Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran sat face to face on the back of the Spider Queen.
Spiritual combination is obviously a very intimate thing for the sentinel and the guide, but at this moment, the two of them had no ambiguous thoughts in their minds. Instead, they were a little nervous - after all, this kind of combination method of "moving away from the spiritual picture" was an unprecedented huge project that did not allow for any carelessness.
Yu Ran took a deep breath, kept himself calm, and then extended his thought tentacles towards Lu Zexuan.
Different from the previous green healing tentacles, Yu Ran extended red attack tentacles this time. He must use the powerful attack power of the nine-tailed fox to destroy Lu Zexuan's mental image as soon as possible.
This was also the first time that Lu Zexuan was connected by Yu Ran's attack tentacles.
The moment the red tentacles of thought touched his brain, Lu Zexuan felt as if his entire brain was surrounded by a ball of fiery flames.
The nine-tailed fox's flaming attack power is truly terrifying.
In the spiritual world, a giant nine-tailed fox appeared at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. Its nine tails suddenly spread out, like a blazing umbrella, casting a large shadow on the white snow.
The nine-tailed fox's eyes were staring quietly at the snow-capped mountains in front of it. It had no fear at all, as if it was patrolling its own territory.
Lu Zexuan had only seen this imposing spirit body briefly when Yu Ran saved him last time. Now, seeing its complete form clearly, Lu Zexuan couldn't help but sigh - Ran Ran's powerful attack ability, even an S-level sentinel would find it difficult to resist, right
The white eagle spread its wings and soared between the snow-capped mountains. Seeing such a powerful invader, it instinctively wanted to protect its territory. But thinking of the countermeasures that its master and Yu Ran had discussed, it shrank its head again, flapped its wings and flew to the side of the nine-tailed fox, and asked carefully: "You want to destroy my snow-capped mountain? And then build a new one for me at your master's place?"
The nine-tailed fox said calmly, "Yes, you can move in."
Bai Ying said aggrievedly: "If we move there, wouldn't that mean we'd be living under someone else's roof?"
The nine-tailed fox said: "When the time comes, you can fly back and forth between the forest and the snowy mountains, and there will be two foxes to play with you."
White Eagle: "Great, I'll move there now."
Lu Zexuan: “…”
This silly eagle is such an embarrassment to him.
Yu Ran waved to Bai Ying and said, "Da Ying, you know the master's mental picture best. You can guide the nine-tailed fox and let it slowly destroy the picture from the beginning, step by step. In this way, Ze Xuan's brain will not be damaged."
When Lu Zexuan heard this, his heart warmed slightly. Ranran looked calm and decisive, but he was actually very careful. Fearing that Lu Zexuan would get hurt, he would rather spend more mental energy and longer time to proceed step by step, rather than pursuing efficiency.
Lu Zexuan said: "It's okay, I can help you too. It's more obvious if you look from a high place."
After he said that, he gently put his arms around Yu Ran's waist, spread his huge wings on his shoulders, leaped up, and took Yu Ran high into the sky.
There was a vast expanse of white snow at his feet, with snow-capped mountains stretching one after another, and thick fog surrounding the tops of the mountains, like a fairyland. A cold wind blew, mixed with fine snowflakes hitting Yu Ran's face, and the slightly cool smell of the first snow was very refreshing.
Thinking that he would be able to see the snow-capped mountains in his mental picture at any time in the future, Yu Ran felt inexplicably happy for some reason.
That must have been a very novel experience.
The two stood quietly on the top of the mountain, admiring the beautiful scenery.
On the Spider Queen's back, Lu Zexuan suddenly stretched out his hand and interlocked his fingers with Yu Ran.
Yu Ran was using his mental power to control the actions of the nine-tailed fox and the white fox at this time, and did not notice Lu Zexuan's intimate action.
The white eagle spread its huge wings and invited the nine-tailed fox to visit its home. The nine-tailed fox jumped flexibly and jumped directly onto its wings. The eagle carried the nine-tailed fox to the depths of the snow-capped mountains and arrived in front of one of the inconspicuous snow-capped mountains.
It introduced excitedly: "This is the house that my master built for me in his spiritual vision when he first awakened."
