Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

Walk to the end of the corridor, and you'll reach Room 3, Jia.

Chen Mo used his key to unlock the old padlock and pushed the door open to go inside.

The room was extremely small, barely big enough for a bed, a table, and a stool.

The bed was a hardboard bed covered with a straw mat, and a slightly worn blue cloth quilt was folded at the head of the bed.

The table had a limp leg, so it was propped up with bricks.

The window faces the small courtyard in the backyard. The window paper is torn in several places and roughly covered with old newspapers.

There were cobwebs in the corner, and the floor was made of unpainted wooden planks with black mud accumulating in the cracks.

He closed the door behind him and placed the key on the table next to it.

Instead of checking immediately, he went to the window and listened carefully.

The backyard was deathly quiet, with only the occasional faint sound of the wind rustling the clothesline.

Through the hole in the newspaper, a small patch of night sky, cut off by the high wall, could be seen. The eerie moon had already begun to set in the west, and its light seemed to have dimmed somewhat.

Then he began to examine it carefully.

Under the bed, under the table, in the corner...

After confirming that everything was correct, Chen Mo twitched his fingertips slightly, and two small, plain white pieces of paper floated out silently, landing in the shadows above the door and the window frame, just like before.

After finishing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the hard edge of the bed, took out all his silver notes and the six Crimson Sun Blood Crystals from his pocket, and counted his gains in the Ghost Market.

The items in the Black Tiger Gang's secret room were exchanged for a total of 3,600 silver dollars. After spending 1,200 silver dollars to buy the Yin Stone, there were still 2,400 silver dollars left, along with a few dozen loose coins.

The silver notes worth ten thousand silver dollars from selling the fragments had already been placed elsewhere by him.

Later, I bought two reams of Yin talisman paper at the ghost market for twenty yuan, and also learned two martial arts techniques from the Moon Essence Treasure Mirror without spending any money.

One is footwork, and the other is swordsmanship.

And then there's the most important one—"The Taiyin Chongxing Chapter".

After putting everything away, Chen Mo sat cross-legged on the bed and began to review the cultivation technique in his mind.

"The Taiyin is utterly mysterious and still, bearing the glory of the soul, yet also absorbing all impurities. The essence of its malevolent forms lies not in usurping creation, but in stealing the mysterious and profound, using the void to contain the real, and using the yin to manipulate things..."

The outline of the entire exercise is clear, and the core of the Qi Refining Chapter is divided into two steps: sensing Qi, opening the orifices, and condensing the core.

Chen Mo held his breath and focused his attention on the first part—sensing Qi.

The qi described in the exercise is not the ordinary pure qi of heaven and earth that one breathes in and out, but specifically refers to the qi of Taiyin.

The Yin energy is extremely pure and Yin, clear, cold, and profound, and mainly originates from the moonlight.

However, the method also subtly mentions that the moon waxes and wanes, and qi also has its clear and turbid, positive and negative aspects, which need to be carefully distinguished.

The key to sensing Qi lies in emptiness and stillness, and in being in sync with the frequency.

Cultivators must first strive to eliminate distracting thoughts, so that their minds are like a deep pool, undisturbed by even the slightest ripple.

It is not about actively seeking outwards, but about slowly immersing one's mind into the surrounding environment, trying to resonate faintly with the subtle, cool, yin qualities of the environment.

Like putting a block of ice into cold water, the first thing to do is to feel its coldness, not to control it.

After memorizing all the key points and taboos of the Qi Sensing Chapter, Chen Mo adjusted his posture, with his palms facing upwards.

Breathing gradually becomes lighter, slower, longer, and finer. The mind no longer focuses on the mouth and nose, but with each exhale, imagines the mind as a fine dust, slowly sinking downwards, down to the lower abdomen, to the void area behind the navel and in front of the kidneys, known as the dantian.

At the same time, he tried to extend a wisp of his consciousness to touch the possible aura within the room.

Initially, there was nothing unusual.

Gradually, perhaps because his mind began to calm down, he sensed something different.

First, a clearer chill came through my skin; it wasn't entirely the chill of the night, but more like a sticky coolness.

It seeped out from the cracks in the floor, the cobwebs in the corners of the walls, and even from the straw mat beneath them.

This is probably the murky, mixed atmosphere that permeates the budget hostel, a blend of dampness, foul odors, and the weariness and sickness left behind by previous guests—a faint yet complex stench.

He kept the key point in mind and did not guide these breaths, but simply kept his mind focused on that subtle touch.

Time passes little by little.

The moonlight outside the window, filtering through the holes in the tattered newspaper, cast faint patches of light across the floor.

The moonlight still carried a hint of lingering dark red.

After an unknown amount of time, just as Chen Mo's mind was almost merging with the darkness of the room, a strange feeling seeped in from the direction of the night sky cut off by the high walls outside the window.

It was a clearer kind of cold, unlike the sticky, stagnant feeling of yin and turbidity. It was lighter, more transparent, and carried a sense of otherworldly loneliness.

However, amidst this pure coolness, Chen Mo keenly detected an extremely subtle anomaly.

It was an extremely subtle restlessness, a faint, almost imperceptible, fishy-sweet feeling.

It's like a drop of foul blood of a completely different nature quietly mixing into the bottom of a pure ice spring.

The influence of the Red Moon!

Chen Mo immediately became alert.

This is by no means the pure Yin energy described in the cultivation technique, but rather moonlight that has been polluted by celestial phenomena and mixed with the strange power of the red moon!

If it is introduced directly into the body using conventional methods, the consequences are unpredictable.

Just as his mind tightened slightly and he subconsciously wanted to sever the connection,

Deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Moon Mirror, which had been silently suspended, suddenly trembled very slightly.

A cool and upright thought flowed out of the treasure mirror. The wisp of Taiyin energy mixed with a strange aura, upon touching Chen Mo's body, seemed to be summoned from a higher level, and spontaneously converged towards his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows!

Drawn towards that gentle, radiant moonlight!

The wisp of energy entered the sea of ​​consciousness and went straight into the area shrouded by the clear light of the Moon Mirror.

The mirror surface rippled like water, its clear light flowing. The obvious abnormality in the aura was quickly stripped away, becoming more condensed and pure, leaving only the purest wisp of Taiyin essence.

Then, the essence of Taiyin, purified by the treasure mirror, slowly flowed out of his sea of ​​consciousness, descended along a mysterious path, and finally flowed into his lower dantian area.

Chen Mo was overjoyed and instantly understood.

This Moon Essence Treasure Mirror has the miraculous effect of purifying and enhancing moon essence!

With the crimson moon hanging in the sky and the power of Yin impure, this ability is of paramount importance.

This is a great buy!

He sighed, then maintained his state of emptiness, using the purified Yin energy as a guide, imagining his dantian transforming into an inwardly rotating vortex, extending an invitation.

More Yin energy seeped in from outside the window. As soon as it entered Chen Mo's body, it was spontaneously attracted by the sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows and entered the clear light of the Moon Mirror. After being purified and refined, it was transformed into pure Yin essence and flowed into his dantian.

The process was smooth and natural, as if it were meant to be.

Chen Mo did not rush things and maintained this state for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

Only when the moonlight outside the window dimmed further and the aura he drew in grew thinner did he slowly stop his practice and open his eyes.

His eyes were even more tired, but that glimmer of light shone even brighter.

Not only has the Qi Sensing technique been initially established, but thanks to the purification function of the Moon Essence Treasure Mirror, there will be no more problems in cultivation!

"Hahaha, I've succeeded!"