Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses.

Chapter 4 Awakening of Telekinesis

Five days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Despite his righteous words, Hunzhen continued to hunt one person per day.

Based on simulation records, even after six months of elimination, there are still dozens of assassins remaining in the vast Night City.

Hunzhen thought he would have to kill seven or eight more, until he wiped out an entire area, before he could attract the attention of his isolated colleagues. However, it seemed that he was flapping his wings a little too hard, and on the fifth day, the simulation record showed a change from the past.

You successfully completed your sixth hunt. But in this killing game, the roles of hunter and prey can switch at any moment. Just three days later, while changing hotels, you were ambushed by three people. You know... your indiscriminate hunting of your colleagues is no longer a secret.

In the chaos, you only managed to unleash about 60% of your full combat power. However, because your true strength far surpasses that of others of the same level, you still managed to kill one person and severely injure another in the first instant. Only one person escaped with minor injuries, while you yourself sustained only moderate injuries. Having survived this ordeal, you had no time to feel fortunate, because you knew what letting one person escape in this situation meant.

After much hesitation, cursing your own incompetence, you gritted your teeth and chose to purchase intelligence from your colleagues through the company. Your closest target, without a doubt, is that one survivor.

On the sixth day, after traversing a large area, you finally completed the pursuit. However, your target detonated the arena where you were fighting. You escaped severely injured, but in doing so, you were completely exposed to your surviving colleagues in Night City.

[Over two months, you engaged in eleven battles, large and small, leaving your mark on more than thirty assassins throughout Night City. During this time, you killed ten and severely injured eight.]

[Finally, surrounded by ten assassins, amidst your hysterical curses against yourself, and under the horrified gazes of your colleagues, you slit your own throat, ending your life as short as fireworks.]

[This simulation has ended]

Please select the inheritance direction.

[1. Material Inheritance (While being hunted, you desperately cultivated, and your cultivation level has broken through to the fourth level of Apprentice)]

[2. Soul Inheritance (Your artistic conception has been completely integrated into your movement techniques, reaching a state of consummate skill; your "Gale Blade" sword technique has broken through to the fourth level, and your understanding of artistic conception has deepened; combat experience has been moderately improved, and escape experience has been greatly improved)]

3. Forgo the profits from this simulation.

Upon seeing the simulated human's insane curses at him, Hunzhen's eyes twitched slightly, but this was quickly masked by the joy that bloomed in his eyes.

"It's really good!"

His conjecture was confirmed.

The benefits of the soul inheritance in just two months were comparable to the progress made in several simulations over several decades. Hun Zhen was overjoyed and chose the soul inheritance without hesitation, and a large number of insights followed.

"With my current strength, I will not let a single person escape in the face of the attack three days from now!"

A surge of boundless pride welled up within him: "I truly deserve this!"

Suddenly, Hunzhen raised an eyebrow and stopped praising himself in his heart.

Just as he was getting excited, the lamp on the desk in front of him flickered.

The room was sealed and windless, so there should be no source of vibration that could cause it to vibrate.

"No, that's not right!"

A startling conjecture made Hunzhen's eyes widen.

With a thought, the lamp seemed to be pushed by an invisible hand.

Hunzhen was overjoyed.

"Psychic powers! I've awakened psychic powers!?"

He was initially surprised and uncertain, but soon he understood.

As we all know, mental strength is what is called soul power.

Even martial artists possess soul power, but most apprentices have stronger physical abilities than mental ones, making it impossible for them to leave their sea of ​​consciousness and exert influence on the outside world.

At the apprentice level, mentalists are generally stronger than martial artists.

However, once they reach the Planetary or Eternal level, as their cultivation deepens, the gap between martial artists and spiritual masters narrows, and they place greater emphasis on their understanding of laws and their application of domains.

Even if martial artists can pursue the path of mental cultivators, they can only study it a little bit and learn from it. They basically continue to develop along the apprentice level.

Hunzhen's current martial arts level is vastly different from what it was a little over a month ago.

With a commanding viewpoint, he has easily reached the seventh rank or above in recent simulations. With the soul strength of a seventh-rank martial artist, he has already far surpassed his physical strength, even without special training.

However, due to lack of training and insufficient control, it is only through years of accumulated experience that he has been able to achieve the ability to control objects outside his body by relying on his innate spiritual instincts.

But without a doubt, Hunzhen's talent as a spiritual master has awakened, and in the gentlest and most natural way!

In terms of controlling power, there is a world of difference between conscious manipulation and unconscious manipulation.

Hunzhen raised an eyebrow, and the free-floating cosmic energy immediately flowed into his brain.

boom!

With a shudder in his soul, Hunzhen found himself in a mysterious place.

"Is this the Sea of ​​Consciousness?"

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In the very center of the sea of ​​consciousness, there is a rapidly spinning dark golden sphere, which emits a large amount of grayish-white mist as it rotates.

"A fool who does not belong to this era, a mysterious ruler above the gray fog, the king of yellow and black who holds good fortune... Oh, no, the last paragraph doesn't match up."

Feeling the seemingly endless stream of mental energy in his sea of ​​consciousness, Hunzhen muttered a complaint to himself. Before he could even feel a surge of joy, he immediately became alert again.

He couldn't help but reach out his right hand to touch the back of his neck, his face already covered in cold sweat.

"I almost forgot, I have a biochip on me!"

This solid sphere of psychic energy is sufficient to support the user until they reach the seventh level or even higher in the Hunzhen realm.

As his soul is inherited in the future, this sphere of psychic power will also grow in tandem, and it is foreseeable that it will accompany him for a very long time, rather than withering away early like Luo Feng.

Mental strength is two levels higher than physical fitness. As long as one is truly focused, one can become a fifth-level mental master in no time.

However, he won't do that.

Not long ago, he warned himself not to overemphasize his apparent strength to attract attention, so how could he possibly change his mind so easily?

Given the company's methods, it's impossible for them not to be able to determine the assassins' potential as psychic practitioners.

Those who are born with strong mental power, and whose innate mental power in their sea of ​​consciousness is in a liquid or solid state, should have been filtered out long ago.

The fact is that, in the original owner's memories and in Hunzhen's experiences during this period, there was not a single mentalist colleague.

If it's somewhat plausible that he suddenly awakens his psychic powers later in life, but to awaken them in one fell swoop and immediately break through to the upper limit of psychic power that his physical attributes should allow, behaving exactly like those who have outstanding psychic talent when they awaken... how could anyone believe that there's no ghost in that!

call!

"I almost, I almost had my mentor make a move against me for a non-existent opportunity!"

Hunzhen wiped the cold sweat from his face, silently warning himself not to get arrogant: "If I hadn't reacted in time, I might have already broken through to the fourth rank. Thank goodness!"

Ok?

Hunzhen suddenly realized something.

"This psychic sphere only spun a few times, and my psychic level reached the advanced third tier. Since that's the case, I can easily break through to the fourth tier in one go during battle—it's quite a formidable trump card!"

Even if I don't need it myself, the Sims can definitely be used to save my life in a critical moment!

This is making the best use of everything!

(End of this chapter)