CHAPTER 817: CHAPTER 424:

Ma Jianguo continued:

"The second step, ’Shaping Realm.’ After establishing intent, you must use it as the core to continually enrich your Inner Scenery."

"Visualize the sun, moon, stars, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, mountains, rivers, and vegetation to add laws and details to your Spiritual World."

"This process is extremely lengthy and requires laborious effort. The more complete and realistic your Inner Scenery, the more stable your Spirit, and the more exquisite your control over your True Qi."

"Alas."

Ma Donghe suddenly sighed and interrupted:

"My dad made me visualize a furnace, but I was too hungry in the cave. I ended up visualizing it as a grill furnace, almost made myself drool to death."

"Shut up!"

Ma Jianguo glared at his disobedient son, only continuing to teach Fang Cheng the deeper Magic Technique:

"The third step, ’True Self.’ When your Inner Scenery is accomplished, you can visualize a ’True Self’ identical to yourself within it."

"This ’True Self’ is the absolute ruler of your Spiritual World, the embodiment of your will."

"At this step, you’ve truly entered the hall. In future cultivation or confrontation, a thought moves, and the ’True Self’ can simulate myriad laws within the Inner Scenery, bringing about dramatic transformations in your power."

Ma Jianguo’s teaching theory was comprehensive and orderly, logically rigorous, giving Fang Cheng an enlightening realization.

His previous practice of Meditation Finger Technique seemed more like relying on instinct, solving problems with brute force.

But Ma Jianguo depicted a clear map toward higher realms for him.

"Master Ma, you mentioned before that the Visualization Method is dangerous, so why is Donghe..."

"This rascal is an exception."

Ma Jianguo helplessly sighed:

"His grandfather, which is my dad, started taking him to the cave for closed training like a madman when he was just a few years old, calling it ’cultivation from a young age.’ This kid doesn’t know if he has extraordinary Talent or just a fool’s fortune, but he got used to it. Later, after my dad passed away, with no one to look after him, he slacked off, wasting his Kung Fu. Now, I’m just making him pick up what he lost."

Upon hearing this, Fang Cheng suddenly remembered Ma Donghe mentioning the Special Search Team had a psychological test called ’Abyssal Echo.’

It’s said that Ma Donghe slapped back a ghost claiming to be his grandfather in it.

Thinking about it now, the "closed training" of this grandfather and grandson back then was probably full of stories.

Ma Jianguo seemed to recall something too, shaking his head, then he began to recount the origin of this Visualization Method.

"The ’Intent’ of our Ma Family’s Visualization Method is ’Thunder Fire Cauldron.’ It originates from an ancestor five hundred years ago. He was a Daoist Child at Wudang Mountain, with average talent, but was uniquely obsessed with Qigong. Despite years of diligent practice, mastering Pile Skill and Breathing Technique, he could never grasp the ’Intent’ in Visualization Method. Ultimately, in despair, he descended the mountain, returning home to live out his remaining days."

"However, on a thunderstorm night, he witnessed lightning strike mountains, sparking a flame, gaining sudden insight. Thus, behind the village within the mountain, he imitated the power of lightning and fire, exhausting his family’s wealth, excavating a ’Water Prison’ channeling the underground spring. He imprisoned himself inside, in stillness and darkness, perceiving that momentary life force of lightning and fire."

"After forty-nine days, he emerged breaking through the barrier, not only successfully establishing the ’Thunder Fire Cauldron’ intent but also stepping into the supreme realm of ’Inner Scenery External Manifestation.’ Afterwards, he lived in the Martial World, committed to justice and righteousness, founding the Ma’s Tai Chi sect, being summoned by the Emperor and appointed as Imperial Commander. Hence, our Ma Family gained its status among the Four Great Families of Dragon Guard."