Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 23 Slaying the Insignificant (Please continue reading)

Only Luo Ji, lying on the hospital bed, Zhuang Yan, who was keeping watch by the bedside, and Luo Qing, who was standing beside the bed, remained in the living room.

"Brother Luo Qing, what should we do?" Zhuang Yan's voice trembled with tears.

Luo Qing frowned and remained silent. He lit a cigar, seemingly weighing something.

Should we let Luo Ji go into hibernation?

No.

Zhuang Yan was about to remind Luo Ji that he couldn't smell smoke in his current state when she suddenly noticed that the smoke Luo Qing exhaled formed a semi-transparent sphere in mid-air without leaking out at all.

As soon as the cigar was finished, Luo Qing casually squeezed the smoke away, and it vanished.

Looking at Luo Ji, who was still unconscious and connected to an oxygen tube, Luo Qing made a decision. He whispered:
"Tomoko, come out here."

Sophon remained unchanged, and the Trisolarans could not respond to him.

Luo Qing had anticipated this.

He gazed in the direction of Zhizi and said, "I know you're afraid I'll find out something from Luo Ji, but do you think you can stop me? Or do you really think you can kill someone right in front of me with some little tricks of biological technology?"

The Trisolarans still haven't responded.

"The Trisolaran civilization will pay the price for your arrogance."

Luo Qing gave up communicating with Zhi Zi. His fingertips were surrounded by a blue light, and a rich vitality quickly filled the entire room.

"The cycle of flourishing and decay turns, life springs forth from solitude, life is hidden within death; the Way resides in the heart of the tree, go!"

In an instant, the entire wooden structure of the Garden of Eden seemed to be awakened by this blue light, and a rich vitality flowed between the folds of the decaying wood.

Zhuang Yan covered her mouth. She saw that invisible cyan winds, like transparent ribbons, were wrapped around the 19th-century wooden villa.

The Three-Body experts jumped to their feet, their thought membranes flashing violently.

Boom!

As if thunder had struck in spring, countless buds and green shoots sprouted from the walls, windowsills, and firewood, while the true essence of green wood in Luo Qing's palm grew ever stronger.

The wood grain vibrated, and the dry pine wood used as firewood for the fireplace made a slight cracking sound. Clusters of tender yellow mounds rose up in the corner of the wall.

Since the main building material of the Garden of Eden was wood, as all the trees revived, the internal stress of the building began to change chaotically, and the whole room began to creak.

Countless dense life energies formed a hidden vortex, and Luo Qing stood at the center of that vortex.

"If the King of Hell wants someone to die at midnight, I can keep him alive until dawn!"

Luo Qing gave a cold shout, and the sterile isolation glass shattered. Countless wisps of light, like strands of black hair, pierced through the glass and rushed toward the patient.

Like an old tree sprouting new life, like parched sand being moistened, like rain after a long drought.

Under the stirring of that ever-renewing true essence of green wood, Luo Ji's life force was rapidly replenished, and his decaying internal organs regained their vitality.

Zhuang Yan clearly felt Luo Ji's breathing calm down instantly. Overjoyed, she cried tears of gratitude and kept thanking Luo Qing.

"Thank you, Mr. Luo Qing! Whoever you are, thank you!"

Luo Qing nodded slightly and then teleported a gift box, which contained the gift he had prepared for Luo Ji's family. He took out the spirit stone fragment pendant, the shape of which he had personally hand-crafted on a lathe.

"Put this on Brother Luo Ji; it will prolong his life."

Luo Qing handed the pendant to Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan carefully hung the pendant on Luo Ji's chest. She clearly heard Luo Ji groan. Obviously, he had regained consciousness, but was still not awake.

For Zhuang Yan, what just happened was undoubtedly a miracle.

But for the Trisolaran civilization, wasn't it a miracle as well?

Luo Qing's methods once again shook the long-dormant scientific world of the Trisolaran civilization. Compared to humanity, whose technology was blocked by the Sophons, the Trisolaran scientific world was experiencing a growing fear of the unknown.

Luo Qing's spiritual sense could vaguely detect that there was more than one spying gaze nearby.

East, South, West.

Three gazes converged, clearly indicating that at this moment, at least three Sophons were observing him.

The Trisolaran world has gone 'mad'. He stood there calmly, seemingly not taking the three sophons seriously.

The arrogant silence of the Trisolarans finally ended, and a sophon flew into Luo Qing's pupil.

Mr. Luo Qing, please wait a moment, we need to talk!

