Yuan Ming spent a lot less time on animal taming books than he had estimated, so after returning all the books, he began to pace in front of the bookshelf, picking out some new content to review.

Coming to the category of "Geographical Chronicles", Yuan Ming stopped, and his eyes wandered around the bookshelf for a long time before he found a book called "Lu Tongzhi" from above.

The book is larger and thicker than the others, and the cover is very different, made of hard wood with a map carved out of it.

Yuan Ming opened "Lu Tongzhi" and began to read, but found that the first page inside was folded.

He opened it and spread it out, revealing a vast topographical map the size of a three-page book, with black and red lines on it.

It is also inaccurate to say that it is a topographic map, because the upper part of the map is only a rough line map, with a general area divided by territory, but no topographic and geomorphological markings.

In the lower part, a variety of topography and landforms are clearly marked, among which the mountain peaks are protruding, the river valley is subsided, and the mountain and water veins are clear and lifelike.

However, Yuan Ming's gaze fell directly on the map on the top one-third of the map that could not be more sketchy.

There is no other reason, just because it is near the edge of the map, marked with two big characters "Central Plains", which is the vague hometown in Yuan Ming's memory, and it is the place where he wants to go back, but he doesn't know where to go.

Yuan Ming looked at it carefully for a while, and found that the only one-third of the territory was obviously incomplete, but only roughly marked out part of the territory of the two countries, one was called Dajin, which had the same name as the country of the little emperor he saw when he lit incense, and the other was called Xiyue.

These two countries live next to each other, both bordering the 100,000 mountains that stretch like dragons, and over the thick ridges outlined by the black line, on the other side is the southern frontier.

The topography of southern Xinjiang is much more carefully delineated, with a number of countries and similar spheres of influence marked, in addition to mountains and rivers.

Yuan Ming searched for a long time, and finally found out the location of Biluo Cave.

After careful comparison, he was surprised to find that the seemingly vast Biluo Cave was nothing compared to the huge 100,000 mountains.

And the territory of the entire southern Xinjiang is even more outrageously large.

After Yuan Ming looked at it for a while, he wanted to find a way from southern Xinjiang to the Central Plains, but after all, he found nothing.

"The world is big, and if you want to return home, it's not easy after all." Yuan Ming sighed in his heart.

At this time, he remembered something and began to search on the map again, and after a long time, he finally found a mountain as small as a grain of rice, and saw the small words marked next to it, "Qingyuan Mountain".

It was the hometown that Hagon had mentioned, and it was his last concern when he died.

Yuan Ming planned to wait for him to gain a firm foothold in Biluo Cave, and then find a way to go out, it was too difficult to go back to the Central Plains, and it would be relatively easy to go to Qingyuan Mountain.

After looking at it for a moment, he put away his complicated thoughts, folded the map back, and began to flip through the book.

Most of the records in this book are introductions to the various mountains and rivers in southern Xinjiang, which are mixed with many legends and anecdotes of gods and monsters, which are bizarre and strange, true or false.

Since most of the places were unfamiliar, he had never been to or heard of them, so he had no idea in his mind, and after reading them for a while, he felt that he was not interested, and put the book back.

Subsequently, he deliberately found a few classics on geography to see more about the Central Plains, but unfortunately there were few descriptions in them, which could not provide him with much information.

"In the end, in the southern Xinjiang region, there are really few books about the Central Plains." Yuan Ming stuffed the last book back into the bookshelf and continued to pace, wanting to see what else was in other categories.

After a few steps, he came to the "Cultivation" category and stopped.

Yuan Ming casually took out a book from the bookshelf, glanced at the cover, and wrote "General Knowledge of Cultivation" in southern Xinjiang characters on it, and immediately became interested.

It was an unexpected thing for him to be able to embark on the path of cultivation, and he had been trapped in the 100,000 mountains as a furry beast slave before, so naturally no one would teach him the basics of cultivation.

After becoming a registered disciple by mistake this time, no one answered his questions, and Yuan Ming lacked this kind of knowledge.

He immediately returned to his seat, opened the book and began to read it.

After looking at it for a while, Yuan Ming's brows furrowed, and he secretly said in his heart: "It turns out that it is also cultivation, and monks and monks are not the same, and there are also differences between law cultivation, physical cultivation and soul cultivation." ”

According to the content of the book, the so-called physical cultivation is to cultivate the body diligently, practice the body forging exercises, pay attention to tempering the skin, muscles, bones, flesh and viscera, and train the body like a magic weapon.

Dharma cultivation is to focus on the accumulation and cultivation of mana, introduce the aura between heaven and earth into the body, further purify, essence, and then store it in the dantian meridians, with the release of magic, you can have the unpredictable ability of ghosts and gods, cultivate to a high depth, and be able to move mountains and reclaim the sea.

