Chapter 713
Ying Continent, a certain research institute
Lu Xuan and others stood outside a cage, watching a boy inside fiercely hammering a regular tiger. The boy seemed to be around eleven or twelve years old, and the tiger was not a demon, just a normal tiger.
By all accounts, the boy’s only way to defeat the tiger was to beat it to death.
The true result was that Lu Xuan and the others saw the tiger facing the boy, getting scared and stepping back until they were cornered. The tiger made a desperate attack, but the boy easily dodged it and pinned the tiger to the ground.
"Chief Lu, Number Sixteen has already succeeded, should we let him practice martial arts?"
"If he has to practice martial arts, then he has failed."
"Oh."
"No problem, prepare a place for me, it should be secure and well guarded, and bring me some more spirit stones."
Lu Xuan said, if a perfect creature needs to practice martial arts to improve its strength, then his research has failed.
In his view, a perfect creature doesn’t need to train hard like a cultivator. The essence of a cultivator’s training is to absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth to strengthen oneself, but his perfect creature doesn’t need to be so passive. Its body, its cells can actively absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth. This is not impossible, at least he knows that cultivators at Golden Core Period and above will autonomously absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth, but the speed at which they absorb is very slow. Compared with the amount of energy needed by cultivators at Golden Core Period and above, it is negligible.
But what if they could autonomously absorb it at the mortal stage, and not just limited to Golden Core or Nascent Soul, but every cell in their body is absorbing it?
When Lu Xuan thought about the outcome, he became excited. He was a cultivator with Five Spiritual Roots, which were not very good. Although there were advanced techniques for Five Spiritual Roots, they required a lot of resources that few could afford. But now, Lu Xuan saw a hopeful future for himself.
Two days later, the young boy was moved to a sealed space with walls made of special alloy that even rockets couldn’t break.
Despite having slaughtered tigers and leopards, he still acted very scared, trembling every day.
The food Lu Xuan gave him turned into spiritual meals, and some spirit stones were placed next to the boy. This routine went on day after day.
"Chief Lu, Number Sixteen is quite the actor, isn’t he?"
A researcher said to Lu Xuan that Number Sixteen, the subject being monitored, appeared extremely scared, like a startled rabbit. However, the subject was unaware that all his actions were being recorded and analyzed by artificial intelligence, which had already figured out that he was putting on an act.
Without the analysis of artificial intelligence, they might have been fooled because his acting skills were so impressive.
"It’s normal for him to do things beyond the abilities of ordinary people. He has high intelligence. How is his energy index now?"
"It has increased, roughly equivalent to the energy index of someone at the first level of Qi Refining. But Chief Lu, can we really measure an untrained person like him using the cultivation system?"
"No, in the Qi Refining Period of cultivating immortality, it involves opening up the body’s meridians, converting spiritual energy into inner spiritual power, and using it to operate. He doesn’t yet know how to harness this power."
"Should we teach him cultivation techniques?"