117: Chapter 117 Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Power and Spiritual Energy

"Hey, hey, hey, what on earth have you been doing these past few days?"

Song Xin poked her head out from behind the wall and said to Chen Moxuan in surprise.

Although her face was deathly pale due to the depletion of her mana and the excessive expenditure of Mental Energy to use her Special Ability, her voice was weak.

Yet, she really had to get this off her chest.

Based on Song Xin's experiences and knowledge from the other world, Chen Moxuan's current display of strength was already equivalent to that of a Core Formation stage Cultivator.

In the memories she obtained through her Special Ability by fusing with her self in the other world, she was considered a recognized Genius in her Sect.

It took her only thirty years to reach the Core Formation stage, and another fifty years to reach the Late Stage of Core Formation.

However, three years had passed since she first awakened her Special Ability and perfectly fused with the body of a Cultivator at the Late Stage of Core Formation the moment she traveled to the other world.

In these three years, traveling to the other world had served almost solely as a mana replenishment station, and occasionally to bring back some specialties from that world.

Her progress in cultivation could be considered negligible.

Yet this guy in front of her, just through a few days of traveling to the other world, had upgraded his strength from the Qi Refinement Stage to the Core Formation stage.

It was simply too outrageous!

Was Martial Arts really such a powerful thing?!

As expected, the history written by the official Transcendent organization could not be trusted.

But soon, Song Xin seemed to suddenly recall something. She stumbled forward a few steps and said anxiously:

"No, let's not talk about that for now! We need to run quickly!"

"While the other heroes haven't reacted yet, we must quickly go to another city and find that guy Gluttony. Perhaps there's still a way to deal with your mark!"

Chen Moxuan remained staring at the pool of blood on the ground, unmoved.

To be precise, he was staring at a spot slightly above the bloodstain.

Under the capture of his Spiritual Sense, he could feel a cluster of energy, invisible to the naked eye, with strange blue runes dancing around it.

The energy cluster was peeking around, as if it were looking for something.

"What is this?" Song Xin followed Chen Moxuan's gaze and also sensed an unusual feeling in the Void Realm.

She extended her Divine Sense, which was unique to Cultivators, but perhaps because her Mental Energy was overly depleted, like straining one's eyes, she could only see a blurry fluctuation.

However, she had seen this unique Special Ability fluctuation several times; it was the tracking mark that [Hand of Order] planted in the Soul of every Transcendent through its Special Ability.

"Strange? Why didn't the mark track you immediately?" Song Xin asked, puzzled.

At this moment, she suddenly thought of that time at Qingqiu Psychiatric Hospital.

Yang Shan's Soul had been tortured by Chen Moxuan until it dissipated, which was no different from being dead.

Yet at that time, the tracking mark that should have been triggered had no reaction at all.

For every S-Class Transcendent, the name of their Special Ability was their title.

The Special Ability [Hand of Order] could attach rules it created to any object or living being.

The restrictions of the rules were limited by the user's Soul strength.

However, every S-Class Transcendent possessed an insanely powerful Soul, especially the twelve S-Class elders of the Superpower Association.

[Hand of Order] as one of the elders of the Superpower Association, could, under the weight of its massive Mental Energy, achieve a certain degree of its words becoming law with its Special Ability.

And the equipment that recognized Transcendents had been imbued by it with such a special rule:

"All Transcendents who passed the recognition will have a tracking mark planted deep in their Soul.

Once someone kills a Transcendent in any form, the tracking mark will lock onto the murderer living in this world, exposing his location to all Transcendents in the current region until his death."

Song Xin recalled the intelligence gathered by her companions and couldn't help but recite the rule aloud:

"This is the condition of the rule we inferred [Hand of Order] issued based on intelligence. The more restrictions and precision in the rules set by its Special Ability, the greater its power."

"We have tried many methods over the years, but we could not bypass this rule.

Several Madmen were locked onto immediately after killing a Transcendent and were surrounded and captured that very day; their ends were very miserable."

Song Xin stared at Chen Moxuan with curiosity and asked impatiently:

"What method did you use to bypass the tracking mark?"

This point was very important.

If killing a Transcendent could bypass the tracking, then the passive situation that the Madman Society had been in for years would be reversed.

Chen Moxuan shrugged helplessly and shook his head:

"I didn't do anything."

He indeed didn't do any precautions.

