Chapter 3021: Building a Base

Although Ito Nanako had only achieved enlightenment for a short time, she had already realized a very critical problem: the spiritual energy available to her was pitifully small, and there were almost no external channels to obtain spiritual energy.

For current practitioners, the acquisition of spiritual energy is the biggest hurdle. There is no spiritual energy in heaven and earth, so the channels for external acquisition are only pills, spiritual stones, or arrays.

For those with complete cultivation mental techniques, they can rely on running the mental technique to generate spiritual energy in their bodies, but for people like Ye Chen and Nanako who have no mental techniques, this self-sufficient path is also impassable.

Therefore, the small amount of spiritual energy generated in Ito Nanako's body during enlightenment was basically exhausted after she tried spiritual energy perception.

Ye Chen was slightly better than Nanako. The spiritual stones he accidentally obtained early on provided him with a lot of spiritual energy, and later, relying on Peiyuan Pills, he barely made up for the gap in spiritual energy.

Although Ye Chen had no way to help Nanako improve her cultivation, fortunately, he could provide Nanako with pill assistance.

Nanako naturally knew that Ye Chen's pills must be very precious. Seeing that Ye Chen gave her one without hesitation, she subconsciously wanted to decline.

However, she suddenly thought of another problem: if she wanted to improve her strength and share Ye Chen's worries, she had to accept the pills Ye Chen gave her.

Otherwise, how could she talk about accompanying him and walking together?

Thinking of this, she looked at Ye Chen and said extremely sincerely, "Ye Chen-kun, Nanako knows nothing about practicing the Dao, but the determination to practice with Ye Chen-kun and walk together is clear to the sun and moon. If Ye Chen-kun doesn't dislike it, please take care of me in the future!"

Ye Chen was moved and nodded with a smile, "You are my only Dao friend. I hope you can improve your cultivation as soon as possible and help me in the future!"

As he spoke, Ye Chen handed the pill to her.

Ito Nanako reached out to take the pill and then asked Ye Chen, "Ye Chen-kun, should I eat it all at once, or take it in multiple times?"

Ye Chen patted his forehead, "I almost forgot that you just achieved enlightenment. The spiritual energy in this Peiyuan Pill is not only pure but also very abundant. It is not suitable to take the whole pill. Why not divide it into ten parts first, and then take one part to try."

Ito Nanako nodded gently, divided the pill into about ten equal parts, then picked up one part, and said to Ye Chen, "Ye Chen-kun, then I will take one part and try it first!"

Ye Chen encouraged, "With me here, you can take it with confidence."

Ito Nanako smiled sweetly, and then put that part of the pill into her mouth.

The moment it entered her mouth, the pill turned into a strong and surging spiritual energy, rushing directly into Ito Nanako's sea of consciousness.

The originally calm sea of consciousness seemed to set off a storm in an instant, followed by a huge wave.

And Ito Nanako also felt that the energy available for her to call upon in her sea of consciousness became much stronger in an instant. Her sensory ability, which had been greatly improved after enlightenment, jumped to a new level, and the spiritual energy in her body became unusually abundant. Just by moving her divine sense slightly, spiritual energy immediately separated from her body, and everything in the office seemed to be under her control from a God's perspective.

Immediately after, this control was still spreading to the surroundings. After a while, seven or eight surrounding rooms entered her perception range.

Ye Chen could feel the spiritual energy Ito Nanako was releasing. Looking at her, the spiritual energy in her body was already very full, so she shouldn't continue to take pills.

After a while, Ito Nanako withdrew the spiritual energy she used for perception, looked up at Ye Chen, and said, "Ye Chen-kun, before, I could only release a very small amount of spiritual energy, but it was very difficult for me to control the movement of spiritual energy. But the spiritual energy I just released can already move according to my own will. Although the movement is still a bit slow, this feeling is really wonderful!"

Ye Chen nodded, "The control of spiritual energy is crucial. In the future, driving techniques or arrays with spiritual energy will all depend on the control of spiritual energy by the mind. You can practice more recently. When you are proficient, I will teach you how to drive arrays with spiritual energy. By then, I will give you a magical treasure that can be used for attack!"

Ito Nanako nodded heavily and said unswervingly, "Ye Chen-kun, rest assured, Nanako will do her best and will never let Ye Chen-kun down!"

Ye Chen smiled knowingly, and then said, "Nanako, since you have achieved enlightenment now, there is no need to stay here to continue practicing martial arts. It's better to settle down and practice the control of spiritual energy."

Ito Nanako knew that the practitioner and martial arts were completely different worlds. Staying here had indeed lost its meaning and would delay serious business, so she said, "Since this is the case, I will look for a suitable residence today to practice! Father is still at home in Tomson Yipin, which is not so convenient after all."

