Chapter 452: Soul Grinder

"Lingyun, who was that person just now?" After Xuanying left, Chen Jing asked Lingyun beside her with some curiosity.

"This person?" A smile curled at the corners of Lingyun's mouth. "He is that faint malice you all sensed earlier on the Peilun Plain."

"He's an assassin?" There was a trace of astonishment in Su Wanyue's eyes. "Looking at him now, you really wouldn't be able to tell at all!"

"This person is not human!" Aiweier's gaze was fixed on Xuanying's back as she spoke to Lingyun.

"I know!" Lingyun said with a smile.

"You knew?"

"I saw it the first time I saw him!" Lingyun nodded. "However, this is not an important matter; this person will not become our enemy!"

"Alright, let's come back to the auction house tomorrow. For now, let's go stroll around other places!" Su Wanyue said.

"Mm, I am really looking forward to tomorrow's auction. Perhaps we might even find something useful!"

Lingyun and his group left the auction house, chatting and laughing.

After the four of them spent the entire day strolling outside, they finally returned to the inn. Along the way, Lingyun could not help but sigh to himself that shopping was indeed a skill women had maxed out by nature. Whether it was Chen Jing, Su Wanyue, or Aiweier, who was a Spirit, they all erupted with great enthusiasm for this activity, and the number of things they bought was countless. If not for the fact that Lingyun could put these items into the Cloud Realm, he feared he would have been unable to carry so many things long ago!

After returning to the inn, Chen Jing threw herself directly onto the large bed and said with a look of contentment, "As expected, the bed is the most comfortable!"

"Alright, Chen Jing, get up quickly. Have you forgotten what we were going to tell Lingyun?" Su Wanyue said to Chen Jing.

Chen Jing rubbed against the bed before climbing up somewhat reluctantly, standing with Su Wanyue in front of Lingyun.

"Is there something you need?" Lingyun asked with some curiosity.

"Of course there is!" Chen Jing closed the room door.

"Lingyun, do you have any method that can allow us to accelerate our cultivation of Divine Sense?" Su Wanyue took a deep breath and asked Lingyun.

"Accelerate the cultivation of Divine Sense?" Lingyun frowned slightly. "Aren't you all already very fast in your cultivation of Divine Sense?"

Hearing the three words "Divine Sense," Aiweier's ears pricked up from the side. She clearly remembered that on the Peilun Plain, it was Chen Jing and the other who had relied on this not-yet-perfected Divine Sense to discover the hidden Xuanying, and Lingyun had even used Divine Sense to lock onto Xuanying's location directly. From the conversation between Chen Jing and the others, one could tell that this Divine Sense was simply like an upgraded version of Mental Power, possessing all sorts of incredible functions.

"But this speed is far from enough. Our Mental Power conversion is currently not even one-tenth. If this continues, we simply won't be able to convert all our Mental Power into Divine Sense before reaching the Saint Domain!" Chen Jing said. Because they were in the Otherworld Continent, Chen Jing had changed the term Golden Core to Saint Domain.

"Convert all Mental Power into Divine Sense before reaching the Saint Domain? Didn't I say before that I would help you convert your Mental Power into Divine Sense once you advanced to the Saint Domain?" Lingyun asked with some confusion.

"Ruoxi told us privately that if one can convert their Mental Power into Divine Sense before entering the Saint Domain, there will be great benefits!" Su Wanyue said with a smile. "Besides, Ruoxi said that you definitely have a way!"

"Ruoxi?" Lingyun tapped his head with some helplessness. "She hasn't even sorted out her own affairs, yet she still has time to give you pointers!"

"Tell us, Lingyun, what exactly is the method?" Chen Jing stepped forward, reached out to hook Lingyun's arm, and acted coquettishly.

Feeling the two soft mounds rubbing back and forth against his arm, Lingyun's expression became somewhat unnatural for a moment. Afterward, he said helplessly, "Fine, fine, I'll tell you. There is indeed a method that can allow you to convert Mental Power into Divine Sense before entering the Saint Domain, but if you want to use this method, you must have a certain level of resolve!"

"Have a certain level of resolve?" Chen Jing and the other looked at each other, a trace of gravity in their eyes. For Lingyun to say such a thing, it was clearly not a simple matter. "We are already prepared!"

"This is not something to just say with words!" Lingyun waved his hand, and layers of Array Patterns unfolded from his hand, instantly enveloping the room.

"Rise!" Following Lingyun's low shout, terrifying Divine Sense surged from his body and spread throughout the room.

"This, how is this possible?" Aiweier's gaze toward Lingyun was full of fear. The aura Lingyun displayed at this moment was even more terrifying than the Elf Ancient Tree in the Elf Imperial City.

The terrifying Divine Sense continuously condensed above Lingyun's head. Before long, a golden, translucent grinder appeared in mid-air. The moment this grinder appeared, Chen Jing and the others felt their hearts sink simultaneously; their Mental Power actually shrank back in unison, not daring to approach this translucent grinder at all.

"Lingyun, what is this thing?" Su Wanyue endured her palpitations and asked Lingyun.

"This? I call it the Soul Grinder!" Lingyun looked at the translucent grinder suspended in mid-air, a trace of nostalgia flashing in his eyes. "This thing is the tool that can allow you to completely convert your Mental Power into Divine Sense before the Saint Domain!"

This Soul Grinder was actually a physical object a long time ago. Lingyun's soul was once sealed into this grinder by someone, and he was tortured to death by it. But the final result was that this grinder was completely shattered and devoured by Lingyun's Soul Power, transforming into an apparition of Lingyun's Divine Sense. Lingyun had not used this thing for a long time; it was only because of what Su Wanyue said this time that he remembered he still had such an apparition hidden within his soul.

"A grinder? Lingyun, you don't mean you want us to put our Mental Power in here to be crushed, do you?" Chen Jing's voice trembled slightly.

"Of course not!" Lingyun's words made Chen Jing and the other breathe a sigh of relief, but his next sentence almost made them jump up. "What needs to enter the grinder is not just Mental Power, but also the soul!"

"Lingyun, isn't that too exaggerated!" Chen Jing's little face collapsed instantly.

"You must not underestimate this grinder. Besides being able to accelerate your conversion of Mental Power into Divine Sense, it can also remove impurities from your soul. Although this process might be a bit hard to endure, the final harvest will definitely be great!" Lingyun said.

"How is this just 'hard to endure'!" Chen Jing almost jumped up.

One must know that although Mental Power is powerful, it is also a fragile thing. Under normal circumstances, if Mental Power suffers a powerful shock, it will make a person feel uncomfortable for a period of time, let alone having the Mental Power completely shattered. Not to mention that this Soul Grinder would also crush a person's soul bit by bit; the pain involved was not something an ordinary person could withstand!

"Rest assured, I will control the intensity well!" Lingyun revealed a smile to Chen Jing and the other, but this smile made the two women feel a chill in their hearts.

"Forget it, who's afraid of whom? If we want to convert Mental Power into Divine Sense before the Saint Domain, how can we do it without paying some price!" Su Wanyue muttered to herself while probing her Mental Power into the Soul Grinder.

After Chen Jing extended her Mental Power into the Soul Grinder, she did not fall behind and cast her Mental Power into the Soul Grinder as well.

However, what astonished Lingyun the most was that Aiweier had actually cast her Mental Power into the grinder as well.