Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 166 Soul-Seizing Technique - Solution

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Thinking about what he had experienced on the hillside during the day, Qin Xiaochuan asked, "By the way, when that person put their hand on my forehead today, I seemed to sense a lot of animals panicking. Do you know what that meant?"

"This is the empathy that everyone possesses, and it is the most important ability on the path of cultivation. As you know, it becomes very difficult to improve one's spiritual power level after reaching level 6. One of the important reasons is that after level 6, improving one's spiritual power level can no longer rely solely on meditation or similar practices; one also needs to comprehend it."

"Understand?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at her, puzzled.

"Yes, understanding the true meaning of the Great Way, based on thousands of years of investigation and analysis, is closely related to a person's ability to empathize. Only when you first experience the world can you truly understand it. Mencius said, 'The heart of compassion is the beginning of benevolence,' which is exactly the point. Compassion is a human instinct, and the true understanding of the world comes precisely from the human instinctive ability to empathize and resonate."

Qin Xiaochuan nodded thoughtfully, then asked with a puzzled look, "By the way, isn't the Wudang Sect a branch of Taoism? Why do you seem to have a deep understanding of Confucianism as well?"

"Because all paths lead to one. In fact, whether it is Taoism or Confucianism, they both originate from the crystallization of the ancient Chinese people's thought and are originally from the same root."

"That makes sense." Qin Xiaochuan nodded in agreement. "No matter what, at least we're not like those fantasy novels where there's just mindless cultivation and monster-fighting. Life is hard enough as it is, but to make it so difficult in novels, I don't know what they're thinking."

"Yes, life is a journey of self-cultivation, and there's no need to deliberately do it," Guo Shiyi said with emotion.

The next day, Qin Xiaochuan woke up very early. Unlike the city, people in the countryside go to bed at eight or nine o'clock at night and get up at four or five in the morning to work in the fields. Qin Xiaochuan could not compare with the people in the countryside, but he still got up just after seven o'clock. Even so, Professor Xin had already arrived.

"Have you heard? The excavator driver from yesterday is better now," Professor Xin said to the group who were having breakfast.

"Is it done?" Qin Xiaochuan asked in surprise. He remembered that Guo Shiyi had tried to remove the soul-capturing spell from the other party yesterday, but she had clearly failed in the end.

"Yes, I heard that a monk came to town early this morning. This monk seems to have some skills. He cured his illness by chanting a sutra," Professor Xin said.

Upon hearing this, Qin Xiaochuan and Mo Yu exchanged a glance. They knew that even Guo Shiyi's level 6 spiritual power couldn't dispel the Soul-Seizing Technique yesterday, which meant that this monk was either proficient in this art or had an even higher level of spiritual power.

The four of them quickly finished the rest of their breakfast and rushed to the construction site from the previous day. They found out that after the monk cured the driver, he went into the woods in the direction of Wong Tai Sin.

Without saying much, the four hurried into the woods. After walking for a while, they saw a flock of birds take flight from the depths of the woods, indicating that there must be a fight going on inside.

When the four arrived at the hillside where they had fought the day before, they saw the young man they had met yesterday still standing on that boulder, fighting with five men below the slope. One of them was a slightly overweight monk wearing a yellow robe, sitting cross-legged on the ground. He was probably the monk who had lifted the soul-capturing spell.

The other four were dressed differently: one wore a black jacket and wielded a thick iron bar; two were boxers in T-shirts and were unarmed; and the last one wore a gray trench coat and held a silver spear. The four of them were working together to attack the giant centipede that had caused Qin Xiaochuan a lot of trouble.

Qin Xiaochuan had already activated his Heavenly Eye and saw that the monk's spiritual power was already at level 7, while the other four people were at level 6 and three at level 5.

Under the attack of these five opponents, the young man on the boulder was clearly at a disadvantage.

The monk held a string of prayer beads in his right hand and raised his left hand to his chest, chanting incantations. One after another, golden characters emanated from the monk's mouth, flying to the young man on the boulder and swirling around him. A look of pain appeared on the man's face. After a while, he couldn't help but look up and roar. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into the appearance of a boy, the very boy Qin Xiaochuan had seen in the spiritual world.

"The Vajra Subduing Magic Spell... this monk must be a disciple of the Miaohua Sect," Mo Yu murmured.

Qin Xiaochuan frowned as he looked at the boy on the boulder. The boy's pain had not lessened. He was crouching on the ground, clutching his head. The golden light on the swirling characters around him intensified. Under the observation of his Heavenly Eye, one could see spiritual energy flowing within them, like ripples of water, layer upon layer, applied to the boy's body. In just a moment, the boy could no longer maintain his human form and turned back into a weasel.

"We should help it," Qin Xiaochuan said coldly.

"But..." Guo Shiyi hadn't finished speaking when Qin Xiaochuan rushed out and simultaneously unleashed a fire-shooting spell at the monk.

