Chapter 14

Chapter Fourteen: The Cosmic Brain

Watching ten thousand star credits disappear from his account, Jiang Li groaned in pain: "Heaven, I just spent ten thousand, but to replenish the life potential I've consumed, I have no choice but to spend money."

Now, he was in a constant state of hunger every day, almost unbearable.

This hunger was a torment.

However, if he wasn't hungry, it would be even worse, indicating that his life potential was being consumed by his cells.

"Stone, oh stone, you truly make me love and hate you at the same time." Jiang Li caressed it, not daring to enter the fetal breathing state again.

The online delivery was very efficient; just an hour after purchasing, the items were delivered to his door.

They were tubes of green liquid, thick and viscous, resembling some kind of biological algae. Opening one, he caught a whiff of a pleasant fragrance, confirming it wasn't fake medicine.

In today's human society, fake medicine was basically eradicated. If caught making fake medicine, one could face the death penalty or be exiled to another planet, where life was worse than death.

There was a planet specifically for exiling criminals called "Rakshasa," where the temperature could reach seventy degrees Celsius during the day and drop to minus thirty degrees Celsius at night. The environment was harsh, with scarce vegetation and water, making life for the exiled criminals worse than death, as they suffered in hell every day.

This nutritional liquid contained various nutrients processed with special biotechnology, allowing for rapid absorption. However, one couldn't overuse it, as it could lead to excessive nutrition.

But for Jiang Li, this wasn't a problem.

He was so hungry that he almost wanted to eat the glass tube when he smelled the fragrance.

"Hungry, so hungry, I need to eat quickly!" Jiang Li consumed one tube, immediately feeling a warm current rise from his abdomen. The effect was evident; the nutritional liquid spread throughout his body, reducing his hunger.

A thousand star credits per tube, indeed, made a difference.

However, his hunger wasn't completely gone, so he immediately consumed another tube, and then another, until he had taken ten tubes in total, finally alleviating his hunger.

"Really comfortable... not hungry anymore, so comfortable..." Jiang Li gobbled down the ten thousand star credits' worth of nutritional liquid, feeling warm and cozy, ready to fall into a deep sleep.

But he knew what he should do and immediately began crystal meditation, entering the second stage of deep sleep, where his mind shone like a crystal.

He didn't dare to put the milky white stone in his mouth, only adjusting his body state through his mental realm.

In deep sleep, the milky white stone emitted a faint white light, suddenly becoming agitated, and he entered a dream again.

It seemed that the milky white stone had been activated by the mental power of the "Phantom Fox" to reveal some secrets...

"Through thousands of autumns, what year is it tonight?"

Jiang Li fell asleep, entering the fetal breathing state, and a voice echoed again. This was the second time he heard it; the first was when he received the inheritance of the milky white stone.

However, this time, there were new scenes in the dream.

A voice resounded.

"Vast universe, sacred starry sky, all is but a dream. To penetrate the great dream of the world and return to reality is the path of cultivation..."

In the dream, a person appeared.

This person stood in the dream, his face calm, speaking word by word, as if a teacher instructing a student.

"Lucky one, you have finally used your mind to activate the cultivation of the Great Dream Heart Sutra. Now, I will impart to you the cultivation of this supreme divine skill!"

This person wore ancient clothing, a middle-aged man, not the white-clad corpse in the sewer, but another person in the dream.

He didn't say much and immediately began the cultivation.

He sat cross-legged in a stable posture, one palm upright with a full palm center, a smile on his face, looking kind and peaceful, the other hand naturally hanging down, touching the space.

Jiang Li felt that after this person assumed this posture, he was fearless, his mind calm, and all kinds of terrors could not affect his heart, preventing inner demons from arising, and wisdom instantly emerged.

Then, his hand seals changed, blooming like a lotus, sometimes clenching his fists, sometimes forming a sword with his fingers, sometimes making a ring with his fingers, sometimes touching the ground... countless transformations.

"Above my head is your Cosmic Brain. Meditate and move in coordination... this is the basic practice of the Great Dream Heart Sutra! The Mind Emperor Seal! Meditate on the Cosmic Brain to enhance your mental power."

Above the middle-aged man's head, a vast starry sky appeared.

This starry sky was densely packed with stars, seemingly trillions of them, forming a nebula.

The shape of this nebula was actually a brain!

Trillions of stars formed a star system, not a galaxy like the Milky Way, but a brain, with the trajectories between the stars resembling the grooves of a brain. Each star flickered, like brain cells constantly working.

This was the meditation image.

This star system was many times larger than the Milky Way!

"This brain star system... why have I never seen it before? There seems to be no star system in the universe that looks like a brain, but the stars are so real..."

Jiang Li asked in the dream. In his studies, human astronomical knowledge was extensive, but he had never seen a star system like a human brain, such as the Milky Way, Andromeda, or Centaurus... none of them resembled a human brain.