He had been prepared that, after being exposed, he would kill one Transcendent if one came, and kill a pair if two came.

Until all the Transcendents who came to this city were slaughtered.

Having a tracking mark meant he only had to wait for the Transcendents to come to his door, which actually saved him trouble.

The current situation was beyond his expectations and a bit disappointing.

The energy cluster spun in the air, unable to find its target.

It seemed that because it had been exposed for too long, the blue runes on the energy cluster were growing dimmer.

Just as the blue runes completely disappeared, the energy cluster silently dissipated.

A stream of extremely pure energy suddenly appeared in this space.

"This is... Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi?"

Chen Moxuan's pupils constricted.

After mastering Spiritual Sense, the moment he returned, he sensed that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the Superpower World was much thinner than in the Martial Arts World.

It was so thin that he could not use flight techniques at all.

But at this moment, he felt a very dense amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

The concentration of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi he sensed at this moment even exceeded the Spirit Tide Storm he encountered in the Land of Inheritance.

However, unlike the Spirit Tide Storm where all the energy was confined to Chen Moxuan's surroundings, this energy, once it appeared, quickly dissipated outward.

"Huh, why did I suddenly sense Spiritual Qi?" Song Xin frowned at this moment as well.

"Spiritual Qi?" Chen Moxuan asked, puzzled, upon hearing this.

Perhaps because the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this world was extremely scarce, that sudden burst of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was like a flash in the pan, quickly dissipating outward.

In the blink of an eye, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this space returned to its original state.

"You mean, that energy just now was Spiritual Qi??" Chen Moxuan looked at Song Xin and asked again.

"Yes, but how could this Spiritual Qi appear out of thin air?" Song Xin nodded slightly, her eyes full of confusion.

Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was the general term for the various energy particles between heaven and earth that Chen Moxuan perceived through his Spiritual Sense after Awakening his Heart-Phase Dao Seed.

Martial Artists could use their unique Breathing Method to absorb this Spiritual Qi to refine the True Qi within their bodies, and could also use their Spiritual Sense to control the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to form flight techniques.

Now, hearing what Song Xin said, Spiritual Qi and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi might be the same thing, just called by different names in different worlds.

And depending on the cultivation system, the application of this energy also had significant differences.

As for why it suddenly appeared...

Chen Moxuan suddenly thought of the fragments he experienced in the Heart Refining Array.

A bold hypothesis emerged in his heart:

"Could it be that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this world is thin because it has all been absorbed by Transcendents?"

"And after they die, this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi trapped within their bodies can finally be released again?"

Regarding the birth of Transcendents and Special Abilities, there were still many unknowns.

If the birth of every Transcendent required absorbing massive amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, then the innately powerful bodies of Transcendents and the current status of thin Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this world had a reasonable explanation.

Unlike Transcendents, the path of Martial Artist cultivation lay in using breathing techniques to circulate Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for repeated use.

The True Qi they stored in their bodies for a long time was, compared to the vast Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but a drop in the ocean.

But even just a B-Rank Transcendent, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi stored within their bodies was even more vigorous and majestic than that Spirit Tide Storm that helped him Breakthrough from the Perfection of the Qi Control Realm to the Middle Stage of the Tiangang Realm.

Let alone A-Rank, or even S-Class Transcendents above B-Rank.

Coupled with the long lifespans of Transcendents and their accumulation over the years, the number of Transcendents in the entire Dazhou Nation had grown exponentially, nearly sucking the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi dry.

"Regardless, let's leave here first," Song Xin suggested.

She formed a hand seal with one hand, her figure becoming illusory and slowly turning transparent.

Although the fleeting Spiritual Qi dissipated very quickly just now, it allowed her to seize the opportunity to absorb a trace of energy, barely restoring enough mana to perform basic Spells.

Just as she was about to vanish, Chen Moxuan gripped the fingers she was using to form the hand seal, golden runes rising in his palm.

Song Xin only felt the mana she had just gathered in her body dissipate rapidly like water from a broken dam, and her figure, which had finally become illusory, suddenly solidified.

"What are you doing?!" Song Xin widened her eyes and looked at Chen Moxuan in confusion.

But she saw Chen Moxuan nod slightly, a sharp glint flowing in his eyes.

The next second, he actually formed the hand seal with the same gesture, his movements flowing like clouds and water.

Under Song Xin's dumbfounded gaze, his figure gradually became transparent, exactly the same as the invisibility Spell she had just performed.