Chapter 64: One Flower, One World

  Ye Chen was shocked and lost his composure, all of his internal energy entered the Qihai, and he could no longer perceive anything, just as if there was a barrier in the Qihai that blocked Ye Chen's exploration, those internal energies also couldn't transmit any useful things.

  Ye Chen continued to circulate his internal energy in a different direction, but still didn't get any response.

  Time and time again, he explored, but time and time again, there was no progress. Ye Chen felt a bit impatient and almost stopped continuing to explore.

  He immediately thought of a very distant sentence, which was also seen when Chen Tao practiced the "Flower Picking Finger" technique. At that time, this sentence made Ye Chen ponder for a long time, and it was not inferior to those techniques. But he didn't gain anything, nor did he have any obvious promotion, perhaps his own realm was too low, Ye Chen thought at the time.

  The Buddha said: Sitting is also Zen, walking is also Zen. One flower is one world, one leaf is one Tathagata. When spring comes, flowers bloom naturally, when autumn arrives, leaves fall freely. The mind of infinite Prajna is at ease, speech and silence, movement and stillness, all are natural.

  It's easy to understand the literal meaning, but it's extremely difficult to put into practice. Following one's heart and nature, the Tao will naturally unfold. This realm is not something that Ye Chen can currently comprehend, yet he remembers this sentence deeply.

  When sitting on this empty hill for a long time without harvest, when Ye Chen wanted to give up, Ye Chen thought of this sentence, thinking of one flower and one world, one leaf and one Buddha.

  Tathagata is mentioned every day, but you don't see that Chen Tao once saw the bad situation and asked Tathagata, Yu Huang, and Guanyin for help. Therefore, in Yedu's mind, Tathagata is not very high and great; otherwise, he would have helped Chen Tao early on.

  What truly made Ye Chen's eyes light up was that one flower, one world. From one flower, you can see a whole world. How big is a world? It's boundless and endless. And how big is a flower? Only the size of a palm or a thumb. The difference between these two is enormous, yet they can be equal. This made Ye Chen wonder if his own Qi Sea was also like this?

  Qihai, storing air and existing, how much air is there? Endless!

  Can the air sea collect infinite and endless air, why can't it collect a long sword? Is the length of the long sword comparable to the vastness of the air? As for the solidity of the sword, but that is an immortal sword, can an immortal sword be judged by ordinary logic?

  Ye Chen's excitement grew as he thought about it, and he became more and more convinced that the Long Sword was in his Dantian. Of course, it could also be in his brain, but thinking about having a sword stuck in his brain made Ye Chen shudder, so he quickly dispelled the idea.

  Thinking of the divine sword in his own Dantian, Ye Chen's goal was set. Although he didn't know how big the Dantian was or where the divine sword was inside it, within a person's body, the Dantian was just an acupoint and wasn't very large.

  With a goal, the end point of the operation of Gong Fa also has a foothold. Ye Chen absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the eight extraordinary meridians, along that special meridian, and finally rushes to the Sea of Qi.

  Although both ultimately flow into the Qihai, there is still a distinction between them. The Huajian Jue's gongfa mainly focuses on the sword and has little help for one's own body.

  The Kung Fu absorbs all things, turning them into the sharpness of a sword. Absorbing all things and transforming into spirit, this is the Kung Fu born for the sword. However, the Heart Method is the mutual transformation of man and sword, complementing each other, using one's own vital energy to nourish the long sword, and using the long sword to temper one's own bones, transforming the body into a sword, supreme in the world!

  From the point of view, the role of Gongfa is still serving Xinfang, but that also requires a long sword to nourish the body first. Now what hasn't started yet? So everything is an illusion, visible but intangible, and can only come slowly one step at a time.

  Ye Chen believed that every flower had its own world, and he also believed that his own dantian contained the divine sword. He couldn't help but believe it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to cultivate this technique at all.

  At first, Ye Chen could only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to fill his Dantian. This spiritual energy of heaven and earth was distinct from his own internal strength, and they did not merge with each other, so everything was calm and peaceful.

  But the Qi Hai seems to have a force that blocks Ye Chen's entry, even if it is his own boundary, he knows his boundary when operating internal force and sending out Qi Hai.

  The congenital boundary of Yechen's meridians was wide and tough, so it was very easy to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at the beginning. He could even use his mind to divide the absorbed spiritual energy into two parts, one part following the internal force meridian and the other part following the kung fu meridian. Originally, the two kinds of spiritual energy were exactly the same, but after passing through the meridians, they became two different gases. Yechen was also very curious about this phenomenon.

  But this change, apparently, was not something Ye Chen could know about. He couldn't find any difference and so he didn't dwell on the issue, continuing to absorb the surrounding heavenly spiritual energy.

  Can't help but say that Ye Chen absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at a super fast speed, so Chen Tao had been prepared for this, therefore he sat on the ground to cultivate some distance away from Ye Chen.

  Ye Chen initially could still manipulate the two different gases, walking on different meridians, but as he absorbed more and more of the heavenly spiritual energy, his control grew weaker and weaker, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead, almost causing the two strands of gas to enter the wrong meridian.

  If you walk the wrong meridian, it will be a big deal. Without heart method and gong method, if you casually operate the meridian, maybe nothing will happen, or maybe the whole person will be scrapped. This kind of thing is not something that can be decided by human effort.

  There are countless techniques in the world, and countless heart methods. Each has its own meridian circulation. If you alter a certain meridian, it may become another technique, but more often it will render the entire meridian useless, or even cause the practitioner to go mad and die from internal energy explosion. Such incidents occur frequently, which is why Ye Chen's forehead was sweating profusely. Even with his robust meridians, he couldn't withstand the sharp internal force within himself!

  Ye Chen had to stop his divided attention and focus wholeheartedly on operating the technique. The operation of the technique was not as difficult to control as the heart method, nor did it have that long sword slashing through the meridians' piercing pain.

  The Gong Fa had just started to operate, and the effect was not obvious, but Ye Chen did not give up, still letting the gas flow into the Qi Hai from the meridians.

  Ye Chen didn't know if the divine sword was in his dantian, and Ye Chen could only treat a dead horse as if it were alive.

  Time passed like this, and at first there was nothing special, nor any omen, but when Ye Chen continued to operate his magic skills non-stop, a coolness suddenly entered his body.

  This coolness made Ye Chen feel extremely comfortable, almost to the point of moaning out loud. He didn't know where this coolness came from, but he couldn't bear to stop it.

  Continuing to operate the Huajian Jue's technique, Qingliang continued to flow in Yechen's body, giving Yechen a kind of light and airy feeling.

  Apart from the cool feeling, Ye Chen also felt that the amount of Qi in his body had increased, and the Qi rushing towards the Dantian had also clearly increased. He could even feel the Dantian trembling once.

  Then, Ye Chen also felt a vital energy reviving within his body, making him feel like he could live many more years.

  Ye Chen was deeply immersed in this feeling, and that's when Chen Tao saw the strange scene. Not only was it bathed in moonlight, but also the essence of the plants and trees flowed into Ye Chen's body. Even the insects and underground creatures turned into dead bodies, and a surge of vitality rushed towards Ye Chen, making him look so full of life.

  The pain of Ye Chen's internal force training was hardly felt at this time, on the contrary, it was a wave of physical and mental comfort.