Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 35: The Spiritual Realm

Zhou Qing calmed down and planned to start practicing today, mainly to test the effect of the spirit stone.

Just as he was about to take out the spirit stone, a jade token suddenly fell out from his sleeve.

It is the jade token that represents the identity of the eldest senior brother, and it is also the tool for the eldest senior brother to exercise his authority.

Zhou Qing put the spirit stone aside for the moment and fiddled with the jade token.

He directed his mind towards the jade token, and suddenly his eyes lit up. The scene in the room quickly disappeared, and he entered a white space.

There was no end to this space, and no extra scenery. There was only a bulletin board not far in front of him.

Zhou Qing walked to the bulletin board and found a notice explaining it. Then he realized that this was the Yunling Realm where Qingyun Sect issued and accepted tasks.

The Soul Realm is managed by the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall.

The head and elders of the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall would regularly collect information on various matters of the entire sect and then assign tasks to the disciples.

These tasks are mainly divided into internal affairs and external affairs.

External affairs include taking charge of the spiritual mines and shops controlled by the sect, eliminating disasters for the mortal kingdoms protected by the Qingyun Sect, exploring ruins, and cooperating with disciples from other sects to fight against demonic cultivators and monsters.

Only beginners can undertake these tasks.

The registered disciples had low cultivation levels, and most of them were not even qualified to practice offensive spells, so they were not allowed to go down the mountain.

They can only take over the internal affairs of Qingyun, Baiyun and Ziyun mountains.

These include looking after spiritual plants and beasts for the Alchemy Institute, guarding the alchemy furnace, dealing with waste elixirs, forging iron for the Weapon Institute, dealing with waste magical instruments, handling the bodies of the elders who died at the Cliff of the Living Dead, and cleaning the caves they left behind in seclusion... and so on.

The eldest brother's responsibility is to keep an eye on the updates of the tasks and then assign the right people to complete them.

Zhou Qing finally understood why the sect attached so much importance to the selection of the eldest senior brother.

This is a position that is not high in rank but has great power.

As long as the eldest brother is willing, he can destroy any of his junior brothers and sisters through various means that comply with regulations.

For example, frequently assigning him various heavy but low-return tasks, leaving him no time to practice.

If this method is too crude and easily criticized, there are more sophisticated methods, such as assigning a disciple to complete a task during the critical period of his breakthrough, thereby delaying the critical juncture of his breakthrough.

From various perspectives, it can be said that the eldest brother holds the invisible power of life and death.

After figuring out his responsibilities, Zhou Qing glanced at the bulletin board and found that there were only a few external affairs but no internal affairs, so he stopped caring and withdrew from the Soul Realm.

As soon as Zhou Qing left the Soul Realm and his consciousness returned to his body, he felt something strange.

It seemed as if there were unusual spiritual fluctuations lingering around him, then slowly receding.

This fluctuation is very slight, and if he did not have the ability to sense magnetic fields, he would have ignored it.

Why are there abnormal spiritual fluctuations?

Thinking of what he was doing just now, Zhou Qing turned his gaze to the jade token in his hand.

Could it be a trace left by the Soul Realm?
In order to verify his guess, he immersed his mind into the jade token again, took a spin in the spiritual world, and then withdrew.

Abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations indeed appeared again.

This time he observed carefully and found that the fluctuation of spiritual energy was like water waves, rapidly retreating towards Qingyun Mountain.

Why does this phenomenon occur?

Zhou Qing thought for a while, and suddenly his heart moved.

What exactly is the Soul Realm?
Is it really some kind of independent space?

He did not rule out the possibility that the world of immortal cultivation had the ability to create an independent space, but the Qingyun Sect did not seem to have reached that level, let alone using such an independent space for such a trivial matter as issuing tasks.

But if it wasn't an independent space, then what was the Soul Realm? Zhou Qing quickly came up with the answer.

In his previous life, he lived in a world where cyberspace was extremely developed.

In the past, cyberspace relied on electromagnetic waves, which people used to transmit information.

According to Zhou Qing's observation, the spiritual energy in the world of immortal cultivation also possesses energy with different vibration frequencies.

Electromagnetic waves can transmit information and build virtual networks.

Why can't spiritual energy fluctuations work?

Therefore, the Soul Realm is actually a virtual space, and the jade token is just the interface of this space.

There is actually an Internet in this world!
This is such a surprise.

But why are there no traces of the Internet in other areas?
Zhou Qing pondered the phenomenon he had just observed and soon came up with the answer.

The propagation speed of spiritual energy fluctuations is too slow, and it is impossible to build a complex virtual network.

The propagation speed of electromagnetic waves is the speed of light, so it can ensure the instant transmission of information.

As for the propagation speed of the spiritual energy fluctuations, based on the speed at which Zhou Qing observed the spiritual energy fluctuations retreating, let alone the speed of light, it is probably not much faster than his hypersonic iron ball.

In other words, it is at most at the supersonic level.

This speed of transmission is enough to establish a platform for issuing tasks within the three mountains of Qingyun Sect. If you want to build a more complex virtual network, don't even think about it.

Alas, it was all for nothing.

No, it’s not in vain...

Zhou Qing thought, since the Soul Containing Realm relies on the fluctuation of spiritual energy, if he can analyze the fluctuation of spiritual energy, can he crack the Soul Containing Realm?

This may be impossible for others, but for Zhou Qing, who has magnetic field capabilities and can actively adjust the frequency of spiritual energy, it is not difficult.

If he could do this, he might become the first "hacker" in the world of immortal cultivation.

However, the hackers in this world seem to have no use.

After all, the potential for virtual network development in this world is pitifully small.

Zhou Qing no longer cared about the identity of "hacker", which really had no future, and prepared to start today's training.

In the world of cultivating immortals, cultivation is the foundation of everything.

He took out a spirit stone, but did not look for the cauldron.

He had used magnetic field sensing just now on the power transmission platform. He could directly capture the spiritual energy in the spirit stone without the need to boil the stone.

Zhou Qing sat cross-legged, placed the spirit stone in his palm, activated the magnetic field, and captured the spiritual energy into his body.

The spiritual energy in the spirit stone was extremely rich. He used the magnetic field to casually roll it and drew a large amount of spiritual energy into his body.

Zhou Qing was pleasantly surprised to find that practicing in this way was much more efficient than the stone-boiling method Uncle Chen had suggested.

For ordinary cultivators, boiling medium-grade spirit stones to create a high-concentration spiritual energy environment can increase their cultivation speed to three times the usual speed.

Zhou Qing discovered that he used the magnetic field to capture the spiritual energy in the spirit stone into his body at a speed six times faster than usual.

Three hours later, after finishing his training, Zhou Qing felt a sense of fulfillment as he felt the increasingly powerful spiritual energy flowing through his body.

He released the restrictions of the Hidden Qi Art, and the spiritual pressure in his body surged, colliding with the spiritual energy outside his body, covering his body with a thin layer of light.

Three inches of spiritual pressure!

This is the result of his two months of hard work.

(End of this chapter)