Xu Le imbued himself with the powerful computational abilities of the Heavenly Dao of the Inner World, using this method to observe the energy of the world and judge the strength level of each person through the feedback of energy fluctuations.
Like the sparrow that flew by before, its body only contained the fluctuations of the flame of life, which were almost negligible. Its strength was just like the light of a firefly, which would be extinguished with a gentle pinch.
The Calabash Brothers are different. Their light shines within a radius of hundreds of meters, and their energy fluctuations are below the Refining Spirit realm, but they are increasing every moment. Xu Le guesses that this is because they have not yet fully matured and are still in the process of gestation. When they ripen and take human form, their power will reach the Refining Spirit realm, which will be just enough to make them evenly matched with the Snake Demon and the Scorpion Demon. If their supernatural powers are added, they can faintly suppress these two demons.
Xu Le shifted his gaze from them to this person, the most mysterious character in the series, who was also the grandfather of the Calabash Brothers.
"What happened?"
Xu Le observed carefully with suspicion. In his Heavenly Eye, the old man was no different from anyone else. He was just like an ordinary person, emitting a faint life light. Due to his advanced age, the life light here showed signs of being extinguished.
"Could it be that I guessed wrong?"
Xu Le began to doubt whether his conjecture was correct, but thinking of the invisible barrier he had just focused on in the spiritual realm, he continued, and the power of the Heavenly Dao further probed his body through his eyes.
Xu Le scanned the old man's body dozens of times, but found nothing unusual. Just as he shifted his gaze to the head, a strange light blocked his investigation.
Between the eyebrows!
Xu Le was overjoyed. His guess was correct; the old man had indeed concealed his identity. Right there in the old man's dantian, between his eyebrows—the place known in Taoism as the "third eye"—a terrifying amount of energy converged into a single point, gathering in the space between his eyebrows. It seemed to be restrained by some force, emitting only a faint light. It was impossible to detect without careful examination.
With a specific goal in mind, the Eye of Heaven began to analyze the force. The Heavenly Dao of the inner world connected with the outside world and began to calculate the force. In Xu Le's eyes, countless lines, finer than a hair, appeared in every corner of the space, so fine that they could not be touched even if one reached out to touch them.
The high-energy substance between the old man's eyebrows was rapidly analyzed, peeling away layer by layer like unraveling a cocoon. The light of the high-energy substance, which was originally concentrated into a ball, gradually faded, and a blurry human figure appeared inside. As the analysis continued, the human figure became clearer and clearer.
"It feels like someone is watching me!" The old man felt a chill down his spine, as if something terrifying was spying on him. A nameless panic welled up in his heart, like a dark cloud hanging over him that he couldn't shake off.
"Grandpa, what's wrong!" A human face appeared on the seven gourds of different colors, and after seeing the panic on their grandfather's face, they rushed to ask.
The old man felt a warmth in his heart when he saw how much the seven gourds cared for him. Having lived alone in this desolate wilderness for so long, these seven gourds that suddenly appeared were like his grandchildren, like his family.
As Xu Le's analysis progressed, the old man felt an increasingly intense chill on his back, and a sharp pain, as if he were being pricked by needles, made him exclaim in surprise, "It hurts! Why do I feel like someone is watching me!"
"Grandpa!" "Grandpa!"
Seeing the old man's pained expression, the seven gourd brothers shook themselves excitedly, as if trying to break free of the vines and fall to the ground to transform into human form.
Xu Le's soul moved slightly closer, but he kept a portion of his attention on the nearby Calabash Brothers. If they tried to force their way off, he would stop immediately. His original purpose for this trip was to obtain the Seven Star Pill to heal his injuries. If he only wanted to investigate the old man's identity and prevent the Seven Star Pill from being refined, then he would be losing the watermelon and picking up a sesame seed.
"Almost there!"
A look of joy flashed in Xu Le's eyes. The pain from the old man's brow was getting more and more intense, as if the consciousness in that energy cluster had sensed the probing of the Heavenly Eye and was frantically issuing a warning.
However, in Xu Le's eyes, the highly concentrated energy cluster between the old man's eyebrows was becoming clearer and clearer, and in just a few more seconds, he would be able to clearly see what kind of creature was inside.
"What audacity!"
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Chapter 152: The Mountain God
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A furious roar came from behind Xu Le, like rolling thunder, deafening.
