Chapter 2: Fragments of True Spirits
Was I indeed a village girl earlier?
Why am I in the deserted forest?
I...... Is it really me?
Chu Lan had a series of questions in his heart.
No one could answer these questions of hers.
As the name suggests, the "Five Colors True Soul Cultivation Method" is a basic exercise that is enough for beginner monks to successfully cultivate their souls.
According to the vague and vague memories in his heart, Chu Lan found that he had memorized this exercise by heart, and in some cases he could instinctively drive it.
When she just woke up, the three souls and seven spirits were not stable, so she let the traverser take advantage of the loophole, and now she is running the "Five Colors True Soul Cultivation Method", slowly visiting her inner soul, and she has roughly determined that she can't die.
The "Five-Color True Soul Cultivation Method" was running, and at first he felt that the flesh was a layer of hard shell, and under the hard shell there was a flowing pale golden warm gas, which should be Chu Lan's soul body at this time. When the exercises diverge, the soul is introspective, like a spring rain and a slow simmer, and the flowing gas either keeps emitting a whirlpool and rolls back and forth, or erupts like a boiling stream to the top beam door and then slowly descends to the bottom of the heart.
With the nourishment of each "raindrop" and the setting off of each round of "boiling", the pale golden and porous inner soul like a broken fishing net gradually added an indelible halo - it is called the soul body protective film.
With this layer of protective film that protects the inner soul from leaking and protects the true soul from being extinguished, a person who cultivates the truth can embark on the path of cultivation without worries.
And Chu Lan was sitting under the hot spring water bank at this time, and the water covered most of her body, bringing bursts of warm heat to her body, and this heat flow fed back to the inner soul, bringing peace, comfort, and stability to the inner soul.
Under the influence of the environment, the "fire" color in the "Five-color True Soul Cultivation Method" first unfolded and tiled to envelop Chu Lan's inner soul.
The inner soul was slowly painted with a layer of orange-red in the pale gold.
The fire is divided into "C", "D", "Si" and "Noon", which are respectively the innate true spirit yang fire and the acquired mortal dust fireworks.
What brings warmth to Chu Lan now belongs to the acquired mortal fireworks, although it does not have aura, it can still nourish the inner soul, but the nutrients are thin.
After the "Five-color True Soul Cultivation Method" turned on the "fire" color, Chu Lan unconsciously settled for a day and night, and when she opened her eyes again, there was a faint layer of fire on her inner soul, which was equivalent to another layer of innate true spirit yang fire in addition to the protective film of her inner soul.
As for this kind of innate true spiritual yang fire, everyone has it whether it is a mortal or a monk, but the innate true spiritual yang fire of mortals is like a grain of rice, and the innate true spiritual yang fire of a monk is like a scorching torch or even a monstrous sea of fire.
With an extra layer of "protective shield" that can fight against foreign souls, Chu Lan's heart is settled, and he has time to scan his surroundings.
She had been soaking in the hot spring for more than a dozen hours, if it weren't for the protection of the cultivation method, it was estimated that she would have fainted, and at this moment, Chu Lan's skin was only white from being soaked, and there was no other discomfort at all.
After the inner soul injury disappeared, Chu Lan's memory had one more point.
From his own memory, he can see that his hometown is on the other side of the mountain, and he needs to cross a mountain stream and climb a ridge hundreds of zhang high to come to this barren mountain range that hunters can't walk.
As for why a little girl came here by herself, Chu Lan couldn't think of anything, maybe she went up the mountain to chop wood and got lost, or was she taken away and abandoned by some wild beast, or was it some other unspeakable reason?
Since you can't think about it, don't think about it, for Chu Lan, living well in the present is far more important than worrying about the sky.
Having said that, the memory of the traverser did not disappear with its demise, but became very clear with the operation of the "Five-color True Soul Cultivation Method", which included some dross and useless thoughts, it seems that this exercise does not have spiritual wisdom, only knows how to nourish the soul, but cannot temper the purity of the soul body.
Chu Lan secretly felt that his inner soul could be used to refine and refine those useless "male control techniques", "self-marketing rules", and "how to attract male gods...... and so that the inexplicable thinking is expelled.
