Uplifting Journey

The first stage of practice is called refining and transforming qi.

As the name suggests, practitioners need to extract a natal vitality that can be controlled by themselves from the nature of the heavens and the earth, and constantly adapt, cultivate and grow.

There are tens of thousands of ways to obtain this vitality, and the quality and nature of the obtained vitality are also very different. The final result is subtly related to the process of going through it. Different people can't practice completely with the same exercises The same vitality generally only guarantees the similarity in main characteristics.

For example, the Daoyin method that also relies on breathing and exercise practice, the vitality obtained from the health regimen that focuses on conditioning the body has the effect of consolidating the foundation, cultivating vitality, nourishing and prolonging life, while the vitality extracted from the external exercises that exercise muscles and bones tends to produce muscle movement that fits the human body physical strength.

In the basic practice method, the difference between visualization and thinking is even greater.

Except for the widely circulated first step to enter the basic state of visualization, there is no unified standard for all subsequent operation steps and tips in the whole world. After all, spiritual things vary from person to person, unlike the changes of the five elements. That is easier to understand objectively.

Using painting as an analogy, the first step in basic practice is to tell you what painting means, what you need for carrier, paint, brush, and how to dip the pen with paint and poke it onto the canvas.

In the future, whether to use a whiteboard or a canvas as a carrier, ink or charcoal as a paint, and whether to use a hand or a brush as a tool, that is, a hundred flowers bloom and play with each other.

At this level, no sect is exactly the same, let alone the most critical difference in the content of the painting.

But no matter what, as long as the first step is completed and the state of visualization is entered, no matter how nonsensical the practitioner's next steps are, he can cultivate a corresponding vitality, and finally he can cultivate successfully.

It’s just that the danger, nature, and quality of this vitality cannot be guaranteed. After all, the value of graffiti and masterpieces are not on the same level. It is very difficult to get the vitality you want.

However, Cheng Bin has the mind energy that can act on Jiang Qing's spiritual level, and can maximize the effect of the idea at hand. It is really suitable to practice this kind of method that can be used freely after getting started.

Moreover, the vitality generated by the visualization is closely related to the object of visualization. Cheng Bin is very curious about what kind of nature the vitality will be if Jiang Qing successfully cultivates the visualization with his own help.

However, Jiang Qing, who was holding a round stone at the beginning, said that he couldn't understand: "Hold the stone and visualize, what kind of vitality can you visualize in the end?"

"It's just used as an example for the time being, just to let you get used to it first, we still have a lot of pre-steps to complete before practicing."

Cheng Bin examined Jiang Qing's mental changes, and while thinking about fine-tuning, he replied: "Don't underestimate the stone, without my help, you can't even visualize this stone now."

"Huh?" Jiang Qing glanced at the stone in his hand, then closed his eyes and thought about it casually, and the appearance of the stone clearly appeared in his mind, "What's so difficult about it?"

Regarding Jiang Qing's reaction, Cheng Bin snorted coldly: "If you want to cultivate a powerful vitality beyond common sense, the specific shape of the visualization object should naturally be as complex and perfect as possible. You are just a person who visualized a stone in your mind." Two-dimensional cross-section, dare to speak up here?"

Jiang Qing was taken aback, raised his other hand to hold the irregular round stone together, turned it over and over for a while, looked at it for a while, closed his eyes and tried a few times, and finally said in surprise: "I can only look at it." Come to one side!"

"Savvy is not bad, not too stupid," Cheng Bin said flatly, "So I'm trying to modify your sensory memory input part so that you can break through the sensory inertia of ordinary people, so hurry up and try observing according to the requirements of the method." Think of stones, let me compare whether I can connect the transformation results to the method."

"okay."

Jiang Qing, who is mentally manipulative, suppressed her subtle emotions, and after recalling the introductory tricks of meditation, she began to empty her mind and focus on the stone in her hand.

No matter what the visualization object is, the deeper the practitioner understands it and the more complete the visualization information, the better the effect will be. A stone with only a simple image is naturally inferior to a three-dimensional stone with texture, smell, and temperature. far away.

Seeing that Jiang Qing quickly entered a state of concentration where he didn't hear anything outside the window, Cheng Bin nodded in his heart, and began to observe and analyze the various changes that occurred after the information of the stone entered Jiang Qing's mental body.

