Now That Was a Real Find

In a short while, 12 Crystal Core were obtained, including two black Crystal Core and 10 ordinary Crystal Core of varying sizes.

Because of the power emanating from the Jing Wood Tapir, Illusion Beast within a radius of a thousand meters vanished instantly.

Holding the six Crystal Core in her hand, Ruan Liusu looked up at the dissipating Jing Wood Tapir above and couldn't help but say, "Chen Lie, what's the background of your Consciousness Spirit? It's too powerful!"

Once the power of Consciousness Spirit is revealed, it harvests Illusion Beast as easily as a sickle cutting leeks.

If he could continue to hunt Illusion Beast and obtain Crystal Core so easily, then even after arriving at Starry Sky University, Chen Lie wouldn't have to worry about cultivation resources. "Fortunately, it's a little stronger than Life-Type Consciousness Spirit," Chen Lie said.

"To cultivate Life-Type Consciousness Spirit is already an achievement of one in ten thousand geniuses in terms of divine sense. I haven't seen your Consciousness Spirit much in the Blue Star Consciousness Spirit Atlas," Ruan Liusu couldn't help but ask.

"That's normal. Blue Star is such a small place. The Blue Star's Consciousness Spirit Illustrated Handbook can't record many Consciousness Spirit." Chen Lie waved his hand.

"But the Blue Star's Consciousness Spirit Illustrated Handbook is an expanded version of the Canglan Star Domain's Consciousness Spirit Illustrated Handbook. Although it's a version from ten years ago, it should still contain more than ninety percent of the current Divine Consciousness Compendiums for the entire Canglan Star Domain," Ruan Liusu said.

"Oh? There's such an illustrated guide? How come I didn't know that?" Chen Lie asked in confusion.

"Almost every student in the Genius Class has one of these; they're not anything particularly valuable."

"They're all introductions to the classification of Consciousness Spirit, explaining what kind of Consciousness Sea World is suitable for creating what kind of Consciousness Spirit, and what methods should be used to create Consciousness Spirit. If you want, I can give you mine," Ruan Liusu said.

Chen Lie shook his head and said, "No need."

These are all basic things; Chen Lie doesn't need to waste time studying them.

"Keep the Crystal Core safe. The Illusion Beast here have all fled upon hearing the news. Let's find another place to hunt them again."

Ruan Liusu nodded and followed Chen Lie for another two kilometers.

In a place teeming with Illusion Beast, Chen Lie instructed Ruan Liusu to prepare, and the First Star God, Jing Wood Tapir, manifested once more.

An Primordial Ferocious Beast, its feet treading on a cluster of stars, reappeared in the sky.

This time, Ruan Liusu had made preparations in advance and carefully examined Chen Lie's Consciousness Spirit.

Chen Lie's Consciousness Spirit truly resembled the legendary divine beast Bian'an, but its appearance was even more Bian'an, though it only bore a seven or eight-tenths resemblance. Controlling Bian'an, Jing Wood Tapir Chen Lie no longer launched indiscriminate attacks on the surrounding Illusion Beast Illusion Beast, but instead attacked them one by one. Lightning flashed from Jing Wood Tapir's eyes, and its massive head moved in an instant; any Illusion Beast struck by the lightning cried out, its appearance suddenly becoming ferocious before quickly returning to a harmless, dying state.

Wherever the electric light emanating from Jing Wood Tapir's eyes swept, the Illusion Beast scattered like startled birds.

"Oh My God..."

Ruan Liusu involuntarily opened her mouth wide.

She had heard that Divine Sense Master could restrain Illusion Beast, but she thought that they could only gain some advantage when fighting Illusion Beast. She never expected that Divine Sense Master could do so much.

This was like harvesting leeks with a sickle; wherever the lightning shot from the eyes of Consciousness Spirit passed, the Illusion Beast were reduced to ashes.

"No! I've seen Divine Sense Master hunt Illusion Beast before, and they certainly have a huge advantage over Martial Artist, but it's never this exaggerated!" Ruan Liusu realized.

Therefore, the powerful one is not the Divine Sense Master, but Chen Lie. To be precise, the powerful one is Chen Lie's Consciousness Spirit, which resembles the divine beast Bian'an. Above the sky, the massive head of the Jing Wood Tapir turned, its divine eyes scanning the surrounding Illusion Beast like lightning. Some White Illusion Beast, about ten meters long, directly turned into Crystal Core and fell down.

