What Qingshui wanted was precisely this kind of complete, systematic, safe, and human-friendly Natural Energy cultivation method.
Now that the path had proven viable, the next step was to utilize all available resources to continue deducing how to proceed.
So, what relevant resources did he possess?
And what could he scheme for?
The Demon Slayer Mark, as a product of a Breathing Style pushed to its limit, must be related. Then there's the Sage Art cultivation method from the Naruto World, or perhaps the Cursed Seal researched by Orochimaru.
In Qingshui's view, the effects of the Cursed Seal and the Demon Slayer Mark were very similar, except the Demon Slayer Mark's mutation was minimal, appearing only as a small, tattoo-like pattern on the body.
This indicated that the Natural Energy refined by the Demon Slayer Mark was definitely purer and more suitable for humans than that of the Cursed Seal.
However, since Jūgo might not even be born yet, Orochimaru certainly hadn't researched the Cursed Seal, so Qingshui couldn't scheme for it even if he wanted to.
Therefore, apart from the Demon Slayer Mark, the only thing with clear research value left was Sage Art.
Among the Three Great Sage Regions, Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest's summoning contracts were only available to Konoha. As for Ryūchi Cave...
Qingshui's eyes glinted as he recalled some records written by the Third Kazekage back then.
Didn't the Third Kazekage also sign a summoning contract with Ryūchi Cave back in the day?
After their discussion, Old Man Lu Jin excitedly ran off.
The old man planned to widely recruit disciples and rebuild the Sanyi Sect.
Old Lu had broken through to the peak of the second stage of Reverse Life Triple in front of everyone, gaining the ability to reconstruct the three Dantians.
This news quickly spread throughout the Anomalous Human World. Everyone learned that Lu Jin, the patriarch of the Lu Family, had also become a top-tier Anomalous Human.
Before his breakthrough, Old Man Lu was among the most formidable elders below Zhang Zhiwei, the top-tier Anomalous Human. Even Lu Ci and Wang Ai, despite their grievances with Lu Jin, acknowledged his strength. When it came to topics that were Lu Jin's sore spots, like Wugensheng and Li Muxuan, they didn't dare to provoke him.
Because a desperate Lu Jin could truly result in mutual destruction.
With Lu Jin's renewed breakthrough, openly, no one dared to claim they had a chance against Lu Jin, except for Zhang Zhiwei.
Lu Jin now possessed strength and prestige, and the Lu Family had wealth and capital. Especially now that Reverse Life Triple was on the verge of becoming Reverse Life Quadruple, giving hope to a path that was once a dead end, Lu Jin naturally had the ability to establish a new sect and rebuild the Sanyi Sect.
The only flaw was that Lu Jin was now over a hundred years old. Even though he cultivated profound orthodox methods and possessed immense cultivation that could prolong his life, the theoretical maximum lifespan for human males would not exceed 120 years. Unless he could truly achieve the fourth stage, Lu Jin's remaining lifespan would at most be a little over a decade.
But even so, a top-tier Anomalous Human with only a decade or so left to live was still a top-tier Anomalous Human. Both rogue Anomalous Humans and Anomalous Humans from various prominent families desired to become Lu Jin's disciples.
After all, besides Qingshui, only those who had personally witnessed the battle between Zuo Ruotong and Wugensheng at the Sanyi Sect back then knew that Reverse Life Triple couldn't reach the heavens. And even if they knew, it didn't matter much.
If it couldn't reach the heavens, then it couldn't. How many had truly reached the heavens throughout history? That was already considered myth and legend.
Yet, a path that had been concretely proven to lead to becoming a top-tier Anomalous Human lay before them.
Even knowing that given Lu Jin's character, his requirements for accepting disciples would undoubtedly be stringent, perhaps even more so than Zuo Ruotong's, the number of people willing to try would certainly not be small.
In the new era, with the help of the internet, news spread quickly, but those people still needed time to travel.
The old site of the Sanyi Sect on Sanyi Peak also needed to be renovated. And because Sanyi Peak's terrain was steep, construction was difficult. Even with human and material resources, the Lu Family would need time.
Therefore, before that, Lu Jin also planned to visit Longhu Mountain.
As for why he was going to Longhu Mountain...
Perhaps he felt that since he could now reconstruct the three Dantians and possessed strength almost equivalent to Zuo Ruotong seventy years ago, he too was a top-tier Anomalous Human, and so he wanted to go to Longhu Mountain to spar with Zhang Zhiwei.
