Chapter 139: Awakening (1)
On such an important day, Brad even put down his military affairs and went to the scene in person.
Just like the college entrance examination in the previous life, there are struggling students inside, and parents and elders who are eager to wear it outside.
Bishop Melissa received them personally and cast a blessing spell on Philip, which was said to increase the chances of awakening, and it is not known whether it is true or not.
After a routine prayer and a chant of the saints, Philip entered the ashram inside the temple alone under the concerned gaze of his family.
The ashram is small, only 40 square meters, and it is simply furnished, with only a thick carpet and a small table.
On the table was a pot of tea and a few small snacks.
Philip knew that tea and snacks were not as ordinary as they seemed, but were specially made using a variety of scarce ingredients according to the price.
It contains abundant life energy and divine power, which can meet the external conditions of awakening needs to the greatest extent.
And what Philip is looking at is definitely the highest quality without asking.
He sat cross-legged on the soft carpet, put his hands on his laps, and did not deliberately pose as a stupid hat with five hearts to the sky, but was very relaxed.
There is no electricity or sound in this world, but it is difficult for intelligent humans to use the endemic flora and fauna of this land to create containers that can store and play sound.
In the middle of the carpet, there is a large burgundy bowl, which seems to be carved from a whole piece of jade, with a downward depression in the middle, and there are circles of circular lines inside.
As Philip prepared, an ethereal chant wafted from within the large bowl of jade.
This is a divine comedy that is widely sung throughout Gaia, "Tribute to Gaia, the Mother Earth Goddess".
The original version was created about 5,000 years ago by a devout priest of the time.
What Philip hears now is based on this, after a long period of change, little by little, added and perfected, as a special divine comedy for awakening.
At this stage, many temple songs and poems are based on this song, subdivided and evolved, each with its own wonderful use.
Because it is sung in complex and obscure temple language, many people do not understand it.
Although legend has it that understanding the lyrics will enhance the chances of awakening.
But in Philip's opinion, it was just nitpicking, and every student in the seminary memorized the song backwards, and did not see how many of them awakened.
He understands, and is even very proficient in, the language, and the lyrics here are nothing more than annotations to the mood of the song.
It's not meaningless, but it's the melody that really works.
It is said that language has borders, but music does not, and this sentence is fully interpreted at this time.
The surrounding walls are also specially designed to allow sound to reverberate in the space, enhancing the effect of the Divine Comedy and forming an artificially set wave field.
The whole Divine Comedy is divided into four sections, named Rebirth, Warrior, Divine Presence, and Transcendence.
It is not necessary to listen to them all, but according to the listener's own awakening type and life perception, find the inner resonance in different passages, and you can awaken smoothly.
For the vast majority of physically fortified Wards, it is usually in the first or second paragraph that they awaken.
Philip failed in the third stanza last time, but instead of holding on, he fled the room as if he were running for his life, much to the surprise of Edward, who was guarding outside at the time.
After a few cycles, Philip closed his eyes and calmed himself down.
By this time he had become proficient in entering a meditative state.
The melody had changed under his perception, not just by ear, but like sound waves, these stirring divine powers hit his body with the melody, entered his body, massaged and combed everything inside and outside his body.
The heartbeat, breathing, blood flow, muscles and bones, and even the spirit are agitated by the divine power.
The familiar energy fluctuations were circulating in the body again, endlessly, and the body temperature was also rising, and soon it came to a bottleneck state.
All Philip needs to do now is to stretch out his hands and bravely push open the mysterious door.
In the first paragraph, rebirth, the person who wants to awaken will re-experience the perception of life and death.
The voice is soft, and in the silence of the earth, a seed is hidden deep under the fertile soil, and the drizzle and breeze bring it nutrients for growth.
The delicate tentacles pierced the wrapped buds, and the tender green seedlings bravely burrowed out of the ground, smiling and greeting the world for the first time.
The warm sunlight brings warmth to it, the fresh air allows it to breathe freely, surrounded by countless seedlings like it, and its heart is full of joy and curiosity of new life.
The sun and the moon changed, and gradually it grew into a towering giant tree, standing proudly between heaven and earth, as if it could pluck the full moon on the horizon with a single branch.
At this moment, the agitation of divine power became more and more turbulent, and the rhythm became faster and faster.
