novelraw Chapter 288 : Analyzing Divine Power
Chapter 288 : Analyzing Divine Power
Chu Sang secretly drew in a sharp breath, and then another thought flashed through her mind, both surprised and delighted—wasn't this a golden finger for cultivation?!
Not to mention anything else, if she went into the pagoda every night to meditate and cultivate, one night would be equivalent to several months of cultivation for others!
This kind of good thing couldn't be used by her alone. Senior Brothers and Sisters could also enter the pagoda to cultivate. When the time came, Lingqing Sect would kick the Eight Great Immortal Sects and punch the demon, monster, and ghost realms... cough, the topic had strayed. Whether there was enough spiritual energy in the Demon-Locking Pagoda was still a question.
Chu Sang temporarily set aside this matter and refocused on the most urgent issue of the black mist. She asked the people from the two major sects, "How do we deal with this black mist? Have you come up with any good solutions?"
"We originally planned to close the space-time rifts first, but a large amount of black mist has gathered around the rifts. Without clearing away that black mist, it's impossible to get close... The black mist has occupied most of the cultivation world's territory in a short time. We're now extremely short-handed. The disciples we've sent out can only help evacuate civilians to safe places first. The black mist is difficult to completely eliminate. We've tried using spiritual tools to collect the black mist into spatial devices and then seal it with formation talismans, but this method is too slow and ineffective."
"...These methods naturally won't work."
Receiving somewhat puzzled looks from everyone, she replied, "The black mist isn't a type of power at all, but divine sense. Spiritual power naturally can't kill it."
"...Divine sense?"
When they heard these two familiar yet somewhat strange words in this context, everyone was a bit stunned. They had all subconsciously viewed the black mist as something similar to spiritual power, demonic power, or some other never-before-seen power. They had never thought it would be... divine sense?
No wonder their attempts to kill it with spiritual power had been ineffective. The problem lay here.
Previously, Chu Sang's thoughts were no different from the others, but after several confrontations with divine sense avatars, she gradually understood the differences between divine sense and powers like spiritual energy. So when she went to the ghost realm to examine the space-time rifts, she immediately saw the unusual nature of the black mist—
This black mist was actually composed of countless strands of divine sense. Using ordinary spiritual power to kill it naturally wouldn't work; only divine sense could kill it.
Hearing this, a disciple released his divine sense to kill the black mist, and it actually worked!
His divine sense wasn't strong, only killing a small wisp of black mist, but this discovery was enough to excite everyone present!
Unfortunately, this excitement didn't last long. Everyone's faces sank again, with a sense of regret. Divine sense cultivation was very difficult, and few cultivators actively cultivated it. It could be said that in the cultivation world, except for a small number of pill refiners, tool refiners, and talisman masters whose divine sense was somewhat higher than ordinary cultivators, most cultivators' divine sense was only slightly better than zero.
There were only two ways to enhance divine sense. One was to consciously train divine sense daily, but this process wasn't overnight and required years of accumulation. The other way was to break through to higher realms; each realm advancement was accompanied by an increase in divine sense power. Even if high-realm cultivators didn't use divine sense much in daily life, their divine sense power was still very strong.
In the short term, there wasn't enough time to significantly increase divine sense strength or advance realms. The black mist wouldn't give them that time.
But no matter what, this news was definitely a ray of hope in the snow, a huge piece of good news for the current cultivation world. At least! It gave them a glimmer of hope—the black mist wasn't invincible, they had a chance to completely clear it!
The subsequent frenzy of divine sense cultivation throughout the entire cultivation world, even including cultivators from the demon and monster realms, is a story for another time. After helping the Sword of Ten Thousand Sect disciples settle the civilians, Chu Sang returned to her sect's back mountain and transplanted the Bodhi tree obtained from the Demon-Locking Pagoda into the Celestial Breath Spirit Soil. It didn't seem to change much at first.
Only after she activated the Wood Essence Spirit did it finally show some change—
The withered yellow branches slowly turned green, sprouting a few tender green buds.
At this rate, who knew how many years it would take for it to flower and bear fruit.
During this time, Chu Sang intensified her cultivation of the Wood Essence Spirit, successfully advancing from the eighth level to the ninth. Above the ninth level was great perfection. If she could cultivate to great perfection, she might be able to make the Bodhi tree flower and bear fruit in a short time, but she could only barely cultivate to the ninth level.
When she wasn't around, she let the little fire snake and Fifth Senior Sister help take care of the Bodhi tree. If they could wait for the Bodhi tree to bear fruit, the cultivation world should gain quite a few more Divine Transformation or even Unity stage cultivators.
"Master, I have something to tell you."
Going to the sect's main hall to find Immortal Chanyu, who was extremely busy, Chu Sang informed her about the slow time flow inside the Demon-Locking Pagoda.
This thing was simply a cheating golden finger. Spending just one short day could send people in for a hundred days of intense cultivation. Shouldn't they use it to vigorously nurture the sect's disciples?
"But... there's one problem. There's not enough spiritual energy in the pagoda."
The spiritual energy in the Demon-Locking Pagoda was what it had gradually collected over millions of years. She had absorbed most of it. Although Chu Sang used more spiritual energy for her breakthrough than others, the remaining spiritual energy was at most enough to cultivate two or three more Divine Transformation stage cultivators. For the cultivation world, two or three more Divine Transformation stage cultivators wouldn't make much difference. Being able to quickly gain dozens or even hundreds of high-level cultivators in a short time would be an incomparably powerful boost.
The imagination was beautiful, but the shortage of spiritual energy was a major problem that couldn't be ignored. Who knew how many tens of thousands of years it would take for the Demon-Locking Pagoda to collect enough spiritual energy again.
Her spirit stone coffin did contain quite a bit of supreme-grade spiritual energy, but it was far from enough to cultivate a large number of high-level cultivators.
"It's good that you're back. I also have something to tell you, which might solve this pressing problem."
Immortal Chanyu looked at her, "I used some methods to convert the divine power in the Divine Decree into spiritual energy that ordinary cultivators can absorb and refine for cultivation."
Why had the cultivation world been in decline since the ascension path to the upper realm closed ten thousand years ago, with pure spiritual energy becoming increasingly scarce and cultivation becoming more difficult for cultivators?
In fact, spiritual energy, demonic energy, and monster energy were originally from the same source, all converted from the divine power of the upper realm.
Each cultivation continent was originally transformed from an ordinary mortal realm continent. Only when the ascension channel to the upper realm was accidentally opened did a small portion of divine power leak to the lower realm, which would then be converted into the power system that coexisted with this continent under various factors. Each time the upper realm channel reopened, new divine power would leak to the lower realm, converting into spiritual energy again.
This was how the spiritual energy in the cultivation world was continuously regenerated and cycled.
After the upper realm channel was permanently closed, the cultivation world no longer had a new source of spiritual energy, which was why it became increasingly decadent... After several tens of thousands of years, the Spiritual Abyss Continent would become a mortal realm, with no new cultivators born.
Looking at the origin of spiritual energy, spiritual energy and divine power could be converted into each other, but it required some additional methods.
Immortal Chanyu had used some unknown technique to convert the divine power contained in the Divine Decree back into spiritual energy.