Duosheng Danyuan

Inside the room, I silently scanned every corner of the dormitory, my fingertips meticulously examining every shadow that might hold a secret.

Since Zeng Yixi was able to find information about the essence of cultivation in her room, it means that everyone in the Quiet Abode has some personal information that doesn't belong to reality crammed into their rooms. In other words, the room in front of me isn't entirely generated based on reality; the so-called identical appearance to reality is just a facade.

As I ransacked this familiar room, I began to ask myself a series of questions.

"When did I start to think of this place as my dorm room?"

"No, this isn't my real dorm room, I've always known that. But I still had this preconceived notion... I don't know when it started, but I subconsciously accepted that this room was a complete replica of my dorm room?"

"Was it the first thing I saw when I entered this room? No, at that moment, I instinctively wanted to find something to deny the room's authenticity. That's right, so I took out the secretary's Walkman and quickly flipped through the songs he often played."

"Was that when Su Wanqing and Lin Xu confirmed to me that they had encountered the same thing? Indeed, at that time, my attention was completely drawn to the fact that my room was a dormitory, and I didn't think about whether the dormitory itself was actually a dormitory."

"What kind of feeling is this? Tsk... I've always been convinced this isn't my old dorm, so why am I still so prejudiced?"

"It's...it's the rule! The third rule of the Tranquil Abode—the Tranquil Abode provides its disciples with rooms that are as warm and welcoming as home. It was this sentence that made me completely let down my guard against this room and begin to accept that this room was completely generated based on what I remembered..."

"The rules didn't lie to me, but they didn't finish their story either. Like a demon, it hints and guides, but it never finds joy in helping others. A demon never lies, but it knows how to leave things unsaid, leading humanity into the weakness of wishful thinking..."

"No, it's not just the rules... it's the world itself. This supernatural world makes me feel that anything that happens is reasonable. The buildings' perfect capacity for people, the elders' emphasis on rules, the huts that suddenly appear, and the roommates who suddenly reappear in my room... After so many illogical things happening in this world, I've developed a path dependency that in this world, the unreasonable is reasonable..."

"No, that's not right. There's no such thing as a world where the unreasonable is reasonable, absolutely not! Even in a world of supernatural rules, everything is based on reason and logic... The rationality of this world may deviate somewhat from the real world, but it's definitely not built on disorder and irrationality. Otherwise, this place could be a battlefield shrouded in smoke and fire, instead of a supernatural world bound by rules everywhere!"

"Yeah, how come I only understand such a simple truth now? In this bizarre tale of rules, don't the rules represent the very rationality that this world should exist?!"

In an instant, all the thoughts swirling in my mind froze, and in a flash of inspiration, I seemed to finally understand the essence of this world.

Having figured this out, I temporarily stopped searching the room, took a deep breath, and began to re-examine the place.

I just searched every corner of the room, even behind the posters on the walls, but unfortunately, I found nothing. Since the clues aren't hidden in some dark corner, they can only be in the four beds shared by me and my roommate.

So I started searching the leader's bed. I turned over his bedding, knocked on the bed frame, and opened the wardrobe, but unfortunately, apart from that familiar smell of sweat, I found nothing. Next, I started searching the secretary's bed. On the table, under the bedding, and in the trash can, besides a few crumpled tissues and half-eaten instant noodles, I found nothing of value either.

"How exactly did Zeng Yixi find the clue? Did she find it yesterday...?"

Thinking this, I frowned and turned my gaze to the chairman's desk.

The chairman was a rich second-generation, and he used only expensive brand-name items. But precisely because of this, his belongings were easier to identify than those of the secretary or other leaders. I quickly pushed aside the various low-end luxury items on his desk and began searching from the desktop to the drawers and then to the wardrobe.

"Found it!" I opened the drawer and a thick stack of payment receipts and examination slips came into view.

Looking at what was in front of me, my heart skipped a beat. The Chairman was in good health and had a private doctor at home; generally speaking, he would never bother to go to a public hospital for treatment.

So... whose lists are these?

Stopping my slightly trembling body, I swallowed and took out the entire stack of lists.

Sure enough, on the first list, the name column clearly read "Gu Changfeng," which is my name.

Incredulous and wanting to confirm it was fake, I quickly flipped through each document. To my dismay, yet unsurprisingly, my name was written on all of them.

"..."

I remained silent, unable to utter a single word. After placing all the receipts on the chairman's desk, I discovered that hidden beneath them in his drawer was a brown paper bag.

"This must be my medical record, right?" My lips twitched, and I tried to calm myself down with a smile.

I picked up the brown paper bag, took another deep breath, and slowly opened it. Inside was a medical record and the results of other tests. I browsed through the information and found that the record itself was fine; it was the most normal kind of medical record I remembered from the hospital. The information about me was also correct and matched the data from my school physical examination.

