ATPnovel #302 - Changes in the state of concentration
#302 - Changes in the state of concentration
Chapter 301: Changes in the State of Meditation
Looking at the incense and faith in the pool, Gu Mingyue finally revealed a smile on her face, her grand plan was finally about to begin.
Liu Feng, standing beside her, looked at the pool full of the power of incense, and the azure light rolling in the water, moving up and down like a fish. A hint of excitement couldn't help but appear in his eyes: "Is it finally starting? I've waited too long for this day."
Speaking of this, Liu Feng looked at Gu Mingyue with some hesitation in his voice: "How should we deal with Ma Zhou?"
"Ma Zhou is a descendant of the Great Virtuous Teacher. Let's spare his life, which can also be considered as fulfilling our kindness," Gu Mingyue said.
Hearing Gu Mingyue's words, Liu Feng nodded, acknowledging Gu Mingyue's decision: "That would be best."
"You should immediately send out invitation letters, inviting representatives from various major forces to the Taoist temple to witness the ceremony. We will hold the conferral ceremony in three days," Gu Mingyue said, turning her head to look at Liu Feng:
"Have you thought it over? This is a road of no return. Once it starts, there will be no turning back."
Upon hearing this, Liu Feng's face was full of resentment: "How can this disciple have any regrets? This time, Huangtian Dao was able to spread its teachings in the Northern Lands, and I have made great contributions. If it weren't for my secret coordination, how could the power of faith in the Northern Lands have blossomed everywhere? Whether it's merit or hard work, who can compare to me? But what about the result? The opportunity to confer the title of Water God actually fell on Ma Zhou. The Great Virtuous Teacher is unfair, so don't blame me."
"It's good that you are mentally prepared. The position of the Miluo River Water God will be yours in three days. In the future, I will be the leader of the Northern Lands Huangtian Dao, and you will be the number one person under my Northern Lands Huangtian Dao. The Great Virtuous Teacher's seclusion is the best opportunity for us to take advantage of the situation, devour the power of the Great Virtuous Teacher, and surpass the Great Virtuous Teacher. The Great Virtuous Teacher actually wants to remove me from the candidates for the Five Emperors, he is simply blind. In what way am I inferior to that Wu Changming? The Great Virtuous Teacher is truly blind," Gu Mingyue's voice was full of anger.
He had been dissatisfied with the Great Virtuous Teacher for a long time. Now, cooperating with the Peace Border Prince's Mansion and occupying the Northern Lands is the greatest opportunity.
Outside
Inside the small building, Zhang Chen crawled out of the mud and slowly picked up a bowl of rice porridge that Xiaodouding had already prepared and drank it.
Xie Lingyun, wearing close-fitting armor, walked in from outside the house:
"Have you heard? The upper echelons of the sect have decided to confer titles of gods in three days and have already sent out invitations to invite people from various major families to attend the ceremony. If Huangli Guan's conferral of gods is successful, the old antiques of various major families in the world will definitely be tied to Huangtian Dao's chariot, and the foundation of the Dasheng Dynasty will be shaken by then."
Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this: "The conferral of gods will begin in three days? I didn't expect Huangtian Dao's grand plan to finally unfold. What is the attitude of your Inspection Division?"
"There are also old antiques in the Inspection Division whose lifespans are coming to an end…" Xie Lingyun said meaningfully.
Zhang Chen gasped when he heard this. Huangtian Dao's chariot was carrying quite a few people. Many people were secretly watching. Once they discovered that becoming a god had no aftereffects, the people of the Dasheng Dynasty would probably become livestock.
"Are you ready?" Zhang Chen asked.
Xie Lingyun chuckled upon hearing this: "Of course, if my lifespan is about to end, I might abandon martial arts and go observe the path of the gods. But I am still young now, so I always have to try and see how far I can go."
Speaking of this, Xie Lingyun said: "But you don't have to worry, with the three twelfth-order mysteries of the Dasheng Dynasty, even if Huangtian Dao confers gods, it won't be able to turn the world upside down. Twelfth-order mysteries are really too terrifying, except for some useless people, there are no shortcomings."
Zhang Chen felt relieved when he saw this, and then lowered his voice and said: "Zhang Xiaohua seems to be planning to force himself on you on the day of the conferral of gods, you have to be prepared."
Xie Lingyun was stunned when he heard this: "Does he have the guts?"
"He has a lot of guts, he's simply audacious," Zhang Chen said.
A trace of contemplation appeared in Xie Lingyun's eyes: "What do you think I should do with him?"
