There is a legend that if you see a person without a shadow behind him, it means that the person has been drained of his soul and is nothing more than a walking corpse.

There is also a legend that a person who has no shadow behind him is not a person at all. Ghosts don't leave shadows in any light.

A bell, of course, does not have the question of whether it is a person or a ghost, and Xu Bansheng knows that even if it is a ghost, as long as it is revealed, there will still be a shadow, but the shadow of the ghost is very faint, and it is difficult to find it if it is not observed very carefully.

Moreover, the faint shadow on the ground is also one of the best ways to find ghosts.

The faint shadow, like the fox's tail, has become a ghost to expose its own shortcomings. Some onmyoji or feng shui masters often use this method when judging whether a haunted house is man-made or really evil, and not all practitioners can open their eyes to see ghosts directly.

So, the first type of legend about the shadow is actually more accurate.

Although this bell is just a dead thing, it is undoubtedly a magic weapon, but all magic weapons will contain a magic spirit, even if the instrument spirit in this bell is still very weak, but there is a possibility that it will be extracted, causing its shadow to disappear.

But the case of this bell is quite special, it is not without shadows, in the light, in the sun, its shadow is the same. Only in the moonlight, the shadow of this bell mysteriously disappeared.

Xu Bansheng didn't know this, when he picked up the bell, he only knew that this bell had no shadow, so he thought that it was the battle with Jin Il Xun that caused this bell to change.

Slowly injecting his essence into the bell, Xu Bansheng began to explore the machine spirit of this bell for the first time, and sure enough, as he expected, he failed to find the existence of the machine spirit.

The existence of machine spirits cannot be discovered. Again, there are two possibilities.

The first is that there is really no machine spirit, and naturally it cannot be explored. And the second is that the cultivator's cultivation is insufficient. Or the machine spirit already has a spiritual intelligence, and it has chosen to avoid the exploration of the practitioners. This essentially comes down to the end. It's all because the cultivator is not strong enough, and if the cultivation is enough, the instrument spirit has nowhere to hide. To put it bluntly, it is the process of competition between the spirit and the cultivator.

Xu Bansheng didn't have this kind of worry, with his cultivation, unless the cultivation of this machine spirit reached the point where he could transform into a human form, otherwise, Xu Bansheng would never be able to explore the existence of the machine spirit.

Behind. There was the sound of snarling footsteps, Xu Bansheng didn't look back, he knew that it could only be Xia Miaoran.

With a click, Xia Miaoran turned on the lights in the room and said softly: "I thought you were in the meditation, why did you stand in front of the window and not turn on the lights?" ”

Xu Bansheng turned his head and just wanted to speak, but his face suddenly changed, and he suddenly turned back again, his eyes fixed on the bell in his hand.

In the dim light of the house. The moment Xu Bansheng turned around, he found that the bell in his hand actually had a shadow again.

With an unbelievable state of mind, Xu Bansheng shook the bell in his hand. That's right, the real thing on the ground is the shadow of the bell in his hand, and when it shakes, the shadow shakes with it.

"Turn off the lights!" Xu Bansheng said.

Xia Miaoran was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Huh? ”

"Turn off the lights."

This time, Xia Miaoran heard it clearly, she took a step back and touched her hand against the wall.

There was a "click", and the light in the room disappeared again. Only the moonlight outside the window came in and sprinkled on the floor of the house. It is clear and bright, with a slight wave of water.

Sure enough. The shadow of the bell in his hand disappeared again in the moonlight.

"Turn on the lights." Xu Bansheng said again.

This time, Xia Miaoran didn't hesitate any longer, her hand was still touching the switch on the wall, and with a movement of her fingers, the room was filled with gentle yellow light again.

The shadow appeared.

Xu Bansheng's face showed an intriguing expression, and this bell brought Xu Bansheng unexpected surprise.

Xia Miaoran walked behind Xu Bansheng, took the bell from his hand, looked at it carefully, and asked, "What's wrong?" "In the state of light, Xia Miaoran can't find the abnormality of this bell.

"You turn off the lights and look at it." Xu Bansheng didn't deliberately sell Guanzi, but he explained that it was far better to let Xia Miaoran take a look at it himself.

Xia Miaoran retreated to the switch with suspicion and turned off the lights in the room, and then looked at the bell in her hand, but did not find anything abnormal.

Raising her head and just wanting to ask, but thinking of where Xu Bansheng was standing, Xia Miaoran walked over, and the whole person was bathed in the moonlight, and then, she quickly discovered the clue, with Xia Miaoran's intelligence, it was impossible not to find that the shadow of this bell had disappeared.

"Huh......"

Xia Miaoran let out a puzzled cry, and then she quickly retreated to the position near the door, lighting the lights in the room.

The shadow appeared, there is no doubt about this, at this moment, this bell looks like an ordinary bell, even if you input essence qi, at most you can only feel that this is a magic weapon with its own aura that has been blessed by the holy light of the West.

Smack!

The lights were turned off again, and Xia Miaoran returned to the moonlight, and there was no doubt that the shadow of the bell was gone.

