Abhaya Mudra

Blue Star.

"The little black dots inside this Bodhi seed are just as I suspected. They're far from simple."

Shi Yi examined the Bodhi seed with a pen-style magnifying glass.

In his eyes, writing was etched into the golden radiance shining from the Bodhi seed.

At first, it was still blurry. Once he magnified it fifty times, the writing became much clearer. At a hundred times magnification, every character seemed as large as the mouth of a bowl!

This was already the maximum magnification of the pen-style magnifying glass Shi Yi had bought. As for ones with higher magnification, they were rather troublesome to purchase.

"Not being able to read really does cause trouble!"

"I can't understand most of the words on it."

Shi Yi had suffered another setback from his illiteracy.

It had been the same when he obtained the Five Tigers Gang's cultivation technique.

After breaking through to the Blood Essence Realm, he had already asked Zhao Cheng to find him a teacher who could teach him to read.

There would be news in the next few days.

No matter where one was, studying and literacy were important.

"The buddha statue on it is truly lifelike, as though a real Buddha has appeared before my eyes."

Shi Yi adjusted the magnification.

A solemn golden Buddha suddenly sprang vividly into view before him.

The great Buddha raised one hand before his chest, palm facing outward, forming the Abhaya Mudra.

The instant Shi Yi saw it, he felt as though it could dispel all suffering.

Compared to the Buddha statues Shi Yi had seen in temples, the golden Buddha engraved within this Bodhi seed seemed alive.

"This Bodhi seed truly is extraordinary."

"I wonder whether what's written on it is an Immortal Dao cultivation technique."

This thought surfaced in Shi Yi's mind.

He had learned of Immortal Dao cultivation from Lu Feng.

For now, he only knew that its cultivation requirements were exceptionally harsh.

At the time, he had wanted to keep asking, but Lu Feng had needed to teach him the follow-up technique of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist. Afterward, Lu Feng told him to cultivate first and ask Zhao Cheng about anything he did not understand.

By the time he finished cultivating, it was about time, so Shi Yi returned to Blue Star.

As for Immortal Dao cultivation, he could only find an opportunity to ask about it later.

When he returned to Blue Star, he happened to see the text message saying his delivery had arrived. He brought back the pen-style magnifying glass and began studying the Bodhi seed.

"Whether it's an Immortal Dao cultivation technique or not, something hidden this deeply cannot be simple."

"Taking a little risk to pick up this Bodhi seed back then was truly worth it!"

Shi Yi was glad for his choice at the time. He had not chosen the most conservative course.

Otherwise, he truly would have missed such a great opportunity.

Only because he possessed so many methods could he discover the secret hidden inside this Bodhi seed. If it had been anyone else, without the means to See Through Illusions and without the ability to magnify things, they would never have discovered its secret.

It was precisely because Shi Yi possessed both the divine ability to See Through Illusions and a technological product like the pen-style magnifying glass that he could uncover the secret hidden within.

Yet because he knew too few characters, Shi Yi still could not fully grasp that secret for the time being.

That left him feeling helpless.

Fortunately, literacy was only a minor matter. Before long, he would master the writing of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If there were still characters he could not recognize by then, he could ask others for help.

He had left the Bodhi seed on Blue Star. Other than him, no one could get it, much less trace it.

"I'll see if I can copy this golden Buddha."

Shi Yi took out a pencil and tried sketching it.

He had once been interested in sketching and spent some time learning it from a professional teacher. With the memory he had at the time, he mastered it quickly.

After his Double Pupils underwent their mutation, he had further integrated the knowledge he had mastered, including his knowledge of sketching, making his sketching ability even stronger.

When choosing a university after the college entrance examination, art had also been one of Shi Yi's alternatives. Art classes did not require as much class time, and the coursework was relatively more flexible.

"I'll give it a try!"

With the idea in mind, Shi Yi began sketching based on his memory of the buddha statue.

Before long, a buddha statue appeared on the white paper.

But when Shi Yi looked at it, his brows knitted tightly.

The buddha statue he had drawn not only lacked that lifelike feeling; it even looked like a dead object. It had the shape but not the spirit, and looked utterly fake.

This was the first time Shi Yi had encountered such a situation since becoming skilled at sketching.

When Shi Yi had first begun learning to sketch, this problem had been obvious. After his teacher pointed it out, Shi Yi had always placed the spirit first when sketching, and only then the form.

It had been the same when he drew the buddha statue just now, yet after he finished, its "spirit" had suddenly vanished, leaving only its form. Even those forms seemed somewhat distorted.

It was as though something had gone wrong with his sketching ability. That was what puzzled Shi Yi.

Shi Yi then picked up his pencil again and drew his master, Lu Feng. Before long, Lu Feng's entire figure appeared on the white paper.

In the drawing, Lu Feng looked solemn, the aura around his entire body surging forth.

This was Lu Feng's expression and bearing when he taught Shi Yi the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist. Shi Yi had remembered it after seeing it, and now he had drawn it!

"There's nothing wrong with my drawing skills. Then the problem lies with the buddha statue inside the Bodhi seed!"

"The spirit within it cannot be directly depicted. It may require some other method."

Shi Yi knew there was another thing he needed to understand!

"I wonder if modern photography can preserve the spirit within it?"

This thought surfaced in Shi Yi's mind.

But he could not put it into practice for now, because only he could See Through Illusions with his Double Pupils.

If he took a picture with a camera, it would only capture the magnified patterns of the Bodhi seed.

"The Buddhist sect's methods for concealing treasures truly aren't simple."

"But the more it is so, the more it proves this Bodhi seed is extraordinary."

"I wonder what level of force the Great Putuo Temple those two mentioned that day really is?"

Shi Yi had not been in the Central Great World for long.

He had disguised himself as a beggar for more than ten days, then joined the Anyang Martial Arts School under his real identity for another ten-plus days. Altogether, it had been just over a month.

He had constantly searched for information, but the information he could obtain was limited. More accurately, the people he had come into contact with knew only limited things.

Ordinary people had access to very little.

Lu Feng was the person with the greatest strength and highest status Shi Yi had encountered, and he knew many things. But if Shi Yi wanted to learn the information he sought from Lu Feng, he would need to find the right opportunity.

Zhao Cheng likely knew quite a lot as well. This was also one of Shi Yi's choices for obtaining the information he wanted next.

"The Central Great World is vast. There's no need to rush. I have plenty of time to explore it slowly."

Shi Yi steadied his state of mind.

The more he learned about the Central Great World, the more wondrous he found it.

"I'll copy down the writing inside as well. If I memorize these characters and how they're written, learning to read and write later will be easier."

When it came to literacy, both reading and writing were important processes.

Shi Yi possessed the divine ability of Eidetic Memory, but remembering something in his mind and writing it down were two different things.

A little time was needed to practice between the two.

After writing something once, Shi Yi could remember the entire process of writing the characters. When he wrote them again, he would no longer feel unfamiliar with them.

Martial arts were the same. When learning a new cultivation technique, his movements were not so standard the first time. But from the second time onward, he had already corrected all the mistakes from his first practice.

By the third time, he could adjust according to the changes in his own blood essence during cultivation, gradually turning the technique into one suited to himself and improving his cultivation efficiency.

Of course, Shi Yi still held back somewhat when learning new moves.

It was enough to display outstanding comprehension. He could not appear too monstrous.

The tree that rises above the forest is the first to be toppled by the wind.