After Xia Li put away the blade and gun, Lin Ye finally stored the weapons Xia Li had prepared for him.

  Although those weapons were also exceptionally exquisite, for some reason, they suddenly didn't seem as appealing anymore.

  "Brother Xia, speaking of which, how did you cultivate such powerful spiritual force?"

  Lin Ye was extremely curious about this. Spiritual force was born from soul power yet was not soul power—one could say it surpassed its origin.

  After all, soul power was formless and intangible, more of an extension of perception. Thus soul attacks couldn't affect things without souls.

  But spiritual force could.

  "Rather than saying I cultivated it, it's more like a fortuitous encounter. I refined a rare natural treasure."

  "Could you describe its appearance and function? I'd like to see if I can collect some. To be honest, although I cultivate three paths simultaneously, I alone cannot cross the threshold of spiritual force."

  "It wasn't a naturally formed treasure, but an ancient medicine left behind by my lineage."

  "Is there more? If there is, I'm willing to pay a fortune!"

  Lin Ye was prepared to pay an enormous price to obtain it. Spiritual force was the hardest type of power to cultivate, but once mastered, combat power would increase dramatically.

  Spiritual force had obvious auxiliary effects in all four paths of alchemy, arrays, artifacts, and talismans. Moreover, against solitary enemies, it could achieve terrifying suppression—becoming a trump card for defeating stronger opponents across realms.

  "Sorry, there isn't any more. It's not that I won't give it to you, but this thing was unintentionally refined by a senior of my lineage, and that senior is no longer with us."

  "What a pity..."

  Lin Ye let out a long sigh.

  "Is spiritual force that important?"

  Xia Li began asking Lin Ye questions in return. He wanted to know how people of this world viewed telekinesis.

  After all, telekinesis on Earth currently wasn't well developed or promoted—the path of cultivation had only just begun there.

  "Let me put it this way: the path of body refinement is now called the Martial Path, the path of qi refinement is called the Mystic Path, and the path of spirit refinement is called the Divine Path."

  "The Martial Path and Mystic Path are currently flourishing, with the Mystic Path being the absolute mainstream. But the Divine Path has declined, deteriorating into the mediocre Soul Path."

  "But how could the Divine Path be such an inconvenient thing? The Primordial Divine Beings of the Archaic Era followed the Divine Path. Among them, some divine beings could create heaven with a single thought, some could kill all things with a single thought, and others could bring all things to life with a single thought."

  "In the Ancient Era, there was an arrogant immortal who descended to the mortal realm, viewing everything as mere ants. We practitioners of the Martial and Mystic Paths were no match—only one Divine Path great power defied heaven to slay the immortal."

  "But precisely because divinity could slay immortals, the Upper Realm was enraged, and the Divine Path's inheritance was severed from then on."

  Lin Ye spoke of ancient events, even mentioning the existence of the Upper Realm. One of the effective means for the Lower Realm to resist the Upper Realm was the Divine Path.

  "What do you think immortals are? And what is the Upper Realm?"

  Xia Li was somewhat curious. Everyone talked about cultivation to become immortal, but what exactly was an immortal? Was it a concept of carefree freedom, or something more concrete?

  "I believe there were originally no immortals in this world. It's just that a group of people, upon reaching a broader world and obtaining greater power, began to consider themselves immortals. They drew a line between immortals and mortals, looking down upon everything from above, ruling everything."

  "To mortals, Foundation Establishment cultivators are immortals. To Foundation Establishment, Soul Transformation cultivators are immortals. To Soul Transformation, Tribulation Transcendence cultivators are immortals."

  "The so-called immortals... are merely cultivators of higher realms."

  Lin Ye's words showed no reverence for immortals—it seemed he had encountered related matters.

  "The Divine Path can defy heaven and slay immortals... I understand now."

  Xia Li nodded. It seemed that if he reached a high position on Earth in the future and became a high-ranking member of the Telekinesis Association, he would need to promote the development of telekinesis.

