Chapter 3593 Buddha Has Three Bodies

Everything was as Ye Chen had predicted.

The mysterious entity within you is making a silent deal with you.

After it took away ninety percent of the spiritual energy in its body, it displayed its new hand seals one by one in the sky.

This time, the sixteen hand seals were still displayed, but they were more complex than yesterday's sixteen hand seals.

After memorizing all the handprints, Ye Chen tried to reproduce them completely.

What puzzled him was that after the entire set of hand seals was completed, the spiritual energy within his body did not change at all.

Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu, who were standing to the side, were not as fast or as skilled as him. They completed the hand seals a little over a minute later. Their feelings were the same; the spiritual energy neither increased nor decreased, and there was no change whatsoever.

Lin Wan'er inquired with concern, and after learning that the new handprint was invalid, she couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Ye Chen suddenly seemed to be in a daze and said, "Perhaps, today's sixteen hand seals are from the same group as yesterday's sixteen hand seals."

After saying that, he immediately said to Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu, "Try to connect yesterday's handprint with today's handprint and run it once."

The two agreed that this made a lot of sense, so they both entered a meditative state and began to practice the obscure Buddhist hand seals.

Ye Chen was the first to complete all thirty-two hand seals. Immediately afterwards, spiritual energy flowed into his sea of ​​consciousness from all directions, at least three or four times stronger than yesterday.

This made Ye Chen overjoyed.

Yesterday there were sixteen hand seals, today there are thirty-two. Although the cycle time for each movement has doubled, the spiritual energy has increased by at least three or four times. The two cancel each other out, which means that the overall cultivation efficiency of the thirty-two hand seals is more than double that of before.

That's more than doubled! That's a huge improvement!

Of course, since the base number was already minuscule, even if the efficiency was doubled, the speed of acquiring spiritual energy would still be very slow. But this gave Ye Chen great hope. If there were more to this set of hand seals, if sixteen more hand seals, or even thirty-six or seventy-two hand seals were added later, the efficiency might increase tenfold or even dozens of times.

If that's the case, the speed at which spiritual energy is replenished will be quite impressive. You won't need to rely entirely on pills to tough it out; you can replenish your spiritual energy in just a few days. At that time, everything will enter a completely new world.

A moment later, Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu also opened their eyes. Compared to yesterday, they were even more excited and burst into tears.

They all clearly felt the huge increase in efficiency. This cultivation speed was far more efficient than the time it used to take them to get a small Qi-Nourishing Pill from Wu Feiyan. In the past, they would be grateful to get a small Qi-Nourishing Pill in one or two years, but with the efficiency of the thirty-two hand seals, they could get the same amount of spiritual energy in one or two months.

Seeing the uncontrollable joy on the faces of the three of them, Lin Wan'er knew that Ye Chen's attempt had been effective, and she was also extremely gratified.

Upon learning that the overall efficiency of the thirty-two hand seals had more than doubled, she was pleasantly surprised and couldn't help but exclaim, "I just observed that the speed at which you, Miss Yun, and Miss Song performed the thirty-two hand seals was different. I imagine that if you can memorize the hand seals thoroughly and further improve your hand speed, then the efficiency of your cultivation will continue to increase."

Ye Chen was suddenly reminded by her and said excitedly, "Miss Lin is right. Buddhist hand seals are obscure and difficult to understand. Even copying them is not easy. It takes me at least ninety seconds to perform one. But everything is subject to a law, which is what the oil seller said, 'practice makes perfect.' If you can really make your hands familiar with each hand seal, it is not impossible to double your speed."

After saying this, he couldn't help but sigh: "When I was young, my mother taught me to play the piano for a few years. At that time, no matter what instrument people played, they liked to play a piece called 'Flight of the Bumblebee' as fast as they could. When I was young, it took me at least five or six minutes to play the whole piece, but top masters could complete the whole performance in one minute. The speed difference was seven or eight times. Buddhist hand mudras are like a musical score. In addition to talent, diligent practice is also very important for how fast you can play them."

Lin Wan'er nodded: "That's what I think too. Young Master has to expend a lot of spiritual energy every day to exchange for hand seals. In order to replenish spiritual energy, he has to take precious pills. If this continues, the pills will soon be exhausted, which will lead to the depletion of medicinal materials for alchemy. Such precious pills should be saved for crucial moments to play a crucial role, rather than being wasted on daily cultivation. If we can replenish spiritual energy through hand seals, that would be perfect."

Ye Chen agreed, saying, "That makes sense. However, I plan to make another deal with it to see if there are any new handprints. If so, how much will they improve my overall cultivation efficiency? If the improvement is still doubled, then investing some pills is worthwhile. If the improvement speed is not that fast, I'll slow down for a while, go back and cultivate in seclusion, otherwise my pills really won't be able to hold up."

Currently, Ye Chen only has ten Qi-cultivating pills left, and the raw materials for refining Qi-cultivating pills have run out. Although Lin Wan'er instructed Lao Zhang to help find them, raw materials cannot be obtained simply by having money; they also depend on opportunity and fate. Therefore, before the raw material problem is resolved, Ye Chen plans to keep five pills for himself as a safety net to deal with unforeseen circumstances.

