Chapter 576: Chapter 11: Breakthroughs Without End (Part 2)
Listen, it refers to perceiving sounds. Plants and animals differ; they cannot rely on ears to hear but must listen with their hearts. Lin Hai listens to the Spiritual Energy, and she must rely on listening to confirm that her choices are not mistaken.
Xiao Xian sat down quietly; now without spatial abilities, she could only rely on herself, closing her eyes to listen. The chirping of birds and insects in the Wanlin Hills gradually became clear, along with the sound of the wind rustling the leaves. Sunlight shone on the leaves, illuminating the veins on their surfaces, and water splashed against the rocks in the streams.
Gradually, these sounds also disappeared, and Xiao Xian could only hear her own heartbeat. All things under heaven are just like that; after her heartbeat, came irregular breaths of varying intensity.
The breath of a one-year-old herbaceous plant is weak, two-year-old, then three-year-old... All the crops at the foothills, according to the difference in years and growth tendencies, had breaths that were either thick or faint.
The Polygonum multiflorum that Xiao Xian had chosen earlier had the thickest breath among its kind. The foothills mostly had plants of twenty years, the breath of a twenty-year-old plant was like this. Then a one-year-old... two-year-old... Xiao Xian silently noted them in her heart.
The third step is to ask. Humans, due to their supreme status among all beings, often think that plants cannot be questioned. This is a misconception; plants are alive. A leaf’s vein, a branch, a wisp of root hair, the surrounding environment, the earthworms passing by, the birds on the branches, the ants on the bark, every minute detail, all reflect the current mood of the plant. Prosperous veins, lofty branches, abundant roots all indicate the plant’s abundance in Spiritual Energy.
The fourth step is to cut, meaning to choose the most viable pathway to absorb Spiritual Energy without harming the plant itself, and to nourish the person’s own Spiritual Energy.
After choosing the Polygonum multiflorum, the root system is the foundation, the stem is the pathway, and the leaves are the portal, absorbing photosynthesis and rainwater. Once her mind was set, Xiao Xian did not hesitate, lightly touching the leaves of the Polygonum multiflorum, her mind became clear, Spiritual Energy passed through her skin, capillaries, slowly filling her body, and that feeling was like a baby tasting mother’s milk for the first time, receiving the ability to live.
"That’s about it for today’s lesson," Xiao Xian took a deep breath, her index finger lightly flicked a leaf of the Polygonum multiflorum, and some kind of connection between her body and the plant was cut off.
Directly absorbing Spiritual Energy through her body, as opposed to using a Silver-grade Space, was a completely different feeling. Xiao Xian spread her fingers, and under the sunlight, Spiritual Energy flowed through the veins in her skin, and into her body. Inside, something seemed to have condensed.
Haste makes waste, this principle, Xiao Xian still understood. After exiting the central computer, Xiao Xian sat in the dormitory, reflecting on the entire process she had just experienced. The window was left open, the dry wind from the depths of the desert brushed against her face, slightly abrasive.
The sunset time is the most comfortable temperature period of the day at the North Campus.
Zhang Yiyi lay sprawled in a rocky and rugged Gobi Desert. In the morning, she finally passed the test and met the minimum requirements, which meant that she had begun the basic course of Class C.
The basic course starts with observing the Life Traits of one’s own kind, and the Consumption Value for a single simulation session is 10 points. Even such a small amount had Zhang Yiyi somewhat embarrassed, so she chose not to watch the actual training on the central computer but opted for the free method of on-site observation.
Geckos belong to the lizard family, and in the absence of a gecko to observe, Zhang Yiyi could only find a sand lizard as her observation target. The conversation between Xiao Xian and Wang Shuai yesterday was not completely unfelt by Zhang Yiyi.
"Xiao Xian has received a Special-level evaluation result and started the Special-level course. I am just as new as her; I can’t drag her down." On the surface, Zhang Yiyi is a snack-loving girl like most students today, but in reality, due to her parents’ divorce and many years of physical education life, she has a resilience deep inside her.
She might not be the smartest, but after mistakenly eating a colorful gecko and undergoing changes in her body, what she had been doing was trying to accept the reality in front of her. Until she saw Xiao Xian weaving a Cushion in the middle of the night and going out to cut grass early the next morning, and feeling ashamed, she gradually had new thoughts.
"I have to work harder, even harder. Basic attributes of a lizard, I must quickly master them, be agile in movement, adept at hiding in the sand." Zhang Yiyi silently repeated the analysis of the basic attributes of the Desert Lizard.
Not far away on a sloped gravel surface, a slow-moving Desert Lizard with scaled armor and saw-like teeth crawled out.
Desert Lizards also do not tolerate high temperatures; the times of sunrise and sunset each day are when they frequently emerge from their burrows.
After one lizard came out, successively, a few more small lizards appeared, seeming to be a lizard family.
Seeing the lizards crawling towards her, Zhang Yiyi got goosebumps.
"Stay calm, from now on, you are a lizard, one of their kind." Zhang Yiyi calmed her breathing; her heartbeat slowed down. The Desert Lizard, quite oblivious to the beating wings of insects, crawled next to Zhang Yiyi, and then along her clothing, up her arm.
An odd, cold sensation moved from the fabric to her skin.
At this moment, Zhang Yiyi was like an ordinary rock in the desert, blending in with the surrounding environment.
A gust of wind and sand swept past, covering Zhang Yiyi’s hair and facial features in sand, everything turned a dull yellow, only her earnest eyes shone brilliantly amidst the desolate Gobi Desert, rivaling the slowly rising night stars on the horizon.
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