Chapter 692: Spiritual Body
"Yes, they said that it cannot be seen by the naked eye and cannot be attacked by superpowers. Only some psychics and crystal core weapons can cause damage." Zhuang Mingxu has been exercising for a long time and has always been in good physical condition. He can even lead the way in front of Lu Weiyi, who is not good at jungle hiking. While talking, it did not affect his hand to simply use the knife to kill a mutant squirrel that came across.
Motioning Lu Weiyi to put the body away, he asked, "Same as that one?"
"It should be the same. I didn't feel anything obvious when I was sleeping before, but after I woke up, I felt the energy in my body colliding." Lu Weiyi couldn't describe the feeling. It was as if the energy had its own consciousness and was out of control. He could only follow his instinct. "My crystal core had long been integrated into my body. The position of the crystal core between my eyebrows was originally empty. Maybe after the energy gathered, it spontaneously condensed into one..."
Lu Weiyi hesitated rarely. He looked inward at the place where Zhuang Mingxu had entered. There was still a long river there, with all the memory fragments floating on it, forming the memory of half of his life.
Not far from the river stood a small villa. It was the home where he and Zhuang Mingxu lived for several years before the end of the world. In the yard, a miniature bird pecked around like a chicken, as if it sensed his investigation, and raised its chin and called to him, with a very arrogant attitude.
"What?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"It looks like the legendary phoenix...but it's almost there."
Somehow, Zhuang Mingxu immediately thought of the mutant peacock they encountered at the beginning, "Describe it to me."
"See for yourself." Lu Weiyi took out an energy detector from the space and handed it to Zhuang Mingxu. He waved his hand and released the bird that was waiting to be praised. In an instant, the surrounding trees fell down.
Zhuang Mingxu stepped back a step before the entire outline appeared on the energy detector. He couldn't make out the specific location of the eyes, but the posture alone was almost the same as the one he encountered at the beginning.
"I described to you a mutant peacock we encountered before. Do you remember it?"
Lu Weiyi recalled, shook his head, and was uncertain, "It seems... a little, but I don't remember what it is specifically."
Zhuang Mingxu had read a medical report before, which said that vegetative patients are conscious and can hear what is said to them. During the time when Lu Weiyi was in a coma, he really wanted to share what happened with him, so he told him everything in detail.
In fact, he didn't have much hope, but when he saw the outline of the man who wanted to die, he had a guess in his mind.
He signaled him to put away the spirit body, but Lu Weiyi stretched out his hand and moved it. The leaning trees in the forest shook but showed no signs of recovery. He looked at them to ask what was going on.
Lu Weiyi pursed his lips and moved again. The huge silhouette in front of him ran directly into the distance and landed silently, but it pressed the trees and weeds to the ground, startling a group of small animals and making them flee. The silent forest suddenly became lively.
Lu Weiyi stopped and waited with dead eyes for the thing to run away, gritting his teeth.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"It. Ran. Away." Lu Weiyi spoke each word with pause, his chest heaving with anger.
Zhuang Mingxu couldn't remember the last time he was so angry. He patted his back with amusement and pulled him in the direction where the spirit body ran away. "You can't control it?"
"It has its own independent consciousness, and between us..." Lu Weiyi thought for a long time, "It's like partners fighting side by side, but it depends on our superpowers to exist. If my superpowers are seriously lacking, its form will become unstable."
"Will it die?" Zhuang Mingxu suddenly asked.
"..." Lu Weiyi was surprised.
"Just asking casually," said Zhuang Mingxu.
"...It should be possible, but I feel the consequences will be very serious." Lu Weiyi used his shallow feelings to describe, "It lives in my...consciousness, probably called this...the place you have been to before, it feels like the energy filling the entire consciousness is nourishing it, if it dies..."
"It can only be that my consciousness is destroyed."
The destruction of human consciousness is hard to bear just by listening to it.
Hearing him say this, Zhuang Mingxu's expression immediately became serious, "Then let's catch up with it and find a way to get it back."
"Not really. This thing is on the same level as me, how can it die so easily? And..." Lu Weiyi recalled the scene when Gu Sheng's snake tree was attacked and turned into star-like energy that dissipated in the air. "It is composed of energy. When the energy is gone, it automatically returns to my consciousness. This can't be considered death."
When Zhuang Mingxu breathed a sigh of relief, he looked even more puzzled, "What does it mean to live in your consciousness?"
"It's probably an area in my brain," Lu Weiyi explained to him the situation in his consciousness, "I feel like the SSS level is a completely different leap, it seems..."
"I can't explain it, I just feel it's completely different from before, very magical." Lu Weiyi felt like he was not a normal human being, he stretched out his hand in front of Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhuang Mingxu lowered his head and shone the searchlight on his fair palms. He saw five completely different energies flowing on his five fingers at the same time.
