Chapter 437 Finding the Answer
Su Hao returned to the quiet room, entered the pinball space to check some information, and then came out, sitting cross-legged, starting to cultivate the ‘Spiritual Mind’ of the Nascent Soul Realm.
The cultivation of Spiritual Mind is very different from the cultivation of Recognition Mind. The biggest difference lies in immersing Recognition Mind in the vast spiritual power within the body, to find the elusive ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ of the spiritual power. Once the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ is found, Recognition Mind naturally merges with the spiritual power, becoming indistinguishable, achieving Spiritual Mind.
It’s also something that can only be understood but not explained. Once you understand it, you understand it. If you can’t find it, then it’s just a stop at the Golden Core stage, with no chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Grand Dao.
For this, Su Hao complained: I estimate that even those cultivators who have integrated their Nascent Souls can’t clearly explain what the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ is. Based on its characteristics, let’s temporarily call it something that seems plausible.
Following the instructions in the book, Su Hao practiced for ten days without any gain, and finally stopped the meaningless cultivation. Su Hao understood that if he couldn’t find the key point of ‘Spiritual Mind’, then his efforts would be in vain, and if he found it, achieving Spiritual Mind would be just a matter of time.
“Should I go ask Feng Qianye?” Su Hao thought about a way to solve it, but quickly shook his head to dismiss this impractical idea.
If he went to ask why he hadn’t found the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ after just ten days of cultivation, he would probably be considered a lunatic by Feng Qianye!
The answer he would get without guessing would surely be: “Don’t be impatient, search quietly for a few more years, and if it doesn’t work, then come and ask.”
Who measures cultivation progress in units of ten days?
When has anyone practiced for just ten days and then come out asking why they haven’t succeeded yet?
As Su Hao pondered, his eyes suddenly brightened: “Didn’t I kill two Nascent Soul cultivators before? Although their heads exploded, their bodies were preserved. I can study the differences in the body structure of Nascent Soul cultivators!”
Thinking of this, Su Hao immediately took action, his figure fading and disappearing, teleporting to another laboratory.
Here, many corpses were preserved. Over the years, Su Hao had collected them after killing them, all soaked in a special preservative liquid by Yashan.
Su Hao arrived in front of the two headless bodies of Nascent Soul cultivators, placed his hand on the crystal jar, and poured his blood qi in, once again recording the current state of this body into the pinball space.
Then his consciousness entered the pinball space, retrieving the just recorded information and the information from just before death at the same time.
After observing for a moment, Su Hao had a preliminary research idea.
“These two bodies have been dead for almost two years. The spiritual power inside the bodies has almost dissipated with time, and the preservative made by Yashan has played some role in keeping the bodies basically intact, but it seems they won’t last much longer!”
When Su Hao approached just now, he still smelled a hint of a special rotten smell.
“I only need to use the body data from just before death and the body data after the dissipation of spiritual power to make a comprehensive comparison. I can quickly compare the transformation status of spiritual power on the bodies of Nascent Soul cultivators. Then, according to the direction of Nascent Soul techniques, speculate on the parts where spiritual power has transformed, eliminate them, and what remains may very likely be the influence of ‘Spiritual Mind’ on the body.”
Su Hao spoke slowly, his tone firm: “By continuously trying and eliminating, we can always find where the key point of cultivating Spiritual Mind lies.”
Su Hao quickly opened the experimental design form and began to design the experimental plan for this experiment.
The idea was simple: enumerate the methods to be used one by one, and list the corresponding possible results for each.
It all boils down to questions like “If… then…” “Suppose… then…” “When… then…” and so on.
Then, he started to do control experiments, systematically verifying and eliminating each hypothesis listed until he found the desired result.
Of course, the premise was that the experimental plan was based on actual circumstances, designed reasonably, logically rigorous, and able to derive a final conclusion.
If the experimental plan was unreliable from the start, no matter how many experiments he did, he wouldn’t be able to reach the correct conclusion.
Su Hao had suffered a lot from this aspect and wasted quite a bit of time because of it.
Soon, Su Hao completed the experimental design and carefully reviewed the plan again from the beginning, making a few modifications to fix any loopholes. After repeatedly checking it over to ensure there were no flaws, Su Hao began to take action.
