Chapter 109
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Chapter 109: Is Magic a Path for Monsters?
Aifeya Empire.
In the Empire’s Library.
A figure quietly appeared outside the Library.
Then, right in front of the Library’s guard, he pushed open the door and entered the Library without hesitation.
However, the guard seemed not to notice at all.
The Library was divided into seven floors.
The first floor had the most books.
Li Xiaojun used his divine sense to scan the books inside.
He found that most of the books on the first floor were about royal history, philosophy, literature, and other topics.
Of course, there were also some basic theoretical books on magic.
Li Xiaojun’s purpose for coming this time was to acquire knowledge of magic, so he immediately began gathering books.
He noticed that for each type of book in the Library, there were several copies available.
Therefore, he took one of each identical book, ensuring that the Library’s collection would not be diminished.
Before long, countless books flew out from the first floor and vanished in front of Li Xiaojun.
After finishing on the first floor, Li Xiaojun moved on to the second floor.
The second floor had fewer magic books, but there were still over a hundred.
He continued to the third floor, fourth floor, fifth floor, sixth floor, and finally reached the seventh floor.
This Library had magical restrictions, but to Li Xiaojun, they were as if they did not exist at all.
After Li Xiaojun left the Library, none of the restrictions were triggered.
Returning home, Li Xiaojun began reading through all the magic books he had brought back from the Library from start to finish.
He started from the beginning.
His reading speed was very fast, nearly photographic.
With the help of his divine sense, he finished reading over a thousand magic books from the royal library in just two days.
After finishing all the magic books, Li Xiaojun gained a great understanding of magic.
He discovered that so-called magic was a simplified version of the cultivation methods used by monsters.
The beast tribe consisted of ordinary animals that, in a rich environment of spiritual energy, survived and slowly transformed under the influence of that energy. Gifted beasts could absorb spiritual energy on their own, eventually evolving into celestial beasts, which are the current monster tribe.
The path of the magician’s cultivation was very similar to that of the beast tribe!
However, the beast tribe evolved naturally.
On the other hand, magicians intentionally imitated the cultivation methods of the beast tribe.
Magicians absorbed spiritual energy into their bodies, but unlike cultivators, they did not use spirit roots to transform spiritual energy into true essence, which was gentler and easier to control.
Spiritual energy was wild; therefore, it could harm the body and even damage the soul when inside.
Compared to the naturally awakened beast tribe, which enjoys a long lifespan, magicians suffer because they forcibly absorb spiritual energy, causing harm to their bodies.
Thus, in the magic world, even the most powerful seventh-level magician (equivalent to the Great Ascension stage in the cultivation world) cannot live past one thousand years.
On the other hand, a powerhouse in the Great Ascension stage of the cultivation world has a lifespan of at least fifty thousand years, with Late stage Great Ascension powerhouses living up to eighty thousand years.
In this world, ordinary magicians have shorter lifespans than ordinary people.
If an ordinary person can live a hundred years without illness, then ordinary magicians typically have a lifespan of only seventy years.
Only third-stage magicians can have a lifespan equal to that of ordinary people.
Fourth-level magicians can live slightly longer than ordinary people.
After reading all the magic books, Li Xiaojun finally understood the principle of magic.
It turned out that magic was something created by imitating the cultivation of the beast tribe.
However, while magic allowed humans to wield powerful abilities, it was obtained through harmful means.
The principle of testing magical talent is quite simple: it measures the body’s affinity for spiritual energy.
The higher the affinity, the faster the absorption rate of spiritual energy, and the greater the capacity for it.
In this case, even those without spirit roots could practice magic.
However, the power gained through such practice would harm the body and shorten their lifespan.
In contrast, cultivation transforms spiritual energy into true essence using spirit roots.
True essence not only does not harm the body but nourishes both the body and soul, significantly increasing lifespan.
After reviewing all the magic books, Li Xiaojun began to have some doubts about teaching magic to his two disciples.
Because if the two children had poor magical talent and could not break through to third-level magicians in their lifetime, then they could only expect to live to seventy years.
Magic was indeed too damaging to both the body and lifespan.
"Wait a minute."
Suddenly, Li Xiaojun thought of a situation.
That is, the beast tribe in the cultivation world also had a limited lifespan before they cultivated their beast cores.
The beast tribe only significantly increased their lifespans after forming cores.
Thus, even though magicians in this world learned to create magic from the beast tribe, they had not grasped the essence of the beast tribe, which was to condense into beast cores.
So, Li Xiaojun decided to capture some magical beasts to investigate further.
Thinking it, he acted immediately.
A streak of light quickly crossed above the Holy Capital City and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Half an hour later.
On the other side of the planet.
Deep within the Beast Mountain Range.
A seventh-level magical beast was sleeping.
This was a giant snake hundreds of meters long.
Suddenly, a human man appeared on the snake’s head.
The man appeared silently.
At the moment he appeared, he reached out.
The snake on the ground felt as if someone was choking its neck.
In the next moment, the giant snake struggled, but it could not break free from that invisible hand.
At this time, the snake was fully awake.
It saw Li Xiaojun floating in the air and showed a look of horror in its eyes.
It wanted to plead for mercy, but the man showed no expression.
This man was indeed Li Xiaojun!
At this moment, Li Xiaojun was using his divine sense to examine this Great Ascension stage beast, known in this world as a seventh-level magical beast.
"Eh?"
"This magical beast has no beast core?"
Li Xiaojun discovered that this seventh-level snake did not have a beast core.
"What is this? Is this the magic crystal recorded in the magic book?"
Although Li Xiaojun did not find a beast core in the snake’s body, he found an energy crystal inside its head.
At this moment, Li Xiaojun finally understood why humans in this place imitated the beast tribe and developed this unique cultivation method for magicians.
Because the magical beasts in this world were also unique.
They did not cultivate beast cores at all; instead, they cultivated spiritual power.
Then they used their spiritual power combined with spiritual energy to condense magic crystals in the upper dantian.
In the cultivation world, Li Xiaojun had read many books.
He knew that the people of Taihuang Star also started by imitating the cultivation methods of the beast tribe to create beast cores.
Because the human beast cores were golden, they were also called Golden Cores.
"A Golden Core swallowed into the belly, my fate is in my own hands, not the heavens."
This described the cultivators of that time.
Later, the human ancestors created the Nascent Soul cultivation method based on the Golden Core, transforming the Golden Core into a Nascent Soul, and then allowing the soul to evolve into a primordial spirit, thus leading humanity down a more suitable cultivation path.
It was precisely because humans created a better-suited cultivation method that they became unprecedentedly powerful, which compelled the Myriad Tribes to unite and form the beast tribe to resist humanity.
The people on this planet believed that because the beast tribe in this world was inherently twisted, they would imitate a distorted path to magic cultivation.
However, Li Xiaojun also had to admire that while magic was indeed a twisted cultivation path, super genius magicians could become Great Ascension stage powerhouses in just a few hundred years.
Meanwhile, in the cultivation world, even with the Immortal spirit roots, it took over two thousand years to reach the Great Ascension stage, which was about four to five times slower than magicians.
