Su Yuchen left the cultivation room of Senior Brother Li and met with him. After some exchanging some congratulations and pleasantries, he went to his room to get some rest. Today he got a day off from Senior Brother Li.

‘Sign in!’, Su Yuchen said in his mind. He forgot to sign in, and he conversed with the system for more than an hour.

[Ding! Daily sign in completed. Rewarded “Rune Ancestor’s Notes Volume 01”]

‘Good job, system. It is nice to see you getting into your work as soon as I entered the Meridian Refinement Realm.’ As soon as he saw the reward Su Yuchen remarked sarcastically.

Su Yuchen suddenly remembered something and immediately focused on the golden bead which appeared in front of him with a thought, ‘System if you can’t read my mind, how can you know when I sign in?’

[“Sign in!” is assigned as a key word to send resources to the host.]

‘Okay.’ Su Yuchen nodded his head. He then asked the system, ‘Are you also going to supply me with scrolls to practice drawing runes or should I have to get them?’

[The system will give the materials for all professions according to your situations.]

[The system send you the materials for drawing runes on your next sign in.]

[Should I put forward this objective?]

‘Well, yes. I might as well starting practising as soon as possible to attain the habit of drawing runes everyday. If I procrastinate I might not start drawing runes in the near future.’

[The objective was put forward.]

‘Are you going to give me everything I ask for?’ Su Yuchen asked the system.

[Yes. However, the cultivator can only ask for things that are at his realm.]

[System will only reward an item above his realm based on your luck. The item’s rank will not surpass the cultivator by more than one realm.]

Su Yuchen read the notification and then took out the ear rings from the system storage and asked the system, ‘What is the grade of these Cosmic Whisper Earrings?’

[The Cosmic Whisper Earrings are a grade one artefact.]

‘Oh!’ Su Yuchen sighed. ‘I was frightened to wear these ear studs when I move outside. Now that I know this is just a grade one artefact, I openly wear this.’

‘Others will also not suspect now that I am in the sect for more than three months. I can afford to buy a grade one artefact.’

Su Yuchen looked at the golden bead that was still bright, he thought of disconnecting. The golden bead became dull.

Su Yuchen exclaimed in surprise, “I was focusing on the golden bead while also thinking about other things. How did I do that?”

He immediately connected to the golden bead and asked the system.

[The cultivator has connected his mind to his soul energy.]

[Your mind is now capable of doing more activities with the nourishment of the soul energy.]

Su Yuchen was surprised by its explanation, ‘Is that possible?! I have never heard of this being mentioned by anyone. No one said to me that Meridian Refinement Realm cultivators could do this. Are there more people who can do this?’

[Yes, this is a common ability that high level talents can achieve.]

[Every can achieve this ability by tempering their mind.]

[One method of awakening this ability is: Cultivators need to use resources similar to stellar rocks during their cultivation and overexert their minds.]

[The mind will use the astral energy of a cultivator to nourish itself.]

[The mind can eventually connect itself to the soul energy of a cultivator’s soul.]

‘So my impulse of using stellar rock helped me?’ Su Yuchen was baffled. At that time he knew he was just courting death, but successfully completing the circulations now led to him awakening this ability.

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Su Yuchen felt great joy while thinking of some uses of this ability. He was staring at the bright golden bead the whole time he was contemplating.

Su Yuchen tried to ask the system, ‘Do you feel anything if I just cut off the connection between us?’

[The sign in system has no emotions.]

Su Yuchen stopped focusing on the golden bead and contemplating on the uses of his new ability.

He laid on his bed and went to bed.

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“Your maid can cook delicious food. This meat is great.” Senior Brother Li commented after gulping down the leg meat he chewed.

“Is your maid bad at cooking Senior Brother? Or do you not eat food regularly?” Su Yuchen asked while picking food. He learned that every maid in the inner sect is capable of cooking royal dishes.

“I don’t consume food regularly. Also it is hard to find a maid who can cook food that is suitable to one’s palate. I never tried to look for a maid that can cook the food according to my taste.” Senior Brother Li replied to Su Yuchen.

“So your maid can cook delicious dishes but they don’t suit your taste? Is my maid’s cooking suitable to your taste? If it is, I can ask her to cook meals for you regularly.” Su Yuchen said to Senior Brother Li.

“If I was particular about enjoying these things I would have already ordered all available maids in the sect to show their cooking to me. Why would I neglect about this?” Senior Brother Li sneered at Su Yuchen. “I don’t need your maid to cook for me regularly. You can daily enjoy her cooking yourself.”

