Chapter 66: The Battle of the Primordial Spirit

  When he returned to the room, the child was still listless, staring blankly at the ceiling. This was because Huang Daxian and the child had exhausted themselves from competing for the yuan Shen, and were temporarily resting. If this continued, it would only be a matter of time before the child completely transformed into another Huang Daxian. Taking a deep breath, he turned to Zhang Jianchen: "Zhang brother, no matter what happens later, you absolutely cannot let anyone in. I need absolute quiet, or else I might not wake up again. Absolutely do not let anyone in."

  Seeing my solemn expression, Zhang Jianchen nodded heavily: "Don't worry, unless I die, no one will come to disturb you, brother, take care of yourself."

  Then Zhang Jianchen dragged the Guan family and Huang Kai out, and the door closed heavily. Although Zhang Jianchen had promised, I still didn't dare to be careless, turning over to lock the door, even though one kick could open it, and also locking the window tightly. Then I tidied up a place, sat down cross-legged, took a deep breath, and slowly closed my eyes, trying to relax again and again, relaxing until I forgot about my own existence.

  When the yuan Shen first exits, it feels like the mountains and rivers are shattered, and the earth is flat. At this time, people will realize that they are not two with heaven and earth, or all things, or that there is no universe, heaven and earth, and no things with me. This initially proves the existence of the eighth consciousness and truly proves that man has no self and law has no self.

  The yuan Shen exiting is just a metaphorical way of speaking, it's not saying that there really is a real, independent "yuan Shen" that can "exit". What can exit is the yang Shen or yin Shen, absolutely not the yuan Shen. In fact, to put it bluntly, the yuan Shen exiting is also known as the soul exiting.

  Slowly, it's as if everything has ceased to exist, the heavens and earth, all living things, including myself. This is entering a meditative state, where one's primordial spirit leaves its physical shell, which is different from being summoned out. If one wants to do this voluntarily, they must sever the connection between their primordial spirit and body. At this time, it's easy for accidents to happen, or to be disturbed by others, even a loud noise can cause the primordial spirit to become completely lost. However, this is still not the most dangerous aspect. The greatest danger lies in entering another person's primordial spirit, where everything will sink into that person's world. In anyone's ocean of consciousness, that person is all-powerful, and even the primordial spirit of a deity can be eliminated within it. Of course, if one's own ocean of consciousness is strong enough, meaning they can control its changes, I only hope that Huang Da Xian has not yet fully grasped his ocean of consciousness, or else I will never have a chance to turn things around.

  In the midst of nothingness, the realm without self is also nothingness, everything has ceased to exist. However, at the very end, I suddenly became aware of a self that exists, this is the yuan shen (original spirit). It's as if the yuan shen is the center of the universe. Upon feeling the yuan shen, all sorts of things suddenly flowed back in, but I couldn't feel my body, it was as if I was drifting aimlessly in an endless ocean, this is the sea of consciousness. My own yuan shen should be able to control the sea of consciousness, this is recorded in the Daoist scriptures.

  I tried to mobilize my thoughts, imagining myself on a large ship approaching the shore. Suddenly, I found myself standing on a huge ship, over 100 meters long, with no one else around. There was no sound, but it sailed forward, cutting through the wind and waves. This is my mental ocean, which I can control at will. With just a thought, the dull gray sea transformed into a blue ocean, a clear sky, and warm sunshine. My feet were on a small island, with a reclining chair beneath me and a wooden table beside me, holding my favorite orange juice. But the island was moving forward, rapidly advancing.

  I don't know how long it took, but I finally saw seven glittering gates in the vast sky, which are the seven orifices of a human being. This is also why the primordial spirit always emerges from these seven orifices. The small island stopped moving because I wanted to stop it. Seagulls were dancing at the edge of the sky, and waves were crashing against the island. With a movement of my heart, a staircase appeared, connecting one of the gates. I walked up the stairs towards the gate.

  Once you step out of this door, the outside world becomes vivid and colorful. It's as if I've climbed over a mountain and when I look back, I feel like a stranger to myself. If you haven't experienced it before, you won't understand. I'm standing here looking at another version of myself, which is why I feel so strange. It's as if I'm seeing someone I don't know, yet there's an inexplicable connection that can't be shaken off.

  Not taking care of his own body, he finally got into bed, looking at the child who still had no reaction. He took a deep breath and crawled into the child's ear, reaching a gate, and went in. It was that grayish world. From the gate, he jumped down suddenly, feeling like he was falling non-stop. His heart was startled, and he felt anxious, but for a moment, he didn't know what to do. His heart was worried, and he didn't know how long it would take to fall to the bottom. However, there was no feeling of weightlessness. It seemed that his mind had thought of something. He hadn't fallen to the bottom after such a long time because this was the sea of consciousness, where there were no concepts of time and space. If he thought about it this way, he might never fall to the bottom in his lifetime. Everything changed because of his thoughts. His heart moved, and indeed, he felt a pause. His body stopped falling, but his feet didn't touch solid ground; instead, they remained suspended in mid-air. Looking up, he could still see the gate, and everything was unchanged, just as he had thought.

