Chapter 266: Obstacles of Knowledge and Perception, Returning to the Heart
Suzaku: "Howl!"
Bai Ze: “Roar!”
Little parrot: "Da Da! Mommy! Oh~"
Chen Jue saw the Suzaku holding the little parrot in his claws. He was about to draw his sword and attack it, but was stopped by Yun Xiaomei who was standing beside him: "Brother Chen Jue, they seem to be discussing exchanging something. Bai Ze told us not to interfere."
"discuss?"
"Are you sure this isn't a threat?" Chen Jue was stunned for a moment, holding down the hilt of the knife without moving easily.
Looking at the Vermilion Bird again, he found that the mental fluctuations emanating from it did not have any malicious intent. Instead, it seemed as if it wanted a favor from Bai Ze, and it kept chirping at Bai Ze.
But for some reason, this Suzaku, like the Bai Ze with a broken horn, was also unable to use the spiritual rainbow light like to communicate directly on a spiritual level.
In addition, the red aura emanating from Suzaku also seemed too strong, just like a boiling kettle that cannot suppress the steam inside and keeps pouring out.
Yun Xiaomei stepped forward and interrupted the conversation using animal language.
Zhuque was also very surprised at Yun Xiaomei's animal language. He started to communicate with her, constantly making cheerful whistles.
One man, one bird, and one beast communicated for a moment. Probably after getting the promise he wanted from Bai Ze, Suzaku loosened his claws and let the parrot go.
After being released, the little parrot was like a frightened child. It kept nodding its head into Yun Xiaomei's arms and whimpering.
"Little sister, how did they discuss it?" Chen Jue couldn't understand the animal language and seemed a little confused.
"Brother Chen Jue, this Vermillion Bird said it has a very special disease and needs to be treated with the seven-colored gems in Bai Ze's nest." Little Sister Yun gave a general description of the communication between the two beasts.
"Get ill?"
"A powerful divine beast like it can also get sick?" Chen Jue was stunned when he heard this. When he thought of the changes in his brain cells, he immediately became alert.
"I'll ask it..." Yun Xiaomei asked the Vermilion Bird for confirmation, and soon received a response with the roar of the giant Vermilion Bird.
"Suzaku said that the energy in its body couldn't be suppressed, causing damage to its body... It seems to be somewhat similar to Bai Ze's previous schizophrenia, but its symptoms are physical, not on the mental or spiritual level..." Yun Xiaomei translated.
“Howl!”
At this time, Suzaku poked its head out and stared at Chen Jue with a pair of vermilion eyes with a hint of black, as if it had discovered a fellow bird. Then it flapped its wings and a blood-red feather fell off from it.
The feather was wrapped in red flames, and when it fell in front of Chen Jue, he made Chen Jue feel an incomparable sense of heat.
Reaching out to take the feather, Chen Jue discovered that this red feather was not in the shape of a normal bird feather!
It is a very special state between energy and liquid. It feels extremely light in the hand, just like jelly. The outside of the feather feels like gelatin, but the inside is like air, completely filled with red energy similar to qi.
"This is a mutation of the physical body!"
"Suzaku's body has actually reached a high level of energy?" Chen Jue was shocked after just observing for a moment.
At this moment, when he looked at the feather in his hand, it was as if he was watching the protagonist in a science fiction movie, where his body could be transformed into the elemental energy form of nature at any time.
The realm of cultivation and life level involved here have completely deviated from the outline of what carbon-based life should have!
The Suzaku noticed the change in Chen Jue's emotions and howled at him again. Little Sister Yun translated, "Brother Chen Jue, Suzaku said that the energy in your body is very similar to its condition. It said that once this energy accumulates to a certain level, your body will suffer from the same disease as it does."
Chen Jue's heart moved slightly when he heard the words, and he controlled the martial arts energy in his other hand. The red-gold flame was compared with the Vermillion Bird feather in his hand. The energy forms of the two seemed to be exactly the same!
After all, it was after observing the form of the Vermillion Bird that Chen Jue's mind was opened up, and he finally came up with the method of practicing the martial arts qi called "Pure Yang Gong".
"Is it true, as Suzaku said, that when I reach a certain level of cultivation, my body will also become highly energetic like its?"
"Is it the wrong direction of cultivation? Or is it a real illness?" Chen Jue's mind was racing. He then remembered the information mentioned by Zhuque that heart crystals were needed for treatment. He looked up at the look in Zhuque's eyes that showed him looking at his own kind. He felt a little confused and stepped forward to hand the feather back.
The Vermilion Bird let out a light whistle, and the red flames that rose from its body were like tentacle, pulling the feather back to its body.
Chen Jue saw the feather, as if the material that wrapped it suddenly turned into nothingness, and the entire feather returned to its energy form and merged into Suzaku's body. He suddenly thought: "The body is turning into energy... and it can't even maintain its original material form?"
"This should be considered as a transition from reality to virtuality, from a physical form into a virtual energy form!"
"Already approaching the void level?"
"Little sister, ask it if it can fly out of this planet!" Chen Yude was curious and couldn't help asking as if he had found a way to practice in Suzaku.
Yun Xiaomei translated Chen Jue's meaning to the other party, but all she got was the other party's anthropomorphic head shake in denial.
"Suzaku said that it cannot fly out of this planet. If it flies too high, the energy in its body will automatically dissipate out of control." Yun Xiaomei translated.
“Then it should not be considered as truly entering the void level… The energy body should be considered the pinnacle of manifestation of the saint, and it already has some characteristics of refining the void…” Chen Jue nodded and analyzed.
According to the extraordinary level practice theory perfected by Chen Jue and Linglong after their previous discussion, "Lianxu" is similar to the inner vision state in martial arts practice where one can see God by breaking through the void.
Afterwards, with the help of the new inner three-in-one theory of "heart and Qi, Qi and blood, blood and body", we can realize the fusion of Gangqi and reach the realm of physical manifestation.
In Taoist inner alchemy, there is a saying that there are four major realms: refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into harmony with the Tao. The first three of the practices involved here have been verified by Chen Jue one by one during the process of practice, but the last one, "refining emptiness into harmony with the Tao", is still unknown.
But after seeing Zhuque's half-energy body, Chen Jue felt as if he had vaguely caught the shadow of "Lianxu Hedao", but he was unable to go deeper into it.
After all, Chen Jue's own practice has not yet reached the level of Suzaku's physical energy.
"It's so frustrating! The more I know, the more I don't know!"
"Since someone coined the term 'Lianxu Hedao', it seems that many Taoist sages have already reached this stage."
"What a pity! The knowledge I learned in the base before is still a little insufficient. I must sort it out systematically when I return to Earth." Chen Jue sighed in his heart, knowing that he had fallen into what the Buddhists call the obstacle of knowledge and views.
To put it simply, the obstacle of knowledge and understanding means being unable to understand the operating laws of things.
It was equivalent to Chen Jue seeing the changes in Suzaku, but being unable to understand the principle behind the changes, and unable to think of a solution. Instead, he had more doubts about the extended "Lianxu Hedao" in his mind.
Including the mutation of brain cells in his brain, it also touched upon the blind spot in Chen Jue's cultivation path and entered an uncontrollable stage.
