Mental Power

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Cultivation

• Mental Power is perceived and used through Divine Sense, humanity's sealed sixth sense alongside touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste. Only those whose Divine Sense has been awakened can perceive Mental Power or qualify to become Divine Sense Masters. 191
• A cultivator's Mental Power is housed in a Consciousness Sea World, which supplies endurance during combat. Its true quality depends less on sheer size than on whether it can refine a powerful Consciousness Spirit. 184
• Mental Power aptitude is fixed at birth and measured in five colors: gold, red, orange, blue, and white. Gold aptitude is stated to occur roughly once in ten thousand people, while blue and orange are the most common results. 309
• Reckless cultivation can destabilize the Consciousness Sea. Zhao Jinglan created two separate Mental Power clusters by forcing rapid growth through a second Sea of Consciousness; merging them required aptitude she lacked. 12
• Mental Power cultivation is treated as an indispensable component of the Martial Way, and Blue Star University expects qualifying Martial Artists to meet a Mental Power threshold as well. 27 309
• Advanced martial cultivation becomes difficult without a corresponding level of Mental Power. Divine Sense also permits internal examination of the body, helping cultivators identify the condition and quality of their physical refinement. 75 318 363
• Consciousness Sea strength and Consciousness Spirit quality are complementary: the former is compared to a cultivator's strength, while the latter is compared to the weapon used to apply it. A weak Consciousness Spirit can prevent a large Mental Power reserve from being used effectively. 180 377
• Mental Power quantity, refinement, and manipulation skill are distinct advantages. With five hundred Fixed Stars, Chen Lie judges that he could outlast a Divine Sense Grandmaster in continuous Mental Power expenditure even before attaining his first rank; this does not make his direct attacks equivalent to a Grandmaster's. 190 506
• Aptitude tests can be deliberately manipulated through secret techniques. Chen Lie's earlier orange result and later vivid red result lead Shen Miaowei to infer that he is concealing at least gold aptitude; a subsequent Starry Sky University assessment records gold level two-and-a-half. 309 582

Cultivation Resources and Assessment

Resources

• Spirit Nourishing Flower — A scarce resource used to provide pure Mental Power for cultivation. On Blue Star, it is difficult to obtain even with money; two jin are valued around a common Martial Dao Rare Treasure. 27 191
• Mental Power Treasures — Rare treasures needed for advanced milestones such as forging a Star God; on Blue Star, they can be worth more than ten Martial Dao Rare Treasures. 105
• Star God Grass — A cultivation treasure that enabled Chen Lie to break through to Tier Two and complete Gui Gold Sheep. 421
• Black Prayer Beads — A semi-Mental Power treasure nurtured by the Mental Power of at least a ninth-rank Grandmaster; continued use can assist high-level cultivation but cannot directly guarantee a breakthrough. 181
• Star Soul Tempering Vine — A Mental Power Treasure that improves purity. Chen Lie requests a different reward for Chen Xingyao because her purity is already exceptionally high. 192
• Spirit-Concentrating Origin-Breaking Sprout — A resource awarded to Chen Lie by the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association alongside five hundred jin of Spirit Nourishing Flower. 355
• Mist-Cloaked Flower — Supplies exceptionally pure mental energy, enabling Chen Lie to advance from the mid-second rank to the late second rank with more than half its energy still remaining after the initial breakthrough. 549
• Divine Intent Cave — Improves Mental Power cultivation efficiency and tempers Consciousness Spirits, supporting Spirit Ascension and Star God cultivation. 577 628
• Sword Spirit Sword Mound — Its sword spirit power can refine attack-oriented Star Gods such as Horn Wood Dragon and Jing Wood Tapir. Its sword spirit essence also accelerates Mental Power cultivation. 598
• Spirit-Raising Soul-Tempering Leaf — A fourth-tier Mental Power Treasure selected by Chen Lie for cultivating Kang Metal Dragon in the Divine Intent Cave. 628
• Mental Power resource terminology and supply — Mental Power Treasures are also called Mental Power Rare Treasures, Divine Sense Rare Treasures, or simply mental power resources. Their scarcity varies by location: their value is broadly comparable to Martial Dao Rare Treasures in the Outer Stars, while Starry Sky University stocks over fourteen thousand varieties and purchases new supplies from Aurora Star every three months. 105 628
• Resource-use efficiency — Precise manipulation substantially improves cultivation returns. Chen Lie can obtain results from two pounds of Spirit Nourishing Flower comparable to an ordinary cultivator's use of twenty pounds, though guiding another person's cultivation is less precise than cultivating himself. 191