The experiment was divided into two steps:
The first step was to speculate on the changes to the body caused by cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm based on the description of the Wind Meridian Nascent Soul technique, combined with the bodies of two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
The second step was to use his own experimentation to explore bit by bit, attempting to find the key point of cultivating ‘Spiritual Mind’.
Using experiments to replace meditation and cultivation not only increased efficiency by tenfold or even a hundredfold, but also provided purposeful and directed exploration.
One method involved purposeful and directed experiments in search of the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’, while the other involved randomly trying to meditate based on the experiences passed down by ancestors, relying solely on luck to stumble upon the key point.
These two methods were not even on the same level, and they were incomparable!
In other words, even if Su Hao’s experiments failed, they were still better than blindly relying on luck!
Because he never believed in luck!
In his view, luck was actually a form of probability and should also be approached scientifically.
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As Su Hao continued to attempt to refine the experimental steps, time gradually passed by unnoticed, and before he knew it, a month had gone by.
On this day, Su Hao once again attempted another possibility of the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’.
This was his attempt after eliminating over sixty possibilities. There were still many possibilities left, but Su Hao had a premonition that the answer to ‘Spiritual Mind’ was about to be revealed.
Su Hao concentrated his mind, sat cross-legged, and his spiritual power surged out again, guiding the spiritual power to his arm, gradually permeating the brachial plexus nerves, along the median nerve, ulnar nerve, and inner cutaneous nerve, spreading downwards until the fingertips.
First came a severe pain that shot straight to his forehead along the nerves, as if being chopped by thousands of blunt knives. Then the entire arm became numb, losing sensation!
Yes, what Su Hao was trying this time was to attempt to combine spiritual power with the major nerves, to see if the nerves were the key to the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’.
He was very certain that the so-called ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ was not the human body’s nerves.
However, the nerves might be the key for Su Hao to find the so-called ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’.
When Su Hao’s spiritual power filled the nerves of his entire arm, he had a very strange feeling—his nerve perception and spiritual power merged into one in his consciousness!
This fusion wasn’t about the nerves and spiritual power merging together, but rather, the spiritual power immersed in the nerves and his mental power achieved a special resonance.
At that moment, a bright light flashed in Su Hao’s mind.
He seemed to have found the answer!
What cultivators called the ‘Innate Yin-Yang Spiritual Root’ didn’t actually exist as a physical substance. It represented a state, a state where mental power and spiritual power were synchronized and resonated!
When mental power and spiritual power reached a certain special resonance, the so-called ‘Spiritual Mind’ naturally formed!
And when all the spiritual power in the body synchronized with mental power, Spiritual Mind would be completely cultivated. At that point, one could proceed to the next step of ‘Spiritual Techniques’ cultivation.
As for mental power, it was closely related to the brain and the nervous system spread throughout the body, making it difficult to distinguish between them. To a certain extent, mental power could represent spiritual power. When Su Hao filled his arm nerves with spiritual power, the nerves came into intimate contact with the spiritual power, achieving physical synchronization. This made Su Hao understand what ‘Spiritual Mind’ meant!
Now Su Hao understood the essence of ‘Spiritual Mind’, and he was not far from cultivating it.
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Su Hao slowly withdrew the spiritual power from his arm and then noticed two problems.
“After withdrawing the spiritual power, the synchronization between this part of spiritual power and mental power is gradually weakening. In just five minutes, it has completely returned to normal! Moreover, after the cancellation of spiritual power, the nerves in the left arm suffered some damage, resulting in significant loss of sensation. If it were an ordinary person, it would probably be difficult to recover!”
However, Su Hao was not an ordinary person. He only saw the Golden Armament on his left arm surging, and in the blink of an eye, all the nerve damage in his arm was completely repaired.
The regeneration ability of the Child of Fate to some extent, was ridiculously strong.
“The nerve damage is not a big problem, but the key now is how to solidify this synchronization and gradually spread it to all spiritual powers, completing the cultivation of Spiritual Mind!”
Perhaps, this was no longer just cultivation…
Su Hao’s brain worked, pondering over the key issue: should spiritual power match mental power, or should mental power match spiritual power, and how to achieve it!
In the instant the problem arose, Su Hao already had the answer!
Wasn’t it obvious?
