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Chapter 182 - 178 Willpower Empowerment
Chapter 182 - 178 Willpower Empowerment
Chapter 182: Chapter 178 Willpower Empowerment
After rejecting the invitation from the Taixu Sect, Jiang Cheng’s life entered a stable phase.
The case of the Miaodan Workshop was still under review, and Wang Xiaoqiu, the runaway, was reportedly captured and brought back by the Enforcement Hall of the Linlan Sect.
Because of the Self-Enhancement Talisman, the Linlan Sect shouldered the blame for the “fruit tree grave-digging” incident, and everyone from top to bottom was very angry.
However, Lei Buxiao, who was also from the Linlan Sect, was very happy. It seemed that due to the influence of the Muscle Relaxation Talisman, the process of upgrading their academy’s armor went exceptionally smooth. Anyway, he was in Wuyue, and no matter how much commotion was caused in the Capital, it couldn’t be shoved onto his head.
Jiang Cheng’s current focus was on developing new talismans.
He was pondering how to force people to concentrate their will, to achieve the effect of stimulating the body’s potential.
“Cheng, what are you thinking about?”
In the dormitory, Ding Guangming asked curiously.
Jiang Cheng replied, “I’m thinking of a way to help people concentrate. Do you have any good ideas?”
Ding Guangming thought for a moment, then said, “That’s simple, just follow me to the balcony in ten minutes.”
Jiang Cheng thought to himself, there’s indeed some truth in the saying that among any three walkers, one is my teacher. The thing he was racking his brains over, Ding Guangming had called “simple.”
Ten minutes later, Jiang Cheng and Ding Guangming arrived at the dormitory balcony.
It was the end of class time for Lotus University students, and a dense crowd of students was heading back to the dormitory buildings from the academic buildings.
Jiang Cheng asked in surprise, “Guangming, what does concentration have to do with the end of class?”
Ding Guangming said with a smile, “Don’t rush, Cheng. Hong Cai hasn’t made an appearance yet.”
As the crowd of students getting out of class approached, Zhu Hongcai appeared on schedule, scratching his belly, and leaning over the balcony railing to gaze into the distance.
The majority of the students leaving class were female cultivators, some wearing short skirts and shorts, their white thighs highly eye-catching.
Ding Guangming said at the right moment, “Hong Cai, I want to borrow your scissors.”
Zhu Hongcai, without turning his head, waved his hand, “Use.”
Ding Guangming didn’t move but said again, “Hong Cai, lend me your shampoo.”
“Use.”
“The fruits I just bought.”
“Use.”
“Yesterday’s homework.”
“Use.”
No matter what Ding Guangming said, Zhu Hongcai’s response was the same one word: “Use.”
Ding Guangming said triumphantly to Jiang Cheng, “Cheng, you see, concentrating attention is that easy.”
Jiang Cheng reflected thoughtfully, then stepped forward and patted Zhu Hongcai on the back.
Zhu Hongcai turned a deaf ear, appearing to indeed be in a highly concentrated state of attention.
Normally, it’s very difficult for a person to highly concentrate their attention.
The most common moment of concentration is the life-before-eyes flashback just before death.
But for Zhu Hongcai, high concentration seemed to be unusually simple.
Jiang Cheng thought to himself: Lotus Cloud University is indeed the top educational institution of the Liang Kingdom; not a single student who enters Lotus Cloud University is a simple character.
Five minutes later, the beautiful female cultivators disappeared around the corner of the dormitory building.
Zhu Hongcai smacked his lips as if wishing for more, then turned and walked in from the balcony to the dormitory.
“What the heck! Cheng, why are you staring at me like that?” Zhu Hongcai exclaimed in surprise.
“Daoist brother Zhu Hongcai, do you have time right now? There are a few questions I would like to ask you,” Jiang Cheng said politely.
Seeing Jiang Cheng’s polite and humble demeanor, Zhu Hongcai was inwardly perplexed.
Is Jiang Cheng asking me for advice?
Could it be that he has discovered that I, Zhu Hongcai, am indeed the most awesome hidden boss of Lotus University?
Damn it!
Jiang Cheng really has some skills; I was camouflaged so well, yet he found out!
Zhu Hongcai straightened his chest, sat down across from Jiang Cheng, and said, “Ask away. Since you’re my roommate, I’ll give you three chances to ask questions.”
“Alright.”
Jiang Cheng asked his first question, “Daoist brother Zhu, what were you looking at just now?”
Ding Guangming interjected, “Big white legs!”
“Shallow!” Zhu Hongcai immediately shouted down the shallow Ding Guangming.
“What I saw was clearly the lingering first snow in my heart that never melts away.”