  Now that I understand, I don't need to move either. As soon as Shen Nian moves, he's already heading far away. Although it feels like I'm moving, but at the same time, I feel like I'm not moving. There is no wind and no reference points, so it's as if I've always been in one place, with only an unchanging gray sky and earth. I am in the center of this gray world, but my heart is moving, so I am moving too. I don't know how long it took, but finally, I saw that black mass in the distance - that's the true Sea of Consciousness. But entering it means facing Huang Da Xian, and possibly danger. Taking a deep breath, gritting my teeth, I stepped inside.

  As I stepped into the dark and murky mass, the scenery changed, and I saw a child sitting in the void, the only existence between heaven and earth. Feeling my arrival, the half-human, half-beast primordial spirit suddenly turned to me, while the beastly half snarled at me with bared teeth, letting out a roar. However, the childish half stretched out its hand, crying and begging me to save it, even wanting to escape over to me, but was held back by the other half of its body.

  I gritted my teeth and rushed forward, just a thought away from reaching the child's side. I stretched out my hand to grab the child's arm, thinking only of tearing their primordial spirit away, even if it would weaken them, at least they would still be intact. Just as I was about to grasp the child's hand, a deafening thunderclap exploded in the sky, followed by a bolt of lightning that struck down. My heart skipped a beat, and with a flicker of my divine sense, I dodged to an unknown distance. But the lightning seemed to have a life of its own, chasing after me as it struck.

  I don't know what to do, constantly evading, and I don't know for how long. For a while, I still haven't thought of a solution, but suddenly an accident occurred. A large cage suddenly fell from the sky and was about to cover me. The cage was so big that I couldn't dodge it. With a loud crash, it had already covered me in nothingness. This wasn't all; another thunderbolt struck down, and my heart was already terrified.

  But Huang Daxian had an idea, and as I escaped, things became complicated. At this moment, it was no longer a void, but a vast and desolate ancient plain appeared out of nowhere, with great mountains, rivers, and countless towering trees. What's even more frightening is that I suddenly discovered that I couldn't teleport at will anymore, as if something in the world had restricted my movements. I'm just a bit faster than before, jumping higher than before, but can I escape Huang Daxian's pursuit like this? Not to mention, how am I going to save that child?

  There's no time to think, the sky is filled with endless dark clouds, thunder keeps booming, flashes of lightning keep striking down, everywhere I look, I feel like there's nowhere to escape, standing in the forest, I know tall trees always attract lightning, isn't this a death sentence for me?

  But I won't resign myself to this fate, staring at the ground beneath my feet, my mind racing with thoughts. Now, if only there was a hole in the ground, I could avoid the lightning. In the sea of consciousness, only divine thoughts can play tricks like this. As I thought, another hole suddenly appeared on the ground, and without hesitation, I leapt into it. Outside, the thunder and lightning struck the trees, causing them to fly about wildly, but for now, I was safe. I urged my divine thoughts to rush towards Huang Daxian's direction, and the soil in front of me continued to split apart.

  But things didn't go that smoothly, I was running happily when suddenly the angry earth around me rose up and I couldn't move anymore. Wanting to turn back and leave, I found that the hole behind me had disappeared too. I was trapped in the mud, unable to budge, no matter how hard I tried the mud wouldn't separate. The pressure of the mud made it impossible for even my fingers to move, all I could feel was suffocation, wave after wave of dizziness washed over me, was I going to die here?

  Perhaps at this moment, people will despair. In fact, I also despaired, but I was born not to be a person who admits defeat. Even if it's death, in the last moment before death, I won't stop struggling. It's just that the feeling of suffocation made my consciousness start to weaken. However, at the moment of despair, an odd thought suddenly emerged: Does the primordial spirit need to breathe? In theory, the primordial spirit is the soul. Like ghosts, ghosts can stay underground; if they could suffocate, then how would there be any ghosts in this world? Thinking about it, the primordial spirit doesn't actually need to breathe. Since it doesn't breathe, where would the feeling of suffocation come from? That means my own feelings deceived me - I thought I would suffocate, so I did. Now I tell myself that I don't need to breathe, and I won't have this feeling. Indeed, the suffocating sensation that made me feel like I was going to die suddenly disappeared. Only temporarily am I still trapped in the soil.