From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Future wars between nations will be intelligence wars and information wars.

By controlling the speed and efficiency of information transmission and understanding the enemy's intelligence, one can formulate corresponding strategies.

Controlling information is equivalent to controlling the initiative in war!

Does Jiang Liu have a way to send messages quickly?

Have.

First of all.

Among the talismans seized from Master Jin Guang were seven Golden Escape Flowing Light Talismans, also known as Golden Light Talismans.

But it can't be used.

The Golden Light Flowing Light is both a technique and a talisman. It requires the technique and the talisman to be used together, rather than simply holding the Golden Light Talisman.

Just like when Zhang Zhiwei first fought Jiang Liu, he used his body as a talisman and controlled golden light as thunder. If Jin Guang Shangren wants to use the Golden Escape Flowing Light Technique, he probably needs to meet similar basic conditions first, using his body as a talisman to activate the talisman and achieve the extraordinary ability of golden light that moves across the ground.

Jiang Liu guessed that Jin Guang Shangren's aptitude was limited; even if he mastered the technique, he wouldn't be able to truly draw talismans using his own body like Zhang Zhiwei. Therefore, he needed to draw Golden Light Talismans to assist Jin Guang Shangren in using the Golden Escape Flowing Light Technique…

If Jiang Liu wants to use the Golden Escape Flowing Light Technique, he must first understand the principle of Qi circulation in the Golden Escape Flowing Light Talisman, then simulate and reconstruct the way the talisman works in the human body in his inner vision, and modify it into a mode of action suitable for himself.

It takes more than one day to achieve this.

Second.

Jiang Liu controls the Dharma Image Seals, possessing the Four Innate Methods and the Five Seals of Shakyamuni. The Qiankun Manipulation of the Four Innate Methods and the Meditation Seal of the Five Seals of Shakyamuni can both help Jiang Liu control the power of space. In the future, after understanding the arts of a hundred schools, the techniques of a thousand schools, and the methods of ten thousand schools, he can then ponder and create a supernatural magic related to space for traveling and sending messages.

Jiang Liu now possesses the ability to teleport, placing the Water, Fire, Yin and Yang Qi Pills within a specially made paper monkey, establishing coordinates, and using Qimen Dunjia calculations to perform spatial jumps.

However, the paper monkey is ultimately quite fragile and easily damaged, and the fundamental function of the Water and Fire Yin-Yang Qi Pill is to avoid death and prolong life, and to assist the Jiang Liu in its ability to lower Yin and raise Yang.

Even if it can be used for communication, it is not a long-term solution.

In addition, Jiang Liu also thought of the Wang family's Yin-Yang paper.

This is one application of the Wang family's "divine painting" ability, which uses the pairing of negative and positive paper to transmit information.

Content written or drawn on negative paper with ink, blood, or even saliva will instantly appear on the corresponding positive paper.

Real-time messaging is extremely convenient.

However, its drawback is that it can only transmit messages in one direction.

This is reminiscent of the abilities of "divine painting":

Using specially processed Qi as pigment, a boundary gate is drawn, and then people and things are dyed with colors processed from Qi, thus entering another dimension, completely isolated from the real world.

Jiang Liu had some guesses:

The ability of Divine Paint opens a channel that corresponds to the real three-dimensional space and can be defined as a "two-dimensional space".

When a colored three-dimensional object enters a two-dimensional space, it will appear in the three-dimensional space as a two-dimensional cartoon image, and it will be a true two-dimensional image with no thickness, rather than a paper figure with "ink-like" thickness.

The same reason.

Yin-Yang paper is considered a practice trick of divine painting, and it most likely involves the fundamental connection between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space: the boundary gate.

When writing on negative paper, ink, blood, bodily fluids, etc., are essentially stained, thus entering that two-dimensional space. However, the stained three-dimensional things will be presented in a two-dimensional form in three-dimensional space, and will be presented on positive paper.

