Time flies when you're focused on something.
Over the next seven days, Hou Wenjie not only finished reading the book "The Rules of the Strange," but also logged onto the website of the Bureau of Strange Events to learn more about strange events across the country.
According to information on the website of the Bureau of Strange Events, the frequency of strange events occurring across the country is increasing.
Although most of them are still under control, how to detain them remains a big problem as more and more bizarre futures emerge.
It's important to know that the number of terracotta figurines is limited! And the Academy of Mysteries' research on terracotta figurines has also come to a standstill.
Even though they successfully extracted the Lingtai acupoint using strange powers after numerous experiments with those donated remains.
However, how to place the Lingtai acupoint into a terracotta figurine made using modern techniques remains a problem.
Normally, the body and mind work together to maintain the body's acupoints.
These modern-day terracotta figurines serve no function as human figures and are merely decorative.
The latest good news from the Bureau of Mysteries website is that the archaeological team has unearthed the tomb of Sun Xinglin, a medical sage from more than a thousand years ago, and found the secret method for enhancing the spirit, "The Art of Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi".
Hou Wenjie clicked on the pinned "Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi Techniques" and immediately saw the general outline:
The body is the dwelling place of the spirit.
If one's spirit remains, one's body will be healthy and strong. If one's spirit dissipates, one will die.
If you wish to preserve your life, first calm your mind.
[That is, Qi is the mother of Shen (spirit), and Shen is the child of Qi; when Shen and Qi are complete, one can live forever.]
After reading the general outline, Hou Wenjie had a better understanding of the function of this exercise manual.
He continued reading the main text, and after finishing it, he understood that it was a cultivation technique that used the Qihai acupoint, three inches below the navel, as the dantian, and used the Ren and Du meridians to raise and lower true qi.
This is the method of the Small Heavenly Circuit. If mastered, it can indeed enhance one's spirit, but it is not the method of achieving longevity as described in the general principles.
Because a person's spirit is an acquired consciousness, formed when the umbilical cord is cut at birth.
The spirit is not the primordial spirit; its essence is the yin spirit. As the Taoist scriptures say, "It is difficult for the yin spirit to attain sainthood after countless eons."
The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things. The One here is the One of the Primordial True Qi.
This book, "The Secret of Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi," describes the Qi used to cultivate and transform Qi into Spirit. This Qi is acquired Qi, the "two" in the Chinese idiom "one begets two," representing the Qi that gives rise to all things after birth, commonly known as spiritual Qi.
If one cultivates one's spirit with acquired qi, how can one attain longevity and freedom?
After thinking about it, Hou Wenjie finally decided to upload the book "The Origin and Flow of Qi" from Earth.
His fingers were about to strike the keyboard when he suddenly realized that he could type entirely in a stream-of-consciousness style.
First, he can transmit the memories of "Qi Body Origin Flow" in his mind to the black python, and then issue a command for the python to type.
Without hesitation, Hou Wenjie first transmitted the first ten pages of text from the book to the giant python, and then gave the python instructions.
Soon, he saw a hazy black mist on the keyboard, the mist moving rhythmically, and the document on the computer screen was filled with text in the blink of an eye.
This is not scientific!
This is just a direct copy and paste!
How could you possibly type that fast!
…Okay, it's all so weird, what's the point of talking about science! If we can't understand it with common sense, let's just treat it as a weird USB drive.
Hou Wenjie didn't hesitate for long. Using the human brain's built-in flash memory function, he quickly transmitted the contents of the book to the eerie giant python.
The eerie giant python was uploaded to the computer again.
Finally, Hou Wenjie posted the document on the Ghost Affairs Bureau website, along with a sentence:
"The family's ancient book, 'The Origin and Flow of Qi,' is obscure and profound. Everyone is welcome to take a look."
Compared to the "Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi Technique" which involves circulating Qi throughout the body's acupoints, the "Qi Body Source Flow" is the original and authentic method.
The supreme method of alchemy is based on the concepts of "Heavenly Mind," "Intentional Land," and "Nature's Light."
But it is precisely because it is the supreme Dharma that it is even more difficult to cultivate.
Using falsehood to cultivate truth is extremely difficult for ordinary people. If they have even the slightest doubt, they will find it hard to calm their minds. Entering a meditative state is extremely difficult, and building a foundation in a hundred days is even more of a pipe dream.
