Chapter 189 How can it be more outrageous than Tang Wan’s continent?
Lu Wenwu is very interested in the immortals and gods in this world.
It is undoubtedly a good choice to gain a deeper understanding through these college students majoring in mythology and archaeology.
Sooner or later, you will come into contact with these local cultivators.
Now that we are already in front of the "cultural relics", there is naturally no reason to let them go.
So, after they had eaten egg-filled pancakes and rested for a while, Lu Wenwu immediately made a decision and set off for the destination of their trip - Daohuo Zhenjun Temple.
It's fine with a few people.
They came here to inspect the temple, so there was no reason to refuse.
As they walked along the road, Lu Wenwu couldn't help but ask, "By the way, how much do you know about this Daohuo Zhenjun? What kind of person is he?"
"Senior, don't you know?" Xu Qiao widened his eyes.
Gu Taixing quickly pulled her away.
This girl, how can she be so careless with her words!
Realizing that she had said something wrong again, Xu Qiao was about to explain, but Lu Wenwu waved his hand.
"I don't really know much about these ancient immortals and gods. There was no trace of them in my time. Plus, I'm not particularly interested in such matters. I've always been absorbed in cultivation, so naturally, I've never heard of them. If possible, could you tell me about them?"
"So, Senior is a cultivator who was born in the early human era. He must be at least 18,000 or 19,000 years old now!" Qian Qian's face showed a look of astonishment. "Whatever Senior wants to hear, I will tell you everything I know!"
Lu Wenwu scratched his head and pondered, "Let's first talk about this immortal's life and deeds. What is his image and status in your historical records?"
Qian Qian immediately replied, "Daohuo Zhenjun holds a very high position in Eastern mythology. He is at least one of the top five ancient immortals in the Celestial Realm. His strength is incomparable to that of ordinary immortals. That's why we call him Zhenjun."
According to Qian Qian, to put it simply, this Taoist Fire Master is pretty awesome. He was a powerful T1 tier among the ancient immortals and gods, crushing all the ordinary immortals and gods.
If it were today, with his strength, he could easily take on the positions of Heavenly Emperor or God King.
That is why Qian Qian and others were so excited when they discovered the temple where he was worshipped in mythological times.
Qian Qian also mentioned some other information they knew about immortals and gods, as well as the current situation of cultivators, so that Lu Wenwu had a general idea of this world.
I just don’t know how strong these guys are, which makes Lu Wenwu very much looking forward to it.
In A~S level dungeons, the opponents are never too weak.
"Come to think of it, so much time has passed, and you haven't figured out a way to get everyone on the path of cultivation?" Lu Wenwu asked casually.
When they mentioned this, their faces suddenly fell.
Yan Chao, who was like a man who only loves dragons, shook the picture and said with a bitter face, "Still no. In this era, cultivators with the qualifications to practice are still rare and pitifully few."
"Without that spiritual root, people like us can't even feel the spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth. At most, we can use some special training methods to make our bodies stronger, but we are still in the realm of ordinary people."
"It's a bit embarrassing to say this, but the reason we wanted to visit this Daohuo Zhenjun Temple is to see if the ancients left behind any treasures that could help us embark on the path to immortality."
"After all, this is left over from the mythological era!"
Spiritual Roots
Lu Wenwu calmly used his mental power to scan the body structures of these college students.
It seems that there is no difference between them and ordinary people on Blue Star.
What is that spiritual root?
Lu Wenwu expressed doubts.
He thought for a moment and placed his fingers on Gu Taixing's wrist.
"Xiao Gu, let's do an experiment. Don't resist."
"Okay, senior."
Lu Wenwu practiced the "Art of Conquering People with Virtue and Refining the Body", transforming a trace of pure heaven and earth energy from his body, passing it into Gu Taixing's Ren and Du meridians, and circulating the small circulation along his virtual meridians.
"How does it feel?" he asked.
"Feeling?" Gu Taixing looked a little bewildered. "It's like... I feel a little warmth inside my body. All the fatigue from before is gone!"
"That's it?" Lu Wenwu raised his eyebrows. "Don't you feel as if there's a current flowing through your body, as if you can control its movement?"
Gu Taixing shook his head: "Senior, I didn't feel anything."
"Is that so? I understand."
Lu Wenwu casually dispersed this wisp of heaven and earth energy and integrated it into the other party's blood and qi, and said nothing more.
