Chapter 667
Whether it’s spiritual herbs or spiritual materials, they seem to appear naturally in the Xuanwei Realm, without the need for the painstaking efforts of people like Zheng Fa.
According to the theory of spiritual material decline summarized by the Jiushan Sect, once spiritual energy wanes, spiritual materials degrade into ordinary substances, and naturally, spiritual herbs cannot survive either.
However, in the next epoch, when spiritual energy re-emerges, spiritual herbs and materials will gradually appear again.
The key point here is, of course, time.
An epoch in the Xuanwei Realm lasts hundreds of thousands of years, a span long enough for various life forms to evolve countless generations, allowing for the slow emergence of various spiritual herbs.
In the modern world, known as Hongshan, spiritual energy has only been present for about ten years.
If it weren’t for the tense situation in the Xuanwei Realm, Zheng Fa would have been willing to wait.
But he couldn’t afford to dawdle—forget the threat of Haori Mountain; he hadn’t forgotten about the Demon Ancestor and the Ancient Immortals.
“After I reach the Transformation stage, if the spiritual energy in Hongshan increases, there might be some turning point.”
After pondering for a long time, Zheng Fa still didn’t have many good ideas, so he comforted Teacher Tian, then added:
“Actually, there’s been some progress in the research on spiritual root growth factors.”
Old Bai’s eyes lit up: “Really?”
After all, he had the weakest aptitude among them and was most interested in the transformation of spiritual roots.
While the progress on spiritual herbs was slow, Mu Qingyan was learning modern pharmacology quite quickly. She was now collaborating with her senior brother Gu Chang and seemed to be on the verge of developing a substance called spiritual root growth factor, which was in the final stages of experimentation.
Of course, the same old story: modern times lack spiritual herbs.
Old Bai immediately grasped the crux of the problem. He looked at Zheng Fa with a face full of frustration: “Why don’t you just become an immortal in a day, or directly connect the two realms and bring all those spiritual herbs over?”
Zheng Fa was at a loss for words:
Do you think I don’t want to smash Haori Mountain with a single palm?
...
Smashing Haori Mountain was a long and arduous task, but in reality, Zheng Fa’s most important mission in the modern world was singular—refining the *Huangting Jing*.
The *Huangting Jing* was not only crucial for Zheng Fa’s transformation but, more importantly, if he could further perfect it, he would spend less time in seclusion during his breakthroughs, thus having more time to deal with Haori Mountain.
On the other hand, given the current limitations of spiritual energy in the modern world, after his transformation, he would be able to better support the modern realm.
Therefore, perfecting the *Huangting Jing* was of utmost importance.
In the lecture hall, Zheng Fa sat with the *Huangting Jing* manuscript spread out before him.
At its core, the *Huangting Jing* simulates the human body, albeit in a more complex manner than the methods of the Demon Sect and the Yang God.
For an ordinary Xuanwei cultivator, finding a way to integrate the three methods is already a monumental challenge, and creating the current *Huangting Jing* is something to be proud of.
Now, the *Huangting Jing* could astonish anyone who laid eyes on it!
But Zheng Fa was not satisfied.
The *Huangting Jing* originated from the Jiushan Sect’s Transformation Dharma Assembly, integrating three methods, and its brilliance goes without saying.
However, due to the limitations of the Xuanwei cultivators’ thinking and perspective, it could never be perfect, and there might even be some fatal flaws.
For Zheng Fa, presenting the *Huangting Jing* to the scholars in the lecture hall had a primary purpose: to absorb their insights on the text.
Especially from those scholars in human sciences, biology, and medicine.
In terms of understanding various aspects of the human body, their knowledge was not inferior to that of those in the Transformation stage.
If they delved into the principles, they were even more advanced.
In simple terms, the *Huangting Jing* needed to integrate not only the three methods but also knowledge from both realms, blending science and metaphysics, so that it would truly live up to the name Zheng Fa had given it.
Another purpose was, of course, to cultivate these disciples.
The *Huangting Jing* had already become a relatively complete cultivation system:
Using the *Fuda Foundation Establishment Method* for foundation building.
Employing the *Golden Elixir Project* for forming the elixir.
The *Nine Transformations Golden Elixir Method* for condensing the infant, along with the *Tiangang Disha Transformation*.
All of these had been integrated into the *Huangting Jing*.
It was a direct pointer to the essence, yet uniquely transformative.
He fantasized about leading this group of modern scholars in a counterattack, so he naturally wouldn’t be stingy with them. In fact, he was quite eager to see what surprises this group of brilliant minds, combined with the most profound techniques, could bring him.
