessing Crystals.

In August of the 126th Extraordinary Era, Lin Xue's professional level reached level 20.

Just as she was preparing to undertake her second-transition trial, Du Yuhan stopped her.

She revealed the "Level +1 upon upgrading perfectly polished bronze mana to silver" trait directly before Lin Xue.

Lin Xue stared at it in silence for a long time.

A moment later, she expressed that she too wished to possess such a trait.

Yet she had inquired about it, and polishing bronze-tier mana was an exceedingly time-consuming endeavor.

Even with various transcendent resources providing assistance, it still required three to four years.

Du Yuhan smiled and shook her head, noting that for ordinary professionals, this was indeed the case.

No matter how wealthy one was, no matter how rare the polishing tools purchased or how expensive the rented refining equipment, one still could not escape this protracted process.

After all, in this world, many things could not be bought with money.

Within the Federation, for instance, political power utterly crushed wealth.

The privileges and resource allocations enjoyed by aristocratic scions were unimaginable to other professionals.

The reason her polishing process was so rapid was precisely because of the Du family's untransmitted secret technique—the Soul Refining Art.

Mana was born from the source of magic deep within the soul of a magic-class professional.

Consequently, the degree of mana polishing was also directly influenced by the source of magic.

Since the source of magic originated deep within the professional's soul, the stronger a professional's soul, the higher the polishing efficiency naturally became.

Now, did you understand the importance of this Soul Refining Art?

Hearing this, Lin Xue nodded slightly, though what she found unexpected was that cultivation techniques truly existed in this world.

She had originally assumed the movies and dramas broadcasted on the Wisdom Net were merely whimsical fabrications of the ancients.

Who could have imagined this was reality?

One could only say that an aristocratic family was truly deserving of the name; holding a Soul Refining Art in their grasp, they directly drew an insurmountable chasm between themselves and professionals of civilian origin.

While ordinary professionals struggled all their lives striving for personal levels, equipment, skills, and inscriptions, aristocratic scions had long since shifted their gaze away from this transcendent information known to all.

Soul Refining Art...

Had Du Yuhan not spoken to her about this today, she would likely still be pondering whether the Du family had mastered some cutting-edge technology for catalyzing mana.

Or perhaps, some sort of magical potion?

Watching Lin Xue, who stood frozen in place, Du Yuhan smiled dumbfoundedly.

Since she had brought this matter up to Lin Xue, she had already decided to impart this Soul Refining Art to her.

As for it being an untransmitted secret of the Du family?

Why, they could simply let Lin Xue become a member of the Du family.

Every aristocratic family absorbed top-tier talent annually.

Through Du Yuhan's brief introduction, Lin Xue also roughly understood why cultivation techniques remained unknown to the general public.

Techniques were not strictly sealed away; rather, through the tacit understanding of aristocratic scions and the intentional containment by the upper echelons of the Federation, these various cultivation techniques circulating among aristocratic families were casually shared with those lacking aristocratic bloodline.

Even if a certain professional possessed exceptionally high and rare talent, as long as they had no close ties to an aristocratic family and failed to gain the recognition of its core members, they would never learn any information concerning cultivation techniques.

Only by doing so could aristocratic families forever maintain their absolute advantage in future competitions.