New and dark light years

Chapter 533 Taking in the Little Paper Doll

The gushing spiritual energy was of frighteningly high quality.

Li Lin even had the idea of ​​making his 'home' here.

Then Li Lin looked at the little paper figure and asked, "If the spiritual energy in this egg continues to leak out at this rate, how long will it take before it's completely used up?"

The little paper figure shook its head. Although it couldn't make any expressions, both Li Lin and Li Yanjing seemed to be able to sense its 'conflict'.

After a while, it said, "I can't remember, but I remember consuming a lot of spiritual energy from it before I turned into a paper doll. But I've forgotten what I looked like before, how big I was."

Li Lin walked around the egg once, and then he estimated that, given the size or volume of the egg, there should be a huge amount of spiritual energy inside.

"This thing is mine from now on, any objections?" Li Lin looked at the little paper figure.

The little paper figure shook its head: "Just don't kill me. You can take this if you want it."

“We can’t take it away,” Li Lin said domineeringly. “So this place belongs to us too.”

After hesitating for a moment, the little paper figure said, "Okay."

Li Yanjing chuckled from the side, "This little one is quite easy to talk to."

The little paper figure sighed helplessly.

How could I not be polite? I'm just a paper doll right now. Although my spiritual sense is strong enough, I don't have a body. I can't even use half of my abilities. I can only compromise and make do.

Li Lin looked at the little paper figure and said, "You can leave now!"

"You really won't kill me?"

"That's not necessary!"

The little paper figure glanced at the two of them, then ran off on its short legs.

It crawled back to the center of the nest and tried to twist the stone cushion with all its might, but it couldn't turn it.

In the end, all I could do was stand there in the Orz pose, motionless for a long time.

Li Lin absorbed the dissipated spiritual energy in the space below.

Li Yanjing was the same.

In less than half an hour, the two of them were 'full'.

Because the quality of spiritual energy is too high, absorbing any more will cause your meridians to burst.

I must go back and refine it properly.

Li Yanjing stood up, rubbed her forehead, and said, "Husband, although we absorb a lot of spiritual energy, I still feel that dual cultivation is better."

"Why?" Li Lin asked.

“The spiritual energy generated from dual cultivation doesn’t need to be refined,” Li Yanjing said somewhat helplessly. “But the spiritual energy inside this egg is quite raw and needs to be refined. And if it’s dual cultivation, the amount of spiritual energy generated will be even greater.”

Indeed.

But Li Lin understood that this was why they didn't have a deep breathing technique.

Thinking of this, Li Lin suddenly remembered something: he had previously received the Purple Qi Swallowing Clouds Heart Sutra from He Yumao.

I've been quite busy lately and haven't had a chance to read it yet, but now I should be able to find some time to take a look.

After all, it is a high-level Taoist mental cultivation method, so perhaps some useful information can be found in it.

Li Lin reattached the eggshell, preventing the spiritual energy from leaking out further.

He and Li Yanjing then went to the center of the bird's nest and saw the little paper figure lying there, looking utterly dejected.

"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Li Lin asked.

"I can't turn the switch."

Li Yanjing smiled, stepped forward, and turned the mechanism.

In an instant, mountains and seas can change.

The two returned to their cave in Xianning County with a piece of paper.

The thousands of paper figures left here before are still standing quietly.

Li Lin put all the paper figures into his storage ring, preparing to leave with Li Yanjing.

Just then, the little paper figure suddenly said, "Wait, how about I be with you?"

Li Lin looked at it and frowned slightly: "I don't believe you."

"I'm just a paper doll now, I have no abilities left, and you're still afraid of me?"

Li Lin laughed and said, "Often, knowledge and experience are also a kind of strength. You look like you've lived for a long time. Who knows if you have any special methods that will allow you to break free from your paper doll body and regain your own body in the future? At that time, I dare not say that I can be your opponent."

"I don't even know where my body went. Maybe someone destroyed it." The paper figure pointed to the sky: "Look, the ceiling of my cave has been cut off."

Li Lin still refused to take in the paper figure.

Just as Li Lin was about to leave, the paper figure suddenly shouted, "Wait, I have a way to make you believe me."

"What method?" Li Lin asked, turning his head.

He could actually tell that the sword aura that had severed the cave was definitely the work of that 'sword immortal'.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

Li Lin disagrees.

People are complex, and it's hard to say whether this little paper figure has really regained its true form and whether it will cause any conflict of interest with him.

But if the other party has a way of making you believe it.

Then we could consider it.

After all, the 'person' who could make a sword immortal go to such lengths must not be a weakling.

