Chapter 40: Setting Foot in the天河界 (Tianhe World)

After Chen Mobai returned home, he first placed the young Chinese parasol tree on the balcony. He wanted to water it but was afraid of drowning the sapling.

He took out his phone to look up how to care for it and found that many people had different opinions.

But there was one common point.

It was best to grow it in a place with abundant spiritual energy, the more abundant the spiritual energy, the faster it would grow.

This Chinese parasol sapling was one of the few types of spiritual trees in the Immortal Sect that could infinitely ascend in rank. The highest rank currently is the fourth-rank superior-grade Jade-green Parasol Tree in Danxia City.

Although the Chinese parasol sapling has unlimited potential, its growth is extremely slow.

The Jade-green Parasol Tree in Danxia City was planted by a third-rank spiritual value master. It is said that it took 200 years for the sapling to grow into a first-rank spiritual tree.

After the Chinese parasol sapling survives, it will naturally regulate the earth's veins and enhance the spiritual energy, with the tree and the spiritual land complementing each other. However, if it had grown in a fourth-rank spiritual land from the beginning, it would not have taken more than 4,000 years to become a fourth-rank spiritual tree.

Seeing the mention of abundant spiritual energy, Chen Mobai naturally thought of his own Water Mansion.

Amidst the silver light, he teleported to the Tianhe World.

He placed the Chinese parasol sapling on a desk in a side hall, then opened the Blue Water Array and went outside the protective shield to scoop a pot of water and pour it at the roots.

Online, it was said that this was the easiest spiritual tree to care for, requiring only to be placed in a place with abundant spiritual energy and watered regularly. After the Chinese parasol sapling blooms and bears fruit for the first time, watering can be skipped, as it will grow on its own.

Once the Chinese parasol sapling grows, it is a treasure all over.

The bark and leaves can be used to make talisman paper, the sap can serve as ink and repel insects, and the wood is excellent material for making musical instruments and boxes. However, the most valuable part is the flowers and fruits, which are the main ingredients for refining the first-rank superior-grade Clear Fire Pill.

This Clear Fire Pill is one of the few pills in the Immortal Sect that can enhance spiritual awareness, making it one of the most precious pills for cultivators in the late Qi Condensation stage.

Thinking of spiritual awareness, Chen Mobai couldn't help but close his eyes. The effects of the Dream Awakening Melody were still present, but not as clear as last night. The spiritual energy he saw seemed to be covered by a veil, no longer transparent.

According to Chen Baolan's reminder, the effects of the Dream Awakening Melody would last about three to four days. During this time, it was best not to cultivate spiritual energy but to meditate and focus on the mind, feeling the generation of spiritual awareness and the sensation of piercing through the fog.

Spiritual awareness is the sixth sense beyond the five senses, originating from the sea of the mind and forming in the sea of consciousness.

After cultivators cultivate spiritual awareness, they can check their internal body conditions. When spiritual energy is in operation, they can compare it with the correct path in the cultivation manual and make adjustments to refine the spiritual energy in the most perfect state.

The stronger the spiritual awareness, the more parts of the body it can check. Once the Foundation Establishment stage is successfully achieved, this spiritual awareness can even leave the body and observe the outside world.

Many spells that dispel illusions are based on spiritual awareness.

Chen Mobai, who had just been stimulated to develop spiritual awareness, could only check his dantian and qi sea, feeling the fluctuations and rotations of the spiritual energy.

The rotation of the spiritual energy was something he learned from Qingping's lectures. When spiritual energy operates in this way, it helps to condense, but before he had spiritual awareness, although he could manipulate the rotation of the spiritual energy, he did not understand the specific situation.

Today, with his spiritual awareness, he found that the rotation of the spiritual energy was as slow as a tortoise, and the trajectory formed was not round but an irregular, flattened shape.

"I'll have to correct this once I truly cultivate spiritual awareness."

Chen Mobai muttered to himself.

Thinking this, he opened the auxiliary cultivation software and entered the keywords "spiritual awareness" and "Qi Condensation stage" to search.

The results were few, only two pages with a dozen or so posts.

After all, those who can post on the auxiliary cultivation software are at least Foundation Establishment cultivators. By the time they reach that stage, they generally no longer pay attention to cultivating spiritual awareness during the Qi Condensation stage.

Fortunately, with a large base of users, there were still some Foundation Establishment cultivators who, for the sake of their juniors or disciples, had studied the techniques of cultivating spiritual awareness during the Qi Condensation stage.

To avoid wasting the effects of the Dream Awakening Melody, Chen Mobai, who could not cultivate spiritual energy, decided to seriously study these posts.

After reading them, his brows slightly furrowed.

There were two cultivation routes for spiritual awareness in the two pages of posts.

One was the orthodox method of cultivating the body and mind, nurturing the mind until the willpower blossoms and naturally integrates into spiritual awareness. Those who follow this route can exchange for the "Willpower Cultivation Technique" at the National Library.

The other is a slightly more aggressive method, using a specially made willpower incense to induce the mind to leave the body.

This route believes that a person's spiritual awareness is inherently deep within the brain, but is sealed due to the influence of postnatal qi. However, spiritual awareness is the master of the body and is naturally active, and just a little trigger can reactivate it.

However, for Qi Condensation cultivators, spiritual awareness is weak and cannot leave the body for long periods like Foundation Establishment cultivators. Therefore, when using this method, someone must be present to immediately extinguish the willpower incense once the mind leaves the body.

After several activations and departures, the cultivator naturally grasps the spiritual awareness, which is a long-term stimulation cultivation method. Those who follow this path have given it a unique name: "Spiritual Awareness Fitness."

"Isn't this just listening to the Dream Awakening Melody every day? Listening to the melody is enjoyable, but this seems more like torture."

Chen Mobai instantly understood. He then checked the National Library for this stimulation cultivation method and found that it was indeed recorded, named "Spiritual Awareness Sky Tour Technique," but it required the authority of a Foundation Establishment cultivator to exchange.

Clearly, the Immortal Sect did not strongly advocate this method, unlike the orthodox "Willpower Cultivation Technique," which can be downloaded by Qi Condensation cultivators for 1,000 points.

Chen Mobai, who liked to exercise, but only liked it and never put it into action, checked the table of contents and outline of the "Spiritual Awareness Sky Tour Technique" due to his high authority. He found that the willpower incense used in the cultivation was a second-rank pill, and his initial interest quickly waned.

Second-rank pills in the Immortal Sect require real-name authentication of Foundation Establishment cultivators to purchase, making them controlled items.

It seems that the "Spiritual Awareness Sky Tour Technique" is a method for those with Foundation Establishment elders in their family to help their juniors open their spiritual awareness.

Chen Mobai thought for a while and decided to do today's main task.

He got up and opened his backpack, which contained a set of ancient-style wigs he had ordered online to match the ancient style.

Actually, these items had arrived yesterday, but it wasn't until today, after sending Chen Xinglan to Chixia Academy, that he had the chance to try them on.

The sizes were all correct. Wearing the ancient costume and the hairpin wig, he looked like a handsome young man.

He checked his appearance in a small mirror, ensuring there were no flaws, took a deep breath, and opened the array of the Water Mansion.

He was finally about to set foot on the land of the Tianhe World.