From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Chen Duo could also suppress the original Gu poison within her body, but she was ultimately made of flesh and blood. If she did that, the Gu poison, processed from her own Qi, would erode her muscles, bones, skin, and internal organs.

In fact, it's not just Chen Duo who is special. Anyone who processes Qi into other elemental forms, such as fire, water, ice, or thunder, must release it from the body. They cannot keep the Qi in elemental form within the body for a long time. At most, they can use it to stimulate the meridians and thus improve their life cultivation in a short period of time.

Only Qi can circulate throughout the body and refine one's life force! Pure Qi!

Other forms—

The only ones Jiang Liu had seen were the internal energy and vampire energy within Zheng Zha's body, but those two were essentially special variants of Qi after processing, rather than existing in the body in pure elemental form.

A carbon-based flesh and blood body is absolutely incapable of bearing energy with elemental properties, such as fire (high temperature), lightning (stimulation), and ice (cold).

If you can bear it—

Either they are not carbon-based life forms, or the so-called elemental energy exists in the body in another form of energy, namely: Qi.

Chen Duo's problem is that as long as she lives, her body will actively process Qi into primordial Gu poison, and once the body is full of it, it will dissipate from her body.

Ordinary extraordinary individuals need to actively control their Qi to transform it into supernatural abilities, but Chen Duo's case is equivalent to having this process etched into her life instincts.

Just like breathing.

If a person holds their breath, they will suffocate.

Similarly, if Chen Duoruo suppresses this instinct, the original Gu poison will no longer be processed, but the Gu poison that has already become part of her life will disrupt her body's normal life activities and thus actively erode her body.

Three years ago, Chen Duo was still in the Dark Fortress. At that time, she had regained her humanity and had become a temporary worker for Na Du Tong.

However, there is one condition for becoming a member of the company's board of directors:

If Chen Duo shows any abnormality, kill her immediately.

Later, during her return to the fortress for examination, Chen Duo encountered the Hetu Luoshu and found herself unconsciously drawn to and touching it.

After examination by the researchers at the Dark Fortress, it was found that the special aura emitted by the Hetu Luoshu could affect the Gu poison in Chen Duo's body, causing the Gu poison that had escaped from her body to dissipate completely.

This situation made the company and its senior management realize that the book might be the way the Medicine Immortal would teach Chen Duo how to control her powers.

Liao Zhong went through great lengths to finally obtain access to the book for Chen Duo, but the company's higher-ups also imposed conditions: every two weeks, Chen Duo and the peculiar book had to return to the fortress for inspection, just in case.

"That book seems to have a strange magic. Spending a long time with Chen Duo seems to have affected her emotions, making her look more like a person."

Old Meng took off his glasses, wiped them, put them back on, and stared at Jiang Liu, "not some emotionless puppet or anything like that."

"I can roughly understand that."

Jiang Liu pointed to his brain and gave the answer, "I've also done some research on the human spirit and primordial spirit. They can be roughly divided into seven levels, or rather, seven stages of development—"

Feelings are etched into memory, memory gives birth to thought, thought forms consciousness, consciousness generates ideas, ideas inspire the spirit, the spirit elevates the soul, and the soul guides the primordial spirit.

Between the ages of one and three, we are in the first and second stages. During this stage, the human brain develops rapidly, emotions are simple, and although memories of the outside world are vague, they provide an important foundation for the later development of thought.

From three to twelve years old, they are in the third stage, where their thinking gradually forms a network of consciousness.

Once adolescence is over and one reaches adulthood, a person's consciousness is largely formed.

Therefore, generally speaking, whether one is an extraordinary person or an ordinary person, under normal circumstances, one can reach the third stage.

As for the four stages that follow, one must first develop one’s own unique thoughts, which will then inspire spiritual power, sublimate into the mind, and ultimately guide the primordial spirit with the power of the mind. Without great perseverance, determination, and wisdom, it is difficult to succeed. Most people will reach the fourth stage, where consciousness generates thoughts, but these thoughts are in a state of flux and therefore cannot be condensed into the spirit.

