Chapter 240 Two Troubles
That day, Benjamin ended his daily meditation.
After examining the increasingly complex ring of truth within his spiritual sea, he finally exited his meditation state with satisfaction.
After getting up, he habitually checked the two crystal cores that were slowly fusing and floating in the center of the energy field.
Precise data streams are fed back from the instruments, showing their energy status.
After confirming that the energy fluctuations inside the two crystal cores were normal and stable, Benjamin nodded with satisfaction.
These two energy cores were not like the ones he had used to practice before, they were just low-end ones like level 2 and level 1.
At this moment, the two energy cores in front of him, one is like a miniature sun emitting suffocating heat, and the other is like the essence of a thousand-year-old glacier, releasing extreme cold enough to freeze the soul.
The core of the lava giant was exactly the complete core of the fourth-level lava giant that Benjamin had "picked up" in the Flame Frost Plane.
The other one was the core of a level three snow monster that he later bought from the academy's trophy warehouse at a huge price.
Benjamin stretched out his hand and swiped it across the light curtain, carefully checking their fusion progress which was so slow that it was almost stagnant, and finally shook his head helplessly.
"Sure enough, there's still no rush..."
Because the energy intensity of these two cores is too high.
If you want to perfectly fuse these two completely opposite levels of original energy together, you must not rush things.
Even though Jemin's transformation technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to current calculations, it will take at least ten years to completely and perfectly integrate these two big guys into a new whole.
And after that, the transformed black giant needs to be cultivated into shape.
Considering the current energy level of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, it is a very difficult task. The time required to cultivate each black giant is ten years.
Fortunately, he doesn't lack this time for the time being.
Compared with this grand plan that has been progressing steadily for hundreds of years, the real troubles that Jemin is facing now are two major ones.
First, his cultivation of immortality has reached a bottleneck!
After checking the implementation and recording the experimental data, Benjamin went to the quiet room in the laboratory, sat cross-legged, concentrated his mind, and entered a state of introspection.
His consciousness sank into his body, and he clearly observed the golden true energy in his Dantian Qi Sea, which had turned into liquid and was filled to the extreme.
His current cultivation has already firmly reached the perfect state of "foundation building".
Logically speaking, when one reaches this level, one can go one step further and condense the liquid into a pill.
Achieving the Golden Elixir Path of "Once I swallow a golden elixir, my destiny will be in my own hands" should be a natural and logical thing.
But the fact is, no matter how he practiced and comprehended the subsequent exercises in the "Qigong Method", Jieming always felt that there was always an invisible and intangible film between himself and the golden elixir realm.
It feels like there is a crucial "moment" missing to break through to the Golden Core Realm.
Originally, Benjamin felt that in a situation like this, with his wizard's way of thinking, he could completely "make the bricks fly" - by constantly accumulating energy far beyond that of monks of the same level, he could forcibly break through the level leading to the next realm.
But the actual situation made him feel helpless.
Although the energy in his body has continued to grow steadily during the past few decades of continuous practice, its purity and total amount have even surpassed some cultivators who have just entered the Golden Core stage.
But he still had no feeling of advancing to the Golden Core Stage.
In recent years, by carefully reviewing the massive amount of information in the "Dao Book Pavilion" deep in his consciousness, Jieming has gained a deeper understanding of the "Xiu Xian" system.
Finally I understood where the problem lies.
His idea is correct in the wizard system, but the "bottleneck" of the immortal cultivation system cannot be broken through by "strong force".
This is because the underlying logic of the "Xiu Xian" system is completely different from that of the "Wizard" system.
In the earliest time of the world of immortal cultivation, which can be called the ancient era when the world was first created, the so-called "immortal cultivation" was actually only "practicing qi" - or, in other words, the more ancient realm of "refining qi".
However, wanting to achieve immortality simply by cultivating a breath of the purest "innate qi" requires too much talent.
The difficulty is so high that many people cannot even do the most basic getting started.
Therefore, later cultivators continued to evolve and explore, gradually subdividing the entire cultivation process and creating "Qi Drawing", "Foundation Building", "Golden Elixir", "Nascent Soul" and so on.
Finally, the many clear realms that exist today were divided.