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh, "It is indeed necessary to find a place suitable for practicing the Dao. You can go to my hillside villa recently, it is quieter and more private."

Ito Nanako nodded gently, and then asked with some expectation, "Will Ye Chen-kun go there to practice the Dao?"

Ye Chen said truthfully, "To be ashamed, I have no good way to further improve my cultivation now, so I almost never practice. As for the hillside villa, besides going there to refine some pills, I have no other use for it."

Ito Nanako asked him, "Is it because there is no cultivation mental technique?"

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded, "My current situation is equivalent to a student who has self-taught primary school courses but has not yet found middle school textbooks or schools to accept him. I have no idea how to improve myself next. It is equivalent to a street wanderer in the field of practicing the Dao."

Ito Nanako could see Ye Chen's helplessness and couldn't help but say, "Ye Chen-kun, don't belittle yourself. In this world, any discipline is built up bit by bit by predecessors. Practicing the Dao is likely the same. Although Ye Chen-kun doesn't have a ready-made cultivation mental technique, I believe that if Ye Chen-kun is willing to study, maybe you can study a set of mental techniques yourself."

Ye Chen was noncommittal about Ito Nanako's words. He also knew that theoretically, such a possibility must exist. However, predecessors plant trees and descendants enjoy the shade. Standing on the shoulders of giants makes it easier to achieve results, while wanting to open a sect in a field on one's own is not something that can be described by the word "difficult". That requires genius beyond ordinary people to do it.

Ye Chen didn't think he had such heaven-defying talent, but Ito Nanako's words also gave him some inspiration.

A primary school student is unlikely to have the talent of Newton or Gauss.

But if he is down-to-earth, on the basis of primary school mathematics, he studies more, maybe he can also figure out a little bit of junior high school mathematics knowledge.

Just like before, Ito Nanako relied on her own exploration to achieve internal observation and found the method of letting the divine sense leap down in the sea of consciousness without a teacher. That method not only made her martial arts progress rapidly, but even laid a solid foundation for her enlightenment.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen secretly decided in his heart that he would also spend more time in the hillside villa in the future to settle down and study the Dao. Maybe he could find a breakthrough on the existing basis.

However, thinking that his grandmother's family lived in the hillside villa, if he came here to retreat and practice every day, he would inevitably pass by his grandmother's door. Out of courtesy, since he came, it was impossible not to say hello. But once he said hello, the efficiency would naturally decrease.

Moreover, if Ito Nanako came over every day, it would be hard to explain to his grandmother.

So, Ye Chen couldn't wait to find a new place to practice.

After thinking about it, the waterfront mansion that Fei Kexin bought under the pseudonym Zhan Feier when she was in Jin Ling came to his mind.

The Qin family's villa is in Shuiyun Villa, which is far from the city. It is surrounded by mountains and water, with excellent scenery, and there are not many residents, so it is relatively quiet.

Moreover, the Qin family's mansion is a combination of two villas. Not only are there the buildings of the two villas themselves, but they also made many additions when the policy was loose in the early days, combining the two into one. The actual usable area is at least the scale of three villas.

When Fei Kexin bought this house and asked his wife Xiao Churan to help design and renovate it, it is now idle. It is better to buy this house from Fei Kexin and keep it for his own practice in the future.

Moreover, there are not many households in Shuiyun Villa, only twenty or thirty in total, and they are all large mansions. Ye Chen felt that he might as well do it more thoroughly, send more people to come forward, buy all the houses in Shuiyun Villa, and build it into his own base.

The reason why Ye Chen had this idea was that the geographical location of Shuiyun Villa was indeed special.

This community was built on a gentle hillside. The lake in front is actually a naturally formed barrier lake. The highway passes through the foot of the mountain, and the road up the mountain is a two-lane cement road built by the community developer. And this road only leads to Shuiyun Villa, which means that besides the owners and visitors of Shuiyun Villa, almost no one else will come here.

Once the actual owner of the entire community is all himself, outsiders will naturally be isolated from the community.

Moreover, Master Hong Wu's original underground forces already had a deep background in Jin Ling, and there were many property management companies. He could easily replace the property management company of Shuiyun Villa, let Master Hong Wu come forward to establish a new property management company, and then replace all the employees of the property management company with his own people.

In this way, the confidentiality level of Shuiyun Villa would be higher.

He could also do some big moves in Shuiyun Villa.

The villas in Shuiyun Villa all have large underground spaces.

What is even more rare is that Qin Aoxue liked practicing martial arts since she was a child, so her father built a special practice field for her underground. When the time comes, invest a sum of money to develop the underground part of Shuiyun Villa well. Maybe it can be gradually built into an existence comparable to the dead soldier station, which will be of great use in the future.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen immediately said to Nanako, "Nanako, I'll make a call to Miss Fei Kexin. She has a very suitable venue for practice!" ===== CHAPTER 3022 =====