To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

Chapter 71 Visualizing the Star Chart

Holding the jade slip, Gu Fan began to comprehend the true meaning of the Dao, word by word.

Besides the Daoist text, the jade slip also contains an introduction to the "Star Evolution Divine Method" and annotations by the Xuanji True Man, explaining the key points of practicing this method one by one.

According to the jade slip, the "Star Evolution Divine Observation Method" has no requirements for aptitude, and there is no need to gather qi during cultivation. You only need to visualize the stars in your sea of ​​consciousness and move along a specific trajectory to temper your divine consciousness.

The "Star Observation Method" has seven levels. The first level requires visualizing seven stars and directing them to move along their trajectories. In the second level, one must visualize fourteen stars and make two star charts operate simultaneously.

Following this pattern, by the fourth layer there are twenty-eight stars, forming four star charts.

As for the complete "Star Evolution Divine Method", it requires 365 stars to rotate simultaneously, forming a full cycle of the heavens.

Seeing this, Gu Fan suddenly remembered the star map floating in the dark night sky behind the stone door on the third floor of Chenxing Pavilion.

Could those stars be manifestations of Master's divine consciousness?

This conjecture shocked Gu Fan, who gasped in shock. He then became filled with anticipation for the "Star Evolution Divine Observation Method" and continued to examine the visualization techniques.

After carefully examining it, Gu Fan put down the jade slip and nodded confidently.

The method of visualizing the stars is not complicated. The difficulty in practicing the "Star Observation Method" lies in comprehending the trajectory of the stars.

If the trajectory is wrong, at best it will be a waste of effort, at worst it will damage one's consciousness and all previous efforts will be in vain.

But this was no challenge for Gu Fan. Under the all-seeing eye, a diagram composed of seven stars quickly appeared and slowly rotated along a mysterious trajectory.

In addition, Master Xuanji emphasized that when practicing the "Star Evolution Divine Method", one's consciousness will experience a little pain, which needs to be endured.

"It hurts?" Gu Fan touched his chin and smacked his lips. "How much could it hurt?"

He decided to try it for himself.

With his eyes closed, Gu Fan sat cross-legged on the futon, placing his hands on his knees. He tried his best to visualize the existence of the stars in his mind.

At first, there was no ripple in his mind, but he was not discouraged.

Half an hour later, a tiny, rice-grain-sized glimmer of light finally appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Gu Fan was thrilled. He focused his mind and continued to meditate, channeling his divine sense into the firefly and filling it to the size of a fist.

Then, letting the star float, Gu Fan used the same trick again, visualizing the next star in the same way.

Half a day later.

Gu Fan finally stopped his visualization and saw seven fist-sized stars, shimmering with a soft, jade-like light, floating quietly in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Next, we need to activate the stars and move them according to their trajectories."

The crucial moment finally arrived. Gu Fan's breathing became heavier, and he mobilized his divine sense to simultaneously envelop the seven stars, drawing them in like a force field.

As he mobilized more and more of his divine sense, the seven stars remained completely still. Gu Fan's face flushed red, feeling as if he were pushing seven mountain peaks.

"I refuse to believe it!" Gu Fan gritted his teeth, mobilized all his divine sense, and crashed it against the stars like a wave.

The seven stars finally moved!

But what follows is...

"Ouch!" Gu Fan cried out in pain, his body trembled violently, and he fell straight backward, landing on his back.

It felt as if his brain had been cleaved open by a sharp axe and then kneaded into a paste by a pair of large hands. Intense pain surged through his limbs and bones like a tidal wave, causing his whole body to convulse.

The ongoing secret technique was abruptly interrupted, and the seven stars vanished instantly.

He tried to struggle to get up, but as soon as he propped himself up, his arms went weak and he fell back to the ground with a "thud".

Unable to get up, he simply lay there until the pain subsided like a receding tide, then rolled over and got up, sweating profusely, and sat back down on the futon.