Compared with physical cultivation, this book obviously advocates the way of Dharma cultivation, although its physique is relatively weak, but the means of casting spells and treasures are endless, and the attacks are varied, and it can also improve itself through means such as urging and wearing magic weapons, drug refining, etc., and often attack and defend more comprehensively.

The third major category mentioned in the book is soul cultivation, which is very small.

The author of this book seems to have obvious discrimination against soul cultivation, saying only that he neither cultivates the body nor the Fa, and focuses on the refinement of the power of the divine soul, which is actually a heresy of cultivation.

The evaluation of the word "heresy" can be described as extremely inferior.

After that, the book still gave some brief descriptions of the methods of soul cultivation, but it was somewhat mysterious.

For example, it is mentioned in the book that when the soul cultivator reaches a certain level, he can control the soulless corpse, control it to walk and jump like a living person, and even attack and fight.

"That silver cat, I don't know where it is sacred?" When he saw this, Yuan Ming unconsciously remembered the previous scene in the cave of the Human Xiao King, where the silver cat controlled the corpse attack.

Regarding soul cultivation, there are other descriptions of fugue and soul searching in the book.

Among them, the description of iQue is that when the soul cultivator has reached a certain level of cultivation, he can leave the body with his soul, and Feng Xuan can resist the wind and travel thousands of miles, and even attack others in the form of a soul body, killing them thousands of miles away.

And what interests Yuan Ming the most is actually the ability to search for souls.

With this ability, the soul cultivator can forcibly invade the sea of consciousness of others, wantonly search and probe the memories of others, and even forcibly tamper with or erase the memories of others.

"If you have this magical power, I wonder if you can get your memories back?" Yuan Ming muttered secretly in his heart.

As he continued to look backwards, Yuan Ming gradually understood that although soul cultivation had obvious uniqueness, it also had fatal flaws.

Compared with the other two systems, the cultivation conditions of soul cultivation are more demanding, and the cultivation process is more dangerous, even if there is an orthodox soul cultivation method guidance, it is easy to go mad.

The light ones lose their minds and become stupid, and the heavy ones are scattered and have no chance of being reincarnated as a human being.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming couldn't help but secretly break out in a cold sweat, he didn't seem to have a similar situation so far, and he didn't know if it was luck, or because the "Dark Moon Jue" that the silver cat gave him was more special?

In retrospect, at the moment, his cultivation was hindered and his progress was slow, but he didn't notice any risk of going mad, but felt that this exercise could alleviate the hidden danger of backlash left by his previous cultivation of the Hair Draping Technique, which was also the main motivation for him to continue cultivating.

Yuan Ming even felt that perhaps this was an exaggeration of the author's prejudice against soul cultivation, and he was quite dismissive.

You must know that the Draping Technique is still an important reliance on him when facing the enemy, and he still does not intend to give up until he gets a better means to defend against the enemy, and the Dark Moon Technique naturally has to be cultivated.

After that, Yuan Ming deliberately looked for information about soul cultivation, but unfortunately there was no content about soul cultivation alone, and there were some mixed with other content.

However, these contents are scattered and miscellaneous, and there are even mutual refutations between them, and it is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong.

But there is one thing that is surprisingly consistent.

That is their attitude towards soul cultivation, the better ones are afraid to stay away, and the bad ones think that soul cultivation is all heretical, and say that among soul cultivation, seven or eight out of ten are evil cultivators, and those who do not follow the evil path are less than thirty percent.

Based on his previous preconceived judgment, Yuan Ming was noncommittal about this, and only determined that the means of soul cultivation were secretive, and it involved the memory of the divine soul, and instead decided to further cultivate the "Secret Moon Technique".

After putting back the last batch of materials he got, Yuan Ming stretched his waist, and was about to look for some more materials when a middle-aged man in a deacon's costume came down the stairs, shouting, "The time is coming, and the pavilion is about to close." ”

Only then did he realize that he had unconsciously read most of the books in this Guizang Pavilion for most of the day.

He did not leave immediately, but walked around the first floor again and reluctantly left until the end of the day.

……

In the afternoon of the next day, Yuan Ming went to the executive hall.

With his current knowledge and experience, coupled with his extraordinary memory, and his familiarity with the fire marten, he naturally passed the initial approval of the managing deacon and took over the task of taking care of the fire marten.

Then, according to the guidance of the mission, he returned directly to the Fire Refining Hall to find the Three Cave Masters.

The courtyard where the master of the three caves lives alone is located in a secluded bamboo forest in the back mountain, and the environment is very quiet.

Yuan Ming found the way to that side after asking a few fellow disciples, but before he could walk to the bamboo forest, he met Chen Wan halfway.

Except for the three cave masters, most of the other elders in the Fire Refining Hall only had one inner disciple, or they didn't accept disciples at all.

On weekdays, most of these inner disciples serve around their respective masters, and accept words and deeds at any time, and Chen Wan is no exception, so since she entered the school, Yuan Ming has rarely met with her.