Time flies so fast. It has been two or three years since I achieved great progress in cultivating the soul. In the past few years, except for spending nearly a year instructing Song and Yu to set up a stove and cook, the rest of my time has been basically spent on On cultivation.
Because I am separated from the tribe and live alone, I don’t need to work according to the tribe’s schedule. In addition to practicing every day, I just watch the mountains and rivers. I occasionally go in and out of the jungle, either looking for delicious food or transferring medicinal and spiritual materials. I live a leisurely life. , to have a bit of the imaginary fairy and happy atmosphere.
At night, the lunar star in the nine heavens shines the moonlight on the vast land as usual, and the cliffs on the eastern side of the tribal mountain top sparkle with the brilliance of jade under the moonlight.
Under the canopy of lush trees that covered most of the cliff, a bonfire was burning quietly in the fire pit. Behind the fire pit, leaning against the giant trees in the forest, stood a primitive and simple hut made of huge rocks without any decoration.
This hut was built by Yan himself a year ago, ending his more than ten years of cave-dwelling savage life and having a house to live in the wilderness.
At this time, Yan Zheng was sitting on the stone couch in the house with his eyes closed. The essence of the surrounding moonlight poured into the stone house like a tired bird returning to the forest, gathered around him, and was continuously swallowed into the body with his long breathing. .
As Yan's practice deepens, the top of the tree canopy above his head and even the surrounding cliffs seem to be breathing, attracting and gathering the essence of moonlight in a larger area, making the entire cliff particularly magical and conspicuous.
Yan's entire consciousness is concentrated in his own sea of consciousness, and his body naturally absorbs the rich moon essence all over his body unconsciously, either directly integrating into the blood and soul, or transforming into Tao Qi in the body, nourishing and strengthening the physical soul.
In the sea of consciousness, Yan's soul is more condensed than two years ago, and his facial features and body are clearly visible, as if he is a real person, and there is no illusion at all.
At this time, the soul of Yan is sitting upright in the center of the sea of consciousness. A merit divine flame is burning quietly between the hands holding the lower Dantian. A wooden board and a wooden stick are chasing each other around the soul. float.
This board and stick were exactly the props that Yan used to drill wood to make fire. Later, he absorbed a lot of merit and turned into a veritable merit treasure. Now as his cultivation deepens, he is finally included in the sea of consciousness. .
In the sea of consciousness, flickering light spots appeared out of thin air from time to time. Most of them were refined and absorbed by Yan's soul, while a small part was refined into the sea of consciousness and the three meritorious artifacts around him.
As a large amount of moonlight was absorbed and refined, at a certain moment, Yan's soul seemed to have broken through a certain limit, and he couldn't help but feel joy in his heart.
At the same time, a large whirlpool suddenly appeared out of thin air in the sea of consciousness. Along with the whirlpool, a huge suction force emerged from it, pulling Yan's soul into it involuntarily.
In a trance of mental consciousness, Yan seemed to have jumped out of some kind of restrictions and shackles. At this moment, his spiritual senses seemed extremely sensitive and clear, and his whole body felt relaxed as never before.
The pleasure of this great relief made Yan's consciousness slightly absent-minded. When he came back to his senses, he found that he was in a stone house. The figure under him was sitting on the stone couch with his eyes closed and covered with rich moonlight.
"What's going on? That person below is me!" Yan thought with confusion as he looked at the absurd scene in front of him in shock, feeling the fetters and pull from the figure below him.
It's not that Yan has never 'seen' himself through his own spiritual consciousness and divine eyes, but that kind of 'seeing' and the current face-to-face intuitive seeing are completely different concepts.
It is harmonious and natural yet a little strange and awkward.
Encountering a sudden change, Yan's state of mind, which he had practiced for several years, finally came into play. In just a moment, he quickly calmed down and figured out what was going on.
"I am now in the spirit state!" Yan thought with certainty as he looked at the faint shadow left on the ground under the moonlight.
Feeling the faint fetters and pull coming from the body sitting upright beneath him, and now floating in the air with the power of his soul, Yan almost had a guess in his mind about this sudden change.
