Chapter 1567

This possibility is actually minuscule.

With the strength of Daoist Lord Wu Xin, if the plot boss were her, players in this server would be done for; they'd never stand a chance in this lifetime.

Golden Immortal-level experts are still numerous in this server—woodcutters, fishing elders, the dust-free Daoist, the various masters of Yunchu Mountain, and so on.

However, Xiao Feng feels the plot mode should be different from the Yuan Su Shen Yu; anyway, the boss couldn't possibly be the strongest creature in the entire server.

Presumably, at that time the NPCs won't intervene; players will just have to fight together and win.

"If someone triggers the plot soon, will you help fight?" Yu Cixue asked him.

Xiao Feng chuckled: "That also depends on whether your server lets me join; here I'm just a visitor, I can't earn any honor, nor can I participate in plot progression—I might not even be able to act at all."

"Seems so. Dao brother, how long do you plan to stay this time? If you ask me to bring us to clear a dungeon, could you spare some time to help?" Yu Cixue asked again.

Xiao Feng countered: "You're already that strong—do you still need me to lead?"

"This... I was just asking; it seems Dao brother isn't willing." She pursed her lips slightly, looking unhappy.

Xiao Feng gave a slight shake of his head.

"Never mind that; let's just wander around. I still have proper business to attend to later."

"Mm, then I'll take Dao brother around for fun; I know the Imperial City well!"

"Okay."

The two changed the subject, entered a leisurely strolling mode, wandered around the Imperial City, occasionally spending a few Spirit Stones to snack, feeling relaxed and carefree.

Xiao Feng experienced a cultivator civilization market for a while, then soon parted with Yu Cixue, returning to his purchased residence, the Flower Moon Palace; he focused his mind, quietly contemplating the Secret Art Xuanwu Battle Body, while also adjusting his condition.

Analyzing and comprehending the Xuanwu Battle Body requires only part of his energy; his mind and spirit are already strong, so he can maintain extremely high efficiency while doing many things at once.

At this moment, what Xiao Feng cares about most is actually his self-created fifth-tier Secret Art.

After all, this determines whether Jiang Ning can see it.

He devoted most of his energy to this.

When he initially researched the Origin Needle and Origin Explosion Technique, he actually combined Origin Attribute divine power with magical structure to achieve a breakthrough.

Although the quality of these two skills hasn't reached Secret Art level, their practicality is no less than that of a first-tier Secret Art.

Especially the Origin Needle, as willpower grows it becomes more formidable—able to instantly fire over fifty needles at once, and it will only increase in the future.

When the day comes that he can fire ten thousand needles simultaneously, its power will not be inferior to that of a seventh- or eighth-tier Secret Art!

But this is merely strength, not quality.

Secret Arts are related to Enlightenment; the deeper one's Dao realm, the more powerful the Secret Arts one can learn and create.

Currently, he is most proficient in the Five Elements Dao, followed by Origin Power.

As for Heavenly Fire, Yin-Yang and other laws, he has only dabbled slightly, not yet up to research level.

Thinking of the impending rematch with Xun Shuang Xianzi, Xiao Feng ultimately decided to study Origin Attribute and create an Origin Attribute fifth-tier Secret Art to increase his odds.

Otherwise, relying solely on the Five Elements Dao might not truly be enough to defeat her.

Yin-Yang and Five Elements, Yin-Yang comes first, Five Elements after.

Xun Shuang Xianzi's Great Dao will exert some suppression on Xiao Feng; moreover, her Yin-Yang Dao has reached major accomplishment, her Enlightenment value exceeds 100,000 points, while Xiao Feng is only at minor accomplishment—he can't catch up even by trying.

Origin Attribute Secret Art…

It sounds somewhat ethereal, but it really comes down to one sentence—the Power of Myriad Things.

Myriad Things Origin Qi can shape all things in the universe, and all things in the universe can be decomposed into Myriad Things Origin Qi; this is a two-way process, possible in either direction.

Xiao Feng sat in the courtyard, casually catching a falling leaf.

The knowledge from the Book of Origin flowed through his mind; he recalled what the author intended to tell him.

"Yellow leaves drift down, decay and disappear, turning into nutrients that re-nourish the trees, sprouting new green leaves."

"In the real world, microorganisms drive all these changes, but the game seems to lack such things……"

"However, reincarnation is similar. Since a piece of data representing a leaf has been born and then vanished, there must certainly be an energy flow and data change."

"Data and electric current are themselves energy, and can be decomposed into Myriad Things Origin Qi."

Thinking this through, he tried to deeply analyze the composition of the leaf in his hand.

His Divine Sense entered the yellow leaf.

The leaf had clear veins, composed of countless tiny units, hardly different from real-world objects.

But… there is still a difference.

It does not truly rot; it merely fades away slowly.

Because there is no microorganism setting here.

That process of disappearance is not the same as the cosmic reincarnation Dao; it is merely an iterative replacement of game data.

Perhaps it will return to the tree after a certain time, recycling that data segment.

Or it may vanish completely with a unique identifier, then be cleared away.

Therefore, from the perspective of the Myriad Things Dao, it is actually not a genuine leaf—no matter how much it resembles one, it is merely information data.

Xiao Feng tried to decompose it into Myriad Things Origin Qi.

The process went smoothly; the leaf vanished, and a trace of Origin Qi too faint to detect appeared in his palm.

Then he reversed the process, pushing it backward.

The result also succeeded; that yellow leaf remained as it originally was.

Looking at the leaf in his hand, Xiao Feng shook his head and said, "I seem to have been misled by the game world—this is actually just data."

He memorized the leaf's structure, storing the entire process of forming it from Myriad Things Origin Qi in his mind.

Then he quickly logged off, waking up in his room.

Energy surged within his body, far weaker than in the game, but still able to be mobilized a bit.

Xiao Feng closed his eyes to savor the content he had just memorized, drawing a strand of Origin Qi from within his body and condensing it in his palm.

After a short while……

A yellow leaf slowly formed, exactly the same as in the game.

"Huh? It actually works?"

He had thought he would create a fleeting electric arc, or the binary data 10101010.

As it turned out, he actually managed to create a leaf!

"How strange……"

Xiao Feng felt somewhat puzzled; could it be that the matter in the game is exactly the same as in the real world?

Doesn't that mean the people in the game…… are actually real people?

This 'real' is not real in thought!

On the level of thought, he had long believed that the people in the game have real thoughts; his NPC friends nearby are all thinking independently, not mere data.

What he realized was the 'real' in terms of matter!

"Try again!"

In the real world, he pondered, gently snapping off a strand of Xu Xiaonian's hair, holding it in his hand to analyze its structure.

The reason he didn't pull out his own hair is that his own structure is no longer that of an ordinary person; his genes are too complex, and it would take too much time.

Xu Xiaonian is still an ordinary person; he pondered for about an hour, figured it out, and then logged into the game.

Trying in the garden of Huayue Palace, after ten or so minutes, a strand of black long hair appeared in his palm, indistinguishable from the real world.

"This is amazing…… let's try on a living thing!"

He reached out and snatched a koi from the pond.

As before, he used Divine Sense to analyze the structure; it took three hours in the game to understand the little fish's composition.

Then he tried to decompose it.

The little fish dispersed into primordial qi of all things.

Upon recombining, it turned back into a fish, lively and jumping.

"How truly amazing…… could it be that it has no soul?" A question arose in Xiao Feng's mind.