Chen Lin led the two women over to sit beside the stone table.
Clear Wind and Bright Moon tactfully hopped aside and crouched in a corner, watching them curiously.
"I asked you here today because there's something I want to tell you." Chen Lin's smile faded, and his expression grew serious.
He looked at the two women before him.
One was his girlfriend, a flame beneath the ice.
The other was also his girlfriend, a safe harbor of tenderness.
They were now the people closest to him in this world.
"You know I'm different from ordinary people," Chen Lin began slowly.
Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.
Of course they knew. His miraculous medical skills and those utterly incredible ingredients both proved it.
"The power I possess comes from something called 'spiritual energy.' Absorbing spiritual energy through specific methods and using it to temper yourself-that process is called 'cultivation.'"
"And people who practice cultivation are called 'cultivators.'"
Cultivation, cultivators, spiritual energy...
These terms only appeared in novels and television dramas, yet when Chen Lin spoke them, they carried an undeniable sense of reality.
Both women were stunned, but they had witnessed Chen Lin's miraculous abilities. With the Taiyin Breathing Technique as a precedent, they were far more receptive than ordinary people.
Li Xiaoyue recovered first. Looking at Chen Lin, she asked softly, "Xiao Lin, does the Taiyin Breathing Technique you taught us last time count as cultivation, too? I'm so strong now. I tried it at the office yesterday, and I lifted a desk weighing over two hundred pounds with one hand!"
Chen Lin shook his head.
"Strictly speaking, the Taiyin Breathing Technique is only a body-refining cultivation technique that tempers the flesh. Once you've fully mastered it, your physical strength alone might rival