Chapter 119: Stacking Insights
Reviewing the report, Li Lang observed many things.
Besides the tests he performed, he had asked each participant for some basic information. It consisted of their aptitude and number of spiritual roots. It wasn’t anything classified and with the endorsement from the likes of Sima Xue and Tang Yulian, the young cultivators were all too happy to share.
After all, to demonic cultivators, their aptitude was the least of their worries. Their cultivation relied on willpower and resources.
From those results, Li Lang expected many of them to have grade-one aptitude like him, but he was wrong. Perhaps owing to the culture of the Luminescent Domain, most people aspired to join a demonic organization rather than the Peerless Gate. A vast majority of these people had grade-two aptitude. That meant they had between eighteen and thirty-five spiritual roots.
While employing the Vein Flow Calculation Method, Li Lang noticed some new things.
First, he confirmed spiritual roots were the openings that allowed one to absorb Qi. While he had scanned his subjects while they were cultivating; he identified the number of entry points to be consistent with the number of spiritual roots. It worked well with his theory of these roots being filters for Qi.
Just from this discovery, Li Lang had several new speculations. It had led him to believe it was the reason why Foundation Establishment cultivators with higher aptitude often had higher Qi recovery rates.
He surmised cultivators often didn’t realize this because they had too many spiritual roots. When the roots absorbed Qi in unison, it made the sensation especially difficult to detect. At the same time, there was little incentive to look into this kind of information. Just knowing about it did nothing. At the moment, this was true for Li Lang, too. That was why he was more interested in his other discovery.
While analyzing his test subjects during cultivation had confirmed the function of spiritual roots, he discovered the existence of something else when he analyzed them in the midst of employing various Qi arts.
As Energy Gathering cultivators, their entire bodies were constantly brimming with Qi. It was even spread around every part of their body as they had jammed themselves full of this exotic energy. However, Li Lang observed that when they employed techniques, they also invoked the flow of Qi.
He was able to observe how this flow of Qi moved during the execution of these Qi arts. At first, he thought nothing about it, as he often felt the same thing going on within his own body. However, when observing dozens of other people, he could see the flow of each person was unique despite evoking the same action.
The Qi energy didn’t flow in a straight line from point A to point B. Instead, they detoured around the body, and it differed from person to person. If it moved straight to the destination, it would mean Qi would travel through every inch of the body in the same manner.