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Chapter 69 Zhuge Liang's Memories?!
And so it went, the next day.

Inside Zhuge Qing's room, he was methodically assembling a uniquely shaped machine.

This is the prototype of the "Divine Machine" that he painstakingly created, referencing some of the principles of Reed Hellick's "ANIMUS" and combining them with his own knowledge.

The principle is simple: the core is to decode the information carried within the energy and then transform it into visual intelligence that can be directly observed.

The relatively smooth development of this thing is thanks to Orochimaru's side.

After all, in the Naruto world, any ninja you pick out has chakra, a readily available energy sample carrying individual information, which provides massive data support for his theoretical construction and parameter calibration.

However, after successfully developing the [Divine Machine], he was unable to find a suitable "test subject" for final verification.

The reason is simple: if one wants their innate Qi to carry complete and interpretable individual information, one must at least cultivate to the level of a master like Zuo Ruotong, who has reached the "Triple Reversal of Life" realm.

Looking at the world today, the only one who has reached this level is probably that unfathomable old Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain.

But he couldn't very well just run up to Longhu Mountain and say to the Celestial Master, "Celestial Master, can I borrow some of your Qi to do an experiment?"

He'd probably end up like that old man Lu Jin, getting slapped to the ground right there and then.

Therefore, this matter has to be put on hold for the time being.

But now, things are different.

He now possessed a unique set of experimental materials.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Qing took a deep breath and finally put the [Divine Core] containing that primordial Qi into the machine.

"Om-"

The machine emitted a soft hum, and the indicator lights lit up one by one.

After adjusting all the parameters and confirming that everything was correct, Zhuge Qing put on a somewhat rugged-looking head-mounted display.

Although he was confident in his technology and believed in the commonalities in the underlying rules between the two worlds—such as the concepts of meridians, acupoints, yin and yang, and the Eight Trigrams and Qimen Dunjia—these concepts had similar manifestations and applications in both worlds, and theoretically, the decoding logic of [Shenji] should also be compatible.

But since it was the first time using this level of "materials" for an experiment, I was still a little unsure.

"start up."

He gave the order in a low voice.

The first thing I saw was pure darkness, as if I were in the deepest void.

Then, the darkness receded like a tide, and the screen lit up.

However, the scene that appeared startled Zhuge Qing slightly.

On the screen, a middle-aged man with a feather fan and a scholarly appearance is adjusting his clothes in front of a bronze mirror.

"Ok?"

Zhuge Qing raised an eyebrow slightly.

This outfit, this scene... it looks so familiar...

This is not the Zhuge Liang played by Tang Guoqiang in the 1986 TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!
what's the situation?
Could it be that all my painstaking efforts to "link" the ancestral energy contained... clips from a TV series?

Zhuge Qing suppressed his surprise and decided to continue watching.

Soon, a young boy strode in, bowed, and reported, "Sir, the three guests have arrived and are waiting outside the thatched hut."

The scene shifts, and the "Zhuge Liang" figure, holding a feather fan, slowly walks out of the thatched hut.

Outside the hut, three men of different appearances stood solemnly.

The leader had a broad, kind face and ears that reached his shoulders.
The person on his left had a face like a red date, thick eyebrows, and was stroking his long beard.

The man on the right had a leopard's head and bulging eyes, a swallow's chin and tiger's beard, and was very imposing.

Alright, that completes the story of the three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, all of whom are classic characters from the 1986 TV series.

The subsequent plot developments further confirmed Zhuge Qing's guess.

Zhuge Liang welcomed the three into his thatched cottage, where they engaged in a long and eloquent discussion, outlining the Longzhong Plan and setting the grand blueprint for the tripartite division of the world.

The lines, scenes, and even the actors' micro-expressions all closely resembled the TV series scenes he remembered.

Zhuge Qing fell into deep thought.

What exactly is going on?

Is what he created from the interior set really a TV series?!
Before he could sort out his thoughts, the scene changed again. This time, it was a battlefield engulfed in flames.

