Free Web NovelChapter 511: Chapter 219: Mental Realm 10th Layer, Unity of Heart and Body
’Without the help of Favor Points, who knows how many years it would take to cultivate to Perfection.’Now that he understood the importance of the Mental Realm, Chu Lingguang saw no reason to hang onto his forty-thousand-plus Favor Points. He spent them all on improving it.The information on his panel changed.Favors: None
Mixed Element Skill (0-10,000)
Mental Realm Evolution Method (41,463-100,000)
(Remaining Lifespan: 179 years)Chu Lingguang was a little surprised. ’My lifespan didn’t increase?’’Don’t they say that a peaceful mind leads to a long life? That people with a strong Mental Realm are supposed to live longer?’’Could it be that a cultivator’s Mental Realm is different from the everyday state of mind of an ordinary person?’Chu Lingguang was very curious about this.However, his current priority was to use the Mental Realm Evolution Method to truly transform his Mental Realm. He attempted to connect with his Dantian.Inside the room, the image of the Little Red Horse appeared on Chu Lingguang’s skin as the Wind and Wave Power circulated around his body.’Before the Provincial Examination began, I had a premonition on the streets of Qiling Prefecture that the power of the Little Red Horse and the Wind and Wave Power were not Dantian Power.’’Now, the Mental Realm diagram has confirmed it. I still haven’t awakened my Dantian Power. Could the power I’ve awakened truly be the Consciousness Manipulation Power?’’The Wind and Wave Power is a type of Potential Power. Perhaps the reason it manifests in my Dantian is also related to my Sea of Consciousness.’BZZZ!Chu Lingguang heard the buzzing of a mosquito.With a mere thought.The spectral image of the Little Red Horse transformed into a large mosquito. The mosquito vibrated its wings once before falling to the ground, dead. Chu Lingguang’s consciousness was simply too powerful for a tiny mosquito to withstand.The spectral image reverted to the form of the Little Red Horse.Chu Lingguang then spotted a gecko on the window. The spectral image transformed into a gecko the size of a lizard. It didn’t fall.With careful manipulation, Chu Lingguang controlled his Consciousness Power with just the right touch, keeping the gecko from being shocked to death. The Wind and Wave Power hovered over the gecko. With a thought, the gecko’s tail swept out, and the small amount of Wind and Wave Power above it shattered the spiderwebs on the roof beam.Back in Qiling Prefecture, Chu Lingguang had already determined that the Wind and Wave Power in his Dantian could be used by the targets of his Consciousness Manipulation, provided he was willing to release it.His knowledge had been limited back then; even Guo Wei couldn’t figure out the secret behind it and had told him to ask Teacher Yun Hong for an explanation when he got the chance. Now he was at the Imperial City Academy and Yun Hong was close by, but Chu Lingguang had already found the answer on his own.He now understood that the Consciousness Manipulation Power and Wind and Wave Power appearing in his Dantian were not Dantian Power, nor were they a third type of power. They were powers awakened from his Sea of Consciousness.But as for why it manifested in his Dantian and not his Sea of Consciousness, Chu Lingguang still couldn’t quite figure it out. He decided he would find an opportunity to ask Teacher Yun Hong and get to the bottom of it all.Still, he felt that if his Mental Realm could evolve, he might be able to find the answers himself.Now that his Mental Realm Evolution Method value was over forty thousand, Chu Lingguang saw no reason to believe he couldn’t awaken his Dantian Power, much less that he couldn’t evolve his Mental Realm.He recalled Yun Hong saying that the students who remained in the top five for every round would ultimately receive guidance from an expert from Yuanchu Mountain. Chu Lingguang couldn’t help but set a goal to distinguish himself among the hundred-odd students.「The days passed, one by one.」Everyone was immersed in the process of evolving their Mental Realm. Most, like Chu Lingguang, were searching for the last few responses.「Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.」Yan Zhen awakened the final response for the second layer of the Mental Realm, which came from within his bloodline. His Primitive Power changed ever so slightly.He knew that Primitive Power varied in magnitude and had assumed his own Barbaric Power had already reached his body’s limit. He never expected that one of his bloodlines had remained dormant. Now that it was activated, although his Primitive Power hadn’t changed much, he had achieved the perfect state of Unity of Heart and Strength as he had hoped. He began attempting to transform his Mental Realm using the evolution method.