70: Chapter 70 Moon
The night passed without incident. By daybreak, everyone on the 8th floor had risen, and they all came to Ling Yichen’s home again to check on his condition.
Ling Yichen was still in a coma, but he was no longer in such a dire state.
The bloodstains on his face had been cleaned, and his breathing was stable.
W fed him two more seven-leaf lotus hearts before leaving for school with Ye Qingzhu and the other two.
Ling Yichen was left in the care of the three adults.
Around ten o'clock in the morning, Ling Yichen, who was lying on the bed, suddenly felt his eyelashes flutter before he slowly opened his eyes a crack.
Immediately after, he gasped and let out a low groan: "Damn... my head hurts so much!"
He was awake, and the first thing he did upon waking was to continuously tap his head, attempting to alleviate the throbbing pain.
At this moment, he truly felt as if his head were about to explode; it was agonizing.
He immediately took out the jade box containing the seven-leaf lotus hearts from his Storage Ring, ate two of them in succession, and entered a state of cultivation.
As his consciousness entered his spiritual sea of consciousness, he was immediately stunned by the scene before him.
"Damn... where is my Super Large Star Primordial Guiding Formation?"
"And where is my spiritual ocean?"
At this very moment, his spiritual sea of consciousness was empty, as desolate as it had been the first time he entered it.
The Super Large Star Primordial Guiding Formation, composed of 27 stars, had vanished.
The vast spiritual ocean had also dried up, leaving only a pitiful amount of water at the bottom!
Other than that, only a thick purple mist lingered throughout the entire space.
"Huh? Wait, this lake... it seems to have grown much larger!"
Ling Yichen soon discovered something amiss.
He was astonished to find that the coastline of his dried-up spiritual ocean had expanded; by his estimation, the area had increased by at least double. Most importantly, there was a huge depression deep at the bottom of the lake, the area of which alone was comparable to his previous spiritual ocean.
"Could it be that purple-white light?"
Before he lost consciousness, he clearly saw a purple-white beam of light from the moon hit him, and it had precisely entered his spiritual sea of consciousness.
With a simple guess, he could deduce the result.
It must have been that after the purple-white beam entered his spiritual sea of consciousness, it struck his spiritual ocean, intending to destroy it.
However, his spiritual ocean was incredibly vast; it had endured the blow, not only surviving but also causing the area of the spiritual ocean to expand.
Now, as long as he could fill it with Mental Energy, his Mental Energy would surge to more than double what it was before!
"Haha, truly, one who survives a great disaster is destined for good fortune!"
"My Mental Energy has surged so much; I’ve hit the jackpot."
Ling Yichen was still very happy.
Besides that, he looked up at the purple mist.
At this moment, the amount of purple mist drifting in his spiritual sea of consciousness was immense. If he absorbed and refined all of it, he would be able to harvest many golden clouds, definitely far more than before.
This was also a gain.
"Huh? There seems to be something over there!"
Ling Yichen suddenly discovered that there was something else in his spiritual sea of consciousness.
Immediately, he flew rapidly toward that object. It was only then that he was shocked to discover just how vast his spiritual sea of consciousness was.
He had never checked the true extent of his spiritual sea of consciousness before. Now, as he flew, it took him a full 20 minutes to reach the edge of the spiritual sea of consciousness, where he saw a huge black barrier.
Of course, that wasn't what he was most concerned with right now; he was interested in a cloud emitting a faint white light, curled up in a corner at the very edge of the barrier.
It seemed to have been driven and sealed there by the surrounding purple mist.
If this weren't Ling Yichen's own spiritual sea of consciousness, he would have almost missed the fact that there was such a small white cloud inside it.
"What is this?"
Ling Yichen became curious about this white cloud.
Although he had a vague answer in his mind.
That beam of light from before wasn't purely purple; it was purple-white.
Obviously, the large amount of purple mist originated from that beam of light, and likewise, this white cloud also originated from that beam.
"Could this be the true power of the moon?"
Ling Yichen widened his eyes, full of curiosity.
He slowly approached the white cloud and reached out to touch it.
The white cloud felt faintly cool to the touch and had no other reaction.
However...
When the purple mist approached, the white cloud would emit a faint light, resisting the approach of the purple mist.
Seeing this, Ling Yichen immediately said, "It seems you don't want to be with them, so I'll take you away from here!"
With that, he reached out and grabbed the white cloud.
The white cloud offered no resistance, allowing him to compress it and take it into his hand.
Subsequently, his consciousness withdrew from the spiritual sea of consciousness, and he looked inward at his own body.
He was considering where to place this white cloud.
However, before he could decide, the white cloud in his hand detached itself from his palm and began to wander throughout his body.
It moved extremely fast, traversing his entire body in an instant, and finally, it arrived at the acupoints of Ling Yichen's eyes.
Immediately after, it dove into Ling Yichen's left eye acupoint without hesitation and vanished.
Ling Yichen felt a slight stinging sensation in his left eye and instinctively covered it with his hand.
The stinging sensation quickly disappeared, and Ling Yichen immediately let go.
However, a bizarre scene occurred.
He saw that his field of vision had undergone some changes.
