The Great Dao is Simple
The difficulty in utilizing the Solar True Force lies in two aspects: transformation and transmission.
The mainstream cultivation Cultivation Method of the Five Phases Spiritual Qi. The Divine Ability involving the Star True Force are all Peerless Divine Abilities. However, Peerless Divine Abilities require not only Spiritual Qi, but also something more complex.
For example, luck!
Yang Ning can distribute enough Spiritual Qi to everyone, but he cannot distribute enough fortune to everyone.
Therefore, it is unrealistic for everyone to cultivate unparalleled Peerless Divine Abilities, at least not until a simple and direct method of absorbing the power of the sun is found.
That would require downgrading the Star True Force and converting it into the Five Phases Spiritual Qi.
Mountains, rivers, trees, and the earth all have this function, but no one has studied how they do it.
Secondly, the materials needed for transmitting the Star True Force are scarce and expensive. For example, the celestial sand used to make the Fate-Defying Star Disk is only seen once in a hundred years at the South Sea Exchange, and when it is seen, it is sold by the gram.
In a sense, these two materials are actually the same problem.
If a way can be found to transform Star True Force into the Five Phases Spiritual Qi, then there will be no need to transmit Star True Force.
If there were a Peerless Divine Abilities that could be cultivated using only the Star True Force, there would be no need to downgrade the Star True Force.
Of course, in the spirit of scientific research, Yang Ning decided to overcome both of these problems.
Experiments that require real-world conditions cannot be simulated in the Spirit Realm, but Yang Ning is not entirely without ideas.
To address the issue of Spiritual Energy Conversion, Yang Ning purchased spiritual herbs and tree seeds from various sources on his phone, then infused them with the Lawful Nightmare Power and planted them.
The plants affected by the nightmare can still produce normally, but Yang Ning will monitor their growth inside and out throughout the process.
He quickly discovered the secret of how the spiritual herb could transform Spiritual Qi: chloroplasts!
The chloroplasts in spiritual herbs and Spirit Plant are different from those in ordinary plants. These chloroplasts can not only absorb and transform Star True Force to release the Five Phases Spiritual Qi, but also absorb the special energy released when Star True Force levels jump. After undergoing the complex life processes of spiritual herbs, they are eventually transformed into a special kind of power.
Cultivators call it the essence of herbs and trees, which is what needs to be refined during alchemy.
The formula is: Star Power + Water and Soil Nutrients → (Chloroplasts) → Five Phases Spiritual Qi + Herbal Essence
Yang Ning attempted to transplant these chloroplasts into other plants, and they could indeed convert the Five Phases Spiritual Qi. However, the energy released during the leap in the Star True Force power level was something that ordinary plants could not absorb or convert, and they would be burned to death.
Yang Ning simply knocked out the entire gene that was converted and absorbed by the Star True Force, transplanted it into other plants, and created a genetically modified plant. This time, the experiment was finally successful again.
Ordinary soybeans are transformed into soybeans purified by herbs and plants, and ordinary rice is transformed into spiritual rice purified by herbs and plants!
The essence of plants is also a kind of Spiritual Qi, but it is more easily absorbed by the human body. Even cultivators at the Body Refinement Realm can consume it, and it can greatly accelerate the speed of physical body tempering.
With the help of the Taiji Robot, a person who has never been exposed to cultivation can advance from the first level of the Body Refinement Realm to the eighth level in just six months!
Yang Ning still complained about the low conversion efficiency. Firstly, the growth cycle of grain crops is long; secondly, the arable land area is limited; and thirdly, Spirit Plant plants are not always green, they are only green for a month or two, and the leaves turn yellow for the rest of the time.
Yang Ning also tried evergreen plants, and the results were good.
Green algae works even better.
Seaweed can also be effective.
If you plant a variety of Spiritual Qi algae in the lake, cover the lake surface with Spiritual Qi green algae, plant a variety of evergreen Spirit Plant along the roadside, and also plant Spirit Plant for food and landscaping.
After several calculations, Yang Ning arrived at a number.
The current concentration of Spiritual Qi can increase by about 40,000 times.
This is because the base value in the mortal realm is too low. The base value is 1, so even if it's multiplied by 40,000, it's only 40,000!
