The God of the Human Realm!

Chapter 125 Void Soul Qi, Refining Spirit Method

If you can control everything, how can you control what other people are thinking?
No matter how much resentment Huiming and Huizhi harbored in their hearts, and how much they wished they could tear Hong to pieces, they still had to be humble and respectful in front of him, and that was enough.

Hong Yuan became interested in the 'Void Soul Qi' and continued to ask questions, to which Hui Ming answered honestly.

Hong Yuan then waved his hand, instructing Huiming and Huizhi to lead him to the location of the library at Jingang Temple.

Upon hearing this, the faces of the two monks, Huiming and Huizhi, visibly twitched.

The most abundant treasure of Kongo Temple was the secret stupa that was destroyed by fire.

The tower can be rebuilt, but the many rare treasures and numerous books inside have truly vanished.

And, most importantly, the 'Eye of Nirvana'!
The 'Eye of Nirvana' is in Hong Yuan's hands, but neither monk Huiming nor Hong Yuan are naive enough to think that the other party would return it without a second thought.

Fortunately, the Jingang Temple has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over the past four hundred years. Even without the secret pagoda, several library buildings still stand.

Hong Yuan leisurely entered one of the heavily guarded libraries and saw that it contained tens of thousands of books, each with its own category: magic, calamities, historical documents, unofficial histories and miscellaneous stories, Buddhist secrets, and so on.

After seeing Huiming and the others off, Hong Yuan began reading by himself, starting with magic and spells.

As he turned the pages of the books, Hong Yuan even came across a fragment of the "Compendium of One Hundred Techniques," which recorded more than a dozen kinds of techniques, including common Five Elements techniques, as well as ingenious mechanisms, poison and curse techniques, talismanic spells, and celestial phenomena secrets...

Three days passed in a flash. Hong Yuan traveled between several libraries, acquiring a wealth of information, including the 'Void Soul Gang'.

Huiming never shared much of this information.

Hong Yuan didn't think the other party was intentionally hiding anything; they probably just had too many books. As the head of the Vajra Temple, Huiming had to handle official duties, cultivate himself, and help countless female bodhisattvas... how could he possibly read them all?

Just like Hong Yuan in his previous life, there was a period when he went on a buying spree and purchased a large number of books, so many that an entire bookshelf couldn't hold them all, but in the end, he only actually read a few of them.

That is, only those who now possess photographic memory and have a thirst for all kinds of knowledge can read so diligently that they forget to eat and sleep.

The biggest difference between 'Xu Po Gang' and Inner Gang and Outer Gang is that Inner and Outer Gang use magic to modify the physical body, while Xu Po Gang focuses on the spirit.

This is described in a classic text.

Sever the shackles of the physical body, forge an immortal spirit.

In this book, the author argues that whether it is the inner force, the outer force, or the 'empty soul force', they are all products of living beings seeking longevity.

The inner and outer body seeks the longevity of the physical body.

The Void Soul Gang views the physical body as a transitional stage, condensing one's own spirit into a 'Void Soul,' thus achieving immortality in the world in the form of spirit.

The book mentions that once the 'void soul' leaves the body and enters this vast world, it will be disturbed by various fluctuations in the void and cannot remain for long. Therefore, it will attach itself to something for support.

This kind of item can be called a 'spirit-possessed object'!
The narrator mentioned that he had dealt with a 'spirit object', which was a dry well in Wushan County, Linjiang Prefecture, which suddenly gushed forth clear spring water one day...

This led to the deaths of over a hundred people who jumped into the well.

'Hmm? Wushan County, Linjiang Prefecture?'

Hong Yuan immediately recalled this story. He seemed to have seen it in the book "Records of Disasters and Strange Events," which also described how a monk from the Vajra Temple managed to suppress the disaster by filling the well with quicklime, thus stopping the deaths and injuries.

The process is vague, but it's definitely not that simple.

