Hidden moth

Chapter 160: The great drink shocked the gods and they finally saw the truth

This time, the incense did not shorten rapidly, but continued to burn at a normal speed.

In his meditation, He Kao seemed to see, or perhaps even understand, the birth process of this pearl. Pearls all have a nucleus, usually formed when foreign matter enters the body of a river clam and cannot be expelled, becoming wrapped in layers of nacre secreted by the clam.

Nacre is also the main component of clam shells, a material called mother-of-pearl by carpenters.

The reason for the birth of this pearl is the abnormal secretion of nacre. The nacre that should have formed the clam shell inexplicably appeared in the position of the clam meat, and with it as the nucleus, it grew into a pearl with a diameter of one centimeter.

This was the divine thought that He Kao received, which seemed to come from the person in the painting.

The divine consciousness also contained the environment in which pearls grow, and He Kao's perspective was very unique. It was as if he had become this piece of Xue Guanghan, wrapped in clam meat, and quickly experienced years of climate and seasonal changes...

Of course, a bead has no consciousness, and He Kao is just passively experiencing everything from the perspective of the bead.

The content of the divine consciousness is not limited to these, but also includes the river hydrological information of Xue Guanghan's growing environment, as well as the process of the beads being found and collected by someone, and the person who collected and collected them is He Kao.

He Kao never expected that he could interpret his curiosity and surprise from the perspective of the beads.

The divine thought did not introduce the name of this bead. According to He Kao's own interpretation, it was called Xue Guanghan. Its physical properties were similar to those described by the second uncle, but more detailed than what the second uncle said.

The second uncle said that Xue Guang Han cannot be pierced or strung together because its important properties come from its overall structure. The "Tan Xian Cane Diagram" also describes various methods for refining and processing Xue Guang Han.

For example, using spiritual consciousness to nurture, controlling objects and communicating with them, and then applying different methods of sacrifice and refining to achieve different magical effects.

He Kao can master some of the content now, but although he can understand other content, he cannot master it yet because his cultivation has not reached that level yet.

As for the content that is completely incomprehensible, he cannot receive it at all!

Xue Guanghan is such a good thing. Although its efficacy is relatively weak and needs to be accumulated over time to be effective, it will always be useful if it lasts for a long time... He Kao wants to find time to look for it again.

When I came out of the state of meditation again, the three incense sticks had burned out. Two hours had passed unknowingly, but the two candles were still lit, only burned a little.

The candles made by He Kao produce almost no smoke and burn very cleanly. One candle can last for about twelve hours.

He stood up reluctantly, but suddenly his body went limp and he fell backwards. It wasn't because his legs were numb from kneeling for so long, but because his arms were weak when he supported himself with his hands.

Only then did He Kao realize that his energy was completely exhausted. He felt like a dried-up sponge, with not a drop left!

Not only that, his head began to feel numb, as if he were about to lose consciousness and feel extremely sleepy. It was like an ordinary person who had played several games of football in a row and then spent a long time solving a math problem that he couldn't solve. His physical strength and energy had reached the limit.

It seems that "asking for advice" from the immortal Tan in the painting consumes not only the incense of awakening the mind, but also the sorcerer's own spiritual energy and magic power.

He Kao had known the term "mana" for a long time, but his understanding of it was still unfamiliar. He might have to break through the fourth level before he could truly understand it. His spiritual energy and mana were all exhausted, and his physical strength and energy were naturally at their limit.

Regarding this piece of Xue Guang Han, the information given by "Master Tan" is still consistent with He Kao's cultivation and knowledge. Even if there are some contents that exceed the standard, he can still understand it to some extent.

Even so, the divine consciousness information exceeded the limit that He Kao could bear. And just when it reached the limit, the excess was automatically ignored... If it were not so, He Kao would probably be injured.

It seems that the main purpose of lighting those three incense sticks to wake up He Kao is to protect his own soul, while in order to activate the painting to play its magical role of "identification", it is necessary to consume spiritual energy and magic power.

He Kao had never felt so weak since he could remember, and even less since he had achieved success in his cultivation. He didn't even have the strength to leave the Gushan Secret Residence immediately. Instead, he took a Jade Wutong Seed and regulated his breathing on the spot...

At around one in the morning, He Kao crawled into bed. Gao Xue'e could sense it in her sleep without even opening her eyes, and she hugged him.

To her surprise, He Kao was very well-behaved. He didn't even reach out to turn on the bedside lamp. He quickly fell asleep while being caressed tenderly, which made Gao Xue'e a little uncomfortable.

