Chapter 355: Touch of Ghosts
On top of the Dinghai Divine Pillar, Chen Qi sat cross-legged and practiced quietly.
Ever since he learned about the existence of the art of mining and refining from the mouth of Yu Shenzi, Chen Qi has been very curious about this secret art that can absorb the information structure of heaven and earth.
Today, he could finally see his true appearance.
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The art of mining and refining continued to flow in Chen Qi's mind. Only after Chen Qi understood it 30 times did he gain some understanding.
There are two levels of mining and refining techniques.
The first level is to collect the information structure that has escaped between heaven and earth, which can also be regarded as collecting information from the sea of information.
As for the second level, it directly peels off the information structure of various things in the world.
This is very difficult, but much easier to get the complete information structure.
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If you want to practice the art of mining, the prerequisite is that you must first be able to peek into the information structure.
And this requires the strength of the mind.
Along with the art of mining and refining, there is also the secret art of [Heart Mirror].
This is through shaping the [immovable heart] and turning it into a mental mirror that reflects the information structure of the outside world.
There is endless information escaping between heaven and earth at all times. If you use your mind to directly reflect and capture it, the practitioner will be drowned by the terrifying torrent of information in the next moment and become possessed.
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The immovable mind is different. It is essentially the core of the superego.
The essence of shaping it as a mind mirror is to perceive the information structure between heaven and earth through the [superego].
The [superego] can almost be regarded as a [conceptual body born due to external cognition], which is quite a professional counterpart.
In fact, even without shaping the mind mirror, Chen Qi can still perceive the information structure between heaven and earth.
But Chen Qi still practiced according to the original version. He wanted to feel the wonders of this heart mirror.
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It is mentioned in the cultivation materials that shaping the mind mirror is very difficult and requires careful polishing with the power of the mind.
Only when the mind mirror is polished to be transparent and bright enough can the information structure of the outside world be reflected.
I don’t know if it was because Chen Qi was so talented, but he just polished it a little 99 times, and the heart mirror was finally completed.
The moment the heart mirror took shape, it actually reflected a ball of spring water.
Countless information structures are like fountains, constantly spraying into the void.
And if you look closely, you will find that those information structures are the mysteries of coral reefs.
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"Interesting, that's why!"
After several experiments, Chen Qi finally determined the function of the heart mirror.
The state of mind cannot peek into the information between heaven and earth on a large scale. It can only reflect the information structure emanating from the things Chen Qi has locked.
For example, the fountain that appeared in the mirror was because Chen Qi locked onto a coral stone in front of him.
In this way, practicing the art of mining does not allow the practitioner to peek into the sea of information, but only to see a drop or a mass in the sea.
But the mind mirror is not without its advantages. Compared with the vastness of the information sea, it is uncertain and makes people feel at a loss.
The mind mirror is like a monitor that can detect the information leakage of the coral stone at all times, so the state it presents is like a fountain.
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After completing the practice of the Heart Mirror, the next step is the real [Art of Refining].
The interpretation of this paragraph is also where Chen Qi spent the longest time.
Because some of the theories made him feel quite familiar and mysterious.
[The essence of the art of mining and refining is to use one's own small world to plunder information from the outside world, and then transform and utilize it]
In the art of mining and refining, the human body and heaven and earth are regarded as two independent systems.
This perspective is very similar to some of Chen Qi's previous insights from Yuan Jun.
But unlike Yuanjun, he made his own system completely independent from the world and used it to interfere with the outside world.
Although the art of mining and refining emphasizes the small world of the human body, it is only "temporary".
That is to say, the art of mining and refining does not make a person completely independent from heaven and earth, but only uses the power of the mind to envelope oneself to achieve temporary isolation between man and heaven and earth.
"The human body is like a cauldron, and the mind is sealed."
This is the sealing method in the art of mining and refining.
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"People have seven orifices that connect heaven and earth."
According to the description of the art of mining and refining, there are seven spiritual orifices in the small world of the human body, which are the bridges to communicate with the outside world.
