Extraordinary Comprehension, Visualizing the Great Sun

Great Zhou Dynasty.

Yun Province, Dafeng Prefecture.

At the foot of Great Green Mountain, a branch of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Green Mountain Village, at the end of the village, inside a somewhat shabby house.

Lin Changqing sat cross-legged on his bed, muttering, "Ancient Qi Refining Technique, Daoist Golden Core Cultivation Method, Buddhist Sarira Cultivation Method, Ancient Guiding Technique...

"I've tried them all, but none of them worked..."

As he spoke.

A trace of helplessness surfaced on Lin Changqing's face.

He had not originally belonged to this world. Three months ago, he had inexplicably transmigrated into a world much like the ancient times of his previous life.

Except this world had Martial Cultivation.

It was said that powerful Martial Artists could even split mountains and break peaks, living for a thousand years.

There were even legends that Martial Cultivation could grant immortality.

Having arrived in such a world, Lin Changqing naturally had no desire to remain an ordinary commoner. He wanted to cultivate Martial Cultivation too. He wanted immortality.

Unfortunately, the identity of the body he had transmigrated into was merely that of a blacksmith's son in Green Mountain Village at the foot of Great Green Mountain.

Forget Martial Cultivation and immortality—he did not even have the most basic Martial cultivation method.

Martial Cultivation flourished in this world.

But not just anyone could become a Martial Artist.

Cultivation methods were a threshold.

Apart from the Imperial Court, only Noble Clans, gangs, and Sects possessed Martial Cultivation methods. Green Mountain Village was nothing more than an ordinary little village.

There was not even a trace of any cultivation method.

And when he transmigrated here, he had not received the indispensable system that every transmigrator was supposed to have.

Using cheats was basically impossible.

Still, Lin Changqing was not entirely without advantages.

Perhaps because he had transmigrated, his soul had transformed, granting him Extraordinary Comprehension—perhaps even one without limits.

He could learn anything at a glance.

He could even draw inferences from one instance, cast off the old and bring forth the new.

In just three short months, he had mastered forging, hunting, cooking, and even arts such as music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

And he had surpassed his teachers.

But Lin Changqing was not satisfied with that, because those were all mere side branches and minor paths.

What he cared about most was still Martial Cultivation.

Yet without the proper method, it was impossible to even enter the door of Martial Cultivation.

Unwilling to accept this, Lin Changqing had decided to create a cultivation method of his own.

Relying on his Extraordinary Comprehension, over the past few months, he had tried to deduce every kind of cultivation method he knew from his previous life.

But the result had been nothing.

"The Qi Refining Techniques, Golden Core methods, Guiding Techniques, and so on that I tried before all involved gathering Qi and breathing it in and out, cultivating nature and life together, and the communion of man and heaven.

"To put it plainly, it's a process of energy conversion.

"The theoretical foundation isn't wrong. The reason I failed should be that this body of mine cannot absorb the energy of heaven and earth.

"Could it be that this world lacks the energy required for cultivation?

"No... that's impossible. If there were no energy of heaven and earth, how could Martial Cultivation in this world be explained? Martial Artists should also be absorbing energy and converting it through cultivation.

"It seems that, for some reason, this body cannot absorb the energy of heaven and earth.

"Or perhaps it hasn't met the conditions needed to absorb energy.

"In that case... should I try a Visualization Method?"

In the ancient times of his previous life, there had been people who used the Meditation Qi Circulation Technique in an attempt to seek immortality.

Visualization Methods had evolved from this Meditation Qi Circulation Technique.

Immediately after.

Lin Changqing closed his eyes again. Information related to the Meditation Qi Circulation Technique surfaced in his mind as he worked hard to deduce a Visualization Method.

Time flew like a shuttle!

As the blazing sun shifted westward and the evening glow spread across the earth.

"Huu..."

Lin Changqing slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and opened his eyes. Two sharp rays gleamed within them, like a Great Sun ascending into the sky, leaving him brimming with vitality.

"The Visualization Method really works..."

The Visualization Method was a cultivation method derived from the Meditation Qi Circulation Technique, vastly different from cultivation methods such as the Ancient Qi Refining Technique and the Golden Core method.

So-called visualization cultivated one's nature.

At its root, it strengthened the spirit—the power of the mind.

It was Mind Visualization.

Strengthening the mind could give rise to mind power.

