touchnovel Chapter 5: A Manifestation Before the Public – Is Cultivation Really Possible?
Chapter 5: A Manifestation Before the Public – Is Cultivation Really Possible?
Jiang Yu took a deep breath, suppressing her excitement, and looked at her phone screen.
The screen was almost completely flooded with comments.
"He's awake! The streamer has opened his eyes!"
"How's it going? Can you feel the energy? Did you successfully establish your foundation? (doge)"
"Hey streamer, your face isn't red anymore, and you're not sweating either. How did you do that? Makeup?"
"What's that stone in your hand? Is it a prop?"
"So, has the sea of suffering been opened? Have you achieved the power of a punch that feels like it weighs three thousand pounds? (laughs)"
"Perfect acting, I almost believed it. The anchor's composure is amazing, sitting still for more than 20 minutes."
"So, what were the results of the experiment? It failed, didn't it? I told you it was just a script."
"Announce the results already! Is it a joke or is it real cultivation?"
Jiang Yu looked at the comments, neither angry nor in a hurry to defend herself.
She knew this would happen. If she were watching someone else's livestream and they said they learned how to cultivate immortality in just a few minutes, she wouldn't believe it either.
But she doesn't have time to argue with the comments right now.
She was going to go back and tell her parents.
My brother is still alive.
Although he said he was already dead, although he said he had traveled through time, although he said he had stayed for ten thousand years—none of that matters.
The important thing is that he's back.
Parents need to know this news.
If Mom knew my brother was still alive, she might get better.
Jiang Yu bent down, picked up the backpack, carefully put the jade slip and storage bag inside, and then tidied up the scattered Origin Stone fragments.
She picked up her phone, looked at the camera, and said, "Hey everyone, that's all for today's live stream. I have to go now."
She quickly picked up her phone stand and prepared to leave the abandoned factory.
However, at that moment, a piercing roar of an engine suddenly rang out from afar!
A silver-gray sedan, like a wild beast out of control, suddenly rushed out of the road!
It didn't turn on its high beams, and in the dim light it looked like a twisted gray shadow. It was moving extremely fast and its trajectory was very abnormal, zigzagging, but its target was very clear—it was Jiang Yu standing in the open space at the factory gate!
Was it an accident? Or...?
Jiang Yu's pupils suddenly contracted!
Her newly enhanced senses allowed her to detect danger a fraction of a second earlier than the average person, but the car was going too fast! And it appeared too suddenly!
The driver's side window was rolled down, and for a fleeting moment, she even saw the face in the driver's seat that was twisted with anger and madness—it was the same Daoist Yun Leizi who had been exposed and forced to flee in a sorry state!
The resentment and murderous intent in his eyes were almost overflowing!
He came back for revenge! He tried to run me over!
This thought was like ice water poured over Jiang Yu's head, making his blood almost freeze.
She tried to dodge, but her body stiffened briefly due to extreme shock and being caught off guard.
My mind went blank, and my feet felt like they were nailed to the spot.
She was just an ordinary girl. Even though she had just undergone incredible training, she was instantly gripped by instinctive fear and helplessness when faced with a car hurtling towards her at high speed.
"careful!!!"
"car!!!"
"Get out of the way, streamer!!"
"We're going to crash!!!"
Viewers in the live stream who witnessed this scene through their still-on cameras were terrified!
The screen was instantly flooded with terrified screams.
Everything happened so fast; from hearing the roar to the front of the car being right in front of you, it was only a second or two.
Jiang Yu could even smell the burnt smell of the tires rubbing against the ground, and feel the suffocating pressure from the metal front of the car!
There's no escaping it!
The moment this judgment appeared in my mind, the instinct for survival and the newly born, warm current of new life within me seemed to be completely ignited and detonated by the deadly crisis!
"ah--!!"
She let out a low growl, a mixture of fear and desperation, without even realizing it herself. Almost instinctively, she poured all her strength, especially the unfamiliar warm current surging from the tiny "sea of suffering" below her navel, into her arms, crossing them to protect her body!
At the same time, he slightly turned his body, firmly pushed his legs against the ground, and arched his back, adopting the most instinctive posture to resist the impact!
She never thought she could stop it; it was just a pointless struggle in a desperate situation.
however--
"boom!!!"
A dull, grating thud suddenly erupted!
It wasn't the sound of a car hitting a person; it sounded more like... a car traveling at high speed crashing head-on into a solid steel pillar or a thick concrete wall!
Time seemed to be stretched out and frozen at this moment.
The live stream footage shook violently, spun, and then crashed to the ground at a skewed angle, but it still managed to capture that unforgettable moment:
The front of the silver-gray sedan deformed, dented, and crumpled at a visible speed the instant it hit Jiang Yu's body!
The hood was twisted and flipped up, the bumper was shattered, and the headlight glass was blown apart! The entire front end looked like a dented soda can!
Jiang Yu, the slender female anchor in the audience's impression, had her feet firmly planted on the ground and slid backward for two or three meters under the enormous impact!
On the cement floor, she even plowed two clear marks with the soles of her shoes!
But she didn't fly away.
She blocked it.
The arms were crossed in front of him, the sleeves were torn, and the skin of his forearms was bright red and trembling slightly, but... there were no fractures and no bloody mess.
She just stood there, using her own flesh and blood to stop a car that was hurtling towards her at high speed!
Master Yun Leizi, who was inside the car, was not wearing a seatbelt. Due to the immense inertia, he was slammed hard into the deployed airbag, suffering a head injury and losing consciousness on the spot. His fate remains unknown.
Jiang Yu slowly and somewhat stiffly lowered her trembling arm, looked down at her red but intact forearm, and then looked up at the car that was right next to her, its front end completely wrecked and emitting wisps of white smoke.
Her face showed no joy at surviving the ordeal, only blankness and a deep, incredulous bewilderment.
I... blocked it?
He used his body to... block a car?
Just now, the sensation of the heat surging from the sea of suffering spreading throughout my body, the feeling of the enormous impact when my arms touched the front of the car being gradually dissolved and dispersed by some kind of "force" in my body... was incredibly clear.
Three thousand catties?
I'm afraid... it's far more than that.
Studio.
A deathly silence.
Five or six seconds passed.
The first comment floated by tremblingly:
"What...what did I see?"
Immediately afterwards, the barrage of comments exploded like an avalanche or a tsunami!
The scrolling speed is so fast that the text is almost impossible to read!
Holy crap!!!
"Aaaaaaah!"
"Car!!! The front of the car is smashed!"
"The person is alright??? The person is standing???"
"Hard to withstand a car???"
"What the hell is this???"
"Special effects??? This is a live stream!!"
"Am I seeing things?? The anchor stopped the car with his arm???"
"Newton must be turning in his grave!"
"Host, you...you..."
"What just happened??? Who recorded this??? Replay!! I want a replay!!"
"Host...no, Sister Yu...no, Immortal! I kneel in reverence!!"
"Cultivating immortality...it's real..."
Jiang Yu stood blankly in front of the wrecked car, the evening breeze ruffling the stray hairs on her forehead.
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
In my mind, only one thought remained, incredibly clear and incredibly powerful:
My brother wasn't lying to me.
This sea of suffering, this "Heavenly Emperor Scripture"...
it is true.