Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1009 - 93: Primordial Spirit Trial
It was as if a special form of life was rooted in nothingness. Two faint green lights transformed into vine-like entities, intertwining and folding within a three-dimensional space.
This is the marvelous transformation of the DNA double helix long chain forming chromosomes and even proteins.
The extraordinary topology grants it an astonishing length. Perhaps because it is folded within a small space, many people unconsciously underestimate its length. However, just as the human blood vessels seem short but can reach a total length of two hundred thousand miles, this tortuous structure always strikes one as incredible.
In reality, it is extremely long.
Such a long spiritual body is naturally meant to record the Spirit Sense. On this long chain, which imitates the root of human blood vessels, the arrangement of Yin and Yang exists. Two types of base pairs, arranged in the form of zero and one, lay out the mysteries of Wang Qi's cultivation technique. And this arrangement of Yin and Yang itself also dictates the tortuous topology of the long chain.
In Shenzhou, there exists a rather "non-mainstream" concept. This concept asserts that the boundaries between species do not fundamentally lie in the macro but rather in the micro. The micro is the only reality. The Bloodline Spirit Rhinoceros recorded within the double helix is the essence of life beings.
In other words, the difference between "life being" and "life being" does not rest upon macroscopic characteristics, but on microscopic "information."
And microscopic information is determined by the double helix structure.
In other words, this double helix structure is everything encapsulated in the term "life being."
Wang Qi personally is not fond of this statement. Once a physicist, he always believes that "every level has its own rules," and truth stepping beyond its domain turns into fallacy.
At the microlevel, the arrangement of base pairs displaying Yin Yang Transformation can indeed determine the macroscopic living being. However, the living being is ultimately not solely determined by the innate. Acquired, non-hereditary traits also constitute the characteristics of life beings. These pieces of information, not included in the bloodline, also influence life beings. For humans, "social nature" and "wisdom," the two most important traits, are entirely acquired postnatally.
On a higher level, what is called evolution is the interaction of the biosphere with all inorganic layers on a planet's surface. Sometimes, it even involves extraterrestrial stars, meteorites...
Of course, this is not a domain he can engage in at present. Even Ai Qinglan's expertise in genetic evolution is not enough to enlighten her in this domain, let alone Wang Qi.
It is precisely because of this that, at this stage, although Wang Qi can simulate the appearance of the Heavenly Selection Double Helix Primordial Spirit using external force, he has not truly managed to unify this Primordial Spirit Skill both internally and externally, connecting the "internal of species" with the "external environment," nor has he developed the ability to construct a true Primordial Spirit Magical Domain with this Primordial Spirit Skill, utilizing the light of evolution to penetrate heaven and earth.
However, at Wang Qi's current stage, empirical practice in this aspect is out of the question. With the Holy Emperor Venerable nearby, he can mess around a bit within Luochen Sword Palace, but constructing a large-scale Primordial Spirit Magical Domain would be courting death.
The reason for choosing the Heavenly Selection Double Helix Primordial Spirit for early experimentation is because the construction condition for this Primordial Spirit Skill, aside from the Xiangyu Heavenly Position Primordial Spirit, is the lowest. The Great Yan Sky Map Technique requires expanding some micro-level rules to the macro, while the Universal Sky Vaulting Technique, as the name suggests, needs to recreate cosmic scale space-time curvature and irregularities within conventional scales.
The Xiangyu Heavenly Position Primordial Spirit Skill is currently the most compatible Primordial Spirit Skill with Wang Qi, and he anticipates modifying his next Law Gate based on it, thus preparing to test it last.
The Heavenly Selection Double Helix Primordial Spirit is different. Its essence is life being, is negative entropy; as long as there's computing power to sustain its operation, it will spontaneously advance towards stability.
The long chain of helix, like a long snake with mysterious patterns. The "snake head" flexibly elevates, then slowly extends towards Wang Qi.
Wang Qi also slowly extends his left index finger, gently pointing towards the anomaly of that Primordial Spirit.
Then, he feels...
As if a weak electric current pierced through his brain, a powerful flow of Spirit Sense poured into his mind. It was the cultivation technique he had encoded into the long chain, yet it was neither the cultivation he nor anyone else had encoded. Within the folding, the long chain optimized it. Although this optimization is insignificant compared to Wang Qi's own efforts, nonetheless, this is something the Primordial Spirit Skill completed independently.
A Primordial Spirit Skill capable of undergoing intense transformation by itself, replacing the old with the new!
Wang Qi's finger, touching the long chain of the Primordial Spirit, suddenly emitted an infinite green light. The Life Flame automatically ignited, white firelight twirling around, seemingly having found its belonging, actively integrating into the long chain of the Primordial Spirit. Then, the Primordial Spirit long chain accelerated its rotation. Within the helix, the Life Flame gradually spread across the entire long chain.
The surrounding nature's Spiritual Energy went berserk, madly pouring into the long chain. At the same time, Wang Qi also sensed a trace of his mana, along with a trace of his soul, plunging into that long chain.
He could feel, the Primordial Spirit long chain was not merely a chain of light. It was a highly condensed mana with extraordinary characteristics. In places where the double helix long chain extended, negative entropy dominated everything, and the second law of thermodynamics, which left traces everywhere at conventional scales, seemed to suddenly vanish, the mode of Spiritual Energy operation began to change, even space, within conventional scales, lost its flatness in a special way, turning into a mysterious vortex.
