Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 174 Soul Satisfaction

"You want to be a scientist?" Geng Tianhua was stunned when he heard this and said, "Not everyone can be a scientist."

"To become a scientist, you must first have the talent to absorb and use 'endless energy'."

"like this."

As he spoke, Geng Tianhua suddenly stretched out his right hand.

He spread his palms upward.

The next second, a light blue flame appeared in his hand.

Geng Tianhua explained: "This is the simplest use of endless energy - directly burning it as combustible gas."

"This move is called 'Palm Fire'."

"We scientists often need to heat substances during our daily experiments."

"And heating requires the use of palm fire."

"So this is a skill that entry-level scientists must master."

Geng Tianhua finally said: "Now, close your eyes and feel it carefully to see if you can feel the endless energy floating between heaven and earth."

"If you can feel those energies and use them to generate palm fire."

"That means you have the potential to become a scientist."

Geng Tianhua seemed to be just teaching Xie Shen.

But at the same time, he was also explaining for his elder sister Geng Tao and his younger brother Geng Yizi.

So after listening to Geng Tianhua's explanation, Geng Yizi and Geng Tao closed their eyes and sat cross-legged on the ground, trying to feel the so-called endless energy.

After seeing this, his father Geng Tianhua smiled and said, “When you were in the village before, that’s why I didn’t teach you how to become a scientist.”

"First, we are worried that if you are discovered, the people in the village will harm you."

"Secondly, it is very difficult to feel the endless energy floating between heaven and earth."

"Children's mental strength is much weaker than that of adults, so it is relatively more difficult for them to feel the endless energy."

Geng Tianhua continued: "I originally planned to teach you how to become scientists after you become adults."

"But since Geng Huan has asked questions about this, I will just tell you everything."

"In short, if you can't sense the endless energy within a short period of time, there is no need to rush."

“Because it’s normal.”

Geng Tianhua thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, even for people with good aptitude and talent, it would take at least ten days and a half a month to feel the endless energy and cross the threshold."

“For those with poor qualifications, it will take a year or even longer.”

Next to the campfire.

At the same time Geng Tianhua said 'a year or even longer'.

Suddenly, a ball of light blue flame ignited in Xie Shen's palm.

Compared with the palm fire released by Geng Tianhua, the flame in Xie Shen's hand was obviously more vigorous and brighter.

"This"

Geng Tianhua showed an expression of disbelief.

He looked at Xie Shen and said, "Could it be that there are other scientists hiding in the village? Did that scientist secretly teach you before?"

Xie Shen said truthfully: "No, I just did as you said and absorbed some of the endless energy floating between heaven and earth, then gathered them in my palm and generated flames."

"impossible!"

Geng Tianhua was shocked and said, "I just said that casually. I didn't even give you the book."

"You used the Palm Fire just because of my words?"

"This is unreasonable!"

Facing Geng Tianhua's questioning, Xie Shen did not say anything, but just looked back at him quietly.

So long.

Geng Tianhua finally accepted the fact and said, "Maybe you are born with extraordinary talent in scientific research, so you can absorb and skillfully use endless energy in an instant, and even generate palm fire with it."

Xie Shen asked, "Since I have mastered endless energy, I should be considered a scientist now, right?"

"Of course." Geng Tianhua replied, "And judging from the brightness of the fire in your palm, it is not difficult to see that you have at least reached the level of a junior scientist."

“It’s still pretty scary to say this out loud.”

"You know, it took me three years to get promoted from entry-level to junior scientist!"

Geng Tianhua finally said with emotion: "I have to say, your talent in scientific research is really exaggerated!"

——In fact, the reason why Xie Shen was able to cross the threshold of a scientist in an instant and become a junior scientist was only because he had the blessing of the spiritual consciousness of a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage.

With the help of his divine consciousness, Xie Shen was able to see:

The so-called endless energy mentioned by Geng Tianhua is, in fact, the energy of the same nature as the black mist.

Among them, the black mist is produced by human painful emotions.

And correspondingly.

Endless energy is generated by human's desire for knowledge.

Since the two energies are of the same origin, they essentially originate from indescribable creatures.

That's why he was able to do it so easily just now and used the palm fire technique in an instant.

After seeing Xie Shen's talent, Geng Tianhua promised him: "Originally, I was planning to take the three of you to Guqing City and let your mother take care of you."

