Hero of heart The amazing son in law complete
Chapter 7417
Night comes.
The aurora borealis reappears on the horizon, a dreamlike spectacle.
Charlie once again leads three beautiful women towards the aurora.
This time, Maria Lin packed a large travel bag and asked Charlie to carry it. The weight of a few dozen kilograms was nothing to Charlie, but it was still a bit heavy for him to carry in the snow.
Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu moved as nimbly as swallows. The thought of receiving even more powerful Buddhist hand seals tonight filled them with excitement.
Charlie also held hope. Yesterday’s handprint could indeed break through the breakthrough of spiritual energy from zero to one in the Age of Dharma’s End, but it seemed somewhat futile to him. He could accept that Claire would leave him for a while so she could better exact her revenge, but how long she would be gone depended entirely on her own destiny.
If he was unable to break through and open the Niwan Palace within a short period of time, then his revenge plan might not be completed for decades.
Even though Charlie knows that Claire still loves him, he’s not sure how long that love will last after they’re apart.
One or two years might still be manageable, but three, five, or even eight or ten years might be unknown.
Therefore, Charlie desperately wanted a way to rapidly improve his cultivation. He hoped that all his hatred towards the Warriors Den Society and Victoria could be completely resolved within the next five years.
Under the aurora borealis, the three of them sat cross-legged, gazing at the sky. Maria Lin remained beside Charlie, taking out a spring roll folding table and a moon chair from the travel bag Charlie had brought her. After setting them up, she took out a small charcoal stove and a cast iron kettle, then used the kettle’s lid to shovel the untouched snow on the ground into the kettle bit by bit.
Then, he took a handful of charcoal made from olive seeds, dropped a little solid alcohol into it, and lit a small fire by striking the night sky with a match.
With water boiling on the stove, he took out a travel tea set and carefully placed it on the table.
It was clear he intended to use the snow to boil water for tea.
Charlie admired her; she was always calm and collected, and he never forgot his beloved’s grace and cheerfulness.
A drop of snow melted and boiled, then the boiling water brewed a cup of Pu’er tea, releasing its aroma. Meanwhile, the aurora in the sky showed no signs of turning into a palm print.
Charlie was shocked. Could this mysterious object have only had a useful hand seal last night?
Jeremiah Yun and Song Ruyu were also a bit confused, but they both knew that opportunities could not be forced or spoken of carelessly, so they remained silent.
Maria Lin broke the silence first. She poured four cups of tea and said softly, “Young Master, the fingerprints haven’t appeared today. Has something happened?”
Charlie’s face turned extremely ugly, and he muttered, “There shouldn’t be anything unexpected. I suspect this bastard won’t act until he sees something.”
Maria Lin asked in confusion, “Why do you say that, Young Master?”
Charlie sighed and said, “The first time, she suddenly performed eight hand seals, which drained almost all of my spiritual energy. The second time yesterday, after I performed those eight hand seals again and drained most of my spiritual energy, the aurora performed a second sixteen hand seals. So I suspect she wants me to give her spiritual energy first, which means she wants me to pay first before she sends the goods.”
As he spoke, Charlie said, “When I was alone with Miss Yun and Miss Song today, I deliberately passed down those eight hand seals to them for the first time. After they used them, they didn’t feel any effects. However, every time I fully circulated those eight hand seals, a large amount of spiritual energy was lost from my body. Therefore, I became even more certain that that thing was inside me. After all, the first time that thing passed down those eight hand seals to me, its purpose was to get me to pass down my spiritual energy. Yesterday, I also gave it some spiritual energy first before it passed down the useful hand seals to me. I think this is a transaction.”
“This…” Maria Lin was stunned for a moment, then said, “Then, the thing inside your body also requires a lot of spiritual energy.”
At this point, he added with some confusion, “But if this thing really is inside your body, and can absorb spiritual energy from it, why doesn’t it just absorb it directly? Why do you have to make special hand seals to absorb it? And what’s strange is that it taught you these hand seals. It’s as if it could receive it directly, but it’s forcing you to give it to it. How strange.”
Charlie pondered for a moment and said, “Thinking about it like this, it’s a bit unnecessary.”
Maria Lin suddenly remembered something and said happily, “Young Master, do you still remember that during the first aurora, the aurora originally turned into a Buddhist swastika?”
“Of course I remember.” Charlie nodded and said, “I even joked at the time that if seen from the sky, the mirrored swastika would look exactly like the Nazi symbol.”
Maria Lin said excitedly, “So, it seems that whatever is inside Young Master must have something to do with Buddhism! Since he is from Buddhism, he must follow the rules and regulations of Buddhism. Just like monks who ask for alms, they can only accept alms if the giver gives it to them. If the giver simply leaves it, they would rather starve than take it without asking. It seems that the thing inside Young Master is the same. Even if it could directly absorb spiritual energy from Young Master’s body, Buddhist rules also forbid it. So, he can only take a roundabout way and ask Young Master to give it to him voluntarily.”
Charlie complained, “They didn’t explain the numbers four, five, and six clearly to me from the start, causing me to lose so much spiritual energy without realizing it. It feels unfair.”
Maria Lin said helplessly, “What else does Young Master want from him? He can’t speak. The only thing he can do is change the aurora to convey information to Young Master. And he doesn’t just take it.”
Charlie nodded: “That’s right.”
Maria Lin sighed, “If it really is as we suspect, then this object might have a spirit…”
Charlie said sadly, “Whether it really has spiritual power or not, we will know after trying it.”
After saying that, he took out the Qi Preservation Pill and reluctantly put it into his mouth.
After the Cultivation Pill released its surging spiritual energy, Charlie calmed down and began circulating the eight hand seals once again.
As with any hand seal, the sequence must be correct for it to be effective. Today, he uses the sequence 1234 and 8765, which disrupts the ending of the hand seal and therefore has no effect.
As he made the first four hand seals again, the golden pagoda in his sea of consciousness reappeared. Unfortunately, Charlie couldn’t sense its presence, nor could he see the mottled cracks that covered its body.
If you ignore its proportions, this pagoda looks like an ancient structure weathered by time, somewhat wobbly and on the verge of collapse. If it stood in an ancient temple, it would likely have been reinforced and protected as a cultural relic for a long time.
As the pagoda surfaced, he paused for a moment, seemingly worried that Charlie would trick him again, so he subconsciously paused for a moment.
Immediately after, as Charlie correctly executed the entire series of hand seals, the spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness surged into the pagoda.
At that moment, the pagoda emitted a dazzling golden light, and the countless cracks on its body began to repair themselves at a noticeable speed. As a result, the entire pagoda seemed to increase in size slightly.
However, Charlie’s spiritual energy was also limited. After nearly 90% of his body’s spiritual energy was absorbed by the pagoda, many cracks remained unrepaired.
Charlie’s spiritual energy was rapidly draining, and he broke out in a cold sweat. Initially, he wasn’t afraid of the cold at all, but when the cold wind blew, he shivered.
However, this also made him more clear-headed.
So he looked up and stared intently at the aurora in the sky, hoping the mysterious object would give him fair feedback.
Just then, the aurora swinging wildly in the sky suddenly changed. The particle-like dots of light quickly coalesced, and a pair of giant hands reappeared in the night sky!