Chapter 267: Too Much, Too Little, Sun Roulette
The appearance of Suzaku and its special form between matter and energy made Chen Jue form a preliminary guess about the void level.
It was just because he was trapped in the obstacle of knowledge and understanding. Although he had a vague concept of the outline of the Void Level, it was accompanied by more doubts about practice, which made Chen determined to return to Earth to seek the experience of his predecessors.
In addition, the cell mutation in the brain is beyond Chen Jue's control and needs to be corrected with the help of modern medical technology.
Because Chen Jue was also afraid that he would not be able to stop himself after practicing for a long time, and turn himself into the human head, snake body, or other indescribable deformed shape like the one in the mural.
"It seems that deep down, I still want to continue to be a human being!" Chen Jue sighed inwardly.
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Zhuque communicated with Bai Ze and Yun Xiaomei for a long time, and finally agreed to exchange its collected collections for the spiritual crystals in Bai Ze's nest.
After learning that the place where Suzaku lives is not far from the ruins of civilization on this alien planet, Chen Jue had some absurd thoughts in his mind: "Could its current physical form be caused by nuclear radiation contamination?"
With this thought in mind, Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei climbed back on Bai Ze's back and followed the Vermillion Bird all the way to its nest.
As for the remains in the stone chamber, except for the bronze murals which still had some value, all other things that could be taken away had already been looted by Zhuque and Bai Ze.
Therefore, after using pen and paper to write down all the patterns and characters on the murals, the two of them temporarily put the ruins behind their minds.
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Leaving that rock fortress and running south for hundreds of kilometers, the surrounding sand began to change from yellow and black to completely gray and black.
The heat waves all around caused the temperature displayed on the wrist monitoring device to directly exceed 92℃!
This is the air temperature, not the surface temperature. According to Chen Jue's speculation, the gray gravel below, from which a wisp of black smoke occasionally came out, was probably over 200 degrees Celsius by now, just like an iron plate roasted on fire.
Such terribly high-temperature air is more than enough to be used for steaming or cooking food. Just inhaling it through your mouth and nose will cause you to feel a burning pain in your respiratory tract.
If Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei had not already reached the extraordinary level, they would have been roasted to death by the high temperature if they stayed there for a while.
"Little sister, are you okay?" Chen Jue glanced at Yun Xiaomei beside him and saw that she was sweating all over and her brows were furrowed. It was obvious that she was gritting her teeth to endure the harsh ambient temperature.
"I'm fine, Brother Chen Jue, I just feel a little hot and uncomfortable." Little Sister Yun said.
"You and the little parrot should go to the sky to take shelter first, and then come down after you leave this desert." Chen Jue knew that with her physical fitness, she could indeed withstand such high temperatures.
However, not only is the temperature in this area off the charts, but the radiation dose is also rising. It has now exceeded 500 millisieverts, which is five times higher than the radiation dose in the ruins of that civilization.
Worried that Yun Xiaomei might be in trouble, Chen Jue called a parrot to carry her into the sky.
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Seeing Yun Xiaomei rising into the air, Chen Jue breathed a sigh of relief temporarily. His physical attribute had exceeded 10, so he did not feel too uncomfortable in such a high temperature and high radiation environment.
However, after observing the body of the Vermillion Bird up close, Chen Jue was focused on his cultivation.
Half an hour passed by unknowingly, and when he came to his senses, Bai Ze had already rushed into a sunken basin.
I saw that this basin covered an area of dozens of miles and was very similar to the place where the phoenix had lived before, but it was covered with gray-black sand and rocks everywhere.
In the center of the basin, a giant black tree caught Chen Jue's attention.
This giant tree looks very similar to the immortal tree where the phoenix lives, but the tree where the phoenix lives is completely withered and rotten, and it has obviously entered the aging stage on its own.
However, the giant tree in front of him was charred all over, probably having suffered damage similar to that left over from a nuclear weapon explosion.
After taking a look at the radiation dose displayed on his wrist, which had now exceeded four digits, Chen Jue became even more certain that this huge pit was most likely caused by the explosion of a thermonuclear weapon such as a nuclear bomb in ancient times.
And it was the center of the explosion, otherwise it would not have formed a huge hemispherical basin so coincidentally.
"The radius exceeds fifteen kilometers."
