The shell of the black pillars slowly opened on all sides. Every pillar could accommodate almost ten muscular demons. For safety reasons, the exploration team had transported the tanks of biochemical beasts to the lower space through the pillars.
The pillars moved in silence for almost half a minute in the deep blue light before they reached the second floor of the Mausoleum of Chaos.
The environment of this floor was entirely different from that of the temple above. Other than the enormous space at the center that looked like a square, dense pathways were everywhere on the walls. At first glance, they seemed to be inside an enormous beehive.
The ground was also littered with countless corpses. Everyone was already used to it. After confirming that there was no miasma or poison in the corpses, they used some fluorescent natural paint to mark the surroundings. Then, they began to explore the surroundings.
Li Yao saw that Yuchi Ba was leading a few core members to place balls that looked like lumps in every corner of the central square.
It was said that they were a very amazing demonic artifact that could collect the feeble bioelectricity floating in the air and display them as light and shadow after they were enhanced.
If the bioelectricity in the air was strong enough, it was possible to see what happened forty thousand years ago.
Bo! Bo!
All the balls were placed and connected to each other with synthesized nerves. After a soft sound, the top of the balls blossomed like flowers, with a few shivering tentacles that looked like stamens.
Li Yao sensed that marvelous mystic rays were spurting out of all the 'stamens' and spreading out like tides. Very soon, the entire square was filled up, soaking the surroundings in a bright blue ocean.
A moment later, light and shadow flashed, and a cluster of phantoms did appear.
However, perhaps because the place was too spacious, most of the bioelectricity had dispersed, and the phantoms could not have been more blurred. The only thing that could be seen was that the phantoms were running and chasing each other quickly. Now and then, they crashed into each other and tangled on the ground, but it was impossible to see the details clearly.
Very soon, the light and shadow dispersed. Instead, they formed a majestic army. They were like silent statues that covered the entire square.
"It seems that an army of Chaos was once gathered here. Or rather, this is where the army of Chaos was created. "
Chu Zhengqing and the other researchers explored the surroundings with the illusions as clues and found new skeletons.
Many of the skeletons still had a faint metallic luster on their surface, and their shapes were extremely strange. It could be imagined that their owners must have possessed great strength when they were alive.
After collecting a large amount of information in the square, everyone split up and explored the surrounding corridors.
At the end of the tunnel. They turned out to be many research rooms. Perhaps because of the suddenness of the incident, most of the research rooms did not have the time to close their doors, activate their defense rune arrays, or even destroy them. It was quite convenient for them to enter directly.
Every research room was extremely spacious and boasted a perfect ventilation system and defense system. However, Li Yao could tell at a glance that the spiritual energy of the defense system had run out.
"Someone activated the defense rune array here. To resist certain things, Li Yao thought to himself.
A lot of magical equipment and training facilities were scattered on the ground. Many of them were things that Li Yao had never seen in Ou Yezi's weird dreams.
At the center of the research room. There was a giant stone platform, on which dense spiritual stripes had been carved into the shape of a human being. There were chains and rings around the platform, which seemed to be able to fix someone to the stone platform.
"Bo!"
Another demonic artifact that could enhance bioelectricity. It was placed at the center of the stone platform and activated!
Perhaps it was because the space here was relatively small, and the bioelectricity was relatively easy to stagnate. Or perhaps it was because the stone platform had once undergone incredible cultivation and condensed a large amount of bioelectricity. Here, the images they captured were much clearer.
There were six distinct human figures in total. They were all wearing fully-enclosed magic robes that glittered with silver light. Even their faces were covered by a weird bronze mask. There was a faint layer of light floating on the surface of the mask, which should have the effect of filtering the air and sterilizing the bacteria. Take a look.
"It seems that the ancient people were not as ignorant as we thought. At least in this place, they had a certain concept of sterilization," Li Yao thought to himself.
The six human figures were lying on the stone platform that looked both like an operating table and an altar. A naked human being was fixed on the stone platform.
There was no telling whether it was because of the effect of the drugs or because he had performed some soul-calming technique, but the face of the human being was very calm, and there was even a vague feeling of passion.
The bioelectricity was very unstable. The illusions in front of Li Yao's eyes were changing rapidly, too. Very soon, the illusions were gone. The human who had been lying on the stone platform was floating in midair. His long hair stood up and wriggled crazily like vipers. He was training himself in front of the floating rune arrays.
The few people wearing silver-white robes and bronze masks surrounded him, their heads bowed as they recorded something.
Li Yao noticed that there were both human beings and demons among the weirdos in robes. They seemed to have turned a blind eye to each other's differences and were observing and studying carefully.
