Yin-Yang Realm: Target-the Sun
Qingyun Town may not be large, but it has one advantage: it is located at the intersection of several forces, resulting in a complex flow of people.
In less than a day, the Taiji Virus spread throughout Qingyun Town, and in an extremely short time, it spread to the Hundred Nations Battlefield, the South Sea Man Family in the South China Sea, the Jinxiang Sect, and the Western Splendor region through the help of travelers.
The Hengming Tower only cut off contact between Qi Refining cultivators and Spiritual Cultivation cultivators; ordinary people remained unaffected.
The Taiji Virus is extremely infectious; it can infect not only ordinary people but also cultivators.
However, cultivators have keen Divine Sense, and if the Taiji Virus jumps too wildly, such as trying to take over the frontal lobe, it will definitely be detected by the cultivator.
Therefore, when encountering cultivators, the Taiji Virus simply treats itself as nitrogen, a gas that is neither harmful nor beneficial to humans, and leaves after circulating once inside the cultivator's body.
It seemed like nothing was done, but it recorded the size, width, and energy flow routes of each cultivator's Meridians system, enriching Yang Ning's database once again.
The more Law Power Yang Ning comprehended from other cultivators, the higher his own understanding of Law Power became.
Finally, in the second month after moving into Qingyun Town, and in the sixth month of the Qi Refining Stage, he broke through to the third level of Qi Refining: Yin-Yang Realm.
At this level, magical Law Power will not see a qualitative improvement, but there will be a qualitative change in control over it.
From then on, Law Power could be freely transformed into yin and yang, hard and soft, making it far more flexible than the True Gang Realm.
This realm also allows one to cultivate many Law Techniques that can transform between reality and illusion, such as condensing Law Power into a lifelike giant dragon, or into a sharp, gleaming sword.
This sword is a real, physical object, and it is extremely hard, making it very difficult to break!
At this level of cultivation, some defensive techniques can even withstand Spirit Artifact!
It's a low-spec version of Void Creation!
After trying it out, Yang Ning discovered that he could actually replicate techniques like Susanoo, and even conjure fighter jets and firearms, including firearms that could actually fire when they collided with bullets!
However, the parts of fighter jets and firearms are too complex for ordinary cultivators to even consider.
"Such power is immense! If used in production and daily life, it would increase efficiency a hundredfold or even a thousandfold. Yet cultivators only use it to construct dragons and phoenixes for combat?"
Yang Ning carefully counted the Divine Ability that required the "Yin-Yang Realm" to use, and found that it wasn't.
Cultivators, or rather, the dragon race of the past, have made significant progress in this realm.
After all, some people will always get stuck at a certain level, and then they will strive to study the skills of that level in order to enhance their strength.
Based on the unique characteristics of the Yin-Yang Realm's Law Power, cultivators have developed a new category: Artifact Cultivator!
A cultivator is one who can transform their Law Power into a certain form for use in battle.
In ancient times, the mainstream of Artifact Cultivator was Sword Cultivator, but there were also various other schools such as Spear Cultivator, Saber Cultivator, Staff Cultivator, and Shield Cultivator.
They would expand their Law Power infinitely towards sharpness and cutting, and then combine it with the martial arts intent cultivated during the Body Refinement Realm, thus refining their Law Power to be indestructible.
At this moment, Law Power is no longer Law Power, but Sword Qi!
These cultivators advanced to the Golden Core Stage, and what they condensed was no longer a Golden Core, but Sword Core, Spear Core, and Shield Core!
The strongest Artifact Cultivator sect in Taiheng is the Yiyuan Pill Cauldron Sect. They can forge a Pill Cauldron that combines offense and defense and can also be used for alchemy and weapon crafting. In the Artifact Cultivator lineage, they have risen to prominence and even surpassed the Sword Cultivator.
In addition, there is the lineage of Hercules.
This lineage describes how Law Power is used to create powerful warriors, which are then sealed away using talismans.
Because the used Law Power can be slowly replenished, the warrior can accumulate more and more mana over time.
Previously, the Warrior lineage was quiet and there weren't many practitioners. Until 14,000 years ago, a powerful figure emerged from the Warrior lineage, leading millions of Warriors to fight across 8,000 miles in the Myriad Saints Alliance, directly destroying more than half of the Myriad Saints Alliance's heritage!
This is why the Tianyi Sect invaded the Taiheng Sect at this point in time, because the previous second-largest sect in the world was severely damaged and unable to send troops, so the Tianyi Sect only needed to fight one.
The Warrior lineage does not have a dedicated sect for cultivation, but every cultivator in every sect will learn some Warrior techniques to some extent, and will Law Power to construct some Warriors in their spare time for emergencies.
However, no other master could control so many warriors like that one. Some suspect that this master also received an extraordinary inheritance, or even Supreme Dao Arts, to be able to control millions of warriors.
