Hidden moth

Chapter 65: Existence and Nothingness

According to Huang Xiaopang, as long as you "see" the door, use the moth's belongings as the "key", open it and walk in, you can become a real moth.

But He Kao did not have this idea at the moment, because after entering the state of Yin'eguan, even the self seemed to have dissolved, and only the original existence of all things remained.

Maintaining this state during cultivation doesn't last long, and it can't be too long. The so-called diligent practice, in this context, has a different meaning, emphasizing careful understanding and daily persistence.

Almost two hours later, He Kao opened his eyes. He sat in darkness, but his consciousness seemed to be able to "see" a door in the secret room on the third floor.

He got out of bed quietly, making almost no sound, and went upstairs to the secret room.

According to the drawings left by my father, the design of this secret room is very strange. As long as the door is blocked, it will be difficult for outsiders to notice that there is such a secret space here.

The secret room is long and narrow, about five meters deep but less than two meters wide. Xiaopang left the door in the center of the secret room, dividing the area into half in front and half in back.

He Kao could sense the portal, but he didn't know what kind of space it led to. He walked towards the portal, but went straight to the other end of the secret room.

This portal is invisible, and if it cannot be opened, it is equivalent to not existing.

To open it, you must use some medium... He Kao took out the animal claw pendant on his chest. He tried it in the secret room, but found that it didn't work.

This door actually had a direction, as if he had to go in the same direction as before. He "went" back again, turned to face the door, slashed with the animal claw in his hand, and then stepped in.

He just mysteriously disappeared from the secret room...! Could it be that he no longer exists in this world?
He Kao himself felt even more shocked at this moment. He could not describe where he had come to, because the essence of this "space" seemed to be indescribable, because it had no "content".

Without content, there is nothingness. The eyes cannot see, the ears cannot hear, the nose cannot smell, the tongue cannot taste, and the body cannot touch. All senses have lost feedback because there is no perceptible object.

Even in an absolutely quiet environment, people can still hear sounds, such as their own breathing and heartbeat, as well as blood flow, gastrointestinal motility and other subtle sounds that are normally inaudible.

Even if there is nothing in the outside world, human sense of touch still exists, at least we can touch our own bodies.

But He Kao's feeling at the moment was not like that. He could see nothing, hear nothing...even to the point that he had no eyes to see and no ears to hear. He could not perceive anything, including himself.

It was as if the self had disappeared inexplicably, leaving only pure consciousness, which seemed to be absent yet omnipresent.

Just how big is this so-called hidden space? When nothing can be perceived, size doesn't really matter; it can be infinitely large or infinitely small.

Even the concept of "space" does not exist. It is just a term Huang Xiaopang told him.

This is the deepest state of concentration that He Kao can achieve through his practice of Yin'e Guan. It is even deeper than the state of concentration of Yin'e Guan. Not only does the existence of the self become nothingness, but everything around the body also disappears.

If he had not successfully cultivated the hidden moth view, an ordinary person would not be able to adapt at all.

The body does not exist, and the world does not exist. To get everything back, it seems that he has to go back outside the door, so He Kao magically appears in the secret room again!
He disappeared strangely, and reappeared at the same place less than half a second later, with a look of confusion on his face.

This feeling was not like entering another space. To the world, it was as if he disappeared and reappeared; to him, it was as if the world disappeared and reappeared.

It was as if after passing through that portal, the world disappeared.

This is completely different from the experience introduced by Huang Xiaopang. If it is such a special situation, Xiaopang will definitely explain it to him clearly, or at least try to describe it as much as possible... because there is very little space behind the portal!

Moreover, He Kao can only disappear and reappear on the spot. He cannot open another portal like Huang Xiaopang to run to Thailand to steal a batch of arms, and temporarily store them in the so-called hidden moth space for use at any time.

In that state just now, he couldn't even do anything!
What was going on? Unfortunately, Huang Xiaopang had lost his memories of the incident, and He Kao couldn't find anyone to ask. Every hidden moth exists alone, and now he was the only one left in the world.

Was it because he hadn't explored the Hidden Moth Space enough? But in that situation, how could he explore further?
Could it be that the ability of the moth that he possesses is just to play this boring game of "I disappear, I appear again" in this secret room?

No, no, definitely not! This portal wasn't originally here. Xiaopang placed it here. He Kao should be able to put it somewhere else.

With this thought in mind, He Kao consciously swiped the pendant, and the portal vanished. He then turned and walked out of the house, downstairs, to the staircase between the second and third floors. With another swipe of his claws, the portal reappeared. In other words, He Kao had mastered at least one form of the invisibility technique; he could retract the portal and relocate it to any location, effectively making it movable.

