Volume 2 Chapter 93 The Turtle in the Urn

  In the hall, there were only Da Guiwu Gong Zhengwei and a few other leaders of factions, as well as Xie Shujinghui. Everyone else had retreated far away. At this moment, all eyes in the hall were fixed on Jinghui, filled with surprise, suspicion, ridicule, and other emotions.

  "Everyone knows the relationship between me and Liang Jing, previously planned failure was just due to other reasons, I believe everyone has heard before... This time it's just us who know the plan, Liang Jing can't escape this time."

  "I'm sure all the leaders have already taken care of the traitor's matter, I don't bother with it; what we need to deal with now is Liang Jing. First, we can confirm that Liang Jing is currently in the village or nearby, otherwise he wouldn't be able to know our every move and react immediately. It can be said that this time Liang Jing was too clever for his own good and exposed himself."

  Everyone nodded in agreement. Indeed, when Liang Jing loudly shouted out the secret that he had accidentally overheard and shouldn't have told anyone about, he was immediately silenced by Tu Gongzi. In this era where communication is difficult, it can only be inferred that Liang Jing is somewhere nearby.

  "So what we need to do is to capture and kill Liang Jing, without having to lure or coerce him, we can let him come out on his own in front of us."

  "What's going on? What should I do?"

  "Hurry up! ——"

  ……

  Looking at the anxious crowd beside him, Jinghui smiled confidently and said, "Actually, it's very simple. Isn't Liang Jing not going to leave the village? We'll just let him stay in the village alone. I don't think Liang Jing has much food on him, and when he runs out of food, he'll have to come out of hiding himself. What we need to do is surround the entire village and guard it, and Liang Jing will be a turtle in a jar."

  That's right!

  Everyone's eyes lit up, and Gong Zheng also changed his expression, taking another look at Jinghui. This is not bad, a talented person with good brains, or perhaps an awakened one, maybe can be taken in to use.

  "Right! How come we didn't think of this before? It's such a simple truth."

  "Alright! Wait a minute, I'll immediately send people to withdraw from the village. Let's see how long Liang Jing can stay in the village alone and kill anyone else. He will starve to death eventually, and he won't be able to help but come out."

  ……

  For a moment, everyone in the hall was excited, especially Tu Guiwu's expression was agitated, finally found a way to deal with the devil Liang Jing, he had a feeling of justice prevailing.

  "Everyone! The plan is to be carried out, but we need to be careful not to reveal it in advance. Don't let the news leak out like last time. Also, some other forces will require Gongzi and Comrade Gong to step forward to resolve."

  "We'll tell outsiders that we've discovered a variant plant whose fruit can rapidly enhance the cultivation speed of Qi for Awakeners, but it's guarded by powerful variant monsters, so we need everyone to go together to deal with them and share the benefits equally."

  "In short, it's to evacuate everyone from the village without alarming Liang Jing, set up a dragnet; when the time comes, pay attention to suspicious individuals, register the personnel data of each force, and strike them down as soon as something goes wrong."

  Everyone who heard Jinghui's words quieted down, feeling very much in agreement. They looked at Tu Gongzi and Gong Zheng, the two leaders waiting for orders; one had a powerful family backing him, while the other was currently the strongest, although Gong Zheng rarely took the lead in giving orders, no one dared to ignore him.

  Next, everyone in the house made another round of discussions and perfected their plan, striving for perfection.

  ……

  Liang Jing was still unaware of the great danger approaching while in the underground room, only feeling that the enemies had all become smarter and were hiding, and they were all far away from each other. Although it made it easier for Liang Jing to eliminate the zombies and capture materials for "Enticing Light", one traitor could only kill one or two people, which was too wasteful. Having grown accustomed to big meals, eating these small fish now felt somewhat unfulfilling, and she also knew that the time for a final showdown with her opponent had arrived.

  Liang Jing is now working hard to improve his strength.

