Divine Sense Master

Soon after, the warehouse manager hurried over.

The moment he saw Zhao Jinglan, he immediately walked up to her and bowed slightly. "Miss!"

Zhao Jinglan looked coldly at the warehouse manager and asked, "Tell me, the group's new medicinal solution is at a critical stage of development. Did you know that?"

The warehouse manager could tell Zhao Jinglan had not come with good intentions and hurriedly replied, "I... I knew."

"The document I issued yesterday—'To prevent the formula for the new medicinal solution from being leaked, the group will not receive any outside visitors for the next half month'—did your warehouse department receive it?"

"We... we received it..." The warehouse manager wiped away his sweat.

Zhao Jinglan said coldly, "Then explain to me why two people used visitor cards from the warehouse department to enter the group building and were sitting openly in the reception room."

"This... this, I truly don't know anything about it. Please give me five minutes, Miss. I'll investigate immediately."

After saying that, the warehouse manager saw that Zhao Jinglan did not object and immediately hurried away.

Not long after, the warehouse manager returned to the first-floor lobby, bringing along Wang Hui's cousin, Meng Jing.

Meng Jing's face was filled with panic.

Since he had been on leave yesterday and had not come to the group, he naturally did not know that upper management had issued a document barring outside visitors. Otherwise, he would never have dared get Wang Hui a visitor card.

Now that the highest level of Sunlight Group was holding him accountable, he had a feeling that he would have a hard time keeping this job.

"Miss, I have thoroughly investigated the matter.

The person in charge was a supervisor from the warehouse department named Meng Jing. Because his cousin wanted to purchase first-stage vitality supplements at the group's internal discount price, Meng Jing abused his managerial privileges to use the invalid purchase qualifications of several former employees to buy supplements produced by the group at cost, then gave his cousin a warehouse visitor card and had him wait in the reception room.

Furthermore, I have confirmed that Meng Jing resold twenty jin of Raw Exotic Beast Meat to his cousin's friend.

The supplements and Raw Exotic Beast Meat Meng Jing obtained through his abuse of privilege are all here."

As he spoke, the warehouse manager placed the illicit goods before Zhao Jinglan.

Zhao Jinglan glanced at the goods and gave a cold laugh. "Big rats, big rats, do not eat our millet. I never expected the rats inside the group to have become so rampant.

Meng Jing, warehouse department supervisor, abused his authority for personal gain and resold group assets. Notify Human Resources. Dismiss him from his post and transfer him to the judicial authorities. From now on, none of his direct descendants for three generations may be hired.

Warehouse manager Xie Cheng failed in supervision. Issue him one internal group warning and dock half a year's salary."

Zhao Jinglan's words struck Meng Jing's ears like a thunderclap.

The job his father had spent millions of Star Dollars and countless connections to secure for him was gone?

Meng Jing could not help thinking of the proud look on his wife's face whenever relatives and friends enviously mentioned his job at Sunlight Group. He also thought of his child, who was about to apply to the Martial Arts Department.

Nearly forty years old, he had already become the backbone of his family. Now that he had lost his job, if he fell, could he still afford to support his child's martial arts training?

How was he supposed to explain this to his parents and wife?

Within Sunlight Group, Executive President Zhao Jinglan was the law. Since she had just said, "Dismiss him from his post and transfer him to the judicial authorities," would he still face prison time?

Meng Jing was utterly disheartened.

The warehouse manager was also trembling with fear.

Having half a year's salary docked meant little to him, but a single internal group warning would prevent him from receiving another promotion for the next ten years. Of course, he had never held much hope for promotion anyway, but if he received two internal group warnings within a year, he would be demoted.

"Security, why haven't you thrown the two people in the reception room out yet?"

At that moment, a senior executive in a suit spoke up.

"Yes."

After responding, the two security guards rushed toward the reception room, intending to seize Chen Lie and Wang Hui.

Chen Lie stood up, walked to the side door at the back of the reception room, pushed it open, and quickly headed toward Zhao Jinglan.

When he reached Zhao Jinglan, Chen Lie said, "Water too pure has no fish. A massive corporation with hundreds of thousands of employees cannot possibly be free of all filth and corruption.

As a manager, you need to be able to tolerate some grit. Sometimes, turning a blind eye is more conducive to maintaining the company's internal ecological balance than being utterly impartial.

So, Miss Zhao, why not show some leniency in this matter?"

Zhao Jinglan swept her eyes over Chen Lie from head to toe. Finding nothing unusual about him, she parted her red lips and said, "Security."

At Zhao Jinglan's command, seven or eight guards around them began walking toward Chen Lie.

The guard closest to Chen Lie quickly reached his side, grabbed him, and started dragging him toward the entrance.

As for Wang Hui, he had long since been seized by two guards. Looking utterly dejected, he was carried toward the entrance like a chick.

Chen Lie did not resist when the guard grabbed him and followed him to the lobby entrance.

Just as the guard was about to throw him out, he turned his head and calmly said to Zhao Jinglan, "Your Mental Power cultivation has gone down the wrong path. Let me guess—over the past year, every time you circulated your Mental Power, you felt as though your head were splitting apart, in such agony that you wished you were dead?"

Zhao Jinglan, who had already turned to leave, immediately stopped when she heard Chen Lie's words.

She spun around sharply. "Wait!"

"Bring him back!"

The guards stared in stunned confusion and released Chen Lie.

Chen Lie adjusted his collar and returned to Zhao Jinglan.

The instant he had seen Zhao Jinglan in the reception room, Chen Lie had recognized that she was a Divine Sense Master.