“Hey! I am just trying to convey my gratitude to you, Senior Brother. If you don’t want to appreciate it, it is okay with me. I will follow your instructions and indulge myself in her delicious cooking daily.” Su Yuchen laughed.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. But don’t overindulge in eating and forget working on your cultivation.” Senior Brother Li said to Su Yuchen.

“I will work hard on my cultivation. You don’t have to worry Senior Brother.” Su Yuchen said while showing a disinterested expression.

“You are working hard. I can see that. However, I can also see that you will stop working hard in cultivation in the future.” Senior Brother Li gnawed on the meat and lectured Su Yuchen. “Only by working hard every day can you become the best.”

“I don’t need to be the best, Senior Brother Li. I just need to keep moving forward. I will work hard to take those steps.” Su Yuchen rebutted Senior Brother Li.

“In this world you will always need to be at your best. Yuchen, I am sure that your best self will be a huge powerhouse.” Senior Brother Li put down his chopsticks and pointed his fingers at Su Yuchen. “If you can become that you can take every step you want to take.”

He put on a heavy-hearted expression while continuing, “I have not reached my best self when I was in need of it. If you slack off in your cultivation you will always lack the power when you needed at your most important moments.”

“I don’t like the moments you are referring to. I will surely restrain myself from encountering them.” Su Yuchen refuted Senior Brother Li.

“What about the the incident at the Rune Hall. Are you going to say you didn’t wish for power at that moment? Can you avoid similar situations where others just find trouble with you?” Senior Brother Li stabbed Su Yuchen’s ideas.

“I will be careful from now on. I will try to be more taciturn in the ways I deal with those situations.” Su Yuchen replied to Senior Brother Li.

“Being taciturn won’t let you escape from those who seek to trouble you. Didn’t the rivals of the Third Elder’s faction used you to poke fun at the faction.” Senior Brother questioned Su Yuchen.

“They were not aimed at me. That is not a serious situation.” Su Yuchen replied in a low voice.

“Oh! Then what about the guard at the Rune Hall. He took action on you and humiliated you.” Senior Brother Li questioned Su Yuchen angrily.

“That’s not okay with me. I will look for that guard when I have the ability.” Su Yuchen answered Senior Brother Li.

“You look like you are not feeling anything about that humiliation now.” Senior Brother Li stared at Su Yuchen and asked him.

“I am angry about that, I will always be. It is just that now I don’t feel the need to remind myself about that moment.” Su Yuchen replied to Senior Brother Li in a calm tone. “I was tripped and pushed. That was all that happened to me. When I am strong, I will beat that guard and make him kneel down and apologise to me.” He said in a serious voice, “I will accomplish this.”

“Ha-ha-ha! Yuchen you are speaking about the tripping as if it is a small incident of bullying. Do you remember that you have once asked me whether there are chances of a cultivator killing someone if they didn’t like a glance from them? Let me say something about Bai Yuhua.” Senior Brother laughed at Su Yuchen mockingly.

He continued, “When Jin Tianlong and Bai Yuhua were having a meal at a restaurant, Jin Tianlong apparently glanced at a young lady who just arrived into the restaurant. A suitor of that young lady who was following her didn’t like the way he stared at her and began a conflict with him.”

“That suitor is a disciple of Sky Battling Sect, even an inner sect disciple. The conflict grew so big that it led to fight and Bai Yuhua had to take action. Then more people entered the fight which made Third Elder’s disciples to escape. Bai Yuhua had killed a lot of pursuers while they escaped. When they returned to the sect, she was even punished to go into seclusion for three years and was forbidden to contact the outside world.”

“It all started because Jin Tianlong looked at a pretty young lady. No one should have been offended by a glance, but a person was offended. They made big scene out of it and Bai Yuhua even had to kill tens of people.”

“It all happened because of a glance, but you are bullying you isn’t a big deal. Where are your guts? Where is your reasoning?”

“You are still trying to make reasons in your mind that a person bullying you by tripping you is just a small thing. But you are not trying to build your reason around people that will keep on taking unreasonable actions when they are dissatisfied.”

“You will see them at every corner in this world.”

“If you don’t want to be cornered by their unreasonable actions, keep on becoming strong.”

“If you don’t want to get hurt, stop your claims that you can try to avoid these people and work hard on your cultivation.”

“Don’t stop working hard or you will find yourself being no different from the outer sect disciples.”