Chapter 1084 - 446: Spiritual Qi, Demon Qi, Command Flag_2

Chapter 1084: Chapter 446: Spiritual Qi, Demon Qi, Command Flag_2

But looking at it now, maybe that mysterious person’s identity really can be traced by following the Soul Cleansing Banner.

The Arrays in the central hub area were too difficult; Wu Chang couldn’t decipher them, but they posed no problem for the All-Knowing Crystal.

Seeing that the All-Knowing Crystal showed no intention of avoiding the Demon Qi, Wu Chang asked:

"Judging from the Array used in the third round of the trial, what exactly is the relationship between Demon Qi and Spiritual Qi?"

The All-Knowing Crystal did not hesitate and answered almost immediately:

"Demon Qi and Spiritual Qi arise from the same Root Source, and under specific conditions, the two can transform into each other."

Wu Chang had already suspected that Demon Qi and Spiritual Qi shared the same origin, so he wasn’t surprised.

He pressed on: "What’s the difference between them, and under what conditions can they be mutually converted?"

The All-Knowing Crystal paused for a moment, then replied:

"The difference between Spiritual Qi and Demon Qi lies in how stable the Abyssal Erosion is. Demon Qi can be understood as Spiritual Qi whose Abyssal Erosion has gone out of control."

Wu Chang frowned and asked in puzzlement, "Abyssal Erosion out of control?"

He had only heard that a severe degree of Abyssal Erosion would cause the Dungeon Plane to lose control; this was the first time he’d heard that the Abyssal Erosion itself could also lose control.

Perhaps because this part of the question wasn’t considered sensitive, the All-Knowing Crystal fell silent for a moment, then began to explain.

To talk about Abyssal Erosion going out of control, one has to start from the birth of the Extraordinary.

Abyssal Erosion is the starting point for the birth of all Extraordinary Power. The deeper a Plane is eroded by the Abyss, the stronger the Extraordinary Power within that Plane. This can be seen from the difficulty of the True Dungeons.

The higher the pollution value of a dungeon, the higher its difficulty will rise accordingly.

The Extraordinary is born from Abyssal Erosion. Every bit of Extraordinary Power contains Abyssal Erosion, but in most cases, the Abyssal Erosion within Extraordinary Power is relatively stable.

There are two factors that make Abyssal Erosion stable; the first is that the Extraordinary Power itself possesses stability.

Abyssal Erosion has no Attribute. Only when the Plane Will reshapes the Abyssal Erosion according to the developmental state of the Plane’s civilization will Extraordinary Power be born.

The Plane Will instinctively pursues order and Rules, so when it processes Abyssal Erosion, it will automatically add a layer of binding around it, making it stable and not so easily affecting the Transcendents.

The second factor is the Will of the Transcendent himself.

A strong Will grants absolute control over one’s own Extraordinary Power, thereby keeping that Extraordinary Power stable.

In the vast majority of cases, the Abyssal Erosion within Extraordinary Power exists in a stable state.

But there is always the chance of an accident; there will always be exceptional circumstances in which Abyssal Erosion breaks free of the Plane Will’s control over it.

On the level of Extraordinary Power, when Abyssal Erosion goes out of control, it will distort the Extraordinary Power itself. For example, in the World Dungeon Plane, the loss of control of Abyssal Erosion will twist Spiritual Qi into Demon Qi.

On the level of the Transcendents, Transcendents who use Demon Qi will have their bodies affected by Demon Qi and twisted into Demons.

After hearing this, Wu Chang had a faint sense of understanding. In other words, the Immortal Technique on the third level of the trial essentially works by influencing the Abyssal Erosion within Spiritual Qi, allowing free switching between Spiritual Qi and Demon Qi.

Which raises the question: according to the All-Knowing Crystal, at the very birth of Extraordinary Power within a Plane, Extraordinary Power is stable, so the World Dungeon must first have had Spiritual Qi, and only later Demon Qi.

Then the Demon Qi that now underpins the Rules of irreconcilable opposition between humans and demons—where did it first come from? Was it formed naturally, or is it related to the Immortals who mastered the switching between Spiritual Qi and Demon Qi?

At this stage, Wu Chang had too little information. On this issue, the All-Knowing Crystal was temporarily unable to give an answer.

Perhaps once the Purple Tenuity Demon-Dispelling Grand Array is completed and they fight their way into the Demon Birth Pool, they will finally obtain the answers he wants.

After recording the Arrays in the central hub area, Wu Chang did not linger on the fifth floor of the Immortal Mansion and entered the sixth floor.

The sixth floor of the Immortal Mansion is the functional zone: the Immortal Mansion Master’s residence, the herb garden, the pens for raising Spiritual Beasts, the Alchemy room, and the Artifact Refining room are all on this level.

However, during the Immortal Mansion’s long period of Spiritual Qi depletion within the Dungeon Plane, the herbs in the garden had long since withered away. Anticipating this, the Immortal Mansion Master had already released all the Spiritual Beasts raised in the mansion.

The Alchemy room stored more than a dozen bottles of Elixirs, but because the World was downgraded and Spiritual Qi depleted, the high-level Elixirs had already lost their medicinal efficacy. Opening the stoppers, one could only pour out ashen-white medicinal sludge.

Only three bottles of Elixirs were not rejected by the Plane Rules, and thanks to sufficiently tight sealing, they still retained Spiritual Qi.

「Item Name: Dragon-Stinging Pill」

「Item Type: Consumables」

「Artifact Level: B」

「Item Description: After ingesting the Dragon-Stinging Pill, the user enters the Wandering Immortal Status. During the duration of the Wandering Immortal Status, the Player will remain lucid within the Dream Realm, their comprehension will be greatly enhanced, and there is a small probability of grasping a certain Power of Root.

The higher the user’s Inspiration Attribute, the greater the boost to comprehension within the dream, and the more things they will be able to see. The Wandering Immortal Status lasts for 24 hours; leaving the Dream Realm midway will be regarded as ending early, and it cannot be resumed.」

「Note: The perfect person has no dreams; his dreams are but Wandering Immortal. To know within sleeping and dreaming lies the foremost mystery under heaven.」

Within the Abyssal Game, Inspiration is related to comprehension, but the two are not equivalent.

Inspiration can trigger comprehension, but it is also limited by an individual’s Talent for comprehension.

The gap between people is often greater than the gap between a person and a dog. Problems that a mediocrity can’t understand in a lifetime, a genius can prove in a single class. And theories a genius spends his entire life studying—perhaps He Yun only needs to glance at them a few times to revise those theories into an even more refined form.