All the heavens begin with the mind-monkey.

Hearing that Sun Wukong could also enhance his ability to exchange for mental energy scanning, no one was surprised.

Chu Xuan said from the side, "Wukong, don't rush to exchange for it. Let's wait until Zhan Lan exchanges for it and see how effective this ability is. Besides mental power scanning, there are other complementary exchanges for strengthening mental power controllers, such as mental power stacking, spirit words, mental mantras, mind control, mind whip, mind connection, and a series of other skills."

"These skills, the cheaper ones require at least a C-level side quest, while the more expensive ones even require one or two B-level side quests to obtain. Therefore, if there is a mental controller in the team, one mental controller is enough when resources are limited."

Chu Xuan addressed the crowd, and then Zhan Lan asked, "So, should I exchange for this mental energy scanner?"

Seeing Chu Xuan nod, Zhan Lan also exchanged for it directly.

The next second, everyone saw Zhan Lan being lifted into the sky by a beam of light, and some green light clusters continuously merged into Zhan Lan's body.

Unlike other enhancements, Zhan Lan's exchange only lasted a few dozen seconds, which seemed to have exhausted her strength. When she landed, she could only lie on the ground panting heavily, her forehead and body covered in sweat.

Ming Yanwei walked over and gently helped Zhan Lan up. She asked, "How are you feeling?"

Zhan Lan said, "It's much better now, thank you, Ming Yanwei. This skill is really amazing. Now, as long as I direct my mental energy according to the skill's instructions, I can sense the movements within a radius of about ten kilometers. I can also concentrate my attention along a straight line, which is about a hundred kilometers long."

Chu Xuan asked, "Can you use only your mental power to scan and sense what makes any of us different?"

Hearing this, Zhan Lan nodded and said, "Yes, that's possible. Everyone's mental energy fluctuations are different. After sensing you once, I can detect your differences and even distinguish your movements. Don't worry, I won't mistake you for someone else. These mental fluctuations are like fingerprints; different people have different fingerprints. By the way, I can even vaguely sense your moods. For example, Zheng Zha seems like a curious child; Zhao Yingkong has a very low profile; Chu Xuan is the calmest among us, and so does Monkey King..."

At this point, Zhan Lan's expression seemed to hesitate slightly. Zheng Zha asked, "What's wrong, Brother Monkey?"

Zhan Lan said, "The Monkey King seems very strange to me, as if he is constantly interacting with the outside world. No, that's not quite the right word. In short, I have to concentrate very hard to sense his presence."

"If any of you are within a dozen kilometers of me, I can detect your presence. But if it's Monkey King, I have to concentrate. I can only detect Monkey King when he's within a kilometer or two."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xuan said, "Perhaps this is also a unique characteristic of innate beings. In that case, the future prospects of acquiring the mental scanning ability are quite promising. At least in team battles, mental controllers are extremely important to us, as they can determine the outcome of a battle before it even begins. As for Wukong's characteristics, perhaps they can be used to find a way to deal with the enemy's mental controllers and increase our chances of winning."

Zhan Lan, who was standing to the side, suddenly sensed that Zhao Yingkong seemed a little down. Did she feel that her identity as an assassin was in danger of being replaced?

Chu Xuan said, "In short, all your reward points and side quests can be used to exchange for more mental control skills and mental attributes. Of course, you must reserve one D-level side quest and 1000 reward points to exchange for a martial art. Whether it's the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique or the Sunflower Manual, both will greatly enhance your self-defense capabilities. Because in team battles, when we're trying to kill the enemy's mental controllers, the enemy is definitely thinking the same thing, so exchanging for these two martial arts will greatly improve your safety."

Zhan Lan nodded.

Chu Xuan then added, "Furthermore, I propose that we each contribute some of our reward points and side quests to help Zhan Lan. Her personal reward points and side quests are simply not enough to exchange for so many skills. The existence of a mental controller is essentially a support-type enhancement that sacrifices themselves to help their teammates. She herself doesn't have much combat power, so it will be difficult for her to obtain enough reward points and side quests in the horror movie world arranged by the Main God Space."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zha immediately stood up and agreed, "I agree."

Seeing this, everyone nodded in agreement, including Zhe Xingsun.

In addition, he said, "By the way, brother, after some thought yesterday, I have come up with a way to remove the drawbacks of those two cultivation techniques."

As they were talking, Zhe Xingsun handed over a booklet.

Chu Xuan quickly took it, examined it, and said, "So that's how it's done."

Zheng Zha asked curiously from the side, "So, has Brother Monkey found a way for Zhan Lan and the others to also cultivate the Sunflower Manual?"

Chu Xuan said, "That's right, not just Zhan Lan, but all of us can. So I suggest that all of us keep at least one D-level side quest to exchange for this martial art. The most important function of the Sunflower Manual is to increase our movement speed, so that at least when we encounter some danger, we can escape instead of standing still and waiting to die."

Everyone immediately agreed.

After Zhan Lan finished exchanging items, Chu Xuan turned his attention to Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong. These two were the only two close-combat fighters left in the Central Continent Team besides Zhe Xingsun, so they were quite important.

However, he didn't mention Zheng Zha first. Instead, he turned to Zhao Yingkong and said, "Besides the Sunflower Manual and the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique, I suggest you focus your exchanges on assassin-related skills. I have a few recommendations for this. First, the Shadow Walker series of skills. The description says that using mental energy as an energy source allows you to blend into a fixed shadow. This skill isn't a visual deception, but a genuine fusion. In this situation, apart from magic and legendary weapons, conventional physical means will be unable to attack the target who has entered the shadow."

"A Rank B Shadow Lurker can lurk in moving shadows; if upgraded to Rank A Shadow Manipulator, one can manipulate shadows to attack enemies. In addition to the Shadow Lurker enhancement, there is another enhancement called One-Slash Asura, which ignores the survival instinct and forcibly extracts all power from the body. Once used, it will increase physical attributes and combat power dozens of times for the next minute. After the skill effect ends, the body will rapidly weaken."

Chu Xuan didn't give many examples; he only listed two enhancements. But from these two enhancements, one could see Chu Xuan's definition and ideas about assassins: either to lie completely in wait and kill with a single blow, or to unleash extremely strong power in a short period of time.

As for how to choose, it all depends on Zhao Yingkong's own thoughts, and Zhao Yingkong did not make a decision immediately, but kept thinking about it.