Chapter 68

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle!!!

In the courtyard, there was a small table, and an iron pot on an induction cooker was boiling Chinese medicine.

The sound of boiling and that bitter, murky smell had been drifting for more than half an hour.

This was Fang Jun's home.

According to what he said, the nursing home was quite busy recently, and anyway, for Yin Yin Fengxin's special situation, if he wanted treatment, it mainly depended on Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu, so it was simply more convenient to come to his house to live.

A three-story building with a courtyard, also located in a small fishing village.

But the environment was much better than where Yin Yin Fengxin used to live.

There weren't many houses locally, and not far from the door, there were mudflats and ponds everywhere; it was said they were used for pearl mussel farming, and most of the pond banks were planted with trees.

Green water, green trees, and the sea breeze blowing in.

Fang Jun, however, had a bitter face.

"I'm regretting it a bit now."

He was sitting at the table, staring at the iron pot.

"Boiling medicine like this every day, if it goes on for ten days or so, my house will be infused with the smell, right?"

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu stood next to a large cardboard box, flipping through an instruction manual, and said casually: "Alright then, shall we change to another place to live?"

Fang Jun sighed: "Forget it, since we're already here."

This house of his was called his home, but it actually didn't have much of a lived-in atmosphere.

It felt like, apart from the garage and the bedroom, other furniture might look the same as when it was bought, even after a few years.

He often didn't go home when handling cases, and even when he had leisure time, he ate outside.

"However, this house of yours looks like it's been around for a while."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at the iron railings on the courtyard wall.

The tops of the railings were like spearheads, painted black all over, but in some places, the paint had peeled off, revealing traces of rust.

Fang Jun said: "This place was left by my biological parents; when something happened to the family when I was young, the old furniture was destroyed, and the wall plaster was smoked pitch black."

"After I grew up, I renovated the house, but this courtyard outside didn't have much damage, so I didn't bother with it."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu understood and said: "I was just saying, if it were given by that foster father of yours, it shouldn't be this kind of old courtyard."

Clatter, clatter!!

Fang Jun separated his hands, and the entire deck of cards was bent by his palms, collapsing from his right hand to his left hand one after another.

The afterimages of the playing cards stretched out on his hands like an accordion.

"My parents used to work for Uncle Nie; he was nostalgic, so he adopted me; there are more than a dozen others like me."

Fang Jun said, "Being able to be raised by him and learn the methods of cultivation is already very fortunate; I dare not ask for more."

He closed the playing cards and changed the subject.

"How is that equipment of yours coming along?"

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu also closed the instruction manual and said confidently: "It's alright, it belongs to the 'idiot-proof' operation category."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu placed his palm on the corner of the cardboard box and exerted force with a vibration.

The Immortal Force tore along the edges of the cardboard box.

Phew!!

When he lifted his hand, the top of the cardboard box was directly peeled off, and the corrugated cardboard on the four sides also fell apart toward the southeast, northwest, and south.

A half-person-high, three-foot-wide instrument was seen sitting on a thick foam pad.

The surface of the instrument was painted with cold white paint, and the front had a display screen, red and green knobs, and multiple buttons.

The back had dozens of thin, long black wires, and the ends of the wires were all connected to coin-sized patches.

This was precisely the electric shock training instrument!

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu had previously wanted to use artificial electricity to assist in cultivation, so he inquired whether similar equipment could be bought on the market.

As it turned out, the local Special Capture Division had several sets.

Sometimes it was used for internal personnel to do muscle training, utilizing electrical signals to stimulate and enhance muscle pressure resistance, and there were also ways to use it to remove fatigue.

Of course, sometimes it would also be used to solicit information from some special prisoners.

Placing the patches on the prisoner's head, adjusting the stimulation intensity, and cooperating with telekinetic pressure, questioning was very effective.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu held the plug of the electric shock instrument and prepared to plug it into the power strip.

"Wait a moment."

Fang Jun hurriedly said, "This power strip is plugged into both the induction cooker and this instrument of yours; I'm afraid it's not safe."

"Move it back and plug it directly into the wall socket at home to use."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu thought that was also true, straightened the wire, hugged the instrument with both hands, and walked into the house.

Entering the hall, he could vaguely hear the sound of the television playing on the second floor.

"I'll beat you with a steel whip..."

"Beat you to death, you~~ living turtle!!"

This was the Macau-Guangdong video channel, playing "Yongzheng Dynasty."

When he first came here, Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu had already given Yin Yin Fengxin a round of acupuncture.

But he had only slept for about six hours before he couldn't sleep anymore.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't force it; he chatted with him for a while, saying that coming here for recuperation meant he should relax.

But he couldn't sleep, and Yin Yin Fengxin thought and thought, but couldn't think of any other way to relax.

Driving for a breeze, delicious food and beautiful scenery, singing in bars, amusement parks—he couldn't muster any interest in any of them.

In the few years since he graduated, apart from working overtime, he just went home to eat and fell asleep.

The only entertainment was finding some videos on the company computer, both decent and indecent ones, transferring them to his phone, and watching them when he had time.

Since that was the case, Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu simply let him watch TV.

"He really likes watching TV."

Fang Jun also followed in, "I thought that at least suggestions like taking him for a drive or enjoying delicious food wouldn't be rejected by him; I didn't expect that the attraction of delicious food couldn't even compare to the TV."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu set up the instrument and said casually: "This cost is relatively low, everyone has a chance to watch, it's easy to form a habit, and indeed, there are many good TV series."

In the past, when he was at home, during the few years when the medicine's effect was relatively stable, he also watched TV often.

Fang Jun pondered: "If you can't cure him, do you think he has a chance to become a ghost?"

After people die, most of their souls will dissipate and return to heaven and earth.

