Chapter 261 Extraordinary Organ, Bai Ze's Gift
"Does it have something to do with its horns?"
Chen Jue was slightly stunned when he heard that, and then looked at the cross-section of Bai Ze's pair of sharp broken corners. He found that the cross-section was like a polished seven-color gem, emitting a dim seven-color light.
This layer of colorful light instantly reminded Chen Jue of the relics he saw in the Buddha's Crown Palace, and the third eye on his forehead that was also condensed from spiritual energy!
After using his celestial sense to observe a bit more, Chen Jue discovered that the horns on Bai Ze's head were like antennas transmitting signals, continuously radiating his spiritual magnetic field outwards.
"I see! Its horns are not the sharp horns of cows, sheep, or rhinos, but are similar to the antennae of insects, which can capture external energy fluctuations."
"Is it because of the extraordinary organs evolved by the environment?" Chen made up his mind and roughly figured out the function of the pair of sharp horns on Bai Ze's head.
Yun Xiaomei continued to communicate with Bai Ze and translated more information to Chen Jue.
It turned out that this Bai Ze had occupied the mine for many years and absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy from the seven-colored ore, causing his brain to be unable to bear the load and he fell into schizophrenia.
You know, mental illness is not exclusive to humans, animals also have similar symptoms. For example, parrots will pluck their feathers when they are depressed, and cats and dogs will also have depression symptoms that cause hair loss.
Although Bai Ze is a legendary auspicious and sacred beast, it is also an intelligent life form and can suffer from illness.
Long-term intake of excessive spiritual energy has exceeded the upper limit of the brain's carrying capacity, resulting in chaotic manifestations similar to multiple personalities.
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After finding out the reason why Bai Ze was mentally ill, he observed the other party's mental fluctuations closely and found that the hostility was indeed gone. The whole body exuded a kind of approachable and peaceful feeling from the inside out. Chen Jue's vigilance was slightly relaxed.
What Chen Jue didn't expect was that Yun Xiaomei had already become friends with Bai Ze!
After communicating for a while, Bai Ze approached Yun Xiaomei very obediently, stretched out his huge pink tongue and licked her, making Yun Xiaomei giggle.
The other person's snow-white fur, which was like spikes all over his body, now automatically drooped down, no longer standing up like before, and became as fluffy and soft as cotton. When Yun Xiaomei hugged him, he seemed to be embedded in the cloud.
After being stroked by Yun Xiaomei for a few times, Bai Ze crawled down and made a snoring sound, just like the subdued tiger that Chen Jue had seen in the old forest of Gongshan before.
"It turns out that this guy is essentially a super big cat!" Chen Jue couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw this.
After stroking Bai Ze for a while and whispering a few words to him, Yun Xiaomei rode on Bai Ze's head. The little parrot also slowly landed on Bai Ze's back.
Sister Yun, who was standing on Bai Ze's head, waved to Chen Jue below: "Brother Chen Jue, it said it wants to take us into the cave to have a look!"
Seeing Yun Xiaomei standing on Bai Ze, her temperament of being close to nature and in harmony with nature, actually blended with the peaceful aura emanating from Bai Ze at this moment.
At this moment, Chen Jue felt that Yun Xiaomei's whole body was made extremely holy by this blend of energy, just like the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who also rides a green lion in Buddhism.
"I once witnessed the sound of the Dharma in Hanshan, and occasionally rode down the Pearl Forest on Bai Ze."
"Great wisdom, pure and innocent! Sister Yun's current appearance is indeed like that of Manjusri Bodhisattva..." Chen Jue thought of the image allusions in the Buddhist scriptures and sighed in his heart. Following closely behind, he followed the huge auspicious beast Bai Ze and walked into the dark cave.
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Inside the pitch-black mine, the light was dim and the cave was long and deep. It was more than a thousand meters from the entrance to the first turn.
The stone walls of the cave were pale and smooth at first, but as he went deeper, Chen Jue saw the seven-colored crystals that looked like gemstones.
It was a special mineral formed by the aggregation of spiritual energy. Using the celestial sense to explore it, Chen Jue found that the spiritual energy emanating from these seven-colored crystals was like a blank piece of white paper. It did not have the spiritual legacy of Buddhist monks or the Buddha that was found in the Buddha's bones and relics.
"It's a spiritual crystal formed completely naturally... No wonder it can be directly absorbed by the body! If it's a spiritual crystal formed after birth like a sarira, once it absorbs the energy inside, it will probably be affected by the remaining spiritual energy of the great monk contained in the sarira." Chen Jue muttered to himself and analyzed slowly.
Following Bai Ze around the first turn, the cave began to go deeper and deeper downwards, just like a man-made mine.
After walking down for nearly a thousand meters, a huge underground cave appeared in front of Chen Jue.
This is a hemispherical underground space, covering an area at least as wide as ten football fields, with a height difference of more than 300 meters. Even a giant beast like Bai Ze seems a little small in it, not to mention humans like Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei.
The spiritual crystals that can be seen everywhere in the cave are emitting seven-color light in the dark underground, making this underground cave extremely deep and magical.
