Chapter 53.1 (1/2)

Chapter 53.1

The apocalypse’s heavenly master poorly versed in the world’s affairs (15.1)

Translated by: Niladri

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Qin Yi remained at the Song family to negotiate. Lu Heng saw that it had nothing to do with him, so he greeted Qin Yi and left. Seeing Lu Heng’s fierce attack just now, no one in the Song family dared to stop him.

Back in his room, Lu Heng took out the crystal nucleus obtained from the demonized Pan Rongxi. This was the nucleus of the healer zombie in the cave, but the edges and corners were somewhat rounded and its shape looked like a neidan pearl.

Was there some difference between spontaneous awakening and awakening through nucleus? Lu Heng didn’t know much about the awakening of abilities. He happened to hear movement next door. It was Qin Yi who had returned. Lu Heng grabbed the crystal nucleus and the storage bag and knocked on Qin Yi’s door.

The door was unlocked. Qin Yi let Lu Heng in directly.

As soon as he entered, Lu Heng saw Mu Fei and Jiang Sile. It seems that Mu Fei had heard about Pan Rongxi.

Qin Yi saw Lu Heng come in and gestured the latter to sit beside him.

“So, the situation at that time was like this. As for the cause of Pan Rongxi’s sudden infection, it is still under investigation.” Qin Yi said.

Mu Fei looked distraught. After all, he had taken care of the other person for several years. It was hard for him to accept such an abrupt accident.

Jiang Sile patted Mu Fei on the shoulder in a comforting manner, but Mu Fei grasped him tightly as if seeking some comfort.

“Ah Mu and I will go down first.” Jiang Sile said. He nodded to Lu Heng and led Mu Fei away.

“It’s so strange that he could mutate so quickly even if he was accidentally infected by the demonic energy of Song Kunyu’s wound in the course of treatment.” Qin Yi said after hearing Jiang Sile’s voice downstairs.

“I found this in Pan Rongxi’s dantian.” Lu Heng brought out the crystal nucleus. “What is the method of awakening through the crystal nucleus?”

Qin Yi took over the crystal nucleus and looked at it. “I’m not too clear on the specifics. I heard people saying that they swallowed the crystal nucleus directly. If they were lucky, they would awaken their abilities.”

Hearing this, Lu Heng understood somewhat. The self-awakened ability and the awakening through the nucleus were two distinct paths of cultivation. Self-awakened ability was to activate the spiritual roots in the body, by absorbing the spiritual energy in a nucleus, and slowly condensing the inner neidan. And through nucleus awakening, the nucleus was directly poured into dantian, and then the dantian uses this to absorb spiritual cultivation and increase level.

Lu Heng explained these points to Qin Yi, and he immediately understood: “The matter of Pan Rongxi is probably related to the crystal nucleus.”

Lu Heng nodded. “How is your current spiritual cultivation? Is there any way to find out what’s inside the nucleus?”

Qin Yi shook his head: “There’s no guarantee. In case of a failure, the only clue will be gone, and it’s not worth it.”

“Then we can only rely on these.” Lu Heng poured a large pile of nuclear debris from his storage bag onto the table.

The two men bitterly played jigsaw puzzle assembling in the room. The whole crystal nucleus was only the size of peach seed, small or even the size of jujube seed, and had transparent appearance. It was impossible to assemble these fragments into complete nuclei only following the faint lines on them.

Fortunately, both Lu Heng and the other person knew the basic method of manipulation of the divine sense, used it to trace the lines, and then pieced them together. Although it was difficult, they managed to make some progress slowly.

Hard work eventually pays off. Working overnight, they finally pieced together a few complete crystal nucleii.

Lu Heng carefully placed the crystal nuclei they had glued together. When he relaxed, a profound sense of fatigue swept over. Lu Heng did not care about anything else. He fell on a big bed beside him, and his consciousness fell into darkness.

When Lu Heng woke up, he felt that his temple was somewhat swollen, which was the side effect of excessive use of divine sense. He moved, tried to sit up, but felt a tight grip on his waist. Only then did the half-asleep Lu Heng discovered that he had a warm body behind him, and the other person’s constant breathing on the back of his neck, which brought a feeling of numbness.

Sensing the familiar atmosphere, even without looking back, Lu Heng knew who it was. Qin Yi’s breathing was still steady and he appeared to be in deep sleep. Qin Yi’s control of divine sense was far better than his own, so majority of the work of piecing together the fragments was done by him, and it has not fully recovered yet.

Lu Heng lay beside the floor to ceiling window, and the curtain was pulled up, leaving only a layer of white gauze covering it 1. Due to the moon in the sky, Lu Heng saw that it was already dusk and he had slept through the afternoon. The setting sun dyed the white gauze into a golden red color, and painted the whole room into a warm color.

After coming into this apocalypse, incident after incident had taken place, and Lu Heng did not have a good rest for a long time. Now the atmosphere was too warm, coupled with the sense of belonging and warmth brought by the people behind him. Listening to the regular breathing sound in his ear, Lu Heng unknowingly fell asleep.

Opening his eyes again, there was no light outside. Lu Heng turned over and found that Qin Yi was half-awake, sitting on the bed, dazedly looking at his face illuminated by the dim bedside lamps.

Lu Heng sat up and asked, “What time is it now?”

Qin Yi blinked and seemed to have recovered. He reached out and brushed Lu Heng’s messy, curly hair. “It’s almost dawn. Want to sleep again? ”

Lu Heng shook his head and crossed his legs to jumpstart his awareness, but he heard Qin Yi sigh helplessly.

Lu Heng looked at him doubtfully.