vrcanaries Chapter 920 Profound Understanding (1)
Chapter 920 Profound Understanding (1)
Chapter 920 Profound Understanding (Part 1)
Lin Mu sighed inwardly.
Han Yi arrived... a bit too late.
Lu Chenxin, the successor of the school that Lin Mu painstakingly cultivated, was recently confirmed as a candidate for the school leader.
If it weren't for Han Yi's interference.
Lin Mu had even privately decided to open up the Spirit Pool node and focus all his efforts on nurturing Lu Chenxin.
If he can pass the test and master the inherited soul weapon, he will be allowed to take over the school and participate in the upcoming alliance competition to gain enough points to continue the school's legacy.
And now…
Lin Mu hesitated. Lu Chenxin's aptitude was not as good as Han Yi's, his experience was not as good as Han Yi's, and his temperament... seemed to be less stable than Han Yi's.
However, in the struggle for the leadership of the sect, the degree of understanding of the sect's forging divine skills, namely the "Four Seasons Demon Blade", is more important.
Having immersed himself in the cultivation of "The Four Seasons Demon Blade" for many years, Lu Chenxin far surpasses Han Yi...
at this point.
Needless to say.
So... even if Lin Mu was willing, he was still wavering and uncertain.
The former... was a senior disciple whom I had painstakingly sought out, who was quite talented, carefully nurtured, and prepared to take over the school.
The latter... was chosen by Rongrong; a prodigy whose talent, temperament, and aptitude far surpassed those of his peers, but...
Lin Mu slowly let out a long sigh of relief.
He looked at Han Yi before him and slowly revealed a gentle smile. "Now that you have entered the Soul Condensation stage, you must... have some understanding of the next level, the Profound Realm, right?"
"Hmm." Han Yi nodded. "I've heard of it. It seems to require something like condensing spiritual imagery."
"Hmm. That understanding isn't wrong, but it's incomplete." Lin Mu nodded. "Those who understand the profound cannot grasp or name it; 'the mystery within mystery, the gateway to all wonders'—that's what it means..."
He paused, then continued, "Tongxuan represents a state of profound stillness and nothingness, a state where one can communicate with the origin of heaven and earth, the mother of all spirits..."
Lin Mu's expression was solemn as he explained the instructions word by word. He had made up his mind to teach Lu Chenxin and Han Yi wholeheartedly, without any selfish motives.
As for who will ultimately win the title of sect leader, it all depends on the efforts of both individuals, who will strive to earn it through their own abilities.
"The key to understanding the profound lies in concentrating the mind," Lin Mu continued. "Concentrating the mind, the mind, the spirit represents one's own mind, will, beliefs, etc... It is the process of condensing all the essence, energy, and spirit, which is the process of generating spiritual imagery."
Once the "Penetrating Profound Understanding and Concentrating the Spirit" is completed, the inner and outer worlds merge and become one. The soul then has a vessel, naturally allowing it to leave the body and easily communicate with heaven and earth, mobilizing external energy on a large scale. With the blessing of the soul, even the simplest techniques become exponentially more powerful…
"I see…..."
After Lin Mu's systematic explanation, Han Yi immediately understood the reasoning behind it.
In the cultivation system of the North, the divine soul serves as the fulcrum, with demonic power supporting it, leveraging external energy to transform the forces of heaven and earth into one's own.
Before reaching the profound truth.
The soul is just beginning to take shape, and thoughts are in disarray.
Scattered divine will cannot amount to much, and naturally cannot sustain the mobilization of external energy over a long period or on a large scale. Divine will is the outward manifestation of the soul.
If the spirit is the essence, the foundation, the root of the three souls and seven spirits, the very essence of the soul, then divine will refers to the fluctuations emanating from the activities of the spirit.
In layman's terms, it refers to a person's mental activities, thoughts, and consciousness.
After attaining enlightenment.
Divine will converges to create imagery.
This is equivalent to putting a layer of clothing on a weak soul, elevating its essence, and allowing it to detach from the physical body for a short period of time.
This is what is commonly referred to as the soul leaving the body.
After shedding its heavy physical body, the spirit in its spiritual form is essentially composed of pure energy particles, which are the same as the energy of heaven and earth. It can directly contact the outside world and naturally borrow external energy quite conveniently to amplify itself.
"There's one more thing you need to keep in mind at all times," Lin Mu reminded him. "The physical body is like armor, tough and heavy. It's both a burden and a protector. Human strength is finite, and the way of Heaven is predetermined."
One's own demonic power is the foundation for maintaining one's soul. One must not lose one's way in the world. One must know that seemingly effortless and inexhaustible external energy will immediately backfire once the soul is no longer suppressed.
The three levels of the Profound Realm are: Astral Projection, Night Travel, and Day Travel… I have seen far too many geniuses who, upon just entering the realm of Astral Projection, suffered from mental instability and ultimately met their demise due to the backlash…
The spirit and the will are inseparable, with the spirit as the foundation and the will as the driving force… Reach the utmost emptiness, maintain steadfast stillness. When the will moves, the spirit follows; when the spirit is settled, the will is tranquil. Only then can one enter the realm of perfection… Therefore, for us cultivators of the hundred meridians of the spirit, the most important thing is our character!
"Been taught a lesson."