But this method of refinement...... For her, a village girl who has not yet opened her mind and can only be regarded as accidentally perceiving the gate of cultivation, there is no trace.
The clothes on the stone had completely dried, and the hot spring cave was very warm, after Chu Lan got up, he let the water vapor on the surface of his body slowly evaporate, and only after there were no water droplets did he put the clothes on his body a little slowly.
The daylight at the entrance of the cave was dim, and she couldn't tell whether it was dusk or dawn, so she simply got dressed and rested against the hot inner wall of the cave for a while.
The water was murmuring, and the heat was all dispersed soon after it flowed out of the hole, and the water extended down to a foot or two away and then disappeared, probably like the thousands of small streams in this mountain forest.
After sitting quietly for a while, Chu Lan began to roar in his stomach, the Five Organs Temple needed to be sacrificed, but except for the hot water that emitted the smell of sulfur, there was nothing else to eat here.
The cave was deep and dim, and the farthest part was dark like a giant beast's mouth, Chu Lan hesitated, and finally stood up and walked out of this warm place.
If you don't have anything to eat, you can only sit and wait to die, so it's better to follow your own memories and walk towards your hometown on the other side of the mountain, maybe someone in the family will be anxiously looking for her.
Walking out of the cave and looking at the skylight and gray-white clouds, Chu Lan realized that he should go in the direction of the sun.
――Who taught her the way to move by the position of the sun, and who taught her how to hide from predators, find food, and pick herbs in the mountains?
Chu Lan was distracted to explore his own memories, but he walked like a fog, unable to distinguish the direction.
But what she had just affirmed was that she was definitely not six years old.
Even if her physical body was, her soul was definitely not that of a six-year-old child.
So what is your real age?
With this thought in his heart, the "Five-Color True Soul Cultivation Method" was put into operation, and the warm fire was like an initiation, brushing from the back of the head all the way to the soles of the feet, and in an instant, in this atmosphere of relaxing and giving up distracting thoughts, Chu Lan put the question of his age behind him.
Isn't it a big deal at the age of six? Isn't it all me!
Calm, she walked lightly, and without hesitation where she went, it was the ridge opposite.
The light wasn't too bright, but it didn't look like it was going to get dark right away. I should be able to walk a few miles while it's dark.
She got up this time, feeling as light as a swallow, and crossed the artemisia grass and the brook in the dense mountain forest with no road, and came to the foot of the mountain before dark.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a sheep intestine trail that leads directly to the ridge - this is the way mountain people come to the mountain to collect mountain goods every day.
It is said that there is a mountain god living in the mountain where Chu Lan just left, and the mountain people never dare to cross the foot of the mountain out of fear, so the sheep intestine trail does not extend to that mountain.
After finding this path, which was obviously a path that was often walked by humanoid creatures, Chu Lan breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't stand the hunger in her stomach, so she pulled up under a pine tree.
Naturally, she didn't find any Poria cocos, not even mushrooms - although it had rained, it was unexpectedly cold in early spring, and where were the mushrooms popping up for her to eat?
Chu Lan stood up after a while, looking at a few pine cones faintly between the branches and leaves of the pine tree, although the memory told her that she could not get such a high thing, but the body seemed to have its own will, and as soon as the instinct of her feet was exerted, she jumped up - and it was not an ordinary child jumping up to a height of half a foot, it was a leap to a foot high, so that she could firmly grasp a pine cone and then fall down.
Pinching the hard and slightly itchy pine cone in her hand, Chu Lan was very surprised, but soon, the joy of being able to eat swept away the shocked and frightened emotion, she couldn't help but break open the pine cone and chew the pine nut inside.
A string of words faintly surfaced in my memory: "The smell of pine nuts is sweet and small, non-toxic; It is mainly used to treat joint wind, dizziness, dead muscles, whitening, dispersing water and gas, moistening the five organs, chasing the wind and paralyzing the cold, deficiency and lack of qi to make up for the deficiency, fat and five organs, scattering all wind, damp stomach and intestines, long-term service and lightness, prolonging life. ”
Although the pine nuts were raw, Chu Lan let his memories slip through like flowing water, chewing sweetly, feeling that he had never eaten such a fragrant thing again.
- Wait, do you remember anything you've ever eaten?