Chapter 83: Taking Half a Step More
No matter whether it is the essence, energy and spirit in the body or everything in the outside world, no matter how it is decomposed and transformed, it can only decompose into "elements" rather than "spiritual energy".
But the fact is that not only did Benjamin cultivate spiritual energy using that method, but he has now reached the foundation-building stage.
It is no exaggeration to say that this was indeed the first "something out of nothing" that Benjamin encountered.
"Now that I think about it, the cultivation method that the Dao Book Pavilion gave me is probably not ordinary, even though it appears to be just an ordinary method of refining essence into qi..."
When Benjamin first came to this world, he asked the Dao Book Pavilion about the methods of cultivation, and the only result he found was the method of refining essence into qi.
If you ask about other methods of spiritual energy cultivation, the Dao Book Pavilion will also provide the corresponding knowledge.
But whenever one asks about "methods to practice cultivation", the Dao Book Pavilion only gives this one method.
Fortunately, Benjamin was not a stubborn person. After experimenting several times and confirming that the "intelligence" of Dadao Book Pavilion was quite good, he honestly accepted its suggestion.
Now that I think about it, the Dao Book Pavilion at that time had probably already checked the true situation of this world, so it only gave this one method of cultivation.
Judging from the speed of Benjamin's subsequent cultivation, his aptitude is indeed not bad.
The reason why it took him more than ten years to barely reach the first level of Qi training in the beginning was probably because most of the time before that was spent on building some kind of "converter" in his body.
"Just by using certain breathing methods and special movements, they were able to construct a converter that could create spiritual energy out of thin air... It seems that the world of immortal cultivation has gone a step further than the existing wizard civilization."
That’s right, half a step.
The reason for saying this is that the wizard civilization should have mastered the perpetual motion machine that can create something out of nothing.
Although no one has ever seen a ninth-level wizard, basically all descriptions of ninth-level wizards are very consistent: due to some special reasons, it can be understood that their power is infinite.
Such a description naturally aroused Benjamin's interest.
Although there is very little information available on the Magic Net, Jeming can basically confirm that the ninth-level wizards of the wizard civilization have also mastered the power to create something out of nothing.
Therefore, the gap between the current wizard civilization and the world of immortal cultivation lies in the "popularity level" of this perpetual motion machine.
In the wizard civilization at this stage, only the top nine ninth-level wizards have mastered the ability to create something out of nothing, but the immortal cultivation civilization has already popularized it into the most basic cultivation techniques.
"However... taking this extra half step might not be a good thing for civilization as a whole..."
The reason for saying this is because of a book that Benjamin once read in the Dadao Book Pavilion: "Record of the Ashes of the World" (Chapter 23).
The author of that memoir, Chen Jiezi, was born in the Dharma-Ending Age of the world of immortal cultivation.
This book also explains that the reason why the world of immortal cultivation is good at capturing concepts and creating something out of nothing is because it has entered the Dharma-Ending Age.
Before knowing the specific concept of spiritual energy, the Dharma Ending Age was not too difficult for Jieming to imagine - it was nothing more than adding some elements of supernatural power to the costume dramas in his previous life.
However, after learning that spiritual energy constitutes all matter, energy, time, space, and even destiny in the world of immortal cultivation, Jieming could not imagine what the Dharma-Ending Age, where spiritual energy is scarce, would be like.
Regarding this point, there is no corresponding record even in the Dao Book Pavilion. After all, the Dao Book Pavilion only records all the knowledge in the world of cultivation.
If no one recognizes the difference, then Da Dao Shu Ge naturally doesn't know either.
The depletion of spiritual energy is an extremely long process. For many cultivators, the world is like this when they are born, and nothing changes until their death. Naturally, they cannot recognize the problems of the world.
Of course, there are also some old monsters that never die.
But old guys of that level have too fundamental views on the world, and changes in external things will not affect their judgment, so the summary is just one sentence: spiritual energy is exhausted.
"The only thing we know is that the root cause of the spiritual energy depletion is that group of immortal old monsters."
Cultivators pursue immortality and the Tao, and strength and cultivation are merely by-products of the pursuit.
But generally speaking, practitioners who can achieve immortality are definitely not weak.
The structure of the world of cultivation is closer to the technological world of Jieming's previous life. It is also a universe with planets as the basic units, but there are occasionally some space vesicles inside this universe, which are the so-called caves or small worlds.
The world of immortal cultivation naturally also has some characteristics of the universe, for example: unlimited superluminal expansion at an increasingly faster speed.
So at the beginning, the resources in the world of cultivation were abundant enough.
However, those immortal monks will become stronger and stronger as time goes by, and the matter and energy they consume through natural breathing will also increase almost unlimitedly.
What’s even more terrifying is that the number of these immortal guys is increasing.
High-level cultivators continuously absorbed everything in the world into their own Xiyi Realm, which eventually caused the entire world of cultivation to not only be unable to continue expanding, but even shrink continuously.
In fact, there is a way to solve the problem of spiritual energy depletion, and it is even right in front of us - as long as those high-level monks are killed, the spiritual energy will be revived.
However, this is almost impossible to do, not to mention how powerful the high-level monks are who can influence the state of the entire world.
Even if it is really killed, the existence that can kill it will definitely not be weak, and the other party will become the next existence that needs to be annihilated.
As for the final outcome of the world of cultivation, the Dao Book Pavilion does not say it, but it is likely to be destruction.
"But since the technology of creating something out of nothing has become so advanced, perhaps they have already escaped destruction."
Jieming sighed and stopped caring about these things. Instead, he focused his attention on another thing in his dantian.
"After so many years of nurturing, spirituality has finally begun to emerge."
Feeling the lively spirituality coming from the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, a satisfied smile appeared on Benjamin's face.
It is worthy of being the type of magical weapon with extremely strong spirituality that he specially chose. It can be so active just in the foundation-building stage.
This level of spiritual strength is enough to serve as an auxiliary intelligent brain to help him process simple information.
This means that from now on, his reconnaissance system is finally complete!
"The problem with the space ring has been solved by the inner loop. Furthermore, the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror has become spiritual. Therefore... the plan to mass-produce talismanic magical instruments should also be brought forward."
After all, the test of Noren Workshop is not far away.
(One more chapter to come)
(End of this chapter)
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