He is always full of energy, why does he look like a little puppy today?
At dawn, Gao Xue'e woke up first and found He Kao still sleeping soundly, curled up in her arms and a little restless, like a baby sucking its fingers...

Two days passed before He Kao finally recovered, but he felt even more curious and excited, like a child who had found a new toy and couldn't help but want to try it again.

Inside the Gushan Secret Residence, He Kao followed the same ritual as before, lighting candles, burning incense, chanting verses, and bowing. This time, the altar wasn't filled with fruit or precious materials, but rather his usual smartphone.

He Kao is a technical geek who has to do a lot of testing in his daily work. Today he is also testing this painting to see what kind of identification conclusion he can come up with... He also has a mischievous and playful mentality.

Then everything went dark, and I felt like I was hit hard on the forehead, and I fainted on the spot.

Normally, a blow to the head is first felt by the body and then reflected in the brain's consciousness. If this didn't actually happen, but the brain had this consciousness, it would in turn cause the body to feel it.

In this case, it may also cause people to have corresponding hallucinations or illusions.

Before He Kao fainted, he seemed to see the person in the painting come alive, reaching out and flicking his head in mid-air!

The blow to his head was like a heavy hammer, causing him to lose consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, He Kao finally woke up slowly. He was still kneeling in front of the incense table with his forehead touching the ground. He looked up and saw that the three wake-up incense sticks had burned out. Looking at the length of the candle, he judged that about two hours had passed.

The situation was the same as last time. His spiritual energy and magic power were exhausted, and his energy and physical strength had just reached the limit... He spent at least fifteen thousand and exhausted all his spiritual energy, only to suffer a brain collapse?
He Kao struggled to raise his sore hand and touched his forehead. There was no swelling or injury. The person in the painting probably didn't really run out to shoot him. It was just a shock of divine thought.

Although the feeling was very vague in the moment before coma, this divine thought could still interpret some other content.

The Immortal Tan in the painting seemed to be angry, but he did not bother with the child too much and only gave him a light punishment as a warning.

Of course, another interpretation is that He Kao used the wrong method to trigger the artifact's magical power, and thus suffered backlash. What was his fault? He violated the original meaning of the saying: "Seeing the picture is like seeing the Immortal Tan."

Did He Kao really treat the Tan Xianren in the painting as if he were the real Tan Jun Zushi? Maybe last time, but not this time!

As the saying goes, worshiping the gods is like worshipping the gods themselves. Since we are worshipping the ancestors, it is like facing the ancestors themselves, and we must be sincere and have the right intentions.

It is not necessary to bathe and fast specifically, but at least you should purify your thoughts as if you were fasting.

The first time he burned incense and offered sacrifices, it triggered the magical effect of "Tan Xian Holding a Staff". The ancestor in the painting should be instructing him on how to use this magical weapon with his current level of cultivation.

The second time he burned incense and offered sacrifices, he was following Tan Zu's instructions and sincerely asking for his advice. Xue Guanghan was a rare treasure he had just acquired, and he had been studying it recently. It was fate that led him to seek Tan Zu's guidance.

As for the third time burning incense and offering sacrifices today, he was just playing around. This wasn't worshipping the ancestors at all; it was simply treating them as identification devices and answering machines, even asking showy questions.

Is this the problem that He Kao faces and needs to solve during his practice? It completely deviates from the original intention of the law of karma!

A Bangli man saw a tourist from Dongguo and took out an apple and asked him, "Do you know what this is? You don't have it in Dongguo, do you? Have you never seen it before?"

If this tourist had a bit of self-control, they wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to him, but deep down, they probably also wanted to give him a brain-melt. He Kao reflected on himself and realized that his mentality just now was actually a bit like that of the Korean.

His subconscious mind was not here to ask the master for advice, but to test the master, just like the AI training and testing he did at work, and the result was...

Even if Tan Zu deciphered all the information about this mobile phone and transformed it into a divine thought and sent it all into He Kao's soul, would He Kao be able to accept it?
What he could interpret was still within the scope of his knowledge and understanding, and was within the capacity of his cultivation.

He had prepared many other things today, and now it was impossible for him to take them out for testing. Suddenly, he remembered that he had forgotten to express his gratitude after receiving guidance from the ancestor during the previous two worship services.

When he dealt with people in real life, such as Old Man Jiang and Lin Qingshuang, if the other party gave him advice, he should not forget to thank them. How could he forget to do so in front of Master Tan?
If he says that seeing the picture is like seeing the person, then he is wrong.

So He Kao struggled to straighten his appearance, kowtowed to Tan Zu, apologized and thanked him. Tan Xianren's expression seemed to be slightly smiling, and he was silent in the painting.