The same applies to most extraordinary individuals. Even someone as powerful as Zhang Zhiwei and myself can only achieve the stage of "invigorating the spirit with thought" at present, using a mixture of thought and spirit to guide the primordial spirit rather than being guided by the mind.

If anyone in history has reached this level, it would be the ancient sages like Shakyamuni and Lao Tzu. The rest are simply well-known figures in history with extraordinary abilities. I believe they only achieved a state of spiritual enlightenment and purity of mind, without touching upon the spiritual realm.

However, the gentleman who helped China stand up may have also been involved in matters of the mind, only he was not a spiritual practitioner.

Who is this gentleman?

Needless to say.

Everyone present knew the truth and felt a deep sense of respect.

"Whose theory is this?"

Immediately, everyone gasped.

This theory seems to contain the principles of spiritual practice, but it also sounds as if it can correspond one by one with the stages of a person's brain development.

"I have studied both the East and the West and understand both the past and the present. Based on the research results of generations of predecessors in the East and the West, I have summarized a set of theories on the enhancement of memory, spirit, and primordial spirit."

Jiang Liu said calmly, "What is lacking at birth can be made up for later. Breakthroughs in spiritual realm and tempering one's life are the basic skills. What is truly needed is experience."

And Chen Duo…”

# Chapter 608 Gu——

"And Chen Duo... when do you think her consciousness was established?"

Jiang Liu asked the group, "At the Medicine Immortal Gathering? Or at the Dark Fortress?"

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

Old Meng opened his mouth and murmured, "Brother Jiang, you mean... Chen Duo had self-awareness when she was at the Medicine Immortal Gathering? But when she first entered the Dark Fortress, she was ignorant, unaware, fearless, undaunted, joyless, angry, worried, and happy..."

“Memory stems from feelings; how can you deny everything she experienced at the Medicine Fairy Guild?”

Jiang Liu countered, "To judge her as incapable of thinking, speaking, questioning, or making judgments based on normal human understanding is to have gone in the wrong direction from the start."

Although I have never met Chen Duo in person, based solely on your description of everything she has experienced, I can confirm that she had a self from the very beginning. She was simply trained by the Medicine Immortal Society to develop a personality that appears to normal people as devoid of thought, desire, and ambition. That's all.

Although she looks like a child, the moment you truly treated her as an innocent and ignorant child, you sealed her fate with her current choices.

Old Meng stumbled backward, completely at a loss.

"If you don't believe me, then wait five days and see. If Chen Duo really comes out of the cultivation furnace, you can ask her. After all, you're the one who rescued her from the Medicine Immortal Society. She might answer your questions and confirm my judgment."

Jiang Liu continued, "Whether she's a Gu-body Holy Child at the Medicine Immortal Society or a temporary worker at any other organization, it's probably all the same to her in essence: she's at the mercy of others, unable to disobey, or her fate will be summed up in one word—"

dead.

The only difference might be that Liao Zhong, who was known for his cunning, brought her a touch of humanity, awakening the emotions she had suppressed for the first half of her life.

Therefore, in fact, her reason for killing Liao Zhong was repaying kindness with enmity. However, from the perspective of her personal spiritual growth, this incident marked the beginning of her thoughts dominating her spiritual development.

Having consciousness alone is not enough to make choices. Only when thoughts arise and ideas are formed can choices be made. To be honest, from the perspective of spiritual practice, I actually have high hopes for Chen Duo. After her emotions have been suppressed for a long time, they will become stronger and stronger over time once she awakens and makes her own choices.

If she can survive this ordeal and her mind is revitalized through future trials, then her achievements in spiritual practice will definitely be comparable to Zhang Zhiwei's.

But it seems reality doesn't allow it—the higher-ups at All-Tong probably prefer powerful but mindless 'robots'.

In an instant.

A deep silence fell over everyone.

"As for the influence of the Hetu and Luoshu on her emotions—"

Jiang Liu said, "That book is the core of a Qi pattern. Even if it is not opened, it has its own special magnetic field. Even if it cannot be used, if you stay by your side for a long time, your Qi pattern will be affected by it and will spontaneously start the microcosmic orbit."