The response to Zhizi was a peculiar, subtle sword intent. Unlike the magnificent sword light that seemed to cleave the heavens and earth in the Pacific Ocean, this sword intent was extremely subtle. From the moment it was unleashed, it was like a gentle breeze, making one feel no sharpness whatsoever.

Luo Qing had been refining this sword technique for many days.

Feeling a great threat, Tomoko stopped typing on her retina almost without hesitation and fled the place.

But countless tiny sword lights, like fireflies twinkling in the night sky, coalesced into dazzling stars in Luo Qing's eyes, completely sealing off Zhi Zi's expected escape route.

A sophon? A proton!
The sophon, at a microscopic scale, was struck by the cultivation power at the same microscopic scale. Those tiny sword lights, like countless sharp swords traveling at the atomic scale, rushed toward the sophon.

Even a light-speed escape like Zhi Zi requires activation time, but Luo Qing seized the fleeting opportunity while it was typing on its retina. This fish that took the bait was obtained by Brother Luo Ji at the cost of half his life!

From Tomoko's perspective, this scene was like countless large trucks rushing around on the road, and Tomoko was like a mosquito dodging on that road!
If you have any issues, go talk to the Immortal Cultivation Insurance!

Countless large trucks surged past like a tidal wave, and Zhizi dodged left and right, but was eventually grazed by one of the trucks with a flash of light.

Just like the results of the high-energy particle collision experiment, the sophon shattered into three quark particles and a gluon cloud the instant it was hit.

This is not the first time that the Sophon has been destroyed by human means.

Over the past 10 years, sophons have been shattered thousands of times in the thousands of high-energy particle accelerator collisions conducted by humans.

However, unlike in the past, when the Sophon was shattered, it could always reassemble and recover in an instant. But this time, the Sophon was shattered exceptionally thoroughly. The Sophon that was grazed by this sword light had its internal etched circuits completely destroyed and could no longer be reassembled, completely dissipating into the microscopic world.

In the 9th year of the Crisis Era, humanity destroyed the Sophon for the first time.

"This sword is called, Zhanwei."

"Three days to comprehend the Dao, a single sword strike to slay the insignificant—how does that feel?"

Luo Qing smiled slightly, and the surrounding sword intent returned to his body. He was no longer sharp and aggressive, but stood there like a gentle spring breeze.

The Trisolarans did not answer, or rather, they could not answer. After one sophon was destroyed, the remaining two sophons escaped to the other side of the Earth in 1/15 of a second.

Luo Qing naturally couldn't cross Earth to hunt down another Zhizi.

The reason is simple: the sword intent cuts through the microscopic, which is only effective against sophons, and its actual power is very limited, having almost no impact on the macroscopic world.

Even if this sword intent were to exert its full strength, it probably wouldn't be able to break through even a large molecular structure.

Fortunately, the sophon's 'defense' is also almost zero. As long as it hits, it's a victory. Moreover, the atomic nucleus where the sophon is located is still within Luo Qing's comprehension.

If it were at the quark scale or the lepton (neutrino) scale, then he would truly be helpless.

Of course, precisely because of this, the attack range of the Sword Intent of Cutting Micro is extremely limited. Even though Luo Qing has tried his best to enhance the sword intent, Cutting Micro can only travel about ten centimeters in the macro world before dissipating into the particle torrent of the micro world.

He only managed to kill Tomoko in one fell swoop by seizing the opportunity when she was typing on his retina.

Now the Trisolarans are clearly on guard and will not allow Sophon to get so close to them again.

In any case, successfully eliminating one of the Zhizi (a type of magical creature) swept away Luo Qing's gloomy mood of the past few years, and the mental demons and obstacles caused by the Zhizi also cleared away.

Yeah, that feels good.

Luo Qingdao was overjoyed.

In reality, a proton is a composite particle consisting of two up quarks and one down quark, bound together by the strong nuclear force transmitted through gluons. Its mass primarily originates from energy rather than the quarks themselves.

In reality, the only way to break a proton is through a particle accelerator, which accelerates the proton to near the speed of light and causes them to collide with each other, releasing powerful energy. In this process, the proton will disintegrate into a mixture of quarks and gluons (quark-gluon plasma).

However, this is only a temporary state of high temperature and density, and the free quarks are not stable. They will soon recombine into protons.

This is also the theoretical basis for the fact that sophons (intelligent protons) can be reassembled after being shattered in the original Three-Body Problem novel.

As for the setting of this book?

The protagonist is a cultivator, so please don't delve too deeply into this; it's something I really couldn't have made up.

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