Among all the heavens, I, Xiao Yan, did not use any cheat codes.

Chapter 66 [Bonus Chapter] On the True Use of Possession, Chen Sheng's Rise to Power in the Great Chu Dynasty

"The Method of Yang Spirit —"

Holding the Amitabha Sutra in his hands, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged in the newly opened quiet room behind the stone chamber.

The first stage is "Concentrating the Spirit." This means subduing one's restless mind, achieving stillness and tranquility, and eliminating distracting thoughts. Generally, only in this way can one perceive the location of one's own spirit and soul, the abode of the mind, and thus cultivate techniques and strengthen the spirit.

Of course, this applies to ordinary people.

Xiao Yan blinked, and a ring of crimson-gold flames ignited around his body, gradually changing into pure white. His entire body also became slightly transparent, like crimson glass.

After the essence, energy, and spirit are combined, they can also transform into each other. At this moment, Xiao Yan directly transformed his essence and energy into his spirit.

Why bother with calming your mind and spirit? Just conjure up your soul directly!

As for the second step in cultivating the soul—this involves using a certain visualization method to separate the soul from the body, allowing it to move around the body.

Xiao Yan blinked again.

The question is, how does he leave his body?

The person is now in a special soul state.

After thinking it over, Xiao Yan decided to try it out slightly, following the methods recorded in the Daoist scriptures and the Amitabha Sutra.

Instead of trying those visualization techniques, Xiao Yan followed his instincts and struggled upwards.

The next moment, a figure with a crimson fire wheel behind him, ethereal light emanating from his body, fiery cloud patterns between his brows, and dressed in a crimson and gold robe flew out from Xiao Yan's body. His face was more mature than Xiao Yan's, and he looked like a young man.

Looking at his soul in the mirror, Xiao Yan grinned.

So this is the form it takes, which is somewhat similar to some of the Dharma forms in traditional fantasy novels.

The problem is coming.

Xiao Yan looked down and saw that his true form below was as smooth as glass, still sitting cross-legged on the ground.

This state is quite peculiar. Although his physical body is a special soul body, he now has a new divine soul separated from him.

It's really strange.

However, Xiao Yan quickly realized a problem, if his perception was correct—

With a mere thought, his body, which was sitting cross-legged on the ground, transformed into flowing fire and merged into Xiao Yan's soul.

His aura suddenly grew stronger, and his illusory form, which had previously resembled a Dharma image, solidified abruptly with a thought from Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan could clearly sense that this was different from the one he had previously transformed from his own Dharma body.

The integration of his essence, energy, and spirit resulted not only in quantitative change, but also in qualitative change.

The soul body that leaves the body using the Yang Shen technique is the sum of his essence, energy, and spirit; its quality remains unchanged, only its quantity has changed.

Then, by using this method to reintegrate the original body, one climbs upwards by stepping on the right foot with the left.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but marvel.

He reached out and poked the rock wall, easily melting it. With another thought, his hand passed right through it.

Double standards still apply.

Experiencing this extraordinary and novel feeling, Xiao Yan directly passed through layers of stone walls and arrived at the high sky. He felt the surging wind, looked directly at the sun, and received the baptism of the great sun's essence from the sun. He could feel his soul making continuous progress, and his whole body felt warm and comfortable. Xiao Yan felt extremely comfortable.

To be honest, this sense is much more sensitive than the original body, regardless of its form.

Xiao Yan suddenly remembered a word: spiritual communion.

Strange poses flashed through his mind. Xiao Yan cleared his throat. Lust is a bone-scraping steel knife. He is a righteous gentleman, so this is the time to indulge himself—cough cough.

High in the heavens. After running around, Xiao Yan's soul returned to the cave, and he casually picked up the Amitabha Sutra from the past and looked at it again.

There's no need to look at the third or fourth realm. One is a night traveler, and the other is a day traveler. He, Xiao, dares to go to heaven and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun. These two are just not strong enough in terms of soul strength.

The fifth level is what is known as controlling objects.

However, after just one glance, Xiao Yan's lips twitched uncontrollably.

The so-called "controlling objects" here, at this current level, does not refer to using a wisp of divine thought to drive a flying sword back and forth to kill people or unleash supernatural powers.

Instead, it's like the soul leaving the body to grip the sword and stab others, relying purely on the weapon's sharpness and agility. It's no wonder that the difference between before and after is greater than the difference between a human and a dog.

The sixth realm of manifestation occurs when the spiritual strength is sufficient to accept external objects, such as mist, water, sand, lead, and mercury, and manifest its own form.

Xiao Yan looked down at the body, which could be like an ordinary person or like a flame god, and decisively skipped it, moving on to the next one.

As for the seventh realm of possession—it allows one to attach their soul to various external objects, and even to people with relatively weak blood and energy.

This is interesting.

Xiao Yan leaned back, rubbing his chin as he fell into thought.

This ability allows for direct possession by spirits and manipulation of small animals.

His smile was slightly strange, and Xiao Yan suddenly thought of some fun ways to play.

Before that, Xiao Yan recalled the methods of possession in the Amitabha Sutra that he had been studying during this period.

The process of "distracting the mind and transforming thoughts" marks the first step towards a qualitative change in the path of spiritual cultivation. The mechanism is greatly enhanced, and one no longer has to stand still as punishment upon leaving the body.

One can separate a portion of the soul, while the other portion continues to control the body.

only----

With a thought, Xiao Yan released a ball of solid flame, like a small crystal, from his body. Then, a wisp of fire quickly emerged from it and condensed into the shape of his Dharma body.

This was different from the wisp of flame imbued with divine thought that he usually separated. This feeling was particularly strange, like a proper clone, no, that's not right either, it was more like two versions of himself.

This wisp of thought carries all his memories, abilities, and Taoist skills. Of course, he doesn't have many Taoist skills now, so he still needs to modify them.

He is currently in a possessed state, but unlike others who possess rare and exotic beasts, he has directly possessed a wisp of his own flame.

Seeing that his plan had succeeded, Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and then his thoughts flew out from his body.

A moment later, a startled cry came from the valley.

The fox, Xiao Sang, was carrying a fish in its mouth. From the fish's belly popped a slip of paper with incomprehensible words written on it: "The emperor shall be the one with the strongest army and the most powerful horses; are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?; do not say that the stone man has only one eye, for he can stir up the Yellow River and cause the world to rebel; the blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall rise; in the year of Jiazi, the world will be blessed."

Then the little fox ran and howled, muttering strange things like "The Great Chu will rise and Chen Sheng will be king".

Not only were the little foxes dumbfounded, but Hong Yi and Tu Lao also looked at each other in bewilderment.

Although they didn't know the meaning of some of the strange terms, they could understand the meaning behind the words.

They exchanged a glance, and Hong Yi took out a brush and wrote a character in his palm. The old fox immediately understood and also took out a brush and wrote a character in his palm. As they spread their hands, two identical characters for "flame" appeared. The two of them looked up at the sky and sighed.

How did I end up making such a good friend? ×2

"What a terrible thing!" ×2

Satisfied, Xiao Yan withdrew his thought and smiled brightly.

"Hehehehehe"

Then comes the most important part, the true mystery of the past scriptures.