Chapter 232: Bird Watching and Learning to Fly, State Refining
Looking at the excrement on his shoulder, Chen Jue felt that he had just gone into the water for nothing. He grabbed the little guy in his hand and flicked its head lightly with his finger: "Remember not to do it again! If you do it again, I will roast you!"
The little parrot probably sensed the murderous intent emanating from Chen Jue, and its gray feathers trembled: "Ying~ (shivering)"
"Stay on the tree for a while, I'll go down to wash yourself, don't run around." Seeing the little guy showing an anthropomorphic look of fear, Chen Jue smiled slightly and put on the mentality of a kind old father again. He placed it on the top branch of the immortal tree, and then jumped into the lake again to wash his body.
After climbing ashore and changing into dried combat uniforms, Chen Jue discovered that the little parrot actually liked the scent of the immortal tree very much and had tried to find a place to build a nest on the tree.
Seeing this scene, Chen Jue recalled the scene where those adult parrots risked their lives to protect the giant tree. He always felt that there must be some special connection between these parrots and this immortal tree.
Chen Jue watched for a while, using the [Xuanmen Qi-Watching Technique] to observe the tree and the bird, and found that the magnetic fields emitted by the two actually showed a state of mutual tolerance. He thought: "Eating sweet wood will prolong life. The parrot and this immortal tree are like a phoenix perching on a phoenix tree."
"No wonder the adult parrots were so reckless in fighting Fei Yi. These two species must have a symbiotic relationship and cannot live without each other."
Seeing Chen Jue coming ashore, the little guy cried twice at him, kicked his two claws, flapped his wings, and barely jumped up from the tree, then jumped into Chen Jue's arms.
Chen Jue looked at the coquettish baby bird and felt that it was really dependent on him and treated him as its parent. It could even easily abandon the symbiotic immortal tree. So he put on his backpack and carried it towards the stronghold.
But when approaching the tree stump-like mountain, Chen Jue could clearly feel that the baby bird in his arms was expressing some uneasiness. The faint fluctuation of its mental magnetic field was mixed with a bit of awe, as if the strange beasts, insects and birds chasing Chen Jue would stop on their own initiative outside the invisible golden light curtain.
It is a fear that is engraved in the genes. Even a newly hatched parrot carries this emotion.
"Innate awe? It is indeed related to the magnetic field of this mountain that is suspected to be the towering Jianmu!" After observing this detail, Chen Jue was secretly surprised.
Looking at the tall mountain that seemed to be transformed from the towering Jianmu, I felt more and more that this place was hiding a huge secret.
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After returning to the base halfway up the mountain, Mr. Chen Jue checked and found no signs of any strange beasts or life forms entering the base, so he placed the parrot in the inflatable tent.
This little guy had just hatched not long ago, and was probably tired from playing around and expended a lot of energy. He began to nod frequently and became a little drowsy. As soon as he lay down on the soft cushion of the inflatable tent, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Chen Jue took out a notebook and recorded what he had encountered during today's exploration , drawing a simple map. He also focused on describing and analyzing the extraordinary abilities of the three strange beasts, the Feiyi, the parrot, and the fish, so that he could summarize his experience and find inspiration for his practice.
After closing the notebook, Chen Jue suddenly discovered that a faint resonance was emanating from the little guy next to him, which was the sound caused by the breathing of birds.
In addition, through the induction of heaven and man, Chen Jue discovered that the high concentration of innate Qi floating in the stone chamber of this stronghold began to penetrate into the body of the baby bird through the beak and feathers of the baby bird in the form of particles.
"Is it a practice that is innate?"
"The Thunder Sound of Tigers and Leopards has the effect of refining the internal organs and strengthening the marrow. I didn't expect that birds also have similar breathing methods to strengthen the heart and lungs and increase the toughness of the air sacs in the body." Chen Determined thought to himself.
Due to the unique body structure of birds, the respiratory system is very . It is basically divided into two types: air sac breathing and double breathing.
You know, the body of a bird is like a leather bag filled with various air sacs similar to small balloons. These air sacs can exchange gases with the lungs during flight, allowing their bodies to adapt to flying in the air.
In addition to this, the bones and feathers of birds are hollow structures, which makes the body lightweight to the extreme. They can cleverly use the principles of aerodynamics to push the air and use the reaction force to fly forward.
Chen Jue had previously relied on theoretical conjectures to deduce the level of cultivation after the Extraordinary Level, the Void Level. The Void Level uses the human body's magnetic field to interfere with the planet's gravity field to achieve a similar effect of weightless flight, crossing the void with the physical body, which is fundamentally different from birds flying with the help of air currents.
"They say that a person with great strength can fly. My strength is strong enough, but I can only rely on my jumping ability to stay in the air temporarily."
“It would be great if I could fly in the sky like a bird, so that I can explore this strange planet much faster.” Now observing the parrot's breathing method up close, Chen Jue was thinking whether he could find some inspiration from it to make up for the lack of initial flying ability of the [Super Class].
Unfortunately, there are no air sacs in the human body like those evolved in birds, otherwise Chen Jue would have found the key to this long ago.
However, after watching the parrot's bulging belly bulge out from time to time with its breathing, Chen Jue suddenly had an idea and thought to himself, "How could I forget about this part! If there is no air sac, then make one!"
Sparks of thought flew in his mind, as if he had captured some inspiration. While the little guy was sleeping, Chen Jue walked out of the base and made his way to the platform on the top of the mountain.
He opened his mouth and inhaled sharply, using the inhalation force of the [Golden Toad Skill] to inflate his stomach and intestines to the maximum. Chen Jue's belly bulged a little bit like a pregnant woman in her tenth month of pregnancy.
Due to his extraordinary physical fitness, Chen Jue was able to take in more air into his stomach and intestines. With a breath, the air gushed out from his mouth violently, blowing the top of the mountain platform into a cloud of dust and flying sand and rocks.
"No, no matter how much air you take into your stomach and intestines, it won't help you float. Your body is too heavy. You can't be as lightweight as a bird."
"Unless this force is strong enough and lasts long enough, and can be output stably, allowing the body to achieve a certain aerodynamic balance similar to a hang glider..." Chen Jue secretly sighed, but the obsession with flying had already taken root in his heart and he couldn't get rid of it all at once. He subconsciously looked at the attribute panel, intending to find a breakthrough from this panel.
“That’s right!”
"This state smelting function has never been used!" Chen Jue took a look at the three light skill and body movement bonus states on the panel.
He took another look at the state of [Golden Toad Swallowing Air], which enhanced the heart, lungs, and gastrointestinal system, and as if something had occurred to him, he dragged the four states into the colorful vortex of [State Smelting].
"bite!"
"【Light as a Swallow (Level 2)】+【Flying Through Flowers and Butterflies (Level 2)】+【The Speedy Guardian (Level 5)】+【Golden Toad Swallowing Air (Level 4)】=?"
"This smelting will consume 0.7 free attribute points. The smelting result is unknown. Do you want to smelt it?"
Looking at the prompts given by the panel, Chen Jue was a little puzzled. The reason why he didn't dare to try this state smelting easily before was that he was afraid of smelting out some messy negative states, and each smelting consumed a lot of attribute points, so Chen Jue never tried it.
Now that he had some preliminary ideas about the [Extraordinary Level] flight, Chen Jue wanted to use the attribute panel to open up the situation.
"Skill fusion breaks the skill limit, so does smelting also break the status limit? Or will it extend to something different?"
"Forget it, never mind. Let's take a gamble. If I win, I'll go to that club. If I lose, I'll go to work in the sea! Smelt it for me!"
