From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Upon hearing this explanation, Mark remained silent for a moment, but ultimately placed the meat scraps next to the carousel...

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"Mado is dead?"

Ulan Aodeng, one of the four chief administrators of Longgu Village, immediately contacted the dispatch team that was repairing the shielding tower upon hearing the news, exclaiming, "Where is my daughter's health? We need to perform the Source Essence Return to Storage immediately!"

"Maide was struck by the bony spikes of the thorny eel and had nearly half of her life essence taken away..."

Xia Dou, Xu Tong, Shan Da, and others gave a brief summary of the whole story.

Upon hearing what had happened, Ao Deng's aggressive expression vanished instantly. He simply looked at Mark and said quietly, "Before truly embarking on the path of cultivation, try not to take any risks!"

Your life doesn't just belong to yourself!

It still belongs to Maido!

"I cherish my life now because..."

But Mark hadn't finished speaking—

boom!

Gunshots rang out.

A bullet struck Mark squarely in the broken horn on the top of his head, causing him to stagger back a step or two, but he also managed to see who it was—

Ulan Haisang.

Maido's older brother.

"You bastard!"

Ulanhaisang kept firing at Mark, tears streaming down his face. He fired three more shots at Mark, and the bullets bounced off. One of them bounced right at Jiang Liu, who had just finished breakfast and was walking out of "Rice is Steel".

Snapped.

With a flick of his wrist, Jiang Liu caught the bullet. He frowned slightly, opened his clairvoyance to observe, and understood what had happened. However, he did not step forward, intending only to see how Mark would handle the situation.

Haisang pulled the trigger again, but the gun was out of bullets. He threw it aside, clenched his fist, and pulled out a short knife from the back of his hand, repeatedly hitting Mark's face.

Before Mark could recover from the shock, Haisang shoved him to the ground and punched him repeatedly.

"Wait! Things aren't as you think, we..."

Xia Dou tried to explain, but Mark, who had recovered, raised his hand to stop her, saying, "I didn't get there in time, which caused Mai Duo to suffer irreparable injuries. It's only right that she got a beating from her brother."

"You bastard, do you think I'll forgive you like this?" Hai Sang's temper flared, his eyes blazing with fury, and he directly targeted the area where the Markling Seed was located.

"You brat!"

Seeing this, Ulan Aodeng was furious, but Mark reacted faster, grabbing his wrist and making it impossible for him to break free no matter how hard he tried.

"You bastard—"

Snapped!

However, Mark ignored Haisang's anger, leaving him seven or eight meters behind. He took a breath, looked at Aodeng, and said seriously, "If your son wants to hit me, I accept it. If he's ever unhappy, he can come and beat me up anytime, and I will absolutely not fight back."

But if he wants my life, I will never agree!

My life doesn't just belong to Maido...

It still belongs to Ran Bing!

Mark then turned his gaze to Jiang Liu and asked, "I have some free time now, can you teach me how to cultivate?"

"Let's talk later."

Jiang Liu tossed the bullet in his hand twice, then clenched it in his palm, making a "click-clack" sound. A thin, golden liquid, as thin as a hair, slid from his fingertips, cooled and solidified upon contact with the ground, turning into an irregular, thin sheet of iron. "Someone was firing randomly in the street just now, and the bullets even hit my forehead—"

This scene shocked Hai Sang, because he did not sense the slightest fluctuation of source energy. It seemed that the bullet was melted by pure force alone!

How much strength does that require?

But Jiang Liu's attention was on Bai Yuekui. "Hey Boss Bai, shouldn't these kinds of dangerous gadgets be regulated?"

"It definitely needs regulation."

Hai Sang lost control of his emotions and fired indiscriminately in crowds and streets... Although everyone could understand, most of the villagers in Dragon Bone Village were neither Awakened nor Returning Warriors. If they were hit by the ricocheting bullets, they wouldn't even have a chance to be saved.

Hai Sang, having learned the whole story from his father, felt a pang of shame. However, out of pride, he refused to apologize to Mark in public, simply saying, "Cherish your life!"

Mark knew Hai Sang was just being stubborn, so he didn't say much, only giving a barely perceptible nod, and brought up the matter of cultivation with Jiang Liu again...

Chapter 1189 Playful Reading Shop - Cultivation

"You're really quite impatient."

That being said, Jiang Liu led Mark to a special "training room"—the Play and Reading Amusement Store.

The shop owner, named Dulu, spoke with a Cantonese accent. Although he was older, he was very fashionable, wearing a pair of specially made metal glasses and round earrings. Upon seeing Jiang Liu, he asked curiously, "Mr. Jiang, are you here for entertainment too?"

"People always need to relax."

Jiang Liu chuckled, grabbed the money pouch from Mark's waist, tossed it in front of Dulu's stall, and said with a grin, "He's treating."

"Wow! Mark is so generous now that he's not living off Boss Bai!" Dulu picked up the bag, shook it without even opening it to check the quantity, and gave Mark a thumbs up.

Mark was slightly speechless.

"Dulu, let him treat me too."

Bai Yuekui, who followed along, also spoke up.

mark:"???"

"Can we train here?"

