Chapter 42: Cultivating the Mind
Lin Qingcheng immediately started crying afterwards, whether from his spanking or some other reason he didn't know. She was still an inexperienced young woman and he probably went a bit overboard.
"Shh, Qingcheng, I'm so sorry..." Chen Wentian hugged her and wiped her tears.
"Wuu..." Lin Qingcheng continued to sob but she also hugged him back.
Chen Wentian awkwardly comforted her, "I'm sorry... did it hurt?"
"Mmmhmm..." She mumbled into his chest.
"Are you mad at me?" Chen Wentian asked.
She shook her head and then looked at him, fresh tears spilling out. "Master, I'm sorry for being a bad girl..."
Chen Wentian couldn't take it anymore and kissed her. She seemed to calm down after that and after a moment, they broke apart. Chen Wentian smiled as he said, "No, you're not a bad girl! You're perfect, my dearest disciple. I was just surprised but whatever it is, I like it!"
Lin Qingcheng finally cracked a smile, "Really?"
"Yes!" Chen Wentian said as he caught her lips again. He held back so it wasn't a needy lustful kiss, it was more like a soothing loving kiss.
Eventually Lin Qingcheng was all smiles and happiness again. She led him to her room at the Zhou branch house where she showed him her growing collection of toys. Chen Wentian was introduced to amazing things such things as vibrators and dildos. He was very aroused as she described each item and he was tempted to ask her to demonstrate one of the dildos. In the end, he decided against it as he thought it might be too much for her in one day. Instead he studied the inscriptions on the vibrator which was pretty interesting.
Lin Qingcheng also described a new mind ability she was practicing. It was quite useless to everybody in the world except her. She wanted channel all the pleasures of orgasm straight into her mind, so that it didn't affect her body. The reason? She wanted to have more powerful orgasms during the day with her vibrator so she could cultivate constantly. Chen Wentian couldn't help but agree with her idea. First, he thought it was so randy and hot that she would have those things in her pussy all day. Second, it saved him some time as he wouldn't have to work as hard 'training' her. If his little dragon could talk, surely it would have yelled out in objection.
What Lin Qingcheng was trying to achieve was actually called mind sever. This was a very important skill for cultivating some higher level Daos of the mind. One such skill Chen Wentian had seen before was called Dominator's Puppetry. The spirit and mind could move out of the body and take over another body temporarily. One can imagine the possibilities of such an ability.
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Chen Wentian picked up Zhou Ziyun from the library, only be to surprised again. He seemed to be surprised a lot for an immortal but it really wasn't his fault. His disciples were simply too talented!
He knew Zhou Ziyun had unlocked something in her mind and her comprehension had improved. He was shocked by just how much her comprehension had grown in a short time as she described how she had raided on economics in the capital library. It allowed her to read over a hundred books in half a day.
Chen Wentian wanted to test her comprehension ability so he asked about what she read. She immediately started talking about multitude of different economic theories. Somewhere along the way he heard something about the advantages of providing benefits to employees in a company and the resulting increases to cost savings, work efficiency, and worker happiness. She was so excited she started planning how to implement some of the ideas on her businesses.
The longer she talked, the more Chen Wentian felt like he wasn't as smart as her.
"Ziyun?" He eventually had to stop her.
"Yes, master?"
He couldn't think of anything intelligent and he simply smothered her with a kiss.
They returned to the Zhou branch house where Chen Wentian gave Zhou Ziyun the manual for the Mind Focusing Realm. It was called A Cultivator's Guide to the Mind. She complained that the name sounded really stupid and not impressive at all. He could only laugh and agree. However, the Mind Focusing Realm was not some esoteric cultivation realm, the paths for cultivating the mind were well established. The book was a standard text for immortals to teach their disciples about the Mind Focusing Realm. The concepts were simple but profound and it is not a strict set of training methods but a general overview of the possibilities of the mind.
The mind is a wondrous thing. The mind is within the brain which is part of the body. However, the mind and the body are also distinct kinds of substances. Bodies occupy space and have weight, but minds do not. Minds have ideas, feelings, and dreams, but not bodies. Therefore, the mind is a wholly separate entity. A person breaking through from Body Refinement to Mind Focusing involved opening the mind sea through mostly brute force. However, the mind sea is still locked and that in order to break through to the 2nd level, one needed to comprehend mind body dualism. Only by doing so could further expansion of the mind sea occur.
Chen Wentian went over the manual bit by bit, explaining each word and sentence about mind body dualism. Zhou Ziyun listened eagerly and seemed to gobble all of it up. When he got to the end of the chapter, he looked up at her and felt a surge of energy.
Boom!
Breakthrough? Indeed... Zhou Ziyun's amazing comprehension apparently allowed her to easily master mind body dualism and enter the 2nd Level of Mind Focusing. Chen Wentian could only stare at her in awe.
"Ahem... Uh, let's get on with the next topic then." Chen Wentian flipped a page.
He went on to explain that with the mind sea, or the upper dantian, which allowed one to use mind energy to cultivate a variety of aspects of the mind. These areas didn't follow a specific order. Breakthrough in any one area would allow the cultivator to increase a level.
The easiest is control of muscles. The mind controls all muscles of the body. A cultivator can run faster, punch stronger, and lift heavier merely by the mind being willing.
Second is control of organs. Like muscles, organs also can be controlled by the mind. These include the making the heart beat faster or slower, making the lungs take in more air, making your stomach and intestines digest faster or slower.
Next is control of the senses. Smell, sight, hearing, taste, and touch. Improved sight, improved hearing, and others were all possible as well.
One specific area could be cultivated again and again for people that wanted to specialize in a certain area. Physical combat specialists would further improve their control of muscles. Although, each successive level in an area would be fundamentally more difficult to cultivate.
The senses were special in that it gave additional benefits at greater levels. High level of sense was required to develop Spiritual Sense later on in the Spirit Initiate Realm so it was a popular one to cultivate.
There are also more esoteric aspects of the mind that aren't as popular. One of them is pain. Chen Wentian noted that this was an area Wu Qianyu seemingly specialized in, which allowed her to ignore her injuries and wounds and fight on in desperate situations.
It could be said that Zhou Ziyun was already cultivating another difficult area, which was related to comprehension, concentration, intelligence, understanding, and memory. This area basically dealt with a person's mental capacity.
The final and most difficult area dealt with emotion. Lin Qingcheng with her notoriously bad comprehension was actually cultivating this aspect with her focus on the emotion of pleasure. There are other possibilities like anger, sadness, joy, fear, love, and desire. A cultivator could spend their entire life seeking any one of these emotions and it could even become the Dao that allows them to breakthrough to the immortal realms.
Chen Wentian finally finished his lecture and saw with satisfaction that Zhou Ziyun didn't just simply breakthrough again. He was worried about how Lin Qingcheng might feel if Zhou Ziyun caught up to her. Lin Qingcheng just entered the 7th Level of Mind Focusing which was incredibly fast. However, Chen Wentian had sneaking suspicion that the Mind Focusing Realm was Zhou Ziyun's time to shine.
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