If we can win them over, that would indeed be a good thing.

The little paper figure said, "I will send 30% of my divine soul into your Purple Mansion, so that you can control my life and death. If you are unhappy, just crush my divine soul, and I will die."

Li Lin raised an eyebrow.

Li Yanjing asked, "But you seem to be more powerful. Your soul entered my husband's dantian. Isn't that advantageous to you?"

"Do you even understand the pain of having a piece of your soul separated?" the little paper figure shouted as it jumped up. "My soul... if a piece is separated, I'll be incomplete. How can an incomplete soul possibly harm a cultivator with a complete soul? You're not a mortal; a mortal would be unable to withstand it."

Li Yanjing took two steps back and approached Li Lin, saying, "Husband, I think what it says is true."

Li Lin agreed and said, "Then let's give it a try."

"Then wait a moment."

The little paper figure touched its body with both hands, and finally produced a blue ball of light.

Within this ball of light, one could vaguely make out a naked woman huddled together, floating in the air.

But because the portrait was so faint, nothing could be seen clearly, except that it was a woman.

"Alright, you can take it."

As it spoke, the little paper figure trembled all over, as if it had been in great pain.

Li Lin took the small ball of light and placed it between his eyebrows.

Then, Li Lin felt something enter his Purple Mansion.

After this stuff went in, I didn't feel anything special, just a kind of... fullness.

It seems there's something warmer in the Purple Palace now.

The little paper figure lay motionless on the ground.

Li Yanjing walked over and poked it with her jade-like finger.

The little paper figure said weakly, "I'm tired. Take me with you."

Li Yanjing picked up the small paper figure and put it into her 'mysterious world'.

She then transformed into a beam of white light and disappeared into the talisman on Li Lin's chest.

Li Lin looked around and felt that the place was too undefended, so he used lightning strikes to blast the entire cave.

Only a dirty stone cushion remained intact, but it was weighed down by some pebbles.

Logically speaking, under these circumstances, no one would come here to tamper with the mechanisms.

Moreover, spiritual power is required to turn the mechanism on that stone cushion.

Otherwise, the spies from the Seeking Immortals Society would have discovered it on the first try, instead of notifying Li Lin. When Li Lin returned to the county town, he saw Xu Ankang waiting at the door.

"President, did you gain anything?"

“There are some, indeed.” Li Lin tossed out a bottle of spirit pills and laughed, “This is a reward for you. Share it with your friends. I’ve already taken the things from that cave. You can continue searching for more valuable caves.”

Holding the bottle of spirit pills, Xu Ankang trembled with excitement: "Thank you, Chairman."

Now, who in the entire Immortal Seeking Society doesn't know the wonders of this Spirit Qi Pill?
What is vital energy? Compared to spiritual energy, it's just a junior.

Li Lin spent several days returning to Yulin County.

After being warmly welcomed by the three women, Li Lin emerged from the small spiritual vein and took a bath.

The four women also emerged from the small spiritual vein, and they were reshaping the little paper figure in the hall.

"Oh, this little thing can talk, it's quite cute," Hongluan asked.

"Is it a man or a woman?" Chu Rengong looked left and right. "If it's a man, we can't keep it in the house."

“It’s a woman,” Li Yanjing said with a smile.

"Oh, that's not a big problem." Huang Qing nodded.

The little paper figure looked left and right, then exclaimed in surprise, "Wait, the spiritual energy on you two smells exactly the same, are you practicing dual cultivation?"

All four women blushed slightly.

This little paper figure had only been released recently, so it shouldn't know anything about the situation, but unexpectedly, it was seen through at a glance.

Seeing the expressions on the four people's faces, the little paper doll knew it had guessed correctly. It was even more surprised: "That's not right. Your man, he can cultivate with four people at once? As far as I know, that's impossible. Generally speaking, dual cultivation is dual cultivation, and one can only have one person in one lifetime."

The four women looked at each other in bewilderment.

They don't understand these things.

After all, that's how they've always lived.

The little paper figure pondered for a moment: "There's something wrong with your dual cultivation technique; it must have been improved by a powerful being."

"There's no major improvement; it's just something our officials figured out on their own."

The little paper figure was stunned for a moment, then jumped up, waving its arms and legs excitedly: "Wait, this is impossible. You may not know, but creating a cultivation technique is already extremely difficult. A method that allows simultaneous dual cultivation with multiple people is something that even the Hehuan Sect back then... wait, what is the Hehuan Sect? I can't remember."

At this point, the little paper figure fell silent.

Then it held its head in its hands and said, "Ah, my head hurts so much, can someone help me massage it?"

