Listen to the Thunder Inside Me

Glug glug glug!!!

There was a small table in the courtyard, and a pot of Chinese medicine was simmering on an induction cooker.

The boiling sound and that bitter, pungent smell had been wafting through the air for over half an hour.

This is Fang Jun's home.

According to him, the sanatorium has been quite busy lately. Since Yin Fengxin's condition is special and he mainly needs to see Chu Tianshu for treatment, it would be more convenient for him to stay at his home.

The house is a three-story building with a courtyard, located in a small fishing village.

But the environment is much better than where Yin Fengxin used to live.

There aren't many houses in the area, and not far from home, there are mudflats and ponds everywhere, which are said to be used for pearl mussel farming. Most of the ponds are planted with trees.

Green waters and lush trees, a gentle sea breeze.

Fang Jun, however, wore a bitter expression.

"I'm starting to regret it."

He was sitting at the table, staring at the iron pot.

"If I keep brewing medicine like this every day, my house will probably smell of it after ten days or so."

Chu Tianshu stood next to a large cardboard box, flipping through an instruction manual, and casually said, "Alright, shall we find another place to stay?"

Fang Jun sighed, "Forget it, we're already here."

He called this house his home, but it didn't really feel like home.

It feels like, apart from the garage and bedroom, the other furniture will likely look the same no matter what we buy, and a few years from now it will still look the same.

He often doesn't go home while handling cases, and even when he has free time, he eats out.

"However, your house looks quite old."

Chu Tianshu glanced at the iron fence surrounding the courtyard.

The top of the fence resembles a spearhead, and it is entirely painted black, but some parts have peeled off, revealing traces of rust.

Fang Jun said, "This place was left to me by my biological parents. When I was a child, something happened to our family; all the old furniture was destroyed, and the walls were blackened with soot."

"After I grew up, I renovated the house, but the yard outside wasn't badly damaged, so I didn't bother with it."

Chu Tianshu nodded and said, "I knew it. If it was property given to you by your adoptive father, it wouldn't be this kind of old courtyard."

Splash!

Fang Jun raised both hands, and more than fifty playing cards were flicked from his right hand to his left hand.

The afterimages of the playing cards unfolded in his hand like an accordion.

"My parents used to work for Uncle Nie. He was sentimental and that's why he adopted me. There are more than a dozen people like me."

Fang Jun said, "Being raised by him and learning the methods of cultivation is already extremely fortunate; I wouldn't dare ask for more."

He put the playing cards together and changed the subject.

How's your research on that device going?

Chu Tianshu closed the instruction manual and said confidently, "It's alright, it's very user-friendly."

Chu Tianshu placed his palm on the corner of the cardboard box and gave it a shake.

The Immortal Force tore along the edges of the cardboard box.

Pfft!!

As soon as he lifted his hand, the top of the cardboard box was lifted off, and the corrugated cardboard on all four sides fell apart in all directions.

There was an instrument, about half a person's height and three feet wide, sitting on a thick foam mat.

The instrument's surface is painted a cool white, and the front features a display screen, a red and green knob, and several buttons.

On the reverse side are dozens of thin, long black wires, each with a coin-sized patch at its end.

This is an electric shock training device!

Chu Tianshu had previously wanted to use artificial electricity to assist his cultivation, so he inquired whether similar equipment was available on the market.

As a result, there were several Special Investigation Bureau in the area.

Sometimes it's used for muscle training by internal staff, using electrical signals to stimulate muscles and enhance their stress resistance, and it's also used to relieve fatigue.

Of course, it is also sometimes used to solicit information from certain special prisoners.

By attaching patches to the prisoner's head, adjusting the intensity of the stimulation, and combining it with Mind Power pressure, interrogation becomes very effective.

Chu Tianshu picked up the plug of the stun gun and prepared to plug it into the extension cord.

"Wait a minute."

Fang Jun quickly said, "This extension cord is plugged into both the induction cooker and your device; it's probably not safe."

"Take it back and plug it directly into the socket at home."

Chu Tianshu thought it made sense, straightened the wires, picked up the instrument with both hands, and walked into the house.

Once inside the lobby, you could faintly hear the sound of a television playing on the second floor.

"I will beat you with a steel whip..."

"I'll beat you to death, you living bastard!!"

This is Macau Broadcasting Television Channel, currently broadcasting "Yongzheng Dynasty".

When Yin Fengxin first arrived here, Chu Tianshu gave him acupuncture.

But he only slept for about six hours before he couldn't fall back asleep.

Chu Tianshu didn't force him. She chatted with him for a while, explaining that coming here for recuperation was a good opportunity to relax.

But he couldn't fall asleep, and no matter how hard he tried, Yin Fengxin couldn't think of any other way to relax.

I have no interest in car rides, delicious food, beautiful scenery, singing in bars, or amusement parks.

In the years since he graduated, aside from working overtime, he would go home for meals and then fall asleep immediately.

My only form of entertainment is finding videos on the company computer, both serious and inappropriate, transferring them to my phone, and watching them when I have free time.

Since that's the case, Chu Tianshu simply let him watch TV.

"He really loves watching TV."

Fang Jun followed him in. "I thought he wouldn't refuse suggestions like taking him for a drive and enjoying some good food, but I didn't expect that food wouldn't be as appealing to him as television."

Chu Tianshu set up the equipment and casually remarked, "This has a lower cost, everyone has the opportunity to watch it, it's easy to get used to, and besides, there are indeed many good TV dramas on it."

In the years when he was at home and the medication was relatively effective, he often watched TV.

Fang Jun pondered, "If you can't cure him, do you think he has a chance of becoming a ghost?"

After a person dies, their soul usually dissipates and returns to the world.