"I remember the 57-megaton hydrogen bomb Big Ivan. It seems that the diameter of the fireball at the center of the explosion was only 4.6 kilometers."
"So, the explosive power of each of the ten thermonuclear weapons used by Gonggong in the mural is more than 6 to 7 times that of Big Ivan?"
"No wonder such a long area nearby is covered in desert. Is it because the land was hit by nuclear weapons?" Chen Jue looked around and couldn't help swallowing his dry throat.
When Bai Ze carried Chen Jue to the giant charcoal tree in the center of the basin, Zhuque had been waiting on the top of the tree for a long time.
It just let out a low howl, ignoring the high temperature and high radiation environment. It mobilized the flames rising from its body and poured over the equally charred nest.
The scattered dots of color emerging from the nest are the collection of this red bird.
In addition to some large pieces of Qi crystals, Chen Jue could see the shadows of several ancient bronze artifacts inside, which should be treasures found from the ruins of that civilization.
Unfortunately, Chen Jue was not the protagonist of this transaction, he was just a bystander.
"roar!"
Bai Ze growled at Zhuque, and with just a glance, he quickly made his choice.
Then the energy rising from Suzaku's body turned into a silk ribbon, and it pulled out a bronze object shaped like a round plate from the nest and threw it over.
When Chen Jue took the bronze ware and looked at it, he was completely stunned!
"What the hell! Isn't this just a wheel or a steering wheel?"
"Is it also used for cultivation?" Chen Jue accepted the bronze organ on behalf of Bai Ze. He didn't understand why Bai Ze chose this thing.
However, after obtaining this bronze artifact, Chen Jue felt faintly that the qi and blood in his body fluctuated very weakly, and he didn't know whether it was an illusion formed by his body.
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After the transaction was completed, Suzaku couldn't wait to flap its wings and take off into the air. Bai Ze also didn't like staying in this hot environment, so he turned around and flew towards its nest.
It took several hours, and when the sun of the alien planet began to set, we finally returned to the mine where the desert and wasteland met.
" Brother Chen Jue!" Yun Xiaomei had already descended from the sky with her parrot. With the help of the cool breeze from the sky and the drinking water in Chen Jue's backpack, she had recovered.
Seeing Chen Jue playing with the round bronze object in his hand, Yun Xiaomei also came closer with curiosity: "Brother Chen Jue, this thing looks a bit like a five-pointed star, and also like the shape of the sun."
"sun?"
"Isn't it a wheel or a steering wheel?" Chen Jue gestured. He had studied it for several hours but still couldn't figure out the use of this bronze artifact.
"Brother Chen Jue, you see the bulge in the middle is the sun, the five equally divided parts are the sun's beams, and the circle outside is the sun's halo."
"All things need the sun to grow. We Dulong people also have a similar sun totem. But it is rarely seen now. My mother-in-law taught me to draw this kind of pattern before. She also said that many of the tribesmen in the past believed in nature and worshipped the sun. People outside call our village the Sun Tribe." Sister Yun explained, pointing to the outline of the bronze ware.
"sun?"
Chen Jue was also stunned when he heard this, and then he looked at the bronze artifact in his hand and it did seem a bit similar.
Compared to the mask that can promote spiritual practice, the patterns on this round bronze object are more delicate. However, there was no response when he blew air at it just now, and Chen Jue couldn't make up his mind about it for a while.
After listening to what Sister Yun said, I roughly understood that this thing should be considered some kind of prop for sacrificial ceremonies, rather than an implement for cultivation.
I guess Bai Ze chose this thing out of curiosity about its shape.
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Bringing the bronze disc to Bai Ze's nest, Zhuque had already folded its wings and started to behave very well.
This legendary divine bird did not dance like its flames. Instead, it behaved in a very polite and restrained manner, like a somewhat restrained guest who came to someone else's home.
Seeing it like this, Bai Ze growled at it a few times, grabbed a huge seven-colored crystal and threw it in front of Suzaku.
The Vermilion Bird cried gratefully to Bai Ze, lowered its head and used its beak to peck at the seven-colored crystals, then picked up a piece and swallowed it.
The next moment, a seven-colored light began to flow along Suzaku's almost translucent body, wandering directly to its brain.
"Have you started practicing? " Chen Jue watched very carefully from the side.
