FIMA Ch65: Science

Gu Siyuan looked at them quietly, took three or four detectors from the special police, and borrowed a handful of talismans from Xie Xuanxing. They were the most common talismans for repelling yin energy, each one attached to a flying device to ensure they wouldn’t be damaged by the yin energy later.

Then he took the remote control and activated it, controlling the devices to fly towards the ghost domain in the tunnel.

He Pan watched his actions and said softly, “The existence of ghost domains is very special, almost like another parallel world. We tested many times before, but the detectors couldn’t enter. Even if carried by our cultivators, they couldn’t transmit any images, just stopped working.”

“We’ll talk later,” Gu Siyuan didn’t respond to him, manipulating the flying detectors to line up at the tunnel entrance, then turned to Xie Xuanxing and the curly-haired guy and said, “I said nothing wrong earlier, right? If not, let’s start now.”

Xie Xuanxing nodded, his expression eager, “Ready.”

The curly-haired guy looked at his big hammer with some distress, then nodded as well. He then circulated his spiritual power, controlling the big iron hammer to fly towards the tunnel entrance.

Careful observers could see that several rows of batteries were forcibly tied to the hammer.

Xie Xuanxing pinched five talismans between his fingers and threw them into the air. Just before they fell, his fair fingers swiftly changed gestures, faint spiritual light appearing, and he chanted a few incantations.

The talismans instantly moved with the wind, flying straight upwards, then lined up at the tunnel entrance and exploded instantly.

For a moment, it seemed as if the space at the tunnel entrance vibrated slightly.

Xie Yuchen glanced at Xie Xuanxing. So generous.

These were not ordinary blazing sun talismans but three-yang golden light talismans, extremely rare in both cinnabar materials and production difficulty. These five must have cost Xie Xuanxing most of his savings.

At this moment, there was another “crackling” sound from above.

Xie Yuchen hurriedly looked up and saw that something had fallen from the curly-haired guy’s hammer, all exploding at once. In the midst of the black yin wind, several dazzling silver-white electric arcs flashed.

These white lights seemed to have a mind of their own, quickly following the direction of the three-yang golden light talismans’ explosion, forming a beautiful silver electric net.

Under the electric net, it seemed as if nine thunders had struck, transforming into a strange black space.

At this moment, Gu Siyuan pressed a button, and the batch of flying devices instantly passed through the gaps in the electric net, entering the ghost domain and disappearing from sight.

Everything ended.

The big hammer fell limply, and the curly-haired guy held it in his hands, distressed.

Gu Siyuan glanced at him and said calmly, “Thank you for your effort.”

Xie Xuanxing, dissatisfied, muttered, “It was just a little shock, it didn’t even malfunction.”

He felt more effortful, why not comfort him?

The curly-haired guy retorted, “That was high-voltage electricity, it could be very harmful. I don’t care, Second Young Master Gu, you have to get my idol’s autograph for me.”

Gu Siyuan nodded.

The commotion was indeed substantial, like a scene from a sci-fi movie.

Even the family cultivators, who considered themselves used to big scenes, couldn’t help but look at Gu Siyuan and start discussing.

“He actually made the ghost domain visible in an instant, quite skillful.”

“Humph, a bit clever.”

“Humph, so what if it’s visible? Those devices go in and still won’t work. It’s not like Special Management Bureau’s cultivators haven’t tried carrying detectors before, but they couldn’t capture or transmit anything.”

As they spoke, they couldn’t help but look at the large screen on the side.

Sure enough, the screen was only showing static, nothing else, which made them even more relieved.

“Haha, his predecessors tried so many times, all came back empty-handed, and he really thinks these tricks work.”

“Our spiritual cultivation is the great way, these little tricks can’t comprehend the vastness of the great way.”

“Young people are like that, won’t turn back until they hit the wall. Haha, it’s good to have lessons, otherwise, the Special Management Bureau wouldn’t call us old bones for every big case…”

The last sentence seemed to be comforting and encouraging, but the malicious ridicule in it was self-evident.

Xie Xuanxing’s eyes darkened, a hint of purplish-black emerging, making his face, as bright as the moon, both innocent and alluring.

At this moment, he felt a warmth on his head as a large hand pressed down.

Xie Xuanxing widened his eyes and looked up, meeting Gu Siyuan’s stern face. He blinked his big eyes, “Hmm…”

Gu Siyuan was slightly taken aback.

From this angle, Xie Xuanxing’s red lips and white teeth, combined with his wide-open eyes, made him look as cute as a feline animal.

There was also a certain inexplicable familiarity.

Tsk…

Gu Siyuan lowered his gaze slightly, his fingers on Xie Xuanxing’s head gently tapping, “Don’t argue with fools. I don’t want my follower to turn into a fool as well.”

Xie Xuanxing’s eyes brightened, and he drew out his response, “Oh…”

A shallow dimple appeared on his smiling face.

Cute.

How…even stranger.

Gu Siyuan quickly withdrew his fingers, squeezed them together, and with long strides, returned to the supercomputer.

Hmph, why does this person always run so fast?

Xie Xuanxing pouted, touched his own head, and followed him over.

The conversation between the two had only lasted a few seconds.

This time, Gu Siyuan’s fingers moved even faster.

