The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

The wind and snow gradually subsided, and the broken ruins of the temple were filled with a burning atmosphere. The air still contained ionizing radiation from the Rhine explosion, and the surging dust glowed faintly in the sunlight.

Countless tiny sparks fell from the cracks in the clouds like a reverse meteor shower, and each speck of light was torn apart by plasma that was annihilated during cooling.

Zhao Qing raised his hand and the dragon leg that was charred black by the stellar jet in the distance flew into the air. Its scales were carbonized and peeled off, revealing the dark golden flesh inside. The surface had a strange metallic luster.

She tapped her fingertips lightly, and inky black ice condensed out of thin air, turning into a translucent cage that sealed the dragon's leg inside.

Dark blue runes flow inside the ice wall, faintly revealing a certain repressive force - while isolating radiation, it also quietly records every energy fluctuation.

"The more variables there are to look back on, the greater the cost will be the next time he tries to reverse time." Zhao Qing said calmly, as if discussing the seasoning for dinner. "But you can't eat this. The radiation dose is enough to cause an ancient dragon's genes to collapse."

Shi Yi Guang nodded slightly, but his eyes looked into the distance thoughtfully.

She sat leaning against a half-broken pillar, her white skirt lifted by the breeze, floating like clouds and mist.

Her black hair fell like a waterfall, and a few strands of hair that were scorched by the high temperature fluttered in the wind, making her skin look even whiter. Her black hair was half tied up, and she wore a jade hairpin with beads trembling, reflecting her autumn-water eyes, which were shimmering and bright.

But his fingertips unconsciously touched his heart and sank into the soft fabric. He felt waves of dull pain there, like a piercing needle or the spread of ice. His breathing became a little rapid, and as his chest rose and fell, the dark silver patterns on the collar of his clothes fluctuated like ripples on a lake.

When the wind blows the white gauze skirt, the flowers in the garden are in full bloom and the moon is as beautiful as a fairy.

Her face was already beautiful and elegant, and now it was slightly pale due to the pain, which added a bit of fragile beauty. The tip of her eyebrows was slightly frowned, like a distant mountain with dark clouds, and her lips were pale and almost transparent, as if the blood had been drained away, with only a hint of light red at the end of her eyes, like the rouge smudged in an ink painting.

Zhao Qing glanced sideways, his gaze lingered on her for a moment, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he asked with concern: "Is it happening again?"

Shi Yiguang shook his head slightly and forced a smile: "It's okay, it's an old problem."

She paused, her eyes falling on the remains of the dragon leg in the cage. "The King of Sky and Wind showed up in person and took such a big risk to launch a surprise attack... It seems that the relationship between the Gattuso family and him is deeper than we expected."

It was originally just a vague guess that Gattuso was not normal, so it was brought out to lure and deceive people, but now it has been proven to be a problem.

"That may not be the answer..."

Zhao Qing brought the obsidian blade in front of her with her right hand, thinking about how to deal with it. She flicked her left hand with five fingers, and strands of warm and moist longevity qi were passed into Shi Yiguang's heart meridians, easing the abnormal fluctuations in her body: "Maybe he was just too careless and underestimated us."

"If I had not immediately refined and released Time Zero to offset the opponent's speed advantage, the battle would not have been so easy. From the perspective of the enemy's prior assessment, they had already made sufficient preparations by launching a Rhine Owner bomb that the secret party was completely unaware of..."

"That's right... It's possible that Gattuso is not that important in the plan of the Holy Palace Medical Association. He is just a pawn used to infiltrate and contain the secret party. But I believe in my intuition."

After receiving treatment, Shi Yi Guang's face turned blue and white forty-nine times in an instant. He finally suppressed the pain in his heart, then relaxed, and his tense shoulders gradually softened.

Her face was still a little pale, but her eyes became clearer and brighter, like the moon reflected in a cold pond, clear and deep:
"It seems that the series of changes that occurred in the mixed-blood world in the early 20th century were all planned and manipulated by the Wind King, and the Gattuso family was the biggest beneficiary during this period."

"Mr. Turing's information synapse model, after loading the historical simulation database of the past few hundred years and performing deep evolutionary calculations, also proved this point: Rome is most likely one of the most important information intersection points for many dragon events during this period... second only to Binhai City, northern Siberia and other places."

"Your judgment makes sense."

