Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 313 - 67: Giving Advice and Spending Money
Beifeng had used some Secret Technique, but Wang Qi wasn't very interested in it. However, the topic Chen Feng brought up next made it impossible for him to remain disinterested.
"Let's have a few rounds and see what your current situation is like," Chen Feng said, pointing to the courtyard and then taking two steps forward. "I need to know where you stand in order to better help you solve your problems."
Wang Qi's eyes lit up, "Are you giving me a salary advance? I haven't even started working yet."
"Your most important task right now is to plan for your Foundation Establishment while I'm still free. Once I get busy, you probably won't have time to focus on it."
Seeing Chen Feng get into position, Wang Qi also got excited. He still asked, "Just here?"
"Considering that there will be Foundation Establishment, and even Core Formation Cultivators, deducing spells here in the future, this courtyard has been specially fortified."
"True tycoon," Wang Qi muttered to himself, then shouted, "Be careful!"
Immediately after, Wang Qi found himself falling to the ground, his whole body sore.
"Eh?"
Wang Qi shook his dazed head. He didn't know when his sword had been drawn, and his tiger's mouth was somewhat swollen.
"Could it be spatial expansion? Based on his identity from Yangshen Pavilion, is it temporal deception? No, no, that's wrong. I might have been knocked down without knowing anything, but there's no way I would have drawn my sword."
Carefully sensing the mana inside his body, he found that he only had about seventy percent left. Considering the unbelievable mana recovery rate of Holy Light, he must have overused his powers.
"What happened?" Wang Qi directly asked Chen Feng.
"My Main Divine Skill 'Heavenly Song Soul Probe,' concentrates Microscopic Power in my hands to extract and read minds as easily as one would pick something out of a bag," Chen Feng explained with a smile. "Then there's another skill 'Light True Spirit Divine Pupil,' which allows me to 'Open Eyes' at will on someone else's soul, then introduce the Microscopic Light. The supposed human soul or Primordial Spirit is merely a puppet under the light…"
"Speak plainly," Wang Qi said irritably. "Just tell me directly what you did."
"I dispersed your short-term memory," said Chen Feng. "Against a cultivator of the same level, with one strike, I can erase about seven seconds of their short-term memory… Imagine a cultivator losing seven seconds of memory in the midst of battle, thinking it is still seven seconds ago—what do you think would happen?"
Wang Qi took a sharp breath, "That's quite ruthless. You'd find your mana inexplicably reduced, the enemy inexplicably shifted positions? Or perhaps… you'd still be trying to complete the actions from seven seconds earlier…"
"Then he'd be doomed," Chen Feng said with a laugh. "Of course, this technique isn't so invincible. I need to leave a mark or 'vulnerability' on your soul using my Divine Pupil, and then precisely strike at that 'vulnerability', taking into account the position of the mark, the state of the opponent's soul, and the flow of mana to determine the force of the strike."
"So essentially creating a fatal weak spot," said Wang Qi as he sheathed his sword and sighed. After killing four Foundation Establishment Ancient Method Practitioners and Chi Lianxue, who practiced the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm in Dabai Village, Wang Qi always had the impression that "Foundation Establishment is nothing special." However, today he realized that he wasn't particularly strong; it was the enemies who were too weak. Someone like Xiang Chenfeng, with his supreme True Inheritance, could easily sweep him away with one combination of skills.
Just now, Chen Feng's strike had erased all his battle memories in less than seven seconds.
Unexpectedly, Chen Feng's evaluation of Wang Qi was rather high: "You have a solid foundation, honestly speaking, you are already at the peak of the Qi Cultivation Stage. Your mana's purity and quantity are impeccable, and having so many mental methods without causing any conflict that leads to your body exploding, you are indeed talented."
Wang Qi shook his head, "But I still can't beat you."
"Actually, our weighted values are on the same level, ranging from ten to twenty. It's just that I'm at the Foundation Establishment Stage, so my advantage seems much greater."
A famous technique called 'Using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds' required one to first possess the strength of a thousand pounds to deflect a thousand pounds with four ounces of force. Without adequate strength, even divine skills would be ineffective.
The weighted calculation algorithm worked in a similar way. Thus, this head algorithm had a rule of "crossing a realm divides the weighted value by three, and crossing a major tier divides it by nine." Qi Cultivation Cultivators had nine weighted values, but when they challenge a Foundation Establishment, those nine are only counted as three. Golden Core Cultivators had nine weighted values, but when they challenge a Primordial Spirit, those nine only count as one.
Wang Qi smacked his lips: "I still need to establish my foundation."
"Alright, in the area of Qi Cultivation, I can't help you much more," Chen Feng clapped his hands. "The key now is the design of the Magic Foundation and the thought process for Foundation Establishment."
"The two of us are not in the same field. Let's talk less about ideas and more about the experience of design," Wang Qi stood up, his tone unapologetically confident.
This was his area of expertise, and he didn't need to be modest.
Chen Feng tossed him a few jade pieces: "Feel what's inside."
Wang Qi probed with his Spiritual Sense and was then astonished: "Inside, a complex structure has been engraved, and this structure can accommodate and refine nature's spiritual energy, it seems... is this a Magic Foundation?"
Qi Cultivation was about cultivating mana; Foundation Establishment was about using mana to cast a Magic Foundation, using the Magic Foundation as the basis for further cultivation, replacing the limited human body. Thus, the main functions of a Magic Foundation were to refine Spiritual Energy and store mana.
"This is my 'Human Dao,'" Chen Feng said. "When it comes to the Magic Foundation, you need to refine some lower-grade materials in reality to see if there are any problems. Additionally, you'll need to simulate its operation with a calculator."
Designing a Magic Foundation was not an easy task, especially when it related to one's own path to immortality. Chen Feng casually mentioned some necessary tasks for designing a Magic Foundation for nearly two hours.
"It's best to conduct some empirical tests related to the theory of the Magic Foundation, and I suggest you refine a calculator yourself," Wang Qi repeated Chen Feng's words, sighing. "Boss, I apply for an advance on this month's salary."
Whether trying to refine the Magic Foundation or getting familiar with the theory through refining calculators, he would need to spend Spiritual Energy to buy materials. This financial strain was troubling for the somewhat broke Wang Qi.
"To set up the equipment for the Empirical Department, my Merit Points are almost used up, but there's still a lot of Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool," Chen Feng handed Wang Qi a special spirit pool, a version used by the Empirical Department.
"Using the budget to purchase materials for my own Foundation Establishment? That doesn't seem right," Wang Qi said, his scientific morality or baseline had not been lost with reincarnation.
Chen Feng explained, "First off, you constructing your foundation will better help me with experimentation, so the expenses can be justified. Also, there's a surplus of Spiritual Energy this month. If it's not used up, we can't apply for more next month—many projects will start next month, and we'll be short on Spiritual Energy, so you should use as much as you can this month."
Geez, it seems that the practice of spending money according to plan is common in any world…
