Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 479: Remarkable Effects (Part 2)

The Mind-Calming Sutra is a cultivation method exclusively for the royal family, designed for important members to enhance their mental capabilities, longevity, and overall physical condition. It's not meant for combat.

There were quite a few members of the royal family present, especially after Wang Sheng's reminder. The Emperor had brought along almost all his loyal and close relatives, totaling at least several dozen.

The effect of so many people practicing the same cultivation method was similar to that of the older generation of Daoists: everyone could share their cultivation experiences.

However, the levels of mastery in the Mind-Calming Sutra varied within the royal family, making it impossible to achieve the same level of clarity in shared insights as the older Daoists, whose cultivation levels were similar. Only a few members of the royal family could truly sense this shared cultivation aura.

Wang Sheng remained constantly aware. The Nine Words of Truth allowed him to clearly sense the cultivation aura related to him, making him one of those who could perceive it distinctly.

Keenly capturing the subtle cultivation experiences, Wang Sheng verified them against his own practice. Even though the average cultivation level of the dozens of royal family members in the Mind-Calming Sutra was only moderate, it was still much higher than Wang Sheng's, who had only been practicing for a short time. Wang Sheng could directly draw upon many of their experiences.

While refining his body with spiritual energy, experimenting with the Four Words of Truth, and absorbing the cultivation experiences of the Mind-Calming Sutra, Wang Sheng hardly noticed the passage of time.

By the time Wang Sheng had voraciously absorbed the cultivation experiences of the Mind-Calming Sutra, he realized that Master Yu had already been conducting the orchestra through the third cycle. This meant that at least six hours had passed since the beginning.

Taking advantage of the excellent opportunity for spiritual energy refinement, Wang Sheng decisively switched from the Daoist Canon Mind-Calming Sutra to the pure Mind-Calming Sutra and began practicing according to the cultivation experiences he had just acquired.

This time, Wang Sheng was finally able to experience a fraction of the genius-like cultivation speed of Ling Xu. In less than an hour of solely practicing the Mind-Calming Sutra, he achieved the first level of effectiveness.

Wang Sheng felt his mind was more agile than ever before, as if any problem, as long as he concentrated, could be solved by finding a clear thread from a tangled mess of thoughts and then unraveling it to find a solution. Regardless of whether the solution was efficient or always effective, it was still a feasible plan. Moreover, there wasn't just one solution; Wang Sheng could find the most suitable one from several or even dozens of possibilities.

Perhaps this was the effect after achieving the first level of the Mind-Calming Sutra! No wonder Ling Xu immediately went into seclusion to comprehend the Taiji Daoist Canon after practicing the Mind-Calming Sutra. This kind of efficient calculation ability was indeed addictive.

Having achieved the effect, Wang Sheng didn't greedily continue. The second level of effect was clearly impossible to achieve during spiritual energy refinement, and blindly pursuing it would affect his combat power. So, after achieving the first effect, Wang Sheng decisively switched the cultivation method back to the Daoist Canon Mind-Calming Sutra.

It must be said that the sudden increase in mental power made Wang Sheng much more efficient in analyzing the Four Words of Truth, and the speed of experimenting with the Four Words of Truth also increased rapidly. If calculated according to the previous spiritual energy refinement time of more than thirty hours, Wang Sheng could completely experiment with all the Four Words of Truth.

Ling Xu remained conscious, overseeing the overall situation, not allowing anyone present to have any accidents, and at the same time, he was enriching his accumulation and increasing his experience by using the collective cultivation of thousands of people and the breakthrough opportunities of nearly two hundred people. At his level, breaking through was already extremely difficult.

Fortunately, Ling Xu knew that with Taiji, the Nine Words of Truth, the Mind-Calming Sutra, the *Tao Te Ching*, and that unconventional song *The Way*, he hoped to step onto another level within a few years and become an unprecedented thirteenth-level expert. However, this couldn't be rushed and required enough patience and a peaceful cultivation mindset.

The old Daoist wasn't in a hurry. He could accumulate slowly and also take this opportunity to carefully experience the cultivation experiences of various experts. Wang Sheng could feel the faint shared cultivation, and the old Daoist could feel it even more.

Except for the small disturbance with Uncle Li earlier, the subsequent process of spiritual energy refinement can be said to be step by step and a natural progression. The Imperial Guards outside were tightly guarding, and none of the experts inside intended to sacrifice their lives to affect others, so everything went smoothly.

The only trouble was that it took a long time. It seemed that more than twenty hours had passed, but the Royal Grand Theater had not yet opened. The commander of the Imperial Guards outside had been instructed by Chief Steward Li before the start that no matter what, he must not interfere with the cultivation of the people inside, even if it lasted for two days or even longer.

The commander was very obedient and even more loyal to the Emperor. At this moment, he did not relax at all. Thousands of Imperial Guards guarded in shifts, ensuring that no troublemakers could approach from the outside.

Under this harmonious situation inside and out, the spiritual energy refinement triggered by more than one hundred and eighty people finally came to an end. At this moment, it had been forty hours since the start of the concert, which was even longer than the time in the small theater last time.

When the spiritual energy refinement was completely completed, Master Yu was the first to sense the change in the spiritual energy mass and finally directed a group of grandmasters to stop the music.

But this was not the end. The spiritual energy mass was still there, but there was no replenishment of heaven and earth spiritual energy. The music stopped, but everyone was still in the state of absorbing spiritual energy, until they enjoyed the last afterglow and completely absorbed the spiritual energy mass in the Royal Grand Theater, and the outside spiritual energy returned to normal, everyone woke up at this moment.

The first thing Wang Sheng did when he woke up was to ask Mei'er to quickly call in the nursing staff who had been prepared to carry Master Yu and all the grandmasters who had been playing for more than forty consecutive hours and were already exhausted, back to the Duke's Mansion on stretchers, and nourish them with the best supplements and serve them to rest.

No one was a fool. The audience in the Royal Grand Theater, even if they were completely immersed in the music and cultivation before, knew clearly what happened during the period, and they didn't miss any of the musical melodies. Under this situation, how could everyone not be grateful to these grandmasters who almost risked their lives?

The Emperor took the lead, and all the audience in the audience stood up and applauded warmly to send off all the grandmasters. Even Uncle Li, who was the most disapproving at the beginning, was the same. In this feast of cultivation and spiritual energy, Uncle Li simply took a big advantage.

It was not until all the grandmasters had left that a burst of uncontrollable exclamations broke out in the entire Royal Grand Theater.