He couldn't possibly be flattened by that Daoist priest with a single slap again, like at the Lu Family banquet ninety years ago, could he?
Old Lu wanted to prove that just as the Sanyi Sect Master and the Longhu Mountain Heavenly Master were once the world's top Anomalous Humans, they still were!
And so, Old Man Lu was once again taught a lesson by Zhang Zhiwei.
He still didn't win, but at least he wasn't defeated with just one slap like before. It took Zhang Zhiwei several more slaps to bring him down.
The Old Heavenly Master was considered a top-tier Anomalous Human because that was the highest level in the Anomalous Human World. However, in reality, the Old Heavenly Master had already become a top-tier Anomalous Human over sixty years ago, when he was forty years old.
A super genius who could become a top-tier Anomalous Human at forty and defeat anyone in the world, after cultivating for another sixty years, he remained invincible and still a top-tier Anomalous Human.
Lu Jin's current level was probably not much stronger than Zhang Zhiwei when he first became a top-tier Anomalous Human at forty. How could he compare to Zhang Zhiwei, who had cultivated for over sixty more years since then?
To make Zhang Zhiwei use a few more slaps, Lu Jin had already created a huge gap between himself and everyone else in the world.
And just as the whole world was waiting for the Sanyi Sect to reopen its doors, part of the new list of additional academicians had been announced ahead of schedule.
Qingshui and Meng Xuan were prominently on the list.
This was something that had long been set in stone, with no suspense whatsoever.
Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences Academic Hall.
"Professor Zhuo, no, I should call you Academician Zhuo now. Congratulations! An academician before thirty, I wonder if anyone else will ever achieve this."
The leader of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warmly shook Qingshui's hand, then smilingly took the academician certificate from a nearby person and handed it to Qingshui.
"You're too kind. There will certainly be outstanding young people in the future."
Qingshui smiled.
If it were merely becoming an academician before thirty, while extraordinary, perhaps one day someone like Prague, who won a Nobel Prize in natural sciences before thirty, could achieve it. But Qingshui wasn't just a simple academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In a few days, he would also have to visit the hall of the Academy of Engineering to add the title of an academician of the Academy of Engineering.
For others, "academicians of both academies" was a general term, used after becoming an academician of one of the academies. But he genuinely held the title of academician in both academies simultaneously.
His achievements in both engineering and theoretical science met the required standards, reaching a point where they simply couldn't be ignored...
Yes, thanks again to Tony, to Lex Luthor, to Bruce Wayne, to Mr. Freeze, to Dr. Banner, and to Dr. Connors...
In previous years, there were indeed over thirty individuals who simultaneously held positions as academicians in both the engineering and science academies, but few of them are still alive.
This was due to the special historical context. In the early days of the engineering academy's establishment, thirty academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences were specially invited to concurrently serve as academicians of the engineering academy, with only sporadic additions in the following years.
Later, once the selection criteria for both academies were truly finalized, it became almost impossible for new dual academicians to emerge.
Except for Qingshui, both the engineering and science academies wanted him as their academician to enhance their own authority.
It's highly unlikely that anyone will ever achieve this level of accomplishment again.
After receiving the certificate, a symposium was held focusing on current scientific and technological development. Qingshui had already known he would be speaking and had prepared his speech before arriving.
Before that, there were some other certificates to sign, a mere formality.
"This one is..."
Qingshui looked at the extra document in his hand, which was not given to other newly elected academicians, and hesitated.
"This is a pledge that every academician must sign to uphold academic integrity. As for this, it's an invitation letter, issued with the approval of our academy's leadership and higher authorities, inviting you to become a Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and serve as an honorary president."
The leader of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explained with a smile.
Qingshui naturally agreed with pleasure.
This was a delivery of Fortune.
As expected, the same thing happened a few days later at the Engineering Academy's academician certificate conferment ceremony.
And following that came a large number of various honorary titles.
All in all, they brought a significant amount of Fortune to Qingshui.
Current Fortune Value: 48.65%
Unknowingly, the Fortune Value progress bar had quietly approached the halfway mark again.
However, after the academician certificate conferment ceremony, Qingshui no longer bothered with the various trivial matters from the outside world. Instead, after determining the research directions for each department of his research institute and appointing his assistants for each class, instructing them to continue working in the directions he provided, he dedicated all his time to the research of Reverse Life Triple and Reversal of Eight Directions.
The importance of Reverse Life Triple goes without saying. As for Reversal of Eight Directions, Qingshui's research gradually increased his interest in this "Wong-style" reversal.
