I am an insect

On the surface, Ji Ye is an expert in entomology, but in reality, he has also made many investments. Having lived for a century, he has accumulated a considerable amount of wealth. Ever since he learned about adult insects, he has been preparing for this for decades.

He had thought countless times about what kind of life form a person would take after death and emerging from their cocoon. One of the thoughts he had considered was whether it would exist as a mental entity or a soul, since his original old body should have turned into rotten wood.

Regardless of what kind of life form the adult insect will take when it emerges from its pupa, money is essential in today's society. So every now and then, I've been storing a sum of cash here. Over the decades, the safe has been filled with various versions of cash.

The reason for storing cash is for future use. Of course, considering the issue of currency devaluation, gold bars and antiques are also stored here.

Thinking of Li Haoquan, who was seriously injured and still in the hospital, and how he had gotten involved because of him, and also thinking of Wang Yecheng's urgent need for 50,000 yuan, Ji Ye came here tonight to withdraw some cash for backup.

"Luckily, I thought things through and saved a lot of money here. Otherwise, if I needed money urgently, it would be quite troublesome given my current situation, as I can't show up as Ji Ye."

Having confirmed that the money was safely stored here, Ji Ye felt relieved. He closed all the safes, took out only the copy of "Huangdi Neijing" that he had found at the antique market years ago, walked out of the basement, returned to the lobby on the first floor, and looked out the window at the moon in the night sky.

I opened the "Huangdi Neijing" (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), sat cross-legged facing the window, and carefully read the records in the book while slowly calming my mind.

Having experienced it firsthand, I gained a profound understanding of the descriptions of adult insects in this ancient book.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic provides a detailed description of the process. Ji Ye had tried it countless times before, but to no avail, so he eventually gave up and even doubted whether the record was fabricated.

It wasn't until he became a mind-body that he realized the contents of the book were only effective for adult insects. Before, he was just an ordinary human, so the method was naturally ineffective for him.

Read the process carefully again and memorize it.

"Close your eyes and meditate, straighten your body and press your tongue against the palate, clench your fists and cultivate stillness and contemplation." Ji Ye silently recited in his heart. The first sentence was about preparation. Before starting, one should sit cross-legged, close one's eyes, straighten one's body, press one's tongue against the palate, eliminate distracting thoughts, regulate one's breathing to prevent one's spirit from wandering, and clench one's fists.

Afterwards, following the detailed steps recorded in the "Huangdi Neijing" (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), he gradually began to experience a response.

In fact, he had sensed it before, that the world seemed to be filled with a power similar to intention, like air, omnipresent.

However, normal humans cannot sense this power; only those in a state of mental consciousness can sense it, especially those in a pure mental consciousness state, where the senses are strongest.

Now he is hidden inside Wang Yecheng's body, and perhaps due to the constraints of the body, this connection is much weaker.

At this moment, you are in a meditative state. When your mind is focused and you concentrate, you will immediately feel something.

As the sensation intensified, Ji Ye felt that the world was filled with endless spiritual energy. This energy slowly entered his body with his breath and was absorbed by his spiritual body.

"Use this breath to burn your navel." According to the records, Ji Ye took a breath, held it, and used his mind to guide the energy that had entered his body to the area below his navel. Then he exhaled the breath. By repeating this process, he could strongly feel a strong energy gathering in his abdomen.

With each breath, Ji Ye's connection with his surroundings grew stronger. He had a vague feeling that the energy that had filled every place was slowly converging on him, and his body was greedily absorbing this energy.

As the energy within his body surged and intensified, Ji Ye stretched out his right hand, and the jet-black hook reappeared. With an outlet, the surging energy within him immediately rushed toward the hook.

Ji Ye opened his eyes and saw that the surface of the hook gradually emitted a layer of dark light, which then became intense.

He knew that this was like a chain; as the energy gathered, the hook would become stronger and sharper, and its power would increase.

"If I keep persisting like this, my mental awareness will become stronger and stronger, and it's not impossible for me to completely break free from my dependence on my body..."

Ji Ye tried it for the first time, and the effect was amazing. He was both surprised and delighted.

He understood that if his mental body could undergo a qualitative change like this hook, he would no longer fear sunlight. At that time, perhaps he would no longer need an ordinary human body. His mental body would be completely unrestrained, and one could imagine how powerful it would be.

Having confirmed the effect, Ji Ye closed his eyes again, focusing intently on sensing the power of intention in the world. Through a special breathing method, he slowly absorbed it into his body, gradually strengthening the extension of that intentional entity.

After an unknown amount of time, Ji Ye finally entered a state of complete absorption in the universe, forgetting where he was and everything around him. In his consciousness, he felt as if he had broken free from the constraints of his physical body and entered a state of primordial chaos.

This place is filled with endless power of thought, and within this power exists an immense, vague will that rules and dominates everything.

The moment Ji Ye sensed something, he suddenly woke up with a start, opened his eyes, and found himself surrounded by darkness. It was already late at night, and he hadn't turned on the lights. Several hours had passed during his meditation.

Ji Ye touched his face and found that his forehead was covered in cold sweat.

That vague feeling just now seemed both real and unreal, and was somewhat eerie.

It seems that there exists an enormous consciousness in this world, and all of their consciousness originates from it.

"Was that feeling just now real or not...? Could there really be such a consciousness in this world...? Some Western scholars have referred to Earth's ecosystem as the Earth's will, naming it 'Gaia,' but... that's just a hypothesis after all..."