It was a very exquisite snow house hidden deep in the snow-capped mountains. There were a lot of furniture inside, which contained some of Lu Zexuan's childhood memories.
"In the future, I want to become a great and majestic general like my father."
Young Lu Zexuan sat in the snow house, secretly found his father's military uniform and put it on his shoulders, fiddling with a strange mecha toy in his hands. Beside him was the white eagle. At that time, the falcon was not as powerful as it is now. The spirit body in its infancy looked like a fluffy bird.
A little boy, a white bird and a simple house.
Lu Zexuan and Ying Falcon were so cute when they were little.
Yu Ran glanced at the sentry beside him and asked, "You secretly wore your father's clothes?"
Lu Zexuan's ears turned red, and he touched his nose and said, "Well, when I was a child, I always regarded my father as my idol. I thought the sentinels in military uniforms were the most handsome. I hoped that I could grow up quickly and become a general like him."
It was a simple wish, and it finally came true.
Yu Ran asked, "Now that you've become a general as an adult, do you feel that it's not as wonderful as you thought it would be when you were a child?"
Lu Zexuan nodded: "Yes... but I never regret it."
He was an S-rank sentinel, and he was born to be on the battlefield. Even if he died on the battlefield one day, he would have no regrets or complaints.
Yu Ran noticed the other party's determination, and a trace of admiration arose in his heart - the descendant of the Lu family was indeed a tough man with a strong character, who valued friendship, loyalty and courage. Choosing Lu Zexuan as a partner must be the wisest decision he had ever made.
Yu Ran looked at the nine-tailed fox and said, "Let's get started."
The nine-tailed fox began to destroy the first snowy mountain that the white eagle pointed out to it.
Countless red tentacles of thought, like a huge net, enveloped the snow-capped mountains. The raging fire continued to spread along the red tentacles, and the snow-capped mountains began to melt rapidly under the attack of the scorching flames.
Deep in this snowy mountain lie Lu Zexuan’s childhood memories.
When he was a child, Lu Zexuan lived a very simple life. He went to school on time every day and played with Baiying after returning home. He was not as naughty as most sentinels. He was very sensible since he was a child. When his parents were not at home, he would occasionally take care of the vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep...
Later, his cousin Lu Chengan appeared in his memory.
After his uncle passed away, his father took Lu Cheng'an home to raise him, and the two brothers quickly became close friends. Lu Zexuan's life also gradually became richer. For example, he would go to the suburbs with his cousin to climb trees on weekends and get covered in mud; or he would go fishing by the lake and accidentally fall into the lake...
Embarrassing things happened one after another, but that kind of childhood was undoubtedly happy and colorful.
As the snow on the mountain gradually melts, these memory bubbles begin to emerge one by one.
Lu Zexuan looked at his younger self and brother in the bubble, and a trace of pain flashed across his face.
Yu Ran was worried that his mental state would be unstable, so she immediately comforted him, "Don't be sad. It's obvious that he loves you very much, and he must want you to live well."
Lu Zexuan nodded and quickly controlled his emotions.
The first huge snow mountain finally melted into snow water under the siege of the nine-tailed fox's flames.
The two of them were connected spiritually at this time, and Yu Ran directly introduced this part of snow water into his own spiritual picture.
At the same time, in Yu Ran’s vision, deep in the primeval forest, dense green tentacles of thought began to extend rapidly.
The little white fox was in charge of the reconstruction of the snow mountain. Its tentacles were like vines spreading everywhere, surging rapidly on the ground, resolidifying the introduced snow water and gradually accumulating it into a mountain...
In the blink of an eye, a snow-capped mountain towering into the clouds was replicated and rebuilt by the white fox.
The nine-tailed fox was responsible for destroying the mental image, while the white fox rebuilt a new home at Yu Ran's place. Yu Ran's mental power was divided into two parts. Doing two things at the same time, the consumption would double. Within a moment, beads of sweat flowed down his forehead.
Lu Zexuan was also in pain. The nine-tailed fox's blazing flames made him feel like he was in a raging fire. The sentry's brain was so hot that it was about to burn, and his body temperature gradually rose. In a blink of an eye, his clothes were soaked with sweat.
