40,000 Years of Cultivation

The green light flashed across Li Yao's retina like a flame that was about to extinguish in the cold wind, and then disappeared without a trace.

Li Yao held his breath, stretched out a spiritual silk, and plunged into the reactor cauldron.

But when I passed through the gap, I encountered a strange existence like a thin film.

"wave!"

As if a soap bubble was punctured by him, a faint sigh came from the gap, and then, a series of small green light spots, like shining dandelion seeds, sprayed out, dancing with the wind under the night sky.

Li Yao was dumbfounded, he had never seen such a weird thing before.

It looks like a transparent firefly, but also like bunches of weak flowers, more like a flame demon spirit with life.

They danced around Li Yao, with a certain elusive pattern in their tracks, which seemed to send out mysterious messages.

Li Yao pierced out more spiritual silk from the roots, and gently pierced the bunches of green fire.

"boom!"

In an instant, hundreds of fires of information exploded in his mind, making him "see" and "hear" countless things.

He seemed to be surrounded by tens of thousands of pictures at the same time.

Most of them were mysterious and complicated experiments and refining processes, but there was also a small part of scenes where some people cheered and wept with joy.

"The Xuangu Project is finally about to succeed!"

This sentence echoed repeatedly in Li Yao's mind.

There followed waves of heroic laughter.

He can even feel very strong pride, pride, excitement and relief.

"this is--"

When Li Yao stood there blankly and spent a full hour digesting and assimilating all the information flow, he suddenly discovered that in the depths of his memory, there were countless more experimental data and refining methods related to the Xuangu Project.

The original vague concepts and conjectures have become very clear, and every detail of the Xuangu plan is connected together, like a shining crystal building, standing in his mind.

This feeling, like the inspiration of hundreds of people, exploded in his brain alone, exploding bright fireworks!

Looking at the sky again, the fireflies disappeared at some point.

Li Yao rubbed his cheeks vigorously, making sure that all this was definitely not an illusion.

He plunged Lingsi into the reactor cauldron again.

Hundreds of transparent fireflies have become extremely weak and have fallen into a long dead silence. Li Yao can even clearly feel that psychic energy is fading from them.

Perhaps it won’t take long for these transparent fireflies to shatter and disappear with the wind.

Li Yao's heart was beating like a drum, vaguely feeling that he had discovered a great secret, and hurriedly contacted his instructor through the miniature crystal brain.

Ten minutes later, Yuan Manqiu rushed to the scene.

She took the reaction furnace, closed her eyes, and sank her spiritual thoughts into it, while listening to Li Yao's account of what happened.

"Since more than half a year ago, I like to sit and meditate under the black bone battle armor statue, because here, my mind is very active, my thinking is very clear, and one thought after another will start to surprise me. It feels like there are countless master refiners, discussing and communicating with me!"

"With the passage of time, this feeling has become stronger and stronger. I even have the illusion that the profound bone battle armor is not a statue, let alone a wreck, but one, no, dozens of them. Hundreds of living people!"

"Until today, when I listened to the instructors communicating the progress, I found that everyone was stuck in the refining of the reactor pot."

"So I'm sitting here again, thinking about this problem, and I said simply to dismantle the old reaction furnace ding and figure out its structure carefully, maybe I can find something, and the result—"

Li Yao explained the strange phenomenon he had observed.

To his surprise, Yuan Manqiu's expression was neither surprised, nor joy, nor doubt, but a touch of sadness.

It was as if a wound that had been crusted was torn again, and the painful memories that had been sealed in dust for a long time surfaced again.

Li Yao rarely sees such an expression on his teacher's face.

Yuan Manqiu always gave him the feeling that he was alive and well, once he encountered a major event, he appeared calm and composed, and his Dao heart was extremely firm.

So although she is not the highest cultivation level among the grassroots refining masters, so many grassroots refining masters are still willing to advance the Xuangu plan under her leadership.

Li Yao only saw this expression on her face once.

It was the time when the Floating Mountain of the Refining Department exploded and Professor Mo Xuan sacrificed.

"Teacher, do you perceive it?"

Li Yao was a little nervous.

"No."

Yuan Manqiu shook his head slightly and said bitterly.

"how come?"

Li Yao was taken aback for a moment, took over the reactor cauldron, and re-sensed.

Although very faint, the hundreds of transparent fireflies were indeed there, emitting an extremely dim light.

You can perceive it when you are only in the Qi refining period.

The teacher is in the base construction period, there is no reason why I can't perceive it!

"I believe in your perception. It is definitely not an illusion. I think it should be a virtual spirit body."

Yuan Manqiu's voice was a bit lonely.

