Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 444 - 442: Origin Soul Artifact (Making up for the missed updates 22)_1

Chapter 444: Chapter 442: Origin Soul Artifact (Making up for the missed updates 22)_1

Second lesson, an Overview of Primordial Energy!

This time, even Jing Yi abandoned his previous lackadaisical attitude and listened attentively to a white-haired Golden Core elder lecturing at the front.

"Heaven and Earth possess Primordial Energy, which randomly grants form. Below it becomes rivers and mountains, above it turns into suns and stars. In humans, it is called Immortal Origin Energy; in demons, it is called Demon Qi..."

He began by reciting an ancient text, and then smiled and said, "Students may ask, it is said that the Demon Clan spreads ’True Demon Qi’, making it difficult for The Nine States to promote to Transcendent God. Then why do we say Demon Qi is also Spiritual Qi... In fact, according to various data models, the Upper Realm—the Earth Immortal Realm—to which the cultivators ultimately ascend, actually has only one type of Qi—Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy! Wherever there is a world and the sun, moon, and stars exist, there is the presence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy!"

"In the Lower Realm, due to the different rules of each world, Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy is scarce, and the particle composition of each world is different, which is why there is a distinction between ’Immortal Origin Energy’ and ’True Demon Qi’. In reality, they all share the same origin... When you were previously cultivating Qi Refining, you meditated and absorbed the external Primordial Energy into your body without discrimination. That was nothing special, but after Foundation Establishment, if you want to go further and make your Magic Power more refined, it’s best to carefully discern the different Spiritual Energy particles in the void and choose the ones that best fit your cultivation technique to absorb... For example, those with a Fire Spiritual Root who cultivate yang attribute techniques should best absorb ’Fire Elementary Particles’ from the void. Based on the latest ’Fire Elementary Particles’ atlas, Fire Elementary Particles can be further divided into over a dozen types, but currently, we have only analyzed ’Shao Yang Particles’, ’Medium Yang Particles’, and ’Old Yang Particles’..."

"Recently, the Nascent Soul scholars of Fang Immortal Taoist Palace have been committed to restoring the most primitive ’Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy Particle Atlas’ from the Earth Immortal Realm... Once successful, the Demon Clan’s conspiracy of spreading ’True Demon Qi’ will become a joke to us, and the threshold for Transcendent God will be lowered. With the background of Fang Immortal Taoist Palace, producing several Transcendent Gods is not out of the realm of possibility... At that point, the Moon Demon Calamity will be dealt with a wave of the hand!"

"Why do so many cultivators want to ascend or sneak into the Earth Immortal Realm? Because in the environment where ’Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy’ is rich, it’s not only easier to break through the bottlenecks of Nascent Soul and Transcendent God... but also for Transcendent God cultivators who can initially manipulate the Spiritual Power of Heaven and Earth. If the external Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy is rich, not only will going all out resolve the problem of backlash from Spiritual Power, but it can also roughly double one’s lifespan..."

"Alright, back to the topic of Primordial Energy particles, open this book ’Atlas of Primordial Energy Particles and Absorption’ to the first Chapter, first section. This is important—there will be an exam later on."

The old man chuckled.

"Teacher!"

A female student raised her hand to ask a question: "Since Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy is a higher-level force than True Demon Qi or Immortal Origin Energy, why should we reject True Demon Qi and other different attributes of Spiritual Qi particles? Wouldn’t absorbing them together make it more likely to break through?"

"Hehe..."

The Golden Core elder chuckled: "If Fang Immortal Taoist Palace has already completely analyzed the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy atlas, then certainly, anything goes. Otherwise, unless you have the ability to meddle with creation and freely decompose or synthesize Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy into various kinds of Spiritual Qi and Demon Qi, it’s still better to stick to the path laid out by the predecessors—pure and ever purer, thus you may achieve Core Formation and Nascent Soul... Otherwise, if Demon Qi enters the body, going crazy from internal fire is just the start of your problems."

At that moment, Jing Yi’s mind suddenly sparked with a thought, and he raised his hand to speak: "Teacher, I have a question. If a high-level cultivator comes into contact with True Demon Qi, could it possibly be beneficial for breaking through the Transcendent God bottleneck?"