What is the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the Taiheng Sect?
650,000!
However, it's not a big problem. If Spirit Gathering Formation is set up in densely populated areas such as cities and villages, it is possible to increase the concentration to 500,000.
This is only the Star True Force transformed from plants.
How do mountains and rivers transform the Five Phases Spiritual Qi?
Yang Ning discovered that in an extremely deep lake, the concentration of Star True Force on the surface was still very high, but the density decreased as you went deeper. At a depth of about 1,400 meters, the Star True Force could no longer be seen!
In short, the deeper the water, the lower the concentration of Star True Force and the higher the concentration of water-based Spiritual Qi.
Mountains and rivers are similar.
300 meters below the ground, the Star True Force is rarely felt; it decreases further down, and by 400 meters, Star True Force has completely disappeared!
If there are stones in the mountains, the distance of the Star True Force will be shorter, generally around 200 to 250 meters.
The Five Phases Spiritual Qi will be generated at a distance of 250 meters from the mountaintop or mountainside. In other words, as long as a mountain is more than 250 meters high, there is a high probability that the Five Phases Spiritual Qi will appear.
Although the earth elemental Spiritual Qi is abundant, it is forced to gather upwards like milking a cow due to the pressure from the Star True Force from all directions, eventually gushing out from the mountaintop.
However, mountains that are too low produce very little Spiritual Qi. A mountain with an altitude of about 700 meters is needed to support a small sect, while a mountain with an altitude of 1,500 meters can support a medium-sized sect.
There's a mountain that's 2000 meters above sea level; it's big enough to support a major sect.
So, is it the pressure of the earth and water that causes the Star True Force to transform into the Five Phases Spiritual Qi?
Furthermore, Qin Mountain is 5,570 meters above sea level, which is no ordinary mountain. It would not be surprising if a sect no less powerful than Taiheng were to emerge on it.
But this mountain just doesn't have any Spiritual Qi!
Is this normal?
This is very abnormal!
"Is the area beneath Qin Mountain hollow?" Yang Ning instantly realized a possibility!
If there were a space at the foot of Qin Mountain that could contain Spiritual Qi, then the Spiritual Qi would naturally not be transmitted to the outside world, and Qin Mountain would naturally have no Spiritual Qi.
What kind of space can contain the Spiritual Qi generated by a mountain 5,500 meters above sea level?
"Underground palace? Tomb? Miniature world? Legacy?"
It should be noted that the Taiheng territory has always been occupied by the Taiheng Sect. Even if some sects within Taiheng have declined, their lineage will still return to Taiheng.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for a sect to be buried underground and require archaeological excavation.
If the area beneath Qin Mountain is hollow, it can only mean that what lies beneath is even older than Mount Taiheng!
Tombs from the Dragon Age?
A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall, so Yang Ning certainly would not go to rob a tomb, so he sent Yu Sha to kill him.
Nanorobot can squeeze into even the smallest gaps; if a creature can't get into a place, it won't be able to either.
Meanwhile, he created a hydraulic cylinder, first injecting the Star True Force, and then increasing the pressure!
He wanted to test whether the pressure was the cause of the transformation of Star True Force!
1 MPa!
2 MPa!
3 MPa!
10 MPa!
The Five Phases Spiritual Qi began to emerge, and what emerged were: wind-elemental Spiritual Qi, fire-elemental Spiritual Qi, and thunder-elemental Spiritual Qi.
11 MPa
Water-based Spiritual Qi, ice-based Spiritual Qi
12 MPa
Wood elemental Spiritual Qi, grass elemental Spiritual Qi
13 MPa
Earth elemental Spiritual Qi, rock elemental Spiritual Qi
14 MPa
Metal elemental Spiritual Qi
Blanch!
Yang Ning never expected this, and what troubled him—or rather, no cultivator had ever deeply considered this problem.
That is, the problem that was thought to be very difficult, perhaps even requiring a lifetime to study, turned out to be so simple once the answer was revealed?
And!
He succeeded on his first attempt at finding materials that could transmit the Star True Force.
The material he used was glass!
The idea is quite simple: the manifestations of Star True Force are nothing more than sunlight, moonlight, and starlight.
