Chapter 5 Exploring the path to find a way to practice Dharma

Author: Original Seventh Generation

Chapter 5 Exploring the path to find a way to practice Dharma

"What is going on... I have a desire for the Origin Stone itself?" Xia Lan looked at the Origin Stone in the window and said to herself in confusion.

His body and his subconscious seemed to be telling him that he wanted to "eat" those Origin Stones.

"It seems that my so-called talent is not that simple..." He sighed and couldn't help but guess the reason for this situation.

According to the information found on the Internet, normal humans will not have any desire for the Source Stone, because it is just a stone full of energy, and the Source Stone is still harmful to the human body, and the human subconscious will urge people to stay away from the Source Stone.

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"Is this a golden finger, a talent he has, or just a 'mistake'?" Xia Lan thought, but still hesitated to try it, because if it was a mistake, he would definitely be infected by the Origin Stone.

, and got into a bad situation.

If he had realized that he had a "golden finger" before, he would have refused this attempt, but now... he has become dependent on the golden finger. His subconscious tells him what to do, and he will try to do it.

This is losing his ability to choose, but he has not yet realized it.

So, after hesitating for a while, Xia Lan finally decided to try absorbing the Origin Stone. She turned to look at the door of the store, and then saw the words "Enter with a magician's certificate" again, and her face turned bitter.

"..." He was silent for a moment, and then left regardless of his subconscious desire.

Walking on the road, Xia Lan looked at the pedestrians around her and compared the strength of the biological energy fields between them, but she couldn't help but think of what happened just now - absorbing the Source Stone might make her stronger.

This possibility has always been on his mind, making his thoughts confused.

Finally, when passing by the entrance of an underground city, he couldn't help cursing: "Wealth and honor are found in danger, and it's over after you cut it off!"

Passers-by gave him strange looks.

Xia Lan's face turned red when she realized her playful behavior. She sped up and left the place. She went directly to the elevator shaft and pressed the button to go to the first floor of the underground city.

The core city of Longmen is vaguely calculated to have a total of two levels of underground city. Below that is a large industrial area and a mobile urban power area, which are inaccessible to ordinary people.

His target is naturally urban areas where there are people living there, and he plans to go to those places to look for anyone smuggling Origin Stones. Even if he can get a small amount of Origin Stones, it will be enough.

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There are buildings connected up and down in the underground city. In some places, the space is only the size of a passage for one person, while in other places there are five or six-story buildings, and the roads can also be used directly for driving.

There are basically artificial light sources above the head, which is not too dim. Although the air in most places is slightly dull, there are still many places that are relatively fresh.

There are various architectural styles, but they seem a bit more chaotic than those on the ground.

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For a moment, Xia Lan walked in the bustling commercial district of the underground city and looked at the pedestrians and shops around her. The most obvious difference from the ones on the ground was that the people seemed more weathered and the shops were not so bright.

He could casually see passers-by wearing some kind of Originium equipment under their clothes, and judging from the impression they gave him, they didn't seem to be as simple as a mobile phone or a watch.

"Gun?" This was his only thought when he saw a man in black carrying a suitcase. There was a long Originium instrument in the suitcase, and next to it were a dozen or so scattered weapons.

A bullet-shaped object that reacts strongly to Originium.

The other party glanced at Xia Lan, who was looking at his bag, shook his head slightly and made a "silence" gesture.

Xia Lan suddenly panicked and nodded quickly, her heart almost jumping out of fear.

The other party disappeared into the crowd, without doing anything else, and walked quietly towards the place where he wanted to perform the task.

He was just an ordinary killer passing by and met an interesting ordinary citizen.

Watching the other party leave, Xia Lan still looked there in a panic. After a long time, she walked to a bench by the roadside and sat down, trying to downplay the raging fear in her heart.

Although most passers-by would pay attention to him because of his appearance, no one would come up and try to contact him, because his expression indicated that they were in trouble, and they didn't want to get into trouble.

"Curiosity can really...kill the cat." He thought, covering his face.

After a while, Xia Lan continued shopping with a bag of barbecue, trying hard not to worry about that matter - others would definitely not care about her, she was just a poor ant.

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He basically visited this small commercial district, but unfortunately he couldn't find any place with a high concentration of Originium energy. It seemed that even if there were similar trading activities, they would not happen around here. After all,

It's an illegal activity.

"Hiss--" He suddenly looked at the "Source Energy Distribution Box" on the roadside and fell into deep thought. What was flowing in it was the transformed Source Stone energy. Its nature was a bit special. He didn't know if he could absorb it.

