There's Something Wrong With My Immortal Path

Chapter 2: Is Spirit Root equal to a light-emitting diode?

Suppressing the restlessness in his heart.

Xia Ming diligently studied the knowledge in the book.

A series of electromagnetic induction principles were forcefully stuffed into his mind.

Back in the day, he used to sleep through physics class.

While the teacher lectured, he would dream.

Even if the teacher pressed his head, he still refused to learn.

But now... Xia Ming wished he could devour the book.

"The human body is also a magnetic field. Close your eyes and concentrate, feeling as if you are holding a wire in your right hand..."

"Use the right-hand rule to construct your own perception of the magnetic field..."

The more Xia Ming read, the more frightened he became.

Is this reliable?

Why does it feel a bit off?

...

After a moment, Xia Ming slowly closed his eyes and then extended his right hand.

And then, a miracle happened!

While his vision disappeared, a clear black and white distribution of magnetic field lines appeared in Xia Ming's mind.

The black lines were the magnetic field lines, and the white areas were the fillings in between.

The range covered by the magnetic field was not large, only about one square meter.

Slowly opening his slightly reddened eyes, Xia Ming's face was filled with astonishment.

Something seems off about me?

Am I cultivating immortality?

Is this spiritual perception?

...

A few days later, Xia Ming successfully passed the Great River Sect's inspiration assessment.

The content of the inspiration assessment was to pick out a stone containing spiritual energy from a stone mountain.

Closing his eyes, Xia Ming easily picked out a stone containing spiritual energy from among them.

In his sensing magnetic field, the stone containing spiritual energy would repel the surrounding magnetic field lines, forming isolated islands on the water.

With a glance, those abrupt little islands were truly eye-catching.

After the trial, Xia Ming proudly became a disciple of the Great River Sect.

The next day, the Great River Sect gave Xia Ming and the other disciples a second textbook.

"How I Went from Inspiration to Spirit Root - Written by the Ancestor of Inspiration."

...

Xia Ming heard from other labor disciples that this book was a load of nonsense.

The Ancestor of Inspiration was originally a hidden Spirit Root, but by a fortunate coincidence, it became visible.

The sect distributes it every year to deceive the labor disciples into working hard, hoping that one day they will stand out.

In reality, it's a lie!

With an anxious heart, Xia Ming opened the book.

Oh heavens... love me once more.

Xia Ming clasped his hands and bowed deeply.

...

After a moment, Xia Ming slapped himself hard.

He was now convinced.

He was indeed abnormal.

On that book, he actually saw those running and jumping words again.

Hand in hand, let's walk together, good friends for life.

The words were rearranged, and before Xia Ming's eyes appeared an incredibly exaggerated equation.

"Spirit Root = Light-Emitting Diode."

By collecting suitable conductive materials and utilizing the bioelectricity within the body, lighting up the diode is equivalent to obtaining a Spirit Root.

Red: Fire Spirit Root.

Blue: Water Spirit Root.

Yellow: Earth Spirit Root.

White: Metal Spirit Root.

Green: Wood Spirit Root.

...

Closing his eyes and silently reciting "Spirit Root" allows him to check his progress.

And so, Xia Ming did as instructed.

Next, he saw that incredibly eye-catching diode in the black and white world again.

The bulb was dim, and the two pins were faintly visible.

Looking back at the book, Xia Ming indeed found the solution:

By absorbing attribute spirit stones or absorbing the Spirit Roots of cultivators, one can continuously improve the diode.

The specific absorption methods are as follows:

According to the principle of electromagnetic induction, place special spiritual energy within the range of your magnetic field induction.

Utilize your own magnetic field to electrolyze tangible spiritual energy, transforming it into attribute current and absorbing it into your own biological field.

In this way, the goal of perfecting one's own diode and ultimately lighting it up to obtain an attribute Spirit Root can be achieved.

The biological field within oneself can provide energy, keeping the diode constantly lit.

Once lit, it will be effective for a lifetime.

Closing the "masterpiece" of Immortal Cultivation World, Xia Ming's face showed a strange expression.

