Volume 3 Original Chapter 45: The Three Levels of Mind Cultivation
Clusters of blood-red sword shadows surged wildly in his sea of consciousness, surrounding his soul, appearing and disappearing one after another.
The sword shadows are blooming.
It continues continuously without interruption.
"boom!"
Lin Yan's will, which was as pure as gold and jade and as sharp as a blade, was instantly submerged by the sword shadows that swarmed in like a tide.
Collisions again and again.
The "Holy Crystal" uses the soul as a medium to transmit the strange power within it into the body. During the fusion process, it will produce an extremely terrifying impact on the will. Only if the will can withstand this impact can the fusion be successful.
There are risks involved.
If a person has a weak will, this kind of pain alone is enough to make him die.
This is a test of pure will... Will is different from consciousness. Consciousness depends on the strength of mental power, while will is simply caused by personal beliefs.
The will of an apprentice-level warrior can still be more terrifying than the will of a realm master!
Because of his concern for the Earth, Lin Yan has never been to the Illusion Sea to test the level of his will. After all, a little impatience can ruin a big plan. If he is really unlucky and the secret of the Earth is revealed in advance, with his current identity, his ideas will not be able to affect the situation at all.
By that time, the ownership of the earth will change, and it will be impossible to get it back.
His main talent now lies in the speed of progress in his understanding of the laws, which is mainly based on the light crystal and the green-line devouring insect clone. The Chaos City Lord knows this, so no matter how evil his performance is, it will not cause any other doubts.
But...problems with willpower cannot be easily explained.
I am not afraid of shocking the world, but I am afraid of shocking the world for no reason.
The special thing about the earth is that the life born here can more easily perceive and improve itself in terms of state of mind.
Cultivating the mind is completely different from other kinds of cultivation and has little to do with the number of years of cultivation. It is a kind of spiritual transcendence.
If a warrior wants to cultivate to the level of an immortal god, it will take at least tens of thousands of years, and some may even require millions of years!
In terms of cultivating the mind, one can reach a very high level in just a few decades. In the history of the earth, many saints with extremely high states of mind have been born!
Take the three levels of spiritual cultivation summarized by Hong for example.
The first level is "to understand one's mind and nature, and to point directly to one's original mind."
Being firm in your heart and believing in yourself is the way to have a strong heart. No matter what you encounter, you must firmly believe in yourself and never waver.
The second level is "harmony between man and nature, and a pure heart."
In dealing with people, one should combine squareness and roundness, be firm when necessary and gentle when necessary. This is the ideal state of mind.
The third level is, “The heart is infinite and embraces everything.”
I believe more and more in the vastness of the universe. I realize that I cannot surpass everything in the outside world by myself. I am unwilling to just accept things as they come. I need to be one with heaven and earth. What I need to do is to be tolerant, to be tolerant of everything. I have endless ambitions and my beliefs are terrifyingly firm.
Hong is in the third level of his understanding.
But this is just a summary established by Hong from his own perspective.
In fact, these three states of mind actually just represent different paths. They just insist on different paths and there is no difference between high and low.
And during those two years of spiritual cultivation day and night, Lin Yan finally found his own direction.
Since ancient times, God’s will is difficult to question.
But, man can conquer nature.
This is his true intention, this is his will, and this is the path he wants to stick to!
He had been through blood and fire, seen the passion to change the world in tiny human beings, felt the warmth of their ideals, and had the same passion in his heart.
The most true thing is that the heart is true and has no falsehood.
Pure, pure and without any distractions.
Be sincere and have a sincere heart.
Heart, the most true, pure, sincere! This is the highest way to achieve miracles and unleash the power of the mind.
If we really want to summarize his state of mind with these three paths, it would be "directly pointing to the original mind, and seeing the nature of the mind."
However, everyone has a different understanding of their true nature and expresses it in different ways.
The saying “There is no Bodhi tree, nor is there a mirror stand. There is nothing at all, so where can dust gather?” is actually a state of spiritual cultivation that points directly to one’s original mind and sees one’s nature.
Similarly, after Luo Feng came into contact with the cultivation of the state of mind, his understanding was "the mind is like a mirror, without a trace of dust; the mind is as condensed as a knife, cutting off all obstacles."
To cultivate your mind, you must be single-minded.
Only by persisting on your own path, constantly refining your heart, and making your will more concentrated, can you reach higher heights.
When Lin Yan had just broken through to the cosmic level and performed mental illusions when the genius battle had just ended, Luo Feng had not yet come into contact with spiritual cultivation. Relying on his innate "enhancement", the consciousness strength of the cosmic-level ninth-order golden-horned beast doubled, and with the help of the Void Tower, he successfully escaped from the illusion world.
The Thunder God was just in a trance for a moment and had no effect on Hong.
Compared with the abnormal state of mind of Lin Yan and Hong at that time, there was a big gap. This was also verified when Lin Yan first met the Lord of Muxing. Just a glance at each other made his will collapse instantly.
