69: The mysterious spider weaves a web of heaven and earth, spreading ten miles in a single thought.
"Is this Divine Sense?"
Even with his eyes tightly closed,
the coffee table behind him, the posters on the wall, and the ants moving their antennae at the roots of the balcony roses—every detail of his surroundings was clear in his mind.
It was as if Zhang Sheng's brain had automatically loaded a 360-degree camera feed, and in ultra-high definition at that.
The niwan palace opened, Mental Energy manifested, and Divine Sense was born.
However, the range covered by his Divine Sense was only ten meters.
The misty haze within the niwan palace was still too sparse, far inferior to the ocean of blood and qi in the crimson heart palace and the nine golden suns in the Dantian.
"I can finally begin my cultivation in the Divine Breath Realm. With the current abundance of my spiritual energy, I suspect even a Yao Beast at the Perfection of the Divine Breath Realm would fall far short of me."
Regarding combat, Zhang Sheng always believed that control was paramount.
The Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method, a Cultivation Technique for Mental Energy, was his top priority. The stronger the Mental Energy, the stronger the Divine Sense, and the wider the range it could cover.
Zhang Sheng organized this technique in his mind.
Compared to the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex, the content of this Mental Energy Cultivation Technique was extremely simple and ordinary; it was complete and had no cultivation requirements.
This technique required the Cultivator to use Mental Energy to simulate a spider spinning silk, weaving a net of Mental Energy within the Sea of Consciousness.
This process had to be repeated until the woven net of Mental Energy was airtight, which would signify Perfection.
As Zhang Sheng operated the technique to produce the first strand of spider silk formed from Mental Energy and began weaving it simply, a line of text popped up on the talent panel.
"Detected executable ability—Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method. Learn?"
"Cultivation Technique: Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method (Beginner: 1/100)"
"It actually requires a hundred casts to reach the Proficient level! Is it because this technique is of a higher Rank?" Zhang Sheng thought to himself.
Zhang Sheng noticed that the moment he learned the technique, some of the misty haze in his Sea of Consciousness vanished.
Compared to other Talents, his Talent only consumed Mental Energy at the moment of learning a new ability, which was an unparalleled advantage.
Zhang Sheng sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, eyes closed, with all his attention focused on the niwan palace. His Mental Energy condensed into spider silk, constantly weaving and unweaving the net, repeating the process over and over.
"Cultivation Technique: Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method (Beginner: 2/100)"
"Cultivation Technique: Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method (Beginner: 3/100)"
...The familiar feeling returned.
An hour later, "Cultivation Technique: Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method (Proficient: 1/1000)"
A massive amount of insight into this technique flooded Zhang Sheng's mind, and his understanding of it instantly increased several times over.
Going from Proficient to Proficient required a thousand times. It seemed the required number of repetitions had increased tenfold.
Time flies during cultivation; two and a half days passed in the blink of an eye.
Now, after nine life-level leaps, Zhang Sheng's body was a perfect, leakless vessel; he no longer needed sleep.
"Cultivation Technique: Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method (Transcendent: 1/1000000)"
The technique had finally reached the Transcendent level. Advancing further to the Perfected State would be difficult.
Time did not allow Zhang Sheng to do so. As long as Rodi remained alive, Zhang Sheng could not be at peace. Rodi, with his Devour Talent, was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head.
Zhang Sheng sensed the misty haze in his niwan palace again; it was a hundred times denser and a hundred times more abundant than before he had cultivated the Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method.
"Divine Sense, expand!"
"Ten meters! A hundred meters! A thousand meters! ...Ten thousand meters!"
Everything within a ten-thousand-meter radius was reflected in his mind.
Wonderful!
Too wonderful!
Beyond words!
The moment Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense entered the underground cultivation hall, it collided with another Divine Sense!
"Who is it?" Song Xian, who was in the middle of cultivating, quickly opened his eyes and cried out.
"Whose Divine Sense is this? It's so powerful and oppressive!"
The other Sequence Members who were cultivating were startled by Song Xian. "Brother Xian, what happened?" Zhao Xue asked hurriedly.
"It's fine, it's me, Zhang Sheng!"
Zhang Sheng transmitted his voice via Divine Sense, and the message reached everyone's ears.
"That's great! Brother Sheng, congratulations! We have another Divine Breath Realm Cultivator." Wang Yu said excitedly from his prayer mat.
"Just how strong is he?" Noticing Zhang Sheng's power, Song Xian lost the mood to continue cultivating.
He even began to doubt if his Clone Talent and his All Meridians Open Talent were fake.
From Zhang Sheng's battle with Rodi, he understood that if it were him, while Rodi might not be able to kill him since he had several Clones, it would be impossible for him to send Rodi fleeing in such a pathetic state.
Zhang Sheng was already very, very strong, and now he was even stronger.
"Could it be that my dual SSS-level Talents are fake? Or is Zhang Sheng's Talent level even higher than SSS-level?"
Unfortunately, no one would give him the answer.
Finishing his cultivation of the Mysterious Spider Thought Binding Method, Zhang Sheng opened his Smart Terminal.
If Rodi had devoured the Talents of other Awakened during this time, some information might be found on the internet.
While China preferred to stay hidden, almost all foreign SSS-level Talent Awakened were well-known figures.
Some even used the fame of their SSS-level Talent to do live-stream sales.
"Lucas, an SSS-level Talent Awakened from South America, went missing three days ago."
This incident caused a massive stir on the international internet.
Lucas was hailed as the God of Light by the people of South America. His Talent was an SSS-level healing Talent; even a severed limb could be completely healed in an instant, and all kinds of cancers were no problem.
Lucas was famous far and wide because of his Talent.
The mysterious disappearance of such a powerful Awakened was highly likely related to Rodi.
Almost just a day later, Japan's SSS-level Talent Awakened, Miyamoto Saburo, died in battle by the seaside. Rumors said someone resembling Rodi was seen at the scene.
Miyamoto Saburo was the leader of the contemporary Ten Ninja Squad of Japan.
According to Japanese official disclosures, the Talent Miyamoto Saburo awakened was the SSS-level Sword Dao Godhood. Holding a Spiritual Artifact longsword, his close-combat ability was unrivaled in the world.
Currently, two SSS-level Talent Awakened have been reported online, and their Talents might have both been devoured by Rodi. There are likely even more that haven't been reported.
At this moment, in New New Delhi, the capital of India, thousands of kilometers away from China, Rodi was devouring and absorbing the Talent of an Awakened.
"Damn it, these dead Indians. He clearly awakened an S-Rank Talent but bragged about it being an SSS-level Talent. What a waste of my time!"
Rodi felt like he had been defrauded. Who would have thought that the SSS-level Awakened from India mentioned online was actually a fraud!
An ordinary flame Talent was hyped up as the World-Extinguishing Holy Fire. Now he had to waste half a day refining and absorbing it... "I don't have much time left."
Zhang Sheng knew he had to act as soon as possible. Now that the shortcoming in his Mental Energy was compensated for and his Divine Sense range reached ten kilometers, the next step was combat Spells.
Besides a group of first-tier Spells, there were currently two second-tier Spells he could learn.
Moon Slash and Sand Blast Funeral.
Recalling the battle with the Silverback Azure Wolf, the second-tier Spell Moon Slash did not need to rely on any specific environment and was more suitable for various types of combat.