Tempering the liver!
One cycle...
Two cycles...
...
As he tempered and tempered.
He sensed something was wrong.
The cultivation speed had noticeably slowed down!
"A bottleneck?"
Lin Beichen dismissed the possibility after a brief thought.
He could feel...
The slower cultivation speed was not limited by the liver!
Being unable to invoke Celestial Thunder himself would be called a bottleneck; but as long as tempering the liver brings improvement, how could there be any bottleneck?
"Then what is it?"
Lin Beichen fell into deep thought.
It’s not clear how long he pondered.
A scene of him viewing from the Observation Platform on Dragon Tiger Mountain suddenly came to mind, feeling high-spirited and free-spirited between heaven and earth.
Suddenly!
There was a flash of inspiration.
"Is it the mental realm?"
Lin Beichen was unsure if his current situation was due to a problem with his mental realm.
However, in the past two days...
Because he touched upon the possibility of invoking Celestial Thunder through his own strength and comprehended the Five Elements, preparing to enhance other attributes.
He could feel the instability in his mental realm.
However, whether or not it’s due to the mental realm, this was a direction.
It’s always right to try.
Moreover...
The issue with the mental realm should also be resolved, it shouldn’t be left unstable.
"But how to solve the issue with the mental realm?"
Lin Beichen once again fell into deep thought.
At this moment, a scene suddenly appeared in his mind.
That was within the Celestial Master’s Mansion on Dragon Tiger Mountain.
He asked Master Guanyi what Daoism cultivates.
Master Guanyi replied, cultivation of the heart.
"Daoism?"
There was direction to solve the issue with the mental realm.
Lin Beichen realized that his last mental realm enhancement had intricate connections with Daoism.
Could there be another unexpected joy this time?
With a bit of thought, he made up his mind—to go to the school library to peruse some Daoist books.
"Previously, I read Daoist books with the mindset that they might help with the cultivation method, now if I read Daoist books from the mental realm’s perspective, they must feel different, right?"
With expectations.
After a short rest, Lin Beichen returned the Thunderstruck Wood to his dormitory, took a shower, and went straight to the library. He arrived at the religious section and found the Daoism section among the religious books.
The shelves were full of an abundance of Daoist books.
He did not deliberately choose any specific Daoist book, nor did he know which Daoist book to read.
To solve the issue with the mental realm...
It’s not confined to any one book, maybe this one, maybe the next one, or maybe none in the end.
Everything depended on feeling and chance.
Whatever he picked up, he read.
Laozi’s "Tao Te Ching"
Liezi’s "Scripture of Void"
Guan Yinzi’s "Wenshi Zhenjing"
...
He read one by one.
Lin Beichen could feel his mental realm subtly improving, but the improvement was minuscule, far from solving the current mental realm issue.
To solve the current mental realm issue...
The mental realm needed not improvement, but sublimation!
At this moment, he grabbed randomly.
It was Zhuang Zhou’s "Nanhua Scripture".
"Knowing what heaven does and what man does is ultimate! Knowing what heaven does is natural; knowing what man does is to use one’s knowledge to nourish what one does not know, to live out one’s natural lifespan and not meet heaven prematurely - this is the ultimate knowledge..."
Only a passage.
Lin Beichen felt a completely different experience from the other Daoist books he just read, as if he had immersed himself into the book.
The surrounding bookshelves disappeared, with scriptures floating around.
It seemed as though thousands of Celestial Masters were chanting the scriptures from all directions.
Deafening!
And at that moment.
Before his eyes, a few lines of scriptures appeared repeatedly.
Cannot be dismissed!
"Life between heaven and earth is like a white colt passing a gap, suddenly gone."
"The perfect person has no self, the spiritual person has no achievement, the saint has no name."
"Interacting with the spirit of heaven and earth without arrogance to all things; not judging right or wrong, to be with the secular."
"Carefree between heaven and earth, with a satisfied mind."
"..."
As he read on.
In a trance.
All the scriptures disappeared, leaving only a few lines of scriptures, rotating, spiraling.
In the next moment.
He felt an extreme clarity in his mind, but the scene before his eyes changed again.
He was standing on the peak of a lofty mountain.
Connecting the clouds above, reaching the deep sea below.
The Kunpeng from the Nanhua Scripture soared through the clouds, traversed the deep sea, vast and limitless!
Before, despite having heaven-defying comprehension and refining cultivation methods, he had hesitations, concerns, hiding and concealing this matter, causing his mental realm to be obstructed.
But he hadn’t noticed this.
Now...
Looking at the scene before him.
He realized the problem’s source, understood what true mental realm enlightenment was!
"Following the heart, free and unrestrained, without constraints!"
Lin Beichen was enlightened.
His mental realm sublimated instantly!
In that moment.
Everything before him shattered like foam and illusion, everything around him returning to reality, he was still between rows of bookshelves.
However, unlike before.
He felt...
The library, which seemed vast before, became smaller; the previously cramped shelves spaced out.
A different feeling brought about by a change in mental realm!
Lin Beichen was startled, cultivation should follow one’s true self!
All external things should not interfere with the true self, leading to actions against one’s heart.
At this moment, he didn’t even need to cultivate to confirm whether the cultivation problem stemmed from the mental realm.
Following the true self, cultivation flowed like descending a stream.
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