"After all, I've been targeted by the church, so it's not convenient for me to show up in public."

"But now I have changed my mind."

Geng Tianhua said to Xie Shen: "Your talent in scientific research is really too high."

"This talent must not be wasted."

"So, I plan to take you to the Academy of Sciences for further studies."

"What is the Academy of Sciences?" Xie Shen asked after hearing this.

Geng Tianhua did not explain further, but just smiled and said, "You will know it naturally after you go there."

"It's late, let's go to bed first!"

"We still have a long way to go tomorrow."

Perhaps because scientists abused endless energy, the world has become extremely polluted.

When ordinary people spend the night in the wilderness, they need to ensure that the campfire is burning all night.

Otherwise there will be danger to life.

So in order to prevent the bonfire from going out, and also to guard against the evil spirits hidden in the darkness.

Geng Tianhua, Xie Shen, Geng Yizi and Taoxiang worked in pairs and took turns to keep watch.

in this way.

Before we knew it, it was already the second half of the night.

According to the schedule, Xie Shen and Geng Yizi should be on night guard.

But it may be because of his young age.

Geng Yizi couldn't stand the torment of staying up all night, so after saying hello to Xie Shen, he fell into a deep sleep.

By the campfire.

I saw that I was the only one who was still awake in the camp.

Xie Shen sat cross-legged on the ground and began to try to devour the soul of the original owner Geng Huan.

At this moment, Xie Shen has fulfilled Geng Huan's last wish.

Then according to the process, he should be able to devour the soul of the original owner Geng Huan.

But the fact is.
When Xie Shen tried to devour Geng Huan's soul, a strong resistance suddenly came from the other party's soul.

This conflicting will prevented Xie Shen from successfully completing the swallowing.

Puzzled, he took out the storage bag he brought to this world when he traveled through time, and took out the Shinto Cauldron from it.

After taking out the Shinto Ding.

Xie Shen also used the very small amount of endless energy he had just absorbed to activate a silencing talisman and placed it beside him. After blocking out all the sounds, he used the Divine Dao Cauldron to contact Hu Fanzhi who was far away on Haiyang Star.

The Shinto cauldron is directly above.

A black shadow appeared and spoke in human language: "Daoyou, how are you?"

The person who spoke was Hu Fanzhi, who had not contacted Xie Shen for nearly three years.

The moment he opened his mouth to speak, Xie Shen felt a spiritual consciousness unique to a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage emerging from the black shadow.

“Hu Daoyou,” Xie Shen said with a hint of surprise in his tone, “You actually also broke through to the Spiritual Transformation Stage?”

"Why?" Hu Fanzhi asked back, "Only you are allowed to break through, but I can't?"

"Ah."

Xie Shen smiled and said, "What are you talking about, Daoist friend?"

"Fellow Daoist, I can't even congratulate you enough for your breakthrough."

"I just felt a little surprised."

"In fact, it is completely reasonable for me to break through." Hu Fanzhi explained: "After all, I am the master of Haiyang Star, and I have the resources of an entire planet to call upon."

"So my breakthrough speed is far inferior to your quick method."

"But the success rate of breakthrough is not much lower than yours."

reasonable.

Xie Shen didn't dwell on this matter.

He changed the subject and got straight to business: "The reason I contacted you this time is because when I was performing the Butterfly Dream Technique and devouring the target's soul, I encountered strong resistance from the target."

"I don't know."

Xie Shen explained: "I have clearly fulfilled the host's last wish, but why does his soul still resist me?"

"Oh, I forgot to mention this before." Hu Fanzhi replied: "When a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage devours the host's soul, he must not only fulfill the host's last wish before his death, but sometimes he even has to exceed the task."

"To exceed the task?" Xie Shen was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Uh"

Hu Fanzhi thought for a moment and said, "This involves the issue of satisfaction."

"Let me give you an example."

"For example, the host's last wish before his death was to make himself rich."

"Then when the wealth you possess exceeds that of most ordinary people around you."

"The host's satisfaction may increase directly from 0% to 30%."

"But just 30% satisfaction is far from enough."

"At this time, the host's soul must have resistance."

“So you have to keep making money.”

Hu Fanzhi continued.

“When the wealth and blessings you possess surpass most of the top people on the planet today.”

