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Chapter 163: The Secret of Shiranui

The next day, at the Shiranui Ryu Dojo.

"plz follow me."

Shiranui Hanzo had been waiting for a long time. He led Lin Xi and Killer Bee through the house and came to the warehouse in the backyard. He politely said to Killer Bee, "Miss, please stop."

After saying that, he opened the door. It was empty inside. There was nothing there. He could see the wall opposite at a glance. He didn't know where the secret was. He didn't stop and stepped into the warehouse.

"Wait for me outside." Lin Xi patted the killer bee's head and followed it in.

The killer bee also looked around curiously, then turned around and found a place to stay. If it were her before she regained some of her memories, she probably wouldn't even have this little bit of extra curiosity.

After Shiranui Hanzo entered the room, he turned on the light, waited for Lin Xi to come in, and then closed the door mysteriously. The energy flowed through his body, and when he waved his arm, sparks flew everywhere, and rows of bookshelves instantly appeared wherever the sparks splashed.

Different types of Chinese characters were posted on each bookshelf. The originally empty warehouse suddenly became crowded. He said with some pride: "Mr. Lin, this is all the secrets of the Shiranui clan."

Lin Xi pulled out a book nearby and flipped through it. It talked about the secrets of Tang Shou's practice. It was written in pure handwritten Chinese characters with a lot of pictures attached. However, it would be difficult to learn just through the book. It would be extremely difficult to practice hard with the secret book, and there were some terms in it that he couldn't understand at all.

"Mr. Lin, are you interested in Tang Shou?" Shiranui Hanzo interrupted at the right time, "I know a little bit about it, if..."

"No, I came here mainly to learn some secrets related to spiritual practice." Lin Xi put the book back in its place. He believed that with the explanation of the master of the Shiranui school, he would be able to learn these things that were passed down. If all else fails, he can use the stupid method, practice according to the pictures, and then add some points. However, there is no need for him to waste time practicing other Japanese martial arts now.

"Please follow me." Shiranui Hanzo led him through several rows of bookshelves and came to a small bookcase. After opening it, there were about three yellowed books inside. He said solemnly: "This is the secret of the Shiranui clan's spiritual practice."

"Mr. Lin, please make yourself at home." He spread his hands and said, "If you have any questions, you can come to me in the front yard." After that, he left on his own.

They are really all open to outsiders to browse at will.

The names of the three volumes of spiritual practice secrets are [Guarding the Heart], [Breaking the Mirror] and [Leaving the Soul] respectively. Lin Xi picked up the nearest volume [Breaking the Mirror] and after opening it, he was surprised to see that the whole volume was written in classical Chinese. Could the new-age Japanese learn this?

It feels like something that came from China.

He read a few pages haltingly. Because he had previously studied medical books to lay the foundation for the secret art, he could now understand this classical Chinese secret book a little bit. The opening line stated the theme, the so-called broken mirror, is actually a literal translation. The reflection in the mirror is actually oneself. Breaking the mirror means breaking another self. As the text says: Break the mirror to kill the thief in your heart.

There are a few explanations for this thief in the text, with prefixes like obstruction, bewitching, and enticing, which are obviously not good stuff. He spent half an hour to figure out the logic of it, which is to get rid of the inner demons. As for whether there is a deeper meaning, involving philosophy, state of mind, etc., sorry, he didn't understand it.

Lin Xi vaguely felt that it might help him deal with the murderous fluctuations, so he patiently watched it slowly.

As a result, he spent two hours reading through the secret manual of only a hundred pages, but he still couldn't figure out how to kill the thief in his heart. As he read on, he always felt that he was mentally retarded. He understood the meaning of individual words, but he couldn't understand the words and sentences put together.

Thanks to the Soul Burial Technique that Long had instilled in him, he was able to jump and roughly analyze what he understood, tear the soul to make the thief concrete, then kill the thief by breaking the mirror, and absorb the torn soul back to achieve clarity.

As for how to break the mirror and what clarity was, he had no idea, so he simply ran to the front yard with the book to ask for advice.

"I don't understand either." Shiranui Hanzo spread his hands, "In the spiritual practice secrets passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors, no one has ever successfully practiced the Broken Mirror and Separated Soul from beginning to end."

Lin Xi was speechless for a moment. Why the hell are you keeping it for?
He rolled his eyes in annoyance, went back to the warehouse, put the [Broken Mirror] back, and wanted to start learning [Guarding the Heart] directly, but then he changed his mind and thought that maybe he could get some unexpected results by trying [Leaving the Soul].

Compared to [Broken Mirror], [Soul Separation] is even more mysterious. It says that a clear and powerful soul can ascend directly to the fairyland through soul separation. Then most of the contents are outrageous descriptions of the beautiful fairyland, which are basically useless.

Lin Xi's face turned dark after reading it. If someone told him that the book in front of him was a novel, he would believe it. He has no bottom line in bragging.

If they could really practice correctly, the Shiranui clan would have ascended to the fairyland long ago. Why bother struggling in this human world, not to mention being cursed to die out?
Thinking of this, he was basically relieved, and finally picked up "Keeping the Heart". Compared with the other two so-called secret books, "Keeping the Heart" was much more reliable. At least it came with many annotations left by the Shiranui clan.

What it talks about is also down to earth. It starts by saying that the spiritual world is very dangerous and one should not explore it recklessly. After the warning, it introduces the method of spiritual practice. One should sit in meditation with the five hearts facing the sky, and use aromatherapy and environment. One should think of "God" in the heart, chant "God" with the mouth, guard the heart, and get rid of distracting thoughts. Then one will see "God" and will naturally be immune to external evil.

God is not necessarily a certain immortal or Buddha. It can also be an abstract belief, or even a dead ancestor. Gods and Buddhas are essentially idealistic beings, and they are effective if you believe in them.

Interestingly, in the spiritual world, faith is a very powerful thing, but the more one explores the spiritual world, the more one loses faith and awe. No matter how much a foolish man thinks of God, he will never be able to touch Him in his entire life. People who can start spiritual practice can embrace God in the spiritual world as long as they believe. However, the most difficult thing in the world is the word "faith".

The more you believe, the closer it is; the closer it is, the less you can believe; the less you believe, the farther away it is. How can a normal person worship a mechanical and numb god created by his own imagination?
[Guarding the Heart] only has three or five pages devoted to talking about methods and approaches, and the rest of the book is more about the exploration, hypothesis and inference of things like gods, spirits and souls. Judging from the writing style, it seems that the author is the same as the other two books, but the content described is quite fragmented to some extent.

It is clear that he was a researcher who sneered at gods and Buddhas in [Guarding the Heart], but he spoke with certainty about the fairyland in [Li Hun]. No one knows what happened in between.

The spiritual practice is all my own nonsense. It won’t turn into cultivation of immortals or anything like that. It’s just a foreshadowing.
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(End of this chapter)