This was one of the few Immortal Herbs in the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye that could enhance spiritual power: Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could greatly enhance the user's spiritual power.
If one cultivated a technique assisted by spiritual eyes, consuming Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew might allow them to master Fiery Golden Eyes and see through all manner of wondrous things.
However, that was an exaggeration.
In reality, if one's spiritual power was strong enough, then even without using one's eyes, one could perceive whatever information one wanted in detail through spiritual power alone.
Speaking of spiritual power, Wang Chen thought of the Dream God who had tried to possess him.
The Dream God's research into spiritual power was probably among the most advanced on the entire Douluo Continent.
With such powerful spiritual power, and such skill in using it, the Dream God must have had a technique for cultivating spiritual power.
Wang Chen immediately contacted the Divine Spark Seed. "Divine Spark Seed, do you have the Dream God's cultivation techniques?"
"Yes!"
Then the Divine Spark Seed sent him the information.
Wang Chen felt a meditation method called the Dream God Visualization Method appear in his mind.
The Dream God Visualization Method used the Dream God as an object of contemplation. By circulating Soul Power through the body, one could slowly increase one's spiritual power.
However, the Dream God could also use the Dream God Visualization Method to gradually alter the perceptions of those who practiced it, turning them into the Dream God's most devoted followers—or even puppets.
Fortunately, the Divine Spark Seed told Wang Chen how the Dream God had created this technique, allowing him to understand how the Dream God had used the Dream God Visualization Method to gradually alter people's thoughts.
For anyone else, if they wanted to cultivate the Dream God Visualization Method to improve their spiritual power, they would have to risk being remade into the Dream God's most devoted followers or even puppets.
Otherwise, they could only abandon the technique.
But Wang Chen was different. He had a Meridian Martial Soul and could sense the subtle changes in Soul Power as it flowed through his meridians.
He could modify the technique. And with the Dream God Visualization Method as a foundation, he could use the Dream God's experience creating it as a reference.
Wang Chen didn't need to start from scratch, blindly test one possibility after another, or use brute force to probe every option.
That meant he wouldn't have to waste a great deal of time.
"Time is tight. Once Dugu Bo has treated Dugu Yan's illness and tried the method Wang Chen left her for dealing with the backlash from the poison of her Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul, he'll probably come to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
"I can't stay here for long."
"Given the circumstances, now isn't the right time to use the Dream God Visualization Method to create a new spiritual cultivation technique."
"But even if I can't create a new technique, I can still remove the harmful cultivation routes in the Dream God Visualization Method—the ones that affect my thoughts and make me degenerate into the Dream God's devoted follower or puppet—and turn it into a pure technique for increasing spiritual power."
"It'll just be far less effective than the Dream God Visualization Method."
But that didn't matter much to Wang Chen.
He would have plenty of time to gradually improve the technique's effectiveness at cultivating spiritual power.
He could even create a spiritual cultivation method best suited to his body and meridians.
Following the information from the Divine Spark Seed, Wang Chen used the Dream God Visualization Method as his foundation and began cultivating the technique he had modified.
Half an hour later, Wang Chen had finally removed the meridian circulation routes that caused mental distortion from the Dream God Visualization Method, while preserving the complete technique for cultivating spiritual power.
This could be considered a fragment of the Dream God Visualization Method, but it was a fragment that could effectively absorb spiritual power.
Wang Chen circulated the technique, sensing the changes in Soul Power and spiritual power as Soul Power flowed through his meridians, while familiarizing himself with the method.
A quarter of an hour passed. Only after Wang Chen had thoroughly mastered this new technique did he look at the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew before him. He reached out, lifted it to eye level, tilted it slightly, and let a few drops of transparent liquid fall into his mouth.
The instant the liquid entered his mouth, Wang Chen felt his mind receive a momentary jolt, as if his spiritual power had suddenly increased by a small amount.
Of course, that was an illusion—just a trick of Wang Chen's senses.
Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could enhance spiritual power, but nowhere near enough to increase it just by smelling it.
Then Wang Chen swallowed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew in his mouth. Right away, he felt a cool sensation spread from within his body: the medicinal power of the dew.
Wang Chen circulated his technique, guiding that cool force along a specific route and refining it.
At last, he completely refined the cool force, transforming it into a stream of pure spiritual power that flowed into his sea of consciousness.
After Wang Chen's soul absorbed that spiritual power, its strength increased a little.
Then Wang Chen continued refining the medicinal power of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, until he had absorbed it all.
Wang Chen let out a long breath.
In the original story, Tang San cultivated the Purple Demon Eye and consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which enabled him to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his fourth Soul Ring.
Wang Chen now had a fragment of the Dream God's divine armor, a two-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast's Head Soul Bone, and the spiritual power he'd gained by absorbing Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew with the Dream God's technique fragment.
His spiritual power should be strong enough to withstand the impact of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
Besides, Wang Shao had the Divine Spark Seed as a fallback. Wang Chen wasn't afraid of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Shock at all.
After absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Wang Chen went to the next medicinal plant.
Looking at it from the bottom up—
The plant before him stood tall and straight. Its stalk was hard as jade, and its leaves were a glossy deep green.
Its flower was huge, magnificent and deep purple, with layers of petals and a soft, fuzzy texture.
Half a foot above the petals, its stamen ended in a golden glimmer.
Even with his face close to it, he couldn't smell a thing.
This was the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, a neutral Immortal Herb containing the attribute of metal. It could circulate energy through the limbs, send blood through the eight meridians, and even help one cultivate an Indestructible Diamond Body.
It could be said that this was the most suitable Immortal Herb in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye for replenishing the source of Wang Chen's Meridian Martial Soul and prompting it to transform.
Wang Chen used a jade knife to cut down the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, leaving its roots in the soil.
Then he bit off the stamen, chewed it up, and swallowed it.
As he ate the stamen, Wang Chen tasted a faint sweetness spreading through his mouth.
After he swallowed it, a warm current welled up from the stamen.
Wang Chen circulated his Soul Power, guiding the medicinal energy through the meridians throughout his body.
He could feel his meridians greedily drinking in the medicinal energy wherever it passed, like a parched riverbed suddenly flooded with water.
Nourished by the stamen's medicinal energy, Wang Chen's meridians gradually grew stronger.
Along with his meridians, Wang Chen's blood and qi also strengthened little by little.
At the same time, Wang Chen sensed that as he adjusted his technique based on the information his Meridian Martial Soul fed back to him, a faint golden light spread across his meridians and body while he cultivated and absorbed the stamen's medicinal energy.
Wang Chen watched the changes in his body in delight.
If he wasn't mistaken, he seemed to have really discovered a way to cultivate an Indestructible Diamond Body.
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