Li Xingkong having a bit of a headache. It was fine to follow the cultivation method, but he had to figure out a way to fill the remaining gap in Magic Power himself, which was really a bit of a problem.
Light energy, gravity, and magnetism are the fundamental basis of the three existing Qi Refining Method. If Li Xingkong wants to further improve the recovery speed of his Magic Power, he must find another energy source in the real world and create a fourth or even a fifth Qi Refining Method.
Although the system possesses a vast amount of knowledge and a plethora of Qi Refining Method, there are significant differences between worlds. The Qi Refining Method provided by the system are already the most applicable across various worlds. While the system may have even better Qi Refining Method, none of them are suitable for Li Xingkong's world. They can only be used as references, but directly applying them is simply impossible.
Even a skilled cook can't cook without rice; without the corresponding material or force, the so-called Qi Refining Method is nothing but a castle in the air, and nothing of substance can be achieved.
Therefore, Li Xingkong had no choice but to find a way on his own and create a new Qi Refining Method based on the characteristics of this universe.
After several days of seclusion and contemplation, Li Xingkong compared humanity's current methods of obtaining energy with the future energy usage methods envisioned by the scientific community.
Combustible materials, coal, oil, plants, and organic matter are all inefficient ways to obtain energy, so it's not worthwhile to create a new Qi Refining Method based on them. Moreover, with the Ingestion Spell, if there is a real lack of means to restore Magic Power, he can directly eat these things to obtain Magic Power.
Some renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, already have Qi Refining Method. However, wind energy has greater limitations. Wind can only be generated on planets with atmospheric environments, which means that once you are in space, this Qi Refining Method will be without a source.
As Li Xingkong's cultivation level increases, Earth Star is becoming too small for him. In the future, Li Xingkong's activities will definitely take place more in space, and the limitations of this Qi Refining Method mean that its applicability is not very strong.
Tidal energy can be completely attributed to gravity. Since the Moonlight Qi Refining Method already exists, there's no need for me to delve into it.
Electricity is the most widely used energy source in modern society, but it cannot be generated out of thin air. To obtain electricity sustainably, it still requires the energy substances mentioned earlier to convert it, which is quite wasteful. A portion of the energy is lost when it is converted into electricity, and another portion is lost when Li Xingkong absorbs electricity and converts it into Magic Power. So the efficiency is not much higher.
The only advantage is that electricity has been used on Earth Star for hundreds of years, and various power generation devices are readily available. If you want to temporarily absorb electricity to convert into Magic Power, the power plant can take over. However, this also has its problems, as the speed at which your Magic Power recovers will depend heavily on the power plant's output. This is also somewhat inconvenient.
The main problem is that the energy consumption of Hexagram is constant. If he relied on electricity to provide his Magic Power, he would have to live in the Three Gorges area.
Nuclear energy is currently considered the best wireless energy source. If we only talk about nuclear energy, it is indeed possible, but the problem is that nuclear energy comes with strong Fallout, which Li Xingkong cannot handle at the moment and cannot use directly.
Li Xingkong had a headache. He thought and thought, but still couldn't come up with a solution.
Besides the energy sources that are already in use, there are other energy acquisition methods that are currently only in the realm of ideas, such as generating energy through particle-antiparticle collisions or utilizing dark matter. These are currently still in the conceptual stage for the scientific community.
Because with current observational capabilities, these substances cannot be observed; they are invisible and intangible, so how can they investigate their uses...?
The collision of particles produces enormous amounts of energy and is extremely violent. Li Xingkong was unsure if he could withstand it. Moreover, scientists had been searching for antiparticles for a long time without success, and Li Xingkong did not believe he could find them easily.
Dark matter, on the other hand, exists in large quantities in space, making up 70% of the entire universe. Based on this distribution, it is basically everywhere in space, but it cannot be observed by current methods.
However, according to Li Xingkong's vision for the Qi Refining Method, dark matter does indeed meet his needs. It exists in large quantities throughout the universe, and it can provide a lot of energy when utilized.
We could try to create a new Qi Refining Method based on dark matter.
With this in mind, Li Xingkong prepared to begin creating a new Qi Refining Method.
To create Qi Refining Method, the first step was to understand what dark matter was. This first step was somewhat troublesome, as current technology could not observe dark matter, and Li Xingkong had no means to do so.
However, he has already cultivated his Divine Sense Divine Sense, so he can use it to observe first.
As mentioned before, this Divine Sense is a manifestation of personal cognition. If he has no cognition of a certain substance, then naturally he cannot detect it. But now he has gained a certain understanding of dark matter through some papers on Earth Star.
Based on this understanding, he also had a concept of dark matter in his Divine Sense. Logically speaking, as long as dark matter exists around him, he should be able to observe it now.
With his eyes closed, Li Xingkong slowly unfolded his Divine Sense.
His Divine Sense can now only extend to about ten meters around his body. After all, he hasn't been cultivating much lately, so the range of his Divine Sense hasn't expanded much.
Within my Divine Sense, the entire world seemed to have changed. I no longer relied solely on light to perceive the world. In this Divine Sense, the surrounding environment was like a three-dimensional map, with various relevant data listed on one side. The dense data clearly displayed all the attributes of the surroundings.
Sure enough, right after Li Xingkong gained new knowledge about dark matter, he could clearly sense that something had appeared in the vacuum around him. Although this thing was invisible to the naked eye, it definitely existed in his Divine Sense.
By interacting with it using Spiritual Qi, it was indeed affected by the Spiritual Qi and was pushed into Li Xingkong's hands by the Spiritual Qi.
This thing seemed to have appeared out of thin air; it was invisible and intangible. If Li Xingkong hadn't detected it with his Divine Sense, he wouldn't have believed that it actually existed.
With this dark matter, the first step in creating the Qi Refining Method was complete. Next, Li Xingkong began to study its properties while simultaneously referencing the existing Qi Refining Method templates and a large number of Qi Refining Method in the system's possession. The Qian Hexagram hexagram in Li Xingkong's mind was in full swing as he began to fully deduce this new Qi Refining Method.
Of course, as for how to use dark matter, according to Earth Star's existing energy utilization system, it is also used for burning.
After all, the only way humans have used energy so far is by boiling water.
It's simply a matter of the type of firepower and water.