A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 112 The Sea of Spiritual Knowledge
Duan Rong's dormitory was already cramped and small. He sat cross-legged in a corner with the wardrobe and easel facing away from him, surrounding himself. Together with the walls on both sides, he had just enough space to sit!

This is also the orientation requirement for constructing the mandala in the practice!

Duan Rong hung the portraits of the Four Great Kings on four sides!

According to the requirements of the practice, Acalanatha is in the east, Vajra is in the west, Vajra Yaksha is in the north, and Hayagriva is in the south.

After the mandala was constructed, Duan Rong sat cross-legged with his eyes closed and began to practice the exercises, chanting the mantra, and adjusting his breathing according to a special breathing method!
According to the Taizang Sutra, after a complex breathing session, you should look for the turning point of breathing between the inhalation and the exhalation (that is, the point where you take a deep breath and the breath sinks into your dantian and naturally turns into exhalation). Let your mental power sink into this point, and you will be able to enter the spiritual sea of consciousness!

However, Duan Rong tried many times and failed!
This is because the turning point of breathing between inhalation and exhalation is actually very erratic and vague, just like a sliding pulse, which is not easy to grasp!
After a long time, even though Duan Rong was quite patient, he couldn't help but become a little impatient!

But, at this moment, Duan Rong's consciousness suddenly shook!
Just now, his mental power accidentally hit that point accurately!
Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and then a shadow appeared, twisting and spinning... He suddenly felt dizzy...

Suddenly the dizziness stopped, and Duan Rong found himself in a space...

This world seems to be an endless and vast space...

It was like being in a wilderness in the deep darkness of night...

The black earth is boundless and spreads far away...

And the sky is silent...

Between the sky and the earth, there was a faint mist, and the mist was constantly rolling and surging...

"This is... the spiritual sea of consciousness?"

At this moment, Duan Rong suddenly discovered that in the southeast direction of the sky in his spiritual sea of consciousness, there were several phantoms hanging upside down in the sky!

Duan Rong looked carefully, but still couldn't figure out what those blurry shadows were.

But as soon as Duan Rong had an idea, those phantoms began to rotate on their own as if responding to him!

Thoughts rolled through Duan Rong's mind!

He immediately knew what those shadows were!
Those were the shadowy images of every weapon spirit he had ever devoured!

Zhao Mu's oxtail knife, the unsharpened machete in the warehouse, Gu Suxiu's silver needle, Zhu Xiaoqi's silver anklet, the Mo Dao on the weapon rack in the martial arts arena, Jie Lei's javelin, the barrier knife and the immortality lock...

Duan Rong was shocked!
They are all in his sea of consciousness!
Duan Rong's heart suddenly skipped a beat. "The weapon spirits of these weapons are all hanging upside down above the sky! What about the eighty-one first-level tree spirits he devoured?"

Duan Rong looked around under the sky, but except for the shadow of the weapon in the southeast direction, there was nothing else in the sky, it was empty!

"There's none?"

Duan Rong didn't think so. Since the tree spirit was swallowed by him, it should be in his sea of consciousness.

Moreover, he felt that when the swallowing failed before, the system reminded him that the relevant area in the spiritual space was full.

The so-called spiritual space actually refers to the spiritual sea of consciousness!

It’s just that the same thing is described differently in different cultural systems!

The spiritual and bright sea of consciousness is a description used in the Taizang Sutra. It is an adjective that was created based on the cultural system of the Kyushu world!

The spiritual space is an adjective given by the system based on its own modern knowledge system and language habits! Although the words used to describe it are different, they are talking about the same thing, which is the space in front of you at this moment!
Therefore, Duan Rong was certain that the eighty-one first-level tree spirits must be here!
Since it’s not on the sky, it must be somewhere else!
Duan Rong suddenly discovered that under the surging thin fog, a faint light was coming from the southwest, just like a sparse group of fireflies hiding in the fog!
Duan Rong walked towards the faint light!

After a while, Duan Rong looked at the sea of ​​green light in front of him, and his thoughts paused slightly!
That sea of light actually consisted of eighty-one trees, rooted in the earth, emitting a faint green glow that looked like solid tree shadows!
"Is this me devouring those tree spirits?"

These tree shadows are quite delicate and solid, and even the lines and veins on the leaves can be seen clearly!
Duan Rong's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he immediately counted the tree spirits!
"Nine rows and nine columns, eighty-one trees in total!"

Duan Rong turned his head to look at the shadow of the weapon on the southeastern sky, then looked at the sea of tree spirits in front of him, and said in surprise: "That's not right, why haven't these tree spirits been digested and absorbed! It's been so many days, and there are still only eighty-one trees!"

Duan Rong circled around the sea of light several times and finally stopped in front of a tree spirit!
In fact, only half of this tree spirit was left. Its trunk was incomplete, as if it had been gnawed by a wild deer. In particular, one branch had leaves that looked like they had been eaten by insects. Only a small part of the leaves remained, with jagged marks left on the edges...

Moreover, there were strands of light that were slowly pulling away from the leaves on this branch, just like silk pulling away from a silkworm chrysalis...

Duan Rong observed carefully and found that the extracted light thread disappeared without a trace as soon as it entered the void, as if it was absorbed by something!
Duan Rong suddenly realized that these light threads that were being slowly extracted were absorbed by his own spiritual space after being extracted!

In other words, the spiritual sea of consciousness is digesting these tree spirits!

"But this speed is too slow! It's like a snail crawling!"

Looking at the branches and leaves of this tree spirit again, Duan Rong's heart suddenly moved!
“This is the… camphor tree!”

This was the first first-level tree spirit he found in Wild Boar Mountain. When he devoured the tree spirit, he shouted excitedly in the mountain.

He swallowed the spirit of this camphor tree on the first day he entered Wild Boar Mountain. He stayed in Wild Boar Mountain for eight or nine days, and it has been several days since he came back. It took more than ten days, and he only digested and absorbed half of the tree spirit!

At this moment, Duan Rong suddenly understood why he felt discomfort in his brain after swallowing the weapon spirit, but did not feel that discomfort after swallowing the tree spirit!

This is because the weapon's spirit can be completely digested and absorbed in two or three hours!

The tree spirit's spirit took more than ten days to absorb half of the tree!

There is no discomfort, simply because it disappears and is absorbed too slowly!

"If I wait to digest and absorb the tree spirit to improve my spiritual power level, I wonder how long it will take?"

Fortunately, I didn't let go of the soul technique in Xu Ruhu's hand... otherwise I would have been tricked by the system...

It takes half a month to digest half a tree spirit, which means that it takes a whole month to completely digest and absorb a first-level tree spirit!

Eighty-one, doesn't that mean it will take eighty-one months?

How could he wait?

Duan Rong left the sea of tree spirit light and returned to the center of the earth!
In the spiritual and bright sea of consciousness, thin mist was rolling, the sky was low, and the world was silent!

He felt an ancient and powerful force spreading throughout this world, corresponding to his own thoughts...

Duan Rong was shocked and whispered silently: "Everyone's sea of consciousness is a universe..."

Duan Rong suddenly looked at the thin mist floating in front of him. Something seemed to be moving in his heart, and he said in horror: "This floating, rolling mist... is... my thoughts?!"

(End of this chapter)