The most important thing was to cultivate the mind and body. When one's mind was in harmony with the heavens, they would be able to draw upon the power of the universe and use it for their own use. Furthermore, they would be able to generate boundless power.
This included the Five Thunders Spell that manifested the essence of lightning. However, the Five Thunders Spell belonged to the Daoist Sect and focused on drawing upon external power. In other words, it was a materialistic power. It was different from the Buddhist Sect. The yoga-like technique on the mural was a Buddhist Sect technique. The power it manifested was more focused on cultivating the power within one's heart.
Of course, this technique was much inferior to the Five Thunders Spell in the Fourth Dimension. However, it was also much more profound than the Heavenly Thunder Palace's technique he had encountered before. It was a technique that could manifest the power of reality. Luo Kai memorized it carefully. When he had completely comprehended it, he felt that something was wrong with the hall. There was an additional type of hazy energy fluctuation.
There were many people in the hall, and there were still people coming in. Each of them took out their tools and began to knock on the walls. The people from the Phoenix Association frowned slightly, but they did not say anything. Most of their team was made up of ordinary soldiers. Although they were well-trained and had the assistance of advanced firearms, their combat strength was still far inferior to the awakened ones with mystical abilities.
As the end of the century approached, the number of awakened humans increased rapidly. Many of them did not want to be restricted and did not join the formal awakened organizations. Instead, they formed their own small groups. There were many powerful awakened ones among them. Most of them were arrogant and unruly. They only cared about their own benefits and would even lay their hands on ordinary people. Gradually, they became the source of chaos. The awakened organizations were too busy dealing with all kinds of strange creatures and did not have the time to deal with them.
One of the soldiers suddenly pointed at a mural and exclaimed, "Hey!
Why did the mural change? "
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing at. The originally brightly colored mural now revealed a strange sense of beauty. The little people carved on the mural seemed to be alive and gradually grew larger, as if they were about to walk out of the mural.
The leader of the Phoenix Association's team was a one-eyed officer named Cang Lang. He was powerful and experienced. One of the awakened ones in the team asked him, "Captain, have you encountered such a situation before?"
The one-eyed officer shook his head. "No, the entire ruins have been explored except for this tower. According to the detection, there is a huge space hidden under this tower. It should be the core of the ruins."
The only woman in the team, Zhang Mingyu, who had not spoken much all this while, stared at the murals that seemed to come alive. She suddenly said, "This is actually an ancient city of the ancient civilization of Atlantis. The Atlantis civilization placed the most emphasis on industrial technology. However, some changes that were difficult to deal with occurred later, and they were forced to develop life sciences. They developed a kind of mechanical body that was half a life form. To put it simply, they injected mysterious soul power into the machine, allowing the mechanical life form to also have the ability to evolve … Unfortunately, this mechanical life form was too powerful and gradually became difficult to control. Instead, it brought the civilization into the abyss of destruction ahead of time."
Zhang Mingyu's identity was a doctor from the Academy of Sciences. Cang Lang asked her doubtfully, "Has the Academy of Sciences figured out who created this ruin?"
Zhang Mingyu pointed at the murals around her and said softly, "Actually, the murals have already explained it clearly. It's just that it's difficult for you to understand with your wisdom."
Luo Kai also looked at the murals. The abnormalities of the murals naturally could not escape his Observer's Eye. Be it science or metaphysics, the essence was the same. He closed his eyes and shut off his five senses. He began to use his soul power to perceive the murals above.
In quantum physics, there was a famous scientific experiment called the 'Double-Slit Interference Experiment'. Any matter had two sides, and the changes derived from this were almost endless. Some physical phenomena appeared one way when you looked at it, but if you did not look at it, it would become another way. Objectively, it was as if the matter had a life. It would only let you know what it wanted to let you know. Subjectively, it was the Observer Effect. The matter would change according to the soul of the observer.
Now, Luo Kai could already capture and influence their changes. Not long after, an image suddenly appeared in his mind. In the image, countless strange-looking creatures were wantonly slaughtering humans. When all the humans were killed, these creatures jumped into a huge whirlpool one by one and disappeared. It was the opposite of what he saw in the original murals. In other words, the humans were defeated by the machines in the end.
Seeing Luo Kai open his eyes again, Zhang Mingyu walked to him and asked softly, "Did you see it?"
Luo Kai's eyes flickered slightly and said, "I saw it. Turns out you still have many things to say."
This woman was the AI program, Nanfeng. She transformed into a human and followed them to the ruin.
"Hehe, we're all the same." Zhang Mingyu chuckled.
Xu Ming had been paying attention to them. He was puzzled and asked, "What did you see?"
