176: Psychological interaction, each other's thoughts

In the weightless state, Sun Feifei instinctively grabbed Lu Chen's arm bone; the coldness her fingertips touched reminded her of the thousand-year-old black iron at the bottom of the cold pond in the Daoist temple.

This realization made the tips of her ears burn, but it turned to anxiety when she caught a glimpse of Ignis, "Ignis needs us there, Little Skeleton."

The finger bone that Lu Chen had refined transformed during the fall into a bronze counting rod engraved with the twenty-eight mansions.

The Soul Fire in his eye sockets split into the form of Yin and Yang fish, and the Power of the Undead forcibly twisted the inverted space back into its proper position!

"Ignis, guide your Purgatory Fire Seed into — the Dui Palace!"

Since it is a Formation, there naturally is a way to break it.

Not to mention that this is a Formation originating from China.

Naturally, Lu Chen still understood it clearly.

The Flame Demon Girl's pupils had completely turned into molten gold, and a Flame Demon emblem emerged on her chest as she said, "Little Skeleton, catch!"

The moment the Purgatory Fire Seed left her body, the temperature of the entire altar soared until even the Undead Fire began to distort.

Sun Feifei's Daoist robe spontaneously ignited into ashes, and the black soft armor underneath revealed an Innate Bagua that automatically protected its master.

"Bear with it." Lu Chen suddenly wrapped Sun Feifei in his bone armor, the eerie ghost fire offsetting the intense external heat.

Through the Undead Crystal Core, the young girl saw the star map rotating within his chest cavity; it was clearly an extremely powerful force.

This discovery made her forget that she was in danger, and her fingertips unconsciously brushed against the cold bone armor, "You are really scary when you take your true Incarnation as a skeleton."

"If I'm scary, why are you touching me?"

"Hmph, I like it, can't I?"

"Fine, suit yourself, it's not like I'll lose a piece of flesh."

At this moment, a roar of mutual destruction suddenly came from the bottom of the altar, and Ignis's triumphant laughter rang out from the sea of fire, "Little Skeleton, Feifei, I found it!"

Ignis was seen leaping out of a crack, dragging half a bronze chain; the Secret Realm treasure tied to the end of the chain made even Lu Chen's Soul Fire tremble — it was a beating Mayan crystal heart!

Its surface was also covered with the "Mandate of Heaven Black Bird" inscription from the ancient Chinese yin-shang dynasty.

How miraculous.

The origin of the Mayan civilization was self-evident.

The Americas were indeed a land of China.

It is estimated that the earliest indigenous people of the Americas were descendants of the yin-shang dynasty.

The moment the crystal heart pulsed, the entire pyramid gradually turned into liquid jade.

Sun Feifei chanted a spell, and the Innate Bagua diagram protecting her body automatically unfolded within the liquid space; the hexagrams and the runes of the Mayan Long Count calendar actually resonated on the same spatial level.

Clearly, they shared the same lineage and, even more, the same source.

Lu Chen watched as the Secret Realm treasure was activated by his Soul Fire, splitting into a phantom of the yin-shang dynasty Black Bird; even the tadpole script from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of the Great Wilderness East" appeared within the Undead Crystal Core, "In Tang Valley there is a Fusang tree, where the ten suns bathe..."

It seems this Secret Realm treasure, rather than being Mayan, is actually an object from the Chinese yin-shang dynasty.

Perhaps even older?

From the era of the Classic of Mountains and Seas?

The environment in the Secret Realm underwent a transformation as the Secret Realm treasure was taken.

Seven hundred Mayan warrior skeletons reorganized into a square bronze tripod with taotie patterns, and the boiling Styx water inside the tripod actually revealed a rubbing of the "Li Gui" inscription from the Western Zhou dynasty.

The dome formed by the backflowing dark river split into three hundred cracks, and what poured out was no longer jade bead chains, but bronze chime bells engraved with the oracle bone script character "Sacrifice".

The "Shang Odes" music played by the chime bells themselves intertwined with the laser beams from the eyes of the Feathered Serpent statue to form a four-dimensional sound wave matrix.

