Chapter 280: 283. Chapter 283: Zhang Songlin

283. Chapter 283: Zhang Songlin

Lin Yue's teacher lived at No. 8 Anding District, Tianhan City.

Just this address alone was enough to understand how extraordinary this person's status and position were. One had to know that the price of a villa in the Anding District had always been rising, and the villas with the first few numbers could not be bought with money alone; they required powerful strength and an extraordinary identity and status.

It was no wonder that when Yang Yi Long was still alive, he had always been quite wary of Lin Yue.

Before Li Yi's car could drive to the No. 8 villa, guards and roadblocks had already been set up hundreds of meters away, blocking his vehicle.

"Unauthorized vehicles are not allowed to enter here. Please leave immediately."

A security guard walked over and said this, signaling Li Yi to leave.

Li Yi took a look and discovered that this security guard was actually an evolver in the Spirit Medium Realm, with eyes that glowed, capable of seeing things that ordinary people could not.

At this time, Lin Yue immediately opened the car window and poked her head out. "I am Lin Yue, the teacher's student. I have come to visit the teacher this time, and I hope you can make it convenient."

Seeing Lin Yue, the security guard seemed to recognize her and immediately chose to let them pass.

The vehicle continued forward, and after a while, it stopped in front of a Chinese-style villa. However, at this parking spot, many luxury cars were already gathered; it seemed quite a few people had arrived here before them.

"Today might be the day the teacher gives a lecture. Let's go, let's hurry over and listen. Perhaps we will have new gains," Lin Yue said hurriedly.

After parking the car, Lin Yue immediately took Li Yi and walked toward the Chinese-style villa.

Lin Yue was very familiar with this place. She took Li Yi through the door, then walked through a courtyard, passed a corridor, and finally arrived at a small park. Although this park was just a man-made landscape with simple mountain rocks and green trees, walking into it made one feel as if they were in the deep mountains and nature, with a sense of refreshment and comfort.

Wait.

That's not right.

Li Yi immediately perceived the anomaly keenly. He discovered that standing here and standing outside felt like being in two different worlds. Here, it was natural and beautiful, and his whole body felt relaxed, but outside, there was no such feeling.

Very peculiar.

As for the reason, he didn't know; he could only judge that the energy field here seemed a bit special.

In the middle of the park was an open space. In that open space, there were a full twenty-plus cultivators sitting on the grass, patiently listening to the lecture. These cultivators were all extraordinary. Although there were Spirit Inspiration Realm existences, more were Spirit Perception Realm experts. And in the front row, Li Yi even perceived the aura of a Soul Realm expert.

Just the students in this one lecture were a gathering of experts, comparable to the accumulation of an entire city.

In front of everyone, there was an ancient pine tree. Under the ancient pine tree, a stone bench was placed. On that stone bench sat a middle-aged man in his early forties. This middle-aged man had long hair and a beard, wore a loose robe, and looked like an ancient Daoist priest. And what was very strange was this person's appearance.

Clearly, the facial features were all normal, but when put together, they gave people an unreal feeling—wide ears, thin lips, a protruding forehead, and a snake-like neck. He looked like a True Monarch in a Daoist temple, and also like an Immortal Master who had walked out of another world.

This person was Lin Yue's teacher, named Zhang Songlin.

According to Lin Yue, before the Heaven-Tilting event, Zhang Songlin had been a university professor. Later, after the path of cultivation opened, he resigned to cultivate at home. Like the batch of people six years ago, he had also experienced the accident of soul silence, but later he woke up again. Since then, he had been staying in Tianhan City to cultivate, and he would usually take in students and give free lectures.

Lin Yue was the third batch of students he had taken in.

Zhang Songlin's voice was currently light and clear, echoing in the venue: "Last time, we talked about the changes in the Spirit Medium, Spirit Inspiration, and Spirit Perception realms, as well as the reasons. This time, we will focus on the mysteries of the soul. After a cultivator becomes a Spirit Perception, the body is actually already brewing a soul. 'Perception' means awakening, referring to the fact that in this realm, your body and soul are awakening. Therefore, your Spirit Perception can begin to perceive some special things, such as killing intent, such as crises. All these perceptions are actually your soul helping you."

"What is a soul? Scientifically speaking, it is a combination of your thoughts and intentions, a manifestation of the brain. And what is the brain? It is a precise and complex organ constructed from countless neurons. The operation of this organ relies on a kind of energy. This energy is actually the initial form of your soul."

"The bodies of ordinary people are too poor, and the brain's energy is very little. Once the physical body dies, the energy will quickly dissipate. But evolvers are different. The strength of the individual leads to the energy representing your consciousness also becoming stronger. When this energy becomes strong to a certain degree, then a true soul will be formed."

"Therefore, the essence of the soul is actually an evolution of the consciousness of a powerful individual."

"Of course, this is just one way of saying it. You just listen to it; don't take it too seriously. You only need to know that from breaking through from Spirit Perception to the Soul Realm, the most important thing is actually the evolution of your body. When your body undergoes transformation again and again, the human body's energy becomes increasingly abundant, and the consciousness in the brain becomes stronger and stronger... your soul will one day be brewed out."

At this time, a student in the Spirit Perception Realm couldn't help but raise his hand and ask: "Teacher, then why can some people break through to the Soul Realm, while others are stuck in the Spirit Perception Realm for a long time? According to this theory, everyone should become a Soul Realm expert; there shouldn't be a bottleneck."

This question of his was not just what he wanted to ask; other Spirit Perception Realm experts also wanted to ask.