A piece of metal the size of a fingernail one centimeter above the thumb is constantly changing its shape at the fingertip; a tiny plant on the index finger is constantly growing and soon bears miniature fruits; a few drops of water on the middle finger alternately change between liquid, gas and solid; a cute little flame is jumping on the ring finger; and a cluster of dust on the little finger keeps forming various shapes.
"This... this is..." Zhuang Mingxu couldn't believe it, "Is this the Five Elements ability?"
"...I guess so." Lu Weiyi clenched his five fingers and retracted his "magical power". "After the upgrade, I seem to have a deeper understanding of supernatural powers."
After the end of the world, people with superpowers awakened suddenly. Given the popularity of various novels, everyone adapted very well and were even able to practice the use of various superpowers by analogy. However, no one has ever figured out why each person can use different superpowers? How do superpowers come about?
"In fact, superpowers exist in everyone's body. It is just a special kind of energy. This is why everyone can absorb crystal cores of all attributes. The reason why the manifestations are different is due to the differences caused by the individual himself."
"I can't really tell you the exact reason, but if you can master this energy itself, you can master the conversion between the five elements."
Seeing that Zhuang Mingxu didn’t understand, Lu Weiyi gave a straightforward example, “Just like my spiritual body…”
"Peacock!" Zhuang Mingxu added with certainty.
"Well, Peacock, the reason why it cannot be attacked physically is because it is itself an energy body. It needs energy attack to achieve the effect. The crystal core weapon itself relies on crystal core energy, and the damage caused is also the materialization of energy, so it has an effect on it."
Energy body...
Zhuang Mingxu muttered to himself, and for some reason he suddenly thought of something else. "I've heard of a saying before. Scientifically speaking, ghosts themselves are also a kind of energy body..."
"Is it possible that the reason I can't see it is because we are not in the same dimension at all, just like ants can't see humans?"
Lu Weiyi couldn't answer this question. He was still in the exploratory stage. Fortunately, Zhuang Mingxu didn't dwell on it. "So, you can control the five elements and five powers now?"
"I've only figured out a little bit of the trick," Lu Weiyi said with curiosity about new things on his face. "I'll tell you when I make new discoveries. Can you help me look at my abilities and see if there are any directions in which they can be developed?"
Zhuang Mingxu thought of what he saw in the illusion. The supernatural powers of "Lu Weiyi" were all planned and trained by "Zhuang Mingxu". Seeing that he was still doing this habitually, he nodded and said yes.
The two of them had been walking for a while when Lu Weiyi suddenly stopped. Before Zhuang Mingxu could ask, a loud noise of fighting accompanied by squeaking sounds came from the front.
"This troublemaker," Lu Weiyi said gritting his teeth, and explained to Zhuang Mingxu, "The pheasant poked the mutant monkey's nest."
Zhuang Mingxu was just asking him if there was any way to get it back when he saw something breaking through the bushes not far away and running towards them. Behind it, a dense group of monkeys hanging on the trees were squeaking and swinging towards them.
When illuminated by the searchlight, pairs of glowing eyes were reflected, which was particularly terrifying.
"Run——" Zhuang Mingxu sighed in his mind at the deceptive behavior of this thing. He only had time to shout before he appeared in space with a sleepy baby in his arms.
The baby opened his ignorant eyes, pursed his lips, and burst into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry, baby, daddy will give you... milk to drink..." Zhuang Mingxu shouted loudly to Lu Weiyi while shaking the child in his arms.
In the blink of an eye, a biting cold wind blew in his face. He hurriedly protected Taotao and found himself flying in the air. When he looked up, he saw the bright moon, felt the familiar touch under his body, and felt the warm body temperature behind him.
Who didn’t have a dream of being a hero when they were young?
Riding the wind and chasing the moon, it stirs your heart.
It’s a pity that a rattling sound in my ears broke the surging excitement.
"I'm sure... this is a peacock," Zhuang Mingxu shouted expressionlessly.
"Ga--" The giant bird under him seemed to understand and trembled, almost shaking him off. Lu Weiyi slapped it hard, and it reluctantly steady itself and lowered its voice to make another "Ga" sound.
"Can it understand what I say?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"It says it is a phoenix, and complains that you are the peacock." Lu Weiyi translated for him and patted the big bird under him, "Find a place to land. We don't have enough energy and can't fly for a long time."
"Ga--" the giant bird responded and slowly landed towards a place with few trees.
"Are you okay? Can you hold on with the remaining superpowers?" Zhuang Mingxu asked as soon as he landed.
Lu Weiyi took out a fist-sized crystal core from his palm, looking speechless, "It seems that it took out the crystal core of the monkey queen."
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