Once sufficiently powerful, the mind could even manifest its sanctity and use mind power to interfere with reality.

It did have the same wonderful effect through different paths as the divine sense in the Ancient Qi Refining Technique and Golden Core method.

"Since it is a Mind Visualization Method, I need an object to visualize. What should I choose as my object of visualization..."

Lin Changqing murmured to himself. Squinting through the window, he glanced at the Great Sun already sinking in the west.

His eyes suddenly lit up.

"In countless webnovels from my previous life, most Visualization Methods used gods, Buddhas, divine beasts, and the like as objects of visualization.

"But gods, Buddhas, and divine beasts are inherently illusory and intangible.

"How could they compare to the sun?

"Since ancient times, the Solar Star has endured without decay. Whether in my previous life or this one, it has stood above the vast starry sky, existing eternally.

"That is the true object of visualization..."

A flash of realization came to Lin Changqing. The light in his eyes grew increasingly dazzling.

He already had his answer.

He would use the Solar Star as his object of visualization.

Immediately, he emptied his mind completely. His entire being was about to enter an Artistic Conception where self and object were both forgotten.

Knock, knock, knock...

Just then.

Heavy knocking sounded at the door.

"Lin Changqing, you little bastard! I know you're in there, so get the hell out here..."

From outside the courtyard came a cold, furious shout and a stream of curses.

Lin Changqing frowned, his gaze darkening.

He knew who had come.

Lin Dashan, the village bully.

He had come to collect a debt.

The previous owner of Lin Changqing's body had borrowed two taels of silver from Lin Dashan over two months ago, originally agreeing to repay it after three months.

But now, before the three months were even up, Lin Dashan had already come knocking with people several times to demand repayment.

Lin Changqing found it irritating, but he did not rise to open the door.

There were still more than ten days until the agreed three-month deadline.

He had no time to waste on that fellow.

Lin Changqing sat with his eyes closed, gradually entering a Still Mind state.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, he visualized the Solar Star.

Boom...

In an instant, a vast and majestic Great Sun bloomed with raging flames, condensing within his Sea of Consciousness.

The nearly liquefied flames roiled like a mountain flood.

They emitted dazzling divine radiance, illuminating the Sea of Consciousness that had once been pitch-black.

At that moment.

An invisible fluctuation followed a strange trajectory into Lin Changqing's body, as though it had caused him to resonate with the Solar Star hanging high in the starry sky.

That mysterious energy rippled outward.

Ring after ring, it merged into his body.

And was instinctively absorbed by Lin Changqing.

At this moment.

Lin Changqing felt himself merge with the Solar Star, as though his entire body had become a Great Sun.

Supremely unyielding and supremely yang, eternal and indestructible.

Divine radiance bloomed, shining upon heaven and earth, the starry sky, the universe...

And so, he did not know how much time passed.

Perhaps an instant.

Perhaps a day.

Perhaps a year.

Rumble...

Suddenly, something inside Lin Changqing seemed to shatter. His mind ascended, and his spirit transformed.

He seemed to sense it.

Someone outside the courtyard was preparing to smash through the gate.

Bang!

A few seconds later.

With a resounding bang, the courtyard gate of Lin Changqing's home was forced open by brute strength. A burly man, broad and thickly built with a face full of fleshy lumps, charged into the Small Courtyard with a group of people.

"Lin Changqing, I know you're home! Get the hell out here and pay up..."

The burly man roared angrily as he strode menacingly toward the room where Lin Changqing lived.

Creak!

The door opened, and Lin Changqing strode out.

His gaze was bright, his vigor radiant as the blazing sun.

"Kid, you..."

The burly man was Lin Dashan. Upon seeing Lin Changqing emerge, he instinctively began to berate him. But before the words had left his mouth, he was drawn to Lin Changqing's bright eyes.

His mind trembled.

"Lin Dashan, what do you mean by bringing people to cause trouble at my home? Who gave you the nerve?"

Lin Changqing coldly rebuked him. "And what debt are you demanding? Have I ever borrowed money from you? Think carefully before you answer..."

"No... no..."

Lin Dashan's mind was muddled as he answered instinctively.

"Since there isn't one, then take your people and get the hell out immediately."

Lin Changqing shouted sharply.

"Yes, yes..."

Lin Dashan nodded repeatedly, then turned around blankly and roared at the people he had brought with him, "What are you still standing around for? Get moving.

"Don't disturb Changqing's rest."