Zhao Qing used the authority of the Mountain King given to him by Xia Mi after signing the blood alliance to try to break the obsidian blade, but it didn't work in a short period of time. It seemed that this was indeed a top-grade treasure: "So, Yi Guang, do you think the Wind King will give up on going back and be willing to fall into the cocoon?"

"After thousands of years of planning in the shadow of history, it is unlikely that we will accept the outcome of failure after only one or two attempts to reverse the flow of time. It is difficult to equate the two ends of the scale."

Shi Yiguang spoke in a low voice, his smile light but firm: "He turned into a cocoon directly, abandoned the assets he had worked so hard to build, and became a wedding dress for the other people in the Holy Palace Medical Association... I think this is not like the character and style he showed in the battle just now."

"The Wind King is more like a tactician who is opportunistic and calculating, but at heart he is extremely conceited and courageous."

"That's roughly right... His courage and ability to fight are the biggest differences between him and the lazy, go-with-the-flow king of the earth and the mountain."

Zhao Qing smiled slightly: "The fighting style can be disguised, but the strategic layout is difficult to cover up. There is too much hidden information that is clearly exposed in front of everyone after being interpreted."

Recently, as their relationship has gradually become closer, Shi Yi Guang has also revealed some of his important secrets.

Among them, the "Eight Apertures Lixu Heart" is the most amazing - this is exactly what was mentioned earlier, the special physique she was born with, and the reason why she is a little weak and sometimes has a dull pain in her heart.

To put it simply, Xi Shi's heart had as many as eight orifices, far exceeding the four cavities and two orifices (the left and right atrioventricular foramina) of a normal person. She also had one more orifice than the famous sage Bi Gan, an important official in the late Shang Dynasty, who had a "seven-orifice exquisite heart".

It seems that the physique is better, but too much is as bad as too little, and it will hurt yourself.

It sounds very similar to the treatment and setting of the protagonist in the novel, "the buried genius", and in fact it is not much different.

Because theoretically speaking, the number of mental acupoints can greatly increase wisdom and understanding. Once the physique is fully awakened, it will bring an incredibly amazing blessing effect.

But whether it is the "Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart" that is said to appear only once every thousand years, or the "Eight-Aperture Lixu Heart" that is not recorded in the classics, or the lower-level six orifices and five orifices, they all belong to physical constitutions with unremarkable characteristics in the early stages. On the surface, their benefits for spiritual practice cannot be compared with the common spiritual bodies or treasure bodies.

The reason is simple. The heart is the monarch's organ. It controls blood circulation and governs the spirit.

The function of the former is closely related to the circulation of Qi and blood, and physical exercise. The heart is naturally strong and powerful, which can naturally promote the speed of practice and enhance the combat effectiveness of the same realm. However, the function of the latter is "the mind's orifice is secluded, but its use is not obvious."

If one only practices the most common force martial arts in the main world, the "heart acupoint" can only show its effect at the level of divine force:

It is the center that promotes the efficiency of the body and spirit refining and the balance of yin and yang, water and fire, helps to give birth to the all-important mind, body and spirit, and is the location of the subsequent God's residence in the Six Qi Realms.

Before this, if there is no special elixir or strange emotional experience that allows the "heart" like an unpolished jade to be developed and awakened in advance, it is difficult to observe its actual impact on the practice process, and the gain in understanding is almost zero. After all, conventional intelligence is mainly determined by the brain.

But once there is a problem with the mind, it will reduce wisdom. "Those whose minds are blocked from good and bad fortune are possessed by spirits and ghosts." It is usually called "not being smart" or "bewitched by ghosts", etc., and can even turn people into fools.

“The heart orifice is the palace of Li, where the mind resides. If it is unblocked, all other orifices will be unblocked, and the true fire can descend, which can help the kidney water. If the heart orifice is blocked, all other orifices will be blocked, the heart fire will not descend, and the fire and water will not be balanced.”

If one changes to the path of refining qi and refining spirit, like Shi Yi Guang is doing now, the role of the mind will immediately become apparent.

This is because it is an innate channel for the soul and spirit, dominating the exchanges between the three souls and seven spirits system and the essence, energy and spirit, and can affect the level of wisdom according to some difficult to describe process.

Based on this principle, we have the research conclusion that "the wisest people have seven orifices and three hairs, the averagely intelligent people have five orifices and two hairs, the least intelligent people have three orifices and one hair, the averagely intelligent people have two orifices and no hairs, the foolish people have one orifice, and the least intelligent people have one orifice. Without an orifice, the spirit has no way in or out."

