Lingguang Divine Refinement Chapter

Chen Lie pushed open the door and entered his home, immediately spotting Chen Xingyao reclining on the sofa as she watched experts on television analyze martial arts.

Seeing Chen Lie, Chen Xingyao shot him a sidelong glance and asked, "Chen Lie, why didn't you go to the vitality value cram class Mom signed you up for today?"

Chen Lie said, "Something held me up today."

"What could you possibly have had to do? Don't tell me you went to the virtual experience center with one of your friends again?" Chen Xingyao asked suspiciously.

Chen Lie merely shook his head. "I really had something else to do."

"Even if you had something incredibly important to do, you still can't skip the vitality value cram class. Do you know how many Star Credits one lesson costs?"

Chen Lie knew he could not explain it clearly to his younger sister, so he only nodded. "Got it. Training exhausted me today, so I'm going back to my room to rest. Don't call me for dinner later."

With that, Chen Lie entered his room and locked the door behind him.

Seeing that Chen Lie had not taken her words seriously at all, Chen Xingyao became furious. She followed after him, only to find that he had already locked his door, so she immediately went to the kitchen to complain.

"Mom, hurry up and do something about Chen Lie! He's being outrageous!"

Chen Lie turned a deaf ear to the commotion outside. After entering his room, he casually placed twenty catties of natural mutant beast meat and two catties of Mind-Nurturing Flowers on the table beside his bed.

He then sat cross-legged on the bed.

Chen Lie had promised Zhao Jinglan that he would help resolve her mental power issue tomorrow morning. Therefore, today, he had to successfully awaken his Mind Sense, nurture psychic power within his sea of consciousness, and become a trainee Mind Reader.

Mental power cultivation was of vital importance. If one wished to go far on the path of martial arts, mental power cultivation could not be neglected.

The first step to becoming a Mind Reader was awakening Mind Sense.

Humans had six senses: touch, smell, hearing, sight, taste, and Mind Sense.

The overwhelming majority of people in the world were born with only five senses. Throughout their entire lives, they could not awaken Mind Sense and thus could not qualify to become Mind Readers.

Within Chen Lie's mind was an exceptionally powerful mental power cultivation technique. It was a technique classified by the Central Galactic Empire as a national treasure, stored within the Tai'a Star Province Martial Cultivation Academy as one of its closely guarded secrets. Only the academy's most outstanding cosmic prodigies were qualified to cultivate it.

In his previous life, Chen Lie had merely been a lowly steward of the Scripture Repository. By all rights, he should never have had access to such a supreme technique. However, he had signed a life contract with the Martial Cultivation Academy. Before doing so, he had undergone layer upon layer of scrutiny from the academy to ensure that the martial arts texts in the Scripture Repository would not be leaked through him.

From the Martial Cultivation Academy's perspective, Chen Lie was merely a conscious tool. That was why he had been able to access the Central Galactic Empire's foremost mental power cultivation technique, the Lingguang Divine Refinement Chapter.

Chen Lie carefully recalled the astral visualization method at the beginning of the Lingguang Divine Refinement Chapter. He closed his eyes and began to visualize.

Chen Lie emptied his mind, and his consciousness wandered through the hazy spiritual world again and again.

As time passed, the hazy spiritual world in his mind gradually became clearer.

With a bang, it was as though a sound rang out from the depths of Chen Lie's soul. A layer of blurry glass covering the surface of his spiritual world seemed to shatter abruptly.

Chen Lie immediately opened his eyes. At that moment, he felt sharp-eyed and clear-eared, his spirit greatly invigorated.

"Mind Sense has been successfully awakened!"

Chen Lie climbed down from the bed and took out the two catties of Mind-Nurturing Flowers he had obtained from Zhao Jinglan, executive president of the Sunflare Group.

He boiled a kettle of water, divided the two catties of Mind-Nurturing Flowers into three portions, and drank them in batches.

Immediately afterward, Chen Lie sat cross-legged on the bed again. Following the astral visualization method of the Lingguang Divine Refinement Chapter, he began circulating his mental power and building the sea of consciousness he had just formed.

The two catties of Mind-Nurturing Flowers provided Chen Lie with an endless supply of pure spiritual power.

After completing one cycle of the astral visualization method, a pitch-black world formed within Chen Lie's sea of consciousness. Within it, seven dim points of starlight flickered in and out of view.

