On, on, the sign of breakthroughs, profound in its influence due to a cultivator's cultivation reaching Spirit Communication, forming a spectacle unto itself.
Every breakthrough a cultivator makes is a sublimation of their life. Beyond the three realms in the Human World, a cultivator's internal system gradually becos perfected. Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishnt, Core Formation, each qualitative change actually has an on. However, the ons of Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishnt are confined within the body, and all others can perceive are the tumultuous waves of nature's spiritual energy.
By the ti one reaches the Golden Core, having control over the "hub," a cultivator's life system and internal world approach completion, capable of preliminary connectivity to Heaven and Earth. It is then that the on becos quite conspicuous.
And upon reaching the Primordial Spirit Stage, a cultivator opens the bridge between Heaven and Earth, linking the inner and outer worlds, beginning the transformation into a fully open system, maintaining constant Entropy Reduction. This step puts the range of the on's influence on an entirely different scale from the Golden Core Stage. Clouds of Qingyun bring sweet dew, purple mists co from the east for three thousand miles, Heavenly Flowers Falling and Earth Bursting Golden Lotus are all but a fraction.
In Wang Qi's perception, this on enveloped the entire courtyard, not a wide area, precisely the on of Golden Core Early Formation. And this on manifested as fluctuations in Gravity. Wang Qi only felt the ground inexplicably tilting, with scenes in his vision becoming slightly misaligned and distorted.
"Did that kid Ai Changyuan finally succeed with the Artificial Golden Core?"
Wang Qi didn't think there was soone who mainly studied Gravity as their Cultivation Technique just so happening to live next door, who then had a Golden Core Breakthrough. Although the Heavenly Song directly points to the essence of Electromagnetic Force, it is entirely in the essence of Mathematics, with the Great Dao at its simplest, returning to the pure and unadulterated form, which is why it is widespread. Gravity, however, is much harder to describe, and Gravity Domain Cultivation Techniques are infinitely more complex than Heavenly Song.
Wang Qi kicked open the gate with one foot and walked into the courtyard. There, in the center of an exceedingly intricate Array, his Ghost Soldier floated amidst the void, with Spiritual Energy swirling around, a Qi Vein River coming from beyond the heavens, traversing layers upon layers of Spirit Energy Fields, pouring into the body of the Ghost Soldier. This Qi Vein River was incredibly thick, forming a Spiritual Energy Layer with a radius of about ten feet around the Ghost Soldier.
Ai Changyuan was sitting on the ground, fully imrsing his Spirit in experiencing the changes of Core Formation. Wang Qi followed suit, sitting down next to Ai Changyuan to feel the changes in Spiritual Power at this mont, collecting data through direct sensory observations.
For him and Ai Changyuan, designing a Golden Core wasn't difficult. After all, they had hundreds and thousands of years of foundation from the Immortal Alliance. Due to deep research on Cultivation itself, representing and summarizing the principles of Foundation Establishnt and Golden Core Formation, any Cultivator entering the Immortal Dao can Cultivate to Golden Core.
But their goal was to render the Golden Core artificially generatable, transplantable at will, allowing even those who have not ford a Golden Core to use it.
That was not so simple.
As the process of Core Formation advanced, the surrounding Spirit Energy Field began to change. Mana and nature's spiritual energy were not the type of special Spiritual Energy easily drowned in the background like the Power of Human Dao; Wang Qi was no longer the ignorant man he once was. Using only his Spiritual Sense, he easily perceived the entire process. What's more, the Ghost Soldier was his, and he had more than enough thods to involve himself in this process.
The Golden Core is the hub, the Core. It is the center of the human body's Spiritual Energy System. All Spiritual Power circulating within the Ghost Soldier's body began to dissociate the mont it erged in the Spiritual Energy Layer. But this was not towards Chaos; instead, many new tributaries appeared in the cycle of Mana. These tributaries fed into the newly-ford Spiritual Energy Layer outside the Ghost Soldier.
