sinovels Chapter 8 Star Beads, Star Sea
Chapter 8 Star Beads, Star Sea
Over the course of three months, Su Qinghe not only verified the path of the cultivation method but also learned many terms used in the cultivation world. Zhang Guangze's memory fragments contained some vocabulary, such as Qihai, Dantian, meridians, acupoints, Zhou Tian, and Shenshi. Su Qinghe conducted repeated experiments on 400,000 human bodies and finally figured out the body parts and functions corresponding to each term.
For example, the Qi Sea. In Zhang Guangze's memory, the Qi Sea is where spiritual energy is stored, located three inches below the navel. Su Qinghe had his avatars try different locations and finally confirmed that this location was correct.
For example, "meridians" are not blood vessels or tendons, but invisible channels in the human body through which spiritual energy flows, connecting the internal organs and the limbs.
Ordinary people cannot perceive the existence of meridians. Only after guiding qi into the body can one see the meridians under the cleansing of spiritual power. In the eyes of cultivators, meridians are like glowing rivers, crisscrossing inside the body.
Through the attempts of his avatars, Su Qinghe marked the location, direction, and intersection of the twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians. These were things that cultivators considered common sense, but Su Qinghe paid for them with three thousand lives.
He thought it was a great deal.
midnight.
Su Qinghe walked to the window and pushed open the carved wooden window.
The June night breeze blew in, carrying the summer heat and the faint sounds of people from the distant streets. The night market in Jiangdu City had not yet closed. Vendors selling wontons, sweet soups, and groceries carried their loads through the streets and alleys, their shouts rising and falling.
Su Qinghe looked up.
The sky was filled with countless stars, stretching from the eastern horizon to the western horizon. The Milky Way stretched across the sky like a luminous veil, and countless stars twinkled in the night, some bright, some dim, some glowing red, and some glowing blue.
The general outline of the "Thousand Star Chart" consists of only one sentence: "Star power is the essence of the stars. Guide it with your soul, use your body as a mirror to see your natal star, and then you will enter the Tao."
In layman's terms: Use your soul to sense the essence of the stars, use your body as a mirror, find your own star, and then begin your cultivation.
As for how to sense, how to perceive, and how to enter the Tao, the following thousands of words are all about mysterious and profound things: "The heart unites with the stars, the spirit roams with the light," "Without thought or worry, without self or stars," "In a moment, the eternal Milky Way..."
Su Qinghe read it three times and concluded that the person who wrote this manual was good at Chinese, but not very good at speaking plainly.
Fortunately, he had 400,000 people try it.
The experimental results told Su Qinghe that the so-called "sensing" is to "listen" with the soul, not with the ears, but with a deeper and more essential perception, just like a drowning person can feel the presence of water without seeing with their eyes or touching with their hands; the body itself knows.
A person with a strong enough soul can "hear" the surging power of the stars as soon as they open their eyes; a person with a weak enough soul can sit for a hundred years and still not feel anything.
Su Qinghe closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into the Wheel of Rebirth, where 100,000 points of light swirled around him. He opened his eyes and looked up at the night sky.
All the stars in the sky dimmed in his eyes.
It wasn't that it had really darkened, but rather that Su Qinghe's soul was too strong. So strong that the moment he looked at the stars, his perception covered the entire sky. Every star was sending him a sound, some sharp, some deep, some like drumbeats, some like harp strings. These sounds came together like a grand and noisy symphony.
Su Qinghe didn't bother to distinguish which star was which; he didn't need to choose, he wanted them all!
With his consciousness fully engaged, Su Qinghe's soul, like a vast net, simultaneously drew down the stellar power from the entire sky.
Countless starlight streamed down from the night sky, each beam as thin as a hair, but there were so many of them that when an avatar drew upon the starlight, it was so weak that it was almost invisible. But now it was Su Qinghe's true form that was drawing upon it. His soul strength was 100,000 times that of an ordinary person, and the starlight he drew upon was also 100,000 times that of an ordinary person.
Ten thousand rays of starlight converged into a beam of light as thick as an arm, which poured straight into Su Qinghe's brow from the night sky.
dark.
Consciousness has fallen into oblivion.
Su Qinghe felt as if he were falling into a bottomless abyss, a strange sense of weightlessness washing over him, like returning to his mother's womb, enveloped in warmth and darkness.
The darkness is slowly being carved out.
It was as if someone was using an invisible chisel to strike the darkest corner of Su Qinghe's consciousness, one strike after another. With each strike, the darkness would crack open, and light would leak in through the crack.
The clear and turbid energies surged out from the crack, like two dragons and snakes writhing in the darkness. The clear energy rose and the turbid energy sank. The clear energy rose higher and higher and the turbid energy sank deeper and deeper. Between the clear and the turbid, a vast and desolate world slowly unfolded.
The sky was empty, without clouds, without wind, nothing at all; the land was flat, without mountains, without water, nothing at all.
This is Su Qinghe's sea of consciousness, the place where his soul will reside in the future.
Su Qinghe's consciousness stood in the center of this vast world, suspended between clarity and turbidity, like an infant who had just opened its eyes, surveying this empty world.
Then he saw a ray of light.
A sliver of pure purple starlight descended from the highest point of the heavens and earth, as thin as a needle, almost invisible, piercing through the clear air and the turbid air, landing straight in the very center of this vast expanse of heaven and earth.
The purple starlight condensed and transformed into a smooth, round bead, translucent like glass. At the core of the bead was a ball of pure purple light, which slowly rotated within the bead like a beating heart.
Purple Star Bead.
Su Qinghe recognized the star bead as coming from Ziwei Star, the Central Heavenly Emperor, the head of the fourteen main stars, and the most noble star in the mortal realm, the Emperor Star.
Su Qinghe looked at the purple-gold glass star bead, his heart as calm as a still pond.
"The Purple Star, that makes sense."
However, Su Qinghe was not satisfied with this.
No matter how noble the Ziwei star is, it is still within the realm that ordinary people can reach. Historically, emperors and generals, those destined by heaven, often had the Ziwei star in their destiny charts. Su Qinghe did not consider himself an ordinary person. His soul was made up of the fragments of the souls of 100,000 mortals. There were 100,000 points of light flashing in his Rebirth Wheel. He had just devoured the soul of a cultivator. He could also turn anyone into himself.
Such a person should not have only one Ziwei star, because he is not an ordinary person, nor should he be an ordinary person, and he should not conform to common sense.
The Purple Star Pearl seemed to have heard Su Qinghe's thoughts.
In the void to the left of the Purple Star, a point of crimson-gold light appeared, blazing and violent, like a flame compressed to its limit. As soon as it appeared, the temperature of the entire sea of consciousness rose several degrees.
The crimson-gold light condensed, transforming into a blazing glass star bead.
The Sun Star Bead represents the extreme of Yang energy, being both fierce and intense.