Celestial being

Yuan Ming spent much less time on animal training books than he expected, so after returning all the books, he began to pace in front of the bookshelf, selecting some new content to read.

When he came to the category of "Geography", Yuan Ming stopped and wandered on the bookshelf for a long time before finding a book called "Lu Tongzhi".

This book is larger and thicker than other books, and its cover is also very different. It is made of hard wood with a map hollowed out on it.

Yuan Ming opened "Lu Tongzhi" and started reading, but found that the first page inside was folded.

He opened it and spread it out, and found that it was as big as three pages of a book, with a vast topographic map drawn with black and red lines on it.

It is not accurate to say that it is a topographic map, because the upper part of this map is just a rough line map, with rough areas demarcated by the territory, but no topographic and landform markings.

The lower part is clearly marked with various landforms, including protruding peaks, sunken valleys, and clear and lifelike mountains and water veins.

However, Yuan Ming's eyes fell squarely on the one-third of the extremely simple map above.

There is no other reason than the two big characters "Central Plains" marked on it near the edge of the map. That is the vague hometown in Yuan Ming's memory. It is the place where he wants to go back but doesn't know where to go.

Yuan Ming looked at it carefully for a while and found that the only one-third of the territory was obviously incomplete. It only roughly marked part of the territory of two countries, one named Dajin, and the one he saw when lighting incense. The little emperor's country has the same name, and the other one is called Xiyue.

These two countries live next to each other, and they are both bordered by the 100,000 mountains that look like dragons, and over the thick ridge outlined by the black line, there is Southern Xinjiang on the other side.

The terrain of southern Xinjiang is outlined much more carefully. In addition to mountains and rivers, some countries and spheres of influence similar to countries are also marked.

Yuan Ming searched hard and finally found the location of Biluo Cave.

After carefully comparing it, he was surprised to find that the seemingly vast Biluo Cave was nothing compared to the huge Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The entire southern border area is also ridiculously large.

After looking at it for a while, Yuan Ming tried to find a way from southern Xinjiang to the Central Plains, but found nothing.

"The world is so big. It's not easy to return home after all." Yuan Ming sighed in his heart.

At this time, he remembered something and began to search on the map again. After a while, he finally found a mountain peak as small as a grain of rice and saw the small words "Qingyao Mountain" marked next to it.

That was the hometown Hagun mentioned, and it was also his last concern before his death.

Yuan Ming planned to wait for him to establish a foothold in Biluo Cave and then find a way to go out. It was too difficult to go back to the Central Plains. It would be relatively easy to go to Qingyao Mountain.

After looking at it for a moment, he put away his complicated thoughts, folded the map back, and started to read the book.

Most of what is recorded in this book is an introduction to the various mountains and rivers in southern Xinjiang. It is mixed with many legends and anecdotes about gods, immortals and monsters, which are bizarre and bizarre, and the authenticity is unknown.

Since most of the places were unfamiliar, he had never been there or heard of them, so he had no idea in his mind. After reading for a while, he felt that he was losing interest and put the book back.

Later, he searched for a few geography classics to learn more about the Central Plains. Unfortunately, the descriptions in them were few and could not provide him with much information.

"After all, in the southern border area, there are really very few books about the Central Plains." Yuan Ming stuffed the last book back on the bookshelf and continued to pace, wanting to see what other categories contained.

After a few steps, he came to the "Practice" category and stopped.

Yuan Ming casually took out a book from the bookshelf, glanced at the cover, and found "General Knowledge of Cultivation" written in southern Xinjiang characters, and he immediately became interested.

It was an unexpected thing that he could embark on the path of spiritual practice. He had been trapped in the Hundred Thousand Mountains as a furry beast slave, so naturally no one would teach him the basic knowledge of spiritual practice.

After becoming a registered disciple by mistake, no one answered his questions. Yuan Mingzheng lacked such knowledge.

He immediately returned to his seat, opened the book and began to read carefully.

After looking at it for a moment, Yuan Ming frowned and thought to himself: "It turns out that it is also cultivation. Monks and monks are not the same. There are also Dharma cultivation, body cultivation and soul cultivation."

According to the content in the book, the so-called physical cultivation means diligently cultivating the body, practicing physical exercises, focusing on tempering the skin, muscles, bones, flesh, flesh, and internal organs, training one's body like a magic weapon, fighting with others, and not relying on external objects. , it is a killing weapon in itself and has strong survivability.

Dharma cultivation focuses on the accumulation of magic power, introducing the aura between heaven and earth into the body, further purifying and refining it, and then storing it in the Dantian meridians. With the release of magic, you can have the unpredictable power of ghosts and gods, and practice to a high and deep level. It can even move mountains and reclaim seas.

