bookbashuk Chapter 12 The Fire Mosquito is Forged!
Chapter 12 The Fire Mosquito is Forged!
Even with a lack of experimental data, Mengde was able to offer some different perspectives on the existing "Spiritual Root Theory".
Many cultivators in this world of cultivation are selected from among mortals.
As the saying goes, there is a difference between immortals and mortals. The chance of a mortal body giving birth to a descendant with spiritual roots is extremely small, while the chances of giving birth to a celestial spiritual root or a five-elemental spiritual root are almost equal...
Yes, it's a very counterintuitive truth that the probability of finding a child with five spiritual roots among children with spiritual roots is almost as rare as the probability of finding a child with a heavenly spiritual root.
The reason why those with four spiritual roots are called "trash" or "pseudo-spiritual roots" is because they are stuck at a certain point in cultivation. They can cultivate, but very few can actually break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. On the other hand, cultivators with three or two spiritual roots are able to occupy a large number of positions in the Foundation Establishment stage and even the Core Formation stage.
"When spiritual roots are detected by cultivators, apart from some special physiques, the differences between children are almost zero." Because he unexpectedly learned that Yunxi was actually a genius with dual spiritual roots, Mengde couldn't help but recall some conclusions and deductions he had made before.
Based on the information Mengde collected during his ten years working at Spirit Beast Mountain, the differences between children with different spiritual roots only become apparent after they begin cultivating immortality. If a child with a heavenly spiritual root never cultivates immortality, then that child with a heavenly spiritual root will not be much different from an ordinary person, at most they will be a little smarter and live a little longer.
In other words, a "spiritual root" is actually more like a "spiritual energy receiver" specially designed for spiritual energy.
The difference between spiritual roots is actually the difference in the quality of this spiritual energy receiver.
The fact that a mortal body can successfully nurture a spiritual root is itself a miracle. Therefore, Mengde can basically consider the total amount of innate spiritual energy of all spiritual roots as a single unit of 1.
The total amount of 'innate spiritual energy' among spiritual roots of different attributes and levels should remain constant. Otherwise, a mortal mother capable of giving birth to a descendant of a Heavenly Spiritual Root would inevitably exhibit some extraordinary phenomena surpassing those of other mortal mothers with different spiritual roots. However, according to the information Mengde gathered from the hundreds and thousands of Qi-refining servants on Spirit Beast Mountain, there are no different extraordinary phenomena among mortal mothers capable of giving birth to descendants of spiritual roots.
Thus, Mengde basically confirmed that all spiritual roots have the same 'initial spiritual energy value'.
So, given the same initial spiritual energy value, why do different evolutionary outcomes occur?
The answer is: the direction of adding points is different.
The balanced allocation of the five spiritual roots allows it to function in any environment, but it is difficult to obtain high-quality spiritual energy with the same values.
In contrast, the ultimate point allocation of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, under the limited initial spiritual energy value, creates the most extreme "spiritual energy receiver". At the cost of sacrificing the theoretical future, it achieves the ultimate cultivation speed and spiritual energy quality of the same level, thus reaching the highest cultivation level within a limited lifespan!
Mengde was actually very familiar with this situation, because there were countless examples of it in the history of biological evolution on Earth in his previous life.
For example, consider the gills of marine fish and the massive lungs of whales. Fish gills have low oxygen uptake efficiency, but they are not limited by time. Whales, on the other hand, have much higher oxygen uptake rates, but their massive lungs have a potentially fatal time limit.
The lower the oxygen content in the water, the greater the advantage of a whale's massive lungs. However, if the oxygen content in the water increases, the optimal gill density for marine environments becomes extremely high...
Therefore, in Mengde's initial deductions, the more abundant the spiritual energy in a world, the more high-level cultivators with multiple attribute spiritual roots there would be. Conversely, the less abundant the spiritual energy in a world, the more high-level cultivators with fewer attribute spiritual roots there would be.
Therefore, it can be inferred that the cultivation world Mengde is currently in should be considered a low-spiritual-energy plane.
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Dispelling the deductions about spiritual roots from his mind, Meng De shook his head slightly and checked the breeding situation of the source blood mosquitoes in Blackwater Manor.
"If we really follow Senior Sister Qingli's rule of one batch every three days, that would be ten batches a month, which is ten spirit stones..." Meng De did a rough calculation and realized that if he developed the 'insect food' business properly, he could achieve a certain degree of freedom in terms of spirit stones.
Meng De could earn ten low-grade spirit stones a month just from Senior Sister Qing Li, which was enough for his daily cultivation.
"Raising insects is actually quite tiring work... If it weren't for the fact that the Source Blood Flying Mosquitoes have compressed their breeding cycle to within four days... and that senior sister was willing to pay double the price, otherwise, this kind of hard work would be too much for most people to handle..." Ten low-grade spirit stones a month is enough for Meng De to cultivate entirely using spirit stones. At Meng De's current cultivation speed, one low-grade spirit stone is only enough for him to cultivate for about five days on a daily basis. If he were to go into seclusion, then one low-grade spirit stone would only last for about three days.
Normally, the reproduction cycle of floating mosquitoes is about one to two weeks. Mengde's blood mosquitoes have undergone hundreds of generations of genetic iteration and have been optimized too much.
"My Source Blood Mosquitoes are basically free-range... The ten spirit stones I earn each month are practically free." Meng De suddenly realized that being a 'food supplier' seemed to be a pretty lucrative profession in Spirit Beast Mountain. Most importantly, although Meng De's Source Blood Mosquitoes are basically free-range, they are restricted by Meng De's blood and flesh aura and are unwilling to stray too far from him. Sometimes Meng De doesn't even know what these Source Blood Mosquitoes eat to grow up.
"Let's build a good relationship with Senior Sister Yunxi first..." Meng De felt that Yunxi's hint was already very obvious. Although she felt that he was being used as a tool, this was a world of cultivation, and Yunxi was already considered a good person.
Moreover, Mengde felt that Yunxi's background must be extraordinary. A cultivator at the peak of the thirteenth level of Qi Refining with dual spiritual roots, who was not even twenty years old, was almost certain to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, yet he was forced to participate in the Blood Trial... Mengde didn't dare to inquire too much. He just wanted to be his "insect food supplier."
Soon, while Mengde continued to scald the mosquitoes with boiling water for N generations, the time of cultivation passed in the blink of an eye, and three months flew by.
Meng De, who had been using spirit stones to aid his cultivation, found his progress was quite good, getting closer and closer to the early stage of the fifth level of Qi Refining, nearing the peak of the Great Perfection stage... In other words, after wasting over twenty spirit stones, Meng De hadn't even reached the mid-stage of the fifth level of Qi Refining... Meng De predicted that if he wanted to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, it might take him a year, even with the continued use of spirit stones...
This is only at the sixth level of Qi Refining... You know, it gets harder and harder as you go higher... Meng De finally understands... the power of a Heavenly Spiritual Root with maxed-out stats...
However, now that the promise made to Senior Sister Qingli has been fulfilled, the promised spirit insect eggs will soon be delivered.
However, compared to the spirit insect eggs that were destined to be out of reach for the time being, Meng De was more concerned about his new combat-type source blood mosquito.
Because it seems the 'Fire Mosquito' technique has been successfully created!