Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 600: Chapter 346 Harvest (These past few days, I’ve been so busy that I forgot to say, happy National Day!)_2

He now possessed “Nanming Leaving Fire,” which shouldn’t have appeared at his level of cultivation.

Theoretically, such “Nanming Leaving Fire” should only exist when a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Early Stage first cultivates this technique.

At the Golden Core Early Stage, he obtained the “Nanming Leaving Fire” by exploiting a Nascent Soul’s body, and it was already commendable that he could use it at all; he shouldn’t even think about its intricate applications.

Although he needed to divide his brain to control the Heavenly Ghost, allowing the Nascent Soul body to cultivate the “Nanming Leaving Fire” method, which took ten days per session, it didn’t affect his daily activities.

During these ten days, he was adjusting the state of his main body. Although he found the tests for the Divine Skills transmission relatively easy when he inherited the “Nanming Leaving Fire,” the telepathy transmission was a mind-related Divine Skill and the most dangerous one.

He waited ten days, until the Nascent Soul body finished one cycle of cultivating the “Nanming Leaving Fire” technique. He waited until all one hundred ninety-one brains were free, which was his optimal state, to undertake the test for the telepathy inheritance.

He took out a Fourth-Grade Array Plate. The formation within was the “Heavenly Gang Four Phase Array,” which he activated. He also took out several Third Grade Array Flags and, using his understanding of the formation, reinforced the “Heavenly Gang Four Phase Array.”

It was at this time that he finally took the heart-shaped relic from the mechanical chamber’s space.

The reason for this was to prevent the monks of Qianye Temple from sensing the location of the heart-shaped relic.

When he initially obtained the Jade Foot Relics that recorded the transmission of the Divine Foot Skill, he discovered that the monks from Qianye Temple had a certain sensitivity and could track the location of the inheritance relics.

Now, he was no longer the novice in the Cultivation World who lacked knowledge. With his mastery of formation knowledge, he could block this sensing.

Especially after obtaining the Fourth-Grade Array Plate, he was confident that he could use its “Heavenly Gang Four Phase Array” to block the Qianye Temple Venerable’s ability to sense the inheritance relics.

After retrieving the heart-shaped relic, he waited momentarily. With his powerful spirit, if the monks of Qianye Temple truly sensed the presence of the heart-shaped relic, he would definitely feel it.

He smiled; it seemed the “Heavenly Gang Four Phase Array” set up by the Fourth-Grade Array Plate was indeed very effective.

He sat cross-legged; below him was a miscellaneous cushion found within Patriarch Weng Zhao’s Space Ring, which he initially overlooked until he sat on it and discovered its special effects on cultivation.

This type of odd treasure, not produced on the Beishu Continent, was beyond his understanding, even though he had inherited artifact refining skills.

This made him appreciate the items within the space ring more. Anything stored in Patriarch Weng Zhao’s Space Ring likely had no useless things.

He was wearing a third-grade robe, sitting on a cushion often used by Nascent Soul Ancestors, beside him was a Fourth-Grade Locking Vein Plate containing a Nascent Soul-level Spirit Vein, which made the Spiritual Energy near him incredibly dense.

This cultivation environment was that of a Nascent Soul Ancestor. It was rare for someone at the Golden Core Stage to enjoy such luxury.

If he had not tricked Patriarch Weng Zhao, he likely wouldn’t have had such cultivation resources even if he spent a hundred years refining elixirs.

The Nascent Soul-level Spirit Vein within the Four-Grade Locking Vein Plate alone was beyond what he could normally possess. Within the vast Shushan Sect, only Nascent Soul Ancestors were entitled to enjoy Nascent Soul-level Spirit Veins.

His gaze was calm; his life-bound magical weapon, the IBMz15, was in optimal condition. He released a Divine Thought, controlled by one of his brains.

The Divine Thought entered the heart-shaped relic, and as it did, that brain’s consciousness was simultaneously pulled in.

From this brain’s perspective, he found himself amidst a crowd.

The crowd was boundless, filled with a variety of people of different identities, statuses, ages, professions, including ordinary people and cultivators, old and young, male and female.