"Is this what you call 'a little' painful?" Gu Fan complained, his voice trembling.

This leads one to wonder: if seven stars can cause such intense pain, what kind of torture must it be to urge all the stars in the celestial sphere to be activated?

Lingchi (death by a thousand cuts)? Dismemberment by chariot?

The thought of that possibility sent a chill down his spine.

After the pain subsided, Gu Fan's breathing calmed down. He closed his eyes to check the condition of his sea of ​​consciousness, and only felt relieved after confirming that his sea of ​​consciousness was not damaged.

Just as he was about to open his eyes, he suddenly noticed something unusual.

"Hmm? This is..."

...?

Gu Fan was surprised to find that a trace of his divine sense in his sea of ​​consciousness was stained with a bit of shimmering white color. Although it was so subtle that it was almost imperceptible, it would have been overlooked if he hadn't been so careful to check it, worried about damaging his divine sense.

His original divine sense, when spread out, could cover the surrounding area for dozens of feet, but when condensed, it was a ball of light with a crimson color.

But now, a faint white jade light shone on the sphere of light, like a wisp of moonlight floating on the water.

Gu Fan immediately mobilized this wisp of divine sense, but found that there was no obstruction. In fact, the part that was stained with the fluorescent light was even stronger.

He raised his hand and conjured a candle flame at his fingertips, the divine consciousness contained within being the wisp of divine consciousness tinged with jade color.

The candlelight sometimes resembled flowing water, and sometimes transformed into birds.

"It seems more lively than before." Gu Fan looked at the candle flame in his hand with delight in his eyes.

Recalling the excruciating pain he had just experienced, Gu Fan stared at the candlelight before him, his expression shifting between light and shadow.

Just then, the faces of his parents appeared in his mind, and a surge of anger rose in his heart again, causing him to clench his fist and extinguish the candle.

"It's just pain, nothing more than a little hardship!"

He nimbly sat cross-legged and closed his eyes. With his previous experience in visualizing the stars, the seven stars quickly coalesced.

"Get moving!" Gu Fan roared in his heart.

A vast divine consciousness propelled the stars, causing them to revolve along a mysterious trajectory, and a devastating pain instantly swept through his entire body.

Gu Fan gripped his robe tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white. He desperately tried to remain calm and maintain the operation of the secret technique until the seven stars had traveled one-tenth of their trajectory, reaching three times the distance of their initial movement. Finally, Gu Fan's vision went black, and he collapsed to the ground.

The intense pain prevented Gu Fan from getting up for a moment, and he lay on the ground panting heavily.

After a long while, his fingers twitched twice. Gu Fan propped himself up, shook his head, and swayed as if to shake off the pain.

"That's all!" Gu Fan said, grinning.

Seven days later, at Wendao Peak.

Gu Fan, pale-faced, stepped off the Void Shuttle and arrived in front of the Star Pavilion.

"Oh, junior brother, you're here early."

Zhou Furui smiled smugly: "Looks like Junior Brother has already mastered the 'Star Evolution Divine Observation Technique'?"

Gu Fan nodded weakly.

After seven days of intense self-torture, he felt numb all over, as if even the strength to speak had been drained away.

After a moment's hesitation, Gu Fan pursed his lips and asked, "Senior Brother... did you also cultivate the 'Star Evolution Divine Observation Method' back then?"

"Indeed." Zhou Furui nodded slightly and said with emotion, "I only started cultivating this secret technique when I was in the Foundation Establishment stage, and it took me half a month to comprehend the first layer of the star chart. Junior Brother only took seven days. It's truly enviable."

"Looking back now, visualizing the star chart every three days was truly excruciating, and I still feel lingering fear to this day. However, as the level of cultivation increases, the pain also decreases, and by the time I reached the third level, I could already bear it."

"Judging from your appearance, it must have been your first time visualizing the star chart yesterday. Are you able to handle it?"

Gu Fan was taken aback at first, then blinked and nodded silently.

"good."

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