Ruan Liusu couldn't imagine what would happen if Chen Lie were in the Wasteland of the Central Canglan Star Domain the Sumeru Illusion Realm, the place with the highest density of Illusion Beast. If he hunted Illusion Beast at this speed, wouldn't he be able to collect thousands of Crystal Core in a day?

At this speed, it's absolutely possible.

However, using Mental Power in this way must be very taxing, and it's impossible to maintain it for a long time, otherwise it would be too illogical.

"What are you all standing there for? Go forward and finish them off, don't let these dying Illusion Beast escape."

Seeing that Ruan Liusu was staring ahead and not moving for a long time, Chen Lie immediately urged her on.

"Oh, good!" Upon hearing this, Ruan Liusu immediately rushed forward, finishing off a Illusion Beast in one move while collecting its Crystal Core.

In less than ten minutes, more than a dozen Crystal Core were obtained.

Chen Lie recalled the Jing Wood Tapir after the surrounding Illusion Beast either died or fled.

After using it twice, he now roughly understands why he can directly manifest the Jing Wood Tapir in this Wasteland.

In the real world, only eighth-level Divine Sense Master can materialize their Mental Power and intervene in reality with their thoughts. This is because the heavy gravity of the planets in the real world restricts Divine Sense Master below the eighth-level Divine Sense Grandmaster.

In the Wasteland Sumeru Illusion Realm, there is no planetary gravity or spatial laws, which is why Consciousness Spirit can manifest.

"Chen Lie, this time it's 13 Crystal Core again, including one black Crystal Core."

Ruan Liusu approached Chen Lie and said.

Chen Lie grunted and said, "These Illusion Beast have extremely fast reaction speeds. If seven or eight people surround Illusion Beast and prevent it from escaping, at least thirty Illusion Beast can be hunted down at once."

"That's already quite impressive," Ruan Liusu asked. "Um... using your Mental Power like that must be very taxing on you, right?" "It's quite taxing; I can only maintain it for two or three hours at most."

The vast Consciousness Sea World composed of Chen Lie's 588 Fixed Star consumed very little of his Consciousness Spirit energy. Not to mention three hours, even a whole day would not be a great burden on him.

However, to avoid sounding too exaggerated, Chen Lie could only say it this way.

"To be able to sustain it for three hours is considered high energy expenditure?"

Ruan Liusu stared wide-eyed, unsure of what to say.

The truly powerful techniques are so exhausting that a single use can leave a person completely drained. Being able to use one two or three times in a battle is already considered impressive. To claim that sustaining such a technique for three hours is truly exhausting?

Ruan Liusu thought to herself: It seems that this method of manifesting Consciousness Spirit to hunt Illusion Beast is just a basic attack for Chen Lie.

"Your Consciousness Spirit must be extraordinary, right? I've searched through the entire Blue Star Consciousness Spirit Atlas in the Canglan Star Domain and I can't find many Consciousness Spirit stronger than yours. And in the Consciousness Spirit Illustrated Handbook, there is a type of Consciousness Spirit called Bian'an, which is seven or eight parts similar to yours. Could your Consciousness Spirit Consciousness Spirit be the divine beast Bian'an?" Ruan Liusu said in a low voice.

"You can guess it, just don't tell anyone."

Chen Lie casually gave a brief instruction.

In fact, Jing Wood Tapir was only one-seventh of his complete Consciousness Spirit. His true Consciousness Spirit was the Vermilion Bird Divine Image, one of the Four Heavenly Spirits, an innate deity, whose level was many times higher than Jing Wood Tapir's.

Even within the Central Galactic Empire, there are very few Consciousness Spirit who can rival the Vermilion Bird Divine Image.

The four celestial spirits— Azure Dragon Divine Image, White Tiger Divine Image, Vermilion Bird Divine Image, Black Tortoise Divine Image —are all at the same level, and it's impossible to say which is stronger. There is also a kind of Consciousness Spirit that Chen Lie knows, which is the Great Sun Golden Crow Divine Image is faintly stronger than the four celestial spirits.

