Chinese Superman

Chapter 138 The Secret Realm of Quantum Superposition

"It's alright, I'll fly you there."

Xia Xinghan took Su Xiao's hand, and an invisible bio-force field gently enveloped the two of them, transforming them into a stream of light that sped off in the direction indicated by the little turtle.

The mountain wind whistled in my ears.

The little turtle was a little scared at first, but after a while, it stretched its head out of Su Xiao's palm and looked around at the vast mountains.

"Wow! This is amazing! I feel like I'm flying in the sky like a bird!"

"I'm going on a long trip, Mom, so don't save me dinner."

The little turtle's thoughts were very active, constantly echoing in Su Xiao's mind.

"We've only crossed a few mountains," she smiled slightly, then asked quietly, "Xinghan, do you really understand the cultivation techniques of turtles?"

Su Xiao was very curious that this Martial Ancestor, who had reached the pinnacle of human martial arts, would actually study the cultivation methods of the Turtle Clan.

"I don't understand," Xia Xinghan replied crisply.

"what?"

Su Xiao was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened.

"So you were lying to Little Turtle just now?"

"I'm not lying."

Xia Xinghan's tone was calm and sincere: "It's just that we don't understand it yet. We'll observe its instinctive breathing and the flow of spiritual energy within its body later, and then deduce and create a new one on the spot."

Su Xiao: "————"

She opened her mouth, but ultimately swallowed the word "outrageous."

Just thinking about his identity as the Martial Ancestor who laid the foundation for modern martial arts and the half-Dao Ancestor who created the Five Elements Realm makes one realize how powerful he is.

Oh, that's okay.

Xia Xinghan flew swiftly, sweeping past the mountains like a giant elephant galloping.

Not long after.

"Down there! Down there!"

The little turtle suddenly cried out.

Xia Xinghan landed with them and immediately fell silent.

This is Louguantai!

The little turtle stood up in Su Xiao's palm, pointed with its tiny paw at the immortal peach tree bathed in the glow of the sunset, and conveyed its thoughts: "We're here!"

"The mountain's energy flows to the vicinity, and so much of it is absorbed!"

Looking at the dreamlike, ethereal tree, Su Xiao couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow, what a beautiful tree! The spiritual energy is so rich!"

"Xinghan, is this the place you've been looking for?"

She thought the place Xia Xinghan mentioned was related to the Immortal Peach Tree.

"How about it? I found it!"

The little turtle stretched its neck and held its head high.

Su Xiao gently stroked the little turtle's head with her fair fingertips, praising it for being so great.

Seeing this, Xia Xing shook his head helplessly.

However, upon closer reflection, what the little turtle said did indeed match the scene before him; he had simply misunderstood.

As a spiritual root of heaven and earth, the immortal peach tree, when it revives and bears fruit, naturally absorbs the most refined spiritual substances from Zhongnan Mountain.

That feeling of "devouring" was indeed the strangest thing to the little turtle, who didn't understand the spiritual roots of heaven and earth.

"Not here."

Xia Xinghan looked at the little turtle.

"Besides this place, are there any other places in the mountains that you find strange?"

The little turtle tilted its head, once again activating its still-unfamiliar mountain master senses, carefully sensing for a while, then shook its head blankly: "There isn't any left."

Xia Xinghan frowned slightly.

How is that possible?

The grottoes where Hangu Pass is located are clearly in the mountains.

Why can't the little turtle, who is the master of the mountain, sense it?

unless----

With a thought, he took to the air again and flew towards the steep cliff in his memory.

"Starry Sky!"

Su Xiao quickly picked up the little turtle and followed, but she couldn't fly.

"I'll be right back."

Xia Xinghan's voice came from afar, telling them to wait at Louguantai.

In the blink of an eye.

Xia Xinghan stood before the cliff from his memory, hovering in mid-air, his pupils slightly contracting.

gone!

