Chapter 163: There is a great terror between life and death
Along with the prompt from the panel, Chen Jue felt his body temperature begin to rise sharply, the blood in his body began to surge like a tide, and wisps of white smoke rose from Chen Jue's body.
The entire room on the first floor was warmed by the heat radiating from his body.
By transporting Qi and blood along the routes of the small and large circulations, Chen Jue could see through introspection that most of the cells in his body were speeding up the absorption of the innate Qi emanating from the meteorite fragments.
The cells grow rapidly, and then divide themselves after reaching a critical point. The original cells age and die at an accelerated rate, while the newly divided cells continue to thrive and break their original upper limit.
Not only that, Chen Jue's various attributes also began to roll up, and began to increase rapidly as if he had taken some panacea.
Of course, this growth is not endless. When the dark golden lines on the meteorite fragment held in Chen Jue's hand began to disappear completely, and the free innate Qi in the air was completely absorbed into Chen Jue's body, this transformation came to an abrupt end.
The [Small and Large Circulation] on the panel was also upgraded to Lv1 (5/200). In just the next second, a horrifying siphon effect spread throughout the body like an overwhelming force.
Chen Jue discovered through introspection that the new cells that had completed their transformation seemed to become agitated and crazy at this moment. Having lost the energy support of their innate Qi, these cells actually began to accelerate the extraction of nutrients and energy stored in Chen Jue's intestines, blood, and body fluids.
This extraction is the siphon effect caused by the skill breakthrough. Chen Jue had not yet awakened his inner vision, so he was unable to observe the true working principle of this siphon effect.
Now that the elixir has been formed and there has been a breakthrough in the small and large circulation exercises, the effect of inner vision has reached the body's cellular level. Only then did I discover that the so-called siphoning was the body's cells absorbing nutrients at an accelerated rate.
Seeing that those cells were about to drain his body, Chen Jue said inwardly: "Not good!"
He quickly finished his exercise, jumped up from the sofa, and ran up to the second floor along the stairs in a few steps. He opened the bedside table, took out the golden dew and human nutrient supplements, tore open the lids and started to pour them into his mouth.
The energy and nutrition intake and supply through this primitive method of eating alone cannot keep up with the siphoning of 60 trillion cells in the body.
Chen Jue discovered through internal vision that many of the metamorphosing cells, after failing to absorb nutrients, actually began to devour nearby cells. It was as if the cells were starving and started fighting each other. Chen Jue's entire body had become a battlefield where the strong preyed on the weak.
At this time, his body fat content also dropped rapidly. As a large amount of water was consumed, his originally plump skin and muscles began to shrink rapidly.
"Am I going to be drained dry by the breakthrough of my martial arts?" A ridiculous thought flashed through Chen Jue's mind. He was about to go downstairs to eat some more food, but his feet seemed to be rooted and he couldn't move. He hurriedly gathered his mind, forced his qi and blood to gather into a ball, and used the state of Dan Formation to resist the changes in his body.
Finally, his head buzzed and his eyes went dark, as if he had an anemia attack, and he fainted on the bed.
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After an unknown amount of time, Chen Jue woke up from his coma.
Golden dew and packaging shells of human nutrient supplements were scattered all over the bed, and his body had recovered from the previous siphon effect.
As the Taoist classics say: "Between life and death there is a great terror, born in the heart and manifested in the body."
Chen Jue's breakthrough technique triggered the "hunger" of cells throughout his body. The feeling of hunger is essentially the fear of the seven emotions and six desires, and fear comes from life and death, and it is the normal process reaction of the human body to death.
Chen Jue opened his eyes and stared blankly at the white plastic ceiling on the second floor. He discovered that it was already daybreak outside.
"The living dead... the real dead... the transition between life and death... it turns out there is really great terror between life and death!" Last night's breakthrough made Chen Jue experience the mystery of life and death as he had never experienced before.
Simply put, there was a lack of energy supply, which almost drained him to death.
Fortunately, the golden dew and human nutrients that entered his stomach at the end began to slowly replenish the deficit caused by the previous siphoning. When Chen Jue woke up one night, he found that except for being a little weak and hungry, his body did not have any major sequelae.
