Do not die

In the lotus space.

Meng Zhou, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly stretched out his right hand. He pulled out a "silk thread" made of pure spiritual energy and held it in his hands.

One end of this "silk thread" was grasped by his hands, but the other end was still connected to the rich spiritual energy in the "Lotus Space".

Meng Zhou lowered his head and looked at the "silk thread" held by both hands. He just looked at it quietly, his hands and fingers motionless.

But only Meng Zhou himself knew that the spiritual energy thread held by his hands was meandering under the influence of his mana, blood, and thoughts in his heart.

One knot after another forms and disappears in the process.

At least, that's what it looks like from the outside.

But these knots did not really disappear, but were "precipitated" in the spiritual energy threads, fundamentally changing their characteristics bit by bit.

The continuously meandering spiritual energy threads form new knots one after another, and "settle" one after another, like a matryoshka doll, over and over again.

This may seem like a simple step, but it’s anything but simple.

After taking the real step forward, Meng Zhou suddenly saw a new world.

Although this "new world" is still very hazy, Meng Zhou is convinced that he has found the right direction.

Meng Zhou could almost conclude that as long as he continued along this path unswervingly, it would be a matter of course for the knot master to break through the third-level to fourth-level obstacles.

There was no way to break through the road ahead, but now I look back and find that the way to break through is so simple. Looking at it as a whole, it is simply a matter of course.

"Thousands of books are falsely passed down, but one sentence is really passed down... The great truth is the most simple, and this is what it means!"

…

When Meng Zhou completely cut off the connection between the spiritual energy around his body and the spiritual energy thread in his palm, the spiritual energy thread in his palm was not affected in any way.

Not only was it not lost, but the short length of spiritual energy thread was connected and complete, forming a self-contained whole.

Under Meng Zhou's induction, the extremely spiritual thing formed a ball in Meng Zhou's right palm.

It is still a pure aura. It was originally invisible. Under Meng Zhou's thoughts, it emerged from transparent and invisible to clean white, and then the brilliance circulated, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple...

The ever-changing and dazzling colors flicker and flow in Meng Zhou's palm, as if he is holding a rainbow that is richer than the changes in nature.

But doing all this is a very simple thing for the spiritual energy thread that is currently being held in Meng Zhou's palm.

It just makes a slight adjustment to the superficial spiritual fluctuations.

Soon, as Meng Zhou's thoughts changed again, the rainbow light in his palm turned pure white again, and then disappeared again.

Meng Zhou's thoughts moved again.

The spiritual energy thread that was only visible to him disappeared from his palm and entered the sea of ​​consciousness.

When it entered the sea of ​​consciousness, it instantly took on a real form - a long rope with its own spirituality and a "body" slowly swimming.

This long rope had a clear goal and soon reached the sky above the Soul Pond.

Then, the long rope suddenly unfolded to the left and right.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the long rope unfolded into a huge net covering the entire soul pool.

If you just look at its appearance, it looks very much like the invisible threads that suddenly appear and wrap around the soul pool after issuing the Dao Heart Oath.

However, only the outside is worth seeing.

When Meng Zhou's thoughts changed, the spiritual energy threads wrapped around the soul pool tightened and shrank.

Meng Zhou had no time to take any countermeasures. A slight ripple of the "offended" soul pool instinct caused these spiritual energy threads to break inch by inch.

The broken threads dispersed into spiritual energy and quickly dissipated without a trace.

After actually verifying the huge difference in power between the "fake copycat version" and the "authentic original version" he made, Meng Zhou was not depressed at all, but was extremely excited.

After actual verification, he has long understood that the level of power is not the key. The real key is that he can completely reproduce the process itself.

And this is also the key to becoming a third-level knot master to a fourth-level knot master.

According to Meng Zhou's current understanding, from the first-level knot master to the third-level knot master, as the realm improves, the methods become more and more miraculous, and the things that can be done become more and more magical, and more and more magical. Incredible.

But if you just study the "knot technique" in depth, you can find that there is no fundamental change from the first level to the third level.

Whether it is the second level or the third level, it is based on the first level to expand, add, and continue to build and lay the foundation.

In comparison, going from level three to level four is a leap.