According to the astral visualization method, these seven dim points represented seven constellations: Well, Ghost, Willow, Star, Extended Net, Wings, and Chariot.

Among them, the first constellation, Well, consisted of eight stars. However, the light of those eight stars was extremely dim, as though they might go out at any moment.

Chen Lie circulated the astral visualization method of the Lingguang Divine Refinement Chapter, guiding the pure spiritual power brought by the Mind-Nurturing Flowers to strengthen the eight stars of Well.

Before long, Chen Lie lit up the first of Well's eight stars, making it shine with dazzling starlight.

Chen Lie did not dare slacken. He continued guiding the spiritual power from the Mind-Nurturing Flowers to light up the second star among Well's eight stars.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, Chen Lie felt the power of the Mind-Nurturing Flowers growing weaker and weaker. By the time he lit up the eighth star of Well, he had finally absorbed all their medicinal power.

Chen Lie looked inward and saw that among the seven constellations in his sea of consciousness, six remained dim and lightless. Only the first constellation, Well, shone brilliantly with eight stars arranged in the shape of a net.

"Two catties of Mind-Nurturing Flowers were only enough to light up one of the seven constellations."

Chen Lie got out of bed and glanced outside, discovering that the entire night had already passed.

Having successfully built his sea of consciousness and gained the ability to circulate mental power, he had become a trainee Mind Reader.

Upon walking out of his home, Chen Lie immediately saw a girl of around fourteen or fifteen waiting outside his door.

When she saw Chen Lie, the girl hurried over with a radiant smile.

"Senior, you're out?"

Chen Lie nodded. "Why didn't you go inside and wait?"

"I was afraid of disturbing you."

Chen Lie said, "Then come with me."

The girl was Li Xianyu, who had made an arrangement with Chen Lie yesterday.

Although she had Chen Lie's contact information, Li Xianyu had not dared disturb him. So early that morning, she had come to wait outside his home.

Chen Lie arrived at the bus stop, inserted coins, and boarded a flying bus, with Li Xianyu following close behind.

After flying through the air for half an hour, the flying bus arrived at the Sunflare Tower in the most prosperous district of East River Province.

As the flying bus landed and stopped, Chen Lie said to Li Xianyu beside him, "Get off."

"Oh!"

Li Xianyu immediately followed Chen Lie off the flying bus.

The moment she stepped down, a towering thousand-meter building that seemed to reach the clouds came into view.

"This is... the Sunflare Group headquarters?"

As someone born and raised in East River Province, Li Xianyu naturally knew of the Sunflare Group. The nutrient solution her family used and the supplements her older sister took were almost all Sunflare Group products.

Although the Sunflare Group's nutritional products were somewhat more expensive than other brands, they were indeed worth the price.

Seeing Chen Lie head straight toward Sunflare Tower after getting off the bus, Li Xianyu could not help asking, "Senior, do you have business at the Sunflare Group?"

"Mm. Just follow behind me," Chen Lie said.

Li Xianyu nodded. She had never been to a place like this before and could not help feeling restrained.

When Chen Lie and Li Xianyu reached the entrance of Sunflare Tower, two security guards immediately stopped them.

"Stop. This is the Sunflare Group. Unauthorized personnel are strictly forbidden from entering."

At that moment, a woman in business attire hurried over.

"Are you blind? Mr. Chen is the president's honored guest! What did I tell you yesterday?

Hurry up and make way for Mr. Chen!"

The two security guards awkwardly stepped aside.

"Mr. Chen, please come with me."

The woman in business attire led Chen Lie into the first-floor lobby of Sunflare Tower.

Li Xianyu followed behind Chen Lie, feeling somewhat uneasy. She had never imagined that Chen Lie was actually an honored guest of the Sunflare Group's president.

That was the Sunflare Group, an insurmountable mountain to every person in East River Province.

"Mr. Chen, the president is in the president's office on the twenty-eighth floor. You may go straight in.

As for your friend, we can have her wait in the reception room for a while. What do you think?"

Chen Lie turned to glance at Li Xianyu, then nodded. "That's fine."

"Very well. Please come with me."

The woman in business attire winked at Li Xianyu. Li Xianyu immediately understood and followed her toward the reception room.