Zhang Chen made a neck-slitting gesture, he couldn't wait to kill Zhang Xiaohua with Xie Lingyun's hand. But who knew that Xie Lingyun shook his head: "If Zhang Xiaohua dies here, you and I will definitely die."
Speaking of this, Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen with a suspicious look on his face: "Could it be that you want to kill Zhang Xiaohua and use my hand to do it, making up a reason on purpose?"
Zhang Chen shook his head when he heard this, looking at Xie Lingyun speechlessly: "Sister, you really are… forget it, I have already reminded you, you should consider it carefully."
Xie Lingyun remained noncommittal upon hearing this, he didn't think Zhang Xiaohua had the guts.
The two talked for a while, and Xie Lingyun turned and left.
It's just that Zhang Chen didn't think about it, Zhang Xiaohua had already been beaten into that state by the Empress, where would he have the chance to plot against Xie Lingyun?
Now Zhang Xiaohua can't even walk on the ground, so his plan has to be cancelled.
After Xie Lingyun left, Zhang Chen drank a pot of porridge in the house, and then began to meditate. Since he was plotted against by the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon last time, and plotted against by the black-robed monster, he hadn't pondered the visualization method for a long time. Now that he has cultivated the Righteous God Golden Light, he is going to check if there are any unknown factors in his meditation space.
Zhang Chen would be cautious even if he mentioned the damned black-robed monster and the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon ten thousand times.
Moreover, his skills have now been upgraded to the limit that can be reached at present. Now that he is trapped in this small Huangli Guan, he certainly has to find something to do for himself.
In the void of the meditation space, accompanied by Zhang Chen's visualization secret method scroll, it appeared in that void once again.
It was only when he entered the void of the meditation space that Zhang Chen couldn't help but change his expression: "He couldn't help but exclaim, how is this possible!"
His voice was full of disbelief, and his eyes were full of horror.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Zhang Chen's eyes looked towards the darkness in the distance. In that darkness, there was a huge behemoth, standing quietly in the darkness, staring at him.
"Didn't expect it," the huge innate mosquito twisted for a while in the darkness, turning into a three-meter-tall giant figure, staring at Zhang Chen with a pair of eyes.
That was the innate mosquito!
It actually appeared in Zhang Chen's meditation space.
"How could you appear here?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of disbelief.
"Return my mouthparts, and I will spare you! Otherwise, I will annihilate you in the meditation space today," the innate mosquito looked at Zhang Chen coldly, its human-faced mosquito face looked terrifying and ferocious.
Seeing this, Zhang Chen couldn't help but swallow, then forced himself to calm down: "This is my meditative space, you shouldn't even be able to appear here. You're just an illusion! Watch my Six-Syllable Mantra Charm: 'Om Mani Padme Hum!'" Zhang Chen activated the Six-Syllable Mantra, smashing it towards the figure in the darkness. But who knew that after the Six-Syllable Mantra flew out a certain distance, a barrier appeared out of thin air between them. The barrier looked like a thin film of flowing water, blocking them.
As the Six-Syllable Mantra approached, the barrier trembled slightly, and space seemed to stretch infinitely. The power of the Six-Syllable Mantra gradually exhausted, and it dissipated into the void.
It felt as if there was a vast, endless void between them.
Although their voices could be transmitted, the power of their supernatural abilities could not directly reach the other.
Seeing this, Zhang Chen seemed to understand something: "Not an illusion, but power directly acting on my meditative space."
"How is this possible? What exactly is the meditative world? Why does it always feel like anything can drill into my meditative void?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of confusion. Could it be that his meditative void had become a sieve?
"My power can't expand over there, but does that mean you can strike me?" Zhang Chen stared at the figure opposite him, gradually regaining his senses.
The Innate Mosquito stared intently at Zhang Chen, and the next moment, it gathered power around its body, suddenly swung a fist, and slammed it fiercely towards Zhang Chen's meditative world.
Then Zhang Chen saw that under that punch, the water curtain forming the meditative world was actually stretched by the fist, forming a fist-shaped imprint, pushing against the water curtain, and smashing fiercely towards Zhang Chen.
"Holy crap!"
The moment that punch landed, Zhang Chen felt his meditative world shrink infinitely, and his protective golden light was constantly compressed, as if compressed from a torch into a small candle.
Under that punch, Zhang Chen's 'little candle' seemed to be blasted, directly flattening Zhang Chen and obliterating him into nothingness.
