289: Soul sublimation

Feng Ming nodded; this wasn't a difficult task for him. He figured it would only take a small amount of spiritual energy to help her resolve it.

He then turned and leapt down from the Lotus Stone Platform, returning to the base of the towering tree. Finding a secluded corner, he sat cross-legged, took out the bottle of moon gazing tears, uncorked it, and tilted his head to take a sip.

The bottle was tiny; with one gulp, half of it was gone. The moment the moon gazing tears entered his mouth, a clear, icy aura spread down his throat, flowing through his limbs and bones, invigorating his spirit.

At the same time, Feng Ming inexplicably felt a strange emotion. This emotion was utterly foreign and did not belong to him; clearly, it was the emotion of this world that Hua Dieer had mentioned.

He quickly calmed his mind, cleared his thoughts, and began to sense it carefully.

But a moment later, he suddenly opened his eyes, his face filled with unbelievable shock. "Crap, what's going on? The emotion of this world is actually fear and trembling!"

It felt like a homeless young beast cornered on a cliff by a pack of ferocious hunters, its eyes full of helplessness and dread, its small, thin body shaking uncontrollably.

It stared wide-eyed at the approaching hunters, yet there was a faint glimmer of hope in its gaze, as if it were waiting for a miracle to occur.

"How could it have such emotions?" Feng Ming's heart was in turmoil, filled with confusion.

This clearly wasn't the emotion of a thriving or dying world; instead, it seemed like the emotion only a victim of bullying would have!

Could it be that this world was also being "bullied"?

Were there other, more powerful worlds surrounding this one?

Were the experts of those worlds pointing at this heaven and earth, mocking and oppressing it at will?

"This is too incredible!" Feng Ming couldn't help but curse under his breath. "What exactly is this heaven and earth afraid of?"

Secrets at the level of worlds were puzzles far beyond Feng Ming's current reach; the doubts in his heart were destined to remain unanswered for now.

But being able to personally sense the emotions of heaven and earth was already a profoundly mysterious experience for him. Before this, he never could have imagined that the cultivation world hid such inconceivable wonders.

While Feng Ming was immersed in this strange perception, he suddenly felt his consciousness becoming weightless, as if it were about to break free from the shackles of his Physical Body at any moment.

This kind of experience had only occurred occasionally in the past when he was deeply comprehending the Dao under the stars, specifically focusing on the Way of Divine Sense.

Feng Ming's heart stirred, and he instantly understood. His Way of Divine Sense was about to Breakthrough. He immediately sank his attention into his Dantian, focusing on the chaos tree.

Lower down on the tree trunk, the dao pearl representing the Way of Divine Sense was currently emitting a dazzling white light. From the Foundation of the chaos tree, a steady stream of white light flowed into the trunk, surging frantically toward that dao pearl along the veins, as if the entire tree were pouring everything it had into nourishing this single pearl.

Feng Ming understood instantly. That white light was the power of the moon gazing tears. However, he never expected that the process of the moon gazing tears nourishing his Divine Sense would be so direct and domineering!

As waves of pure power were continuously infused, Feng Ming clearly sensed his Divine Sense power growing frantically.

The most direct sensation was the rapid expansion of the range covered by his Mental Energy. His perception of his surroundings became sharper than ever before—the previously ignored patterns on stones and the rolling of dewdrops on grass blades were now presented clearly in his perception.

This extreme sense of improvement was so wonderful that Feng Ming became intoxicated by it, unwilling to let his thoughts wander even slightly.

Time passed bit by bit. About half an hour later, a hum suddenly echoed in Feng Ming's mind, causing his consciousness to tremble slightly.

He quickly looked at the chaos tree inside his Dantian. He saw that the position of the Divine Sense dao pearl had actually moved up a notch. His Way of Divine Sense had jumped from the Connection Realm directly into the Mastery Realm!

"These moon gazing tears are simply a divine object!" Feng Ming was ecstatic. "I didn't even try to deliberately comprehend the Dao, yet they could silently push my understanding of the Dao forward! As expected of an Opportunity nurtured by heaven and earth!"

But the surprises weren't over. Feng Ming soon discovered that the improvement of his Way of Divine Sense was still continuing!

He immediately remembered Hua Dieer's words. The potency of these moon gazing tears was indeed no joke. He had only sipped half the bottle, yet the improvement was exaggerated to such an extent.

If not for the fact that his cultivation was only at the Golden Core Realm and the upper limit of his Way of Divine Sense was temporarily capped at the Selfless Realm, he felt he might even be able to use this power to charge directly into the Unity of Heaven and Man realm!

Of course, that was just wishful thinking.

After another moment, Feng Ming felt the surge of power within him gradually slow down. He fixed his gaze on the chaos tree. Good heavens, the height of the Divine Sense dao pearl had almost caught up to the dao pearls of the Way of the Sword and the Way of Thunder.

This meant that his Way of Divine Sense was just a hair's breadth away from the Selfless Realm!

Without hesitation, Feng Ming immediately took out the bottle of moon gazing tears again and carefully took a small sip, consuming half of the remaining liquid and leaving roughly a quarter left in the bottle.

As this sip went down, the chaos tree in his Dantian instantly surged again. The white light flared up once more, and the radiance of the Divine Sense dao pearl became even more brilliant. In less than fifteen minutes, another hum sounded in his mind.

This time, the Divine Sense dao pearl actually rose to the same height as the dao pearls of the Way of the Sword and the Way of Thunder!

His Way of Divine Sense successfully broke through to the Selfless Realm, becoming his third Dao to reach the Selfless Realm after the Way of the Sword and the Way of Thunder!

And at this moment, the moon gazing tears in the bottle were finally exhausted.

Feeling the Soul sublimation brought by the Breakthrough in Divine Sense, Feng Ming felt refreshed all over. Many Bottlenecks he couldn't overcome and principles he couldn't grasp before suddenly became clear.

To Feng Ming's even greater surprise, he saw that the dao pearls for the Way of the Blade, the Way of Cold Ice, and The Way of Commerce on the chaos tree—which were originally only at the Connection Realm—all flickered at this moment. They also moved up a notch, breaking through to the Mastery Realm in one go!

"So that's how it is!"

Feng Ming was deeply shaken, finally understanding what Wu Qingyue had said back then. Indeed, the benefits of the Way of Divine Sense were far more than just what appeared on the surface!

Breaking through two realms in Divine Sense could actually drive other Daos to improve simultaneously; this was the true power of the Way of Divine Sense!

Divine Sense is like a person's intelligence. The higher the intelligence, the more thorough the understanding of other Daos naturally becomes. It was nothing more than gaining comprehensive understanding through analogy!

Feng Ming knew that this was definitely not the full extent of the benefits of the Way of Divine Sense.

He tried to circulate his Cultivation Technique to begin cultivating his own cultivation level, only to be shocked to find that as his Divine Sense reached the Selfless Realm, the speed at which he drew in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi also surged several times over!

With him as the center, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a thousand-mile radius was instantly drawn in, turning into visible threads of white Spiritual Qi that surged frantically into his body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

This scene was so startling that even Hua Dieer, who was not far away, was alarmed. She gaped in shock, staring at him blankly.