He "closed" the door at the stairs and went downstairs back to the main room.

He placed the portal at the door of the bedroom, so that it overlapped with the door of the bedroom in reality, and then walked in. It seemed that he walked into the bedroom door, but he did not appear in the bedroom.

After a few seconds, he appeared in the world again, as if walking out of the bedroom.

Since there was no one to ask, he would figure it out on his own. He Kao had only figured out one ability so far, which was that he could disappear in a certain place and then reappear in the same place.

But he couldn't travel to another place this way. Every time he disappeared, he could only reappear in the same place. Closing the portal and then opening it in another place was just like moving the portal's position. After entering, he could only exit through the portal.

He Kao missed Xiao Pang so much at this moment. He really wanted to know how Xiao Pang managed to travel through space. But that fat guy said yesterday that he wanted to leave him some suspense, and this suspense was too much!

He Kao returned to the bedroom and lay down again, but he couldn't sleep.

He had been used to resting after meditation for a while, and he would sleep soundly, but today he couldn't fall asleep at all. He and Huang Xiaopang seemed to have different ways of opening the Hidden Moth Space. Who was wrong?
It seemed like he was wrong, or perhaps his "cultivation" wasn't enough. Because the ability he possessed of the Hidden Moth wasn't as magical as what Huang Xiaopang had demonstrated, perhaps he needed more time.

It was said that Director Huang took six months to become a true hidden moth, while Fatty Huang only took a month, and he considered himself a genius. And He Kao only took a day, or perhaps he succeeded on his first try. How could this be explained?

Lying on the bed, He Kao recalled what he had experienced after passing through the portal, but it felt like he hadn't experienced anything! The so-called experience is a kind of trace and memory. He should have memories, but these memories are empty.

He Kao, who couldn't fall asleep, got up again, put the door in the same position as the bedroom door, and opened it in a different direction, then jumped back and forth between existence and nothingness.

That night, He Kao's bedroom was haunted. The ghost was himself, who kept disappearing and reappearing at the entrance... After a while, he took the initiative to stop this strange behavior.

He could feel himself being consumed, but it was hard to describe what it was. Energy, mana, or more accurately... the aura bestowed by his esoteric cultivation? It was equivalent to the energy and physical strength of an ordinary person.

Human energy and physical strength are real and will be consumed when doing anything, but as long as they do not exceed a certain limit, no damage will be caused.

However, the invisible consumption of the hidden moth's ability is extremely severe for ordinary people, as if they have unknowingly exceeded a certain limit...

He Kao could feel this limit. The spiritual energy he had just consumed came from his practice in Yin E Guan. Until today, until this moment, he had a relatively clear understanding... Could this be the fundamental reason why a sorcerer can use magic?

He has exhausted his spiritual energy at this moment, and he also feels that if he continues to do this, it may damage his foundation... In this case, he is no longer an ordinary person. Could it be that he has already started to practice magic?
But what kind of magic was this? He had simply used an intelligent program to search, filter, and organize a set of so-called "secret manuals of observation" from the vast amount of information on the Internet.

So, could the difference between him and Xiaopang also be caused by this reason? He Kao, who had finally calmed down, sat in the darkness and began to think again.

Xiaopang's discovery of the portal, his entry into it, and his transformation into a hidden moth were all spontaneous processes. He did not undergo this process, but rather "entered" directly through the practice of the meditation method, which was completely self-conscious.

He thought of another question. Since it was proven that his training was effective, perhaps the experience just now was the correct way to open the identity of Yin Moth?

Otherwise, the hidden moth would consume its life when using its ability, which is not reasonable.

So what exactly does entering that portal mean to him, especially to his cultivation? Like lightning flashing in the darkness, He Kao suddenly had a sense of enlightenment.

Isn’t this the ideal state for him to practice the Hidden E View?

When practicing in the real world, the so-called "the body gradually turns into nothingness and the existence of the self seems to disappear" is just a kind of visualization, a state of pure consciousness.

But no matter what kind of visualization one does, in the observation of others and in ordinary self-cognition, one still exists objectively. Therefore, it is very difficult to truly enter the state of visualization when practicing the hidden moth, let alone a deeper level.

However, the experience of entering the state through observation and the state described by the secret techniques are the normal state behind that door!
He wanted to practice the secret method in the future, not in the real world, but by entering that portal. That way, when he reached a higher level of cultivation, he might make more discoveries.

Unfortunately, today is not suitable for another attempt, so I'd better take a rest first.

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(End of this chapter)