Chapter 441: Targets and Hunter’s Egg
Twenty days quietly passed by.
The surroundings of where Su Hao sat cross-legged were already filled with various pieces of Diamond armor remnants, all products expelled from his body after metabolism.
Frequent replacement of bodily materials during this period made him feel an unusual fatigue, with a desire for rest emanating from every cell within him. This physical exhaustion transferred to his spirit, making Su Hao mentally weak.
This was a feeling Su Hao rarely experienced, like an old man on the verge of death from his previous life!
Fortunately, his established goal of reaching the “Nascent Soul Stage” had been achieved!
After twenty days of extensive consumption, the total amount of spiritual power in Su Hao’s body had greatly decreased, while the structure of his spiritual power had completely changed.
The super-large spiritual power circulation system composed of the five viscera and the twelve meridians had now, according to certain rules, penetrated deep into the viscera, intricately intertwined and difficult to distinguish.
What made up Su Hao’s body was no longer simply flesh and bones, but a combination of spiritual power and flesh and blood. The proportion of spiritual power would continue to increase with continuous cultivation until all flesh and blood could be replaced by spiritual power.
After adapting for a while, Su Hao discovered the benefit of substituting flesh and blood with spiritual power, which was an increase in lifespan.
“Although I’ve lost some life characteristics, the durability has greatly improved. It’s like adding mechanical parts to the body. Mechanical parts may not have the functions of the original organs, but they can be used freely without worrying about damage. Even if damaged, you can just remove and replace the parts.”
This is the “biological technology” of spiritualization!
To some extent, the “biological technology” in this world had reached an extremely high level.
“Furthermore, the structure of spiritual power within the body has changed! After being tempered through this structure, there has been another qualitative change in spiritual power.”
The originally external spiritual power core, after penetrating into the organs according to a specific structure, was like an old tree taking root, and even the structure of the spiritual power core had changed from its original superficial circulation structure to the current deeper circulation structure.
With the coordination of “spiritual energy waves,” this structure would gradually change the core nature of spiritual power, causing it to leap to a higher level again, making the released spells even more powerful.
“Now, I’ve only completed the substitution of spiritual power within the body. Spiritual power has not yet undergone a level change. It won’t be possible to see where the changes are for a short period of time! Let’s leave it at that for now. Next, I’ll take a good rest for a while, let my weakened body fully recover, and then conduct tests.”
Normal cultivators breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage would never experience such physical weakness, because during the process lasting over twenty years, spiritual power would have quietly completed the level change.
All changes would be completed simultaneously, although it took an extremely long time, but fortunately, it wouldn’t result in a situation like Su Hao’s.
In terms of alchemy concepts, while other cultivators pursued the integration of artifacts into a “whole,” Su Hao was designed to be made up of one piece of small parts after another, finally assembled.
Su Hao’s breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage was like this, using the “assembly” method to break through, which was extremely fast, but required high physical demands and had significant side effects.
However, Su Hao didn’t mind this at all. He knew his body very well. As long as he didn’t exhaust his vitality all at once, he could vigorously exploit it, sleep for a while, and restore himself to his peak.
Even if it damaged his vitality or lifespan to a certain extent, Su Hao wouldn’t mind.
The reason was his ultimate goal.
Su Hao’s goal wasn’t to steadily cultivate to the Unity Stage and then enjoy over two thousand years of longevity.
However, his goal was to quickly grasp the “spiritual power knowledge” of this world and then, based on this foundation, find a method for eternal life.
Su Hao understood long ago that the cultivators in this world only sought longevity, not immortality!
As long as it wasn’t immortality, this vast power would ultimately not belong to him. Over two thousand years later, it would all return to nature.
The initial purpose couldn’t be forgotten. Every world had its own wonders, and he couldn’t possibly experience all the beauty. In other words, as long as it didn’t relate to his studies and research, he didn’t want to divert his attention to things happening outside.
Time was vast, and the human brain had millions of thoughts at every moment, making it the easiest to lose sight of the initial goal.
It was like a hunter chasing a rabbit. When the rabbit disappeared into the grass, a pheasant suddenly appeared from the side, frantically fleeing. In the end, it couldn’t escape and turned to fight the hunter, shattering the hunter’s egg…
Everyone was amazed at the pheasant’s bravery, actually managing to shatter the hunter’s egg!
