Rumors go as quickly as they come.
What's more, it was just some small animals gathered together, and it was not like we saw any real mountain spirits. There was no particularly supernatural phenomenon. At most, it was just a little creepy.
Over time, the villagers also put this incident behind them, and their after-dinner conversations were quickly replaced by the romantic affair at the home of Widow Li, the owner of the village.
But Ye Qin's practice will not stop.
The bright moon on the top of the mountain remained as before, shining on the rocks like a reflection in the water, and a long shadow could be vaguely seen hovering among them.
Even if it is cloudy occasionally, it will not affect Ye Qin's current visualization, because the bright moon is already burned into his heart.
Ye Qin practiced as usual, but after a while, various small animals gathered behind him again.
They are like pilgrim saints, worshiping Ye Qin on the boulder.
They have always been dominated by nature, and they have a very vague concept in their minds, but this is only a rough outline.
They don't know why they do this, but there is an inexplicable instinct driving them.
This is the spirituality of animals. They are naturally close to nature and have a keen sense of all things. This is an innate spirituality that humans do not possess at all.
But even so, it is simply impossible for ordinary creatures to enter cultivation like Ye Qin.
Because spirituality alone is not enough, you also need wisdom. Only by combining the two can you step into the door of spiritual practice.
Therefore, Ye Qin is a variable under the so-called 'great road', or an outlier among all things in nature, and the only exception among ten thousand.
According to his current state, he is still unable to hold lectures and educate all living beings like the saints in folklore.
The reason why these animals gather here is just because the surrounding magnetic field is affected by Ye Qin, which makes them feel very comfortable, so they subconsciously want to get closer.
The moonlight is faint, like water waves, as if you can reach out and touch it.
As Ye Qin gradually entered a better state, at some point, a layer of fog began to appear around him.
The altitude in the mountains is high and the temperature is low. Due to the terrain, mountain fog occasionally occurs, but this fog is obviously different from the fog in the mountains and seems a bit mysterious.
The hazy moonlight was like a veil, intertwined with the mist, shrouding Ye Qin, as if he was swallowing clouds and spitting out mist, stirring up all the storms.
I don't know how long it took, but Ye Qin slowly opened his eyes. Before the fog around him had time to dissipate, a faint trace of a crescent moon formed, and then slowly dissipated in the air.
Ye Qin was thoughtful. He had vaguely noticed some changes in his body before. After several observations after practicing, he was finally sure.
During his own cultivation, some visions would appear unconsciously, but all of this happened in Ye Qin's unconscious state and was not under his control at all.
He speculated that the reason why the policeman who approached him earlier walked away without any reason was because he was confused by the vision.
"It seems that I have reached the second level of cultivation and have some special means. It is not a magic, but it can be called a 'supernatural power' for the time being. But as far as the current situation is concerned, this magical power has nothing to do with me. To put it bluntly, I still can’t achieve the state of being able to retract and release freely.”
It is impossible for people to know it from birth, and the same is true in cultivation.
What's more, Ye Qin is the only practitioner. If you want to figure out how to use this magical power and fully control it, you may have to dig deeper.
Ye Qin thought hard and decided to go to the library again.
Although he is an alien, there is actually not much risk in entering the city. After all, he is too small, and no one will associate him with the so-called 'monster'. Human beings will come up with reasonable explanations on their own.
Moreover, if he didn't go to the library, Ye Qin really couldn't find any other place to obtain knowledge. It was simply unrealistic to rely solely on 'my power of thinking', so learning was very important.
This time he was familiar with the road and spent less time than last time. He looked at the familiar building in front of him. In the evening, when everyone in the library had left, he quietly slipped in.
Go straight to the spirit and hypnosis and other related books. After all, whether it is fantasy or hallucination, it is closely related to the human spirit.
After this period of practice, he has not only changed physically, but also mentally. Today, he can read ten lines without difficulty, and can even have a photographic memory.
However, Ye Qin was careful and did not act too exaggerated. Even reading a book seemed to be in an unintentional dormancy, making it difficult for people to see the weirdness.
After getting the answer he wanted, Ye Qin didn't stay much this time and left quickly.
The mountains are green and continuous. As the night slowly falls, it is like thick ink smearing. A silver glow climbs up the treetops, like the finishing touch, injecting soul into this landscape splash-ink painting.
The moon sets over the mountain stream and is silent, illuminating Ye Qin's way back.
Returning from the reinforced concrete city to the mountains, it felt like we had stepped into another world.
There is no feasting here, no cars honking, no hustle and bustle of the world, just endless tranquility, accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds.
And the everlasting bright moon.
Ye Qin slowed down, his snake body crawling, recalling what he saw in the library, and couldn't help but fall into thinking.
When the eyes see false things, it is an illusion; when the five senses are blinded by false things, it is an illusion.
Illusions can affect a person's perception of things through people's vision, smell, and various senses.
So what is "illusion"?
From a scientific perspective, the universe is just an illusion and the world is a projection of consciousness.
To explain it in Buddhist terms, 'the nature of dependent origination is empty, all phenomena are only consciousness, and there is nothing outside the mind, and there are many aspects.'
To put it more bluntly, when we look at something, what we see in front of us is the "appearance", which belongs to the color and dharmas among the six objects.
It is due to the refraction of light and shadow in contact with the eyes, which is transmitted to the brain through the pupil and optic nerve. Then our conscious eye consciousness is at the contact point of the posterior lobe of the brain.
Consciousness and eye consciousness emerged from this, and can distinguish the color of objects, text, and the meaning of the image, beauty and ugliness, length, width, distance, etc.
Eye consciousness and consciousness are all delusions, and they are all caused by causes and conditions, which means that they can be changed by external forces.
It's a bit like hypnosis. In modern times, illusions and hallucinations are all mixed together and shown in hypnosis.
The magical power that Ye Qin possesses is more inclined to use his own powerful spiritual thoughts to influence the people around him and even create a special magnetic field, which is the so-called "illusion".
Hypnosis requires the help of external objects, but he does not need it, because he uses himself as a bridge and can release it anytime, anywhere, as he pleases.
"Yan's Family Instructions: Returning to the Heart" once recorded that "there have been teachers and illusions in the world, but they can still walk on fire and walk on blades, sow melons and move wells."
From this we can see that there are actually traces of illusionists in the world, but at that time, such people were called magicians.
The more famous one is Fan Ying, a Han Chinese.
"Book of the Later Han: Biography of Fangshu" records: "There was a storm coming from the west, and the British scholar said: 'The fire in CD City is very strong'. Because it contains water, wash it to the west, so the reporter was ordered to wait for a while. After the guests came from the capital of Shu, Cloud: There was a big fire that day. Black clouds came from the east. It rained heavily for a while, and the fire was extinguished. "
Later generations have different opinions on these illusions of swallowing clouds and spitting mist. Some people say it is a coincidence, others say that the warlocks colluded with each other, and others say that Fan Ying has special powers.
In addition, there are Sun Nu of the Eastern Han Dynasty who was good at beheading, and Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty who was good at illusions and could make people look at soybeans as villains.
In the Five Dynasties, there were sorcerers who could attract birds. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yue Banguo, far to the northwest, came to offer illusions. There are many such records in the wild notes.
