Chapter 87 Public Lecture

Chapter 87: Public Class

Ji Anzhi woke up the next morning, almost wondering what he did to deserve this.

It felt like his body wasn't his own, as if it had been taken apart and put back together, aching everywhere...

He glared at Ji Anjue, his body still damp, his eyes full of threat.

Ji Anjue, holding a water cup, was feeling incredibly guilty.

He took a few steps back, mumbling meekly, "Um... class is about to start soon..."

Ji Anzhi gritted his teeth, barely maintaining his gentle facade.

"Kid Ji Anjue, aren't you a mind reader? How come you didn't know I purposely didn't schedule any classes this morning?"

Ji Anjue's voice was as faint as a mosquito's hum: "You're the one who told me not to read your memories..."

A vein throbbed on Ji Anzhi's forehead, his smile almost cracking.

"You never follow that rule, but now you suddenly remember that reading others' memories is bad?"

Ji Anjue hung his head so low it almost touched the ground, finally managing only an "I'm sorry."

Ji Anzhi wasn't one to hold a grudge.

But the physical pain today, coupled with yesterday's deceitful "discomfort," made him too furious to just let it slide.

He buried himself back under the covers and asked through the blanket, "What time is it?"

The guilty child immediately replied, "Seven fifty-four in the morning. Qi Yanshen came knocking at one point, but I didn't open the door."

"Mm, got it."

Ji Anzhi fell back into a deep sleep, not waking again until after nine.

This time upon waking, his body felt significantly better, nothing like the agony of the first time.

Seeing Ji Anzhi awake, Ji Anjue awkwardly offered him a cup of warm water, trying hard to act like a well-behaved child.

Ji Anzhi took the water and drank it without a word.

He got up and tried to walk a few steps, but before he could manage many, his legs gave out and he knelt down, a sharp pain shooting through his knees.

Ji Anjue panicked—had his legs been crippled?

Before he could ask, Ji Anzhi's question came: "Have the psychic threads been strengthened?"

Ji Anjue immediately replied, "The strengthening is complete!"

Ji Anzhi turned to look at Ji Anjue and asked, "Didn't you say that after the psychic advancement, the inhibitory components in my body could be eliminated?"

Ji Anjue had completely forgotten about the inhibitory components in Ji Anzhi's body. He had been so scared yesterday.

Ji Anjue quickly scurried over to Ji Anzhi and crouched down.

He raised his small hand. At first, Ji Anzhi didn't understand, but the next moment, a jade-green fluorescent light emanated from Ji Anjue's palm.

First one wisp appeared, then two, then three... it grew faster and faster until it gathered into a sphere the size of a pigeon egg.

The sphere kept changing shape, finally transforming into thousands of fine threads that slowly rotated around his palm.

"You need to learn to control psychic threads. They can do many things, like reading or tampering with others' memories, manipulating objects, and also controlling your own body."

Ji Anzhi didn't hesitate and nodded for Ji Anjue to begin.

Ji Anjue found a suitable position and touched his forehead to Ji Anzhi's.

Contact wasn't strictly necessary, but doing so wasted less psychic energy, so it was better to save it.

Unseen by Ji Anzhi, the jade-green psychic energy entered his mind. Within Ji Anzhi's pure, flawless psychic energy, it was like a flower fairy straying into a sea of clouds.

Gathering a few strands of the pristine white psychic threads, Ji Anjue guided them through his body.

'Feel how they move, try to actively follow...'

Following Ji Anjue's instructions, Ji Anzhi attempted to control his psychic energy.

Theory was one thing, but putting it into practice was much harder. Ji Anzhi could only vaguely sense the movement of the psychic energy.

It was like walking in the dark, knowing something was moving, but not knowing where it was or where it stopped along the way.

'I can't see.'

'Focus and feel. I'll lend you my vision.'

The next moment, Ji Anzhi saw his own body.

It felt strange. He couldn't pinpoint the exact perspective, yet he could see everything at a glance. If he wanted, he could even see all the blood vessels, nerves, muscles, and more inside the human body.

Finally, his gaze settled on the tiny, deep-purple components within those organs.

'Those are the inhibitory components in your body.'

Ji Anjue's voice echoed in his mind. Using Ji Anjue's vision to examine closely, this was how inhibitory components looked through psychic sight.

'Then how do we expel them?'

In response to Ji Anzhi's question, Ji Anjue replied in his mind, 'This is your body. You need to use your own psychic energy to control and expel them.'

As he spoke, Ji Anjue zoomed out the vision to show the muscles of the entire body macroscopically.

