Supreme Parasite: Becoming a God Starting with Parasitizing the School Beauty

56: Chapter 56 Star RefiningLing Yichen was stunned.

If 80 square meters is a genius, and 150 square meters is a genius among geniuses, then what am I?

The area I can see right now must be at least several thousand square meters!

Looking at it, I can’t see the boundaries at all!

Why is my spiritual sea of consciousness so large?

At this moment, Ling Yichen fell into deep thought.

He was a bit afraid to tell the old man the truth.

Because it was too bizarre.

”Uh... maybe not 150 square meters, but it’s not far off!”

Ling Yichen said, choosing a relatively safe value.

However, even so, the old man’s eyes instantly lit up, and he said excitedly, ”Is your sea of consciousness really as big as a house?”

”Yes!” Ling Yichen answered firmly.

”Good, good, good!” The old man said ”good” three times, then looked at Ling Yichen eagerly and continued, ”Then how much is in your spiritual ocean? Is it as much as a vat of water?”

Hearing this, Ling Yichen glanced at the lake beneath his sea of consciousness and suddenly felt a bit weary.

This lake wasn’t very large, but it was about the size of two basketball courts; the liquid inside definitely couldn’t be held in a water vat.

A water vat?

Who are you looking down on!

But he still asked, ”Does an average person’s spiritual ocean have as much as a vat of water?”

Hearing this, the old man immediately assumed that Ling Yichen’s spiritual ocean didn’t have as much as a vat of water. The eagerness in his eyes faded slightly, but he remained happy and patiently explained, ”The amount in a spiritual ocean varies from person to person.”

”However, those who can reach the amount of a water vat can all be called geniuses.”

”A normal person’s spiritual ocean isn’t very much at the beginning; having a ladle’s worth is already quite good.”

”Like your senior brother, his spiritual sea of consciousness was originally only as much as a cup of water. After practicing the Star Origin Guiding Technique for 20 years, it should now be about as much as a 10x10 meter swimming pool.”

”This is already considered a relatively outstanding spiritual ocean.”

As he spoke, the old man stared intently at Ling Yichen, awaiting his answer.

Meanwhile, Ling Yichen’s heart was already in turmoil.

”Holy crap, a normal person’s spiritual ocean is only a ladle’s worth? Then mine...”

He looked at the entire lake, speechless for a long time.

”My spiritual ocean isn’t quite a vat full—at least it doesn’t fill it—but it’s not far off.”

Ling Yichen gave a quantity that met the old man’s expectations.

Sure enough, the old man immediately burst into laughter.

”Good, I really didn’t misjudge you. Ever since I knew you could control over a dozen Doberman Pinschers in one breath, I knew you had a powerful talent for the spirit!”

The old man looked at Ling Yichen as if he were a precious treasure.

And Ling Yichen finally understood why the old man valued him so much; it turned out there was a premeditated reason.

But he didn’t mind; being valued by the old man wasn’t a bad thing.

Although the old man had a bit of a strange personality and liked to scold people, he was fundamentally a good man who valued relationships and loyalty, and he had even passed on the Star Origin Guiding Technique to him.

Being able to pass on his secret technique without reservation was enough to make Ling Yichen deeply grateful.

After all, this was the first cultivation secret technique in his life.

”Master, can I practice the Star Origin Guiding Technique now?” Ling Yichen asked.

The old man nodded immediately and replied, ”Of course, I will personally guide your cultivation!”

”The Star Origin Guiding Technique has nine levels, one star per level. Once you’ve cultivated nine stars, you’ll reach great completion. Upon reaching great completion, the Star Origin Guiding Technique will undergo a qualitative change; at that time, the nine stars will align, forming the Star Source Conduction Formation.”

”Under the operation of the Star Source Conduction Formation, it can automatically stimulate your spiritual sea of consciousness to produce more Mental Energy, and at the same time, it can absorb the Mental Energy drifting between heaven and earth.”

Speaking of this, the old man’s face was full of pride.

”Master, did you create this Star Origin Guiding Technique?”

Hearing this, the old man sighed inexplicably.

”No, I created it together with several important friends. Unfortunately, most of them are no longer around.”

Seeing the deep sadness suddenly appearing in the old man’s eyes, Ling Yichen immediately realized he might have said the wrong thing, leading the old man to bad memories. He quickly said, ”Master, let’s start cultivation right now. I can’t wait to practice.”

Hearing this, the old man glanced at Ling Yichen with a smile and replied, ”Good, follow me!”

Immediately, the old man stepped toward one of the four rooms.

Ling Yichen and Long Daoyi quickly followed.

When the three of them reached the center of the room, there was a low rumbling sound, and then Ling Yichen was surprised to find four cracks appearing in the floor beneath his feet, and the whole room began to sink.

Seeing Ling Yichen’s surprised look, Long Daoyi explained with a smile, ”This is the elevator to the Underground Cultivation Room. The cultivation room has a Protective Formation set up by Teacher to avoid disturbances. Besides the cultivation room, there’s also a Artifact Refining Room and a small Medicinal Pool underground.”

