Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Between the radiance of the "Life Flame" and the "Five Pestilence Grand Curse," a new Spiritual Body was born.

At this point, Chen Feng no longer needed to control this mass of Curse Power. Driven by the Life Flame, it had ignited the Negative Entropy's Life Fire, becoming a broadly defined "Life Being" with a frail open system.

One of the most fundamental physical laws of this universe was that "Spiritual Energy automatically gravitates towards highly ordered systems."

Ancient Spirit Cliff at Tianling Ridge once speculated that in the Primordial Era, the original Soul Fields were born alongside Life Source Material [protein]. Ai Qinglan's Divine Skills accelerated this process.

Invisible Soul Power surged from between Chen Feng's hands. He was shaping the form of the "Spiritual Body," trying to make it closer to the form he required.

On the other side, Chen Youjia continuously changed Hand Mnemonics, chanting as she did. Talismans formed one by one, entering the newly born Spiritual Body. Once Chen Feng intervened to stabilize the Spiritual Body, what Chen Youjia had inputted transformed into Yin Yang Yao.

And the most impressive display was by Ai Qinglan.

The overwhelming Life Flame permeated the entire yard, covering all calculators, each one imbued with the maximum amount of Spiritual Energy it could handle. The total amount of Spiritual Energy was even greater than several Modern Golden Core Mana combined. All calculators were operating at full capacity.

But Ai Qinglan was the most relaxed among them.

For her, acting as a giant Spirit Pool to provide all the Spiritual Power needed for this plan was merely physical work, hardly even toil. But this amount of Mana was beyond what the other three could achieve, even if they combusted their lives. Thus, after repeated calculations, the best use of Ai Qinglan during this refining process was just this.

The Life Flame condensed into Qi Vein Roots, tens of meters long, extending into the mid-air. Spiritual Energy cascaded down like a reverse Tianhe, rushing impatiently downward. This conspicuous "Spiritual Energy Waterfall" even alarmed other High Order Cultivators in Divine Capital. For a moment, numerous gazes focused here.

"What is that?"

"Is that courtyard home to Heterodox Cultivators?"

"Damn! Divine Capital belongs to the Divine Capital People! How can those Heterodox simply send new Primordial Spirit Cultivators here?"

"There, are they really just Golden Core Cultivators? Even Nascent Soul Cultivators don't possess such power!"

But their Spiritual Sense could not penetrate the interference of the Heart Demon Great Curse, preventing them from seeing clearly what was happening.

Wang Qi's entire mentality concentrated on the program being installed, on the third-generation Heart Demon Great Curse Memory. His body, his Soul, acted like a bridge, with data measured in TB passing through him every second towards that Memory. Wang Qi also had to endow this data with Spell significance. Once imbued with this Spirit Sense, the Memory began to dematerialize, to "grow."

A Divine Spirit was being installed.

Wang Qi's body was tensed to the limit. Under such massive data assaults, his Magic Foundation began a new round of transformation.

Installing a system on bare hardware was never an easy task, let alone when the system might have conflicts with an existing old system within it?

Worse yet, the Heart Demon Network was both a tool and a life-like system, and Wang Qi's research into it wasn't flawless, so he neither had the capability to perfectly uninstall the old Xia Gai Demon Worm System nor the spare capacity to write compatible software.

Silent and hidden, several full-fledged Gu Worms appeared around the courtyard.

"As expected, even if you give the Xia Gai Demon Worm System commands to ignore this area, it just doesn't understand…"

His research on the Heart Demon Network was still not enough!

Wang Qi barely pulled through, crying out, "Junior Sister!"

Actually, without his call, Chen Youjia had already retracted her hands and then pulled out another Memory, plugging it into her belt. She manipulated the power of the Thousand Illusion Divine Spell to build a firewall.

Without a Divine Spirit housed within, the Thousand Illusion Divine Spell was still a "bare system," not much effective. Chen Youjia could only input attributes in real time, building a "firewall" specifically targeting "Xia Gai." A pale white Light Barrier blocked the invasion of the Demon Worms.

"Ha!" Wang Qi yet again sped up the installation.

Then, a white light engulfed the small courtyard.

High Spirit Radiation waves spread out, suppressing Spiritual Sense. Everyone momentarily lost their external senses. When everything dissipated, aside from Ai Qinglan, the three collapsed on the ground, completely drained. A gigantic insect-shaped "Divine Spirit" hovered in the center of the courtyard, its ten pairs of limbs all curled under its swollen pale abdomen, its elliptical wings covered in scales.

Chen Youjia's heart suddenly chilled as if the temperature had plummeted.

This form, and this aura… It's still the original system...

Did it fail?

Is there no chance left?

Chen Youjia struggled to her feet and walked towards Wang Qi. She had so much she wanted to say, like "You did your best" or "Let's escape quickly". But when the words reached her lips, she didn't know what to say.

Wang Qi got up, his expression unchanged. He stared at the manifested form of the "Divine Spirit," heaving a sigh, "So it's like this..."

Chen Youjia felt somewhat sad.

"…It's a success."

"Senior Brother... eh?" Chen Youjia exclaimed, "It worked?"