Reversal of Eight Directions was originally just a folk trick, used for conjuring or petty theft. However, Wang Yaozu developed it into a skillful application of Qi to force, and by the time it reached Li Muxuan, he had further developed it over nearly a hundred years into an application of force fields.
The principle is to use Qi to create a force field by manipulating the human magnetic field around oneself, using Qi to control the direction, magnitude, and range of the force within the field. It is controllable and can penetrate mediums.
From this perspective, the upper limit of Reversal of Eight Directions is indeed very high.
It seems that while Wang Yaozu and Li Muxuan, the master and disciple from Quansheng, were one a scumbag and the other not much better, their talent was undeniable. Even if it was an unorthodox path, they had developed it to a level sufficient to establish their own school.
In Qingshui's view, if Reversal of Eight Directions could influence the human magnetic field through Qi and freely control external forces, then could this principle also be used to create methods for influencing electromagnetic fields and controlling forces within magnetic fields?
Then, theoretically, as long as there is enough energy, a force field could be applied to the outside of a spaceship, using that force field to generate a protective shield for the spaceship that could withstand pressure and impacts? Could this force field even be used to propel the spaceship, control its direction, and launch kinetic weapons?
Just thinking about it felt incredibly awesome!
For Qingshui, who had mastered the production of the second-generation Arc Reactor, energy would not be an issue unless the force field was pushed to an excessively exaggerated degree.
After all, a standard unit of the second-generation Arc Reactor could generate as much power in a short time as half of the Three Gorges Dam.
What's more, even just as an offensive technique, the force field control of Reversal of Eight Directions is an excellent method. Li Muxuan lost to Lu Jin because he was already consumed by guilt and had resolved to die, deliberately using his life to force Lu Jin to break through.
Another factor was that Li Muxuan's cultivation of life-essence was inferior to Lu Jin's.
Wang Yaozu was considered a decent expert in the Anomalous Human World eighty or ninety years ago, but ultimately, he came from a lower-class profession. It was already genius for him to cultivate Reversal of Eight Directions to that extent, but how high could his cultivation method be in terms of life-essence?
When they were young, everyone hadn't been cultivating for long, and the gap in life-essence cultivation hadn't widened. But over time, when they became hundred-year-old monsters, the gap between Li Muxuan and someone from a proper Xuanmen sect like Lu Jin would only grow larger.
With Reversal of Eight Directions, the larger the range of the force field's influence, the greater the drain on oneself. Li Muxuan needed to release a force field barrier to suppress Lu Jin's speed and strength to his own level. In attack, small-range force field attacks could not cause substantial impact on Lu Jin, who possessed Reverse Life Triple. If these two hundred-year-old men were to continue fighting, Lu Jin would definitely have the slight edge in the end.
It is foreseeable that Li Muxuan's nearly century-long cultivation could contend with Lu Jin for a long time, perhaps even three days and three nights, but the outcome would certainly be Li Muxuan's death, and Lu Jin would survive, but severely depleted of vitality, and would prematurely reach the end of his life due to old age.
Given this, Li Muxuan's desperate attempt to shatter Lu Jin's three Dantians, even at the cost of severe injury, was his only way to break the stalemate at that time.
If Lu Jin hadn't been able to achieve an on-the-spot breakthrough and reconstruct his three Dantians, the outcome would have been the opposite: Lu Jin would have died, and Li Muxuan would have been severely injured.
Of course, the result was that Lu Jin won. His accumulation was already sufficient. According to Li Muxuan's description, Lu Jin's speed and strength were already very close to those of Zuo Ruotong in his prime, indicating that Lu Jin had met the basic conditions for accumulation in terms of life-essence. This means Lu Jin's life-essence cultivation already possessed the basic requirements for reconstructing his three Dantians. Furthermore, if he had external help like Divine Spirit after that, he might even have the conditions to attempt the third stage.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
Qingshui finally made some progress with Reverse Life Triple and Reversal of Eight Directions.
Reverse Life Triple was relatively straightforward. With the experience of generations of cultivators from the Sanyi Sect and Lu Jin, a senior who had already cultivated to the peak of the second stage, Qingshui's foundation in life-essence cultivation meant that the first stage was no problem, and the early to mid-second stage also presented few issues.
Both in the second stage, Lu Lin, who had just entered the second stage, and Lu Jin, who could reconstruct his three Dantians and was at the peak of the second stage, were definitely not on the same level.
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