Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

"Dear leaders, I have several skill books that I would like to exchange for merit points."

Hearing what Ao Peng said, the others became even more curious about what Ao Peng had experienced in the game.

Based on the records, it is highly likely that Ao Peng encountered a paranormal event while climbing the Aotai Trail and was pulled into the game.

That means Ao Peng actually played the game for less than a week!

However, inquiring about other people's game content is itself a form of spying on their most confidential privacy.

The Imperial Bureau of Investigation manages a group of extraordinary individuals, not ordinary people. Therefore, it is clearly stated in Contract A and Contract B that unless it is disclosed voluntarily, leaders at any level have no right to inquire about the specific situation in the game.

As it stands, what happens in the game doesn't affect the real world.

"What skills?"

"Just some basic skills."

Ao Peng explained his four skills: Dog-Beating Stick Technique, Fishing, Long-Distance Walking, and Herb Identification.

He kept three skills for himself to practice: sewing, the Six Harmonies Broadsword, and the Hidden Flying Knife, in addition to Xingyi Quan, Kundalini Zen, the Yellow Emperor's Plain Girl Classic, and the painting path he was about to cultivate.

Even if he is a resurrected corpse who can work without sleep, cultivating so many skills in 24 hours a day is already the limit.

The price of ordinary skills is now very high, because ordinary players basically only get one book from the system and one book from the peddler.

The vast majority of them are ordinary skills.

Therefore, each skill book costs 20,000 to 30,000 incense sticks, which is equivalent to 2,000 to 3,000 merit points.

Ao Peng sold four books, earning a total of 10,000 merit points. Adding the 12,000 merit points from selling the [Mysterious Yang Jade Cicada] and deducting the 10,000 merit points from the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple Fire, he still had 12,000 merit points left!

After exchanging merit points, Ao Peng was eager to exchange them for the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple Fire.

After leaving the office, led by Mr. Mo and a deputy director of the Bureau of Investigation, we went through five checkpoints to verify all our identity information.

Ao Peng arrived at a huge, empty basement.

It's twenty or thirty meters deep here, and it keeps expanding in all directions, just like a huge underground fortress!

The moment Ao Peng entered the basement, he was struck by its solemn and dignified atmosphere.

Because this enormous fortress is composed of ancient tombstones.

Ao Peng looked at a tombstone in front of him.

"The righteous man He Changping sacrificed his life at..."

Mo Lao explained to Ao Peng, "Originally, incense was just a way for the living to express their grief for the dead. However, the emergence of the Old Earth Game made the Empire realize that our ancestors may be protecting us in some way that we cannot observe. Therefore, the Empire gradually moved the tombs of the righteous men to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, making it part of the national sacrifice."

Director He, standing nearby, chimed in, "Whether they know it in the afterlife or not, we should remember everything they did for the empire. Protecting it was their mission, and passing it on and remembering it is our responsibility."

Ao Peng didn't say much, and stood quietly in front of the huge cemetery for a few minutes in silence.

After Ao Peng finished his moment of silence, Elder Mo continued to lead him through the crowd to a huge altar in the center.

The altar was built with five-colored soil, and a raging fire burned in the center.

"This is the fire of the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple."

Looking at the enormous altar fire, Ao Peng thought that Elder Mo would take a lamp for him to retrieve one, but after Elder Mo finished introducing the ancestral temple fire, he and Director He stepped aside and looked at Ao Peng with a smile without saying a word.

Ao Peng instantly understood that this was also a test, but this test could only be understood intuitively and could not be explained in words. He was not even sure what the purpose of this test was.

Is this a test to see if he is greedy?

Ao Peng looked at the enormous flames of the ancestral temple before him and fell into a brief moment of contemplation.

His first thought was to ask for a skill to be granted.

If he were to request a fiefdom from the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple, he would have a very good chance of directly obtaining a wisp of fire from the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple.

However, the next second, he rejected the idea.

Demanding a title incurs karmic debt.

