Chapter 759 - 226: Seed of the Virtual, Root of Reality
Cheers erupted in the laboratory.
Closing the video, Shi remained silent.
To investigate the time required to unleash a natural magic on Earth, the elders of the Green Wood Clan initiated this experiment.
A very basic natural magic, it ultimately took 5 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, and 29 seconds to complete.
In other words, the ability that the ancestors could manifest with a clap of their hands now requires their generation to wait for five and a half days.
And this is with the support of complete equipment.
A regular member of the Green Wood Clan could hardly go without sleep for five days just to cast a magic.
This is merely the most basic natural magic recorded in the ancestral legacy.
If the difficulty increases, even with full equipment support, the caster must gamble their life span.
It could be said that the heritage of the Green Wood Clan has been severed.
Continuing to browse through the data, Shi indeed found a life-risking technique: the Cang Yuan Forbidden Technique.
This technology is regarded as the Green Wood Clan’s nuclear weapon.
It involves equipping complete energy supply devices to allow a selected member of the Green Wood Clan to lie in a game pod-like device, accumulate magic energy, and await release.
This process requires 30 years of preparation, culminating in the release of the clan’s combat-type magic: Senluo Cang Yuan.
The effect generates a super forest covered with vegetation at the target site, which will destroy everything within the target range.
Every 27 years, five Green Wood Clan members are selected to lie in life support devices, becoming forbidden technique carriers.
But in historical records, today’s so-called forbidden technique was not even considered the Green Wood Clan’s pinnacle combat technology.
The Green Wood Clan has never doubted its history, precisely because the inherited powerful technologies sufficiently prove the clan’s former glory.
To this day, the Green Wood Clan has developed less than 1% of the ancestral heritage.
They can only assist releases using technology, with many high-level natural magics requiring a clan member’s lifetime of willing sacrifice for a single cast.
After reading this section of data, Shi felt a deep sense of poignancy.
This is precisely why their generation feels a disconnect with history.
The glorious past is like a mirage.
To revive it is all the more difficult.
Their generation has largely abandoned developing ancestral technologies, turning instead to follow the Moon Eclipse Clan’s path to technological advancement.
The hope is to merge mechanical technology with natural technology, paving a new future path.
The countless experiment videos in the database deeply saddened Shi.
The elder generation once persevered and ultimately chose to give up, out of a powerless concession to reality rather than a reluctance to continue.
In the end, Shi clicked on the natural magic category and began selecting.
His gaze soon locked onto the "Growth Guiding Technique."
Though fundamental, this magic embodies the Green Wood Clan’s most primal connection with nature.
Opening the detailed data of the magic, he began to immerse himself in learning.
The screen displayed series of textual records, accompanied by many dynamic diagrams.
[Growth Guiding Technique, one of the basic natural magics of the Green Wood Clan, establishes resonance with plants through spiritual power, channels natural energy, and guides their growth...]
In the conceptual diagram, an elder of the Green Wood Clan gently placed a hand on a sapling, which, at visible speed, sprouted branches and flowers, eventually blooming with radiant blossoms.
The first phase of learning requires possessing the Green Wood Clan’s natural talent.
In this regard, Shi had no issue.
Although the life strength has significantly weakened over time, he still carries the bloodline of the Green Wood Clan ancestors, perceiving the breath emitted by plants.
Upon entering Monster World, his Main Form talent column is marked with the "Natural Affinity" ability.
After a long time of content review, Shi followed the guidance in the data and sat cross-legged.
Closing his eyes and concentrating, he attempted to sense the surrounding spiritual energy.
After waiting for a long time, his vision remained a pitch-black color.
There were no wandering energy particles.
But he did not give up, striving to focus spiritual power, exploring in the darkness as instructed.
This process lasted for several hours.
Just as Shi was about to abandon the effort, he suddenly felt a faint, elusive breath wandering by his side.
Unlike the energy particles described in the records, his vision didn’t switch to the Perception View, nor did he see any floating energy particles.
He merely sensed a wisp of breath passing by, then quietly vanishing.
When he tried to recapture this wisp of breath, he found himself unable to sense it anymore.
This left Shi feeling quite disappointed.
"Should I try it directly in the game?"
With this thought, Shi acted immediately.
While the content of the heritage information library is connected to the Star Network, it has a confidentiality mechanism, making it impossible to view within Monster World.
He planned to memorize this part of the content first, then try it directly in the game.
Spending half an hour memorizing all the content, Shi arrived at the game pod, still dressed in his game suit, and lay directly into the pod.
Immediately, the nutrient solution, modulated according to the Green Wood Clan’s physique, flowed from the pod wall apertures, enveloping his body.
Neural tubes interfaced with different body parts, and his vision gradually became enshrouded in darkness.
A few minutes later, Shi’s figure appeared in a dense forest south of the Colorful Mist Coast.
Calling up the map, he glanced at his position relative to the Colorful Mist Coast Space node, decisively opting for the rapid village return mode.
An hour later, Shi arrived at the newly opened Senluo Forest Realm Space node via the Transmission Square.