Psychologists' Business Booms

In just a few hours, Yi Chen successfully organized and thoroughly integrated everything he had comprehended over the past month.

Just as the people in the Live Stream Room had expected, he returned to the Wooden House and began researching the Meridian Cultivation Chart for the cultivation method by combining it with his new insights.

Days passed one after another.

Outside, goose-feather snowflakes drifted down every few days.

Although the snow in The Valley had been completely cleared away,

once one left The Valley, one would discover that the entire world was a vast expanse of white.

Mountains and plains alike were blanketed beneath the snow.

Yi Chen remained unhurried and unruffled, slowly researching and testing the different changes produced when Spiritual Power entered various acupoints.

Yet the viewers in the Live Stream Room grew more anxious the longer they waited.

It was not because Yi Chen was creating this New Cultivation Method more slowly than usual.

That had long been within everyone's expectations.

Under normal circumstances, it took Yi Chen around half a month to comprehend the laws of nature and the characteristics of Spiritual Energy.

Then, after another half month spent testing a suitable Meridian Cultivation Chart, a New Cultivation Method would be successfully created.

This time, merely comprehending the laws and characteristics of the various winds, flying birds, and wild beasts had taken an entire month.

Barring any surprises, testing out a suitable Meridian Cultivation Chart would likewise take around another month.

What truly made everyone anxious

was that after Yi Chen began testing the Meridian Cultivation Chart for the New Cultivation Method, Gu Li, the most talented member of the Tribe, had already successfully broken through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level.

After that, every day or two, another tribesperson successfully broke through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level.

Yet Yi Chen still showed no sign of releasing the improved version of the Chaos Art.

"More than half a month has passed since Gu Li broke through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, yet Yi Chen has shown absolutely no intention of releasing the improved version of the Chaos Art. It's obvious he never intended to release it."

"Yi Chen is still too selfish. He probably wants the Tribe's people to reach the Spirit Release Realm First Level and gain a certain degree of strength, but stop there so they can't threaten his position of rule."

"It really feels like it's over. I wait every day, I hope every day, but the improved version of the Chaos Art just never comes. Every day has been torment, and I feel like I'm about to collapse."

"Yeah! I broke through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level more than half a month ago. Without the improved version of the Chaos Art, my realm has remained stagnant. I'm muddleheaded all day, and the nightmares never stop."

"Being muddleheaded with endless nightmares is actually considered fortunate. I'm a psychologist, and my business has exploded lately. Every single patient developed serious psychological problems because they couldn't learn the improved version of the Chaos Art."

"The cultivation method Yi Chen created is actually addictive. The root of it is that every small increase in realm lets people clearly feel their physical speed and Spiritual Power improve considerably."

"As everyone knows, leveling up and improving equipment in virtual online games can fill people with achievement and joy, causing them to become hopelessly addicted."

"But the sense of achievement and joy brought by advancing one's realm is a hundred, even a thousand times stronger than that of virtual online games."

"Without the improved version of the Chaos Art, their realms stagnate. For many people with weak psychological endurance, that feels even worse than killing them."

"I've run into a colleague. I'm also a psychologist. This type of patient has indeed surged dramatically lately."

"Alas, over a thousand Cultivation Method Research Institutes, millions of talented people from every profession, plus hundreds of thousands of genius-level cultivators—how can they all be inferior to Yi Chen alone?"

"I heard the Military secretly established a Cultivation Method Research Institute as well, but they have achieved nothing too."

"There's no helping it. In the field of cultivation, Yi Chen is the one and only god!"

"If we want the improved version of the Chaos Art, we can only hope that Yi Chen has a sudden whim someday, or takes pity on us and releases the cultivation chant."

Because they could not learn the improved version of the Chaos Art, all humanity's emotions became extremely unstable.

Everyone was trapped in anxiety, unease, and depression.

Yi Chen's cultivation method was like a virtual online game whose pull had been amplified a thousandfold, ten-thousandfold.

Unable to learn the improved version of the Chaos Art and with their realms stagnating, all humanity's emotions were severely affected.

Those ordinary people who had yet to break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level were somewhat better off. They were merely frightened, worried that after breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm, Yi Chen still would not release the improved version of the Chaos Art.

The true ones who felt every day stretch into a year were the geniuses with higher talent who had already broken through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level.

Every one of them was dispirited and listless, as though they had suffered some crushing blow.

This phenomenon was reflected in society as a whole.

Employees had no mind for work.

Students had no mind for study.

The stock market fell day after day.

The entirety of human society was shrouded in an inexplicable gloom.

The root of it all lay in the improved version of the Chaos Art.

Breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level raised the maximum lifespan to two hundred and forty years, causing all humanity to secretly learn the Chaos Art.

And precisely because of that, all humanity had become hopelessly addicted to cultivation.

When Yi Chen delayed releasing the improved version of the Chaos Art, the entire human society suffered extremely severe negative effects.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

Inside the Wooden House, Yi Chen, who had returned to his heavily homebound mode, finally succeeded in testing a set of movement-technique Meridian Cultivation routes by combining them with his insights.

Next came testing their effects.

He stretched his muscles and bones a few times.

Then he opened the Wooden House door.

A blast of cold wind rushed into his face.

Thanks to his impressive physique, not only did it not make him uncomfortable, it instead left him feeling refreshed and invigorated.

Of course, the main reason was that he had finally created the New Cultivation Method.

It made him sigh that creating a cultivation method from scratch was truly as difficult as ascending to heaven.

When he was at the Qi Condensation Realm First Stage, creating a New Cultivation Method took only around a month.

Now that he had broken through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, his strength and realm had improved, while his reactions and perception ability had undergone astonishing enhancement.

He should have found it easier to grasp the laws of nature and the characteristics of Spiritual Energy.

That being the case, creating cultivation methods should naturally have become simpler.

But in truth, with his current strength and realm, creating a cultivation method at the Qi Condensation Realm level was indeed extremely easy.

What once took a month might now take only a day or two.

Unfortunately, what he wanted to create was a cultivation method at the Spirit Release Realm level.

As a result, the demands on talent had also risen sharply.

In the future, as his realm increased, the time required to create cultivation methods of corresponding levels would only grow longer. He might even eventually reach the limit where insufficient talent prevented him from creating cultivation methods of the appropriate level.

Fortunately, as long as he expanded his sphere of influence, his talent could improve along with it.

And according to his plan, once this Harsh Winter had passed, it would be time for the Flame Mountain Tribe to wage war in all directions and expand its sphere of influence.

After taking several deep breaths of icy air and steadying himself, Yi Chen sent someone to bring Gu Li over.

The tens of billions of viewers in the Live Stream Room were instantly stirred into excitement.

Was calling Gu Li over an indication that he intended to teach her the improved version of the Chaos Art?