Afterward, He Kao continued to cultivate and recuperate in the cave hall, his unintentional playfulness put away before he began to truly reflect on the true gains from his previous two uses of this artifact. Was the magic of "Tan Xian's Staff" used to identify objects?
He Kao once thought so, so he became interested. Today he prepared a lot of things including mobile phones, fried chicken, tarot cards, movie tickets, CDs, anti-inflammatory drugs, etc., and planned to try them all out.

Looking back now, is "The Immortal Tan Holding a Cane" just an apple and a piece of Xue Guanghan?
Of course not! If the person in the painting is regarded as Tan Zu himself, then Tan Xianren showed him at least three ways of viewing.

First, through the apple, the divine consciousness in the painting demonstrated the "view of seeing the cause and effect". This is the fundamental principle of the spiritual resonance technique, and it was for this reason that He Kao thought of Wei Luo at that time.

The feeling Wei Luo described when he ate the spicy soup was the Lingxi Sect's view of seeing fate; it was just like the divine thought in the painting of "identifying" the apple, which gave He Kao a personal experience.

He Kao still couldn't reach Wei Luo's realm, but through the divine thoughts in the painting, he could understand what a third-level spectator of Lingxi Sect could see from an apple.
No wonder people often say that fortune tellers are often very accurate in predicting the past, but very vague in predicting the future.

The reason is simple: the future is uncertain, but the past can be traced back, as in the case of "An Apple Story."

On the basis of the third-level spectator, if one's cultivation is further improved and can achieve stable "input" and "output", that is the ability of a fourth-level charlatan... and one can set up a stall!

The fourth-rank spiritual master of Lingxi Sect can see many things in the past and infer the consequences from the cause. The second uncle is a spiritual master, but the practice of Lingxi technique has its own requirements, and many of the things he sees cannot be directly stated.

He Kao had never practiced Lingxi magic, but he had a personal experience of the realm of "Jianyuanguan" practiced by Lingxi sect practitioners through the demonstration of Tan Xianren's divine consciousness - this was almost the most brilliant way of teaching!
It would probably be difficult for He Kao to practice Lingxi Shu now. Not only is his cultivation level still a little lacking, but the fundamental principles of Lingxi Shu are also very difficult to comprehend.

Although he was not practicing at this moment, he had already witnessed something.

Through the apple, the second way of viewing displayed by the divine consciousness in the painting is "seeing the nature of view", which is also the fundamental principle of alchemy.

The "nature" in the view of seeing nature is not the "nature of the mind" that people often talk about. Its meaning is very subtle and difficult to describe. It can be barely understood as a concept corresponding to "quality", which includes the change, combination, and effectiveness of quality.

He Kao did not study the art of alchemy, but he had already studied the applied techniques of alchemy and the art of identifying medicines.

The original foundation for practicing the art of identifying medicines was the realm of cultivation of the view of seeing nature, but He Kao changed the perspective and experienced the art of identifying medicines based on the art of telepathy and the art of identifying poisons, which was also considered a gain.

What is usually called identification is only a part of what is seen in the "view of seeing nature".

Therefore, He Kao once understood the divine thoughts in the painting as the identification of the apple. If Tan Zu was still alive, he would probably think that this was like winking at a blind man. This later generation disciple was too stupid!
Perhaps Master Tan had given more instructions and demonstrations on mysteries, but when the apple was placed on the altar, He Kao only understood this much. He only realized this after he was hit on the head.

The divine thought in the painting does not demonstrate these two methods of observation separately, but integrates them into one. He Kao can experience the mystery of both the view of seeing the cause and the view of seeing the nature from it.

When He Kao offered sacrifices for the second time, a piece of Xue Guang Han was placed on the incense table.

Immortal Tan demonstrated three methods of observation at the same time, or it can be said that He Kao experienced three of them. In addition to the observation of seeing the causes and conditions and the observation of seeing the nature, there is also the fundamental method of the art of entering the subtleties, "the observation of seeing the wonders."

However, the experience of seeing the wonderful view was very unique to He Kao.

Everyone’s comprehension of divine consciousness is different, and it can be described as – seeing me this way.

The so-called seeing me is the fundamental mental method of "seeing me" that one cultivates after learning the art of hiding the moth; the so-called being so means that when interpreting the divine thoughts, he himself seems to have turned into that pearl.

Because the divine thought in the painting gave him an experience, not as a bystander, but as the "identity" of this pearl.

This requires at least the third level of cultivation, and is also the highest level of practice in controlling objects. This method can be used to experience Xue Guanghan, and also to experience other things.

