"Most of the pollution and alienation caused by xenoplants and banned drugs are only physical alienation, which can be suppressed through various anti-alienation drugs and surgeries... The pollution and alienation suffered by the recipient is mental."
"We hold a gifting ceremony and touch the gods with our spiritual consciousness. The power of the gods will naturally penetrate and pollute our spiritual consciousness. Because their status is above all ordinary things, no external objects can interfere. There is almost no other way except to resist pollution with one's own will."
Xue Jing frowned and asked, "What are the consequences of alienation?"
"It's based on the alienation rate." Aqin said in a deep voice.
"If the alienation rate is below 10%, there will be no impact. If it is below 30%, the impact will be minimal. Most recipients will try to keep their alienation rate below 30%."
"Once it reaches over 50%... various 'alteration diseases' will begin to appear on the body."
"Such as aging disease, rampage disease, immortality disease, autolysis disease, phantom face disease... Different recipients have different symptoms. The recipients of our Lord of Thousand Reds and Ten Thousand Colors will develop a kind of 'Tree Man Syndrome'. The skin will turn into bark, and flowers, branches and leaves will grow. The body characteristics will continue to transform into plants, and the mind will become more and more dull like a plant, and too lazy to move."
"The higher the alienation rate, the more severe the symptoms of the alienation disease will be, until it reaches 100%, completely losing all traces of being human and transforming into another kind of existence... For the person himself, this is no different from death."
Xue Jing frowned and asked, "Is it difficult to suppress alienation?"
Aqin nodded and said, "It's very difficult."
"Different people have different ways of suppressing it, such as meditation, but generally speaking, the purer one's spirit is, the easier it is to suppress it."
"The more concerns one has and the more complicated one is, the more difficult it is to suppress alienation. Therefore, many recipients will try their best to have as few concerns as possible."
She looked at Xue Jing meaningfully.
"Your sister values her family and you very much."
"She will go to her loving mother from now on...her concern for you will become an obstacle on her path."
"I think Professor Lu's idea is that since it's impossible to get your sister to sever her mortal ties, then he should just let you stay with her forever... That's why he asked me to invite you to join the sect."
Xue Jing raised a sarcastic smile:
"Or failing to receive the gift can be considered a solution to the problem, right?"
Aqin shook her head: "Then I don't know."
Xue Jing took the colorful eyeball in his hand, turning it over like a walnut, and said:
"Rather than receiving God's power, you, the recipients, feel more like you've been cursed by God."
Aqin smiled, but a look of piety appeared on her face.
"No, this is a blessing from God, not a curse. If you cannot bear it, it is only because mortals are not blessed enough to bear it, not God's fault."
"He just gave us the power. How we use it is up to us. If we don't use it well, it is also our fault."
Xue Jing remained silent, "I have no intention of arguing with you about this..."
He thought for a moment and said, "Oh, right, the plant you control, the one called Nagu something-something-cha-something..."
Aqin curled her lips in dissatisfaction and said, "Nagosum Charato Ruth! Are you still in high school? You are at the best time of your life, but you can't even remember a name!"
There was a gurgling sound coming from the electric water heater, indicating that the water had boiled. Xue Jing glanced at her, pinched his eyeballs, and raised his eyebrows.
Ah Qin immediately changed her words and said, "This name is a little complicated, it's normal that I can't remember it right away..."
Xue Jing smiled and said, "It's too troublesome. Let's just call it the 'oxygen-absorbing tree'... Just give me one of these things, or a seed."
Aqin's only remaining right eye suddenly lit up.
"Then you must return my stigma to me, so that I can summon it..."
Xue Jing touched his chin and said, "If you touch this thing, you should be able to do something weird with it, right?"
He remembered the last time he fought with this woman, she reached out to touch her eyes.
"Eh... no way, that's the only ability I have, and you've already beaten me, right?" Aqin said with a guilty conscience.
Xue Jing didn't say anything. He walked directly to the electric kettle and turned it on. Steam came out and he pretended to throw his eyeball in.
Ah Qin was horrified: "Wait a minute! Brother, good brother!"
Xue Jing didn't intend to pay attention to her, but he stopped anyway.
Because the phone rang.
He pulled his phone out of his pocket and glanced at the screen.
It belongs to Wu Youqing.
Xue Jing returned to his seat, answered the phone, and said, "Hello, Boss."
"After asking, we found out. The Flower God Society said that it was the people below who acted on their own initiative." Wu Youqing's quiet and ethereal voice came through the receiver.
"You can do whatever you want with the person you caught. They won't pursue the matter."
Xue Jing nodded and said, "I understand."
"Thank you for your help, dear sister."
After chatting for a few more sentences, Xue Jing hung up the phone and looked at Aqin. His eyes were calm and it was impossible to tell his emotion.
Ah Qin felt a little scared when he looked at her, and stammered:
"What...what?"
Xue Jing did not reply immediately, but waited for a while and said slowly:
"Actually, there is no big conflict between you and me."
"It's not impossible to let you go just like this."
Ah Qin nodded repeatedly, almost in tears: "You are so right..."
"But..." Xue Jing changed the subject.
"I just let you go without any cost. It makes me feel like I'm easy to bully. I'm a little upset."
Ah Qin's face suddenly turned red when she heard this, and she said shyly:
"That's no big deal. I'll give you... that."
Xue Jing: “…”
He was speechless and said, "What are you thinking about, you little shrimp-headed woman."
Ah Qin said dissatisfiedly: "What? A beauty like me has already taken the initiative to speak, what are you dissatisfied with?"
