Chapter 23 Purple Qi and Concepts

Benjamin looked through the window at the distant sky.

The moment his sight focused, a strange and indescribable feeling surged into his heart.

To the mortal eye, it was just ordinary dawn sunlight.

If you are a wizard, you can probably see rich energy particles and rays with brilliant colors.

But in Jemin's newly-breakthrough, extremely sharp perception, he actually saw a hint of... barely perceptible purple at the core of the increasingly dazzling sunlight!

The purple was very light, as if it was the condensation of some energy deep in the sunlight.

It hangs there quietly, carrying an ancient and mysterious aura.

Purple air coming from the east!

Jieming's heart was suddenly shocked!

There are indeed records about "Purple Air Coming from the East" in the Dadao Book Pavilion.

That means that under certain specific astronomical phenomena, at sunrise, a trace of extremely pure innate energy will escape from the core of the sun, which will be of infinite benefit to cultivators.

This thing only exists at the moment when the sun rises. It is very rare, and it is a great opportunity to catch a trace of it.

He originally thought that this kind of thing with a strong "cultivation concept" only existed in that immortal cultivation world somewhere unknown.

But he didn't expect that in the wizarding world, in the laboratory of Nolen Academy, at the moment the sun rose... he actually "saw" this ray of purple air coming from the east!

Without having time to think about the reason, the cultivator's instinctive desire for this innate energy made him subconsciously practice his skills.

The true essence of the second level of Qi training that had just been broken through in the body circulated according to a specific method, pulling the ray of purple air from the east that was suspended in the sunlight.

The purple air that was about to dissipate seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, penetrating the walls and windows of the laboratory and slowly floating towards Jemin.

It was not hindered by the isolation array, and did not even cause any reaction from the monitoring array, as if it did not exist at all!

But when the purple energy entered Jieming's body, he could immediately feel the effect of the purple energy from the east.

The purple energy almost instantly melted into Jieming's true essence, and circulated continuously in his body as the true essence circulated.

It refines the true essence, making it more condensed and pure!

It cleanses the body, allowing Benjamin, who had just broken through, to feel an unprecedented sense of clarity and lightness!

What surprised Benjamin the most was that this wisp of purple air was actually purifying his mental power!

His spiritual sea became clearer and brighter under the nourishment of purple energy, some subtle spiritual impurities were stripped away, and his spiritual power became purer and more active.

Purifying spiritual power... In the wizarding world, this is simply an unparalleled divine object that can increase innate qualifications!

A wizard's talent rating is largely determined by the "purity" of their soul and the "depth" of their spiritual sea. Could the Purple Qi from the East actually improve such fundamental aptitude?!

Benjamin couldn't help but feel shocked.

The scariest thing is that the way to obtain this thing... is almost not difficult at all!

All you have to do is practice your skills and absorb the energy every day when the sun is about to rise. It is a chance that comes for free.

But I totally cannot understand why in the wizard world there is the Purple Qi from the East, which was originally thought to exist only in the world of immortal cultivation?

He subconsciously thought of the refined gold he had refined earlier.

When it was refined using the immortal cultivation method, a large amount of gold mass disappeared out of thin air, but in the end, a substance containing the "eternal and unchanging concept" was condensed.

This seems to be completely contrary to the law of conservation of mass and energy, and is more like refining something invisible and intangible.

With this question in mind, Benjamin asked Dadao Book Pavilion in his mind.

Dadao Book Pavilion responded quickly, and in the blink of an eye, three streams of light appeared in front of Jieming.

"'Record of the Dust World's Ashes', 'The True Explanation of the Mysterious Pivot: A Preliminary Exploration of Concept Harvesting and Form Condensation', 'Returning to the Origin of the Path of Instruments: Concept Attachment and Low-Spiritual Instrument Refining Techniques'... What the hell is this?"

Benjamin quickly flipped through the last two books. They were all about knowledge on refining equipment.

As for the first book, it can be generally seen as a biography of a Mahayana monk named "Chen Jiezi", or it would be more appropriate to call it a memoir.

"Chen Jiezi seems to have been born during the Dharma Ending Age, when the resources of the immortal cultivation world were completely depleted. At that time, spiritual energy was almost non-existent, and traditional spiritual materials and immortal herbs had become legends. Yet, despite these circumstances, cultivation in the immortal cultivation world didn't cease, and instead flourished?"

After careful study, Jieming finally confirmed that the three books given by Dadao Book Pavilion did solve his doubts.

"The Immortal Cultivation System isn't simply about refining energy." The stream of knowledge from the Book Pavilion unfolded in his mind. "According to this memoir, in the later stages of the Immortal Cultivation System, with the scarcity of resources and a deeper understanding of the universe, the 'raw materials' used for cultivation and refining items gradually changed from concrete 'spiritual materials' to more abstract 'concepts'."

"Refining pure gold isn't essentially about compressing the gold's physical mass. Rather, through the guidance of True Essence and Divine Consciousness, it strips away all notions of 'mundane' and 'changeable' from the gold. This condenses the inherent concept of 'eternal immutability' into a small portion of the substance, imbuing it with a similarly unchanging quality. The 'mass' lost is the 'mundane concepts' that have been stripped away and dissipated."

"The same is true of the Purple Qi from the East. It's not a specific energy, nor is it a gas. Essentially, it's the embodiment of a grand concept—'dawn,' 'hope,' 'rebirth'—that permeates the heavens and the earth at the moment the sun is about to rise, when yin and yang meet and the old is reborn. When immortal cultivators absorb the Purple Qi from the East, they're essentially acquiring this concept to purify themselves."

"It's just that in order to make it easier for practitioners to perceive and absorb, the cultivation techniques have gradually modified and improved the method of absorbing this 'concept' over billions of years of development, so that it can be materialized through a special 'perception' (that is, the 'purple energy' seen) and absorbed using the true essence as a guide."

After closing the three books, Benjamin's heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

This explanation was like thunder, completely overturning Jieming's understanding of the immortal cultivation system and the wizard world!

Cultivating immortality, actually starting to play with "concept refining" in the Qi training stage?

So even in the wizarding world, it's possible to materialize the "Purple Air from the East" by absorbing concepts?!

Jieming felt that his brain was working frantically, and countless new possibilities exploded in his mind!

If this were true, theoretically he wouldn't be limited by raw materials at all.

Through the method of extraction concepts, not only gold, but even the most common air and soil can be continuously refined to obtain super materials that are far beyond others' imagination!

In this way, what he can do in the future will far exceed everyone's imagination!

Jieming took a deep breath and suppressed the ecstasy in his heart.

He looked at the sun that had already risen fully outside the window, his eyes particularly bright.

(End of this chapter)