Besides the issue of time, there are also issues regarding the manipulation of Spiritual Qi and the cultivation of techniques.
These problems are basically caused by the cultivator's lack of control. Either their control over Spiritual Qi energy is insufficient, or their control over their body is inadequate. As a result, even when practicing the same cultivation method, their progress is not as good as others.
In response to this, Li Xingkong plans to add auxiliary control over cultivation techniques and Spiritual Qi to this tool for assisting cultivation.
Normally, a cultivator relies entirely on their own consciousness to control Spiritual Qi; Spiritual Qi is their essence, an extension of their limbs.
Controlling the car with this tool is like driving a car; you don't need to understand how it works inside. You just need to know how to press the accelerator and hold the steering wheel.
This is equivalent to reducing the difficulty of cultivation by several times.
With these two functions, it's sufficient for the current problem, but the form in which this auxiliary tool exists needs major changes.
To achieve this level of assistance, an external wristwatch is clearly not suitable. For cultivators, this assistance requires a high degree of privacy, which cannot be matched by a wristwatch or mobile phone.
Ideally, this auxiliary tool should be built into the cultivator's body.
Thinking about his own body, Li Xingkong had an inspiration.
Isn't the function of this auxiliary tool almost identical to the fictional Spiritual Root in traditional literary and entertainment works?
It can assist cultivators in getting started with cultivation, and also help them comprehend cultivation techniques, practice spells, and perform calculations... Isn't this exactly what Spiritual Root are meant to do?
Perfect, saves Li Xingkong the trouble of thinking of a name. Let's just call this auxiliary tool "Spiritual Root ".
As for where to place this thing, it would be best to put it near the Qi Sea. This place has a dense network of Mana Circuit and frequent Spiritual Qi mobilization. Placing the Spiritual Root here will allow for more accurate detection of an individual's cultivation progress.
However, as for Spiritual Root, there are other factors to consider. This thing is for all cultivators, and since each cultivator's level and ability are different, the effects of this Spiritual Root cannot be generalized.
After all, even with one's own Hexagram, there are limits to one's calculation abilities.
As Earth Star develops, a population explosion is inevitable. With more and more cultivators, it's impossible for everyone to freely use the Hexagram abilities; otherwise, it wouldn't be able to keep up.
It is still necessary to do the grading and classification of these Spiritual Root.
The traditional Spiritual Root according to the Five Elements is of no use to Li Xingkong. After all, when making calculations, attributes are just one type of known data; they are merely an operator and cannot determine the content of the calculation.
Li Xingkong differentiated Spiritual Root based on the current cultivation method and the possible directions of calculation.
Combat, support, research, skill, and calculation.
Combat-type Spiritual Root can only submit calculation requests related to combat spells to the Hexagram; auxiliary-type roots can only calculate spells other than combat spells; skill-type roots can only calculate matters related to unrelated fields such as alchemy, artifact crafting, and array formations; calculation-type and research-type roots have the highest authority, and can perform calculations on any project as long as the Hexagram has spare computing power.
Of course, the Spiritual Root in each person's body will not be of a pure type. After the Spiritual Root is planted, the initial Spiritual Root will combine the above five types of Spiritual Root in proportion according to the individual's learning inclination, characteristics and abilities, and finally form Spiritual Root that suits the cultivator himself.
Furthermore, Li Xingkong also designed some corresponding methods for changing Spiritual Root. The simplest one is that if a person enters the Divine Land Research Institute through their own efforts, then if they want to use their Spiritual Root, the Spiritual Root originally generated based on their personal attributes will naturally not be suitable.
At this point, he needs to apply to the supercomputer for a change of Spiritual Root. Then the supercomputer will check if this person exists in the research institute's directory. If so, his Spiritual Root will be changed to a separate research-type Spiritual Root.
The classification is now complete; the next step is grading. In Li Xingkong's view, the so-called four levels of Spiritual Root —Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow—are actually just weight levels.
The higher the level of Spiritual Root, the more computing power the supercomputer can allocate to that person. This is to ensure that more important projects can obtain more resources.
Similarly, when applied to people, it means enabling those who are already more capable to access more resources.
Isn't computing power also a resource?
Thus, a relatively complete Spiritual Root system has been designed. Whether this system is good or bad for the current Divine Land Continent, Li Xingkong is unsure.
With this system in place, everyone's cultivation speed will increase significantly, and the overall strength of the entire Divine Land will rise several levels.
However, if cultivators become overly reliant on the Spiritual Root cultivation system, thus developing laziness and no longer studying the principles or exploring the details behind spells, the development of the entire civilization will fall into a distorted state.
Without Hexagram and Spiritual Root, they are just a bunch of headless flies, possessing only cultivation but no substance.
It might even develop to the point where, due to the lack of inheritance of the principles and knowledge behind magic, so-called cultivation will truly become something mysterious and esoteric, and the entire Divine Land might really return to the era of so-called ignorant cultivation.
After completing the design, Li Xingkong pondered whether this thing would be useful or not, but in the end, he still couldn't figure it out.
So he simply stopped thinking about it; it would be a waste of his time to think about such a thing all by himself.
Since this matter involves the entire cultivation community of the Divine Land, it is naturally best to let the public speak and let everyone make the choice.
However, before that, Li Xingkong still needs to produce a few samples. After all, words are not enough. Before seeing the product, even if he says it, probably not many people will actually believe him.
Before creating Spiritual Root, there is one very important thing that needs to be done first.
That means you have to draw a Hexagram yourself and use it as the server for this Spiritual Root.
It's impossible to directly extract a Hexagram from one's own mind; that involves the very foundation of one's cultivation, so naturally, one wouldn't use it.
However, the inability to extract one does not mean that Li Xingkong cannot create another one.
Now that he has reached the Golden Core stage, casting a Hexagram is naturally a piece of cake for him. Moreover, to serve as a shared supercomputer for all cultivators in the Divine Land, the computing power of this Hexagram needs to be raised even higher.
Fortunately, this Hexagram is not inside the human body, so its size is unlimited. Li Xingkong can make it even larger in order to gain stronger computing power.
As for which of the Eight Trigrams to choose as the core of the supercomputer, Li Xingkong has already made a decision.
In terms of creativity, the Qian Hexagram is undoubtedly the most outstanding.