Chapter 780: 327: Spiritual Root Changed!
Trapped Dragon Ascends to Heaven, Golden Scales Turn into Dragon_2 Chapter 780: 327: Spiritual Root Changed!
Trapped Dragon Ascends to Heaven, Golden Scales Turn into Dragon_2 Chen Dengming opened his mouth.
Instantly, the surrounding echoed with the sounds of wind and thunder.
Spiritual energy surged like a tidal wave, assembling into auspicious cloud-like clusters, encapsulating the completed Water Spirit Root and driving into his throat.
In a moment, a chilly yet soft black light seemed to illuminate the inside of his body, swiftly darting towards the Spirit Root’s Five Element Mountain which radiated green and white colors.
The Spirit Root appeared to vigorously tremble.
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The green color in the ‘mental image’, representing the Wood Spirit Root, started to flourish as if a man whose neck has been under a blade for years suddenly felt the blade loosening and retreating, stirring bouts of excitement and hyperactivity.
On the other hand, the white color in the ‘mental image’, representing the Metal Spirit Root, was quickly submerged by the black color, akin to a sharp blade that initially splits the water surface into two but is quickly drowned by the encroaching waves.
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The white color like a piece of paper being increasingly stained by black ink.
Chen Dengming trembled lightly, feeling some faint resistance and discomfort within his body transformations.
But after all, the Spirit Root isn’t completely materialized but instead a mysterious object rooted deep within the human body.
Thus, whatever sensations it causes are incredibly vague and indescribable.
According to some ancient records, it seems that the Spirit Root equates to the human tongue.
Therefore, most cultivators often press their tongues to their upper palates during cultivation to enhance the sensing of the Spirit Root.
But in reality, it is not as simple as it being just the tongue root.
Once, Chen Dengming pondered over the concept of ‘scientific cultivation’ from his previous life’s scientific thinking perspective, wondering whether the Spirit Root was rooted deep within the cells or in the human genome.
If cultivators could pass on their Spirit Root through reproduction, meaning, there is a high probability that their offspring can naturally possess one, then it is likely that the Spirit Root carries the hereditary factors of human genes.
From that perspective, the issue of mortals not having a Spirit Root could be solved through a method similar to the gene editing tech from his past life.
Such a modification could be possibly realized in his past life with specific cutting-edge scientific techniques.
As a cultivator in this life, it doesn’t seem too hard to perform this task, provided the power of Divine Consciousness can penetrate the human genome, perhaps it could be achieved.
This requires the Divine Consciousness to be extremely microscopic, at least reaching the level of the Nascent Soul’s Divine Consciousness to achieve such a task.
Chen Dengming had attempted using Heavenly Immortal Dao force to cast Heavenly Vision, which he could do, but he can only observe and not interfere.
Moreover, on human genomes, there are more than 20,000 coding genes, and the length varies greatly between them, some genes have a few hundred nucleotides, while others have millions of nucleotides.
Trying to accomplish such a monumental task with his Divine Consciousness seems like an impossible feat, even for Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators.
Furthermore, according to Chen Dengming’s brief observation using Heavenly Vision, there seemed to be no trace of the Spirit Root within the genes.
Only when he learned the “Melting Spirit Base Stealing Skill”, he realized the actual situation.
The Spirit Root turned out to be a crystallization of Essence, Qi, and Spirit that lies in the nebulous space between illusion and reality.
A newborn created through reproduction is also an outcome of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
Simply trying to acquire a Spirit Root by modifying sections of genes is analogous to changing a part of Essence to obtain the complete product of ‘Essence, Qi, and Spirit’, which is an impossible task.
However, the cultivator who created the “Spirit Fusion Seizing Base Skill” seems to have solved this problem perfectly.
After using this Skill, the Spirit Root that lies between illusion and reality can be extracted directly from a cultivator’s body, and then preserved as a crystallized orb of Essence, Qi, and Spirit — which is the elementary form of a developed Spirit Root.
This method completely sidesteps Chen Dengming’s whimsical concept of ‘scientific cultivation’, placing it under the category of Daoist skills that cannot be comprehended in the slightest.
However, the method of extracting the Spirit Root seems rather dark and sinister.
A similar dark art would be the infamous “Soul Extraction Skill” from the Evil Spirit Sect of the West Demon Sea.
But the Soul Extraction Skill could only temporarily extract the affinity from a cultivator’s Spirit Root and imbue it into another person, it wasn’t capable of extracting the Spirit Root directly from a cultivator’s body.
So when compared to the “Spirit Fusion Seizing Base Skill”, a vast chasm of difference still exists.
The cultivator who created the “Spirit Fusion Seizing Base Skill”, despite bringing forth copious amounts of calamities, indeed created a bloody Divine Scroll that could potentially overthrow the Cultivation World.
With Chen Dengming’s current cultivation level and experiences, he still couldn’t comprehend the underlying principles of this skill, but only execute it.
At this moment, within his ‘mental image’, the part representing the Metal element of his Spirit Root was gradually replaced completely by the black color.
Chen Dengming felt the sense of ‘discomfort’ gradually vanishing.
As though a keen axe hanging on a piece of wood was eroded and corroded by water.
Eventually, it became a puddle of molten iron, dissolving and merging into the water.
This was probably the process of the Metal Spirit Root being replaced by the Water Spirit Root.
A sensation of harmony and comfort sprouted within Chen Dengming’s heart.
At the same time, his ability to sense the Metal Series Spiritual Energy in the surrounding air seemed to weaken, becoming very vague, much inferior to what it used to be.
However, the Water Series Spiritual Energy that once felt hazy became incredibly clear and vivacious.
As his thoughts rippled, the Water Series Spiritual Root quickly integrated with the Wood Element Spiritual Energy in the surrounding air, making the Wood Element Spiritual Energy more robust.
Endless mysteries in these transformations.
Water Series Spiritual Energy and Wood Series Spiritual Energy nourish each other — that is precisely the heart of the saying ‘The cultivation of birthing Water to Wood is an endless cycle of transformation, if one could grasp this essence, even a mortal may become a true dragon.’
“Did it succeed?”