Chapter 9: Returning light, dragon and snake change

Wind blows and grass moves, moon shadows sink into the mountain.

The sharp gaze was like a blade, passing through the swift wind, looking through the strong grass, and seeing where Zhang Fan was.

"Run."

Almost in an instant, Zhang Fan reacted, turned, and ran.

He didn't know the origin of the Gan brothers, but from their words, he could tell that these two were absolutely not upright people.

"A good sacrificial animal wants to run!?"

Gan Shaokun sneered. He tilted his head, and a strand of hair turned into a black shadow and shot out, flying toward Zhang Fan.

The next moment, the black shadow wrapped around Zhang Fan like a rope, binding him tightly. The latter fell to the ground with a "thud," instantly losing his ability to act.

Under the faint moonlight, the "rope" wrapping Zhang Fan was finally exposed. It was a thin, long insect, flesh-colored, wriggling like an earthworm. In a moment, Zhang Fan felt his limbs weak, as if all the essence and energy of his body had been drained...

"Only initial movement... not even a 【Qi Worker】, how can he block my 【Tip Insect】?" Gan Shaokun looked at Zhang Fan, sneering.

Hair is the tip of the kidneys, born from the essence energy of kidney water.

So people with bad kidneys can often be seen from their hair, lightly it's yellow and split, heavily it's hair loss and baldness.

The so-called Tip Insect is an insect raised by the Gan family's secret method using kidney water. It usually lives on the hair roots and specializes in sucking essence energy.

"Primordial spirit initial movement, can also be considered a person of the Daoist sect, it is most suitable to use to welcome the Difficult Insect." Gan Shengwu walked to Zhang Fan, looking down, revealing a satisfied expression.

At this time, Zhang Fan was like being drained of all strength, his limbs numb, as if thousands of ants were biting his body...

Such pain was unprecedented.

"Hehe, the feeling after the Tip Insect eats is the most wonderful, enjoy it well." Gan Shaokun stared at Zhang Fan as if looking at a piglet, as if appreciating his masterpiece.

If you enter between the two trials, the consciousness spirit is the most restless.

The trial of love hurts the heart, life and death damage the body, emotions are ruined, the body is distressed, all kinds of emotions are born, reach emptiness and guard stillness, subdue the heart, and see the primordial spirit...

"Hmm!?"

Just at this moment, Gan Shengwu raised his brows, and a strange expression appeared on his cold face.

Zhang Fan was trapped by the 【Tip Insect】, lying on the ground. Instead of falling into boundless pain, he actually closed his eyes slightly, adjusted his breathing, and his whole body seemed to enter stillness, and even the mosquitoes around him didn't want to land on him.

"Is this kid's brain flooded? Still want to enter meditation at this time?" Gan Shaokun said in a low voice.

"His brain is not flooded..." Gan Shengwu observed Zhang Fan, revealing a look of solemnity.

"Back then, Patriarch Pure Yang once said in 【The Secret of the Golden Flower】, the secret of cultivation is only four words..."

"Returning light!"

"If you follow this Dao, all methods give birth to the heart, all tribulations avoid the body..."

What is returning light?

Patriarch Pure Yang said, heavenly light is the true energy of the innate Taiyi, which is what people call 【Spiritual Energy】.

Returning light is to lead the heavenly light into the body and reflect back to the primordial spirit.

This is the only way to practice.

However, people can only glimpse the primordial spirit before they are born. Once they are born and contaminated with the acquired, the body will be dominated by the consciousness spirit.

Besides this, when people die, the consciousness spirit gradually dies. At this time, the primordial spirit is temporarily reborn, often leading the heavenly light into the body, so they can restore temporary clarity.

This is what ordinary people know as returning light.

They don't know that these four words concerning life and death hide the great secret of cultivation.

"Isn't this still brain flooded? Grinding the knife now... it's a bit late." Gan Shaokun sneered.

Cultivation is not a matter of one morning or one evening.

After the initial movement, it is manifestation. Even the lowest level 【Qi Worker】 has to work like an ox or horse, spending the whole day transporting spiritual energy to nourish the primordial spirit, accumulating over time, so that the body can produce all kinds of mysteries.

