Psionic Crystal Card

After a few words with his mother, Chen Lie sat down on the sofa in front of the living room TV.

He appeared to be watching a martial arts expert on TV explain martial arts, but in his heart, he was secretly contemplating how to make money.

Without money or martial arts resources, even with the most advanced martial arts knowledge, he couldn't quickly increase his blood energy. After all, a clever cook can't make a meal without ingredients.

Just as Chen Lie was lost in thought, the front door of the house was suddenly pushed open.

Chen Xingyao walked in, furious, and slammed the door shut with a bang.

Feng Yuelan found Chen Xingyao's strange behavior odd and stepped forward to ask, "What's wrong, Yaoyao?"

"Don't ask me, it's so annoying."

Saying this, Chen Xingyao walked to the sofa and sat down heavily.

"What's really going on?"

Seeing Chen Xingyao like this, Feng Yuelan couldn't help but press further.

Chen Xingyao couldn't help but say, "I told you not to ask, can you please stop bothering me?"

Seeing this, Feng Yuelan could only shake her head and sigh before going to the kitchen to busy herself.

Sitting on the sofa, Chen Xingyao felt that nothing was going right. Her gaze fell on Chen Lie.

"Why are you playing the TV so loud? It's disturbing me!"

Seeing this, Chen Lie simply turned off the TV.

"I told you to turn down the volume, why did you turn off the TV?"

Chen Xingyao glared at Chen Lie with her big eyes, her voice much louder than usual.

"I'm going back to my room, you do as you please."

Chen Lie threw the TV remote directly at Chen Xingyao and then got up and returned to his room.

"I'm so angry, ahhhhh!"

Chen Lie's attitude made Chen Xingyao, who was already in a bad mood, stomp her feet.

During dinner that evening, Chen Lie's family of three sat at the dining table.

After Feng Yuelan served the dishes, she also sat down.

She saw that Chen Xingyao's mood had stabilized a bit, so she asked again, "Yaoyao, what happened to you today that made you so angry?"

Chen Xingyao was still full of displeasure and said, "A classmate in my class, who always had similar grades to me, suddenly learned a martial art, and her blood energy soared, leaving me far behind. From now on, I'll be second in the class!"

"Sigh, Mom thought it was something serious, but it's just this.

It's okay, Mom will sign you up for a martial arts guidance class too, so you can learn a martial art."

Chen Xingyao pouted and said, "Martial arts aren't that easy to learn, are they?

She has a sister in the elite class, and usually, she can let her sister teach her the basics of martial arts. Once she's learned the basics, she can then sign up for a martial arts guidance class.

If you directly sign up for a martial arts guidance class at a martial arts school, you might not even learn a martial art even if you spend hundreds of thousands of Star Dollars.

No matter what, the gap has already widened. It will definitely be extremely difficult to catch up now."

"Then it's also good for us to be second," Feng Yuelan said.

"I want to be second! I will definitely train harder from now on and strive to catch up!"

Saying this, Chen Xingyao took a fierce bite of her food.

Chen Lie looked at his sister with admiration. In the path of martial arts, this kind of unyielding spirit is the most rare and precious.

After dinner, Chen Lie returned to his room and sat cross-legged on the bed, cultivating the star observation technique from the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter.

After several nights of contemplation, the first star of the "Ghost Constellation" four stars in his sea of consciousness began to emit a faint glow.

"One of the four stars of the Ghost Constellation in the Seven Mansions has finally been lit."

Chen Lie opened his eyes and muttered to himself.

"But without the aid of the Spirit Nourishing Flower, the progress of my mental power is simply too slow."

He was a little troubled. Martial arts resources were one thing; he could think of a way and work harder to obtain some.

But this Spirit Nourishing Flower was extremely scarce on Blue Star, something that money couldn't buy at all.

"The native Divine Sense Masters on Blue Star can't all be from wealthy backgrounds, can they? How did they get the Spirit Nourishing Flowers? I must find a way to figure this out!"

The cultivation of mental power cannot be neglected. According to the advanced martial arts concepts of the Central Galactic Empire, mental power cultivation can also be classified as a part of martial arts, and an indispensable part at that.

In this life, Chen Lie wanted to go further on the path of martial arts and see more distant scenery. Therefore, he had to build a strong and perfect foundation, just like the prodigies of the Central Galactic Empire.

In the early morning, Chen Lie did not go to school because school did not offer him much help.

Before he could even leave his room, Chen Lie's communicator suddenly rang.

He picked up the communicator and saw that it was Wang Hui calling, so he chose to answer.

"Holy crap, Chen Lie, you actually got promoted to the Elite Class?"

Wang Hui's voice came from the communicator.

"You found out?"

"Of course I did. Everyone in the Green Bubble student group is discussing it right now, saying you've been hiding your strength. Is it true?"

"I haven't been hiding my strength; my blood essence value just happened to increase over these past few days."

"How is that possible? The group says your blood essence value broke 6. Can you really raise it that much in just a few days?"

"Of course. I have no reason to lie to you."

