lerbook #134 - Ruined World
#134 - Ruined World
Chapter 134: Ruined World
According to the fox spirit Nannan, the first level of the mental world should be filled with countless exotic flowers and miraculous herbs, and endless opportunities for creation.
Why is it now completely different from what the fox spirit Nannan described?
It shouldn't be!
It really shouldn't be!
Zhang Chen was filled with question marks.
In the next moment, his soul extended a hand, a rune flashing in his palm, which instantly transformed into the appearance of a fox spirit.
"Where is this?"
As soon as the fox spirit appeared, it immediately noticed something was wrong, especially the strange astral winds outside, which caused its spirit to sway, like a candle in the wind that could be extinguished at any moment.
Fortunately, the Azure Lotus above Zhang Chen's head was shining, emitting rays of azure light, blocking the black wind outside, like a warm harbor, firmly sheltering the two.
"Isn't this the first level of the mental world that you've been longing for, where immortal herbs and spiritual plants are everywhere, and opportunities for creation are readily available?"
Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit Nannan.
The fox spirit Nannan was stunned upon hearing this, her eyes filled with disbelief: "Impossible!
Ancient books record that the mental world contains countless creations and endless mysteries.
How could it be like this?"
Through the black sandstorm, the fox spirit Nannan could vaguely see the broken walls and ruins, and a look of caution appeared in her eyes.
Hearing the fox spirit Nannan's words, Zhang Chen immediately understood that the fox spirit Nannan was also ignorant of the mental world.
His idea of asking the fox spirit Nannan had failed.
The mental world is a foreign realm to the real world, an untouched realm.
Zhang Chen looked at the mental world with caution in his eyes: "What is that black sandstorm?"
Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit, who sensed Zhang Chen's gaze and immediately shuddered, a bad feeling rising in her heart: "Boy, what are you going to do?"
The fox spirit Nannan sensed something was wrong and quickly crossed her arms in front of her chest, watching him warily.
A strange smile appeared on Zhang Chen's lips.
In the next moment, the fox spirit realized that her body was out of control and cried out in alarm: "Don't! It will kill me!"
But how could the fox spirit Nannan's words sway Zhang Chen's decision?
The fox spirit Nannan was directly removed from the protection of the Azure Lotus and plunged into the black sandstorm.
Then, the fox spirit Nannan's soul came into contact with the sandstorm, and like grains of sand, it scattered into the void, decomposed by the black storm.
"What is that thing?
The fox spirit Nannan's soul has already reached the eighth-order body snatching realm, yet it couldn't withstand the sandstorm for even a single breath?
Isn't that too exaggerated?"
Zhang Chen was startled, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Fortunately, the fox spirit Nannan has now become Zhang Chen's skill, considered an immortal existence.
Zhang Chen could summon the fox spirit Nannan at any time.
He wasn't afraid of the fox spirit dying and leaving him short of money in the future.
"How could this be?
How could this be?"
Zhang Chen looked at the void in front of him, a look of shock in his eyes, filled with incomprehension.
Even the fox spirit Nannan's soul realm was directly blown away by the sandstorm.
If someone's soul accidentally strayed into it, they would surely suffer a fatal disaster.
Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at the Azure Lotus floating above his head.
Mysterious and unpredictable chaotic air currents flowed outside the azure flower bud, and the mana inside the bud flowed like lamp oil, gradually depleting.
"In one hour, the mana within the flower bud will be exhausted, and the Azure Lotus will lose its protective power."
Zhang Chen looked at the depleting mana within the flower bud, and a faint, inexplicable feeling arose in his heart.
This was information obtained naturally and spontaneously.
"What is this Azure Lotus?
It actually has such mysterious effects in the mental world?"
Zhang Chen was curious, but unfortunately, he didn't know much about Qi Refiners and couldn't understand the origin of the Azure Lotus.
"I wonder if the fox spirit will be traumatized after being annihilated by the black wind."
Zhang Chen thought and summoned the fox spirit's soul again.
"Damn biped, you're going too far now!"
The fox spirit Nannan appeared lively in front of Zhang Chen, complaining with dissatisfaction.
"How does it feel?"
Zhang Chen asked the fox spirit.
"That black wind is the nemesis of the soul.
I have no resistance at all.
Before I could react, it was like a gust of sand, directly blowing me away,"
The fox spirit Nannan said with a helpless expression.
