Surviving in high-level martial arts and stacking Hextech

Chapter 118 Star Chart

"Hmm."

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Zhang Ruanruan knelt down on the ground.

"What's wrong?"

Noticing the commotion, Jiang Feng turned around anxiously, took two steps forward, squatted down, and grabbed her shoulder.

It's so hot.

She instinctively pulled her hand back as soon as she touched him, but then put it back on him.

Zhang Ruanruan's body temperature was very high, not just a dry heat, but a physical burning sensation, as if something was burning inside her body.

"It's alright." With Jiang Feng's help, Zhang Ruanruan simply sat down on the ground.

"It's star marrow."

She slowly raised her head, her crimson eyes shining several times brighter than usual, as if something had been ignited.

She said slowly, "The star power on this level is significantly denser, and the star marrow in my body is reacting."

Jiang Feng frowned. "Is it a good thing or a bad thing?"

Zhang Ruanruan's eyes curved slightly, revealing a smile, which reassured Jiang Feng a lot. "It should be a good thing."

"Ever since I woke up, I've been worried that the Star Essence has been contaminated by Ktugia, and I don't know if there's any way to digest and absorb it. Now it seems—this place can help me do all of that."

"That's a good thing!"

Although Jiang Feng didn't quite understand the principles, as long as this place could help the other party stabilize and absorb the remaining star marrow power, it at least showed that the two of them hadn't come to the wrong place.

"OK."

He removed his hands from Zhang Ruanruan's shoulders, looked around to make sure nothing unexpected would happen, and then said, "Then you stay here for now, I'll go take a look around."

"Okay." Zhang Ruanruan closed her eyes. "Be careful."

Jiang Feng stood up and looked around.

The second floor is much smaller than the ground floor hall. The four stone walls are still covered with star patterns, and the style is similar to that of the ground floor hall, but much more intricate and complex.

At the very center of this level, there is a circular, raised stone platform with twelve evenly distributed grooves along its edge. Traces of depleted light remain inside, indicating that some kind of energy was once stored there.

The entrance to the staircase leading to the upper floor was directly opposite him; the dark staircase stretched upwards, with no end in sight.

Next to the stairs, there was also a strange recess. Jiang Feng went up to take a look and found that it was a slightly dilapidated mechanical device.

Without hesitation, he went straight up the steps to the third floor.

But soon, he retreated.

At the end of the stairs, there was a stone door separating the two places, which he could not open no matter how hard he pushed.

Helplessly, he returned to the second floor and, looking at the devices and grooves, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

In this world of advanced martial arts, there is a piece of common sense that exists only in textbooks.

The principle behind these energy grooves is actually not complicated. To put it simply, they can be activated as long as someone can infuse them with the necessary energy.

Although there was no direct evidence, Jiang Feng's intuition told him that in order to open the stone door, he had to first fill these grooves and devices with energy and activate them.

There's no harm in giving it a try.

"I wonder if my 'energy' is enough?"

He chuckled to himself, retreated to the groove, condensed a flame in his palm, and tossed it in.

"Damn~"

A soft sound.

The moment the flame fell into the groove, a dense and intricate network of veins inside suddenly rang out, flashing a red light. Immediately afterwards, there was a crisp "click".

At the top of the stone platform, where it was originally pitch black, a few specks of light suddenly lit up.

"efficient!"

A slight thought stirred within him.

I thought it would take a lot of power to supply energy, but it turns out that all it takes is a single burst of true fire.

Then, eleven flames ignited at his fingertips and were thrown into the groove.

In an instant, starlight shone down, illuminating the entire second floor as if one were under a starry night.

"Even flames from the Body Tempering Realm work, so this groove doesn't seem very high-end."

Jiang Feng muttered something and looked up at the dome.

The place was no longer pitch black; instead, one after another, points of starlight began to appear in the sky, connecting with each other to form a dense, interconnected net made entirely of stars.

No, it's more like a picture than a net.

Star map.

Jiang Feng stood beside the stone platform, looked up, and stared at the floating pattern for a long time.

"What an exquisite star map," he finally exclaimed after a long while.

Then he noticed that there were two red dots that stood out in a certain place on the star map.

One of the red dots was flashing continuously, as if it were breathing.

Jiang Feng was also breathing.

As a seasoned player who has played many games, he looked at the red dot on the star map and a possibility inexplicably came to mind.

Could it be that my current location is one of those red dots?

If so, what does the other red dot represent?

Zhang Ruanruan?

Judging from the distance and location, it's clearly not the case.

"A second mirage?"

Or something else?

Jiang Feng felt he needed to go up to the third floor to take a look. After all, it was clear from the design of the star map and the stone platform that he had to go up there to observe its true form up close.

With that thought in mind, he went to the stairs.

Looking at the device that also required energy to activate, he followed suit and threw in a wisp of true fire.

Next, we went upstairs.

The stone gate was not opened.

He went back downstairs.

"Is that not enough?" he thought to himself, and threw in eight more streams of true fire until he felt a little tired before stopping.

I went up and down again, but it still didn't work.

"Tsk."

He began to miss Fang Ruo.

At least with her around, I won't have to run up and down the stairs anymore.

"If real fire won't work, how about blood?" This thought suddenly popped into his head.

It wasn't that he hadn't considered magnetic cards or identity recognition, but the device's design clearly indicated that it required a human to supply energy.

"Never mind, I'll give it a try first."

Thinking of this, he lightly tapped the sickle he was carrying behind him with his fingertip.

A drop of blood containing violent fire energy solidified at his fingertip, and he carefully dripped it into the device.

Go up again.

Then come down.

"The Bull Demon's is still not good enough."

He was out of ideas.

If he had a storage ring, he could try to see if purified water or marrow cleansing agents would have any effect, but right now, the only things he has that can be used as energy are these two items.

"Try mine." Just then, a soft voice came from afar.

"Um?

'

Jiang Feng looked in the direction of the sound.

Zhang Ruanruan, who was still absorbing the power of the star marrow, barely stretched out her hand, where a crystal-clear blood droplet wrapped with the Dao of Purification Water quietly floated.

"This is....

""

The moment Jiang Feng saw the drop of blood, a thought he had long awaited flashed through his mind.

"Semen?"

He asked in a daze, "You've broken through to the Qi and Blood Realm?"

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