Whether one can become a ghost is a matter of luck.

Generally speaking, the probability of an ordinary person becoming a ghost after death is actually higher than that of a cultivator.

Martial artists have their minds and bodies combined, and their physical bodies are powerful; once the physical body decays, the involvement of the soul is even more severe.

For psychic people, who interfere with the real environment with telekinesis during their lifetime, the entanglements accumulated are too many; once they lose the protective shell of the physical body, the soul is pulled by various entanglements, and the speed of dissipation is faster.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu pondered: "With him entangled with the evil spirit like this, they will most likely perish together; the probability of becoming a ghost is not high."

"That's not necessarily true; when a person is truly dying and the soul is leaving the body, there will be extreme unwillingness."

Fang Jun said, "If he can explode at that moment and counter-swallow the evil spirit, we can use the method of raising ghosts to take him in and help him slowly refine the evil energy."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu asked: "You know how to raise ghosts?"

Souls that fall into the Spirit Realm and turn into ghosts, because the environment of the Spirit Realm is cruel and dangerous, their personality from their lifetime is basically wiped out, with only a few traits remaining.

Therefore, ghosts in the Spirit Realm are all inclined toward bloodthirstiness and cruelty.

And if it's the kind that hasn't fallen into the Spirit Realm but was intercepted after taking shape in reality, it's not a good thing either.

A ghost is a substance of pure yin; there is too much yang energy in the human world, and those weaker than them will cause their desire to devour, while those stronger than them will make them uncomfortable.

Even if someone uses an artifact to nourish them, it is not a long-term plan; as long as the owner of the artifact is still a living person, there must be yang energy in their body.

Therefore, the art of raising ghosts has not been taken by the righteous path since ancient times, and ninety percent of it is inclined toward evil arts.

"Many people in the gambling world have methods in this regard; playing cards originated from the Westerner's artifact, the Tarot cards, with various suits, and patterns like kings, queens, and goddesses, each having symbolic meaning."

"Just like the stories of ghosts hidden in paintings in domestic strange tales, this kind of thing is naturally very suitable for raising ghosts."

Fang Jun spoke of an anecdote from the gambling world.

"There was a very famous old predecessor in the past; after his wife was murdered, her soul attached to a cassette tape, using her last bit of consciousness to tell him the truth and guide him to take revenge."

"As a result, that old predecessor called upon his disciple with the most outstanding telekinesis; the master and disciple joined forces and used telekinesis to melt seven kinds of gemstones together with that cassette tape, recasting them into a golden playing card, preserving the ghost wife."

"I heard that his wife is still by his side to this day and can use the television to manifest and talk to everyone."

Good heavens, letting a ghost use a television to communicate smoothly with ordinary people.

It is indeed a good way to isolate yin energy and yang energy.

But he didn't know how it was operated specifically.

And, the television screen in that old predecessor's house must crack often, right?

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu heard this and laughed: "Alright, although it's very likely it won't be used, there's no harm in you being willing to make one more preparation."

Fang Jun said: "This kind of thing requires playing cards made of special materials."

"I know a few familiar sellers; I'll contact them in the next few days to see if they have any ready-made ones to transfer, or if there are materials to customize, anyway, I only need one."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu nodded, plugged in the instrument's power, sat on the chair, and stuck those patches onto his wrists and ankles.

If this kind of instrument were used for muscle training, it would be stuck on specific muscle groups, very carefully, in order to be safe.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu, however, wanted to use electricity to train his internal organs, so the positions he chose were all hand and foot acupoints.

Human acupoints and meridians basically have a corresponding relationship with internal organs.

The Hand Taiyin Meridian corresponds to the lungs, the Hand Shaoyin Meridian corresponds to the heart, the Foot Yangming Meridian corresponds to the stomach, and the Foot Shaoyang Meridian corresponds to the gallbladder.

The three meridians of Foot Taiyin, Jueyin, and Shaoyin correspond to the spleen, liver, and kidneys.

Many acupoints that are good for internal organs are not between the chest and abdomen, but on the hands and feet.

Fang Jun saw that he had finished setting up the patches and clicked his tongue: "You look like those electric chairs used for torture and interrogation."

Once Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu entered the cultivation state, he didn't talk much.

He reached out to flip the switch and rotate the knob.

At first, there was only a slight itching sensation on his hands and feet, gradually turning into a feeling of flesh and muscle twitching.

There were scales around the knob, divided into five levels.

Generally, for muscle training, at most level two is used; level three is only used for interrogating special prisoners; level four can cause death, and level five can scorch a person's flesh and skin.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu rotated it to level three and also felt a stinging pain.

He stopped at this level first, withdrew his hands, closed his eyes, placed his arms on the armrests of the chair, sat upright, and entered the state of a fist master opening his apertures.

Usually, in the state of a fist master opening his apertures, wherever his attention was focused and wherever his force was channeled, he could hear the sound of blood flowing in that part and the movement of muscles rising, falling, loosening, and tightening.

Today, after opening his apertures, he felt for a moment as if he were a wooden statue floating in water.

Under the continuous influence of the electric current, the subtle control of the body was not as easy and free as before.

The muscle fibers were a bit wooden, lacking the fresh, explosive feeling of the past.

The sound of blood flowing was also covered by a noisy, irritating sound that blanketed his whole body.

That sound was like thousands of centipedes crawling, making one inexplicably irritable.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu silently adjusted his breathing, his chest and abdomen rising and falling, trying to follow the cultivation method taught, using his internal organs to exert force to adapt to the electric current.

Toad Cultivation Palm Thunder, Internal Chapter, Urgent Cultivation Breathing Method!

The first requirement: hear the sound of thunder within the body.

(End of chapter)