The tower of knowledge, the empty fifty-ninth floor.
Rows of bookshelves more than ten meters high are neatly arranged and filled with books.
"Tap tap tap..."
Tang Yu strolled among the bookshelves and glanced over them.
The Tower of Knowledge stores most of the books collected from the Holy City. Countless years of accumulation in the glorious years of the Origin Star. There are countless books preserved on paper alone. Even just a part of them has created this 'containing endless knowledge' tower.
It is a place that is coveted by many awakened outsiders, big forces, and even the higher-ups of the Holy Land.
Aldington, the chief elder of the Mage Alliance, just because of the existence of the "Tower of Knowledge", the towns of the Mage Alliance have not returned and have embraced knowledge.
Even though he had statistics, it was impossible for him to know all the contents of the books, documents, drawings, etc. in the tower.
At this time, he was in an area where books about 'soul' were stored.
'Soul' is not mysterious in the eyes of scholars of the Second Age of Origin Star. For example, if you take a spiritual breakthrough to the second level of transcendence, you can achieve 'soul out of body', except for the remaining backhand or clone, even if the head is beheaded , the heart is pierced, and you can still survive as a spirit body - provided that the spirit body can escape.
After Tang Yu broke through to the second level, he could easily leave his body. It was like instinct, but he rarely did this - the soul without the protection of the body was too fragile.
But the research on the soul in the second era was too rich, which troubled him.
If you look around, there are all books about ‘soul’, and even the titles are similar.
There are too many such topics as "Research on the Gender Difference between Soul and Body", "Two or Three Things You Don't Know About the Soul", "On the Possibility of Spirit Peeping", etc.
His mental power transformed into dozens of pairs of big hands, and batches of heavy books flew down from bookshelves more than ten meters high, hovering in front of him, and opened with a splash.
He quickly closed it and flew back to the bookshelf, where new books floated steadily over under the control of mental power.
Tang Yu's eyes flew over quickly, and his brows gradually wrinkled.
"There are no books about 'soul power'..."
The term 'soul power' appears a lot, but the symbolic meaning is 'the strength of the soul power', not what he hopes to find - the soul power absorbed by hunting demonized beasts.
Touching his eyebrows gently with his fingers, Tang Yu fell into deep thought.
"Also, if hunting demonized beasts can obtain 'soul power' that can quickly increase strength, then it should be widely known information and cannot be hidden..."
"Unless." He thought of two possibilities, "Either 'Soul Power' is a product of the Fifth Age, or, in the early stages of the development of the Origin Star, 'Soul Power' can also be obtained by hunting alien beasts, but later, also Disappeared."
Tang Yu rubbed his chin. He preferred the former. After all, the latter should leave some traces.
‘Soul power’ has the greatest effect on low-level awakenings, and the early days of the apocalypse happen to be the moment when the gap between humans and demonized beasts is greatest... It is the existence of ‘soul power’ that helps humans improve rapidly and allows humans to gain a firm foothold in the apocalypse.
Thinking about it from another angle, if there is no "soul power", it will take at least several months to upgrade from the first level of awakening to the fifth level of awakening through cultivation alone, with high talent and sufficient resources... Not to mention that in the early days of the apocalypse, there are not many people. Have a practice method.
In that case, even if humanity is not extinct, I'm afraid... there won't be much left.
"Perhaps it was the back-up plan deployed by the saint, or it was the self-protection method of the Origin Star... But now, the disappearance of the soul power is a foregone conclusion."
He wanted to find a way to restore his 'soul power', but now...
Tang Yu shook his head, waved his hand, and a dozen books flew back to their original places in an instant.
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and fell on a book that said 'Secret Technique of Soul Arrival'. He became interested, and with a wave of his hand, the book, as thick as a brick, flew over.
The thick hard paper was opened, and there were runes, languages, and patterns on it...
It all revolves around a secret technique.
"The soul is coming"!
It can descend on a corpse to 'seize the body and be reborn', or it can descend on a living person, but it must have a soul that is powerful enough to crush the opponent.
"I see… "
The book also described many things that need to be paid attention to when walking the spiritual path, and Tang Yu gradually came to a clear understanding.
The essence of man is the soul.
The reason why the physical body can be reborn with blood is because the soul information has been integrated into every cell of the body, and every cell can become a whole.
When taking the spiritual path, the soul has been integrated into the spirit, which makes the spirit immortal. The "immortal god" separated by cutting off the spiritual power is actually the "divided soul".
He also tried to integrate a ray of soul into a foreign corpse and make it his own clone. However, as soon as the 'clone' entered, he felt strange and repelled.
Tang Yu didn't pay much attention at first, thinking that he had mysophobia - after all, he was unwilling to let his soul enter the corpse of a foreign race.
After reading this book, he realized that the insertion position was wrong.
At that time, the domain-level warrior of the Heart Demon Clan had many clones. One of them was also domain-level and occupied the body of a certain royal ancestor.
Possessing the body of a strong person is indeed a shortcut to quickly improve your strength.
But the stronger the body, the greater the repulsion. At this time, certain secret techniques need to be used to reduce the resistance during insertion.
Tang Yu flipped through the hard-cover book, sometimes thinking and sometimes frowning.
The first part is mostly theory and basics, but in the second half, we finally talk about "the advent of souls", which can directly descend on living people!
"If a wisp of split soul is counted as a unit, then it must be cultivated to at least 'ten' units or more, and the main soul strength must be maintained at three points or more before this secret technique can be used..."
He has only cultivated three units now. Apart from himself, a ray of clone soul has been retained, and the other ray is used on Clone No. 1, which is far from the requirements for performing the secret technique of "Soul Descending".
But it is of great research value.
Snapped!
The books are closed.
Tang Yu didn't read any more and just studied it a little. A few hours passed. He was immersed in academics and didn't notice the passage of time.
Now is not the time for research.
Back at the castle, members of the Guards presented news gathered from all over the world.
The situation of soul power fading continued to ferment, and Tang Yu frowned deeper.
"The Green Shade and several sub-territories are not affected much. The business of "Extreme Martial Arts" in many places has even increased a lot due to this, but other human sanctuaries..."
His vision is no longer limited to one place. Without soul power, many shelters that could barely resist the demonic tide will become increasingly critical.
"Let's do this." He called Luo Zhe and Chen Haiping to the top management and said, "Find a basic cultivation method that is universal and spread it out so that most awakened people can improve their strength through cultivation. There is no suitable method. Just create one.”
After some discussion, Luo Zhe proposed a non-attribute cultivation method called "Qi Gathering Art", which is easy to get started and suitable for most people to practice.
At this time,
"Ding dong!"
There was a soft sound in my mind.
It's some important message reminder he set.
"The teleportation array search found new world coordinates—Unnamed World No. 18."