The vision on the right was normal, but the vision on the left was illusory.
The wall in front of him had become a phantom image, and he could vaguely discern objects behind the wall.
"Eh? X-ray vision?"
Ling Yichen instantly discovered the secret.
He immediately covered his right eye, and sure enough, everything in his entire field of vision became illusory; he could even see through his own wall and the walls of Ye Qingzhu's home, seeing Tang Juan teaching Ling Yixuan how to read.
He could also see Tian Xingliang and Lu Yu cleaning their home.
"Good heavens, it really is X-ray vision!"
Ling Yichen was slightly surprised.
He hadn't expected that the white cloud would affect his eyes and grant him a Supernatural Ability.
Although it wasn't a particularly special Supernatural Ability, it was somewhat useful.
At the very least, it could see through some illusions!
Among Awakened Ones, some awakened Supernatural Abilities related to illusions.
And now, with this eye's Supernatural Ability, illusions were basically ineffective against him.
"I just wonder if I can develop other abilities in the future!" Ling Yichen thought to himself.
This was also an unexpected pleasant surprise.
Just then, Ling Yixuan next door seemed to sense his awakening; she immediately jumped off the sofa and shouted, "Brother, Brother is awake!"
Then she ran quickly toward his room.
Upon hearing this, Tang Juan also hurried to follow.
Soon, Ling Yichen saw Ling Yixuan and Tang Juan.
"You're awake? Are you alright? Is anything uncomfortable?"
Tang Juan's concern was heartfelt.
Ling Yichen felt a warmth in his heart and shook his head, saying, "I'm fine. Something went wrong with my cultivation last night, but after a sleep, I'm much better."
He told a casual lie. At this time, Tian Xingliang and Lu Yu next door also received the news and rushed over.
The two were also quite worried about him, so Ling Yichen had to explain again.
"Auntie, I'm a bit hungry. Could we eat lunch a bit earlier? Once I'm done eating, I can go to school!"
Upon hearing this, the three immediately replied, "We'll go make food right now; it will be ready soon."
Immediately, the three went to prepare the meal together.
Ling Yixuan didn't leave; she sat obediently at the head of the bed, looking at Ling Yichen with a trace of worry in her eyes.
She was able to sense Ling Yichen's physical condition and knew that there was a lot of purple mist in his spiritual sea of consciousness, and that the purple mist was extremely dangerous to her.
"You go play too; I need to cultivate for a while!"
"This is a body forging method, you can also cultivate it."
Immediately, Ling Yichen passed the Myriad Worm Body Forging Method to Ling Yixuan, allowing her to master the cultivation method as well.
Ling Yixuan immediately left obediently.
With only him left in the room, Ling Yichen immediately sat cross-legged and began to refine the seven-leaf lotus heart.
His spiritual sea of consciousness had been opened up to be very, very large, and it required a lot of Mental Energy to fill.
...
Soon, one seven-leaf lotus heart was refined, and there was quite a bit more Mental Energy in his spiritual sea of consciousness.
But it was still a drop in the bucket, not even filling the bottom of the lake.
Ling Yichen smiled bitterly, continued to swallow seven-leaf lotus hearts, and continued to refine them.
About half an hour later.
Ling Yichen had refined a full 4 seven-leaf lotus hearts.
At this point, the bottom of his spiritual ocean was finally filled.
And this made Ling Yichen feel shocked.
He had already sensed from the Worm within his body that W had fed him 4 seven-leaf lotus hearts.
In other words, he had consumed a full 8 seven-leaf lotus hearts just to fill the bottom of the lake, and this was only the bottom!
It was too absurd.
According to this recovery rate, he would still need at least 70 seven-leaf lotus hearts to fully recover his Mental Energy.
And he only had four left in his hand!
"Damn, at least another 66 seven-leaf lotus hearts are needed. At 200 points each, that’s 13,200 points!"
"It seems that having powerful Mental Energy is not necessarily a good thing; it's fun to use, but very difficult to recover!"
At this moment, Ling Yichen felt a deep sense of helplessness.
"Fortunately, I previously transferred 10,000 points and 1 million credits from Lin Hao; I have the money, but where can I buy them? I heard that seven-leaf lotus hearts are priceless and hard to come by."
Ling Yichen thought of Chu Qi.
As a staff member of the Supernatural Management Association, she should know which channels could be used to purchase them.
"It seems it's time to communicate with her directly."
Previously, whenever he needed Chu Qi to do something, he would directly manipulate her, force her to do it, and then block her memory, making her forget what she had done.
However, this behavior was not actually absolutely safe; with the slightest carelessness, the controlled person would discover clues.
Of course, Ling Yichen was not afraid of her discovering it, so he had always used forced manipulation to make her execute tasks.
Now it was different; he needed a middleman who could help him purchase supplies in the long term.
If he continued to rely on forced manipulation, it would be troublesome, not to mention that he didn't have that much energy to spare.
Rather than that, it would be better to have a direct conversation with her, subdue her, and use her for his own purposes.
Therefore, with a thought, he immediately established a strong connection with the Worm inside Chu Qi; he wanted to rely on the Worm to communicate directly with Chu Qi.