14: Chapter 14 Refining Spirit Technique

Chen Hu pulled up the System interface.

The number of his underlings had increased by one again, reaching 66.

He only needed 4 more to perform another draw.

"Alright, get up!" Chen Hu said to Wang Ying on the ground, closing the System interface.

"Big Brother, here is five taels of silver. I will pay back the remaining fifteen taels as soon as possible!" Wang Ying fawningly took out five taels of silver and offered them with both hands.

"Alright, you can go. Rest assured, I will keep our relationship a secret!"

"Thank you, Big Brother!" Wang Ying was overjoyed, feeling a bit more grateful toward Chen Hu in his heart.

He was a government official; if people found out he had pledged loyalty to a Gang member as his Big Brother, even if he wasn't dismissed from his post, he would likely be mocked.

After sending Wang Ying away.

Chen Hu returned to the private room next door.

He took out 15 taels of silver and handed them to the manager.

"This is the money for Wang Ying's meal and compensation for the damaged restaurant facilities!"

Then, he took out two taels of silver and tossed them to the injured waiter: "This is for your medical expenses!"

"Thank you, Boss Chen!"

The waiter immediately said gratefully.

"All of you, get out first. I want to have a talk with these four guys!"

Chen Hu waved his hand to dismiss the others and walked over to the four bruised and swollen young men.

"Wang Ying caused trouble and assaulted people at our Fierce Tiger Gang restaurant, and you four definitely instigated it. Tell me, how do you intend to compensate for our losses?"

Chen Hu looked down at the four of them, his tone indifferent.

"Brother Hu, we were wrong. Please, spare us!"

"That's right, Brother Hu, we really know we were wrong. Please, as a magnanimous person, don't hold a grudge against us petty ones and let us off this once!"

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Watching the four terrified men begging for mercy, a cold smirk appeared on Chen Hu's face: "How about this: if you four pledge loyalty to me as your Big Brother, I will let you off. How's that?"

Hearing Chen Hu's request, the four were stunned.

Then, one of them reacted quite quickly and immediately shouted: "Zhou Yang pays his respects to Big Brother!"

Following that, the other three did the same.

He pulled up the System panel to check.

The number of underlings had surpassed 70.

Chen Hu said: "You are not allowed to reveal to anyone that I have taken you as my underlings. The four of you will help me gather intelligence in secret. If you gather useful intelligence, I certainly won't be stingy with rewards!"

Hearing this, the four were overjoyed.

They immediately expressed their willingness.

"Alright, you four can get lost now!"

After dismissing the four, Chen Hu simply opened a table at Zuichun Restaurant and started eating and drinking with his underlings.

After they finished eating and drinking.

He returned to the stronghold's office.

Chen Hu pulled up the lucky draw interface.

Sure enough, an Elementary draw had appeared below the wheel.

"System, use the Elementary draw!"

"Ding, Elementary draw activated!"

"Ding, congratulations to the Host for obtaining a treasure hunting card. The prize has been stored in the System space; please claim it yourself!"

The next moment, Chen Hu took out the treasure hunting card.

The card was golden.

Corresponding information appeared in his mind.

This treasure hunting card could be used once a day.

Each time it was used, it would mark the location of a Treasure Trove.

However, this Treasure Trove could be large or small.

It could be a copper coin, a large sum of gold and silver, or possibly other things.

Filled with curiosity.

Chen Hu decided to test the effect of the treasure hunting card.

He held the treasure hunting card and mentally commanded it to be used.

Then, an image appeared directly in Chen Hu's mind.

The image was of a vacant courtyard on Yuquan Street, and above a dry well in the courtyard, there was a red arrow.

Chen Hu understood instantly.

There was likely a Treasure Trove beneath the dry well.

Suddenly, Chen Hu felt his heart itching.

However, it was currently daytime, and there were too many prying eyes.

So, he suppressed his inner impulse and waited until the dead of night to go treasure hunting.

Late at night.

Having disguised himself and put on night-traveling clothes, Chen Hu turned into a wisp of smoke and flew out from his courtyard.

Very quickly.

He arrived at the vacant courtyard containing the Treasure Trove.