As if to punish its pride, heavy rains, floods, snow and ice, howling winds, and countless natural disasters ravaged its body and soul......
Finally the sky was red, and the flames burned everything in sight, and its leaves began to curl up, and its branches withered and broken, and then the branches were ignited and dumped on the lava-flowing earth, gradually becoming a piece of charcoal, and buried deeply.
As the last melody comes to an abrupt end, the first paragraph ends, and there is a dead silence all around.
However, after reaching a high point, the energy in Philip's body strangely declined, and his body temperature also decreased, which did not cause resonance.
The same is true of the warriors in the second paragraph, the melody is either impassioned or lamenting, and the climax is repeated and thought-provoking.
Philip didn't know if the others were the same as he had in his mind, but he saw the story of a man who grew into a warrior and died in battle.
This can also understand why many warriors of the Ward clan awakened in this passage.
After the two sections, as the melody of the music kept changing, the energy in his body had been circulating hundreds of times, each time with a different rhythm, but he didn't seem to find that resonance.
From this point of view, Philip's soul is not a pure brave heart.
The third stage of Divine Presence finally began, and Philip was a little nervous, he had failed here last time.
The first two paragraphs contain the feelings of life, old age, sickness and death, ups and downs, and from the third stage, it is the understanding and emotion of Gaia, the goddess of the earth.
In the first half of the stage, Philip's condition was not bad, and the surging divine power from the outside world was still like a warm hand, pulling the energy in his body, constantly changing the rhythm.
His spiritual power gradually connected with his divine power, like two hands clasped together, intimate.
In a trance, Philip felt as if he had two selves in his body.
One of them was led by the hand, jumping with joy, like a warm play between a child and a mother.
The child opens himself up unreservedly, trusting, respecting, adoring, attached, and all kinds of emotions.
As if whispering in her mother's ear, she wants her to show her the true meaning of life.
But the other self hid in an unknown corner, watching it all with cold eyes, timid and cautious, completely closing himself off, refusing to accept the hand that was reaching out to him.
The latter dragged the former, unwilling to let it go.
The former, on the other hand, was a little anxious, looking at his mother who was getting farther and farther away, and at the same time looking back at his partner, hesitant and anxious.
It persuaded the latter to trust its mother, but to little avail.
The latter is still stubbornly unwilling to open his arms and let people peek into his secrets.
The timing, to miss is to miss.
The song begins to shift to the second half, from admiration to fear.
Philip knew that those two selves, if there was no accident, were his two spirit cores.
The one who is full of feelings for the divine power of the Earth Mother God in front of him should be the green spiritual core.
It completely opened its own light film, allowing the divine power to connect with the spirit core, guiding it to the opportunity of awakening.
But unfortunately, the blue spirit core has always been full of fear and resistance to this planet, after all, the first contact has left it with painful memories.
The scar, which had almost healed so far, still left the last shallow mark on its surface.
So much so that the divine power could not complete the final closed loop, and let those energies dissipate in vain.
Its timidity and stubbornness implicate its green companions and deprive them of the opportunity to awaken.
The last time, Philip failed here, and when the song turns to the second half, he runs away in embarrassment.
The second half embodies the fear of the omnipotent god, and when the melody sounds, the divine power in the air turns into countless green whips of light, sweeping his soul back and forth.
Although Philip can't see these light whips clearly now, the strong smell of danger is still fresh in his memory more than ten years later, and he feels creepy.
After the last failure, Philip would always reflect deeply on himself in the dead of night.
Running away means stealing peace, and refusing to face up to the fear in his heart means that his awakening is far away.
He didn't have the ability to cut off the symbiotic relationship between the two spirit cores, and the only way seemed to be to unravel the light film wrapped around the blue spirit cores and face his fate honestly.
Today, of course, he can be a deserter, a coward, again, and repeat the evasion and failure.
Then he may be safe, honestly keep his secrets, and live this life in peace.
However, he was not reconciled.
Or, he could try to be brave once, and the worst outcome would be nothing more than an ugly scar on the blue spirit core again, and he would fall into a chaotic cycle.
The divine power here doesn't seem to be as irritable as it was more than a decade ago, but a little mild.
For some reason, even if he didn't open the light film, it didn't attract an angry attack.
He still clearly remembered that it was precisely because of the sealing of his light film that caused the stone statue to become angry later, and even implicated the innocent old Duke.