"Well …"
Li Yao scratched his hair for a long time. As the saying went, it was easier to change a leopard than to change a leopard. No matter what level he was at, he could not change the habit. Thinking for a moment, he said, "It's not hard to explain. What we see is nothing more than the result of the photoelectric signals from the outside world that hit the retina and are transmitted to the brain through the optic nerves for comprehensive processing! Then, when I was too absorbed in my training, my vitality field was activated to the maximum. Then, with the enhancement of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, it greatly interfered with the magnetic field of nature and even melted with the natural one.
"The large-scale disturbance of the natural magnetic field affected everybody living in the area. If some of them happened to have the same frequency of brainwaves as mine, it was possible that a 'resonance' effect would be generated, bypassing the retina and directly forming a signal of a certain image on their optic nerves. Take, for example, the 'butterfly'."
Xiaoming and Wenwen were both stunned.
"There's more."
Xiaoming organized his words and said quickly, "In the past seven days, in the range of butterflies, the proportion of ordinary people whose spiritual roots were awakened was almost twice as high, and the odds of the experts breaking into a new level were significantly higher. However, if the breakthrough failed, the price would be even higher. Many people were mentally deranged, and their level plummeted. Was it also because of Dad?"
"It's possible. You must've heard the saying that when a man succeeds, all his friends and family will follow him."
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao offered a reasonable explanation. "When a cultivator gradually touches the mysteries of the universe and sees the ultimate truth of the 'natural law', their vitality field will certainly have intense interactions with the natural magnetic field. The effect is as powerful as nuclear fusion or nuclear fission, and it will inevitably cause drastic changes in the natural magnetic field.
"The drastic changes in the natural magnetic field naturally affect the people within the range of the magnetic field too, making their spiritual roots much more active.
"As for the mental derangement after the failure of the breakthrough, I assume that it's because I, a Cultivator, caused the drastic changes after all, and most experts on the capital planet are Immortal Cultivators. Our beliefs are incompatible, which led to the collapse of their beliefs, right?
"Aya, nobody could've foreseen that things would turn out like this. I didn't know that such a huge fuss would be made. The emperor, Lei Chenghu, and the empress dowager must've been anxious, right?"
"More than anxious, they must've lost their minds!"
Xiaoming said, "Dad, you know that this is the most critical moment for the Immortal Cultivators of the reformists. Lei Chenghu, Marquess of Liaohai, has just gathered all the elites of the reformists as the commander-in-chief of the anti-rebel army, ready to march on the remnants of the four families, when such an appalling change suddenly took place in the sky of the capital. It is almost like a bolt from the blue!
"The authorities immediately announced to all the people that the reformists were testing a powerful weather weapon of the latest model. They also secretly released rumors through the propaganda machine that it was a great omen, suggesting that 'Emperor Yongjia' had been acknowledged by Blackstar the Great and even the Supreme Emperor. However, such bullsh * t could only fool the common people and the middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators. The high-level Immortal Cultivators all knew about the Gold Crystal Pyramid and that you were in seclusion. They all guessed that it was you who caused the fuss. Wouldn't they have been scared out of their wits?"
"Aya …"
Li Yao said, "Why would they be scared out of their wits? For a peerless expert like me, when I am training in seclusion, of course I have to create some extremely dazzling sound and light effects to liven things up. When the little emperor ascended the throne, didn't he also create a golden lion baring its fangs and brandishing its claws in the sky, pretending to be a ghost? What's so strange about that? "
Xiaoming and Wenwen looked at each other and continued, "All in all, Lei Chenghu, Marquis Liaohai, and the empress dowager are almost crazy, fearing that you will really be corrupted by Wuying Qi 3.0 and will activate the Gold Crystal Pyramid to destroy the sun again. Long Yangjun, Boss Bai, and the little emperor are also anxious, fearing that something might've happened to you during your training. We've never heard of anything like that before. We can't be more anxious!
"Marquis Liaohai and the empress dowager sent an army to protect the five hundred square kilometers around the Gold Crystal Pyramid, and they were eager to check on you. This is the demilitarized zone. Of course, Wenwen and I couldn't let them in! However, it was naturally inappropriate to leave my father in such a weird situation. In the end, the two parties reached a compromise. Boss Bai, the Fist King, and Long Yangjun, the three experts, will come in to check on my father and figure out a way to save him from the mental derangement.
Li Yao blinked. "And then? I didn't sense them."