"Fine, fine. I'll be done digesting the medicinal power of my Blood Essence Fluid soon. When I am, we brothers should get together. You can tell me what kind of miracle elixir that white-haired Divine Sense Master of yours gave you to make your blood essence value skyrocket like that."

"Sure!"

After hanging up, Chen Lie put away his communicator and headed to the bathroom to wash his face and freshen up.

As he walked into the living room, Chen Lie suddenly heard the sound of conversation.

Seeing Chen Lie, Feng Yuelan, who was sitting on the living room sofa, stood up and said, "Chen Lie, come over and greet Auntie Liu."

Only then did Chen Lie notice a middle-aged woman sitting on their sofa.

He recognized this woman; her name was Liu Lianqing. She had been their neighbor for over a decade, usually appearing amiable on the surface but often engaging in petty comparisons behind their backs.

"Hello, Auntie Liu."

Chen Lie walked over to the sofa and offered a greeting as his mother had instructed.

"Oh, Chen Lie? I haven't looked at you closely in a few months, and you've grown quite handsome. So, how is it? Still haven't broken 1 in blood essence value?"

Liu Lianqing looked at Chen Lie with a beaming smile.

"He has already broken 1," Feng Yuelan interjected from the side.

"Hmm, finally broke 1. It's a pity, though—a bit late. With only two hundred days left until the college entrance exam, you can forget about the Yunchuan Province Key Martial Arts University. But that's alright; if you work hard from now on, there's still hope for getting into a decent ordinary martial arts university."

Liu Lianqing shook her head, her tone filled with feigned pity.

Hearing this, Feng Yuelan offered an unnatural smile in response.

"I wonder what brings you to our home today, Auntie Liu?"

Chen Lie chose to ignore Liu Lianqing's backhanded compliments.

"Oh, I was just about to tell your mother. It's about your brother Zhenming. You know he got into the Yunchuan Province Key Martial Arts University, right?

He's made great progress at university lately and has successfully broken through to become a martial artist. As it happens, he's taken leave to come home for a couple of days, so your uncle and I are planning to host a banquet to celebrate his promotion. We came specifically to invite you all."

"Zhenming has promoted to a martial artist?" Feng Yuelan couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, a mentor at the Yunchuan Province Key Martial Arts University thinks highly of Zhenming and helped him apply for most of the resources needed for his breakthrough. Zhenming is such a worry-free child; he didn't even cost the family much money to reach this level."

Liu Lianqing wore a look of immense pride.

"And when is this banquet for Zhenming's promotion being held?" Feng Yuelan asked.

"In three days. I'll have Zhenming's father come over to invite you properly then. Make sure Chen Lie's father comes back for it, too. Your whole family must attend."

Once she finished speaking, Liu Lianqing stood up to leave. Despite Feng Yuelan's polite attempts to make her stay, Liu Lianqing insisted she still had other families to visit.

With that, Feng Yuelan saw Liu Lianqing to the door and returned to the living room.

Just then, Chen Xingyao walked out of her room.

"Hmph, holding a banquet just for getting into Yunchuan Martial Arts University, and now another one for breaking through to martial artist? Their family really has too much time on their hands. And asking Dad to come back just for some pathetic banquet? How can they be so shameless?"

As soon as Chen Xingyao reached the living room, she couldn't help but grumble.

Clearly, she had been hiding in her room eavesdropping the whole time.

"Your father won't be coming back just for a banquet," Feng Yuelan said.

"Of course he shouldn't! He Zhenming is almost twenty years old; I don't see what there is to brag about! Mom, let's get this straight: I am not going to that banquet."

"Fine, fine. If you don't want to go, I'll just go by myself."

As she spoke, Feng Yuelan took an exquisite box out of the coffee table drawer.

"Yaoyao, these are the Combat Technique Crystal Cards your father just mailed over. There are three sets, six cards in total. Use them whenever you feel the time is right."

"Wow, that's great!"

Chen Xingyao hurried over and took the Combat Technique Crystal Cards from her mother's hands.

She had already practiced the techniques quite a bit; she believed that with these three sets of cards, she would finally be able to master them.

Clutching the cards, Chen Xingyao couldn't wait to head to the home training room to experiment.

"Psionic Crystal Cards?"

Chen Lie looked at the box in Chen Xingyao's hands, lost in thought.

These items had been obsolete outside the stars for hundreds of years, yet they were incredibly popular here on Blue Star.

"Mom, how much did these three sets of Combat Technique Crystal Cards cost in Star Dollars?" Chen Lie asked.

"About twenty thousand Star Dollars, I think? I'm not entirely sure of the exact amount," Feng Yuelan replied.

Chen Lie nodded. He seemed to have found a path to making money quickly.

Psionic Crystal Cards contained a large amount of spiritual energy. It was obvious that the main step in manufacturing them was for a Divine Sense Master to imbue them with that energy.

Chen Lie didn't need to think twice to know that Divine Sense Masters on Blue Star must be extremely rare, as the planet lacked the very soil required to nurture them.

The scarcity of Divine Sense Masters guaranteed the high price of Psionic Crystal Cards. Since Chen Lie had already awakened his Divine Sense and condensed spiritual energy within his sea of consciousness, he was fully capable of inscribing that energy into the cards himself.