Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 162: Enlightenment, Sleeping Snake, Inspirational Heart

After dinner, after washing the cups and plates, Lin Bo came to the study early and put the two incomplete volumes on the table for use.

The little king squatted beside the bird's nest, lazily fiddling with the three chicks with his wings. The downy little peregrine falcons looked like three round white glutinous rice balls, blinking their eyes and crawling under the wings of the little seagulls.

It tilted its head and stared at the two books on the table.

"The Teachings of Silent Mountain" is engraved on a thin, dark slate. Lin Bo reads the language on the slate, which is a text composed of short dashes and dots that looks like Morse code.

The title page message is written on the slate header: "What is worth such a hard pursuit? This mountain is not in the sky and earth, not in the seasons, but only in silence."

He stroked the smooth stone slab and a message popped up on the information board.

[Do you want to spend 1000 disaster coins to unlock the knowledge fragments? ]

[Comprehensive Tip: Failure in enlightenment will increase the contribution standard, please be prepared]

Rich man Lin Bo said without hesitation, "Yes."

[Important reminder from the website: You have opened a fragment of knowledge and learned the words of unblocking]

"—All those, wise and foolish, who seek profound stillness, ancient and modern, please ascend this mountain. Hear its words of instruction, which we will engrave upon its rocks with our gaze, to be passed down through the ages."

As the balance of disaster coins decreased, a breeze blew across the smooth stone slab, shaking off stone chips and dust that stuck to the mage's fingertips, and then more black stone powder was blown onto his body by the wind.

Lin Bo's skin gradually turned gray, his eyes slowly lost their luster, and his body was gradually sealed in the stone shell.

The little seagull screamed in surprise, jumped onto the wizard's petrified shoulder, and gently rubbed its head against his gradually cold cheek.

"(Magic words) Don't worry about me." Lin Bo murmured soothingly with his stiff vocal cords.

The next moment, he was completely immersed in deep meditation. Except for the movement of his thoughts, all his senses disappeared.

[The skill [Black Snake Meditation] has been detected to have reached a critical bottleneck. The knowledge fragment will provide you with the answer.]

[Important reminder from the website: "Teachings from Silent Mountain" is listening to your silence and interpreting the depths of your meditation...]

[Temporary features have been added. Please find out the true nature of these features before resealing the knowledge fragments.]

Lin Bo knows that when the Black Snake Meditation Technique is upgraded to Lv4, in addition to the improvement in meditation efficiency, it will also gain a special transformation state called "Gift of the Sleeping Snake", which can continuously enhance physical vitality and thinking speed for a period of time.

The specific extent of the improvement depends on the results of the recuperation during the metamorphosis. Adequate nutrition, moderate intensity exercise, and long periods of sleep can all increase the ultimate benefits of the Gift of the Sleeping Serpent.

This opportunity to increase attributes is rare, so you need to be prepared for seclusion before upgrading the Black Snake Meditation Technique to level 4.

When comprehending "The Teachings of Silent Mountain", one can experience the state of "Gift of the Sleeping Serpent" in advance, so that he can have a psychological expectation before the official breakthrough.

Lin Bo was immersed in an empty spiritual dimension, where only his consciousness was functioning normally. He had experienced this kind of tranquility when he upgraded his Black Snake Meditation to Lv3 not long ago, but at that time he needed to use the heat of his spirit to warm his body and regain his senses.

Now you have to sleep like a snake in its eggshell, hiding your vitality.

For Lin Bo, this sleeping snake posture was very similar to when he was training the Solid Control Technique. Maintaining the closed mind was not difficult for him.

As his belief in the art of controlling others burst forth, Lin Bo's mind became indifferent and closed, as if curled up in a thick stone shell.

Next, life must be nurtured in silence until it breaks out of the shell.

The prerequisite for completing this step is to find the vitality hidden in the snake eggs. The essence of the Black Snake Meditation lies in this. The calm mind and the fragile body are connected. In deep meditation, the source of the body's vitality will also be revealed.

Like digging a well in the void, piercing the barrier between spirit and body. Level 3 Black Snake Meditation allows the vitality of mind and body to be transferred, while maintaining a clear distinction between the two. Level 4's Gift of the Sleeping Serpent, on the other hand, allows body and mind to merge into a silent embryo, nurturing a second birth.

This is the realm envisioned by the ancient spellcasters of the Hyru School who founded the art of meditation. With the help of the fragments of knowledge, players on the comprehensive network have turned the theory into a real realm.

Even so, there's a chance of failure in comprehending the fragments. If, after falling into meditation, one struggles to find the source of their body's vitality, then they've failed, and will have to spend more disaster coins to comprehend again.

Lin Bo's mind curled up in the snake egg, gently calling for his true name to come.

"(Mantra) Bronze Moon."

In an instant, a brilliant, bright light blossomed from the snake egg, and a rune in the animistic language suddenly emerged from pure nothingness. The rune of his true name had always been there, overlooked by his silent thoughts, and now it shone once more.

Lin Bo does not need to explore the root vitality of his body bit by bit in silence. He only needs to control his true name, and everything in his body and mind will be tamed by the power of words.

Through the rune of his own name, the mage regained awareness of the existence of his body.

When all other senses disappeared, he could neither see his body, nor hear his heartbeat, nor touch his skin, nor smell anything. Now he was only aware of the existence of his body, just like guessing the position of a shadow with his eyes closed under the light.

Using the rune of his name, he sensed the state of his body. His completely petrified shell was no different from a dead object. Yet, within his stone-like nervous system, faint pulses still surged, allowing his thoughts to continue flowing.

