Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1057 - 140: Cultivation Technique, Shadowed Veil

This time, Wang Qi specifically ran the "instance" several times. He almost emptied the old stock of several sects he controlled, like Luochen Sword Palace and Heart Demon Illusion Sect, to refine a storage space for each "Reincarnator" and filled it with exchange items.

Meanwhile, he had Zhen Chan announce a notification, stating that within the Reincarnation Realm exchange list, all cultivation technique prices were decreased by twenty percent, magic artifact prices increased by thirty percent, and elixir prices raised by ten percent, claiming it was an "environmental adjustment" conducted every ten years to welcome new Reincarnators.

At the same time, many cultivation techniques that Wang Qi made up and put on the exchange list just for display, which were extremely low in cost-effectiveness and guaranteed not to be exchanged then found to be mere "advertisement content," were removed by Wang Qi under the guise of "retiring from the environment" and replaced with various second or third-rate law gates he plundered from the Heavenly Book Tower—naturally, having been tampered with.

This enraged many cultivators who had sold off everything to buy divine skills to the point they wished to chop off their own hands. However, Wang Qi completely monopolized the "Reincarnation" and forced them to consume, so they had no choice.

Fortunately, this wave of "retirement from the environment" did not involve the divine skills on the first few pages of the exchange list, or surely many people would have been so regretful they'd commit suicide.

At the same time, he terminated the self-replication process of the Reincarnation Realm mechanism, no longer increasing new Reincarnators. However, the "Reincarnators" would still become another source of contagion for the Divine Plague Curse Technique.

After ensuring more people would choose to save up money for cultivation techniques rather than go down the path of taking drugs, Wang Qi returned to the Heavenly Book Tower.

—Whew, I will no longer run to deliver door-to-door in the future.

Wang Qi stealthily slipped into the Heavenly Book Tower, groped in the dark to find the hospital bed he stayed in earlier. Lying here were all Outer Disciples, and responsible for treating them was only one Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, with no Divine Separation Stage Cultivators paying attention here. Wang Qi quietly snuck back to the bed he stayed in previously, first checking the poor fellow who he left here as a stand-in—well, logically speaking, Wang Qi was now impersonating this guy. After ensuring there were no marks from high-order cultivators casting spells on this poor fellow, nor signs of being examined, Wang Qi "recalled" his identity badge and similar magic artifacts, put the other back into his people-holding bag, and lay back down.

He closed his eyes, his thoughts quietly extending.

The purpose of the "Reincarnator" project included "experimenting with Virtual Form Techniques" and "changing Ancient Method Practitioners' thoughts." Among them, the goal of "changing Ancient Method Practitioners' thoughts" was to undermine the Holy Emperor Venerable.

As the Holy Emperor Venerable had imprisoned the entire Spirit Phoenix Island's ideology, Wang Qi acted against it.

—Whatever the enemy wants to do, don't let him accomplish it.

However, this second goal still failed.

True, the "Assassinate Sect" instance task did succeed in changing some Ancient Method Practitioners, but those changes were not valuable for widespread promotion. Firstly, the practitioners who were changed were all Reincarnators, who had witnessed the heaven and earth Wang Qi arranged, their "vision" had already changed. The "Assassinate Sect" itself was a special environment under extreme conditions. The "Killing Elder" involved not a single person but a strong team comprising every domain covered by all branches of pedagogy. Even so, the Reincarnation Realm spent a full "year" to change those Ancient Method Practitioners' thoughts.

Wang Qi did not believe such a thing could be repeated continuously.

Moreover, once those practitioners who had their thoughts changed "returned" to Spirit Phoenix Island, they might not necessarily promote that ideology, changing others. Even if they indeed preached first, it's unlikely to achieve results soon.

A "Killing Elder" level educational team, the Immortal Alliance could only gather a few teams like that in a short time.

As for the experiment of Virtual Form Techniques, it was very successful.

Whether it's the "Skull-snatching Taotie Treasure Appearance· Swallowing World War Dog True Method" or the "Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Canon," there were a large number of people cultivating them, including main-study, co-study, and auxiliary study. Wang Qi had fully understood various issues that might arise in practical application from these Virtual Form Techniques.

This also substantially increased his understanding of cultivation techniques, equivalent to him retracing the process from the Dataized Cultivation Foundation Establishment Stage to the Core Formation Stage.

"The matter of cultivation techniques is roughly complete." Wang Qi lay on the bed, silently musing.

This is the cost of creating his own path.

In this world, the room for "technology black boxes" is quite large, the gap between "theory" and "technology" is far smaller than in the universe where Earth is located. However, that does not mean this "gap" completely doesn't exist.

In this universe, knowing how to draw relativity spacetime diagrams can to some extent intervene in the flow of time, but the "can intervene" varies in degree. In the same theoretical level, those who have specialized spells can accomplish more than those who complete it purely by theory.