However, Wenzi clearly pointed out that the aspects of wisdom that are mainly determined by the mind can actually be described by the three points of "wise in choosing the path, precise in using things, and skillful in avoiding disasters", and cannot be infinitely expanded to all fields.

The word "ling" in the word "lingzhi" refers to it, therefore "in order to awaken the wisdom of spirits and monsters, they must first open their orifices."

As the "Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart" with the maximum number of central orifices in conventional cognition, it happens to correspond to the number of seven souls. Each orifice can accommodate one soul. The practice of the natural Yin God can be perfected, and there is no need for acquired practice to possess a synchronously growing heart, body and spirit.

If it is officially awakened, the basic training speed can be increased seven times. Compared with those ordinary physiques, this is an independent area.

"All seven orifices are connected to the mysterious primordial qi." After entering the six qi realm, this physique's comprehension of the principles and principles of all things and the rhyme of the Tao far exceeds that of others.

Almost all Taoist techniques can be understood at a glance and read immediately. One can innovate and create one's own understanding. He is proficient in all methods, so his progress is extremely fast, which can be described as the reincarnation of a sage.

But this is not the case with the "Eight Apertures Lixu Heart", because it has mutated to have an extra aperture, causing the divine light to leak out and the fire in the heart to be difficult to suppress.

Although theoretically it can display even more amazing talents than the Seven Apertures Heart, in reality, every time it is stimulated and used it will bring pain to the soul and cost a lot.

The former is a permanent bonus, while the latter can only be used occasionally. Most of the time, only the passive feature "intuition enhancement" is effective. It may even cause angina pectoris and cardiac arrest anytime and anywhere. The divine light leaks out and the person is exhausted. Naturally, it is far inferior - unless this major flaw can be made up.

Shi Yi Guang's mysterious physique certainly became a burden in her early years, forcing her to accept Zheng Dan's careful care.

Until that day when Fan Li passed by, he immediately recognized the beauty of it and realized that this was truly a rare master-disciple relationship - because he was the owner of the original "Seven Apertures Heart".

The "Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart" that only appears once in thousands of years can actually exist in the same generation as the even rarer "Eight-Aperture Lixu Heart". Such a tiny probability actually happened before our eyes, which makes people feel a sense of intertwined destinies and different paths.

When Zhao Qing heard the news, he was also very surprised, because according to rumors, Fan Li's cultivation speed did not seem to be fast, and it was difficult to match such a high-end physique. Now it seems that he is probably challenging some extremely difficult martial arts route and deliberately suppressing his progress in cultivation.

After all, he is Wen Zi's disciple and an important figure in Huang-Lao Taoism. Chi Jingzi, who is suspected to be able to seize the "True Talisman of the Holy King of Fire" in the future, must not be underestimated. You know, Bigan was definitely a top powerhouse who had walked a long way in the Three Steps of Sealing the Sky during his lifetime.

As for how to reasonably develop the "Eight Apertures Lixu Heart" and eliminate its defects, Wen Zi and Fan Li, after several studies, gave the current best solution, which is the "Void and Quiet Loss and Profit" method included in the "Kun Yuan Zai Wu Dian", which temporarily refines the fetal light soul among the three souls into the orifice wall, thus becoming equivalent to the "Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart".

However, this method is difficult to achieve quickly, and it also lowers Shi Yiguang's physical level to some extent. Therefore, he initially figured out two routes that may allow the eight orifices to advance to the nine orifices:
One is to search for and pick the legendary elixir of immortality, especially the divine elixir, and refine the "Three Yuan Nine Qi Mysterious Pill";
The second is to use special techniques to gradually refine earth treasures, such as five-colored soil, five-colored stones, the essence of the five stars, and the nine-day soil, and use the technique of "earth virtue to move the orifices, and the earth mother to bear the burden" to breed new orifices. However, the heart has nine orifices, which is one of the supreme physiques that only the ancient saints can possess. How can it be easy to break the barrier?

There are legends of people who have less than five heart orifices being successfully opened up later in life, but there has never been a precedent for people with more than five orifices.

There are many people who have their minds blocked for various reasons.

In comparison, permanently sealing a mind is much easier to achieve. "Decreasing and decreasing until there is nothing left" and transforming it into a mind with seven orifices, an extraordinary physique that surpasses hundreds of millions of people, is an option that most people can accept if they change their situation.

