From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"About my spiritual practice—"

As Jiang Liu controlled Bill Rizer and Bai Yuekui's Lance Bean to move forward together, he answered her question, "As an old lady from the old world, you know about martial arts novels, right?"

"you mean?"

Bai Yuekui was stunned for a moment. Lance on the screen was a beat too slow in dodging the hail of bullets, which resulted in him losing his life. But she immediately came to her senses and controlled Lance to follow closely behind Bill, who was controlled by Jiang Liu, and together they faced the net-like attack made up of red lasers and explosive flames.

"The five internal organs are the master of life. By connecting the eight meridians, one can internally refine the five internal organs, gather the five elements, persevere, strengthen the root, understand the nature of the law, and refine the golden elixir of body and mind, and the sacred embryo of the qi system."

Jiang Liu succinctly stated, "Although it involves the genetic level, it is not like your so-called source potential, which changes the cell structure of corresponding organs and tissues in the human body by regulating the expression of recessive segments in genes. It mainly uses the source of life to construct a system that assists self-awareness in controlling the human body, an open and complex macroscopic mega-system."

After establishing the initial system, that is, after connecting the Ren and Du meridians, the Small Heavenly Circuit is formed, completing a cycle. This allows for continuous internal cultivation of the five internal organs, nurturing life force, and greatly enhancing bodily functions.

Once all eight extraordinary meridians are opened, the efficiency of internal cultivation of life force is greatly improved, and one can unleash various supernatural abilities based on source energy.

The specific principle is that after Qi flows through the eight extraordinary meridians at different speeds and in different orders, it generates amplitudes of different frequencies. Then, it undergoes further processing, transforming Qi into various kinds of supernatural abilities, which can be used to enhance one's own physical functions on a small scale, or to involve the dimensions of time and space on a large scale.

However, cultivating Qi is also dangerous. Most people can only master one technique, that is, one method of developing a special ability. After all, its application involves the body's meridian circulation. If one learns too many techniques and gets them mixed up, using them can lead to a disruption of one's life essence, easily resulting in qi deviation and demonic possession...

Well, scientifically speaking, it's an imbalance in the secretion of various hormones in the body, which affects the normal life activities of human cells.

“Source energy does indeed have great plasticity.”

Summer came, stroking his beard, confirming the claim that primordial energy could be transformed into supernatural abilities through acquired processing.

After all, the awakened ones in the village rely on activated gene fragments to convert source energy into potential that can be released!

Ulan Aodeng, Qiushi, and Nanjixing also agree with this point.

"So what kind of supernatural power do you practice?"

Bai Yuekui asked curiously, "Is it related to time and space?"

"Didn't I say it before? Golden Elixir and Holy Embryo. To put it simply, you can compare me to Sun Wukong in 'Journey to the West,' who understands one thing and understands everything else."

Jiang Liu shrugged, controlling Bill to clear a path in front of the screen, his agile movements allowing him to almost pass through enemy bullets.

Lance, controlled by Bai Yuekui, was also agile, no less so than Bill, controlled by Jiang Liu. He followed closely behind Lance and together they defeated the boss of the first level.

“If you want to learn, I don’t mind teaching you. Without mastering the inner cultivation of life and death, even if you truly stand before Him, you cannot utter a question… in a physical sense,” Jiang Liu said casually. “Perhaps, you can only communicate with His representative.”

"What price do we need to pay?"

Qiu Shi inquired.

"As long as I stay in this world, just arrange accommodation and meals for me."

Jiang Liu put forward his conditions, then looked at Bai Yuekui, "Put it on Boss Bai's account? I think I can live off a woman like Mark."

Qiu Shi opened his mouth.

Summer's arrival left me speechless.

Antarctica was stunned.

Ao Deng was dumbfounded.

Only Bai Yuekui frowned slightly and said leisurely, "That red girl at the lighthouse is your companion, isn't she? People can't be two different kinds of people."

The implication was that she didn't believe that a companion like Hong Guniang, who craved "power," could be so selfless as to be willing to impart her skills for free as long as she was provided with food, clothing, and shelter.

As the saying goes, "Old age makes one wiser." The ancients were right.

