Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

The figure said, "The larger and wider your mind is opened, the clearer you can see in the spiritual realm. Your mind is only opened a small part, so you can't see the scenery here clearly. But it's enough to distinguish the direction and road. There's no need to see everything clearly." From the voice, it was indeed the Sophora japonica.

Chu Xiaomu turned around and looked around, but found that Yang Dou, Huai Xiaomeng and others who were standing around him had disappeared, not even a vague shadow.

He couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "Uncle Huai, where are they... where are they?"

Huai Fucao said: "The spiritual realm is the opposite of the real world, and the spiritual body is the opposite of the physical body. Unless they have all cultivated their spiritual bodies, you will not see any living things in here."

Chu Xiaomu thought to himself that this was the case, but he couldn't help feeling a little eerie and scary because there were only him and Uncle Huai in such a gorgeous and fantastic spiritual realm.

Seeing that he stopped talking, Huai Fucao continued, "This place is not too far from Yeyang Ridge. Why don't we ask about the strange thing about the broken tree first? Come with me."

After saying that, he walked forward. When he encountered a big tree in the mountains, he did not avoid it, but passed directly through the tree trunks.

As he walked, he said, "At this moment, our bodies are still sitting on the ground. What you see now is just the spirit body that I condensed after opening my mind. It seems to be tangible, but it has no substance. And these trees and stones you see are just their reversed forms in reality, so we can move around freely. You can also try with me."

Chu Xiaomu followed instructions and walked through the boulders and trees. The feeling was so wonderful that it was hard to describe.

"But don't try to go through the mountains or even the earth. That is an insurmountable area in the spiritual realm, called 'Hidden'. If you don't have great magical powers, you can't get out once you enter."

Chu Xiaomu quickly agreed, thinking to himself, who would go hiking through the mountains for no reason? Wouldn’t that be a fool?

Huai Fucao continued, "The sound you and I hear now is not a real sound, but just the thoughts we want to express. In the art of asking spirits, it is called 'fish thoughts', just like the sound of a fish talking, but the sound is not coming out of its mouth."

Chu Xiaomu was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Huai Fucao walked faster and faster, and in the end he was as fast as lightning. Chu Xiaomu followed behind him, not lagging behind even a step.

Huai Fucao said happily: "Although your mind is only a little open, fortunately it is clear and transparent, and you can actually keep up with my speed."

Suddenly, the two came to the valley where the broken trees were in Yeyangling. As expected, they saw that almost all the blurry trees in the valley were broken at the roots, and many trunks had disappeared.

Huai Fucao walked to the root of a broken tree, reached out to touch the broken end, and said, "Everything in the world is changing all the time. Some are like landslides and tsunamis, and some are like the flapping of flies' wings. No matter how big or small, they will cause corresponding changes in related things. In reality, we can also find the connection between them through various traces, and finally find the answer. This is the art of asking spirits."

"It's just that some traces are deep and some are shallow. Some answers are easy to find, while others are not. In fact, whether people can find the answer or not, it always exists and does not disappear just because you can't find it. In the spiritual realm, any change will cause the spiritual energy to increase or decrease, and traces are even more difficult to eliminate. By sensing the changes in the spiritual energy around you, the traces will appear. This is the 'finding traces' in the spiritual questioning technique."

"Xiao Mu, you also put your hand on the broken tree. You don't need to think. Just rely on your intuition to feel the changes in the spiritual energy around you..."

He spoke a long string of words, and then went on to explain some tips on how to empty your mind and rely solely on your intuition to feel the changes in spiritual energy.

Chu Xiaomu did as he was told, but his mind was still thinking about the various possible reasons why the tree broke. He was simply unable to "refrain from thinking and rely on intuition".

Huai Fucao stopped talking for a while, and it seemed that he was looking for traces and asking questions.

Not long after, a faint, intermittent stream of colorful light appeared in the air above the spiritual realm, winding its way from the broken tree valley to the distant east.

Huai Fucao said, "Look, the reason for the broken tree must have come from the east. Let's go and take a look." After saying that, he left in a flash, and Chu Xiaomu followed closely behind.

But after walking less than ten miles, the colorful light disappeared without a trace, and the spiritual realm ahead became even dimmer.

Huai Fucao was confused and tried twice more but still got the same result. He said, "This is very strange and I don't understand it either... Let's put this aside for now."

He then said, "The movement and change of all things will cause the flow and increase and decrease of spiritual energy, and we can find out the cause by asking the spirits and searching for traces. But curing diseases and saving lives is very different. There is no direct connection between injuries and medicines, and it will not cause the change and flow of spiritual energy, so we cannot find a cure by searching for traces."

Chu Xiaomu asked: "Then what should we do?"

"Everything in the world is interdependent and mutually exclusive. Many things seem unrelated, but in fact they are mutually fundamental and cannot be separated from each other. Heaven is to earth, sun is to moon, yin is to yang, water is to fire, metal and stone are to earth and wood... I have said before that whether people can find the answer or not, it will always exist and will not disappear just because you can't find it."

"It's even more true when it comes to finding medicine. No matter what kind of injury you have, there is always one or more kinds of medicine that can cure it, and it's right where it should be. It won't disappear just because you have an injury or not. Injuries and medicine are like a pair of shoes. They are one and the same, but they don't belong to each other."

"It's like a person who has lost one shoe. When he sees the left shoe, he knows that the right shoe is lost. When he sees the right shoe, he knows that the left shoe is lost. He just doesn't know where the other shoe is. If he searches for it with his two eyes and a pair of legs, he will probably never find it. If he uses the power of billions of spirits, it will be much easier to find it. For example, looking for medicine to cure an illness, asking for directions... it's all the same. This is the real inquiry of spirits, but it is much more difficult than searching for traces."

As they were talking, the two had already arrived at the room where Bai Yixing was. From Chu Xiaomu's spiritual body's point of view, there was no shadow of Bai Yixing on the bed, but a ball of dim, faint colorful light, floating and vague, as if it would dissipate at any time.

If I didn't know that Bai Yixing was lying on the bed, I would have hardly noticed this colorful light.

Huai Fu Cao asked, "Is the Snow Country man lying on this bed?"

Chu Xiaomu said yes.

Huai Fucao said, "You can't see living people in the spiritual realm, so it's hard to determine a person's location. But he's seriously ill and can't move, so you and I know he's lying on this bed. This is also the key to the spiritual art. If you don't even know where the 'cause' is, you naturally can't ask about the 'effect'."

Chu Xiaomu nodded and thought, so that's how it is.

Huai Fucao briefly explained again the key points of asking spirits and asked Chu Xiaomu to remember them carefully. Then he walked to the dim colorful light, stretched his hands into the colorful light, and actually merged into one with the dim colorful light.

He said: "This Snow Country man is not dead yet, so we can only see the spiritual energy on and around him. If he is dead, we can see the general physical appearance of his corpse."

Chu Xiaomu nodded, thinking that since he couldn't see living things in the real world in the spiritual realm, it wasn't very convenient to use this method to find people.