"Void Spirit Body?"

Li Yao blinked.

He had heard of the term imaginary body a little bit, but he didn't understand it in detail, and he hadn't encountered it on the road of cultivation in the past.

Yuan Manqiu seemed to have exhausted all his strength, holding on to the base of the profound bone battle armor, slowly sitting down, and said lightly:

"Have you seen a ghost?"

Li Yao nodded:

"Of course I have seen ghosts, and I and many ghosts are still good friends. Besides, in our school, don't some teachers also have ghosts?"

The good friends he was talking about were Ding Yin and Wei Qingqing.

A year and a half ago, on the way to the Great Desolate Battle Yard, the crystal rail train suffered an outbreak of beasts. Seven cultivators died in order to protect the entire train of ordinary people. In the end, only the souls of two cultivators survived and were transformed into After the ghost repair, they are Ding Yin and Wei Qingqing.

After Li Yao went to the Great Wilderness Battlefield, the two of them also went to the Ghost Academy set up by the Federation specifically for ghost repairs to learn how to be ghosts.

Since then, the two sides have communicated frequently, Li Yao and Ding Yin exchanged ideas on learning tools, and occasionally read Wei Qingqing's latest pure literary masterpiece, and their friendship continued to deepen.

A year later, Ding Yin and Wei Qingqing finished their studies at the Ghost Academy and went their separate ways.

Ding Yin joined the "Ghost Brigade" of the Federal Army, a unit specially set up for ghost repairs, and became an army refiner, specializing in helping ghost repairs in the ghost brigade maintain their bodies.

Wei Qingqing also fulfilled her dream and really entered a primary school as a primary school teacher.

It's just that this elementary school is a little bit special. All the students are children who died early.

People die like a lamp, and not everyone has the opportunity to become ghosts.

A cultivator with powerful spirits has a higher chance of becoming a ghost, while for ordinary people, the chance of becoming a ghost is very small.

Among ordinary people, there are several kinds of people who have a higher chance of becoming ghosts than ordinary people.

For example, people who were born or died at a specific time and place; people who died in red clothes; people with great resentment and attachment.

Another one is a child who died early.

Because the fire of a child's life has just been ignited, the soul has not been over-consumed, and is more pure than an adult, so the probability of being completely retained after death is higher.

In the ancient world of cultivation, the soul of a child who died early was the best material for cultivation.

Many devastating cultivators even deliberately use cruel methods to kill children, obtain ghosts, and refine insidious magical weapons.

In modern times, the situation is of course different.

The Star Federation's protection of ghost rights has almost been upgraded to the same level as human rights.

Especially the ghosts of teenagers who died before the age of eighteen, even more promulgated the "Xingyao Federation Minor Ghost Protection Act", which stipulates that minor ghosts, like minors, have the right and obligation to receive education.

Wei Qingqing went to such a school specially for little ghosts.

She also sent Li Yao a picture of her and the students in her class.

Of course, it wasn't the way it was inside the puppet, but it was taken in a dark room, with the manifestation array activated, and shot with special crystal eyes.

In the photo, Wei Qingqing and the children are like moving crystal statues, crystal clear, lifelike, not to mention how happy they are.

Li Yao is also very happy for her.

With these two friends, Li Yao is no stranger to ghosts, nor does he resist.

But the transparent fireflies in the reactor cauldron, no matter how you look at it, don't look like ghosts!

"Void spirits are not ghosts in the usual sense, or you can understand them as ghosts in a lower dimension, ghosts in a two-dimensional state."

Yuan Manqiu said.

"Two-dimensional ghost?"

Li Yao really couldn't understand.

Yuan Manqiu nodded:

"Yes, ghosts, although they are free from the shackles of the flesh, they still retain self-awareness, know who they are, and remember most of the things that happened in the past."

"But this situation cannot last long."

"If you can’t find a physical body, you can’t hide in metal puppets digitally, and you don’t understand the secrets of ghost practice, then soon, the ghost will decompose, melt, and collapse like ice and snow under the sun. ."

"In this process, the first thing you lose is self-awareness, and you will forget who you are."

"The next thing I lost is memory, I can't remember the past."

"The last thing they lose is persistence, something that keeps them lingering and never forgetting."

"As soon as the persistence is gone, the ghost is completely gone."

"However, if in the process, they are affected by external forces, or their attachments are too strong, it is possible that they may be temporarily retained through some special method, and the speed of dissipation will be reduced to a minimum and become a lower one. The ghost of dimensionality, that is the'virtual spirit body'!"

"You can think of the virtual spirit body as a loss of self-awareness and memory, and only retains a strong attachment, the thought of'death without looking at your eyes'!"