Playing with electromagnetic induction in the world of immortal cultivation?

Electrolyzing Spirit Root?

Science!

This is too scientific!

I worship Faraday Ancestor!

Damn Immortal Cultivation World!

Science!

We must believe in science!

...

After two days of being a menial disciple, Xia Ming became even more determined to cultivate Spirit Root.

Being a menial disciple is simply unbearable.

The emphasis is on being a menial, not a disciple.

Menial work does not require cultivation, and they cannot cultivate. They can only do manual labor.

After entering the sect, these menial disciples with spiritual perception are no different from the cows and horses.

Either they go to the mine every day and select stones with spiritual energy from the mined ores.

Or they go to the fields to plant seeds with abundant spiritual energy and remove stubborn weeds.

In just a few days, several menial disciples were exhausted to death.

You must know that activating spiritual perception and sensing spiritual energy requires concentration and focus.

How many ordinary people can endure long periods of "mental labor"?

What's even more frustrating is that the patrol enforcers don't even see them as human beings.

Treating one person as three!

Even the donkeys in the production team are not used like this.

Unlike those miserable menial disciples, Xia Ming is doing fine.

After all, he can close his eyes and activate the black and white induction magnetic field, work efficiently, and not strain his mind too much.

In just these two days, Xia Ming has seen enough of the horrors of this world.

Xia Ming knows very well that being a menial disciple is a dead end.

Raising his head and straightening his spine, Xia Ming awakens!

Waiting for death!

Is there a way to death?

Xia Ming has decided to light up his own LED!

He wants to embark on the path of cultivation!

Now the question is, how to light up the Spirit Root LED?

Absorb attribute spirit stones?

Xia Ming has never seen such a thing!

Absorb other cultivators' Spirit Roots?

Who can Xia Ming defeat?

Which cultivator is foolish enough to lie there and let him absorb?

It seems like there is no way forward...

However, opportunities are always reserved for the prepared.

After a few more days of being a labor disciple, Xia Ming encountered a turning point.

He heard that the situation at the foot of the mountain was becoming more severe, and more disciples of the Great River Sect were dying.

The Soul Capturing Cliff, responsible for collecting the disciples' bodies, was suddenly short of staff.

Therefore, the Elder in charge of Soul Capturing Cliff came to the menial disciple management office to recruit disciples to go to the Soul Capturing Cliff.

The managers of the menial disciple office, Hai Dafu and Elder Hai, fully adhered to the principles of fairness and justice.

Elder Hai said that it was voluntary, and no one would be forced!

After one day, the number of applicants was almost zero.

The reason why disciples were unwilling to apply was simple: once they went to the Soul Capturing Cliff, they would be halfway into the coffin.

That place, known as collecting the disciples' bodies, was actually inspecting the hidden things on the disciples' bodies.

Using the body's acupoints, cultivators can secretly hide many objects, and searching the acupoints is an extremely tedious task.

There are hundreds of acupoints in the human body, and if you search them one by one, you won't have to do anything else that day.

So, is there a more suitable candidate for this arduous task than the menial disciples?

Menial disciples have spiritual perception, can endure hardship, are cheap, and obedient.

Menial disciples = spiritual mines!

They can even refine their own spiritual mines, which is simply too obedient.

Although menial disciples can endure hardship, they are not stupid.

The working environment of the Soul Capturing Cliff may be better than other places, but it has a terrifying condition.

The Soul Capturing Cliff has targets to meet...

If there are no results within three days, they will be demoted to the Black Spirit Mine at the foot of the mountain!

Once you go to the Black Spirit Mine, don't even think about coming back alive!

In other words, within three days, you must dig something out of the acupoints of the corpse!

So the question is, with so many acupoints, how do you know which one it's hidden in?

Because it's uncertain, many disciples struggle for three days and still can't find anything.

If you break open the acupoint and find nothing, it's considered damaging the body and will face severe punishment.

Being reckless is death, being timid is also death.

So, basically, no one is willing to go to that damn place, the Soul Capturing Cliff.

(End of this chapter)