Zhang Chen was silent upon hearing this, and then said to the fox spirit Nannan: "What is the use of this mental world?"
The fox spirit Nannan shook her head.
The mental world was too mysterious, and this was her first time in the mental world.
How could she know more than Zhang Chen?
Moreover, the ancient tombs of gods and demons unearthed outside contained very few records about the mental world.
Seeing that the fox spirit couldn't say anything substantial, Zhang Chen directly turned the fox spirit into a rune and put it away.
This was a mysterious mental world, and he couldn't let the fox spirit get any advantage.
What if the fox spirit saw some secrets, wouldn't he suffer a great loss?
Zhang Chen looked at the broken ruins under his feet, then picked up a broken jade brick from the ground.
But as soon as the jade brick was in his hand, the broken jade brick twisted and turned into a broken rune.
The rune was similar to the runes recorded in the two pages of books that Zhang Chen had seen the ancient gods read, but the specific lines and content were completely different.
However, this rune was only half complete and had completely lost any value for observation and comprehension.
"Strange, how could a jade brick turn into a rune?
What a strange world."
Zhang Chen stood in the dark world, looking at the broken bricks on the ground, lowered his head to pick them up, and found that after he picked them up, all the broken bricks transformed from jade bricks into rune forms.
"A bit strange,"
Zhang Chen muttered to himself, casually discarding the rune.
The rune turned back into a jade brick after leaving his hand,砸on the ground and making a sound, splashing up dust.
"It shouldn't be!
Isn't this the mental world?
How could there be palaces?
Moreover, the palaces have been destroyed?
What force destroyed the palaces in the mental world?"
At this time, Zhang Chen had too many doubts in his heart, but no one could answer them for him.
Zhang Chen carefully stepped forward, braving the dark sandstorm, walking in the broken palaces.
On the broken pillars, bricks, and tiles, there were mysterious symbols flashing, with strange auras flowing, looking extremely mysterious.
Zhang Chen walked in the incomplete palace for a while, but besides the ruins, it was still ruins, just like a house that had been torn down.
“I wonder if there are any treasures left in these palace ruins. These are treasures within the spiritual world. If I could obtain one or two, it would surely have incredible effects, even giving me the capital to deal with Yang God True Men. If those Yang God True Men dare to come, I will definitely kill them.” Zhang Chen walked and stopped among the ruins, constantly searching for treasures. Unfortunately, he walked for a long time but didn't find anything good.
As for the collapsed walls of the ruins, he couldn't move them at all, so naturally, he didn't know what was buried beneath the palace.
However, at a certain moment, Zhang Chen suddenly stopped, his eyes fixed on a certain pillar. There were runes engraved on the pillar, and at this moment, the runes flickered with flowing light according to a certain pattern. The flowing light flickered along the lines of the runes, seemingly still in operation.
Zhang Chen paused, his eyes fixed on the lines of the runes, watching the light flowing along the lines. A thunderclap exploded in his mind: “Aren't those lines the order of drawing the runes? Or rather, the order in which the runes in front of me are drawn? Although there are many runes in the world, they must have something in common, right?”
Zhang Chen stopped walking at this moment because the palace was too large, and he couldn't reach the end for the time being. It was better to study the runes and see if he could comprehend the complete runes left by the ancient gods with the help of the broken runes in the palace.
Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the runes, watching the trajectory of the light flowing over the lines, and then his fingers imitated it in the void, comparing it with his own runes.
“Interesting!” Zhang Chen muttered to himself. Although the runes were different, the order of the strokes and lines was always similar.
Zhang Chen observed for a long time before withdrawing his gaze. His fingers traced a trajectory in the void, and after carefully pondering for a moment, he finally realized: “So that's how it is! So that's how it is! I didn't expect there to be such a key point!”
Zhang Chen looked at the trajectory of the lines and suddenly had an epiphany, feeling that he had made a mistake in the order of drawing the runes he had practiced before.
After gaining inspiration and correcting it, Zhang Chen continued to lower his head to look at the runes, continuing to ponder until he felt that the broken runes no longer inspired him, so he turned his head to look at the ruins, looking for new runes.
Just at this moment, suddenly his heart stirred, and he had a premonition that the mana in his body was about to be exhausted, and he had to go back.
But how to go back?
