As Chen Miao digested the information about Clear Heart, Mystic Mirror, surprise crept onto his face.
He immediately activated [Status: Clear Heart, Mystic Mirror].
In an instant, all the noise, auras, light, and shadows around him seemed to be cut off by an invisible membrane.
It was not that he could no longer hear, but that what he heard no longer disturbed him;
it was not that he could no longer see, but that what he saw no longer distracted him.
His mind settled a step ahead of his body.
His drifting thoughts were instantly smoothed flat, without so much as a ripple remaining.
Every external stimulus-the wind, the temperature, and so on-was stripped down to irrelevant background noise, unable to touch his mind in the slightest.
His attention was forcibly gathered, purified, and condensed into a single point.
It seemed that only one thing remained in the world: the task he had to perform at this very moment.
Everything else was empty dust!
Compared to the focus he experienced in the iceheart state, Chen Miao now felt less like a person and more like an enlightened monk who had seen through all worldly attachments. In this state, the surprise in his heart was suppressed and vanished the moment it arose.
Only after Chen Miao deactivated [Clear Heart, Mystic Mirror] did surprise appear on his tranquil face.
"If I cultivated my body with this state active, it might even suppress the pain."
After marveling for a moment, Chen Miao activated [Status: Clear Heart, Mystic Mirror] again.
This time, he was not doing it to experience that focus, but to test the state's other effects.
Before the upgrade, Chen Miao's subconscious would emerge whenever he concentrated fully on something or his main consciousness was controlled. This had also been improved in