Chapter 1419: Chapter 528: New Route (2)
"What abilities? It’s nothing more than being able to control the incense souls and fire insects of Jing Country."
Lord Jian patted his chest and said, "I, Teng Jian, don’t need any incense. Just with the bow in my hand, I can shoot down those Heavenly Fire Clan people."
"..." Li Changxun.
Li Changxun never thought that Lord Jian loved bragging so much.
"Lord Jian, if you don’t have incense, no matter how excellent your archery is, can you kill a disciple with the power of three sticks of incense?"
"No."
"Then that’s it—under the Heavenly Dome, there are also nine sticks of incense. You can’t use incense, but others can. So what are they in front of you?"
Li Changxun’s expression suddenly turned solemn, and he said, "They are gods, and you are nothing more than an unremarkable ant in the human world."
His words were rough but held truth, and Lord Jian remained silent for a long time after hearing them.
Seeing that Zhou Xuan had not spoken, Yun Ziliang thought he might be dissatisfied with the conversation between Li Changxun and Lord Jian. Hoping to ease the atmosphere, he wanted Zhou Xuan to say something.
"Xuanzi, Chang Xun here has lost his nerve, and Lord Jian is depressed. You should say a few words to cheer us up; you’re our old group’s spiritual leader now."
Yun Ziliang continued speaking, but Zhou Xuan stared blankly, looking ahead, his eyelids blinking mechanically.
"Grand Master, don’t call him. Brother Xuan has surely entered the Secret Realm with his Heart Spirit."
It’s true that only a close friend understands another.
At this moment, Zhou Xuan was indeed inside the Secret Realm.
In the Secret Realm, the White Cicada that Zhou Xuan had captured was howling mournfully.
This Qiu Chong’er didn’t seem huge outside, but inside the Secret Realm, it became a "giant insect," taller than a human.
However, once a huge insect enters the Secret Realm, it must lay low, as Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm can easily handle cicadas.
Currently,
Big Child and Third Child, these two ginseng spirits, were each pulling one wing of the cicada, enacting a "Double Child Dismemberment."
"Big Child, this insect is really strong; I’m having trouble holding it."
"What do you know, idiot? This insect is supposed to be strong. The stronger it is, the more excited I get."
It’s one thing for the two Big Children to be pulling the cicada, but the Little Brain from Buddha Country kept shifting its position.
"You two kids, put in some more strength and fully extend its wings only then the photos I take will have artistic value."
Little Brain might forget his own name, but he’ll never forget his artistic pursuits.
Meanwhile, Miss Qiang and the Engineer, these two scientists from the Blood Flesh Divine Dynasty, transformed into "Consciousness" and, like membrane, wrapped the cicada.
Zhou Xuan stood nearby watching.
No one knew how much time had passed before Miss Qiang, turning back into human form, appeared beside Zhou Xuan.
"Miss Qiang, how’s the research going?" Zhou Xuan asked.
This group wasn’t just tormenting the White Cicada for fun; their main purpose was research.
Zhou Xuan wanted to use the White Cicada to solve the mystery of the Heavenly Fire Clan — why this clan, neither entirely human nor insect, could control the incense souls and fire insects of the human world.
Miss Qiang shook her head and said, "Ah Xuan, we haven’t achieved any major breakthroughs yet, but the Engineer and I have a hypothesis."
"What kind of hypothesis?"
Zhou Xuan asked.
Miss Qiang said, "The ’Insect People’ of the Heavenly Fire Clan can control incense fire, and it should be related to the sound of their wings vibrating."
"That seems somewhat reasonable."
Zhou Xuan said — at least in the Ancient Soul Returning Hall, he relied on the cicada’s wing vibrations to control the incense fire.
"Those incense fires are essentially living beings too. They are like humans — they have a certain level of thought."
"Think about it, when we humans give or receive orders, what do we rely on? Isn’t it language?"
Miss Qiang said.
When Zhou Xuan heard this, a thought formed in his mind: "So Miss Qiang, can I understand it this way? When the Heavenly Dome’s insects vibrate their wings, the sound they produce can be considered a language."
"If we grasp this language, can we also give orders to and control the incense souls and fire insects?"
"That’s not possible."
Miss Qiang said, "The greatest function of language is communication. It can be used to issue orders, but the recipient can choose not to comply."
"For instance, you can order the God Traveling Department of Mingjiang Prefecture; no matter what you tell them, they’ll do it,
but if you let Ya Zi order the people from the God Traveling Department, he would be chased out with a stick."
"Now that you made that analogy, I understand." Zhou Xuan said.
Compliance is never as simple as just giving an order — authority, interests, faith, power, fear... these are the essences of compliance.
Miss Qiang said, "That’s why the Engineer and I both think the sound of the vibrating wings might resonate with some kind of faith or fear among the incense souls and fire insects towards the Heavenly Fire Clan.
What we need to find is the faith or fear itself — once we find these things, we’ll have found the key to controlling the incense souls and fire insects."
"The direction is right, Miss Qiang. You should accelerate your research."
Zhou Xuan said.
Miss Qiang then asked, "Xuanzi, don’t you have another method, using the power of elixirs to replace the incense fire at its source?"
This was Zhou Xuan’s original idea — Cultivation Disciples were all burning gasoline, which was controlled by the Heavenly Dome, and they were at a bottleneck.
To avoid this bottleneck, we won’t burn gasoline anymore; we’ll switch to electricity, embracing a new energy source.
However, since Zhou Xuan refined a Source Power Pill for "Heaven and Earth," his thoughts on this changed.
"I once refined such an elixir with a power source, but that power source isn’t usable by the Hall Disciples of Jing Country, so the route of replacing incense fire probably won’t work."