In the center of the cave, a giant seven-colored crystal that looked like a natural bed caught Chen Jue's attention. That bed should be where Bai Ze usually lived and slept.
The spiritual energy emanating from the bed was so strong that it seemed insoluble. In Chen Jue's eyes, it was like a seven-colored stream of light rising with the glow of the sunset.
Before he got close to Chen Jue, he could feel a sense of clarity of mind, clarity of eyesight, and invigoration of the mind as he breathed in and out.
"Practicing in such an environment, one's spiritual will and spiritual realm should be able to improve very quickly!"
"But too much is as bad as too little. Once the blank spiritual energy is absorbed too much and the brain cannot bear it, it will probably fall into the same situation as Bai Ze before."
"There are pros and cons, fortune and disaster go hand in hand." Chen Jue thought secretly and followed Bai Ze to the side of the giant bed.
Bai Ze just let out a soft roar and put Yun Xiaomei on the bed. The little parrot flapped its wings and flew into the air above the cave. Bai Ze himself went around the giant seven-colored crystal and scratched with his front paws, as if he was digging at something.
Because they were blocked by the bed in front of them, Chen Jue and the other man couldn't see clearly what the other was doing.
When Bai Ze leaned down with his head out and finally stood up again, there was a bronze cylindrical object in his mouth!
"This... this is a man-made thing!" When Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei saw the cylindrical object, they were both shocked and looked at each other in horror.
How could they not be shocked when they suddenly saw the products of a civilization-like creature on this alien planet?
Just like the bronze mask that Chen Jue found in the phoenix’s nest before.
However, Bai Ze held a cylindrical object in his mouth, which was even larger than the bronze mask. It looked like a work of nature. The auspicious cloud-like inscriptions all over it showed that the manufacturing process of this object was extremely complicated.
"Hmm!" Bai Ze roared softly, lowered his head and gently placed the cylindrical object on the bed. Then he fiddled with it with his giant claws, and the cylindrical object slowly unfolded like a bamboo slip on Earth.
Thin pieces of bronze texture formed a huge scroll that was more than 20 meters long and 3 meters wide. The texts and patterns engraved on it were extremely strange.
"This is..." Chen Jue couldn't understand the ancient square hieroglyphs, but he recognized some of the patterns on the scroll.
There were many strange and bizarre beasts, numbering more than ten thousand species. Chen Jue could find images of parrots, fat relicts, phoenixes, red birds, flying squirrels, fish and even Bai Ze himself in this long scroll.
Seeing this, Chen Jue immediately recalled the record in the "Yunji Qiqian" volume "Xuanyuan Benji" in his mind: "The emperor toured the east to the sea and climbed Mount Heng. He found the Bai Ze divine beast on the seashore... It can speak and understand the feelings of all things... He asked about the ghosts and gods in the world. Since ancient times, there have been 11,520 kinds of spirits and wandering souls... Bai Ze told the emperor, and the emperor ordered it to be drawn and shown to the world..."
"This thing is actually the long-lost Bai Ze map in mythology and legends!" Chen Jue was surprised when he saw this. When he thought of the strange language that Bai Ze uttered when he regained his sanity just now, his train of thought suddenly changed. He knew that what Bai Ze said should be the language of the civilization of this alien planet long ago.
And the Bai Zetu in front of him is exactly the relic of that ancient civilization!
Just as Chen Jue was staring at the Bai Ze picture in a trance, Yun Xiaomei had already squatted down and was curiously stroking the various strange beasts in the Bai Ze picture.
"This is a little parrot... this is a silly cow... and there's that strange flying snake... the big Bai Ze..." Little Sister Yun stared at the various strange beasts on the bronze scroll and talked to herself. The hot steam exhaled from her mouth and nose just happened to fall on the pattern of Bai Ze.
The next second, a soft hum was heard, just like the bronze sound caused by Chen Jue wearing the bronze mask before.
However, the sound emitted by the copper scroll eventually turned into a loud noise like Bai Ze's roar. The rich seven-colored spiritual energy around it was affected by the special frequency of the sound wave, and it turned into starlight that gathered above the scroll, and finally condensed into a snow-white virtual image of Bai Ze in mid-air.
Yun Xiaomei looked up at Bai Ze, who was made up of spiritual energy, and the square hieroglyphs jumping on the side of the image. She reached out and touched it curiously. The originally condensed seven-color energy turned into a torrent and began to flow into her body along Yun Xiaomei's fingertips.
Chen Jue, who was standing nearby, could sense that the aura emanating from Yun Xiaomei suddenly changed!
From her affinity with learning from nature, she began to become as auspicious as the Bai Ze beside her, and countless streams of light flashed in her eyes, and a thick layer of seven-colored circular light formed behind her head.
Various animal shadows appeared in the circle of light, including jackals, tigers, leopards, elephants, cows, birds, monkeys, etc. They were the embodiment of Yun Xiaomei's true meaning of all beasts, but this time there was a brand new animal shadow of Bai Ze!
