Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 7 Entrance Hall

"Master, what is this?"

Lin Jiang pointed to his stomach.

From the throat to the chest and lungs, then to the stomach, and finally directly to the dantian, a shimmering light flowed down Lin Jiang's throat, illuminating the area.

It's a bit too bright.

The sun hadn't risen yet, and the light emanating from Lin Jiang's body illuminated half the courtyard, making it difficult for Gong Xuan to open his eyes.

Where had Gong Xuan ever seen this scene before?

When he started learning, he chose meditation. The whole process was completely normal; he completed it in the blink of an eye.

Why is someone else emitting light?

After calming himself down, Gong Xuan strode up to Lin Jiang and muttered "Grandmaster" and "Great Celestial Master" under his breath.

A stream of light flashed above his fingertip, and then he pointed it directly at Lin Jiang's abdomen.

The radiance from Lin Jiang's abdomen immediately spread throughout his entire body.

Lin Jiang felt a surge of heat throughout his body, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. It was as if a power was rising from his dantian, circulating through his meridians, and returning to the dantian.

I instinctively touched my wrist to feel my pulse and found that the heartbeat that had been lost had returned.

His face couldn't hide his joy.

The idea of ​​being able to live without a heart seems impressive, but Lin Jiang was ultimately unsure of himself, fearing that one day he might fall back into his coffin for this very reason.

I feel much more at ease now.

With hands clasped together, he bowed deeply and thanked Gong Xuan.

Gong Xuan waved his hand:

"No need to thank me, no need to thank me. I just took the money and did what I was supposed to do."

However, he eventually chuckled and scratched his head, accepting Lin Jiang's thanks.

He did take a lot of money, but Lin Jiang took even more.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Gong Xuan continued:
"Just now I infused a stream of primordial Qi into your body, and it traveled around your meridians. You can remember how it felt."

Following Gong Xuan's instructions, Lin Jiang tested it out and found that there was indeed a breath circulating around his nose.

"What I'm teaching you is my most basic method, called eating and drinking. Eating delicacies from land and sea and drinking fine wines from all over the world is a form of cultivation, a very comfortable cultivation method."

"Since it's just some superficial stuff, you don't need the patriarch's permission. If you want to cultivate in the future, just go to different places to find rare and delicious foods."

Lin Jiang blinked and thought for a few seconds.

"Eat and drink?"

"Really?" Gong Xuan nodded. "Didn't I tell you? My method for getting started is called eating, drinking, and having fun."

Lin Jiang: "?"

You still say you're not a wandering Taoist priest?
Is this patriarch really a serious person?
"Don't underestimate the power of food and drink." Gong Xuan chuckled and explained carefully: "The simplest way for people to obtain true essence from the outside world is through our mouths. It is said that the first cultivators ascended the immortal mountains and obtained the immortal pills refined by the immortals before officially embarking on the path to immortality."

He placed his hand on Lin Jiang's body and tapped him, then continued, "The five internal organs and six bowels are the main organs. The five internal organs govern the internal organs, while the six bowels govern the external organs. If we compare the body to a temple, the six bowels are the Taoist priests, and the five internal organs represent the temple. The Taoist priests of the six bowels collect incense and build the temple of the five internal organs. The temple of the five internal organs then governs the five elements to link thousands of techniques. It can be said that the wonderful methods are endless."

Although he had encountered these things before, Lin Jiang felt that what Gong Xuan said made a lot of sense.

Why can't eating and drinking, things we can't live without since birth, become a means of spiritual practice?
Of course, he selectively ignored the word "fun" in the context of eating, drinking, and having fun.

Anyway, he didn't learn it.

"I'll teach you another essential skill," Gong Xuan instructed from the side. "Calm down and close your eyes."

Lin Jiang also closed his eyes, held his breath, and slowed his breathing.

Everything around was shrouded in darkness, except for the soft rustling of the pages of the book held by Xiaoshan Shen in the evening breeze.

And Gong Xuan gently instructed, "Unite your mind with your spirit, and guide your Qi into your Heavenly Eye." Lin Jiang followed suit, guiding a wisp of Qi, which was not yet too powerful, from his dantian upwards to the center of his forehead between his eyes.

Suddenly, Lin Jiang felt as if a light had appeared before his eyes.

