NOVEL WEB Chapter 225 - Sharing Without Reservation
News of an impending disaster in the Blue-Black Empire seemed to be spreading gradually, and Mai Dongzi noticed that many students at Imperial Capital University were determined to grow stronger at any cost.
Mai Dongzi sincerely wished to help every student who sought her out. If they could strengthen themselves, there would be a greater chance for more people to survive the apocalyptic purge.
However, the university had strict rules prohibiting students from using cultivation potential-enhancing elixirs on campus. With no substantial breaks in their academic schedule, Mai Dongzi found herself unable to assist them, even if she wanted to.
Time was of the essence. By the time the long vacation arrived, the apocalyptic crisis would be nearly upon them, and it would be too late to act.
Faced with so many pleas for help, Mai Dongzi couldn’t remain indifferent. After pondering for several days, she finally came up with a solution.
While students couldn’t leave the campus during the school term, parents could request a day or two of leave for their children under valid reasons.
Additionally, teachers at Imperial Capital University were allowed to leave the campus when they weren’t teaching. If teachers could learn how to safely assist students during the critical period of using the cultivation potential-enhancing elixirs, they could help the students instead.
Several instructors from the university’s Art Department, particularly sound therapy specialists, had already reached level five in their spiritual abilities. Mai Dongzi decided to teach them the sound therapy support technique. With their solid foundation in sound therapy, these instructors would find it relatively easy to master.
In a time of peace, a self-developed skill capable of generating income would rarely be shared so freely. Under normal circumstances, Mai Dongzi wouldn’t consider teaching such a skill to others unless absolutely necessary.
However, the instructors in the Art Department had taught her both sound therapy and sound attack techniques without holding anything back. In return, Mai Dongzi was willing to teach them.
Once she made up her mind, Mai Dongzi approached Director Wen of the Art Department to share her idea.
Director Wen was both surprised and taken aback. The fact that Mai Dongzi could use sound therapy to help cultivators safely overcome the risks associated with using cultivation potential-enhancing elixirs had already created a stir in the sound therapy community in the capital.
As a sound therapist himself, Director Wen understood the immense potential of the sound therapy support technique. So, when he heard Mai Dongzi’s proposal to teach the skill to others, he found it hard to believe and repeatedly asked if she was absolutely sure.
“It’s not that I’m foolish or overly altruistic,” Mai Dongzi explained, “I just feel that by doing this, more people can improve their cultivation faster, which will ultimately save more lives.”
Her words were heartfelt. Though she was a transmigrator who knew the main events of this world’s development, her feelings were genuine.
She believed that her rebirth had the potential to change the fate of some people, helping them survive the apocalyptic purge and giving humanity more chances to thrive.
Director Wen, a level-six sound therapist, had limited offensive power due to his support-oriented spiritual abilities. However, mid- to high-level spiritual ability users often had some degree of foresight about the future.
Hearing Mai Dongzi’s reasoning, Director Wen sighed deeply, as if he too had sensed something. Looking at her with a mixture of relief and admiration, he said, “When I first met you last year, I had a feeling you would bring about some kind of change. That’s why I instructed Professor Lan to use our family’s sound attack technique as an incentive to guide you into the Art Department. It seems I wasn’t wrong.”
Back then, when Professor Lan was trying to recruit Mai Dongzi, she had told her that the Art Department offered not only sound therapy but also sound attack techniques.
After joining the Art Department, however, the teachers only taught sound therapy. It was Director Wen himself who taught Mai Dongzi the sound attack technique, and he had only two students for it—Mai Dongzi and his granddaughter, Wen Xuejie.
Mai Dongzi had initially thought that the technique wasn’t taught to others because they weren’t suitable to learn it. She hadn’t realized that it was a family inheritance that Director Wen had chosen to pass down only to her and his granddaughter. There would never be a third student.
Mai Dongzi hadn’t expected that she had unknowingly received such a significant favor from Director Wen. This realization made her feel that teaching her self-developed sound therapy support technique to the sound therapists in the Art Department was absolutely the right decision. Inspired by Director Wen’s selflessness, she also abandoned the idea of charging any fees.
The students and instructors in the Art Department were accustomed to a tranquil lifestyle and had a solid foundation in using music for healing and comfort. Under Mai Dongzi’s generous guidance, five sound therapists in the Art Department successfully mastered her self-created sound therapy support technique.
Among them were four instructors, including Director Wen, and one student—Wen Xuejie, who had been learning the sound attack technique alongside Mai Dongzi.
Wen Xuejie had an A-level potential for spiritual abilities and had just advanced to level five during the recent vacation, qualifying as a level-five sound therapist. However, Wen Xuejie, being naturally peace-loving, had a spiritual inclination similar to Director Wen’s, leaning more toward healing than combat. She preferred sound therapy techniques.
Although she had been learning sound attack techniques for years, her progress had been minimal. In contrast, Mai Dongzi surpassed her in sound attack proficiency within just one month of training.
Mai Dongzi’s decision to share her techniques was seen by the students and instructors of the Art Department as an act of selfless gratitude toward the department. This earned her an outstanding reputation among the faculty and staff of Imperial Capital University in a very short time.
Perhaps because so many students had been submitting requests, and coupled with Mai Dongzi’s generous contribution, the university administration began to take the matter seriously.
With the agreement of most instructors and faculty members, the university approved a plan allowing Mai Dongzi and the five sound therapists who had mastered the support technique to assist students. These students had to have signed agreements between their parents and the school.
While this arrangement required Mai Dongzi to hand over 40% of her earnings to the university, it provided official backing and facilities, reducing her workload and liability. If any issues arose, she wouldn’t have to bear full responsibility alone.
This arrangement made Mai Dongzi extremely busy. To assist as many students as possible in safely using their cultivation potential-enhancing elixirs, she even had to cut back on her own cultivation time.
Unexpectedly, performing the sound therapy support technique twice daily led to an unforeseen benefit. The precise control over her spiritual energy required during each session subtly strengthened her spiritual power.
This increase in spiritual strength directly enhanced the power of her spiritual attacks. Though the improvements were minor each time, they accumulated over time, significantly boosting her combat effectiveness.
After discovering this effect, Mai Dongzi tested her progress and found that assisting two students per evening produced results equivalent to five or six days of personal cultivation. This unexpected surprise alleviated her concern that helping others might slow her own progress, ensuring her spiritual abilities continued to advance at a steady pace.
In fact, Mai Dongzi believed she wasn’t the greatest beneficiary of this arrangement.
The five sound therapists from the Art Department, whose spiritual strength had previously been too low for combat and leaned heavily toward support, began to experience noticeable improvements in their spiritual intensity through repeated use of the support technique. Over time, the results were remarkable.
Three months later, Wen Xuejie’s sound attack technique, which had been stagnant for three years, advanced from level two to level four in one leap.