Mastering Spiritual Sense

After Chen Mobai finished buying the books, he left South Stream Market.

After he left, two immortal cultivators walked out from the shadows of the street.

"Should we chase him?"

"He Qun said he's at least Qi Cultivation Level 6, and he might be hiding his cultivation. He's a Late Qi Cultivation cultivator."

"Then we won't chase."

"Let's wait a bit longer. Judging by his clothes, he might be from a major sect. The two of us finally managed to settle down in this market. It isn't worth exposing ourselves for twenty Spirit Stones."

Because he was carrying a huge sum this time, Chen Mobai did not return to the city from Wild Mountain. Instead, he returned to the Water Mansion.

He sat upright on the prayer mat, looking at the twenty-two crystal-clear, neatly cut Spirit Stones laid out before him, and felt happier than ever before.

If he brought these things back to Earth Origin Star and exchanged them at the bank, they would be worth two hundred and twenty thousand Merit Points.

However, Chen Mobai definitely would not send these Spirit Stones to the National Bank. Wouldn't that be openly inviting the Immortal Sect to investigate him for the crime of possessing a huge amount of property from an unclear source?

He picked up two pieces and put them into his schoolbag. The rest he stored in the Water Mansion.

Before going home, he also did not forget to water the Green Wutong Sapling.

He felt that the leaf bud was a little greener than before. Perhaps it was because the spiritual energy here in the Water Mansion was decent.

Thinking this, Chen Mobai pressed the return button and, amid flickering Silver Light, returned to his room.

Good news came one after another.

The next day, while he was at school, he received a message from Qing Nü.

She said that all the Medicinal Ingredients had finished cold extraction, and only the final step of blending remained.

Chen Mobai had originally thought he would be very nervous, but he discovered that he was surprisingly calm. This was probably what people meant when they said that when a man's wallet was thick, his confidence was full.

When one's time came, heaven and earth lent their strength together.

In the school's Cultivation Room, Chen Mobai cultivated the "Nurturing Thought God Forging Technique" as usual, and discovered that, without realizing it, he had actually broken through the bottleneck. The seed he had visualized broke through the soil and sent out a single green bud.

In that instant, he finally grasped the transformation of his mind and spirit completely.

"This is Spiritual Sense!"

Because he had sensed it once in advance, Chen Mobai was very calm this time. In the Cultivation Room, he looked inward at himself. His multicolored spiritual power slowly rotated like a vortex, except that this vortex was somewhat crooked and not round enough.

After mastering Spiritual Sense, he could actively correct the circulation of spiritual power within his body.

According to the trick Venerable Qingping had explained, Chen Mobai slowly sent his spiritual power into his dantian in a clockwise manner, then used this to straighten the originally skewed vortex. After one full circulation, the vortex, which had originally had somewhat angular edges, finally no longer protruded so much.

He felt that after a little more time, he could completely shape the Spiritual Power Vortex in his dantian. At that time, when the Five Elements Technique circulated, it would automatically help refine his spiritual power, greatly saving him some effort.

According to the Five Elements Technique courseware, if this Spiritual Power Vortex was shaped, it could even increase the probability of Foundation Establishment.

Chen Mobai treated Venerable Qingping's words as a jade tablet and golden rule. Now that he had mastered Spiritual Sense and could carry out this step, he sensed it for a moment and felt that his spiritual power did seem to have been refined a tiny bit.

"When the Qi Replenishing Spirit Water is finished blending and I give it to Dad, I'll tell him about this too."

As he murmured to himself, the alarm on his phone rang. His time in the school Cultivation Room was up.

Chen Mobai got up and left.

"I heard the representative from Sky Mending Dao Academy arrived today."

"They say the representative from Wuqi Dao Academy is that Master Bian."

"Then among the Four Great Dao Academies, only Goumang and Kunpeng are left. But they should be here soon too. After all, arranging the contents of their own entrance exams also takes quite a lot of time."

He had just walked out when a large group of students whose time had also ended gathered in twos and threes. After finishing their cultivation, they exchanged the bits of gossip they had heard.

"I finally reached Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer!"

A shout filled with joy rang out beside his ear. Chen Mobai glanced over and discovered that it was actually his own Deskmate, Lu Hongsheng.

"Impressive, impressive."

"Congratulations, you've finally escaped the bottom."

Two female classmates in the class teased him, drawing a burst of scolding from Lu Hongsheng.

"Getting fat early doesn't count as fat; getting fat later crushes the bed. I'm a case of building thickly and bursting forth thinly, breaking through by letting nature take its course. Unlike someone else, who still needed to chug pills to break through, with a flimsy, floating foundation. Who knows whether he's even stabilized his realm by now."

As Lu Hongsheng spoke, his gaze intentionally or unintentionally looked toward Chen Mobai. He had never been convinced by the latter breaking through to Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer during the vacation.

During this period, he had been holding in a breath the whole time, just thinking about proving himself.

Moreover, he believed in the no-pill-popping school of thought, believing that the spiritual power cultivated this way was pure, and that in the future, during Foundation Establishment, when spiritual power transformed into liquid, it would be much easier and would increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment.

"Old Chen, I broke through my realm today. Want to go eat something good together?"

Seeing that Chen Mobai was ignoring him, Lu Hongsheng immediately came over on purpose, clearly wanting to show off.

However, Chen Mobai's realm was higher now. He had already mastered Spiritual Sense. As long as his spiritual power was replenished, he could easily step into Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer. Toward this group of classmates who were still lingering in mid-stage Qi Cultivation, he suddenly felt an indescribable estrangement.

"Another day. I made plans with a friend today."

As Chen Mobai spoke, he turned to leave.

"A friend? Besides us classmates, you have other friends? I'm happy today. Come along."

Lu Hongsheng walked over, wanting to block Chen Mobai.

However, the latter's footsteps did not stop at all. The spiritual power of Qi Cultivation Level 6 was released, instantly crushing Lu Hongsheng's Aura, which he had just reached Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer and was wantonly releasing outward.

"How is that possible..."

After his Aura was crushed, Lu Hongsheng, who was blocking the way, became unsteady on his feet and staggered.

Chen Mobai reached out and pressed a hand on his shoulder, steadying him.

"When you've just broken through, your emotions can't fluctuate too much. Otherwise, it's very easy to fall back down again."

After saying this, he released his Deskmate and left this cultivation room.

"When did this guy break through to Qi Cultivation Level 6!"

Lu Hongsheng stood where he was, murmuring to himself, his face full of disbelief.

"Qi Cultivation Level 6!? Maybe more than that."

Song Zheng walked out. He had also just come out from this batch of Cultivation Rooms and had originally planned to leave, but he had not expected to see a good show.

Others might not have noticed it, but he was already at Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer, and he had sensed the active fluctuations of Spiritual Sense on Chen Mobai.

This was a sign of having mastered Spiritual Sense, representing that the bottleneck of Late Qi Cultivation had already been broken through.

"It seems that in the class, besides Yan Bingxuan, there's another one worth paying attention to."

Song Zheng thought of how Chen Mobai often went in and out of Old Man Ding's office. He pondered for a moment, then turned and went to find his own teacher.