But Shi Yi Guang is, after all, a young girl who has just started out and will not turn back until she hits a wall. She has the stubbornness and dreams that are unique to young people.

She was not willing to downgrade her physique in this way, and hoped to spend many years trying, hoping to break into a new world - even if in the end, there was a high possibility of gaining nothing.

"How does it feel to have the 'Hunwo Tiandi Gong' applied to your body?"

Zhao Qing turned this information over in his mind and couldn't help but sigh at his companion's stubbornness. Then he suddenly changed the subject: "How was your adaptation the first time? Do you want to try it again?"

"I feel like my mind has finally been liberated." Shi Yiguang hummed softly and said briefly: "Ah Qing, thank you for helping to share 99% of the pain, but..."

"With my level of cultivation, this is like a breeze blowing on my face." Zhao Qing smiled slightly, interrupted her, and waved his hand to indicate that you are welcome. "How can you let someone work while sick?"

It only requires less than 1% of backlash from use, which can be considered one of the special routes to make up for the shortcomings.

"...Speaking of work, should we really implement the strategy we discussed earlier to bribe Gattuso's top management at a high price?" Shi Yi Guang was silent for a while, and suddenly asked.

Zhao Qing raised his eyebrows slightly: "What do you think?"

Shi Yiguang tapped the ice wall with her fingertips, making a crisp sound: "The most successful coups and schemes are often completed during meals and meetings." She smiled slightly, with a sly look in her eyes:
"Why don't we go directly to Rome and catch all their top executives at the board meeting held at Gattuso's house?"

She paused, a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes: "I don't believe there is another first-generation species standing behind them."

"That makes sense. But..." Zhao Qing chuckled upon hearing this, and cast his gaze back to the depths of the wall cage, "Before that, we have to confirm how many tricks the Wind King has left."

Just as she finished her words, a sharp explosion was heard from the distant sky, like the crisp sound of glass breaking, or the roar of some huge creature breaking free from its restraints.

They both turned their heads at the same time, and saw a dark crack slowly expanding deep in the clouds, as if the sky had been torn open by a sharp claw.

The wind is back.

The snow suddenly started to float backwards.

At the junction of the sea and the sky in the southwest, the dark purple thunderstorm finally broke through the barrier, and in the normal time flow, the first lightning that penetrated the sky and the earth struck down, and the roar was unparalleled.

The Wind King stood in the frozen space and time, watching the wrinkles on his suit sleeves receding - this was the third time. The pain from the first two deaths was still branded in his nerve endings, like two red-hot iron pliers clamping his spine.

He suddenly laughed, and tears of blood like lava flowed from his golden eyes.

"So this is what death feels like." The Dragon King wiped away his tears of blood, and dragon scales spread from his fingertips to his jaw. "Then I'll let you have a taste of it too."

When time began to flow again, he tore off his elegant disguise.

Thirty meters away, the miniature star on Zhao Qing’s shoulder was slowly pulsating and expanding and contracting.

Ice crystal runes flowed around her body, like a group of silver fish waiting for an opportunity to move. In the corner of her vision, the sword thread on Shi Yiguang's fingertips had just straightened - this moment should have been the best time for the King of Wind to attack the weak and surround the reinforcements.

But this time, he did not look at Shi Yi Guang, but chose to face the dangerous sun.

When the river of time flowed back to the initial battle, the Dragon King stretched out his wingtips and slightly adjusted the angle by half an inch - this time, the obsidian blade had a gap inexplicably, and its tip pointed directly at Zhao Qing's brow.

"Royal power!"

The voice of the King of Wind pressed down from all directions.

It is not the chanting of words, but the proclamation of laws.

Unlike the weakened version performed by the hybrids, the royal domain of the first generation is like the hand of God that directly rewrites the physical constants.

The causal change conditions granted by the time reversal allowed it to jump past the delay at the time of release, while the rapidly inflated spatial folds caused its domain expansion to immediately reach its limit, covering the target area.

The gravitational vector acting on the ruins of the temple suddenly twisted, and the invisible weight was like the sky tilting toward the northwest. The dilapidated foundation sank several feet in an instant, and the broken pieces of floor tiles suddenly accelerated on their way down, smashing into the rock formation like a cannonball, and the smoke and dust that was stirred up was compressed into a flat, blazing spot before it could spread.