  In the basement, Liang Jing sat cross-legged on the floor, under the control of his mind, the true energy in his body was constantly accelerating its speed along its original trajectory, the speed was two or three times that of when he was not in control. The true energy that had just been consumed was rapidly absorbing the life source within his body, quickly recovering. Liang Jing had done this process many times over the past two days and was extremely proficient at it; now he didn't dare to nor did he have time to study whether the true energy would have such an effect if it traveled along different routes, after all, they were currently surrounded by enemies, and if he wasn't careful and was discovered, things would be disastrous if there was a problem with his true energy.

  "What a huge difference between the life of an ordinary person and that of an enlightened being!"

  A thought flashed through Liang Jing's mind. Yes, although the quality of Qi has changed greatly after breaking through to the third layer, and the quantity is more than double that of the second layer, it's not too outrageous. However, ordinary people can't be compared to Awakened Ones. It seems that there is a special substance in the life source of Awakened Ones that allows them to absorb and transform Qi easily, making their Qi extremely pure and allowing Liang Jing's Qi to increase rapidly and break through.

  Liāng Jìng broke through to the third layer of true energy because he had continuously killed three Awakened Ones, although they were all first-layer Awakened Ones, but obtaining their pure life origin still allowed Liāng Jìng's true energy to rapidly break through.

  As the guidance continued to lead the flow of true energy in the meridians, Liang Jing seemed to feel that these true energies were constantly passing through one node after another, and then the true energies would undergo some subtle changes. As they passed through different nodes, these true energies underwent a transformation.

  Just like a person from childhood to adulthood, constantly coming into contact with different people and external environments, in the process of communication and contact, there are changes that occur unconsciously. Depending on the family environment, experiences, and the people around them, these individuals have distinct personalities - some are strong-willed, some are sinister, some are open-minded, and others are extremely weak, among many other differences.

  Liang Jing can now only walk along the trajectory of the natural flow of true energy in his body. He believes that these naturally changing running tricks must have their own reasons, and through research, he found that the way of running true energy in different awakened people is different, the route taken is different, the nodes passed are different, and even the number of times a node is passed back and forth is different. The quality attributes of the true energy are also different.

  Liang Jing felt that these should be the so-called meridians, and then Liang Jing continued to search for a place that was indispensable, whether it was reality or martial arts or immortal cultivation, the Dantian!

  Three inches below the navel is where the essence is stored, which is the Dan Tian!

  Because the true energy in his body had been slowly flowing automatically, Liang Jing didn't have much inner sight ability. He could only instinctively feel the direction of the true energy flow and the situation inside the sea of consciousness. As for actually seeing things with his inner sight, it wasn't very clear; Liang Jing's own true energy didn't return to the dan Tian, and he couldn't help but concentrate all his attention to carefully follow the sensation of the true energy...

  After a long time, Liang Jing felt that the true energy in his body seemed to be automatically stored in the dantian without him having to do anything. Only after a long period of induction did he realize that a thread of true energy would automatically flow towards the dantian, while most of it was constantly flowing through the meridians in his body, with little relation to the dantian. Liang Jing could no longer feel the dantian, which was vastly different from his previous understanding.

  Isn't true qi supposed to flow through the meridians when one practices qigong by sitting cross-legged and circulating the breath?

  Why can Awakened Ones self-circulate and cultivate without meditation or any other methods, even though the speed and way of operation are not very good?

  Isn't true qi stored in the dan Tian?

  Why don't the awakened ones use the dantian much, but instead store it directly in the meridians? Liang Jing was a bit puzzled. This is very different from what he had been exposed to since childhood. Could it be that all the knowledge he had previously come into contact with was fake or inferior, or was it just that the awakened ones and ordinary people practiced differently?

  Perhaps this is what ordinary people call cultivation, and it's fundamentally different from the Awakened. At least the Awakened don't need to meditate or practice qigong, as they are automatically running all the time without stopping. Many of the Awakened have meridians that are naturally unblocked, and they are born with magical powers and divine abilities, etc., etc.

  Huh?

  Liang Jing's face suddenly changed, what was supposed to come still had to come. He didn't expect that just as he found an opportunity to indulge in researching the true energy for a while, the other party made another move, and he should also take a look at that 'old acquaintance'.

  Liang Jing's eyes flashed with a cold light, it was also time to lay cards on the table with that person, she couldn't drag things on like this anymore, or else her mind would really become muddled.

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