Chapter 4: The Legend of the Mermaid
Brother Zhen didn't expect that my first out-of-body soul was actually achieved in the submarine with nothing to do and close my eyes to recuperate! In the past, I also had an ethereal state in my cultivation, but my thoughts stopped in a blur and practiced quietly, and sometimes I could look inward at myself, see the meridians in my body, the circulation of true qi, etc., and I had also seen that piece of light, but I had never penetrated into it.
When I was cultivating in the past, I also thought about practicing out-of-body soul practice, but then I always couldn't find the way or wandered. From the Dao Sect cultivation method, the soul out of the body needs to be done unintentionally and intentionally, which is so subtle that it is impossible to guess the true meaning.
But I didn't think about how to cultivate at all just now, I just wanted to close my eyes casually and recuperate, but I was blessed with my soul and achieved my soul out of my body with the peace of encounter, I don't know if it was in response to the meaning of "unintentionally and intentionally". Being able to reach out-of-body soul shows that through refining qi and transforming gods, my soul already has some "primordial god" ability.
From the perspective of the Daomen, being able to go out of the body shows that the spiritual consciousness body in the human mind (the Daomen will call the cultivated soul "Yuan Shen", and will be called the Yuan Shen in the future) has reached a new height, which is another important progress on the basis of having the ability to think.
In particular, the out-of-body soul mentioned by the Daomen is not in the general sense, and some people have their souls out of the body in their sleep or in a near-death state. The so-called out-of-body soul of Daomen is actually more standard and should be called "out-of-body of the original spirit", which refers to the fact that the soul of a person can be free to leave the body and float outside the body after the spirit has a certain mental ability. In a general sense, the soul out of the body is not actually the soul that really leaves the body, but in essence, it is only a part of the human thoughts and subconscious that is temporarily and limited from the body, and cannot make the soul independently free from the body under the control of self-consciousness.
To use a less vivid analogy, the out-of-body of the Daomen is similar to a person who lives in a black house opens the door and walks out, and looks at the outside world, while the so-called "soul detachment" in the general sense refers to the fact that the person who lives in the black house accidentally discovers a small window in one of the walls of the house, through which he has a brief and limited view of the outside scene.
I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I realized my first out-of-body soul, which showed that my soul had achieved a small degree of cultivation and reached the entry level of "Yuan Shen" as mentioned by the Daomen, which was really gratifying to me. From the perspective of the Daomen, every time a new door is opened, it takes chance and diligence, and the out-of-body spirit means that I can go further and see wider on this road in the future.
After cultivating from the soul to the Yuan Shen, the Yuan Shen can continue to evolve at a higher level, and then can reach the "Yuan Infant" and higher realms. For example, taking Yuanying as an example, after cultivation, people's Yuanshen will gradually form a little baby that is exactly the same as himself in the Zifu Acupoint in his mind, purely condensed together with Yuanshen and innate vitality, this little baby is called Yuanying, which can get out of the body and move outside, and has a certain amount of magic power and mana.
On the other hand, he sat on the ground with his eyes closed, and breathed in his nose. I immediately understood that the Daomen said that the physical body has a spirit, that is, in the state of my original mind, the physical body can also instinctively breathe in its inherent state instead of completely terminating the life reaction.
This is related to the ancients said that people have three souls and six spirits, the soul master spirit, the spirit of the soul, the body of the body, now although my original spirit is out, but the six spirits are still there, the body can continue to maintain the characteristics of life under the autonomy of the spirit.
My primordial spirit floated in the air, but no one saw the other dark knights around me, indicating that the primordial spirit should be just a transparent spiritual energy body, which cannot be seen by the naked eye.
I tried to open my gun pouch with my mind again, and I saw that the pouch buckle of the pouch was gently opened with a "click", as I thought, the current mental ability is almost entirely from my original spirit.
Not knowing what Sines and Soromu were talking about in the cabin above, I floated gently up a ladder until I reached the door of a larger, separate cabin where Sines was.
There seemed to be some talk coming from inside the door, but it was hard to hear what was going on inside as the thick hatch was closed. I focused my attention on the keyhole on the door, and after a moment's thought, the spirit of the primordial spirit penetrated through the keyhole like a wisp of air.
There were four people sitting in the house, it was Siens and the captains of the three squads, and I only heard that Sines was explaining some arrangements for this mission to the three squad leaders, and I listened for a while, and I couldn't help but be more and more surprised.
It turned out that this time we were actually looking for a legendary ancient civilization ruins - the "Great Western Continent" where the Atlantean civilization was located in ancient times.
Oh my God, the fact that this dark church of the ancient civilization, which has been circulated in biographies and Platonic fantasies, is also believed, and it is doubtful that its existence is true.
In my opinion, this is pure fantasy. Legend has it that Atlantis was an unusually developed ancient civilization, whose people could even fly into the sky and possess magical skills, and then disappeared into the vast sea overnight because they offended the gods.
The Atlantean civilization in the biography dates back 12,000 years. This kind of speculation about ancient civilization has not been blindly believed many times in human history, just take the latest Mayan civilization's prediction of the end of the earth, in the end, it is not a joke, what about crossing the photon belt, human beings into the fourth civilization of their own evolution, but in the end, the reality is that the common people continue to live in dire straits, worrying about the daily firewood, rice, oil and salt.
Damn, the more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes, my brother would take a deep-water submarine with these crazy people from the Dark Church to find this completely unreliable ruin. According to the meaning of the Dark Church, there is still the purest dark energy in ancient times hidden in that ruin, known as the "Dark Crystal", and the ultimate goal of the Dark Church's operation is to hope to find such a dark crystal and bring it back.
