Chapter 209: Broken

【Lotus Visualization Method Proficient Chapter unlocked】

【Lotus Visualization Method Experience Value +1】

【Lotus Visualization Method Experience Value +1】

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Jiang Cheng was momentarily stunned, then felt an urge to burst out laughing.

He managed to hold it back.

He only swung his fist hard.

His conjecture turned out to be correct.

The essence of the Visualization Method is simply the word "visualization".

So even without obtaining the Lotus Visualization Method Proficient Chapter, by visualizing a lotus diagram in his mind he can unlock the next stage of the cultivation method.

Perhaps because his visualization was crude and lacked detail, only the Proficient Chapter was unlocked.

But that doesn't matter.

When he fills the Experience Bar of the Proficient Chapter, a further visualization will inevitably add many details, naturally unlocking the Great Completion Chapter and the Perfect Chapter.

Including a self‑created Visualization Method later!

Jiang Cheng still restrained that impulse.

He decided to first raise the Lotus Visualization Method to Perfect, boosting his Spiritual Power, so any later visualization method he creates will be stronger.

The following are prompts for Experience Value gains.

It seems to add a bit of Experience Value each second.

Jiang Cheng looked at the Panel.

【Lotus Visualization Method (Proficient Chapter): Proficient (205/600000)】

A 600,000‑point Experience Bar.

The preceding 205 Experience Value points came from the lotus diagram he just visualized in his mind.

Jiang Cheng involuntarily drew a sharp breath.

By this efficiency,

he would have to stay in a visualization state for 3,000 minutes to reach Proficiency.

With his current Spiritual Power, if he does not refine Force, he can visualize three times a day, each lasting nine minutes.

325 days.

Almost a year.

When the Visualization Method has no Entry, it takes about a year of visualization to reach Entry.

It's true that his Spiritual Power is average; it's said that talented ones can sense the presence of Spiritual Power in their mind in a few days or a few months, and the exceptionally strong might wake up one day and sense it without realizing it.

Once Entry senses the existence of Spiritual Power, the rest proceeds smoothly.

From Entry to Proficient takes only two or three months.

Another year and a half later, he can become a Level 1 Spiritual Thought Master.

Specifically it varies; Hong Cha once said that Ye Ying is a prodigy among Spiritual Thought Masters, already a Fifth-level Spiritual Thought Master at about twenty years old.

Jiang Cheng felt this period was indeed rather long.

Because during that year his Spiritual Power could only be used for visualization, not for refining Force to strengthen his flesh.

That's why hardly anyone cultivates flesh and spirit simultaneously.

Fortunately he can accelerate by watching the Visualization Diagram.

Previously his Spiritual Power allowed him to watch a ten‑minute Visualization Diagram, gaining 20 Experience Value points per minute.

Now his Spiritual Power has increased fivefold, letting him stare at the Visualization Diagram for 50 minutes, which at 20 points per minute equals a thousand points.

For the 600,000‑point Experience Bar, 600 viewings would suffice.

Without refining Force, at three viewings per day it only takes 200 days, a third less than mental visualization! What if he also has enough Cultivation Resources?

Because his Spiritual Power rose fivefold, fifteen Primary Spirit Nourishing Pills are needed for one recovery; for six hundred viewings he needs 9,000 Primary Spirit Nourishing Pills, i. e., nine million yuan—about the ten million he expected.

So Jiang Cheng was not surprised.

He only worried whether the Lotus Leaf Visualization Diagram in his hand still worked. While some Spiritual Power remained in his mind, Jiang Cheng got out of bed, walked to the table, and looked at the Lotus Leaf Visualization Diagram on it.

The thing he feared most still happened.

One minute passed, two minutes passed, three minutes passed, and the Experience Value didn't increase at all.

The Spiritual Power in his mind didn't diminish; it was even slowly recovering.

"Broken," Jiang Cheng's expression changed.

Could it be that his current Spiritual Power is too high, rendering the diagram ineffective?

Like a middle‑schooler doing elementary school worksheets—no matter how much you do, there's no improvement.

He felt a bit unwilling and looked again for a while.

Still nothing happened.

He sighed.

He could only pack away the Lotus Leaf Visualization Diagram.

Indeed, he should first focus on strengthening his flesh.

Getting the later Visualization Diagrams won't be achievable in a short time.

Ye Ying probably has them, but he shouldn't trouble her; he'll go to the Black Market in a couple of weeks.

By then he'll be a Fifth-level Force Warrior, the chance of mishaps even smaller, and he can also attend the Spiritual Thought Masters' Auction.

In a flash, another two or three days passed.

During that period he also took some orders, earning about four or five thousand a day, bought a few Spirit Nourishing Pills, and sped up his cultivation progress.

That day, on his way to the Shooting Range, he ran into Qiu Feng.

The two had at least once cooperated, so pretending not to know each other would be odd.

So Jiang Cheng called out a greeting.

But the latter seemed dazed, lowered his head and walked over.

Jiang Cheng scratched his head.

He wasn't angry, just found it a bit strange.

"Cang Hai, you still don't know, do you?"

Someone nearby, seeing this, whispered, "His brother got into trouble."

"!"

Jiang Cheng's pupils dilated.

He remembered clearly the last time the two drove out.

Qiu Feng was quite proud, saying his brother led a squad into the mountains and each time made a few million.

He naturally thought the guy was bragging; if it were really that profitable, would there still be Senior Original Force Warriors selling courses at the guild? Yet just a few days later, something happened?

"Really."

The man lowered his voice.

"Just yesterday, a member of the squad his brother was in returned, saying they encountered a ninth‑grade Exotic Beast in the mountains, which is comparable to a nine‑level Force Warrior but larger, with rough skin and thick flesh. In a one‑on‑one situation, a nine‑level Force Warrior finds it hard to kill a ninth‑grade Exotic Beast; even if they kill it, they are likely to be severely injured."

"Which squad then?"

"Well, besides the returning Eight‑level Force Warrior, several people including Qiu Feng's brother died."

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath.

"So that's why he's like that now. Sigh, it's unavoidable; you can't walk by the river all the time without getting your shoes wet."

The other person shook his head, sighed, and walked away.

"Indeed, we still have to stay steady."

Jiang Cheng became even more determined not to go into the mountains.

But he also thought of something.

The Rebel Army was forced to reside deep in the mountains.

They were probably occasionally attacked by Exotic Beasts, right? Perhaps the ninth‑grade Exotic Beast is just a minor threat to them.

Another day passed.

The next day, as Jiang Cheng just entered headquarters, his phone rang.

When he opened it, it was a call from Bing Li.

"It should be the second mission, I guess; counting the days, it's just a few more days."

Jiang Cheng answered the call, feeling quite calm inside.

The full‑moon Mid‑Autumn moment arrived, and blessings were sent, deepening affection.

Wishing all readers a life as poetic as a painting, a career that rises step by step, a harmonious and blissful family, everlasting health, rolling wealth and successful endeavors—Happy Mid‑Autumn!!!! (End of chapter)