The Golden Core elder glanced at Jing Yi with mild surprise, but still answered, "Transcendent God is signified by manipulating the Power of Heaven and Earth... If one has extreme understanding of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy, breaking through will naturally be a bit simpler... Like those ancient Transcendent God cultivators who relied on secret techniques and elixirs to break through, most of them knew the effects but not the reasons..."

What he left unsaid was that the Demon Clan often tempted Nascent Soul True Monarchs with True Demon Qi to fall into madness, because indeed, after refining True Demon Qi, Divine Skills could vastly increase, and even breaking through bottlenecks... However, from that moment on, one would no longer belong to the human race...

...

Jing Yi noted down the lecture while listening intently.

Before he knew it, it was time for class to end.

"Jing Yi, there’s a fellow townsmen meet-up tonight, are you coming?"

A girl with sparkling eyes approached, smiling as she asked.

This was his classmate and fellow townsperson, ’Su Mo’, also from Sword South City.

"No, I have to go back and continue with my cultivation, getting ready for my Foundation Establishment..."

Jing Yi naïvely brushed off the social invitation.

But Su Mo’s eyes widened in surprise: "Are you preparing for Foundation Establishment? Are you confident? Have you applied for the ’Foundation Establishment Needle’?"

The ’Foundation Establishment Needle’ is based on the ancient Foundation Establishment Pill, but it requires only thirty percent of the original materials for its production. Its effectiveness can reach about ninety percent, and it is administered via injection, which is more easily absorbed!

"I’ve applied already... Our university has high authority in this respect, they don’t hold people back, but it would be miserable if it were another university..."

Jing Yi shook his head.

Fang Immortal University is the best university in The Nine States, with only a few students managing to reach the Grand Accomplishment of Golden Core upon graduation every year.

In other universities, graduating with Foundation Establishment could be promoted as an outstanding graduate.

"Yeah... The ’Foundation Establishment Needle’ is easy to apply for, but the ’Five Elements Cabin’ for Core Formation has a long queue of Foundation Establishment cultivators. It’s difficult to cut in line..."

Su Mo said with a bitter smile.

She had confidence in reaching Foundation Establishment by getting into Fang Immortal University, but she wasn’t sure about Core Formation.

The ’Five Elements Cabin’ in The Nine States is Standard for Core Formation.

It was rumored that during the era of the Immortal Palace, the Door of Ten Thousand Worlds opened up to an Alien Beast World, where there were no humans, only various massive and wild Alien Beasts in an extremely primitive state!

And in that Alien Beast World, the Immortal Palace expedition team discovered a lot of precious materials and even transferred back a forest laden with Five Elements Fruit Trees!

The main component of the nutrient solution in the "Five Elements Cabin" is derived from the "Five Elements Spirit Fruit", which is said to have a success rate similar to that of the Five Elements Core Formation Pill, but with a significant reduction in medicinal and resource consumption...

In the Nine States, consuming Five Elements Spirit Fruit for Core Formation is considered an enormous waste of resources and would be severely criticized!

Unfortunately, there are still very few spiritual objects at the Nascent Soul level!

After all, in the Lower Realm, Nascent Souls are top-tier cultivators, and resources are extremely scarce and rare... not to mention the impossibility of breeding and cultivating them on a large scale!

Therefore, under the rule of the Fang Immortal Taoist Palace, for the prodigies that are college students, achieving Core Formation is not too difficult. As long as one has patience and pays enough contribution points, one can always get a chance to use the Five Elements Cabin. However, reaching the Nascent Soul is like trying to span a chasm!

As Jing Yi pondered these issues, he walked toward the university cafeteria.

The various "Spirit Foods" in the cafeteria, expertly matched by nutritionists and crafted by Spiritual Chefs, are not only abundant in spiritual energy but also unparalleled in taste.

"Junior brother, we meet again..."

While getting his Spirit Rice, a figure approached, it was Zhang Huohua! He had a smile on his face, "Junior brother, are you getting used to life here since you’ve enrolled?"

"It’s alright..."

