Chapter 72: Invitation

"Go."

Zhao Jun gave a low shout, and the wooden stick "whooshed," transforming into a black shadow that stopped right at Wang Yu's throat.

It was still the same wooden stick, only the tip had been sharpened to be incredibly keen, turning it into a lethal weapon for killing.

"Controlling objects from a distance to deal with enemies is the same; it's not that the bigger or heavier the remote-controlled object, the more powerful it is. Modifying small things slightly makes it easier to achieve a one-hit kill.

It's the same for defense. Although I can rely on my ability to directly create a small mental shield, how is that more reliable than wearing a bulletproof vest?"

After saying this, Zhao Jun clapped his hands in front of him, and suddenly the void ahead became blurry and indistinct, with something transparent vaguely emerging.

"This is interesting. If there's an ability shield, there must also be things like ability impact, right?" Seeing this, Wang Yu seemed to have thought of something and asked with high spirits.

"You mean mental shockwaves? Every mental-type ability user knows this, but as long as you are prepared in advance, it generally doesn't have much effect. But if you want to learn, I can teach you together," Zhao Jun replied after thinking for a moment.

"Many thanks, Brother Zhao." Wang Yu was overjoyed upon hearing this.

After returning to the Blue Star, he no longer had a powerful body, nor did he have artifacts or spells, so naturally, he didn't have much sense of security in his heart.

If he could further develop his Gold-Touching Art ability now, it would also be a good choice.

Just then, Zhao Jun slapped the mental shield in front of him with one hand.

The transparent shield shattered instantly, but the surrounding void rippled with invisible waves, as if something else had appeared.

"I have already set up a mental ring that can block sound transmission. Now that you and I are talking, it won't be monitored by anyone. Student Ding, I want to ask you one thing: your game pod arrived last night, and you are playing the Star River game, right? Have you passed the novice level, and did you obtain an 'Excellent' rating to enter the hidden training scenario?" Zhao Jun suddenly lowered his voice and asked with a mysterious look on his face.

Then, he beckoned with one hand, and the wooden cone began to fly around Wang Yu's body. Viewed from afar, it looked as if he were demonstrating to Wang Yu how to use the ability.

"Brother Zhao, how did you know? Could it be that you..." Seeing this situation, Wang Yu became surprised.

"You really did pass the test, were specially recruited by the Blue Star Alliance, and obtained the Star Thought Power cultivation method." Zhao Jun said with a strange expression, then showed one of his wrists, while his other hand gripped that arm.

A moment later, a translucent watch phantom appeared on his wrist, with the same countdown numbers moving on it.

Wang Yu's pupils shrank slightly. He pointed at the other person's wrist and asked urgently, "How is this done?"

"This is simple. I just converted my mental power into Star Thought Power, and I could reproduce this thing.

This thing doesn't exist in reality; it is a condensate of Star Thought Power. Unless you are in the Star River game, ordinary people cannot see it," Zhao Jun replied with a light laugh.

"Mental power and Star Thought Power are not the same thing?" Wang Yu asked in return.

"Of course they aren't the same thing. Although I have only been cultivating Star Thought Power for half a month, I have already discovered that original mental power can be entirely converted into Star Thought Power, but Star Thought Power cannot be entirely converted into mental power.

The two are more like the relationship between a basket and a warehouse. You can take things from the basket to use at any time, and when you run out, you can go to the warehouse to replenish, but you cannot put everything from the warehouse into the basket.

Based on the judgment of myself and a few friends, Star Thought Power is more like a type of super-compressed mental power. Of course, there are other unknown things mixed inside," Zhao Jun said, half-reasoning and half-guessing.

"Friends? Brother Zhao also knows other mecha pilots recruited by the game?" Wang Yu first nodded thoughtfully, then asked with some emotion.

"Of course. Although there aren't many mental-type ability users in China, most of them are concentrated in a few bases.

I presume you have also discovered that we mental-type ability users are almost all natural mecha pilots. As long as our ability level reaches D-rank, most of us were recruited in the game's hidden scenarios and learned Star Thought Power.

This Star River game is clearly not a real game. We few already have several reliable conjectures about the Blue Star Alliance, mecha pilots, Star Thought Power, and even the military service ten years from now. If you want to know, I can bring you along next time we gather," Zhao Jun replied solemnly.

"Good. As long as I don't leave the base, I will attend the next gathering," Wang Yu replied decisively.

"Haha, very good. I knew that Brother Ding could survive returning from the otherworld, so he certainly isn't an ordinary person and would know the benefits of huddling together for warmth. Below, I will first teach you a few of the most practical usage techniques for superpowers."

Zhao Jun was overjoyed upon hearing this. He clapped his hands again, and the things in the surrounding void disappeared after another wave of ripples.

"Brother Zhao, do you know how to contact the super-brain Tai Yuan? I want to go up and look up some things," Wang Yu took the opportunity to ask another matter at this time.

"Tai Yuan is the treasure of the entire base, but on the base network, you can contact it through a specific webpage. However, Tai Yuan has the highest-level usage permission. Without authorization, even if you log in, it won't pay any attention to you at all," Zhao Jun said with some surprise, but still told him.

"Can you tell me the address of this webpage?" Wang Yu was overjoyed upon hearing this.

After Zhao Jun nodded, he spoke out a webpage address.

In the afternoon.

In another room covered in mud and sand.

A team of burly youths in their twenties were all imitating the small virtual human images projected in front of them, lying prone on the ground and striking a unified, strange posture.

This was the first form of the Wolf-Galloping Diagram.

This group of people were worthy of being the elites specially selected by the base. Even though they were all red-faced and drenched in sweat, they could still perform the movements with reasonable accuracy.

Wang Yu walked past them one by one, occasionally making minor adjustments to their movements to ensure they fully met the standard.

One hour later.

In another larger room filled with flowers and plants.

Boys and girls in their teens were sitting cross-legged in two rows, divided into two groups, with ten people in each row.

One row of people had their eyes wide open, staring fixedly at the various strange symbols and patterns on the drawing boards in front of them, but each was scratching their ears and cheeks, gaining nothing.

The other row was silently meditating with their eyes closed.

Wang Yu walked past this row of boys and girls, constantly repeating the words that Brother Qingfeng had said that day.

"... Inspiration is the sense of touch of the spirit; the spirit is the source of inspiration. Only when the two are combined can they become divine sense. Inspiration is divine sense, and divine sense is also a type of active consciousness that can be driven and consumed. For a cultivator, as long as you use divine sense to touch the surrounding void, you can sense the existence of heaven and earth Qi. The specific method is: do not think about any other miscellaneous matters, just imagine yourself in a void space, and carefully sense if there is anything around you... Didn't sense it? If it doesn't work once, try repeatedly..."