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The profound meaning of the Dao. Then, this voice fused into Lin Jin's mind …
Lin Jin carried the < holly seed s > without feeling, and did not move at all. He was like a wooden sculpture sitting cross-legged on the bed. Only when he saw the last word of each page would his hand move and flip to the next page.
He didn't know how long he looked at it, but he felt that his previous confusion had been resolved. His heart grew brighter and his chest expanded.
When he reached the deepest part of the book, he felt a bright light flash through his mind as a golden door quietly opened in his mind. Behind that door, a vast expanse of whiteness could be seen. It seemed like a dream or smoke, yet it seemed real and illusory, like a white and blue dog, changing in an unpredictable manner …
Lin Jin reached out his hand from the illusion, wanting to touch everything behind the door. However, that vast expanse of whiteness was as if he could not even touch it since it was right in front of him.
One after another, the Tao Book s were swapped away from him. Lin Jin did not realise that when he was reading this book, the zhenqi in his body had suddenly started to move extremely slowly. But after a while, it started to move even faster.
After repeating this countless times, the zhenqi in his body was finally fixed at a certain speed. This speed was similar to the speed at which the Earth circulated and the stars shifted.
As for the Jindan inside his Dantian, under the influence of the zhenqi's circulation, it gradually absorbed its dazzling light and became dimmer …
Just as he was feeling this mysterious Heavenly Dao, he suddenly felt as if he had been born into his mother's body. He saw his parents hugging and cherishing him in every possible way, teasing him to talk …
Looking at the deeply hidden memories of his parents' loving and blissful smile, Lin Jin's heart suddenly throbbed uncontrollably. Unknowingly, his face was already covered with tears.
This uncontrollable feeling, in sharp opposition to his desire to pursue the path, made him feel as if he were suffering from schizophrenia, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
When the pain of wanting to tear his mind apart reached its limit, Lin Jin suddenly roared loudly and woke up from his state of comprehension.
He raised his eyes and saw that there were no more golden doors, no more parents …
Holding this book of Tao Book, Lin Jin immediately knew that his heart demon had become his parasite, allowing him to break out from that state of comprehension.
Feeling the abundant energy in his body and knowing that this was the additional product he gained from comprehending Dao, he couldn't help but let out a bitter smile.
Recalling what he had seen during his boring junior high school years, he couldn't help but think: Even this concern for his parents could almost drive him crazy. Think about it, how could those men and women who indulged in all sorts of desires in the Greater Thousand Worlds practice Taoism? Perhaps, only after truly comprehending the Dao.
Only then could he do as he pleased!
Lin Jin heaved a long sigh.
As Lin Jin's state of enlightenment wore off, he could faintly hear sighs coming from a few famous mountains thousands of miles away that traversed the distant space.
Thinking back to what he had just comprehended from the book, he once again flipped open this book < The holly seed s >, wanting to see if he could comprehend something else.
The paper was still the paper, the words were still the same, but there was no longer that feeling from before.
Right when it was a pity, Lin Jin's heart suddenly moved, he felt Talking about the Old Man walking out from the elevator, towards his own room.
This feeling was so strong that it was as if he had seen it with his own eyes, causing him to not have the slightest doubt in his heart.
He placed the books scattered on the bed back into the purple sandalwood wood box. Lin Jin calmly waited.
One minute later, a heavy knocking sound could be heard from outside the door. Lin Jin opened the door, and saw Talking about the Old Man's familiar smile.
”Have you finished resting? You didn't pick up the phone for a long time, did you? If I don't call you out now, you'll only have leftovers to eat. ” Talking about the Old Man joked.
He could feel the concern in the old man's voice. Lin Jin could not help but feel warmth in his heart.
”It's nothing. It's just that I've used up too much energy in the morning, so I slept a bit too long. I've made you wait too long.” Lin Jin wiped his face. Ye Zichen replied apologetically.
”Hehe, why are you being so courteous with me. It's not like your style. Come, come. I'll tell you about my harvest this afternoon at the table.” Seeing that he was alright, the Talking about the Old Man laughed and turned to walk towards the elevator.
He was infected by the happy mood of the Talking about the Old Man. Lin Jin could not help but reveal a smile, closing the door, he followed.
After dinner, because the Talking about the Old Man had said that there was some kind of gathering between antique dealer s at night, Lin Jin did not want to join in on the excitement. He bade farewell to the Talking about the Old Man and returned to his room, continuing to read the contents of the《 holly seed s》.
Although Lin Jin's consciousness had already fused with the consciousness of the person who wrote the book. Thus, he no longer had the same feeling as when he first saw it.
But those pages that were lost in the book contained a lot of alchemy and cultivation techniques, and they were extremely profound. Lin Jin couldn't help but to be captivated by it, as he tried to think of the possibilities of these various Tao techniques and pill techniques.
When night fell and the gathering ended at 10 pm, Talking about the Old Man returned to his room and started to recount the history of the day and some of the secrets within the tomb robber that he had heard before, which made Lin Jin feel that it was very interesting.
Because he had frequently eaten Flamefish food for the past few months, Talking about the Old Man's energy was extremely vigorous, and only until midnight did he finally feel a little tired. He instructed Lin Jin to rest a little earlier before lying down on the bed to sleep.
Back in his room, because Lin Jin had been thinking about the contents of the《 holly seed s》, he did not feel sleepy, and he had memorized almost all of the book's contents, so there was no meaning in reading it again.