Just as Li Shiming appeared in the crowd, suddenly he heard the inner thoughts of the person next to him.

A scholar, whose eyes were fixed on a woman nearby, harboring thoughts of admiration for her.

A woodcutter, counting the copper coins in his hand, thinking about buying some ordinary wine when he got home today and giving the rest of the money to his elderly wife.

A monk, chanting scriptures under his breath, kept sneaking glances at the beautiful woman beside him, harboring a fondness that he dared not show.

A villain, sizing up a scholar, calculated the wealth on the scholar, while also eyeing the copper coins in the woodsman’s hands, pondering whether he could snatch them.

An official, sitting within his sedan chair, thought about a murder case.

A constable, observing the villain, compared him to the descriptions on the wanted posters, considering the identity of the villain.

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Initially, Li Shiming heard the thoughts of one person, but gradually, he heard more and more, until the thoughts of every person in the boundless crowd resounded in his mind.

At first, he was curious, but when the voices became numerous, they turned into an annoying cacophony.

For some reason, Li Shiming could still clearly hear each person’s thoughts.

Hearing the thoughts of thousands of people was enough to drive anyone to the brink of collapse.

Especially in such an environment, every thought carried the emotions of each individual, the convergence of all these feelings in his heart could destroy a person’s spirit.

Li Shiming’s brain wasn’t just any brain, perhaps with his Golden Core Stage brain, processing the thoughts of a thousand people wasn’t an issue, but to instantly deal with the thoughts and emotions of tens of thousands was beyond his capability.

But what he wasn’t proficient in, his natal Cultivation Technique “IBMz15,” excelled at.

As countless thoughts invaded his mind, the IBMz15 Cultivation Technique displayed a chart.

The chart detailed the content of each thought, their emotions, and even analyzed their mental nature.

Li Shiming didn’t know how he would pass the test of the Telepathy inheritance, a test that with every breath added many more voices, their intertwined emotions growing more intense.

Especially after the inclusion of Cultivators’ thoughts, the emotions could directly affect his own spirit as a fellow Cultivator.

Fortunately, no matter the influence, Li Shiming only ever endured a fraction, precisely one hundred ninety-first of the full brunt, keeping the impact within a bearable range for him.

Unless the test could instantaneously destroy the consciousness he retained within the heart-shaped relic, otherwise he could distribute the burden he felt across one hundred ninety other brains, lessening the impact he experienced.

It was unclear how much time had passed, but eventually, the heart-shaped relic ceased adding new voices, all sounds vanished, and the crowd around him disappeared; his consciousness connected to the core of the heart-shaped relic.

A heart-shaped pattern flew out from the relic, and entered his consciousness, followed by a barrage of information.

“Telepathy,” this Divine Skill was a mental-class ability, allowing him to sense the thoughts and musings of others within a certain range at any time and could also influence the minds of others to some extent.

However, influencing another’s mind had strict limitations; the target’s spirit must be weaker than his own for “Telepathy” to influence their mind.

Although “Telepathy” was not an offensive Divine Skill, it possessed the power of one; against weaker beings, the effect of influencing minds was potent enough to render an enemy incapable of controlling their body, trapping their consciousness in a scenario he created.

Frankly, “Telepathy” was not as powerful as Li Shiming had imagined. With his current strength, he couldn’t handle the likes of Great Elder Level Golden Core cultivators or the higher-tiered Nascent Soul Ancestors, where “Telepathy” offered no advantages.

Of course, whether “Telepathy” could effectively read the thoughts of Great Elder Level Golden Core cultivators needed testing. If useful, it might help him gain the upper hand in battles.

Li Shiming withdrew his Divine Thought, his soul now held a “Telepathy” Divine Skill pattern, which was the fundamental pattern of “Telepathy.”

He also discovered that he seemed to have received the complete inheritance of “Telepathy.” This fundamental pattern of “Telepathy” was complete, and in the future, he only needed to continually strengthen this fundamental pattern to enhance “Telepathy’s” power.