Setting Foot in the Sky River Realm

Setting Foot in the Sky River Realm

After Chen Mobai returned home, he first placed that pot of Green Wutong Sapling on the balcony. He wanted to water it, but he was afraid of drowning the sapling.

He took out his phone and looked up how to raise it, only to find that everyone said something different.

But there was one thing they all had in common.

It was best raised in a place with abundant spiritual energy. The more abundant the spiritual energy, the faster it would grow.

This Green Wutong Sapling was one of the Immortal Sect's few types of spirit wood that could infinitely advance in grade. The highest grade one now was this Fourth Tier High-grade Jade Wutong in Vermilion Cloud City.

However, although the Green Wutong Sapling's potential was infinite, its growth was extremely slow.

This Jade Wutong in Vermilion Cloud City had been planted by a Third Grade Spirit Planter. It was said that just growing from a Green Wutong Sapling into a Grade 1 spirit wood had taken two hundred years.

After a Green Wutong Sapling survived, it would comb through the earth veins on its own, increase spiritual energy, and the tree and spirit land would complement each other. But if it had grown in a Fourth Grade Spirit Land from the very beginning, then this Jade Wutong would not have taken more than four thousand years to rise in rank and become a Fourth Grade Spirit Wood.

The moment he saw "abundant spiritual energy," Chen Mobai naturally thought of his Water Mansion.

Amid flickering Silver Light, he teleported to the Sky River Realm.

He placed the Green Wutong Sapling on the desk in the Side Hall, then opened the Azure Water Array again, went outside the protective barrier, scooped up a pot of water, and poured it onto the roots.

Everyone online said this was the easiest spirit wood to raise. It only needed to be placed somewhere with abundant spiritual energy and watered regularly. Once the Green Wutong Sapling flowered and bore fruit for the first time, even watering could be skipped; it would grow on its own.

And after this Green Wutong Sapling grew, its whole body would be treasure.

Its Bark and leaves could be used to make Talisman Paper, its sap could serve as ink and could also drive away insects, and its wood was also good material for making musical instruments and boxes. But the most valuable things were still its flowers and fruit, the Main Medicine for refining the Grade 1 High Rank medicinal pill, Fire Clearing Pill.

This Fire Clearing Pill was one of the Immortal Sect's rare pills that could increase spiritual sense. For Late Qi Cultivation cultivators, it could be called one of the most precious medicinal pills.

Thinking of spiritual sense, Chen Mobai could not help but close his eyes again. The effects of the Startling Dream Melody were still there, but they were no longer as clear as last night. The spiritual energy he saw seemed to have been veiled in a layer of gauze, no longer transparent.

According to Chen Baolan's reminder, the effects of the Startling Dream Melody could last for about three or four days. During this period, it was best not to cultivate spiritual energy, but to meditate on the mind and spirit, feel the formation of spiritual sense, and sense the touch of seeing through the fog.

Spiritual sense was the sixth sense beyond the five senses. It began in the sea of the heart and took form in the Sea of Consciousness.

After cultivators refined spiritual sense, they could inspect the state of their own bodies from within. When spiritual energy circulated, they could compare it to the correct route in the cultivation manual and correct it, making it refine spiritual energy in the most perfect state.

The stronger the spiritual sense, the more parts of the body it could inspect. Once Foundation Establishment succeeded, this spiritual sense could even leave the body and inspect the outside world.

Many spells that broke through falsehoods and illusions were based on spiritual sense.

And Chen Mobai had only just had his spiritual sense stimulated now. He could only inspect his own Dantian Sea of Qi and feel the fluctuations and rotation of his spiritual energy.

This rotation of spiritual energy was something he had heard Qingping mention in class. Having spiritual energy operate in this way could help condense and refine it. However, he had not had spiritual sense before; although he could also control his spiritual energy to turn, he had not been clear on the specific situation.