Therefore, the Wang family's Yin-Yang paper uses the Yin paper as a fixed color palette and the Yang paper as a display screen to achieve one-way communication.

In theory, by manipulating the universe using the four innate methods, as long as Jiang Liu obtains a piece of Yin-Yang paper, he can enter and exit that strange world within the painting without relying on "divine paint".

Now, members of the Wang family are also in Yuhang watching the spectacle.

But unfortunately—

Let alone borrowing a copy from the Wang family, even if you offered a high price to buy it, they probably wouldn't sell it!

Jiang Liu was certain that the Wang family was willing to give away the "practice trick" of Yin-Yang Paper to others, but if that person might be able to use it to decipher the essence of "Divine Paint," they would absolutely not reveal a single detail.

Therefore, Jiang Liu could only turn his attention to one item.

Buddha's hair relic.

As the saying goes:

Because the fruit of three lifetimes is unknown, I am ashamed to compose a poem about fleeting worldly pleasures.

I fell into the dream of the mortal world for no reason, and got caught up in three thousand worries.

Most Buddhists shave their heads, signifying the severing of worldly troubles.

But in Jiang Liu's eyes, this was nothing more than formalism, not much different from Guanyin's deliberate pursuit of returning to the true nature in Journey to the West.

If shaving one's head signifies cutting off all worries—

Then everyone in the world would be bald!

But the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats in the temples all have hair, and they're all unconventional! They're all very individualistic!

Since acquiring the small Leifeng Pagoda, Jiang Liu had frequently observed and contemplated it, initially believing it to be a method used by Shakyamuni to cultivate his scalp and hair...

However, as he experienced it for a longer time, and with his connection with the Azure Dragon and the White Dragon, Jiang Liu realized that the reason his scalp was tingling was because the Buddha's hair relic was influencing his thoughts... or rather, his distracting thoughts and ideas.

There are many troubles in the world.

Even immortals and Buddhas, when they descend to the mortal world, will still experience afflictions in their pure spirit and mind. If they have no afflictions, they are no different from the dead.

The Buddha's hair relic in the Little Leifeng Pagoda is a crystallization of the Buddha's hair. It is so fine as to be imperceptible, like dust or a blade of grass, fluctuating yet crystal clear, seemingly real yet illusory, elusive and ever-flowing.

What solution?

This is because the Buddha's hair relic is the three thousand strands of afflictions of Shakyamuni, representing the troubles he experienced in his life, or rather, the fluctuating distracting thoughts.

Even so, Shakyamuni did not abandon it.

Distractions and worries are also part of a person. To completely eliminate them, one must either extinguish the mind and not perceive external things, thus naturally avoiding worries; or try to harmonize distractions and worries, making them an asset to oneself.

The existence of the Buddha's hair relic proves that Shakyamuni chose the latter, rather than the path of Nirvana, and that he sought to sort out his own distracting thoughts and afflictions in some way.

To save all sentient beings, the Buddha must first understand their suffering. The best way to understand this suffering is to personally experience it.

Only in this way can we resolve our troubles!

Therefore:

The Buddha did not shave his head after attaining enlightenment; his three thousand strands of hair were accompanied by worries.

The salvation of all beings is not an empty promise, but simply because the Buddha exists in the mortal world.

For the next two days, apart from the day's work on mastering the fire technique, Jiang Liu temporarily set aside the cultivation of other methods and focused on observing the fluctuation patterns of the Buddha's hair relic. With the help of the Azure Dragon and the White Dragon, he actually figured out a method for communicating with others based on the spiritual light of his ancestral aperture.

Using his own sincere spiritual light as the source, his primordial spirit, that is, his brain, generates a special magnetic field fluctuation that runs through his whole body, forming a cycle and entering a peculiar "turbulent" state... At least in Jiang Liu's perception, the brainwaves flowed like a river.

Afterward, Jiang Liu discovered that when he used this ability, he seemed to be able to sense the brainwaves of all living beings in the world, and even guess their inner thoughts...

