diskusbooks Chapter 501: Gathering Spirit Beads! Can mortals also cultivate immortality?
Chapter 501: Gathering Spirit Beads! Can mortals also cultivate immortality?
Venerable Fire Phoenix looked around at everyone and continued, "Some of you may not be familiar with the Spirit Gathering Pearl. This is it."
She flipped her palm over, and a round bead emerged. This bead was about an inch in diameter, and had a translucent glass texture throughout.
A faint silver-gray airflow was suspended inside.
Under the light, the pearl reflected tiny starlight, and felt as smooth as jade. Holding it in the palm of your hand, you could feel the faint fluctuations of spiritual energy.
"Its core function is to replace the cultivator's spiritual roots!"
Venerable Fire Phoenix said solemnly, "It can be implanted into a mortal's Dantian—it needs to be guided with a special technique, similar to a 'seed bead'—to simulate spiritual roots to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so that those without spiritual roots can practice basic exercises and cultivate to perfection in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Of course, this is only the upper limit of the low-grade Spirit Gathering Pearl.
The Spirit Gathering Pearls can be divided into mid-grade, high-grade, and even top-grade."
"The outer shell of the Spirit Gathering Pearl is made from spirit jade. Its core principle is similar to that of the 'Spirit Gathering Stone' that drives puppets.
The spirit-gathering stone is essentially a small spirit jade that can absorb, store and release spiritual energy. The quality of the spiritual energy it absorbs and the compression effect vary depending on its level.
It is precisely because of its ability to absorb, store and provide spiritual power that it becomes a long-lasting energy source for the puppet.
The Spirit Gathering Bead was created by a fifth-rank weapon refining master who carved a small spirit gathering array inside the outer shell of a spiritual jade.
As for the specific composition of the gray air within the bead," Venerable Fire Phoenix paused, "it is a sect secret."
"This low-grade spirit-gathering bead is made from low-grade spirit jade. Once implanted in a person's dantian, it can function effectively for approximately a hundred years.
The speed at which it absorbs external spiritual energy is equivalent to that of a cultivator with four spiritual roots.
If the user can break through to the Golden Core Realm within a hundred years, he can refine this bead into his own magical weapon and use it forever.
If the elixir cannot be formed within a hundred years, a new bead must be replaced.
If there are no beads to exchange, subsequent cultivation will be difficult:
I can only rely on pills to maintain my cultivation and cannot absorb spiritual energy naturally, which basically cuts off the possibility of further breakthroughs."
"The Human King Sect will provide each of the God Transformation families present here with: 10,000 low-grade Spirit Gathering Pearls, 1,000 mid-grade Spirit Gathering Pearls, and 100 high-grade Spirit Gathering Pearls."
Venerable Fire Phoenix continued to introduce, "Low-grade beads are as effective as those with four spiritual roots, mid-grade beads are as effective as those with three spiritual roots, and high-grade beads can rival the cultivation speed of cultivators with two spiritual roots.
As for the top-grade spirit-gathering beads, their cultivation effect is equivalent to that of a single spiritual root!
The best spirit-gathering beads must be based on the best spirit jade, with more precious materials added, and must be refined by the hands of a spiritual cultivator.
Currently, only our Renwang Sect can refine it. The quantity is rare and extremely precious.
If you need to exchange, you can contact me individually. Each family is limited to five exchanges! "
As the Fire Phoenix Venerable finished speaking, Wang Bin, Chu Qingyun, Wang Zhen, and Situ Lan all looked shocked.
The representatives of the Zhang, Li and Zuo families seemed relatively calm because they knew the inside story in advance.
Countless thoughts flashed through Wang Bin’s mind instantly: No wonder no one was spying on the Zongsheng Sect’s experiment in transplanting spiritual roots!
They tried to allow mortals to possess spiritual roots. Although the quality of the spiritual roots would be reduced after the transplant, if the experiment was successful, it would be considered a miracle.
He always wondered why other Huashen families reacted coldly to this.
It turns out that the Human King Sect has already been able to mass-produce a substitute - the Spirit Gathering Pearl!
If you think about it carefully, the principle behind this thing makes a lot of sense.
The reason why ordinary people cannot practice cultivation is that they have no spiritual roots, and can neither absorb nor retain spiritual energy.
The spirit-gathering beads made from spiritual jade perfectly solve these two problems.
The spiritual jade itself can store spiritual energy, and after it is exhausted, it can slowly absorb external spiritual energy to replenish it.