Han Yi bowed respectfully, sensing the sincerity in the other person's words.
Lin Mu's hesitation just now clearly indicated that he was hiding something. But what he said now was undisguised; he was genuinely advising his disciple as a teacher.
"If you understand, then my efforts haven't been in vain." Lin Mu readily accepted Han Yi's bow. "Concentrate your mind, focusing all your essence, energy, and spirit into a single point. Highly refined, you are immune to external evils, impurities are expelled, and the essence is preserved. This is a transformation of the soul, a dual cultivation of body and spirit, a metamorphosis and elevation of the very origin..."
He paused for a moment, seemingly organizing his thoughts.
rumble…...
The palace doors slowly closed, and the hall suddenly became dark.
Snapped.
A round disc resembling a bright moon lit up the top of the main hall, followed closely by beams of light that seemed like thousands of sharp swords piercing through the darkness, a brilliant blue that instantly made the entire hall transparent and dazzling.
The law should not be lightly passed on to six ears.
Knowing this was the important part, Han Yi sat cross-legged, his hands hanging naturally at his sides, his body upright, and his expression serious.
"Concentrating the mind means gathering the image of the soul and storing it in the heart. Using demonic power to nourish and strengthen the mind, one progresses through the stages of leaving the body, traveling at night, and traveling during the day, in order to wait for the soul to undergo a qualitative change in the future, to preserve the supernatural power, to remove the dross and retain the essence, and to refine the illusory into the real."
Lin Mu said earnestly.
"Spiritual imagery is the core of penetrating the profound and concentrating the spirit. There are two different types of images. One is obtained by exploring one's own spiritual thoughts, which is internal seeking. The other is the existence of the external world and natural reality, which is external seeking. Internal seeking and external seeking are the necessary paths to determine the source of the imagery."
There are three key elements to condensing imagery. First, belief. The more one believes in its real existence, the stronger the manifested imagery will be, and the soul will grow in tandem. This is where the difference between the Profound Realm stages lies.
Secondly, the imagery must have a certain strength. If the imagery is too weak, it cannot protect the soul and cannot manifest. Even if one manages to reach the profound level, it will only be the weakest of the weak.
Third, it must be suitable for the level of demonic power. The more powerful the image, the more demonic power it needs to nourish it. If the demonic power is insufficient, it cannot support the consumption of the soul and image, easily becoming a hindrance, like a child carrying a weight that only an adult can bear. Over time, not only will it not become stronger, but even its development will be restricted.
"Concentrate your divine soul imagery, seek within... seek without..." Han Yi frowned slightly, trying to digest the information. He had heard too much information in a short period of time and hadn't been able to process it all yet.
"Elder Mu, since the strength of an image represents the power of a Transcendent Stage cultivator, and with so many different types of images to choose from... wouldn't it be... to choose the strongest one..."
Han Yi didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was clear.
Everything in the world, even our inner thoughts, can take the form of images. So, if we could create the strongest image ourselves—one that is powerful, immune to attacks, has unlimited endurance, and boundless energy—wouldn't that be invincible? After all, imagination has no limit. If we really let our thoughts wander, it's simply unimaginable and endless.
Han Yi's thinking is at most a little more open than that of ordinary people, based solely on his two lifetimes of life experience.
In the blink of an eye, a dozen extremely bizarre and outrageous, almost bug-like, images of the soul can flash through one's mind.
In the North, with a diverse and bizarre external environment as a backdrop, the members of the Hundred Veins have a perspective that is no less than Han Yi's, and may even far surpass it.
Han Yi didn't believe it.
Among all the meridians, no one would have thought of this.
"The fact that you say that proves you've thought about it carefully." Lin Mu chuckled and stroked his beard. "Since you've come this far, then we have to talk about the ten natures of heaven and earth."
"The Ten Natures of Heaven and Earth?" Han Yi was taken aback.
"The so-called Ten Natures of Heaven and Earth are metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, darkness, and poison. These are the ten types of energy that all things in heaven and earth naturally possess," Lin Mu said with a smile.
"The ten natures of heaven and earth are mutually generating and mutually restraining. In the process of condensing and forming an image, the first thing to do is to determine the nature of the image. All the spirit-forging techniques of the Hundred Meridians are bound by the framework of the ten natures, so no matter how powerful your image is, there will always be a restraining attribute."
"I see." Han Yi suddenly realized.
With the constraints of nature, the so-called invincibility becomes a joke.
The imagery of fire may overcome the imagery of wood, but it will never be a match for the imagery of water…
This feeling...
Han Yi's eyes turned strange.
This special brew... it feels a bit like playing a Pokémon battle game...
"Is there a limit to the number of attributes that can be condensed? Is it required to be a single attribute, or...?" Han Yi suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, calmed his emotions, and asked. "No." Lin Mu shook his head. "The division into ten attributes is the result of a detailed classification of the natural energy of heaven and earth. The more attributes an image can accommodate, the stronger its adaptability will be in external combat. If you have the ability, condensing an image with all ten attributes coexisting is not impossible..."
However, I've never heard of anyone succeeding in this, not even the Demon Saints. After all, the more qualities an image contains, the more conflicts arise. The initial process of condensing an image is extremely difficult, and it can even lead to complete collapse and failure..."