Hero of heart The amazing son in law complete
Chapter 7418
Everything was as Charlie predicted.
A mysterious entity within you is making a silent deal with you.
After taking in ninety percent of the spiritual energy in his body, he showed off his new hand seals one by one in the sky.
This time, sixteen hand seals were still on display, but they were more complicated than yesterday’s sixteen hand seals.
After memorizing all the handprints, Charlie tried to reproduce them completely.
What confused him was that after the entire series of hand seals was completed, the spiritual energy in his body did not change at all.
Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu, who were standing beside him, weren’t as fast or as skilled as him. They completed the hand seals a little over a minute later. Their feelings remained the same; their spiritual energy neither increased nor decreased, and there was no change at all.
Maria Lin asked worriedly, and after finding out that the new fingerprint was invalid, she couldn’t help but think hard.
Charlie suddenly looked dazed 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 Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu, “Try connecting yesterday’s fingerprint with today’s fingerprint and run it once.”
Both agreed that this made perfect sense, so they both entered a meditative state and began practicing the unfamiliar Buddhist hand seals.
Charlie was the first to complete all thirty-two hand seals. Immediately afterward, spiritual energy poured into his sea of consciousness from all directions, at least three or four times stronger than yesterday.
This made Charlie very happy.
Yesterday there were sixteen hand seals, today there were thirty-two. Although the cycle time for each movement had doubled, the spiritual energy had increased at least three or fourfold. The two canceled each other out, meaning the overall cultivation efficiency of these thirty-two hand seals was more than double what it had been.
More than doubled! What a huge improvement!
Of course, because the base number was already very small, even if the efficiency were doubled, the speed of spiritual energy acquisition would still be very slow. However, this gave Charlie great hope. If there were more of these 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 so, the speed of spiritual energy recovery would be truly impressive. You wouldn’t need to rely entirely on pills to survive; you could recover your spiritual energy in just a few days. At that point, everything would enter a completely new realm.
A moment later, Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu also opened their eyes. Compared to yesterday, they were even more excited and sobbing.
They all clearly felt the tremendous increase in efficiency. This cultivation speed was far more efficient than the time it took them to obtain the Small Qi Nourishing Pill from Victoria. In the past, they would have been extremely grateful if they had obtained the Small Qi Nourishing Pill in a year or two, but with the efficiency of the thirty-two hand seals, they could obtain the same amount of spiritual energy in a month or two.
Seeing the uncontrollable joy on the three of them’s faces, Maria Lin knew that Charlie’s efforts had succeeded, and she was also very grateful.
After discovering that the overall efficiency of the thirty-two hand seals had more than doubled, he was shocked and couldn’t help but exclaim, “I just observed that the speed at which you, Miss Yun, and Miss Song perform the thirty-two hand seals is different. I imagine that if you can memorize the hand seals thoroughly and continue to improve your hand speed, then your cultivation efficiency will continue to increase.”
Charlie suddenly remembered and said excitedly, “Miss Lin is right. The Buddhist hand seals are complex and difficult to grasp. Even imitating them is not easy. It takes me at least ninety seconds to do it. But everything is subject to the law, as the oil seller says, ‘practice makes perfect.’ If you can truly familiarize your hands with each hand seal, it’s not impossible that your speed will double.”
After saying this, he couldn’t help but sigh: “When I was little, my mother taught me to play the piano for several years. Back then, no matter what instrument they played, they loved to play a song called ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ as fast as they could. When I was little, it took me at least five or six minutes to play the whole song, but the masters could finish the whole piece in a minute. The difference in speed was seven or eightfold. The Buddha’s hand mudra was like a score. Besides talent, diligent practice was also very important for playing speed.”
Maria Lin nodded, “I think so too. Young Master has to expend a large amount of spiritual energy every day to exchange for hand seals. To replenish his spiritual energy, he has to consume precious pills. If this continues, those pills will soon run out, leading to a shortage of medicinal ingredients for alchemy. Such precious pills should be saved for crucial moments where they can play a vital role, rather than wasting them on daily cultivation. If we can replenish spiritual energy through hand seals, that would be perfect.”
Charlie agreed, saying, “That makes sense. However, I plan to make another deal to see if there are any new traces. If so, how much will my overall cultivation efficiency improve? If it still doubles, then investing some pills will be worthwhile. If the speed of improvement isn’t that fast, I’ll slow down for a while and go back to closed-door cultivation, otherwise my pills won’t be able to keep up.”
Currently, Charlie only had ten Qi-Enhancing Pills left, and the raw materials for refining them had run out. Although Maria Lin had instructed Lao Parker to help find them, raw materials couldn’t be obtained with money alone; they also depended on chance and fate. Therefore, until the raw material problem was resolved, Charlie planned to keep five pills for himself as a safety net against unforeseen circumstances.