In the dim light, he seemed to see layers of clouds.

The sea of ​​clouds surged with the wind, like waves rising on the sea, and the bright moon was reflected on the river.

I instinctively reached out and brushed aside the thick cloud in front of me.

Lin Jiang saw a palace.

It appears to be made of gold, silver, and jade, and is entirely white with a faint golden glow emanating from above. Extremely fine silk threads swirl around the palace.

The palace, however, was in a terrible state, with its walls crumbling and its walls shattered, barely better than a ruin.

Simultaneously,

Behind the palace,

Lin Jiang saw a vast emptiness.

And countless stars that have long since dimmed!
The Milky Way, which should have been dazzling, now seemed like a tragic song about to end, a long, mournful cry that echoed into the distance.

Today's scene struck Lin Jiang like a thunderclap, directly shaking his thoughts.

He found it difficult to keep his mind at ease for a time.

Suddenly opening his eyes, he saw Gong Xuan muttering incessantly:

"The method I just taught you is called internal vision. What you see is the state of your dantian. During cultivation, you gradually accumulate qi, which can help you accumulate qi in your dantian, and even ascend to heaven step by step."

"Internal vision? So what I saw just now was actually the condition inside my body?" Lin Jiang was very uncertain.

“It can’t be said to be inside your body. It’s not a scene that actually exists in your physical body. It’s more like an image in your primordial spirit’s thoughts.” Gong Xuan patted Lin Jiang’s shoulder: “I understand you. When I first looked inward, I was also startled. There was nothing but emptiness all around, and only a wisp of Qi accompanied you. This is perfectly normal.”

This is very abnormal!
What I just saw is the same as what Gongxuan said about some place.
The scene was clearly too abnormal. Lin Jiang's thoughts churned for a moment, but in the end, he did not tell Gong Xuan about the abnormality he had observed through his inner vision.

Seeing that he remained silent, Gong Xuan assumed he was frightened by the scene he had just witnessed, and smiled as he offered Lin Jiang a few words of comfort:
"You don't need to worry. As you cultivate, you will eat more and more, and the energy in your body will only become stronger and stronger. The energy will transform into clouds, the clouds into rain, and the rain into rivers. As the rivers rise layer by layer to the sky, they will soar straight into the clouds and become stars in the sky."

"That is the dotting of stars."

Lin Jiang couldn't help but recall the scene he had just witnessed.

Behind the dilapidated palace lay a starry sky that had already faded away, where all the stars had died, leaving only a few embers struggling to remain.

It was like a fireplace that had been burning all night, scattering its last embers.

Those ones……

Are they all stars that haven't been lit yet?
"What will the internal vision look like after the star is selected?" Lin Jiang asked.

“I don’t have a star, how would I know?” Gong Xuan seemed to have been touched on a sore spot, and his rambling mouth slowly shut down. After a long silence, he finally squeezed out a sentence: “There should be a star hanging high in that darkness, dispelling the darkness of inner vision.”

"Can one person click on a star twice?"

Gong Xuandu laughed in anger: "A cultivator might not even be able to achieve star-level attainment once in their entire life. Moreover, star-level attainment is a matter of cultivation, a matter of cultivation, do you understand? It's like going to the capital to take the imperial examination. You pass the first time, but can you pass it again?"

However, he paused slightly before saying:

"If someone cultivates two disciplines and reaches the Star-level in both, then they can indeed reach the Star-level twice. Or, if someone encounters misfortune after reaching the Star-level and loses all their cultivation, they might still be able to reach the Star-level twice during their cultivation."

Gongxuan's examples are all extreme cases; whether they can actually come true is anyone's guess.

Lin Jiang knew that given his physical condition, he definitely wouldn't be able to get any clues from Gong Xuan, so he changed his approach and asked about other things:
"Now that I've officially embarked on the path of cultivation, what direction should my cultivation take from now on?"

"What I'm teaching you is the basic method of Qi cultivation. Which path you choose to take in the future is up to you."

However, Gongxuan seemed to feel that the plan was too short and somewhat unfair to the large sum of money that Young Master Lin had spent, so he simply slapped his thigh:
"Once you're in this line of work, I'll give you a brief rundown of who's in the martial arts world, so you won't get hurt when you're out there."

(End of this chapter)