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  "Does Brother Xia plan to walk the Divine Path? Alas, the inheritance is severed now, so this path is probably..."

  "It isn't severed yet—my lineage still cultivates the Divine Path!"

  At these words, Lin Ye's expression toward Xia Li immediately became much more respectful. He even directly knelt on one knee, bowing his head with clenched fist toward Xia Li.

  "I... beg Brother Xia to transmit the Dao!"

  Lin Ye wanted to cultivate the Divine Path but had no way in—now there was only the Soul Path, not the Divine Path.

  Seeing this, Xia Li hesitated for a moment. The path of telekinesis was a newly emerging thing even on Earth. Though there was a Dao lineage, its numbers were sparse, and cultivation would likely be quite limited.

  "The Dao lineage... exists, but isn't strong."

  "No matter!"

  "You must swear never to act against my lineage in any way for your entire life."

  Earth and this world had connections, so sooner or later the two would truly come into contact. Xia Li feared that when contact came, it wouldn't be cooperation but conquest.

  As such...

  A small precaution was necessary.

  "I swear that in this life, I will never become enemies with Brother Xia's lineage."

  "Good."

  Xia Li nodded, extended a finger to touch Lin Ye's forehead, and transmitted three techniques via Divine Sense.

  Besides the Electric Surge and Self-Control techniques he'd downloaded from the public network before...

  There was also the telekinetic cultivation technique only downloadable from the Telekinesis Association's internal network: Telekinetic Art: Guidance Rotation.

  After Lin Ye decoded those three techniques, a contemplative gleam appeared in his eyes.

  "Truly Divine Path inheritance—with cultivation methods and techniques!"

  "This Guidance Rotation cultivation method is something I've never heard of... Visualize oneself as a world, one's rotation as the alternation of day and night, orbiting the sun as the changing of seasons..."

  "Wait... isn't this actually the truth of the world? The great sun doesn't orbit the world—the world orbits the sun? This..."

  Lin Ye fell into deep thought, as if a door to a new world had opened. He suddenly felt his thinking liberated, as though he'd touched upon some kind of truth!

  Lin Ye directly looked up at the sun!

  Even though both his pupils were burned painfully by the sunlight to the point of tears, he still used no spiritual energy for protection—just quietly gazed.

  After about the time an incense stick burns...

  Lin Ye closed his eyes and tore off his sleeve to use as a blindfold.

  "How blind I've been! I've had eyes yet couldn't see! I never imagined the world was actually like this!"

  "Truly a great inheritance. I will remember Brother Xia's kindness."

  Lin Ye had achieved enlightenment—his understanding of the world became one degree more real.

  Seeing this, Xia Li just smiled and patted his shoulder.

  "I've read in books that some people have been to the starry sky. Why didn't the ancients mention this?"

  "Those who can break through the nine heavens and ascend to the starry sky are without exception great powers. Great powers mostly treasure their brooms and only pass knowledge of the stars to their closest kin. How would we ever know?"

  Lin Ye sighed at this point. Knowledge was also a form of class barrier.

  Great powers who'd endured hardships to ascend to the starry sky naturally didn't think ordinary mortals deserved to know the secrets of heaven and earth as they did.

  It was only Xia Li's lineage that was peculiar enough to observe, then summarize cultivation methods for spiritual refinement, and even not forbid outside transmission—truly a sacred place of teaching without discrimination.

  "What fine broom-treasuring. Laughable."

  Xia Li laughed. Once this form of civilization took shape, society would basically be unable to progress—only stagnating like a pool of dead water.

  Just like Earth's feudal era.

  Feudalism for thousands of years, yet once feudalism was broken, civilization could achieve great leaps in just a few centuries.

  "Brother Xia, might there be a page for me in your genealogy? I want to join your lineage."

  "Uh... That's not necessary. Really not necessary."