That's not the key point. The key point is that after sensing the brainwaves of all living beings, he used the Red Girl as his experimental subject. That sincere spiritual light was able to reflect all of the other person's past and condense another illusory spiritual light around her.

Jiang Liu had a premonition that as long as he touched it, he could connect with the spirit of the Red Girl, so as to achieve the effect of communicating in real time!

Could this be "telepathy"?!

# Chapter 296 The Realm of Illusion

"Hey, can you hear me?"

Jiang Liu launched his first probing attack.

The girl in the courtyard, who was practicing Tai Chi, was startled. Turning around, she saw Jiang Liu sitting under the jujube tree in the corner of the wall, drinking tea. He didn't seem to be talking to her, but the voice in her head felt very real, not like a hallucination.

and so--

Either someone is trying to mislead her, or someone is playing a prank on her!

In either case, Hong Guniang couldn't stand idly by, so she went directly to Jiang Liu's side and told him what had just happened.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin, who was also practicing Tai Chi not far away, walked over.

"It looks like the experiment was a success."

Jiang Liu smiled slightly and revealed the results of his joint research with Qingjiao and Bailong over the past two days—the Illusory Realm of Taixu.

The human body is but a vast emptiness!

Based on a single point of spiritual light in the ancestral aperture, the brain's magnetic field enters a turbulent state, permeating the entire body. This allows one to perceive the brain's magnetic field of others, simulate and construct a virtual point of light to reflect the brain's magnetic field of others, and establish connections with them.

After saying this, Jiang Liu approached Hong Guniang. With her eyes looking quite nervous and her face even slightly flushed, he approached her forehead. A tiny, illusory point of light emerged from the Yintang acupoint between Jiang Liu's eyebrows and quickly entered Hong Guniang's Yintang acupoint.

The glabella is the passage for the divine consciousness to enter and exit. Sending the illusory light into the red maiden's glabella will allow it to enter the ancestral aperture. In the future, by connecting with Qi, and by using two minds at the same time, a mysterious connection can be established between the spiritual light in his ancestral aperture.

"This is--"

The girl immediately calmed down, secretly circulated her energy, and pushed that bit of spiritual light into the Niwan acupoint.

In just a moment!

She then felt her mind clear up considerably, as if all her previous confusion had vanished—

It didn't really disappear; it was just that this fleeting glimmer of light gave her a sense of sudden enlightenment. But with this enlightenment, she could find the right direction and solve the problem more easily than before.

"what happened?"

While Lu Jin was still in a daze, he saw Jiang Liu also approach his forehead. As they touched, a wisp of illusory spiritual light entered his Yintang acupoint and then his ancestral aperture.

Suddenly, he had a sudden realization, and when he poured his Qi into his Niwan Palace, that illusory spiritual light could connect with the river and communicate with it, and even contact the Red Girl.

"The Land of Illusion".

Jiang Liu raised a finger. "In Journey to the West, there is a poem praising Sun Wukong's cultivation: 'He roams freely for billions of years without end, his single spark of spiritual light forever shines in the sky.'"

When I finished sealing the five internal organs with my innate supernatural abilities, I internally refined my life force into lead and mercury, and my ancestral aperture also obtained a bit of pure and sincere spiritual light that did not dissipate.

After passing through Leifeng Pagoda, and being protected by the Azure Dragon and the White Dragon, and observing the Buddha's hair relic inside the small Leifeng Pagoda, he understood the principle of the rise and fall of distracting thoughts. When combined with the brain magnetism within a person's magnetic field, it becomes a turbulent state, able to reflect the brain magnetism of others and construct an extra illusory point of light.

Through this point of light, you can establish a direct spiritual connection with me, communicating through sound and telepathy. If you enter the inner realm through the Dharani Mantra of the Treasure Chest Seal, you can also have face-to-face conscious communication.

With my little bit of inspiration as a medium, the two of you can also communicate directly.

However, not everyone who obtains the light points can make direct contact; at least in reality, they need to know each other.