Whether or not one can become a ghost is a matter of luck.

In general, the probability of an ordinary person becoming a ghost after death is actually higher than that of a cultivator.

Those who practice martial arts achieve harmony between mind and body, resulting in a strong physical body. However, once the physical body declines, the soul is also more severely affected.

Those who possess Mind Power interfered with the real world in their lifetime, accumulating too many entanglements. Once they lose the protective shell of their physical body, their souls are entangled in various entanglements and dissipate even faster.

Chu Tianshu pondered, "Since he's so entangled with the Evil Spirit, it's most likely they'll both perish; the probability of him becoming a ghost is low."

"That's not necessarily true. When a person is truly dying and their soul leaves their body, they will feel immense resentment."

Fang Jun said, "If he could unleash his power at that time and devour the Evil Spirit, we could use the method of raising ghosts to capture him and help him slowly refine the evil energy."

Chu Tianshu asked, "You know how to raise ghosts?"

Souls that fall into the Spirit Realm and become ghosts or monsters have their original personalities largely erased due to the cruel and dangerous environment of the Spirit Realm; only a few traits remain.

Therefore, ghosts and spirits in the Spirit Realm tend to be bloodthirsty and cruel.

However, if it's the kind of thing that didn't fall into the Spirit Realm but was intercepted in reality, that's not a good thing either.

Ghosts are of pure Yin nature. Human beings have too much Yang energy. Those who are weaker than them will arouse their desire to devour, while those who are stronger will make them uncomfortable.

Even if someone uses a ritual object to nurture it, it's not a long-term solution. As long as the owner of the ritual object is still alive, they will inevitably have yang energy in their body.

Therefore, the art of raising ghosts has never been adopted by the righteous path; nine out of ten times it leans towards evil magic.

"Many people in the gambling world know these tricks. Playing cards originated from the Western tarot cards, with various suits and images of kings, queens, and goddesses, each with its own symbolic meaning."

"Just like the supernatural tales and stories of ghosts hidden in paintings in China, these kinds of things are inherently very suitable for raising ghosts."

Fang Jun recounted an anecdote from the gambling world.

"There was once a very famous senior figure whose wife was murdered. Her spirit was attached to a cassette tape, and with her last bit of consciousness, she told him the truth and guided him to seek revenge."

"As a result, the old master called upon his most Mind Power disciple in telekinesis, and the master and disciple joined forces to use their Mind Power to melt the seven gems and the cassette tape together, reforging them into a golden playing card, thus saving his ghost wife."

"I heard that his wife is still by his side and can communicate with everyone via television."

Wow, this allows ghosts to communicate smoothly with ordinary people using a television.

It is indeed a good way to isolate yin and yang energies.

But I don't know exactly how it works.

Besides, the screen of this old man's TV must crack frequently, right?

Chu Tianshu laughed after hearing this, "Alright, although it's very likely we won't need it, it's fine if you want to make a backup plan."

Fang Jun said, "This kind of thing requires playing cards made of a special material."

"I know a few sellers I know. I'll contact them in the next few days to see if they have any ready-made ones to resell, or if they have materials to make them. Anyway, I only need one sheet."

Chu Tianshu nodded, plugged in the instrument, sat down in the chair, and started applying the patches to his wrists and ankles.

If this device is used for muscle training, it will be attached to specific muscle groups with great care to ensure safety.

Chu Tianshu, however, intended to use electricity to train his internal organs, and the patches were applied to acupoints on his hands and feet.

The acupoints and meridians in the human body are basically related to the internal organs.

The Hand Taiyin Meridian corresponds to the Lung, the Hand Shaoyin Meridian corresponds to the Heart, the Foot Yangming Meridian corresponds to the Stomach, and the Foot Shaoyang Meridian corresponds to the Gallbladder.

The Foot Taiyin, Foot Jueyin, and Foot Shaoyin meridians correspond to the spleen, liver, and kidney, respectively.

Many acupoints that are beneficial to internal organs are not located in the chest and abdomen, but rather on the hands and feet.

Fang Jun watched him finish applying the patch and clicked his tongue, saying, "The way you're doing it, you look like one of those torture chairs used for interrogation."

Once Chu Tianshu entered a state of practice, he stopped talking much.

He reached out and flipped the switch, turning the knob.

At first, there was only a slight itching sensation on my hands and feet, which gradually turned into a twitching feeling in my skin.

The knob has markings around its perimeter, divided into five levels.

Normally, muscle training only uses level two at most. Level three is used when interrogating special criminals. Level four can be fatal, and level five can burn a person's skin and flesh.

Chu Tianshu turned the revs to third gear and also felt a stinging pain.

He paused at this level, closed his eyes, placed his arms on the armrests of the chair, sat upright, and entered the state of Boxer Aperture Opening.

Normally, when he's in a state of Boxer Aperture Opening, wherever he focuses his attention and directs his strength, he can hear the sound of blood flowing in that area and the undulation and tension of the muscles.

After his Aperture Opening today, he suddenly felt like a wooden statue floating on water.

Under the continuous influence of the electric current, the subtle manipulation of the body is not as easy and effortless as before.

The muscle fibers looked a bit dull, lacking the vibrant, energetic feel they used to have.

The sound of blood flowing was drowned out by a restless, clamorous noise that enveloped the entire body.

The sound was like thousands of centipedes crawling, causing inexplicable irritation.

Chu Tianshu silently adjusted his breathing, his chest and abdomen rising and falling, trying to adapt to the electric current by using his internal organs as instructed in the exercise.

Toad Art Palm Thunder, Inner Chapter, Rapid Progress Breathing Method!

The first requirement is to hear the thunder rumbling within one's body.