Chapter 458: Chapter 19: Nascent Soul Perfection!
Lin Chen put away the Divinity Transformation Flower.
Naturally, he couldn’t directly refine it.
He planned to take this flower back to Great Xia to have it specially cultivated by the Spirit Cultivators there.
Perhaps in a few years, it wouldn’t just be one Divinity Transformation Flower but dozens, even hundreds...
After the auction, Lin Chen changed his identity and returned to Wenda City.
He cultivated steadily while collecting materials for refining the Divinity Transformation Pill.
But just a week passed before something Lin Chen could not have predicted occurred.
...
That day, Lin Chen remained in his residence for quiet cultivation.
After circulating the Evergreen Technique for another Grand Circulation, Lin Chen exhaled a breath of turbid air.
In his Dantian, his True Essence had once again become more abundant.
"Getting closer and closer to Nascent Soul Perfection..."
Lin Chen murmured.
At that moment, he furrowed his brows slightly and took out a device from his chest.
"Warning, warning... Satellite experiencing irreversible deviation, suspected human interference..."
"Self-destruct system now activated, self-destruct countdown: ten, nine..."
"Three, two, one!"
As the countdown ended, the screen turned to static.
Lin Chen lost contact with this satellite.
"What on earth happened?"
Lin Chen frowned tightly and quickly reviewed the footage before the satellite’s explosion.
Until a quarter-hour ago.
In the footage surrounding the satellite, a phantasmic figure flickered in and out.
"Is this a human?"
Lin Chen frowned slightly, feeling uncertain.
The image captured looked like a ghost, but was only half the height of a person.
Yet its body was rounded with limbs.
Seemed like a person, but not quite.
Subsequently, the satellite footage shook.
The satellite veered off course, moving closer to the mysterious figure.
Through the screen, Lin Chen seemed to see the figure’s puzzled and curious expression.
Suddenly, the apparition looked up to the sky, then waved its hand.
The satellite followed behind the phantom, flying towards the sky.
A phantasmal Light Sect was high in the air.
At that moment, the satellite exploded one last time...
Lin Chen watched all of this with furrowed brows.
"The artificial satellite... was discovered..."
This was definitely bad news for Lin Chen.
The self-destruction of the satellite meant the collapse of Lin Chen’s idea to establish a new information network.
Over the past months, the Martial Arts Puppet used this satellite to collect a wealth of intelligence.
It precisely located many Demon Cultivators.
If the satellite could persist, Great Xia even planned to upgrade its weapon systems.
Using satellite positioning, even from thousands of miles away, nuclear strikes could achieve precision.
At that time, it would truly be a nightmare for Demon Cultivators!
But now, the satellite was discovered.
All these plans were disrupted.
"The only good news is that the satellite self-destructed successfully, and those celestial beings can’t find me based on that..."
Lin Chen murmured.
Technological creations and Cultivation creations are vastly different.
Unless given a few thousand years of development, the Cultivation Realm couldn’t decipher this satellite, let alone find it.
However, the destruction of the satellite returned Lin Chen’s intelligence network to its primitive state.
He could only rely on the Martial Arts Puppet’s collection, which was thousands to tens of thousands of times less efficient...
But beyond these concerns, what Lin Chen was now focused on...
"How was this artificial satellite discovered by a Spirit Realm cultivator?"
"What exactly is that phantom?"
Lin Chen was deep in thought.
From the footage, he sensed that the phantom didn’t seem human.
More like a spirit... an Artifact Spirit!
The feeling it gave to Lin Chen was very similar to the Artifact Spirit of the Celestial Derivation Pearl.
"So, is there a possibility... the Cultivation Realm also has means to monitor the human world?"
"Relying on some kind of very powerful Magical Treasure?"
The more Lin Chen thought about it, the more he found it possible.
Cultivators from the Spirit Realm had a certain level of understanding of Qing State’s situation.
This was something Lin Chen could confirm.
Whether it was the battle with the Changchun Sect back then or the pursuit by Demon Monarch Huiyue, they could accurately know his position.
The Spirit Realm and the Human Realm are separated by an unknown distance, even across worlds.
Lin Chen believed, not to mention Divinity Transformation Cultivators,
Even Returning Void or Integration cultivators couldn’t have such a terrifying Divine Sense.
The only possibility was some sort of Magical Treasure or Array that allowed those from the Spirit Realm to detect information about the lower realm.
Thinking of this, Lin Chen’s scalp tingled.
"So, the situation of the lower realm has always been highly monitored by the celestial beings!"
But after the shock, Lin Chen shook his head.
"However, it shouldn’t be complete control... otherwise, those Demon Cultivators would have come for me long ago!"
Thinking of this, Lin Chen slightly relaxed.
"That Magical Treasure is indeed powerful, but it clearly can’t achieve precise positioning within three meters like an artificial satellite..."
"Perhaps only large-scale information monitoring."
"But in any case, I have to be more cautious in my actions."
Lin Chen made a mental note.
The self-destruction of the artificial satellite indeed brought inconvenience to Lin Chen’s operations.
However, the Martial Arts Puppet was still assassinating the Golden Core Demon Cultivators of the Nether Realm, albeit at a much slower pace.
As for Lin Chen, he remained stable for a while, continuing to cultivate in Wenda City.
...
Spring left and autumn came, and another year passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Chen stayed in his residence, practicing the Evergreen Technique.
After running the Evergreen Technique through another Grand Circulation, Lin Chen opened his eyes.
Feeling that his Dantian was completely filled with True Essence, leaving no room for advancement.
"Phew... Over a year, and I finally reached Nascent Soul Perfection!"
A slight smile crept onto Lin Chen’s lips, but worry soon followed.
Nascent Soul Perfection meant the next step was the Divinity Transformation Stage.
However, Lin Chen was not prepared for Crossing the Tribulation.
Of the three main ingredients for the Divinity Transformation Pill, Lin Chen had only managed to gather the Divinity Transformation Flower.
