Chapter 24: Staring at Each Other Across the World
Chapter 24: Staring at Each Other Across the World
The space around him extended infinitely, like dominoes falling one after another. In the blink of an eye, the world turned into a monotonous gray, leaving only him standing in the center. Time seemed to be frozen in place.
There was clearly nothing in the endless void ahead, but Lin Shan could clearly feel a pair of calm eyes gazing at him. It was like a magnet pulling his eyes, making him unable to think or speak.
The terrifying will did not cause any huge waves, but enormous pressure filled the void.
His body was shaking like a sieve, and his flesh and blood seemed to be unable to bear the weight. A mere gaze from billions of miles away conveyed the indifference that penetrated the ages and determined the cycle of life and death.
The space around him kept breaking and reorganizing. Silver snakes flickered in the chaotic nothingness outside the mirror. Nebulae appeared and disappeared. Wisps of mist seeped out from the cracks in space. It was cold and desolate, like a nightmare.
Lin Shan stared at the terrifying will in front of him across the boundary!
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It seemed like thousands of years had passed, or maybe just a moment.
A cold wind blew into the wild mountain temple, and Lin Shan shuddered all over, waking up from his dream.
Coming back to my senses, it seemed as if something had just happened, yet it also seemed as if nothing had happened.
The Buddha statue still sits on the high platform, the candles still sway in the wind, and the windows of the temple creak in the mountain breeze.
That terrifying will has long disappeared.
Lin Shan looked at the two extra dots of ancient charm in the upper right corner of the panel, and his back was covered with sweat.
The Buddha from the fairy world might have noticed him just now, or maybe he just glanced at him casually from across the world, but the horror of falling into the endless void took him a long time to recover.
This is a warning!
The Buddha has hundreds of millions of incarnations and hundreds of millions of followers, all over the heavens and the worlds, so he naturally wouldn't waste his energy targeting an ant. In the millions of years, a mortal with a lifespan of only a few decades is nothing more than a mayfly in the ocean, and he wouldn't care about it.
But that doesn’t mean we will remain indifferent if our willpower is stolen.
This time it was equivalent to just two sticks of ancient incense, which might not be worth a drop in the bucket in his eyes, so this time it was just a warning with his eyes.
Lin Shan didn’t dare to gamble on what kind of severe counterattack he would encounter if he competed with the Buddha for food again next time.
"It's careless!"
Lin Shan, who was full of fear, could not help but secretly curse himself for being arrogant. Ever since he tasted the sweetness in the ancient tomb, he had become complacent. Not to mention that he almost fell into Scarface's hands before, this time he was even more reckless and rashly provoked such a terrifying and powerful being as the Buddha of the Immortal Realm!
"This world is very complicated. There are people beyond people and there are heavens beyond heavens. There is the fairyland above the nine heavens, and there are powerful beings like Buddha in the fairyland. There is no difference between crushing me to death and crushing an ant.
We must be careful in the future and never make the same mistake again."
Lin Shan bowed to the golden image of Buddha again to express his respect for him, hoping that the old man would be magnanimous and not take it to heart, although he might not care at all.
As for Gu Yun, you want me to spit out what you put in my mouth? Impossible!
After lying down in the ancient temple to rest for a while, Lin Shan tossed and turned and felt uncomfortable. It was really uncomfortable to stay under the eyes of the Buddha, so he finally picked up his bag and went down the mountain overnight.
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Two days later, Lin Shan returned to Zangke City.
After returning to the small courtyard he rented, the first thing he did was to fall asleep because he was so tired.
First, in the Yelang Tomb, he was tormented by the aftermath of the battle between the immortal cultivators, and then he fought a fierce battle with Scarface who was ambushed at the entrance of the mountainside cave. Later, in the ancient temple on the deserted mountain, he was threatened by the Buddha from the immortal world billions of miles away.
Lin Shan said that the baby was very sad.
After finally waking up the next morning, Lin's first thought was how to deal with the ancient rhymes in his hands and how to turn them into strength as quickly as possible.
After experiencing the great battle between immortal cultivators, Lin Shan thought more and more these days that since immortal cultivation is possible in this world, why should he practice martial arts? Even if a mortal warrior becomes a congenital master, he will still turn into dust when the hundred-year limit is reached.
Immortality!
The purpose of cultivating immortality is not for anything else, just for the sake of immortality, which is enough to ignite the raging fire in Lin Shan's heart.
