Chapter 49
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Chapter 49: The Eye of Invisible Light
Being able to see spiritual material, even if just a little, represents a significant breakthrough.
This means that Yun Ye can directly observe the various reactions of spirit energy, avoiding confusion and unclear data recordings.
Food essence can be understood as the most basic form of alchemy; starting from this foundation might allow for broader understanding.
After Yun Ye made the microscope, he directly gave up on training in Spiritual Law.
With no progress to be made there, he focused solely on studying spiritual material!
In addition to his own life energy, Yun Ye also researched dozens of plants that contained spirit energy.
Most of these were materials for food essence.
Then, Yun Ye discovered that the majority of spiritual materials are similar to mist, just like life energy.
This mist does not integrate into the material itself; instead, it wraps around the surface, appearing separate.
Yun Ye even observed the spirit flame he created.
Surprisingly, most of his spirit flame was also mist-like, except it was a bright red color.
He said "most" because some spiritual flames completely mimicked real flames, appearing consistent with true fire, transforming into flowing currents that spread outward.
Only pure spirit energy, or the parts not aligned with the material world, appeared as misty threads.
Yun Ye expressed his astonishment.
Because, looking at it this way, spirit energy is like an all-purpose energy source.
It can fully mimic flames and can also abstractly simulate various characteristics, enhancing the effects of fire.
If that’s the case, gathering all five elemental Spiritual Roots would forge the five-element body described by Qi Lian.
Wouldn’t that mean he could truly simulate all worldly phenomena and become, in some sense, a "god"?
No wonder this body type is called a divine body—using a fantastical term, it is born sacred!
Without a doubt, the more Spiritual Roots one has in this world, the stronger their talent becomes.
If one could complete the fusion of the five types of Spiritual Roots, no one would dare oppose their claim to be the best under heaven and earth.
This also subtly highlights the horrors of the rebirth place; it can enhance specific Spiritual Root talents.
It’s simply a powerful fortune!
"However, in this world, having high talent might not be good; one might face schemes to extract bones and perform transplants."
Yun Ye’s eyelid twitched as he realized the fatal flaw of high talent with low Fate.
In this world, Spiritual Roots can be extracted; they are rooted in the body. When Shi Baiyan killed him, Tong Yuan mentioned that killing a revival of Spiritual Roots would benefit Shi Baiyan.
Perhaps their so-called enhancement refers to extracting Spiritual Roots.
He does not possess the Fate of an emperor; if his Spiritual Roots were extracted, he would truly be finished—there’s no way to overcome setbacks and sweep through all realms.
Yun Ye felt relieved.
Fortunately, he was aware of his limitations and needed to find another way, avoiding a path of darkness.
Otherwise, in the next several lives, he would surely still have full Spiritual Roots and a martial man’s Fate.
When Spiritual Roots are not particularly strong, it doesn’t matter much. However, if any strange signs occur, it could attract the attention of noble families…
That might lead to experiencing bone extraction firsthand.
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With the microscope in hand, Yun Ye also created various measuring instruments, and his production of food essence began to improve steadily.
Food essence has four levels: A, B, C, and D. Yun Ye quickly skipped C and D, reaching B level.
With B-level food essence and rough cooking techniques, Yun Ye could produce C-level Superior Food and occasionally even manage a B-level creation.
And this was only the result of several days’ efforts; over the next three months, nothing particularly special happened.
Yun Ye reduced his task load and dedicated himself to research, immersing himself in his work. After three months, his progress was astounding.
Through observing microscopic changes, he completely mastered the production of A-level Superior Food.
Even without various instruments, he could still create it.
In fact, creating Spirit-level Superior Food was also just around the corner!
After three months of research, Yun Ye adjusted the microscope to a thousand times magnification, allowing him to see even more details.
His training with the wavelength of light was also improving significantly.
The human eye can only see a fixed range of wavelengths; in other words, both lowering and raising wavelengths will result in them becoming invisible.
When observing objects with light, the object’s diameter needs to be greater than half of the wavelength.
The material cannot shrink, so the only option is to lower the wavelength of light to bring previously too small objects back into the observable range.
The problem was that once the wavelength was lowered, Yun Ye could no longer see it, and the issue remained unresolved.
This did not stump Yun Ye; he changed his approach, allowing his eyes to perceive lower wavelengths of light.
Since Fire Element Spiritual Roots can transmit energy, forming flames and light, he carefully researched this process. If he could absorb external light to perceive the world, wouldn’t that work?
Spirit energy is a part of him, so he could control it and naturally create the necessary connections.
In theory, this was feasible, and he might even not need his eyes at all.
However, the reality was different.
Right now, Yun Ye’s control over spirit energy could not break free from his eyes as a vessel.
The principle was to allow spirit energy to form a layer of membrane over his eyes to replace the original bodily functions.
This membrane could see smaller wavelengths and clearly receive spiritual signals to observe spiritual material.
Moreover, because it was fire attribute spirit energy, his eyes emitted a fiery red color.
Even in a dark environment, they could emit their own light, then receive reflected images, and could even manage to see through walls.
It cannot be denied that mastering Extreme Flame was significant.
Otherwise, the destructive effects of spirit energy would make training extremely challenging.
How could anyone, like Yun Ye, negate all damage and proceed with such rapid research?
In summary, Yun Ye managed to discover an extremely rare technique for the Spiritual Eye. Compared to ordinary Spiritual Eyes, it is highly discreet; the red light from his fire spirit energy pupils could be processed to become invisible.
However, unlike the various Extreme Flames that are directly activated, this Spiritual Law required precise manipulation at the level of the membrane inside the eyes, which posed a great challenge to Yun Ye’s control; it couldn’t be applied in practical combat.
If he wanted to use it in real combat, he would need to process the pupil’s spirit light into a hidden state, making it even more difficult.
Yun Ye realized that mastering this could take years of constant practice, and currently, he was still in the realm of the distant future.
However, he saw potential; he named it the "Eye of Invisible Light," or simply, the Light Eye.
He looked forward to demonstrating its capabilities after awakening his Spirit Sense and greatly enhancing his control.
Until then, these eyes were entirely dedicated to research.
Yun Ye’s skills in creating Superior Food progressed remarkably fast; in just three months, he surpassed others’ ten or twenty years of hard work, thanks to the assistance of his eyes.
With the Light Eye paired with the microscope, Yun Ye had even caught a glimpse of the path to Spirit-level Superior Food.
The key to making Superior Food lies in gathering the life energy of food.
The more life energy that is collected, the greater the effect on cultivation.
A-level Superior Food has ten times the enhancement, while Spirit-level has a full one hundred and twenty times!
Using conventional methods, it is impossible to compress one hundred and twenty portions of food into one.
This is a limitation of physical distance.
During the flow of life energy, it dissipates continuously.
Even if one thousand portions are layered together, they can at most gather thirty to fifty times the effect of Superior Food.
And in reality, there is no pot large enough for that, nor can anyone finely cook one thousand portions of food in one go.
To produce Spirit-level Superior Food, there are essentially two methods.
One is to reduce the loss and time during the gathering of spirit energy.
The other is to use limited spirit energy to unleash unlimited effects.
Yun Ye’s method primarily used the second approach with the first as a supplement.