This remaining vitality is exactly the origin of the body that we are looking for, like the moist sand at the bottom of a dry well, which is moistened by the spiritual spring deeper in the well.

When the mind became aware of activity, the two combined and transformed into a thin, weak snake inside the eggshell, entwining the rune of its original name like a branch.

Lin Bo completed his Sleeping Snake posture. When he officially breaks through the Level 4 Black Snake Meditation, he will perform the Gift of Sleeping Snake in the same way, allowing the combination of body and mind to grow.

It's time to come out of the state of enlightenment.

He controlled the cursed power to penetrate the sleeping snake, causing it to vibrate under the influence of the Fierce Bending Technique. The snake's body grew and expanded, colliding with the closed eggshell formed by the belief of the Solid Bending Technique.

In the lighthouse study, a little seagull squatted on the shoulder of the stone sculpture of the wizard, spread its wings to cover his head, and tried to warm the stone with its warm feathers.

Suddenly, it felt a slight vibration, and the beat of its heartbeat gradually became clearer from weak to strong. The gray-white stone on its skin fell off like dust, and its lifeless eyes became bright again.

The little king folded his wings, jumped onto the desk, and stared at the night watchman with a sharp gaze.

Lin Bo blinked his eyes, which felt a little dry. He raised his hand and touched the little seagull's head, then took out some medicine from the bag hanging on the hook on the wall to moisten his eyeballs.

[Comprehensive Network Tip: Successfully comprehended the fragment of knowledge "Teachings of Silent Mountain"]

[Skill [Black Snake Meditation] Level Limit Breakthrough. When training meditation-related skills, the basic proficiency is permanently increased by 1.]

[The "Gift of the Sleeping Serpent" trait is locked. Upgrade the skill to unlock it.]

It will take some time to gain enough proficiency in the Black Snake Meditation Technique. Lin Bo estimated that it would take until winter to upgrade.

The pitch-black slate on the table vanished without a trace. Each fragment would be consumed after a successful comprehension. If comprehension failed multiple times, the standard for offering disaster coins would be significantly increased, severely reducing the value of the item, making it difficult to sell for a good price.

Lin Bo picked up another dictionary on the table.

"A Praise of Wonderful Fragrance" is a rolled-up bundle of goose-yellow silk, tied with a beautiful flowered knot. It's only a palm's length and a finger's thickness. On its surface is a row of characters written in gilded ink. The curved characters resemble the edges of clouds and flower petals. The meaning is: "Wonderful fragrance penetrates deeply, crane smoke prolongs life, the clear and bright heaven protects the elixir."

[Do you want to spend 1000 disaster coins to unlock the knowledge fragments? ]

[Comprehensive Tip: Failure in enlightenment will increase the contribution standard, please be prepared]

Lin Bo pressed the knot of the scroll and said silently, "Yes."

[Important reminder from the website: You have opened a fragment of knowledge and learned the words of unblocking]

Alas, you must purify your body and mind, and subdue your seven emotions before you can worship the deities of the Void and Bright Heavens. We have watched the divine furnace breathe out clouds, and the elixir of incense transform into scenery. Now, I take this scroll of brocade and record the cloud scene, to remember and praise it forever.

The silk in his hand suddenly combusted without any fire, and dissipated into clouds. In the study, it condensed into plants, animals, mountains, stars, cities, crowds of people, palaces, and soldiers. With every blink of an eye, the cloud scene changed, endlessly and without repetition.

Lin Bo sniffed lightly, and when the mist entered his nose, hazy and bizarre scenes flashed in his mind, whispering their own stories.

The smoke from the burning of the elixir materials from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, and the voices of the stories blended together and turned into noisy waves, making it impossible to hear a single word.

[The skill [Scent of the Marrow] has been detected to have reached a critical bottleneck. The knowledge fragment will provide you with the answer.]

[Important reminder from the website: "Ode to Wonderful Fragrance" is tasting your tears and distinguishing the scents you once smelled...]

[Temporary features have been added. Please find out the true nature of these features before resealing the knowledge fragments.]

The level 4 Smell the Scent and Know the Marrow chapter can gain a characteristic "Inspiration Heart", the effect of which is to remember all the smells that have been smelled and deduce the transformation and evolution of the elixir in the mind.

This characteristic is extremely helpful in enhancing the creativity of alchemists, but the specific effects vary from person to person. After all, the success of refining elixirs depends on imagination, and whether it is successful depends on the actual results. If there is a lack of experience, the imagined results are often far from the actual results.

Lin Bo recalled briefly that whenever a medicinal elixir he had smelled before flashed through his mind, its smell would appear at the tip of his nose. He imagined in his mind that these elixir materials went through the process of blackening, whitening, and yellowing, being destroyed, purified, and integrated. The corresponding changes in the elixir energy also seemed to be reflected in the sense of smell. Even if he didn't actually smell it, there was still a sensory stimulation.

He stood up and headed to the underground workshop. Next, he would have to think of a few pill recipes and then try them out to see the results. If the predicted changes in the Dan Qi were accurate, then he would have successfully comprehended it.

An hour later.

Lin Bo sat next to the alchemy furnace.

[Comprehensive Network Tip: Successfully comprehended the fragment of the knowledge scroll "Miao Xiang Yong Zan Ci"]

[Skill [Scent of the Marrow] Level Limit Breakthrough. When training Alchemy-related skills, the basic proficiency is permanently increased by 1]

[The characteristic "Inspiration Heart" is locked, upgrade the skill to unlock it]

(End of this chapter)