Turning around, Xia Miaoran looked at Xu Bansheng, raised the bell in his hand, and asked, "What's going on?" Since when? Is it because of Kim Il-sun? ”

Xia Miaoran and Xu Bansheng's thoughts coincide, but now, Xu Bansheng doesn't think so anymore.

"I'm afraid it was like that in the beginning." Xu Bansheng said calmly, then raised his hand, pointed to the futon on the ground, and took the initiative to sit down cross-legged first, and Xia Miaoran also sat down next to Xu Bansheng.

"I've just carefully recalled every time I used this bell since I got it, most of it was even during the day, and it had a shadow in the daylight. After hanging it here, it occasionally gets along with it at night, but the lights are always on, and there is almost never a scene where the lights are turned off. The only time was the day when Fang Lin's father refined the Heavenly Pill of the Past Death, because of the sudden spread of the aura of the Heavenly Pill of the Past Death, there were problems with the circuits, but unfortunately, I was already in a coma at that time, and I couldn't see the abnormality of this bell with my own eyes. Otherwise. I should have discovered its anomaly a long time ago. ”

Xia Miaoran nodded, she also heard from Xu Bansheng's words, Xu Bansheng also didn't know why this bell lost its shadow under the moonlight.

Meantime. In Xu Bansheng's words, she also heard something very hidden.

"You said you were asleep. But how can you now be sure that there was a problem with the circuit? ”

Xu Bansheng grabbed Xia Miaoran's little hand, put it on his knee, and gently patted the back of her hand.

"Settle and backtrack." Xu Bansheng explained lightly, "Just now, before you came, I had already refined the Tiger Pill and subdued Xiaoyu. When he was empty, he came up and meditated. Then it enters a more sublimated state. It's hard to describe, but it's a bit like what some sci-fi and movies depict, I was standing in a higher dimension, and all the past moments would come before my eyes. I could see the tiniest things happening within a radius of a few kilometers, even if a cat stole a fish from its owner to eat, even if a small bird defecated while flying through the air. In the same way, I can see everything that has happened to me before, including when I am asleep, including when I am unconscious, including everything that I have never noticed before. ”

Xia Miaoran was surprised. She was visibly nervous, and she grabbed Xu Bansheng's knees, and her nails even sank into Xu Bansheng's skin.

"Have you entered the Innate Realm?" Xia Miaoran's voice was even trembling. She has absorbed everything from the machine spirit, and she already has enough understanding of the system of the magic number realm and the entire cultivation world, she knows very well that she is only in the realm of the day after tomorrow, and she is still in the acquired realm, but if she can do what Xu Bansheng said about the backtrack, then she is completely out of the category of the day after tomorrow.

Of course, there are many versions of the word "backtracking" that Xu Bansheng said. Different sects, different systems of practice. There will be different descriptions of this state.

However, the state is the same. Xu Bansheng's description represents this state, which can only be achieved by entering the innate realm.

Xu Bansheng shook his head slowly, and said with a smile: "How can it be so easy, I haven't even glimpsed the way to the realm of will, how can I talk about innateness." It should be just some kind of accident, or maybe it's what Master Nebula said, what happened to me can't be measured according to the rules of this world. ”

Xia Miaoran thought for a moment and said, "How could Master Xingyun know so many things, could it be that he, like your master, has already reached the innate level?" ”

Xu Bansheng waved his hand and said, "Most of the masters are not congenital, and Master Xingyun is even more not, otherwise, he will not be hurt by the grievances accumulated by the soldiers under Chi Jiao's command for more than a thousand years." Not everything is something we can understand, and not everything is something we can grasp. Including you and Zeng Wen, I am still at a loss, why does that Master Mo have such ability to create a spirit body. According to common sense, this Master Mo should have been born and even a great Luo Jin Immortal, but he never dared to show his face, which is enough to see that his true cultivation may not be as good as mine. Of course, it may not be, I just want to say that not everything can be explained. ”

Xia Miaoran was thoughtful, this was a very limited thinking, the things she couldn't see clearly now were like the vast number of beings outside, just busy running around for a full bite of food and a bed, standing in their perspective, in their world, they couldn't understand the world of cultivators. In their eyes, cultivators are no different from immortals.

That's the difference in dimensions.

The dimension is not only the three-dimensional and four-dimensional in science fiction, but also the dimension in Xu Bansheng's mind is by no means as simple as three-dimensional space and timeline, it is a state that cannot be accurately described in words, a state that is far beyond the limits of human thinking.

In fact, human beings are always limited to the knowledge system they know and think, once we are out of this knowledge system, we are at a loss, and even the vast majority of people have not thought about detaching themselves from the established knowledge system of this world. And people who tend to think about this are regarded as crazy, and human beings often position them as "philosophers".

In a sense, if the Heavenly Dao is not alone, and there are beings equal to the Heavenly Dao outside this world or the Three Realms, then philosophers should all be regarded as cultivators.

Cultivation and cultivation are not the same! (To be continued)