'Of course, for you right now, that's too difficult. So first, try using psychic energy to relieve the stiffness and discomfort in your muscles.'

While speaking, he guided Ji Anzhi's psychic threads to the muscles around the ankle.

The jade-green psychic threads gradually enveloped the muscle. Though Ji Anzhi didn't know how Ji Anjue was doing it, he could clearly feel the muscles around his ankle slowly relaxing, no longer stiff and uncomfortable.

After a few dozen seconds, the muscles around the ankle returned to normal. Ji Anzhi tried moving it, feeling no discomfort at all.

'Now try relieving the muscles in your calf.'

Ji Anjue released control, letting Ji Anzhi's psychic threads be governed by him alone.

Just like their first meeting, Ji Anzhi didn't know how to communicate with the psychic threads, and they acted like disobedient children. If Ji Anjue hadn't held them down firmly, they would have raced all over the body in the next second.

They might even have harmed this body.

After several attempts by his consciousness, the psychic threads finally settled down, perhaps sensing their master. The pristine white psychic threads tentatively moved, taking one step and pausing three times.

After a long while, it slowly approached Ji Anzhi's consciousness, allowing Ji Anzhi to make contact with the mental energy thread and communicate.

Through this communication, Ji Anzhi vividly experienced the power of a "problem child." Communication was possible, but whenever he tried to direct it to do anything, it would throw tantrums, roll around, pretend not to understand, and even attack Ji Anzhi's consciousness.

This scared Ji Anjue into increasing his efforts to restrain the mental energy thread, even threatening it in ways Ji Anzhi couldn't see to make it behave.

'Try a few more times. I'll assist from the side.'

Ji Anzhi tried again. The process was time-consuming, and for the first time, Ji Anjue understood what a "problem child" in the human world truly meant. He really wished he could knock it out with one slap and toss it aside, leaving it be.

In the end, it was only just before one o'clock that Ji Anzhi barely managed to learn how to control the mental energy thread.

With a public lecture at two-thirty, Ji Anzhi didn't persist further. He used a restorative agent to relieve his body aches, drank a nutrient solution, tidied himself up, and prepared to head out.

"I want to go too!"

Ji Anzhi paused and refused, "No."

Ji Anjue tried to argue, "But the military academy is so dangerous. What if something abnormal happens?"

Ji Anjue's words struck a chord with Ji Anzhi. After careful consideration, he decided to take Ji Anjue along.

However, he would take the main body, stored inside the Space Bracelet.

Ji Anjue had no choice but to sulkily enter the Space Bracelet. He really wanted to understand human knowledge of mental energy.

Previously, when he had accessed human memories, the important memories of upperclassmen were difficult to read without being detected.

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Military Academy Auditorium

"Is Ji Anzhi still not here? Could he still be sleeping?"

Lu Yan worriedly looked toward the auditorium entrance. There were only half an hour left before it started, and Ji Anzhi still hadn't arrived.

Qi Yanshen was sending a message to Ji Anzhi. Upon receiving a reply, he said, "He's coming."

Lu Yan was confused, "What's coming?"

Qi Yanshen pointed toward the entrance, "He's here."

Lu Yan looked over and indeed saw Ji Anzhi hurriedly arriving at the entrance, slightly out of breath.

Spotting the location where Qi Yanshen and the others were seated—the fifth row in the very center, an excellent spot—Ji Anzhi went over and sat down in the seat specifically left empty next to Qi Yanshen.

"Thank you."

"No need to thank me, it's only right. Is An Jue still in the dorm?"

"Yeah, he doesn't like going out."

Ji Anjue, hearing everything clearly inside the Space Bracelet: "..."

*You're* the one who doesn't like going out!

After chatting for a while, Qi Yanshen suddenly handed Ji Anzhi a note. Before Ji Anzhi could react, Qi Yanshen whispered, "Don't speak."

A guess forming in his mind, Ji Anzhi gave a slight nod. While Lu Yan and Jian Fuxu were chatting and not paying attention, he took out his notebook, opened the note, and placed it inside.

[Be careful of the public lecture teacher]

[There will be a mental energy test at the end of this class. Under special circumstances, the teacher might personally conduct the test.]

After reading the note's contents, Ji Anzhi's heart tightened.

Qi Yanshen knew his identity. Could it be that an omega teacher with exceptionally strong mental energy would be conducting the test?

His mental energy had just completed its advancement and was in an extremely unstable state. It would likely be easily detected...

Ji Anzhi gave Qi Yanshen a slight nod of thanks.

Qi Yanshen shook his head slightly, mouthing silently, 'It's okay.'