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If he can, then he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. He can just steal the energy of the Source Stone. If not, he will probably have to absorb the Source Stone.

With this thought in mind, he followed an energy line to an alley and prepared to steal.

"Hush~" He took a deep breath, then put his hands on the pile of threads and began to feel the energy in them.

In just a few seconds, he reached synergy with the naturally flowing energy, and his vision seemed to spread hundreds of meters among them, seeing many ends.

"Then, start taking action." He whispered, trying to extract the source energy from it bit by bit and introduce it into his body.

As smoothly as picking up a water cup to drink water, he absorbed a lot of source energy in an instant. They flowed into his body, and after some indescribable changes, they turned into a warm current, floating around.

His whole body.

"Yeah~" He couldn't help but groaned, subconsciously looking around with a guilty conscience, and then reluctantly put his hand down.

Although it only took about ten seconds, he already had a faint "feeling of fullness", and it seemed that the amount he had absorbed could meet the current upper limit.

However... he did not feel any significant increase in his ability to manipulate source energy, and he immediately became disappointed.

[Wrong material, correct energy, correction rate increased by 0.1%]

"Well, it seems that I have to try the authentic Origin Stone again. Either try my luck, or try to become a first-level magician and buy it in a regular store." Xia Lan sighed regretfully, and then

Then left this alley.

There was still plenty of time, so Xia Lan decided to try her luck again and walked towards a place with fewer pedestrians. She was already a little arrogant.

He walked through residential areas, past the doorways of certain warehouses, and along paths that few people seemed to pass by, but he found nothing.

"Looks like I have to go back the same way..." He sighed. It seems that he will not be able to accomplish his original goal today. The only gain is that he can absorb the energy of the Origin Stone without any damage, and it can also be transformed.

Maybe it can be used in the future.

On his way back, he suddenly saw a guy who was as bright as a fluorescent lamp. It was definitely brighter than everyone he had seen before!

Xia Lan was stunned for a few seconds, and then he hesitated whether to go over. Judging from this brightness, it seemed that that person had a very, very powerful Origin Stone skill, even at the "fifth level" level?

There are five levels of magicians, and level 5 is naturally the pinnacle of the world. It is said that some of the top level 5 magicians can destroy a city by themselves after sufficient preparation.

And there are even many forms. According to the few cases he found, they are:

Create a mental contagion (called the Demon Invasion by the Yan Kingdom), simply cover the ground with a blanket bombardment, change the geology on a large scale to cause urban groups to fall, detonate volcanoes (it only takes half a day from preheating to detonation), and destroy mobile cities from the bottom

The structure of...etc.

These are all horrifying incidents of indiscriminate massacres in history, and they are also part of the preface written in the magician's tutorial. There may be revenge or illness, but the sinners were basically rounded up and killed afterwards.

In this current era, due to the gradual improvement of the Origin Stone skill training system, there are more than 3,000 certified fifth-level magicians in the world, and even if you include those who are not certified, there will be no more than 10,000.

However, due to the development of modern technology and magic, fifth-level magicians are no longer as unstoppable as they were in that era. Now they are only "nearly" unstoppable.

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So Xia Lan is considering whether to go over and see who it is. If the other party is doing something shameful, he may send it.

"Just take a look..." In the end, he couldn't hold back the thoughts in his heart and walked over there.

One minute later.

Xia Lan came to a spacious open park, which seemed to function as a cultivation room, and the air smelled quite fresh.

Besides him, there are many other people here. Some of them are simply using the equipment in the park to move their bodies, while others are sitting and chatting to relax. This scene can make Xia Lan prepare for a difficult begging for mercy.

Shocked.

"This...can't be the old man doing morning exercises, even though it's already afternoon." Xia Lan said to herself with a darkened face, walking towards the light source in the source energy field of vision, and sure enough, after passing through a bush of greenery, she saw

An old Zalak (rat) arrived.

He was tumbling on the horizontal bar. Although his figure was a little old, his muscles were not weak at all. It looked like he could beat Xia Lan to death with one punch.

"It turns out to be the Rat King, that's no wonder..." He sighed in his heart, looked at it twice more, and then left. He walked around in this green grassy park and made his heart tighten.

My little heart relaxed a little along the way.

He was a little scared when he thought about it. His mentality was not "looking for opportunities". It was clearly a blind attempt to die. He just walked around without knowing anything.

