What One Thinks, Becomes Reality

In the bright training room, Chen Ye stood to one side. Opposite him stood a young man in his twenties.

Four Soul Rings descended around the young man.

"Little Chen, I'm going to get serious this time. Your ability may be strong, but I'm not that easy to defeat."

The man smiled as he looked at the boy before him.

He was the captain of the Spirit Pagoda guard squad in Eastsea City, as well as Chen Ye's current practical combat instructor.

"Come on, Zhou. Let me see what you can do," Chen Ye said with a smile as two yellow Soul Rings descended around him.

At the same time, a massive grayish-white dragon stood silently behind him.

The man stepped forward and launched a side kick. Chen Ye likewise stepped forward, black flames igniting in his hand as he swung it fiercely at the man.

Compared to three years ago, Chen Ye, now nine years old, had grown much taller.

Although he had only barely reached 1.6 meters in height, combined with the improvement in his strength, his overall attributes were no longer weak.

He blocked the man's side kick with one hand, and his first Soul Ring quietly lit up.

As the Soul Ring lit up, he remained standing right where he was, yet he vanished from the man's sight.

The man cautiously looked around. His third Soul Ring lit up, and layers of dark yellow scales attached themselves to his body.

He warily scanned his surroundings, intending to retreat to the wall so he could use it as a backdrop and ensure Chen Ye could not ambush him.

But just as he took a step back, a fair little fist appeared behind him and struck him directly in the waist and abdomen.

That was one of the few weaknesses of his third soul skill. As the fist landed, the man could not help letting out a pained grunt.

By the time he reacted, that fair fist had already lightly arrived beside his face.

Chen Ye quietly looked at him, a faint smile on his face.

After reaching Two-Ring, the ability granted by Chen Ye's second Soul Ring was called Reality Distortion.

Through the Power of Imagination carried by the Dragon of Imagination, he could alter physical laws, causality, and fate, allowing the "impossible" to happen.

And as his strength reached Two-Ring, the Psychological Invisibility ability he had possessed at One-Ring vanished, becoming an even more special ability.

This ability was called Imagination Manifestation, and it was an ability Chen Ye already possessed.

However, when he activated a Soul Ring soul skill, his Imagination Manifestation ability would be elevated to an entirely new level.

Turning what did not exist into existence, turning the impossible into possibility.

At this moment, he was using Imagination Manifestation to simulate his original soul skill, Psychological Invisibility.

After reaching Two-Ring, aside from possessing an exceptional Memory, his ability to analyze things had also improved significantly.

Moreover, he could now directly see what others were thinking, even accurately grasping their mental activity.

Even Chen Ye himself was somewhat shocked by the abilities he possessed in this state.

As golden light flickered in his eyes, the man rose to his feet with some difficulty, though he still wore a smile.

"As expected of the Dark Phoenix Martial Soul. It really is powerful—you actually fought me to a draw!"

The man spoke with emotion on his face, but Chen Ye merely smiled at him.

He had distorted the man's Memory—or rather, directly altered it.

Chen Ye made him believe that he had not lost and that Chen Ye had been using the Dark Phoenix Martial Soul all along.

He had also distorted the cameras in the training room.

This distortion merely made the footage blurry before it disappeared.

Chen Ye could not yet completely distort a device like surveillance equipment directly, but even this was already incredibly overpowered.

After leaving the room, Chen Ye stretched lazily.

Returning to his room on the top floor, Chen Ye slowly sat down.

With a light tap of his finger on the table, an admission notice and a letter of recommendation slowly appeared before him.

These were precisely the admission notice and letter of recommendation he should have gone to school to collect today.

Using the imaginative enhancement brought by his first Soul Ring, Chen Ye had forcibly imagined the admission notice and recommendation letter that had originally been stored in the classroom into existence before him.

Seeing the two items appear, Chen Ye did not care much and simply put them into his backpack.

Then, he looked at the table before him and tapped it lightly. All kinds of delicious food appeared before him, though this food had been entirely imagined by him.

"What a pity. Less than fifteen minutes after I finish eating, it'll all disappear completely. Then I'll be hungry again. Sigh."

"But this is pretty good too. At least there's no risk of me gaining weight."

Looking at the table piled high with food, Chen Ye licked his lips and began eating with gusto.

After using the Power of Imagination, these things were real for fifteen minutes.

After that, they would vanish, and he would not gain any weight at all.

By the time Chen Ye finished all the imagined food, it was nearly time for lunch.

However, Chen Ye did not particularly like these lunches.

Because Leng Yaozhu had returned, he now had to eat vegetables for all three meals every day. Not only that, Leng Yaozhu forbade him from eating any sweets.

That was truly unfair to a child who was only nine years old.

Especially Chen Ye. Whether in this life or his previous one, he had been crazily obsessed with things like cake and ice cream.

When Chen Ye arrived at the cafeteria, Leng Yaozhu was already sitting there.

He pulled over a chair and sat across from her. Leng Yaozhu raised her head to look at him.

Over the past three years, Leng Yaozhu had spent most of her time away from Eastsea City, wandering outside.

Though she had returned several times to teach Chen Ye practical combat techniques, she had ultimately neglected this disciple somewhat.

"You're on break now. If you have time, you can do more practical combat training in the Spirit Ascension Platform. It'll be good for you."

Leng Yaozhu paused, frowning. "Recently, I found a promising candidate. I may accept her as my disciple.

"If she agrees, she'll come over after some time. When that happens, the two of you should get along well."

Leng Yaozhu looked at Chen Ye, and he blinked before nodding seriously.

Naturally, he knew whom Leng Yaozhu was taking as a disciple, because he had written this very experience.

In the original timeline, Leng Yaozhu would only accept Gu Yue as her disciple long after Eastsea Academy began.

That time was far too distant, so Chen Ye decided to give Gu Yue a hand.

Of course, he did not interfere too much. Aside from using the Power of Imagination to let Gu Yue and Leng Yaozhu meet earlier, he had not made any excessive changes.

The talent Gu Yue displayed, and the reason she earned Leng Yaozhu's appreciation, relied on Gu Yue's own abilities.

Thus, it was only natural for Leng Yaozhu to accept Gu Yue as her disciple.

Besides, Gu Yue herself wanted to take Leng Yaozhu as her master. The two of them could be said to be moving toward each other.

This was also a good thing for Chen Ye. He remained quite interested in the Silver Dragon King.

If they could meet at the Spirit Pagoda as well, it should be very interesting.