As long as these seven spiritual orifices are temporarily blocked, the connection between the human body and the outside world can be cut off and it can become a whole.
Chen Qi tried it casually according to the secret method, but unexpectedly he succeeded in one go.
The moment the small world of the human body became independent, Chen Qi completely lost his sense of the outside world.
At the same time, a new world was born.
Chen Qi's body turned into the boundless earth, and his blood turned into a torrent.
On the earth, countless wild primitive humans are running.
This is the manifestation of Chen Qi's body cells.
Not only that, Chen Qi's subconscious turned into various rules to maintain the material world.
The various emotions and thoughts in the subjective consciousness have turned into hundreds of millions of gods and demons. They are constantly fighting to promote the operation of the world.
At the highest point in the world, my mind is like the God of Creation, quietly overlooking everything.
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"Are these the secrets hidden in the human body?"
"It's a pity that they are all false!"
In the infinite distance, the mind sighed, all kinds of visions disappeared instantly, and the whole world returned to darkness again.
But in the darkness, there is a rumbling sound that I keep recalling. This is the sound of the small world of the human body functioning.
Even though Chen Qi's body is extremely powerful now, it is just a mortal body. How can it be possible for him to evolve all kinds of gods in his body?
The most important thing is that the spiritual orifice is only temporarily closed, which is the root of everything being illusory.
As for how to completely seal the spiritual orifice, or to actively master its opening and closing, Chen Qi's refining technique did not mention it.
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"Is my progress too fast?"
"According to the information, it takes at least half a year to polish the heart mirror."
"It only took me one day!"
"As for closing one's own spiritual orifice and creating a world of one's own, this is even more exaggerated."
"Others have to fail at least thousands of times, but I succeeded in one time!"
"If I wasn't extremely sure that I was not dreaming, I couldn't believe that I was so amazing."
"Hahaha!"
On the Dinghai Shenzhu, Chen Qi had to seriously reflect on himself for a few minutes because his cultivation progress was too fast.
After reflecting, Chen Qi felt that everything was reasonable, so he stopped struggling.
But the next cultivation would not be so smooth.
Because in order to capture and strip off the scattered information between heaven and earth, one needs to use the power of [root] to shape one's own spirituality into some mysterious things.
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It is rumored that there is a divine elephant between heaven and earth, and its name is Tianyuan.
The divine elephant has its own universe in its body, but it can use its own long trunk to swallow the mountains and rivers of the world and turn them into beautiful things in its belly.
In the art of mining and refining, if one wants to capture and strip off the information structure of non-living things, one needs to shape the nose of the Tianyuan divine elephant.
This is essentially a kind of spiritual mimicry.
It's just that the simulation is not the whole of the Tianyuan divine elephant, but only its nose.
In the art of mining and refining, there is a complete structural diagram of the elephant's trunk, and even a vivid and full-bodied illustration.
This seems to be just a step-by-step practice, but because it involves precise interference with the root, the difficulty of practice is not ordinary.
Chen Qi tried it casually, and the miracle did not happen. He "actually" failed.
Well, this is normal.
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In addition to the nose of the Tianyuan Elephant, there is another mysterious thing in the method of mining and refining, which is used to capture and strip the information structure of living organisms.
Its name is [Ghost and God Touch], which is something that Chen Qi cares about very much.
"People become ghosts when they die, and gods when they are not dead, so there are ghosts and gods in this world."
"Ghosts and gods use the life information structure of all living beings as food. They are like bees, collecting the essence of all living beings to make honey, in order to sublimate into ghosts and immortals."
This is all the introduction about ghosts and gods in the method of mining and refining, but for some reason, Chen Qi always feels that this ghost and god is somewhat familiar to him.
But the strange thing is that Chen Qi has gone through all his memories, especially the memories of reading the college library recently, but still has not found any information related to ghosts and gods.
At a certain moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed through his mind, and Chen Qi suddenly realized it.
