Chapter 713

Chapter 713: The Perfect One

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?"

"Not necessary. Increase the intensity of spiritual energy, elevate the quality of his food and water, give him more spirit stones, and observe the speed and efficiency of absorption."

Lu Xuan explained that it had been proven that the experimental subject’s body actively absorbed spiritual power, but the efficiency was still unknown. If the efficiency was low, it would need to be improved. After all, without efficiency, it would be a failure.

Three months passed, and decisively, Lu Xuan terminated experimental subject number sixteen. He had obtained the data he wanted and didn’t want to relive certain movie scenarios, ending up as a major villain.

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Huaxia, a city in the west

In recent years, many cities in the west have developed rapidly. Because there are many mountains in the west, and where there are mountains, there are spiritual veins. This pattern had been discovered long ago. In comparison to plains, the likelihood and quantity of spiritual veins in mountain ranges are much greater.

This allowed many western cities to board the fast lane of development. A large amount of funding poured in, propelling the rapid advancement of the western economy.

Most of the industries in the western region are light industries to avoid polluting the spiritual veins. Despite that, this change has brought a reversal in many people’s lives.

For example, Chen Jinfa’s wife came from a plain and ordinary small farming family. Her ancestors ran a medium-sized farm, with some money but not a lot.

Their family became rich when a spiritual vein was discovered on their farmland. However, as none of Chen Jinfa’s wife’s family members had descendants with Spiritual Root talent, they needed to bring in Chen Jinfa through marriage.

After Chen Jinfa married in, his wife gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Even though the children were not yet of age to officially test for Spiritual Root talent, they secretly had the children tested early. This was something most people did, racing to get their children tested early, as the spiritual talent could be detected as early as six or seven years old.

Among the five children, three had Spiritual Root talent, with the best one possessing a Three Spiritual Roots talent. Chen Jinfa’s wife’s family was already very satisfied with this outcome as having any Spiritual Root talent was considered good enough. In the future, they would also combine with cultivators to improve their talents generation by generation, providing a promising future.

After many years of marriage and relying on the strong financial support from his wife’s family, Chen Jinfa smoothly broke through to the golden core stage in his cultivation. Once his cultivation reached the golden core stage, his life underwent significant changes. People in his wife’s family who previously looked down on him started to suck up to him. Even his father-in-law discussed with him and suggested that their children take on his surname.

Of course, Chen Jinfa only agreed to have one child carry his surname because he needed to maintain a certain image. Having one descendant was enough, especially since he didn’t have a deep emotional attachment to future generations.

He stopped working as a bounty hunter since he had entered the Golden Core stage, which opened up many more ways to make money. Being a bounty hunter was no longer necessary for him to earn a living.

Chen Jinfa found a better opportunity where he obtained a license for trading in immortal resources through his connections. With just this one company, he earned a substantial amount of money.

He not only owns this company, but also uses a very powerful license to set up more than ten companies around it. If we still use Huaxia coin to measure his wealth, he would be considered one of the richest people in the city.

Of course, his current status and wealth are measured in spirit stones. But in this regard, everyone keeps their wealth hidden and doesn’t show off.

"Boss, we have found out Chen Jinfa’s identity information."

In the same city, Muse has obtained Chen Jinfa’s basic information and immediately started reading it.

The information shows that Chen Jinfa is a foreign refugee with unclear and vague information from abroad. However, in Huaxia, his information is clear. He gained Huaxia citizenship through marriage, worked hard, practiced diligently in the bounty hunter profession, accumulated a lot of money, broke through the golden core and became an upper-class individual.

"Boss, Chen Jinfa is a talented guy. His success is closely related to women. He gained citizenship through marriage, befriended a wealthy woman to get money, bought some precious treasures for cultivation, then became the boyfriend of an even more powerful wealthy woman, obtained a license for trading cultivation resources, his life is so comfortable now."

"Yes, he’s really capable. Let’s make things a bit difficult for him. Why should he have such a comfortable life while we struggle?"

Muse nodded, having collected all the information. He needed to approach Chen Jinfa too, to make sure he doesn’t get too comfortable, as he might become jealous.