Section 17 Enlightenment
Spring goes to autumn, cold comes and summer, and the changes of the four seasons are endlessly growing over time.
The tender green grass sprouts in the spring breeze and grows vigorously in the summer and becomes burly and stout. But in autumn, the blowing of the autumn wind is like a life-threatening sickle, taking away the vitality of this little grass, making it turn from green to yellow, and making its branches and leaves full of vitality and moisture dry and crunchy. Finally, the heavy snow in the cold winter came, and the thick snow submerged the body of the grass and its companions, and the originally verdant and lush field turned into a white expanse in the heavy snow, and the green that represented the breath of life could no longer be seen, and the cheerful and eye-catching figure of the grass could no longer be seen. The plants and trees that died in the wind and snow are about to face the most cruel moment of their lives, but even if this winter is cold, even if the current season is difficult, after the spring of the next year, they will be full of vitality under the spring breeze again, and stand up again in this vast field and the vast world.
Compared with the wonderful and colorful outside world, in this secret room that seems to be eternal and unchanging, the passage of time seems to have lost its meaning, and everything has not changed in the passage of time.
These days, Shen Tong never seemed to feel sleepy again, and he never felt bored again, he always maintained the state of operation of this exercise, always felt the changes in his mind, and kept cultivating for a moment. And with the passage of time, with the operation of the exercises, Shen Tong inexplicably had some different understandings of everything in front of him, and had some different views from before.
It's as if as time goes on, the longer you spend here, the more you become aware of your situation.
This is obviously a completely different place from the earth he was on before, and he should be a different person at this moment, otherwise, no one can live so long in this situation.
Although there is no mirror here, and he is not sure whether his appearance has changed, but the obvious thing is that human eating and drinking Lazar is a survival instinct, and human breathing is the basis of cell metabolism, but everything at the moment is beyond this range, although he doesn't know how long he has been in this place, but obviously this time has far exceeded the limit of any human being's survival without eating or drinking.
Shen Tong slowly opened his eyes, and this time, it was still when he felt that continuing to meditate had no effect, so he stopped practicing.
It's just that this time Shen Tong didn't rush to look at the content of the next page, but stood up and walked around, re-observing the place he was in little by little, and re-examining the situation in front of him.
Obviously, Shen Tong's knowledge did not increase during this time, but with the completion of the cultivation of the content on the fourth page, he obviously felt that his thinking and views on things had a different angle, and he seemed to have a deeper analysis in thinking about a matter.
Just like at this moment, Shen Tong no longer felt that this was some kind of underworld, it was obvious that he was now a living person, with breathing and heartbeat, although he didn't seem to need oxygen to sustain life, but there must be an energy that he didn't know to complete metabolism and complete life maintenance. From this point alone, it can be concluded that this is not the underworld, and it is clear that it does not exist in the form of a soul body.
Looking at the lines on the wall, Shen Tong could feel the ability contained in it, the firmness of this room seemed to be not only because of the hardness of its own stones, but also because of some special powers. However, he could only feel this, and as for what kind of ability, he couldn't guess.
His gaze wandered to the lines that occupied a large area in the center of the room, and then carefully observed the pillars in the four corners of the room, and he pondered for a while, and came to a conclusion, this was a formation. His gaze fell on the broken stones in the depression above the pillar, Shen Tong's gaze couldn't help but pause for a moment, and then looked at the central position, although he had not touched the formation or anything like that, he could still deduce that this was a small formation, and the stones on the four pillars might be the key to running this array.
He walked over, reached out and removed the broken stone from the dimple, and he looked at it carefully, although the stone in his hand was broken and had lost its luster. But the smooth surface and extremely light texture still make this stone quite special. Obviously, Shen Tong has never seen such a stone again, even if he is doing home decoration and has been exposed to all kinds of stones, he has never seen anything like it.
This made him sigh, if he could get a similar stone to replace it, maybe he would be able to figure out what the magic circle here was for.