「Another ten days passed.」Yan Zhen’s Mental Realm rippled. It was as if his mind had opened a spiritual eye, allowing him to perceive the changes in his power from every angle and hear all sorts of responses within his body that he had never heard before.The saber in his Dantian felt as if it would burst forth and soar to the heavens. Sitting in the lecture hall, everyone near Yan Zhen felt enveloped by a powerful Saber Momentum.The evolution of his Mental Realm not only allowed Yan Zhen to hear many new responses, but it also caused his Saber Momentum to evolve at that very moment. Yan Zhen was now supremely confident. Even if Chu Lingguang’s Flesh and Blood Divine Power achieved a perfect synergy with his Sea of Consciousness Power, it would be unable to injure him again within his Saber Momentum, let alone break through it.The next day, the whistle of swords roared around Tuoba Yunhong as a Sword Array formed in his Dantian. All the power within his body, whether from the Dragon Elephant or the Qi Sea, flowed like streams of Sword Qi through his blood vessels, ultimately gathering in his Dantian.Having achieved the ultimate state of Unity of Heart and Strength, Tuoba Yunhong finally obtained his own Sword Momentum. Although his Mental Realm had not yet evolved to the same degree as Yan Zhen’s, he was more confident than ever before.It seemed that the third-layer realm, the Unity of Heart and Body, was within his grasp.The lecture hall was filled with countless prodigies.But Yan Zhen and Tuoba Yunhong were like two outliers. Even Xia Tianzhong, Xu Kanghui, and Long Xin felt inferior, watching from afar as the two covertly competed with each other.「Another three days passed.」Chu Lingguang opened his eyes in his small room. Back in Qiling Prefecture, he had obtained an encyclopedia from Li Dayao and Liu Wan on how to awaken power from the Dantian, titled *Endless Dantian*.Despite his Mental Realm Evolution Method value being over forty thousand, he had been unable to awaken any power from his Dantian for more than twenty consecutive days.But this wasn’t because he lacked aptitude, or because the Mental Realm Evolution Method hadn’t been activated.It was because Chu Lingguang perceived far too many responses within his Dantian. It was like the incessant chirping of insects and birds in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, which never faded and even seemed to have formed a tacit understanding among themselves.At that moment, Chu Lingguang was overcome with Confusion and thought he might be hallucinating. His first instinct was to find Yun Hong and ask what was happening.As it turned out, the Imperial City Academy had a rule: no one was permitted to approach any of the teachers on their own initiative, let alone ask them other questions.This was clearly to prevent anyone from prying into the details of the experts from Yuanchu Mountain or from trying to cheat their way into the top five.With no other option, and sensing the rapport between each response in his Dantian, Chu Lingguang had spent the last twenty-odd days trying to grasp that harmony. He hoped to use its power to awaken all the responses at once and obtain his own Dantian Power.Day after day, he tried. Chu Lingguang felt as if he were back climbing the mountain, where every step was a struggle and seemed impossible to overcome. Yet, he had relied on his willpower to reach the end and had been rewarded in the Blood Pool.Finally, on the twenty-ninth day, the response Chu Lingguang received from his Dantian was no longer a chaotic cacophony of chirping insects and birds, but the pure, ringing sound of a spear.He had finally reached the pinnacle of the Unity of Heart and Strength.On his Mental Realm diagram, Chu Lingguang had finally awakened all the responses for the second-layer realm. The pure ring of the spear sounded as if it had shattered the void of chaos. An unseen, perfect power that resonated with the sound emerged as the origin of power in Chu Lingguang’s Dantian."KILL!"A clamorous roar, like that of a mighty army slaughtering and charging on a battlefield, erupted from within Chu Lingguang’s body.The third layer of the Mental Realm, the Unity of Heart and Body, had finally been achieved.(This isn’t an unannounced hiatus. My back pain flared up terribly yesterday. My left leg went stiff as if it were cramping, and I spent the whole day at the hospital for physical therapy. I’m actually writing this standing up—my computer is mounted on the wall, and I’m typing on an external keyboard that’s propped up on a cardboard box.)(If I had the permissions to post a picture, I’d totally show you all my miserable state just to give you a laugh.)
