Chapter 9: Am I a Genius?

  Yen Nan and the others left the bar, dazedly sending the beauty into a taxi, and he also hailed one to go home. On the way, he felt an urgent need to urinate. He endured it until he got home, rushed into the bathroom, pulled down his pants, and spent several minutes relieving himself before emptying his bladder.

  Shu Tan took a deep breath, only to feel that his chest was still throbbing in pain. He took off his clothes and found a large bruise on his chest. Ye Nan cursed under her breath: "Damn..." She carefully felt around again and didn't find any broken ribs or anything, so she just let it go.

  Turned on the water heater, took a comfortable bath, only to find that I didn't bring any underwear. Anyway, since I was alone at home, I came out naked, found a large cup, filled it with water from the water dispenser and drank half of it, then refilled it and placed it by my bed, shook myself for a bit before crawling into bed, and fell asleep in less than 30 seconds.

  These days, Ye Nan has been practicing qigong at night instead of sleeping. Since he found out that he felt refreshed the next day after staying up all night to practice, he's been doing it continuously for several days and hasn't had a chance to dream again.

  This will start again, and see the old Taoist reciting to himself: "The heavenly symbol gathers the spirit, the total decision, the god gathers in the purple mansion, leads the spirit back to emptiness, and gathers the energy into the origin. This decision is simple, but the great way of heaven, different paths with the same return, are all no more than this."

  "The Great Way is divided into three levels and nine grades. The three levels are: Gathering Spirit - Jade Fluid - Golden Elixir; each level is further divided into upper, middle, and lower grades. The lower grade of Gathering Spirit is the state where the spiritual energy in the Purple Mansion is colorless and dispersed, the middle grade is where the spiritual energy condenses into a pale white form, and the upper grade is where the spiritual energy condenses into a ball of milky white; the lower grade of Jade Fluid is..."

  As Lao Dao spoke, Ye Nan's mind displayed the state of Zifu Lingqi transforming from colorless to pale white, then to milky white liquid, and finally into a golden pellet.

  "After the beginner's disciple awakens, those with good innate qualities, through diligent practice, can mostly reach the middle grade of gathering spirit within 3 to 5 years. After 8 to 10 years, there is hope for reaching the upper grade of gathering spirit! However, after that, progress becomes increasingly difficult, and only those with unshakeable determination can aspire to the Great Way. Disciples must remember this!"

  The old Taoist's voice continued to sound: "This door is established with talismans, and the talismans can be divided into seven grades: Heaven, Earth, Xuan Huang upper, middle and lower. New entrants who have opened their spiritual aperture are immediately considered to be in the Lower Gathering Spirit stage, during which they can practice lower-grade talismans and activate higher-grade talismans below the Upper grade; Middle Gathering Spirit stage, during which they can practice middle-grade talismans and activate yellow-grade talismans below; Upper Gathering Spirit stage, during which they can practice upper-grade talismans and activate Xuan-grade talismans below; Jade Liquid Lower stage, during which they can practice yellow-grade talismans and activate Earth-grade talismans...

  "Seal, its materials are mostly taken from yellow paper, cinnabar, black dog blood, and rootless water. With a brush, the spirit is condensed, the spirit is operated on the paper, the spirit follows the brush, the spirits converge, and it is completed in one breath..."

  "The power of the talisman is related to its material, quality and ingredients. It's best to use high-quality yellow paper, aged cinnabar, pure yang black dog blood, and pair it with excellent wolf hair brush. The higher the spiritual power, the stronger the power of the talisman!"

  The old Taoist pinched his mustache and sighed, saying: "In the past, there was a great drought in the river region, with red earth for thousands of miles. My sect's ancestor used his own golden elixir of high quality to nourish the highest quality yellow paper for seven days, with thousand-year-old cinnabar, combined with his own pure yang blood, to calm the sect's hope for rain. After writing the rain symbol, within a radius of hundreds of miles, there was a torrential rain that lasted for a day and night without stopping. Although the rain symbol is a heavenly product, the ancestor's symbol has surpassed the power of the heavenly product by more than ten times. At that time, people all called it the Golden Symbol, and the ancestor also used the power of this symbol to ascend to heaven in broad daylight. From then on, our sect was admired by the world!"

  "The power of the talisman is the same for everyone, and after entering a good state, one can fly through the air with the talisman, and must use external objects to subdue evil spirits!" The old Taoist finished speaking and disappeared, and Ye Nan also woke up from his dream, looking at the time, it was exactly 6 o'clock in the morning.

  Ye Nan recalled the situation from his dream last night and said, "According to the old Dao's words, I should be a lower-grade Spirit Gatherer now, but looking at the situation in the Purple Mansion, I've already become a mid-grade Spirit Gatherer. What's going on? Could it be that I'm really a genius?"

  Ye Nan really couldn't understand why, and indulged in a moment of self-satisfaction. Then he got dressed, got out of bed, and was about to go for a run when he suddenly saw the full cup of water on his bedside table. Only then did he remember that he had gotten drunk the day before, yet today he didn't have even a hint of a hangover headache or dry mouth.

  Unexpectedly, after practicing the Spirit Gathering Technique, there's still such a benefit. Ye Nan couldn't help but imagine that if he were to reach the Golden Elixir stage in the future, he wouldn't know whether he'd be immune to intoxication from a thousand cups of wine. If he could indeed withstand a thousand cups without getting drunk, then he'd be able to intimidate Ah Xiang and those people, heh heh...

  Ye Nan found that after practicing the Ling Spirit Decision, he could see the benefits more and more clearly in his daily work. When seeing critically ill patients, he didn't need to rely on various tests and instruments. As long as he looked at the patient's own spiritual energy, he could roughly judge the patient's prognosis.

  But he didn't use his spiritual power to help patients again, because since that incident, somehow his colleagues found out and now they tease him as "Ye Shen Xian" who can predict life and death.

  Ye Nan didn't want others to know that he had this kind of ability, otherwise a doctor being said to be a supporter of feudal superstition would be very unfavorable.

  Moreover, I think birth, aging, illness and death are natural, and I don't know what benefits my spiritual power has for the patient, nor do I understand what impact it has on myself!