Talent of the Immortal Clan

These two boxes of books contained a bit of everything, though naturally, none were rare editions.

After all, Bai Sui valued the content and knowledge within, not the preservation of unique copies.

Whenever he encountered a rare volume, Bai Sui would simply transcribe it; within his domain, dozens of ink orbs floated, performing multi-threaded copying.

Although the Hongan-ji Temple was built outside the capital due to its sheer scale, it was quite close, so news of Bai Sui's previous actions had long since reached the Daimyo Mansion.

At this moment, as Bai Sui drove his carriage, no one dared to block his path; some even offered to help drive, only to be politely declined by him.

Returning to his residence, Bai Sui ignored the money and instead carried the book boxes directly into the house.

Bai Sui felt himself becoming increasingly lazy; ever since he gained this divine sense domain, he was less and less willing to do things himself.

Case in point: these five boxes of books and scrolls were being carried by Qi manipulated by his divine sense, floating along behind him.

After a rough browse through the books, Bai Sui picked up one of the scrolls.

It was a cultivation scroll he had "extorted"—no, a scroll the abbot had insisted on gifting to him.

Unrolling the scroll, Bai Sui read the contents carefully.

About half an hour later, Bai Sui set the scroll down.

Sipping his tea, Bai Sui organized what he had just learned in his mind.

These monks call chakra the "Talent of the Immortal Clan," and their method of cultivation involves tempering the body combined with Buddhist practice. Tempering the body strengthens the physique, while Buddhist practice cultivates the spirit; the combination of the two produces the Talent of the Immortal Clan, which is much the same as the combination of physical and spiritual energy to create chakra. The reason the abbot lacked this Talent of the Immortal Clan was that he practiced a different system. This system focused exclusively on the spirit, pouring all his energy into it; this could be considered the secret, unshared knowledge of successive abbots. The reason for this is that a certain past abbot discovered that when the spirit reaches a certain level, the soul can briefly remain in the world after death as a "Buddha Body." This Buddha Body can then borrow the Talent of the Immortal Clan from the entire temple to unleash immense power, or even use this strength to travel directly to the Pure Land. It is because of a few such abbots that they have been able to spread their believers throughout the Ninja World and amass wealth from everywhere.

Bai Sui knew that those so-called Buddha Bodies were likely what he would call Yin Spirit Ghost Cultivation—the same realm his soul was currently in, though the specific powers differed.

Afterward, Bai Sui read through all the scrolls related to the Hongan-ji Temple's cultivation one by one, gaining much useful knowledge. Of course, he knew this wasn't everything; there were certainly things not written down, but Bai Sui was not greedy and was quite satisfied with these gains.

Many of these scrolls contained content that was very inspiring to Bai Sui, such as the curse seals. Throughout the history of the Ninja World, as people used this power, some gradually discovered differences; when certain ninjutsu were used, chakra always flowed in a specific way.

Based on this flow, people summarized hand seals and curse seals. However, compared to hand seals, these curse seals were more private, held only by major clans and experts.

This was because, compared to the popularized hand seals, the use of curse seals had higher requirements for the individual.

According to the records in the scroll before him, the inscription of a curse seal required extremely high control over chakra. Whether applied to a person or an object, one had to ensure the chakra did not damage the target while simultaneously engraving the seal with precision.

Furthermore, unlike ninjutsu that were released instantly, curse seals often had to be detached from the chakra source, so one had to inject a sufficient amount of chakra while engraving the seal.

Usually, the more functions one wanted to achieve and the greater the power, the more chakra had to be injected.

Different curse seals often had different requirements for chakra attributes, which meant that some curse seals could conflict with each other, further testing the skill of the engraver.

The grand formation previously used by the monks of Hongan-ji was actually pre-inscribed with curse seals; through the connections between these seals, they gathered everyone's chakra to form a barrier.

If that barrier were formed, it would affect both the inside and the outside simultaneously: internally, it could exert a suppressive force and drain the chakra of everyone within; externally, it would form a defense, even capable of reflecting ninjutsu to a certain extent. These were all records Bai Sui found in the scrolls.

Although Bai Sui discovered after trying that neither his internal energy nor his Qi could directly condense a curse seal, it opened up a new line of thought for him.

Thus, during the time that followed in the capital of the Land of Iron, Bai Sui would go out to practice medicine during the day and return to his residence to study curse seals at night.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three months had passed.

During this time, in addition to practicing medicine, Bai Sui had also collected a lot of information about the Ninja World, which would be of great help for his upcoming travels.

With those completed curse seals as a reference, Bai Sui recalled the "Cloud Seals" of his past life. Although he had never studied them, he had seen some related scriptures and classics, such as the True Text of the Five Emperors Suppressing Heaven, the Scripture of Cloud Seal Salvation, and the Great Method of the Supreme Clarity Lingbao.

It was just that for some reason, those Cloud Seals from his past life were also ineffective; after Bai Sui condensed them one by one using his Qi, there was no reaction at all.

However, with the reference of the curse seals and Cloud Seals, Bai Sui was finally not without gains after these three months.

Benefiting from the high-speed operation of his divine sense, after countless experiments, Bai Sui finally succeeded in discovering an effective rune. It was winding and crooked, resembling swimming dragons. Looking at this rune, Bai Sui thought of the Bird-Worm Script from his past life.

Of course, unlike the seal script of his past life, the rune before him had 95 strokes. As for the meaning of this rune, Bai Sui could not say.

Because once condensed, it could store Qi, condense Qi, and even release Qi.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Bai Sui had condensed this rune; he did not understand what its actual function was and was still in the exploratory stage. He even felt that what was before him might not be just a single rune, but since he didn't understand it yet, he had no way to break it down.

As the saying goes, all beginnings are difficult. Bai Sui believed that having made this start, he would eventually figure something out.

Bai Sui felt he had stayed here long enough, and it was time to set foot on his journey once again.