Chapter 721 - 456: Predicting the Future (Part 2)
So he could only order the soldiers to retreat.
Upon receiving this command, everyone immediately withdrew back to the military base. No one paid attention to Wang Ye, who was meditating at the center of the wilderness.
Yet the flames continued to rise in intensity, even affecting their rest.
Out of necessity, they had to urgently relocate soldiers and officers residing nearby to other regions.
By the time one night had passed, the area within a hundred kilometers was devoid of any human presence.
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The following morning,
after the flames had burned for eight hours.
Wang Ye gradually came out of his meditative state. As the flames slowly subsided, he opened his eyes and looked around at the wilderness that had been leveled. He couldn’t help but be taken aback.
"Is this... something I did?"
He didn’t remember when he had mastered such a skill for large-scale burning.
Wang Ye immediately summoned the panel to see what skill he had upgraded last night, but the words "Samadhi True Fire" on the screen left him stunned once more.
Another divine technique?
The so-called Samadhi True Fire is a common immortal daoist art in "The Investiture of the Gods", and its users include Nezha, Jinzha, Muzha, Jiang Ziya, Lei Zhenzi, Huang Tianhua, Wei Hu, and Yang Jian. It is said to be a kind of innate spiritual heat produced when the body enters a tranquil state, different from the acquired tangible fire. Samadhi True Fire possesses the traits of being "intangible yet incompliant, condensed yet not dispersed", and belongs to a metaphysical level of energy.
In the Daoist School, it is divided into upper, middle, and lower Samadhi, with the heart as the sovereign fire (upper Samadhi), kidneys as the minister fire (middle Samadhi), and bladder as the populace fire (lower Samadhi).
Internally, it can burn the "three corpses and nine worms" within the body, eliminate diseases, refine dark matter, and elevate the cultivator’s realm.
This may be the primary reason why Wang Ye found his primordial spirit greatly strengthened after honing it overnight in the Samadhi True Fire.
For others, this Samadhi True Fire might be unbearably scorching, but for Wang Ye, it was like sweet rain, warm and invigorating.
Externally, it can burn evil spirits and purify souls. In "Journey to the West," Red Child used this fire to severely injure Sun Wukong. The original text describes Samadhi True Fire as being impossible to extinguish with water, indicating that its temperature is high enough to instantly evaporate water. At the level of power depicted in mythical tales, this is not surprising, as ordinary water cannot extinguish the divine fire.
With a mere thought, Wang Ye’s body was once again enveloped by the divine fire. He reached out to touch the surrounding flames, lost in thought. These flames were indeed distinct from ordinary fire in terms of texture and composition, yet this distinction wasn’t on a mystical study level, but could be explained scientifically.
Ordinary flames seen in daily life usually have lower temperatures and energy density. However, the so-called divine fire Wang Ye released inclined more toward pure plasma energy, but with subtle differences even from the plasma in his nuclear fusion organ. Wang Ye couldn’t sense this difference either, but it was likely the core reason why the Samadhi True Fire wouldn’t harm him.
"It seems like some things do need to be explained with mystical study..." Wang Ye realized that when science hasn’t developed to a certain level, there are many areas it can’t cover at all.
Nevertheless, he wasn’t too curious about the composition of Samadhi True Fire for the time being. As long as he knew this flame wouldn’t harm him but instead bolster his primordial spirit strength, that was sufficient.
After taking a short rest, Wang Ye continued to summon the Samadhi True Fire to cultivate. As the Samadhi True Fire enveloped him, a golden light also emanated from his body, reminiscent of the Buddha’s Radiance behind a Buddha Statue, lending him an air of dignified solemnity.
Nowadays, most people believe Samadhi True Fire to be a Daoist divine technique since its users are generally figures from the Daoist School.
But actually, the term Samadhi is a Buddhist term, derived from the Sanskrit word "Samādhi", also translated as "samapatti" or "smṛti", and is one of the methods of Buddhist cultivation, meaning to eliminate all distractions and calm the mind and spirit. This is also why this divine technique ascended from the Buddhist Sect’s Inexperienced Fire Meditation.
The formation of Samadhi True Fire is very simple and similar to the energy operation method of Inexperienced Fire Meditation. When the energy rises from the navel wheel to the top wheel, and the Red Bodhi (fiery energy) and White Bodhi (Moon Dew Nectar) blend at the ascension point, the Spiritual Snake unfurls entirely, thus producing Samadhi True Fire.
This skill can improve Wang Ye’s primordial spirit strength and is arguably a rare and scarce skill today that can bring him tremendous progress, but its drawbacks are also apparent. The destructive power it unleashes during cultivation is immense.
Moreover, according to Wang Ye’s tests, it seems the higher his primordial spirit strength, the hotter the temperature of the Samadhi True Fire.
It seems that this flame doesn’t mobilize his own energy but draws energy from the outside world to burn.
Thus, the two effects are actually complementary.
Increasing the primordial spirit strength can enhance the power of Samadhi True Fire.
The enhancement of Samadhi True Fire’s power can, in turn, nourish the cultivation of the primordial spirit.
It’s equivalent to "using one’s left foot to step on the right foot to take off".
After about half a day of cultivation, Wang Ye felt his primordial spirit unprecedentedly abundant.
This feeling was akin to an elderly person suddenly regaining youth, with vigor several times more abundant than before.
Originally, Wang Ye was not a weak person, and now with the increased primordial spirit strength, he felt an understanding that seemed to reach the heavens. Everything around him appeared different, allowing him to perceive more subtle, grander sceneries, gaining fresh insights into all things, akin to the notion that "a flower is a world, a leaf is a Bodhi."
Now, even if he sealed his five senses, his divine sense could instantly perceive everything.
Typically, ordinary people cannot perceive more than five different signals through their five senses. Only trained individuals might perceive multiple signals concurrently and process various pieces of information at once.
This might sound somewhat difficult to grasp, but consider a person playing on their phone while walking. His brain is preoccupied with other information, so he fails to notice the sensation of his feet contacting and rolling over the ground, the tightness of his shirt clinging to his skin, or the clamor of people and honks around him.
This is an automatic filtering action the body undertakes to protect the brain.
If he forcibly attempts to perceive these feelings while processing complex information on his phone simultaneously, it would cause an unbearable headache because his spiritual power couldn’t sustain such an information load at once.
This information load limit could be likened to the brain’s operating memory.
Similarly, the finesse ordinary people can perceive is limited, much like how humans can’t sense microorganisms with their fingertips.
Previously, Wang Ye, having undergone evolution, already had an information processing limit and finesse limit a hundred times that of ordinary people.
He could perceive microorganisms and molecules and handle thousands of pieces of information simultaneously. While observing the activities of a Megalodon in the South Pacific Ocean thousands of kilometers away, he could perform the complex operations of cloning experiments and practice Inexperienced Fire Meditation.
Now, Wang Ye’s information load limit and finesse limit both far exceed his previous level by a thousand or even ten thousand times.
In an instant, he could perceive hundreds of billions of pieces of information around him.
And perform calculations with precision that could be described as terrifying.
Combined with his comprehensive understanding of feng shui, eight characters, and other mystical study theories...
Wang Ye realized that his current self seemed faintly capable of deducing future scenes.
This prediction wasn’t like mystical study where one applies formulas, combining and arranging words passed down from ancients. It was real computation.
Moreover, it was hard computation.
Relying on all the information he perceived, he hard-computed the future’s trajectory, considering all possible variables, with a precision exceeding ninety percent!
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