The Holy Child with Gu Body...

Similar to an innate superpower acquired later in life, her survival is probably due to a certain degree of adaptive mutation in her genes, with the original Gu poison already integrated with her life system!

But if I'm not mistaken, in terms of internal energy cultivation, she probably doesn't even understand the Lesser Heavenly Circuit technique.

Everyone looked at Old Meng.

The latter nodded hesitantly.

He didn't want to believe that Chen Duo was conscious from the beginning, but Jiang Liu described her situation in great detail without ever seeing her in person, which made him have no choice but to believe it.

"The Hetu and Luoshu made her instinctively begin the Small Heavenly Circuit cultivation, starting the internal refinement of the five internal organs. The five internal organs are the masters of life and also govern the five emotions: anger, joy, thought, grief, and fear. Different cultivation methods result in different orders of internal refinement of the five internal organs, which will also have some influence on one's personality. However, as long as one can calm the mind, one will not be affected. For example, various scriptures of the Buddhist and Taoist schools have a certain degree of calming and purifying effect, so as to make the primordial spirit clear and not be moved by emotions."

Jiang Liu said, "But Na Du Tong definitely won't find scriptures for Chen Duo to practice. Under the influence of the He Tu Luo Shu, she will spontaneously circulate the Small Heavenly Circuit, internally refine her five internal organs, activate her five emotions, and influence her primordial spirit. In addition, with the accumulation of memories over time, her emotions will naturally become more and more active."

At this point, Jiang Liu asked again, "When you last saw Chen Duo, how different was she in terms of emotional cognition compared to a normal person?"

"He's become almost like a normal person with relatively detached emotions, except that he sometimes spaces out, and his appearance is—"

Old Meng hurriedly answered, but after saying half of it, he looked at Feng Baobao and continued, "She's similar to the Bao girl from North China."

"I?"

Feng Baobao: (⊙-⊙)

“That’s right, that’s exactly how you look,” Old Meng said.

"Is he not much different from an ordinary person?" Jiang Liu rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

"What's wrong? Is something wrong?" Old Meng asked hurriedly.

“The five internal organs and five emotions do have an impact on emotions, but not that much… Right, she is a Gu-body Saint Child, she is a Gu!” Jiang Liu understood the key point. “Humans are the most intelligent of all things, and Gu is the true essence of heaven and earth. Using a human body as heaven and earth to raise Gu is to refine the essence of a human.”

What is the essence of a person?

Qi and blood?

Yuanyang?

Primordial Qi?

In terms of spiritual practice, both are true, but from a more fundamental informational perspective, flesh and blood, composed of matter and energy, are merely a recyclable shell. Only the soul, the pure soul, which is information, is the true essence!

And the source that drives this enduring spirit is precisely emotions and feelings!

"The original Gu poison may be the embodiment of Chen Duo's soul and emotions. After obtaining the skill of the Small Heavenly Circuit, during the process of internal refining of the five internal organs and life, the body instinctively processed the Qi into the original Gu poison and participated in it, thereby continuously making up for her missing emotions."

Jiang Liu said, "However, if she wants to fully recover, she needs a method of internal cultivation that is truly suitable for her."

"Can you solve Chen Duo's problem?"

Old Meng was overjoyed.

“That’s not important anymore,” Black Pipe sighed. “Even if the company lets her off this time, she’ll probably still break up with the company if she doesn’t follow her own choices.”

"This is just... just..."

Old Meng sobbed.

"Is this just my guess?"

Jiang Liu said, "Then let's talk about it in five days. She probably entered Ma Xianhong's cultivation furnace to speed up the internal refining process, but it's impossible for her to succeed."

Next, let's consider how to deal with Biyou Village.

Seeing Jiang Liu change the subject, Wang Zhenqiu chimed in, "While Brother Jiang and Chu Lan were chatting with Ma Xianhong, the rest of us, accompanied by the strange people of Biyou Village, toured the village. Based on the spiritual information that Brother Jiang had given us before, we now have a thorough understanding of the layout of Biyou Village."