Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1038 - 121: Retrieving Data
The most terrifying and devastating massacre in the history of Spirit Phoenix Island ended in just a few minutes.
To narrate the event in detail might require ten to twenty thousand words, but indeed, it concluded in three minutes.
Two of those minutes were spent with Daoist Zhen Ru's Dao Heart collapsing and him running wildly, half a minute for Zheng Wentai to kill Daoist Zhenhe and then conduct a soul search. The last half minute was when the Holy Emperor Venerable unleashed a massacre on the Ancient Method Practitioners.
That bloody craze lasted less than half a minute.
Half a minute wasn't even enough time for those Ancient Method Practitioners to pass messages amongst themselves or even comprehend the situation. Meanwhile, Wang Qi's golden light continued to spread.
It wasn't until the Holy Emperor Venerable's Divine Country appeared, refining this wave of curse power on a large scale.
And before the Holy Emperor Venerable finished refining this portion of Heart Demon Curse power, it had already infected a quarter of the current inhabitants on Spirit Phoenix Island, only ceasing under the mechanism Wang Qi had preset.
Then, the Divine Country Technique gradually faded away. The entire underground city on Spirit Phoenix Island was in an uproar.
Too many people were killed, yet many others benefited from the mysterious spirit light, making slight progress in their cultivation. Even a few Golden Core Stage cultivators reached the realm of Golden Core Perfection due to this incident.
The usually deserted paths of Spirit Phoenix Island's underground city were suddenly filled with countless Cultivators rushing about.
Wang Qi also walked along the small paths between sects. Strangely, although he was walking right there, not a single Ancient Method Practitioner saw him. Yet, every Ancient Method Practitioner would subconsciously feel a pang of unease and instinctively avoid his location as they neared him.
At the moment he brushed past a Cultivator with a pleased expression, a white, peculiar ghostly image appeared behind Wang Qi. It was entirely white, with a strange coronet on its head—the ghost soldier "White Snake" that Wang Qi hadn't used in a long time, regressed from "Heaven Creation" back to its original form.
After entering the Golden Core Stage, Wang Qi was no longer particularly interested in the ability of "Heaven Creation" to manipulate the Cave Heaven Comparison Ruler. In contrast, during this task, the ability of "White Snake" might prove more useful, so he repressed this ghost soldier's power, allowing it to manifest in its initial form again.
At the moment Wang Qi brushed past the Golden Core Cultivator with a pleased expression, "White Snake" raised its hand, scraping the face of the Ancient Method Practitioner. Its hand passed through the head of the Ancient Method Practitioner and then pulled out a disk-shaped spirit light.
"Another 'third part'..." Without turning back, Wang Qi took out a calculator terminal. The ghost soldier "White Snake" automatically placed the light group into the terminal.
The Holy Emperor Venerable didn't know that although the Heart Demon Curse and Divine Plague Curse Technique complement each other and seem like a single unit, they are in fact two different spells. He refined all the Heart Demon Curse power, also destroying the "replica Path Rank" that had merged with the Heart Demon Curse, but the data was still stored in the souls of the takers in the form of data.
Neither the brain nor the soul supports this "format" of "files," so ordinary people wouldn't even realize they have gained such a segment of memory.
"Find a few more data points, compare them to avoid any discrepancies in the data replication process from affecting the analysis."
Wang Qi continued walking down the street, retrieving his data. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
This is firsthand data on the Divine Plague Curse's erosion of Unification Stage Cultivators. Although a single experiment's single result is insufficient as a theoretical basis, this is an important foundation for Wang Qi in contemplating his next path.
Wang Qi's next task included designing new experiments based on this data.
And some of the subjects were right now in the pocket at his waist.
Zhen Chan sighed, "You've killed over fifty thousand Golden Core Perfectionists and Nascent Souls just to kidnap less than fifty Cultivators who haven't even averaged Mid-Stage Golden Core. You might be the only one doing such a trade?"
The Ancient Method Sects in the underground city of Spirit Phoenix Island had already lost over fifty thousand people. This wave of loss is bound to trigger unrest. Some sects will seize this opportunity to strike their enemies ruthlessly, causing many more to die. Even the Holy Emperor Venerable himself might not completely remember who he killed.
In this context, the mysterious disappearances of dozens, even hundreds of people are not even worth mentioning.
"Huh? I actually think this wave isn't a loss at all," Wang Qi said calmly. "Besides, was it really me who did the killing? Did I take action just now? No, right? Didn't you see? I didn't even use mana just now!"
Zhen Chan ignored the latter half of Wang Qi's sentence and countered, "Oh, not a loss?"
"Anyway, those who died earlier were bound to be eliminated sooner or later; dying early or late doesn't make much difference. But the ones I've taken are those who haven't had any significant stains yet and still have hope for improvement," Wang Qi said. "Besides, let me clarify once again, my primary goal indeed included getting rid of that batch of Cultivators, not just kidnapping."
