Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 2: Spirit Realm

It was obvious that Yang Ning was not a local. When he first transmigrated here, he thought it was just an ordinary ancient world. He was born into a poor peasant family, living in a dilapidated house. Not only that, but his father also owed the landlord three taels of silver in order to treat his mother's illness.

Three taels of silver may seem like a small amount, but their family relied on the two-fifths share of the harvest from the landlord's land to make money. They couldn't save much money in a year, so the three taels of silver made his father consider selling his son.

Fortunately, Yang Ning was exceptionally intelligent. At two months old, he could speak, and at six months old, he could even point out how to make a plow for his father.

This revolutionary farming tool caused a sensation in the countryside. The name of the child prodigy spread like wildfire, and even the county lord specially summoned Yang Ning, giving him gold, silver, and property. He also arranged for Yang Ning to study in the county school, so as not to waste his talent in the hands of farmers.

The Yue Kingdom had been established for four hundred years, but there was no sign of a dynasty's downfall. Rebellion was naturally impossible.

Yang Ning's plan was to study hard, become a top scholar, and popularize knowledge in subjects like mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Although he couldn't bring this ancient world into modernization, it wouldn't be difficult for him to be hailed as the founder of science in the textbooks a hundred years later.

His plan went smoothly. He became a talented scholar at the age of five, a jinshi at six, and the top scholar in the capital at seven. By the age of ten, he became the Minister of Works.

While making great strides in the field of liberal arts, he also invented waterwheels, improved weaving machines, created Yang Ning numbers, Yang's geometry, Yang's algebra, Yang's functions, established the Yue Kingdom, and even published the world's first scientific journal, "Truth."

However, when he was eleven years old and launched a hot air balloon, he discovered an invisible barrier in the sky above the capital.

Yang Ning would never forget that day.

A white-robed immortal stood on a bell-shaped object in the void, studying the hot air balloon with curiosity. He asked how it could fly without spiritual energy.

In this way, he discovered a whole new world and decided to abandon his official position, becoming a disciple of the immortal seed and entering this world.

With a thought from Yang Ning, his eyes remained closed, but the world around him lit up.

This was a huge room covering nearly ten thousand square meters. The room was divided into several suites, each serving a different purpose.

There were bedrooms, leisure areas, reading areas, experimental areas, and recently opened cultivation areas.

Each area was equipped with the necessary tools and equipment. For example, the reading room had desks, chairs, and bookshelves with computers. The laboratory had microscopes, centrifuges, machine tools, forging machines, and blast furnaces.

At the edge of the laboratory, there were also plows, waterwheels, spinning wheels, steam engines, hot air balloons, and modern technological creations such as sniper rifles, rifles, cannons, tanks, and helicopters.

This was the Goldfinger that Yang Ning brought with him when he transmigrated. It was somewhat like a lucid dream, where everything inside was under Yang Ning's control. With a single thought, he could change the world.

But it wasn't a dream, because if Yang Ning didn't deliberately interfere, the laws in this world were the same as outside.

Water flows downhill, and light can reflect, etc. Here, one can feel the airflow, sunlight, and warmth just like in the outside world.

He can also scan objects from the outside, such as a boat, a lamp, a sword, ensuring that the material and the outside world are identical.

There are also the most useful scanned books here. The books scanned here not only record every word accurately but also have the function of helping Yang Ning refine, analyze, and study.

This is the reason why Yang Ning was able to achieve the top score in the imperial examination at the age of seven. He didn't rely solely on studying to death but also knew how to apply his knowledge flexibly.

However, this is still a virtual universe, so it cannot accommodate physical objects.

But the space here is infinite. Yang Ning only built this house out of habit for conducting research in a room. In fact, as long as he wants, he can create a small island, a city, or even replicate the Earth from his previous life.

This Goldfinger is simply a dream come true for a researcher. For example, he can conduct research on nuclear fusion, particle colliders, or even build ships, airplanes, and rockets here. After all, he can create various materials and shapes with just a thought. As long as his mind is quick, he can achieve results in one or two months, and it's also cost-effective, consuming only five steamed buns a day.

Recently, he has been practicing cultivation and found that even breathing techniques can be brought in here, and practicing here is just as effective. Moreover, because it is not a real body, he is not afraid of getting injured no matter how much he experiments here. The most important thing is that the feeling he gains from practicing here can also be brought into reality.

This is why he was able to reach such a level in the breathing technique in just eleven days. He definitely has talent, but it's mostly because he has this cheat.

