Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 371 - 280 Recent Situation in the Mountain and Sea Realm_3

Chapter 371: Chapter 280 Recent Situation in the Mountain and Sea Realm_3

His breathing became slightly rapid.

"Discovered it again?"

"The people here generally use meditation and visualization to enhance their spiritual power, similar to our place."

Meditation and visualization are two different methods of cultivation.

Meditation is about staying with your present self, emptying everything external, focusing attention on your inner self and breathing to tame the mind and desires.

Visualization, on the other hand, focuses on pondering a special object, being with one’s future self, and creating a desired ideal image.

Of course, people on Earth have several other methods to enhance spiritual power, such as surfing the Sea of Ether in Game Training Camps, and... directly taking drugs!

"The nine visualizations of the Taoist tradition, including Nong Blood Thought, must have evolved like this," Pan Hao inquired.

"Nong Blood Thought involves quietly visualizing a freshly deceased person, lying stiff and supine, bone-chillingly cold, completely unconscious. Reflecting back, this greedy, lustful body of mine will end up the same once dead."

"For Bruise Thought, you watch a body not yet entombed, left for one to seven days, dark energy dispersing, the skin turning swollen and a ghastly purplish-black. Think back to my beautiful body, doesn’t it end up the same after death?"

"Pus Blood Thought. Quietly watch a dead person beginning to rot and ooze pus, decomposed flesh chunks collapsing, intestines flowing out, thinking of my debauched body, that it will also end up like this after death..."

"These practices were told to me by my father. Though this cultivation method sounds sinister, it is truly an authentic Taoist technique for nurturing one’s nature."

"Indeed," Lu Tianming continued, "the essence of visualization is to refine oneself, control desires, and communicate with the Etheric Abyss to trigger its feedback."

"Since the Earth World is a primary material plane, it usually involves visualizing one’s own future life and death."

"But in the Mountain and Sea Realm, they visualize different entities, like the ’Guan Di Sanmei Bodhisattva’ and such, which I don’t recommend attempting recklessly. The methods figured out on Earth have been thoroughly tried and tested, very mild and harmonious, and exert minimal impact on one’s spirit, even if progress is slower, at least there are no side effects."

"But in this damned place, with Evil Gods rampant, the object of your visualization might just be some sort of evil entity, risking your life for no reason."

"Of course, if there are better methods, one could also give them a try. Anyway, I dare not try."

Pan Hao said, "Me neither, let Li Qingshan try it."

The two shared a tacit laugh.

"It’s a sort of gain, I guess."

Lu Tianming then picked up another book. This tome named "Qingshi Records," a clan record, seemed more valuable, detailing significant events that occurred in Qingshi Town over the years.

Qingshi Town originally had six major families, namely Li, Sun, Huang, Ye, Xiao, and Gu, but now times have changed, some have fled, some have died, leaving only a local rich man, Huang Youcai, steadfastly holding his ground.

Along with some poor people, guarding their small plots of land, they had nowhere else to run to.

"Alas, agricultural civilization isn’t like industrial civilization where the population can flow freely."

Lu Tianming sighed, "In the eyes of these farmers, the inherited farmland is more important than life itself. The fierceness with which they resist the Evil God, we Earth people couldn’t possibly achieve."

"Indeed... that battle, it was too brutal," Pan Hao nodded in agreement.

"Lord Huang is called Huang Youcai, 62 years old, owning a thousand acres of good land, considered a rich and powerful landlord in the area. His reputation in Qingshi Town is still decent, so he was tasked with comforting the disaster victims. I think he’s been doing a good job these days."

"Mm, before the main force is stationed here, your position isn’t very stable; dividing some power to the local forces won’t hurt," Old Lu pondered for a moment, "Don’t consider power struggles, just petty profits."

"Except for matters related to the Deity, hand everything else over to Huang Youcai."

"Who cares about this tiny power?" Pan Hao shook his head.

A mighty dragon cannot press down a local snake, appeasing the widowed and isolated is too complex; rather than stepping up personally, it’s better to rely on a reputable local notable.

In a few pages of "Qingshi Records," the local geography was also recorded, detailing which villages had been wiped out, where bandits and robbers emerged, where iron ore was found etc., all with detailed markings.

Within a radius of five hundred li, the largest city was Fenghua City, with a population of about one hundred thousand, ranking among the largest cities.

"Take some time to explore Fenghua City and gather some information... Little Hua is also going to the city to learn Taoist Skills."

"Offering for the Pus Sore Great Mother – a ten-jin big fish, shrimp ten jins, crabs ten jins, once a year. This Pus Sore Great Mother only eats aquatic products, indeed a peculiar character..."

When Pan Hao saw this line of text, he breathed in lightly.

No wonder the "Pus Sore Great Mother" was unforgettable to the people of Qingshi Town; it preferred fish, shrimp, crab over eating people!

Which is indeed rare in this world.

But now, the memorial ceremony was about to start.

This so-called "Pus Sore Great Mother" must manifest its Divine Power to calm the people of the town.

A Deity that cannot manifest Divine Power, would quickly be abandoned by humans.

Pan Hao got a bit anxious and muttered under his breath, "What the hell is this ’Game’ up to? If it doesn’t show up soon, I can’t bluff anymore."

"If there’s no news by tomorrow, don’t blame me for running off."

"I know you’re anxious, but don’t rush."

Lu Tianming smiled gleefully, "It’s your fault for contracting the pus sore; if you don’t become a Great Witch, who will?"

"If I end up hanged, you won’t escape either! You’re tied to the same fate."

"Merely villagers, they can’t trouble me, Old Lu." Lu Tianming took out a yellowed paper with an official seal, grinned and said, "Look, this is a Recruitment Order from the court; they saw that I’m skillful and wanted to recruit me for a position in Fenghua City."

"Once Qingshi Town stabilizes, I’ll go to the big city to investigate what exactly is going on."

Pan Hao said, "Take it easy, who knows, the so-called big city might also be ravaged by Evil Gods, and you might get caught as soon as you enter."

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