After listening to the chat between Sines and several captains, I realized that the reason why the Dark Church believed in the legend of Atlantis mainly started from a mermaid more than 400 years ago.
One day more than four hundred years ago, the Holy See of Light caught a mysterious mermaid on an island deep in the Atlantic Ocean!
This magical creature that has been passed down from ancient times to the mouths of fishermen by the sea was first discovered by the Holy See of Light, which shocked the entire Holy See for proving the objective existence of the mermaid on the one hand, and obtaining important information about Atlantis from the mermaid's mouth on the other hand.
It is reported that in ancient times, the Atlanteans possessed many magical abilities and magical skills, able to summon wind and rain, and use various natural powers.
The Atlanteans believed that their ancestors were higher beings from Sirius, surpassing all intelligent life on Earth, and even a very small number of Atlanteans despised the gods and demons on Earth.
At the height of the Atlantean civilization, the continent was filled with beautiful and imaginative architecture, and the wealth accumulated over generations made the kingdom of Atlantis full of gold, silver, pearls, and precious stones, and all kinds of rare treasures in the treasury.
In order to return their people to their homeland of Sirius, the Atlanteans even began to build huge spaceships, conduct some magic experiments, and collected many crystals containing various natural energies from the world, which they prepared to use as ship fuel.
Until one day, when the Atlanteans were conducting an unprecedented magic experiment, they inadvertently opened a passage to the other world and released a terrifying devil! Although the passage was quickly resealed, this unintentional release of the devil made the Atlanteans unable to parry.
In a short period of time, this devil with great dark energy destroyed the Great Western Continent where Atlantis was located, and a supernatural civilization that was originally extremely proud fell because of such a devil.
Seeing that the world would be destroyed because of such a devil from another world, the gods of the heavenly realm finally went down to the realm to fight this terrifying devil in person. After several days of fierce battles between the gods and the devils, the devil was finally destroyed, and the huge dark energy it possessed was sealed by the gods into the depths of the underground of the Great Western Continent and prepared to sink the Great Western Continent into the deep sea.
As the source of the disaster, the Atlanteans naturally became the target of the gods' punishment, and after the vicious battle with the devil, the strongest Atlantean warriors were killed, and the remaining old and sick could not resist the gods' ruling. Eventually, as the guardians of the dark energy seals, these Atlantean remnants sank forever into the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean along with the Great Western Continent.
Relying on the incomparable civilization of Atlantis and its own continuous evolution, since then, the Atlanteans have gradually adapted to life at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the bodies of the people have gradually turned into human fishtails.
In keeping with the promise made to the gods by all the tribesmen at that time, they were not to leave the deep sea of the Atlantic until one day the dark energy completely dissipated. Therefore, for 10,000 years, the Atlanteans have been hiding at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to breed, due to the harsh natural ecological conditions of the seabed, the Atlantean people gradually decreased, and by 400 years ago, all the people of the tribe no more than 1,000 people.
In the past 10,000 years, there have been very few Atlanteans who have run out of the forbidden land without abiding by the agreement, but there are also a few people who can't stand the pain and sneak out to play, but once they find out, they will be severely punished by the clan.
The reason why the elders of the clan punished the clansmen harshly was because the gods had promised that as long as the Atlanteans did not break their agreement and guard until the last moment, the heavens would forgive all the souls of the Atlanteans and take them all to the heavenly realm to live.
For 10,000 years, all Atlanteans did not enter the six realms of reincarnation after death, and all of them petrified themselves with the help of a spell before they died, and the petrified souls were sealed at the same time, waiting for the moment of escape and rebirth.
According to the mermaid, in that battle 10,000 years ago, because the devil was so powerful, several gods were even slaughtered in the battle.
When the battle was over and everything was arranged, the other gods buried several fallen gods in the land of the Great Western Continent before returning to the heavenly realm, and gave the weapons and armor of these gods to the Atlanteans, and ordered the Atlanteans to better guard the forbidden land with these artifacts.
Four hundred years ago, the Holy See of Light secretly recorded everything the mermaid said in a scroll and hid it in the most secret library of the Holy See of Light.
Another two hundred years later, an unforgivable traitor appeared within the Holy See of Light, a secret lurker from the Dark Church. This traitor not only killed many of the upper echelons of the Holy See of Light, but also stole top-secret information from the library, including this scroll of the Atlantean merfolk.
In addition to the scroll of the mermaid, the Dark Church has found some records related to it in another old note. In this old notebook, it is also mentioned that it turned out that the one caught by the Holy See of Light was only a very young mermaid, similar to a human child of fourteen or five years old.
This poor little mermaid smuggled out of the depths of the Atlantic Ocean because she was too playful, and then played near a remote island in the Atlantic, but this seemingly uninhabited desert island had a secret monastery set up by the Holy See of Light.
As a result, the little mermaid was unfortunately discovered by the monks of the Holy See of Light on the island, who designed to capture her. After that, the monks finally found out the origin of the Little Mermaid and learned about the mysterious Atlantean civilization in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
At the end of this notebook, the approximate location of the Great Western Continent in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and some ways to find the Great Western Continent are also mentioned, as well as the energy-protected Atlantean city in the deepest part of the Great Western Continent and some secrets about the Atlanteans.
Since then, the Holy See of Light has been coveting the treasures and energy crystals of the Great Western Continent. Unfortunately, there was no means of diving at that time, and if you only rely on the Holy Light Body Protection Technique that the Knight of Light can dive into the deep sea, although you can overcome the huge water pressure within a few kilometers of the sea, the lack of oxygen in breathing has become a problem, so the plan to plunder the treasure has not been implemented.
Soon after, the Little Mermaid mysteriously died, and her body was made into a specimen by the Holy See of Light, and it is still kept in an extremely secret place.