After returning to Lianxi City, Li Jie returned to his normal schedule. This morning, as usual, he came to the study.
Huh?
As soon as he entered the door, Li Jie noticed the extra jade slip on the bookshelf.
Who put it?
With a sweep of his consciousness, Li Jie suddenly understood the familiar fluctuations.
It turns out that Old Monster Xiang has been here before, no wonder he was able to send the jade slip into his study quietly.
As Li Jie's base camp, Li Mansion will naturally not be undefended. The prohibition here does not target mortals, only monks.
If monks below Nascent Soul dare to use violence, they will die as many as they come.
If the Yuanying monk appears in person, it depends on the specific situation. If Li Jie does not preside over the formation, the monks in the later stage of Yuanying will most likely be able to break through the ban in the palace with some effort.
Of course, the Yuanying monks will not be so idle. After all, this is just a mortal city, and immortal cultivators rarely appear here.
Reaching out for the jade slip, Li Jie immediately read the information inside.
After reading the message, Li Jie fell into deep thought.
The jade slip mentioned to the old monster straight to the point that he had arranged the matter to a Nascent Soul elder of the Luoyun Sect because he was going to find the space node.
Regarding this matter, Laoguai Xiang had mentioned it before, so Li Jie was not surprised.
What really surprised him was that Old Monster Xiang re-completed part of the original plan in the jade slips.
He mentioned that perhaps mortals could obtain spiritual roots through blood sacrifice.
This blood sacrifice is not the blood sacrifice mentioned before, but a secret technique similar to the "Seven Ghosts Soul Eater".
Seven Ghosts Soul Eater is a secret technique used by Mr. Mo in the original work. After using this technique, mortals can temporarily possess the magic power belonging to immortal cultivators.
According to the inherent impression in the world of immortality, only those with spiritual roots can cultivate magic power.
And secret techniques like Seven Ghosts Soul-eating just break this perception.
According to the message in Xiang Lao's strange jade slip, this technique is one of the secret techniques passed down by the ancients who studied mortals' cultivation of immortality.
Although the cost of performing this technique is extremely high, and the mana is only temporarily possessed, there is no doubt that this technique has indeed broken the iron rule that it is impossible for mortals to possess mana.
Since mortals can have magic power, why can't they have spiritual roots?
The age when this technique was created is too old to be determined. Xiang Zhili followed the idea of this technique and deduced it carefully.
However, according to his story, all the methods he deduced failed.
Failure was failure, but he still told Li Jie this idea, because in his eyes, Li Jie was a powerful person from the upper world.
What you can't do on your own may not be impossible for almighty people.
'This old monster Xiang really thinks highly of me.'
Li Jie carefully read the message on the jade slip and found that Mr. Xiang seemed to have a mysterious confidence in him.
It's a pity that Li Jie knows that he is not a powerful person in the upper world.
However, Xiang Zhili's point of view was not useless at all. The secret technique of Seven Ghost Soul Eaters in the jade slip reminded him of the secret technique of another world.
The Forbidden Curse of Returning Yang!
A forbidden technique in a deadlock was created by He Youqiu in the original plot. In order to restore the beauty of his beloved woman, He Youqiu created this technique in an attempt to resurrect the dead.
As a result, he succeeded, or it can be said that he did not succeed. Gu
Because the price of the Yang-Returning Forbidden Curse is very high, it is an exchange of equal value. When this spell is cast, the caster dies, and the dead person returns Yang.
"Equivalent exchange?"
Li Jie muttered something in a low voice.
But what exactly is the spiritual root?
After practicing so far, even though Li Jie has become a monk in the alchemy stage, he still has not been able to solve the mystery of his spiritual roots.
The spiritual root seems not to exist, but it does exist.
Just like Schrödinger's cat, a famous experiment in physics, spiritual roots are like particles. A particle has multiple possible states before it is observed.
A particle can be in this state and which state at the same time.
If you put it on the spiritual root, when you prepare to observe, you will find that the spiritual root does not exist, but you personally know that the spiritual root actually exists.
The soul measuring board is one of the means of measuring spiritual roots.
However, the principle of the soul-finding board is not to directly observe the spiritual roots, but to test the affinity of the five elements of the person being tested through the miniature array reserved in the soul-finding board.
This is equivalent to a reaction process.
Those with a single spiritual root can only react with a single spiritual root, and then the Ouija Board will give feedback results, and so on for those with multiple spiritual roots.
From ancient times to the present, no one has ever observed the existence of spiritual roots. Immortal cultivators can only test the properties of spiritual roots through affinity tests.
As for what the spiritual root is and how it exists, no one has delved into it.
Just like ordinary people don't wonder why the air exists, immortal cultivators also don't wonder why spiritual roots exist.
Li Jie immersed himself in thinking for a long time. He stopped thinking only when his head felt a dull pain.
The power of his soul is so huge that if we insist on finding a reference, the running speed of his brain is roughly equal to the top-level home computers of later generations.
In just a short while, he had deduced nearly a hundred feasible ideas in his mind, and then he followed these ideas one by one.
But at the end of the deduction, the results are all unknown.
Because all plans are missing a crucial variable - spiritual root.
The spiritual root is that ‘X’, the unknown number.
Without clarifying this issue, these ideas will always be just ideas and cannot be put into action.
Of course, Li Jie did not gain nothing at all. He had an immature idea regarding the research issue of 'spiritual roots'.
The reason why it is called "immature" is because this idea is too anti-human.
If we really want to turn this idea into a feasible solution, many, many mortals may have to die.
Maybe it's one, maybe it's one hundred, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even if it's hundreds of millions, the final result proves that this is a dead end.
This road is too uncertain. Success or failure depends entirely on luck, and behind every number lost is a living person.
This method is too evil, too uncontrollable, and undesirable.
Li Jie knew very well that the mortal world was just a part of his long life, not all of him. He did not need to place all his bets on the mortal world.
As long as the system remains, his future will have endless possibilities.
Maybe in the mortal world, he couldn't get the results he wanted, but at the next stop, and the next stop, he might be able to get it.
In fact, everything boils down to the fact that he still has hope. In the main world, he is in his prime. If nothing unexpected happens, he still has at least a hundred years to live.
One hundred years is very short, but if the dungeon worlds experienced during that period are counted, that time will be extremely long.