From the perspective of assisting cultivation, this Goldfinger is similar to the virtual universe in "Devouring the Starry Sky."

However, considering that this is an Immortal Cultivation World, Yang Ning eventually named this world the "Spirit Realm."

In the Spirit Realm, there is only Yang Ning as a living person, but he also created an AI named Deep Blue, as a tribute to his previous life on Blue Star.

He also looks forward to the day when he can cultivate without using his brain and simply say, "Deep Blue, add some points to complete it."

"Deep Blue, can you still not detect the existence of spiritual energy?"

[Insufficient information, unable to simulate completely.]

"Well, it's true that spiritual energy cannot be seen or touched. Only Qi Refining Stage cultivators can come into contact with it. Even if we construct a concept similar to spiritual energy, it will be completely different from real spiritual energy. Let's put it aside for now! How is the construction of the breathing technique principle?"

[Please refer to the screen.]

With Deep Blue's explanation, Yang Ning began to gain a deeper understanding of the breathing technique.

After all, it is the foundation of cultivation, and the principle of the breathing technique is naturally not complicated. By controlling the frequency and rhythm of breathing, the inhaled gas produces regular vibrations in the trachea and lungs. These vibrations will cause resonance in the spiritual energy particles, assuming that spiritual energy exists in the form of particles. Then, the spiritual energy is stirred within the body.

"Physical Body Realm cultivators cannot absorb spiritual energy, but spiritual energy is everywhere. It is just usually inert and does not fully manifest its ability to stimulate blood and activate cells. Under this muscle resonance, the effect of spiritual energy is amplified, thereby enhancing the body."

"However, since it only affects the trachea and lungs, the Amber Breathing Technique has excellent effects on the lungs and blood but has little effect on organs such as bones, brain, and kidneys. It still relies on the strengthened blood to transport energy throughout the body. This effect is somewhat lacking. To strengthen all the cells in the body, we need to research new breathing techniques specifically targeting these organs!"

"Deep Blue, model and calculate the frequencies for the heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidneys, bones, and brain separately!"

"The modeling is complete!" Deep Blue responded.

Even swords can be scanned, let alone oneself.

Yang Ning almost scans himself every day to update data in real-time and monitor his own progress. Therefore, in space, he can manifest every inch of his skin, every strand of hair, and even every cell.

But when it comes to a deeper level, his modeling scale depends on his observation scale. He knows the principle of a microscope, so he can create one and observe cells, organelles, and even genetic chains. But that's as far as it goes.

He doesn't know the principle of a scanning tunneling microscope, so he can't see his own genetic fragments or observe molecules at the atomic level.

Sun Tzu once said, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

In the context of cultivation, it means that only by understanding oneself can one know how to improve oneself in a targeted manner.

With samples of the lungs, red blood cells, white blood cells, and liver cells, Yang Ning conducted several tests and studied the required respiratory frequency and rate range for strengthening other organs.

Relying solely on breathing is difficult to affect these organs, after all, oxygen does not reach the heart. So Yang Ning increased the frequency of breathing, first vibrating the trachea, then causing vibrations in the cellular fluid, thereby vibrating other organs. Using this method, Yang Ning created seven breathing techniques to strengthen other organs, collectively known as the "Seven Days Breathing Method."

The newly created breathing technique is completely different from the "Amber Breathing Technique." The "Amber Breathing Technique" is almost inaudible, while the newly created breathing technique almost made his lungs cough out. If this were to spread, who knows if it would be seen as some demonic practice.

Wei Daocheng's teaching style is typical of the Taoist style. I've taught it, whether you want to listen or not is up to you. Anyway, I've fulfilled my responsibility.

If you want to review after class, if there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask? No way!

Although he knew that Wei Daocheng might not care about his cultivation, Yang Ning still felt it was best not to cultivate under his watchful eyes.

After all, achieving the state of sleep cultivation in eleven days is already astonishing, but creating a breathing technique on par with the Amber Breathing Technique in eleven days is a bit outrageous.

However, based on the experience of cultivating the Amber Breathing Technique, the maximum limit for practicing a set of breathing techniques in one day is only 40 minutes. The "Seven Days Breathing Method" is a combination of seven techniques, so it only takes 280 minutes, which can be practiced in one night.

He experimented a few days ago and found that no one came to bother him no matter what he did in his bedroom. It's clear that the cultivators on the ship are very serious and don't have a habit of scanning sleeping kids.

