Chen Luo discovered he could scavenge the minds of the dead.
So he went to a graveyard and scavenge the brain of a deceased Great Emperor, figuring he’d borrow it for a bit.
While other...
Brother Changqing is Chen Luo’s biggest trump card.
He didn't believe that there was any heavenly tribulation that could avoid Brother Changqing's status. If he had to avoid even the heavenly tribulation, then the mere tribulation of the inner demon would naturally be no problem.
A call.
No feedback was received.
The scene was somewhat quiet.
Chen Luo was a little confused. He frowned and tried again, but still got no response. This made Chen Luo feel a little tricky. It was the first time he encountered a place that even Brother Changqing couldn't respond to. This Heart Demon Tribulation was exactly as he expected, and it was different from the previous Heart Demon Tribulation.
"Hate."
Chen Luo tried to call upon his second brother's resentful brain again, and the result was the same.
Afterwards, he called upon the brains of the Peng Bird Demon Saint, the Stone Dragon, and Dan Tong, but they all disappeared, as if the external brain had never appeared.
Bai Xiaochuan sat opposite, watching Chen Luo's eyes gradually change. The boy quietly took two steps back, and he was going to ask the teacher for sick leave and "send" his classmates to see a doctor.
"Let me ask you a question."
Chen Luo suppressed his emotions and prepared to communicate with Bai Xiaochuan in front of him.
This time, the entrance of the Heart Demon Tribulation was very strange, and he felt that he could not follow the previous experience. Since the immortal road was cut off, the immortal cultivators who had reached the "Heavenly Seed Transformation" level disappeared in the immortal cultivation world. He was the first person to continue the immortal road, so he would naturally encounter some problems that his predecessors had not encountered.
"Old White, let me tell you, I've seen your situation on TV before. You must follow the doctor's advice and take your medicine properly. Only active treatment can lead to recovery."
"Luo Xiao has a boyfriend, you are the backup."
Chen Luo was too lazy to listen to the boy's nonsense and interrupted him in the simplest way. The Luo Xiao he mentioned was Bai Xiaochuan's girlfriend, the girl who stayed with the two of them last night.
"What!!"
Bai Xiaochuan's attention was diverted, and he even forgot the idea of taking a sick leave to go out and play.
"What year is it now?" After attracting Bai Xiaochuan's attention, Chen Luo began to ask what he wanted to know.
"Year of the Dragon."
“I’m asking about the time.”
With a few simple questions, Chen Luo quickly figured out the situation he was in. He was a high school student, preparing for the college entrance examination like Bai Xiaochuan. His parents were ordinary workers who were usually busy outside and only came back on weekends.
Bai Xiaochuan's situation is similar to his, both brothers are left unattended.
"Something's still not right."
After understanding the situation, Chen Luo no longer paid attention to Bai Xiaochuan, but sat in his seat and started thinking.
The root cause of the inner demon calamity comes from within the heart.
In the Heart Demon Tribulation, the "original heart" of the person who is going through the tribulation is related to the success or failure of the tribulation. Since it is a Heart Demon Tribulation, it must be inseparable from this point, and then there is the external brain. With Chen Luo's understanding of the external brain, the Heart Demon Tribulation cannot be blocked. The only explanation is that his cognition has been rewritten, or that what he is using now is not his original body at all.
With a lot of doubts in his mind, Chen Luo spent the day.
After rejecting Bai Xiaochuan's invitation to stay overnight for revenge, Chen Luo pushed his bicycle alone and walked towards his home in his memory. He planned to learn about this place and recall the familiar faces he saw before the tribulation. He had a hunch that he would definitely meet those familiar people.
I just don't know what their status is here.
"I was able to find my true self immediately and realize that I was in the midst of a mental catastrophe. This may be my greatest advantage."
The dim street lights shone on him, and he saw his own image through the mirror of the bus stop on the street.
With a thin body and pale face, he stood alone under the street light, as if he had been forgotten by the world.
“Strange familiarity.”
With a self-deprecating laugh, Chen Luo pushed his bicycle back to the community.
The neighborhood he lived in was an old neighborhood. There was a red billboard at the gate with words like "unity", "friendship" and "harmony". The street lights next to it flickered and the contact was a bit poor.
After building three, there is a wall in front. Turning west, you will reach building seven. Chen Luo’s home is in building seven.
The street lamp on the road next to the wall was broken, and the black wires extended into the building, making it pitch black inside. In the darkness, you could hear some rustling sounds, which were from the stray cats abandoned in the community. From time to time, a dog barked from a window in the distance, and I didn't know whose dog it was.
Chen Luo parked his bicycle in the shed and walked towards his own tube-shaped building according to his memory.
When he approached the gate of Building 7, he suddenly stopped.
He looked up and saw that the window of Room 701 next to him was tightly closed, but he clearly felt a pair of eyes just now.
Someone is watching him!
Although the alley was pitch black, Chen Luo still sensed it. This strange instinct was like someone reminding him in his mind, which made Chen Luo himself a little uncomfortable.
