Chapter 78: Searching for Meridians
Now then, how should I proceed with studying spiritual roots?
Li Lang dove into his old memories of the few cultivation novels he had read. He normally only read the beginning parts and the ending, skimming for sections to do with immortality. Many of them never went into detail about how, except to absorb energy, but cultivation often had something to do with the meridians.
So far, he hadn’t heard anyone mentioning meridians, but he believed spiritual roots to be in the same line of thought.
The issue is that the human body does not have such a thing…Unless the people in this world are different.
He booted up his terminal and retrieved the old reports he had compiled back when he first experimented on Qi overdose. He had recorded every single participant’s cultivation rank and number of spiritual roots back then, which has now come in handy.
From that information, he concluded that people with grade one aptitude had up to seventeen spiritual roots, and all those who had eighteen or more were grade two. Long Yi with grade three aptitude had forty-one roots. He even remembered his childhood friends had over eighty spiritual roots back during the Clear Heart Sect’s entrance exams.
From what he had seen, the number of spiritual roots was directly correlated with aptitude.
While he gleaned a lot from this information, it didn’t help to verify what type of existence spiritual roots were. So far, he believed it filtered out the toxins in Qi, but he didn’t know if it was something physical in the body or something intangible.
It didn’t take long for Li Lang’s mind to wander off in brewing up ways to secure the remains of a body for study. He believed it could be worth it, despite the risk of being mistaken as a dangerous person or a grave robber.
His urges only grew stronger when Ruby suddenly notified him that the auto-analyzer was finished with the blank talisman paper. He read over the report, which consisted of the material makeup of the paper and the Qi signature of the talisman. There was nothing special that caught his attention.
“Hmm, like I had suspected. The function of a talisman all lies in the Qi aspect, or in this case, the runes I’ve started to learn about.”
“Master, should I proceed with putting the inkstones into the auto-analyzer now, or did you have something else in mind?” the child-like voice innocently asked.