Divine Sense Master Assessment

• Crystal coloration used for purity and stored Mental Power is distinct from aptitude coloration. From strongest to weakest, its five levels are golden, bright yellow, dark yellow, pale yellow, and transparent. Chen Lie's hundredfold-diluted Mental Power remains bright yellow during his early assessment; Chen Xingyao's later result remains golden. 44 192
• Passing the First-Rank Divine Sense Master assessment normally earns thirty jin of Spirit Nourishing Flower, with exceptional performances eligible for additional rewards. Chen Lie's performance secures a second-rank Mental Power Treasure despite the rarity of such resources on Blue Star. 343 345
• Extraterrestrial analyzers can classify unfamiliar Consciousness Spirits by their observable abilities. Chen Lie's Liu Earth Musk Deer is identified as the Heaven-Devouring Giant God, rather than by its Star God name. 582

Cultivation Methods and Constructs

Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter

• A Central Galactic Empire national treasure held by the Taia Star Province Martial Arts Academy and normally restricted to top cosmic-level prodigies. 16
• Its Star Constellation Visualization Method develops the Seven Mansions of the Southern Sky within the Consciousness Sea. 84
• Its highest known manifestation is the Vermilion Bird Divine Image, a powerful Consciousness Spirit capable of manifesting as a massive physical-world image once its user's will can intervene in reality. 84 184
• The technique's refinement quality allows Mental Power to retain extraordinary purity even after repeated dilution. 44
• Establishing the Consciousness Sea World is only its foundation. Proper subsequent cultivation involves shaping the Seven Star Gods, followed by cultivating the Vermilion Bird Divine Image. 190
• The Taia Star Province Martial Arts Academy heir manifests a Vermilion Bird Divine Image hundreds of zhang tall, whose Mental Power torrent reduces everything within a hundred li to ruins. 84
• Chen Lie recognizes the eighteen incomplete methods presented at the Canglan Star Domain Divine Sense Master Gathering as fragments closely resembling the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter and supplies cautious completions while concealing his identity. 452
• After acquiring a second imperial method, Chen Lie retains the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter as his primary cultivation method because of his complete familiarity with it. 549

Star Gods

• Jing Wood Tapir — The first Star God. It sharpens Mental Power and can amplify Mental Power attacks by over thirty times; Chen Lie used it to incapacitate multiple Otherworldly Demons simultaneously. 506 572
  • Its formation marks Chen Lie's advancement to the first rank. Its offensive quality is compared to fine steel against the tofu-like Mental Power of an ordinary First-Rank Divine Sense Master. 227
  • Chen Lie adapts its cultivation principles to improve Chu Ling'er's Consciousness Spirit. Her resulting Jade-Horned Chi Dragon is measured at twenty- to twenty-twofold Mental Power attack amplification. 489 490
  • Its attack-oriented nature makes it suitable for refinement through sword spirit power. 598
• Gui Gold Sheep — The second Star God. It creates a mental environment capable of trapping opponents, and its warning can help expose mental illusions. 349 421
  • Chen Lie uses it against Han Keke to create an illusion built around her fears of expulsion, betrayal, and her family's execution, leaving her vulnerable to physical attacks. 377
• Liu Earth Musk Deer — The third Star God. It governs devouring and can digest foreign Mental Power; Chen Lie initially lacked the level required to cultivate it after entering Tier Two, but later reveals and uses it after reaching the third rank. 421 582 622
  • An analyzer classifies it as the extraterrestrial Heaven-Grade Heaven-Devouring Giant God, capable of devouring all Mental Power. 582
  • Its ability overlaps with that of the Devouring Heaven Taotie, but Chen Lie explicitly states that it is not that Consciousness Spirit. 621
  • After Luo Yunshang attempts Spirit Sealing, Liu Earth Musk Deer begins devouring her Winged Fish Consciousness Spirit. Xue Yingran intervenes and concedes the match for the Mental Power Department. 622

Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter

• An imperial-level Mental Power cultivation method associated with the Azure Dragon Divine Image and the Eastern Heavenly Seven Mansions. Its ultimate Consciousness Spirit is comparable to the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise Divine Images. 184 314 469
• Chen Lie cultivates it alongside the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter, maintaining two Consciousness Sea Worlds. By the mid-second order, he has consumed thirty thousand jin of Spirit Nourishing Flower to replenish both worlds after their depletion. 506 515
• Horn Wood Dragon — The first Star God of the Eastern Heavenly Seven Mansions. Its Mental Power attack penetrates Shen Jiuxi's protective True Qi and slows her pursuit, though it cannot seriously injure her. Like Jing Wood Tapir, it is attack-oriented and suitable for sword spirit refinement. 590 598
• Kang Metal Dragon — The second Eastern Star God. Its ability resembles an immobilization spell, which Chen Lie considers even more powerful than Gui Gold Sheep's Mental Illusion. He cultivates it with the Spirit-Raising Soul-Tempering Leaf and the Divine Intent Cave's assistance. 628
• The Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter is described as the foremost part of the Four Sacred Spirits Mental Power Cultivation Method. Incomplete access to its later cultivation methods can obstruct advancement to the eighth-tier Divine Sense Grandmaster realm. 491 628

Spirit Ascension and Spirit Enhancement

• Spirit Ascension, called Spirit Enhancement in Chen Lie's knowledge, requires thorough tempering of a Consciousness Spirit. It strengthens Mental Power across the board rather than improving only the spirit itself. 577
• With appropriate cultivation, ordinary Divine Sense Masters can undergo it once in each of three rank groupings: ranks one through three, four through six, and seven through nine. 577
• Forming a Star God also permits a Spirit Enhancement. Chen Lie therefore plans to cultivate one Star God per rank, allowing repeated enhancements beyond the ordinary three-stage pattern. 577
• Chen Lie uses third-rank Mental Power to control Chu Ling'er's circulation with exceptional precision, repeatedly refining her Consciousness Sea World and Consciousness Spirit during her Spirit Ascension. 579

Applications and Limits

Psionic Crystal Cards

• Mental Power can inscribe martial arts into Psionic Crystal Cards, allowing users to experience a technique from a first-person perspective and grasp it rapidly. 6
• A card's stored Mental Power generally supports three to five uses. 6
• Creating a genuine card requires empowering a blank crystal card with Mental Power; this empowerment is the most valuable part of production. 28
• Crystal Pillars similarly expend stored Mental Power as students study their inscribed martial arts. Their color changes from golden yellow through bright yellow to dark yellow as their reserves diminish. 334
• Replenishing a damaged Crystal Pillar restores access to its martial arts insights. Chen Lie estimates that the pillar he renews can support fifteen thousand enlightenment sessions despite its damage. 398

Mental Attacks

• Mental Power can strike an opponent's consciousness directly, producing pain, dizziness, unconsciousness, or disruption without needing to overcome physical armor first. 228 572
• Against low-intelligence Exotic Beasts, Chen Lie can use Mental Power Impact to knock out multiple Tier One beasts or kill Tier Two beasts; stronger targets require greater expenditure and control. 261 264
• Mental attacks can bypass the hardened defenses of Otherworldly Demons and create openings for physical attackers. 572
• Repeated or full-strength use is not limitless: it consumes Mental Power, and backlash from a clash can weaken the user afterward. 264 350
• Early in his ranked cultivation, Chen Lie states that he can use his secret Mental Power technique no more than one hundred times per day, substantially exceeding the limited repeated attacks described for ordinary ranked cultivators. 264 297
• Mental resistance varies with the target's intelligence and defenses. At Chen Lie's earlier cultivation level, Tier Three Exotic Beasts resist his Mental Power Impact through stronger minds and Blood Fiend Power that blocks nine-tenths of the attack. By the mid-second order, his improved Mental Power allows him to kill large numbers of Tier Two and Tier Three beasts. 265 515
• Chen Lie's multi-target attacks become central to Trial Mission Group No. 32's tactics: he knocks seven lower-tier Otherworldly Demons unconscious together and briefly stuns a Tier Three demon for his teammates to finish. The group kills 103 demons in one day with his support. 555
• A mental clash is not automatically won by possession of an imperial method. Feng Lingxi's Ghost Domain of Myriad Spirits initially overwhelms Chen Lie's partially committed Mental Power, forcing him to use his full strength before she concedes defeat. 422
• Mental Power can overwhelm an opponent who remains physically competitive. Chen Lie uses Jing Wood Tapir's impact to interrupt Zhu Jingxuan's spear attack and create an immediate opening for his saber, avoiding a prolonged battle of attrition. 635

