Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 149 Ritual: [Rendering]

Psionic skills are never entirely granted by the Tao.

If one's own accumulation and talent are insufficient, even if the [Dayuan] path ignores the ceremony and directly bestows an extremely precious psychic skill "Emperor Flowing Sap" to the psychic, the latter will not be able to bear it, let alone use it, and may even be dragged down and collapse.

The same is true of the "ashes" that Song Shi obtained in the past, which were sealed with zero-element crystals.

This psychic skill is powerful enough and is specialized in attack. If an ordinary great source psychic tries to engrave it directly, he will probably be seriously injured in an instant, or even completely burned to ashes.

——It's like a sharp weapon, some people can control it as they please with terrifying killing power, but some people have no idea how to use it and may even hurt themselves while swinging it.

The weapon remains the same, but there is a difference in who holds it.

Therefore.

In a sense, "ritual" is a medium for communicating with the Tao, and it is also a kind of "proof" of oneself.

Prove that you have the qualifications, the ability, and the talent to acquire the desired or suitable psychic skills.

[Path] is more like a platform that records the life-long cultivation of those who have set foot on this path in the past. The accumulation of generations of psychics on this path has all settled here, laying the foundation for future fellow travelers.

Prove yourself through the "ritual" to locate the psychic skills recorded in the Tao, and then with the help of the Tao, obtain this psychic skill.

While there are some exceptions, this is the effect of the vast majority of rituals aimed at acquiring psionic skills.

Song Shi sank his mind into the quiet lake.

At this moment, around him, after the first ten fire seeds fell to the ground, overturning large chunks of the earth with dull tremors and bursting with cracks, everything unexpectedly became calm again.

No. Not peaceful.

To be more precise, while the surface of the crater is calm, earth-shaking changes are taking place deep inside this extinct volcano!
Ten sparks formed a circle and sank into the earth together, moving towards the depths of the mountain.

Then, the two in the front bloomed silently, transforming into strands of red slurry, which slowly spread in all directions along the existing cracks inside the mountain, or by melting a path.

Just like pouring a bowl of water slowly into a flower pot, the former will gradually submerge the entire flower pot along the gaps between the intricate root system and the soil.

——This is the ritual of the psychic skill [Rendering].

He used his own spiritual energy to re-submerge the extinct volcano, forcibly awaken it, and artificially create a new "volcanic eruption."

This is certainly not a matter of concentrating all your strength into a large ball of fire and then smashing it directly into the volcano, or causing an explosion.

Song Shi sat cross-legged in the center of the mountain pass. As he controlled his will, every time the ten fire seeds in the vanguard went a certain distance deeper, two would spontaneously bloom, paving the way for the rear and at the same time spreading and submerging the geological layer at this height.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

When all the fires burst into bloom, the first stage of submergence of this extinct volcano was completed.

Song Shi opened his eyes again.

However, deep in the originally black pupils, there was now a dazzling red-gold light.

An invisible wind flows by.

Located in the deepest part of the volcano, the long-dead "heart" began to beat again.

There, accompanied by the influx of spiritual flames transformed from fire seeds, the magma that had been dry for who knows how many years reappeared, and the hot blood began to flow again.

Song Shi began to breathe.

Then, the entire dormant volcano seemed to gradually come alive, and began to "breathe" in accordance with the rhythm of Song Shi's breathing!
In other words, this is the young man who, as the second ring source, is using himself as the source to begin to achieve a certain resonance between man and nature with the extinct volcano, thereby driving the latter to regain vitality.

If this "resonance" is taken a step further, it can be called "harmony between man and nature", an outstanding skill or realm pursued by some ancient psychics.

Even Song Shi only fully comprehended the "unity of man and nature" when he was in the fourth ring in his previous life. From then on, he could use the environment and other favorable conditions at will and turn them into assistance to himself.

However, with the current second-ring spiritual power, it is still too difficult to achieve true "harmony between man and nature", so I can only settle for the second best and achieve the current resonance.

"call"

Song Shi exhaled. While maintaining the resonance of the environment, he also had to control the psychic flames inside the dead volcano delicately to ensure that the volcano would not collapse or burn directly. This was also a big burden for him - mainly because it took too long.

Compared with the various skills and control required to awaken the volcano, Song Shi believes that the biggest trouble with the [rendering] ceremony is its duration.

Because in a sense, this is a slow and careful job, which requires the psychic to keep grinding, layer by layer, piece by piece, to complete the rendering of the entire volcano.

Many times, duration is the biggest problem. Just like a person can easily persist in not blinking for ten seconds, but when this time is extended to twenty seconds, thirty seconds, or one minute, the difficulty will increase significantly.

Although this was not a difficult task for Song Shi, he estimated the time and couldn't help but sigh when he thought that he would have to wait for more than ten hours.

"Ugh"

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"This male protagonist is definitely the murderer. How come he only makes such a rubbish movie when the plot is so obvious?"

“It’s really bad taste.”

"The special effects are okay, but how bad can movie special effects be these days?"

Agalemare suddenly raised his head.

He paused the movie playing on the tablet, quickly climbed out of the compression tent, and looked in one direction.

More than a day had passed since the man who looked not much older than himself and saved his life, who called himself Song Shi, came up the mountain.

Before leaving, the other party said that he was going to "awaken" a dormant volcano.

At this moment, Agalemare swallowed and subconsciously held his breath.

The volcano in the distance suddenly began to tremble, and there was a dull and violent roar that spread in all directions.

boom.

At first, wisps of black smoke rose, and then they expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. A large amount of dust rose into the sky, like a drop of ink dropped into a glass of water, covering the nearby sky with a new color.

--boom!

As if unable to hold back any longer, a hint of red gradually emerged from the seemingly endless dust, and the overflowing magma flowed out of the crater, spreading up and down along the side walls. From afar, one red snake after another was winding and swimming.

Then, the volcano erupted completely!
At the end of the sky, a large amount of magma and debris cut through the dusty sky, and driven by huge kinetic energy and thermal energy, they dragged out trails and were thrown into the surrounding land.

The whole world seemed to be in doomsday.

Even at such a long distance, Agalemare could still smell a pungent smell of sulfur, but he had no time to care.

Faced with this catastrophic scene, his intuition as a [Revelation] psychic made his hair stand on end, urging him to leave here as soon as possible!

"—There's no need to leave."

Agalemare looked sharply to the side.

Song Shi's figure appeared in the distance, and after a few breaths, he came to the side of the young man.

"Don't you want to take another look?" Song Shi turned around and looked at the volcano in the distance, admiring his masterpiece: "It's a rare experience to see a volcano erupting at such a close distance."

"Even if we can use simulated documentaries as a substitute, most of the simulations still cannot reach 100%, and ultimately cannot compare to real reality."

"Since you said so, of course I have to take a look."

When he saw Song Shi, Agalemare suddenly relaxed and simply sat on the ground.

"Oh, that one."

"It has ended."

Song Shi was still looking at the volcano, without turning back, and his tone was casual.

"I have already acquired the Psionic Skill: Rendering."

(End of this chapter)