The miniature spirit gathering array engraved on the outer shell further enhances its spirit gathering efficiency.
After implantation in the Dantian, the mortal can practice the exercises and guide the spiritual energy to temper the internal organs of the body. The process is no different from that of a real Qi-refining cultivator!
As for the gray airflow inside the bead, it must be the key to simulating spiritual roots. Since the Human King Sect was unwilling to reveal it, Wang Bin had no choice but to go back and disassemble it and study it slowly.
In short, once a mortal implants this pearl, he or she can embark on the path to immortality.
However, the hundred-year limit of the low-grade pearl made Wang Bin suspicious: Is it a limitation of the material itself, or is it intentional by the Human King Sect to control the user?
He wanted to ask: Since we have such a treasure, why hasn't it been made available to mortals earlier? Perhaps we can discover a peerless genius and greatly enhance the overall strength of the entire human race!
But he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips - he realized that his thinking had not yet completely transformed into the position of the leader of a force.
No matter how big the territory is, the resources are ultimately limited, and most of them are non-renewable resources.
Who would be willing to add a large number of potential competitors to their family for no reason?
Even if the starting point is low, over time there will always be lucky people who will have explosive talent or good luck, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage or even the Divine Transformation stage. What should you do if that threatens your family's status?
Thinking back to when Huang Youcai was sent to search the mortal world for those people with spiritual roots who were "missed" by the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, perhaps... those "missing" were intentional by other families?
Although the Chu family in Xihai City has a vast territory, the resources there are fixed. It is already difficult to support their own cultivators, and the remaining resources are indeed unable to support the cultivation of more cultivators.
Now that the Human King Sect has suddenly ordered the large-scale training of low-level cultivators, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to stockpile "tools" and "consumables."
Once the human and demon races go to war, casualties on the human side are inevitable.
In the future, if we can occupy the territory of the demon clan, garrison the city, cultivate spiritual fields, raise spiritual fish, mine new mineral veins, and also make elixirs in the rear, gather intelligence on the front line and other matters, all of these will require cultivators to do.
After thinking about this, Wang Bin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
Those mortals tried their best to get a spirit-gathering bead, thinking that they had opened the door to the path of cultivating immortals, but in the end they might just be cannon fodder on the battlefield.
But then again, wealth and honor are achieved through risk.
If it weren't for these cannon fodder, most of the independent cultivators would definitely want to escape when faced with such a life-and-death battle.
If there are no cannon fodders by then, will all the family monks be asked to fill the gap?
The Huashen family present is indeed powerful, but the number of cultivators in the family will not exceed a thousand. If they are really used as cannon fodder, it will easily damage the foundation.
Of course, Wang Bin thought, if he were a mortal, even if he knew the road ahead was dangerous, he would probably give it a try and embark on the path of cultivating immortality for the sake of that glimmer of hope for immortality.
At this time, Venerable Fire Phoenix took out seven storage rings and distributed them to the representatives of each family, saying:
“Each family’s quota is in the ring: 10,000 low-grade Spirit Gathering Beads, 1,000 mid-grade Spirit Gathering Beads, and 100 high-grade Spirit Gathering Beads.
Everyone, remember this: the Human King Sect wants 10,000 low-level cultivators who obey orders, but not those who are afraid of death and flee in the face of danger!
The news of training monks in such a high-profile manner will definitely not be concealed from the demon clan. They might send people to cause trouble, so everyone must be extra vigilant.
I will be stationed at the Sihai Business Alliance for the next few decades, so feel free to contact me if you have any important matters.
After she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at Wang Bin with a smile on her face:
"Oh, right, I almost forgot about you. Our Wild Thunder True Lord Wang Bin seems to have the aptitude of three spiritual roots, right?
Do you want me to exchange it for a top-grade spirit gathering bead? With it, your cultivation speed can be almost the same as that of a cultivator with a single spiritual root, and there is no time limit for the use of this bead, but it can only be refined by one person. "
"hehe!"
"Whee!"
The incarnation cultivators present laughed when they heard this. It was really hard to cultivate to the incarnation realm in this kind of immortal cultivation environment.
Which one is not a single spiritual root plus a special spiritual body?
It was not until then that everyone remembered that Wang Bin's dragon blood body was acquired through cultivation, and his spiritual roots were just ordinary three spiritual roots.
Although his physical strength barely reached the standard of the Spiritual Transformation Stage, his magical power was still at the early stage of the Nascent Soul Stage.