”I set up the Medicinal Pool; they’re all herbs I grew myself. Although it can’t compare to the mid-to-high-level Medicinal Pools of some large families, the effect is much better than those commercial bathhouses.”

Bathhouses?

Ling Yichen seemed to have hit a gap in his life knowledge.

What he didn’t know was that there are many commercial bathhouses in the Central District, commonly known as Public Baths.

These Public Baths charge a fee, and the pools inside have herbs added to them, which can assist in cultivation and strengthen the body.

It’s just that since Ling Yichen had never been, he didn’t know.

Not only did he not know, but even Ye Qingzhu and Tian Yingying didn’t know either.

Because these are places that only exist in areas where Awakened Ones live; ordinary people who haven’t awakened cannot access such areas.

Of course, these topics are covered in class to provide new Awakened Ones like them with common knowledge about life in the Central District.

Soon, the elevator descended nearly thirty meters, and an underground space appeared before Ling Yichen’s eyes.

This was an underground space several times larger than the total area of the small building.

There were ten cultivation rooms alone, five Artifact Refining Rooms, and five Medicinal Pool rooms. The central area was a public lounge, luxuriously decorated, with appliances like TVs and refrigerators, as well as sofas, a bar, and a pool table.

Looking at all these varied things, Ling Yichen was truly stunned.

Seeing Ling Yichen’s shocked expression, Long Daoyi immediately explained, ”Master built this place himself to provide us with a better cultivation environment. Back then, Master had great ambitions and planned to recruit many disciples.”

”As it turned out... in 20 years, Master only took me as a disciple. Luckily, there’s you now, otherwise I’d be a bit scared down here alone; it’s so empty, like a haunted house.”

Just as Long Daoyi finished speaking, the old man took his pipe and gave him a heavy thwack on the head.

”You’re quite the talker, aren’t you? Why didn’t I see you scolding them when you were being bullied outside? If you can’t beat them, can’t you at least out-scold them?”

Long Daoyi immediately gasped, sitting on the sofa with a pained expression, rubbing the spot where he’d been hit.

Ling Yichen immediately showed a look of sympathy.

The old man grabbed him and walked toward one of the cultivation rooms.

”Ignore him. It’s not that I can’t get disciples; it’s that I don’t think much of them. They’re all a bunch of trash; their basic Mental Energy isn’t even as much as a vat of water. I can’t be bothered to teach that kind of trash.”

Ling Yichen smiled but said nothing.

Right, you’re too lazy to teach trash who don’t even have a vat of water, yet you took in a senior brother who only had a cup?

Of course, he wouldn’t actually say it out loud, only quietly grumbling in his heart.

Soon, Ling Yichen was led into a cultivation room by the old man.

The cultivation room was quite large, at least 40 square meters. It was empty inside, but a circular formation was inscribed in the center of the room.

The old man immediately pointed at the circular formation and said, ”Go inside; I’ll guide you from out here!”

Ling Yichen immediately stepped into the formation and sat cross-legged.

As he sat down, the formation on the ground immediately lit up. Once the formation was fully activated, a semi-spherical dome slowly condensed over his head, covering him completely.

As soon as the formation started, Ling Yichen immediately felt all the surrounding sounds vanish, and at the same time, he sensed some visible mist around him.

Then, the old man’s voice sounded in his ear.

”You should have noticed that mist, right? That’s actually the Mental Energy drifting between heaven and earth.”

”Most of this Mental Energy comes from deceased Awakened Ones, but your senior brother once told me he saw a wisp of Mental Energy drift out of a plant, which is why he believes plants have souls too.”

At this point, Long Daoyi’s voice rang out from behind the old man: ”If plants didn’t have souls, how could they release Mental Energy? So plants must have souls; I just haven’t found a way to communicate with them yet!”

Ling Yichen also found this extremely novel.

But for now, he was more focused on cultivation.

He sat cross-legged, calmed his mind and focused his spirit, and soon entered his spiritual sea of consciousness again.

He floated above the spiritual ocean, sitting cross-legged just as he did in the outside world.

At this moment, the old man’s voice immediately echoed in his sea of consciousness.

”Calm your mind and focus your spirit. Use your heart to observe your brain, and your brain to observe the stars. Draw upon the power of the sea of consciousness, absorb starlight into the sea of consciousness, and gather it into a Star Vortex.”

The old man’s voice seemed to have a certain magic. As his words fell, Ling Yichen suddenly entered a marvelous state. In the dark space above his head, stars suddenly began to shine one by one. With the appearance of these stars, wisps of starlight descended from the heavens, slowly gathering in front of him and condensing into a thumb-sized ball of starlight.

”This is the prototype of a Star Vortex. What you need to do now is slowly absorb more starlight and inject it inside to make it become a star.”

”Once the star is formed, you will have reached the first level of the Star Origin Guiding Technique.”

”Once you have condensed nine stars, your Star Origin Guiding Technique will be considered at great completion.”

The old man’s voice slowly withdrew from Ling Yichen’s spiritual sea of consciousness, and at this moment, Ling Yichen entered a state of cultivation, continuing to absorb more starlight and inject it into the Star Vortex before him.

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