Acupoints are indeed real; acquired spiritual energy flows through acupoints and eventually converges into the lower dantian, where one can feel that energy.
With the "Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi Technique" unearthed from the ancient tomb, Hou Wenjie knew that very few people would actually practice his "Qi Body Origin and Flow" which had no known origins.
But thinking of the opening line of "The Rules of the Strange," he felt that having another option was good.
Thinking about the extinction of the myths and legends of the Great Han Kingdom in this world, he uploaded a copy of "Journey to the West" to the Sweet Potato Network and left a link on the Bureau of Strange Tales website.
We can do without any other mythology, but we can't do without the Monkey King!
Hmm! We can ask Zhan Chengwen to promote this "Journey to the West" more.
The specific operations of the e-commerce media company are handled by professional managers recommended by headhunting firms. He only needs to make decisions on the overall direction.
In the past few days, besides reading books and browsing websites, he has spent most of his time meditating.
On the fourth day after he returned from the Bureau of Strange Affairs, which was also the seventh day of his Hundred-Day Foundation Building, Hou Wenjie saw that the Dan Ying in his sea of consciousness had grown black pupils.
This scene reminded him of a saying in a Taoist book: "When a person dies, their eyes die first. When a person is born, their eyes die first."
When a person dies, the light in their eyes disappears. The eyes are the newest organ a baby develops!
Everything in the book is coming true.
Taoist texts say that once the elixir is formed, miraculous events will surely occur.
Hou Wenjie exited his meditation state, his mind slightly focused, and he felt a cool sensation between his eyebrows. Then he felt as if he had a third eye.
Is this the legendary Heavenly Eye?! The Fiery Eyes that Sun Wukong forged from his elixir in Journey to the West?
Hou Wenjie felt that the things in mythology were getting closer and closer to him step by step.
He looked in the mirror, but there was no real eye growing between his eyebrows.
Clearly, this is a celestial eye that exists between reality and illusion.
At that moment, he was like a child who had received a new toy, eager to try out its functions.
With a single scan of his third eye, he could see all the acupoints inside the body.
He walked out of the office and looked at the busy employees, and he could see the various kinds of light emanating from them.
He reminded two employees with grayish discoloration in their stomachs to pay attention to their diet, and also told several employees with grayish discoloration in their lungs to smoke less.
After leaving the office building and arriving at his parking space, Hou Wenjie started the car.
He drove all the way to the wilderness. There is a saying in the world about feng shui and dragon veins. He wanted to see what this land was like under his divine eye.
He opened the car door and stood in the deserted wilderness, his mind slightly focused. Then he saw vast expanses of nothingness, and he walked on the earth as if walking among the stars.
Scattered across this land are a few orbs of light, and Hou Wenjie is certain that these places are nodes of earth energy.
Their colors are varied, including blue, red, yellow, white, and black, like planets in the void.
Hou Wenjie looked up at the sky again, and then he saw an even more shocking scene.
The scene in the sky was like the starry night painting by Van Gogh that he had seen before.
The sky was high and far, with orbs of light of varying sizes swirling around it in a chaotic and disorderly manner, making one wonder if they might collide at some point.
Some of them emitted a golden light, some emitted a pale yellow light, and some emitted a white light.
The largest sphere of light reveals the shape of the moon inside, which is constantly rotating and emitting the brightest yellow light.
The sky outside the sphere of light is a stream of air that appears to be outlined as lines.
These lines come in bright white, pale yellow, golden yellow, and more than one shade of blue.
They spun and twisted, giving the impression that the entire sky was coming to life.
Hou Wenjie was about to watch for a while longer when he felt a sense of fatigue between his eyebrows.
Yes! The Heavenly Eye has just formed and needs more nurturing.
So, on a whim, he closed his third eye.
The ability of the Heavenly Eye delighted him; in his eyes, the world seemed to consist only of light and lines.
The world, which he perceived as three-dimensional, became two-dimensional.
Thinking of those ancient myths, could this be the world as seen through the eyes of the gods?
Bringing his thoughts back to the car, he drove home.
Having understood the power of the Heavenly Eye, he plans to go see what secrets those Qin Dynasty terracotta figurines hold tomorrow.
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