But the middle-aged man teaching the technique didn't speak, only demonstrating repeatedly: "The brain is the spirit, the spirit is thought, thought is the mind, the mind is the heart. Meditate on the Cosmic Brain, and your brain is the brain of the universe!"

As the middle-aged man continuously changed his hand seals, Jiang Li saw that the universe around the brain star system was indeed dark. If the "Cosmic Brain" suddenly stopped flickering, darkness and terror would descend.

He seemed to realize something.

His brain and the Cosmic Brain were merging, each star representing a brain cell. Brain cells were always active, and if they stopped, his soul would disappear, falling into eternal darkness.

Suddenly, the dream vanished.

Jiang Li woke up from his sleep, drenched in sweat.

The scenes from the dream were deeply etched in his mind, indelible. Each posture and meditation image was carved into his heart like a knife.

Especially the "Cosmic Brain" star system, ten times larger than the Milky Way, with its stars flickering, deeply imprinted in his mind, making him dizzy and disoriented every time he recalled it.

"Is this the basic practice of the Great Dream Heart Sutra? Meditating on the Cosmic Brain?"

He woke up from his bed, finding himself drenched in sweat, with a foul smell, but his physical strength was incredibly robust, and he felt his body cells rejoicing with each breath.

He knew his life potential must have reached 0.9.

Recalling the dream, the images were crystal clear, almost like reality. Jiang Li couldn't help but make the various hand seals.

As soon as he made them, meditating on the trillion-star brain, his body moved, his fingers connected to his heart, and his mind and heart were in sync, making his spirit incredibly focused.

It seemed that all the brain cells in his head were flickering, his thoughts running at high speed.

If his brain were a computer, it would have been processing millions of operations per second, now processing tens of millions, with his thoughts flashing ten times faster.

His hand seals, combined with meditation, moved like the wind.

Suddenly, before he could complete the "Mind Emperor Seal," he felt a headache and a warm sensation in his nose.

He quickly stopped the hand seals.

Reaching up, he found fresh red blood.

It turned out that his thoughts were flashing too fast, and the meditation had damaged his brain, affecting his body.

This was normal. A person could exhaust their mind, even turn their hair white overnight. Some scientists, deeply engrossed in solving problems, overused their brains and died.

Now, Jiang Li was overusing his brain during cultivation.

The Mind Emperor Seal, whether in hand seals or meditation on the Cosmic Brain, was not something he could practice at his current level.

"So hungry, why am I hungry again?" Wiping the blood from his nose, Jiang Li felt his stomach rumbling: "I didn't enter the fetal breathing state, so why am I so hungry?"

He had just practiced crystal meditation, entering deep sleep, not daring to use the fetal breathing state. How could he be so hungry so quickly?

"Could it be because of the meditation on the Cosmic Brain and practicing the Mind Emperor Seal, leading to excessive physical activity?" He still had five thousand star credits and bought three thousand star credits' worth of Green God nutritional liquid this time.

An hour later, the online delivery arrived, and he consumed one tube, feeling his hunger lessen.

"I understand." Jiang Li thought.

He realized that the milky white stone likely required a very strong mental force to activate. His mental strength was insufficient, but during the battle with the "Phantom Fox," the opponent's hypnotic secret technique inadvertently activated the Great Dream Heart Sutra.

Unfortunately, the Phantom Fox's mental strength was also insufficient, leading to a backlash and blindness.

"The Mind Emperor Seal, combined with meditation on the Cosmic Brain, is indeed powerful, but it consumes too much mental and physical energy. Without sufficient nutrition, it's impossible to practice! Heaven, I need money! More money!" Jiang Li groaned.

Martial arts that could be practiced with meditation were "B" level or higher.

For example, the most typical "B" level martial art, the Ghost God Fist, where each move was accompanied by meditation, imagining oneself as a ghost or god, entering a state of self-hypnosis, making each punch feel powerful and divine.

However, this kind of practice could easily lead to mental disorders.

Therefore, it was considered a forbidden martial art, prohibited in schools. Only those who entered the third stage of deep sleep could practice it.

All advanced martial arts were accompanied by meditation, achieving a unity of body and mind.

"Terrible, terrible, terrible. The milky white stone can't be used in the fetal breathing state. After barely surviving, I managed to activate the basic practice of the Great Dream Heart Sutra with the help of the Phantom Fox, but I still can't practice. How terrible is this?" Jiang Li suddenly realized that without sufficient nutrition, the milky white stone was useless.

Indeed, he tried again, meditating on the Cosmic Brain for three minutes, and his nose started bleeding, and intense hunger overwhelmed him.

He drank another tube of Green God nutritional liquid to feel better.

Holding the last tube of nutritional liquid, looking at the two thousand star credits left on his card, Jiang Li felt like crying.

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{I think there should be a star system in the universe that looks exactly like a human brain. I once saw a picture where the atoms in the human body, under a microscope, resembled a dense starry sky. The human body and the universe should have a subtle connection. Perhaps, there is a star system in the universe that resembles the human body, and under this influence, humans were formed. Could that star system be called Pangu?}

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