Without spiritual roots, one cannot practice cultivation. This is a common setting in online novels and is also something that is often encountered in some immortal cultivation copies. Naturally, he knows this.
However, according to Lu Wenwu's understanding, even if a person is completely incapable of cultivation, after being taken for a walk like this, he should be able to clearly feel the existence of "spiritual energy".
In many immortal cultivation copies, successful cultivators will help young children find the sense of qi in this way to lay the foundation for cultivation.
But Gu Taixing is different.
Not only did he not feel the "spiritual energy", he was even unable to absorb the heaven and earth elemental energy that Lu Wenwu had actively injected into him. He only absorbed an extremely weak trace of it.
It's roughly the same as the energy you can get from eating food directly.
This was also the case when they drank the spiritual spring before. Part of the energy in the spiritual spring made up for the deficiencies in their bodies and restored them to normal health.
All the remaining energy of heaven and earth was wasted.
This made Lu Wenwu very confused.
Logically speaking, this situation should not occur.
Even the chickens, wheat, and lettuce he raised in the cave would develop some spiritual characteristics over time, possessing faint characteristics of supernatural creatures.
But what's going on with the people here?
Aura immunity?
Even a cultivator like me who has achieved some success can't use external forces to help strengthen himself?
How strange!
Looking at Lu Wenwu with a frown on his face, Gu Taixing and several of his friends exchanged glances, and saw deep disappointment and helplessness in each other's eyes.
Even the pioneers who are nearly as powerful as immortals and gods cannot help them embark on the extraordinary path. It seems that they are destined to miss the chance to become immortals and have no such fate.
Without mentioning the sad topic of not being able to practice, the few of them walked forward silently under the leadership of Lu Wenwu, while talking about their experiences of the past few days.
After hearing this, Lu Wenwu chuckled, "I like your recklessness, you guys. But don't be so reckless next time. Without my strength, you'll die quickly. This time, it was just a broken, incomplete, and powerless concealing formation that nearly trapped you to death. If the person who set up the formation had been even slightly cautious, you would have long since turned into dry bones in the grave!"
"What? We just strayed into a broken concealment formation?"
Several people were suddenly shocked.
As students majoring in mythology and archaeology, and as a group of ordinary people with unofficial backgrounds who understand cultivators best, they naturally know what this means.
When excavating many ancient ruins, we will encounter some formations that are in operation. At this time, we need to ask cultivators to crack them.
When they thought of their brush with death, they all swore a secret oath in their hearts at the same time.
Next time you take the course "Safety and Protective Measures for On-site Operations", you must pay full attention and memorize the textbook by heart after you go back!
Lu Wenwu explained with a smile, "Yes, it's nothing profound. It's been so long that the formation used to obscure the Daohuo Zhenjun Temple has collapsed, leaving only a tiny bit of power, which can only exert a little mental interference. Did you guys find any small animals here when you were wandering around these days?"
Yan Chao nodded with lingering fear: "That's right, Senior. We originally wanted to catch some wild game to make up for it, but in the end, let alone wild animals, we didn't even see any insects."
"That's right."
Lu Wenwu casually blasted a straight road in the forest, and the faint sense of unease that had filled the hearts of several people disappeared.
It was as if something had been opened.
"Wild animals have very low intelligence. Even a trace of the aura emanating from this formation is enough to remind them of the fear etched into their bones by human cultivators, and they will be terrified and take a detour."
"But you are different. You are true humans, more resistant to fear and anxiety. Plus, with a bit of luck, you happened to hit a loophole in the formation, so you were able to get in. Of course, it is also because of this that you are harmed."
"Now, I have completely cracked the incomplete concealing formation. If anyone else mistakenly enters this place in the future, they will not be as embarrassed as you."
"Senior is awesome!"
Although they felt it was a pity that such a formation with a strong historical atmosphere was destroyed, several people still said so.
Yan Chao, who was most interested in cultivating immortals, couldn't help but ask, "Senior, I wonder how you broke this formation? Is it like what's written in the novel, mastering the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, Qimen Dunjia, and finding the corresponding array point before..."
"Why is it so troublesome? This kind of rubbish formation can be destroyed with just a random punch." Lu Wenwu shrugged and replied casually.
Hit. Hit a punch! ?
Several people were stunned.
At this moment, Gu Taixing remembered what Lu Wenwu had said before.
There's nothing that can't be solved with fists.
This senior who is a pioneer and almost a god is so terrifying!
Just as several people followed Lu Wenwu forward, Gu Taixing's cell phone suddenly started to make a continuous "ding ding ding" sound.
