That evening, Chen Duo and the others planned to go shopping, but Chen Mu wasn't in the mood for it.
He returned to his room, took the newly bought meditation cushion out of his storage ring, and examined it carefully.
He finally understood why the pattern on the futon seemed familiar; there was a similar pattern in the Acala Heart Sutra.
However, the father who copied the Heart Sutra clearly did not understand the secrets of the patterns. When copying, he only resembled the shape and could not show the effect of the patterns.
Chen Mu had seen it in some miscellaneous books; it was called Sanskrit and seemed to have a similar effect to runes. However, Sanskrit was not in the lineage of the Rune Ancestor, so it must belong to another system.
Chen Mu tried sitting on top of the futon, and it absorbed Chen Mu Spiritual Power even faster. Apart from that, he didn't feel any significant effect on calming his mind that the shopkeeper had mentioned.
"I'd like to see how much Spiritual Power you can absorb from me!"
Chen Mu muttered to himself, wanting to see what changes would occur once the futon was fully saturated.
He set up a simple spirit-gathering array around himself, then focused all his energy on circulating the Acala Heart Sutra, channeling it all into the futon.
This practice lasted for more than two hours. Gradually, the Spiritual Power in his body could not keep up with the absorption speed of the futon. He felt exhausted and was ready to give up and wait for his Spiritual Power to recover before continuing.
But then he discovered that the membrane inside the Qi talisman that had allowed him to break through to the Middle Stage of the Qi Nourishing Realm was showing signs of loosening, which greatly encouraged him, and he continued to persevere.
Chen Mu is now wealthy, and Spiritual Power concentration is no longer a bottleneck for him and his companions to break through. Not to mention that Chen Mu can set up Spirit Gathering Array, when there are no other options, they can even directly absorb the Spiritual Power of Spirit Stone to cultivate.
What limits their breakthrough now is more the tempering of their character. The two months of travel have caused their Spiritual Power to surge violently, which is very beneficial to their cultivation.
With his Spiritual Power depleted, Chen Mu's Qi Sea was weakened to the extreme. Unexpectedly, this made him more aware of the existence of the realm barrier. If he could seize the opportunity, he could break through to the Middle Stage of the Qi Nourishing Realm at any time.
Chen Mu persisted for another hour or so. Just when Chen Mu felt he was getting closer and closer to a breakthrough, he suddenly discovered that the futon had stopped absorbing Spiritual Power.
Smoke? Why did you stop smoking again? Humph!
Chen Mu thought to himself, "Why is this futon so intriguing?"
However, Chen Mu felt that the barrier within his Qi Sea had thinned considerably, and he should be able to break through it naturally before long.
He suddenly found the futon much more agreeable.
Then, he continued to replenish his Spiritual Power to alleviate his physical fatigue, as this feeling of depletion was becoming unbearable.
Half an hour later, his condition had finally recovered to about 70-80%, and then he began to study the futon again.
This time, he actively channeled Spiritual Power into the prayer mat. After the Spiritual Power entered the prayer mat, the method of using the prayer mat suddenly popped into his mind.
The Karmic Fire Cushion can generate Karmic Fire to temper the mind and spirit. Karmic Fire has three levels, with the higher the level, the stronger the effect.
It is also specifically stated that it should not be used by those who are not of strong willpower.
Chen Mu was secretly pleased. He hadn't expected that this was actually a complete auxiliary magic weapon. It seemed that Myriad Treasures Pavilion hadn't discovered its special features.
I wonder if this meditation cushion only absorbs the Spiritual Power of the Acala Heart Sutra, or if it absorbs other Buddhist Sect Spiritual Power as well. Does the Myriad Treasures Pavilion not have anyone who practices Buddhist Sect techniques?
The Acala Heart Sutra Buddhist Sect practice, which Chen Mu only recently learned about. Coming to the Central Land has indeed broadened his horizons considerably.
In any case, this futon is now his.
He thought about it for a moment. Since this was a magic weapon, it shouldn't harm the user. So he boldly activated the first level of the Karmic Fire to experience its effects.
boom...!
Chen Mu felt inexplicably irritable.
Immediately afterwards, a pale red flame emerged from the bottom of the illusory image of his Divine Soul in his sea of consciousness. This flame seemed to have encountered delicious food and drilled into the interior of the illusory image.
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Chen Mu was on the verge of madness; he seemed to see the deepest hell, and countless terrifying images flashed through his mind.
In his previous life, the scene of his adoptive father dying before his eyes was repeated again. He grabbed his adoptive father's hand and cried like a child.
As a child, his parents disappeared, and he cried in bed with Duoduo in his arms; that feeling of helplessness remains vivid in his memory.
He wasn't afraid of pain or suffering, but he was most afraid of losing his loved ones. However, that Karmic Fire was like a knife, tearing open the most vulnerable scars in his heart.
"Namo Samanta... Mutuo Nan... Varila... Lan... Han."
In a daze, Chen Mu seemed to see a huge Buddha statue appear before him. The Buddha statue was angry and swept away the sadness and fear in his heart.
Chen Mu seized the opportunity, forming the Acala Mudra with his hands, his mind as firm as a rock, impervious to all magic.
The Karmic Fire in his sea of consciousness was still burning, but Chen Mu's Divine Soul did not weaken; on the contrary, it became clearer and clearer as it burned.
The illusory image of the Divine Soul is like a rebirth; the original turbid parts of the Divine Soul have slowly become as exquisite and clear as glass.
Boom!
The burning of the Karmic Fire was suddenly suppressed. Chen Mu felt his Divine Soul undergo a transformation. Its human form was broken up and finally reformed into a new phantom.
The new phantom was much clearer and larger than the original, making the Life-Bound Talisman in his hand appear even smaller.
Chen Mu was overjoyed, never expecting that he could break through to become Intermediate Earth Talisman Master so quickly.
According to the cultivation method of the True Explanation of Runes, Chen Mu estimated that it would take at least one or two years to break through, but with the help of the Karmic Fire Cushion, he actually broke through.
Cultivating the Divine Soul is always more difficult than cultivating Martial Dao. Although Chen Mu had tried his best to purchase treasures to assist in cultivating the Divine Soul, the results were not ideal.
I never imagined that the Karmic Fire generated by this meditation cushion would be so miraculous and have such a good effect.
After the breakthrough, he found that the effects of the Karmic Fire had begun to weaken, but his Soul Power was still growing two or three times faster than he usually did.
Although the effects of cultivating with Karmic Fire are very good, it will bring Chen Mu great pain. When using Karmic Fire to cultivate, he must be vigilant, otherwise he will fall into the mire of illusions created by Karmic Fire.
If he can't break free, he doesn't even know what the consequences will be. Perhaps he will become an idiot or a mentally unstable madman.
Chen Mu was quite satisfied with the Karmic Fire Cushion. In this world, you have to give up something to gain something. It was worth enduring some hardship to accelerate the progress of his Divine Soul.
However, he did not intend to attempt higher levels of Karmic Fire in the short term. What had just happened was extremely dangerous. If it were Acala Heart Sutra seemed to be able to restrain Karmic Fire, he would have been severely injured by now.
Getting injured isn't so bad, but if you get burned into an idiot like that, that would be truly tragic.