Among those Cultivators were quite a few base points of the Holy Emperor Venerable's Divine Country. Even if they didn't have old cases, Wang Qi would still find a chance to eliminate them.
For nothing else than to weaken the Holy Emperor Venerable's control over the Divine Country.
And now, the Holy Emperor Venerable himself has killed a large batch of his subordinates, surely causing unrest among people. Coupled with the fact that the Holy Emperor Venerable himself removed some crucial supporting elements of his Divine Country, that Divine Country's law will become somewhat unstable.
This "instability" will fully erupt in the next two or three days.
By that time, Wang Qi can use the Heart Demon Mysterious Net to further infiltrate the Ancient Method Practitioners of Spirit Phoenix Island.
"The next step is to find a stable place to settle down. Let me think, that ghostly place Luochen Sword Palace has other tasks, definitely can't go back there. Next, which sect should I look to trouble?"
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After the Divine Country vanished, Holy Emperor Venerable tiredly walked to Zheng Wentai's side.
He still held in his hand a golden, seemingly tangible light sphere, which was the Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell.
This Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell was not the first time Holy Emperor Venerable had seen it. As early as the first time that mysterious "Evil Demon" remotely confronted him through the Divine Country, he had felt its terrifying power. Yet at that time, this mysterious power merely spread along the Karma Line and had not demonstrated such terrifying capability, so Holy Emperor Venerable had not expected its true function was such corrosion.
"Able to invade individuals without hindrance, yet able to erode others along causal connections... the spell of that evil demon, so devoid of mercy."
He held this Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell, laboriously collected with his spirit. He intended to explore its attributes, and within his vast memory, find a Law Gate that could control it.
Holy Emperor Venerable secretly resolved that if that mysterious enemy dared to use the same means against him a third time, he would make them regret it.
"Wentai, indeed, I plan to grant you entry into my Divine Country and become a Divine General." Holy Emperor Venerable shook his head.
Immortals are not entirely without emotions. It's just that their "emotions" often deviate from common understanding.
Holy Emperor Venerable shouted angrily: "Wentai, get up for me!"
As Holy Emperor Venerable voiced this admonishment, light golden radiance emerged around him. This area was his Divine Country's domain; anyone who died had their soul captured and refined by his Divine Country. Now, Holy Emperor Venerable returned a trace of an already refined soul to Zheng Wentai, making him akin to Holy Emperor Venerable's Spirit Beast, Spirit Slave. He could no longer generate self-awareness, but could perfectly exhibit all past events.
Holy Emperor Venerable knew that memories were not only contained within the soul. The body also stores memory.
"I ask you, what did you find when you Soul Searched that Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator?"
"The Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao's destruction of Luofu Xuanqing Palace had other peculiarities... utterly mysterious and connecting All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, the 'Reincarnation Realm'... cultivation penetrating the heavens, enigmatic, suspected ancient existence 'Reincarnation Realm Master'... Daoist Yixin died in the Reincarnation Realm... the killer was 'Sa oh ah re re re ran ran ran'..."
"Daoist Yixin also died?" Holy Emperor Venerable was suddenly shocked. Though he had killed many just now, he distinctly remembered not killing any Divine Separation Stage Cultivator.
This is understandable. Due to the excessively short nurturing time, the Heart Demon Curse Power emerging from the Cultivator's body is very weak, with very limited spreading range, and easily defended against by High Order Cultivators, while Divine Separation Stage Cultivators can resist to some extent.
Actually, even the frail resistance of Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators could gain two to three seconds' time, allowing Holy Emperor Venerable to promptly obliterate some of the terrifying curse light.
Thus, the curse light didn't choose Cultivators above Divine Separation Stage for erosion.
——It seems, Daoist Yixin's death is peculiar.
Holy Emperor Venerable quickly started to calculate.
"That Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator from Ruyi Daoist School came over because Daoist Yixin died..."
"And Daoist Yixin's death..."
"Moreover, the battle ten thousand years ago, something peculiar?"
"Impossible, I clearly participated in that battle. Though I was just a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator then, I saw clearly, Luofu Xuanqing Palace indeed was pressed to a dead end. I later methodically calculated the number of sects wiped out according to the seized Sect name list... there should be no peculiarity in that combat."
"If there's only one thing that can't be determined... the disappearance of Zhen Chan ten thousand years ago?"
"No, no, Zhen Chan clearly already suffered fatal injuries at that time."
Holy Emperor Venerable wasn't foolish enough to directly believe the news transmitted by Daoist Zhen Ru. That was evidently intentionally released by the enemy. Nevertheless, among these pieces of information, there were still some keywords worth noting.
For instance—Reincarnation.
"What exactly is this Reincarnation?"