At this moment, Zhang Chen realized his insignificance. Under that punch, his soul seemed to be fixed, and his thoughts fell into stagnation, ceasing to function.
Seeing Zhang Chen's protective golden light dimming, about to turn into nothingness, suddenly Zhang Chen's water curtain froze, a layer of frost power emerged, instantly freezing everything, and then that extreme cold air froze towards the Innate Mosquito's fist. In an instant, the Innate Mosquito was frozen and disappeared from Zhang Chen's sight.
"What the hell?" Looking at the gradually recovering water curtain, as the foreign object disappeared, the water curtain gradually turned into nothingness, Zhang Chen's eyes were full of horror.
This meditative void is not a place to stay, it's simply terrifying.
Zhang Chen quickly returned to the house and summoned the Great自在Heavenly Devil: "Old guy, I have something to ask you."
When the Great自在Heavenly Devil saw Zhang Chen's face pale with fright, he knew something was wrong. He stopped joking and asked, "What happened? What scared you like this?"
Zhang Chen didn't hide anything and told him about his meditative space. After hearing Zhang Chen's description, the Great自在Heavenly Devil's eyelids twitched: "Innate Mosquito? And you took advantage of his weakness to cut off his proboscis?"
"Yes, that guy wanted to kill me, of course I wasn't going to die. Since I wasn't going to die, then he would die." Zhang Chen said as a matter of course: "When it comes to a life-and-death struggle, who cares who the other person is? What their identity is?"
"Tell me quickly, what's going on in the meditative space?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Little fool, what do you think the meditative void is? The meditative void is just a small mental pond, and the thirty-three heavens of the spiritual world are the boundless sea. Why do you think people meditate and enter concentration to enhance their souls? Isn't it because the power of the thirty-three heavens radiates over, and the water vapor of the sea spreads over, nourishing your small pond?" The Great自在Heavenly Devil explained, his explanation going straight to the core, making Zhang Chen understand the difference.
"People gain access to the spiritual world by constantly expanding their meditative void and drawing on the spiritual world for cultivation. But I can't seem to figure you out, kid. You seem to have skipped this step entirely. Your ego has never been washed by the power radiated from the spiritual world, and you directly entered the first heaven of the spiritual world."
Speaking of this, the Great自在Heavenly Devil was confused, staring at Zhang Chen up and down, as if looking at a monster.
"As for the water curtain barrier you mentioned, it should be the barrier between the material world and the spiritual world," the Great自在Heavenly Devil added.
"But don't worry, if it weren't for the opportunity of favorable timing and location, that guy, even if he's an innate being, wouldn't have the ability to cross the barrier of the spiritual world and enter the barrier of the material world," the Great自在Heavenly Devil comforted Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen scratched his head: "Then what should I do about meditation and cultivation in the future? That guy is always staring at me in the spiritual world, it feels kind of scary."
Speaking of this, Zhang Chen noticed a loophole in the Great自在Heavenly Devil's logic: "Something's not right, something's not right. Isn't that guy in the underworld? How did he run to the spiritual world?"
Zhang Chen said, looking at the Great自在Heavenly Devil, his eyes full of questioning.
The Great自在Heavenly Devil scratched his head upon hearing this: "Do you think the netherworld is the material world?"
This question stumped Zhang Chen.
"As for your future cultivation, just pretend he doesn't exist. As long as there's no opportunity of favorable timing and location, he can't break the barrier between the two worlds," the Great自在Heavenly Devil comforted Zhang Chen.
Hearing the Great自在Heavenly Devil's words, Zhang Chen could only tentatively accept it.
Then Zhang Chen put away the Great自在Heavenly Devil, and another thing came to his mind, that is, the matter of his slave status.
How should he get rid of his slave status?
The identity of a slave is a big trouble.
It's okay for himself, he has the ability to go anywhere in the world, but if his younger siblings don't get rid of their slave status, how can they live a stable life in the future? If they want to have better development in the future, they will definitely be restricted.
And he also thought of the trouble on his body, what exactly happened in the capital city back then?
And why was his father demoted to this barren land?
"Perhaps I can ask Xie Lingyun to investigate. After all, Xie Lingyun is a centurion of the Surveillance Division, and it is not difficult to investigate this kind of thing." Thinking of this, Zhang Chen got up and walked directly to Xie Lingyun's cottage. If he didn't figure this out, he would be uneasy in his heart.
You must know that this is no small matter. If this matter is exposed in the future and causes some big trouble, catching him off guard, that would be a real trouble.
"Be prepared for a rainy day!" Zhang Chen muttered.