Therefore, he only had five pills left to trade with the mysterious entity inside his body.
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After returning to the villa in the morning, Charlie, Jeremiah Yun, 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, memorizing all thirty-six hand seals clearly isn’t easy. You also need to think about them while doing them. Therefore, improving efficiency isn’t something that can be achieved overnight. Just like playing a difficult piano piece, you need to develop strong muscle memory before you can improve and achieve significant speed.
This muscle memory is a long process. For pianists, it may take more than ten years of hard practice to reach their peak.
Charlie remained alone until nightfall when his alarm went off. When he opened his eyes, Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu had also been awakened from their meditation by the sound of the alarm.
Charlie told the two to get ready to leave, then pushed the door open and went out first.
In the living room, Maria Lin and Helena were busy chatting.
Helena initially harbored a sense of wariness and competitiveness toward Maria Lin, but after further conversation with her, she realized that this young woman’s personal charm was truly beyond her comprehension. Not only was her IQ and EQ exceptionally high, but her knowledge was also incredibly broad. Therefore, when Charlie and the other two were alone, she would chat with Maria Lin, and before long, they became best friends.
Seeing Charlie appear, Maria Lin immediately stepped forward, bowed slightly, and said, “Young Master, I have studied some classic materials and combined them with what I have seen and heard before. I have a general understanding of the hand seals you have been practicing for the past two days.”
Charlie said happily, “Miss Lin, please tell me about it.”
Maria Lin said, “If I’m not mistaken, the hand seal that the mysterious object sent to you through the aurora should be the true hand seal of Vairocana Buddha, also known as the Vairocana Mudra.”
“The hand gesture of the Great Sun Tathagata?” Charlie asked, “What is its origin?”
Maria Lin explains, “The mudras of the Vairocana Buddha that exist today are completely different from the original mudras of the Vairocana Buddha. The original mudras of the Vairocana Buddha were meditation mudras of the Vairocana Buddha, mudras that truly possessed magical powers. In other words, these were the mudras used in Buddhist practice. However, these mudras with magical powers have gradually disappeared. These mudras that have been passed down through generations have become a kind of ritual in Buddhism.”
Charlie, who was not very familiar with religion, humbly asked, “Miss Lin, who is the Buddha Vairocana you just mentioned, and which Buddhist teacher?”
Maria Lin smiled and said, “Vairocana Buddha is the same as Mahavairocana Buddha, Shakyamuni. However, the two are not completely equal. It can be understood that Shakyamuni is the Buddha’s ‘manifest body’ for adapting to the mortal world. Buddhas have three bodies: the Dharmakaya, the Manifest Body, and the Sambhogakaya. The Buddha’s ‘Dharmakaya’ is Vairocana Buddha.”
Charlie sighed, “Although Buddhism and Taoism have different ideologies and principles, they ultimately lead to the same goal of cultivation. It seems the legend of cultivating to sainthood is not just a myth. Perhaps the sages of the past truly created their own Pure Land of Bliss! I never expected to have such an honor, learning the true secrets of Buddhism. What an incredible honor.”
Maria Lin nodded and said solemnly, “I have been a devout Buddhist since childhood, but I have never been as great as you, Young Master. It seems that you are the one who really has a connection with Buddhism!”
Hearing this, Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu immediately shed tears.
From the first time they saw the handprint up close, their emotions became extremely fragile and sensitive, and they would cry at the slightest provocation.
They were already extremely grateful for the opportunity Charlie had given them, and now that they knew it might be the priceless Handprint of the Great Sun Tathagata, they were even more grateful. In their entire lives, they had never imagined they would be so fortunate, and it was all thanks to Charlie.
So, the two of them held hands and knelt in front of Charlie again, sobbing uncontrollably.
Charlie was a little dizzy. They were both completely addicted to kneeling. They could kneel at any moment, and he simply couldn’t keep up.
He immediately stepped forward to help the two of them up, but to his surprise, they showed no intention of standing and their legs remained bent at a 90 degree angle.
Jeremiah Yun held back his tears as he said, “Master Wade, you may not know this, but ever since the day I attained enlightenment, I have been like a rootless weed, a beggar in cultivation. Obtaining a cultivation technique or even a single elixir was as difficult as ascending to heaven. I was even forced to humble myself before Victoria, acting as her henchman and doing all sorts of evil deeds for her, just to obtain a few cultivation resources.”
“However, since meeting you, Mr. Wade, I haven’t done anything worthwhile for you, but I’ve received countless wonderful opportunities from you. The gratitude in my heart is beyond words. I can only say that I hope that one day I can give my life for you, Mr. Wade, and repay your kindness with my death!”