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“It’s the Immortality Curse!”
“It’s actually the Immortality Curse of the Jomoya Chris family.”
“No wonder I always feel familiar with the records about ghosts and gods. [People become ghosts after death, and gods after immortality], this is the only cognition of the Immortality Curse in Jomoya Chris’s remaining memory.”
“Interesting, no wonder there are no records about ghosts and gods in the academy library.”
“Because such existence is a taboo even in the outer ring world.”
“The actual earl of the Chris family was completely ruined because of the involvement in the Immortality Curse incident, and was exiled back to the inner ring world.”
As more and more information was connected in his mind, Chen Qi became more and more certain that the Immortality Curse was definitely related to the inheritance of ghosts and gods.
Since leaving the Blue Taro Kingdom, Jomoya Chris’s resentment was sealed by Chen Qi with a black soul-suppressing nail and stuffed into the Tirado Ancient Ring.
Originally, Chen Qi planned to study it carefully and take down the treasure house of the Jomoya Chris family.
Unfortunately, after the Ascension Island incident, Chen Qi's strength expanded too quickly, and he no longer paid much attention to the Chris family's inheritance.
Especially after joining the Tianwu Spell Academy, Chen Qi was too busy and directly forgot about this matter.
If nothing unexpected happened, the resentment of Jomoya Chris would have been buried in the box.
But fate is so wonderful. Just today, Chen Qi thought of Jomoya Chris again because of the [Ghost Touch].
It seems that it is necessary to take time to study this declining Earl family in the future!
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Incredibly weird, the Ghost Tentacle is neither a human palm nor a mollusk tentacles, but more like a black limb.
Chen Qi tried to practice casually, and felt that the difficulty was greater than the Tianyuan Divine Elephant.
"Strange, the art of mining and refining only records these two mysterious things."
"If I guessed correctly, the things that Tongyou Society mines and refines are myths and legends, and these two mysterious things are obviously not suitable."
"In that case, this mining and refining technique should have a third mysterious thing."
When Chen Qi redeemed the mining and refining technique, with his authority and points, he could only redeem the basic version.
If he wants to redeem a higher advanced version, he must at least become a true seed of the academy.
Chen Qi was originally very curious about the advanced version, but now he has more or less guessed some of it.
The Tianwu Curse Academy is indeed profound!
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After some thought, Chen Qi planned to practice the nose of the Tianyuan Divine Elephant first.
Chen Qi also had his own considerations for making such a choice.
First of all, the difficulty of cultivation. For Chen Qi, the difficulty of shaping the trunk of the Tianyuan God Elephant is obviously lower than that of the Ghost Touch.
Chen Qi's mission this time is destined not to be too long, so of course he has to get the easiest one first.
This is not because Chen Qi does not want to stay outside for a longer time, but he has to go back to the academy to prepare for the true seed election.
Moreover, Chen Qi is very skilled and experienced in capturing the information structure of non-living matter, and can also be used to improve his own strength.
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The information structure of the living body captured by the Ghost Touch is different.
Not to mention the Ghost Touch itself makes Chen Qi a little worried. Just the difficulty of its construction, Chen Qi is not sure that he can complete the cultivation in this mission.
And Chen Qi has no reliable way to use the information structure of these living bodies.
You can't let him learn [Feeding God Shrine] and raise gods in his own inner world.
On the contrary, the information structure of non-living bodies is easier to apply in practice.
After making up his mind, Chen Qi was completely immersed in hard training.
And time was flowing day by day in Chen Qi's training.
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"Hahaha, Fifth Prince, don't run away!"
"This vast ocean belongs to us Black Shark Pirates, just die in the sea!"
A small-scale naval battle was breaking out thousands of kilometers away from the East Burleigh Channel.
Dozens of pirate ships with skull flags surrounded three small extraordinary warships.
The small extraordinary warships were hung with the logo of the Kingdom of Droya.
Obviously, these were regular warships of the Kingdom of Droya.
