Xuan Weizi was not in a hurry to explore. He was not like the colonists or treasure hunters who came for gold and silver treasures, although there was indeed a lot of gold in these ruins.
The two of them left the ruins of the Holy Land. Xuan Weizi raised his hand to summon the bird scout. He teased her casually and asked Sandori: "What did you originally plan to do if you didn't find anything in the Holy Land?"
Sandori shook her head slightly, shaking her braid at the back, and heard her say: "I don't know, I...I didn't think about these things."
In fact, Sanduoli herself vaguely understood that maybe she couldn't find anything in the ruins of the Holy Land from the beginning, and the choice she made in despair was probably more about giving up on herself. When she really looked back, it seemed that everything was separated.
I feel so far away and unfamiliar.
Xuan Weizi didn't say anything unnecessary. He raised his hand and dozens of bird scouts flew out from him, allowing them to use Xuan Weizi's vision to detect the nearby terrain and environment.
"Let's find a place to stay first." Xuan Weizi said, "I can't take you back to Chaidui Town, and you two have nowhere to go before the Spotted Beast tribe migrates."
Seeing that the day was getting dark, Xuan Weizi returned to the frozen river and found an open space to light a fire. He took out the tent, bedding, and cooking utensils from the glass balls on his bracelets, and stewed a pot of thick soup with snails and dried meat.
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"Well...isn't it my share?" Rosaleen asked, wagging her long tail.
Xuan Weizi was stunned when he heard this: "You can't even hunt anymore?"
"Yes, I do, but it's winter now, and many animals have hidden and hibernated, so it's hard to find them," Rosalian said.
Xuan Weizi smiled and said: "Do you still remember the 'internal movement' of your body? That is actually the perception ability you already have, but it just eliminates some external interference. Since it can be used to sense the inside,
Of course you can sense the outside world. Just as you focus on the internal senses, you can also focus on the external senses in the same way, and you are guaranteed to find hibernating animals."
"But I can usually see and hear, and my perception hasn't become much sharper," Rosalin said.
Xuan Weizi corrected: "Because you used to passively receive information from the outside world to your sensory organs, but the brain's functions and procedures for processing sensory information are very complex. When your consciousness actually produces a clear 'feeling',
In fact, it has been accompanied by a large number of physiological habits, mental cognition, and interest balance, making you think that you are sensing external things.
In fact, it is not the case. Since your lifetime, you have been first driven by the genetic instincts of living creatures, and then formed habits through the accumulation of acquired experiences. Then you have constructed a set of cognitions about the external environment. All kinds of cognitions and interest trade-offs are combined into beliefs, positions, and beliefs.
Wait, it will eventually become the driving force for all your actions.
This is the thought that arises from awareness, the business from thought, and the appearance from mind. The so-called living appearance and attachment to appearance are because people are unable to realize that their conscious judgment and thinking ability are actually centered around the complicated internal and external phenomena.
And it has an effect, thinking that you have observed the objective reality, but in fact you are just spinning around in the internal and external phenomena... Okay, don't look at me with a stupid face. What I said is to let you try to sort out the sensory information.
In fact, you can hear and smell it, but you just don’t pay attention.”
When he said this, Xuan Weizi took off the rope around Rosalian's neck, and at the same time released the "shrinking technique" on her body, and suddenly transformed back into a saber-toothed leopard as tall as a person.
Seeing Rosalin leave with a dazed expression, Sandori sat by the fire and asked: "Are you...also instructing Lady Rosalian?"
"That's right." Xuan Weizi stirred the stew in the small pot and took a few mouthfuls. The taste was mediocre.
"I don't quite understand why you are willing to teach and guide spellcasting skills to us...indigenous people." Sandori said this with some difficulty.
Xuan Weizi glanced at her and said, "I have my own intentions, you don't need to pay attention to them."
The two of them were silent during the meal. Xuan Weizi looked at the light of the fire in front of him, and his mind could not help but return to the past.
In fact, Xuan Weizi was considered a deviant at that time. He was once evaluated as having "talented by heaven and man". His cultivation qualifications and understanding were both unparalleled. He also possessed the essence of many Taoisms. There were almost no incompetent people in the world.
Someone who is comparable to his level of cultivation.
