Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 698 - 695: Doing Nothing! Doing Nothing!

Chapter 698: Chapter 695: Doing Nothing! Doing Nothing!

"Lin Tian, I know what you’re thinking. Do you feel the meaning of the mantra is that once the True Qi in the Dantian is full, it should overflow on its own, without any effort?" Xiao Manxue asked.

Indeed, Miss had already thought of this layer of meaning, and Lin Tian nodded in agreement.

"That’s not what it means. If it were so simple, my master wouldn’t have asked me to contemplate it," Xiao Manxue shook her head.

"Your master really... Even if she wanted to improve someone’s perceptiveness, there’s no need to be so vague. What if you didn’t come to enlightenment and just kicked the bucket, what then?" Lin Tian said irritably, somewhat blaming that unfeeling and indifferent lady in white.

Lin Tian couldn’t be blamed for thinking this way; he had never had an Ancient Martial master and didn’t know what a true master should be like.

Xiao Manxue found his words amusing, but she didn’t laugh. Instead, she said seriously, "Master told me, ’to advance is to live, to retreat is to perish.’ Countless predecessors on the path of Ancient Martial have died. It seems that if I were to die too, it wouldn’t make much difference. Pursuing the pinnacle of Martial Arts always comes with a cost, and the greatest cost is the life of an Ancient Martial Artist."

"Bullshit. Survival is the foundation of everything. If an Ancient Martial Artist dies, what chance do they have to climb to the peak of power? All you Ancient Martial Artists are misguided by the so-called enlightenment of your predecessors. For an Ancient Martial Artist, the first goal should be to survive; only second is it to seek power," Lin Tian cursed, strongly disliking what seemed to be such noble sentiments.

"What do you mean by ’you Ancient Martial Artists,’ as if you’re not one of them," Xiao Manxue glared at him, struggling to accept Lin Tian’s point of view as she had been influenced by that kind of thinking for a full ten years.

"Let’s not argue about it; let’s ponder the mantra instead. My stabilizer has a time limit; once it expires, the backlash of True Qi will be even worse," Lin Tian said with a wave of his hand.

After speaking, he fell back into contemplation. Not being an Ancient Martial Artist himself, he couldn’t comprehend the state or sensation of "effortlessness"; he could only search through ancient texts he had read to find a reasonable explanation.

Effortlessness! Effortlessness! Lin Tian repeated the term firmly in his mind twice, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him.

He remembered the ancient text "Tao Te Ching" mentioned "effortlessness", "The Dao is constantly effortlessness yet accomplishes everything." That was the concept of effortlessness as described in the "Tao Te Ching".

Lin Tian glanced at Xiao Manxue and murmured softly, "The Dao is constantly effortlessness yet accomplishes everything."

"Are you reciting the Tao Te Ching?" Xiao Manxue could tell right away what text Lin Tian was citing and asked in surprise; Lin Tian did not respond, only gazing at her.

"Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching..." Xiao Manxue repeated softly. Then she closed her eyes and murmured, "The Dao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Dao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. Nameless, it is the origin of Heaven and Earth; named, it is the mother of all things... The spirit of the valley never dies, which is termed the mysterious female. The gate of the mysterious female is the root of Heaven and Earth. It appears continuous, and using it, you hardly need effort..."

"I understand now!" Xiao Manxue recited the Tao Te Ching a few times, and then suddenly she said, her eyes opening with a look of enlightenment.

Lin Tian remained silent, knowing that he shouldn’t disturb her at such a critical moment. If the fleeting inspiration was interrupted, things could become quite serious.

Epiphanies are about chance, and once missed, they might never occur again in a lifetime.

Xiao Manxue revealed a slight smile and said, "Human follows earth, earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. What is the Tao? The Tao is ever-present, the natural laws that govern the occurrence and development of all things. That is the Tao, and so it is with Martial Arts."

"Non-action doesn’t mean to not move or do nothing; non-action has two meanings: one is not to act against the natural laws, and the other is that one must act in accordance with these natural laws."

"Thus the True Qi within me circulates on its own, striking against the boundaries; this is a result of the True Qi being abundant in the Dantian and happening naturally. One should not try to control it with the mind or suppress it; instead, one should facilitate its development. That is the essence of non-action!" The more Xiao Manxue spoke, the brighter the light in her eyes became.

She no longer paid attention to Lin Tian, but closed her eyes and raised her hands. When they reached the apex, she formed a strange hand seal. As her hands moved downward to the level of her chest, the hand seal changed, and her hands eventually sank down to the position of the Lower Elixir Field, where the hand seal came to a rest without moving.

Through perceptive eyes, Lin Tian saw that within Miss, the circulation of True Qi suddenly accelerated; it was already fast, but now it was truly like a meteor shuttle, the pale blue True Qi like ten super turbo engines had been added to Miss’s body, the speed of its circulation alarmingly fast.

The consequence of such acceleration in the circulation of True Qi was that there were even more tiny cracks appearing in her meridians, and the stabilizer that Lin Tian had placed was also being impacted by the True Qi, which seemed at any moment ready to burst and damage her heart meridian.

Even though Lin Tian, as a zombie, couldn’t understand Ancient Martial Artists and thought that dying for Ancient Martial was not worth it, in this situation, it seemed there was no choice but to keep pressing forward. Seeing Xiao Manxue risking her life to break through, Lin Tian suddenly understood those Cultivators who had fallen on the path of Martial Arts.

After their deaths, they turned to dust, perhaps forgotten by others, but the convictions of countless people coalesce into a fearless spirit, motivating the later generations to press on ceaselessly. Perhaps this is the spirit of Ancient Martial Artists, prevailing through thousands of generations, seemingly eternal and undying like heaven and earth.

Lin Tian remembered the last time Miss was cultivating beside him, and with a thought, he also began to practice the movements from the animal skin.

This time, as he cultivated, Lin Tian immediately felt something different; the speed at which he absorbed the Moonlight was much faster than before, perhaps a result of having grown stronger after the battle at the Shrine.

Lin Tian saw the Moonlight descending from the sky like a waterfall, gathering around his body, and also encompassing Xiao Manxue who was seated beside him.

Not only that, originally the Moonlight filled the area for several miles around, but as Lin Tian cultivated, it was like a vortex; all the Moonlight swiftly streamed towards him. With the Moonlight becoming rarefied, more flowed in from further away, providing an unceasing supply; a great amount of Moonlight converged from the heavens and the earth toward him.

The gathering speed of the Moonlight was extremely fast, soon enveloping him and forming a Moonlight Light Ball. Only Lin Tian could see the Moonlight; Kikuchi Mika in the car could only see Lin Tian making strange movements. Without Lin Tian’s instructions, she obediently sat in the car without disturbing him.

With the formation of the Moonlight Light Ball, Miss, who had been frowning in pain due to meridian fissures, unexpectedly relaxed her brows, seeming much more at ease and seemingly enjoying the balm of the Moonlight.

As Lin Tian cultivated, he saw through his perceptive ability that a great amount of Moonlight was absorbed by Miss and then poured into her meridians, flowing through them just like the True Qi.

The nature of Moonlight within the meridians was strikingly different from True Qi. True Qi was nimble; the Moonlight, however, flowed like water and seemed much denser than True Qi. As the Moonlight passed through, the inner walls of the meridians were covered with a layer of moon-white substance.

The tiny cracks that had been increasing steadily, upon the appearance of the moon-white substance, began to slow down and eventually stopped spreading.

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