The cultivator who was floating in midair was quite capable. He broke the sound barrier several times and broke the floating rune arrays into pieces. Although the weirdos in robes did not have a clear look on their faces, they were nodding their heads in satisfaction, too.
However, it was not long before the cultivator screamed and fell from the sky. He was rolling on the ground, holding his head.
Li Yao thought of something. He looked around and soon found a workbench next to the laboratory.
Almost all the items on the workbench had decayed. However, Li Yao was quite familiar with the structure and usage of one of the remains.
It was a wooden shelf used to store jade chips in the age of ancient Cultivators.
Li Yao reached out his hand and touched it. As he expected, he found a jade chip under the decayed shelf.
Of course, the jade chip that was randomly placed here could not store any invaluable techniques. Besides, it had not been used for forty thousand years. There was no telling whether or not it could still be activated.
Li Yao clasped the jade chip in his hand and rubbed the spiritual stripes on it with his thumb. It was the standard way of cleaning rune arrays of the Hundred Smelting Clan.
A moment later, he sensed that the hard jade was slightly softer, as if it had turned into a half-frozen amber. Li Yao smiled in his heart and extended his telepathic thoughts into the jade chip. As he expected, he read a lot of information fragments.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and integrated the information. It turned out to be the experiment logs of a certain period of time.
According to the analysis of the logs, an incredible experiment had been carried out in this place!
"Isn't this too unbelievable? Transplanting the spiritual root? "
The spiritual root was the foundation of a cultivator. Every cultivator had to awaken their spiritual root before they could obtain the ability to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Furthermore, in their future cultivation and fighting, the quality of their spiritual root was extremely important. For example, the release and absorption of telepathic thoughts had to be completed through the spiritual root. Controlling various magical equipment from a distance, it was inevitable that the spiritual threads stimulated from the spiritual root would be indispensable.
Therefore, in the Xing Yao Federation, the training of the opening of the spiritual root had been paid a lot of attention since childhood.
The core of all studies was to improve the opening of the spiritual root. There were a lot of strengthening drugs on the market for the purpose of improving the opening of the spiritual root.
Even so, reaching the opening of the spiritual root to 100%, awakening the spiritual root, and becoming a Cultivator was still an extremely slim hope.
For the vast majority of ordinary people, no matter how crazily they trained, it was impossible for them to awaken their spiritual root and control the power to summon the wind and rain.
It was the case in the modern era, where there were perfect training theories and all kinds of drugs. It was even more so in the ancient Cultivators' era forty thousand years ago.
The path to immortality was long and narrow. Becoming a Cultivator was even more difficult than climbing to the sky. If it weren't for the coincidences and blessings from heaven, ordinary people wouldn't even dream of becoming a high and mighty Cultivator even in their dreams!
However, the research carried out in this place was to break the boundary between ordinary people and Cultivators!
"Cultivators have spiritual roots. When a Cultivator dies of old age, their spiritual roots will wither, too."
"However, most Cultivators are involved in bloody battles all day long. Very few of them can die without any illness."
"Most of the Cultivators were killed in all kinds of battles in their prime years. At that time, their spiritual roots were still at the peak of their development!"
"Wouldn't it be a pity if the spiritual root perishes because of the death of a Cultivator?"
"If the spiritual roots of the unfortunate Cultivators can be extracted and transplanted into the brains of the strong martial artists who don't have spiritual roots, will the strong martial artists be able to reach the sky and become Cultivators in one step?"
Li Yao analyzed the data in the experiment log and came up with such a crazy idea.
Yes, crazy. Even a bold and tolerant refiner like him could only use the word 'crazy' to describe it!
It must be noted that the spiritual root, like the Yuanying, was not a real organ. It was not like a ginseng root could be dug out by dissecting the brain of a Cultivator.
The spiritual root was a mysterious organ that existed between flesh and blood and pure energy.
If it couldn't be seen, how could it be extracted and transplanted?
Besides, even if the spiritual root of a Cultivator could be extracted, how could the brain of an ordinary person bear it?
Li Yao recalled the scene when Ou Yezi's massive memory pieces rushed into his brain for the first time.
The most likely outcome of such a crazy experiment was that the brain of the strong martial artist was completely destroyed and burned into an idiot.
Judging from the experiment log, that was indeed the case.
Countless experiments had all failed. None of the 'artificial Cultivators' who had transplanted their spiritual roots could survive more than three days.
The best outcome was that the spiritual root would wither on its own and the martial artist would return to his original form. As for the worst outcome, it would be too horrible to look at.
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