Chapter 5: Shenghui
Huang Quan got down from the girl's back and looked ahead, and his vision was filled with forest after forest. The direction of the girl's finger is a particularly dense forest.
Huang Quan quickly saw the difference, crisscrossing the vines growing between the giant trees, and some huge roots also winding through the air, in the eyes of Huang Quan, these were natural passages and sentry points.
On the ground, there is a dense density of long grass and barbed shrubs, blocking access and making it difficult for even the most nimble beasts to navigate through them.
The spines of the shrub are the size of a finger, and the tips of the thorns are of a variety of bright colors. According to common sense, whatever is particularly colorful in the rainforest, it is basically highly poisonous.
These shrubs are natural barriers, and the long grass that can grow in them should not be as ordinary as it seems, at least they have extremely strong vitality and can compete with this shrub for growth space.
This area, apart from the fact that the vegetation is too dense to swallow up most of the natural light, is very eerie from the outside, and the vegetation is not unlike the rainforests in other places.
The three of them walked around the area for a short half-circle, and the girl bent slightly and slipped under a curved tree root.
The roots of the trees were covered with grass, and there was no sign of a passage at all. But the girl beckoned to the Yellow Spring, and disappeared into the long grass. Huang Quan bent down and followed in.
Unlike the long grass in the rainforest, which is as hard as steel, this blade of grass looks exactly like them, but is surprisingly soft.
When Huang Quan got in, he found that there was a passage about several meters long under the tree, and he bent down and walked a few steps, and then he got out of the long grass, and a new world suddenly appeared in front of him.
After the grass grows, it is actually a valley.
There is a building that looks like lotus petals, which is crawling with vines, and from a distance, it is blue and blue, and dotted with white vine flowers.
There is a pool of water in the valley, one end of which rises from the central building, and the surface of the pool ripples, as if it is living water. Around the valley, there are more than a dozen buildings of various sizes, of various shapes, but mostly with curved roofs that extend to the ground.
The valley is not large, with a diameter of only a few tens of meters, but it is a world of its own.
The canopies of the giant trees that hug each other are intertwined, but magically leave a natural blank space in the center for direct sunlight to shine in. The scenery in the valley is bright, which is very different from the gloomy and obscure in the rainforest.
As soon as they entered the valley, Gray Eagle, Flying Arrow, and Haruka were all refreshed and visibly relaxed. Huangquan feels like he has stepped into a new world full of vitality, his whole body is like a thirsty sponge, desperately absorbing the vitality around him, and his body slowly relaxes and awakens one by one.
Suddenly, a slight clicking sound sounded in Huang Quan's ears, and some chaotic lines began to appear in his field of vision. This is a sign that some of the tiny devices installed in his body are back in operation.
However, after 10,000 years, it has long exceeded the theoretical tenure of these devices, and it is difficult to say how many of them can be used normally.
However, what shocked Huang Quan was not that these devices could be used, but that they started up again.
These tiny devices implanted in the body were the embodiment of the highest technology of the empire at that time, and they had their own uses, the largest of which was no more than a hair, and the small one was simply a speck of dust. But even with the technological level of the empire at the time, it was not possible for such a small device to carry long-term energy.
Therefore, what drives these devices is not ordinary energy, or even Huangquan's own life energy, but Shenghui!
Divine Radiance is a top-secret technology from the Imperial Age. Most people only know about it, and only the term "Shenghui" is used. And those who have come into contact with it know that it is an extremely powerful energy, from the "Holy Pyroxene", nothing more.
Many Praetorian Warriors, including all Dragoons, have unimaginably powerful bodies that come from the Divine Radiance. Bathed in the Holy Light, the human body will gradually become stronger and more powerful from the inside out.
But not all of them can withstand the power of the Holy Radiance.
Only those whose physical strength reached the standard of Praetorian Guard soldiers could survive the initial exposure, and during the entire transformation process, more than half of them lost control of their bodies halfway through and developed various deformed tissues. Many of the remaining lucky ones will become hot-tempered and bloodthirsty, and their lifespans will be drastically shortened.
Huangquan is an exception.
He only remembered that he seemed to have often stood under the holy pyroxene stone since he was sensible, bathing in the light. The rest of the Praetorian Guard, on the other hand, had to stand at a great distance, briefly shining on the Holy Radiance, and what fell on them was still the filtered Holy Radiance.
Did my father and mother ever talk about why this was? Huang Quan thought about it, but found that his mind was hazy.
After 10,000 years of sleep, many memories have blurred or even disappeared, especially those related to Shenghui.
However, at this moment, he could still conclude that the mysterious force that wandered in the valley was the Holy Radiance! It's just that at this moment, the power of the Holy Radiance is very thin, even much thinner than the Holy Radiance bathed by the Praetorian Guards.
This bit of power may be able to stimulate a little equipment in Huang Quan's body, but it is quite difficult to successfully restart them.
But how can there be a holy glow here?!
Even at the height of the Empire, the Divine Radiance was top secret. Right now, in a small, almost primitive settlement, there is a holy glow, how is it not abnormal?
Huang Quan remained silent, but did not perceive the presence of Shenghui, and stood silently behind the girl. The valley is so small that it doesn't take much time to even dig it out. There's no need to rush now, as long as you take your time, there will always be a chance.
As soon as she entered the valley, the girl could not hide her excitement, raised her arms, and exclaimed, "I am back!" See what we're bringing back? ”
The valley was a little more lively, and about twenty or thirty people came out of the various houses, and they saw the head of the baboon raised by the gray eagle above the top, and they immediately boiled.
"Baboon!"
"Oh my God! They killed a baboon? How is this possible? ”
"Is it a corpse that was picked up?"
"Impossible! You can see that the blood stains on the incision are still fresh, and they are definitely not dead bodies! ”
A few children ran over and jumped and screamed around the gray eagle, trying to reach the baboon's head. The children here have excellent jumping power, and the gray eagle is born tall and holds the head of the baboon, but even a child who has just reached a meter can barely touch the head of the baboon when he jumps.
The side door of the central room opened, and more than a dozen people walked out of it. Most of them were old, and the old man at the head had wrinkles on his face and his eyes were a little cloudy. Of all the people, he was the only one who held a wooden staff wrapped with a ribbon wrapped around it, and he was also the most respected.
When the gray eagle saw the old man, he ran over and half-knelt on the ground and offered the head of the baboon. Arrows were also on the side, offering the heart and liver.
Shock flashed in the old man's eyes, he examined the head of the baboon, looked at the organs again, nodded again and again, and said, "Good, good!" It looks like we're going to add another powerful totem to our settlement. Even those medium-sized settlements may not be able to possess three powerful totems like us. ”
His gaze turned to the baboon's organs again, and his old face showed excitement and expectation, "With these sacrifices, the soul of the ancestors will definitely manifest!" It's just that I don't know what kind of knowledge the ancestors will pass down this time. ”
"Martial arts are the best!" Gray Eagle also looked forward to it.
"Wouldn't it be easier for us to hunt if we had a better way to make a war bow?" Flying Arrow has another idea.
The people around him are also gossiping, each with their own ideas.
Haruka raised his voice and said, "Be quiet, listen to what the elder wants!" ”
Everyone fell silent and looked at the old man in the center.