lcionline Chapter 304 Wise Sayings
Chapter 304 Wise Sayings
Inside the stone chamber, the planetarium projected the twenty-eight constellations onto the bluestone slab, cutting Ye Shuli's shadow into three segments.
Jiang Ye stuffed the half-eaten spirit fruit back into his storage bag, his fingernails unconsciously digging into the cracks in the stone wall—a habit he had developed while Ye Shuli was thinking, as if the stinging pain in his fingertips could alleviate her anxiety.
“Two energy systems…” The star map data recorded by Ye Shuli using a nano-detector was projected onto her retina as a blue light screen, and the light spots representing the Twenty-Eight Mansions suddenly overlapped with the three-dimensional model of the Milky Way’s spiral arms.
She recalled that three months ago in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, Jiang Ye's spiritual fire had resonated with her electromagnetic pulse gun for 0.3 seconds.
The tribal sage sat cross-legged on a futon, his amber scepter drawing grooves of varying depths on the ground.
The patterns were slowly deforming, mirroring the artifact fragments that Ye Shuli had copied on the ancient battlefield three days ago.
“Just say the word if you need help.” Jiang Ye suddenly pulled out three astrological coins. “I took them from the astrology pavilion last month. They’re said to enhance divination abilities.” He deliberately let the coins fall at Ye Shuli’s feet, his ear tips under his silver-gray short hair turning slightly red—this was the first time he had admitted to stealing auxiliary magical artifacts since they had traveled to the Western Desert.
Ye Shuli ran her fingertips over the star patterns on the surface of the copper coin, then suddenly grabbed Jiang Ye's left hand and pressed it against the base of the planetarium.
The nano-detector showed that the spiritual energy fluctuations of the early stage of the spiritualist exhibited a unique double helix structure, which perfectly matched the energy spectrum of the bronze compass that failed to be repaired three days ago.
"I'll borrow your spiritual power for a moment." She embedded the copper coin into the groove in the stone wall, and the laser cutter burned out a second layer of circuitry on Jiang Ye's leather wristband.
The moment the wristband touched the astrolabe, the projection of the Twenty-Eight Mansions suddenly collapsed into the topological structure of a Klein bottle, with the stars representing the positions of the Heavenly Powers sliding across the distorted surface of the Möbius strip.
The tribal sage suddenly stood up, and the amber at the top of his scepter emitted a seven-colored halo.
Ye Shuli stared at the star trails flowing on the surface of the Klein bottle, then suddenly tore off the nanofiber necklace around her neck—a defensive artifact she had traded three demon beast crystal cores for with the Refining Sect.
Under the combined influence of spiritual fire and electromagnetic field, the silvery-white threads wove together to form the prototype of a four-dimensional hypercube.
"Help me pinpoint the location of the earthquake in the northeast corner!" She tossed three copper coins to Jiang Ye, then bit her fingertip and wrote Maxwell's equations on the Klein bottle projection.
The special carrier of blood mixed with spiritual energy caused a quantum entanglement effect between modern physics formulas and mystical array diagrams.
Jiang Ye's spiritual fire burned scorch marks on the surface of the copper coin, but precisely locked onto the disintegrating star trail projection.
The moment the fourth equation was written, a crisp sound like shattering glass echoed throughout the stone chamber.
The twenty-eight constellations are rearranged into a double helix structure, perfectly fitting the projection of the Milky Way's spiral arm. Ancient dark patterns and modern circuits exchange energy in four-dimensional space.
The scepter in the tribal sage's hand suddenly flew automatically toward the planetarium, and the amber core projected a holographic map.
A coordinate point shimmering with a purple halo was flickering at the border between the Western Desert and the Northern Sea, the location where they encountered the spacetime turbulence three days ago.
"You have proven that knowledge from another world can coexist with the laws of this world." The sage's black robes fluttered without wind, revealing arms covered in star-studded tattoos. "But the real test lies in the Abyss of Fallen Stars." He tapped his scepter lightly, and the data from the artifact fragments stored in Ye Shuli's wristwatch suddenly generated twelve sets of geometric diagrams.
Jiang Ye picked up the charred copper coin from the ground and discovered that the star pattern on it had changed into a constellation arrangement he had never seen before.