Just as Zhang Chen's heart moved, his perception reappeared in his physical body. Looking at the darkness in front of him, Zhang Chen was stunned: “Has it already turned dark?”
So, after taking out the flint and lighting the candle, Zhang Chen turned his head to look at Xiaodouding's room. He didn't see Xiaodouding come downstairs today, and he felt a little strange, but he didn't think much about it. Instead, he sat in front of the candlelight and thought about the affairs of the spiritual world.
“I didn't expect the spiritual world behind the barrier to be ruins, and the entire world is filled with black sand. That black sand specifically restrains the soul, which is very unfriendly to the soul.” Zhang Chen thought about all kinds of possibilities: “I just don't know whether it is that palace that collapsed and was covered by black sand in the black sand world, or the entire world is covered by black sand.”
Zhang Chen felt a little wonderful at this time. A world appeared inexplicably in his spiritual concentration. Although he knew from the fox fairy Nuannuan's explanation that there were thirty-three heavens of great mystery in this world, he had accidentally闯闖in, which made him feel a little inexplicably proud.
“I just don't know how much creation there is in that spiritual world?” A trace of contemplation appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.
But regardless of whether there are other gains, the runes in the ruins alone are enough for him to gain.
“Perhaps I can use the broken runes in the ruins to comprehend the usage of the two runes I obtained. The world will become more and more chaotic in the future, and I must obtain the means to protect myself.”
Zhang Chen said secretly in his heart, and then began to sit in meditation and visualize the Tianfang Diyuan Diagram to restore his tired spirit, and then practice Qi to restore his mana.
Zhang Chen meditated for a long time, and the moonlight was like flowing water, constantly being absorbed by Zhang Chen. Suddenly, at a certain moment, the moonlight in the treasure bottle was full and sprinkled on Zhang Chen's soul. Zhang Chen's tired soul was quickly restored, and the originally exhausted soul was also nurtured at this time.
“The way to restore mana is very strange. It actually relies on golden light to make up for it. The golden light is in harmony with my soul and turns into mana.” Zhang Chen sensed the constantly passing golden light. The golden light combined with the power of the soul with the operation of the Qi practice technique and entered the upper Dantian, pouring into the Qinglian.
“Strange! What exactly is my Righteous God's Light?” He was a little puzzled in his heart. Fortunately, his Righteous God's Light was endless and could be quickly replenished, otherwise, I was afraid that there would be a big problem, this Qi practice technique would be useless, and he would not be able to become an immortal.
“So, the reason why this world cannot practice Qi and cultivate immortality is because it lacks mysterious substances? Such as my Righteous God's Light?” A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind. Along with the recovery of his mental power, he operated the Tianfang Diyuan Diagram to replenish the consumption of his soul, and his figure flashed again and entered the mysterious spiritual world.
Zhang Chen did not wander around in the ruins, fearing that there would be some crisis in the ruins, but carefully sensed the runes engraved on the walls and bricks, used to decipher the stroke order of the two runes he obtained.
The runes engraved on the pillars are the best teachers. There is a spot of light on the runes that is wandering, flowing according to the stroke order of the runes.
There are many runes engraved in the ruins, even if the palace is broken, the runes are still flashing.
But more are the broken runes, randomly engraved in the ruins, just like ghost paintings.
The broken runes are of no use to Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen ignores them.
Time is passing, and soon the mana is exhausted again, and Zhang Chen's spiritual will returns to his body again.
“Zhang Chen, what are you doing?” Xiaodouding was holding a fruit at this time, gnawing on it with a snap, his eyes full of worry: “I just called you for a long time, but I didn't see you respond.”
Zhang Chen's heart moved when he heard the words, and he realized the drawbacks of his cultivation. Once his spirit and soul traveled to the spiritual world, he actually lost his perception of the outside world. If someone wanted to assassinate him at this time, I was afraid that he would not have the ability to resist.
“Could it be that I will have to find someone to protect me in the future?” Zhang Chen said secretly in his heart.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen suppressed his thoughts, did not answer Cheng Yu's question, but said to Xiaodouding: “Why are you here?”
“I was recognizing characters above, and suddenly I remembered that now the Taoist temple is going to prepare for the competition. I can first pass on the complete True Dragon Great Frame to you, so that although it is a bit troublesome for you to cultivate, you can cultivate together and speed up the speed of cultivation.” Xiaodouding said.