"Then the host's satisfaction will be further improved."

“For example, from 30% to 50%.”

"When you reach this level, you will be able to devour the host's soul."

Hu Fanzhi added: "But we monks usually don't devour the host's soul when it just reaches 50%."

"Why?" Xie Shen asked subconsciously.

Hu Fanzhi explained: "Because a soul with a satisfaction level of 50% will only bring a very small improvement to your spiritual strength."

"Be more specific."

"If you keep devouring souls with 50% satisfaction, then to advance from the early stage of the Spiritualization to the middle stage of the Spiritualization, you will need to devour at least 20 souls."

"If we also take into account the three-year cooldown period of the Butterfly Dream Technique."

"Then even if you travel through time smoothly every time, it will still take you at least 60 years to break through from the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation to the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation."

"So if you only devour souls that are 50% satisfied, your breakthrough speed will be very slow."

Hearing this, Xie Shen asked.

He said: "What if it devours a soul whose satisfaction is close to 100%?"

"Then the breakthrough speed will be much faster."

Hu Fanzhi said: "However, it is actually very difficult to achieve 100% satisfaction of the soul."

"After all, human desires are nearly endless. It is impossible for you to absolutely satisfy others with what you do."

“So generally speaking, if the soul satisfaction is close to 95%, it is considered quite good.”

"Let's use the same example as before."

Hu Fanzhi continued: "If the host's last wish is to become rich."

"Then you need to work hard to make the host the richest man in the country."

"Only in this way can his soul's satisfaction be infinitely close to 95%."

"And devouring this soul with great satisfaction."

"You don't need much at all. Just swallow it once, and a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage can directly break through from the early stage to the middle stage."

"Likewise."

"If we continue to devour souls with extremely high satisfaction, then a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage will only need two souls to break through from the middle stage to the late stage."

By the campfire.

After listening to Hu Fanzhi's explanation, Xie Shen suddenly realized and said, "I understand, I understand."

"The body I currently occupy has a host whose last wish was to become a scientist."

"So in order to satisfy the host as much as possible, I must become the strongest scientist?"

"Is that what you mean?"

"That's right!" Hu Fanzhi responded: "Of course, you don't necessarily have to be the strongest."

"If the difficulty of the will is too high, we can always settle for the next best thing."

"For example, you get the second place in the world, and then the third place."

"This way, the host's soul satisfaction may not reach 95%, but at least it can reach more than 90%."

“This is already considered very high.”

"I understand." Xie Shen clasped his fists and bowed towards the black shadow on the Shinto tripod.

He thought for a moment and said, "Thank you for telling me. In return, I would like to pass on to you what I have learned recently about the application of the law of time."

"The law of time?" Hu Fanzhi was surprised when he heard it. "I have heard people say that cultivators in the fusion stage can master the power related to the law. Could it be that the law of time you just mentioned refers to the power of the law that can only be mastered by cultivators in the fusion stage?"

"I'm not sure about that." Xie Shen replied truthfully: "I just happened to travel through time once on a conscious level by chance, so I have gained some understanding of the laws of time."

"As for whether this law of time is related to the power of the law of the fusion stage cultivators, I am not very clear."

As he spoke, Xie Shen took out a blank jade slip from his storage bag and placed it on his forehead.

After all the contents related to the laws of time have been copied into it.

Xie Shen threw the jade slip into the Divine Dao Cauldron and said to Hu Fanzhi: "Fellow Daoist Hu, in short, I have recorded the application of the law of time in the jade slip. You can keep it and study it slowly."

Since Xie Shen gave it to him for free, Hu Fanzhi would naturally not refuse it.

After accepting the jade slip, he chatted casually with Xie Shen for a while, and then disappeared from the Divine Cauldron.

Now that the Shinto tripod has been taken out.
Before dawn, Xie Shen contacted Li Xiu who was far away on the Ark spacecraft.

Wait until the black shadow it transforms into appears from the Shendao Cauldron.

Xie Shen said to him directly: "Li Xiu, I have some great news for you."

"The planet I traveled through this time has an indescribable native creature that seems to feed on humans' thirst for knowledge."

"The practitioners on this planet all call themselves scientists."

"They all improve themselves through learning and acquiring more knowledge."

(End of this chapter)