A short, spiritual silk thread can be unfolded into a "net" that can cover his soul exactly as he wishes, and can continue to execute new orders.

What Meng Zhou saw was not just the "mesh" displayed in front of him.

But there are many possibilities that are far more complex and varied than this.

It seems that every possibility he can think of can be solved through this process.

And these extremely complicated changes, if you look deeper, are all hidden in the extremely simple operation of "continuous matryoshka".

This process of "continuous nesting of dolls" is actually a continuous compression and refinement of complex instructions, all of which are stuffed into a long rope.

According to Meng Zhou's own understanding, this is not a long rope, it is clearly a mobile hard drive with its own 3D printing.

In order to verify his suspicion, Meng Zhou was not satisfied with just reproducing the effect of Dao Heart Oath to bind the soul.

This was just a window that gave him a glimpse into a "new world."

…

This year, Meng Zhou went out to “get” a few Dao Heart Oaths back.

Every time he came back, he would immediately choose to break the contract, thereby collecting more traces of the long rope “celestial phenomenon”.

The last two times, Meng Zhou did not choose to break the contract directly, avoiding the direct backlash and breaking of the Dao Heart Oath.

He slowly and skillfully “tease” and “provoke”, dancing on the edge of backlash again and again.

In this process, Meng Zhou’s efficiency in reproducing these “celestial phenomena” became higher and higher.

He even wanted to try to unlock it without triggering its backlash and breaking.

The former is equivalent to violently breaking the door, and the latter is equivalent to picking the lock and breaking the door. In terms of skills alone, the latter is far above the former.

The result was unsuccessful. The continuous and endless failures made Meng Zhou realize that although he had glimpsed a higher path, he was still far from the level of the long rope “celestial phenomenon”.

However, although the result was a failure, the attempt itself was undoubtedly very successful.

What he gained was far more than the direct backlash of the Dao Heart Oath.

It can be said that every failed attempt is not meaningless, and there are parts that benefit him.

…

One year later.

Lotus Space.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Meng Zhou stared at the void in front of him without blinking, and a pure white ball the size of an adult's fist was suspended there.

At this moment, under Meng Zhou's eyes, there were dozens of extremely thin white silk threads on the surface of this pure white ball, dancing wildly without wind.

As these white silk threads danced wildly, the thread ends became shorter and shorter.

Finally, all the white silk threads disappeared and became part of the pure white ball.

Next to him, Bai Zhi, who had come over out of curiosity, saw Meng Zhou stop and immediately asked:

"What on earth is this?"

Meng Zhou asked back: "What do you think it is?"

Bai Zhi said: "How should I know!"

Meng Zhou thought about it and smiled: "Maybe you can think of it as a mirror."

Bai Zhi asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

Meng Zhou said: "Whatever you think it is, it can be... Just like a person looking in the mirror, what it is does not come from it, but from you!"

Bai Zhi's expression suddenly became a little dazed when she heard this, as if some reactions were incomprehensible for a while.

After a long time, Bai Zhi's face showed a moving expression, and she said in shock: "It's not that exaggerated, right?"

As she was talking, she saw the white ball that was originally suspended in the air suddenly jumped towards her. Bai Zhi was startled and quickly reached out to catch it.

She looked so cautious, as if she was touching a piece of porcelain that could break at any time.

"What are you doing?"

Meng Zhou said:

"Don't be so cautious, just treat it as a toy.

... I just said that, I don't know how capable it is."

As he said that, Meng Zhou guided Bai Zhi to complete the ritual and control of the pure white ball.

After the ritual, Bai Zhi looked at the ball in front of her, looked left and right, and couldn't see what it had to do with the mirror. She turned her head and asked Meng Zhou next to her:

"What should I do?"

Meng Zhou said irresponsibly: "Do whatever you want."

Bai Zhi was quite dissatisfied when she heard this, and her cheeks bulged slightly.

However, she was still curious about Meng Zhou's previous story, and she really wanted to try whether the ball in front of her was as magical as Meng Zhou said.

"What you think is what it is, right? Well, I think it is a guqin!" Bai Zhi said so.

But when she finished speaking, the white ball was still a white ball, without any change.

Bai Zhi was disappointed when she saw this, but she looked at Meng Zhou with a playful look in her eyes.

