The Spirit Race specialized in spiritual power, but their physical bodies were weak.
Their invasion was probably about more than just "conquest" and "enlightenment."
They also wanted to possess human bodies!
They wanted to seize the human race's special physiques, especially an exceptional vessel like his, with an Innate Dao Body!
Otherwise, there was no way to explain
why that thing had ignored Du Qionghua and Liu Xin, who were sleeping more deeply in the house and whose auras were weaker...
Only to head straight for his room!
Another question came to mind.
Where was its physical body?
Wang Xiaoming had clearly said on the news that the Spirit Race had physical forms.
But the Spirit Race being from just now had been nothing but pure spiritual energy from beginning to end, no different from his own outwardly released divine sense.
So...
Was this just a clone?
A probe sent out by some stronger Spirit Race member that had split off from its body?
Chen Yan's expression darkened.
He had thought he still had a year to grow stronger.
Now it seemed he had already been targeted.
The crisis had arrived early.
With a thought, he guided the mass of pure spiritual energy into his consciousness.
A cool sensation surged through his body, rushing straight to his head.
"Whoa, what the—!"
Chen Yan had been caught off guard by the burst of energy. It actually felt kind of nice...
The energy flowed along the Meditation Method's path of its own accord, conjuring a towering figure in his consciousness.
The figure was awe-inspiring. One glance was enough to make Chen Yan's eyes ache.
For some reason, he wanted to make out its face.
Chen Yan strained with all his might, forcing his will to look.
That face... looked so familiar.
It was his own!
"Did something go wrong with the Meditation Method? Am I visualizing myself now?"
Chen Yan was startled, and his mind wavered.
Boom!
The giant figure shattered in an instant, turning back into a surging flood of energy that completely merged into his tiny body.
Then came an intense, exquisite pleasure.
A massive tonic!
This was the ultimate nourishment for the soul!
He could clearly feel his sea of consciousness expanding and growing more solid right before his eyes.
His divine sense, which had previously reached only as far as the villa, suddenly stretched outward.
It passed through the courtyard wall, crossed the path, and reached the main road on the outskirts of the neighborhood.
The cars passing by, the buzz of insects' wings, the rustle of leaves in the wind...
Everything was clearer than ever, appearing in his "mind."
"Now I can see even with my eyes closed!" Chen Yan was immensely pleased.
He immediately summoned the system panel.
[Host: Chen Yan] [Age: 1 year old] [Cultivation: Amateur Fifth Dan] [Qi and Blood: 1655/2000] [Spirit: 743/2000] [Charm: 93/100 (Gifted and Refined)] [Fortune: 23 (One Lucky Break After Another)] [Constitution: Innate Dao Body (Born Close to the Dao, Proficient in All Methods)] [Skills:] [Meditation Method (Proficient) (1000/10000)] [Divine Sense Differentiation (Proficient) (500/10000)]
His Spirit had shot up by a full 100 points!
The Meditation Method's proficiency had also jumped from 500 to 1000!
Divine Sense Differentiation had leaped straight from 0 to 500!
"So... hunting the Spirit Race is the most efficient way to cultivate!"
A glint flashed in Chen Yan's eyes.
Rather than wait passively, he might as well take the initiative!
How could I, Heavenly Emperor Chen, tolerate a foreign race sleeping beside my bed?
Hunting these Spirit Race scouts wouldn't just let him grow stronger quickly. He might even be able to follow the trail back to their hideout in Jiang City!
That so-called "Spirit Race Invasion Portal"!
With his mind made up, Chen Yan didn't hesitate for another moment. He immediately began his cultivation for the night.
First, he used Divine Sense Differentiation to split his spiritual power into four streams, cultivating the Qi Nurturing Foundation Art, the Meditation Method, Godly Movement, and Shadow Concealment at the same time.
Then he spread out the paintings he had made during the day.
The most eye-catching was the one he had painted with the high-grade oil paints his uncle had given him... Peppa Pig.
He split off a sliver of his consciousness and activated the Image Projection Scroll!
Then, with a thread of spiritual power, he carefully infused the painting.
Hum...
The paint on the canvas began to glow faintly.
In the next moment, something miraculous happened.
The cartoon character in a pink dress, with two little ears sticking out of a head shaped like a hair dryer, actually rose up from the two-dimensional canvas!
Its form swiftly coalesced from something intangible into a solid figure the size of his palm, made of what felt like some kind of special rubber!
Chen Yan's heart stirred.
He sensed that he could pour a thread of divine sense into Peppa Pig's body and control it remotely!
Let's give it a try!
A fine thread of divine sense slipped into Peppa Pig's body.
In an instant, a new perspective appeared in Chen Yan's vision, lower to the ground than his own.
All the furniture in the room seemed enormous.
He could see his baby self sitting cross-legged on the carpet, and even smell the lingering scent of milk in the air.
This perspective had a much narrower range than when he projected his divine sense on its own, covering only about ten meters around him.
But...
Peppa Pig could walk!
She had a physical body!
Chen Yan's mischievous streak got the better of him. He made Peppa Pig scamper on her two little legs over to the balcony.
Then she leaped!
"Plop."
Peppa Pig fell from the second-floor balcony onto the lawn below.
Chen Yan immediately felt the thread of divine sense he had infused in her tremble slightly, as if a tiny sliver had been shaved off a game character's "health bar."
But it was no problem. Her movements weren't affected at all.
He made Peppa Pig stand up, brush off the nonexistent dust, and then saunter out onto the road in the middle of the neighborhood.
"Painting Spirit Animation is pretty interesting!"
A mischievous smile tugged at Chen Yan's lips.
If some sleepless neighbor happened to head out for a late-night run, they would probably see a sight they'd never forget...
A strange cartoon pig, bearing marks from its fall, was striding down the deserted road with an utterly unconcerned swagger.
How bizarre...
Now this was a proper supernatural incident!
"From now on, I'll patrol all of Jiang City as Peppa!"
"One day, I'll drag every last one of you cowards hiding in the shadows out into the open!"
Chen Yan hardened his resolve.
He controlled Peppa Pig and began a thorough search of the residential compound.
Just as his divine sense was about to run out, Peppa Pig's "vision" suddenly caught something amiss.
On the third floor of a residential building in the corner of the neighborhood, an unsettlingly cold aura seeped through a gap in one household's curtains.
It was identical to the aura of the Spirit Race being he had just devoured!
Chen Yan didn't act rashly.
He silently memorized the building's address.
The next moment, the spiritual power infused into Peppa Pig's body was completely exhausted.
The cartoon pig walking down the road instantly turned into specks of light.
They vanished in the night breeze without a trace.
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