"illusion?"
Chen Luo retracted his gaze, used the key to open the iron door of Building 7, and walked up the stairs. The voice-controlled lights on the stairs lit up with the sound of footsteps.
Clang.
With the sound of the iron door closing, the pair of eyes that disappeared appeared again at the window of Room 701. However, this time, the eyes only paused for a short time before disappearing into the corridor.
Open the door to the room.
The old lamp illuminates the entire living room.
The room was a mess. The sofa was piled with unwashed dirty clothes. On the coffee table there were two buckets of instant noodles and several opened bags of potato chips.
There is no one in the room.
Today is not a holiday and my parents won't be back.
This kind of family is very common in the city. Those who can afford it will hire a nanny, and those who can't will ask the child's grandparents to take care of the child. But unfortunately, Chen Luo's grandparents have passed away a long time ago, and his busy parents have already done their best to make a living. They would rather split a dollar into two to spend, and they don't have extra money to hire a nanny.
After a simple meal and washing up, Chen Luo came into the room and turned on the desktop computer in the corner.
The fans in the old computer case make a noisy sound.
This computer was bought by his father ten years ago. It was an antique and could not do anything except browse the web. But for Chen Luo, all he needed was to browse the web. He planned to use the Internet to search for news about this world.
'Congratulations on my country's major breakthrough in manned space technology.'
'Major breakthroughs have been made in machine intelligence, and the head of the Shiver Lab published an article claiming that we are in a period of great change.'
'Gene No. 3 is now on the market, and immortality is no longer a dream.'
'Kung Fu is exposed as fake, and the Qigong master's reputation is ruined in his later years.'
Half an hour later.
Chen Luo turned off the computer and rubbed his temples.
In half an hour, he had searched for all the information he wanted.
The world was wider than he had expected.
Just like the information explosion, everyone is in the information age. This change is happening every moment. Compared with the immortal cultivation world, which is measured in hundreds or thousands of years, this era is like someone has pressed the fast-forward button, and the changes are measured in minutes and seconds.
Standing up and walking to the window, Chen Luo looked out.
Outside was a brightly lit city, and the prosperity he saw gave him a feeling of unreality. The memories in his brain kept reminding him that this was the "heart demon calamity" and he must not lose his original intention.
"Where's my robbery?"
Chen Luo muttered to himself.
It’s a pity that no one responded and he had to figure out everything on his own.
In the next few days, Chen Luo seemed to have really become a person of this world. He calmed down and began to carefully experience everything in this era. He went to class and went home with Bai Xiaochuan every day.
Go home at night to practice and gain enlightenment.
The first step is to master power. No matter in what era, strength always comes first.
Unfortunately, this world seemed to have no spiritual energy. With Chen Luo's vision at the Transformation Realm, in the world of immortal cultivation, refining qi and entering the Dao would only take a blink of an eye, but in this world, no matter how he practiced, he could not succeed. For more than a month, he did not catch a trace of spiritual energy.
"Young man, you won't be able to practice martial arts this way."
In the park early in the morning, an old man in a white training suit interrupted Chen Luo's practice and told him that he was practicing wrongly. The other man had a very good appearance, white hair and beard.
"The key to Qigong is Qi. Do you understand Tai Chi?"
As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and gestured twice, the moves going up and down, the movements were pleasing to the eye.
“This is real qigong.”
The old man finished his set and said as he was about to finish his training.
"qigong?"
Chen Luo couldn't help but think back to the news about qigong fraud that he had seen two days ago.
"Don't believe me? If you don't believe me, try punching me."
After the old man finished speaking, he took a stance and waved at Chen Luo. This move was very particular, and in martial arts it was called a stance, which meant to respond to changes with the same attitude.
"The real Qigong Hunyuan is absolutely not comparable to those scammers. Come over and lend a hand, let me teach you. This is an opportunity that others can't buy with money."
Hearing the familiar words, Chen Luo stopped what he was doing. After making sure that the old man was not joking, he looked around.
No monitoring.
After confirming the situation, he took two steps forward and threw a straight punch at the old man's face. With a bang, his punch hit the old man's palm. But the fist was not removed by the "qigong" as the old man said, but hit his eye socket with his palm.
Only a cry of "Ouch" was heard, and the Qigong master, who had a sage-like appearance a second ago, fell to the ground the next second, still screaming in agony.
"Young man, why are your fists so powerful?"
Seeing this, Chen Luo quickly grabbed the clothes next to him, jumped into the bushes next to him, and then flipped over several times and left the park as quickly as possible.
Blackmailing someone?
That doesn't exist. He had already observed it. There is no surveillance here.
In the classroom.
The teacher was talking about the "must-test key points" at the podium. Chen Luo looked at the podium with lifeless eyes, but his mind was recalling the scene of his previous fight with the old man in the park.
He recalled the punch he had given the old man earlier.
The opponent did catch his fist, but the force was not enough, so he was knocked to the ground. (End of this chapter)