Meng Zhou said: "Don't just say it, you still have to think about it. The clearer you think, the better!"

Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment, and said apologetically: "Oh, you still have to think about it...Okay, I think about it!"

The next moment, a surprising scene happened.

The white ball stretched out in front of her and really turned into a guqin.

Moreover, with her continuous improvement, the color and texture of the guqin became more and more ancient.

Finally, the guqin completely became what she wanted.

It can be said that this is the most ideal guqin style in her heart.

Bai Zhi was greedy and couldn't help reaching out to grab it.

The next moment, something disappointing happened.

When her fingers touched the guqin, there was only a slight touch.

Then, her hand passed through the inside of the guqin.

Moreover, because her palm passed through the inside of the "guqin", the guqin was directly cut in two by her.

Bai Zhi said disappointedly: "So, this is just an illusion!"

Meng Zhou said helplessly: "There is no way, what it can do in the end depends on the material it is woven with, which is why I asked you to treat it as a toy.

However, you can't simply treat it as an illusion, after all, it is still woven by me using the third-level top-grade spiritual energy as the material."

Bai Zhi nodded and said: "Can it be played?"

As she spoke, Bai Zhi had already thought about it in her heart.

The strings of the guqin moved without being plucked, and the melodious sound of the guqin came out, which was exactly the tone she thought of in her heart.

What surprised Bai Zhi even more was that this tone was not just a simple sound, but also contained a unique power.

In other words, as long as she wanted, this guqin sound would immediately have a practical effect.

Either attack, defense, or bewilderment... any method she can express through the way of music, this guqin can perfectly reproduce it.

As she tried, the shock in Bai Zhi's heart became more and more intense.

The guqin became a bamboo flute.

A completely different timbre, showing different musical characteristics from the guqin.

Then, she changed into more instruments.

The musical instruments in front of her also changed with her thoughts.

What's more important is that it's not just a change in appearance, but also a corresponding change in its inner characteristics.

After that, Bai Zhi no longer stuck to musical instruments.

The appearance of her apprentice Zhu Qian appeared in her mind, and the white ball really turned into Zhu Qian's appearance.

And as she thought about Zhu Qian's image more and more clearly and concretely, the Zhu Qian in front of her became more and more "concrete". Even her level of cultivation and the skills she mastered were the same as the real Zhu Qian.

Then, "Zhu Qian" lay down on the ground and turned into a ferocious monster.

However, because Bai Zhi's understanding of this monster is limited to its appearance, this monster only has its form.

Soon, the monster's figure flickered and turned into a spiritual plant.

This is back to territory Bai Zhi is familiar with.

And even with Bai Zhi's attainments as a spiritual planter, there is no difference between it and real spiritual plants.

In other words, as long as there is a difference, the plant in front of her can be immediately changed according to her wishes until it is 100% in line with the standard position in her heart.

Until, Bai Zhi couldn't help but stretched out her hand again.

Her fingertips passed through the leaves of this "spiritual plant".

Then, Bai Zhi made some simpler attempts.

A fire.

A flash of lightning.

A flying sword that shuttles back and forth.

…

"stop."

Bai Zhi, who was imagining the ball as a strange magic weapon "playing" there, stopped immediately when she heard Meng Zhou's shout.

"What's wrong?" Bai Zhi asked confused.

Meng Zhou said: "You don't think this thing is a perpetual motion machine that can play forever without charging, do you?"

Although Bai Zhi didn't know what a "perpetual motion machine" was, she still understood the meaning of Meng Zhou's words.

After sensing it carefully, I did have a feeling of being exhausted.

"How to recover?" Bai Zhi asked.

"Don't worry about it. If you put it in a place with spiritual energy, it will recover automatically, but the efficiency will be a little slower. If you want it to be faster, just give it some spiritual stones or take the initiative to send some mana into it."

Bai Zhi nodded, quickly held the white ball in her palm, and while sending out her magic power, she said to Meng Zhou, "You're going to give this to me?"

Meng Zhou nodded.

Due to its innate limitations, this small white ball had no practical value to him.

Its only value is that the moment it was born, it verified what he thought.

He also gave a name to the newly born skill that was originally full of question marks.

"The Wanxiang Pearl, let's call it the Wanxiang Pearl." (End of Chapter)