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The Ancient One picked up a book on the table and first showed Stephen Strange a mural of meditation.

Then he was shown an acupuncture diagram of the human body's meridians and acupoints.

Seeing his face becoming increasingly ugly, Master Ancient One took out a bone pattern from an MRI and showed it to him.

"Are you kidding me? I've only seen that mural in a gift shop." Stephen Strange felt as if he had been cheated.

"There's no scientific basis for meridians and acupuncture points, not to mention the MRI images at the end. I'm a doctor, and I have to look through a lot of them every day."

The Ancient One ignored Stephen Strange's slight madness and continued calmly, "These are the methods that humans have used to understand the human body throughout the ages."

"But just like the blind men touching the elephant, this is only a partial or partial picture, without seeing the real key."

Stephen Strange collapsed after hearing only part of it. He felt like he couldn't breathe and all his hopes were gone.

"I spent all my money to buy this bicycle ticket to come here, and now you are telling me that I need to rely on my spirit! I need to rely on my thoughts to heal this basically unhealable wound!"

Master Ancient One's reaction remained calm, as if he would not be surprised at all even if Stephen Strange jumped directly from the window.

"The world is just a glimpse to you. You have no idea how big this world is, how vast the universe is, how powerful the spirit is, and how many incredible things it can do."

"After all, you are trying to break through your own limitations, wanting to see more and understand more."

“And now when you know that your limitations can be broken beyond your imagination, you reject this possibility and stick to your old ways and try to measure the world and the universe with the pitiful things you have learned before.”

"Don't tell me these nonsense!" Stephen Strange said angrily, "I just don't believe in these things, such as Qi, meridians, and the energy or power of faith you mentioned."

"There is no such thing as spiritual power! We are all made up of matter, that's all!"

When Stephen Strange said these words, Master Mordo also shook his head and looked quietly towards the back mountain.

There, sitting right now, was a person with unparalleled spiritual power.

When Stephen Strange was denying spiritual power at the top of his lungs and felt that people were only material, he was sitting on the grass at the edge of a cliff and meditating.

At this time, Stephen Strange was still using his "profound" knowledge to educate the Ancient One.

"Even you, Master Ancient One, who looks like a hermit, are just a tiny and insignificant speck of dust in this universe."

"Do you think you've seen through me? No, no no, it's me who has seen through you!"

"I understand now. You and this place are a gathering place for liars! You! Are the biggest liar!"

Stephen Strange was so excited that he even pointed his finger at the Ancient One.

Just as his hand touched the Ancient One, the Ancient One grabbed his wrist in an instant, then turned his right palm, stepped back half a step with his left leg, and slapped Stephen Strange on the chest with one palm.

Time seemed to stop at this moment, and an illusory figure flew out from Stephen Strange's body, with eyes wide open in shock.

Stephen Strange looked at himself floating in the air, and then looked at himself in front of him who was slowly falling to the ground but was caught in time by Master Mordo. His head was full of confusion, shock, and extreme incomprehension.

After a few seconds, he felt as if he was suddenly sucked by something, suddenly moved forward, and instantly returned to his own body.

"What is going on! What did you do to my body?!" Stephen Strange said stutteringly with extreme horror.

Master Ancient One replied calmly: "I just pushed your spirit out of your body so that you can see yourself better."

"What did you put in the tea?! Psilocybin? LSD? Or poisonous mushrooms?" Stephen Strange was still gasping in disbelief, guessing that there must be something in the tea that caused him to have such hallucinations.

"It's just a cup of tea." Master Ancient One replied indifferently, while picking up his own cup beside him and taking another sip.

"What, what on earth is going on?" Stephen Strange looked at everything around him and for the first time began to have extreme doubts about the world he lived in and himself.

Master Ancient One took a sip of tea and put down the cup again and explained: "At that moment, your body and your spirit were separated, and your spirit entered a spirit dimension."

"That's where the soul can exist without the body."

"Now do you realize how ignorant you are?"

Stephen Strange looked at the Ancient One, still unable to believe what had just happened.

Upon seeing this, Master Gu Yi smiled and shook his head, then suddenly pointed a finger at his forehead.

Following the actions of the Ancient One, Stephen Strange felt himself being driven out of his body again, and then entered a space that was rapidly reversing.

He passed through Kamar-Taj and flew straight into the sky, out of the earth, and out of the universe.

The voice of Master Ancient One kept circling in his ears. Master Ancient One led him and made him fully feel what the real world was.

The secrets of the universe and space slowly unfolded before him, and the scenes of the multiverse were deeply imprinted in his mind.

When he came to his senses again and returned to the chair in Kamar-Taj, he was still upset, his body and mind still in extreme shock and had not recovered.

"Tell me, Mr. Strange, have you seen these things in the gift shop?" Looking at Stephen Strange who was slumped on the ground, gasping and in shock, the Ancient One asked with a faint smile.

Stephen Strange recalled what he had just seen, and then looked at the Ancient One in front of him. Now he realized how shallow his previous thoughts were.

He no longer slumped on the ground, but turned over and knelt, sincerely asking Master Ancient One: "Please teach me!"

Hearing Stephen Strange's sincere request, Master Ancient One also took a sip of tea, and then said lightly: "I refuse."