Inside the quiet room.

The candlelight was dim.

Li Yun sat cross-legged on the couch, motionless, but a faint blue light silently emanated from his body. This blue light transformed into a misty aura that gently floated, then, like a wisp of breeze, silently circled Li Yun’s body.

As this wisp of breeze circled.

Li Yun’s ears twitched inadvertently, and his hearing suddenly amplified in an instant.

It was as if an invisible force had merged his hearing into the wind, and through the flowing wind in the air, it rapidly spread, penetrating beyond the quiet room.

All sorts of sounds entered his ears with the flowing breeze.

Human voices.

The sound of falling leaves.

Even the sound of ants crawling under the grass in the courtyard outside the quiet room…

All were clear, with no sense of clutter.

It was as if he himself had gone outside the quiet room, personally knelt on the ground, and listened intently.

As his concentration heightened.

This extraordinarily keen hearing continued to spread, even extending beyond the large residence where he resided. In an instant, the sounds of countless pedestrians walking and conversing on the street outside surged into his ears like a tide.

At this moment.

His spirit suddenly trembled, and he felt a slight dizziness.

His eyes immediately opened.

A hint of surprise flashed in his gaze, and Li Yun’s expression became quite strange.

He quickly pulled up the System panel.

“Host: Li Yun”

“Age: 16”

“Aptitude: Acquired Apertures”

“Innate Divine Power: All Things Return to Origin, Listening Wind”

“Physique: Willow Wood Spirit Body (condensing, 20%)”

“Identity: Heavenly Martial Sect, Courtyard 95 of the Ren Branch Outer Sect Disciple, Deputy Hall Master of the Martial Arts Hall, Disciple of Lingyun Pavilion”

“Realm: Innate, Transcendent Second Layer (First-Grade Innate True Qi)”

“Divine Power: Mountain and River Seal (loading… 7.6%)”

“Battle Tactics: Black Tiger Battle Skill (60%)”

“Mind Secret Art: Sutra of Inaction (loading… 8.1%)”

“Martial Arts: Primordial Chaos Art (True Qi Realm)… Can be expanded!”

“Spirit Beasts: Blackie, Little Green”

“Martial Dao Cognition Points: 2.5 billion…”

“Listening Wind?”

“Hiss! Another Innate Divine Power!”

“I never expected that reversing the Acquired into the Innate would inadvertently open the hidden apertures in my ears, strengthening my Aptitude from psychic to the Acquired Apertures Realm, and also Awakening a new Innate Divine Power!”

Li Yun was overjoyed.

He savored the feeling from before, where he remained still in the room, and by concentrating his mind, he could clearly hear distant sounds directly through the flowing wind in the air, with various sounds entering his ears simultaneously yet without any clutter.

That feeling was simply too profound.

It was practically like the mythical clairaudient ear.

Too powerful.

This meant that with this Innate Divine Power by his side, as long as he wished, it would probably be difficult for any secret in this world to escape his ears.

“But why?”

“I hadn’t heard before that reversing the Acquired into the Innate would also grant a Innate Divine Power…”

Li Yun was a little puzzled.

But as he carefully reviewed the entire process of his Acquired reversing into Innate, he vaguely began to understand.

Perhaps it was because his own life essence was too powerful. When he had previously cultivated the 【Reversing Fate Art】, he already knew that there were some hidden apertures in the human body, but they were sealed by an unknown force.

Even after cultivating the 【Reversing Fate Art】 to the Perfected Realm, he couldn’t truly open these hidden apertures.

It was precisely for this reason that he wanted to obtain the subsequent cultivation methods of the 【Reversing Fate Art】 through the Heavens Mandate Sect.

Now, he hadn’t even obtained the 【Reversing Fate Art】 cultivation method, but he had inadvertently opened the hidden apertures in his ears, which were supposed to be opened but couldn’t be, by riding the momentum of the Acquired reversing into Innate.

This should be considered an accident.

But not entirely an accident.

Strictly speaking, the process of the Acquired reversing into Innate is not just about True Qi transforming into Innate True Qi; it actually conceals a process of re-condensing the Innate Qi that gradually dissipates after birth, the qi brought from the mother’s womb.

This process itself is profound, involving one's own life essence.

Coupled with the foundation Li Yun had accumulated from successfully cultivating the 【Reversing Fate Art】 to the Perfected Realm, the opening of certain hidden apertures was actually a matter of course.

In fact, it could also be considered an inevitable qualitative change induced by a quantitative change.

It was just that other people’s Acquired reversing into Innate didn’t have a foundation like his and hadn’t undergone similar transformations, so he hadn’t had any expectations in this regard beforehand, which made him feel surprised.

However, whether it was an accident or an inevitability.

This was clearly a good thing.

Having an additional Innate Divine Power, even if it couldn't directly increase combat power, was still a mystical skill that could come in handy at certain critical moments.

So—

Li Yun decided to use this undisturbed time to properly adapt to the newborn Innate Divine Power, Listening Wind, hoping to master it perfectly as soon as possible.

He closed his eyes again.

The phenomenon of light wind circling his body appeared once more.

Outside the house, in the courtyard, and even on the street beyond the residence…

All kinds of sounds once again surged into his ears like a tide.

To be honest.

This feeling was not so pleasant.

It was as if countless people, countless mouths, were all gathered around his ears, chattering incessantly, yet he could still clearly hear the specific content of each sound.

The feeling was incredibly overwhelming.

He felt as if his head was about to swell hundreds of times larger from these noisy sounds in an instant, and a strong sense of dizziness arose again.

It made him unable to help but cut off the Divine Power.

He rested for a long time before daring to open it again, but the result was still the same.

Several consecutive times he activated the Divine Power, he had to withdraw it because he couldn’t bear the overwhelming number of sounds entering his mind at once.

That strong sense of dizziness also tormented him to the point of misery.

Fortunately, this suffering was not in vain.

After several consecutive attempts, he gradually grasped some tricks.

He discovered that this Listening Wind Divine Power allowed him to hear various sounds through the flowing wind in the air. Therefore, as long as he intentionally controlled the direction of the wind’s flow, he could effectively avoid some noisy areas and filter out sounds he didn’t want to receive.

This way, he could effectively prevent a large number of sounds from surging into his ears in a short time, extending the duration he could maintain the Divine Power.

After several more experiments.

He was even more pleasantly surprised to find that as long as he didn’t actively disperse the Divine Power and could withstand the dizziness from a large number of sounds entering his ears, the maximum distance of sounds he could hear reached an astonishing ten li!

That’s five kilometers!

Good heavens, this is almost like radar.

If word got out, who would believe it?

This kind of eavesdropping naturally carried a sense of dark prying. As the number of experiments increased, Li Yun became more and more addicted to it.

He simply kept trying to change directions and eavesdrop in the quiet room, also hoping to gather some information about Cloud Dragon Zen Temple through this eavesdropping.

As he listened…

Suddenly, a steady voice with a hint of irritation caught his attention.