Chapter 3228

Hearing Ye Chen's reminder, Lin Wanan looked carefully toward the sky and saw countless light points flickering on their own, with no discernible pattern; the points that lit up or dimmed at the same time were simply too numerous, and without finding the right frequency, it would be hard to see any actual shape changes.

She honestly told Ye Chen: "Young Master, in my view, these light points flicker with no regularity whatsoever—I really cannot make out any hand gesture pattern..."

Ye Chen then suddenly said: "Quick, look—another hand gesture has changed!"

Lin Wanan hurriedly focused her gaze, but those light points in the sky still showed no discernible pattern.

Yet in Ye Chen's eyes, the gesture changes were perfectly clear; the light points in the sky looked exactly like a human-controlled drone light show, following a pre-set program to display patterns formed by the light points.

Lin Wanan stared wide-eyed, not daring to blink, yet after staring for a long time, she saw nothing at all.

In contrast, Ye Chen had already discerned the eighth hand gesture from the chaotic changes of those light points.

At this moment, Ye Chen realized what these eight hand gestures represented.

These were not merely eight different hand gestures; they represented eight different transformations.

And when these eight different transformations were linked together, they formed a hand seal.

The Nine Mysterious Heaven Scripture once contained related records: whether Daoist or Buddhist, both have divine abilities involving hand seals and finger signs—fingers and palms forming specific postures in specific locations, then undergoing a specific series of changes to become a continuous hand seal; this is the key to forming hand seals.

Strictly speaking, such a hand seal is a formation composed of hand gestures and activated by spiritual energy; if one's divine ability is sufficient, it could even possess the power to destroy heaven and earth.

At this moment, Ye Chen had memorized those eight gesture transformations in his heart, yet he also grew more puzzled—he simply could not understand what power could transform the aurora in the sky into a hand seal and allow him to see it.

This was clearly someone transmitting the Dao to him, but who was the transmitter?

Could there be a hidden enlightened cultivator practicing in this uninhabited region near the Arctic Circle?

Thinking this, Ye Chen instinctively wanted to release a bit of spiritual energy to carefully examine his surroundings.

But upon second thought, he abandoned the idea, for if the other party could control and influence the aurora, and perform such extreme micro-manipulations on it, their power far surpassed his own—one could even say they possessed vast divine abilities—and since they did not wish to reveal themselves, why should he bother himself pointlessly?

Moreover, the other party harbored no ill intent; rather, they wished to use this opportunity to transmit the Dao to him.

And while he was in the light and they in the dark, and his strength inferior to theirs, trying to find them would likely be nothing but a fool's dream.

Thus, Ye Chen refrained from any impulsive action, instead continuing to stare fixedly at the hand seal in the sky without pause.

Though called eight hand seals, it was actually eight hand seals and seven transformations.

From the first hand seal to the second, it was not simply a matter of making two different hand seals; every detail of the hand seal's transformation had to be exactly the same to be valid.

It was like going from fingers spread to making a fist—normally one would think merely contracting all five fingers inward would suffice to form a fist.

But in the context of hand seals, the effective seal might require the five fingers to close like a folding fan, alternating and pressing together into a fist.

Even further, it might demand that the little finger move first and the thumb last, with the angle and distance between each finger also subject to strict requirements; if even the slightest deviation occurred during the transformation between two hand seals, the seal would have no effect whatsoever.

At this moment, after displaying the eight hand seals to Ye Chen, the light points in the sky returned to the first hand seal and began demonstrating the sequence again.

Ye Chen also stared without blinking, fearing to miss even the slightest detail.

After standing in the snow for over an hour like this, Ye Chen finally committed all the details to memory, while the light points in the sky began to show signs of gradually fading.

As the patterns in the sky grew fainter, most of the aurora's light points returned to their original auroral state.

After waiting about twenty minutes more, everything returned to normal—the aurora became a beautiful curtain, as if hanging in midair and stretching from the heavens down to the ground, mysterious and lovely.

Throughout the process, Lin Wanan kept trying to see what Ye Chen described, but she was like a child unable to make sense of a so-called intelligence test image circulating online—while others had already seen twenty faces in the image, she had not even seen one.

Seeing the aurora return to normal, Lin Wanan knew in her heart that whatever was meant to be shown had already been shown; thinking she had understood nothing, she could not help but feel disheartened.

At that moment, Ye Chen came to his senses and said to Lin Wanan: "Miss Lin, let's go back."

Lin Wanan hurriedly asked: "Young Master, what did you see in the aurora just now?"

"A set of hand seals." Ye Chen replied honestly: "A very complex set of hand seals, likely a certain finger-sign sealing technique."

Lin Wanan exclaimed: "Actually a technique? Young Master, would you like to try it and see what effects it has?"

Ye Chen said: "I want to try it after returning. Now, considering it might be an offensive technique, practicing it indoors could possibly cause danger."

Having said that, Ye Chen then said: "Then I'll try it here first—let me draw in just a little spiritual energy, to avoid too much disturbance."

Lin Wanan looked full of anticipation; she also felt today's events were truly too astonishing, so she very much wanted to know what use the technique Ye Chen had comprehended from the aurora actually had.

Ye Chen closed his eyes, recalling every detail of those eight hand seals, then gathered a bit of spiritual energy between the fingers of his right hand, and according to his memory, quickly performed the eight hand seals from start to finish in one go.

Ye Chen's memory was excellent, especially in this area he had a natural talent, so on his first actual attempt, he performed the entire set of hand seals smoothly and flawlessly, without the slightest deviation.

After completing the eight hand seals, Ye Chen felt no attacking formation surge from his fingertips, and the spiritual energy he had gathered at his fingertips suffered no loss whatsoever.

As he stared at his futile fingers, filled with doubt and unable to figure it out, Ye Chen suddenly felt as if an extremely weak electric current had arisen between the fingers of his right hand.

At that moment, his whole body shuddered, and he exclaimed excitedly: "Miss Lin, this set of hand seals actually generates spiritual energy!"

"Generates spiritual energy?" Lin Wanan heard this with a shocked expression; she instinctively asked: "Young Master, isn't spiritual energy supposed to exist only within treasures? In the Dharma-Ending Age, the normal world has no natural spiritual energy left to absorb—how could a set of hand gestures possibly increase spiritual energy out of nowhere?"

Ye Chen shook his head, speaking seriously: "I don't know, but I feel that after performing that set of hand seals, my spiritual energy has not decreased but actually increased slightly—though I cannot say exactly how much, it feels like each performance of the hand seals increases it by one ten-thousandth or even less."

Saying this, he immediately sat cross-legged, placed his hands on his legs, and both hands simultaneously performed the hand seals; this time, the sensation of spiritual energy increasing became even more obvious—!