"Zuò Wàng Wú Wǒ" from "The Scripture of Sitting and Forgetting"

  A common saying goes: read it three hundred times and you will understand it even without a teacher.

  Ye Qin had read the preface of "The Sitting and Forgetting Sutra" at least a thousand times over the years, almost wearing out the thin pages, and his understanding had gradually deepened.

  Although this oral formula doesn't have the powerful attacking power of Yang Yicheng's "Tiger Fist" or Feng Xiao's "Ladder Cloud Leap"'s abnormal agility, it has been a great help to him over the years. He has gradually grasped the subtleties of this oral formula. While others need two days for a journey, he can complete it in half a day, thanks to his exceptional physical strength and extremely fast recovery speed, which makes him almost immune to fatigue. With less time spent on traveling, he naturally has more time for gathering herbs.

  Ye Qin was slightly disappointed that there was only one level of cultivation technique.

  He flipped over the last page of the first half of the secret book, and then saw on a nearly new page in the second half of the book, written with a few words: The remaining volume of the previous chapter, the first to third layer of Gongfa.

  In the past, Ye Qin was used to directly ignoring these words.

  Because this book has a certain evaluation written by a senior expert from the Medicine Hall, saying that only the preface of "Zuò Wàng Jīng" can be cultivated to continuously accumulate internal true energy and achieve the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life.

  As for the remaining upper volume, it was evaluated by that senior master as: completely useless to those who practice martial arts, no need to practice. Those who like to cultivate their body and nature can take a look at will.

  Ye Qin did not know that the person who wrote this review was actually the first generation leader of Yao Wang Gang, a top-notch Jianghu master who made Yao Wang Gang prosperous for hundreds of years.

  Ye Qin didn't think he could be better than the senior who wrote the review, so he never had the idea of touching them. Instead, he focused on practicing the prequel, making it extremely familiar to him.

  But now, he suddenly felt some movement in his heart.

  This time, the danger encountered while collecting medicine made Ye Qin feel a secretly anxious urgency to strengthen himself and quickly improve his abilities. Otherwise, he really didn't know which day his little life would be over.

  In the next one or two years, he won't be able to save up enough gold coins to buy a decent martial arts manual from the Secret Pavilion, and he won't be able to learn other martial skills.

  There is a ready-made set of mental formulas in front of me, and if I don't cultivate them, I will inevitably feel that I am wasting my talents and seeking far-off things while neglecting those close at hand.

  If it really doesn't work, he won't lose anything, at most just wasting a little spare time when collecting medicine, and it won't cost him a single copper coin. If he can actually achieve some effect, then he will save a lot of gold coins that would have been spent on buying secret books, which is equivalent to not having to work hard for several years. This kind of good thing at no cost, if you don't do it, you're an idiot.

  Besides, there must be someone in the world who has successfully practiced it. Otherwise, why would our predecessors leave behind this secret book?

  Thinking of this, Ye Qin couldn't help it anymore.

  He sat up straight and turned to a new page behind him.

  "Quiet Sitting and Forgetting the Self": Meditate in stillness, forget worldly thoughts, without defilement or harm. The first to third levels of mental discipline: Gather all scattered energy, gather all expressions, emotions, and mental strength that have been dispersed externally, transform every strand of bodily vitality into... primordial energy.

  Huh, yuanqi, what is this thing?

  Ye Qin rubbed his nose, he had only heard of inner strength and true energy, what was this yuan energy for?

  Forget it, he doesn't think much about things he doesn't understand, as long as he practices according to the routine. If others can practice, why can't he?

  Ye Qin sat cross-legged, silently reciting the oral formula and mental method, following the diagram of meridians to circulate his internal breath, starting a new cycle of cultivation.

  This mind method is indeed somewhat strange.

  According to his cultivation method, even the slightest breath produced by sitting in stillness for a large cycle would eventually condense in the dantian, slightly enhancing his inner family true energy. Accumulating day after day, his inner family true energy gradually deepened in the dantian.

  However, according to the new cultivation method, that extremely weak breath of energy, which was circulating throughout the body's meridians, would suddenly disappear without a trace when it reached the Mud Pellet, and its whereabouts would be unknown.

  One day of meditation allowed him to run seven large cycles. However, these seven large cycles did not enhance his internal strength in the slightest.

  Ye Qin finally understood why that senior master said not to practice, and indeed there was a reason. The cultivation method in this chapter does not enhance the internal family's true energy at all, but instead makes the breath produced by meditation go somewhere unknown.

  For several days in a row, he picked herbs for half a day every morning and then cultivated in the afternoons. After several days of cultivation, it was always like this, Ye Qin felt somewhat disheartened.

  However, Ye Qin did not give up easily because of this difficulty. He wanted to figure out where the extremely weak breath produced by his cultivation went. The breath in his body could not disappear without reason, and finding the cause might solve the problem.

  On this day, Ye Qin sat leaning against a huge stone as usual, running the Grand Circulation.

  His consciousness was fully immersed in it, moving with that extremely weak breath. When his consciousness passed through the Muduan Hole, a huge whirlpool of suction suddenly appeared, and he was instantly sucked in.

  Suddenly, everything in front of me changed.

  Ye Qin suddenly found himself transformed into a small pale white light ball floating on top of a stone tablet.

  The entire stone monument was covered by a light circle of nearly ten feet in size, protecting the monument. And the location of the monument was a gray rock floating island. The void around the floating island was filled with endless gray mist.

  Ye Qin was startled.

  Isn't this the dream I had a few days ago? How did I suddenly enter it again?

  And yet, I am not dreaming now, but cultivating the "Zuò Wàng Jīng".

  He was moved in his heart, and the light ball "body" floated up lightly.

  However, he did not dare to drift out of the range covered by the light circle of the primordial spirit monument with his name on it, and could only drift within the light circle. This primordial spirit monument gave him a sense of security. If he left this light circle, it would be hard to say whether he was safe or not.

  He still clearly remembered those extremely ominous purple lightning bolts floating in the void. If he accidentally touched even a single thread, it would probably be enough to take his life as a small light ball. He didn't dare to easily run out and wander around again, lest he attract that purple lightning.

  Ye Qin floated within the light ring, sizing up the grey rock islets.

  The entire island remained unchanged, still the same as he had seen a few days ago, bare and desolate, with an eerie atmosphere all around.

  The only change was that the island had a few strands of white light, smaller than hair, about a few inches long. When these lights moved, they seemed to have a purplish lightning-like motion, twisting and slowly drifting around the island, bringing a bit of life to the heavy island. The dozens of white fluff were just floating in the air above the island, as if there was some kind of constraint that prevented them from leaving the island.

  Ye Qin was shocked, what were these rays of light? Hopefully they wouldn't be as terrifying as the Purple Lightning.