CHAPTER 114: CHAPTER 114 - THE ’QI’ OF ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH

He sighed deeply: "I finally somewhat believe in the cycle of karma now—what you sow in a past life, you reap in this one!"

Lu Ren was a bit surprised: "Doesn’t your Buddhism particularly believe in the concept of past and present lives?"

The skeleton said: "I don’t believe, haha."

It always felt like a mocking sneer.

Lu Ren muttered in his heart, and the skeleton said again: "Give me your hand."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ren once again placed his hand over the skeleton’s hand bone.

The skeleton said solemnly: "Feel it well; there’s only this one chance. If it fails, I truly have no other solutions!"

Seeing Lu Ren nod, the skeletal socket’s illusory flame suddenly brightened, then rose higher, burned larger, until later the entire skull seemed to be on fire.

Immediately after, Lu Ren was shocked by the emotions, watching as the fire within the skeleton’s head slowly left and began to slowly move towards him.

Looking at the approaching flame, feeling no warmth, Lu Ren resisted the urge to pull back his hand and punch.

The skeleton softly said at this time: "Please, trust me, Benefactor."

Speaking formally, Lu Ren heard it, and his tense body began to slowly calm down. Although it looked fiercely burning, he felt no heat.

When the flame touched him, Lu Ren shuddered slightly, and his vision suddenly changed.

In his eyes, the world observed was full of colorful light waves, everywhere was light of various colors.

"This is..."

Lu Ren was shocked, finally understanding what the skeleton meant by ’Qi’—it’s a magnetic field. No wonder the skeleton always said Qi is everywhere, inside, around, in mountains, rivers, flowers, stones, everything exists because of Qi.

If it’s a magnetic field, all of this makes sense. The magnetic field is something all things have, even a stone.

Through detailed scientific research, everything has a magnetic field, be it as weak as a blade of grass or as large as a planet.

In ordinary circumstances, people cannot see magnetic fields.

Even the light waves Lu Ren now sees aren’t the specific true expressions of magnetic fields; actually, what he sees is not the magnetic field but the frequency of material particle vibrations, that is, light wave frequencies.

For instance, sunlight causes air particles in the atmosphere to vibrate at the frequency of the spectrum, so the daylight is nature filled with sunlight; for example, when an object’s surface is stimulated by a magnetic field, the microscopic particles on the object’s surface resonate with a certain frequency in the field, thereby allowing us to see the Great Thousand Worlds.

Space is dark and cold because there’s no material in space and we can’t see the magnetic field, which precludes seeing the light wave parameters within the magnetic field.

Thus people cannot see the magnetic field, but rather the manifestation given by the fusion of magnetic field and objects.

This university education wasn’t in vain!

Lu Ren deeply sighed, saying that had it not been for his practice in Martial Path enhancing his four-dimensional attributes, he wouldn’t have been so intelligent, quick-witted, punching down Einstein, and stepping over Madam Curie...

Gathering his thoughts, Lu Ren’s eyes flickered with related ideas, finally finding some threads to follow.

The fire condensed by the God in the skeleton quickly faded from its sockets, its voice slightly weak: "I’ve already passed on the Lamp Burning Dharma God to you, how do you feel, any ideas?"

Lu Ren nodded slightly: "Give me a day to think."

After speaking, he got up and sat at the temple’s threshold, quietly pondering.

Seeing this, the skeleton also nodded slightly, jaw and upper jaw kept colliding, murmuring resonated in the air.

"Hope so..."

After a while, hands behind his back, he began slowly wandering around the temple, bones clattering continuously, unclear how the bones were connected. Normally, when the flesh disappears and all organic matter decomposes, bones cannot connect again, becoming mere pieces, no longer able to move like they do, creaking without oil.

Lu Ren couldn’t help but glance back angrily: "Can you let me quiet for a moment?"

The skeleton shrugged helplessly: "Okay, okay, who makes you the boss!"

After speaking, he immediately dropped down, head hanging low, with no further movements.

Lu Ren turned his head back to face forward, eyes slightly closed.

Lamp Burning Realm...

After half a day of contemplation, Lu Ren placed a dried candle holder in front of himself and used stones to strike some sparks to light it again.

A tiny flame flickered, and after a long burn, it even sparked.

As the skeleton explained to him, human spirit and body are quite mysterious, mutually influencing each other. To break limits, spirit and body are indispensable, needing to reach the zenith of human peak to bridge the barrier, relying on each other, forming Bright Awakening.

How did ancient cultivators focused solely on spiritual development avoid the physical to spiritually achieve Bright Awakening?

Undoubtedly, those who reach Bright Awakening have exceptionally strong spirits, capable of many incredible feats.

And as an Awakened, Lu Ren is certain that those at this level can surely sense and utilize magnetic fields, or rather, the use of magnetic fields will be the beginning and hallmark for entering the Bright Awakening Realm.

"Ding, you stare into the candlelight deep in thought, faintly realizing something."

"Ding, you stare into the candlelight deep in thought, faintly feel realization."

The system notification in his mind triggered every five minutes, until the sky completely darkened, when the otherwise repetitive notification suddenly changed.

"Ding, you stare into the candlelight deep in thought, finally gaining insight, successfully acquiring the Lamp of Freedom. Do you want to integrate the Heartless Sword intention?"

Lu Ren was momentarily stunned, it could be like this, then without hesitation he silently said in his heart: "Yes."

Though contemplating the Heartless Sword could greatly enhance his combat ability, it doesn’t quite match his current practices, whether it’s Basic Swordsmanship or Phoenix Falcon Fist, the Heartless Sword’s contribution is there but not overly crucial.

What worries Lu Ren more is that the Heartless Sword was created by Yan Zhenghua, who knows if there are defects within it, plus Yan Zhenghua might not necessarily teach Lu Ren the next steps in cultivating the Heartless Sword.

Their relationship hasn’t reached that level, at most it’s a customer and owner relationship, he bought these cultivation methods through extra money paid to Yan Zhenghua.

No one owes anyone.

So Lu Ren chose ’yes’ without hesitation.

The next moment after confirmation, in his system character attribute panel, Heartless Sword quietly turned into Slightly Accomplished level Lamp of Freedom, and with it, insights into the Slightly Accomplished level Lamp of Freedom continually flooded his mind.

So-called Lamp Burning doesn’t mean visualizing a lamp in one’s mind, that’s no different than the lowest way to do so, the lamp refers to one’s spirit, the ignited will.