However, when Xuan Weizi fought with his enemy, he relied on his magical power to gain a slight advantage, thinking that he would be able to stand at the top of the world from then on. However, the enemy had hidden secrets, and finally used incredible magical power to defeat Xuan Weizi.
After a calamity, his body died and his spirit disappeared, and his soul did not enter reincarnation, but only drifted in chaos, unable to even make a single struggle.
Now I am in another world, introspecting and reflecting on myself. Maybe I thought I had great supernatural powers in my previous life, but I am still far away from realizing the mysteries of the Tao. Otherwise, if I have practiced alchemy step by step and gone through many tribulations, I should have a clear mind. Why can't I deal with heaven and humans in the end?
Five decline?
"When the original mind is confused, it is driven by habits; habits accumulate to form cognition, and beliefs are shaped based on cognition; only with belief can there be motivation for behavior. The five declines of heaven and man are the result of human beings in the world. After the soul is dusted, it is inevitable to return to the original source.
The problem we face is the calamity that always accompanies worldly practice. I thought I had figured it out at the time, but in fact, five years of decline are imminent, and the calamity is even more severe. It is a great luck to be able to retain my soul."
After pondering for a long time, Xuan Weizi looked at the gradually extinguishing fire and felt a hint of coolness. Although his cultivation level is not yet invulnerable to water and fire, at least he is not afraid of ordinary cold and heat, and his divine energy can transform into natural vitality.
Circulate and nourish the furnace.
"By the way, aren't you afraid of the cold?" Xuan Weizi suddenly remembered this and looked at Shanduli who was wearing not heavy clothes.
Although the spirit messenger also has a spell similar to "Endure the Environment", it should be cast by maintaining contact with the totem spirit.
Sandori shook her head, but she seemed a little confused.
"Reach over here." Xuan Weizi felt Sanduoli's pulse and saw her face turning slightly red.
Xuan Weizi let go of his hand after a while and muttered to himself: "Although it's very similar to 'tolerating the environment', it seems like there are some additional changes?"
"Endure the environment" is just a low-level first-level spell. It essentially forms a protective field around the subject, mitigating heat and cold to a certain extent and maintaining a certain degree of dryness and humidity. Moreover, it cannot cope with other harsh environments, such as being exposed to
You can get burned in the flames, and you can still get wet when it rains heavily, but you won't catch a cold so easily.
As for Sandoli's current effect, in addition to "tolerating the environment", it also has a certain degree of "neutralizing toxicity" and "removing diseases". What's more important is that Sandoli has been wandering in the mountains and forests for many days, and she actually has no symptoms at all.
Dirty, no dirt or dust stuck to it.
When alchemy monks have cultivated to a certain level, they can avoid being stained with dirt as long as they are willing, but they must at least have the cultivation level of golden elixir.
Sandori is now wearing colorful clothes and wearing a short floral staff on her waist. If she rides on a saber-toothed leopard, she will really look like the dust-free mountain ghost enchantress.
"You... why do you keep looking at me?" Sanduoli felt Xuan Weizi's eyes scanning her back and forth, thinking that she was alone with him now, and she couldn't help but feel a little afraid and worried.
"What does he want to do? Could it be that he wants to do something to me... If that's really the case, what should I do? Do I want to resist? Then will he kill me? Ah~ Sandori, you have nothing now, and there is no point in resisting.
What's the point? If he really wants to do that to me..."
Shanduli's mind was in chaos, and her random thoughts made her at a loss.
"I'm thinking about how to improve the short-term spell buffing effect into an ability that can last for a long time on the body." Xuan Weizi's words broke Sandoli's imagination: "Didn't you notice what's going on with you?"
"What's going on?" Sandori's eyes flickered and she avoided the other party's direct gaze.
"Perhaps the communication with the totem giant spirit in the past has caused changes in your body functions, allowing you to possess some supernatural abilities."
Corresponding spells, so subtle changes in the body are ignored. Even if the connection with the totem spirit is cut off, this change is still retained, mixed into a relatively special supernatural ability."
Sandori looked at her hands and said, "It seems that there is such a situation, but it is not very useful."
"Whether it is spells or supernatural abilities, they are just skills used to deal with different environments." Xuan Weizi said: "But the mechanism and principle of obtaining these abilities are the key point."
