Awakening Spiritual Intelligence
Ma Feifei hadn't expected the Sound of the Great Dao to produce such a magnificent effect. The entire world was enveloped by the Sound of the Great Dao, even the nearly one million cultivators outside Li Shulin were affected.
Everyone was bathed in the rain of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. The rain of energy touched their bodies, transformed into Spiritual Power, and flowed through them, colliding and merging with that mysterious aura, slowly gathering in their dantian.
"It seems that mysterious energy has merged into my dantian!" A cultivator, sensing the abnormality within his body, couldn't help but exclaim.
"I felt it too." Another cultivator's excitement was palpable.
"I feel the same way..."
"Me too..."
Such sounds echoed throughout the desolate area north of the Zhenbei.
However, their voices gradually ceased, for the Sound of the Great Dao continued, and the words of the Tao Te Ching continuously entered their ears through the Sound of the Great Dao, calming their minds and spirits.
This voice extinguished the excitement and surprise in everyone's hearts, bringing them back to calm, and immersing them in the world of the Sound of the Great Dao.
Compared to the onlookers on the periphery, Li Shulin and the 3,700 people inside the Pokémon competition venue did not react at all. Each of them closed their eyes, rested their hands lightly on their laps, and listened quietly as Ma Feifei read the Tao Te Ching.
Twenty miles west of the Pokémon arena, the Divine Beast Sky-reaching Ape Monkey lay quietly on the ground, idly scratching the ground with its hands. The Sound of the Great Dao, carrying the entire text of the Tao Te Ching, drifted into its ears, causing it to suddenly stop its movements. Its bulging eyes rolled around twice, revealing a curious expression as it looked at Ma Feifei in the sky above the Pokémon arena.
Gradually, the expression on the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey's face began to change. First, it was puzzled, then it suddenly understood, then it was still confused, and finally it was extremely excited.
"Ding ding ding~"
The golden characters on the back of the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey began to emit wisps of golden light, which then transformed into streams of light that shot into the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey's body. Without the suppression of the small golden characters, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey was able to get up from the ground. However, it did not leave but squatted on the ground, staring at Ma Feifei with Covet eyes, sometimes nodding and sometimes scratching its head, showing a very human-like demeanor.
No one noticed that the Divine Beast had broken free of its restraints; they were all immersed in the Sound of the Great Dao, including Ma Feifei.
But among nearly a million people, one person remained clear-headed: Yun Qingyang. From the moment the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey broke free of its restraints, Yun Qingyang had noticed it. However, she had no intention of subduing the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, as her goal was to protect Ma Feifei from interference. For the single-minded Yun Qingyang, as long as the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey didn't cause trouble for Ma Feifei, she certainly wouldn't meddle.
However, some attention was definitely focused on the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, so Yun Qingyang also saw the scene of the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey squatting on the ground looking up at Ma Feifei.
"My father's memories say that among the Ten Divine Beast, the Stone Monkey is the most intelligent and cunning. However, the Stone Monkey is born with low intelligence and must be awakened by someone to achieve its status as one of the Ten Divine Beast; otherwise, it is no different from an ordinary Divine Beast."
"The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey is a descendant of the Stone Monkey, and lives alone deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, so it is likely that it has never developed intelligence."
"But now..." Yun Qingyang looked at the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey with curiosity. Its eyes revealed a thirst for knowledge that was immediately apparent. Its fingers sliding on the ground and its body gesturing wildly from time to time all showed the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey's human-like side.
It seems that the Tao Te Ching is unlocking its own wisdom.
Thinking of this, Yun Qingyang also looked up at Ma Feifei, craned his neck to think for a while, and then imitated him in a serious manner. He closed his eyes slightly, relaxed his whole body, and tried his best to listen to the Tao Te Ching brought by the Sound of the Great Dao, silently reciting in his heart: I also want to become smarter...
If Ma Feifei knew that the Tao Te Ching could actually awaken the intelligence of divine Divine Beast, he would definitely stop giving sermons immediately and seal away this skill forever.
Are you kidding me? If Yun Qingyang's IQ were to increase, would Ma Feifei even have a chance of survival?
Of course, Ma Feifei was unaware of this; on the contrary, he was deeply engrossed in it, becoming more and more enthusiastic and absorbed in the reading.
"Phew~"
A gentle breeze swept across the land, and everyone felt a warm coolness, causing them to shudder.
"Stomp~"
At that moment, the clouds beneath the 3,700 cultivators sitting on them suddenly swayed upwards, rising a full meter in height.
At the same time, they began to be bathed in a faint golden light, which lingered around them.
By this time, the surrounding cultivators had recovered from that state, and each of them was sensing the energy within their own bodies. Almost everyone had made some progress, and those with lower cultivation levels had even made a leap, which delighted them greatly.
This is truly an unexpected stroke of good fortune! However, everyone's attention immediately turned to the 3,700 important figures. If those outside who couldn't get in have gained so much, how much must those inside have benefited?
"I can't tell anymore; their auras are completely obscured by that golden light," a powerful Spirit Emperor who hadn't been able to enter said in a deep voice.
Of the three thousand seven hundred important figures, he couldn't see through the fluctuations of Spiritual Power within any of them. The reason for this was the golden aura surrounding them, which seemed to be able to block everything.
"Look, they seem to be sitting a bit higher than before!" a keen-eyed cultivator said, frowning.
The three thousand seven hundred people were originally sitting on the clouds, which were one meter above the ground, but now they are all two meters above the ground, having risen one meter.
"Phew~"
A gentle breeze drifted by again. This time, the cultivators outside Li Shulin didn't feel anything. However, they all sensed something from the breeze and carefully watched the 3,700 people watching.
"Stomp~"
Another faint sound rang out, and this time the 3,700 people rose another meter, stopping at a height of three meters above the ground.
At the same time, the golden aura around them split into two, becoming two strands of golden aura that intertwined around them.
"There's definitely something wrong!" the cultivators thought to themselves as they witnessed this scene. Their expressions grew increasingly curious, as if they were eagerly anticipating what would happen next.
"Phew~"
The breeze continued, and with each gust, the 3,700 people would rise one meter simultaneously, and the golden aura around them would continue to disperse.
Just as the Tao Te Ching says: The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things.
The Sound of the Great Dao remains, the breeze remains, and the clouds continue to rise.
When they were about halfway up Ma Feifei in the sky, things finally changed.
"Phew~"
A gentle breeze blew again, but this time a full thousand fewer clouds rose. Of the three thousand seven hundred clouds, only two thousand seven hundred rose again, while the remaining one thousand remained in place.
The golden aura around the cultivators who went up continued to separate, while the number of those who didn't go up remained the same.
"It seems their gains have come to an end." Many practitioners who saw this scene guessed what the rising clouds represented: it represented each person's level of understanding of the Tao Te Ching. In other words, the practitioners on the clouds that had stopped rising had reached the end of their comprehension.