So theoretically speaking, every major realm in the "cultivation of immortals" system can actually be cultivated indefinitely.
Each realm is essentially a concept of cultivation, which can continuously refine one's own energy and enhance one's own strength.
Until you can achieve immortality at your current level!
This is completely different from the situation where a wizard reaches perfection at a certain level, and if he does not advance, then no matter how he practices, the upper limit of his power cannot be increased.
The problem is that although Benjamin feels that he has good talent, he will never be so arrogant as to think that he can go against the will of heaven and cultivate to the level of immortality just by relying on the cultivation method of the "Foundation Establishment Realm"!
What's more troublesome is that he doesn't even know why he can't be promoted.
Therefore, before finding that key "opportunity", for the time being, we can only repeat the boring accumulation day after day.
As for the second question...
Benjamin glanced at his personal points account on the terminal, which had turned into a deficit, and pressed his temples with a headache.
Yes, he is broke again!
"That's not right. I remember I was a rich man. Why did I suddenly become a pauper after the promotion?" Jieming scratched his head worriedly.
In fact, he also knew that his high-intensity cross-species genetic modification and element core fusion research consumed points and resources at a terrifying rate!
In order to purchase various rare research materials, as well as those expensive knowledge and data models, even with the continuous income from refined gold, his savings have run out.
In addition, all the profits from the Red Dust Potion were temporarily lost in the Level 7 Large Element Pool, which meant that Benjamin's points were seriously insufficient to cover his expenses!
"You mean ways to make money? What a coincidence! I've been wondering about that lately!"
On the other side of the communication screen, after listening to Benjamin's complaints about "difficulties in cash flow", Viola threw her hands at him without caring about her image, with the words "I can't help you" written all over her face.
Upon hearing this, Benjamin shook his head helplessly.
He felt that he was completely out of his mind. Why would he think of discussing this matter with this senior who was also exploited by Professor Clark to the point of bankruptcy?
"How about you come with me to that dimension?"
"Forget it, I still have a lot of research that needs people..."
While shaking his head and sighing, Benjamin packed up the last batch of "Red Dust Potion" he had refined during this period and sent it over through the fixed teleportation array.
After doing all this, Benjamin looked at his completely cleared account and pinched his nose in worry.
Just as he was about to close this meaningless communication, Viola's next words stopped him in his tracks:
"Actually, I always thought it would be pretty easy for you to make money."
"Why do you say that?" Benjamin looked at her with some confusion.
Viola leaned back in her lab chair in a comfortable position, looking at him with a look of disappointment.
"I say, you're really too protective of your skills! You possess so many skills that even I'm jealous of, yet you have absolutely no intention of selling them!"
"Although we wizards guard our core technologies very closely, I've never seen a freak like you who is so stingy that you don't even want to sell a bit of scrap technology!"
"After all, technology evolves! And researching new technologies requires a huge investment. In this situation, selling off those already somewhat outdated 'old technologies' is naturally the most suitable and common way to raise funds!"
"What's more," Viola's voice was tinged with temptation, "'Knowledge' is the highest-level hard currency in our wizarding civilization! If you really have good enough knowledge, you can get more than just points or low-level military merits. Even high-level military merits awarded by the Star Orbit Tribunal can be yours!"
Viola's words were like a flash of lightning that instantly broke through Benjamin's thinking that was deadlocked because of "no money"!
His eyes suddenly lit up!
yes!
Why didn’t I think of it?!
He always subconsciously regarded all the technologies he developed as his trump cards and core secrets, and never thought of selling them as "commodities"!
Just as Viola said, technology will iterate. Simply holding technology in your hands will only make your research costs higher and higher.
"Thank you, Senpai! I understand!"
After figuring this out, Benjamin thanked her excitedly, and then hurriedly turned off the call!
He completely ignored Viola, who was still waving her arms and shouting "Hey! What good skills do you have? Sell me one quickly so I can continue to buy with a loan!" before the light curtain went out.
Looking at the closed communication in front of her, Viola bit her fingers with her teeth in anger: "Ah...this brat, so ungrateful!!!"
Unfortunately, Benjamin could no longer hear her complaints, because at this time Benjamin opened his experimental records with great interest and carefully selected technologies that could be sold.
(End of this chapter)
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