The spiritual cultivation method that Great Sun Golden Crow Divine Image Mental Power, known as the Great Sun Refining Spirit Method, is hailed as the number one Mental Power cultivation method in the Central Galactic Empire. Unfortunately, Chen Lie had no chance to come into contact with it in his previous life.

However, despite this, the Great Sun Refining Spirit Method and the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter are both Mental Power cultivation methods of the same level. The Great Sun Golden Crow Divine Image may be slightly stronger, but ultimately it depends on the person cultivating the technique.

Furthermore, while Jing Wood Tapir can be considered a type of Li'an, it is not an ordinary Bian'an. It is an anomaly among Bian'an and is definitely stronger than the Du'an in the Consciousness Spirit Illustrated Handbook.

Ruan Liusu's heart was filled with turbulent waves. So, Chen Lie's talent in Mental Power far surpassed his talent in martial arts.

That should be the Blue Star University Mental Power Department, so why was it assigned to the Martial Way Department?

Thinking about these things, Ruan Liusu suddenly laughed foolishly.

Hehe, no wonder she took a liking to him. I didn't expect his Mental Power talent to be so amazing. I've really struck gold this time.

It's a pity, it's all that imposter's fault, otherwise, how could my relationship with Chen Lie be so awkward?

Thinking that a month had passed and the thief's injuries should have healed by now, Ruan Liusu decided that when she returned, she would ask her cousin's friend in East River Province to teach that damned thief another lesson.

After collecting the fallen Crystal Core of the Illusion Beast, Ruan Liusu and Chen Lie moved to another location to hunt Illusion Beast.

As Jing Wood Tapir turned its head, the electric light emanating from its eyes began to kill a large number of Illusion Beast.

Seeing this, Ruan Liusu immediately stepped forward to finish off the beast. The Illusion Beast, swept by the lightning, vanished with a wave of her hand, its Crystal Core falling to the ground. After nearly two hours, Ruan Liusu calculated the number of Crystal Core she had collected and arrived at an astonishing figure. "17 black Crystal Core, 183 ordinary Crystal Core of varying sizes. Conservatively speaking, the number of Standard Crystal Core is close to 400. First place is practically guaranteed this time!" Chen Lie shook his head beside him and said, "Is 400 Crystal Core enough to secure first place?"

Ruan Liusu nodded and said, "Absolutely safe. Even if they kill one Black Illusion Beast every ten minutes, they can only kill six in an hour. The competition lasts less than four hours, so at most they can only kill a little over 20 Black Illusion Beast, which translates to a little over 200 Illusion Beast Crystal Core. That's far from our 400."

Even at the Organ Refining Stage Completion, it's still just the Organ Refining Stage. Even with perfect teamwork and everything going smoothly, they can only hunt Black Illusion Beast once every ten minutes at most.

Chen Lie thought for a moment and said, "Alright, let's go back then."

"Okay, let's go!" Ruan Liusu nodded and returned to the camp in the Wasteland with Chen Lie.

When Chen Lie and Ruan Liusu returned to the camp, only three hours had passed.

Reaching the center of the arena, Ruan Liusu Chen Liedao, "Chen Lie, isn't it a bit too astonishing that the two of us have brought out so many Crystal Core at once? I reckon even if two Blood Refining Stage cultivators worked together, it would be difficult to hunt down so many Illusion Beast in such a short time."

Chen Lie thought for a moment and said, "Then let's wait and see. After all the Crystal Core have been handed over, we'll decide based on the situation. We just need to have a little more than the highest-ranking Crystal Core."

"Okay, that's settled then!"

Ruan Liusu nodded and waited nearby.

At 10:50 a. m., some contestants finally returned from the Wasteland.

As soon as the two contestants returned, they immediately went to the task handover area to take stock of the Crystal Core.

Soon, the number of Crystal Core cores was tallied, and a huge virtual screen was projected onto the site.

The screen displayed. "Jiang Haiyang, 93.5 Crystal Core."

At this time, people began to return from the depths of the Wasteland to hand over the Crystal Core.

Before long, more than thirty people returned to hand over the Crystal Core, and the data on the Sumeru screen continued to update.

Chen Lie glanced at the virtual screen in the venue and saw that the person with the most Crystal Core was "Liu Yan, 157 Crystal Core".