"Wake up, look at me, then look at yourself in the mirror. Who do you think suffers the loss by doing this?" Xue Jing said with a laugh.
Aqin: “…”
She really wanted to say that it was definitely my fault.
But looking at Xue Jing's face... I really can't say it.
She said angrily, "Then what do you say we should do?"
Xue Jing thought for a moment and said, "You have to give me one of those Nagu or something plants. The seeds are fine too."
Hearing this, Aqin quickly nodded and said, "That's no problem."
"Besides..." Xue Jing said, and suddenly changed his words: "Forget it, it's nothing."
He stood up, walked to Aqin, raised his colored eyeballs and said:
"Is it okay to just put this eyeball back into your hands?"
Ah Qin was stunned for a moment, then said, "No problem... As long as the stigmata and my body are in contact, I can use the power of my loving mother to heal myself, and the nerve connection of my eyes will be healed quickly."
"That's good." Xue Jing directly pulled open the eyelid of her left eye, took aim, and with a click, stuffed the colored eyeball into the empty eye socket.
"... At least wash it." Aqin said helplessly.
Considering that Xue Jing not only put her eyes in his pocket but also had been playing with them just now... she suddenly felt extremely awkward.
But the return of the stigmata and the feeling of being able to use divine power again made her feel relieved. She quickly activated it, and a light green light began to emerge from her left eye.
After a while, she blinked and her vision was completely restored.
At this time, Xue Jing asked casually, "How is it? Is there anything wrong?"
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Chapter 135: Dispelling the Mist of Divinity, the Adoptive Father of the Recipients, Xue Wan's Anxiety (4K)
"Something's wrong..."
As Aqin spoke, she suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Hey, my alienation rate seems to have... decreased."
She said somewhat uncertainly.
Xue Jing helped her untie the steel rope and skipped the rope while speaking as if nothing had happened and not caring much:
"Oh? Really?"
A hint of joy appeared on Aqin's beautiful and mature face:
"Although there is no specific test, this feeling of clarity of mind cannot be wrong... Is it because I have escaped your control and regained my stigmata that I am relaxed?"
Xue Jing casually said: "I think so... Where are the things we agreed on?"
Aqin smiled and was about to tease this good-looking boy, but she heard him say in a light tone:
"I advise you not to have any extra thoughts. There is no more than one step between you and me... You are not clear about what this means to a martial artist, right?"
Ah Qin froze and said awkwardly: "You are such a boring person..."
As she spoke, she shook her head and raised her right hand.
A crack appeared in the floor of the room, and a green root as thick as an arm emerged from the crack, twisting and turning to reach Aqin's hand.
At the tip of the rhizome was a bud about to bloom. With a turn of Aqin's wrist, the bud blossomed, and in the center was a dark red seed the size of a walnut.
She picked up the seeds, handed them to Xue Jing, and said, "This is the 'Nagusum Charatos' seed you wanted... Although I don't know what you want it for, I have to remind you."
"This is a plant from another world. The environment it needs to grow is completely different from the one in this world. It can't survive here. I can control its growth because of the power of a loving mother..."
Xue Jing took the seed and rubbed its surface with his fingers. The uneven surface felt rough.
He looked at the floorboards that were cracked by roots.
"You pay for the repair of the floor."
Aqin's eyes widened slightly: "I'm doing this just to get the seeds for you!"
Xue Jing was surprised and asked, "If you had told me it would damage the floor, I would have gone out with you to get it. Besides, do you have to come out from underground to control this thing?"
Aqin's mouth twitched: "It has to be from underground... The Lord of Thousand Reds and Ten Thousand Colors is the source of all flowers, plants and trees, and His birth comes from the fusion of 'earth' and 'water', two of the four elements that make up the world... This is why all flowers, plants and trees in the world grow either in the ground or in the water."
"As a symbol of its birth, we, the recipients of the gift, are also limited in our ability to use its power. We can only summon trees from underground or water, and cannot materialize them in the void."
Xue Jing touched his chin and said, "This is good information... In view of this information, you don't have to pay for the repairs. You can go now."
As soon as these words were spoken, the hostility between the two was resolved, and Aqin breathed a sigh of relief.
After she relaxed, her mind became active.
Looking at Xue Jing's impeccable handsome face, she couldn't help but say:
"Xue Jing, you really don't plan to join the sect?"
"I think if it's you, your loving mother would love you more than your sister..."
Xue Jing glanced at her, took the dark red seeds, walked to the sofa and sat down, and said lightly: "You really don't give up."
Ah Qin shook her head: "I value talent... You are so powerful at this age, you must be ambitious and unwilling to be mediocre."
"Practicing martial arts... is such a waste."
Xue Jing shook his head: "You're saying the same thing again. I'm tired of hearing it."
"Whether the path of martial arts training is feasible or not, I know it better than anyone else... On the contrary, you, whether you are a cyborg with implants, a new martial arts school taking banned drugs, or you, the recipients who think you are favored by the gods..."
At this point, Xue Jing was silent for a moment, "Forget it, although I really want to refute you, I am probably the least suitable person in the world to say these things to you."
He waved his hand: "Go quickly."
Aqin tilted her head, somewhat confused.
She thought Xue Jing would say some old-fashioned words like 'The power you are using is not your own', 'Inhuman power must be paid for', and 'Martial arts is the only path that belongs to mankind'.
I was also prepared for the debate, but I didn't expect Xue Jing to just reveal it directly.