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Returning to Tian Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming had Su Wen go back to his dorm to cultivate on his own and stabilize his spirit power rank.
Su Wen naturally didn't refuse. After returning to his dorm, he continued to quietly ponder his previous hypothesis.
"Logically, there are no problems. The next step is practical application."
Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
As long as he could use certain experiments to verify the purely speculative parts of his hypothesis, it would no longer be just a hypothesis. Once verified, it would become a true theory.
"And it's very easy to verify."
Although Su Wen couldn't yet focus on cultivating 'Source Spirit Power', he could suppress its production.
In the past, when it came to energy penetration into his spirit space, Su Wen had always used 'brute force'.
He had actively forced the spirit ring's power into his spirit space, which was the result of his own spirit power and Source Spirit Power working together.
Suppressing the birth of Source Spirit Power was the same.
By suppressing its production, he continued to cultivate and immediately felt his cultivation speed drop dramatically.
Conversely, his spirit power recovery speed increased.
"So, when I absorb heaven-and-earth energy, there are three 'consumption' pathways: the body digesting it, the soul digesting it, and both digesting it together."
When the 'together' pathway was inhibited, the other two pathways consumed more.
This, in turn, made Su Wen's spirit power recover faster.
"Let's try spiritual power."
Su Wen consumed his spiritual power and, while suppressing the birth of Source Spirit Power, absorbed heaven-and-earth energy again.
"As expected, my spiritual power recovery is also much faster."
It was just that this was of little benefit to his actual cultivation.
The three pathways were all competing for the heaven-and-earth energy he absorbed. At the same time, a lack of spirit power would itself stimulate the body's 'thirst' for energy, which in turn would spur on spiritual power recovery and the birth of Source Spirit Power.
The three were mutually influential.
There was competition, but also mutual promotion.
If one were to suppress the birth of Source Spirit Power purely for the sake of increasing recovery speed, thereby destroying this benign relationship, the gains a Spirit Master received from combat would also be affected.
After all, the reason one fights is because it's easier to break through during combat.
To fight, only to have your gains reduced... that would be extremely unwise.
"In specific competitions, this might be viable. But for daily training battles, I can't use this method to increase my recovery speed," Su Wen thought.
A simple experiment was all it took for Su Wen to verify his hypothesis.
At the same time, he was now extremely excited.
"Although I can't disrupt this balance during combat, during normal meditative cultivation, I can absolutely suppress the other two pathways to increase the proportion of energy consumed by Source Spirit Power!"
For some reason, Su Wen was inexplicably reminded of chemistry from his previous life—analyzing the changes in the amounts of products and reactants in reversible equations and their effect on the rates of the forward and reverse reactions...
"During meditation, if my spirit power is consumed, it must be replenished. At that time, if I suppress one of the replenishment pathways, the other pathway will be needed to provide more, which means increasing the demand for Source Spirit Power."
A greater demand for Source Spirit Power, combined with the suppression of the other pathways competing for that same energy...
Under this dual influence, the production of Source Spirit Power would increase, and its speed would be faster!
"Perfect!"
Su Wen was ecstatic, preparing to research a method to suppress his body's individual digestion of heaven-and-earth energy.
"By covering my entire body with spiritual power, fusing it into every part, and even trying to merge my spiritual and spirit power as much as possible, I should be able to effectively suppress the body's individual digestion."
No, it probably wasn't just the body being suppressed; the soul was likely suppressed as well.
No, that's not right. The description is still unclear.
It should be that it changed the relationship between the body and soul, which in turn caused the pathways to change. Not only did the two individual digestion pathways become less convenient, but the difficulty of producing Source Spirit Power also decreased.
Su Wen nodded.
"If that's the case, in my future cultivation, as long as I explore the technique of merging spiritual power and spirit power, I can achieve the maximum effect of promoting the birth of Source Spirit Power!"
Suddenly, he had another thought.
With the existence of his 'visualization library', the thought didn't slip away.
"By doing this... am I not fusing my soul and body? Or rather, will doing this increase the degree of fusion with my spirit?"
Su Wen's ability to sense his spirit space already made his spirit's fusion degree far exceed that of Spirit Masters of the same rank.
Now, by actively researching a technique to fuse spiritual and spirit power, even if he gained nothing else, the very process of Source Spirit Power being continuously born during his cultivation would also promote this fusion.
"This is all positive feedback!"
That night, Su Wen used his second spirit skill, gathered the heaven-and-earth energy, and adjusted the intensity of his skill, searching for the optimal level.
One night passed.
"The concentration of gathered energy can't be too high, otherwise the maintenance cost is too great, and I can't sustain it for a whole night of cultivation."
But at the same time, the higher the concentration, the better the effect.
Therefore, he had to find a balance.
"My cultivation speed has increased by at least ten percent. If I can find the optimal solution, it might reach twenty percent."
"And... this is just the most primitive method."
Just by simply improving the 'supply and demand' of energy digestion, he could achieve such an effect. What if he then actively circulated the Source Spirit Power?
"Cultivating Source Spirit Power just like I cultivate spirit power and spiritual power..." Su Wen couldn't help but have such a thought.
"Let's try it first."
In the days that followed, Su Wen returned to his normal cultivation.
The difference was that, while cultivating, he was also exploring the possibility of directly cultivating his Source Spirit Power.
Half a month later.
"It's theoretically feasible, but it requires my production of Source Spirit Power to be greater than its consumption so that it can accumulate in my spirit space."
Except for when at a level-ten bottleneck, Source Spirit Power could not normally accumulate in the spirit space.
But if production was greater than consumption, he could build a surplus.
Once he had a surplus, he could circulate that stored Source Spirit Power to promote the accumulation of even more Source Spirit Power.
"The significance of doing this... is that it breaks my cultivation 'ceiling'."
The cultivation speed limit imposed by his spirit's quality would be broken by him. Even if it couldn't be reflected in his spirit power rank immediately, he could wait until he hit a 'ten' rank. Then, in the process of acquiring a spirit ring, all that accumulated Source Spirit Power could be fully reflected in his spirit power rank.
In other words, in the future, Su Wen would no longer need to perform the 'abnormal' act of intentionally getting stuck at a 'ten' rank and not acquiring a spirit ring.
"Hahaha, this is just fantastic!" Su Wen was as happy as a 200-jin child.
However, his expression immediately soured.
'Extraordinary perception' was his talent, not 'extraordinary control'.
He had always relied on his perception to control the spirit power in his body during cultivation, which had made him quite skilled in this area.
But in the end, there was a limit.
Right now, just to maintain his spirit power's circulation according to his internal technique's pathway at all times without affecting his normal life, he was already at his limit.
To also try and control his Source Spirit Power, and even maintain its circulation in a manner similar to a cultivation technique...
And if he wanted to train his ability in this area...
"Multitasking?"
(End of this chapter)