Chapter Nineteen: Peonies in Bloom
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In the express hotel room,
Fang Yi put his luggage in the wardrobe, then sat down on the bed and began to examine the piece of mutton-fat jade.
Carefully observing its exterior, the jade was only the size of a coin, but despite its small size, it was complete in every detail. Even with the naked eye, one could see a Tai Chi symbol engraved on the innermost part of the front, surrounded by a circle of Bagua (Eight Trigrams).
The eight characters "*、*、*、*、*、*、*、*" were also written in traditional Chinese.
Furthermore, densely packed runes were engraved along the edges and back.
"What do these runes mean?"
Although he had studied a lot of Taoism, he truly didn't know the specific meaning of the runes on the white jade; in fact, he had never even seen them before.
He couldn't figure it out.
Fang Yi stopped pondering it further, instead using his spiritual sense to leave his body and, using a model of a deity, to observe the inside of the white jade again.
Three different types of particles, each with sixty-two colors, were constantly colliding, releasing overflowing energy that swirled around the jade pendant within a meter. Beyond this range, the energy was drawn back by the pendant, forming new particles to continue the cyclical energy generation.
It was like a perpetual motion machine.
"These particles aren't colliding blindly; they're following a pattern."
After observing for a while, Fang Yi gradually discovered some patterns. He could even calculate which two particles would collide and generate energy next.
Next, the yellow galaxy-like particles would collide with the pink dot-like particles at the dry position.
The thought had barely formed in Fang Yi's mind when it was immediately verified.
Sure enough, the yellow galaxy-like particles and the pink dot-like particles collided at the dry position, bursting forth with pure energy.
"Let's try to replicate the structure and simulate an energy field model."
He tried scanning the particle composition of the white jade with the idol model.
As a result, the usually infallible idol model failed this time.
Or rather, his bio-energy field couldn't withstand the drain of the scanning.
Because the particles inside the white jade were constantly active, analyzing its structure required an enormous amount of energy—so enormous that it was practically impossible for Fang Yi at his current level.
"Still not strong enough," Fang Yi sighed, giving up on copying it. "If I had enough energy, perhaps I could analyze it."
Ultimately, his cultivation level was insufficient.
He decided not to waste any more time and instead tried cultivating, hoping to absorb the pure energy released by the white jade.
Fang Yi sat cross-legged on his bed, closed his eyes, and tapped his teeth nine times. Once his mind was calm and his internal energy was harmonized, he practiced breath control, taking one inhale and one exhale as one breath.
The next moment, he felt something miraculous.
The pure energy surrounding the white jade within a one-meter radius was actually drawn into his body during his breathing practice.
Fang Yi, who usually only felt the effects of cultivation after several breaths, felt a warmth in his heart, comfort in his body, and a stirring of his mind after just one breath, with a warm current flowing down to his dantian.
"Hmm? There are signs of dantian energy entering the dantian after just the first breath?"
Fang Yi was quite surprised.
He continued cultivating with great interest.
Before long, he completed the nine-stage cultivation.
Fang Yi "saw" his golden core had grown considerably stronger, and his body was brimming with inexhaustible energy.
"Just by using this piece of white jade to cultivate once, I feel my golden core has grown by three-tenths. At this rate, I should be able to successfully break through to the second stage in at most ten days."
He finally realized how precious the white jade he held was.
Because cultivation must be gradual, one cannot be in a constant state of cultivation, otherwise the body cannot bear the burden.
Therefore, after finishing his cultivation, Fang Yi carefully put away the white jade, then smiled and shook his head, "I didn't expect that helping someone exorcise a ghost would yield such a treasure. It was worth all the energy I expended using the divine statue model to summon the golden dragon."
He was very satisfied.
He picked up his phone and checked the time; it was still early before dinner.
Fang Yi decided to take advantage of the free time to first figure out why the bio-energy field left behind by the horror novelist after his death was so peculiar.
Because the composition and arrangement of the bio-energy field particles were too complex, it would take an unknown amount of time to completely replicate and construct it.
So, after careful consideration, he decided to meticulously unravel the energy field that could create the illusion.
He recalled the specific structure of that bio-energy field in his mind.
The lines on the left were memory lines and could be completely ignored.
Fang Yi didn't analyze the pulsating particles in the upper right part either, because he had seen the bio-energy fields of Old Miao, Aunt Wang, and the old man in the hospital who went from near death to full life, and knew that this part's function was to transmit energy to the universe.
So, only the complex clusters of particles in the lower right remained.
Although it still required hundreds of billions of particles to form, and seemed very complex, Fang Yi, having had experience building a model of a divine statue before, didn't find it tedious, but tried little by little.
The first attempt failed unsurprisingly.
He had built about a million particles, but then mistakenly placed a particle, causing the structure to become unstable and collapse.
Fang Yi was very patient and continued to try to build the energy field model.
Twice, still failed.
Ten times, still failed.
He didn't know how much time he had spent, only that he had failed millions of times.
Finally, around the seven millionth attempt, the last galaxy-shaped red particle was embedded, and the energy field model was completed!
"Phew, finally succeeded."
Like building with blocks, Fang Yi felt a sense of accomplishment after succeeding.
Now, all he needed to do was inject the power of his Golden Core into the model through the special channels of his bio-energy field.
Fang Yi injected energy into the model.
The next moment, the model flashed, indicating it had been successfully activated.
However, to Fang Yi's surprise, no effect was produced.
"Hmm, why isn't it working?"
After a moment's thought, he understood. The terrifying scenes in the bio-energy field created by the horror novelist were entirely based on the author's memories from his previous life. Since he hadn't constructed it himself, it naturally wouldn't have any effect.
In other words, he needed to visualize it.
Visualize it like summoning a golden dragon.
Fang Yi tried visualizing a gardenia growing before him.
Perhaps because his concentration wasn't high enough, his first attempt only resulted in the roots growing before collapsing due to his excitement.
He steadied his mind and tried again.
This time, Fang Yi's mind was completely free of distractions; he simply visualized the gardenia.
Sure enough, the next moment, his soul "saw" a gardenia blooming in the room.
Success!
Just as he expected!
Fang Yi was overjoyed and began visualizing other things.
This time, he visualized a ferocious, white-browed tiger with piercing eyes.
Immediately, a majestic tiger appeared in the room, and he could even visualize its roar!
Fang Yi was having a great time, visualizing demons and monsters, as well as various floods and ferocious beasts, and without exception, they all came true.
Most importantly, it consumed very little energy.
After playing for a while, he returned his mind to his physical body, satisfied.
He picked up his phone again and saw that there was still some time before dinner.
"By the way, I wonder if I can use illusion magic in my physical body." Fang Yi blinked. "Summoning the golden dragon with the idol model is impossible in my physical body; it's very restrictive. If this bio-energy field model that creates illusions could be used in my physical body, its effect would be enormous!"
Trying things out as soon as he thought of them was Fang Yi's usual style.
He took a deep breath and channeled his golden core energy into the illusion model.
At the same time, Fang Yi secretly prayed, "It has to work, otherwise this thing is a bit of a waste. "
Just as he was thinking this, the energy infusion into the Golden Core was complete.
Immediately, Fang Yi saw a peony flower bloom in his palm—the very flower he had visualized!
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