That’s a scary amount of notifications!
Lu Wenwu stopped at the right time and turned to look at the few people.
The other four people's phones had long run out of battery.
Only the special solar-powered mobile phone brought by Gu Taixing, a camping and hiking enthusiast, can maintain its function until now thanks to the sunlight.
"Signal! There's a signal!"
"Senior, you're awesome! We can finally connect with the outside world!"
“Woo woo woo.”
"That's great! We've been missing for so many days, our family and school must be terribly worried!"
"Brother Guzi, hurry up and report that you're safe!"
The group of people were so excited that the two girls cried with joy and even left Lu Wenwu aside.
Gu Taixing's mobile phone was filled with inquiries from his university tutor, counselor, family elders, friends in class, and other close relatives, all of whom were extremely urgent.
Not only that, there are also many missed calls.
Some are familiar, some are unfamiliar.
There are also some that I don’t recognize but have the logo
Among them, the most eye-catching is the emergency phone number consisting of three digits.
When Gu Taixing called back and the call was connected, Lu Wenwu could hear the cheers erupting from the phone even though he was far away.
After they disappeared, their parents, the police, and even the school were almost going crazy.
Especially their instructors.
When the counselor heard that a student had lost contact because he went hiking during the long holiday, he was completely devastated.
I've given you so many warnings, why is it still the same?
Gu Taixing described the experiences and current situation of himself and his companions in the briefest words.
When the police heard that they had encountered Lu Wenwu, a super veteran who was suspected to be the pioneer, they immediately paid great attention to it.
"Hello, senior. We are police officers from the Yanjing Branch of the Great Xia People's Police Force. What is a police officer? Uh, you can think of it as the government officials of your time."
"Yes, yes. Thank you for your understanding and care for us, your descendants. We will send a helicopter to arrive near you and the children in an hour."
"Well, a helicopter is a flying iron bird, a bit like a mechanical beast puppet that doesn't require spiritual power. Yes, that's right. A small one takes half an hour."
"What? You're coming too? Okay, okay, we'll make arrangements right away. It's our greatest honor to serve you, and we'll definitely make sure you have a nice bed. I hope you won't mind our poor hospitality."
After hanging up the phone with the police, Lu Wenwu returned the phone to Gu Taixing.
"Did you hear that? They're still more than half an hour away from arriving. You're all here now. It's not easy to be hungry for seven days. Before they arrive, come with me to the Taoist Fire True Monarch Temple for a stroll."
"Thank you, senior. It's all up to you." Gu Taixing, the temporary captain, replied.
Lu Wenwu nodded with satisfaction: "Then let's go."
After walking for about ten minutes, the group arrived at their destination - Daohuo Zhenjun Temple.
If Lu Wenwu were to judge from the perspective of a Blue Star person, this place would definitely not be what he imagined it to be like 10,000 or 20,000 years ago.
The surrounding side halls had long since collapsed, with lush green grass growing in the cracks between the bricks and stones. Even the outermost gatehouse had collapsed in half, leaving only the main hall covered with a large amount of green vegetation.
It looks like a place that was abandoned hundreds of years ago!
However, this world was indeed at this level 20,000 years ago.
It may even have existed a hundred thousand years ago.
According to Gu Taixing and others, at the end of the mythological era, humans already possessed technology roughly equivalent to that of the mid-Middle Ages on Blue Planet, which was approximately the Northern Song Dynasty in Chinese history.
This is also something that makes Lu Wenwu feel a little strange.
The people of this world have possessed the technological level of the mid-Middle Ages since the mythological era. It was a gift from God.
This process lasted for nearly 120,000 years.
From the end of the mythological era to the 18,500 years of the human era, the level of human technology has not changed even a little bit.
After that, they seemed to have suddenly come to their senses and pressed the shortcut key on the technology tree, doubling their speed.
It took them less than two hundred years to make the leap from the Middle Ages to modern society.
Absolutely a technological explosion.
From more than three hundred years ago until now, human technological level has once again fallen into a state of near stagnation.
It cannot be said that there has been no development at all, but the pace of development has been as slow as a turtle, with basically no substantial changes or progress.
It was as if the technology tree was locked by some force. No matter how many scientists repeated various experiments and explorations day and night, human technology still stagnated.
This strange technology tree time curve made Lu Wenwu feel incredible.
This is even more incredible than the Tang Continent!
(End of this chapter)
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