Chapter 82: The Basic Settings of the World

Something from nothing.

Alias: Perpetual motion machine.

In Jie Ming's previous life, if anyone claimed to have discovered a perpetual motion machine, they could be directly identified as mentally ill.

After discovering the specificity of the space within his body, Jie Ming conducted many experiments, even spending a large sum of points to purchase an isolation system personally crafted by a Tier 6 Wizard.

Finally, he confirmed that the space within his body did not have characteristics similar to vacuum zero-point energy or drawing energy from outside the world, but indeed could give birth to spiritual energy "out of nothing."

If such a discovery were placed in Jie Ming's previous life, it would absolutely shock the whole world, but the current Jie Ming appeared exceptionally calm.

Although he was a bit surprised at first, it was only a bit surprised.

After all...

"This should be the third thing I've encountered that can create something from nothing, right?"

Jie Ming looked inward at the spiritual energy that was continuously increasing within his space, his expression somewhat strange.

"This Cultivation civilization is indeed powerful..."

That's right, this was already the third time Jie Ming had encountered something that could create something from nothing, and all of them originated from the Cultivation civilization.

It was just that his understanding of the world was not that clear before, and he did not know that much about supernatural power, so he did not react for a while, only gradually understanding after a long period of study later on.

Besides this space that could give birth to spiritual energy out of thin air, the second instance of something from nothing Jie Ming encountered was actually something he used very often, which was the "conceptual materialization" of the Cultivation Realm.

Things like the Purple Qi from the East, refined gold, and his Five Elements Rainbow Mirror all relied on the ability of conceptual materialization to produce effects.

Being able to form usable matter and energy from concepts that were originally just artificially defined was itself a form of creating something from nothing.

Although concepts like refined gold would consume matter and energy in the process of being produced, there were also effects like the Purple Qi from the East that not only did not consume energy but would also increase energy out of thin air.

As for the first type of something from nothing, which was also the earliest something from nothing Jie Ming came into contact with, it was actually spiritual energy.

The Wizarding World had no spiritual energy.

This was a fact Jie Ming had known for a long time.

Because there was no spiritual energy in the outside world, he chose a technique like Refining Essence into Qi, giving birth to spiritual energy by refining his own essence, thereby obtaining a cultivation base...

This sounded like a normal and reasonable process and choice... as if!

If one were to investigate further, this seemingly reasonable process was actually quite absurd.

At the very beginning, Jie Ming did not realize this point, but as his alchemy became more proficient and his understanding of the world became clearer, Jie Ming finally realized this serious problem.

However, to realize the problem within this, one needed to first answer another question: what exactly is spiritual energy?

A special kind of energy?

A power filled with spiritual concepts?

It was not until Jie Ming studied knowledge related to the microscopic structure of the Wizarding World that he finally realized this problem.

Fortunately, his Great Expansion Library was worthy of its name, easily telling him the answer through a few books:

So-called spiritual energy is the most basic particle that constitutes the Cultivation World!

There were three worlds Jie Ming knew of in total: one was the Wizarding World where he was currently located, one was the technological world of his previous life, and the other was the Cultivation World described in the Great Expansion Library.

The composition of these three worlds from a microscopic perspective was extremely similar; all were composed of various tiny particles to form matter.

Of course, there were also places where they were not similar.

For example, the Cultivation World and the Wizarding World truly possessed things like "time" and "space," rather than being concepts used to describe the trajectory and range of particle activity like in the technological world of Jie Ming's previous life.

But this difference was insignificant; what truly made the three worlds different was the most basic particle composition of the three worlds.

Like the technological world of his previous life, although because of the level of technology, they had not yet found the basic particles that could be used to describe gravity, the remaining strong force, weak force, and electromagnetic force could all be described through basic particles, which was the so-called Standard Model of elementary particles.

From that model, the technological world of Jie Ming's previous life was composed of 61 basic particles, including 32 quarks and 12 leptons that constituted matter, as well as several bosons used to transmit interactions.

Among the three types of particles that conventionally constituted most matter—protons, neutrons, and electrons—only electrons counted as basic particles; the remaining protons and neutrons were composed of quarks.

And the Wizarding World had a similar structure, except that the most basic particles that constituted their world were elements.

Strictly speaking, they were the four major categories of elemental particles: earth, fire, wind, and water.

Earth elements constituted matter, fire elements constituted energy, wind elements constituted space, and water elements constituted time, and each category of elemental particles contained several dozen variants.

Elements other than these four major elements were basically composed of different elemental particles from the four major elements combined in a certain proportion.

As for the Cultivation Realm, the basic particles that constituted all things were naturally spiritual energy.

It was just that the term spiritual energy was too misleading; according to Jie Ming's current understanding, calling it "spiritons" should be more appropriate.

From the knowledge provided by the Great Expansion Library, the classification of spiritual energy was not that exaggerated; there were only two types, which were "yin" and "yang."

However, having fewer types of basic particles did not mean the world they composed was monotonous.

Just like the technological world had so many types of basic particles, but the neutrons and protons that constituted matter were only composed of three types of quarks respectively.

The matter and energy particles of the Wizarding World were generally composed of four to five types of elemental particles.

As for the Cultivation Realm... they were generally composed of two to nine different yin and yang to form matter particles.

In short, although they were very close at the macroscopic and relatively "basic" microscopic levels, the three worlds were completely different at the deepest microscopic levels.

The reason why the Wizarding World and the Cultivation World could produce supernatural power was that the particles that served as the most basic composition in the two worlds had additional active characteristics compared to the technological world.

For example, what wizards mobilized were generally elemental particles with relatively high activity in the environment; the higher the stage of the wizard, the lower the threshold of elemental particle activity they could mobilize.

After understanding what spiritual energy was, let's return to the initial question: without spiritual energy, how to cultivate with the techniques of the Cultivation World.

The answer is it is impossible to cultivate!

Because the most basic composition of the world is different!

The Great Expansion Library contained an almost infinite variety of cultivation methods, from the most basic Refining Essence into Qi and breathing in spiritual energy, to the more obscure methods of drawing starlight, refining celestial energy, essence of sun and moon, destiny and luck, Yang Spirit visualization, and yin-yang union, and then to the somewhat evil ones like death energy, evil energy, emotions, flesh and blood...

No matter what kind of cultivation method it was, its essence had not changed: using specific techniques to "decompose" spiritual energy that could be utilized by cultivators from these things!

As for whether this spiritual energy was finally used for body refining, Qi refining, or spirit refining, it mainly depended on the differences in techniques and the intentions of the cultivator.

So the act of refining spiritual power using the most basic Refining Essence into Qi technique was, in Jie Ming's current view, a completely absurd operation.

Because the Wizarding World does! Not! Have! Spiritual! Energy!

This is like trying to refine water from a pile of gold; it is simply impossible to achieve! ===== CHAPTER 83 =====