Meanwhile, Jiang Yun, who was cultivating on Pearl Island, discovered the importance of state of mind and began drinking tea and observing flowers every day. He also practiced the divine art once a day without fail to accelerate the growth of the spiritual medicine.
Watching the elixir growing vigorously day by day, he felt that his state of mind was slowly improving.
"Mundane perception is indispensable, but the heart of a cultivator encompasses everything. Relying solely on one's own perception is far from enough."
Jiang Yun began to carefully comprehend the method of improving the state of mind in the exercises. Sure enough, he saw this sentence in it.
He had realized that when a cultivator reached a certain level, he needed to go to the mortal world to gain insights into the mundane world. However, he had not expected that relying solely on his own insights would be far from enough.
"So how do we do that?"
Jiang Yun continued browsing and finally came up with a method most commonly used by immortals and gods at the end.
"Comprehend the power of incense? Temper your soul?"
Jiang Yun immediately thought of the legends of various immortals and gods in his previous life. In this world of immortal cultivation, apart from worshipping their ancestors, mortals rarely worship powerful immortals and gods. Most of them worship the immortal cultivators who once saved them.
The incense offered by ordinary people often contains many complicated thoughts. Understanding these can also improve your state of mind.
"Could this be the method used by immortals to elevate their state of mind?"
Thinking of this, Jiang Yun began to carefully browse the contents of Zixiao Xuanlu. Jiang Yun felt more and more that this was truly a magical book. There were many things he didn't know, but as long as he could think of it, there were records about them.
But if you don't recognize it, it won't even appear in your mind. For example, if Jiang Yun hadn't had the opportunity to improve his state of mind and read the record of the state of mind in the technique, there wouldn't be the one he just read in the technique.
"Do you want me to imitate the gods in my previous life and create statues for people to pray and kneel down to?"
Jiang Yun thought about this, pondered for a moment, and immediately shook his head. This world is a world of cultivating immortals. If he did this, it would definitely attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives. Then he might not be facing such a simple Foundation Establishment cultivator. He might also want to know the answer from the high and mighty Nascent Soul cultivator.
"This method is good, but it's a little difficult to collect."
Jiang Yun read the record of offering sacrifices to immortals and gods, and then saw a method for immortals and gods to improve their state of mind.
It is to absorb the aura of a long-standing mundane object, to perceive the complex thoughts left by its owners over the generations. The longer it is passed down, the more people own it, the better.
Jiang Yun's eyes lit up when he saw this. He could use spirit stones or money to secretly collect these mundane antiques. These immortal cultivators had no interest in it, but it seemed a bit inefficient.
But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Thinking of this, Jiang Yun left Mingzhu Island and came to Biyun City.
Jiang Yun arrived at the outer city of Biyun and began to pick and choose in a quaint antique shop. Because there were no instructions on how to distinguish the strength of these thoughts and auras, Jiang Yun could only rely on his intuition to select a few ancient-looking personal accessories and books.
He felt that these past two years were the easiest for all previous owners to access.
"Master, do you want to buy these?"
The shopkeeper of the antique shop was an old scholar who looked to be over seventy years old. He had run this bookshop all his life and also collected and sold some antiques. Unfortunately, immortal cultivators looked down on them. Mortals did not pursue these things and instead pursued immortal cultivation, so business had always been poor.
"Yes, the older the better."
Jiang Yun pointed to the three items he had picked out: two ancient books and an antique pendant.
"Master, these are ancient books. They are of no help to the cultivation of immortality. It is a pity to destroy them."
Although the old scholar didn't know what the immortal master would buy these for, he didn't want to see the ancient artifacts destroyed.
"Don't worry, they won't be damaged. I just want to buy some to use as ornaments."
Jiang Yun casually said that absorbing the aura of the ancient artifact would indeed not cause any damage to it. As for the idea of it being an ornament, that was pure nonsense.
"All right,"
The old scholar looked at these things and said:
"You can give me two silver coins for these."
"silver?"
When Jiang Yun heard this word, he was stunned. He didn't have any silver coins in his pocket. This was the first time he heard of it. He thought about it and took out a handful of silver that Yunluo had brought with him. Here in Yunluo, it was circulated as money.
"Is silver okay?"
"This won't work,"
The other party looked at Baihuahua's silver on the counter and shook his head.
"Is one spirit stone enough?"
Seeing that the silver was not working, Jiang Yun had no choice but to take the silver back and took out a spirit stone and asked;
"The Immortal Stone is fine, but I can't find it."
"Forget about the extra ones."
Jiang Yun placed the spirit stone on the counter, picked up a few antiques, and turned to leave.
"silver?"
Jiang Yun muttered something, without thinking too much, turned around and left Biyun City and returned to Mingzhu Island.
"I hope it helps."
In the training room on Pearl Island, Jiang Yun solemnly took out the first item, a pendant that looked quite ancient. The pendant was a silver chain with a green gem hanging underneath.
But over time, the chain has become a little black and the gems look quite old.
He placed the pendant in his hand, slowly extended his spiritual sense, and began to use the method recorded in the secret book to feel the aura on it. This pendant was indeed worthy of being an ancient artifact. As soon as Jiang Yun felt it according to the method recorded in the secret book, he could feel the strong aura of its past owners.
"boom"
He gently absorbed a trace of breath into his soul and began to comprehend it according to the method recorded in the secret book. Suddenly, his mind exploded, his eyes went black, and he entered an unfamiliar body.
“Thank you, Dad!”
This is a little girl who happily received an exquisite pendant from her father. She loved it very much and wore it around her neck every day. When her father was busy at sea and couldn't be with her, she would always pick up the pendant and express her longing for him.
"So that's how it is!"
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yun slowly opened his eyes. The scene just now was in his mind, like a dream, but also like he had experienced it himself. He entered the body of a little girl inside, experiencing the scenes with the pendant and the other person.
Until the end, the little girl grew up and had her own child. The child was playing with the pendant and accidentally dropped it to the ground. The story ended there.
Feeling as if he had experienced a new journey, Jiang Yun suddenly felt his mind become more solid. However, the thoughts mixed in his soul needed to be removed by Jiang Yun.
"So it's to comprehend the experiences of mortals and elevate one's state of mind. This is just a mortal. If it were an ancient immortal or god, using the incense and thoughts of billions of mortals to gain enlightenment, how terrifying would that be?"
Jiang Yun then realized that his cultivation was not good enough and the incense was poisonous.
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