Because ordinary cultivators are already at the top level if they can control one or two hundred, there is a Spiritual Law Realm expert known as the Great Immortal Chiling, because he refined six hundred Chiling Warrior Constructs, which can already be called legendary!
"This one suits me well too. If it were me, I could control a billion strong warriors. Could it be that that big shot also has Spirit Realm?" Yang Ning pondered.
He cloned another boy and sent him to the territory of the Myriad Saints Alliance, intending to test the waters along this route. If he was discovered, he would claim to be the successor of that powerful figure.
Well, one might not be enough. What if something unexpected happens along the way?
Give us more, and the same goes for the other traditions!
Yang Ning briefly grasped this realm, and then let it go.
It may be suitable, but he's not stuck at a certain level and can't break through. What he needs to do now is accumulate magic Law Power and continue to move forward, instead of stopping to fight against strongmen.
"The next realm, the fourth realm of Law Power, the Mana Realm!"
As the saying goes, "His Divine Ability powers are boundless, and his Law Power are limitless."
However, that is exclusive to the Spiritual Law Realm. During the Qi Refining Stage, cultivators can only achieve tangible Divine Ability powers and boundless Law Power.
At this moment, the Law Power in Yang Ning's dantian was like clouds in the sky, clustered together and occupying a considerable area.
This is already liquefied Law Power, but strictly speaking, it can only be considered atomization.
True liquefaction involves liquefying into Water Droplet, falling to the ground, and eventually coalescing into rivers and seas.
The Law Power required for this is hundreds, or even thousands of times, that of the Yin-Yang Realm.
If Yang Ning cultivates step by step in a place rich in Spiritual Qi, it would probably take him about 30 months to break through.
But Yang Ning had already left Taiheng Palace and come to the mortal realm.
The Spiritual Qi here is worlds apart from that of the Taiheng Palace; it's like comparing heaven and earth.
There are four sources of Spiritual Qi!
"Firstly, there's the Spirit Vein. This is a vein born from a wisp of Immortal Qi drawn down by an immortal. It can slowly release Spiritual Qi, and a single Spirit Vein can release it for hundreds of thousands of years!"
This is why the Tianyi Sect, in its pursuit of Supreme Dao Arts, completely depleted its own territory, yet was able to immediately turn its fortunes around once an immortal was born. An immortal can bring down dozens or even hundreds of Spirit Vein for a sect, directly laying the foundation for a sect's Good Fortune for millions of years!
However, doing so would also cause losses to the immortals themselves, so Lin Feng not only did not do it back then, but instead moved the original Spirit Vein of Taiheng to Southern Forest.
"Secondly, there's the ability of celestial artifacts to absorb and transform Spiritual Qi. Celestial artifacts and Half-Immortal Artifact can slowly draw upon Immortal Qi from the heavens!"
"Thirdly, the stars, sun, and moon can bestow their power, which, after being absorbed by various Spirit Materials and trees, can then release Spiritual Qi!"
"Fourthly, mountains and rivers can emit some Spiritual Qi!"
In short, every river and mountain should be a place where Spiritual Qi gathers; however, in reality, some mountains, for some unknown reason, lack Spiritual Qi.
For example, Qin Mountain is large in area, with high peaks, and is also very beautiful, but it lacks Spiritual Qi.
Mountains and rivers rich in Spiritual Qi are occupied by sects of all sizes. The sects related to Southern Forest and the Lin Family have been wiped out by Taiheng. If Yang Ning needs Spiritual Qi, he can just find an uninhabited mountain or river.
This is also the normal thought process of a cultivator.
But is Yang Ning a normal cultivator?
Obviously not!
His thinking is scientific; he believes in not avoiding difficult problems but trying to solve them if possible.
Even if you make jokes like using a pencil in space, the process of solving problems is itself a form of accumulation. The things you invent unintentionally may not be useful now, but you might use them when you encounter a problem someday, which will save you a lot of time.
You can overtake on some curves, but in scientific research, it's best to be a little less agile.
"I need so much Spiritual Qi to break through to the Mana Realm. After establishing Immortal Kingdom, the Spiritual Qi needed for cultivation by all citizens will only increase. How can relying solely on the immortal mountains and rivers be enough?"
Yang Ning unconsciously looked up at the sun.
The stars in the sky are constantly radiating their power to Taiheng, which is the greatest source of Spiritual Qi for a planet, and this source is inexhaustible, lasting for billions of years.
Furthermore, the Taihang Mountains shine in all directions; how big is a planet anyway?
In short, less than 1‰ of the stellar energy that the sun shines on Tai Heng Star is actually emitted, and the vast majority of that 1‰ is blocked outside the atmosphere.
The Solar True Force that is ultimately received by the ground may only account for one five-billionth of the total Solar True Force!
Of this one in 5 billion, the vast majority is wasted by humanity because, apart from a few sects, most lack the ability to absorb and utilize the power of the stars.
If Yang Ning can utilize this energy, let alone the cultivation of 2 billion people, even if the number increases by 100 times to 200 billion people, the sun's energy would be enough!