Wang Qi's consciousness swept across the entire long chain like lightning. The green and white light spread, increasingly brighter. All the cultivators in Luochen Sword Palace sensed something peculiar. If Wang Qi continued, perhaps he would no longer be able to conceal the omen, then he himself might be fused into this long chain of Primordial Spirit.
"It's now!"
At this moment, the voice of Mi resounded. Accompanying this voice was a flash of sword light. Mei Sicheng drew his sword, and the vast expanse of sword light filled the void, sweeping towards the double helix chains. Just like high-energy particles damaging and severing the human bloodstream, the Heavenly Selection Double Helix Primordial Spirit crumbled under the sword light. After all, it was merely a virtual primordial spirit Wang Qi controlled by using external objects to shape nature's spiritual energy, not a true primordial spirit, and it did not possess any special power, lacking even spirituality. Without any counterattack, it was shattered by Mei Sicheng in a single move.
Even earlier, Jarvis had already shut down the Path Rank of the simulated primordial spirit in the background.
Even without the help of others, with Jarvis's cooperation, Wang Qi could independently complete this experience. Mi and Mei Sicheng served more as a safety measure.
Wang Qi grasped his left index finger. Now his finger touching the primordial spirit was swollen entirely. Wang Qi curiously looked at it. Soon, the inexplicable swelling's color turned darker, shifting from red to blue, from blue to black, eventually becoming entirely black. The finger of Wang Qi also became increasingly thick, like a small radish.
Calmly, Wang Qi extracted a few silver needles from his waist, piercing into himself, blocking the pain. Then, without a flicker of emotion, he pulled out a sword and sliced off his finger.
"Tsk..." Mei Sicheng remarked with astonishment, "Mr. Wang is indeed decisive."
"Decisive? It's merely because there's no need to pay a price." Mi snorted, "Just watch..."
Sure enough, Wang Qi once again donned his specially designed gloves. These specialized protective gloves are tailored for those who practice techniques like 'limb regeneration,' capable of guiding limb growth to prevent misalignment or deviation from the standard, highly useful.
With the Life Flame, it's very easy for Wang Qi to recover lost parts of his physical body.
"This kid won't even feel a hint of pain—he preemptively blocked his pain perception." Mi said, "For the average person, the only cost might be a psychological knot. However...do you think this person is someone who harbors psychological knots?"
Mei Sicheng had nothing to say in response.
Wang Qi shifted the silver needle on his left hand with his right hand, then picked up the finger he had just cut off. His left hand waved in the air, and immediately it appeared again with five intact fingers—this was naturally an illusion technique. Wang Qi's silver needles disrupted the information transfer between his arm and his soul, his brain. Commands issued to his fingers were intercepted by the silver needles, then converted into spirit signal for Jarvis, and Jarvis would control the finger's phantom in real time—Wang Qi would not even feel any inconvenience.
Mi walked over and asked, "After preparing for months, has it come to this? What's the conclusion?"
"Rushing to break through the Heavenly Barrier is not a good idea." Wang Qi raised his one finger and said, "Here, look."
"Is it the Heavenly Selection Spirit True Light, or the vein root's evolved Power of Poison?"
The Heavenly Selection Spirit True Light is quite an ancient divine skill of Tianling Ridge. It is similar to a martial arts fist intent, lofty and attacking every inch of an enemy's flesh, collapsing every slightly weaker part. Using this ability on oneself is a way to temper one's own cultivation method. Used on enemies, it becomes a first-class combat divine power.
But it causes comprehensive death on the cellular level.
And vein roots, when used offensively, directly disrupt the opponent's internal bloodline spirit rhinoceros replication process. The Transformation Divine Power of the Dragon Clan does not alter the bloodline itself, only its expression form, but vein roots modify even the bloodline spirit rhinoceros itself, incredibly terrifying.
The most basic attack of a vein root is "bloodline spirit rhinoceros failure, cells rapidly undergo apoptosis."
The final effects of these two divine skills are very much alike in many ways.
Wang Qi shook his head, "I don't know. It might not be an issue with the Primordial Spirit Skill, but rather the high-intensity spiritual power disturbing the observed atomic structure, causing errors in the transcription process of the bloodline spirit rhinoceros. It might also simply be altering all macroscopic tensors, causing the cell membranes to rupture simultaneously. These are possible problems encountered at the Primordial Spirit Heavenly Barrier."
Cavalierly, Wang Qi incinerated the severed finger, his entire body bathed in red-black radiance, erasing the abnormal vitality the primordial spirit had brought. Simultaneously, he swallowed several elixirs, replenishing the lost substance in his body.
The reason for undergoing such an experience was, in fact, an unavoidable matter.
The main body of human memory is always non-declarative memory. Although the memories individuals can consciously recognize are mostly declarative, many memories like "how to walk" are quite substantial if converted to data.
The more a skill relates to the physical body, the higher the proportion of non-declarative memory. Ancient Method Practitioners rely heavily on it, with most cultivators being in this category. Modern Cultivators have somewhat changed, but some aspects still remain.
This part cannot yet be well expressed in language; Wang Qi has to personally experience it.