The teachings of the True Lord of Abundant Wealth still resonate in my ears.

Although he paid ten thousand merits, the matter of cause and effect is extremely mysterious. He only gained the opportunity to enter; otherwise, he should have directly obtained a wisp of true flame.

Asking the ancestral temple for a title at this time would be equivalent to incurring another karmic debt, one that would affect the fate of the empire.

and……

Ao Peng observed the expressions of Old Mo and Director He beside him; they remained calm and composed.

The others did not have the same skill to obtain the title, and the two guides did not remind them.

Therefore, there should be a simpler way to obtain the ancestral temple fire.

The two leaders were not in a hurry, so he simply sat cross-legged in front of the ancestral temple fire and pondered carefully.

The purpose of obtaining the ancestral temple fire was to open up the inner landscape.

What is an inner vision?

The interior scene is a scene that arises from the perception of external objects and from the mind.

In light of the fire at the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple...

Ao Peng immediately understood the key point.

The key is what I saw in the raging fire of the ancestral temple!

Instead of having others remind you what to see.

That's the most important thing.

That's why the two guides didn't offer any advice.

Even if it's the same ancestral temple fire, different people will see different things!

After thinking it through.

Ao Peng immediately calmed down and used the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Plain Women to capture Kan and fill Li, subduing the dragon and tiger.

Once he was clear-headed and his eyes were open, he looked at the raging fire again.

I watched for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Suddenly, he felt a gust of hot wind rise, which made his eyes fill with tears. Through the blur, he saw a warrior standing in a vast cemetery amidst a blazing fire. He was thousands of feet tall, capturing dragons and tigers, with his feet on the Central Plains and his head reaching the heavens, guarding the vast land.

What you see, you will naturally gain.

A wisp of light leaped out from the ancestral flame, fell down along Ao Peng's Niwan Palace, and entered his heart, solidifying the scene he saw.

[You have comprehended the inner vision diagram 'Heroic Souls Guarding Mountains and Rivers,' opening up the inner vision of your heart.]

[You have obtained a wisp of fire from the Yellow Emperor's ancestral temple; this is the fire of humanity.]

You have been blessed with the empire's great fortune.

You have gained the power to fuel the ambitions of a warrior.

[Imperial Fortune]: Your basic destiny gains a positive correction of +1 tael.

Note: This strong fortune is tied to the rise and fall of the empire. The stronger the empire, the stronger the correction, and vice versa.

The positive and negative values ​​of one or two lives!

This is the rarest attribute.

This makes sense, though. In America, someone with a meager lifespan might have been executed long ago. But in this modern empire, even if someone with a meager lifespan isn't destined for great wealth and status, as long as they don't act recklessly, they'll live better than a beggar.

This is also equivalent to the characteristics of an empire.

[The Warrior's Ambition]: Your efficiency in practicing martial arts techniques will be increased.

Moreover, the benefits of obtaining the fire of humanity continue to manifest.

Your Kundalini meditation has been influenced by the Fire of Humanity, proficiency +50.

[Your Kundalini Meditation (Mastery) → (Proficiency, 0/500), your Constitution +0.1, Spirit +0.1, Strength +0.1.]

The Kundalini Fire in Ao Peng's lower abdomen rose to another level from the Yang Flame Realm, which was like smoke.

Within the billowing blue smoke, one could see sparks like fireflies. As the sparks appeared, the volume of the smoke shrank a hundredfold, but at the same time, it became a hundredfold more condensed.

[Your mastery of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Materia Medica has been influenced by the Fire of Humanity, increasing by 500.]

[Your Huangdi Su Nu Jing (Mastery) → (Minor Success, 3/1000), your Constitution +0.1, Spirit +0.1, Strength +0.5, Agility +0.5]

You have gained the passive skill "Yin Yang Transformation".

Because of the special connection between the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Plain Women and the fire at the Yellow Emperor's Ancestral Temple, Ao Peng's proficiency in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Plain Women increased by 500 points at once!