Although he felt this senior was overly enthusiastic, Jing Yi just muttered internally and sat across from Zhang Huohua, making casual conversation.

"Oh? Are you preparing for Foundation Establishment? This stage is an arduous barrier of ancient cultivation, considered the first true step on the Immortal Path. Once you cross it, you can enjoy a long life..." Zhang Huohua mused.

"A lifespan of more than two hundred years isn’t much, the latest gene surgery can achieve that..." Jing Yi casually responded, "Are you quite free, senior?"

"Sigh... To tell you the truth, I’ve always had a dream to join a national key engineering project, to personally forge an ’Origin Soul Divine Artifact’! But it’s very difficult to get into such a key project, the requirements are high and my intentions have been rejected several times. Now I’m worried about where to work after graduation..." Zhang Huohua said with a wry smile.

"Senior, you’re only a sophomore, right? To consider graduation and employment issues so early, is it really that competitive?" Jing Yi said, surprised.

As for the ’Origin Soul Divine Artifact’ projects, he was just listening along and didn’t really believe Zhang Huohua could get into one.

You should know that ’Origin Soul Divine Artifacts’ are the highest crystallization of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation such as puppets, talisman forging, arrays, and so on within the Fang Immortal Taoist Palace. Not a single one isn’t a major project!

Even with the entire Taoist Palace’s accumulation up to now, there are at most four or five!

Three of them are respectively in the hands of the ’Endless Treasury Keeper’ Bai Mei, ’Sky Palace Master’ Demon Exterminator, and ’Heavenly Craft Pavilion Master’ Ghost Axe.

The ’Sun True Fire Cover’ in the hands of Bai Mei had already been witnessed by Fang Xi for its power.

And the ’Origin Soul Divine Artifact’ that the Demon Exterminator controls is named ’The Array of the Twelve Elemental Protectors of the Heavenly Gods’, a great array formed by twelve cosmic fortresses, which suppresses much of the ’Taiyin Line of Defense’!

As for the divine artifact in Ghost Axe’s possession, it’s named ’Submerged Dragon’ and usually hidden beneath the earth with not much information available about it, as it is a secret!

The last one is personally guarded by the Fang Immortal Taoist Master, even more top-secret, without even a name known to the public, let alone its function.

"Sigh... Finding a job isn’t hard, but a good job is hard to come by. There are also tons of mechanical golems competing for those positions..." Zhang Huohua sighed.

In Jing Yi’s Sea of Consciousness, Fang Xi opened his eyes with interest and once again subtly exerted his influence.

Jing Yi suddenly began to inexplicably criticize, "It’s a powerful divine treasure capable of contending with Transcendent Gods and is wielded by great cultivators, yet it’s only called a divine artifact..."

"Because most of them are indeed made of divine artifact materials. You should know that something like the ’Sun True Fire Cover’ with its massive size could cover nearly half of the Nine States when extended. If it were made entirely out of divine or spiritual treasures, the Fang Immortal Taoist Palace would go bankrupt. Mostly only the core components use divine or spiritual materials... The rest are made of divine tool materials, or even ordinary alloys," Zhang Huohua replied, who had deep understanding in this field: "Industrial mass production, assembly lines... those are our advantages. Although divine tools are not very sturdy and easily damaged, if you prepare many backups and replace them immediately when broken, that will do... Origin Soul Divine Artifacts, Origin Souls within them, are also AI, and such a large device obviously needs an infinitely computing spirit at its core to oversee everything. I think the name ’Origin Soul Divine Artifact’ makes perfect sense!"

For a moment, Jing Yi was somewhat baffled.

He usually had a vague concept of this principle, but today, for some reason, he felt like criticizing it.

"Could it be I’m experiencing some psychological pressure as I am about to establish my foundation and need to see a psychologist?"

And Fang Xi was even more perplexed: ’So it seems to create an Origin Soul Divine Artifact, I have to move the entire assembly line, no, the entire interconnected enterprise to the South Wilderness. It’s possible for tens of thousands of companies, and a multitude of talents will need to be filled, so why not just move the whole Nine States there... Forget it, forget it, I simply can’t afford it...’