Then all my cultivation as an immortal has been for nothing?

Chapter 18 Double the Energy, Double the "Joy"

The next day, Wang Yi deliberately left home a little later so that he would miss Sister Wang leaving for work.

According to Elsa, if the two went to work together in the morning, Jiuding might not be able to make up for the impact caused by Wang Yi, and drinking together in the evening would lead to an accumulation of goodwill.

Wang Yi naturally raised a question: "What if Ayan really falls in love with me?"

Elsa: "Don't worry at all, the Nine Cauldrons can't repair the natural affection that arises from it. But... now that you're a cultivator, the boost you provide is too great, it's very difficult for Wang Chengyan to feel any natural affection for you. This is also why many people fall into demonic cultivation."

Wang Yi imagined it for a moment and felt he could understand those demonic cultivators.

Elsa: "Do you think you can understand those demonic cultivators?"

Wang Yi adopted a defensive stance: "Didn't you say you couldn't cast spells anymore? How can you still read minds?"

“You’ve misunderstood. Even if I had the ability to cast spells, I couldn’t read minds. Mind reading with magic would require intervening in your soul, and that would be a destructive intervention. Reading your mind would also permanently change your personality,” Elsa explained matter-of-factly.

Hearing this, Wang Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried that when he went to the psychology department to have his mind tested, his secret of the battery cheat would be discovered by mind readers.

Elsa's statement now suggests that those on the righteous side probably don't need to worry about the secret being leaked.

As for demonic cultivators... it's safer to quickly train until you can slap every demonic cultivator you encounter to death.

And so, in a place unknown to anyone, Wang Yi made a decision that would determine the fate of many demonic cultivators.

With that in mind, Wang Yi walked out of the urban village and onto the main road, where he could see a long queue at the bus stop in the distance.

Wang Yi frowned and looked down at Elsa, asking, "Can we take a taxi to work? After all, money is just printed paper to the company, isn't it?"

Elsa: "That won't work. Taking public transportation and increasing your contact with ordinary people will help stabilize your mind. Plus, experiencing the goodwill that ordinary people have towards you on public transportation can help you—what's it called again?"

Wang Yi tentatively asked, "'Demystification'?"

"Ah, yes, that's the word, Qu Mei."

Wang Yi: "No wonder you insisted I take the last subway last night."

"In short, it's important for a novice monk to live among ordinary people—that's what the pamphlet the Human Resources Department gave me says." Elsa pulled a pamphlet out of her fur coat; the cover read, "108 Tips for Being a Good Master."

With such an unreliable master, is there really no problem with my path to immortality?

With that thought in mind, Wang Yi walked to the end of the long queue and waited.

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"Good morning, everyone." Instructor Li stood on the platform in Public Training Room 101. "Yesterday, Cultivator Pang Jianming passed the Indoor Combat CQC assessment, so he will no longer be participating in short-range gun courses. Let's congratulate him."

As he spoke, Instructor Li led the applause.

Wang Yi followed along, but secretly used his new supernatural power to watch Pang Jianming.

The internal energy is circulating, indicating that Pang Jianming has reached the first level—of course, it cannot be ruled out that he is consciously circulating the internal energy now, rather than it being purely passive.

Looking at the others, Wang Yi noticed that the vast majority of them didn't have any Qi circulating in their bodies.

He looked at himself again and found that the energy flowing around him was stronger than that of Pang Jianming, and it was also significantly smoother.

Yesterday, the difference wasn't apparent when compared to Elsa's powerful physique, but now, using Pang Jianming as a benchmark, Wang Yi's mastery of the technique has clearly surpassed that of Elsa.

However, Elsa said she couldn't see any energy flowing around Wang Yi, and none of the company's many monitoring machines detected anything unusual.

This is very strange.

My cheat code can even block detection? That's pretty powerful.

At this moment, Instructor Li said, "Wang Yi, why are you still clapping? That's enough, you don't need to keep congratulating me."

Wang Yi then realized that while he was thinking, everyone had stopped clapping.

Pang Jianming squinted at Wang Yi and said, "It seems like someone's been spacing out."

Wang Yi's face flushed slightly; he wasn't used to being watched by everyone.

Elsa lowered her voice: "What are you doing? Looking at pretty girls?"

"Yes," was all Wang Yi could say.

Instructor Li: "Alright, everyone get on the training machines. Cultivator Wang Yi, do you have any questions?"

"No." Wang Yi walked directly to the training machine, skillfully took out his phone, plugged it in, and then lay down on it.

The synthesized voice of the training machine said: "Trainee cultivator number 21020251004543537 has been detected. Matching cultivation method and body data settings is in progress. Matching complete. Automatic cultivation will begin."

Wang Yi used his new supernatural power to observe the qi (vital energy) around his body.

He discovered something strange.

The flow of Qi caused double images!
No, the Qi guided by the training machine overlapped with the Qi that Wang Yi had previously observed circulating automatically in his body, creating a phenomenon that resembled a double image in his new senses.

what's the situation?
Just then, Instructor Li walked over and said, "Don't worry, it's okay if you can't feel the Qi. The training machine is very efficient at automatically circulating Qi, and you can still benefit from the physical attribute bonuses brought by the technique."