Since it's about light, let's try using fiberglass!
And then, it really happened!
"Is this the legendary 'Tao is in excrement,' or rather, 'The Great Dao is Simple'?!"
As we all know, there is no such thing as Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, fire, or earth in this world. This way of understanding the world is wrong and idealistic.
The essence of the world is the elements on the periodic table.
According to this theory, there shouldn't be any Five Phases Spiritual Qi Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth energy in this world; it's just that cultivators have grouped together similar Spiritual Qi for convenience.
Later, cultivators also felt it wasn't detailed enough, so they added a Yin-Yang concept before Spiritual Qi, resulting in more refined branches like Geng Metal, Xin Metal, Jia Wood, and Yi Wood.
But no one has ever thought about how many branches Spiritual Qi actually has.
To this day, Yang Ning has made a direct and precise analysis of Spiritual Qi by adjusting the pressure little by little.
How many types of Spiritual Qi are there?
The answer is: infinitely many.
He had assumed that Spiritual Qi would be similar to the periodic table of elements, with over a hundred different types.
But in reality, Spiritual Qi is more like the colors of a spectrum, with countless intervals divided into different shades under the main color.
The Five Phases Spiritual Qi, from lightest to heaviest, are: wind, thunder, fire, water, wood, earth, and metal.
Add to that the low-grade Yin Spiritual Qi and the high-grade Yang Spiritual Qi, and it becomes:
The nine elements of Spiritual Qi are Yin, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, Metal, and Yang.
Within each system, there are multiple extreme states. For example, under Yin there is ghost energy and Blood Qi, which are equivalent to Greater Yin and Lesser Yin.
Below the wind, there are cold winds and warm winds, which are equivalent to yin winds and yang winds.
The presence of ice and vapor beneath the water is equivalent to "yin water" and "yang water".
Yang Ning quickly came up with another formula.
There are infinitely many types of Spiritual Qi, but the human body doesn't need to perceive so many different Spiritual Qi.
1,000 perceptions per system would be enough.
Using 01, 02, 03, 04, 04, 06, 07, 08, and 09 to represent the nine types of Spiritual Qi, with 1 representing extreme Yin and 1000 representing extreme Yang, these two sets of numbers can precisely pinpoint a type of Spiritual Qi.
For example, (02,500) refers to Japanese style.
You can also write down the pressure at which this kind of Spiritual Qi was produced, for example, (02,500,1027), which means that it is a mid-level wind-type Spiritual Qi produced at a pressure of 10.27 kPa.
Soon, he not only prepared all nine thousand kinds of Spiritual Qi, but he also made a simple description of the properties of each kind of Spiritual Qi, such as color, temperature, physical sensation, and suitable Divine Abilities and Sorcery.
During the testing, Yang Ning discovered that different Spiritual Qi, when mixed together, could produce unexpected effects. For example, mixing yin wind and ice Spiritual Qi could make ice colder, while mixing yang wind and fire could make fire hotter and faster.
To be frank, the technology Yang Ning was using at this time was just average, only at the level of an ordinary undergraduate university student. But this was a scenario in the early stages of scientific development, where you didn't need to put in much effort, and you could easily make a bunch of big discoveries.
If we wait a hundred years or so until Spiritual Qi science is established, it will be extremely difficult for graduate students to discover anything. They'll look up and realize that everything has already been discovered by their predecessors.
Considering the difficulty students would face in publishing papers in the future, Yang Ning stopped after testing only a few methods.
Nine thousand kinds of Spiritual Qi mixed together, enough for tens of thousands of undergraduates to finish their graduation theses.
Well, it's possible that a newborn might experiment with thousands of different methods, but that's none of Yang Ning's business!
<Yang's Spiritual Energy Genealogy Chart>!
Yang Ning looked at the final, square-shaped Spiritual Energy Genealogy and nodded in satisfaction.
This diagram can theoretically guide the construction and practice of the Five Elements-based Divine Ability Law Technique, meaning that everyone will be able to use it in the future.
Therefore, as long as this chart exists, Yang Ning will inevitably be recognized as the father of the Spiritual Qi lineage.
My small goal of achieving lasting fame has been accomplished!