Mental Control and Illusions

• Remote control is possible when Mental Power reaches sufficient intensity, but an unranked user requires the target's prior consent and cooperation; resistance immediately breaks the control. 223
• Mental illusions can obscure senses and cause targets to lose themselves. Gui Gold Sheep's mental environment can threaten Blood-Qi Transforming into Rainbow cultivators and potentially affect Heaven Aperture experts if arranged under the right conditions. 421
• Mental attacks can be delivered remotely and discreetly enough that even a Martial Arts Grandmaster may fail to detect the fluctuations. 576 577
• The consent limitation demonstrated during Chen Lie's unranked control of Wei Ranran does not remain absolute at higher ranks. At the third rank, he directly takes control of Chu Ling'er's body and Mental Power circulation without first asking her. 223 579
• Illusions provide an alternative when direct Mental Power Impact cannot overcome a stronger target. During the Genius Hundred-Match Streak challenge, Chen Lie traps Blood Refining Stage fighter Zou Mingjun in a Ghost Constellation illusion after repeated direct attacks prove insufficient. 296
• Even when insufficient to defeat Shen Jiuxi, Chen Lie's Mental Power can disrupt her attack and briefly distract her with an illusion, helping him escape. 598
• Mental Power also supports private transmission and coordinated remote assistance. Chen Lie instructs An Ning through Mental Power transmission, then suppresses a charging demon's consciousness at the moment she counterattacks. 560

Mental Power Restrictions

• Mental Power Restrictions are seals placed on objects such as Psionic Crystal Cards. Breaking them is a test of manipulation techniques rather than brute Mental Power alone. 180
• Chen Lie can identify flaws in restrictions and bypass seals that others cannot, including a restriction set by a Divine Sense Grandmaster on the Black Prayer Beads. 181 183
• He later replenishes a Crystal Pillar protected by a ninth-rank Mental Power Grandmaster's restriction, restoring it to full saturation at the cost of more than one-third of his Consciousness Sea's Mental Power. 398
• Restrictions may incorporate destructive safeguards. A crystal examined by Chen Lie contains seventeen fixed Mental Power locks and a mechanism that erases the stored martial art if the locks are forcibly released without the correct Mental Power key. Its Seventh-Tier creator's technique surpasses the local knowledge of Blue Star's Divine Sense Grandmasters. 115
• Restriction-breaking knowledge can be conveyed to another cultivator. Zhao Jinglan follows Chen Lie's Mental Power control instructions and opens the Black Prayer Beads' restraints within minutes, securing two Mental Power Treasures and a Thousand-Year Spirit Medicine as rewards. 183
• Breaking a ninth-rank restriction normally requires a ninth-rank Divine Sense Master with exceptional attainments; rank alone does not guarantee the ability to bypass another Grandmaster's seal and replenish the object behind it. 398
• The ability to ignore restrictions has major economic importance in the Canglan Star Domain because it permits replenishment of planets' Crystal Pillars. Blue Star's leaders conceal Chen Lie's success for his safety. 398