Sanduoli only half understood what she heard, and Xuan Weizi didn't expect her to understand. The alchemy he practiced focused on regulating the interaction between the body and mind and the nature of heaven and earth. He had a very deep understanding of how the external nature of heaven and earth affects the body and mind.
Observation and understanding.
"The so-called magic is actually not only the aggregation and dispersion of energy and matter, but also the reconstruction and deconstruction of information." Xuan Weizi just spoke, and when he looked up, he saw Rosalian coming back with a brisk figure and licking her mouth.
Hearing her telepathic response: "You keep talking, I'm listening too."
Xuan Weizi nodded and said: "Most of the magic in this world is actually perceived through the soul or consciousness, connecting information in different environments, and then allocating energy and matter by reconstructing the information. It's just that the object of this connection is different from
The methods are different. The mage's arcane magic is through contacting the arcane star map, and you spirit messengers are contacting the spirits of nature."
Although Xuan Weizi used a lot of magical academic terminology from this world, but with the spiritual link, it was obvious that Sandoli and the others could understand the concepts.
"As for magic." Xuan Weizi looked at Rosalian who was sticking out her tongue to lick the ice and snow on the ground, "In fact, it is also through consciousness to contact certain information, but this information has existed in the body or soul from the beginning, and more
To be precise, it is a special physiological and mental function."
In fact, this is why psychic powers are magic-like. It is not because psychic powers do not require spells, gestures or casting materials, but because the brain and mind of psychics have special functions that ordinary people do not have. This may also be possible
Explain why the art of psychic powers does not flourish, because special abilities often mean rarity.
"What about supernatural abilities?" Sandori asked.
Xuan Weizi said: "In addition to consciousness, the body can also participate in the presentation of magic effectiveness. Because the body of any living being can maintain a certain form, it itself has specific information expression, not to mention energy and matter. When consciousness and body work together
Participating in the reconstruction of information and the deployment of energy and matter, this is supernatural ability. It is like two ropes entangled together, which is stronger than one rope. Therefore, supernatural ability is difficult to remove or dispel, but it can still be suppressed."
"Is there anyone who won't be suppressed?" Sandori asked again.
"Special abilities will not be suppressed, because this is no longer a simple interaction between body and consciousness, but the effect of the combination and mutation of body and mind. Special abilities have become a part of one's body and mind." Xuan Weizi explained: "That's it.
For example, some warriors possess special abilities such as 'trap perception' and 'intuitive dodge' because through long-term and arduous training, body functions and consciousness are deeply integrated at some levels, and have evolved into physical and mental instincts."
"The combination of body and mind and mutation?" Rosalian asked: "Does someone like me also have special abilities?"
"Your dark vision is a special ability!" Xuan Weizi said: "Ordinary saber-toothed leopards are born with dark vision, but as a magical beast, you have a deeper mutation, and your dark vision naturally evolves into dark vision. I
What I'm teaching you about 'transformation' is actually teaching you how to better integrate your body and mind. If you continue to practice and your perception ability further improves, you may have other supernatural or special ability detection spells."
Sandori looked at herself and asked: "Then what kind of spell is on me?"
"The names are all given by people. How do I know what you spirit messengers originally called them?" Xuan Weizi said: "But don't be too happy. If your supernatural abilities are not deepened and the body and mind work together, they will not last long.
Maintained.”
Sanduoli raised her eyes to look at Xuan Weizi and asked, "Do you have any idea?"
"I have a way, but whether it can be successful or not depends entirely on my guidance." Xuan Weizi did not dare to tell the whole story. Most of the Taoist Alchemy Sutras he knew were about techniques for regulating the body and mind, but with this
It may not be universal across the world.
What's more, practicing Taoism also depends on each person's qualifications and talents. Different skills and techniques are suitable for different people.
"Then... when can you teach it to me?" Sandoli lowered her head and said, "There are some conditions..." When she finished speaking, her voice was as thin as a mosquito, and it was almost inaudible.
Rosalin saw this scene from the side and glanced meaningfully at Xuan Weizi, as if to say, "I know what you want to do."
Xuan Weizi glanced at the two of them back and forth with his big and small eyes, and said with a wry smile: "Why are you in a hurry? Take a rest immediately after eating. Practicing the skills I taught you will not yield results in a day or two."
After saying this, Xuan Weizi looked up and said: "Just in time, the bird scouts have found a suitable place. Let's go there and have a look tomorrow morning."