Chapter 31: The Spirit World

Spirit world.

A spiritual world created by the ten major sects.

When the exam officially began, Zhang Yu felt his consciousness being dragged out of his body and into another world.

My hair was gently blown by a breeze, and my butt felt hard as if I was sitting on a chair.

When Zhang Yu opened his eyes, what appeared in front of him was an ordinary classroom.

Sitting in the classroom were dozens of students of similar age from different high schools.

This is the spirit world, a spiritual world different from the real world.

The spiritual world can be said to be a real world, or it can be said to be a false world.

It is called the real world because everything people feel here is no different from the real world.

It is called a false world because all the matter in this world does not exist in reality. It is like a dream, an illusion. Even everything that is seen, smelled, touched, and felt in this world can be controlled artificially.

Zhang Yu knew that his physical body was still on the bed in Songyang High School, but his consciousness had come to the spiritual world.

He, like the students around him, was randomly selected to this classroom from the many students taking the exam in Songyang City.

After taking a look at the classroom environment, Zhang Yu couldn't tell the difference between here and reality.

He thought to himself, "Don't let me get stuck in the middle of an exam. Let's have all the high school students in the city get trapped in a virtual online game."

A place similar to a virtual online world. This is Zhang Yu’s understanding of the spiritual world after learning some information about the spiritual world.

It’s just that Kunxu achieved this by using immortal technology.

Of course, Zhang Yu also understood that he knew too little about the spiritual world, and his understanding was definitely one-sided, but it was enough for him now.

In front of everyone, a thin man wearing an owl mask was standing behind the podium and looking at them.

Li Xingyu glanced at the candidates in front of him.

The next moment, from his own perspective, each candidate's number, name, and high school had already popped up above their heads.

"Oh, I hope I can finish this soon and get off work early."

As a soul cultivator at Mangshan High School, Li Xingyu, who has no body but only a soul, has long been accustomed to the daily life in the spirit world.

And because of the special nature of soul cultivators, they did not need to participate in this Dao Heart Examination. Instead, they were asked by teachers to be the invigilators.

Thinking of the 45 hours of work he had left today, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Suddenly, he, who was examining the candidates, focused his eyes and looked in the direction of Zhang Yu.

"Is it him?"

Li Xingyu still remembers that day when at Li Xuelian's painting exhibition, it was this security guard who stole the limelight and caused strange changes in the picture of the Martial Arts Performance between Heaven and Man.

"From Songyang High School?"

"That's interesting. Let's record his test process. Maybe we can sell it to the principal as good research information."

After paying a little attention, Li Xingyu took a few steps forward. With each step he took, several identical versions of him split out. When he took the tenth step, there was a Li Xingyu standing in front of every candidate on the scene.

This method of splitting oneself into two bodies in the spiritual world is already commonplace for soul cultivators like Li Xingyu.

Zhang Yu looked at the invigilator in front of him wearing an owl mask, and speculation began to arise in his mind.

The strength of will is a reflection of one's Dao heart. If one wants to determine one's Dao heart level, one usually does so by testing the strength of one's will.

Therefore, the Dao Heart Test mainly tests one’s will, at least in the Qi Refining stage.

However, there are many ways to test the strength of each person's will. In order to prevent candidates from conducting targeted training in advance and causing test errors, the specific questions in each Dao Xin test are different.

As far as Zhang Yu knows, generally speaking, the higher the standard of the exam, the more resources will be invested in the Dao Heart Test, and the more complicated the test content that the candidates will experience in the spiritual world will be.

After all, more complex and diverse experiences can more accurately detect the conditions of the candidates.

"This is the monthly exam..." Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Based on previous experience, it shouldn't be too complicated."

At the same time, Li Xingyu stretched out his hand to him, and when he opened his palm, something like a mobile phone was revealed in his palm.

"Here."

At the same time, all the Li Xingyu spoke at the same time: "Today's Daoxin test content is very simple... pain."

"For the next sixty minutes, the controllers in your hands can adjust your pain levels at any time."

"During these sixty minutes, the higher the pain level and the longer it lasts, the higher your ranking will be."

The Daoxin test is scored according to the ranking, so the specific score of the test depends not only on your own performance, but also on the level of other candidates.

For example, the monthly Daoxin test in Songyang City is scored according to the ranking of all high school students in the city.

The actual college entrance examination is scored according to the ranking of all college entrance examination candidates in the entire Kunxu level.

"Also, if the pain level exceeds your tolerance and causes you to faint, your consciousness will immediately exit the spirit world and your score will be treated as 0."

After finishing explaining the content of this exam, Li Xingyu stretched out his hand and pointed, and a 10-second countdown appeared in the air above the spirit world.

"The countdown starts in 10 seconds."

Zhang Yu looked at the controller in his hand that looked like a mobile phone, and he could see the screen showing pain level 0, pain level 1, pain level 2, pain level 3...

The only two buttons on the controller represent up and down, which can be adjusted up or down from the pain level of 0, changing the pain level you feel at any time.

When Zhang Yu saw this, he felt pain all over his body.