The narrow crevice that was hidden by vines last night, leading to the entrance to the secret cave, has now vanished without a trace!

Before you is only a single, steep cliff face, bearing the marks of time and wind erosion.

"How could this happen!?"

Xia Xinghan activated his super vision and X-ray vision, scanning repeatedly, but could not find any trace of the hidden space.

It was as if everything I saw last night was just an overly realistic hallucination.

"Unbelievable—could it be an illusion—?"

Xia Xinghan reached out and touched the cold, rough rock wall. The touch was incredibly real, without any illusions or barriers to block it.

"Does that entrance only appear under certain specific 'observation states'?"

He immediately realized that the key to discovering the grotto yesterday coincided with the perspective of Lao Tzu's phantom looking back!

Without hesitation, Xia Xinghan returned to Louguantai.

He closed his eyes and concentrated, and the image of Lao Tzu riding an ox westward and then looking back at the moment he clearly recreated in his mind was vividly present.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Xinghan adjusted his position and angle until they perfectly overlapped with the fleeting glimpse in his memory, and followed that invisible gaze into the depths of Zhongnan Mountain.

really-

Cracks appeared on the cliff face!

It's been detected!!

"What's going on? Is [Hangu Pass] in a state of quantum superposition? It doesn't exist if it's not observed, and it only appears when it's observed." Xia Xinghan was slightly startled.

No wonder.

He had searched deep in the Zhongnan Mountains several times, using his super vision and X-ray vision to the fullest extent, almost seeing through the earth's crust, but found nothing unusual.

It turns out that I wasn't in an "observation state".

"Su Xiao, bring the little turtle along for a [observation] as well."

Xia Xinghan carried her into the air.

Although Su Xiao didn't understand why, she trusted him and did as he said.

When she followed Xia Xinghan's gaze, she couldn't help but exclaim softly, "Huh? There—"

"There wasn't a cave just now!"

"Did the little turtle see that?"

"Yes, I see it."

"Okay, hold on, don't look away at all!"

The two people and the tortoise remained in "observation mode," carefully flying through the air until they reached the cliff face again and joined it.

The familiar grottoes, the rough stone walls, and the three naturally formed ancient seal characters at the end:

Hangu Pass

"This is it."

Xia Xinghan pointed to the stone wall and asked the little turtle, "Can you sense anything unusual here?"

"No, I don't feel anything."

"Try it, see if your mountain-lord power can connect with the stone wall and see if you can get in."

Su Xiao stretched out her palm in front of the stone wall, and the little turtle curiously looked it over before reaching out its little paw to touch it.

It was cold and hard, and showed no reaction.

It tried its best to mobilize the spiritual substances within its body to touch the stone wall.

The stone wall remained completely still, without even a ripple.

"No, that won't work!"

The little turtle withdrew its claws somewhat dejectedly.

"It ignores the turtle."

Xia Xinghan was not surprised and pondered, "I suspect that we need to evoke the mystical imagery of Zhongnan Mountain, for example—"

—The legendary "Shortcut to Zhongnan Mountain."

"Only by using this imagery as a bridge can we connect to and even open up the Hangu Pass."

When Lao Tzu left Hangu Pass to the west, purple clouds came from the east for three thousand miles, and he took the shortcut to Zhongnan Mountain.

"Swollen orange stem?"

The little turtle blinked its big, dark eyes, looking completely bewildered. "What's that? Is it tasty?"

Su Xiao couldn't help but chuckle and explained, "It's not about food. It's an allusion, roughly meaning—well, a clever path or method to a goal."

Xia Xinghan: "————"

So why did Zhongnan Mountain choose a small mountain tortoise as its master?

I seized the mountain by my own skill, slaughtering everyone in all directions without leaving a single survivor!

What?

Too much bloodshed and too young, it doesn't fit the image of longevity.

That's fine.