Then, that layer began a directed collapse. Like a dying star, unable to combat its mass with the heat from fusion, it started to collapse precipitously. A massive outburst of Spirit Light erged, dazzling to the eye.
And in accordance with the changes of Core Formation, Gravity in the surroundings underwent various alterations. The warping of space started to beco prominent. In Wang Qi's eyes, the process of Ghost Soldier's Core Formation was as if it was in slow motion.
"Has the effect of spatial expansion already beco prominent? This is without borrowing the gravity of a planet, purely achieved through one's own Mana."
Once the outer Spiritual Energy Layer of the Ghost Soldier completely collapsed into its body, nature's spiritual energy suddenly beca furious. The Spirit Energy Field went into disarray, then sought a new balance. During this process, the small courtyard was like a typhoon passing through, raising a strong wind, with electric light flashing and disappearing on the Ghost Soldier's body.
Wang Qi felt the pain of the Ghost Soldier. After the roaring wind dissipated, he realized that the recent "small thunderbolt" had actually disrupted the Ghost Soldier's physical form.
"It seems this thod of Artificial Golden Core is still insufficient," Ai Changyuan shook his head, "The tribulation of small thunderbolt involved in Golden Core Formation can't even be considered a Heavenly Tribulation, it should be withstood easily by any reinforcent."
"After all, it's just a Ghost Soldier with no Self-Awareness, lacking any other ans beyond that set of Divine Skills," said Wang Qi, recalling the Ghost Soldier, then asked Ai Changyuan, "What's the result?"
Ai Changyuan pointed to the ground where on the extrely intricate Array were five hundred and twenty-six interfaces, each interface had a Spirit Rhinoceros Bottle placed on it: "Following a specific sequence to insert or activate these specially-made Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles, channeling concentrated Spirit Sense into the body, even a pig could form a top-grade Golden Core. You've succeeded, Old Wang, in transforming Cultivation Technique into Yao Language encoding!"
Yao Language is the term used in Shenzhou for chanical language.
Human genetic information is essentially composed of four types of base pairs. Although the chanism by which they express control over proteins remains a mystery, human genes can indeed be considered the program of life written in quaternary code.
However, whether it's Earth or Shenzhou, the reverse-engineering of this program has not been completed. They may have glimpsed the "hardware structure" of this life program but haven't understood how it operates.
This idea is reflected in Ai Qinglan's personal notes. With her foundation in Mathematics, the cooperation of the Zhenhai Navy, continuous breakthroughs from Divine Capital, and the Cultivation thoughts of Jiyin Valley's Chief Disciple, was Wang Qi able to achieve this step.
For the average Cultivator, this step might not seem significant. However, for Wang Qi, the loophole created from his rashness all those years ago was finally plugged, and without relying on unverified theories. The significance of this step was imnse.
All potential dangers were eliminated, all Cultivation Techniques unified harmoniously, and even if the theories supporting these laws were overturned, Wang Qi wouldn't find it difficult to reconstruct his own system.
He had taken a critical step on the path of Longevity.
Wang Qi collected the pile of Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles, musing, "It seems that we still need to devise a thod to package it into an installation package, a simple operation, one-click Core Formation, only then will it be aningful. Moreover, there is also..."
"Old Wang, let's fix up your Ghost Soldier and then test its power, shall we?"
Wang Qi then realized that Ai Changyuan was curiously observing his Ghost Soldier. The Ghost Soldier had nearly been scattered into oblivion by the small thunderbolt and its form was hardly recognizable, barely maintaining a humanoid silhouette. Wang Qi pondered for a mont, placed his hand atop the head of the Ghost Soldier, and began a new round of refinent: "Since you've evolved for the second ti, I should give you a new na as well."
The shape of the Ghost Soldier writhed, its surface turning white, and underwent a strange transformation. Now its upper body was human-shaped, but its lower half was the front of a horse, resembling a rider grown into his steed.