The four women were somewhat at a loss.

What kind of head do paper figures have? How do they press them down?
I hope I won't break this little paper figure.

Just when they were at a loss, someone appeared beside them.

She extended her jade-like finger and gently tapped the little paper figure's head.

The little paper figure immediately felt much more relaxed.

When the four women saw this woman, they all bowed gracefully.

They all called out, "Sister Liu!"

The person who appeared was Liu Zhe.

She looked at the little paper figure, and a rare smile appeared on her usually aloof face: "You look familiar, who are you?"

“I also feel like you’re familiar.” The little paper figure stared blankly at Liu Zhe, then sighed, “But I can’t remember who I am, and I can’t remember who you are either.”

Liu Zhe picked up the little paper figure and said, "Stay here, he will protect you."

The paper figure asked, "Does he mean Li Lin?"

The little paper doll now knows Li Lin's name.

Liu Zhe nodded gently: "Don't worry, he's fine."

"I don't think so. He almost killed me."

"That's because you didn't do your job well!"

Liu Zhe placed the small paper figure on the table, turned around, and disappeared.

The little paper doll watched Liu Zhe leave, muttering, "I didn't say anything bad about him, why was he so angry!"

The four women next to him laughed.

Huang Qing stroked the little paper figure's head and said, "Among all of us women, the one who dotes on my husband the most is Sister Liu."

……

Li Lin stayed in his study and began to study the "Purple Qi Swallowing Clouds Heart Method".

To be honest, he didn't pay much attention to his public persona.

In his view, if the Taoist mental cultivation method were so powerful, Taoist practitioners would have been everywhere long ago.

He kept this book largely because it was He Yumao's keepsake.

Before they died, the other party always tried to repay the favors he had done, so he valued this book quite a bit.

But it's not the content that matters.

Now, after flipping through the book for a while, he subconsciously let out a soft "hmm".

Because he discovered that this book actually contained valuable information.

It uses philosophical principles to speculate on the existence of spiritual energy and tentatively proposes a theory of the conversion between primordial energy and spiritual energy.

Then they tentatively tried to guess how to absorb spiritual energy.

Taoists believe that spiritual energy is the purest form of energy in the universe, and therefore it should be extracted from the purest things.

So what is the purest thing?
The book explains that it was the wisp of purple light at dawn.

They even tentatively predicted which meridians the purple energy should pass through after entering the body in order to be refined into spiritual energy.

This is the origin of the "Purple Qi Swallowing the Clouds Heart Method".

Based on Li Lin's experience during the Foundation Establishment stage, the theoretical predictions of the Purple Qi Swallowing Clouds Method are correct.

Although there are some flaws, such as... the fact that one can absorb purple energy without having to climb high mountains.

But after all, the author of this book, or rather the person who proposed this theory, did not actually extract spiritual energy, so he could only imagine that spiritual energy was in the sky, and that the higher the mountain, the closer it was to the sky.

Li Lin read the book carefully, but he was very puzzled.

"Since Taoism has such a comprehensive theory, why hasn't it produced any talented practitioners in cultivation to this day? Could it be that they have already emerged, but are unknown to the world?"

"It is highly likely."

Li Lin nodded slightly, and then he thought about how to improve the Purple Qi Swallowing Clouds Heart Method.

He now needs a profound cultivation technique to refine the spiritual energy of that giant egg.

In the following period, he began to study the techniques in this area.

Thanks to the magical enhancement brought by the 'Cloud and Mist Technique', his control over spiritual energy has now reached a very high level.

Based on the Purple Qi Swallowing Clouds Technique, and after trying different meridian pathways, he finally found a direction.

That is... the Purple Mansion Qi Refining Method.

Human meridians are limited, but the Purple Mansion is a special 'dantian' opened up by immortals to contain and transform spiritual energy of different natures, and it is indeed quite useful.

The current problem lies in how to introduce spiritual energy that is not well-integrated with oneself into the Purple Mansion.

Just as he was racking his brains over this matter, some movement occurred in the Purple Mansion.

It seemed as if something was calling to him.

With a slight thought, he sank his consciousness into his dantian.

Before long, they arrived at a pure white space with no up, down, left, or right directions.

At that moment, a woman with an indistinct face looked at him.

"To bring external spiritual energy into the Purple Mansion, one must warm the heart meridian with spiritual energy. Once the heart meridian becomes strong enough, it will be possible naturally."

"Are you the spirit of the little paper figure?" Li Lin asked.

The woman seemed to be smiling: "Yes, thank you for taking me in."

(End of this chapter)