Yu Ran immediately stopped, withdrew his thought tentacles, and said, "Take a break."
He opened his eyes, only to find that their hands were held together without him noticing.
Yu Ran was stunned. The sweat in their palms seemed to have merged and become sticky. Sweat was also dripping from Lu Zexuan's forehead, and his clothes were soaked with sweat. The same was true for Yu Ran.
Both of them were sweating profusely.
This unprecedented way of spiritual fusion is more energy-consuming than what one would normally think.
Fortunately, with the cooperation and help of Lu Zexuan and Bai Ying, the reconstruction process of the first snow mountain went very smoothly.
It's just a matter of time from now on.
Yu Ran used his mind tentacles to communicate with the spider queen: "Queen, is there anything to eat?"
The spider queen used one of her front legs to throw a few berries onto her back and said softly, "Your favorite purple berries."
Yu Ran took the fruit, wiped it on his clothes, and handed it to Lu Zexuan: "This kind of fruit may not look good, but it tastes good. It is high in vitamins and is easy to fill you up. Replenish your energy before continuing."
After Yu Ran finished eating, Lu Zexuan asked, "Shall we continue?"
Yu Ran nodded: "Well, we have to hurry up."
They cannot stay on this planet for too long and must complete spiritual integration as soon as possible.
Under normal circumstances, one day is enough for the sentinel and guide spirits to merge, and it is enough to directly combine the mental images into one.
But they are different. What they want to do is to completely destroy Lu Zexuan's spiritual picture and rebuild a new one here with Yu Ran.
Even if everything goes well, it will take several days.
After the second start, Lu Zexuan looked at the messy memories in the mental picture and suggested: "Of course, there is no need to move some trivial memories, so as not to waste your mental energy. Like what you ate in the morning, what clothes you wore... There is no point in remembering these things."
Many unimportant and trivial memories will gradually be forgotten by humans as time goes by, so there is no need to dig them out, reorganize them and reproduce them again. If all of Lu Zexuan's memories of more than 20 years were moved over, Yu Ran's mental power would be severely depleted, and it would take more than half a year.
So, it is enough to just pick out the things you need to remember and move.
Let those daily trivialities that have been almost forgotten disappear with the flames.
Lu Zexuan selectively forgot some useless daily memories, and Yu Ran's reconstruction work became much easier.
A day passed quickly, and three snow-capped mountains appeared in Yu Ran's mental picture.
When it got dark, the two of them slept on the spider queen's back. The queen thoughtfully cut a few huge leaves for them to use as blankets.
Lu Zexuan never thought that he would experience such a scene—he and a guide slept on the back of a huge monster, covered with strange red leaves, and he actually slept very soundly.
The next day, the two continued their spiritual fusion. With yesterday's experience, today's progress was much faster.
However, Bai Ying dug up the past that Lu Zexuan least wanted to recall - the process of Lu Chengan's sacrifice, and it appeared clearly in front of him again.
Yu Ran originally wanted to comfort Lu Zexuan, but to his surprise, Lu Zexuan was very calm this time and did not seem too sad.
He looked at the scene in the memory bubble and said calmly, "Don't worry, I won't let this painful memory trap me. Move this part of the memory intact. I will remember his sacrifice and use it to motivate myself."
Yu Ran nodded: "He must be very pleased that you think this way."
One snow-capped mountain after another was successfully rebuilt.
Time passed slowly, and in the next few days, the two of them tacitly carried out a massive project of destroying and moving Lu Zexuan's pictures.
Their spirits were connected and their thoughts were in sync. Lu Zexuan even felt that the two people's souls were extremely close and in tune with each other at this moment.
In Lu Zexuan's memory, the part about Yu Ran is also very clear.
From the first time they met, to the time when Yu Ran used a hair dryer to dry her hair after taking a shower, to what Yu Ran liked to eat, and what color clothes he liked to wear, he remembered every detail...
Yu Ran didn't notice anything wrong and thought that Lu Zexuan remembered it so clearly because he had been investigating him.
He also reproduced this part of his memory completely.
