Radiant Red Crow, Essence of the Sun

"Seven days have passed. I wonder when the big move Master mentioned will come."

Liang Qu raised his right hand, and a silver rune lit up on the back of his hand.

Since Yang Dongxiong and Ran Zhongshi reminded him not to wander around, Liang Qu has been practicing diligently these past few days, staying at home and focusing on digesting the martial arts he has learned.

Twelve two-hour periods.

Four hours are spent cultivating in dreams, three hours are spent transforming the results of the training in dreams into reality, three hours are spent sleeping normally, and the last two hours are spent dealing with some trivial matters.

The result was rapid progress.

Liang Qu had already mastered the Ear Consciousness Method to a certain extent. Whenever he used it, there was no object that did not respond. Even with inanimate objects, Liang Qu could still discern their characteristics.

The Thunder Talisman of the Thunder Character Seal Technique has become more complete, but it is still not fully mastered.

The Myriad Forms Method is indeed difficult to practice. Liang Qu combined dreams with reality, and it took him almost a month from start to finish.

When the Thunder Talisman is activated, the entire rune clearly lacks a certain amount of "spirit and energy" compared to ordinary runes.

Strictly speaking, the Thunder Character Seal Technique is actually a Daoist-style Cultivation Method.

The Thunder Talisman is very similar in form to the Daoist talisman and has corresponding components.

It is divided into four parts, namely the Seal Head, Seal Foot, Seal Abdomen, and Seal Core.

A symbol with an upper and lower structure, the upper part is the Seal Head, and the lower part is the Seal Foot.

A symbol with a left-right structure has Seal Head on the left and Seal Foot on the right.

The Seal Abdomen is like the stomach and intestines in the abdomen, while the Seal Core is like the lock on a door, playing a crucial role in the talisman. The latter is also called the Seal Aperture.

The Seal Aperture is where its soul resides, capable of triggering a chain reaction.

As the saying goes: If you draw a talisman without knowing the trick, you'll only make ghosts and gods laugh; if you know the trick, you'll startle ghosts and gods.

The Thunder Talisman in Liang Qu's hand only has three parts: the Seal Head, the Seal Foot, and the Seal Abdomen. The core of the Seal Core has not yet been formed inside.

So although all three parts are present, the most crucial one is missing.

It can be said that the painting of the dragon has not yet been completed, and the overall effect has not been brought to life.

It's enough to discharge electricity and fish, but not quite enough to shock people.

In addition to the most basic Thunder Talisman, there are several advanced talismans, including the Yang Thunder Seal and the Yin Thunder Seal.

Yang thunder is more powerful and fierce, with a majestic heavenly might, while Yin thunder focuses on infiltration, like a carbuncle clinging to the bone.

Liang Qu was particularly interested in the last one, which was a talisman that the author himself had never tried to successfully create and which remained only in his mind— the Water Thunder Envoy Seal.

This talisman is a unified talisman that responds to multiple forces, manifesting as a mighty flying demon carrying the Five Sacred Mountains on its shoulders, crossing the sea to capture dragons, treading the Big Dipper to subdue tigers and wolves.

Unfortunately, the original author himself never managed to refine it successfully, at least not when writing this book. The effects remained at the level of deduction and speculation. If it had been completed, the Thunder Character Seal Technique might have reached a higher level.

Liang Qu could only think about it, but he decided to take it one step at a time and activate the complete Thunder Talisman.

"Regardless of whether you are walking, sitting, or lying down, use your eyes to let the lightning flash into your eyes, and use your nose to draw the blue thunder into your abdomen. If you can do this in the right way, you will obtain the Qi of the Ancestral Tribulation Yang Lightning."

Just as Liang Qu was about to Dream Entry and visualize the thunder again, trying to condense the Seal Aperture, several faint noises crossed the entire courtyard and reached his ears.

"It's Bing Fire! It's Bing Fire!"

"Two suns, and there will be two again this year!"

"That's not right. If I count the days, the last time I saw three was when I was twelve or thirteen. I'm thirty-six this year, so I should see them again."

