Chapter 4: The Monster's Arrival

This low-level second-stage Yuanfu is a one-time use item. Once the Yuan energy of the Yuanfu body is depleted, its mysterious storage ability will disappear, and all stored items will instantly appear around it. Therefore, before the Yuan energy of the Yuanfu body is exhausted, Chu Yunsheng needs to create another Storage Yuanfu. Of course, if his cultivation level improves further, he can create a third-stage Yuanfu, which can be continuously supplied with Yuan energy from the user, allowing for permanent use.

The structure of a Yuanfu is not complex, consisting of three parts: the head, the body, and the seal.

The head's principle is to guide the Yuan energy of heaven and earth to create a channel with the Yuanfu itself, activating the Yuanfu.

The body, after introducing Yuan energy, establishes certain abilities through rules, thus achieving supernatural powers. Chu Yunsheng fundamentally does not understand these rules and principles; he can only use them, much like how one can drive a car without necessarily understanding the engine's principles.

The seal, after the body is activated and its functions are complete, seals the Yuanfu and imprints the maker's aura or makes it an unowned Yuanfu to distinguish the user. Additionally, it prevents Yuan energy leakage and allows the Yuanfu to be sealed within the human body.

For a first-stage Fire Soldier Yuanfu, Chu Yunsheng found it quite challenging, spending three hours to construct it. Despite this, his internal Yuan energy was completely depleted. He risked making the Fire Soldier Yuanfu first to gain experience in using Yuan energy to create Yuanfu. He needed to ensure the one-time success of the Storage Yuanfu, as he had neither the time nor the Yuan energy to waste.

The Storage Yuanfu belongs to the second-stage Yuanfu, with significantly increased difficulty and success rate. Chu Yunsheng, who could not yet grasp the principles, did not dare to be careless.

Fortunately, with the help of the ancient book, he found that placing the paper on the ancient book to create the Yuanfu seemed to reduce the difficulty significantly.

The Yuan energy required to create a second-stage Yuanfu is far more than that of a first-stage Yuanfu. If the Yuan energy is insufficient at the critical moment, the effort will be in vain, resulting in a significant loss. Therefore, to create the Storage Yuanfu as soon as possible, he began to practice cultivating Yuan energy day and night.

During these days, while Chu Yunsheng was buried in his intense practice, the situation outside deteriorated further. The increasingly cold climate had reportedly frozen many people to death. The sun seemed to have disappeared forever, never appearing again. Hunger and cold forced residents to leave their homes in search of supplies.

The military gradually lost control of the city and had to abandon some peripheral areas, building numerous military defense facilities in the core urban area.

Chu Yunsheng was unaware of the specific situation outside, but a strange incident occurred in his neighborhood recently. During the distribution of daily rations, a man complained about the decreasing amount of food and got into a conflict with a soldier. In a fit of rage, he punched the soldier, and this punch left everyone stunned. Chu Yunsheng, who witnessed it firsthand, found it unbelievable!

The man's angry punch carried a chilling cold, instantly freezing the poor soldier into an ice sculpture. The man himself was also shocked and, taking advantage of the other soldiers' surprise, quickly shouted, "It's not my fault, I just pushed him, you all saw it, it's not my fault."

He then ran back home in a flash.

An hour later, armored vehicles roared into the neighborhood, and fully armed soldiers, treating the situation as a serious threat, quickly took the ice-punch man away. Regardless of how bizarre the punch was, people were like panicked rabbits, still harboring a mysterious fear of the military.

The ice-punch man did not resist the heavily armed soldiers and repeatedly claimed his innocence, saying he just pushed the soldier. Unfortunately, the military still used their guns to take him away, leaving his wife and a child of about seven or eight years old crying softly at the door.

Chu Yunsheng knew that the man was likely a self-awakened fourth-dimensional consciousness, as described in the ancient book, but he had not realized it. In his rage, he inadvertently unleashed the power of the Yuan energy, freezing the unfortunate soldier.

How powerful! After so many days of hard practice, Chu Yunsheng had only managed to cultivate his consciousness, while this man had self-awakened without even realizing it, which made Chu Yunsheng extremely envious.

