Chapter 915 - 272: Who Is Shen 17?
Although Dean Shen felt miserable, there were still many children in the welfare orphanage who needed her care, and she could only keep this matter in her heart.
Perhaps, after some time, one would gradually get better.
To say something that might be rather cruel: If Shen Shiqi was Dean Shen’s own child, losing them would undoubtedly leave the parents devastated.
But Shen Shiqi, when you get down to it, was just one of the ten-plus children in the orphanage.
Yet every night, when Dean Shen arranged for the children to go to bed, she would sit for a while by Shen Shiqi’s old bed.
Sadness, heartache.
But life had to go on, and perhaps, slowly, as time went on, it would pass.
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Chen Yan secretly observed near the welfare orphanage for three days, making sure Dean Shen was fine.
It was Shen Shiqi’s younger sister, Shen Shijiu, who was tricked by Dean Shen’s words into believing her brother went to study in another place. After a few days of sadness, she gradually stopped being upset.
That night, after watching the light in Dean Shen’s room go out, Chen Yan quietly walked along the corridor on the second floor of the orphanage.
On the wall hung a group photo of the ten-plus children in the orphanage.
Chen Yan looked at the photo with weak moonlight filtering in from outside the window.
In the first row, the second from the left, was Shen Shiqi.
A thin, small body, yet a smile on the face.
Beside the photo was a roster, listing the names of each child in the photo.
Chen Yan found Shen Shiqi’s name, and then...
Written boldly above was:
Jiang Baisui!
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Shen Shiqi, real name Jiang Baisui.
His younger sister Shen Shijiu, real name Jiang Huakai.
The siblings’ names were derived from the lucky phrases "Longevity" and "Prosperity."
It seems rural children’s names aren’t as sophisticated as those in the city, thus such names.
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In the hotel room, Chen Yan sat cross-legged on the floor. After a session of meditation, he circulated Primordial Qi through his body several times. When he opened his eyes, a faint divine light flickered in them.
This is the characteristic of deep cultivation in the Ascension Realm. The divine sense is round and complete, the divine light emanates naturally.
Chen Yan lightly exhaled a breath, and then, for what felt like the umpteenth time in those days, he began to silently recite the "God-Hosting Chapter" left by Shen Shiqi!
Having silently recited the entire text, Chen Yan pondered each word carefully.
This "God-Hosting Chapter" cultivation technique does not cultivate Primordial Spirit, does not cultivate Primordial Qi, and is not a Body Cultivation!
Rather, it cultivates the Mental Realm!
Originally, during the stage of cultivating the Primordial Spirit, one breaks through desires, anger, and ignorance, using these things to cultivate the Primordial Spirit, making the divine sense grow...
And these emotions, ultimately, are related to one thing.
The Mental Realm!
How a person’s mental realm is, on the surface, seems unrelated to the Primordial Spirit, but in fact, it is precisely the foundational soil for cultivation.
The more complete the mental realm, the greater the gains in breaking through desires, anger, and ignorance, and thus the more benefits received.
It can be said that the mental realm is a kind of "aptitude."
In many novels, the aptitude for Cultivation is the Spiritual Root.
The aptitude for Body Technique cultivation is the tendons and muscles.
And the mental realm is the aptitude for cultivating the Primordial Spirit!
The more complete the mental realm, the greater the potential of the Primordial Spirit!
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Originally, this thing called the mental realm is very difficult to "practice hard."
Because I am who I am.
An ordinary person’s mental realm, at its core, is nothing more than the sum of their life experiences, what they’ve seen, read, experienced, and felt.
Birth, old age, illness, and death, joy and sorrow.
After going through these, the mental realm naturally grows.
But... that’s about it.
It’s the limit.
A person’s own experiences are ultimately limited.
After just a few decades of life, experiencing birth, old age, illness, death, joy, and sorrow, one reaches the ceiling.
Apart from this, perhaps reading some books can also increase the mental realm.
Like reading works left by predecessors, reading philosophical things, having insights after reading...
But what you glean from books is ultimately superficial.
That little bit of growth is always separated by a layer, the gains are slow and small, and if you want to accumulate little by little, it’s time-consuming and labor-intensive—and you need something called insight!
Let’s put it this way, if you let two people read Wang Yangming’s "Records of Instructions" together.
The benefits each person receives after reading are bound to be somewhat different!
Because this thing called insight is a separate threshold in itself.
The real way for the mental realm to achieve the best growth is through personal experience.
Yet a person only lives once.
For example, breaking through "the great terror between life and death."
Everyone only has one chance to break through, and that’s when they are about to die.
Once you’re done dying, it’s over.
How much you understand through a single death experience, that’s all you get.
There is no second chance for you.
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But, the "God-Hosting Chapter" is different.
Crack the abyss as a valley! Branches and vines separate!!
After Chen Yan silently recited this again, he took a long breath, his eyes gradually filled with astonishment, and more excitement showed on his face!
"Crack the abyss as a valley! Branches and vines separate!"
Chen Yan murmured to himself softly.
Spirit as the abyss, cracking the abyss as a valley...
"This is just a Clone Technique!!"
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Tear out a piece of your Primordial Spirit, split it into one or more!
Then entrust the split piece of Primordial Spirit out...
Attached to another body...
It can possess a person, and is not restricted to objects or beasts!
In fact, you could say, as long as the practitioner of this method so desires, one could even experience "a lifetime as a stone" or "a lifetime as a sheep"!
Entrust a strand of Primordial Spirit to a stone, experience and comprehend the enduring, unchanging existence of a stone as time goes by, with the exposure to wind and sun.