Upon entering the back room of the shop and gazing at the huge array of video game items, Mark questioned his existence, wondering if Jiang Liu was trying to rip him off.

“One of Grandma Bai’s old friends learned a skill from playing video games: flow control room, which allows one to perfectly control one’s own body and perceive all the wisdom and information on this planet since the birth of life.”

Jiang Liu made no attempt to conceal Bai Yuekui's presence and revealed the capabilities of the "Flow Control Room," saying, "In fact, I once taught a guy named 'Ma Xianhong' to master a similar skill, but it's different from the 'Flow Control Room' that your mother Bai defines. I call it the 'Mindscape Control Room.'"

White Mom?

Mark raised an eyebrow, but took it as Jiang Liu's unrestrained teasing of Bai Yuekui.

Bai Yuekui was still shocked that Jiang Liu knew everything about the past, but she still asked, "You used to call me 'Boss Bai,' but now you've changed it back to 'Grandma Bai'?"

“There were a lot of people on the street before, and I was afraid you would feel embarrassed,” Jiang Liu said confidently.

"Then I should thank you?"

Bai Yuekui's mouth twitched, suspecting that if he spent too much time with this "good grandson," he would completely lose his manners.

"Grandma, why thank me? It's only right for a grandson to consider his elders' feelings." Jiang Liu gave Bai Yuekui a look that said, "You're getting a good deal but still acting innocent," and chuckled, looking at him as someone who deserved a beating.

But he couldn't win in a fight, so Bai Yuekui had no choice but to play video games.

Seeing this, Jiang Liu said to Mark, "Alright, your mother is already in the zone, you need to get in the zone too and perfectly control your ten fingers in the game."

In other words, to perfectly coordinate your nervous system, you can't just treat your body as a heavy machine; you also need to build an 'AI' system to assist it.

Upon hearing this, Mark had no further objections, but as soon as he sat down, he remembered something and asked, "You know that I use my body as a weight?"

"I am already aware of the entire battle at the amusement park."

Jiang Liu's eyes bloomed with lotus patterns, reflecting the Milky Way. "Having cultivated such supernatural powers, I can observe all the information I want to know in the world, and any life activity in the world, whether human or Devouring Beast, will leave traces."

Therefore, the moment I saw you, I 'observed' what happened at the amusement park.

In theory, unless an entity of my level actively disrupts the fluctuations in spacetime, nothing in the world can escape my discerning eye.

of course.

At my current level of existence, I am still unable to contain the vast amount of information from 4.6 billion years of Earth's history…

At this point, Jiang Liu stopped abruptly and began to talk about Mark's physical condition, "But you are lucky! For a normal person to cultivate to my level, it would be impossible without a hundred years of perseverance. But as long as the Devouring Beast has intelligence and finds the right direction, it can control the corresponding effects in a short time. It is no exaggeration to say that it has innate spiritual roots."

“What spiritual root? If I had a choice, I would still prefer to return to being human.” Mark sighed, a sense of melancholy rising within him as he imagined Ran Bing seeing him in his current form as a Devouring Beast after her resurrection.

"It's not impossible."

"what?"

X2

Mark and Bai Yuekui both looked at Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu answered their questions with his actions.

He suddenly shuddered, growing to a height of ten feet, his skin turning black, his muscles bulging, his hair disheveled, and he raised a single finger—

Except for the absence of the golden headband, he's exactly like Mark Benkley.

Mark reached out and touched the solid chest of the other "self," and squeezed the thick arms of the other "self." The feel was exactly the same as his own.

"This is the first method: control your personal energy and adjust yourself."

The power of the universe's transformations relies on human magnetic perception and uses Qi to shape and transform. But fundamentally, it is nothing more than a process of adjusting the energy of the human body to the energy of the things or people one wishes to transform into.

Human magnetic perception, in essence, is the perception of the energy information of things and people that are about to change, and then modifying one's own energy.

Qi transformation and shaping are the basic conditions for change. If a person cannot transform their Qi, then they will perceive information about other things or people, change their own Qi pattern, and transform into corresponding people or things. The time it takes to do so can be measured in "years" or even "hundreds of years", which is extremely inefficient.

"So as long as you have enough understanding of the physical body and can perfectly control the changes in the body's energy, then returning to your original form is not a problem."

Having said that, Jiang Liu returned to his original form, transforming into a sixteen-foot-tall body, radiant and colorless, with no thunderous sound. In just an instant, he returned to his original body.

Otherwise, Dragon Bone Village would be overgrown with weeds again.

To facilitate understanding, the Buddhist concept of the Three Bodies will be used:

The Dharmakaya is the root of all immortality.

The Sambhogakaya is the majestic form of the Buddha.

It should be embodied in the image of trillions.

The Dharmakaya is the essence, the Sambhogakaya is the form, and the Nirmanakaya is the function; the three are one, but their forms differ, just as water vapor, water, and ice are essentially the same substance.

Jiang Liu raised his second finger, "As long as you cultivate a little bit of Dharma nature, transform your current form into a Sambhogakaya, and refine a golden body, then you will be able to create a Nirmanakaya, that is, be able to transform into a human and restore your previous form."

To cultivate a sixteen-foot-tall golden body, one must first practice the Sumeru Dharma and pay attention to the body structure and spine.