In a quick glance before, he understood the purpose of [Pure Yang Gong] from Zhuque's demeanor. Now that he could observe Zhuque's practice up close, Chen Jue would naturally not miss it.
Along with the intake of spiritual energy, Suzaku's breathing began to become steady. In addition, the special fluctuations emanating from its head area actually caused the blood-colored flames that were emanating from its body to begin to gather towards its body.
The scene was as if Suzaku was using the absorbed spiritual energy to forcibly restrain the restless energy in his body.
Seeing this, Chen's determination was shaken, and he muttered thoughtfully: "Is it because my spiritual practice is not at a high enough level that the energy form of my body is unstable?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Xiaomei, who was standing by, continued, "Brother Chen Jue, didn't you say before that the physical body, spiritual energy, and true energy are all indispensable in the inner three combinations?"
"Bai Ze fell into mental confusion because he took in too much spiritual energy, and Zhuque became what he is now because his physical body and true energy are too strong."
"Like my mother-in-law said, everything is excessive or insufficient."
Yun Xiaomei's words seemed to have awakened Chen Jue. He kept muttering, "Too much is as bad as too little... Too much is as bad as too little..."
"That's right! Although both the physical and spiritual aspects can achieve the manifestation of holiness, once a certain energy exceeds the upper limit of the body's capacity, the body will move towards an uncontrollable imbalance stage."
After figuring out the reasons why the two mythical beasts and auspicious beasts had undergone strange changes, Chen Jue looked at the Vermillion Bird again and visualized its appearance in his mind again.
By imitating the breathing of the Vermillion Bird and the flow of qi and blood in its body, Chen Jue seemed to have entered some kind of extremely wonderful state of enlightenment.
The next moment, Chen Jue felt that he had also transformed into a Vermilion Bird, just like when he observed the true meaning of Kuiniu and Bai Ze before.
With a "ding" sound, the attribute panel in the mind jumped again, and a new [Suzaku Guiding Technique] appeared on the skill bar page.
Soon, red aura began to rise from Chen Jue's body, just like the red flame outside the Vermillion Bird's body. That was the martial arts energy condensed from the Pure Yang Gong!
However, after leaving Chen Jue's body, this martial arts energy began to involuntarily drift to the Suzaku in the distance, as if it had built a bridge between the two.
Zhuque, who was using the crystal to absorb spiritual energy and strengthen his spiritual will in order to control the abnormal energy in his body, suddenly opened his eyes.
It discovered that the tiny human beside it actually had a very special resonance with its body.
The feeling was extremely wonderful, just like seeing a smaller version of myself next to me!
"Roar!" The Vermilion Bird cried out, mobilizing the blood-colored aura on its body to connect with Chen Jue's martial arts energy.
Soon, a large amount of overloaded energy in Zhuque's body seemed to have found an outlet, and it began to flow into Chen Jue along the red-gold qi bridge.
In addition, another part of the red-gold flames that were scattered outside were actually absorbed by the sun-shaped bronze. The entire bronze seemed to have entered the charging stage and began to flicker.
Chen Jue felt that his whole body was becoming extremely hot. As the energy of the Vermillion Bird was injected into his body, he discovered through [inner vision] that the energetic energy accumulated in more than a hundred acupoints in his body began to rush along his meridians and blood vessels at high speed.
The fluctuations of this energy were like waves, one after another, stimulating the rapid transformation of the blood cells in Chen Jue's body, growing, dividing, aging, dying, and being reborn, one round after another.
In addition, the energy transmitted by Suzaku also penetrated into Chen Jue's bone marrow and heart.
The bone marrow, which already had a strong hematopoietic ability, was stimulated by the energy that was a fusion , and began to boil like adding fuel to the fire!
Chen Jue's heart was stimulated by this external energy and also began to beat violently.
The physical attributes on the panel kept showing green words of +0.01!
After just a few minutes, Yun Xiaomei saw an astonishing heat wave rising from Chen Jue's body. He seemed to have turned into a little sun, constantly emitting human body heat radiation.
"The body is the furnace, and the qi and blood are the fuel."
"Kui Niu Daoyin technique builds muscle and strengthens the body, Bai Ze Daoyin technique strengthens the brain and refines the spirit. I didn't expect that this Suzaku Daoyin technique can actually refine the blood and strengthen the marrow, and also take into account the effect of strengthening the heart!"