A Divine Sense Master, fully known as a Mental Power Adept, walked a path of cultivation that could touch the soul.

Even in the Central Galactic Empire, Divine Sense Masters were an exceedingly noble profession, much less on martial arts-starved Blue Star. Calling them one in ten thousand was no exaggeration.

Zhao Jinglan examined Chen Lie again and asked, "You know?"

"Of course I know."

"Then... can you help me solve it?"

A flicker of hope flashed through Zhao Jinglan's eyes.

"If I couldn't solve it, I wouldn't have brought it up."

Zhao Jinglan snorted coldly. "Why should I believe you?"

Chen Lie said, "You don't have to believe me. Perhaps someone on Blue Star can solve your problem, but they definitely won't be in East River Province.

And even if you found someone capable of solving it, you might not be able to afford to hire them."

After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Jinglan said to the group of suited executives behind her, "Suspend the punishment against warehouse department supervisor Meng Jing for now. Change it to retention under observation."

"Yes, Miss!"

Zhao Jinglan looked at Chen Lie again. "Come to my office."

Chen Lie nodded and followed Zhao Jinglan into the elevator.

Meng Jing and Wang Hui looked at each other.

After a while, Meng Jing finally asked, "A-Hui, what exactly is your friend's background?"

Wang Hui slapped his forehead. "Background? He's a student, a Martial Arts Student! And he goes to a Provincial Key High School!"

Meng Jing had worked at Sunlight Group for more than ten years, while Zhao Jinglan had only served as its executive president for three years. Yet during those three years, Zhao Jinglan had always kept her word and shown no favoritism. Her sudden reversal of his punishment would definitely leave everyone in the group stunned.

It seemed he truly had hope of keeping his job.

Meanwhile, Chen Lie followed Zhao Jinglan to the president's office on the twenty-eighth floor.

Once they arrived, Zhao Jinglan closed the door, had Chen Lie sit down, and seated herself across from him.

"Go on. How do you intend to help me solve my problem?"

Chen Lie said, "Before asking how I will solve your problem, you should at least let me understand what your problem is."

Zhao Jinglan nodded. "What do you want to know?"

"Tell me, when did you successfully awaken your Divine Sense?"

Zhao Jinglan considered for a moment before answering, "Ten years ago, when I was seventeen."

Chen Lie gave an "Oh" and asked again, "Then when did you become a First-Rank Divine Sense Master?"

"Seven years ago, when I was twenty."

"I roughly understand your situation now. There are two reasons why circulating your Mental Power causes splitting headaches.

"First, your Divine Sense aptitude is insufficient. You awakened your Divine Sense at seventeen but only became a First-Rank Divine Sense Master at twenty. That nearly three-year gap proves that you simply are not suited to the path of a Divine Sense Master."

"My aptitude is insufficient?"

Looking at the solemn-faced Chen Lie, Zhao Jinglan could not help finding it amusing. "Do you even know what you're saying?"

"What? You still think your aptitude is good?" Chen Lie looked somewhat puzzled.

In his previous life, he had never seen a living Divine Sense Master on Blue Star, so naturally, he did not know Blue Star's standards for judging Divine Sense aptitude.

But in Taia Star Province of the Central Galactic Empire, taking three years to go from awakening Divine Sense to breaking through to First-Rank Divine Sense Master was considered exceptionally poor aptitude.

"Enough!" Zhao Jinglan said coldly. "If you intend to blame everything on my inadequate aptitude, then there is no need for us to continue this conversation."

Chen Lie remained calm and continued, "Setting aptitude aside, the main reason for your condition is that you neglected the fundamentals in pursuit of superficial gains while cultivating Mental Power.

"If I'm not mistaken, when you look inward into your Sea of Consciousness now, there are two clusters of Mental Power.

"This is because, while cultivating, you greedily sought to increase your Mental Power quickly and deliberately gathered it in a second Sea of Consciousness. Doing so doubled the speed of your cultivation. I'm sure you experienced that yourself at the time.

"Ordinarily, this would not be a problem, as long as your aptitude allowed you to merge the two clusters of Mental Power into one. But clearly, with your aptitude, you cannot do that.

"Your second Sea of Consciousness has now developed enough to oppose the Mental Power in your primary Sea of Consciousness, causing your Mental Power to become chaotic. That is why you feel as though your head is splitting apart whenever you circulate it."

Hearing Chen Lie's analysis, Zhao Jinglan froze slightly. When she examined her Sea of Consciousness inwardly, it was indeed exactly as Chen Lie had described.

"Then how do I solve this problem?"

Chen Lie said, "There are two methods. The first gives immediate results: I intervene personally and help you sort out and guide your chaotic Mental Power.

"The second method is for me to teach you a Divine Sense circulation technique. However, at first, you will need to endure the headaches while circulating your Mental Power. Within two months at most, your headaches will lessen or even disappear."

Zhao Jinglan asked suspiciously, "You have the ability to help me?"

"Of course. But if you want me to act, you'll have to pay a price."

"What price?"

Chen Lie said, "Two jin of Spirit Nourishing Flower."

Zhao Jinglan narrowed her eyes slightly. "Do you know what two jin of Spirit Nourishing Flower means?"

"Of course I do. Blue Star itself cannot grow Spirit Nourishing Flower.

"These Spirit Nourishing Flowers must have been bought from the Outer Stars at a high price. The Outer Stars may not lack Spirit Nourishing Flower, but there are countless remote and impoverished planets like Blue Star that need them. After distribution, Blue Star can probably purchase no more than tens of millions of jin a year at most.

"With your social standing, you probably cannot obtain much Spirit Nourishing Flower in a year, can you?"