Xu Le's soul, protected by the sheep talisman, also fluctuated slightly. Although it was not strong, it indicated that the newcomer's strength had reached the Refinement of Spirit stage.
Xu Le had seen many characters with the power of refining spirit in this seemingly ordinary anime world, but these were all main characters in the story. This voice was not from a snake demon or a scorpion demon. Wang Shengxia also had this power, namely the seven Calabash Brothers. At this moment, they were hanging on the vines. Although they were shaking violently, they did not fall off and transform into human form.
The voice behind him was a deep male voice, so it couldn't possibly be the Green Snake Spirit from the second movie. So who was this person?
Although Xu Le was curious, he was only in his soul form at the moment, with less than one-tenth of his original strength. He didn't know the strength of his opponent, so he used the snake talisman to conceal his presence and quietly left the cliff.
Behind them, a bright pink mountain eagle soared in the air, occasionally letting out a clear cry. Its sharp eyes gleamed with a dark light, and the words just spoken came from its mouth.
The mountain eagle's eyes, gleaming with a deep, dark light, surveyed the surroundings. After circling several times in the air, it still couldn't find Xu Le. Angrily flapping its wings, it stirred up a whirlwind that swept around, carrying sand and stones.
After Xu Le fled, the phantom between the old man's eyebrows gradually calmed down, and the pain slowly subsided. Just as the old man stood up, he heard a sound, followed by a loud bang in the sky, and then a fierce wind raged, with sand and dust blinding him, making it almost impossible to open his eyes.
The strong winds whipped up countless pebbles that flew at high speed through the air, carrying tremendous kinetic energy as they passed by the old man, punching several holes in the walls of his dilapidated house.
A huge rock loosened and began to slowly rise from the ground, directly facing the old man's location. If it flew up and hit the old man, even if he was incredibly lucky, he would be seriously injured if he didn't die.
The pink mountain eagle in the sky gradually calmed down. Seeing the flying boulder, it flapped its strong wings, and a ten-foot-long wind blade flew out, slicing the boulder and bringing the old man down.
The dark light in the eagle's eyes gradually faded and returned to its normal color. It paused for a moment in the air, then flapped its wings and flew back. As it flew away, the gale gradually dissipated, and everything returned to calm.
The old man slowly steadied himself, enduring the pain of the foreign object in his eye as he slowly opened it. Looking at the mess on the ground, he said helplessly, "What on earth happened?"
The eagle soared through the mountains and finally landed slowly in front of a huge mountain.
Unlike other mountain ranges with their jagged rocks, the mountain peaks are quite square, resembling the face of a giant old man from afar, except that there is a huge, cracked gourd above the old man.
The mountain eagle cried out softly a few times, and the giant mountain before it began to tremble slowly. Countless tiny pebbles tumbled from the mountain peak to the ground. The mouth of the enormous stone face slowly opened, and a majestic voice echoed from the mountain's belly: "Who exactly is scouting? Has the plan been exposed? No, impossible. It's a pity that guy ran too fast; I couldn't catch him in time. Fortunately, the Seven-Colored Lotus is still in my hands; it should..."
The enormous human face stopped speaking, seemingly wary of something, and appeared to have become an inanimate object. A stone cave in the belly of the mountain slowly opened, and a mountain eagle flapped its wings and flew inside. Everything seemed to return to calm.
In the distance, a pangolin huddled up in a ball, muttered a few resentful words in the direction of the mountain god, and quietly left.
Beside the pangolin, Xu Le slowly sipped a glass of watermelon juice, watching the spectacle unfold. Thanks to the powerful concealment effect of the snake talisman, no one noticed him, so he witnessed the whole thing.
Suckling!
The watermelon juice in the glass was sucked dry, leaving only a few broken square ice cubes. Xu Le casually tossed the glass into his inner world, frowned, pondered for a while, and sighed, "This watermelon juice doesn't taste good. Next time, I'll find some better varieties of watermelon, or maybe I'll go explore the food-related world."
"These guys are really cautious. Apart from discovering that they're suspicious, we haven't found any other useful clues. Let the snake demon and the others test the waters first. I'll assist them from the sidelines. Once they've refined the Seven Star Pill, we'll kill them!"
Xu Le stretched, when suddenly the Heavenly Dao consciousness that had taken over his body sent him a message: Someone is coming!