Chapter 248: Suzaku Soars into the Clouds
The bird was red all over, and looked like an enlarged sparrow, with a pointed beak and a long tail. It was roughly the same size as the phoenix that Chen Jue had seen before.
Every time it flapped its wings, red flames rose from its body and fell into the clouds.
Although it was soaring into the sky amidst the flaming clouds, the giant bird seemed to be burning itself, making the surrounding red clouds even more vivid!
"Body of a bird, red feathers, body like a phoenix!"
"The red guy that the phoenix was talking about is actually a Vermilion Bird!" Chen Jue was greatly surprised when he saw this.
As the saying goes: Tai Chi gives birth to two opposites, two opposites give birth to four symbols. The four symbols refer to the four major star regions of east, west, south and north divided by the ancients, from which the four gods of "Eastern Azure Dragon, Southern Vermillion Bird, Western White Tiger and Northern Black Tortoise" were extended.
The Four Gods are deeply rooted images for any ordinary person, so Chen Jue was also shocked when he saw the Vermillion Bird flying out from the fiery clouds.
This is a legendary mythical beast. Like the Phoenix and Bai Ze, it is a cosmic creature of the pinnacle of the extraordinary level.
When the flying Vermilion Bird sensed that there was another bird or beast in the sky, it cried out in joy and flapped its wings to fly closer.
Chen Jue could feel the rolling heat waves coming from the other party. There seemed to be a layer of flames burning outside the red feathers of the Vermillion Bird. Although it looked like flames, it was not real flames.
With the help of his divine sense, Chen Jue recognized the origin of the flames at a glance. It was the fusion energy of blood and true qi, and it was also the martial arts blood energy that Chen Jue and Linglong had just demonstrated.
However, the martial arts blood energy on Zhuque's body does not have the true meaning of dragon shape like Linglong, but carries a sense of endless life. Like spring seedlings emerging from the ground, or the rising sun, it has a strong vitality.
"The red phoenix sings on the high hill. The phoenix trees grow in the morning sun." Chen Jue whispered. This was the description of the Vermilion Bird in the Book of Songs during the Spring and Autumn Period, describing the red phoenix with its body covered in fire that never goes out throughout its life.
The ancients called Danse the color of sunrise, and Danfeng is a phoenix with the color of sunrise, which is the Suzaku in Chen Jue's eyes.
"嘤!" The little parrot was frightened by the heat radiating from Suzaku. It thought it was approaching a ball of fire, so it screamed and distanced itself from it.
Most furry animals are afraid of fire, and parrots, as birds, are no exception.
However, the Vermilion Bird was in a playful mood, flapping its wings and soaring above the little parrot, flying with the little parrot and leaving a large trail of blood-red flames behind it.
Chen Jue looked up at the trails of blood flames, and when he saw the Vermillion Bird radiating high temperature all over its body, his mind raced. He also recalled the formation principle of martial arts blood energy that he had verified with Linglong during his previous discussion. Combined with the large amount of ancient books and rare copies of materials he had read while learning from many schools of thought in the base, he came up with some bold ideas about the human body thermal radiation technique mentioned in the state of [Only Eternity is Supreme].
"When the Vermilion Bird flies, it takes the lead, driving the chariot of Taiyi."
"I have absorbed the energy of heaven and attained the true Dao, and the sacred bird Suzaku is my guide."
"Since there is a record of the Suzaku Guiding Technique in the Chuci, if I observe the Suzaku's charm up close and combine it with the functions of the attribute panel, I should be able to create a similar method of practicing the human blood energy." Sparks of thought flew through Chen Jue's mind.
Unfortunately, he was injured now and could not use his injured body to try to deduce. In addition, he was thousands of feet in the sky and it was inconvenient for him to move. He had to temporarily suppress the idea of making another achievement and instead stared at the Vermillion Bird that was flying with him and gave it a kind wave of his mind.
The Vermilion Bird obviously noticed Chen Jue on the back of the parrot. It glanced at Chen Jue with its pair of scarlet eyes and let out a loud cry. It was obvious that the intelligence level of this Vermilion Bird was not lower than that of the Phoenix.
Moreover, the eyes of this Suzaku are clear, and the mental fluctuations emanating from it do not have the chaotic feeling like that of Bai Ze. It is obviously an intelligent life form capable of communication.
However, the Vermilion Bird did not project its spiritual rainbow light to communicate with Chen Jue. Instead, after accompanying the little parrot for a distance at a high altitude, it rose into the air on its own like a burning fireball, gradually disappearing into the misty sky and disappearing in the boundless red clouds.
Chen Jue originally wanted to take out the bronze mask from his backpack and discuss the origin of this item with the Vermillion Bird.
But when he remembered what the Phoenix said, that this bronze mask was snatched by it after a fight with the Vermillion Bird, taking it out rashly would only irritate the four sacred beasts, he had to give up this suicidal idea for the time being.
After all, Chen Jue was injured and had no strength to fight against a super-level divine beast.