"You must be more cautious next time. Even if you become stronger, you must still be cautious. Curiosity will kill the cat!" Xia Lan decided.

But the so-called experience is not something that can only be gained by making one's determination.

He is not a god and cannot directly progress through the awakening of his mind.

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By the time Xia Lan returned to his den, it was already past four in the afternoon. Although he didn't gain much, at least he gained some knowledge.

"Although I don't know what the use is, I can try to steal electricity in the future." He wrote this down in his notebook, and then tried to analyze other things.

A known:

1. I awakened the Origin Stone skill after a coma, and the effect of using it was low. It was suspected to be a golden finger. It showed the possibility of some kind of "evolution", but currently I lacked the means to try it.

2. Possess some ability to predict and respond to danger in a few seconds, most likely a golden finger.

3. The process of memory fusion remains to be studied;

4. When traveling through time, I saw a blurry image and lost my impression, but it must contain clues.

5. Dreams, seas of blood, and golden light should have corresponding things behind these images.

6.……

It lists many things that happened to him after he came to this world. They are fragmented and seem to be waiting for him to uncover the mysteries within them.

Xia Lan is not a fool. In the anime and novels of the previous life, there were so many time-travelers who were used as gun users. Some of those people even lost everything in the end and completely turned into nutrients for the mastermind behind the scenes.

He does not think that the power he has been given is his own power. Cracking the conspiracy, finding out the truth, and gaining freedom are what he must do.

Otherwise... he would rather not look for her, rather give up the love that he had desperately longed for in his past life.

He spent more than an hour thinking about the many possibilities and listed many solutions, such as finding gods to help him, exploring the mysteries of spells and souls, etc., but they were all too far away.

"Oh, right..." He thought halfway and took out a piece of paper from his pocket. It was the kind of advertisement he saw on the way back. It was the kind of advertisement posted on telephone poles.

And what the advertisement says is "Origin Stone Skills Study Class". You only need to spend 4,000 Dragon Gate coins to buy an introductory spell tutorial and a week-long course, one hour a day.

Obviously, this is an underground black study class, run by some black organization.

He took out his mobile phone and registered his name online. Of course he used a fake name. The system was very sloppy and you could tell at a glance that he might be a liar.

But he didn't panic, because they would deliver the Origin Stone skills tutorial to his door the next day, and it was even free. If he was satisfied after taking it, he could sign up for that class again, and even show up in the end.

Pay fees.

He is very conscientious and is much more reasonable than the many scammers in his previous life who would send money even if they disagreed.

Xia Lan even filled in the delivery address to be in the community next to him, which should be safer. When the goods arrive, we will see if she wants to go there.

"I hope it will be genuine by then, and I can try to learn on my own first..."

He even got a little excited when he thought about it. It took him a long time to calm down and prepare to go out for exercise.

Since I have nothing to do now, I naturally have to exercise in my spare time, otherwise it will be really fatal if I encounter a crisis and cannot avoid it in the future.

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After exercising and resting, and then having dinner and taking a shower, Xia Lan started walking on the street to relax and watch the fireworks in the world. It is a good thing to combine work and rest.

He looked at the beast-eared girls all over the street, and suddenly realized that he hadn't played games for a long time. He was obviously very addicted to games in his previous life, but now he didn't care about games at all.

After all... In his current view, reality is much better than games. Beautiful girls with cat ears, dog ears, and rabbit ears can be seen everywhere. Although many of them are accompanied by people, he still feels quite satisfied when he looks at them.

The average appearance of this world is much higher than that of the earth, and it has some two-dimensional characteristics, so there are very few very ugly people. It is simply the perfect dream place in the legend.

He recalled some careful research on the plot in his previous life, including the conjecture that people in this world are all adjusted human beings, so good looks are probably part of the adjustment... right?

Xia Lan was lost in thought, and suddenly noticed the glances passers-by occasionally cast towards her. Only then did she suddenly realize that she was a handsome guy in this life?!

He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth in a cute way, and laughed reservedly but uncontrollably with joy - this was really wonderful.

"I don't know what I look like in the eyes of passers-by. You don't have to care. It has nothing to do with me anyway. My handsome sister won't come to me asking for a social software account." He thought, and he didn't feel too reserved.

class idea.

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"But, walking alone on this earth is indeed a bit lonely."

"Lonely is lonely. Which time traveler is not lonely? This is a necessary training."

"Practice yourself, this is called recharging your energy!"

"Indeed, it is indeed worth recharging my energy and getting ready to charge."
Chapter completed!