The golden Spiral Tree dimmed, Famu withdrew from the communication with the Scepter System.
His consciousness was no longer active, and he fell into a complete dormant state. In this dormant state, Typhon would mobilize all the cells in his body to absorb the energy produced by the Furnace Core.
The Child of the Earth trembled deeply.
Famu was fast asleep.
But he vaguely heard a warning from the Scepter System.
"Your Jiuxun, your consciousness is in an abnormal state."
The sound seemed to be coming through cotton, Famu couldn't hear it clearly, but when he opened his eyes, he found himself in front of a field of reeds.
The water's surface was covered with golden shimmering light, and long reeds swayed in the evening breeze, the ripples spreading outwards in layers. The sun was setting, half of it sinking into the horizon where the water met the sky, leaving only a fiery red afterglow hanging on the edge of the sky, while on the other side of the sky, night was about to fall.
Famu was crawling, his field of vision very small, and he was far less strong than he used to be. He looked like he was a child, no, even smaller than Famu was as a child.
Turning back, he saw a shadow following him, swimming in the water and driving him towards the outer waters. The feeling was strange; Famu felt both attachment and resentment, neither of which belonged to him. The two emotions mingled together, and he left, leaving resentfully.
He sank into the water, the view was dark, and when the scene lit up again, he was lying on top of a male Typhon.
The male was killed, and Famu was slowly swallowing his kind, bit by bit, feeling satisfied. But he couldn't even make out the Male Typhon's features; they were all blurry, only the stomach churning and the Child of the Earth shrieking.
The screen went dark again, and this time Famu could see even less and the images were blurry.
Those things kept flashing back: pyramids, swarms of snakes, enormous heads emerging from the water, and the blue aurora hanging in the sky.
Finally, the image was captured on a rock face.
A shimmering, fluorescent gemstone is embedded in the rock face.
"Phew--!" Famu woke up.
Those things are fragments of memory, fragments of memory from Red Typhon Seran.
He devoured Seran and surprisingly gained the Thran's memories.
This situation cannot be explained simply by eating the other person.
But Famu couldn't ask his own kind, and probably none of his kind would answer Famu question.
Among these memories, the deeper Seran's memories of herself were, the clearer Famu could see them. The reed beds must have been the scene of her being driven away when she was three years old, and the corpse of male Typhon was the first time she tasted the sweetness of devouring her own kind. Some things after that were too blurry, but Famu was certain that he saw a Luminous Core embedded in the rock wall.
If the Luminous Core is not mined, the place where it is born is a rich vein of earth.
This is Seran's last memory fragment. She wasn't even thinking about the scene before her death. Her memory of that Luminous Core was incredibly clear, so clear that it was etched into her very bones.
A Typhon nearing level five in terms of biological rank, that Luminous Core and the ley lines are likely Seran's preparations for his own advancement.
During this rainy season, it devours enough Furnace Cores, then slumbers within the ley lines, absorbing the power of the Luminous Core to leapfrog to biological level five.
That's why the Luminous Core holds such a profound memory; it represents Seran's lifelong pursuit. She buried all her resentment, anger, and bitterness there, waiting only to unearth them all the day she becomes Lord Typhon.
"It's a pity you're dead," Famu said.
He moved his body, and it was visibly thicker than before.
The nutrients provided by the same kind are quite abundant. In addition, Seran has devoured a large number of the same kind of Furnace Cores, and the concentration of earth veins in his body is extremely high. This energy can almost directly affect the increase in body size. Famu initially judged that he had jumped to the prime of life and would reach adulthood after at most three more years of natural growth.
This is undoubtedly good news for Famu.
Upon entering his prime, his Furnace Core will experience another leap forward, with both the reserves of Earth Vein Energy and the Furnace Core's capabilities reaching their peak. At the same time, the gravity field experiment predicted by Famu can be directly supported and initiated by him during his prime.
Compared to the decades-long natural growth cycle of Muerjia, three years is a perfectly acceptable level.
Moreover, Famu also possessed a clue to a ley line.
But Seran comes from outside the Mara River basin, and if he wants to reach that energy-rich ley line, he has to travel a long way.
Just as Famu was considering, an old voice came from the darkness, in the most authentic Mud Language accent.
"Your Famu, you are awake."
Spring has come to the White-Faced Monkey; their old leader has returned, emerging unharmed from the black water.
This is truly a legendary scene in the rainforest.
A monkey was swallowed by Typhon and disappeared for nine days and nights, but it returned at the tenth dawn.
If there had been a messenger among the White-Faced Monkeys to record this scene, the old monkey's experience would surely have been celebrated as a legend.
The muscular leaders who were locked in fierce fighting stopped their battle. They ceased hostilities and crouched on the branches, watching the old monkey stand on the beach waving at them. The younger leaders were bewildered by this scene. They had been fighting for leadership of the tribe, but before any results were in sight, the old monkey had returned.
They could not comprehend miracles and could only relinquish the power they had just grasped in awe.
The elder re-entered the tribe's territory.
He was already the most respected elder in the White-Faced Monkey, and now he possessed something that the White-Faced Monkeys couldn't quite explain, making him appear even more dignified and wise.
Yes, he has changed a lot.
Some of the older monkeys looked at the old monkey and suddenly noticed something: as an elder who was about to die of old age, he seemed to have become younger. His movements as he climbed the tree branches were agile and swift, and his physical strength was no less than that of the strong young men. In particular, the way he walked from the beach and leaped onto the trees and branches made even the strongest young men feel ashamed.
The elders noticed the envy of their clansmen.
But in the rainforest, everything comes at a price.
That was the cleansing of the Earth Vein Energy, and also the new clothes that Death God himself had draped over him.
"I now have a name," the elder said to his people, sitting at the fork of a branch. "Lucius, my name is Lucius!"
He announced loudly.
Lucius, he was Lucius, the monkeys remembered that name.
In the black waters by the riverbank, Famu heard the echoes reverberating through the woods, and he bestowed upon the other the name Lucius.
Lucius corresponds to "Lucy," who is a symbol of upright humanity and means light, or the one who brings light. If she were female, she would be Lucy, but in this newly sculpted wise old man, he is called Lucius.