"You are the cornerstone leading to the Human Dao Heaven, an important experintal subject, so let's call you 'Heaven Creation.'"
Ai Changyuan clicked his tongue in amazent: "This form, it's not mundane at all, Old Wang, how did you co up with this?"
Wang Qi spoke without expression: "We are on our way to Heaven; it's symbolic."
"Interesting," Ai Changyuan nodded: "If I'm not mistaken, it should be able to complete the Cave Heaven Comparison Ruler's task. Shall we try?"
Wang Qi nodded and placed one hand on his hip: "Heaven Creation!"
"Heaven Creation" tugged on the reins, its two horse legs kicking incessantly. Gravity beca prominent, space beca evident, and the rules of the high-speed domain were pulled into the normal domain, "Twin Paradox" erged, and the fras of reference for Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan shifted from this planet, desynchronizing their personal ti from the planet's.
Ai Changyuan took out an apple, took a bite: "How long can this last?"
Wang Qi shook his head: "It's limited. According to our personal ti, it should be about two hours. If we were in Shenzhou, I reckon it would be a few seconds."
"Not bad," Wang Qi's gaze suddenly caught the apple in Ai Changyuan's hand: "Speaking of which, Old Ai, do you have any extra apples?"
Ai Changyuan took out another one: "After Foundation Establishnt, my family gave another one. There's one more if I achieve Core Formation. The tree of our family's provenance is still there; it bears a few every year."
Wang Qi said: "Old Ai, would you lend one of these for a practical trial? I want to refine a magic artifact!"
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Residents of Beichang Port have felt as if they've been hounded these past few days—not to say that the half-demoness or dog demon acting as Guardian Envoys in the vicinity are particularly indiscreet, this is just a rhetorical expression.
Recently, the source of their strange sensations has been the inexplicable phenonon of Golden Core Phenona.
Generally speaking, such phenona are not rare, but they're also not commonplace. Cultivators about to have a breakthrough usually choose a secluded place to prevent disturbing the populace, but there are those who inadvertently achieve Golden Core Formation at ho. With the cultivation of the Immortal Dao being so advanced nowadays, the success rate of achieving a Golden Core is even higher than giving birth, so there's not too much need for caution.
However, no one has seen this kind of situation before. In the sa courtyard, a series of Golden Core Phenona has appeared within just a few days. People hadn't even settled into ditation before the balance of spiritual energy around them broke. For those deeply imrsed in cultivation, there's even a risk of being distracted and suffering a deviation.
"What exactly is going on with that family? How co there are so many people achieving Golden Cores?"
"Could they be running a training class, helping with Core Formation?"
"That would be a little too effective, wouldn't it?"
"Is it possible they are disciples from a major sect, coming here to tutor and run training classes?"
"Why would they co here and run private classes instead of acting as Guardian Envoys?"
While there were many speculations outside, Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan had already completed another round of experintation.
The Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles needed for Core Formation had been reduced from five hundred and twenty-six to three hundred ninety-nine, and there was still potential for further reduction. After nurous summaries of the Core Formation process, Wang Qi had already tasked Jarvis with the insertion and activation of the specially made Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles.
Being able to delegate tasks to machines was proof of liberating productive forces.
As for Wang Qi's subject of experintation—due to the restrictions placed on him, he hadn't conducted biological experints, nor had he created a Golden Core inside any living being. Using spiritual power-infused Spirit Fruits as a base, he refined them into active magic devices that could take the place of a Golden Core.
Ai Changyuan looked at a lock in his hand with a complex expression: "I feel like this is a bit of a waste."
Wang Qi gave a thumbs up: "This is a necessary price on the path to Human Dao Heaven. Old Ai, you should be prepared; the enlightened are always blissful!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, we welco you to vote for us at Qidian (qidian), also for your monthly pick. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian to continue reading.)
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