Ji Anzhi lowered his head to look at his notebook, but in reality, he was communicating with Ji Anjue: 'If there really is a test later, can you forge the mental energy data?'

Ji Anjue had only a superficial understanding of most human instruments and said uncertainly, 'I don't know. It depends on the situation. However, I can place my own mental energy within your mental energy sea to suppress the activity of your mental energy threads.'

'If the human test examines the mental energy sea, then there's no way to forge it. But if it examines the mental energy threads, then forging the data stream would be a piece of cake.'

He felt slightly relieved. It was good that there were still some options.

At two-thirty, the public lecture teacher walked in right on time.

The teacher was a male omega. His appearance was average among omegas, but he had a very approachable demeanor.

'Anzhi, that omega down there is unusual.'

Ji Anzhi's expression remained normal as he joined everyone in applauding to welcome the teacher's arrival. Inwardly, he inquired calmly, 'Details.'

Ji Anjue hesitated for a second, as if not entirely sure.

'His... mental energy is very powerful, almost on par with mine before I absorbed the fruit.'

Ji Anzhi looked down at the amiable and kind omega, pondering his identity.

Based on his current understanding, the strength of mental energy was linked to genes.

Of course, exceptions like himself, who cheated the system, were excluded.

To be comparable to Ji Anjue, he must be an S-class omega. And an S-class omega, even if not possessing breathtaking beauty, would certainly not look so ordinary.

So, was he wearing a mask?

But this was a military academy, and he was a teacher here to give a lecture. Why would he need to conceal his true appearance?

Could it possibly be because he was afraid of stunning the students?

Thinking this, Ji Anzhi slightly turned his head to look at his roommate, whose looks rivaled those of an omega, receiving a puzzled look from Jian Fuxu in return.

Caught in the act, Ji Anzhi smiled to ease the awkwardness, withdrew his gaze, and continued looking downward, contemplating the identity of the teacher below.

Meanwhile, Qi Yanshen was secretly wondering why Ji Anzhi had just looked at Fu Xu. Could it be that Ji Anzhi liked that flamboyant type?

As his thoughts wandered, the applause died down.

The teacher introduced himself, "Hello, everyone. You can call me Teacher Feng. Today's public lecture on mental energy will be taught by me."

After a brief introduction, Teacher Feng opened the holographic PPT and began the lecture.

"Everyone should be familiar with psychic energy. Of course, today I won't just talk about its commonly known functions but will go beyond the basics to explore its more advanced applications."

Teacher Feng clicked to the first slide of the PPT, which displayed three terms.

"Psychic energy is specifically divided into the psychic sea and psychic threads, and they are very different from each other."

"The psychic sea only expands during the developmental period of psychic energy. It acts as a container, and its size essentially determines the highest possible level of a person's psychic energy in the future."

"As for psychic threads, even after the developmental period of psychic energy ends, they continue to develop slowly until the moment of death. In other words, psychic threads are like the contents within the container—the more resilient, thick, and long they are, the higher the level."

"These two factors together determine your psychic energy level."

As he spoke, the PPT showed a diagram of the relationship between the two.

The psychic sea is the container, and its size determines how many psychic threads it can hold.

A student raised a hand to ask a question, and Teacher Feng nodded for him to speak.

"Teacher Feng, can the psychic sea ever run out of space?"

"Good question. However, I should add here that, to this day, no one has ever experienced an insufficient psychic sea. If someone's psychic sea is even half-filled with psychic threads, they are considered a true genius."

After receiving the answer, the student sat back down.

"Psychic energy is divided into D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS levels. Among these, individuals at D and C levels are generally unaware of their psychic energy. At B level, they can sense it slightly, and exceptional individuals may even be able to manipulate one or two psychic threads."

"A level is the basic threshold for psychic linking, allowing the manipulation of up to a dozen psychic threads. Linking is a technique used for S-level and above mechs, which your instructor in Mech Class will cover later, so I won't elaborate further here."

"S level—individuals at this level can vaguely perceive the size of their psychic sea and manipulate dozens of psychic threads. They can also subtly influence the emotions of people within a one-meter radius."

"SS level—this level is most common among omegas. They can clearly perceive the size of their psychic sea, manipulate nearly a hundred psychic threads, and some can even precisely control a few threads to briefly influence a target's thoughts, alter memories, sense emotions, or access vague memories."

"As for SSS level—there are only three individuals in the entire Federation at this level. They can effortlessly accomplish all the feats mentioned above: reading others' memories, briefly controlling others' actions, altering memories, and more."

"Even—erasing consciousness from a distance."