At that moment, Song Yixuan and a girl walked from the Wasteland into the venue.

Seeing Chen Lie standing to the side, Song Yixuan waved and greeted him, "Captain Chen, you're back so early? Have you handed over the mission?" "No," Chen Lie shook his head.

"Looks like you're planning to be the last one standing and have it all to yourself. Time's running out, I'll go hand over the mission now."

Chen Lie nodded and watched Song Yixuan leave.

Soon, Song Yixuan's Crystal Core count appeared on the virtual screen.

"Song Yixuan, 123 Crystal Core."

Ruan Liusu also saw Song Yixuan's data and couldn't help but ask, "Chen Lie, this member from your East River Province seems to be quite strong." If it weren't for Chen Lie's Mental Power techniques, Ruan Liusu felt that they would have around this number of Crystal Core.

"She is currently at the Organ Refining Stage Completion and has already stepped halfway into the Blood Refining Stage, so she is naturally not weak," Chen Lie said.

"That's amazing?"

Ruan Liusu was shocked. This level of strength was comparable to the Martial Leader of a province ranked 15th or lower on Blue Star.

Chen Lie nodded. "Her background must be extraordinary."

A short while later, a man and a woman returned to the camp from the Wasteland and headed to the handover point to take stock of the Crystal Core.

"I've met these two people before; they're members of the genius Genius Group in Jingji Provincial Genius Group."

"Among all the participants, they should be the strongest. Once they finish their inventory, we can go over there," Ruan Liusu said. Chen Lie looked at the virtual screen and found that 50 people had already completed their tasks. The person who hadn't yet completed his task was "Wang Tengyun, with 217.5 Crystal Core." After asking Ruan Liusu, Chen Lie learned that Wang Tengyun, who had obtained 197 Crystal Core, was the Martial Leader of the 18th province of Blue Star. At this moment, the virtual screen updated again, and the first place changed hands instantly.

"Jiang Shuining - 248 Crystal Core".

"This Jiang Shuining is a member of the Provincial Genius Group from the third province of Blue Star, the Jingji Province. He is at the Organ Refining Stage Completion and is also a Divine Sense Master. Now that all the strong contestants have returned, the one with the highest Crystal Core is Jiang Shuining. Shall we go and hand over the baton?" Ruan Liusu said. Chen Lie glanced at the virtual screen; 54 out of 57 contestants had already completed the handover. He nodded and went to the handover area with Ruan Liusu.

At this moment, Bai Xianxian also returned from the Wasteland and went straight to the point where the Crystal Core met.

She glanced at Ruan Liusu and Chen Lie, then quickly took out all the Crystal Core and said, "Let's take stock of the Crystal Core." The staff at the junction of the Sumeru Illusion Realm counted the Crystal Core and gave the results in the blink of an eye.

"19 black Crystal Core, 25 ordinary Crystal Core, 18 Medium Crystal Core, and 11 Large Crystal Core."

"That comes to 237 Crystal Core. Since your support is at the Blood Refining Stage, the number of Crystal Core is halved according to regulations, so it's 118.5 Crystal Core." Bai Xianxian left the handover area without saying a word.

At this moment, Ruan Liusu stepped forward, took out some of the Crystal Core, and said, "Let's take stock."

The staff of the Sumeru Illusion Realm were startled when they saw so many Crystal Core, and they immediately began to calculate.

In less than a moment, the number of Crystal Core was calculated by the staff.

"You have 11 black Crystal Core, 94 ordinary Crystal Core, 28 Medium Crystal Core, and 12 Large Crystal Core, totaling 270?" This number of Crystal Core shocked even the staff member.

If it were the Blood Refining Stage, hunting so many Illusion Beast Illusion Beast in just three and a half hours would be understandable, but for the Organ Refining Stage, this achievement is simply unbelievable. "How did you do that?" the staff member couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, my support partner is a Divine Sense Master, and he happens to be able to counter Illusion Beast," Ruan Liusu replied.

"Even Divine Sense Master couldn't possibly hunt down so many Illusion Beast in such a short time, could they?"

Ruan Liusu said, "Our martial arts skills are also quite strong, and with the two of us working together, we achieved this result."