But, was the problem really the hunter’s egg?
No.
Everyone had obviously forgotten the original goal, which was the rabbit! Did no one pay attention to the rabbit?
This was what was known as losing sight of the goal.
To prevent himself from losing sight of his initial goal, Su Hao prominently displayed a large log board in the most conspicuous place in the spherical space. On it was a clear statement of the core goal of this world. Everything irrelevant was pushed aside, and all attention was focused on the goal.
After entering the pinball space and checking the current progress of the log task again, Su Hao exited. His figure slowly disappeared from where it stood and reappeared on the bed in the bedroom. After casually sending a message to Yashan to inform him of the end of his seclusion, Su Hao fell into a deep sleep.
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This sleep lasted for three days and three nights. When Su Hao woke up, he once again felt that sense of mental fullness.
After getting up, washing up, eating, moving around, and checking his current physical condition, Su Hao finally confirmed that his “super-fast breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage method” was indeed feasible.
“If this time is extended from twenty days to one hundred days, it will probably be more natural and smooth, and my body and mind won’t be as weak as they are now. Next, I’ll fill up my spiritual power first, and then temper it, turning it into Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power, to complete the level change thoroughly.”
Thinking of this, Su Hao flashed to the meditation room and sat down cross-legged. With a wave of his hand, numerous bottles and jars appeared in front of him.
“It’s time to take some pills!”
With that, he grabbed four bottles, gulped them down, and began to close his eyes and focus on transforming his spiritual power.
Three months later, Su Hao once again felt the heavy feeling of a balloon filled with water inside his body, so he stopped continuing the transformation of spiritual power.
Stretching out his hand, he pushed a pile of empty bottles aside and sighed, “These pills seem like a lot, but they’re not very useful in practice, almost not enough.”
Originally, he had brought back so many pills, thinking that there would be plenty left, but after filling up his Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power, he found that these seemingly numerous pills were almost not enough.
However, without these pills, Su Hao estimated that with his spiritual power total several times higher than other cultivators and his talent for cultivation fifty times faster, he would still need at least six years.
As for other cultivators, relying solely on the conversion of spiritual power within their bodies to cultivate to the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage, it would take them at least a hundred years!
A hundred years may seem long, but for those cultivators with long lifespans, it’s nothing much.
However, for Su Hao, it seemed like a bad deal.
How much could one learn and research in a hundred years?
“The efficacy of these pills is indeed lacking. In the future, I should research and produce concentrated primitive protein pills! That’s what you call pills; these ones are just rubbish!”
After adjusting his body and mind, Su Hao once again entered a state of cultivation.
Now that the amount of spiritual power was fully replenished, it was time to temper all of it into Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power, a slow process that would take some time.
Su Hao really wanted to use a “spiritual power property transformer” to directly upgrade the spiritual power into Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power.
However, such technology wasn’t available yet. While it was possible to slightly alter the properties of spiritual power fluctuations, achieving a level transition was still a considerable distance away.
According to Yashan, give him another year, and he would be able to summarize the laws of transforming spiritual power properties, including first-order, second-order, third-order transformations…
Following the same pattern, continuously ascending!
Not only could he transplant spells, but he could also directly achieve a transition from Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual power quality to Golden Core Stage spiritual power quality, and then to Nascent Soul Stage…
As Su Hao thought about this during his cultivation, he couldn’t help but smile.
However, Su Hao wouldn’t blindly believe that his runic technique alone could allow spiritual power to ascend infinitely.
That would be unrealistic.
It’s like the existence of the natural number e, the limit of growth within a unit of time is 2.718… From the perspective of limits, under the conditions of the runic “spiritual power property transformer,” spiritual power transition inevitably has its corresponding limit.
Unless Su Hao can find other new conditions to add to it, breaking through this limit is possible.
As for what these new conditions might be, Su Hao currently doesn’t know, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility in the future.
“Give me a hundred years, and I’ll definitely revolutionize the cultivation methods in the cultivation world from the bottom up.”
By then, everyone in the cultivation world will have the opportunity to live a better life through joyful cultivation and research!
It’s a win-win situation!