Healing and Cultivation Guidance

• Mental Power can be used to inspect and stabilize another person's damaged Consciousness Sea. Chen Lie steadies Zhao Jinglan's disordered Mental Power, curing her headache and resolving her cultivation problem. 17
• Chen Lie restores Zheng Zezhi's damaged mind and depleted Mental Power after other Divine Sense Masters fail to treat him, earning Military Merit and one million points. 113
• Precise external guidance can assist the initial formation of a Consciousness Sea World. Chen Lie helps Chen Xingyao form her first Well Constellation star and lays out the paths for all eight stars, but explains that he can no longer guide her in the same manner once her world has taken shape. 191
• More extensive reconstruction is possible with the necessary expertise and resources. Chen Lie guides Chu Ling'er through shattering her Azure Sea Dragon Palace and rebuilding it as a Sea-Realm Celestial Palace, replenishing her Mental Power with Spirit Nourishing Flower. The completed world scores 23,500,000 points. 417
• Consciousness Spirit cultivation can also be modified. Chen Lie helps transform Chu Ling'er's Azure Water Chi Dragon into the Jade-Horned Chi Dragon, exchanging its incoming-power dispersal ability for substantially stronger Mental Power attack amplification. 489 490

Technological and Weapon Control

• Mental Power can invade an Optical Computer, attack its firewalls, and seize authority over a Star Boat. A Grandmaster can divide intangible Mental Power into thousands of streams and attempt simultaneous intrusions from multiple directions. 505
• Chen Lie counters such an intrusion by secretly reinforcing the Star Boat's firewalls and taking control first. He then strengthens the protection cabin, seals a damaged door, and broadcasts a distress signal. His victory depends on technical attainments and his hidden position, not equivalent raw power to the attacking Grandmaster. 506
• Certain weapons connect directly to Mental Power. Song Jiaren's earth-grade Blood God Crossbow allows her to control qi with her mind and remotely redirect already-released True Qi toward an opponent's vital points. 620

Defensive Limits and Countermeasures

• Low-rank Divine Sense Masters generally cannot rely on Mental Power alone in sustained direct combat against comparable martial artists. Before the eighth-order manifestation threshold, Mental Power techniques often function best as support, especially against multiple opponents. 469 473
• Strong blood-qi can obstruct incoming Mental Power. Blood-Qi Transforming into Rainbow cultivators can keep weaker attacks from approaching within ten meters, while Han Keke attempts to block Zhu Jingshu's mental assault with powerful blood-qi formations. 355 379
• Mental Power-resisting treasures exist. Hua Jianying lends Xue Zhiran a jade talisman that blocks more than half of incoming Mental Power attacks before their team battle against Blue Star. 485
• Consciousness Spirits may disperse, dissolve, or devour hostile Mental Power. The Azure Water Chi Dragon possesses dispersal and breakdown abilities, while Liu Earth Musk Deer can consume foreign Mental Power and threaten an attacking Consciousness Spirit itself. 489 490 621 622
• Chen Lie's strength prompts rival planets to investigate protective measures. Langya Star's intelligence warns that without protection, several of its contestants may fall to the first strike of his Mental Power. 640

Grandmaster-Level Manifestation

• At the Divine Sense Grandmaster level, Mental Power can manifest into substance and allow the user's will to intervene in reality. 75
• A Grandmaster can kill a same-rank Martial Way Grandmaster from thousands of meters away with a thought, as mental attacks are extremely difficult to guard against. 75
• The tangible-manifestation threshold is specifically the eighth tier in the real world. Planetary gravity restrains lower-ranked Divine Sense Masters; the Sumeru Illusion Realm's Wasteland lacks the same gravitational and spatial restrictions, allowing Chen Lie to manifest his Consciousness Spirit there before attaining that rank. 314
• Tangible Mental Power can form blades, swords, axes, and halberds that attack from difficult-to-defend angles. The Blood Shadow female Grandmaster demonstrates this by killing Canglong Star's reception Grandmasters. 504
• Grandmaster-level mental superiority is not universal against exceptional martial foundations. The same bandits acknowledge that such attacks would be less decisive against genius Martial Arts Grandmasters, including Sword Dao Grandmasters. 504
• High-level Divine Sense cultivation also supports martial cultivation. Every Divine Sense Grandmaster is described as a Martial Arts Grandmaster as well, with some possessing martial cultivation beyond that realm. 75

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