I got up from the bed and took a look at the properties panel:
Name: Chen Jue
Age: 27
Health Index: 189%↓ (mild malnutrition)
Strength: 3.77 (+0.26)
Agility: 2.96 (+0.57)
Constitution: 4.01 (+0.16)
Intelligence: 1.70 (+0.09)
Free attribute points: 0.69
Skills Mastered: Perfection... [Sleeping Dragon Pill Technique Lv2 (133/500)] [Wudang Golden Toad Technique Lv0 (9/100)] [Daxiao Zhouquan Run Lv1 (5/200)]
Status bonus: Known... [Unknown Blockade] [Inner Vision]
All attributes have been greatly improved due to the breakthrough of the operation of the small and large circulations, and even a new state bonus has been awakened.
[Introspection]: Look within yourself to purify your mind, break through the void and you will see God!
Status description: Death and life, one goes forward and the other reverses. When awakening to this state, one can observe the changes of one's own body from the macro to the micro, through introspection, such as newness, decay, aging, and death.
"After a good sleep, my attributes increased so much."
"Even the Sleeping Pill Technique has broken through to the next level."
"Is the siphoning effect too strong, causing malnutrition?"
"Looking inward... breaking through the void, you can see the gods... no wonder the inner alchemy classics say that there are gods living inside the human body. It turns out that the light is emitted by the meridian points, temples, and sensitive points in the internal organs." Chen Jue looked at the panel and muttered to himself.
After last night's experience of the mysteries of life and death, Chen Jue entered an extremely mysterious state of insight into his body.
He can discover the transformation of cells throughout the body, and can also see the replacement and death of cells, just like the Buddhist scriptures mentioned that when the Buddha picked up a flower, Kasyapa smiled and uttered the eternal Zen ritual: "One flower, one world."
I think it is because Buddha Shakyamuni used a method similar to Chen Jue's introspection, from the macro to the micro, and saw the cells in the human body and the cells hidden in the flowers, as if there was a world hidden inside.
When one’s practice reaches Chen Jue’s level, it is just like Tang Monk and his disciples in Journey to the West who went through 81 difficulties and finally reached the Western Paradise, where they saw the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats hidden in the trillions of Buddha lands.
The purpose of obtaining Buddhist scriptures from the West is not to obtain the true Buddhist scriptures, but to continuously unearth the secrets hidden within the body in the process, until one sees the Buddhas and gods hidden in the body, and becomes the master of one's own body, dominating the acupuncture points, tissues, organs, cells, etc. that contain the "gods" in the body.
However, this process requires a large amount of energy and nutritional support. If it were not for the innate Qi carried by the small piece of meteorite fragment last night that provided most of the energy, as well as the subsequent intake of golden dew and human nutrients, Chen Jue would not be able to survive the siphon effect caused by the breakthrough of the [Small and Large Circulation] technique.
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After getting out of bed and cleaning up the garbage upstairs, Chen Jue watched the sun slowly rising outside the window.
After experiencing the threshold of life and death , Chen Jue found that he actually had some unknown fear when facing the evolution of life and the transformation of his body.
Even with the state of [Red Dust Immortal] blessing his mind and will, and even having experienced the early death of his family members and witnessed the passing of Mr. Huang, Chen Jue thought he could look lightly at life and death.
I didn't expect that when life and death finally came to me, I would still feel an irresistible fear in my heart.
"The fear between life and death...the secret of eternal life...the innate Qi..." Chen Jue muttered to himself, then walked out to Linjia Village and had a very exaggerated breakfast.
When he got home, Chen Jue picked up his phone and found a message from Linglong: "Daoyou Chen Jue, I'm sorry I broke my promise... I accepted the invitation from Hongmu Group, and they gave me an offer that I couldn't refuse... If you're interested, you can come and have a chat..."
Chen Jue looked at Linglong's message with a thoughtful look on his face.
Thinking of the radiation energy contained in the meteorite fragment, Chen Jue felt that it would be difficult for anyone who was a Jindan master to resist the temptation of the innate Qi.
Considering that if he continues like this, his wallet will not be able to support his subsequent practice, and things of the level of golden dew and human nutrients will probably be difficult to support his subsequent practice.
Chen Jue sat and pondered for a long time, and simply dialed the number he had written down before. He planned to go and see what the Hongmu Group was up to, and see if there was a chance to get some more meteorite fragments for free.