Compared with physical cultivation, this book obviously promotes the way of legal cultivation. Although his body is relatively weak, there are endless ways to cast magic and control objects, and his attacks are varied. He can also use methods such as activating and wearing magic weapons, tempering with drugs, etc. Improving oneself often results in more comprehensive offense and defense.

The third major category mentioned in the book is soul cultivation, which has very little space.

Regarding soul cultivation, the author of this book seems to have obvious discrimination. He only said that he neither practices body nor practices, and focuses on the intensive cultivation of the power of the soul, which is actually a heresy in cultivation.

The evaluation of the word "heresy" can be described as extremely poor.

Later, the book still gave some brief descriptions of the methods of soul cultivation, but they were somewhat mysterious.

For example, it is mentioned in the book that when soul cultivation reaches a certain level, one can control a soulless corpse and control it to walk, jump, and even attack and fight like a living person.

"Who is that silver cat?" When he saw this, Yuan Ming couldn't help but think of the scene in the Mandrill King's cave where the silver cat controlled the zombies to attack.

Regarding soul cultivation, the book also describes the ability to travel around the world and search for souls.

Among them, the description of the wandering spirit is that after reaching a certain level of soul cultivation, the soul can leave the body, Feng Xu can control the wind and travel thousands of miles, and even attack others in the form of a soul body, killing them thousands of miles away.

What interests Yuan Ming the most is actually the ability to search for souls.

With this ability, the soul cultivator can forcibly invade the sea of ​​consciousness of others with his own consciousness, search and explore other people's memories at will, and even worse, can forcibly tamper with or erase other people's memories.

"If he had this magical power, would he be able to retrieve his memory?" Yuan Ming muttered secretly in his heart.

As he continued to look backwards, Yuan Ming gradually realized that although soul cultivation had obvious uniqueness, it also had fatal flaws.

Compared with the other two systems, the training conditions of soul cultivation are more demanding, and the cultivation process is more dangerous. Even with the guidance of orthodox soul cultivation techniques, it is easy to go crazy.

In the mild case, the person loses his mind and becomes stupid; in the severe case, the soul is lost and he has no chance to be reincarnated as a human being.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He seemed to have never been in a similar situation so far. He didn't know whether it was because of good luck, or because the "Ming Yue Jue" that Silver Cat gave him was special?

Looking back, he is currently hampered in his practice and his progress is slow. He does not realize that there is any risk of going crazy. Instead, he feels that this technique can alleviate the backlash risks left by his previous practice of fur-clothing. This is also the main motivation for him to continue practicing.

Yuan Ming even felt that perhaps this was an exaggeration by the author of this book based on his prejudice against soul cultivation, and he was quite dissatisfied with it.

You must know that the furry technique is still an important tool for him to rely on when facing the enemy in battle. He still does not intend to give up until he has a better way to defend against the enemy. Naturally, he must practice the Ming Yue Jue.

After that, Yuan Ming deliberately looked for information about soul cultivation, but unfortunately there was no content that described soul cultivation alone. There was some mixed with other content.

However, these contents are scattered and mixed, and there are even mutually refuting contents, making it difficult to distinguish between right and wrong.

But there is one thing, these data are surprisingly consistent.

That is their attitude towards soul cultivation. The good ones are afraid of it, while the bad ones think that all soul cultivation is heresy. They also say that among soul cultivation, seven to eight out of ten are evil cultivators, and no one takes an evil path. , but less than 30%.

Based on his previous preconceived judgment, Yuan Ming did not comment on this. He only believed that the method of soul cultivation was mysterious and involved the memory of the soul. Instead, he decided to further practice the "Mingyue Jue".

After putting back the last batch of materials he got, Yuan Ming stretched himself. Just as he was about to find some more materials to read, a middle-aged man wearing deacon's clothes came down the stairs and shouted, "Xu time is coming. It will be closed soon.”

Only then did he realize that he had been reading most of the book in Guizang Pavilion without knowing it.

He did not leave immediately, but walked around the first floor for a while, and reluctantly left until Xu.

…

In the afternoon of the next day, Yuan Ming went to the Execution Hall.

With his current knowledge and experience, coupled with his extraordinary memory and familiarity with the fire ferrets, he naturally successfully passed the initial approval of the management deacon and received the task of taking care of the fire ferrets.

Then, according to the instructions of the mission, he returned directly to Huolian Hall to find the third cave master.

The courtyard where the three cave masters live alone is located in a secluded bamboo forest in the back mountain, and the environment is very quiet.

After Yuan Ming asked several fellow disciples, he found the way there, but before he reached the bamboo forest, he met Chen Wan halfway.

Except for the third cave master of Huoliantang who accepted three inner disciples, most of the other elders only had one inner disciple, or had no disciples at all.

On weekdays, most of these inner disciples serve their masters and receive instruction by word and deed at any time, and Chen Wan is no exception. Therefore, Yuan Ming has rarely met her since he entered the disciples.