Comprehending Void-Hiding Spirit
On this day, Li Yunjing was cultivating in his cave abode.
He sat cross-legged on the futon, his hands forming a strange Method Formula. His figure was as solid as a rock, and if it weren't for the faint, almost extinguished glimmer of divine light in his mind's eye, he would have been no different from a withered stone statue.
At this moment, his sea of consciousness was already in complete disarray.
The vast divine soul essence was compressed into a ball of faint light, surrounded by countless tiny, mysterious silver runes—the origin runes of the "Void-Hiding Spirit" Divine Ability.
Five months ago, Li Yunjing successfully triggered the spiritual power of the cave abode and comprehended a Divine Ability.
Since then, Li Yunjing has often studied this Divine Ability.
However, this Divine Ability is very difficult to cultivate, and even after Li Yunjing's long and arduous practice, he only managed to grasp a little bit of its essence.
But recently, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and immediately seized the opportunity to cultivate.
At this moment, Li Yunjing recalled the opening of this Divine Ability in his mind.
"The void has no coming and no going, no birth and no death, it cannot be seen by the eye, nor can it be bound by the mind..."
He had already recited these words in his heart countless times, each one etched into the depths of his soul.
He tried to forcefully infuse the runes with spiritual power, tried to forcefully challenge the laws of the Dao with his divine soul, and even tried to draw parallels, but no matter how he deduced or exerted his strength, he was always separated by an invisible barrier.
It's like looking at a mountain through a thousand layers of thin veil. The mountain's shape and outline are clearly within reach, but when you reach out to touch it, you can only ever touch nothingness, and you can never find the entrance.
"No... nothing's right..."
Within his sea of consciousness, Li Yunjing's soul and thoughts were almost murmuring, carrying the weariness of someone whose life force was exhausted.
He had lost count of how many times his deductions had failed. The last few strands of divine soul power dissipated completely as the runes exploded, the faint light in his sea of consciousness suddenly dimmed, and even the aura around his body began to dissipate. The last strand of spiritual power in his meridians completely stopped.
I had hoped to seize that glimmer of inspiration to cultivate, but who would have thought it would have no effect whatsoever!
At this moment, his resolve wavered uncontrollably.
Is it possible that he can only watch this Divine Ability, unable to use it?
Just before his soul was about to dissipate and his Dao heart was about to collapse, a ray of blessed light suddenly descended upon Li Yunjing's sea of consciousness.
"Bite--"
A clear and melodious bell rang out, neither high nor low, yet it was like a thunderclap that shattered the eternal night, piercing through the restrictions, piercing through his physical body, and striking straight into his collapsing sea of consciousness.
At the very moment the bell rang,
All the confusion, all the bewilderment, and all the rune fragments that had been repeatedly deduced tens of thousands of times but remained misaligned in the sea of consciousness were suddenly connected by an invisible beam of heavenly light!
In that instant, something within Li Yunjing's soul shattered completely.
It was his long-held obsession, his delusion of always wanting to "grasp" and "control" the void.
He suddenly understood.
The void is not meant to be controlled, not meant to be broken by force, and not meant to be captured by will.
The world you see when you open your eyes, the small space you occupy, every breath you take, and every corner your soul can reach are all emptiness.
It has no coming and no going, no birth and no death; you are already within it, so how can you talk about "grasping" it or "breaking through" it?
It is not about controlling the Dao with intention, nor about breaking the law with force, but about Dao Union through the spirit and merging the body into emptiness.
These eight words were like a sudden awakening, instantly extinguishing all the restlessness and backlash in my mind.
"Boom--!"
A deafening roar resounded simultaneously deep within the sea of consciousness, in the origin of the divine soul, and within the Principle of heaven and earth.
The original divine soul essence, which was originally full of cracks, suddenly surged at this moment. A bright silver divine light burst out from between his eyebrows and instantly swept through his entire sea of consciousness. The spider web-like cracks healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The divine soul, which was originally on the verge of collapse, not only recovered completely, but also became more solid and vast under the influence of the laws of the void, like a miniature galaxy.
The originally stagnant, depleted, and almost stagnant spiritual energy instantly surged like a thousand rivers rushing to the sea, circulating wildly through the meridians in a completely new cycle that perfectly aligned with the laws of the void.
With each cycle of circulation, spiritual energy surges by one point, and the hidden injuries accumulated in the meridians are completely smoothed out by the power of the Dao. The originally narrow meridians are widened several times over, and every inch of flesh and every pore is thoroughly tempered by the abundant spiritual energy and the Dao of the Void.
Within three feet of him, the once solid void began to ripple in layers, like still water tossed with pebbles.
The formless and intangible Spatial Dao Law, which ordinary cultivators could not even touch in their entire lives, were now as clear as the lines on his palm in his perception.
He could "see" the ubiquitous Dao patterns in the void, feel every slight undulation of spatial nodes, and clearly perceive that, if he wished, he could merge into these patterns at any time and go to any place in the world he wanted to go.
Countless shimmering silver Divine Ability flowed from the pores of his body, as if they had come to life, swirling, intertwining, biting, and merging in the void of the quiet room.
The three hundred and seventy-two primordial runes condensed into a complete Void-Hiding Spirit Law Seals before him the instant he comprehended the Dao principles, flowing with the ancient Dao rhythm.
The Law Seals was about the size of a palm, its entire body shimmering silver, and inside it seemed to contain a galaxy of ever-changing stars and voids. Each time it turned, it caused the surrounding space to tremble slightly.
Li Yunjing slowly raised his right hand, his fingertips slightly lifted.
The void Law Seals that hovered in front of him, influencing the Principle heaven and earth, silently merged into his fingertips like a swallow returning to its nest. Not a trace of violent power leaked out; only a barely perceptible wisp of silver light flowed from his fingertips to his entire body, finally settling into his Dantian, where it completely merged with his spiritual power and soul.
From that moment on, the High Antiquity Divine Ability of "Void-Hiding Spirit" was completely etched into his Dao foundation, becoming a part of his flesh, blood, and soul.
He lightly traced the air in front of him with his fingertips.
Without the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy or the ear-piercing sound of space tearing apart, the void in front of him silently cracked open like flowing water, revealing a swirling river of stars and countless clearly visible patterns of laws. Then, it closed up perfectly again, as if it had never existed.
Two galaxies seemed to rise in Li Yunjing's eyes.
In the depths of his dark pupils, a fleeting glimpse of the vast and wondrous phenomena of the void's birth and death, the inverted Milky Way, and the rotation of heaven and earth flashed by, before all of it was absorbed back into his eyes, returning to a calm and still state.
He slightly moved his fingertips, and his figure transformed into a barely perceptible silver light.
There was no fluctuation of Spiritual Qi, no sound of air being torn apart, and not even a ripple in the void.
One moment he was sitting on the futon, the next he was standing at the other end of the meditation room, as if he was meant to stand there from the beginning.
He moved again.
This time, with flashes of silver light, his figure appeared and disappeared repeatedly in the quiet room. His afterimages were left in every corner—east, west, south, north, up, and down—yet each one was his true form.
He completely merged into the void; within this small space lay the ends of the earth, and even the farthest reaches of the earth were contained within this small space.
Finally, he swayed and landed back on the prayer mat, a relieved smile playing on his lips...