But now more than 30 years have passed, and Lin Yan has never stopped cultivating his mind. Sometimes he would exchange experiences with Hong and others, and... in the process of practicing the secret method of "No Desire", he was also constantly squeezing his endurance, which was also a great test of his will.
The secret method of soul vibration "No Desire" is used to change the soul, which has brought about a drastic change in Lin Yan's control over his soul.
Compared to Hong, Luo Feng and the other two, Lin Yan is the one who has the deepest attainments in the soul. He also has the innate advantage of the green-line devouring avatar, and the insights he has gained are also different.
so--
Lin Yan is now at an extremely high level in his spiritual cultivation, and his will is as solid as a rock. Even if he encounters complex matters, it will not shake his state of mind. Instead, he will perform exceptionally well in battle.
A battle is not just a collision of data on paper, but involves many "surprises".
Others’ exceptional performance may be due to an outburst under some special circumstances, but for example, Hong can always maintain 200% performance!
Lin Yan can do the same.
This is an extremely extreme display of strength in an extremely high state of mind.
In fact, up to now, Lin Yan does not think that his soul will is inferior to Hong's, and he may even be better.
But--
The reason why Hong thinks that there are differences in the levels of these three realms is indeed because these three states of mind have great differences in many aspects such as resisting pressure, illusions, and soul attacks.
The third and second levels are more like techniques than the first level and have an amplitude effect.
With the same soul will, after realizing the "unity of nature and man, and a pure heart", the ability to resist pressure, illusions, soul attacks, etc. can soar tenfold or a hundredfold. If one achieves "the heart tolerates everything", the ability can soar a hundredfold or a thousandfold.
This seems like a shortcut, but there is no skill involved in "sticking to one's heart". One can only rely on a pure and sincere heart.
This is a more difficult and bumpy road.
When Lin Yan was practicing to the limit of "enlightenment", he also vaguely touched upon the perfect state of mind of unity between man and nature, and understood the principle of "harmony between yin and yang".
If you want, you can easily reach this state.
But, he didn't want to.
If you want to reach the top of your path, in addition to “wanting”, you must also understand “not wanting”.
…
Facing Lin Yan's extremely pure will, the endless sword shadows, although powerful, could not shake him in the slightest.
"break!"
Boom!
Under the active crushing of Lin Yan's powerful will, the endless sword shadows were instantly crushed into pieces.
This is different from the way other people fuse the "Holy Artifact Crystal". Others endure the impact of will while fusing .
But Lin Yan took the initiative to attack directly.
When the impact of the will in the form of "Sword Shadow" was crushed, the true fundamental strange power in the "Holy Artifact Crystal" truly erupted.
Lin Yan's soul quickly underwent some strange changes. His soul looked crystal clear, as if it was about to condense into a crystal, and was covered with countless golden lines.
With the continuous practice of the secret method of "No Desire", the golden patterns in the soul gradually increase. The more golden patterns there are in the soul... the stronger the amplitude of the mental power becomes!
“Squeak…”
At this moment, lines of blood energy were flowing on the soul, and the core of the soul, the "Whirlpool Galaxy", was spinning faster and faster. Boom... Dense energy threads rushed into Lin Yan's body frantically, penetrating every part of Lin Yan's body.
Suddenly——
A trace of strange power continuously transmitted along the energy thread, penetrated into the body's cells, and integrated into the deep of the body's cells. Although it was slow, it could continuously drive changes in Lin Yan's soul and body.
"Crack!" The sound was coming from all the muscles and bones in the body.
"It's a wonderful feeling." Different from the pain Xin Li, Luo Tuo and others experienced when they merged the "Holy Artifact Crystal" in their memories, there was no impact on their will. What Lin Yan felt was the wonderful feeling of life leap.
One day, two days...seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yan opened his eyes and smiled slightly.
The fusion of the first "holy crystal" was successful!
"Before, I learned about Xin Li and the others' fusion of the 'Sacred Crystal' through my memories. However, they were all under the impact of their wills during the fusion process, so naturally they didn't understand the changes that took place in their bodies."
"But I was fully aware of the process of change and what was happening to my body."
Lin Yan's eyes lit up slightly.
The magical energy contained in the holy crystal is integrated into the deep cells of the body, fundamentally causing a special leap in the body's genes, making every cell in the body contain a magical special power. This power is not original energy, nor is it telekinesis, but some unknown power.
Hmm...it seems a bit familiar.
Lin Yan's eyes focused, and he directly drove the unknown force through subtle manipulation of the cells.
Suddenly!
A seemingly simple but extremely mysterious blood-red secret pattern appeared on his arm. When the blood-red secret pattern appeared on the surface of his skin, Lin Yan felt that the various fundamental laws of the universe became clearer.
Even the manipulation of the laws is easier.
"Hmm?" Lin Yan couldn't help but ponder for a moment, "What does this... have to do with 'Blood Luo Crystal'?"
"Could it be that it is also transformed from the 'blood of the beast god'?"
He was somewhat confused.
"But... there is no such thing as 'Blood Warrior' or 'Dark Warrior' on Visca."