The change was sudden, and the monk was clearly unprepared. While surprised, he dared not be careless. He quickly made a hand seal with his right hand, and a swastika appeared in front of him to meet the spinning flames.

"Bang." The flames and the swastika disappeared spinning after the impact. The monk frowned as he looked at Qin Xiaochuan, who was rushing towards him.

The other four men also noticed Qin Xiaochuan's movements. The man in the trench coat fired a burst of bullets at him with his backhand. Qin Xiaochuan quickly released a Xuanwu Shield to block it. At the same time, a boxer in a T-shirt took a few steps to Qin Xiaochuan and punched him on the left shoulder with the force of wind and thunder. Just then, several vines grew from the man's feet and quickly wrapped around his body.

With no obstacle in sight, Qin Xiaochuan was about to rush towards the monk again when he saw the monk raise his right hand and make a sword finger, pointing at him in mid-air. A golden phantom emerged from the monk's body and rushed towards Qin Xiaochuan. The phantom's right hand was forward, also making a sword finger, and a golden light flashed at its fingertip, seemingly possessing the power to pierce through stone and split the sky.

"What a fine One-Finger Vajra!" Mo Yu's cold voice rang out from behind him. At the same time, a flash of cold light appeared, and Qin Xiaochuan saw an ice spear as thick as an arm fly out from behind him, heading towards the golden figure.

"Crash!" Amidst the sound of ice shattering, the ice spear broke into countless ice blocks. The figure remained, but its light had dimmed considerably. Mo Yu had somehow appeared in front of Qin Xiaochuan. With a wave of his hand, a burst of white, icy energy shot from his palm, enveloping the golden figure. The figure immediately froze, then transformed into specks of crystalline light that drifted into the air.

The monk narrowed his eyes, staring intently at Mo Yu. After a long while, he coldly uttered five words: "Traitor—Mo Yu."

"I've heard that Master Fayan of the Miaohua Sect is incredibly skilled in the 'One-Finger Vajra' technique. You must be the one," Mo Yu said, glancing back at him calmly.

"It is indeed this humble monk," the monk said proudly. He then glanced at Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi on the side of the forest, and finally looked at the weasel on the boulder. He figured that with Mo Yu around, they wouldn't get any advantage today. So he gestured to the other four people, and after they moved to his side, he raised one hand to his chest and coldly said to Mo Yu, "Until we meet again." After saying that, he led the four people away from the forest.

Qin Xiaochuan walked to the boulder, where Huang Daxian had transformed back into a child and was lying on his back on the boulder.

"How should I address you, Wong Tai Sin?" he asked.

"Hmph, I'm not telling you they all call me Xiao Yi." The boy tilted his head and looked at the sky with an arrogant expression.

Qin Xiaochuan was speechless for a moment, then asked again, "Then Xiaoyi, you're clearly just a child, why do you act like an adult?"

"Children are not respected. I must maintain my dignity in front of my followers," Xiao Yi said proudly.

"Tch, kids just love to pretend to be adults," Qin Xiaochuan said irritably, looking at the other person's attitude.

"You seem to be just a kid who's just turned 18 too," Cheng Xiaoman teased with a smile from the side.

"That's an adult too," Qin Xiaochuan argued, only to see Mo Yu hold up his phone to Xiao Yi and ask, "Have you seen this person before?"

"We're not close. He came to see me once," Xiao Yi said, glancing at his phone.

"What are you doing?" Mo Yu asked.

"He wants to use my abilities to help him control a woman who has the ability to manipulate souls."

Did you say yes to him?

"Why won't you agree?" Xiao Yi looked up at the sky, his face full of arrogance.

"Since you're not familiar with each other, why are you helping him?" Mo Yu looked at the other person suspiciously.

Xiao Yi said coldly, "I have reasons why I must agree, or rather, agreements I must fulfill. There's no need to explain them to you." Then he turned to Qin Xiaochuan, who was watching with a curious expression, and asked, "Why are you helping me?"

"I also have my reasons for helping you," Qin Xiaochuan said, mimicking Xiao Yi's tone. But then his tone softened, and he said, "Actually, I know you want to help the animals on the mountain, but their development of this place is a fact, and you can't stop it by yourself. If you ask me, you should take them to another place..."

"Don't think that just because you helped me you can order me around." Xiao Yi suddenly interrupted him, sitting up straight and staring coldly into Qin Xiaochuan's eyes. He said angrily, "You even dared to say something as shameless as telling us to move to another place. We were the ones who settled here first and never interfered with you. Why should you humans make us move just because you say so? You humans are always hypocritical and greedy, completely disregarding the lives of other races for your own benefit."

Xiao Yi took a deep breath and continued, "It's not that we haven't given in, but what's the result? The more we give in, the more you take advantage of us. You just want to keep encroaching on our living space, leaving us homeless, and in the end, we can only starve or freeze to death. I know that nature is a law of the jungle, and that you humans are powerful and can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean we will sit and wait to die. Even if we die, we will stay here and defend our last home."