That was the longest period of time that Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran had been alone since they met.
Except for the spider queen who occasionally brought them food, no one bothered them.
They sat in the center of the thick red fog, and it seemed as if they were the only two humans left in the entire world.
On the back of the Spider Queen, they completed their mental fusion step by step.
It's as if every nerve fiber in the brain is entangled with each other, so intimate and difficult to separate.
On the last day, after Yu Ran moved all his memories according to Lu Zexuan's instructions, there were still many snow-capped mountains left in his mental image - these were images created by Lu Zexuan to confuse invaders, and there was nothing in them.
Lu Zexuan said: "Okay, destroy them all."
Yu Ran nodded, and suddenly released a ferocious mental force like a tsunami!
Countless red flames burned wildly among the snow-capped mountains. They were like terrifying monsters, sweeping up from the ground and devouring Lu Zexuan's spiritual picture mercilessly.
Before long, all the remaining snow on the mountain melted.
But the flames did not go out, as if to kill everything, continuing to burn the scene. Gradually, the original snow-capped mountains disappeared, the water on the ground evaporated, and the endless land turned into a barren scorched earth.
The land was full of cracks and ashes left over from burning.
Yu Ran's mental strength was almost exhausted. He withdrew his tentacles and looked at his "masterpiece". A smile finally appeared on his lips: "How is it? It looks like it has been destroyed, right?"
Lu Zexuan looked at the scorched earth in front of him, nodded, and said: "With such a completely destroyed mental picture, no one should doubt that I am actually still conscious. It's just that my consciousness exists in your mind."
Yu Ran looked at him: "Yes, our spirits have merged."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Mental fusion, this is really a magical experience. Lu Zexuan's own picture was completely destroyed, but his consciousness and memory existed in Yu Ran's mind very clearly.
Yu Ran made an inviting gesture: "Come and see the new home?"
Lu Zexuan: "Okay."
A scene flashed through his mind, and Lu Zexuan appeared in Yu Ran's primeval forest.
Deep in the emerald green forest, there were vast stretches of snow-capped mountains standing in between. Those snow-capped mountains were towering into the clouds, majestic and majestic. Deep in the snow-capped mountains, there were countless memory bubbles floating, containing all of Lu Zexuan's important memories from childhood to adulthood.
A white falcon swooped down from the top of the snow-capped mountain, spread its wings above the forest, and chirped happily.
The two foxes ran and played nimbly among the forest.
Lu Zexuan looked at the scene in front of him and was speechless for a moment.
It was amazing. His mental picture was brought back by Yu Ran, and it was almost exactly the same as his original snow mountain.
The feeling of mentally moving... Is he the only one in the world who can experience this
Yu Ran's forests are very inclusive and can expand infinitely outward, while Lu Zexuan's snow-capped mountains usually grow upwards.
One horizontally, the other vertically, the vast forests and the towering snow-capped mountains are not contradictory, but seem to complement each other, forming a new and spectacular picture.
What is rare is that the snow-capped mountains and forests are not the same kind of ecology, but Yu Ran skillfully transitions and blends them together without appearing abrupt at all.
At this time, the golden sunlight shines on the top of the snow-capped mountains and also in the forest.
The melted water from the snow-capped mountains meanders down the mountains, gathering into streams and flowing into the primeval forests. The clear snow water nourishes the fertile land. The water vapor evaporated from the trees in the forest condenses into ice in the sky, turning into heavy snow that falls on the top of the snow-capped mountains.
Continuous and everlasting.
The desolate white snow-capped mountains and the vibrant primeval forests are perfectly integrated together at this moment.
It is as beautiful as a painting.
Lu Zexuan looked at the spectacular scene in front of him, looked at Yu Ran and said, "Ran Ran, you have worked hard these days."
Yu Ran's mental strength was almost exhausted. He looked at the sentry beside him and said, "Welcome to our new home. From now on, we will share the same vision."
Lu Zexuan smiled slightly, his eyes gentle: "Okay, I like it here very much."
This is a unique spiritual picture in the world.
It is our spiritual home.
Volume 3, Part 2: Walking Hand in Hand
(End of this chapter)