"Sometimes there are three, but not necessarily all three together. It could be tomorrow or the day after. And isn't it said that it takes twenty-three to twenty-five years for one to come? It might be next year."

Bing Fire Day! Push open the door.

Liang Qu squinted slightly; the sun in the sky emitted a sharp light that made it impossible for people to open their eyes.

A visible halo spreads outwards along the outline of the sun, like a stone thrown into a calm pond.

Beyond that halo, a tiny sun, only a third the size of the original sun and looking exactly the same, had appeared out of nowhere! The two blazing suns spewed out intense flames, as if a sealed bronze furnace stood in the sky. The furnace had overturned, and the long-boiling molten lava flowed into the world, hanging down like a river, straight as a sword.

Heaven and earth are the furnace, creation is the craftsman, yin and yang are the charcoal, and all things are the copper.

A sentence suddenly popped into Liang Qu's mind.

Is that Bing Fire? He stretched out his hand and felt his skin glowing and burning, radiating a layer of silvery-white light.

The heavens and earth were blazing, casting a dazzling white light over everything.

It's not that the heat is exaggerated; otherwise, every Bing Fire Day would be a catastrophe of biological cleansing, killing off Die One rice and causing famine every year.

People have no food, livestock have no grass, and beasts have no meat.

But the level of interest is definitely higher than yesterday, as for the emotional impact...

Liang Qu felt there were some, but not too exaggerated.

Summer belongs to the element of fire, which corresponds to the heart. During the hot and humid days of the dog days of summer, all things tend to become restless.

For ordinary people, symptoms such as irritability, restlessness, and insomnia are all due to excessive heart fire, which is a normal reaction.

However, because of the strange phenomena that have occurred in this world, people naturally attribute these phenomena to the extra sun, believing that it is the sun's doing.

Will a third sun appear? On Bing Fire Day, there are normally two suns, but every 23 to 25 years, there will be a spectacular sight of Three Suns in the Sky.

This year marks the 23rd year since the last Three Suns in the Sky.

The answer came in the evening of that day.

As the sun gradually sets in the west, the water in the pond becomes lukewarm, forcing the beavers to seek refuge in the underground river to cool off.

Liang Qu, who was having dinner with the Old Monk, heard the commotion in the street rise again, and the discussion was even louder than it had been that morning.

He put down his chopsticks, walked out of the kitchen, and looked up at the sky. Under the largest sun, two other "suns" were arranged in order.

The third one was smaller than the second one that appeared in the morning, about a quarter the size of the sun.

The three are connected in a series, from large to small.

Perhaps because it was evening, the temperature didn't rise much; in fact, it even became cooler.

Liang Qu turned his head and looked at the Old Monk in the kitchen.

"Master, have you ever seen Three Suns in the Sky before?"

"I've seen it... about five times."

Strange, five times!

Including this time, wouldn't that be six times? Liang Qu quickly did the calculations and concluded that, based on twenty-three years, the Old Monk must be at least one hundred and fifteen years old this year, and possibly one hundred and thirty-eight!

A centenarian.

I've never heard of a normal person living that long in my past life.

No, True Image lives for three hundred years.

Based on the average person's age, that's around forty or fifty, the prime of life.

Why does he look so old? Liang Qu was too embarrassed to ask any more questions. He simply returned to the kitchen, quickly finished his dinner, and went back to his room to dream and refine his Seal Aperture.

Thunder rumbled in the sky.

Dark clouds loomed above the forest, but the sound of knocking on the door knocker transformed into a giant hand hammering away the clouds.

Liang Qu sat up in bed and just then heard Fan Xinglai run over to tell him that it was Li LiBo from the town who was looking for him.

"What's up?"

Li LiBo, panting heavily, loudly recounted the whole story.

"Water Bro, today I went out on patrol by boat River Conservancy Office suddenly issued an order, telling us to call you all over to the address, house by house, and to bring your own weapons. They also said something, and said something else, that if you don't come, you will be dealt with according to military law!"

Liang Qu's spirits lifted.

"Have some water first, I'll go pack my things."