"Kan and Li swap positions!" Sun Feifei bit her fingertip and drew a blood talisman of the book of easy change from lian shan in the Void Realm, "Ignis, use your flames to pour — into the Zhen Palace!"

The anomaly occurred.

But a girl like Sun Feifei, who was familiar with the Formation, had already prepared for it.

Under Lu Chen's protection as Protector, the two girls cooperated tacitly.

"Received, teammate!" The Flame Demon Girl opened the Seal within her body, and molten flames gushed out; Sun Feifei, utilizing this power, began to cast spells and chant, instantly transforming the flames into the "Thunder Water Release" hexagram of the "Gui Cang Yi".

The liquid jade, upon meeting the fire, solidified into the cloud-thunder patterns characteristic of Western Zhou bronze ware, and the entire space began to collapse into the star map of the twenty-eight mansions recorded in ancient China.

"Is this a string of information code? Civilization decoding?"

Seeing this scene before him, Lu Chen was a bit unsure and murmured in his heart.

Lu Chen's finger bone inserted into the crystal heart, and the jade energy of the Mayan civilization collided with the Xuanhuang Qi of the Chinese bronze civilization within his chest cavity.

"Devour!!!"

Lu Chen had only one thought.

That was to devour the power.

And then use it for himself.

Regardless of what era the power came from.

For him at this moment, it was the most useful thing.

Continuously strengthening his own power.

Scenes of the dual civilizations emerged within the Undead Fire; they seemed like a string of code, beginning to appear in Lu Chen's mind!

— The left half of his body showed the jade tablet patterns of the Olmec civilization, while the right half displayed the "King" totem of the Yinxu oracle bone script.

"Ya ya ya ya!!!"

Lu Chen felt as if his Soul was being torn apart!

He let out a heaven-shaking roar.

The intense pain, he gritted his teeth and persisted.

Not retreating in the slightest.

"So that's how it is!" Sun Feifei's Dao Heart had an Epiphany amidst the collision of civilizations, "The 'Gui Xu' hexagram of the 'Gui Cang Yi' corresponds exactly to the 13th Baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar! This place is a remnant of ancient Chinese civilization; to call it Mayan civilization is merely to say it branched off from our Chinese civilization. After all, they are all descendants of the yin-shang dynasty. Could it be that even in the Western Zhou dynasty, people were still walking across the Bering Strait? What a miraculous history, what a brilliant civilization!"

The bronze sword in her hand underwent an anomaly; the hilt grew emerald scales of a feathered serpent, and the blade revealed the "Water Fire Already Fording" hexagram statement from the "I Ching".

Feeling the new power, Sun Feifei felt completely different.

Clearly, she was about to enter the Ninth Rank!

Just one step away.

Her Dao Heart had an Epiphany.

As for Sun Feifei, she had also welcomed the ultimate trial of this Secret Realm.

Lu Chen was just devouring in passing.

But for Feifei at this moment, it was a special trial that sensed her power.

The liquid jade suddenly solidified into a trial ground for Mayan warriors, and eighteen bronze giants engraved with the gold script character "Attack" burst out from the ground.

Ignis's lava wings were accidentally slashed by a bronze dagger-axe, and the flowing Flame Demon blood dripped directly onto the stone slabs on the ground; these stone slabs were engraved with the R'lyeh text from the "Cthulhu Mythos".

Clearly, this was no longer the civilization of the yin-shang dynasty.

This Mayan Secret Realm sanctuary had gone through countless eras.

Latecomers had also added to it.

Subsequent Mayans had also produced quite a few powerful figures.

They had added quite a few things to this Secret Realm!

Lu Chen's finger bone once again suddenly transformed into a Heaven-Measuring Ruler and inserted into the earth vein!

"Feifei, use your ability to twist the Formation here for me — reconstruct the Five Elements!"

"Mm!"

The young girl nodded, then stepped in the Yu Step, and the six-lineage copper coins arranged themselves in the Void Realm into the Innate Formation of "The River Map emerges, the Luo Book comes forth."