In the Immortal Alliance, theoretical field researchers hold the highest status. However, even the Venerable Masters of Freedom must learn how to translate theories into spells, acquire the various laws of creating spells. And the law gates they create must undergo multiple optimizations by many intermediate cultivators acting in the role of engineers to form the final established methods.

However, Wang Qi's virtual cultivation technique law gate belongs to a completely self-created path, yet he is merely a low-level cultivator, hasn't touched the Primordial Spirit Heaven Barrier, and is not yet qualified to employ a vast team to help him complete his cultivation method.

This is also considered a bit of cost for creating his own path.

However, this cost is only a few years of time, it's not unacceptable.

Anyway, according to the cultivation progress planned by the Immortal Alliance, the Golden Core Stage must last for over nine years; advancing too quickly may cause uncontrollable changes in disposition.

Moreover, this kind of task can also provide Wang Qi with a deeper understanding of "cultivation" and the entire "cultivation system." This has very direct benefits for him to open his path.

In the case where the theoretical level is not particularly high, this kind of intuitive experience is also very beneficial. Especially for cultivators like Wang Qi, whose theoretical level far exceeds his peers but whose spells and cultivation are relatively weak.

After more than half a year of experiments, Wang Qi's own path, which includes the path of the Primordial Spirit in the "Two-Phase Transcendence Chapter," is already nearing completion.

"After the final stage of the experiment is completed, the Virtual Form Primordial Spirit will be ready."

"Only the last two steps remain before breaking the Heavenly Barrier."

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As time passed, the entire Spirit Phoenix Island gradually revived.

During this process, the divine country of the Holy Emperor Venerable also regained its strength. In the void, divine power surged, and several cultivators, represented by Qiushui Daoist, who were near the end of the road to the Mortal World, could even faintly feel the power changes in the underground city.

However, this power could never be restored to its former glory.

Due to martial law, communication among people became extremely limited. Such things have happened before in the 80,000-year history of the Immortal Dao. The believers lose vitality, cannot communicate with each other, and the operation of the divine body and divine power becomes sluggish.

The various systems on Spirit Phoenix Island now ultimately damaged the Holy Emperor Venerable's power.

The Holy Emperor Venerable initially believed that all this would eventually pass. The Phoenix Spirit Fire and the new Mahayana, as he expected, invigorated the spirits of the Ancient Method Practitioners, and the golden trend of the Human Dao on Spirit Phoenix Island had reappeared.

However, when he discovered the masses of fog in his divine country's perception, he finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

This feeling is like ink dropped on the eyeball or looking through a piece of glass covered in mud; most places can be seen clearly, but there are clusters of fog in some places that completely block the perception.

If this feeling only appeared on a small group of people—like those "Reincarnators"—he could still understand it as a signal of that mysterious enemy closing his net, and he might even be happy to join in. However, this haze appeared without any regularity; some people were clearly not Reincarnators before but were covered by this "haze"; some Reincarnators were not protected. Even some sects' Sect Protection Arrays changed their nature, isolating the entire sect from his perception.

This time, the Holy Emperor Venerable did not kill indiscriminately. The turmoil caused last time had not yet subsided. Solving the problem through slaughter again might thoroughly collapse the morale of everyone on Spirit Phoenix Island, and some cultivators would desperately flee to the Shenzhou Continent.

In that case, his plans for ten thousand years would have been in vain.

This haze even included the Heavenly Book Tower, which was one of his trusted aides. Four towers of the Library Tower were also covered by the haze.

The Holy Emperor Venerable realized that fellow had probably already infiltrated Spirit Phoenix Island, right under his nose,

What was hard for him to accept but had to face was that his divine country perception, which he thought could monitor the entire Spirit Phoenix Island, had long since failed.

Therefore, he could only send people to investigate, investigate, and investigate.

Soon, Unification Stage cultivator Tao Guanhong returned with results: "Reporting to the Emperor, in the process of inspection, I found this."

The Holy Emperor Venerable took the thin booklet, and his eyes narrowed.

The Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao and the Luofu Xuanqing Palace Law Gate complemented each other, so the various Law Gates and major cultivation methods looted from Luofu Xuanqing Palace were still open to the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao disciples. Today, most Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao disciples engage in supplementary practices of the Luofu Xuanqing Palace Law Gate.

In terms of level, today's Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao disciples are stronger than they were ten thousand years ago.

As one of the few Unification Stage cultivators of the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao, Tao Guanhong naturally had the right to view the Luofu Xuanqing Palace cultivation methods.

So, he naturally recognized the Law Gate recorded in the thin booklet.

"Is this one of the 129,600 spells of the Upper Mysterious Red Tripod Three Caverns Art?"

The Holy Emperor Venerable had already memorized that cultivation method and naturally blurted it out now.