"As expected, this shortcut is connected to the spiritual level of ordinary people after all, and spiritual activities that match ideas and ideas can be perfectly incorporated into the transformation system."

After Cheng Bin pondered for a while, he began to help Jiang Qing improve his current thinking.

Jiang Qing, who was highly focused, didn't realize that his vague agitation and distracting thoughts disappeared at this moment. He only felt that the stone in his mind suddenly jumped out of a picture scroll.

In an instant, Jiang Qing seemed to see the stone in all directions, inside and out, smell the rustic smell from the stone, feel the hallucinatory cold touch, a bitter taste on the tip of the tongue, and an indistinguishable slight sound from the ear. ringing.

A lifelike stone just floated in Jiang Qing's mind, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

Compared with the impression left in his mind, the stone in his hand seemed to be less real. Jiang Qing asked Cheng Bin in surprise, "What a perfect visualization, how did you do it?"

"Take out your relevant memories and put them together after magical modification, and associate them with the stone information triggered by the vision." Cheng Bin hesitated for a while after answering, and then continued, "This is far from a perfect visualization, but it will If you go deeper, there is no reference information available in your memory, it seems that you can only go to the panorama.”

"Panorama?" Jiang Qing threw the stone in his hand, and asked a little strangely, "What is that?"

"A complex perception system that will cost you a huge price," Cheng Bin replied, "extracts the identifiable basic information elements of the world, and converts the information obtained through all perception channels into mathematical data for calculation, integration, and processing." Then write it directly into your perceptual memory."

Jiang Qing, who was quite familiar with mathematics, asked in confusion: "It sounds very powerful, what a huge price to pay?"

"The obstacles in the thinking process and calculation power can be temporarily skipped through the power of my body through the mind, but..."

Cheng Bin paused and sighed leisurely.

From the sigh in his mind, Jiang Qing felt a faint sadness, an indescribable complex emotion, which made him nervous—could the price be much more terrifying than he imagined?

After sighing, Cheng Bin continued in a low voice: "But, you will not lift from now on."

"." Jiang Qing looked confused, "What?"

Cheng Bin smiled maliciously: "You heard me right, don't doubt it, it's what you're thinking about right now."

"Hey! Say you don't want to read my privacy!" Thinking for a while, he couldn't help thinking of the scene when he dreamed of the beautiful young lady for the first time, Jiang Qing said with some embarrassment, "What do you mean by that? Is there such a price?"

"That's the price, and it's much more than that"

Cheng Bin's attitude suddenly became serious as if his face changed: "Tell me, corpse demon Jiang Qing, when you see a beautiful girl's wriggling stomach, when you smell the indescribable smell, you will still have desire for her And throbbing? Will it be affected by the body's instincts?"

Jiang Qing was taken aback.

Cheng Bin said in a low voice: "When you digitize the information felt by your tongue and nose, you will no longer be able to obtain satisfaction and happiness from delicious food; when you digitize the sensations of your skin and body, you will never Unable to appreciate real pain.

"When you open the panorama, you will see a deeper and more realistic view of the world. As a price, all the sensory stimulation of ordinary people will be far away from you, and everything will become one. You will not be able to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, and you will not be able to communicate with ordinary people. , pleasure and pain will be transformed into information that can be manipulated at will

"If you don't want to become a monster with distorted views under this abnormal sense, the only thing you can rely on is the deepest reason and persistence in your heart."

Facing the dazed Jiang Qing, Cheng Bin asked softly: "Even if you don't use the panorama, the correct practice will push you to this point sooner or later. Even if you have to pay this price, you are willing to continue to go further ?"

Jiang Qing was silent for a long time, then turned and walked towards the cave exit.

Walking out of the hidden maze entrance step by step, Jiang Qing walked into the unobstructed wilderness, looked up at the big sun in the sky that was blurred due to the glare, and could only feel the light gradually dimming.

The strong positive vitality stimulated the corpse demon's body, Jiang Qing raised his palm, feeling the scorching heat and slight tingling pain brought by the sun shining on his palm.

Even if transformed into a corpse demon, Jiang Qing still has most of the senses of ordinary people, even more sensitive than before.

"After becoming a zombie, I was very curious about why monsters are afraid of the sun, why monsters can become stronger by eating people, why the world is a big spherical shell, and why there are practitioners."