These two sentences made Bai Yuekui's eyelids twitch, and his composure, cultivated over most of his life, almost crumbled. But then Jiang Liu continued, "As for the other costs, you don't need to pay them; I will obtain them from Mana Ecology myself—"

Innate, indestructible spiritual light!

That is the fundamental reason why higher-dimensional 'gods' can transcend the universe and illuminate all the heavens!

Once His memories are completely erased, the remaining pure and eternal light of His soul will be of great use; it is the embodiment of the law!

"I once killed a high-dimensional deity in my own world, erasing His/Her memories and obtaining a primordial, indestructible spiritual light. I integrated this light into my weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang (Monkey King's Staff), creating a self-contained imaginary space within it that resonates with me. Only then was I able to break the seal that the Mana ecosystem had placed on me."

A huge amount of information—

Innate, indestructible spiritual light; higher-dimensional deities; god-slayer...

"You're not from Earth?!"

Summer came, and he asked tentatively.

"Yes, but I don't belong to this Earth. I come from a parallel universe. However, judging from the genetic level, I have reproductive isolation from normal humans, so I guess I have evolved into a more advanced species."

The reason I came to this world is because a part of my soul was swept up to this time and space by the Mana ecosystem, and I must retrieve it…

Jiang Liu, with his keen insight, knew the nature of these people. With a single thought, he drew everyone into his mind and presented his own experiences and memories in the main world of Under One Person to Bai Yuekui and the others in a form similar to a video.

Although it was a brief visit, it allowed Bai Yuekui to gain a thorough understanding of Jiang Liu's past and realize that the higher-dimensional deities behind the Mana ecosystem, or their kin, were involved in multi-dimensional universes and parallel universes... and that besides the Mana ecosystem, there were other forces—

Main God Space.

That must be a force established by humans that involves multiple dimensions of spacetime...

Chapter 1170 Possession of Earth

"Unbelievable—"

When everyone returned to reality from Jiang Liu's mental state, they were amazed that the existence behind the Mana ecosystem actually came from a high latitude and involved multiple dimensions, and they were also shocked that Jiang Liu was able to let them observe his entire life.

"What kind of method is this? Connecting our minds?"

As the strongest fighter in Dragon Bone Village, Bai Yuekui is nearly eighty years old. In addition, he is a doctor and a scholar. He has figured out how to directly use life essence to transmit his thoughts and voice. However, he has never heard of Jiang Liu's method of forcibly pulling others into his own mental world.

“At my level of cultivation, it is easy to absorb the spirit of others into my inner world. In fact, if I wish, it would be a piece of cake to take your physical bodies into my Golden Core and refine you into a part of me.”

Jiang Liu chuckled sinisterly, startling the group, but also said he wouldn't do it, explaining: "If you rashly refine someone into a part of yourself, their innate Qi's memories and spirit will become mixed. Although it won't affect your self-awareness, it will most likely have a subtle influence on your personality."

"That's good···"

Before Xia Tianlai could finish speaking, Jiang Liu smirked and said, "However, I have mastered a method that transforms the four seasons and six qi into primordial qi. It can completely obliterate the primordial qi of others, that is, the life information in what you define as the source of life, and transform it into the purest energy state."

Summer is coming: "..."

"Next, let's talk about the situation of the Transformation-level Devouring Beasts."

Jiang Liu got down to business, "You all have some understanding of the concept of Qi formation within my mental landscape. It's the feng shui that forms a cyclical pattern. This type of Qi formation even has a chance of becoming spiritually connected, generating wisdom, and taking form—"

The eight demons in another parallel universe that I visited are an example.

The human body also has a kind of energy, which is the so-called sacred embryo. In contrast to reality, it is the natural ecology. The so-called "following the laws of heaven and earth" is nothing more than the way of the unity of heaven and man.

I take my body and mind as the golden elixir and my energy as the sacred embryo, which is a universe. It is a three-dimensional space born from the combination of the physical and mental landscape that can descend into the human body with intention.

The same reason.

The Mana ecosystem is the Mana embryo. Once it completely replaces Earth's original natural ecosystem, it will be equivalent to completing a process that can be defined as 'possession'. However, the Mana embryo wants to possess Earth, and to fully complete this process, it needs an 'incarnation' to manage the Mana ecosystem.

