Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 31: Third Eye Opening
"This thing looks so familiar." Ren Yuan stared at the jade bottle for a while, slapped his thigh and said, "Isn't this a gift from Jue Yuanzi? How did Senior Sister bring it out?"

"How fresh!" Senior Sister laughed and said, "If he gives me something I can't take out, do you think I won't spit in his face?"

"Didn't senior sister say that the inside and outside of the human body are two different worlds?" Ren Yuan asked puzzled.

"That's true, but there are always exceptions. For example, the external elixir used to open the mind can allow one to travel between the two worlds." The senior sister replied.

Ren Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he pointed at the jade bottle and asked, "Is this really the Tianmu ointment?"

"Of course, wasn't what I just said clear enough?" Senior Sister giggled and teased him, "It seems that even someone as smart as Yuan can be foolish when faced with anxiety and fear."

"Yes, yes, I am a big fool." Ren Yuan grinned happily and said, "I didn't expect that the pills I had already taken could actually appear again."

"This is not conjured out of thin air." Senior Sister explained, "It is condensed from the python blood collected by the Eight Scenery Gods in the upper part."

"So, Tianmu ointment is made from python blood?" Ren Yuan asked.

"We don't know that." The elder sister opened the jade bottle and showed Ren Yuan the sticky golden ointment inside. "But this is the Tianmu ointment that Master mentioned. There is no doubt about it."

"Yeah, never mind what happens. I'll just be thankful that I have something to eat!" Ren Yuan couldn't suppress his ecstasy. He wished he could eat it right away to avoid any more trouble.

The senior sister handed him the jade bottle, but then poured cold water on him, saying, "We know you are anxious, but don't worry. Although you have made some progress in practicing the Golden Light Technique, you should be able to overcome the harm of the external elixir and will not go astray like Liu Caizhu."

"But I have to remind you that every time you use your magical power, the corpse worms in your body will become stronger. If you abuse it without restraint, sooner or later you will end up worse than Mr. Liu."

"Really? Is there no way to suppress the corpse worms?" Ren Yuan frowned. Other people's magical powers become stronger the more they are used, but the magical powers here become worse the more they are used. Isn't this too weird?

"Of course." The elder sister smiled and said, "The method of our sect is to draw the three lights into the body, nourish one's own spirit, and suppress the balance corpse worms."

He said, counting on his fingers, "Sunlight overcomes greedy bugs, moonlight overcomes stingy bugs, and starlight overcomes cruel bugs, so at least when you open the first three orifices, you don't have to worry about going astray."

"What about when the fourth orifice opens?" Ren Yuan asked.

“Master didn’t teach me later…” Senior Sister spread her hands and said, “But it doesn’t matter. In a rural area like ours, we will never see the Nine True Powder that can open the fourth orifice in our lifetime.”

"That's true." Ren Yuan nodded, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "I was thinking too far ahead."

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I dreamed that night.

Ren Yuan sat cross-legged on the Dream Boat, took out the jade bottle from his sleeve, unscrewed the lid and looked at the golden ointment inside. When he was about to take it, he hesitated.

He found that he had been so happy that he ignored a simple but terrifying problem, that is, the Eight Views God was able to collect a complete portion of Tianmu ointment from the python's blood, which meant that the Tianmu ointment that Liu Caizhu took was actually completely absorbed by the python!

Although this may be because Mr. Liu has never practiced cultivation, it cannot be ruled out that this external elixir is specifically for corpse worms to eat!
If this is true, what kind of cultivation is this? It's just raising corpse worms! Just thinking about this possibility made Ren Yuan sweat. Unfortunately, the senior sister couldn't give him an answer. Whether to eat or not, he had to make his own judgment.

Ren Yuan was a decisive man. After a moment, he resolutely raised the jade bottle and poured all the Tianmu ointment in it into his mouth.

In this world where the weak will be turned into cattle and sheep and slaughtered at will, he would rather become a monster than be a cattle or sheep!
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Although he was fully prepared to endure the pain, Ren Yuan still underestimated the powerful effect of Tianmu ointment!
Soon after taking it, he began to have a headache, and as time went on, the pain became more and more severe, and gradually even the pain-relieving talisman given to him by his senior sister became ineffective.

Ren Yuan only felt that there was an iron hoop tied around his head that was constantly tightening, and someone was hitting his head hard with a hammer, breaking his skull into pieces!
There was a raging fire in my head, and my brains were burning to a pulp.

The most painful part was between his eyebrows, as if someone was using a chisel to chip away at his bones, and then inserting a drill, constantly twisting his soul!

Every nerve was being pulled crazily and continuously disconnected. He was sweating profusely from the pain, rolling on the ground, his ears were rumbling like thunder, and his eyes were pitch black, he could not see anything...

But even so, Ren Yuan did not give up resistance. He desperately operated the furnace of creation, urging the golden light to protect his body and resist the inhuman pain that kept coming like a raging wave, so as to avoid fainting and encountering unpredictable situations.

After who knows how long, Ren Yuan finally made it to the moment when the pain disappeared like the receding tide...

He lay exhausted on the Dream Boat, as if he had just been caught in the rain, with sweat all over his head and body, soaking the deck.

Ren Yuan had no time to care about anything else. He was immersed in a mysterious state. He clearly didn't open his eyes, but he could see the night sky above his head!
Moreover, he could see farther and more clearly than with his eyes - he could see the mountains and rivers on the moon and the Moon Palace, he could see the Milky Way flowing across the sky and the stars shining brightly as if they came from the sky!
Ren Yuan's mind moved, and he immediately sat cross-legged and began to practice the Taiyin Jue taught by his senior sister.

With the foundation of the Golden Light Technique, practicing the Taiyin Technique was much easier. Ren Yuan immediately established a connection with the moon, guiding the cold moonlight to enter from the third eye between his eyebrows, passing through the Red Emperor Palace and turning into silver rain, falling into the furnace of creation.

As the silver rain continued to fall, the dazzling and incandescent nebula in the furnace of creation finally softened in color. The composition was also quietly changing, becoming more viscous bit by bit.

However, the progress of Taiyin Jue is slower. After all, there is only one moon in the sky, and it cannot make rapid progress like Jinguang Jue. Therefore, it will take some time to achieve the harmony of yin and yang...

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Mr. Liu kept his word and sent a convoy to transport the money to the mountain temple the next day.

More than a hundred carts loaded with copper coins were lined up in a long queue on the street. The carriages in front had already left the town, but there were still dozens of carriages behind that had not left the Liu family's gate.

Such a grand occasion naturally attracted thousands of people from the whole town to rush to the streets to watch the excitement, even the pilgrims and immortal servants in the Hebo Temple were no exception.

This made He Bo in the main hall very angry. He sat on the altar and stomped his feet and cursed: "That mountain ghost girl is too unruly. She overstepped her bounds last time in the mountain temple. I tolerated it because she just escaped from trouble."

"But he has gone even further and has come to my doorstep to seek food. This is really too much!" He was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He shouted at the teacher under the altar:
"If the tigers don't show their might, they will think I'm a sick cat. I must teach them a lesson!"

"As you command." The teacher replied in a deep voice. She was even more furious. She felt that the people from the mountain temple deliberately went to Mr. Liu's house just to slap her in the face...

(End of this chapter)