Right!
The author describes taking something out of the well, identifying it as a spirit object, but doesn't elaborate further. Instead, he speculates that it was caused by the Void Soul Gang [Netherworld Gate Yin Spring Gang].

So, all the demons and monsters in this world are cultivators of the罡体 (罡体 is a type of internal energy cultivation technique)?

'The internal and external physical bodies often cause various physical mutations, which are what people see as demons, while the illusory physical body transforms into formless and intangible ghosts and gods?'

Hong Yuan looked thoughtful. The Void Soul Qi was extremely complex; leaving aside the minor details, the core consisted of rituals and the method of refining the spirit.

Do not!
The most crucial element is undoubtedly the method of refining the spirit.

Hong Yuan was eager to learn a thing or two, but unfortunately Hong Lian was dead, and there was no such method in the Vajra Temple.

That much can be guaranteed; Huiming can sense whether Huizhi is lying or not.

Hong Yuan then took out the 'Eye of Nirvana' and a small bell.

I carefully examined the 'Eye of Nirvana' and tried to perceive it with my spiritual sense, but in my perception, the eye showed no abnormalities, as if it had truly become a pebble.

That is, when it was first acquired, this 'Eye of Nirvana' showed some supernatural signs.

The feeling of emptiness and nothingness that rippled out in an instant was too real; otherwise, if it had been dropped on the ground, Hong Yuan would have mistaken it for an ordinary stone.

Unfortunately, over the past three days, Hong Yuan has tried many methods, even using his internal energy to penetrate it, but the 'Eye of Nirvana' seems to have fallen silent.

The Vajra Temple regarded it as an unparalleled treasure, and several top experts from the Red Lotus Sect came out to fight for it.

Both sides hold their own opinions.

The Buddha's Eye?

Or is it the 'Great Desire Heaven' Eye worshipped by the Red Lotus Sect?
Hong Yuan had read through countless books in the past few days, but he had not found any record of the "Nirvana Dharma Eye" in any of them. When he asked Huiming, Huiming also spoke with certainty that it was left behind by the Buddha after his Nirvana.

As for which Buddha?

Huiming couldn't explain it either.

As Hong Yuan gazed at the 'Eye of Nirvana,' he suddenly recalled the mural on the dome of the Secret Treasure Tower, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

After a short while, he took a small wooden box and put away the 'Eye of Nirvana', then picked up the bell and walked out of the library.

'Song Yinglong' was imprisoned in a stone room.

It was originally bound with steel chains, but when it was found to be motionless and unshakable, like a corpse, no one bothered with it anymore.

Hong Yuan entered the stone chamber and saw 'Song Yinglong'. The bronze mask on his face had been removed, his eyes were closed, and his face was pitted and his skin was ashen.

Thinking back to his first encounter with Song Yinglong, he remembered the latter's smug and domineering demeanor.

For some reason, it seems that Old Song has been having a string of bad luck ever since then.

"Old Song, Old Song, how could you be gone like this? I wasn't ready to inherit your estate!"

Hong Yuan sighed, followed by a look of disdain.

"You haven't even reached the three prefectures. Let alone conquering a whole prefecture, you can at least conquer half a prefecture before you die."

"Who do you think you are with this meager inheritance!"

Ding Ding Ding!
With a soft sigh, he shook the bell in his hand, making a crisp sound. Suddenly, the corpse puppet that Song Yinglong had transformed into opened its gray-white eyes and roared, causing the entire stone chamber to vibrate and dust to fall in a flurry.

The corpse puppet roared and attacked the only living person in the room, sweeping in like a whirlwind, its claws possessing the power to tear apart metal.

Bang!
The corpse puppet was kicked in the face by Hong Yuan and sent flying back at an even faster speed, crashing into the stone wall with a loud bang.

In an instant, the stone wall shook violently, tearing open a huge human-shaped hole, and the corpse puppet was thrown out.

(End of this chapter)