Therefore, he only had five pills left to trade with the mysterious entity within his body.

……

Upon returning to the villa in the early morning, Ye Chen, Yun Rugo, and Song Ruyu began their seclusion.

During this period of seclusion, the three of them focused their main efforts on how to perform the thirty-six hand seals more skillfully.

However, it's not easy to memorize all thirty-six hand seals clearly. You also need to think about them beforehand when performing them. So improving efficiency is not something that can be done overnight. Just like a difficult piano piece, you have to develop strong muscle memory before you can significantly improve and break through in speed.

This muscle memory is a long process. For pianists, it may take more than ten years of hard practice to reach the pinnacle.

Ye Chen remained in seclusion until evening when his alarm clock rang. When he opened his eyes, Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu had also been awakened from their meditation by the sound of the alarm.

Ye Chen told the two to prepare to go out, and then pushed the door open and came out first.

In the living room, Lin Wan'er and Helena were having a pleasant conversation.

Helena initially harbored some wariness and a competitive spirit towards Lin Wan'er, but after talking with Lin Wan'er more, she discovered that this young girl's personal charm was beyond her comprehension. Not only were her IQ and EQ incredibly high, but her knowledge was also frighteningly broad. So when Ye Chen and the other two were in seclusion, she would chat with Lin Wan'er, and before long, they became best friends.

Upon seeing Ye Chen emerge, Lin Wan'er quickly stepped forward, bowed slightly, and said, "Young Master, I have consulted some classical materials and combined them with what I have seen and heard in the past. I have a general understanding of the hand seals you have been practicing these past two days."

Ye Chen said with delight, "Miss Lin, please tell me about it."

Lin Wan'er said, "If I am not mistaken, the hand seal that the mysterious thing transmitted to you through the aurora should be the true hand seal of the Buddha Vairocana, also known as the Vairocana Mudra."

"The Great Sun Tathagata's hand gesture?" Ye Chen asked, "What's the origin of this?"

Lin Wan'er explained, "The current Vairocana Buddha mudra is completely different from the real Vairocana Buddha mudra. The real Vairocana Buddha mudra is the meditation mudra of Vairocana Buddha, a mudra that truly possesses magical power. In other words, this is the mudra used in Buddhist practice. However, this kind of mudra with magical power was gradually lost. The mudra that has been passed down has become a kind of ritual in Buddhism."

Ye Chen, unfamiliar with religion, humbly inquired, "Miss Lin, who is the Vairocana Buddha you just mentioned, and which Buddhist master?"

Lin Wan'er smiled and said, "Vairocana Buddha is the same as Mahavairocana Buddha, which is Shakyamuni. However, they are not absolutely equivalent. It can be understood that Shakyamuni is a 'manifestation body' of the Buddha to adapt to the mortal world. The Buddha has three bodies: Dharmakaya, Manifestation Body, and Sambhogakaya. The Buddha's 'Dharmakaya' is Vairocana Buddha."

Ye Chen sighed, "Although Buddhism and Taoism have different ideologies and principles, they ultimately lead to the same goal in cultivation. It seems that the legend of cultivating to sainthood is not just a myth. Perhaps those sages of the past really did create their own Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss! I never expected to have such an honor as to learn the true secrets of Buddhism. It is truly a great honor."

Lin Wan'er nodded and said devoutly, "I have been a devout Buddhist since childhood, but I have never been as extraordinary as you, young master. It seems that you are the one who truly has a connection with Buddhism!"

Upon hearing this, Yun Rugo and Song Ruyu were already moved to tears.

Ever since they first saw the handprints up close, their emotions have become extremely fragile and sensitive, and they would burst into tears at the slightest provocation.

They were already incredibly grateful for the opportunity Ye Chen had given them, and now that they learned it might be the invaluable Great Sun Tathagata Handprint, they were even more grateful. In their entire lives, they had never imagined they would have such good fortune, and all of this was thanks to Ye Chen.

So, the two of them held hands and knelt down before Ye Chen again, sobbing uncontrollably.

Ye Chen was having a bit of a headache. These two were really addicted to kneeling. They would kneel down at the drop of a hat, and he really couldn't keep up with it.

He quickly stepped forward to help the two up, but to his surprise, they showed no intention of getting up and their legs remained bent at a 90-degree angle.

Yun Rugo choked back tears as she spoke, “Mr. Ye, you may not know this, but since the day I attained enlightenment, I have been like a rootless duckweed, a beggar in cultivation. Obtaining a cultivation technique or a single elixir is as difficult as ascending to heaven. I was even forced to grovel before Wu Feiyan, acting as her accomplice and doing all sorts of evil deeds for her, just to barely obtain a few cultivation resources. But since I met you, Mr. Ye, I have not yet done anything of value for you, yet I have already received all sorts of incredible opportunities from you. The gratitude in my heart is beyond words. I can only say that I wish that one day I can give my life for you, Mr. Ye, and repay your kindness with my death!”