Chapter 2508: Chapter 106: The Human Heart Is an Ocean
The human heart is an ocean, with myriad thoughts swimming like fish within.
The five senses are windows to the heart-sea, and what they see and hear is what they feel.
When you see something, hear a sound, or catch a scent, fish in the heart-sea leap and splash, creating thousands of ripples!
Only the strongest fish can leap out of the heart-sea and enter the main consciousness, where they are captured by ordinary people.
From this arises happiness, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire... the seven emotions and six desires.
The heart-sea is not calm; even in states of ignorance and insensitivity, undercurrents and rapids exist, and the river of stars competes. In that water, "fish" are born and die endlessly, proliferating continuously.
To most cultivators, too many thoughts are often just "disturbances" to the calm heart-sea, known as "distracting thoughts." Many cultivation schools prioritize eliminating these distracting thoughts in their practices, with countless methods to cut them off.
For example, Cui Yigeng from the Diligent Academy uses the thought of diligence as a great fish to swallow the Four Seas, devouring all distractions. One heart, one mind, one sword, hence unstoppable.
As for Jiang Wang himself, he tempers his heart and sharpens his will, steadfast in his Dao intention, never disturbed by distracting thoughts. Let the winds blow from all directions, I walk my path unaffected. Later, after obtaining the Red Heart Divine Power, he could suppress all alien intentions and thoughts with a single activation, making the heart-sea calm for thousands of miles.
Lin Kuang is different.
He starts with these ever-emerging and vanishing distracting thoughts in the heart-sea, diligently cultivating them into mind dust. It can be called a genius move.
It’s easy for people to generate distracting thoughts, but accurately capturing those "thought fish" in the vast heart-sea, which haven’t leapt out yet can be very useful, is exceedingly difficult.
Moreover, these distracting thoughts are very fragile; a single wave in the heart-sea can destroy countless "thought fish."
Once conventional divine soul strength falls, it might cause a tsunami within the heart-sea.
On how to select the right thoughts, how to capture them, how to help them grow, and how to cultivate them... these are detailed in the Mind Dust Technique.
Lin Kuang had long cleared the path ahead.
It is always much easier for later generations to follow the old footprints.
Jiang Wang uses the Red Heart Divine Power as the mainstay; upon slight relaxation, thousands of thoughts vie to leap out.
For a moment, thoughts run wild, emotions surge.
Worry! Anxiety! Fear! Anger!
The most intense thoughts collide with each other.
The Rage Dao Technique triggers perfectly, making that thought named anger suddenly swell, instantly overshadowing the others.
Using spiritual sense, a special "mind web" is quietly cast down, precisely capturing it!
The methods recorded in the Mind Dust Technique require first capturing the strongest thought to cultivate it into the main thought. This is a rather meticulous work that requires choosing among many thoughts, and the final decision also requires long-term observation.
Jiang Wang skipped those steps, directly using anger to catalyze the strong thought.
Then, with the mind web, he suspended this thought above the heart-sea. According to the secret technique Lin Kuang developed, he used spiritual sense strength to construct special links for meticulous nurturing...
This is a process similar to "incubation."
Until a certain moment, the crystal-like thought suddenly "hatches," and thought consciousness soars like a bird, spreading its wings, soaring above the heart-sea.
Everyone’s cultivation of thoughts is different, with each showing unique specifics. Jiang Wang cultivated a thought, exactly in the image of a heart sparrow.
With this as the main thought, he captures other "thought fish" as sub-thoughts.
Fish transform into birds, creating waves in the heart-sea.
A thought in Jiang Wang’s heart, and a wisp of sub-thought ties to Zhongxuan Sheng.
This feeling is very marvelous.
If he doesn’t think about it, nothing exists.
But as long as he briefly reflects, he knows instantly where his thoughts lay and can retrieve them anytime, or track them anytime.
Throughout this process, Zhongxuan Sheng remained completely unaware!
The duration of the Mind Dust Technique depends on how long the thoughts can survive independently after being dispersed; the stronger the thought, the longer the feedback it can provide.
Jiang Wang has already cultivated the "heart sparrow," and the Mind Dust Technique is considered accomplished. Moreover, this heart sparrow is lively and vigorous.
Inexplicably, at this moment, a tremor suddenly arose.
He still sat quietly, cross-legged on the branch, but let this main thought out to seriously sense his surroundings.
This is where he last met Lin Youxie.
The incorporeal, only perceivable by himself "heart sparrow," flew out of the heart-sea, out of the body, darting through the dark woods on this deep night.
Occasionally moonlight and starlight penetrated the leaf gaps, appearing faint and sparse, unable to serve as company.
The heart sparrow flies swiftly in this world but follows the rules exclusive to the heart-sea world.
Jiang Wang was sensing.
Sensing that woman waving goodbye and walking away alone.
It was as if he returned to that day.
Sensing the friend wearing a green headscarf, the mood of abandoning everything from the past and leaving the homeland.
There was a reaction sensed...
The heart sparrow truly sensed something, vaguely capturing some trace of a kindred!
Lin Youxie left a clue!
Jiang Wang suddenly felt a burst of joy, stabilizing his emotions, allowing the heart sparrow to continue flying.
Following that faint reaction in the abyss, the heart sparrow pierced straight through the woods, finally landing before an unremarkable old tree.
The straight-line distance from the forest clearing where Jiang Wang was sitting cross-legged was less than three thousand zhang.
This old tree had nothing special; even with divine pupil skills, no peculiarity could be seen.
But in the heart sparrow’s perception, there was a small black cat on that old tree.
Small, cold, curled up there on the branch...
That was Lin Youxie’s main thought.
Indeed, Lin Youxie left a clue, but what she left here was the main thought, not a sub-thought.
This was in itself a cruel answer.
After more than three months, this little black cat was already very weak, on the verge of extinction.
As a main thought of an Inner Mansion Realm cultivator, it could not withstand much wind and rain.
Yet it still lingered there alone.
Waiting for someone who may never come.
Seated cross-legged on the branch less than three thousand zhang away, Jiang Wang’s eyes were slightly closed.
The heart sparrow, spreading its wings in front of the old tree, hesitantly approached the black cat.
The small thought-cat was already insubstantial, even in the thought world, it wasn’t clear.
Only the black cat’s eyes were so clear, looking over as if seeing into the heart.
These eyes seemed to ask—
When will that person open that nameless book?
In Jiang Wang’s heart, a sour feeling arose.
Then the little black cat leaped lightly, shattering in the heart sparrow’s eyes.
He then saw—
He saw the last scene left in Lin Youxie’s eyes on May 9, Year 392 of the Dao Calendar.
He saw a hand, a pale and bloodless hand, calmly and irresistibly pressing down from above, turning the world... into eternal black!