"The principle is indeed so." Gan Shengwu nodded, but slowly withdrew his gaze.

"Take him."

As he spoke, Gan Shengwu turned around, looking at the vast night, the millennium-old temple hidden in the deep mountain forest.

"Qingwei Palace... that is where it is suppressed..."

Bang... suddenly, a loud noise erupted, and immediately after, Gan Shaokun flew out like a cannonball, smashing one ancient tree after another.

"What's going on?"

Gan Shengwu's face changed drastically. He turned around abruptly and saw Zhang Fan already standing up. His eyes were pitch black, his body tense, as if containing extremely terrifying power. The pores on his right arm were wriggling, actually growing many small scale-like patterns.

"This is..."

"Dragon and snake change!?"

Just at this moment, Gan Shaokun flew back, blood remaining at the corner of his mouth, all the dust on his body falling, staring at the gradually changing Zhang Fan with a solemn face.

Daoist cultivation emphasizes timing.

In the second lunar month, the awakening of insects, a spring thunder sounds, and the hibernating big snake will spit out the mud held in its mouth, life revives, and some even look to the sky to become dragons.

Cultivating at this time is the most favorable. If there is initial movement, nourishing the primordial spirit, one can prove the 【Qi Worker】 rank, the body grows, and all kinds of incredible mysteries are produced.

The Daoist sect calls it "Dragon and Snake Change."

Therefore, in the I Ching, there is a hexagram called 【Thunder Heaven Great Strength】, thunder above heaven, spring thunder moves, life force bursts, and the primordial spirit can grow.

But now, it is midsummer...

Roar...

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan lowered his head and let out a muffled roar. The fine scale patterns on his right arm became even more vivid, and terrifying power moved and ran wild in his limbs...

The 【Tip Insect】, which was like a chain, was rapidly deforming under this brute force...

"His power..." Gan Shaokun's pupils contracted sharply.

"Impossible!"

He had never seen anyone trapped by the Tip Insect who could still enter meditation and look into emptiness. He had never seen anyone who could enter the Dragon and Snake Change even after missing the spring thunder of the awakening of insects...

"Freak!!!"

Bang...

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan stomped his feet abruptly. The terrifying power took root and spread under his feet, stirring up dust to the sky...

A burst of cracking sounds fell from the dark night, and the unbreakable Tip Insect was actually burst open under Zhang Fan's strange strength. The flying flesh and blood splashed within ten steps.

"This kid..."

Gan Shaokun's face darkened, and he finally had the intention to kill. He took a step forward and rushed into the smoke and dust, but there was no sign of Zhang Fan.

"Ran away?"

Gan Shaokun waved his hand abruptly, scattering the smoke and dust, looking left and right, but there was no sign of Zhang Fan.

"Impossible... even if that kid had the Dragon and Snake Change and had some 【Qi Worker】 ability, he is still a clown in front of our brothers... how could he run away?" Gan Shaokun's face was extremely ugly.

He originally wanted to enjoy the pleasure of a cat playing with a mouse, who could have thought that the mouse would slip away.

"Someone saved him." Gan Shengwu said solemnly.

"Who? Could it be someone from Zhenwu Mountain?" Gan Shaokun calmed down. If a master from Zhenwu Mountain discovered them, it would be troublesome.

"Don't know... shouldn't be, otherwise..." Gan Shengwu revealed a look of deep thought.

"Brother Wu, that kid just now was weird..." Gan Shaokun felt a bit settled and couldn't help but say.

"Don't worry about him, the important thing is the business."

Gan Shengwu shook his head and turned to look at the vast night.

Mountain stream, flowing water gurgling, reflecting arrays of scale light under the faint moonlight.

Zhang Fan leaned against the big tree, only feeling weak all over, as if overdrawn. The fine scale patterns on his arm also disappeared.

"That feeling just now... could it be because I swallowed the big snake's moonlight essence?" Zhang Fan thought thoughtfully.

"You shouldn't run around."

Just at this moment, an ethereal and cold voice came from beside the stream. Zhang Fan looked up and saw a familiar beautiful figure reflected in his eyes.

"Jiang Lai!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 10 =====