This is not only the profound principle of the Ruwei Sect's appraisal technique, but also the prerequisite for practicing weapon refining and controlling. Ruwei Sect disciples are skilled in weapon refining, but without this realm, how can they refine various natural treasures into magical instruments that can harmonize with the body and mind?
In He Kao's experience, the mystery of "seeing me" and "seeing the wonder" are inseparable, so he calls it "seeing me as I am."

The two white jade candles had burned out, and the cave hall was dark. He Kaoding sat and practiced for a long time, when suddenly he caught a glimpse of Xue Guanghan from the shelf.

When placed in front of the chest, the gem seemed to emit a snow-like light, which was invisible to ordinary people's naked eyes, and seemed to converge inward and be absorbed into the body.

He Kao closed his eyes, yet his muscles, bones, and internal organs appeared to be all white and clear in his inner gaze. This actually embodied the state of mind of the fundamental principle of body observation, "Seeing the Origin Observation." "Seeing the Origin Observation" is an ancient name, and is now also called "Seeing the Life Observation."

The last time He Kao offered sacrifices with the cold light of snow, he did not experience the view of seeing life at that time. However, after he woke up today, he reviewed it again in a state of concentration, and only now did he appreciate some of the mystery.

According to the guidance of the divine thoughts in the painting, he mainly realized the mysterious nature of the snow-white object, focusing on the view of seeing the nature, supplemented by the view of seeing the life.

This Xue Guang Han is almost a natural magic weapon, but it is not a real magic weapon after all. If it is buried in the mud and sand, its spirituality will gradually be lost after a hundred years.

Now it is in He Kao's hands. He can condense its spirituality by nurturing it with his spiritual consciousness. In the future, when He Kao breaks through to the fourth level, it can become a real magic weapon with a little sacrifice and refinement.

Even at this moment, as long as Xue Guanghan's spirituality is nurtured, some of its magical effects can be brought into play, which is the "Ice Skin and Jade Skin" that He Kao is demonstrating, combined with the mysterious mental method of the body observation technique.

It’s not that He Kao has successfully mastered the art of observing the body, but he has borrowed the corresponding realm based on the guidance of the divine thoughts in the painting.

In this way, the immortal Tan in the painting demonstrated not only three ways of viewing, but five ways of viewing!

He Kao himself had no intention of cultivating the Ice Skin and Jade Skin, but this Snow Light Cold could be given to Gao Xue'e in the future. If Gao Xue'e wanted to cultivate the Ice Skin and Jade Skin, she would need to reach at least the third realm. If she wanted to truly achieve something, she would need to reach the fourth realm.

When He Kao reaches the fourth realm of cultivation, he can first refine it into a passive magical weapon. Even if ordinary people wear it, it will have some health and beauty benefits over time...

He had a nice thought. After being hit on the head, he actually showed a mischievous smile again.

He had stayed here for too long this time, so he planned to go back to Sesame Apartment first. He made the move but didn't leave. Then he remembered that he forgot to put the painting away.

He quickly ran over to pay his respects to Tan Zu, respectfully took the painting down, rolled it up, and placed it on the incense table using a special stand.

The fundamental principle of Lingxi technique is "observation of the cause and effect".

The fundamental principle of the body observation technique is "seeing the life observation".

The fundamental principle of the art of entering into subtlety is “seeing the wonderful view”.

The fundamental mind method of Xinpanmen is “seeing the environment and observing”.

The fundamental principle of the Danding School is "seeing the nature of things".

The fundamental principle of observing the qi gate is “observing the emotions”.

The fundamental principle of Xingshenmen is “Observation of Desire”.

In addition, the fundamental mental method of the Hidden Moth Technique, "See Me," and the mysterious eight meridian mental methods of the ancient technique, the divine thoughts in the painting demonstrated at least five of them to He Kao at the same time...

Perhaps there is more, but He Kao can only comprehend this much at the moment, which is enough for him to digest for a long time.

Just as He Kao left the Gushan Secret Mansion, in a rather exotic house far away in Acheng, Kang Rulin, the elder of Ruwei Sect, was saying to Wu Yanjun:

"The divine thought I just sent was to demonstrate to you and allow you to experience the state of 'seeing things as myself, seeing wonders as they are'.

As a second-rank scholar of the Ruwei Sect, if you want to advance your cultivation further, you will seek to achieve this realm. The key lies in the timing... Your master is no longer with us, and your uncle Ye is not diligent enough in his cultivation, and his cultivation is not very high, so I am afraid he cannot teach you much.

As an elder of the Ruwei Sect, I see that you have excellent aptitude, so I am giving you some guidance today. I hope you will cherish your fate."

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