Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 60: Eating Turbid Air
The smoke was curling, and there were sporadic sparks burning on the charred incense head, which soon turned red.

The old beggar raised his head, a happy smile appeared on his face, and he tremblingly picked up the incense on the table and handed it to Lin Beixuan.

"The uncle agreed!"

Lin Beixuan looked at the statue, which was still a little shabby despite being repaired by the villagers. He wondered whether the other party was moved by what he said or planned to pass on the Earth Law to him because of the old beggar's sincerity.

In the folk legends of the present-day Xuan Kingdom, Lord Digong is a priest in charge of a local area, also known as the God of Fortune and Righteousness. His position varies depending on the area he is in charge of.

In other words, the land is also a god!

But Lin Beixuan, the land god in the secular world, does not quite agree with this. Although he looks like a god and is worshipped by people, he is more of a special kind of evil spirit.

It is worshipped by people, which is why it protects the people in the village. However, if it encounters an evil spirit more powerful than it, it will be afraid.

In Lin Beixuan's opinion, the desire of the land god to protect Huangshi Village was not even stronger than that of the old beggar.

So Lin Beixuan guessed this time that it was an evil spirit rather than a god. If there really were gods in this world, how could the world be so chaotic?

Taking the incense handed to him by the old beggar, Lin Beixuan bowed three times to the statue, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner on the table.

It is impossible to kowtow, so just bow to show your appreciation.

When the old beggar saw that Lin Beixuan was finished like this, he was stunned for a long time, opened and closed his mouth, but in the end he couldn't say anything and could only sigh.

After the long incense sticks were inserted into the incense burner, they began to burn at an eerily fast speed, as if there was some invisible thing behind them absorbing the incense. Soon the three incense sticks were finished, adding new ash to the burner.

Lin Beixuan stepped forward, picked up the new ashes from the incense burner, poured them into a cloth bag prepared in advance, and waved them at the old beggar.

"Is that right?"

The old beggar nodded and gave Lin Beixuan a thumbs up.

Logically speaking, there are actually still many procedures to go through, but seeing Lin Beixuan's decisive and efficient appearance, the old beggar who usually likes to take his time and deal with things feels a little uncomfortable.

Seeing that the God of Land didn't seem to mind that much, the old beggar didn't mention anything more about the next steps.

Forget it, let him be!
"If you want to use the Earth Law, you must first be able to sense the existence of 'Qi'."

After Lin Beixuan finished everything, the old beggar did not hesitate and started speaking directly. Although he still spoke haltingly, Lin Beixuan listened very carefully.

"There are two kinds of qi in heaven and earth. The qi of the sky is clear, and the qi of the earth is turbid. Together, the clear and turbid qi create the qi that all living things in this world breathe in and out..."

These two clear and turbid gases are similar to oxygen and carbon dioxide in the world.

Lin Beixuan squatted down with the old beggar and looked at a shape he had drawn on the ground with a dead branch.

The graphics were drawn very roughly, but Lin Beixuan could still make out some clues from them.

There are two irregular circles, one represents clear air and the other represents turbid air. The clear air looks like a soaring dragon, while the turbid air looks like a tiger lying on the ground.

This is the old beggar’s most essential visualization of the two energies of clear and turbid energy. He believes that the two energies are like dragons and tigers, fighting and devouring each other.

However, Lin Beixuan had a different thought. He remembered that the turbid air he had swallowed before was a wisp of gray gas, while the fresh air appeared in the form of baptism when he woke up today. Both were invisible.

The old beggar had no idea what Lin Beixuan was thinking and just kept talking to himself.

"Clear air is rare, it controls the wind and thunder of the four seasons, and the growth of all things. Turbid air is huge but complex, with many branches, which control the food temples of grains, evil spirits, mountains and rivers, and natural disasters." "To learn the method of the Earth God, you need to be skilled in finding the strand of air that belongs to the Earth God among the turbid air, and then apply it to your body, like driving your arm, so that you can subdue demons and monsters, and ward off evil spirits and suppress evil spirits."

……

The old beggar shook his head and said a lot of things, which sounded a bit confusing to Lin Beixuan, as if the idea was very close, but he just couldn't touch it.

"I saw a shadow of a mansion gate appear behind you when you used the Earth Law. Does it appear when you drive away the turbid air?" Lin Beixuan thought of the mansion that suddenly appeared behind him when he was at the Ruan family, and some words like "opening a mansion" mentioned by Taoist Akagi, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The gate of the mansion?"

The old beggar looked confused, as if he didn't know what that thing behind him was.

Lin Beixuan simply changed the way he put it: "After we learn the Earth Law, how do we judge what stage our strength is at?"

The old beggar scratched his head and thought carefully: "I am not sure either. In my dream, my uncle mentioned the word 'opening a mansion'. He said that if I open a mansion, I will be considered a serious practitioner. Who knows, I may have the opportunity to invite gods to build a temple in the future."

"Establish a government, invite gods, build a temple..."

Lin Beixuan whispered these words that sounded both familiar and unfamiliar, wondering if these had anything to do with the division of strength?

If a shadow of a mansion gate appears behind you when you reach the stage of establishing a mansion, doesn't that mean that you already have the strength to establish a mansion?
Lin Beixuan thought about it and quickly shook his head to deny it. After listening to what the old beggar said, he knew clearly that he was definitely not in the category of opening a government, and might even be far from it.

A big part of the reason why a mansion gate appeared behind him that day was actually due to the power of the Ghost Hall.

Then he asked the old beggar a few more questions until he could get no more out of the old beggar. Only then did Lin Beixuan leave with satisfaction.

He had promised the other party that he would help guard the village, and he would naturally do that. However, the first thing he had to do now was to find the "qi" that the old beggar mentioned.

In the secular world, the word "qi" is actually very mysterious. They do not have the concept of air, but they have another way to interpret it.

The old beggar said that he once buried himself in the ground for seven days and almost starved to death. Finally, he felt the existence of Qi and suggested that Lin Beixuan do the same.

Lin Beixuan said that was something only a fool would do and rejected it mercilessly. He had his own way to sense the Qi.

The art of eating air!
It is a blue quality ability copied from Lady Li, which records the method of swallowing turbid air.

So for Lin Beixuan, sensing the existence of Qi was actually much simpler than what the old beggar said.

After walking out of the land temple, Lin Beixuan held a hatchet on his waist and went straight out of Huangshi Village. He planned to kill a zombie and carefully observe the changes while swallowing the other's turbid air.

Stepping into the semi-familiar and semi-unfamiliar forest, because of the temporary fate - Black Feast, the darkness of the night could not cause any obstacles to him, and it could even provide him with a lot of information.

For those things hidden in the shadows of the night, he could judge whether they had malicious intentions without even having to observe them specifically.

Along the way, Lin Beixuan keenly discovered that there were more and more Wushi evil minions wandering outside Huangshi Village.

Previously, he risked his life to kill more than thirty foodless evil minions nearby, thinking that he could slow down the opponent's invasion speed. Unexpectedly, the number he killed was of no use to the opponent at all.

He temporarily suppressed the urge to take action. This time he came to the outskirts of the village to look for zombies and he couldn't miss the important task.

However, as he searched, Lin Beixuan suddenly discovered that the road he was walking on now seemed to be the road leading to Huangshi Village that he took when he first entered the secular world.

And in front of this road is a cemetery.

(End of this chapter)