Luo Kai shook his head and said, "Nothing."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly frowned. He could feel that the radiation around him had suddenly become stronger. It was gradually seeping into his skin. He turned to look at the stairs and saw streaks of red blood flowing out from them.
He reminded them, "Something seems to have happened up there."
Everyone hurriedly and cautiously went to check it out. At the corner of the stairs, there was a hideous corpse, all skin and bones. The corpse's face still had the expression it had before it died. It was a look of fear, astonishment, pleading … all sorts of indescribable emotions were mixed together.
Xu Ming walked around the corpse and frowned. "The corpse seems to have been sucked dry by something."
"Let's go up and check it out. Everyone, be careful."
Everyone frowned and walked up the stairs. Not long after, they encountered several corpses that looked exactly the same.
An Awakened stopped before a corpse wrapped in a military coat and said solemnly, "This person seems to be a member of our Phoenix Association."
After climbing up a long flight of stairs, they arrived at the second floor of the tower. Similarly, corpses were strewn all over the place. After checking it out, they continued walking up. Along the way, corpses were everywhere. It seemed that all the humans on the second floor had been killed.
After climbing up an unknown number of floors, they finally saw some living people. Ten or so Awakened ones in various attire were huddled up in a circle in the corner of a room. When they heard the commotion coming from below, they looked over in fear. When they saw that it was a large group of soldiers, they breathed a sigh of relief.
The Phoenix Association had a high prestige among the Awakened ones. The one-eyed officer leading them was a high level Awakened. Not only was his physical fitness far superior to that of ordinary people, he could also use mysterious and unfathomable spiritual power techniques.
A middle-aged man hurriedly said to him, "Team Leader Li, do you see the corpses outside?"
The one-eyed officer said in a deep voice, "I see them. What happened?"
The middle-aged man said with a face full of fear, "I don't know. The people around me suddenly turned into dried corpses."
Xu Ming pondered for a moment. Then, he frowned and said, "It might be because of the radiation. Everyone, let's leave quickly."
The crowd shook their heads. The man said with a pale face, "As long as we leave this floor, we will turn into dried corpses. Team Leader Li, you guys should come quickly."
"Then, why are we all fine?"
"I don't know. Just now, one of us was mysteriously turned into a dried corpse when he reached the stairs. We must not leave this floor."
The one-eyed officer was a bold man. He took out a silver dagger and ordered a few soldiers to walk around carefully. Then, he walked to the stairs and looked around. Puzzled, he said, "Nothing happened?"
Just as he said that, one of the soldiers beside him suddenly widened his eyes. His body quickly shriveled up, turning into a dried corpse in an instant.
At that moment, he also felt something. He suddenly shouted and slashed down with the dagger in his hand. With a clang, a blurry black shadow appeared and disappeared in an instant.
"It's not radiation. It's a monster!"
"Everyone, get into the room quickly!" The one-eyed officer roared.
Almost at the same time, several people around him turned into dried corpses at the same time. Cold sweat broke out all over his body. Other than the slash he made just now, he could no longer feel any trace of the black shadow.
After the crowd entered the room, there were no more deaths. It seemed that the monster really could not enter.
"What the hell was that?"
"I don't know. There seemed to be a black shadow just now!"
Most of the people who entered the ruins were Awakened ones. Most of them had already seen some Mutants. However, they had never encountered such a strange way of dying. They were all terrified.
At that moment, there were more than ten people gathered in the room. The one-eyed officer's eye had turned red. Almost all the subordinates he brought with him were dead.
Luo Kai frowned and looked at the people in the room one by one. He did not see what had attacked them. He could only feel weak energy waves.
His gaze first fell on a middle-aged man in a military coat who was alone in the corner of the room. This man's face was calm. There was no trace of fear on his face. There was an extremely weak airflow around him.
The middle-aged man was also looking at him. When their gazes met, a cold light flashed in his eyes.
There was also a tall man in the crowd who was a little strange. This man was big and burly, but he held a silk handkerchief in his hand. From time to time, he would wipe the corners of his mouth. When he felt Luo Kai's gaze, he gave him a feminine smile.
Luo Kai was a little surprised. It seemed that he had underestimated the natural awakening power of the humans of this world. These two people were not simple. Their spiritual cultivation was very high.
This world was virtual, and due to the limitations of matter and energy, the individual was extremely weak, making it difficult to research the power of materialization. In other words, there weren't any powerful body-tempering techniques, but the research of idealistic power was very unique. The mind wasn't limited by matter, so the abilities derived from it were limitless. Various supernatural abilities that existed in one's imagination were no longer just imagination.
Of course, it was more likely that they were like Nan Feng, the virtual incarnation of some kind of existence.