With fists in hand, Jiang Qing murmured in a low voice: "To know the answers to these questions, I think I must have a pair of eyes that can see everything, and I must see farther, deeper, and more clearly. Pay that price."

Cheng Bin sighed softly: "You can choose to look closer, blurry, and confused, so that the price will not be so heavy."

Jiang Qing took a deep breath. Feeling the burning sensation in his chest, he said solemnly, "Thank you for teaching me this. Can I call you Master?"

Cheng Bin was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said, "...Yes."

"Master," Jiang Qing asked, picking up the words he used to say while he was alive, looking at the sun that was gradually transforming into the yin, "You remind me like this, you must have taken this step back then, right? What did you think at that time? Did you regret it?"

"Ah, no one came to teach me these things at the time. I didn't discover these problems until I took this step."

Recalling the experience after the initial expansion of perception, Cheng Bin smiled lightly and said: "At first I almost vomited because I was not used to it. After that, I have been deliberately suppressing the opening of the panorama for a while, but after completing the full version of the panorama , I gradually stopped caring about these issues.”

The binary life white whose complexity breaks through the sky, the apostle who is based on the spirit and has a strange body, the bright galaxy, positive and negative space. Cheng Bin thought of the lives he had encountered and the scenery he had seen, and said to his new cheap apprentice :

"There is no such thing as regret. If you leave the low-level happiness, there will naturally be high-level happiness to fill your heart. The more you see, the more unknown scenery will be. As long as you keep walking on this curious exploration On the road, you must gain more than you give, so you won’t feel tired and lost.”

"I understand, master, then activate the panorama and start practicing." Under the gradually emerging negative moonlight, Jiang Qing nodded calmly, turned and walked towards the entrance of the lair.

"Come on, my apprentice," Cheng Bin said with a low smile, "come to learn some deeper high-dimensional mathematics and space-time physics, use the panorama to surpass the limit of ordinary people's imagination, and try to visualize my body existing in the space-time gap , the crystallization of my highest power and wisdom——

"Four-dimensional combat body."

The labyrinth where Jiang Qing hides is buried at the junction of an unnamed low rock mountain and a small canyon.

At this moment, at the commanding height on the other side of the canyon, a man in leather armor carefully concealed his figure, lying on his stomach and observing the dense vines on the opposite canyon wall from a distance.

Although the vines were so dense that there were almost no gaps, the area where the man was staring at was vaguely revealing an abnormal outline.

He is a hunter who was lured by a high reward offered by a nearby human city, searching for traces of a demon in this wilderness.

——The corpse demon who killed nearly a hundred cavalrymen and trampled on the head of the general of the Wang family.

Violent plants and animals can be seen everywhere in the wild these days. Anyone who dares to wander alone in the mountains has his own two brushes. This hunter is obviously excellent in all aspects.

But the hunter with excellent quality is hesitating at the moment.

He also knows low-level monsters well, and he is very clear about the nearby terrain. Even with his eyes closed, he can point out places suitable for monsters to live in this area.

So after seeing the reward, he started from the place where the cavalry was attacked and tracked it all the way here. Based on his experience and the various traces he observed, he was sure that the monster was staying in the cave hidden under the vines on the opposite mountain wall.

But the small natural cave seems to have been opened up by demons to connect with other caves. When the hunter ventured close to test the reaction of Yin Qi with props before, what was revealed in the flow of breath was an underground labyrinth extending in all directions.

The opponent can easily kill a large group of cavalry with fire spells. Going in and fighting it in a narrow space is obviously an act of death, but the hunter is reluctant to take a little reward for tipping off the news. He has Zhengyang refined by Taoist priests. If you use it as a trap, it is more than enough to kill ordinary monsters.

The hunter hesitated between risk and income, but he couldn't hesitate for too long. If his colleagues came, he wouldn't even get a little reward for reporting.

After hesitating for a long time, the hunter gritted his teeth and decided to use the precious Zhengyang powder as a trap to try. If the effect is not good, he will never show his face and run away.

While the hunter was carefully walking through the mountains, looking for the entrances of the maze and suitable trap deployment points, in the nearest human city, the elders of the royal family who had lost their core nephews had privately organized a demon-killing team, ready to go out of the city to avenge their revenge.

At this moment, Jiang Qing, with the help of Cheng Bin, has overcome many obstacles and completed the most basic and crucial practice.

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