Chapter 27: Mental Power Enhancement

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At that moment, Chen Fei leaped forward like a swift gust of wind and arrived at the warehouse entrance.

“Who’s there…?”

The two guards sensed something was off and turned their heads. However, before they could finish speaking, they were already under the invisible control of Chen Fei’s mental power. Their consciousness was seized, and they willingly opened the warehouse doors for him.

Inside, the warehouse was filled with various rare treasures. Its scale was immense, far surpassing the storage facilities of the Qin family’s old trade caravan.

“No wonder this is the City Lord’s mansion—so much wealth.” Chen Fei couldn’t help but sigh at the sight.

However, for someone who had already reached the peak of the Fifth Rank Grand Spirit Master, most of these so-called treasures had lost their appeal. Ordinary spirit stones, common herbs, and even Second Rank pills had little effect on him now. They could no longer significantly boost his cultivation in a short period.

To rapidly enhance a Spirit Master’s power, one needed truly rare and precious heavenly materials.

The Su family had maintained its position among the top three families in Huangwu City largely because they controlled the Huang Spirit Mine. The ordinary spirit stones and medicinal herbs from the mine were sufficient to nurture a large number of Spirit Masters. Even more importantly, the mine produced mid-grade spirit stones and rare herbs capable of fostering Grand Spirit Masters.

Thus, Chen Fei found it incomprehensible that the Su family, led by the second master, would make the foolish decision to sell the Huang Spirit Mine. Without it, they were essentially cutting off their own foundation.

Activating his Spirit Snake Eyes, Chen Fei scanned the warehouse, searching for the source of the Void Heaven Cauldron’s disturbance. Eventually, in a corner, he spotted a pile of inconspicuous-looking Lingxu Grass.

Lingxu Grass was a primary ingredient for crafting First Rank pills—one of the most common medicinal herbs.

“Lingxu Grass?” Chen Fei frowned. This herb was cheap, worth only about a thousand ordinary spirit stones per pound.

“Wait!”

“This isn’t Lingxu Grass!”

Sifting through the pile, he finally uncovered a slightly different-looking herb.

“This is…?” Carefully observing it, Chen Fei soon recognized its true identity.

“The primary ingredient for Third Rank pills—Serpent King Grass!”

Serpent King Grass closely resembled Lingxu Grass, but their effects were worlds apart. A single Serpent King Grass could be sold for nearly 100,000 spirit stones.

Someone had clearly mistaken it for ordinary Lingxu Grass and carelessly mixed it in here.

“Unfortunately, I don’t know alchemy. Otherwise, I might have been able to refine a Third Rank pill from this.” Chen Fei felt a bit regretful.

Without hesitation, he swallowed the Serpent King Grass, using the Void Heaven Cauldron to refine it.

A warm current surged through his body.

The efficiency of the Void Heaven Cauldron in absorbing and utilizing medicinal properties was astonishing. In an instant, the spiritual energy within him surged at a rapid pace, forcefully impacting his meridians and acupoints.

“Boom!”

A burst of energy filled his body.

Finally, he broke through his bottleneck and successfully advanced to the early stage of the Sixth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Just as Chen Fei was about to leave, he noticed that the Void Heaven Cauldron was still resonating—it hadn’t stopped after refining the Serpent King Grass.

“Hmm?”

Chen Fei was taken aback.

“The thing causing the Void Heaven Cauldron to react wasn’t the Serpent King Grass?”

He continued searching the warehouse and eventually found a meticulously preserved small medicine bottle inside a pile of crates.

Opening the lid, he was immediately greeted by an incredibly potent medicinal fragrance. His spirit was instantly invigorated, and the Void Heaven Cauldron’s resonance intensified.

“This is it!”

“This is the true source of the Cauldron’s reaction.”

Chen Fei was overjoyed.

The liquid inside the bottle was as thick as honey, yet he had no idea what it was.

However, the Void Heaven Cauldron craved it immensely!

Without hesitation, he poured the entire contents of the bottle into his mouth and began refining it using his Ten Thousand Paths Cultivation Art.

As the mysterious liquid was absorbed and refined by the Void Heaven Cauldron, a warm current shot straight to his head, opening up his Sea of Consciousness.

Moments later, he saw the mist-like glow of the Void Heaven Cauldron within his mind. It flickered repeatedly, and with each pulse, a beam of starlight descended from above, entering his Sea of Consciousness.

In just a short while, his Sea of Consciousness was filled with countless stars of light.

Chen Fei instantly understood—each of these stars represented a unit of condensed mental power. In other words, each one was a fragment of spiritual energy.

Ten units of mental power could make one a true Spiritual Art Master.

A hundred units would elevate one to a higher level.

Although Chen Fei didn’t fully understand how Spiritual Art Masters classified their ranks, he could clearly feel that as the number of stars increased, his mental strength was growing at an incredible rate.

By the time the flickering glow of the Void Heaven Cauldron finally dimmed, nearly a thousand stars had gathered in his Sea of Consciousness.

“What an amazing feeling!”

Chen Fei realized that his mental state had improved tremendously, to the extent that even his Spirit Snake Eyes’ perception abilities had greatly enhanced.

After refining the unknown liquid, the Void Heaven Cauldron finally calmed down.

Satisfied, Chen Fei left the warehouse.

At this moment, even though he was nearly ten meters away from the two guards he had controlled earlier, it still felt as though they were right beside him. He could clearly perceive the situation around the warehouse through their eyes.

No wonder the Su brothers had been so easily controlled by a Spiritual Soul Master that day!

“Thief!”

“Catch the thief!”

Chen Fei manipulated the two guards, making them shout loudly while creating the sounds of a scuffle.

The commotion quickly drew the attention of two patrolling guards and even alerted Ye Chunyan, who was guarding the ceremonial robe warehouse nearby.

Without hesitation, Ye Chunyan rushed out of the ceremonial robe warehouse and headed straight for the treasure warehouse.

Upon arrival, she found two guards already unconscious while another two were chasing in a certain direction.

“Someone actually dared to steal from the City Lord’s mansion?” Ye Chunyan was shocked and immediately joined the pursuit.

As more guards became involved, the situation escalated into a grand chase around the warehouse area.

Meanwhile, Chen Fei used this distraction to slip into the ceremonial robe warehouse unnoticed.

Inside, among the hanging ceremonial robes, he quickly located the one Ye Bufan had prepared for Su Ran. It was exquisite and beautiful—Su Ran would surely look stunning in it.

However, hidden within the robe was a deadly Insidious Heart Gu Poison. The moment it came into contact with skin, it would silently infiltrate the body.

Using his spiritual energy, Chen Fei carefully extracted the nearly undetectable poison and, in a sinister move, transferred it onto Ye Chunyan’s robe instead.

“If Ye Chunyan gets affected by this Insidious Heart Gu Poison and publicly declares her love for her cousin Ye Bufan in front of all of Huangwu City, that would be quite a spectacle!”

Chen Fei chuckled to himself, pleased with his handiwork.

After finishing his task, he swiftly left the warehouse, disguising himself as a blind man before returning to the banquet hall.

Seeing him return, Su Ran immediately approached and supported him.

“Why did you take so long?”