Jiang Cheng posed the second question, “Brother Zhu, what motivated you to look at the legs?”
Ding Guangming continued to blurt out an answer, “Lust!”
“You can’t teach a fool!” Zhu Hongcai shouted loudly.
He explained, “I looked at the legs, no, I mean the early snow, to fill a void in my heart that can’t be mended.”
Jiang Cheng posed the third question, “Brother Zhu, what did you gain from your actions just now?”
Ding Guangming said, “Got an eyeful.”
Zhu Hongcai was furious, “Don’t slander me! What I gained was a sublimation of the soul!”
Jiang Cheng wrote down Zhu Hongcai’s answers on a piece of paper, trying to parse out the thoughts of this roommate “good at focusing.”
If he could crack the secret of Zhu Hongcai’s casual focusing ability, then the “Willpower Empowerment Talisman” would be halfway to success.
“The early snow in the heart” “an irreparable void” “sublimation of the soul”…
Zhu Hongcai’s answers might seem illogical, but they actually held profound meanings.
Because all of his answers pointed deep inside the heart.
As a game designer, psychology was one of Jiang Cheng’s required subjects.
According to the psychoanalytic school of thought, the id, ego, and superego represent the conscious mind, with the id standing for desire.
Based on this theory, the so-called “focus” is essentially letting a certain desire momentarily control the body’s actions.
The life-flashing-before-eyes moment before death is a desire to survive.
Zhu Hongcai’s biological clock represents a sultry desire.
My own behavior of touching hands is clearly driven by a desire for knowledge.
Having thought this, Jiang Cheng had laid the theoretical foundation for the Willpower Empowerment Talisman.
Now, the question was how to pull out the “id” and make use of it.
After pondering, Jiang Cheng thought of a mediocre spell, “Playing Dead.”
Playing Dead could make a person’s vital energy fade away, simulating actual death.
But now, in peaceful times, there were almost no scenarios to use Playing Dead, hence it was gradually forgotten.
Jiang Cheng felt that he could definitely use part of Playing Dead to trick out the survival desire from the “id” and exploit it fiercely!
Two days later, Yue Linger was called by Jiang Cheng to the Jade Lake shores for talisman testing.
“Friend Yue, don’t worry, I have used this talisman several times myself, there’s no problem,” Jiang Cheng reassured.
Yue Linger thought to herself: When do you not say that?
Resigning to her fate, she sighed and said, “Alright, just tell me what I need to do.”
Jiang Cheng took out a Willpower Empowerment Talisman and a second-level Spirit Gathering Pill.
“Friend Yue, first take this pill, then use this talisman, and you will feel a warm energy emerge from within your body. You need to control this energy and make it rest in the spleen and intestinal tract. At that point, your digestive system will be empowered by your will, speeding up and efficiently using the medicinal effects of the Spirit Gathering Pill.”
It sounded very much like the Reverse Direction Relaxation Talisman.
Both accelerated digestion.
There probably wasn’t any difference.
Without giving it much thought, Yue Linger took the elixirs and then activated the Willpower Empowerment Talisman on herself.
Indeed, as Jiang Cheng had said, a burning sensation rose within her, and initially scattered throughout her body. Once she collected it in her lower abdomen, it actually did enhance the efficiency of the Spirit Gathering Pill at an accelerated and efficient rate!
After a rough estimation by Yue Linger, the increased effectiveness of the Spirit Gathering Pill after using the Willpower Empowerment Talisman was around fifty percent.
As a second-level elixir, the Spirit Gathering Pill was quite expensive.
As long as the price of the Willpower Empowerment Talisman was less than half the price of the Spirit Gathering Pill, then without any doubt, the talisman would have an extremely broad market.
Yue Linger thought happily, completely oblivious to the slight “eerieness and foreboding” change in her mindset.
“Jiang Cheng, the effect of this talisman is indeed good,” Yue Linger said with a smile.
Jiang Cheng said, “Friend Yue, aren’t you going to wait until the effects of the talisman are over and the medicinal effects of the Spirit Gathering Pill are fully absorbed before speaking?”
“I’m already at the ninth level of Qi cultivation, I won’t make much progress anymore, it doesn’t matter,” she replied.
Hearing this, Yue Linger suddenly noticed Liu Qing standing on the balcony behind Jiang Cheng.
She frowned and said discontentedly, “Jiang Cheng, my lack of progress is due to reaching the bottleneck in my cultivation level, making it impossible to progress. But there are some lazy female cultivators who loaf around all day, and they’re the ones who should seriously think about making some progress.”
Jiang Cheng: ?
How dare you say that?
Are you seeking death?!