Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

Although the wound on my lower abdomen has closed up, stopped bleeding, and I can barely feel any pain, it hasn't truly healed yet.

Lu Chen could clearly sense that the entire path through which the longsword had pierced him, including his liver, was in the same condition.

These wounds can close up because an invisible force presses the wounds together in the same way they were before they were injured.

During the day, there were always outsiders around, and Lu Chen was worried that someone would notice something, so he didn't dare to use his mental power to touch this force. Now he could finally try it.

The first thing to try is to pick up an object using telekinesis while in this state.

Within one meter, the intensity of mental power is still roughly equivalent to the strength of one's own hand, and within about three meters, one can still move chopsticks and a calligraphy brush.

It seems that my mental power has not weakened because I need to use it to seal the wound!

This means that the psychic power currently used to seal the wound is not part of one's original psychic power.

Lu Chen had always believed that the only thing he could control in the body he had possessed was his mental power.

But now it seems that's clearly not the case!

This body also harbors another kind of psychic power that I have never discovered before.

The liver is a core organ of the human body, so it should not be touched. Lu Chen prepared to use the superficial wound on his abdomen as a test subject.

Lu Chen calmed down and tried again to directly control the mental power to seal the abdominal wound, but as before, there was no response.

This mental power is indeed beyond one's own control!

So, how exactly does it work?

Since we can't control it directly, let's see how it reacts after being affected by external forces.

Lu Chen used his telekinetic power to forcibly tear open the abdominal wound that had been tightly closed!

The psychic power used to close the wound was far less than that of a single hand using full force, and the wound was easily torn open.

However, the scene of blood splattering that Lu Chen had expected did not occur!

The wound was torn open, and it hurt a little, but not unbearably.

This time, Lu Chen was finally able to carefully observe the edges of the wound cut by the longsword, and it was indeed the color of human skin after an injury.

The psychic force that had been exerting force from both sides to keep the wound closed moved to the edge of the wound the moment it was torn, sealing off the wound exposed to the air.

Not a single drop of blood seeped from the wound on the skin!

Even more bizarrely, after the abdominal wound was torn open, only a small amount of blood flowed out of the abdominal cavity exposed to the air.

Because a new psychic force quickly appeared, it directly stopped the blood that was about to flow out. However, there was too much fluid in the abdomen, and a small amount of blood flowed out of the body before the wound was completely sealed by the psychic force.

From the moment Lu Chen forcibly tore the wound open with his telekinetic power to the moment his new telekinetic power completely sealed it, there was less than a second between the two events.

Lu Chen withdrew the psychic power that had forcibly opened the wound.

Sure enough, the skin on both sides of the wound was quickly pressed together again by that uncontrollable mental force.

The psychic power that had just appeared and sealed off the exposed abdominal cavity vanished without a trace in an instant.

The entire process was like an instinctive reaction—swift, precise, and efficient.

Lu Chen could clearly sense the existence of this mental force, but he was completely unable to control it. It was like an ordinary person being able to feel their heartbeat but being unable to control it.

Lu Chen stretched out his finger and wiped it on the wound on his abdomen, where a few drops of blood that had seeped from his abdominal cavity stained his finger.

This was the first time Lu Chen had seen blood flowing from this body since he transmigrated.

I brought it to my nose and smelled it. It smelled like fresh human blood, and the color was the familiar bright red, not much different from ordinary human blood.

Lu Chen finally realized one thing: this body was actually no different from an ordinary person's body.

What's truly bizarre is telekinesis!

This mental power was divided into two parts, one of which was discovered when I first woke up in the meteorite crater deep in the mountains.

I can control this part of my mental power as easily as if it were my own arm.

The other part was only discovered after this injury. This psychic power could not be controlled by one's own will, but it was doing something automatically.

That is to maintain the body and keep the injured parts in their original positions.

Lu Chen could clearly sense that every blood vessel in the wound where the sword had cut through his tissue was perfectly aligned, and blood continued to flow through it, just as it had before he was injured.

Before long, these wounds will heal completely without leaving any scars.

This body doesn't have any powerful regenerative abilities, nor is it the legendary immortal being, but under the influence of that uncontrollable mental power, it has achieved a similar effect.

As a time traveler, Lu Chen naturally knew some knowledge about the human body.

Human control over one's own body is actually divided into two parts.

Besides the parts that the brain can control, there are other parts, such as heartbeat, gastrointestinal motility, vasoconstriction, sweat gland secretion, and pupil dilation and vasodilation, that the brain cannot control.

There is another control center in the human body, called the autonomic nervous system or vegetative nervous system.

The autonomic nervous system automatically regulates bodily functions without conscious control.

The human brain has a fatal weakness in processing problems: it cannot concentrate for long periods of time and is always distracted.

If we were to entrust the brain with the management of things like heartbeats, it would be a disaster!

The thought that my heart would stop beating if I just spaced out for a moment is chilling.

This autonomic nervous system is the core that truly maintains the body's normal functioning.

The psychic power that I only discovered after I was injured last night seems to function as the ecological niche of the autonomic nervous system within the human body.

The mental power that one can freely use corresponds to the consciousness of the brain!

Could it be that the mental power within this body is actually divided into two parts, controlled by the brain and the autonomic nervous system respectively?

Having traveled from another dimension and taken over this body, I can naturally use the portion of mental power that my brain can control.

But is that really all there is to it?

Before his transmigration, Lu Chen had also experienced being drunk.

If you drink to the point where you can't even walk steadily, your brain simply can't stay clear-headed.

However, even when Lu Chen was extremely drunk and unable to stand on his own, he remained perfectly conscious in his current body, and could even use his mental power to "support" his body and move around.

If this mental power is truly controlled by the brain, how could it be possible to do this when the brain cannot even remain conscious?

A thought began to subtly rise in Lu Chen's mind.

Could it be...?!

It's not that this body is controlling the telekinesis, but rather that the telekinesis is "driving" this body?!