Although she was worried about their performance, Jiang Qin couldn’t bring herself to bla her sick teammate.
So she offered so understanding words of comfort, "It’s okay. You didn’t do it on purpose. Your health is more important."
Upon hearing this, Cang Hong hesitated, looking like he wanted to say sothing.
"Is there sothing else?"
After a mont’s hesitation, Cang Hong finally asked, "Miss Jiang, your Spiritual Body... its Calming Power, it seems much stronger tonight, doesn’t it?"
While he was certainly drawn to Miss Jiang, it wasn’t to the point of losing his composure.
That’s why his reaction tonight was so strange.
In theory, with the experience from noon and having secretly gotten an Emotion Suppressor from the production team, he should have been able to resist the temptation of Miss Jiang Qin’s soothing.
At worst, it should have just been a little hard to bear.
But tonight wasn’t just difficult to bear; he had almost failed to hold back.
For a split second, he even wanted to embrace her, possess her, beco entangled with her.
Jiang Qin froze. She had, in fact, gotten stronger.
Since she had nothing to do in the afternoon, she had opened the upgrade compensation pack worth one hundred million reputation value.
Inside were the three standard items:
Spiritual Power Enhancent Liquid x1
Physique Enhancent Liquid x1
Superpower Upgrade Stone x1
Instrunt Master-level Experience Package (choose three) x1
Artifact Creation Patch x1
...
Jiang Qin had always believed that items only truly beca yours once you used them.
So, she used them all right away.
She didn’t know what Level her Superpower was now. After all, there were no devices in the Interstellar age to test Superpowers; the levels were only recorded in historical data.
But as for her spiritual power, she was quite certain it had already reached S-level.
A level that, if exposed, would have the Federation imdiately start arranging a host of powerful and wealthy male partners for her.
After all, she had never seen an S-level female, so she had no idea what the Spiritual Body of one was like.
She only knew that her little rabbit was exceptionally active tonight—or, more accurately, restless.
When she was singing, it had co out to play for a bit and cald down, but now it was starting to get active again.
The result of her Spiritual Body being so restless was that she now had a headache.
She was in no mood to soothe her Spiritual Body. Her mind was a ss, completely consud with a single question. ’Why did Cang Hong ask that?’
’Can he tell the difference between levels of spiritual power?’
’Was the energy the little rabbit was emitting too potent? Is that why he’s suspicious?’
Despite feeling unnerved, she composed herself and said with a light laugh, "My Spiritual Body is a little restless tonight, so it’s gotten a bit out of control."
Cang Hong nodded. That was actually what he suspected as well.
’After all, how could the Calming Power of a normal C-level Spiritual Body be so strong?’
’Strong enough to affect even ...’
Heck, his father had once hired an A-level soothing master to perform a soothing for him, and he had felt absolutely nothing.
’So the answer must be that his and Miss Jiang’s Genes are a perfect match.’
’The compatibility rate couldn’t be lower than 90 percent.’
’And her spiritual power was in a frenzied, uncontrolled state.’
"Losing control of your spiritual power can cause a backlash. Miss Jiang, you..."
"Should I call soone from the production crew to take you to the hospital?"
An issue like this can be minor, or it can be very serious.
Generally, a female’s restless spiritual power can be resolved through a deep soothing from her mate.
But Jiang Qin didn’t have a mate yet...
In that case, she could only control it herself or go to the hospital to have it suppressed with dication.
If left unchecked, she could very well exhaust her spiritual power, overdraw on her reserves, and suffer a backlash.
Cang Hong was worried.
’She could always quit the show if she has to. Her health is more important, and she can always participate again in three years anyway.’
But he didn’t feel he was in a position to say sothing like that.
He wasn’t even friends with Miss Jiang yet—just her dispensable, randomly assigned teammate!
’SOB... The lion’s defenses were shattered, but the lion wasn’t telling.’
Jiang Qin rejected his suggestion, insisting she could get it under control.
With no other choice, Cang Hong could only walk ekly behind her. It only took three steps to see her back to her room.
He cursed inwardly. ’This trashy production team! Why didn’t they install a long, holographic corridor?’
’Don’t contestants need to take walks? Don’t they need to enjoy the scenery?!’
Not long after, the production team received a verbose, ten-page-long suggestion letter, and promptly declared that the sender was nuts.
***
Jiang Qin struggled all night to control the emission of her spiritual power.
She had never taken the courses for High-level females, so she had no idea how S-level females managed to rein in their spiritual power.
So she could only gather information on the Star Network and try to figure it out on her own.
But the scraps of information on the Star Network were all thods suitable for low-level females.
There was absolutely no information regarding High-level females.
With no other choice, she resorted to a clumsy thod.
She imrsed herself in drawing. When the painting was half-finished, her Spiritual Body finally erged, and she imdiately tried to communicate with it.
"Little rabbit, can you learn to control your spiritual power by yourself?"
"Just try to waste less spiritual power. Split it into a thousand tiny threads. Give a thread to soone you like, and for soone you don’t, be a miser and give them nothing."
"Of course, it would be even better if you were willing to control it according to my true feelings."
The Spiritual Body: ...
’I’ve heard of whipping an ox, but never of soone trying to whip their own consciousness.’
It was a good thing the little rabbit couldn’t talk, or it would have jumped up and cursed her out.
It was her. It was her heart’s desires and her mind’s thoughts.
Was it that *it* didn’t want to control the power?
No, it was *she* who wasn’t in control!
This was like the paradox of the left hand fighting the right. To break through such a ntal block required her own effort. Waiting for her hand to develop its own thoughts was like needing to install a brain in it...
Her "lesson" for the Spiritual Body only lasted three minutes before she lost focus.
The mont she broke her concentration, the Spiritual Body returned to her Spirit Sea.
This just went to show that being a High-level female wasn’t so easy. Consciously forcing a Spiritual Body to leave the Spirit Sea was incredibly difficult.
Sustaining its presence was even harder.
The easiest thod was desire.
The state of mating was one of deep, pleasant imrsion, a state where one was least likely to lose focus, and it could be maintained for a very long ti.
When a problem has a simple solution, more complex thods are naturally discarded.
...
After a night of effort, Jiang Qin finally learned a few control techniques.
Although their effect wasn’t very significant.
It was the third day. If they didn’t start practicing properly, they were in real danger of being eliminated.
So, in order not to hold Jiang Qin back, Cang Hong chugged three vials of Inhibitor and even took a rut-suppressing shot.
anwhile, Jiang Qin was also doing her best to control her Spiritual Body.
With both of them putting in the effort, by afternoon, they had developed a solid rapport.
A single glance was all it took for the other to pick up the song.
Solos and duets were no problem at all.
Only after confirming that their performance was stable, and not just a montary burst of inspiration, did the two finally leave the recording studio they had occupied all day.
Cang Hong, his clothes soaked through with sweat, let out a long sigh of relief.
’Excellent, no incidents today!’
’In just three short days, he had suffered social death on two of them. He’d finally survived the third day with his dignity intact. Sob...’
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