In the past, he had no foundation in the Lin Mansion and no talent for cultivation, and he was timid and muddle-headed all day long.
But now that he has a golden finger that can be infinitely strengthened and can even compete with Buddha for food, he is naturally ambitious.
Now he has a bold guess in his mind: the cultivation method of immortality may be strengthened!
After all, one's own enhancement panel can ignore the rules and forcibly increase the level, and it seems that it can continue to increase.
Moreover, according to his speculation in the tomb, the innate skills correspond to the low-grade magic tools used by immortal cultivators, so it should be very close to the realm of immortal cultivators.
Then if it is strengthened again, it is very likely that a method of cultivating immortality will appear.
The Ancient Rhythm in Lin Shan's hand became 16 points when he came out of the ancient tomb. He used up 2 points in the life-and-death battle with Scarface, but later he absorbed 2 points back from Buddha Jin's body. After an in and out, he still had 16 points.
Lin Shan picked up the Changchun Gong from the bedside and opened the enhancement panel:
【Changchun Gong】
Quality: Innate Skills
Introduction: It can be cultivated to the highest level of innate perfection, greatly improving the speed of cultivation and having a certain effect of prolonging life. After cultivation, the true qi is long and thick, and can heal internal injuries of the meridians. Derived unique skills: Broken Machine Palm, when the palm strikes a person, it can destroy the vitality of the enemy. Sticking to plants can extract vitality to assist in treatment.
Enhancement required: 8 points
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"Success or failure depends on this!"
Lin Shan's heart was filled with excitement. Whether his guess was right or wrong depended on the results of the next strengthening.
"strengthen!"
Brilliant blue rays of light illuminated the entire room, and the book in his hand began to turn pages automatically without wind. The lecture notes on the book disappeared, and in the blink of an eye it became a wordless book.
After turning to the last page, the whole book began to become empty. I started turning the pages backwards again, and silver tadpole-like words reappeared on the chapter pages, which were obscure and profound, easy to read but difficult to understand.
"Snapped!"
This time when the new book is truly closed, the light is fleeting.
The transparent reinforced panel in front of me shimmers and the introduction changes accordingly.
【Qingmu Changsheng Jue】
Quality: Qi training period exercises
Introduction: A wood-attributed cultivation book that can be cultivated to the ninth level of Qi training. The spiritual power is relatively mild, with a slight herbal cultivation effect and a strong therapeutic effect.
Enhancement required: 16 points
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"Qi training period technique!"
Lin Shan couldn't help laughing heartily.
It was just as he expected!
Why practice martial arts when you can cultivate immortality? Who doesn’t want to fly a sword to the sky, or even live forever!
After recovering from his shock, he quickly sat down cross-legged and picked up the Qingmu Changsheng Jue to read it with great interest. The technique was not long, with only three to five thousand words in total, but it required careful consideration of every word, and constant pauses to ponder over it.
By the time he had finally finished reading the entire article, night had already fallen.
Lin Shan carefully recalled the entire content and memorized it by heart. If he wanted to become a cultivator, the first step was to find the sense of Qi.
The difference from practicing martial arts is that warriors move qi and blood to condense true qi, while practicing Taoism first senses the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and then gathers it in the dantian to transform it into one's own "spiritual power".
After feeling that there was nothing wrong, Lin Shan began to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was the first step in cultivating immortals.
A towering building rises from the ground, and one step at a time, one will eventually embark on the road to pursuing immortality.
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An hour has passed
Lin Shan was unmoved. How could he not even be able to sit still with such a little loneliness? How could he become an immortal?
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Two hours passed.
This is just the beginning. What is needed for cultivating immortals is the character of the mind. Lin Shan is sitting on the Diaoyutai.
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Three hours passed.
Well, it seems that this sense of Qi is a bit mysterious and not easy to capture. Lin Shan stood up and moved around for a while, then began to sense it tirelessly.
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One night passed
No pain No gain!
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Half a day passed.
Persistence is victory!
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One day passed
Lin Shan's eyes were red, this is just the first level on the road to becoming an immortal, I don't believe it!
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Three days passed.
Lin Shan, looking haggard, with chapped lips and having not eaten for three days, fell weakly to the ground. It seemed that he really could not pass this first level.
"Could it be that I don't have the talent to cultivate immortality?"
(End of this chapter)