Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 395 - 146: World Map, Western Pole Ice Race, Withdraw and Reap
The gatekeeper laughed, "If Master Li is just a mere blacksmith, then I’m merely a gatekeeper."
The two of them exchanged glances and laughed heartily.
The gatekeeper’s favorability towards Li Yuan rose rapidly, and he followed Li Yuan to look at something.
Li Yuan ascended the steps and first went to look at books related to Forged Soldiers.
Only after several days did he start to look at what he truly wanted to see.
What did he wish to see?
First, the powers of this world, so he could push forward his own Realm and Cultivation Skill.
Second, the map of the world and the powers of various countries.
Third, the map of the Great Zhou and the powers of various regions.
Fourth, records of major events in the world.
Through this, he could seek fortune and avoid disaster, establish peace and security.
Seeing that he had blended in here, he pretended to casually browse other books.
He flipped through each book casually, spending almost the same amount of time on each one, as if he was merely idling and flipping through them.
But when he came to a book called "Qingshan Pen Talk," his pupils slightly contracted.
This was a book resembling a diary of "Cultivation Insights" written by an unknown expert, and being placed here proved its extraordinariness.
His eyes scanned over the cultivation insights at the Sixth Grade Realm.
"Power is like a weapon, no matter how strong the weapon is, without someone to wield it, how can it be used?
For people like us, Shadow Blood is power, and I am the one who controls it.
But Shadow Blood into Sand, life transforms, how can I, just an ordinary person, comprehend this?"
"When I enter the Mental Realm, the originally sluggish blood sand seems to find a direction and begins to operate automatically. At that moment, I felt immense power.
However, when I leave the Mental Realm, the Shadow Blood becomes sluggish again..."
"I realized that you only need to feel this Mental Realm, not necessarily align it with your personality, as long as you remember that moment of Visualization when using power."
"With the increase and perfection of power, I increasingly feel the incompleteness of my own Mental Realm until I saw my junior brother and sister, then I seemed to understand something.
They are from the same sect as I, but they practice different Cultivation Skills..."
"Our master finally confessed to us.
The force that drives power is the moment we enter the Mental Realm.
And this is the Seed of Thought.
Through Visualization, you gain the Seed of Thought.
The Ancestral Talisman is merely the most perfect graphical expression of the Seed of Thought.
However, our Seeds of Thought are all incomplete."
"My junior brother, junior sister, and I have all reached Perfection.
We began to duel and battle fiercely.
In this life-and-death struggle, we became familiar with each other, understood each other, and could even imitate each other to a certain extent.
When I defeated them, I vaguely felt that I was no longer incomplete.
I just felt peaceful in body and mind; a true self was being nurtured in my heart.
At this moment, I entered the Fifth Grade."
"I began to worry about my junior brother and sister.
But the master said they were just injured and would recover in a few months.
But is it really so?
I became curious."
"Through my observations, I discovered that my junior brother indeed recovered in half a year, his spirit became full again, and it seemed he found his determination once more; it appeared he was preparing for the next Fifth Grade advancement.
But my junior sister’s strength was greatly reduced, her spirit languished, and it took her a full year to recover.
I developed a greater curiosity about injuries, as it might help me understand the power I held.
Thus, I began my study."
Li Yuan quietly watched, then gently turned to the next page.
But the next page had been torn out, clearly the content was about the study of "injuries."
Why was it torn out?
Li Yuan thought, besides the Divine Wood Hall Master, the Elders, some Direct Disciples, and some Inner Sect Disciples were allowed to view information here. Regardless of whether they are Direct or Inner Sect Disciples, they must have been in the sect long enough.
The long-serving Inner Sect Disciples mostly were already at the level to advance to Fifth Grade. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
And it seemed the Divine Wood Hall did not want disciples to know the detailed content of "injuries," but only to understand "the injury healed can be recovered, and how to recover requires asking higher-ups in the family."
Li Yuan pondered a little.
This might lean towards "information gatekeeping" rather than a "conspiracy theory," after all... it would be rather odd for a large power like the Divine Wood Hall to play with intrigue in its own cultivation.
If there truly were a conspiracy, how did the Divine Wood Hall grow into such a major force?
’Jing Shuixiang, Xiang King, that Sixth Grade Inner Sect Disciple named Xiang Hailou who has been in the sect for more than twenty years said he has been striving just to defeat her...’
’The failures of those advancing to Fifth Grade need time to heal, and the injuries vary, not only involving power but also spirit...’
’Although a page was torn out, I can reasonably speculate that those severely injured, besides having a languishing spirit, might even develop mental disorders.’
’On thinking carefully, my wife’s excessively humble behavior might indeed involve using special stimulation therapy to treat her ailment... and in doing so, she also married herself off...’
Li Yuan pondered briefly and arrived at a logical conclusion.
’Though... this treatment method is quite intriguingly charming.’
’I wonder if she chose me, or the Jing Family chose me for her.’
’Whatever, I haven’t lost out anyway.’
Li Yuan mused internally: Surely, there aren’t too many conspiracy theories in this world, nor is there always someone plotting against you...
Promptly, he fell back into contemplation.
These writings were undoubtedly from the perspective of a "cultivator," rather than a "creator."
What’s more absurd is, entering the Sixth Grade requires the Seed of Thought, and must have the Ancestral Talisman...
