"Automatically entering the state of Mind Guarding?" Empress Shi Ji asked in astonishment.
The current state of Chen Shi's skeleton body was called Mind Guarding, also known as Mind Guarding a Single Thought, which meant maintaining a single thread of consciousness and letting this thread guard the body.
This was frequently used in cultivation.
For example, Mind Guarding the Dantian, Mind Guarding the Space Between the Eyebrows, and so on, all involved turning one's intent into a single thought and stationing it at a specific place to refine Qi thereby.
There were also cultivators who, while practicing, had their Primordial Spirits leave their bodies to roam the heavens and earth, requiring a single thought to be left behind to guard themselves so that the Primordial Spirit would not get lost in the world and fail to find its way back.
Chen Shi's Mind Guarding was obviously an unconscious retention of a single thought to guard his body.
Empress Shi Ji observed Chen Shi's skeleton body and discovered that when this skeleton grew tired from cultivating, it would actually rest, and at night, tended by burly palace maids, it would soak in the magma pool, comfortably spreading its arms wide.
After washing, it would also drape itself in a fur cloak and wear a crown, walking around the palace in a very proper manner.
It did not stay in the palace all the time; it would also go out for walks, only it did not speak or communicate.
Empress Shi Ji watched Chen Shi's skeleton pacing back and forth in front of her, sighing in her heart, The Envoy's body looks very appetizing, but unfortunately it cannot be absorbed.
It was rare for her to come out, and she gazed at the huge copper coin in the Eastern Palace, thinking, *The