From a paper-making apprentice to a celestial master

Chapter 27 Memories

"Is this what meditation is?"

Qin Shuang sat blankly on the edge of the bed, then felt something was amiss.

Liu Quan once said that it is extremely difficult for beginners to enter a meditative state, and they need to use an old locust tree to "sink" down.

But he had only glanced at it a few times when his mind was involuntarily drawn in. The state was very mysterious. He was clearly conscious, but it was as if he was detached from his body. His perception of his surroundings became blurred, but the picture became clearer and clearer.

"Could it be because of the guiding spell?"

He suddenly realized that although the guiding technique is divided into dynamic and static exercises, it also requires concentration and calming the mind, circulating the Qi throughout the body. That state of mental clarity and physical well-being is very similar to the "sinking down" described by Liu Quan.

In his previous life, he gave up after practicing for three months, but in this life, with the help of the attribute panel, he has improved it to a minor level. His "qi" is now as easy to control as his own limbs, and his mind is much more refined than that of ordinary people.

"If that's really the case."

Doesn't that show...?

"Can guided techniques really enhance my meditative state?"

A glint of light flashed in Qin Shuang's eyes, then she looked down at the old locust tree.

He needs to verify it.

So he took the old locust tree far enough away, calmed his mind, slowly closed his eyes, and the image of the person he had just memorized appeared in his mind, and began to meditate.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

Soon, he felt his heart sink.

Go in.

He entered a meditative state.

The visualization process was much smoother than he had imagined.

At this moment, he clearly felt that the thoughts in his mind were clearer, as if they had been washed with water, clean and bright. Even his memory became exceptionally sharp, and many previously vague thoughts became clear at this moment.

Even memories of past lives seem to be beginning to surface.

He immediately began to visualize.

In his mind, a blurry figure gradually took shape, sitting cross-legged, in the same posture as the one he had just seen on the paper. The outline of the figure was still blurry, but the general structure was there. The lines representing the airflow around him were also faintly emerging. Although they were not clear, they were definitely there.

Qin Shuang remained in this state, and in a daze, she felt the figure in her mind move again.

A thought struck me.

But at this point, he remained in that state and did not immediately withdraw from it.

Then he noticed that the human figure sitting cross-legged was sitting in the void, and the lines of energy around him began to slowly rotate. At first, they were clumsy, like rusty gears, but as his mind became deeper and deeper, the lines rotated faster and faster, becoming more and more rounded, and finally they turned into a faint halo that enveloped the human figure.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened!

Qin Shuang felt a chill between her brows, as if something had been touched.

The human figure in the visualization suddenly opened its eyes.

Even though it was just a rough outline without any facial details, he could clearly feel that the other person was "looking" at him.

That one glance seemed to pierce through nothingness, through time and space, shining straight into the depths of his soul.

"Buzz..."

A soft sound rang in her mind, and Qin Shuang shuddered, suddenly opening her eyes to find her forehead covered in cold sweat.

"That was...?"

He was breathing heavily, his heart pounding wildly.

The feeling of being "watched" was so real that it gave him the creeps. But upon reflection, he realized that there was no malice in that gaze; instead, it seemed to carry a kind of... scrutiny.

Or rather, it's an ancient, mechanical sense, as if confirming something.

Qin Shuang looked down at the attribute panel.

Name: Qin Shuang

Guiding Technique: Minor Success (0/400)

Six Yang Stance Exercise: Minor Success (3/400)

Meditation and Meditation for Spirit Cultivation: Beginner (1/100) (Can be improved)

Psionic Points: 3.15

"Have you grasped the basics of the meditation and mind-cultivation method?"

Qin Shuang was startled upon seeing this.

I never expected that I would master the basics of the meditation and spirit cultivation method on my very first time practicing visualization.

But upon closer reflection, it seems normal.

At this moment, he realized that perhaps due to his two lifetimes and the awakening of his memories, or perhaps because he had cultivated the guiding technique to a minor level, his "god" was far more powerful than he had imagined.

And the guiding technique seems to be related to entering a meditative state.

Therefore, it is quite normal that he was able to cultivate the visualization and spirit-nourishing method to the basics so quickly.

"Now that the meditation and mind-cultivation method has been mastered and even marked as having room for improvement, why not..."

Qin Shuang glanced at the attribute panel, then at the sky.

The sun was high in the sky outside, and the sound of Liu Hu standing in meditation had stopped sometime earlier. The sound of Master and Liu Hu talking in hushed tones could be heard from the courtyard.

"Try again tonight!"

Qin Shuang suppressed her impulse.

But he did not get up immediately.

Instead, he began to slowly reflect and recall.

He recalled a few images that flashed through his memory when he had entered a meditative state.

Those were things he had experienced or witnessed in his previous life, but they were relatively vague and fragmented, hidden deep in his memory, and he couldn't recall them on ordinary days.

But just now, when I was in a meditative state and my mind was clear, these images seemed to have been pried open by something, revealing a corner of them.

His heart calmed down.

Try to continue recalling.

In a daze, he entered that state again.

I've entered a meditative state!

This time, he didn't focus on the visualization diagram, but rather on the image that had just flashed before his eyes.

Then, those fragmented memories resurfaced, as if scooped up from the depths of memory by an invisible hand and laid out clearly before my eyes.

This time it's even clearer than before.

He "saw" an old man dressed in ordinary home clothes, standing in a room, holding a wolf-hair brush in his hand, bending over a table, sketching something on yellow paper stroke by stroke.

That was his cheap master from his previous life, the old Taoist priest at the foot of Longhu Mountain who had already married and had children.

The old Taoist priest drew a talisman.

Qin Shuang remembered that it was one of the few times his cheap master was willing to show his true skills in front of him. That day, he had drunk a few ounces of rice wine and was amused by Qin Shuang's flattery. So he spread out the yellow paper, ground the cinnabar, and said he wanted to open Qin Shuang's eyes.

Unfortunately, he hadn't even mastered the guiding technique at the time, and the talismans his cheap master drew looked no different from scribbles to him; he couldn't make any sense of them.

The old Taoist priest put the drawing away after finishing it, without explaining much. He glanced at him and said, "Do you know what it means to guide qi into a talisman?"

Using qi as a guide and talismans as a medium, we borrow the power of heaven and earth to suppress evil from all directions.

Once you truly master the art of qi cultivation, you'll understand the function of these talismans.

Later, he failed to master the guiding technique, and the matter was put aside.

But at this moment, in a meditative state, every detail of the talisman was presented to him with unparalleled clarity—the direction of the initial stroke, the force of the final stroke, the density of the cinnabar, and even the arc of the old Taoist's wrist rotation when he wielded the brush, all were vividly clear in his mind, as if someone had played a slow-motion version of it in his mind.

"This is……"

Qin Shuang was breathing rapidly, her heart pounding.

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