But what was extremely strange was that it was the regular army of the kingdom that was at a disadvantage at this time.
The dozens of pirate ships with skull flags were really like black sharks, constantly moving across the sea and biting the small extraordinary warships.
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"Damn it, how is this possible?"
"How can there be pirates in the Inner Ring World!"
"Damn it, which bastard colluded with foreign enemies and hired the naval forces of other countries."
"This is a foul, this is breaking the rules!"
In the command room of the extraordinary battleship, the fat fifth prince, who was as fat as a ball, was full of despair and anger.
How dare they?
How dare they do this?
Who is it, what force is intervening?
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"Your Highness, although we don't want to admit it, the other party seems to be a real pirate."
"Their tactics are completely different from today's naval battles. I have only seen this ancient warfare in the library of the academy."
"In today's Inner Ring World, the kingdom navy is competing with hard power, the weight and number of extraordinary battleships, and they don't use these fancy tactics."
"This is an absolute shame for us."
Beside the fifth prince, a naval officer spoke with shame and anger.
Of course, he was still quite dissatisfied and angry in his heart.
It's not that they can't beat the other side, it's just that the other side has more ships and suddenly attacked.
The instinct from the navy told him that these guys on the opposite side were definitely not the regular navy of a certain kingdom.
Their navy is proud and independent, and will never learn from pirates.
This is destroying the honor of all the navy in the inner ring world.
After all, it was everyone who joined forces to destroy all the pirates.
He would rather believe that the pirates suddenly resurrected, and he would never believe that the navy of a certain kingdom had a brain twitch and pretended to be pirates.
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"What's the point of you saying this now?"
"Does the kingdom invest so much money every year to support you bunch of rubbish?"
"Pass my order, let those two warships take the lead and ram them."
"I don't believe that the quality of our kingdom's warships can't smash these small sampans."
The fat fifth prince was angry again. He finally got rid of the pursuit of all parties and led everyone on the way home to attend the funeral.
But he was ambushed by these pirates, which was really hateful.
However, facing the Fifth Prince's order, the previous naval officer was indifferent and ignored it.
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"Your Highness, according to the current power structure of the kingdom, even if you are crowned as king, you have no right to directly command us to fight."
"We were only ordered to take you back to the capital, and it was because of your personal relationship with the Vice Admiral that we reluctantly followed your advice to hurry on the way."
"You are crossing the line now!"
As soon as this sentence was spoken, the air in the command room solidified instantly.
All the officers present looked at the Fifth Prince coldly, and their attitude was very obvious.
Now is not the past, the royal family no longer has absolute authority.
And even in the past, a mere prince who has not ascended the throne would not think of commanding here blindly.
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"You, you guys!"
As if he was suddenly stabbed, the previously angry Fifth Prince was directly deflated.
He fell to the ground in dejection, but he was helpless.
Because the current situation of the kingdom is like this, even if he becomes the real king, the power he has is pitiful.
If possible, he does not want to compete for the throne.
But he had no choice!
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The fifth prince Benjamin had no other ability but to make many friends.
According to the gossip Benjamin got, the national teacher had already predicted the outcome of the succession to the throne.
The result was blood everywhere. Among the nine people, only the one who became the king survived.
The national teacher's divination had never been wrong, so Benjamin naturally believed it.
Benjamin didn't want to die at all, but his strength was only average among the nine people, and he couldn't compete at all.
Helplessly, he could only choose to take the lead.
The result was exactly the same as the situation encountered by the previous two, and he was sniped again.
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"Your Highness, there is no need to despair!"
"The other party didn't really want to kill us, but just slowed down our journey!"
"Now that our power system is damaged, their goal has been achieved, and it's almost time to withdraw!"
The leading naval officer made his own judgment.
Sure enough, the Black Shark Pirates quickly "ran out of bullets" and fled quickly and hastily.
However, the fifth prince Benjamin, who witnessed this scene, had no surprise on his face.
Because he really didn't want to enter the East Berlik Strait!