The data on the computer screen kept changing, constantly being adjusted.

Seeing this, the family members sneered, “Ha, still not giving up?”

“Claiming to go in but delaying time here?”

“Just being a coward, why pretend to be a hero?”

Gu Siyuan seemed not to hear, his expression unchanged from beginning to end.

In the next moment, a faint curve appeared on his usually stern face.

“Zzz…” A soft but very sharp sound was heard.

The voices stopped.

Everyone turned their heads, then watched as the snowflakes on several screens flickered, slowly turned blue, then black, and finally each showed a scene of yin wind howling.

Although the angles were different, it was clearly the same place.

The screens showed the smooth rock walls, the flying sand and stones, the swaying small train at the tunnel entrance, and the struggling passengers inside.

Most importantly, the pitch-black figure in the middle of the yin wind.

“The ghost king, it must be the ghost king…” someone immediately shouted.

“This…this is the scene inside the ghost domain, it’s really transmitted!”

At this, all the shocked and uneasy eyes instantly turned to Gu Siyuan.

However, his face remained colorless, as cold as ever.

There was no difference from when he was being ridiculed earlier.

Xie Xuanxing felt even more…

More what, what was he about to say, Xie Xuanxing’s expression turned strange.

He Pan, extremely excited, grabbed Gu Siyuan and urgently asked, “This, this…how did you do this?”

“Law of conservation of energy.” Gu Siyuan brushed off his hand and said calmly, “What do you think is the difference between a cultivator’s spiritual power and ordinary electrical, thermal, or light energy? What do you think is the difference between the yin energy of ghost cultivators and the spiritual power of regular cultivators?”

“…” He Pan.

What are you talking about? Why are you linking metaphysics with physics?

Gu Siyuan continued, “Cultivators use various methods to absorb spiritual power, meditating and cultivating. This process is invisible to ordinary people and undetectable by machines, but when cultivators use spells, it becomes visible because they convert spiritual power into fire, water, wind, and other visible energies. The higher the cultivation level and the more spiritual power, the greater the energy output, which means that metaphysics is essentially a form of ordinary energy conversion.”

“It’s just that current scientific methods and tools can’t detect it yet. Since spiritual power can restrain yin energy, then yin energy must also be a form of energy. The ghost domain sustained by yin energy particles must be a field like electric or magnetic fields…”

He Pan’s head buzzed. When he was young, he had received compulsory education, but when a passing Maoshan master discovered his cultivation potential, he was eagerly sent into the mountains by his parents to cultivate.

Studying is useless; cultivating immortality leads to wealth.

He quickly raised his hand to interrupt, “So, what’s the connection between this and the detector working?”

Gu Siyuan said, “The so-called inability of instruments to detect the ghost domain is similar to how many stealth planes and torpedoes work. Planes can be invisible because their materials can absorb or reflect the wavelengths emitted by radar detectors. The ghost domain works similarly, absorbing most wavelengths from instruments and even the human eye.”

“But it’s not because of materials, but because the particle wavelengths, activity speed, and amplitude in the ghost domain field are very special and change with the ghost’s power and geographical environment. So, current scientific instruments can’t repeatedly determine the range of magnetic field particle activity. However, I just tested the yin energy inside multiple times and determined a rough range…”

At this point, everyone felt their heads buzzing.

Who am I? What is he talking about?

Aren’t we cultivating immortality? Why bring up all this confusing stuff?

He Pan had only one word to say, and he said it with a crying face, “Speak human language.”

Gu Siyuan, even more dissatisfied, felt he had explained in vain. “Idiot, why ask so many questions? Just believe in science.”

“…” He Pan.

Xie Xuanxing stifled his laughter.

Gu Siyuan’s ability to irritate people was exceptional.

At this moment, one of the flying detectors slowly approached the ghost king.

Almost simultaneously, the ghost king’s appearance was exposed on the screen, startling everyone.

The ghost king’s appearance was extremely horrifying. It had two heads growing from its neck, three arms, and although it had only two legs, one of its calves had two feet. Its entire body was twisted and contorted, indescribably awkward.

It looked like a patchwork of building blocks with too many pieces accidentally added.

Chen Qi looked at the others and said, “This ghost king seems to be quite unusual.”

“Generally speaking, humans are the spirits of all living things. The higher the cultivation level of a monster, the more it resembles a normal person, sometimes indistinguishable, and they can walk under the sunlight…”

“But this ghost domain looks so eerie, yet its main body has many flaws.”

Xie Xuanxing took out a bronze cauldron from his backpack, covered with talismans to prevent the leakage of yin energy and to avoid attracting all sorts of maddened ghosts.

Chen Qi and the others’ eyes lit up, “This is the yin cauldron that bred the ghost king.”

Someone explained, “According to rumors, there is a dark method that involves putting forty-nine ghosts born at yin times into this bronze yin cauldron. After several years, the strongest one, the ghost king, is refined.”

“But seeing the ghost king in this state, it seems that when the tunnel was dug up and this cauldron was disturbed, the ghost king was not fully formed, leading to its premature birth, resulting in only a half-ghost king.”

A family member glanced at Gu Siyuan, their gaze full of disdain, “No wonder the ghost domain has so many flaws. It’s just a half-ghost king.”