Chapter 1083 - 280: Strings of Inspiration, Chain Reaction (5k)
It's like an amnesiac suddenly blurting out things he doesn't even remember.
Yu Ziqing glanced at Ruan Renwang.
"Senior, are you the one guiding me?"
Ruan Renwang sat with his eyes closed, motionless, like a restful Big Zombie.
Impossible, it definitely wasn't Ruan Renwang deliberately guiding him.
Then it might be that Ruan Renwang himself was a kind of hint, a form of guidance.
Or perhaps...
Yu Ziqing closed his eyes and began to practice the Dayan Preface.
His Dayan Preface had already reached the limit of the fourth Great Realm. Relying solely on his own abilities, it was absolutely impossible to advance to the fifth Great Realm in a short time.
Within the same Great Realm, it could barely be compared to stages like high school or undergraduate studies.
Crossing into a new Great Realm changes the nature entirely.
It's equivalent to just learning the concept of functions and then moving on to functional analysis and differential equations...
One has to cheat.
Of course, these things are not important at the moment.
Yu Ziqing carefully contemplated, meticulously sensing the Dayan Preface itself and the abilities it produced.
The first three Great Realms, aside from some mental refining effects, were practically useless, oh, perhaps they also trained the mind a bit.
The fourth Great Realm granted a tendency to avoid misfortune and court good fortune, but it was rather ordinary, incomparable to Zhong Shouzheng's abilities.
Yu Ziqing actually never cared much about the effects of the earlier stages of the Dharma Method; he treated it as a method of study, a technique for research and inquiry.
But now, as he gradually calmed his mind and quietly sensed, after a long while, Yu Ziqing finally felt it.
The string of inspiration gently twanged.
He discovered the reason why.
It was at the moment he saw the Evil Ghost appear that the string for good fortune twanged.
After a long while, Yu Ziqing opened his eyes and finally understood how the abilities derived from the Dayan Preface to court good fortune and avoid misfortune worked and manifested.
Unlike Zhong Shouzheng's well-marked and strong sensing abilities for good fortune, the ones derived from the Dayan Preface had no clear sensory effects at all.
When he practiced to the limit of the fourth Great Realm, this ability was fully activated.
In facing particularly crucial matters, even if unbeknownst to him, the string of inspiration would twitch ever so slightly.
Allowing him to instinctively choose what he considered the best option.
This shouldn't be about evading disasters but preemptively neutralizing them.
As Yu Ziqing quietly felt, he reckoned it wasn't something gained out of nowhere, but rather stemmed from accumulated foundations.
Accumulations from cultivation, knowledge accumulation, intelligence accumulation; amidst the many chaotic threads he had yet to organize, a strand emerged.
The question arose: Yu Ziqing couldn't piece together from what he knew or from his cultivation anything that would cause this unfamiliar strand to emerge.
Pondering for a moment, Yu Ziqing thought of the non-existent stone mountain he saw in the deep sea.
At that time, amongst many indistinct and unrecognized bits he observed, there inherently lay some information.
He continued to recall, and moments later, Yu Ziqing retrieved a box, undid the Sealing, and took out the sixty-four-sided blue crystal within.
He casually picked it up and saw the runes manifest an idea.
"Inward greatness, the nameless shall fall."
Upon seeing these words, Yu Ziqing felt a sense, though he absolutely didn't understand their meaning.
He had seen those words when he obtained this sixty-four-sided blue crystal, and suddenly remembered upon seeing them again now.
Indeed, trying to memorize piles of completely incomprehensible text is rather challenging.
And for most of the manifested meanings inside this sixty-four-sided crystal, Yu Ziqing couldn't understand at all.
At this moment, he was quite certain that it was because he had once seen something in it that the string of inspiration twanged.
This thing was very likely not created by Shi, but it most certainly had some kind of connection to him.
Yu Ziqing pondered for a while and decided to give up on further practicing the Dayan Preface, hence abandoning attempts to connect with Shi through the mysterious methods.
The higher the Realm in the Dayan Preface he practiced, the more he felt an inclination.
Should he attempt to seek out Shi, unpleasant events would most certainly follow.
So he waited, hoping to advance the Dayan Preface to the fifth Great Realm before making any moves.
Now that he finally understood how the derived ability from the fourth Great Realm of the Dayan Preface operated and manifested, Yu Ziqing knew this was his sensing at work.
It wasn't a baseless and aimless sense, nor a random guess.
This sixty-four-sided coupled with the Dayan Preface at a certain Realm might indeed be of great use.
Returning it into its Sealing, Yu Ziqing pondered that old Yang had absolutely no impression of it, and couldn't decipher it.
But the Divine King might know what this is.
Perhaps find a way to inquire from the Divine King?
Back at Jinlan Mountain, Yu Ziqing pondered how to handle this matter while continuing his cultivation.
He's finally found some interconnected points, he shouldn't let go.
Time slowly passed, and besides listening to the Jade Tablet, Yu Ziqing paid little attention to the outside world. Not many months had passed.
The Little White Fox suddenly knocked on Yu Ziqing's room door.
This little fellow, living on Jinlan Mountain, was having quite the comfortable life. It grew slowly but became progressively smarter and more sensible.
The Little White Fox leapt into Yu Ziqing's arms, somewhat frightened, as if it had encountered something terrifying.