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Chapter 253 The Unity of Heaven and Man
Although it sounds strange, Feng Xue felt like a fingerprint expert at this moment, constantly finding similarities in complex fingerprint folds and analyzing whether the differences were due to force, location, or simply because they were not the same fingerprint at all.

Fortunately, Xiaolingdang's spell formations are very standard. If it were a manuscript or sketch, that would have been a real disaster.

"Generally speaking, there are almost no similarities, at least not in terms of intelligence or spirituality. Is testing the only option?"

Feng Xue muttered to herself, took out a failed piece from her Hutian Bag when she was practicing "Jade Unraveling", and inscribed this small section of the configuration into it. Apart from the two ports of output and input, she did not add any other configuration.

In fact, this kind of attempt is like randomly cutting a piece off a circuit board and then connecting it to electricity. It is unlikely to yield any results. However, when she had no clue what to do, Feng Xue still started a round of attempts with the mentality that she wouldn't die anyway, so she might as well give it a try.

As magic flowed into this simple circuit, which wasn't particularly complex, nothing happened, just as he had imagined. But his intuition told him that something was wrong.

Feng Xue frowned, watching the little bats she released increasingly resemble the living Bigeley, but still didn't call Mo Ying back. She simply said:

"Little Bell, help me monitor the body data when this configuration is triggered."

"Okay." Without further ado, Little Bell gave Feng Xue a signal that she was ready. Feng Xue immediately channeled her magic power again. Even though she had made the flow of magic power as slow as possible, the whole process only lasted less than 0.3 seconds.

"Master, some of the magic power has disappeared."

After a brief silence, Xiao Lingdang provided the data. Feng Xue hadn't expected that a difference would actually be detected, and immediately said:
Do you know how it was consumed?

"I don't know. The magic power was depleted after passing through the jade talisman, but it didn't cause any objective impact. It should have produced some kind of effect, but for some reason, the effect was not enough to be detected. After all, my monitoring is based on your perception and the function of electronic devices. If it exceeds these two, I won't be able to detect it. However, since there was a loss, it means that it was indeed activated. I suggest increasing the input of magic power."

Little Bell shrugged, giving a response that was not much different from "Thinking has stopped, the server is busy, please try again later".

Feng Xue rolled her eyes, but after confirming her lifespan lock, she began to increase the input. Anyway, she could withstand the descent of angels, let alone a single configuration.
As the magical power increased, the jade talisman began to heat up slightly. This time, even Feng Xue herself felt the magical power "disappear into thin air".

"It can't be that the magic power turned into heat, can it? That doesn't make sense! There's no such thing in the Ignite Charm..."

Feng Xue continued to increase his output, and suddenly, he felt a tremor run through his body.

"Little Bell, did you spot this on the surveillance footage before?"

"Feedback has been confirmed. The symptoms are similar to muscle spasms, but it is impossible to determine whether they are occasional twitches or the effect of the spell."

Seemingly to demonstrate her professionalism, Xiaolingdang didn't use any interjections this time, but her cold, detached report gave Feng Xue confidence.

He focused his attention on the throbbing sensation he had felt earlier and channeled his magic power again. This time, prepared, he clearly felt the source of the throbbing—his waist, or rather…his kidneys?
"No, it's just referred pain; the actual point of contact didn't produce any feedback to the organ," Xiao Lingdang explained to Feng Xue, who frowned in response.

"Kidneys...kidney water? Or...vital energy? The methods of gathering vital energy and intermittent methods do involve vital energy, but the Wu You Nuo mask should not involve vital energy. Moreover, in normal spellcasting, the amplitude of this stimulation should be extremely small and not enough to cause substantial changes."

Thinking this to himself, he didn't consider it a coincidence, but continued to issue orders:
"Little Bell, please retrieve the information about Vital Energy from the database."

"OK, just a second."

A large amount of text information flashed across the screen. The files that Feng Xue had downloaded in batches and the notes she had made before were quickly retrieved and collected. In terms of information retrieval, AI does have unique advantages. Even if all the documents were documents with keyword search function, it would probably take several hours to search them one by one. However, with most of the computing power being used to fine-tune Bigeley's spellcasting process, Xiaolingdang only took three seconds to provide a summary of nearly 10,000 words from the perspectives of medicine and Taoism, and made a brief summary of the relevant information.

“In traditional Chinese medicine, vital energy is the most fundamental innate energy of the human body and the driving force of life activities. According to the folk world’s concept of refining essence into energy and refining energy into spirit, Xiaolingdang is actually the process of taking vital energy and nourishing the spirit.”

"Taoist primordial energy refers to the origin of the universe, the core of human cultivation, which is the 'one' in 'Tao gives birth to one,' the primordial energy, the origin of chaos."

Looking at these two explanations, although both called it "vital energy," the difference was enormous. However, as her gaze moved downwards, Feng Xue remembered something Old Li had said when he taught her about the Wu You Nuo mask—

"The so-called unity of heaven and man refers to the isomorphism between the human body and nature. Heaven has five elements, and man has five internal organs; heaven has four seasons, and man has four qi. The shamanistic rituals of Nuo face are to replace the natural large cycle with the small cycle of the human body, so that the ethereal spirit that should be naturally nurtured between heaven and earth can be born under the control of the human body's environment..."

Is the human body isomorphic with nature?

When Feng Xue heard Lao Li talk about this theory, she thought it was a forced attempt to make up the numbers, like saying there are 360 ​​stars in the sky and 360 acupoints in the human body. After all, even something as easy to figure out as the number of bones was wrong from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic all the way to Song Ci's Collection of Wrongs (Note ①). It's impossible to say that no one knew that there weren't that many bones.

Even Lao Li said that this technology, to put it bluntly, is just turning the creation of a virtual god by pooling the power of the masses into the creation by one person's own will. It doesn't mean that just because there are living beings with willpower in the world, you can also generate living beings with willpower, and the world will become isomorphic with you.

But now, this structural change seems to be telling us that the so-called unity of man and nature, the isomorphism of man and nature, is not just a far-fetched interpretation.

Just as Feng Xue was pondering the connection between Yuan Qi and Yuan Qi, Bigeley suddenly shouted:
"Stop! That's it!"

Feng Xue subconsciously turned her over-the-shoulder view and saw a pink little bat fluttering its wings and flying around the room. Its movements were agile and light, unlike the spellcasting rules of this world, which only allowed it to do one thing before disappearing without a trace.

Seeing this, Feng Xue immediately said:

"Little Bell, show me the spell configuration. Bigeley, tell your bat to stop; I need to give it a checkup!"

(End of this chapter)