Chapter 58 Old Divine Power, New Interpretations

"Because she doesn't have a real self," Zhang Quan stroked his chin, "A traditional god must have mortal elites to write about him, or have followers to donate to him, or have someone built his statues for him. In short, people will worship a figure that they all recognize. Even if the Avalokiteshvara, someone say that he's ----", Here, Zhang Quan coughed, “Someone say that he’s switching between male and female. But at least there are classics and historical records to check with. For example, there is a book recording that Avalokiteshvara is a worrier. While what about her? She was born because people put their energies on the Internet. Then let me ask you, you do Internet products every day, do you know what the Internet looks like? "

"Err …" Zhang Quan's question stumped me. That was right. If I had to draw a picture for the internet, I really wouldn't be able to do it.

"So," Yan saw that I was stuck, so he continued to speak. "She seems to have a lot followers, but she doesn't know her own appearance. Since she has no appearance of herself, how can she become a god?”

Zhang Quan nodded, "It's such a pity. She has the condition of becoming a god, but not the foundation of becoming a god. In other words, she might have accumulated countless Formless Donations, but because she lacks the opportunity to gather them all, it will be difficult for her to become a god. "

"But doesn't it say that being formless is more powerful than a form?" I didn't think about it before blurting out. I always read people’s articles about “formless” online, thus I felt that it was formidable.

"Haha, that's for someone who has already reached a very high level!" Yan laughed, "You always claim that you like reading Jin Yong's novels, don’t you? Do you remember that in the Semi-Gods and Semi-Devils, how to defeat Jiu Mo Zhi’s Formless Tribulation Finger?”

I was wondering how come Yan did not focus on his job properly as a ghost servant but read mortal books and tested me from time to time. I curled my lip and replied, “To defeat formless with a form.”

“That’s it," Yan said as he clapped his hands, “Being formless is significant because there is a form. But this Quasi-God has no form, so how could she be formless?"

With a flash of thought, the fire of hope in my heart extinguished and I couldn't help but lower my head.

"Talking about formless and form, you seem to have something that you didn't have before today, right?" Zhang Quan asked. I raised my head, and saw that he was looking at me, so it seemed that he was saying those words to me.

“Well?” I am a little confused. “What do you mean I have something that I didn't have before?" As I spoke, I looked at Liu Shuai, who was also at a loss.

"Yan, can't you see that?" Zhang Quan looked in the mirror and saw Yan shaking his head. He thought for a moment, then nodded, “Fine, it’s no wonder that you can't tell. You are blocked by the mirror, so you can't sense his changes."

After saying that, Zhang Quan placed his hand on my forehead with a face full of surprise, and grabbed onto my forearm as if he was an old Chinese doctor checking me pulse. Then he looked at me and said straightforwardly, “It’s weird. Have you encountered or done anything strange recently?"

I thought about it, then suddenly remembered the 'ghost girl' I saw that night, and hurriedly said, "There really is a strange thing. That night, I saw Ye's soul without borrowing mana. Even Liu Shuai could not see it."

"Who's Ye?" Zhang Quan frowned. Yan was also surprised. I couldn't help but go crazy. Just now I didn’t have time to tell Yan about those weird things. It seemed that Zhang Quan wasn't clear either, and even after Long Fei gave him the Immortal Tying Rope, he wouldn't explain the situation in detail. Or rather, even if Long Fei wanted to explain everything, with his blabbering style, Zhang Quan probably wouldn't bother listening.

Thus, I narrated the entire process from that night when I saw the ghost girl to me “competing" with A Zhe, as well as the story that Liu Shuai used Formless Donations to refine Lan Ruo in the Dragon King's Temple. When I got to the point where Liu Shuai had displayed his great abilities, Zhang Quan smiled and nodded towards him.

After listening to my description, Zhang Quan walked back and forth in the room. Not long later, he stopped and looked at Yan, “Fellow Taoist Yan, no one can cultivate the Imbedding Body right?

