Chapter 83: Taking Half a Step Further

Whether it was the essence, energy, and spirit within the body or all things in the outside world, no matter how they were decomposed and transformed, they could only decompose into "elements," not "spiritual energy."

But the fact was that Jie Ming not only cultivated spiritual energy using that method, but now he had even reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

It is no exaggeration to say that this was indeed the first "something from nothing" Jie Ming encountered.

"Thinking about it now, the cultivation method the Great Expansion Library gave me is probably also extraordinary, even though on the surface it looks like just an ordinary Refining Essence into Qi..."

Jie Ming asked the Great Expansion Library about cultivation methods right after he arrived in this world, and the result of his inquiry was only this Refining Essence into Qi technique.

If he asked about other spiritual energy cultivation methods, the Great Expansion Library would also provide corresponding knowledge.

But as long as he asked for "methods that can be cultivated," the only thing the Great Expansion Library gave was this one technique.

Fortunately, Jie Ming was not a stubborn person; after experimenting a few times and confirming that the Great Expansion Library's "intelligence" was quite good, he very honestly accepted its suggestion.

Thinking about it now, perhaps the Great Expansion Library had already checked the real situation of this world at that time, which was why it only gave this one cultivation technique.

And judging from Jie Ming's subsequent cultivation speed, his aptitude was indeed not bad.

The reason why it took more than ten years to barely step into the first level of Qi Condensation at the very beginning was probably because most of the time before was spent building some kind of "converter" within his body.

"Just by using some specific breathing methods and special movements, one can construct a converter that creates spiritual energy out of thin air... It seems that that Cultivation Realm has taken half a step further than the existing Wizarding civilization."

That's right, half a step.

The reason for saying this is that the Wizarding civilization should also have already mastered the perpetual motion machine of something from nothing.

Although he had never seen a Tier 9 Wizard, basically all descriptions of Tier 9 Wizards were very uniform: because of some special reasons, it could be understood that their power was infinite.

Such a description naturally aroused Jie Ming's interest.

Although there was very little information available on the magic network, Jie Ming could basically confirm that the Tier 9 Wizards of the Wizarding civilization had also mastered the power of something from nothing.

So the gap between the Wizarding civilization at the current stage and the Cultivation Realm lay in the "popularization level" of this perpetual motion machine.

The Wizarding civilization at the current stage only had the top nine Tier 9 Wizards who had mastered something from nothing, while the Cultivation civilization had already popularized it into the most basic cultivation techniques.

"However... being able to take this half step further is probably not a good thing for the entire civilization..."

The reason for saying this is a book Jie Ming once read in the Great Expansion Library: "Record of the Dust World's Calamity and Ashes" (Chapter 23).

The author of that memoir, Chen Jiezi, was born in the Dharma-Ending Age of the Cultivation Realm.

And this book also explained that the reason why the Cultivation Realm was good at capturing concepts to create something from nothing was precisely because it had entered the Dharma-Ending Age.

Before knowing the specific concept of spiritual energy, the Dharma-Ending Age was not too hard for Jie Ming to imagine—it was nothing more than adding a little supernatural power element to the costume dramas of his previous life.

But after knowing that spiritual energy constituted all matter, energy, time, space, and even destiny in the Cultivation World, Jie Ming was instead unable to imagine what the Dharma-Ending Age with scarce spiritual energy was actually like.

Regarding this point, even the Great Expansion Library did not have corresponding records; after all, what was recorded in the Great Expansion Library was only all the knowledge of the Cultivation Realm.

If no one realized the difference, then the Great Expansion Library naturally did not know either.

And the exhaustion of spiritual energy was an exceptionally long event; many cultivators were born into this world when it was already like this, and until they died, the world did not undergo any changes, so they naturally could not realize the problem of the world.

Of course, there were also some immortal old monsters.

But the views of such old guys on the world were too essential; the changes in external things would not affect their judgment, so in summary, there was only the phrase "exhaustion of spiritual energy."

"The only thing I can know is that the root cause of the exhaustion of spiritual energy is that group of immortal old monsters."

Cultivators pursued longevity and the Dao; strength and cultivation base were merely byproducts in the process of pursuit.

But generally speaking, the strength of cultivators who could achieve longevity would definitely not be weak.

The structure of the Cultivation World was closer to the technological world of Jie Ming's previous life; it was also a universe with planets as the basic unit, except that occasionally some spatial bubbles would appear within this universe, which were so-called cave-heavens or little worlds.

The Cultivation World naturally also possessed a part of the characteristics of the universe, for example: expanding at an ever-faster speed with no upper limit at superluminal speeds.

So at the very beginning, the resources of the Cultivation World were rich enough.

But those immortal cultivators would become stronger and stronger as time passed, and the matter and energy they naturally consumed in breathing would also increase with almost no upper limit.

What was even more terrifying was that the number of these immortal guys was also continuously increasing.

High-tier cultivators continuously sucked everything between heaven and earth into their own domains of existence, eventually causing the entire Cultivation World to not only be unable to continue expanding but instead continuously shrinking.

Actually, there were also methods to solve the exhaustion of spiritual energy, and they were even placed in plain sight—as long as those high-tier cultivators were killed, spiritual energy could be revived.

It was just that this matter was almost impossible to achieve, not to mention how strong the high-tier cultivators who could affect the state of the entire world were.

Even if they were really killed, the existence that could kill them would definitely not be weak, and the other party would instead become the next existence that needed to be annihilated.

As for the final result of the Cultivation World, the Great Expansion Library did not say, but presumably, the high probability was that it was destroyed.

"However, since the technology of something from nothing is already so developed, perhaps they have already escaped the ending of destruction."

Jie Ming sighed with emotion, stopped worrying about these matters, and instead focused his attention on another thing in his dantian.

"After so many years of nourishment, it has finally initially given birth to spirituality."

Feeling the lively spirituality coming from inside the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, a satisfied smile appeared on Jie Ming's face.

It was worthy of being the type of magic treasure with extremely strong spirituality that he specifically chose; it could be so active just at the Foundation Establishment stage.

This level of spiritual intensity was enough to serve as an auxiliary smart brain to help him process simple information.

This meant that from now on, his reconnaissance system was finally completely formed!

"The problem of the spatial ring has been solved by Internal Circulation, and plus the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror already has spirituality, then... the plan for mass-producing rune wizarding tools should also be advanced."

After all, the test of the Plane Nuolun workshop was not far away.

(Extra update, there is one more chapter) ===== CHAPTER 84 =====