novelraw Chapter 156: Divine Soul First Skill
Chapter 156: Divine Soul First Skill
Duan Rong stood at the edge of the Tree Spirit Light Sea, gazing at this sea of cyan luminescence. In the darkness, the Tree Spirits resembled some sort of strange deep-sea creatures, semi-transparent in a bluish-green hue, shining brilliantly...
Duan Rong took a closer look at these Tree Spirits arranged in nine rows and nine columns. He noticed that the Tier Two Tree Spirits were larger than the Tier One, with not just thicker trunks, but also more luxuriant foliage...
After inspecting the Tree Spirit Light Sea, Duan Rong returned to the center of the black earth, sat down cross-legged, and began chanting and forming seals.
Muffled thunder rumbled in the sky, thin mist quickly descended, and the Divine Shadows of the Four Great Kings appeared...
The cultivation technique of the Fetal Concealment Scripture began to operate within the Sea of Consciousness...
The Tree Spirit Light Sea, like startled fish in the deep sea, suddenly surged with vast cyan light threads, forming a massive cyan light band that circled and roamed within this realm...
As the cyan light band spiraled and roamed in circles, it, which originally emitted a bluish-green glow, began to turn red as if being gradually dyed...
At this moment, with careful observation, it would be discovered that each strand of cyan glow in the light band was attached to numerous red threads formed from Dragon Flame Fat...
The bluish-green light band, like a ribbon in water, floated between heaven and earth for a few circles, then transformed into a crimson stream, ascending towards the sky...
As the crimson stream ascended, vast patches of cyan light threads reappeared in the Tree Spirit Light Sea, forming another enormous cyan light band...
That crimson stream, as it ascended and touched the floating blood cocoon in the sky, immediately merged into it, like liquid pouring over the blood cocoon... and the blood cocoon’s layers wrapped thicker...
Gradually, the phantom of the baby within the cocoon became invisible...
And the blood cocoon slowly transformed from an oval into a perfectly round sphere...
Who knows how much time had passed...
The light band spiraled, turned crimson, ascended skyward, and this process repeated countless times until suddenly, everything fell silent between heaven and earth...
The Divine Shadows of the Four Great Kings no longer exhaled gray-white mist, and the Tree Spirit Light Sea no longer emitted bluish-green glow...
The eerie red threads that floated between heaven and earth had almost been entirely consumed.
Duan Rong was startled. Just at that moment of sudden stillness between heaven and earth, he could clearly perceive that the Second Layer of the Fetal Concealment Scripture had been achieved!
Duan Rong stopped chanting and forming seals, stood up, and looked upward. He saw in the sky a sacred luminescent white star body and a blood-red star body, shining upon each other!
Like two full moons, one red and one white, floating within the Sea of Consciousness...
Duan Rong was so astounded by the spectacle before his eyes that he was left speechless. He simply looked upwards for a long time; there was a faint connection between his spirit and the two star bodies; he could sense their existence—a wondrous feeling beyond words...
Duan Rong’s mind trembled as he stood there, gazing upwards like a devout disciple...
When he regained his senses and surveyed the surroundings, the Divine Shadows of the Four Great Kings had vanished, and thin mist once again churned through heaven and earth...
"Time is up..."
Duan Rong’s expression flickered as he walked toward the Tree Spirit Light Sea. Standing at the edge of this bluish-green luminescent sea, he took another survey and found that thirty-two Tree Spirits were missing. Combined with the remaining Tree Spirits from the last batch, it was clear that the Second Layer consumed more Tree Spirits, including some Tier Two Tree Spirits.
It seems that as the Fetal Concealment Scripture progresses, it will consume more Tree Spirits. However, with the increase in his Spiritual Power level, the higher the tier of Tree Spirits he will be able to devour into the Consciousness Sea, thus offsetting this so that it won’t lead to needing an extreme amount of Tree Spirits just to cultivate one layer.
Duan Rong looked up again. In the sky, shrouded by mist, the crimson and the white star bodies seemed to be in deep sleep, and their connection with Duan Rong’s spirit was fainter than when the Second Layer was just achieved.
Duan Rong then exited the Consciousness Sea.
After achieving the second layer of the Divine Soul Technique, he could unlock the first technique of the Divine Soul Technique—Divine Sense Projection!
After Duan Rong exited the Sea of Consciousness, he found himself sitting cross-legged, unclothed, on the mat surrounded by the four directions.
Duan Rong stood up, took the four Mountain and River Maps of the Hidden Mandala down, rolled them up, put them into the cabinet, dressed, and then sat on the bed.
Duan Rong took a deep breath, and with a thought, he could immediately sense a certain resonance between the two star bodies, one red and one white, within the Consciousness Sea.
According to the cultivation technique description of the Fetal Concealment Scripture, after achieving the Second Layer, one should feel the resonance of the two star bodies, simultaneously directing their attention diffusely into the surrounding space, and it is crucial not to focus initially on any specific object, point, or direction.
That is to say, your attention should be projected into the void around you...
Expand your attention explosively...
Then, the Divine Sense can extend out of the Consciousness Sea and project outward...
After sensing the faint resonance of the two star bodies, one red and one white, Duan Rong began to implement the technique’s description, attempting to diffuse and project his attention outward.
As soon as Duan Rong mobilized his attention, he felt a humming in his mind, and the next moment, he entered a strange state.
He could vividly and delicately perceive his Divine Sense projecting outward, enveloping an approximate range of a hundred meters in radius.
The Divine Sense projected outward resembled countless delicate and flexible filaments unseen by the naked eye, delicately caressing everything, big and small, within a hundred-meter radius centered on Duan Rong.
And everything that the Divine Sense’s delicate and flexible filaments touched, Duan Rong could "see."
It was not visible light but a mystical vision formed by gathered information imaging in his mind.
The projected Divine Sense nearly covered the entire courtyard of Liu’s House!
Under the embrace of the Divine Sense, every minute detail had nowhere to hide.
Duan Rong could "see" the patch of water still left on the ground at the kitchen entrance because he took a bath two hours ago, and at the edge of that puddle, an ant struggling for its life, its antennae and the fuzz on its abdomen clearly visible...
Duan Rong could "see" the patch of grass under the willow tree beside the kitchen, every blade vivid, swaying with the night wind, the serrated leaf edges lined with fine fuzz, and in the soil crevices among the grass, an earthworm wriggling, poking its head out...
Since Duan Rong had exited the Sea of Consciousness, he couldn’t witness that as his Divine Sense projected outward, within the Consciousness Sea, the red and white star bodies in the sky were intertwining in an unusual manner like twin stars, with circles of red and white light spreading like ripples centered on the two star bodies...
Those ripples expanded circle by circle, spreading outward beyond the sky’s edge into the infinite vastness...
Duan Rong’s projected Divine Sense nearly enveloped the entire courtyard of Liu’s House, while to the north of his bedroom, across the alley, was the backyard of the Yuan Shun Escort Agency.
Duan Rong’s Divine Sense traversed the alley, entered the backyard, and extended to the entrance of Juyi Hall.
Duan Rong sighed inwardly. He had only achieved the second layer of the Fetal Concealment Scripture. If he achieved the third layer, the range of his Divine Sense projection would be broader, perhaps encompassing the entire Juyi Hall, at which point no secret within the hall could escape his notice.