When he was deep in his meditative state, he only felt a slight thought. Everything around him, including the building, appeared in his mind.
At this time, in order to deal with tomorrow's auction, most of the merchants had already gone to bed. In the dead of night, only a few rooms emitted a soft hum. In addition, some insects were chirping in the grass outside the building and in the shade of the trees.
Lin Jin did not care about the discordant noises from the inn, his mind went through the three tall buildings in the hotel area, and the layers of mountain mist behind the hotel. His mind was spread out in all directions, to a faraway place, as though he wanted to connect the heaven and earth.
As he quietly comprehended the tranquility of the night, Lin Jin felt that his entire body and mind had merged with the night, as though they were one.
While he was experiencing this rare experience, he suddenly felt the window of a certain building in another building in the hotel move. He then saw a man in black jump down from the window towards the fifth and sixth floor.
After landing on the ground, he didn't stop there. His feet moved and his whole body jumped up. He stepped on a big tree between two buildings and nimbly jumped towards the building he was standing on.
From the man's slender figure, Lin Jin could tell that he was the Zhou Ji who had competed with the Talking about the Old Man for the set of《 holly seed s》 earlier in the day.
During the day, Talking about the Old Man allowed him to have a taste of closed doors. Was he here to steal books? Or do you want to harm Talking about the Old Man?
When he thought of these two possibilities, Lin Jin's heart tightened. All of the consciousness that was dispersed outside immediately returned to his body, and he gently ran towards the window.
Just as Lin Jin had guessed, the figure was indeed Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji was a disciple from the clan, so he was much more knowledgeable about the Taoism than him, just like those extremely precious Tao Book s.
Normally, he would leave behind a trace of the monk's thoughts, which would contain his understanding of the Dao of the Heavens. If he could gain insights from such a high level, and be able to understand higher levels of the 'Dao', the benefits could be imagined.
Regarding this point, Zhou Ji was naturally clear of it.
This time, Zhou Ji coincidentally found out that this book was stolen from the grave of a certain king in the Ming Dynasty, and that prince was also a famous person.
Because of that, he guessed that this book must have been gifted to him by Lu ChangGeng. He guessed that there must have been a trace of Lu ChangGeng's thoughts on it, and thus, he had the intention to get the book.
However, because the Auction was keeping it a secret too well, he did not know where the book was kept. And for some reason. He could not use the Tao technique to obtain this set of books, so he was just like an ordinary person, wanting to use an auction to obtain this set of books.
However, they did not know where Chen Changhua and the other two had gotten the information from, so they interjected. Disrupting his good fortune.
Helpless, he could only come up with this plan. He wanted to steal the book, use a secret technique to get that strand of will that was attached to it, and then return the book back …
Although the eighth floor was tall, it was nothing to Zhou Ji. With his family's lightness exercise, he was like a giant bat. In the night sky, he stepped on the branch of a tree and flew through the air without making any sound.
However, when he jumped onto the tree right below Talking about the Old Man's window, he raised his head and saw that on the right side of the eighth floor's Talking about the Old Man window, there was the young man beside Talking about the Old Man standing there, staring at him coldly.
The cool night breeze blew past, causing his clothes to immediately flutter.
”It's so late. Gongzi Zhou is very lively! I wonder what brings you here? ” The sound of a voice filled with zhenqi converged into a single line. The cold feeling passed into Zhou Ji's ears.
Lin Jin obviously did not want others to hear the commotion.
”To think that I've misjudged you. I'm afraid you're the real owner of the < holly seed > set, right?” He sent out a thought to investigate the situation. However, Zhou Ji couldn't feel the fluctuations of the zhenqi on his body, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.
Looking at the depth of Lin Jin that he was unable to probe, he knew that he had come here for nothing.
However, there was one kind of person in this world that would never die, and Zhou Ji was one of them.
Seeing that Lin Jin was only seventeen or eighteen years old, he was not convinced. He did not believe that he would have a cultivation level higher than himself at such a young age.
Thinking up to this point, although he had lost the confidence to get « holly seed », he immediately had the thought of competing with this young man.
With the help of the zhenqi, Zhou Ji sent a sound transmission to him: ”Little brother, since you have obtained that set of books, I have no intention of fighting with you.
Lin Jin didn't know that he just wanted to borrow the set of books, and was afraid that Yue Yang would try to rob it away. At the same time, he also wanted to see how far his cultivation had progressed, so he sent a sound transmission: ”Okay!” Then, he leaped into the air, and like a piece of cotton, he landed gently on the tree that Zhou Ji was standing on.
Seeing that he was so light, Zhou Ji could not help but greet him. The zhenqi moved secretly and with a step, it shot towards the mountain at the back of the inn.
Lin Jin landed on a tree and released a thread of thought to lock onto Zhou Ji's figure, before following him and flying away.
Neither of them noticed that three figures had appeared at the side of the building as soon as they left.
One of the figure walked to the place where Lin Jin had jumped down to just then, looked around, and seeing that there were no more movements, threw a hooked rope to the ground floor of Lin Jin's room, then clumsily climbed up the stairs. The other two were hiding below to watch the wind.
Faintly, a grumbling voice could be heard: ”Fuck, they all know the lightness exercise, why is it that our bloodline doesn't have the lightness exercise Arts passed down …”