Finally, my gaze fell on the diagnosis section. It was written in the doctor's messy handwriting, but now that I had reached the Foundation Establishment stage, I could easily decipher it. It read, "Comminuted fracture of the spine and concussion caused by a falling object from a height."

"Haha, it's exactly what they said."

Indeed, the description of my condition in this medical record perfectly matched the description my three roommates had given me in the illusion of the Quiet Abode this morning. Holding the medical record in my hand, I walked lightly to the dormitory door, gently opened it, and confirmed that what lay outside the dormitory door was still the living room of the Quiet Abode, not the university dormitory corridor created by the illusion.

"No problem, I'm still in the Quiet Abode. But this medical record, which shouldn't be in my real-world dormitory, is now a fabricated fact within the Quiet Abode in this illusion, and it's actually right in front of me... Is this what Zeng Yixi truly discovered?"

As I pondered this, I closed the door again and began rummaging through the medical reports in the brown paper bag.

"They even have X-ray films."

I took out the X-ray film, walked to the window, and, bathed in the peaceful afternoon sunlight, pasted the X-ray film onto the windowpane.

In the black-and-white film, the skeleton of a human torso was clearly visible. Even though I knew it was my skeleton, for some reason, I still felt a little strange about this fact. However, before I could sort out that awkward feeling, the X-ray in front of me changed in an instant.

Looking at the transformed X-ray, I only glanced at it before feeling a chill run down my spine, my scalp tingling, and the hairs on my body standing on end.

Sure enough, this was not an X-ray that had been examined and printed by a hospital, but a fragment of a cultivation manual from the Shengdan Academy!

I swallowed hard, took the fragment of the text down from the window, and held it in my hands to read it carefully.

—Soul and Internal Organs: An Overview—

The internal organs are the organs of the physical body; the soul and spirit are the fixed essence of the spirit.

What is the physical body? A human being is formed by an outer skin and a solid skeleton. The skin is the flesh, and the skeleton is the body; the flesh and bones are connected to form the physical body. However, the physical body alone cannot sustain its functions; it must rely on the assistance of the five internal organs to move. Therefore, the five internal organs are the weapons and tools of the human body; a person without the five internal organs is certainly weak.

The five internal organs: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

The six viscera: gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder, and triple burner.

What is the fixed number of spiritual roots? Spiritual roots are a cultivator's unique treasure, a second life. The boundary between mortals and cultivators is defined by spiritual roots. Although all humans possess three souls and seven spirits, in the mortal body without spiritual roots, these three souls and seven spirits are scattered and not united, which is why mortals cannot cultivate. In a cultivator's body, however, the three souls and seven spirits form a unique soul and spirit structure according to the cultivator's unique spiritual root attributes. It can be said that a cultivator's ability to cultivate depends entirely on the spiritual root maintaining the soul and spirit in a unified and not scattered state. The so-called dissipation of cultivation is the state of the soul and spirit losing their structure due to severe injury. However, as long as the spiritual root remains, cultivation can begin again. If the spiritual root is damaged or even annihilated due to natural disasters or human calamities, the cultivator is no longer a cultivator, but merely a mortal.

The Three Souls: Tai Guang, Shuang Ling, and You Jing

The Seven Souls: Corpse Dog, Hidden Arrow, Sparrow Shade, Devouring Thief, Non-Poison, Purifying Filth, and Stinky Lung

Special Note: The relationship between the five internal organs and the three souls and seven spirits is not independent, but rather symbiotic. The structure by which the spiritual root helps locate the three souls and seven spirits will never exceed their original positions within the physical body. For example, the fetal light is located in the heart. In ordinary people, the fetal light wanders aimlessly within the heart, while in cultivators, it resides in a fixed position within the heart and will not deviate, unless one experiences a qi deviation. The same applies to the relationship between the other souls and internal organs; under normal circumstances, there will never be a situation where the souls or spirits exceed their specific locations within the internal organs and wander to other locations within the physical body.

—The Relationship Between the Soul and the Internal Organs—

Taiguang (胎光): also known as Tianhun (天魂) or Yuanshen (元神), located in the heart.

Shuangling: also known as the human soul or consciousness, is located in the liver.

Tranquility: also known as the Earth Soul or Desire Spirit, located in the kidneys.

Corpse dog: can be located in the heart and lungs

Fushi: Can be located in the spleen, stomach, and large intestine.

Sparrow Yin: Can be located in the kidneys and triple burner

Swallowing thief: can be located in the spleen and lungs

Non-toxic: Can be located in the liver and gallbladder

Purification: Can be located in the kidneys, bladder, and large intestine.

Odorless lungs: located in the lungs

——Divider——

After reading the text on the fragment, I pondered for a moment, then took out the copy of "The Secret Method of Longevity Elixir" that everyone had, and carefully flipped through and compared it.

As expected, the results were quite different.

"Zeng Yixi, you've discovered so much!"

Muttering to myself, I began to ponder the differences.