Who came up with this exam question? The person who made this question is out of his mind? Don’t tell me there are levels of pain such as burning, breaking chickens, and slow slicing…

We have our own little Saw in Songyang City, right? Zhang Yu hates suffering the most, and what he hates even more than suffering is having someone press his head to make him suffer.

But ever since he came to Kunxu and embarked on the path of cultivating immortals, he has been suffering constantly, eating so much that his mouth is full of food.

At this moment, Zhang Yu felt nauseous and the resistance in his heart reached a limit.

Zhang Yu noticed this and his eyes narrowed. He thought to himself, "But then again, as a high school student, studying and taking exams is my duty. If I suffer more now, I can earn more money in the future."

“I love studying and I love taking exams!”

After cheering himself up, Zhang Yu felt a little better, and the pain controller in front of him seemed to be a little more pleasing to the eye.

What is will? What is thought? What is the heart of Tao?

The teacher of the Tao Heart Class talked about a lot. From ancient times to the present, some people worshipped gods, some worshipped demons, and some worshipped people... They established various different thoughts, and through the combination of different thoughts and mental methods, they improved their Tao heart and their will.

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In Zhang Yu's understanding, willpower is the ability to endure hardship. The stronger the willpower, the more hardship one can endure.

Thoughts can improve one's will, which means telling oneself that suffering this time will be beneficial, so that one can endure more suffering.

At this moment, Zhang Yu was using some small thoughts to comfort and encourage himself, hoping that he would get better results later.

Zhang Yu has many such little thoughts, and everyone has many.

However, Zhang Yu has not yet possessed any thoughts that can be truly implemented over the long term and formed into a system, and the Taoism courses at school have failed to teach him this.

That requires every student to combine the teaching materials, their own experiences, their own skills... to finally establish it.

The strength of a cultivator's will can be used to rate his or her level of Taoism.

The thoughts in the mind of a cultivator can be combined with the mental method to improve the level of his Tao heart and further strengthen his will.

Thought is the core, will is the embodiment, and mind method is the method. The combination of these three is the complete Tao heart of a cultivator.

The next moment, the countdown in the air returned to zero.

Many students present began to operate the controllers one after another. Some screamed, some had distorted faces, and some took a deep breath...

When Zhang Yu adjusted the pain level to 1, he felt as if his palm was pierced by a steel needle.

He quickly used the first level of the basic mind-refining method taught in the Dao Heart Class, and tried to calm himself down.

Emptiness, nothingness, selflessness... The basic method of refining the mind is a method that allows people to stabilize their emotions, stay calm, and gradually enter a meditative state.

Through long-term practice, the level of your Tao heart will rise and your willpower will become stronger and stronger.

This level 1 basic mind-refining method was learned by the original Zhang Yu before he came to this world.

However, because he had been busy improving his magic power, physical strength, the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method, the Thirty-Six Body Building Moves and Free-fighting, he had not had time to improve this method.

At this moment, when Zhang Yu practiced the basic mind-refining method, he felt his heart gradually calm down, and his tolerance for pain seemed to be much stronger.

He immediately raised the pain level to level 2.

Hiss! Zhang Yu felt as if his other hand was pierced by a steel needle.

But it's still bearable.

So Zhang Yu increased the pain level step by step. When the pain level reached 37, he felt that 37 steel needles had pierced his hands and feet.

At this moment, Zhang Yu's face was distorted. No matter how hard he tried to practice the basic mind-refining method, he could not feel a bit of calmness.

"Calm down! Calm down! Calm down!"

Concentrate your mind, endure silently, persist silently, and water will wear away a stone... The basic method of refining the mind must be combined with this kind of thought system to maximize its effectiveness.

This is also the normal state of improving the heart of Tao. Only when one's own thoughts and mental methods match each other, the effect of improving the heart of Tao will be the best.

But what about staying calm, concentrating, silently enduring, silently persisting, and the principle of water dripping through a stone... this set of ideas is completely inconsistent with Zhang Yu's character.

At this moment, he just wanted to kill the person who set the questions for this Daoxin test immediately! Right now!

Just when Zhang Yu felt that he had reached his limit, the contents of the Tianwu Refining Heart Technique suddenly emerged in his mind.

Fists, palms, legs, guns, knives, swords...

One figure after another suddenly emerged in his mind, with murderous intent to defeat thousands of troops, fighting spirit to never regret even if death strikes, and the spirit of moving forward indomitable... These were what he wanted.

Although Zhang Yu’s Dao Heart level was not high enough, he failed to truly master the Tianwu Refining Heart Technique.

But at this moment, just recalling the ideas of this martial art made Zhang Yu feel a sudden surge of momentum in his heart.

He was like a soldier following a peerless general. When he saw the mighty posture of the general in front of him, he felt courageous and cheered up.

At this moment, the pain like being pierced by steel needles in the body was not so unbearable.

A sinister smile appeared on his lips: "Once I climb up, I will beat the person who asked this question to his knees and beg for mercy."

(End of this chapter)