Planet Pulverizer: A Mortal's Ascent

Chapter 59: Mental Spirit

Li Pin did not head back to the hotel the Five Elements Sect had arranged for him this time. Instead, he went straight back to his condominium.

When Li Pin entered his condominium, he heard someone shouting in his bedroom.

"Ah! Ah!" Li Yunyao's agonized cries echoed.

"Softer! Xiaolu! Softer!"

Li Pin was confused. "Yaoyao? Xiaolu?"

Aren't they supposed to have class tomorrow? Why are they still here?

Li Pin approached the bedroom and gently pushed open the door to find Li Yunyao clad in a white lace nightgown, her slender, fair thighs revealed. Lin Xiaolu was seated beside her, attentively massaging Li Yunyao's legs.

The room had an exceptionally alluring atmosphere for a moment after Li Pin stepped into the room, but that atmosphere was soon shattered by Li Yunyao's agonized cries.

"What's wrong?" Li Pin asked, confused. "Why aren't you back in Liuchuan County?"

"Brother... I'm dying...."

Seeing Li Pin's arrival, Li Yunyao pitifully lifted her head, her eyes blinking rapidly like she was trying to squeeze out some tears.

Li Pin ignored her and looked at Lin Xiaolu.

Lin Xiaolu hastily explained, "Yaoyao overexerted herself during training and strained her muscles and tendons."

Li Pin had already figured as much. It was clear that Li Yunyao had been devastated ever since Lin Xiaolu manifested her Force. Even though she had had a grueling training session yesterday, she went ahead and practiced again relentlessly today, and now she was reaping the consequences of her impatience.

Li Pin watched Li Yunyao wail with little sympathy. He chuckled and said, "I told you to follow the training plan I gave you. Now you realize your mistakes."

"I am just trying to manifest my Force faster so that I can get into Jiang Province University. Why are you blaming me for it?" Li Yunyao replied, her face filled with grievance.

Her adorable expression made Li Pin burst into laughter. He even went up front to pinch her cheek gently. "Not bad, not bad. You look quite cute. Come on, strike a pose. Let me take a picture."

Li Yunyao's eyes immediately widened. "Brother! You're not even going to comfort me?"

"It's just muscle strain. You will be fine in a few days. Don't make a fuss about it."

"It's not only muscle strain! Sister Shan Hu told me that I hurt my tendons too. She said that I'll need to rest for ten days before I recover!" Li Yunyao grimaced. "I am definitely not going to manifest my Force by the end of this month now! What shall I do?"

More than ten days... Li Pin thought to himself.

The practice of martial arts was a process of perseverance. Skipping a day of training would make your hands and feet slow, and two days would make you lose half of what you have learned.

While this saying might be exaggerated, it was enough to prove how much of an impact a long period without training could have on a martial artist's skills. If Li Yunyao were to lose more than ten days of practice, it would remain questionable whether she could manage to manifest her Force in time for the enrolment at Jiang Province University to receive a special admission offer as a martial artist.

"Xiaolu, come down. Let me have a look at her," Li Pin instructed.

Immediately after, he took a glance at the messed-up bed sheets. His mouth twitched. "This is my bed, you guys sure know how to hold back."

Lin Xiaolu quickly lowered her head and blushed.

Li Yunyao pouted and protested, "Brother! I am about to die here and you are still worried about your bed?!"

"Alright, it's nothing serious. Let me take care of it. Now lie down and relax."

Li Pin sat down beside her and began to massage her shoulders, arms, and calves, quickly assessing her physical condition.

"Have you been memorizing the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique?"

"Yes," Li Yunyao answered.

Li Pin didn't ask her about the primordial qi. He didn't have any expectation for them to discover and nurture it within such a short period of time.

He placed his middle finger and index finger between Li Yunyao's delicate collarbone.

Even Li Pin couldn't help but admit that this little sister of his had remarkable skin. The expression "skin as soft as cream and as white as jade" seemed to be a phrase tailor-made to describe her.

Li Pin tapped into his clairvoyance to its fullest extent to sense the changes within her body.

Due to a few external factors and his understanding of primordial qi which had become more profound lately, he was already able to faintly detect the presence of the primordial qi within Li Yunyao's body/

"Focus your senses on this area. What do you feel?"

"A bit of warmth and a gentle heat."

"Great, remember this sensation. Use the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique which I taught you and follow the path I trace with my fingers. Guide this feeling along this path. Harness the primordial qi to nourish your body. This will help speed up your recovery," Li Pin explained.

"Alright...."

"Focus!" Li Pin said with a serious tone.

"Okay."

Noticing Li Pin's serious expression, and not wanting to miss out on the opportunity to attend Jiang Province University, Li Yunyao also became serious.

However, because her talent was quite mediocre, Li Pin had to show her the path where she would need to circulate the primordial qi more than ten times before she barely managed to memorize it.

Also, since primordial qi constantly changed with the body's movements, Li Pin had to focus thoroughly every time he tried to search for the paths. This repetitive meticulous search took a significant toll on his mental spirit.

Finally, after a grueling hour, Li Pin withdrew his hands, his face etched with fatigue. "Alright, you've memorized the qi circulation paths. Now, practice the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique on your own to nourish them. I'll have Liu Yingying send over more medicines to aid your recovery. By tomorrow or the day after, your injuries should be healed."

"But... I can't locate the primordial qi mentioned in the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique without your guidance."

"Those paths are the paths that the primordial qi will typically circulate around. Circulate it for one to two days. Even if the result is insignificant, it won't cause any harm. Just think of it as familiarizing yourself with the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique," Li Pin said, wiping the fine sweat from his forehead.

Witnessing this scene, Li Yunyao finally understood how hard Li Pin had to exert himself to guide her through the cultivation of the Innate Qi-Nurturing Technique.

Feeling touched, she hugged his arm. "Brother, you're so good to me."

"Are you acting cute?" Li Pin looked at her with a hint of surprise. After a moment, he smiled and pinched her face again. "Instead of thanking me, you'd better practice diligently and listen to what I say. This way you'll save me from having to worry about you."

"Hey! Why are you pinching my face again! I am not a child anymore."

"Now that you know you're not a child, let me pinch you a few more times while I still have the chance," Li Pin said with a smile, standing up.

"I'm going to take a shower. You can shower after I'm done. It's too late and dangerous for you to go back now. Just spend the night here."

Li Yunyao nodded. "Yes!"

With that, Li Pin walked out of the bedroom and into the bathroom to take a bath.

After he was done, Li Pin changed into a new set of clothes, headed to the meditation room, and spread out his sleeping mat.

As he rested, he carefully recalled the sensation he experienced when guiding the primordial qi within the circulation path of Li Yunyao's body.

"My sensing seems to have grown sharper," Li Pin muttered.

Initially, he had believed that sensing the blood and qi coursing through Li Yunyao's body would have been the limit of his clairvoyance talent and that the chances for locating the delicate primordial qi within her body would be minuscule.

However, when he actually searched for it, he realized that it wasn't as difficult as he had anticipated. The primary factor contributing to this ease was due to the enhancement of his clairvoyance.

The catalyst behind this was...

"Mental spirit."

Li Pin focused his attention on the mental spirit attribute.

[Mental Spirit: 11.14]

Li Pin had managed to significantly temper his mental spirit after experiencing a life-and-death battle. The clash between the Fist Intent of Demonic Sand and his meditation on the Astral God particularly contributed to this.

To the average person, an improvement of less than one digit might seem insignificant. But for him, it was the spark that helped him to discover the potential of his hidden talents.