Sit up? Yes, he had sat up, and he was even sitting in the 'pyramid' posture, completely ignoring the mountain and river imagery that Xiu Shenyu had taught him.
Luo Nan gaped, speechless.
On the other hand, Xiu Shenyu was not all that surprised. He looked Luo Nan up and down a few times, then slowly said, "Breathing in and out. Fusing new and old techniques into a furnace is a good thing."
Xue Lei let out a sigh of relief. "That's good."
Unexpectedly, Xiu Shenyu's next words were, "It's a pity that I can't use my skills on myself."
"Ah?"
Xue Lei blinked. Dojo Master, I can't translate what you're saying! He looked at Luo Nan. Luo Nan's head was lowered in contemplation. He didn't react at all. In the end, he could only ask, "Master, you mean …"
Xiu Shenyu didn't respond to Xue Lei. He gazed at Luo Nan for some time before saying, "I taught you to visualize the image of mountains and rivers, but I didn't tell you to take out an iceberg. The weather is cold and the ground is frozen. When water swims through the cracks in the ice, most of it will still melt. Water can moisturize things, but ice can crush people. "
Luo Nan pondered for a moment. He raised his head and said, "Please guide me, gym master."
Xue Lei looked at the gym master, then looked at Luo Nan. He finally confirmed that he, the translator, was about to lose his job. He shrunk to the side, not uttering a word. He just pricked up his ears.
Xiu Shenyu pondered as he said, "Rome wasn't built in a single day. I don't really understand your visualization technique, but I vaguely feel that from the inside to the outside, it's very strict and majestic. It's a magnificent sight. This is of course very good. It's a pity that this iceberg doesn't truly belong to you. The more majestic the iceberg is, the smaller you are … People are affected by the law, and the law is affected by people. This is your problem. "
This Dojo Master Xiu had never been good with words. When he conversed with others, he would always say what he was thinking. His reasoning was not very clear, and he often used metaphors, making it hard for others to listen.
Xue Lei's eyes spun as he listened to Luo Nan. Luckily, Luo Nan combined his own circumstances with the heavily intersecting dark chains and the prison in his heart. He had a general understanding of what was going on.
It was precisely because he understood what Xiu Shenyu said that he was truly amazed by Xiu Shenyu's eyesight. This dojo master was undoubtedly truly capable. But he was also more and more confused about the underlying causes of his family's situation.
A while passed before Luo Nan asked: "Why doesn't it belong to me? I'm the one cultivating it! "
"Is it really you?"
Xiu Shenyu's rhetorical question left Luo Nan speechless.
From the first day he started researching Formatting Theory, he had been walking a path that relied on external forces. The Spiritual Medicine, the Darksider life form, the Sacrificial Framework … These external items had played a decisive role behind the rapid growth of his soul strength. All he did was set up a shelf.
Even his arrogance was learned from his grandfather.
While Luo Nan was in a daze, Xiu Shenyu slowly stood up and walked to the side of the tai chi ball. There was no light in the room. From a distance, only a blurry figure could be seen.
Luo Nan and Xue Lei glanced at each other. They both got up and walked over.
Xiu Shenyu didn't care about them. He directly moved the tai chi ball, causing it to spin in the bowl tray on the ground. The metal ball, which was half the height of a person and weighed more than a hundred kilograms, spun with great momentum. Even the cork floor was shaking.
"This is an iceberg."
Luo Nan nodded. He automatically replaced Iceberg with Formatting Theory in his mind.
"Now, you have this." Xiu Shenyu continued to speak. He pointed at the tray below.
Due to the spinning heavy metal ball, the tray below swayed endlessly as well. Luo Nan stared at it without blinking. He took the tray and compared it to his own situation.
This analogy was very intuitive. Even the ignorant Xue Lei understood. "Gym Master, are you saying that Nanster's cultivation speed is too fast? He can't get rid of his tail, so his luck isn't smooth?"
But then, Xiu Shenyu shook his head. "He's being rejected."
"Huh?" Xue Lei was immediately stupefied. Luo Nan suddenly raised his head from the side.
Xiu Shenyu's palm pressed against the outer edge of the metal ball, and the rolling and spinning ball came to a stop with a hum. Xiu Shenyu had already opened the outer shell of the ball while it was still swaying slightly. He took out the complex mechanical device from within the cavity.
"You should be talking about this."
Xiu Shenyu spoke calmly. "To put it simply, the cultivation of a human is like drawing a circle. The self is the center of the circle. Layer by layer, the circle expands outwards. The range of control grows larger and larger, and the weight grows heavier and heavier. But no matter what, the heart must be unhindered up and down. Following the heart is the right path. If it's heavy and cumbersome, difficult to move, then it's called being too big to get rid of. "
Luo Nan first looked at the mechanical device. He was lost in thought for a while, and then he looked at Xiu Shenyu. "Then, right now, I …."
"Right now, you're just a burden. You're a carrier."
Xiu Shenyu placed the mechanical device back into the cavity, and he let the metal ball spin once more. "I think you know just how much strength you have at the center of the circle."
Luo Nan thought of the inscribed sphere's depths. There was a mass of fire that was completely devoid of heat. He took a deep breath. "But I'm still inside!"
"Only a part of it." Xiu Shenyu responded faintly. "This technique isn't yours. You're just endlessly pouring water on it, turning it into layer after layer of ice cubes, making it expand even more, making it even heavier. Perhaps you can borrow its power, but you must do so under its existing rules. You can't overstep them in the slightest. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any content regarding the feedback of the human body within its rules. The human body is the foundation of cultivation. It has a soul and is incorporeal. It's nothing more than a pavilion in the air …. Yet you've built it to such a scale, reversing the real and the false. This is the main reason why your body and soul are unbalanced. "
Luo Nan was a bit conflicted by the first half of Xiu Shenyu's description, but when he heard the words' must do so under its existing rules', he felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He was stunned on the spot.
The doubts he had on the bus on the way here were illuminated by the lightning, and they were torn to shreds.
Yeah, why didn't he think of this? Sensing the river of stars, the feedback from his believers, these were solid achievements. They were all changes on the mental plane, and they existed within the framework of Formatting Theory.
On the contrary, he had entered the rules set by President Ouyang Chen in the Simulator layer of the Psychic Wave Network. His control over the small paper men involved the material plane, a domain that Formatting Theory was unable to touch upon.
One was efficacious, and the other was ineffective. The true reason lay here!
Though this was only Xiu Shenyu's personal opinion, he did not know the concrete contents of Formatting Theory. He also did not know the awkward situation Luo Nan faced. For Xiu Shenyu to be able to make an inference, and for it to coincide seamlessly with reality, was something that could hardly be described as a coincidence.
Luo Nan stood there in a daze. The darkness of the training field surrounded him, and the sound of the metal ball grinding and turning crushed all the way into his heart.
Xiu Shenyu's voice seeped in like fine sand. "My generation has been influenced by external techniques. At first, they are not good enough to be called 'imprisonment'. Next, they are not good enough to be called 'overturning'. Finally, they are not good enough to be called 'parasitism'. Your current situation is probably somewhere between 'imprisonment' and 'overturning' … "
"Gym Master!"
This was the first time Luo Nan interrupted Xiu Shenyu's speech since the start of tonight's lesson. Luo Nan stared fixedly at the wizened middle-aged man's sunken eye sockets. It was deep and gloomy, and it was hard to distinguish color. But there was a heavy force that pressed down on Luo Nan's heart.
Luo Nan used the strength of his teeth to speak, "Gym Master, are you saying that the technique I cultivate in is flawed?"
Xiu Shenyu's answer was probably the most fluent that Luo Nan could remember.
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