Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1040 - 123: News and Lessons

Wang Qi received Zhao Xiangshen's secret message while he was conducting an experiment in a new location he had found.

This place was a seeping mining pit.

He hadn't been able to find a suitable sect to infiltrate in a short time, so he simply came here— a mining pit at the northwestern edge of the underground city of Spirit Phoenix Island.

Spirit Phoenix Island is a volcanic island formed millions of years ago. Since the Dragon Clan had anchored the continental plate of the West Sea, this area is unusually stable, with few earthquakes. The volcano that formed Spirit Phoenix Island had long since become completely extinct. Yet, after millions of years of gestation, a large vein of Spirit Stone extended for thousands of miles at the bottom of Spirit Phoenix Island. This Spirit Stone vein is immense, comparable only to the "Central Plains Mine," which supported the era of Ancient Immortals transmitting methods, as well as the "Kunlun Mine," "Qinshui Mine," and "Jianglong Mine," which supported the brilliance of the Middle Ages.

If it weren't for those once massive veins that had long been mined out, the glory of the Immortal Dao wouldn't exist.

When this large vein appeared, Holy Emperor Venerable's public esteem reached its peak, considered to be "destined by heaven" and "heaven's aid to the righteous skill."

The Spirit Stones produced here, according to the Ancient Method Practitioner's classification, are either of Fire Element or Water Element. For many cultivators not of the Water Element or Fire Element, absorption is difficult, but it's better than nothing. Without the support of this vein, no matter how strong Holy Emperor Venerable is, he wouldn't be able to lead the Ancient Method Practitioners until today.

However, after more than two thousand years of mining, this once "magnificent" vein has developed many large hollows, like a piece of worm-eaten rotten wood. Some places even seep water, with an extremely harsh environment. If cultivators above the Core Formation Stage were involved, it might still be manageable. But why would cultivators above the Core Formation Stage come to work as miners?

The existence of low-level cultivators is to collect resources for high-level cultivators so they can cultivate in peace, isn't it?

Since the miners are all at the Qi Cultivation Stage, when working in this vein, some areas that have been mined and have little left are automatically circumvented by the Qi Cultivation Stage miners.

Wang Qi also has enough area to place himself.

Zhao Xiangshen's secret message was not complex. It was only a few sentences. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Holy Emperor Venerable sent someone to inquire about the ring."

"Sima Jue has spoken."

Facing Zhao Xiangshen's secret message, Wang Qi merely nodded his head, responding with, "Got it." His abilities were different from before. Due to the data accumulated from recent experiments, he could already "install" the capability to construct a Virtual Divine Country on some small Magic Artifacts, deceitfully misleading Holy Emperor Venerable's perception to a limited extent.

Regarding Zhao Xiangshen's message, Wang Qi didn't even need to think to understand what it was about.

At Luofu Xuanqing Palace, he did not deliberately hide the ring "Mathematics." Currently, this ring from the Ancient Mathematicians during the Middle Ages is his primary Magic Artifact, making it inconvenient to constantly conceal. Therefore, many in Luochen Sword Palace have seen it.

"'Sima Jue has spoken,' heh, this is meant to show loyalty to you, yet to put a little eye medicine on Sima Jue." Zhen Chan child disclosed the implicit information. Wang Qi was indifferent: "Let him be."

Such information being leaked to Holy Emperor Venerable is no big deal, no more than intensifying Holy Emperor Venerable's pursuit of "Xia Li." But who really is Xia Li? What does he have to do with Wang Qi? Who can prove?

His current appearance is clearly different from Xia Li!

Zhen Chan whispered: "I think, have you overlooked something very important?"

"I overlooked... Senior Sister Mi?" Wang Qi scratched his head: "Alright, it's a bit troublesome... but Senior Sister Mi is of Immortal level life, after all. At most, those Ancient Method Practitioners could ruin her Human Clan physical body, posing no real harm, right? To Senior Sister Mi's extensive body, losing the number of cells equivalent to a little girl's size physical body is insignificant—I'll apologize to her properly afterward."

—ugh, the notion of "Senior Sister Mi cannot be harmed" is deeply rooted in consciousness, making me forget her while running away...

—Hope those Ancient Method Practitioners don't use "Xia Mi" to threaten "Xia Li"...

Wang Qi shook his head, throwing these matters out of his mind, focusing his gaze on a cultivator sitting dazedly in front of him.

He clapped his hands and asked, "Did you get it? Understand it?"

The cultivator's previously blank face suddenly became animated, merging into an expression that was a mix of collapse and anger: "You... why are you doing such a thing? You evil demon! Evil demon!"

Wang Qi clasped his hands and bent in a bow: "Sorry, I've always felt uneasy and guilty about deceiving you, so I specially told you these things."