Upon hearing the word "possession," Qiu Shi, Xia Tianlai, Ao Deng, and Nan Jixing all shuddered, remembering Lu Sheng who had suddenly betrayed them.

That is, the original body of Mark's clone.

After that guy went to the Bloody Vortex with Boss Bai, he returned with a drastically changed personality, even causing them near-devastating damage.

Could it be that it was "possessed" by Mana Ecology and became its incarnation?

in the case of--

That's not a question of whether one's personal will is firm or not, but rather that one's soul has been twisted into the embodiment of Mana's will!

Indeed.

A skull with a distorted soul... is still a skull.

However, this may not be the case for self-awareness and memory.

Just as in Jiang Liu's memory, Imhotep, who had been resurrected, showed a situation where "the soul flew ahead while the person chased after it."

Judging from the root, that is, the source of life (the innate Qi), it is still the same person, but the personality and soul may present a different state depending on the experience of the next life.

"How can one avoid having their soul distorted by the will of a higher dimension?" Bai Yuekui frowned deeply.

"The God Space, that force involved in the multiverse, has already provided the answer: reach the fourth level of the Gene Lock and awaken the Light of the Mind."

Jiang Liu said leisurely, "When you teach the people in the village about spiritual cultivation, you often mention the word 'spirit', right?"

But before truly awakening the light of one's soul, no matter how much one tempers oneself in a cruel environment, it cannot be considered spiritual cultivation; it is merely tempering one's willpower.

The Main God Space takes a somewhat unorthodox approach in this regard, sending those reincarnated individuals from various timelines who are disillusioned with reality to experience brutal battles. This transforms their obsessions and beliefs into a driving force for survival, constantly pushing their spirits to break through the fourth stage of their genetic lock and awaken the light of their souls…

Yes, they seem to be trying to force things to grow too quickly.

I believe that for the light of the soul to shine, we must first build a progressive tree of the soul—a tree of feeling, memory, thought, consciousness, ideas, spirit, and heart. Only in this way can the power of the soul be inexhaustible, and the light of the soul be fully transformed into a force that helps the physical body directly leverage the laws of reality.

in short.

If Mark doesn't want to be corrupted by Mana's ecological will, he must first awaken the light of his soul, that is, completely emerge from his grief, find a new goal, and concentrate his thoughts, revitalize his spirit, and elevate his soul; otherwise—

"Even if Ran Bing's life essence still exists in his spiritual seed, it is only a matter of time before he follows in the footsteps of cranioblasts."

"Although human emotions are the only unexpected variable that higher dimensions cannot control..."

“Especially the abstract concept of ‘love’ has been engraved in the genetic code of all carbon-based organisms from the moment life is born. But ‘love’ alone is not enough. Only by taking ‘love’ as the driving force and thoroughly honing one’s spiritual power can one truly understand the meaning of life.”

"otherwise--"

"Reality is not a novel. Energy is conserved. You can't just shout 'For love and justice' and suddenly unleash power beyond what ordinary people can imagine."

"Not to mention that Mark is the reincarnation of the cranial life source substance, a beacon of the higher-dimensional will descending into reality."

For a moment, the atmosphere fell silent.

After a long pause, Ulan Aodeng's eyes turned cold as he came up with an idea: "How about letting Mark die peacefully?"

Having experienced the betrayal of the skull-born, Oden already harbored resentment towards Mark. Now, upon learning that Mark was the "reincarnation" of the skull-born, this resentment was magnified many times over.

Since Mark is the beacon of Mana's higher-dimensional ecological will descending to the human world, why not just kill him and destroy all the cranial clones? Then the cranial life essence should be unable to be reborn!

After all, craniocerebral organisms are not human, and without human intervention, their life essence cannot be "reincarnated" into a real human.

"You're going too far, aren't you?"

Over the past two months, Xia Tianlai has gained a clear understanding of Mark. Even though he is the reincarnation of the skull-born, his soul is different from that of the skull-born. His personality is much better than that of the skull-born. Even though he lost his spirit after becoming a Devouring Beast, he still chooses to help others... He is a good man!

Furthermore, humans are not plants or trees; how can they be without feelings?

Mark had been staying at his son-in-law's house for two months and had become quite familiar with him. How could he possibly bring himself to do it?