Digital Life

Venerable Yuan's words also showed Yi Xuan another way out.

If we could obtain the cultivation methods of those second-generation immortals, wouldn't everything be solved?

Nowadays, obtaining Spiritual Qi from our Mother Planet is not easy, but obtaining Immortal Qi is much simpler.

Do you know that method?

Although I had already guessed the outcome.

But Yi Xuan only gave up completely after seeing Venerable Yuan shake his head.

It makes sense, really. If everyone knew this method, those ordinary immortals wouldn't be in such a terrible situation as Venerable Yuan described.

In Yi Xuan's view, this cultivation method was like the peaches of immortality in Journey to the West.

Who were the people invited to the Queen Mother of the West of the West's Peach Banquet?

They were almost all powerful beings from the Immortal Realm, or ordinary people like Zhu Bajie who had powerful backers.

People like Curtain-Lifting General have neither connections nor ability.

What else can you do besides just sit there and swallow your saliva?

Venerable Yuan's status in the Immortal Realm is even far inferior to that of Curtain-Lifting General!

At least he was the one who rolled up the curtains for the emperor.

As for Yuan Zu? At best, he was just a village official sent to another area!

How can you compare them?

So let alone whether such a cultivation method exists, it's already quite an achievement that he's even heard of it.

Yi Xuan wasn't too disappointed.

You could say this is a possible direction, wouldn't you say?

Compared to focusing solely on finding a planet where one can cultivate, this provides another avenue for advancement.

What if I ever have the chance to meet a master who knows this method?

If Yi Xuan offers enough, I don't believe he won't be tempted.

After Venerable Yuan left, Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai followed closely behind and came to Yi Xuan's side.

"How is it? Is the formation issue resolved?"

"Um!"

Chen Jiaping nodded, but there was no smile on his face.

Yi Xuan looked at Elder Hai with some confusion.

"What? Not going well? Wasn't everything going smoothly before? Wasn't the analysis of the formation supposed to be in its final stages?"

"That's right!"

Elder Hai turned to look at Chen Jiaping and nodded, saying:

"The analysis of the formation went very smoothly; it was completed six months ago!"

"That's a good thing!"

"Alas! It's not as simple as we thought! We originally thought that as long as we fully analyzed the formation, we could crack it, imitate it, and even set up our own!"

"That's right!"

"But in reality, we can't do any of the three things you just mentioned!"

These words left Yi Xuan somewhat bewildered.

But Elder Hai nodded again with a wry smile.

"This is the final result! We've figured out every detail and function of that formation, but we can't reproduce it!"

Although he still had some doubts, Yi Xuan nodded.

This situation also frequently occurs in the field of technology.

Many high-tech products are theoretically sound; all that's needed is to replicate them step by step according to the theoretical requirements.

However, once you actually try it, you'll find that there's a significant difference between theory and practice.

Things that are theoretically feasible always seem to stall in practice.

In the end, the time spent trying to achieve the goal, even if it was a difficult one, was longer than the time spent on theoretical derivation.

This is caused by a mismatch in the technological processes.

The same phenomenon is observed in humans.

Many times, your brain tells you you know how, but when you try to do it, your hands tell you you don't know at all.

After Yi Xuan finished reading the array analysis they brought back, he realized that it was basically the same as what he had thought.

The main reason why we are only at the analysis stage regarding this grand formation is due to our outdated methods.

The methods used by immortals to set up formations are completely different from those used by cultivators.

The immortals who can set up such a multi-layered formation possess techniques that even the Venerable Yuan had never heard of.

Fortunately, Yi Xuan wasn't too obsessed with this formation.

Understanding its function is enough.

According to Elder Hai's description, the specific function of this formation is actually to gather souls!

This coincides with Yi Xuan's previous guess.

It was this formation that trapped countless souls within the asteroid belt.

It was precisely because of the existence of this formation that these souls were plunged into endless wailing.

Because they discovered that this formation not only gathers souls, but also refines them!

The great formation was constantly drawing soul power from these souls.

The grand formation will then refine the soul power and inject it into the void.

As for where that void extended to, they had no idea.

"Is it possible for us to rescue those souls?"

"Difficult! Almost impossible to complete!"

Chen Jiaping shook his head and said, "That great formation is like a nail, firmly pinning those souls to the planetary belt. Unless their soul power is completely exhausted, there is no chance of them escaping!"

Yi Xuan nodded to indicate that he understood.

No wonder the Dawn didn't find these souls when it passed through the asteroid belt; it must have been thanks to this massive formation.

"What if... I mean, what if! I only save the soul, without saving the power of the soul? Is it possible to succeed?"

Upon hearing this, Elder Hai and Chen Jiaping were dumbfounded.

What kind of talk is this? Wanting to save the soul, but not the power to save the soul?

How is that possible? The soul is composed of soul power; the two are inherently one, so how can they be separated?

However, after thinking about it carefully, Chen Jiaping seemed to understand Yi Xuan's meaning.

"You're not referring to digital life, are you?"

"It's digital life!"

Chen Jiaping truly lived up to Yi Xuan's high regard for his talent; with just a little guidance, he grasped the key to the matter.

According to the Immortal Body, the soul and soul power are indeed inseparable.

However, the concept of digital life exists within the scientific framework.

Upload human consciousness and live in a virtual world using computers as a medium.

This operation fundamentally does not require so-called soul power, because from a scientific point of view, the uploaded soul is just a string of data or a series of programs.

These things do not require any energy.

Since Elder Hai had limited exposure to science, he was not clear about what so-called digital life was.

Fortunately, with Yi Xuan's explanation, he gradually understood the relationship.

After discussing it with Chen Jiaping for a long time, the two finally gave Yi Xuan a positive answer!

The method is feasible!

The problem lies with the medium that provides the virtual world.

Conservative estimates suggest that there may be tens of billions of life forms in the entire asteroid belt.

Uploading so many lives is simply beyond the capacity of a typical computer.

This was also what they were most worried about.

But Yi Xuan waved his hand. "Yes, it is indeed a problem, but it's not unsolvable! See this big guy in front of us?"

Only after Yi Xuan reminded them did the two turn their attention to what was behind Yi Xuan.

There was a huge sphere placed there.

Or rather, it's a giant helmet that looks no different from the ones used by motorcyclists.

However, the helmet's visor was down, so the two could not see what was inside.

Yi Xuan said proudly, "This is the latest quantum biological computer, and it has entered the debugging phase. Based on the current testing, its performance should meet our needs!"