Allowing his body to start trying the "Seven Days Breathing Method," Yang Ning opened another book, "The Chronicles of the Vast Wilderness."

"The Chronicles of the Vast Wilderness" is a book distributed to everyone after boarding the ship. It is used to broaden the horizons of the young cultivators and records the geography, culture, and sects of the Extreme Eternal World. It mostly consists of records from previous generations of their own sects during their travels.

Its content can be described as vast, but also exceptionally chaotic because the compiler didn't classify the scriptures. They just wrote down one thing after another, wherever they thought of it. It can be said that they wrote it down as they went along.

Yang Ning has been busy these days. During the day, he scans the ship, records various birds flying by, observes astronomical phenomena, and practices breathing techniques. At night, he categorizes, organizes, and studies this massive book.

This book appears to be only 1 centimeter thick, but it is a book made by Immortal Law. In reality, it has over 170,000 pages, with a large number of words on each page. Some of the illustrations inside even move, lasting for four to five hours, comparable to a documentary film.

With Deep Blue, categorization is actually an easy task. The difficult part is establishing the classification entries. Once that is done, the remaining work can be handed over to Deep Blue.

Because the content is too diverse, Yang Ning spent seven to eight days just establishing the entries, but only took two seconds to categorize them.

It can be seen that Spirit Realm is not only vast in size, but also astonishingly fast in computation, not inferior to the Transcendent Level computers of the previous life.

"The Great Desolation Geographic Records are recorded in the form of travelogues. Depending on the departure direction of the predecessors, they can be divided into Eastern Taihua Longitude, Western Taihua Longitude, Southern Taihua Longitude, Northern Taihua Longitude, Southeast Longitude, Southwest Longitude, Northeast Longitude, and Northwest Longitude."

"There are also some records from other sects that do not have clear directions. They can be confirmed based on comparative data. If they cannot be confirmed, they should be separated!"

"There are also a large number of mountains, rivers, museums, which also need to be classified separately."

Although the Great Desolation Sutra is chaotic, the perspective of the immortals' understanding of the world is very clear, and the format is consistent. Generally, it states which direction they went, how far, what is there, what is produced there, what effects it has, whether there are any special animals, and how they taste when eaten.

For example:

Heading east from Taihua for eight thousand miles, there is the Lake of the Netherworld, with dark yellow water, inhabited by strange snakes with double horns on their heads and golden scales. They move like the wind when walking on the lake and are known as "False Dragons" by people. Consuming them can nourish the essence and increase qi. Their essence and blood can be used to refine the Mortal Pill "Dragon Marrow Pill."

(This is how it is in the original text of the Mountain and Sea Classic)

When classified, it can be simply divided into various categories such as plants, terrestrial organisms, aquatic organisms, birds, Demonic Beasts, ferocious beasts, Spirit Beasts, metal materials, stone materials, gas materials, and so on.

Occasionally, some sentences also contain some cultivation knowledge.

For example, elixirs are divided into Mortal Pills, Qi Pills, Spirit Pills, Treasure Pills, Dao Pills, and Immortal Pills.

Law Weapons are divided into Mortal Weapons, Law Weapons, Spirit Weapons, Treasure Weapons, Dao Weapons, and Immortal Weapons.

There are also talismans and formations, but they are relatively rare. It seems that cultivators in the Extreme Eternal World do not like to use these two things.

The combat power of the immortals is also described in the book, but many immortals like to exaggerate, and the descriptions of the power of their moves are also all over the place. In one instance, they can split mountains and rivers, but in another, they can only travel a few thousand miles.

Whether it is being realistic or exaggerating, Yang Ning, who has never seen immortals fight, does not know. He can only take it as a reference and not treat it as the truth.

It is worth mentioning that Extreme Eternal World is the name of this world, Extreme Eternal Sect is the name of the sect Yang Ning belongs to, and Extreme Eternal Heaven is the fifth level of the atmosphere, also known as the highest heaven. These three names are derived from the first sect of Extreme Eternal, Extreme Eternal Sect.

The Immortal Ascension Academy, to which Yang Ning belongs, is a pre-school for cultivation set up under Extreme Eternal Sect. Generally, one must complete the studies of writing and various cultivation knowledge at the Immortal Ascension Academy before entering Extreme Eternal Sect.

Therefore, Yang Ning is not a primary school student on the cultivation path, at most, he is just in kindergarten.

(End of this chapter)