Xiaoming said, "Boss Bai condensed the spiritual energy all over his body, trying to wake dad up by force, only to be blown away by dad's strength. He vomited blood for more than half a minute, and he seemed to have aged more than ten years. He was almost like a living dead. He did not recover until he stayed in the medical cabin for three days and three nights. When we went to visit him this morning, he was still walking unsteadily and cursed dad desperately.
"It was the same for Master Fist King. He tried to simulate a neural network with bioelectricity and stimulate dad's cerebral cortex so that he could wake dad up or at least communicate with dad. But as it turned out, hardly had his simulated neural network touched dad's temples when the thirty-six super crystal processors that provided computational ability for him collapsed at the same time. Thankfully, we made thorough defenses and backups for Master Fist King. Otherwise, chances were that Master Fist King would've been obliterated and completely killed!"
"Well …"
Li Yao was stunned for a long time, lost for words. "Isn't it too unbelievable?"
"In the end, it was Long Yangjun. Her performance was better than Boss Bai's and Mr. A Boxing Champion's. She was not blown away or collapsed by you, but she could not wake you up, either."
Xiaoming said, "She stood in front of you for a long time with a very weird face. I can't describe it at all. It was like …"
"It was like her soul had lived a hundred years in a moment."
Wenwen said, "Her body did not age, but her soul aged a hundred years in a moment. The changes in her look and her mental state were too obvious!"
"Then, Long Yangjun asked everybody except me and Wenwen to leave, including herself."
Xiaoming said, "She said that it was impossible for them to wake you up, and everything depended on whether or not you were willing to wake up. If you were still concerned about this world and this universe, chances were that you would wake up in a few days, but chances were that you would never wake up. Or even —"
"Death?"
Li Yao slightly frowned.
"No, Auntie Long did not use the word 'death'."
Wenwen said, "She said that you might turn into thousands of butterflies, or disappear into a brilliant rainbow, or turn into common quicksand. All in all, you would 'return to the path of nature' in various ways."
"Return to the path of nature?"
Li Yao subconsciously touched his warm face that was made of flesh and blood and spat. "I'm not going to return to the path of nature at all!"
"But Dad looked really weird and terrifying at that time, as if he might collapse into thousands of butterflies at any moment!"
Xiaoming projected a new light beam. "Look!"
On the 3D light beam, it was the picture of Li Yao in deep meditation.
However, Li Yao, whose soul had been swimming in the river of life for millions of years, had turned his body into a certain gray and brown state that looked like a fossil, as if it had been sealed deep underground for a long time. There was not the slightest trace of life.
"This is me?"
Li Yao was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out.
"Yes. This is Dad's state in the first six days. Look at his fossil-like appearance. It's not strange that Dad would collapse into a cluster of sand, and the sand would turn into countless butterflies, is it?"
Xiaoming said, "Otherwise, why would Boss Bai, Master A Boxing Champion, Long Yangjun, and us be in such a hurry to wake Dad up?"
Li Yao coughed, somewhat embarrassed.
It was not until this moment that he truly began to feel scared.
He knew that he had awakened too many things that he shouldn't have awakened, and he had looted too many heritages that he shouldn't have swallowed in one go.
Evolution had an objective pattern after all. Perhaps the pictures that Li Yao awakened and the heritages that he received should've been excavated, inherited, and absorbed by human beings and their descendants in a thousand years, ten thousand years, or even a hundred thousand years.
But right now, Li Yao had seen the whole picture in only seven days.
No wonder his body and soul were unable to bear the enormous' luck 'and almost turned into nothingness to return to the Heavenly Axiom!
Water was the source of life, but drinking half a ton of it in one go was unbearable even for a cultivator. It was the same for inheritances. Li Yao did not have the ability to accept inheritances from hundreds of millions of years ago and explore the future hundreds of millions of years later.
In the end, at the level of the entire universe, he was really just an ordinary person, a carbon-based intelligent life form that was nothing special.
However …
One day, perhaps a very, very long time in the future, he or his descendants, or the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of
Li Yao looked at himself on the screen.
On the seventh day, something that looked like rainbows, springs, magma, and swamps was flowing out of the surface of the gray and brown fossil. The entire 'fossil' was enshrouded. When all the brilliant brilliance was absorbed by the 'fossil', Li Yao regained his original appearance.
Everything was the same as seven days ago.
But everything was different from the past.
Li Yao smiled and rose abruptly.
"Let's go!"
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