A hundred times the gravity is like an invisible shackle, superimposed with the thousands of times the gravity of the micro-star itself, reaching hundreds of thousands of Gs. The concentric tidal ripples suddenly twisted and deformed, turning into a vortex trap.

The essence of royal power is to increase the intensity of gravitational force on designated targets and nearby areas. The consumption is proportional to the total mass of the target multiplied by a multiple. What is actually needed is precise control, and it will not cause the gravitational source to become unbalanced.

With Zhao Qing as the center, the air liquefied into a blue-purple viscous slurry under terrifying pressure. Its temperature rose by thousands of degrees due to the rapid contraction of its volume. Its interior kept exploding and being quickly smoothed out.

When light passes through this area, it undergoes a strange rainbow deflection, just like passing through a piece of melting glass.

"Crack."

Zhao Qing's body then began to whine as if it could not bear the heavy burden.

The depths of her pupils reflected the reconstructed space-time membrane - even though she clearly remembered the victory one ten-thousandth of a second later, she had to face the cause and effect that had been reset at this moment, and endure the most violent and crazy reckoning and revenge of the first generation Dragon King.

But thinking of this, Zhao Qing suddenly laughed.

It was because her body began to collapse the next moment when gravity came.

It is not an illusion, not a displacement, but a real physical contraction.

Every inch of her body emitted dense and clear jade-like sounds, and the surface of her skin was flowing with a colorful glass-like luster. In half a microsecond, her whole body shrank into a delicate figure the size of a thumb, and then suddenly sank into the boiling sea of ​​light on the surface of the star.

"Stupid." The King of Wind sneered.

He had seen too many moths flying into fire, but this was the first time he had seen a being that actively jumped into a star.

But before this thought could be fully developed, Zhao Qing had already turned into a stream of light and circled the star half a circle, completing a change of direction in an instant - she did not choose to resist gravity, but instead, like a comet passing by the sun, she accelerated violently with the gravitational slingshot effect!
The sky and the earth were dark and chaotic, with light and dark flashing, and thunder and lightning were shaking the earth.

Because her size was greatly reduced, the tearing and destructive effects of tidal forces were reduced to a minimum. Being closer to the center of gravity, she gained new mobility and danced the most gorgeous yet dangerous waltz in the world on the field!

The Wind King's sword hit the air - in his original calculations, Zhao Qing should have been completely suppressed by the gravitational field, but he didn't expect that she could use it in turn to achieve a near-teleportation-like advance!
"call out--!"

The dense air was cut into pieces by the sword, bursting into a cone-shaped light mist.

The shrunken Zhao Qing was actually faster than before, leaving an ionized blue-purple trail behind her. Thousands of ice crystal runes gathered towards her palm like a swarm of summoned fireflies, and quickly condensed into a crystal clear little sword, pregnant with a brilliant edge that could pierce through the netherworld and cut through everything.

“Smart, but unfortunately not enough.” The Dragon King never stopped sneering. Although his opponent seemed to have exceeded his expectations, he was ultimately limited to the realm of “skills” and had not yet entered the realm of “Tao”. No matter how good he was at fighting, he could not resist a real dimensionality reduction attack.

The King of Wind's hands suddenly made popping sounds, and the changing positions of his knuckles were like blooming lotuses. Dragon blood flew around and formed an ancient tree symbol. Then, the entire battlefield space emitted a whistling sound like the friction of glassware, and suddenly an infinite loop of void corridor was constructed.

The next moment, Zhao Qing's sprint trajectory strangely connected end to end. The brilliant rainbow light was like a Mobius strip twisted by a child, repeatedly turning upside down and reversing. All her forward directions were defined, pointing to the same end point - the opponent had been waiting for a long time to kill her.

"The ancient authority, the wrath of Indra."

The King of Sky and Wind looked calmly at the ant-sized enemy, but his whole body began to radiate holy, flawless, clear and pure white light, as if he had become the origin of light, so holy that it could not be tainted by any impurities, and his pupils also turned into electric white.

The sky and the earth suddenly darkened, but white and purple lightning condensed on his flicking fingertips, not only accumulating a terrifying voltage of billions of volts, but also evolving a graveyard for photons - the dielectric constant of a vacuum plummeted, and these elementary particles acquired a rest mass that would inevitably burn out their lifespans.

...(End of chapter)