"The soul is out of body!"
A faint joy filled Yan's heart, and he felt the unprecedented relaxation and relief coming from his soul. He began to control his soul to float around in the stone house, and finally began to tentatively drift away from the physical body and float outside the house.
"ah--"
Just as Yuanshen escaped from the protection of the stone house, a throbbing suddenly emerged from the bottom of Yan's heart, and his eyes were already surrounded by a fiery red light.
Without giving him time to react, a heart-breaking burning sensation suddenly came from his soul. The sudden severe pain made Yan's soul unconsciously scream silently.
However, fortunately, there is a divine flame of merit in Yan's sea of consciousness, although this divine flame has restrained all its power in the sea of consciousness.
However, if the soul has been with it for a long time, it will naturally be refined by its influence, making Yan's soul contain a trace of yang in the pure yin, making it much more condensed and stronger than ordinary people.
Therefore, after being lost for a moment, Yan reacted and quickly retreated into the house. Without the light of the bonfire outside, the burning pain in his soul immediately dissipated a lot.
Only then did Yan have time to check his soul.
Yan carefully sensed his soul, only to find that his soul was still solidified and intact, and he had not actually suffered much damage.
The reason why there was such a big reaction just now was entirely because the damage suffered by the soul was directly reflected back to the soul, amplifying the pain induction, which made Yan unable to adapt for a while.
Although the Yuan Shen didn't seem to be seriously damaged, after Yan carefully sensed it, he found a layer of sweat-like substance on the surface of the Yuan Shen, which he gently shook and dissipated into the air with the wind.
"It seems that the strength of my soul is still not strong enough to face open fire and other solstice things. I have to be more careful in the future. But this is also a way to speed up the growth of the soul." Yan Ruo watched as the soul fell off the surface. Volatile impurities slowly floated in the air like dust, he thought thoughtfully.
"But you can't be anxious, and you must not leave hidden dangers for future practice. After all, the most indispensable thing in today's prehistoric times is time."
With a plan in mind, Yan didn't intend to take risks outside the house. He thought slightly, controlled the soul to coil directly on the top of his body, and used the power of the soul to swallow the moonlight directly.
Suddenly, the moonlight in the room was seen rushing towards Yan's soul at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its speed of breathing in and refining moonlight was at least several times that of the physical body.
Yan's whole mind was immersed in Yuanshen. As he swallowed more moonlight, Yuanshen began to slowly expand, but his body gradually became lighter.
At the same time, under Yan's mental perception, there were waves of coldness in his soul. He knew that this was the negative impact caused by the soul swallowing too much moonlight at one time and the pure yin cold energy having to be refined in the future.
Yan had learned this lesson when he started practicing, so when he saw this situation, he immediately stopped practicing. The soul no longer stayed outside the body, and directly followed the bond with the physical body and jumped into it from the top gate Baihui. , falling into the sea of consciousness.
As soon as the soul fell into the physical body, it was as if it had been put on a layer of armor. There was a heavy feeling from the depths of the soul, and it was no longer as light and agile as when the soul came out of the body.
But at the same time, after the soul returned to the physical body, it seemed that it had sustenance. The burns I suffered when I left my body and the coldness caused by swallowing moonlight quickly improved under the nourishment of the warm breath emanating from my body.
"No wonder there is a saying in the past life that corpses are transformed into immortals. Without the shackles of the physical body, one can indeed achieve great liberation." Feeling the changes in the soul after leaving the body and in the physical body, Yan couldn't help but sigh.
"However, the physical body and the soul are like the yin and yang of Tai Chi, which are mutually shackles but can nourish and grow each other. Although the corpse can be dissipated and transformed into feathers, it can be a temporary relief, but if the lonely yin does not last long, I am afraid that there will be many troubles in the future and the achievements will be limited."
Thinking of this, Yan shook his head fiercely, completely discarding the trace of memory in his heart caused by the great relief of the soul's out-of-body experience.
"Cultivation of both life and life is the right path, never lose the big for the sake of small things." Yan warned himself in his heart.