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After the sudden encounter with the Suzaku, the parrot's flight trajectory began to become much lower. It no longer flew through the clouds, but soared more than a thousand meters above the desert.
Looking down at the endless desert landscape, Chen Jue felt that the environment of this second home was more magnificent than that of the Earth, and the colors were more vivid and distinct.
The emerald green of forests and mountains, the red and yellow of wastelands and deserts, and the azure blue of the sea, just like the scene where the three rivers converged and turned into a whirlpool pill that Chen Jue had seen on the banks of the Hezhou River before, it was also a unique fusion of three colors.
"If I hadn't left the earth, I wouldn't have been able to see such a beautiful scenery!" Chen Jue secretly sighed. At this moment, he seemed to have realized something in his heart. With the blessing of the [Holy Heart], his determination to explore and seek the truth became more determined.
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Since they were familiar with the route they came from, they returned along the same route, which took much less time than the first exploration. On the way back to the base, Chen Jue and Xiao Wu took only five natural days to safely land on the mountain in the forbidden area.
After a few days of recuperation, Chen Jue's injuries have recovered, the scabs on the wounds on his body have fallen off, and the internal bleeding in his internal organs has also completely healed.
In addition, the broken bones have also recovered through the combination of recuperation and training over the past few days.
It takes a hundred days for a muscle to heal, that's the recovery time for an average person.
After practicing to Chen Jue's level, and being on an alien planet with such a high concentration of true Qi, he found that he didn't even need to take medicine. He only needed to transport Qi and blood with the auxiliary stimulation of true Qi to speed up the healing of his injuries.
Even the nerve damage in the brain was slowly restored to its original state after a few days of sound wave brain strengthening combined with the sleeping skills of the [Five Senses and Six Senses Gong].
What Chen Jue didn't expect was that at the moment when his brain damage was completely healed, he actually heard a few spiritual words left by Bai Ze.
In addition to tyranny, that kind of fluctuation also contained a bit of confusion and a hint of seeking help and relief hidden beneath these two emotions.
"I feel so bad... please... save me..." This was the language message that Bai Ze projected into Chen Jue's mind.
The actions of Bai Ze clearly showed that he regarded anyone who broke into his territory as a mortal enemy, and mixed such a message into his mental shock, which made Chen Jue unable to understand the complex meaning of this message for a moment.
"Forget it. When I become stronger, I'll go to the mine again and help it get rid of its troubles!"
"It is clearly a legendary beast, yet it is so contradictory." Chen Jue thought about it for a long time, but since he couldn't understand Bai Ze's meaning, he had to temporarily put this information behind his mind.
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After returning to the base, Chen Jue first took off his tattered aerospace combat uniform and put on a spare one.
In the two supply boxes brought, in addition to spare weapons, there were also two sets of these multi-functional aerospace combat uniforms.
After letting the little parrot go out to hunt some exotic animals for meat and bringing them back for a hearty meal, Chen Jue first took out the notebook and wrote down his experiences on this journey to the West.
Then, with the thought that "a good memory is not as good as a bad pen!", he wrote down all the insights he had gained from observing the Suzaku Xingyi in his mind in a notebook to avoid forgetting them.
Moreover, for Chen Jue, copying down these insights also helped him to review the past and learn new things. After several days of adjustment, he looked back at his previous insights and ideas, and some additional ideas about the Blood Gang of Martial Arts came to his mind.
He wrote and drew on the notebook, and finally drew on paper a diagram of the structure of the human meridians and acupuncture points, which Chen Jue was very familiar with.
With a pen in hand, he circled the Shangqu point on the blood gate on the meridian, the Danzhong point that affects the heart, the Jiquan point that is connected to the heart's blood supply, the Jiaji point on the spine, up to the temples on both sides of the brain, and finally into the Niwan point in the brain. By reversely deducing the lines connecting the six major points, Chen Jue roughly deduced on paper the exercise path described by Linglong of stimulating the blood gate to stimulate the burning of Qi and blood throughout the body.
As soon as he finished deducing the general route of moving qi and blood, Chen Jue stared at the path diagram on the paper with a look of doubt on his face: "The blood pushes the qi in the dantian, then enters the heart fire to burn, the extreme spring gushes blood, and flows back along the spine to the brain, finally forming the secret technique of burning blood."
"The routes of these acupoints are actually exactly the same as those of the acupoints in the Seven Stars Life-Sustaining Technique. The only difference is that the routes are different. One is from top to bottom, while the other is from bottom to top in reverse."
"The Seven Stars Life Extension Technique can prolong one's life, but this Blood Burning Secret Technique accelerates the body's depletion. Although it can burst out physical strength in a short period of time, it is a self-harming method that accelerates one's own life. Cultivation is to cultivate the body and cultivate one's character, but this secret technique completely turns the righteous path into the evil path."
"Self-mutilation... the devil's way... it's caused by the devil's nature, so let's call it [Devil's Disintegration Technique]!"