Wang Qi looked puzzled, "Is there a problem?"

"That aura..."

"Isn't that the aura of the Heart Demon Great Curse?"

"This form..."

"Keep the interface from the last version." Wang Qi didn't understand, "Isn't that supposed to be the case?"

Chen Youjia carelessly fell to the ground, "Suddenly, I feel stupid for caring about your opinions."

"Ah?"

"However, speaking of which, Junior Brother, your aesthetic sense is problematic." Ai Qinglan scrutinized the peculiar Divine Spirit, "This appearance totally contradicts the rules of Heavenly Calculation; it's too ugly."

"I always felt that your standards for good looks are a bit strange..."

At this moment, only Chen Feng was still concerned about the System itself, "Wang Qi, how is this system functioning? Any conflicts with the old system..."

"This new system is revised based on the old one; as long as it doesn't crash during installation, merging them is just a matter of time." Wang Qi reached out his right hand toward the new "Divine Spirit," as if to grasp it.

A command was transmitted. Then, the body of this Divine Spirit rapidly faded. Its power dissipated, carrying Spirit Sense into the network of the Comprehensive Curse of the Five Epidemics.

With the link between the Memory Body and this type of network, Jarvis relayed the main clause meanings circulating within the network to Wang Qi. Wang Qi reached out his hand and made the final modifications to this system.

Redundancies were removed, bugs were eradicated. The power of the new system began to take over the network.

Simultaneously, the power of the Refining God into Demon Great Method also began to circulate.

Deep within the consciousness of all the infected, a mental method appeared simultaneously. Those deeply infected had already begun to automatically cultivate this Cultivation Technique under the influence of the Great Heart Demon Curse. They started refining the curse power of the Comprehensive Curse of the Five Epidemics within their bodies. When the purification speed surpassed the erosion speed of the Great Heart Demon Curse, the Heart Demon Curse power circulating within the Heart Demon Network would be reinfused into these people's bodies, maintaining a balance between the refining and erosion speeds. Through this mechanism, the entire network's power of the Great Heart Demon Curse was waning and disappearing!

Inside the Du Family's old mansion, Du Bin, who was sitting in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes, and for some reason, shame and anger began to arise deep within his psyche.

"Why... Why was I scared to tears by Wang Qi? Why did I obey Wang Qi's orders?"

"Wang Qi... Wang Qi! Wang Qi!"

"This disgrace!"

"I feel it! Your control over me is weakening—this must be Mr. Zhao's spell at work!"

"This disgrace! I will surely take it back a hundredfold, a thousandfold!"

Just in an instant, he reclaimed his former anger and dignity.

The same voice was also heard in the Du Family, the Chen Family, and within other cultivators who had been forcibly cursed by Wang Qi.

Despair no longer controlled their minds!

In a secret room deep within the mansion, Du Baiwu's eyelids twitched.

He, deeply infected, had long been like a walking corpse. But now, self-awareness appeared once again.

Yet, inside him was an immense sadness.

"Wang Qi... his plan succeeded... he has grown stronger again..."

Du Baiwu was not foolish. Wang Qi alone had conquered the Du Family. The Du Family's martial power was insignificant in Wang Qi's view. When Wang Qi used Gu Technique to control the people of the Du Family, Du Baiwu thought he needed the loyalty of Du's people exclusively. But then Wang Qi also taught the Du Family how to refine that Gu Poison...

"In his eyes, we are merely experimental cattle..."

Divergences, once erased, reappeared, and restrained thoughts became active.

In an instant, Wang Qi lost the reverence and loyalty of all those affected by the Gu.

However, each cultivator's strength was enhanced, and the whole system provided him with even greater power.

A zookeeper may not gain any monkey's loyalty, but he is stronger than any monkey king!

"So that's how it is. After these guys gained the ability of self-reflection, the Great Heart Demon Curse became even harder to detect... Although I lost absolute control over them, they can no longer leave this system on their own. They refined a part of the Great Heart Demon Curse, but the power of this part of the Heart Demon Curse remains connected to the network—just like a fish swallowing a baited hook. The bait is digested, but the hook has merged with them!"

Wang Qi, sensing this power, was full of contemplation.

"This is the force that can drive the Human Dao Revolution."

Chen Feng was more concerned with practical matters, "We, did we succeed? Has the Anti-Heart Demon Spell been developed? Is the Heart Demon crisis resolved? We..."

Having always been striving towards this goal, its actual realization left Chen Feng somewhat unfeeling.

"To be strict, we have not yet succeeded, because what truly caused upheaval in Divine Capital was the Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell. Zhao Qingfeng had stolen control of the Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell network. However, once we reclaim this control, by writing a compatible protocol, we can merge the Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell with the network of the Comprehensive Curse of the Five Epidemics."

Wang Qi paused, then chuckled, "This means that the crisis of Heavenly Sword looming over the city has been averted!"

No one cheered. Everyone just sighed with exhaustion.

"However..." Wang Qi suddenly changed his tone, "Before that, we must eliminate the last variable."

It was time to punish the prime culprit of this crisis.

Well, by saying this, I definitely am not shirking responsibility. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to recommend tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)