"Given time, you'll feel a significant improvement in your physical condition, even if you're practicing the Nine Transformations to Heaven Record." Wang Yi said "Oh," and asked the instructor, "Can you see the Qi circulating in my body?"

"Of course, it runs very smoothly."

Wang Yi tried his best to sound like an old farmer visiting a big city for medical treatment when asking his questions: "Doctor, please look more carefully. Is there anything abnormal?"

The instructor stared at Wang Yi for a few seconds and nodded affirmatively: "No abnormalities."

Wang Yi turned his new senses to the others and discovered that the novice cultivators who had not been circulating their internal energy were now circulating it with the help of the energy circulation machines.

He had a new question: He had just observed that the novice cultivators who had not been circulating their internal energy did not have such strong qi. How come the amount of qi increased significantly as soon as they started circulating their internal energy?

With the instructor nearby, Wang Yi asked, "Do we still have qi in our bodies when we're not circulating our internal energy?"

Instructor Li: "There is a relatively weak amount of energy, the exact amount of which varies depending on each person's spiritual root. Once the energy is circulating, your Qi Sea will open, and the energy guided out from within will circulate throughout the body."

Wang Yi: "So, normally the Qi is stored in the Qi Sea? If I don't circulate my internal energy, the Qi in the Qi Sea can't be detected, right?"

Instructor Li: "It's not entirely impossible to detect; scientists currently have two hypotheses..."

A scientist? Are you serious, Brother Li?
Instructor Li, oblivious to Wang Yi's strong urge to complain, continued his explanation: "One theory is the dark matter theory. You know dark matter, right? It fills more than 90% of the universe, but it doesn't radiate energy, so it's generally unobservable."

"The dark matter theory holds that the Qi Sea is also dark matter, which we cannot observe, but it exists."

"Another theory is the negative energy theory, which states that everyone's soul is connected to an ocean of negative energy."

Wang Yi couldn't help but joke, "I know that. I've seen 'Neon Genesis Evangelion,' and they call this Dirac Hai."

Instructor Li exclaimed in surprise, "You've actually seen this? That's a masterpiece from the cognitive interference department of Japan in the last century. It's pretty much like that. Anyway, before your body starts operating, your qi is in an unobservable state."

Wang Yi once again "looked" at the double-image aura surrounding him.

In other words, my cheat system operates within some kind of negative energy ocean or dark matter level? That's why Elsa can't see it?
Instructor Li continued: "In this regard, it seems that the demonic cultivators have made some progress. We have confirmed many times that the demonic cultivators can move through the ocean of negative energy, at the cost of the collapse of their own cognition."

"They used this technology to escape, but were quickly caught. When they were captured, they were no longer even human-like. The agent who witnessed the scene was sent to a psychological treatment center and has not yet recovered."

Wang Yi observed the double image of energy on his body again.

Won't this also cause me to lose my human form?
No way?
However, there's no point in thinking about it. At least for now, it seems that using the cheat in places where it can't be observed doesn't do any harm.

Wang Yi suddenly realized what was happening.

Since it cannot be observed, how do I "see" it?

Just because this is my doing?
Or is it that the grey-winged manta ray can actually see things that it shouldn't be able to observe, but the ecology department just hasn't discovered them yet?
My cheat program turned the Gray Winged Bat's ability into my supernatural power.
I feel the latter makes more sense.

Furthermore, it pointed out a way to earn points: if I can find a way to prove that the Graywing Bat can indeed see the sea of ​​negative energy or dark matter, and submit a report to the Department of Ecology, I can earn some points to exchange for inflatable candy.

Wang Yi has already called those milk candies that can fill the stomach "aerobic candies".

I feel like there's more and more hope for this immortal cultivation.

At this point, Instructor Li saw that Wang Yi was fine, so he went to check on the others' energy cultivation.

Elsa leaned closer and looked at Wang Yi: "What are you laughing at?"

"I think I can feel a little bit of energy," Wang Yi casually made up.

Elsa: "Be careful, at first everyone will have the illusion of feeling the Qi. The psychology department says that this seems to be caused by an extreme desire to see the Qi."

is it?

This is not a hallucination. I can even see energy that others cannot see, and I can automatically perform Qigong in the negative energy sea.

I wonder if I'll get double the benefits of cultivating my energy once I reach the first level.

Wang Yi couldn't help but ask Elsa, "If I can keep practicing my internal energy at all times, does that mean I've mastered the first level?"

“No, your technique is a bit special,” Elsa said, arms crossed. “When you’re about to master the first level, your skin will start to peel off, and you’ll go through an extremely painful molting process.”

Wang Yi's mouth dropped open: "Huh?"

Elsa: "Didn't you read the instructions when you redeemed it? It's written in black and white."

No?

Does that mean I'll have to suffer twice as much pain in the future? No way!
Elsa: "Don't be afraid, Ibuprofen is here!"

Ibuprofen?!

"If that doesn't work, we can use the American dose."

American dosage! You mean a bottle of 1000 pills, the kind you drink straight from the bottle?

How come it seems so absurd yet also surprisingly reliable?!
Wang Yi breathed a sigh of relief: "This is the most effective comfort I've ever seen."

Technology is changing the cultivation world!
(End of this chapter)