Solving Middle Age Crisis by Intelligence System-Chapter 597 - 399: It Turns Out They’re All the Same Place (Double-Length)

Chapter 597: Chapter 399: It Turns Out They’re All the Same Place (Double-Length)

The firewood crackled, casting a surprised expression on Qi Yun’s face.

Ignacio, seeing his expression, quickly asked, "What’s wrong? Did you discover something?"

De Gaulle, sitting opposite, also looked at him with a puzzled gaze.

It took Qi Yun a long time to come back to his senses, finding the matter rather perplexing.

Could it really just be a coincidence?

It’s not impossible...

The ancients said that what you think about during the day, you will dream of at night. Perhaps he had seen this city somewhere before, maybe it was a similar photo on the internet, or maybe a scene from a movie.

During the day, An Zai and the others mentioned Jade Pool and palaces, which caused him to dream about those images...

"It’s nothing, just that the last frame looks a bit familiar."

"Where have you seen it!?" De Gaulle pressed eagerly.

Qi Yun glanced at him and slowly shook his head.

He didn’t answer the question or mention the dream, as even he found it too far-fetched.

Realizing he couldn’t get any more useful information, De Gaulle, having explained the map clues to Qi Yun, decided to leave and join his subordinates to study the video content.

After the other party left, Qi Yun lit a cigarette, took a couple of puffs, and turned to Ignacio, asking, "Professor, do you know of any city that is composed of an eight-petal lotus shape?"

"Eight-petal lotus?" Ignacio scratched the sexy little moustache on his cheek, furrowing his brow in thought for a while, "A city with an eight-petal lotus design... is almost nonexistent among existing ancient architecture."

Qi Yun took another puff: "What about undiscovered ones? Is there any city in legends with an eight-petal lotus design?"

"Legends!?" Ignacio crossed his arms, this time thinking for a long time.

Qi Yun quietly smoked, not disturbing his thoughts.

Suddenly, Ignacio sat up straight with bright eyes: "I remember now!"

"There is indeed a city in legend, composed of an eight-petal lotus design!"

"Which city!?" Qi Yun turned his head in surprise.

He originally asked casually and didn’t expect it to actually match.

Ignacio, instead of directly answering, asked excitedly, "Have you heard of Shambala?"

"Shambala?" Qi Yun was stunned, "The Shambala in Buddhism?"

Ignacio nodded, his voice filled with uncontainable excitement: "Yes! That’s it!"

"Before I came to Huaxia, I once taught at Delhi University in India for a while, where I learned a lot about ancient Indian culture."

"There is an ancient Indian Buddhist mysterious legend that speaks of a sacred land—Shambala—hidden north of the Himalayas, near the Kunlun Mountain in western Tibet!"

"The location matches exactly where we are now!"

"Moreover, I saw on an ancient mural, the main city of the Shambala Kingdom—Jialoba City—is composed of an eight-petal lotus design."

"So, this space might really be the legendary Shambala!"

Qi Yun, shocked, digested the information Ignacio had just shared, not even noticing his cigarette had burned to the filter.

He originally thought the ruins underwater were just ordinary ancient remains, never expecting them to be connected with the legendary Shambala.

But analyzing as Ignacio did, everything seemed to match...

Even the dream matched, as he had seen many videos about Shambala online, possibly including one with a city in an eight-petal lotus design...

Spit flying, Ignacio continued: "If this is Shambala, then the ancient Sanskrit on the city under the lake can be explained."

"According to descriptions in some ancient texts, the son of the Sun King, the first king of the Shambala Kingdom—King Moon Wisdom, studied the Kalachakra Tantra, one of the esoteric Buddhist texts, under Shakyamuni Buddha in southern India, so he would naturally understand ancient Sanskrit."

Qi Yun opened his mouth, still finding it hard to believe: "So... this really is the legendary Shambala?"

"Based on the current clues, I speculate there is a high probability it is," Ignacio, as a scientific researcher, maintained a very rigorous attitude, "But to fully confirm, we might need to conduct detailed exploration of the underwater city."

"And..."

He paused and continued: "In Buddhism, Shambala symbolizes a pure land beyond the impurities of the world, a place of liberation beyond the cycle of birth and death."

"This also aligns with Buddhism’s understanding of immortality."

Qi Yun pondered the meaning in his words: "So... Louis I, including the Gwen Clan, what they’ve been seeking—the Land of Eternal Life—is Shambala."

"And the immortality Shambala represents is not physical immortality but a kind of spiritual enlightenment?"

"Yes," Ignacio confirmed the theory, "Actually, not only Buddhism, many religious interpretations of immortality refer to a transcendence of the spirit."

"My teacher, when first encountering that map, once said that this so-called immortality is likely spiritual."

"This..." Qi Yun was at a loss for words.

Even though he initially believed there could be no such thing as immortality in this world.

Yet, uncovering the mystery left him with an indescribable emptiness.

This description may be vague, but think of it as like lying home bored on a weekend, rewarding yourself suddenly... it’s the feeling after, which is Qi Yun’s current mood...