After pondering this, his eyes couldn't help but put his eyes on his hands again, these white hands are really worthy of the name of skin like clotted fat, but unfortunately he is a man, he really doesn't need to be so white and tender.
Shen Tong looked at his hands wandering out of the world, at this time, he was obviously different from when he first arrived here, and his ideas were also more daring, maybe there is really a so-called four-dimensional world in this world, a five-dimensional space? Maybe he really came to another world inexplicably? Thinking of the things that he had lost his memories for ten years before, maybe it was because his soul went elsewhere, so he couldn't remember the things of those ten years?
However, he thought about it and felt a little unreasonable, logically speaking, a person has no soul, either died or became a vegetative person, but in the ten years since he lost his memory, "he" not only behaved normally, but also achieved great success, obtained great wealth and realized his inner dream, how can this be explained? At this time, he couldn't help but start worrying about his wife again, this time he came here inexplicably, does that mean that he is dead? Or has he become a vegetative person? If that is the case, even if his family has a lot of wealth at the moment, his wife and children will be greatly frustrated and traumatized. Especially the son who has only met a few times, who is only 10 years old, and grew up in a single-parent family, will he have a paranoid and inferior side in his personality in the future?
Shen Tong couldn't help but think of the happy time with his wife and family, and couldn't help but eagerly want to leave here. If it were in the past, I am afraid that he would start to bury himself in the book again, but now, after thinking about it for a while, he still suppressed the impulse in his heart, picked up the "Gathering Spirit Formula" on the side again, and tried to practice again according to the above exercises.
According to the introduction on pages 2 to 7, Shen Tong was constantly adjusting the way he breathed, constantly using different means to regulate his breathing, but no matter which way it was, he could feel a state similar to the previous practice of the "Returning to the Divine Technique", and he could feel the coolness of the dantian. And this time, he deliberately opened his eyes, carefully observed the surroundings, and observed the stars in his eyes.
Sure enough, as his exercises worked, the points of light that were originally floating aimlessly in mid-air, as if they were restrained by something, submerged into his mouth and entered his body, and at this time, the comfortable feeling at the position of the dantian came, and it seemed that the body was extraordinarily relaxed.
This discovery made Shen Tong realize, it seems that those points of light floating in the air are an important reason for the incredible changes in his body. As for the few turbid black qi in mid-air, it didn't move at all when he breathed it in, and it was always there and faded and disappeared together with the light spots in the four directions. This discovery made Shen Tong can't help but understand the current situation, it seems that as long as there is always this kind of light, he will be fine.
However, when he turned to the eighth page, he found that no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer attract light into his body as before.
At this time, he already has a certain understanding of his ancient translation ability, obviously there are no mistakes in the first few pages, but the operation here is not good, it seems that the possibility of understanding the wrong intention is really small, I am afraid that it is still like learning "Returning to the Gods" before, it must be practiced on the previous pages to no longer absorb those small points of light, before he can start practicing the content of the next page, which made him save the idea of giving it a try.
However, when he calmed down and ran the exercises on the seventh page, after a full month, although the points of light still continued to enter his body, it was like a stream flowing into a pond, but the pond water did not rise at all.
Patience, Shen Tong continued to practice for several months, the situation was still the same as before, there was no change at all, the points of light were still converging, but there was never that feeling of peaking.
A few months later, Shen Tong stopped the exercises and tried the content of the eighth page again, and when he was sure that it was still useless, he should have confirmed the fact that for the time being, he had no possibility of successfully cultivating the eighth page of the "Gathering Spirit Technique". Since this is the case, it is better to continue to put all his energy into "Returning to God", at least for now, it seems that he has not encountered any obstacles in this book.
After adjusting his emotions, Shen Tong immediately reopened the fifth page of the "Returning to the Gods" and began to cultivate the content recorded on it.
This time, that cool feeling came from his mind, and he couldn't help but let out a long breath, and finally the cultivation of this "Returning to the Gods" seemed to be quite smooth. This also alleviated his depression that had been fruitless for months of hard work on "Gathering Spirits" to a certain extent.