The above is just Xia Xinghan's deduction. He said to the little turtle, "Use your authority over the mountain to mobilize all the mysterious images of Zhongnan Mountain and fill them in to try."

The little turtle seemed to understand, but it still tried its best to do as instructed, closing its eyes and the patterns on its shell glowing faintly.

"boom"

The entire Zhongnan Mountain trembled once more, with clouds billowing and a sea of ​​light flowing.

In an instant, the grotto was filled with splendor and countless images!

There are rustling pines, babbling streams, an alchemical furnace with Bagua symbols, and the Tao Te Ching.

Xia Xinghan's gaze swept swiftly across the myriad splendors, finally settling on a faint image—

Purple clouds rise from the east for 30,000 miles, marking the first crossing of Hangu Pass in 5,000 years!

"This is it!"

Seeing this, Xia Xinghan reached out again and touched the stone wall.

Still cold and unresponsive.

"It just didn't work."

Xia Xinghan withdrew his hand, not disappointed, but rather as he had expected.

"Although the little turtle is the master of the mountain, it is only just beginning to develop intelligence and does not understand human culture and the profound meaning of allusions."

"The images it evokes are merely in form, lacking any real mystical power."

Looking at the somewhat dejected little turtle, Su Xiao gently stroked its shell comfortingly and asked, "What should we do next?"

Xia Xinghan picked up the little turtle and said with a wicked smile, "What else can we do? Of course, we'll give her a good lesson!"

"Little turtle, you'll learn a lesson about the hardships of going to school!"

Su Xiao looked at the little turtle with a pained expression.

What a ridiculous thing to do.

Even though they were all born as tortoises in remote mountain valleys, they still couldn't escape the fate of going to school and studying. How bitter!

After failing to explore Hangu Pass, the two people and the tortoise withdrew from the cave.

"Now that there's no observation, the entrance to the cave should have disappeared, right?"

As Xia Xinghan glanced back one last time, confirming that the cave entrance had indeed "disappeared" again after being taken out of view, Su Xiao, standing beside him, suddenly asked in confusion, "Xinghan, what are you looking at?"

"ah."

"Isn't that just an ordinary cliff?"

Xia Xinghan froze abruptly and turned to look at Su Xiao.

The girl's eyes were crystal clear.

She turned around and examined the steep cliff face, as if trying to figure out something.

"You—don't you remember the cave we just went into?" Xia Xinghan's voice turned solemn.

"A cave?"

Su Xiao was even more confused, tilting her head and trying to recall carefully.

"Weren't we just talking to the little turtle at Louguantai, and then flying here to look at the cliff? Where's the cave?"

"Huh, that's strange, why are we looking at cliffs and precipices?"

"Oh right, it seems like we're looking for some strange place, right, Xinghan? Have you found it yet?"

"6

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No need to ask, of course we found it!

"What a magnificent Hangu Pass Grotto! Not only can it erase quantum superposition states, but even related short-term memories can be silently wiped away!" Xia Xinghan exclaimed inwardly.

If he didn't possess a super brain, a photographic memory, and information processing and memory storage methods far exceeding those of ordinary people, forming a certain level of "rule resistance," he would probably be like Su Xiao, completely forgetting the experience of that moment.

"Am I absolutely certain I'll remember?"

Alarm bells rang in Xia Xinghan's mind.

He wasn't sure how long such a memory could be retained, even with his super brain.

One day? Three days?

Or will it quietly fade away at some unexpected moment?

"We must frequently and actively recall and reinforce this memory!"

He immediately memorized all the details about the Hangu Pass grottoes, including their location and how to enter.

The tactile sensation of the stone wall, the form of the seal script, and even the phenomenon of Su Xiao's memories being erased were all repeatedly recalled and marked with important mental imprints.

The more memories you have, the less likely you are to forget or lose them.

After finishing these tasks and calming his emotions, Xia Xinghan said to Su Xiao with a normal expression, "It's nothing, let's go back to Louguantai first."