In the laboratory, in the blood pool.
As if a gust of wind was blowing, the blood pool set off ripples, and countless blood Gu continued to squirm on the surface of the pool, devouring various nutrients to create flesh and blood.
In the center of the blood pool, there is a green spiritual leaf floating, and above the spiritual leaf, there is a golden elixir suspended between virtual and real.
Although he got a complete golden elixir, Lin Chen discovered a very critical problem. With his current ability, he couldn't take it apart and study it.
He originally wanted to directly extract the origin of the golden elixir, but it still didn't work.
Lin Chen also tried to remove the spiritual leaves used to preserve the golden elixir using the method given by Master Chang Qing.
But after it was removed, the golden elixir immediately collapsed, and a spiritual energy storm formed, which overloaded his laboratory formation and almost collapsed.
If he hadn't reacted in time and immediately used his back-up tactics to re-seal it when he saw something was wrong, I'm afraid what would have happened.
It was impossible to dismantle it directly, nor to extract it. In desperation, Lin Chen could only try to use indirect observation, use other things to react with the golden elixir, collect data, build a model, and speculate on the secrets inside, and then verify it.
When the golden elixir reacted with other spiritual objects, Lin Chen unexpectedly discovered that the data and phenomena provided by its reaction with the blood pool seemed to be the most valuable for research.
For example, at this moment, in the blood pool, the golden elixir on the spiritual leaves is emitting a faint light.
Even if it is preserved by special means, it only greatly delays its existence, and it itself is still disintegrating.
The spiritual energy released by the collapse continued to merge into the blood pool below after being degraded and spread.
After receiving these spiritual energy, the blood poison, flesh and blood in the blood pool continued to mutate and formed various organs.
Heart, lungs, liver, brain...and, tail!
Lin Chen dissected and studied these organs, collected the corresponding data, built a model, and then compared it with the basic racial template he had summarized by dissecting various species over the years.
Then he was somewhat surprised to find that the origin of these organs seemed to be similar to a very common monster beast in the Lingnan cultivation land.
The name of this monster is [Thread-armed Demonic Ape].
This is a monkey monster that lives in groups and is cruel and cunning in nature. It is one of the main threatening groups around the major fairy cities under the Qingyun Sect.
Among them, there are even more talented ones who can learn the body training techniques of monks and develop an indestructible body. With their racial talents, they can be said to be unparalleled in combat power at the same level.
As far as Lin Chen knew, thirty years ago, Master Qingyang launched an expedition and killed a monster in the Hengduan Mountains in the northeast of the Lingnan Immortal World. It was none other than the Tongtian Demon Ape.
The golden elixir in Lin Chen's hand also came from this monster.
At this moment, the spiritual energy overflowing from the golden elixir merged into the blood pool, and under the influence of each other, the organs corresponding to the monsters were derived.
Originally, Lin Chen thought that the monks just carved their consciousness into the aura, but now it seems that it is more than that.
The monk not only integrates his consciousness into the aura, but also seems to write all the information related to his body's race into it.
So even if you are promoted to a high level, they are all called the human and demon tribes, and are not collectively called the spiritual energy tribe. Is this the reason?
When a monk blends with spiritual energy, he will also write all the information about his body to anchor his identity, instead of becoming a wisp of ever-changing spiritual energy?
"This feeling is a bit similar to the cells in the previous life. Aura is a stem cell, which has various evolutionary directions. The information injected by the monks is equivalent to the inherited genes, thus ensuring its normal development and not being as disordered as cancer cells. …”
"So if the golden elixir is originally equivalent to stem cells, then the golden elixir is equivalent to an embryo?"
"The foundation building stage is divided into [Liquid Condensation], [Shape Refining], and [Purple Mansion]. In these three processes, is it possible to inscribe the information represented by the monk's essence, energy, and spirit into the spiritual energy, and then inscribe this information into the spiritual energy?" The three kinds of information are integrated to form an aura embryo with the monk's self-information, which is also the golden elixir?"
"With this aura embryo that has its own information, it will develop normally into an aura creature and will not turn into some weird evil thing."
"So this is also the reason why the golden elixir monks can [seize the body]? Because the golden elixir records the information of their original bodies. Even if they change their body, they can still influence the seizing body's body through spiritual energy, so as to meet their own requirements."
"This process is equivalent to injecting the genes of one organism into the stem cells of another organism in the previous life?"
Lin Chen stroked his chin, thoughtfully.
Moreover, Lin Chen also read in the classics that the golden elixir monks could mobilize the power of heaven and earth, and their power was not comparable to that of the Qi Refining and Foundation Building monks.
In the final analysis, the power of heaven and earth in this world is spiritual energy.
Although Qi refining and foundation building can also mobilize spiritual energy, they only use spiritual roots to dye it with their own aura, thereby forcibly controlling it.
This process is equivalent to using a machine to manipulate the movement of an atom, which is time-consuming, laborious and difficult to control.
But the Jindan monk is different. Their essence is already aura, and they can naturally control other auras easily, just like arms and fingers.
Just like when a machine affects particles, it has to borrow various magnetic fields and electric fields. To affect particles, particles only need to collide and approach. The latter is far more convenient and easier to control than the former.
Of course, these are Lin Chen's conjectures, but with conjectures, there will naturally be a direction, and with a direction, it will become an accurate conclusion after the experiment proves it.
"No wonder this world also has a saying similar to "If a golden pill is swallowed, my fate is determined by me."
"Because whether you are refining Qi or building a foundation, you are essentially a mortal. Even if you have spiritual energy to nourish your body, you can only live to the limit of human lifespan in this world, which is more than two hundred years, and you cannot transcend."
"But after achieving the golden elixir, its essence is already spiritual energy. What determines its lifespan is no longer the body, but the changes in the activity of spiritual energy in the body."
"As long as the activity level does not drop to a certain level and all the information stored in the monk's spiritual energy is leaked out, the monk can continue to exist."
Lin Chen picked up a pile of experimental data in his hand.
This is data based on the analysis of the high-grade spiritual stone he obtained from the storage ring given by Master Changqing.
According to his analysis and model establishment, the time it takes for the energy level and activity of this high-grade spiritual stone to decrease is about... about a thousand years.
The lifespan of a Golden elixir monk is about eight hundred years.
"Changing the key to determine one's lifespan from cells to aura, so as to achieve the so-called immortality?"
Lin Chen couldn't help but think of some forbidden experiments done by some crazy scientists in his previous life for the purpose of immortality.
Take out the human brain, create corresponding neural perception instruments, and replace the flesh and blood body with machinery to pursue immortality in a certain sense.
However, the machine itself also has a service life. Through constant replacement, it can only live longer than the flesh and blood body, but no one knows whether it can withstand the test of tens of millions of years.
And what is the difference between changing the key to determine one's own lifespan from flesh and blood to machine, and the monk changing the key to determining one's own lifespan from cells to aura?
"No matter how it changes, it can only be made of weak flesh and blood, and it has to be mechanical, spiritual, particle or energy soaring?" Lin Chen's eyelids drooped.
He couldn't think of any other way to do this, because even the so-called blood-reborn and indestructible bodies essentially used spiritual energy to transform all things.
The same goes for cells in previous lives. No matter how they change, don’t they all need various substances and stars to provide energy?
Unless it falls into a deep sleep like a jellyfish, it has no conditions to survive without relying on external objects.
"Alas." Lin Chen sighed lightly and put down the idea.
"Now that I know the next research direction, I probably know how to proceed."
(End of chapter)