Yan seemed to be thinking too, but upon hearing Zhang Quan's question, he hurriedly replied, "Of course, there are two sets of genes in the body that are unable to form Dantian, while expansion of Dantian is the starting point of everything.”

"Dantian?" I thought about what Yan had said. Suddenly my eyes lit up, and I asked meticulously, "Then what if one use Divine Power of the North to absorb other people's inner strength and expand his own Dantian?"

"What are you talking about?" Liu Shuai was confused this time, so did Zhang Quan. Yan seemed to be able to understand what I was saying, but he was also looking at me with a puzzled expression.

Looking at their expressions, I smiled bitterly in my heart. It was not surprising. They didn't read Mr. Jin’s novels or at least did not read those stories carefully. I thought for a bit, then explained in detail, “Do you know the Divine Power of the North in Mr.Jin's novels? According to the novels, this technique can absorb other people's inner strength."

I saw the three of them nodding their heads. While sighing over that everyone read Mr. Jin’s books, not matter he was a human or ghost, I continued to explain, “Don't you feel it strange? In Mr. Jin’s novels, when the inner strength of the martial arts expert was exhausted, after resting for a while, his inner strength would recover. However, the inner strength that was absorbed by the Divine Power of the North could not recover at all, so the person was crippled. Why is that?”

“Well.." Liu Shuai was the first to understand what I meant, and he thought deeply, "Right, I've never paid attention to this question before. It doesn't follow logic."

“You're discussing logic with an Imbedding Body than can borrow mana. why aren't you discussing acting skills with a star?" I found it funny and borrowed Zhang Chi Hang's words here. Seeing Liu Shuai scratching his head, I laughed and continued to explain, "Just like how the Avalokiteshvara acquired time-related mana because of the strange accident in the 13th year of Zhen Guan in Journey to the West. There is also a way to explain the absorption of inner strength by Divine Power of the North — —"

"What explanation?" Yan seemed to be the most interested in all of them, so it was no wonder that the first person to ask this question was Yan who liked to read TopBuzz and watch variety shows. He must be very curious about these issues.

“When one uses the Divine Power of the North, he not only absorbs the inner strength, he also absorbs the space of inner strength storage with inner strength as a lead line, which allows the user to expands his own space of inner strength storage.” I explained as I pondered.

"Dantian!" Yan's eyes lit up, as if he understood something, "You're saying that by using Divine Power of the North, you absorb the opponent's Dantian to expand your own?”

"What are you talking about?" The more Liu Shuai heard, the more confused he became. "What do you mean by absorbing the opponent's Dantian to expand your own?"

"Err …" I thought for a moment and rubbed my forehead, then told him, "Just like when you were playing a game, the opponent's mana value was represented by blue bar, right?"

Liu Shuai nodded.

"For example, if you have 10000 points in the blue bar, and normal mana consumption would mean that you have used up all the mana in the blue bar. As long as you rest, after a period of time you would be able to increase your points.” I felt that it was easier to explain with video games, so I continued, “But user of the Divine Power of the North directly suck all the 10000 points of the opponent's blue bar, then expand his own blue bar by 10000 points so that the opponent's blue bar will be zero. Then, no matter how much the opponent rest, he won't recover his strength. This blue bar, according to Yan's explanation, stand for Dantian."

“Got it!" Liu Shuai shouted, "That means by using Divine Power of the North, you absorb the opponent's Dantian to expand your own! If you had said it so earlier, I would have already understood! "

"That's what I just said..." I muttered in my heart. Yan and Zhang Quan had also understood.

"But what does that have to do with you?" Liu Shuai continued to ask.

“This is all thanks to Yan. "I smiled as I looked at Yan, who seemed to have understood something," That night in the plaza, when I was fighting with the two soul hunters, my inner strength was insufficient. In a moment of desperation, I used the Divine Power of the North and slowly absorbed the opponent's inner strength. At that time I only felt a warm stream flowing into my abdomen, but I did not know—”

"You didn't know that you have used this method to expand your Dantian!" Yan laughed, "So you are capable of storing mana!"