Today, when he looked with his spiritual sense, he discovered that this rotation of spiritual energy was as slow as a tortoise's crawl, and the trajectory it formed was not round at all, but a flattened, irregular shape.

"After I truly refine spiritual sense in the future, I'll have to correct it properly."

Chen Mobai murmured to himself.

Thinking this, he opened the Auxiliary Cultivation Software again and entered the keywords "spiritual sense" and "Qi Cultivation stage" to search.

There were fewer results this time, only two pages, a scant dozen or so posts.

After all, those who could post and upload on the Auxiliary Cultivation Software were at least Foundation Establishment Cultivators. As for content on cultivating spiritual sense during Qi Cultivation, by that time, they basically would no longer care about it.

Fortunately, with such a large base of people, there were still some Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had researched the tricks to cultivating spiritual sense during the Qi Cultivation stage for the sake of juniors or disciples.

In order not to waste the effects of the Startling Dream Melody, Chen Mobai just so happened to be unable to cultivate spiritual energy, so he simply studied these posts seriously.

After reading them, his brows furrowed slightly.

In two pages of posts, there were actually two routes for cultivating spiritual sense.

One was the orthodox method of cultivating the body and nurturing the nature, fostering the mind and spirit until thought power blossomed, naturally and harmoniously becoming spiritual sense. Those who took this route could go to the National Library to exchange for the "Nurturing Thought God Forging Technique."

The other was slightly more radical. It used a specially made Incense of Thought to draw one's mind and spirit out of the body.

This route believed that a person's spiritual sense was innately in the depths of the brain, but because acquired qi entered the body, it had no choice but to seal itself. But spiritual sense was the master of the human body and was lively by nature. It only needed a little trigger to be reactivated.

But Qi Cultivation Cultivators had weak spiritual sense and could not remain out of the body for long periods like Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Therefore, when cultivating with this method, someone needed to be at the side. Once one's mind and spirit were drawn out of the body, the Incense of Thought had to be extinguished immediately.

After several activations of leaving the body, a cultivator would naturally grasp spiritual sense. It counted as a long-term stimulation cultivation method. The cultivators who believed in this path gave it a very unique name: Spiritual Sense Fitness.

"Isn't this just listening to the Startling Dream Melody every day? But listening to music is enjoyment, while this is more like torture."

Chen Mobai understood instantly. Then he checked this stimulation cultivation method in the National Library and found that it was actually included there too, named the "Spirit-Stirring Heaven-Wandering Technique." However, exchanging for it required Foundation Establishment Cultivator authority.

Clearly, the Immortal Sect did not advocate it much. So unlike the orthodox "Nurturing Thought God Forging Technique," which any Qi Cultivation Cultivator could download for 1,000 Points.

Chen Mobai rather liked exercise, but it was only liking; he had never put it into action.

Relying on his high authority, he looked at the table of contents and outline of the "Spirit-Stirring Heaven-Wandering Technique" and discovered that the Incense of Thought it refined was actually a Second Grade medicinal pill. He, who had originally been a little tempted, immediately gave up.

For Second Grade medicinal pills, even in the Immortal Sect, one needed real-name authentication as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator before one could buy them. They counted as controlled items.

It seemed that this "Spirit-Stirring Heaven-Wandering Technique" was a method used by families with Foundation Establishment elders to open spiritual sense for their juniors.

Chen Mobai thought for a while and decided to go do today's proper business.

He got up and opened his schoolbag. Inside were ancient-style clothes and a wig, decorations he had ordered online that were close to the style of ancient times.

Actually, these things had arrived yesterday, but only today, after sending Chen Xinglan to Crimson Cloud Academy, did he have the chance to try them on.

The sizes were all fine. Wearing ancient-style clothes and then putting on the crown-bound wig, he was also a graceful, handsome youth.

He looked at his outfit in the small mirror in his hand. After confirming there were no flaws, Chen Mobai took a deep breath and opened the Water Mansion's array.

He was finally going to set foot on the land of the Sky River Realm.