He came to the well, looked around, jumped onto the well rim, and used his feet to brace against the well wall as he slid down.

Soon, he reached the bottom of the dry well.

He took out a flint, lit it, and began to examine the area carefully.

Soon, he discovered a suspicious spot, pried open a stone on the well wall with a dagger, and took out an oil-paper package from inside.

He put the oil-paper package into his Storage Ring and stuffed the stone back in.

Then, using his right foot to push off the well wall, he soared into the sky.

After flying out of the dry well and erasing the traces he had left behind, Chen Hu used his movement technique to dash back home.

Returning home.

He lit a candle and took out the oil-paper package to open it.

He discovered that inside was actually a yellowed ancient book.

On the cover, there were only three words: Spirit Refining Art.

He frowned slightly, opened the Spirit Refining Art, and began to read it carefully.

It didn't take much time.

He finished reading the entire "Spirit Refining Art".

His face, however, showed uncontrollable excitement.

This "Spirit Refining Art" was a special cultivation Secret Manual.

After Cultivating it, one could enhance their own Divine Soul power.

When Cultivated to a certain Realm, even if the Physical Body were destroyed, one could still perform Possession and Rebirth through a powerful Divine Soul.

The first Realm of the "Spirit Refining Art" cultivation was Spirit Initiation.

It involved using a special breathing method to harmonize one's Divine Soul with the world, and then drawing in the special energy between heaven and earth to temper one's own Divine Soul.

The greatest characteristics of achieving this Realm were sharp hearing, keen vision, and photographic memory.

Chen Hu familiarized himself with the first step of the Spirit Refining Art more than ten times.

Then he sat cross-legged on the bed and gradually adjusted his breathing method.

A quarter of an hour later.

Chen Hu only felt that the sounds of the whole world had disappeared.

But he sensed that countless points of light existed in the surrounding Void Realm.

Moreover, these points of light were approaching him, and then falling one by one into his Divine Soul.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

He exited that peculiar environment.

But he found that his body had undergone some special changes.

First, his hearing and vision had greatly improved.

"Could it be that I have already achieved the first Realm of Spirit Refining, Spirit Initiation?"

"This is too fast, isn't it?"

Chen Hu was somewhat incredulous.

Picking up the Spirit Refining Art again, Chen Hu quickly flipped through it once.

Then he closed his eyes and was pleasantly surprised to find that the entire content of the book was clearly recorded in his mind.

"This is photographic memory!"

Chen Hu was overjoyed; it seemed he had really Cultivated the Spirit Refining Art to the Spirit Initiation Realm.

"Let's keep trying!"

Chen Hu started Cultivating again according to the unique breathing method.

Soon, he fell into that unique scene again.

The surrounding points of light gathered into his Divine Soul once more.

And after his Divine Soul absorbed these points of light, it became stronger and stronger.

During this process.

Chen Hu discovered that something was gestating within his Divine Soul.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but that gestating thing broke out of his body.

Then Chen Hu felt as if his Soul had experienced Soul Emergence; he appeared in mid-air in the room and saw himself sitting cross-legged on the bed.

"Is this Spiritual Sense?"

With a thought, his Spiritual Sense retracted back into his Divine Soul.

Then, Chen Hu also exited his Cultivation.

He released his Spiritual Sense again and found that within the ten-meter radius covered by his Spiritual Sense, everything was visible down to the finest detail.

According to the records in the Spirit Refining Art.

Spiritual Sense had three great uses.

First, it could replace the eyes for investigation.

Because Spiritual Sense had penetrative properties, it could directly penetrate walls, clothing, and so on.

Second, Spiritual Sense could be used to attack others' Divine Souls.

However, his Spiritual Sense was still relatively weak and could only target ordinary people or relatively weak Martial Artists.

Against those Martial Artists with firm wills, Spiritual Sense would be useless.

Of course, this was only relative; once his Spiritual Sense became powerful, even strong Martial Artists would not be able to block his Spiritual Sense attacks.

The third use of Spiritual Sense was object manipulation.

This made Chen Hu think of sword-flying.

However, right now, his Spiritual Sense was still relatively weak; not to mention sword-flying, even manipulating a needle was quite difficult.