However, envy aside, the man did not have an ancient book like his, which helped him feel more balanced.

This incident made Chu Yunsheng more cautious about keeping his abilities secret. Seeing how the military coldly took the ice-punch man away, he knew it was not a good sign. The man might be used as a test subject in a national laboratory, subjected to various torturous experiments.

He absolutely did not want to become a second ice-punch man. He had initially thought about sharing some simple cultivation methods with others to help them survive, but the ice-punch man's fate scared the already timid Chu Yunsheng, making him resolve never to reveal his secrets.

A few days later, while collecting rations, the expert from the floor above told him a piece of news. The research department had discovered a large amount of dark matter and dark energy that were previously undetectable and uncatchable. The ice-punch man from the neighborhood might be related to one type of dark energy, and the government was accelerating research in this area.

Additionally, the expert claimed that the temperature had slowed its decline due to some dark energy, and some plants outside could now use dark energy to replace photosynthesis. He said this would be a new scientific system.

However, Chu Yunsheng could not understand what he was saying, thinking that as long as he did not freeze to death or suffocate from lack of oxygen, it would be a stroke of luck.

The creation of his Storage Yuanfu did not go as smoothly as he had hoped. Despite his careful preparation, his first attempt at forcibly creating a second-stage Yuanfu ended in failure. This setback left Chu Yunsheng frustrated for the entire afternoon. Indeed, human plans often fall short of divine will!

He regretfully thought that if he had created a first-stage Yuanfu, the Yuan energy he had cultivated for so many days would not have been wasted!

What he did not expect was that nine days later, when he confidently attempted to create the Storage Yuanfu again, he still suffered an unacceptable failure. The reason was a high-pitched scream from the road outside the neighborhood, filled with fear and panic, followed by gunfire. Startled, Chu Yunsheng's carefully crafted seal was instantly destroyed!

Chu Yunsheng was instantly enraged. He simply assumed that it was another brute trying to rape a beautiful woman and being shot by soldiers, a situation that had occurred countless times in recent days.

In the apocalyptic atmosphere, the endless darkness had greatly stimulated some people to commit evil deeds. Some had lost hope for the future and, driven by despair, panic, and chaos, were capable of anything.

According to the expert from the floor above, the military had already killed many troublemakers in recent days. The higher-ups had decided to use severe measures to maintain order, shooting anyone who ignored the soldiers' warnings to deter chaos. However, the expert whispered that many soldiers were also involved in crimes, and the public dared not speak out.

Chu Yunsheng, who had lived for over twenty years, had always been a good-tempered, easy-going, and unoffending person. This time, he was truly angry. Emboldened by his long-unused courage, he prepared to shout angrily from the window, thinking that the brute had likely been killed by the military, so there was no need to fear retaliation.

However, when he opened the only small steel plate on the window and looked outside, his anger instantly turned to bone-chilling fear and panic!

On the opposite road, illuminated by the military vehicle's headlights, a deformed white Audi was clearly visible under a massive monster. Chu Yunsheng swore that he had never seen such an ugly and fierce creature, even in Uncle Zhao Zhongxiang's animal world!

The massive body, similar in size to the Audi, had a fiery red shell with four legs like steel blades and two long, fierce pincers at the front.

In a panic, Chu Yunsheng mechanically picked up a spare telescope by the window. Through the lens, he clearly saw the monster's sharp, bloodthirsty mouth and its blood-red eyes!

Dripping from that large mouth was a disgusting green liquid. The liquid flowed onto the Audi's body, hissing and smoking, corroding a large hole. Chu Yunsheng did not need to think to know how corrosive the liquid was!

Finished, finished, they have finally come! What should I do? What should I do?

Chu Yunsheng, who had always thought he was in control, was suddenly panicked. He did not panic when the sun disappeared, nor when the world plunged into icy darkness, nor when the world fell into chaos, because he had prepared for all these situations.

But now, the overlapping of the dimensional space and the arrival of powerful creatures, as described in the ancient book, had left him, who always sought stability, at a loss!

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