All eyes looked at Zhang Songlin, hoping to get an answer, because this related to their subsequent cultivation and breakthrough.

Zhang Songlin just smiled slightly and said: "I said before that a person's consciousness is a mass of energy. Only when this mass of energy is strong enough can the soul be brewed. Under normal circumstances, everyone can condense a soul. This is the reason why Buddhism says everyone has the root of wisdom. But ask yourselves, have you really cultivated your own consciousness energy well? Have you done things to consume this energy of yours?"

Once these words were spoken, many people fell into deep thought.

"So that's it. I understand. I have too many distracting thoughts, causing my soul power to be scattered and constantly consumed, so I haven't been able to condense a soul until now." Suddenly, a Spirit Perception Realm expert realized, and he became a bit excited.

"Distracting thoughts?"

Zhang Songlin said with a smile: "This is just one of the things that consume soul power. There are also the body's desires. Why do ancient people cultivate the Dao and emphasize having no distracting thoughts? Because once a thought arises, soul power is being consumed. Once desire arises, soul power is scattered. To put it scientifically, your brain is thinking wildly, constantly self-consuming, just like a car engine idling, consuming gasoline for no reason. Therefore, it is very important for the body to be still."

"There is a saying: The Dao comes from stillness."

"And the body's desires are even more terrifying. Once desire appears, your brain energy must be consumed crazily to stimulate the secretion of body hormones and accelerate the operation of functions. Therefore, ancient people reduced this energy consumption through the method of clearing the heart and reducing desires, and entering meditation. And through the method of unifying intentions, they gathered consciousness energy together and finally condensed the soul."

"So that's how it is..." Everyone realized again.

They couldn't condense a soul, not because their potential wasn't good, nor because their cultivation wasn't enough, but because their desires were too heavy, their minds were too cluttered, and they couldn't achieve unity of intention. Soul power was scattered, so they were stuck and unable to break through for a long time.

If one could achieve a clear heart and few desires, and unity of mind, then the soul could naturally condense into shape.

At this moment, Li Yi was very surprised listening to Professor Zhang Songlin's remarks, because such remarks were very similar to the White Bone Contemplation cultivation technique described by the remnant thought in the Dao coins.

What is White Bone Contemplation?

Contemplating beauty as white bones, contemplating white bones as beauty, making people have no desire or fear in their hearts.

With no desire or fear, naturally, there are no distracting thoughts. At this time, the energy of consciousness is highly concentrated, and the soul is naturally conceived.

Zhang Songlin continued his lecture: "Of course, it's not just distracting thoughts and desires that consume soul energy. Even your hearing, vision, and speaking will consume soul energy. Therefore, when a person is very weak, the best way is to sleep, because sleeping can close your hearing, smell, vision, and taste, allowing your soul energy to recover."

"Buddhism has a term called 'purity of the six senses'. What is purity of the six senses? The six senses refer to eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. If you can make your six senses pure, then condensing a soul is naturally not difficult at all."

"Therefore, whether one can condense a soul does not lie in the outside, but in the inside."

Zhang Songlin pointed out the mystery of the soul at this moment, giving every Spirit Perception Realm expert who understood it a feeling of clearing the clouds and seeing the sun.

The cultivation of this world is too short. Many people only know how to absorb cosmic energy and let the body evolve, but they ignore the cultivation of the mind. That is why they cannot break through and are always stuck in Spirit Perception, unable to condense a soul.

"No matter how many times I listen to the teacher's lecture, I can gain huge benefits. Although he didn't talk about how to cultivate, after explaining the principles thoroughly, cultivation becomes much easier," Lin Yue couldn't help but exclaim at this moment.

Purity of the six senses, condensing a soul—who else knew the connection between these?

Li Yi also nodded in deep agreement: "This teacher of yours is indeed extraordinary. Anyone with a bit of comprehension will be able to break through to the Soul Realm in the future."

"It's not that simple. Knowing the principle is one thing, but doing it is very difficult. It's like I know climbing a mountain is simple, but truly climbing a peak requires going through thousands of hardships."

Lin Yue shook her head and said. She had experienced the illusion of the white bone murals, so she naturally knew how difficult it was to restrain desires and achieve purity of the six senses.

Of course, it was precisely because there was difficulty that the number of Soul Realm experts had always been small.

Professor Zhang Songlin continued: "Ancient people said that if one wants to become an immortal, one needs to cut off the seven emotions and six desires. Although this description isn't quite right, it also makes some sense. The moment an evolver condenses a soul is actually the moment they overcome the body's instincts. From then on, the Dao grows and the demon wanes, and the soul dominates the body."

"And this is the Soul Realm."

"Teacher, after the soul dominates the body, what will be different from before?" A Spirit Perception expert continued to ask.

Professor Zhang Songlin smiled and said: "After the soul dominates the body, the most obvious change is that the shackles limiting your body's potential will be constantly opened. For example, strength. In order to protect itself, the human body actually limits the exertion of your strength because it is afraid that your strength will be too great and damage itself. And after the shackles are opened, your body's strength can be exerted one hundred percent, and even erupt with strength exceeding your body's limits in a short period of time."

"At this moment, your body is no longer a body, but a machine controlled by the soul. Although exerting strength beyond the limit will damage the body, your soul doesn't care, because at that time you will feel that the soul is the true self, and the physical body is just a skin bag. If it's destroyed, broken, or incomplete, you won't care, as long as your soul is complete, free, and flawless." ===== CHAPTER 281 =====