Chapter 570: Departing Flames Yin and Yang, Supreme Divine Pupils!
"People from the Bagua Sect are here? Tell them to come back in half a month."
「Suzhou.」
In a high-end restaurant, Lin Mu hung up the phone and looked at Leng Feng, who had barely touched his food. "Not to your taste?"
"No, not at all." Leng Feng quickly shook his head. "I’ve never eaten anything this delicious."
What truly made Leng Feng uneasy was the thought that this might be his last meal. After all, Lin Mu had just told him about the Divine Machine Camp, even mentioning the Gene Potion, something Leng Feng barely understood. It all made him even more anxious.
As soon as they left the restaurant, Leng Feng eagerly asked, "Instructor Lin, are we starting our training tonight?"
"Wait a bit longer."
Frowning, Leng Feng said, "It’s been three days. What exactly are we waiting for?"
Lin Mu replied, "For you to make up your mind."
"Instructor Lin, I’ve already made up my mind!" Leng Feng stated resolutely. "I’ve wanted to be a soldier for a long time, so I’m not afraid of any hardship."
Lin Mu shook his head. "If you only wanted to become a soldier, I wouldn’t be wasting so much time. Besides, I have a hundred ways to help you defeat those guys from the Divine Machine Camp." He smiled. "If you want, we can go back right now."
Although Leng Feng was only fifteen, he was at an age where one begins to think for themselves. "Instructor Lin, what’s the difference?"
"There is a difference," Lin Mu answered. "A very big one." Pointing to the sky, he asked, "Do you believe in the existence of gods and immortals in this world? The ones up there."
Leng Feng looked up at the bright moon, his young face creasing even more. He was fifteen, an age of transition from rebellion to maturity, and the various fantasies of his childhood were beginning to blur. But now, when Lin Mu asked him if there were immortals in the world, Leng Feng was stunned.
In his childhood, he had heard many legends about them—myths like Pangu splitting the heavens, Nüwa creating mankind, Jingwei filling the sea, and Chang’e flying to the moon. He had even heard many similar stories from other countries.
But as he grew older, reality set in. His mother’s death, his father’s disappearance, his own anguished cries whenever he was bullied... Curled up in dark, damp, reeking sewers, Leng Feng would fantasize about a kind immortal appearing to take him away, or perhaps to teach him the art of turning stone into gold. He imagined creating endless food, or becoming so strong he could drive away the kids who tormented him. But each time, he was met with disappointment. Waking from hunger or cold, he could only whisper his parents’ names, clinging to memories of the past as he stubbornly fought to survive. Therefore, he didn’t believe in gods or immortals.
"You don’t believe it either, do you?" Lin Mu turned back to look at Leng Feng with a smile. "Then have you heard of the Shennongjia Wild Man? The snake eggs beneath Luoyang? The Heavenly Lake Monster? The Yingkou Dragon Fall incident?"
Leng Feng knew about these things. And it was precisely because of stories like these that he believed his father wasn’t dead, but simply gone somewhere else. An old acquaintance had once told him his father was like a great scientist who had gotten lost in the desert. Therefore, to find his father, he needed to become stronger. Much stronger.
In truth, these stories weren’t complete fabrications. It’s just that many of the truths behind them were deliberately concealed from the public. Take the theory of human evolution, a topic that now faces so many questions that people have begun to doubt it. Atlantis, the Egyptian pyramids, the Bermuda Triangle, the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan-Shu, the ancient myths from Huaxia’s Classic of Mountains and Seas... are these mysterious, scientifically unexplainable events truly just legends?
The word ’mystery’ itself implies the divine; how could a mere mortal possibly understand?
Since returning to Earth, Lin Mu had been cultivating while pondering these issues. He had a nagging feeling that when these mysteries were finally uncovered, the revelations would shock the entire world. And his current strength was still insufficient to face it all.
Leng Feng opened his mouth to answer, but he froze, his jaw dropping in shock. The stars in the sky had become increasingly brilliant and the moonlight even brighter.
Leng Feng’s eyes went wide behind his glasses as he stared at Instructor Lin. In that single instant, countless points of starlight had gathered upon his instructor, making him appear as if he were draped in a robe woven from light itself.
"In the vastness of the universe, the human race is so trivial," Lin Mu’s ethereal voice reached Leng Feng’s ears. "To the cosmos, the Earth is but a single grain of sand on a vast shore, insignificant and unnoticeable.
"How many such shores exist in this world? And how are we to know which grain of sand on which shore we inhabit? Heaven and Earth are immense, and humans are as small as mustard seeds. How could they possibly comprehend everything?"
Lin Mu pointed into the void, and a dazzling divine light shot into Leng Feng’s brow.
BOOM!
The scene before Leng Feng’s eyes shattered and reformed. A rain of light fell like scattered heavenly blossoms. Buildings dissolved into thin lines. Cars blurred and vanished. The pedestrians on the streets morphed in a flash. It was like watching time itself fast forward, the years flying by in an instant.
At this moment, Leng Feng felt like a deity looking down from the heavens. Towering trees reached into the clouds around him. The mountain peaks undulated, and among them, mythical beasts lay dormant. The sea’s waves churned, stirred by gigantic beasts fighting within their depths. In the distance, a Gigantic Dragon as tall as the heavens roared at the sky, and a rain of blood fell from above!
The heavens trembled and the earth shook! The entire world seemed on the brink of collapse.
Just then, a colossal ape came rushing forward, holding a massive mountain in its hands, which it hurled into the distance.
BOOM!
The impact was like a nuclear explosion, making heaven and earth tremble violently. Immediately after, the giant ape turned its head fiercely and looked at him. It roared, and a streak of golden light landed in its hand, transforming into a massive iron rod.
ROAR!
With a thunderous cry, the ape swung the iron rod directly down at Leng Feng. Before it could strike, the rod dissolved into a beam of golden light that shot into Leng Feng’s eyes.
"Ah!" Leng Feng cried out, snapping back to reality with tears streaming down his face.
He was still standing in the same spot, with passersby chatting nearby about the dinner they had just eaten. Everything felt like a dream, but the stabbing pain in his eyes was undeniably real.
Leng Feng’s face was pale, and his legs trembled violently. "I-Instructor Lin, what was that...?"
"What you just saw was real," Lin Mu said. "You can think of it as a parallel world. That might make it easier to understand. Come on, it’s time to start our training."
It would be more direct to let Leng Feng slowly digest the experience rather than trying to explain it.
Lin Mu grabbed Leng Feng and chuckled. In the next instant, they had arrived at the Divine Machine Camp training base.
The moment Leng Feng’s feet touched the ground, he collapsed into a heap, his face a mask of shock and horror.
Did we just... travel hundreds of miles from Suzhou in an instant?
"Sit cross-legged. Hold your breath and condense your spirit!"
However, Lin Mu didn’t give him any more time to think, directly guiding him to begin cultivation. Leng Feng did as instructed, and after a few tries, he got the hang of it.
Watching Leng Feng with his eyes closed, channeling starlight into his body, Lin Mu smiled slightly.
The Departing Flames Yin and Yang, the Supreme Divine Pupils... they truly live up to their reputation.