"Burn Bowangpo!"

Zhuge Qing recognized the famous battle at a glance.

On the city wall, the "Zhuge Liang" still wore a feather fan and a turban, looking as if he had everything under control.

Beneath the city walls, Cao Cao's army camp was engulfed in flames.

A fierce general with a red face and a long beard, wielding a huge Green Dragon Crescent Blade, charged into Cao Cao's army like a tiger descending a mountain.

Swords flashed, and blood and flesh flew everywhere!
That fierce general was truly a hero of unparalleled bravery, charging into Cao Cao's army single-handedly and fighting his way in and out seven times.

They've turned "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" into "Dynasty Warriors"!
"This Lord Guan... isn't he acting a bit too aggressively and unreasonably?"

Zhuge Qing's lips twitched slightly.

While the characters in the TV series are indeed brave, their individual fighting prowess is never displayed in such an exaggerated way.

What made his eyelids twitch even more was that, just as "Guan Yu" was wreaking havoc, the "Zhuge Liang" on the city wall actually made several mysterious hand seals and chanted incantations.

The next moment, the fire on the battlefield suddenly flared up several times, as if it had been doused with flammable oil, and countless Cao soldiers turned into charred remains amidst their screams!

"Magic?!"

Zhuge Qing's pupils suddenly contracted.

This is definitely not an effect that a fire attack strategy could achieve; this is true magic!
The memories begin to become fragmented here, with many details missing, and the timeline starts to jump rapidly.

It was as if we were fast-forwarding, jumping directly to the Battle of Red Cliffs.

On the Seven Star Altar, the "Zhuge Liang" was dressed in a Taoist robe, holding a peach wood sword, performing the ritual of walking on the Big Dipper and chanting incantations.

The wind howled and dark clouds gathered.

He really did "borrow" the east wind using magic!
This is definitely not something that appears in the TV series...

Upon seeing this, Zhuge Qing also realized what was going on and understood what was happening.

The memories carried within this primordial energy are probably not purely the original memories of his ancestor, Zhuge Liang.

Rather, it is... the collective cognition of the symbol and concept of "Zhuge Liang" among the general public over countless years, the legends and stories, and the partial real memories of their ancestors have intertwined and influenced each other, ultimately forming a special information aggregate that has been "assimilated"!
Simply put, the collective perception of the public has directly overwritten the memories of his ancestors...

This also explains why the images of the people in this memory are from the 86 TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"...

"That is to say..."

Zhuge Qing murmured, "The power of faith does indeed have such characteristics, but I didn't expect it to be this powerful."

The highest realm pursued by practitioners here is called Pure Yang Without Leakage, which means that practitioners in this realm are physically and mentally stable, and are a perfect and flawless microcosm, unaffected by the external environment.

He originally thought that his ancestors must have reached such a state of perfection, which is why he dared to try to "salvage" it.

But I never expected it to turn out like this...

In the blink of an eye, the memories in the scene were coming to an end.

Wuzhangyuan.

The autumn wind was bleak, and inside the military tent, the oil lamp flickered dimly.

Zhuge Liang lay on his sickbed, his face gaunt and his breath faint.

He knew his time was up...

However, the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty was not accomplished, and his ambition to conquer the Central Plains in the north was not fulfilled, which made him feel resentful and he died with his eyes open in disgrace.

So, despite his illness, he set up the Seven Star Lamp and performed a ritual to appease the stars, hoping to borrow a few more years of life from Heaven to complete his unfinished work.

However, in this last memory, a change that Zhuge Qing had not anticipated occurred.

The face of the "Zhuge Liang" lying on his sickbed, praying for a long life, was subtly changing under the flickering lamplight.

Eyebrows, eyes, bridge of the nose, lip shape...

Gradually, he began to resemble... Zhuge Qing by seven or eight points!

However, that face looked much older, etched with the marks of time and deep weariness...

(End of this chapter)