Zheng Fa spoke on the platform.
Below, Huntington and the others listened intently. Although their cultivation levels were lacking, their insights were not. In fact, their understanding of medical biology was even deeper than Zheng Fa’s.
Thus, many found themselves enlightened by the profundities of the *Huangting Jing*.
As they listened, their gazes toward Zheng Fa changed, filled with admiration—this immortal truly taught the art of cultivation!
Zheng Fa looked back at them with satisfaction—these scholars were genuinely using their brains!
In that moment, both the listeners and the speaker felt they were gaining immensely, a true win-win situation.
Due to the complexity and depth of the *Huangting Jing*, and fearing he wouldn’t finish in time, Zheng Fa ended up lecturing for five consecutive days, hardly taking breaks except for meals.
As the *Huangting Jing* became increasingly refined, Zheng Fa felt his Yuan Ying growing more vibrant by the day, even feeling a joy that it might burst forth from his Dan Tian, with the surrounding spiritual energy stirring in response.
In the small town at the foot of the mountain.
“What’s that?”
At the entrance of the shopping mall, a man pointed at Hongshan, asking in surprise.
Everyone followed his finger to look.
There, at the mountainside, a purple mist swirled like a belt, wrapping around the lecture hall, undulating gently.
“New here, huh?”
“Yeah, I came to stock up.”
“Well, you wouldn’t know then. That’s the phenomenon of an immortal giving a lecture!” The person responding was a local who had lived there for eight months. Seeing an outsider, he couldn’t help but feel a bit proud. “My son told me that for the past few days, they’ve been listening to lectures at that place.”
“For the past few days, from morning till night, that place has been filled with purple energy; we’re used to it by now.”
The middle-aged man nodded at first, then looked at the old man with envy, asking, “What does your son do?”
“He’s in nuclear engineering! Doesn’t know much, just good at studying!”
“Studying is great… studying is great! Who doesn’t know that Immortal Zheng loves those who study?” The middle-aged man nodded, “I’ll go home and encourage my daughter to study more; who knows, she might also get into Hongshan, and I could move here too.”
The old man chuckled softly, “That’s true. You envy us, but others envy you too. I’ve heard that it’s much harder for foreigners to get in here than for locals.”
The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly, laughing, “I know that. Just look at the spiritual wheat; although it’s fiercely contested domestically, it’s still available… In other countries, I’ve heard they’ve restricted exports. I’ve wanted to buy it for ages, but I just can’t find it.”
As they chatted about foreign matters, a car drove past the entrance of the mall. Team Leader Yang sat inside, holding a document, his expression peculiar.
“Director!”
Seeing Zheng Fa finish his lecture, Team Leader Yang hurried over.
“Hmm?”
“We’ve discovered spiritual materials!”
Zheng Fa was taken aback, and Old Bai and the others gathered around, their eyes filled with surprise.
In recent years, they had put in a lot of effort for spiritual herbs and materials, but the results had been meager.
Who would have thought Team Leader Yang would suddenly bring good news?
“What kind of spiritual materials? How did you confirm it?”
“Didn’t we get a spiritual energy detector?” Team Leader Yang smiled, “We were thinking of searching for spiritual materials and herbs everywhere, even installed two on the submarine.”
Zheng Fa was aware of this.
Spiritual energy detectors were quite common in the Jiushan Realm nowadays, especially during mining, where their accuracy was quite high.
Using them to detect spiritual materials was quite fitting.
“So you found something?”
“Yep! In the sea!” Team Leader Yang handed over a document, smiling, “The spiritual level seems to be only single digits, but this is the first type of spiritual material we’ve discovered!”
Zheng Fa looked at the data in the document, his eyes filled with joy.
A low spiritual level was not a problem; with the spiritual material transformation process, as long as they had it, everything else was just a matter of cost—what mattered was that the modern world finally had the ability to produce spiritual materials independently.
Items like life-bound magical treasures, magical tools, and even controllable nuclear devices like the Shenxiao Waidan now seemed to hold promise.
“Where is this place?”
Team Leader Yang’s expression grew even stranger. She flipped a page in the document and pointed to a set of coordinates.
“...Abroad?”
“Yeah, it belongs to a remote island nation.”
Zheng Fa frowned slightly but didn’t mind too much; it was just a bit of a hassle.
Old Bai, however, looked at the location and sighed, “If it were closer, we could check ancient texts; who knows, we might find something that’s been well-documented since ancient times.”
Team Leader Yang’s expression became even more peculiar as she looked at Old Bai and burst into laughter: “You and some others are thinking along the same lines.”
“I’m just joking. Is there really someone who would do that?”
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