The night wind carried distant sand and gravel against the stone window. The tribal sage had vanished from the spot, leaving only the map projected by the scepter slowly rotating—the points of light representing the target location were seeping out blood-red patterns, exactly like the cracks in the artifact that Ye Shuli had previously failed to repair.
The holographic map inside the stone chamber was suddenly swallowed up by a sandstorm, and the nano-detector on Ye Shuli's wrist emitted a piercing sound.
Jiang Ye poked the spinning light spot with his finger, which was smeared with spiritual juice, and blood-red lines immediately spread along his fingerprint to his forearm.
"This thing looks like an infected wound." He shook his hand, trying to shake off the bloodstains, but the spiritual fire burned the skin and produced a burnt smell.
Ye Shuli grabbed his wrist and scanned it, discovering that the patterns were actually miniature versions of the cracks in the divine artifact.
The sound of the stone door opening abruptly interrupted their research.
The tribal chief led in twelve tattooed warriors, whose star and moon patterns on their bronze armor resonated with the fractal pattern on Ye Shuli's wristwatch.
The leader's gaze swept over the astrolabe that had collapsed into a Klein bottle, finally settling on the blood-red markings on Jiang Ye's arm.
"The wise man has gone to the Abyss of Fallen Stars." The leader's bone chain necklace jingled as he unfastened the compass inlaid with stardust from his waist. "Twenty years ago, seventy-three of us warriors escorted this item, but only three returned."
Ye Shuli's nano-detector showed that there was quantum entanglement inside the compass.
When she activated the core with an electromagnetic field, the star map projected by the compass suddenly overlapped with the data from her wristwatch, piecing together a route to a mysterious place on the stone wall.
As Jiang Ye approached, the blood-red markings on his arm suddenly transformed into a navigation pointer, pointing directly to the eye of the storm at the border between the Western Desert and the Northern Sea.
"We'll depart tomorrow morning." The leader sliced his palm with a bone knife, and the blood dripped onto the compass, forming a protective barrier. "My personal guard will escort you to the spacetime turbulence zone."
As moonlight streamed through the diamond-shaped opening in the stone window, Ye Shuli was installing sand-proof devices on the rune camel.
The star patterns on the carapaces of these giant beasts can generate a photoelectric effect with her nanofibers, and the spirit fruit kernels that Jiang Ye secretly hid automatically decompose into navigation particles in the hump grooves.
The tribal warriors dripped purple liquid into the camels' eyes, and the creatures suddenly emitted a buzzing sound like an electric motor starting up.
“This is much more exciting than the subway.” Jiang Ye touched the circuit board-like patterns on the camel’s neck, when Ye Shuli suddenly grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him onto the saddle.
His spiritual fire accidentally ignited the navigation particles stored in the camel hump, and a double-helix spatial coordinate structure emerged from the dark blue flame.
When Ye Shuli traversed the turbulent flow of time and space, her nano-protective suit clashed with the bone armor of the tribal warriors.
Jiang Ye's left arm suddenly swelled with blood patterns, and his initial-level spiritual power unexpectedly formed a double-helix shield, enveloping everyone in a Klein bottle-shaped energy field.
The star and moon tattoos on the soldiers' backs began to glow, forming a four-dimensional positioning system with the fractal image projected by Ye Shuli's wristwatch.
"We're about to land!" Ye Shuli shouted as she activated the electromagnetic buffer device, only to discover that the mysterious place was not a physical space at all.
Countless luminous threads intertwine to form a cocoon-like structure, and quantum clouds flow beneath their feet, causing ripples in spacetime with every step they take.
The aura of the Material Guardian arrived without warning.
Just as Jiang Ye put the half-eaten compressed spirit stone back into his storage bag, the entire quantum space suddenly began to collapse.
The luminous threads converged to form a human-shaped silhouette, while the starry background twisted into a vortex reminiscent of Van Gogh's "Starry Night".
"An energy life form." Ye Shuli's nanoglasses revealed that the Guardian was composed of matter and antimatter. She quietly charged her electromagnetic pulse gun. "Watch out for him..."
Before he could finish speaking, the guardian raised his hand and lightly tapped the void.
Jiang Ye's blood-red markings suddenly turned into shackles, and the data from Ye Shuli's wristwatch flowed out, forming twelve cracks on the quantum cloud.
The rune camels emitted a mournful mechanical neigh, blood seeped from the star and moon tattoos on the warriors' backs, and the entire space began to collapse inward from the guardian.