One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

Upon returning to Cuiwei Mountain from Lingxia Town, Jiang Shougang pushed open the gate of Shouyi Temple and quickly bolted it shut.

He ran back to the back room and eagerly pulled the Suihan Order from his inner pocket.

Just now, after breaking the curse at Wang Daqiang's house and putting on that extremely round and pretentious act, he felt a heat in his chest.

However, the old man's last words about the Winter Solstice Decree were very serious: "Never reveal it to outsiders, or you will suffer a terrible disaster!"

Jiang Shou endured the pain of not taking it out to look at it while he was outside.

Look down now.

Sure enough, the four lines of divination text on the back of the wooden plaque, "[Obstacles in the house, unease in the sleeping place...]", were gleaming with an extremely lustrous blue light, and at this moment they were distorting violently like ripples on water.

"So the mission is considered complete? It seems that as long as the correct solution is provided and put into action, the task is done. This wooden sign's judgment is quite humane!"

Finally, the divination characters on the wooden plaque "whooshed" away, transforming into a beam of pure blue light about the thickness of a thumb, which shot straight toward Jiang Shou's brow.

"Ugh—"

The moment the blue light entered his body, Jiang Shou let out a groan of pleasure that sent shivers down one's spine.

Having learned from his previous two experiences, he knew this was the usual reward after "completing the mission," and he closed his eyes to fully enjoy the comfortable feeling of the warm current flowing through his limbs.

However, this time the feeling was somewhat different from the previous two "fatigue relief and physical enhancement" sessions!

After circulating through the meridians of his body, the warm energy flow did not completely dissipate into his muscles as usual. Instead, it gradually gathered and contracted, finally settling three inches below Jiang Shou's navel, in what is often referred to as the "dantian" in novels.

It transformed into a warm energy ball, only the size of a walnut, but exceptionally solid!

"Huh?" Jiang Shou suddenly opened his eyes and subconsciously touched his lower abdomen. It wasn't hot, but he could clearly feel a ball of energy slowly rotating there.

"What... what's going on?" Jiang Shou swallowed hard, trying to concentrate and sense the energy in his mind.

Just as his thoughts sank, Jiang Shou's eyes widened in shock. "It moved?!"

He discovered that this energy was actually alive, able to flow according to his thoughts!

"Go to the right hand!" Jiang Shou silently chanted in his mind.

In an instant, a thin stream of heat from his dantian surged through his meridians into his right arm and hand. Jiang Shou instantly felt his right arm brimming with explosive power. He clenched his fist so tightly that his knuckles cracked crisply, feeling as if he could punch right through the brick wall of the room!

"Holy crap, that's amazing!" Jiang Shou exclaimed excitedly, like a child who had just received a new toy.

"Down! To your feet!" With a thought, the energy instantly dissipated, flowing down his thighs to the soles of his feet. A feeling of lightness and elasticity washed over his feet. Jiang Shou bent his knees and leaped upwards with force.

"Whoosh—" With a whoosh of wind in his ears, Jiang Shou's head slammed into the nearly three-meter-high beam of the side room with a "bang"!

"Ouch, holy crap!" Jiang Shou landed on the ground, clutching his head. Far from feeling pain, his eyes lit up. "That jump must have been at least four feet high! If I went to the Olympics for the high jump, I'd win the gold medal right there!"

He rubbed his scalp and continued trying. "Let's check his head!"

Energy surged, rushing straight to his head. Jiang Shou instantly felt a clarity in his mind, like taking a big gulp of ice-cold Sprite on a sweltering summer day.

My mind, which was still a bit groggy from staying up late drawing talismans last night, became unusually clear and agile. Even the obscure feng shui knowledge that I had forced myself to memorize before became clear and organized in my mind.

"Go to my eyes!" Jiang Shou focused all his thoughts on his eyes. The energy inside his body was warm, but once it reached his eyes, it transformed into an extremely refreshing coolness.

Jiang Shou blinked twice, and when he opened his eyes again, he was completely stunned.

The world before my eyes seemed to have been instantly switched from "smooth picture quality" to "4K ultra-high definition." The colors of the world became incredibly vibrant and vivid, and the slight nearsightedness I had developed from years of watching videos on my phone completely disappeared! My vision became exceptionally clear and sharp.

Jiang Shou walked to the window and tried to focus his mind to look outside. As he concentrated, his eyes seemed to be equipped with high-powered telescopes and magnifying glasses, and his vision instantly zoomed in!

He could even see clearly that, at the base of the wall in the Taoist temple courtyard a dozen meters away, a crystal-clear dewdrop was sliding down a slender blade of grass, following the veins of the leaf. Even the faint light refracted from the dewdrop was clearly visible!

"Amazing... Absolutely amazing..."

However, as he made these extremely energy-consuming attempts, Jiang Shou could clearly feel that the magical aura was gradually decreasing, becoming weaker and weaker, until it was finally completely exhausted.

The "super vision" in front of me slowly faded, and my vision returned to that of a normal person. The warmth in my dantian also completely disappeared.

But at this moment, Jiang Shou's heart was in turmoil.

"This... could this be the 'true essence' mentioned in cultivation novels?! Or 'innate true energy'?!" Jiang Shou was so excited that he kept rubbing his hands together and pacing back and forth in the room.

"Holy crap! If I keep doing more and more missions and the true energy from the Frostbite Token gets more and more abundant, and if I can keep this energy in my dantian... wouldn't I become a superman? No, I'd become an immortal!"

Just as Jiang Shou was immersed in his fantasy of "punching the old folks' home in Nanshan and kicking the kindergarten in Beihai" and was so excited that he couldn't contain himself.

"Clatter." A very faint sound suddenly came from the roof tiles.

Jiang Shou's senses were now extremely sharp, and he was immediately startled: "Who?!"

He darted out of the room and into the courtyard, looking around.

On the high wooden threshold of the main hall, a familiar orange-yellow creature had appeared at some point.

The plump orange cat that had been missing for two days had actually returned. It was lazily lying on the doorstep. When it heard Jiang Shou rushing out, it barely raised its heavy head, glanced at Jiang Shou indifferently, then yawned, rested its chin on its two front paws, and closed its eyes to doze off.

"Fat Tiger!" Jiang Shou exclaimed with delight upon seeing the cat, as if he had seen the NPC that the old man had left behind as a tutorial for beginners.

Fat Tiger didn't move an inch, not even flicking his tail.

Jiang Shou quickly went over and squatted down beside the threshold, looking at the fat cat with a big smile: "Fat Tiger, the old man said in his letter that if I encounter any difficulties I don't understand, I can ask you for help. How can a little fat cat like you help me? Meow?"

Fat Tiger remained lying down with his eyes closed, not even lifting his eyelids, as if he were already asleep, and even made a very faint snoring sound.

Jiang Shou's smile gradually froze, and his lips twitched slightly. He was furious and made a gesture in the air above Fatty Tiger's head.

"Stop playing dead with me!" Jiang Shou snapped irritably. "When I called your name just now, I clearly saw your right ear twitch! Now you're pretending to be dozing off. How do you, a cat, get so many tricks up your sleeve!"