While communicating with Luochen Sword Palace and chatting with Zhen Chan just now, Wang Qi also showed this cultivator video recordings of how he constructed the "Reincarnation Realm," how he found the "crowd actors," and how he "delivered the goods." He wanted the cultivator to realize that the so-called Reincarnation Realm was essentially a scam. Everything he had experienced was just a dream.

"Ahhhhh!" The cultivator screamed. He wailed and shouted: "Then the 'Dao' I comprehended all these days..."

"I'm sorry, it's all fake. I told you those 'mindset stories'—like the ones you heard before your 'Enlightenment,' all those little life stories were acted by people I hired."

"Then... the cycle of battles I experienced..."

"Sorry, sorry, they were all real Mirage Games—oh, a form of art becoming popular in Shenzhou, equivalent to telling stories through Illusion Technique."

"Shura Killing Field..."

"That was just a nightmare stimulated in your brain, very simple."

Each time the Ancient Method Cultivator asked a question, Wang Qi explained the principle.

The Ancient Method Cultivator's whole body trembled, then he roared towards the sky, "I will kill you!"

He threw a punch, and Wang Qi blocked it with a single palm, then countered with a hand chop. The two immediately started fighting.

However, although both were in the Golden Core Stage, their quality was entirely different. The collapsing cultivator couldn't even touch Wang Qi, who completely suppressed him with pure mana.

Wang Qi wanted to observe the changes in this person's Martial Arts Fist Intent, so he didn't end the fight immediately. While fending off the attacks, he shouted, "Hey, hey, where's your Martial Arts Fist Intent? Is it the 'Bright Moon in the Sky' thing?"

"Ahhhh!" The cultivator instinctively raised his fist, emanating Mysterious Yin Qi. But he seemed to recall some unbearable memories, causing his momentum to dissipate directly.

"Hey, hey, is this going to become 'Hard to Look Back at the Bright Moon in the Old Country'? Show your momentum! Momentum!" Wang Qi shouted, increasing the power in his hands. The cultivator immediately felt precarious. Wang Qi controlled his moves precisely, making the cultivator feel like he would be killed in the next second, but he couldn't die no matter what.

"Ahhhh!" The cultivator howled miserably, and on the brink of life and death, unleashed a resolute momentum, concentrating all his power onto his palms, delivering a strike at Wang Qi.

"Still nothing." Wang Qi exchanged dozens of moves with the cultivator, then asked Zhen Chan, "How is it?"

"Can't produce Martial Arts True Intent." Zhen Chan's tone was lazy.

Wang Qi casually knocked the cultivator down, then placed a sigil on him to induce a state of feigned death, turning to ask the other three, "Did you feel it?"

These three were people who hadn't collapsed after hearing the truth. They also didn't possess Martial Arts True Intent, so Wang Qi kept them around as "human measuring instruments."

Because one's subjective judgment could easily influence the result, Wang Qi specifically released a few people to help him observe changes in cultivators who "perceived non-existent Martial Arts True Intent."

And the states he recorded were only four types: "No Change," "Just Weakened," "Completely Disappeared," and "Completely Changed in Nature."

When these three heard Wang Qi's question, two shook their heads, indicating they felt nothing, while the other hesitated, saying, "I... seem to have felt something..."

"Both the old man and I didn't, and number two's sensation is 'weakened,' number one and three didn't feel anything..." Wang Qi recorded this information.

Then, he sighed, "It's really easy to understand. Now, the ones with 'erased reincarnation memories' have basically lost their Martial Arts True Intent. However, some people's Martial Arts True Intent has only weakened to a subtle extent. Is Martial Arts True Intent a kind of 'knowledge' rather than 'experience'? Furthermore, as long as one knows their experience is false, the Martial Arts True Intent will change. However, the proportions of weakening, disappearing, and mutating are quite significant..."

Wang Qi shook his head. It was difficult to draw any conclusions from this data in his hands. He had some expertise in animal behavior, but this field involving subjective judgment was not his strength, and this data in his hands was hard to develop into a systematic theory.

However, Wang Qi was not fighting alone. As long as he could connect to the network, he could instantly find experts in related fields who could utilize this data.

This could accumulate his intuitive understanding of "Martial Arts True Intent." And this intuitive understanding would play a role in his next phase of planning.

After dealing with the cultivator who once possessed "non-existent Martial Arts True Intent," Wang Qi turned to the three and said, "Alright, I've finished my matters for today, and next I'll guide your cultivation. Is there anything you didn't understand from what I taught yesterday?"

The three of them showed delighted expressions. In their eyes, although Wang Qi seemed crazy and somewhat unfathomable, he was mostly kind—in that he truly guided them.

These days, Wang Qi would occasionally release some cultivators and then guide their practice.

No matter how genius an Ancient Method Cultivator was, their understanding of cultivation was self-derived and far less efficient compared to the Modern Immortal Path where millions pursued the same path. Therefore, under Wang Qi's comprehensive guidance, everyone learned rapidly.

And Wang Qi was quite pleased.

"Now, preparations for the next step of the plan are even more sufficient!"