He had a strange look on his face, unconsciously rubbing his hands.
"These things have been passed down through word of mouth. I'm not sure exactly where there might have been distortions along the way. I can only attempt to understand them with a mindset of verification."
"Why weren't they recorded?"
"It is said that those qualified to record these things couldn't use ordinary paper to do so. If you forcefully wrote them down, you would encounter ominous things. If you are at your peak, it might be fine, but if your life is nearing its end, and your Qi and blood are declining, and your Essence, Qi, and Spirit are starting to weaken, you would face terrifying things."
Zhang Tongxuan thought for a moment, organizing his words: "I'm not sure either, but I walked halfway down that path, and when I realized something was wrong, I withdrew.
In my view, this path leads to the deepest part of one's mind, where you'll encounter your own subconscious."
His expression became strange.
"Halfway through, I saw a person who looked exactly like me."
Though Zhang Tongxuan spoke without any emotional fluctuation, Lu Ren listened with chills down his spine.
"No, it wasn't a mirror image. I can be sure that person was me."
At this point, Zhang Tongxuan found it inexplicable.
"He was smiling at me, an extremely eerie smile, as if once I approached, he could replace me. This feeling was very intense, so I backed out."
He sighed deeply: "I'm afraid it's because I haven't practiced to the extreme limit. Otherwise, how could I have been frightened by my own mirror image? This has already become a mental problem for me."
Lu Ren couldn't help but say: "Can't you just attack secretly?"
Zhang Tongxuan was somewhat speechless: "In my life, I have never been inferior to others, nor have I ever poisoned anyone."
After the fright, Lu Ren instead felt a bit eager to try. He was very curious to see if on his own path through the Inner Realm, he would also find an identical mirror image, just as Zhang Tongxuan had described.
If a fight broke out then, and he suddenly put all his Skill Points into the Ten Lands Mahayana Golden Body Phoenix Bodhisattva Path, entering the Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance Realm of the Seventh Far-Reaching Land, would he be able to suppress the other with one hand?
Although he thought this in his heart, Lu Ren had no intention of experimenting. Before practicing the Ten Lands to perfection, he wouldn't actively touch these unpredictable dangers.
When it was over, Zhang Tongxuan smiled and said, "I'm going back to Dragon Tiger Mountain to hold the fort, I'll leave this place to you."
Lu Ren nodded slightly: "Rest assured, Celestial Master Zhang."
After the meeting ended, Lu Ren also tidied up his feelings. When he stepped out of the Oak Mansion, Wang Yong asked in a low voice, "Major Lu, what are your thoughts?"
Lu Ren nodded slightly: "I'm quite interested in giving it a try."
Of course, his main thought was to kill the two extraordinary ones from the Beautiful Country and Northern Bear to gain Skill Points.
He had to find an opportunity, as the hostility those two had displayed towards him earlier made him quite unhappy. None of these guys had good intentions.
Hearing Lu Ren's confirmation, Wang Yong finally breathed a sigh of relief, then solemnly said.
"Major Lu, I'm afraid we need to spend some time on collective training."
"Collective training?"
"You need to know how to operate the spacecraft, how to wear the spacesuit, and the functions above, as well as the essential survival Skills in space and the cosmos."
Lu Ren readily agreed, he was quite interested in it. After all, when he heard about Huaxia's first manned spaceflight as a child, he had dreamed of space travel for a long time.
Over the following week, with his current intelligence, Lu Ren noted down all relevant knowledge without a single mistake.
If it weren't that the instructors needed rest, Lu Ren felt he could have reduced the time by three days.
An astronaut instructor couldn't help but exclaim: "You martial arts families seem born for this."
Lu Ren rarely smiled: "In the future, there will be a lot of such talents."
Finally, the political maneuvering between the three countries had been settled, though Lu Ren was unaware and uninterested in the political exchanges of mutual interests among the three parties.
The space launch had been scheduled for a month later, a period that would usher in the best launch window.
During this period, Lu Ren arranged for Li Qingling and Li Tianming to meet. Initially, Li Tianming had some disdain for Li Qingling being a woman, but after being thoroughly beaten by her, he obediently fell into a hellish training regimen.
Lu Ren turned a blind eye.
Currently, in the Phoenix Falcon Fist Martial Arts Dojo, there were already quite a few learners. What surprised him was that most of them were women.
Although the Phoenix Falcon Fist focused on speed, excelled in agility, and had high penetration strength, nearly eighty percent of the learners were women, which Lu Ren did not anticipate.
In today's Huaxia, where the martial arts craze was in full swing, many people would engage in rigorous training after work, or people from nearby industrial areas would come over for strenuous exercise.
Lu Ren would occasionally show up and give mild guidance.
After confirming that Lu Ren, in private, was not as cold, ruthless, and merciless as the public thought, the learners secretly sighed in relief.
Time flowed like water, and a month passed. Although links between the Underworld and Kunlun with the real world had begun, with frequent occurrences of disappearing moments, and even creatures from the Underworld and Kunlun appearing.
The Demon Hunting Department, under the Security Bureau, used the latest space monitoring devices to anticipate and perform exterminations. The magnetic energy weapons conferred by modern technology were sufficient to inflict massive damage on the demonic and bizarre entities of the Underworld.
As the physical rules of the real world changed due to the interaction between multiple worlds, it took the Huaxia Space Agency nearly a month of round-the-clock work to establish a launch model.
"The world is experiencing new changes every day."
"Materialism is beginning to turn towards idealism."
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Although a jest, it reflected the current strange upheaval in the world.
With the spacesuit on, feeling the Bright Sun True Qi within himself, Lu Ren didn't say much else.
The debate between a heart's motion versus a body's motion only exists because it hasn't reached a deep level yet.
From the perspective of his current strength and insight, once science advances to a certain stage, it can interpret everything he has.
However, this process might be somewhat lengthy.
Northwest Aerospace Launch Center.
"How do you feel, Major Lu?"
Lu Ren nodded slightly: "Not bad, I thought the spacesuit would be cumbersome, but it turns out it's quite lightweight."
The logistics personnel laughed upon hearing this: "The physique of martial arts families is far superior to that of ordinary people, and with the presence of water cannons and Super Concentrated Nutrient Pills, as long as internal gas circulation and maintenance devices are properly set up, there shouldn't be any major problems."
Lu Ren was wearing a tight-fitting Fish Scale Combat Suit. This combat suit had been upgraded several times, exceedingly expensive, with the outer layer sealed similarly to Power Armor.