'Spiritual Root Transplantation' was not the only crazy plan that Li Yao discovered in the Mausoleum of Chaos. For the entire day that followed, they explored the southeast area of the second level and discovered many research rooms. They also found a lot of ancient books and jade chips.
Some of the ancient books were made of natural materials similar to spider silk and silk, which would not rot after a thousand years. They allowed them to understand the soul-stirring experiment plans one after another. Li Yao took the opportunity to hide quite a few critical jade chips, too. He was dumbfounded and his heart was pounding crazily when he studied them in secret.
Right next to the research room of 'Spiritual Root Transplantation', several related research rooms were devoted to the study of ways to strengthen the spiritual root.
Li Yao knew that in the age of ancient Cultivators, there were so-called 'Heavenly Spiritual Roots', 'Mutated Spiritual Roots', and 'Mixed Spiritual Roots'. Even in modern times, there were good spiritual roots and bad spiritual roots. The Cultivators who boasted strong spiritual roots often made tremendous progress in their training.
'Strengthening the spiritual root' was to stimulate the spiritual root and improve the quality of the spiritual root with the veins and blood vessels of demon beasts so that the spiritual root would contain different attributes and the Cultivators would have the 'naturally-endowed techniques' and the 'bloodline power' of the demon beasts.
Or, the messy 'roots' around the 'Mixed Spiritual Roots' were all cut off, just like the pruning of flowers and grasses, so that the 'main trunk' would grow even stronger.
In one of the most ingenious projects, the believers of Chaos forty thousand years ago even tried to 'graft' two spiritual roots together into one!
Think about it, if this plan was successful, a cultivator would have two spiritual roots!
It was immeasurable how beneficial it would be for training!
However, all the studies on the spiritual root had failed.
Even so, a lot of experiment files and data had been left behind.
Most of the data had been locked with spiritual stripes. Some of the jade chips were even entangled with rune arrays of barriers. The members of the Blade of Chaos. It was impossible to estimate their value for the time being. Therefore, they could only pile them aside.
For Li Yao … However, he was able to decipher and read it effortlessly.
He took the opportunity to transfer all the experimental data to the depths of his brain. His understanding of Spirit Roots had once again increased to another level.
Next to more than a dozen research labs on spirit roots, there was another research lab that was going on with the research on artificial Jin Dan.
That's right, using artificial methods to create Jin Dan. Implanting it into the body of a weak Refinement Stage cultivator would turn him into a powerful Jin Dan expert in an instant!
The believers of Chaos forty thousand years ago seemed to have melted the marrow crystals that contained abundant spiritual energy with the beast crystals and demon cores of many demon beasts and restricted them with special rune arrays in order to simulate the power of Jin Dan.
It was almost like implanting a 'super-compressed crystal reactor' into a Cultivator's body. It was still a whimsical idea even after forty thousand years.
Li Yao didn't know whether to say that these ancient people were ignorant and fearless, or that they were completely crazy.
There was no surprise. Most of these experiments had also failed. Cultivators were a whole, not just a single part of their body could be strengthened. Their combat ability could be significantly improved.
Simply implanting an artificial Jin Dan, but the flesh and blood of the Cultivators were not strong enough, was like stuffing a military-level power rune array into a civil shuttle. The result of the full-powered drive would be that the civil shuttle would be torn apart.
Besides, the artificial Jin Dan made of marrow crystals and demon cores could hardly be called stable, either.
The marrow crystals and demon cores of different attributes would be strongly repelled by the strong resistance. It would produce a strong rejection reaction, causing the cultivator who transplanted this kind of artificial Jindan to be unable to withstand it. They were like moving bombs, only suitable for suicide attacks.
Li Yao accepted them all. While the specialists were busy studying the structure of the Mausoleum of Chaos and analyzing the functions of the spiritual stripes, he absorbed tremendous experiment data without anybody noticing.
He felt more and more that his trip had been worthwhile.
With so much experimental data, even if it was the data of a failed experiment, it still provided him with very valuable experience for his cultivation. Especially those whimsical and insane cultivation directions, it opened a brand new door in front of him, allowing him to see … another possibility of evolution!
After witnessing the magnificence of the 'spiritual root transplant' and the 'artificial Jin Dan', Li Yao saw another research project named 'Weaponman'.
In the era of the believers of Chaos, both Cultivators and ordinary people had been involved in the war that had lasted thousands of years. A lot of heavily wounded soldiers had been maimed and were dying.
The so-called 'Weaponman' was the result of melding flying swords and other kinds of magical equipment with the wounded soldiers. Some of them even replaced the bones of the soldiers with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Eventually, the unparalleled experts who boasted the features of magical equipment but also had independent self-awareness and could carry out battle missions on their own!
In the tremendous data, Li Yao discovered that the research on the 'Weaponman' had made some progress. Many broken limbs of the soldiers had been successfully melded with flying swords. Some of them had even completely melted their flying swords into their bones, turning their bones into 'magical equipment'.
When he entered the Mausoleum of Chaos, Li Yao had seen a lot of skeletons that were emitting bright gold and bronze brilliance, indicating that they had not changed after thousands of years.
Perhaps, they were the 'Weaponman'.
According to the experiment data, such 'Weaponman' had been modified on a large scale and turned into the guardians of the Mausoleum of Chaos.
But there was no telling why they attacked each other and went extinct.
Marvelous and unbelievable. The ancient people's imagination was truly as vast as the sea of stars! Compared to the unimaginative modification plans, the influence of the Blood Stripe Virus on the Titan Warriors and Yan Xibei's modification on Iron Plateau is like a child's game!
The mental devil mumbled in fascination deep inside Li Yao's brain. "The purpose of most of the studies conducted in the Mausoleum of Chaos seems to be to allow an ordinary person to boast tremendous abilities quickly and even compete with the Cultivators!
Think about it. If the plans work out, by transplanting the spiritual root into the brain of an ordinary person, stuffing artificial Jin Dan into their stomach, and replacing part of their limbs and even all their bones with magical equipment, they will be able to turn into a super warrior comparable to Jin Dan instantly!
How many years will it take to create a Jin Dan in the traditional way? Twenty years? Fifty years? A hundred years? How high is the success rate? Once all the technologies are mature, it will probably only take several months or even a year to create such a super warrior!
Magnificent. Too magnificent! The modification plans for the mass-produced Jin Dan experts!
Li Yao breathed softly and mumbled to himself, "I thought that the Mausoleum of Chaos was just a research base of the demon race."
"Is there a difference?"
The mental devil asked with a smile. "Have you not noticed that the research plans have something in common with the training methods of the demon race?"
Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "What is it?"
"If Chu Zhengqing's theory that human beings and demons share the same origin is true," the mental devil said, "then the greatest similarity between the Demon God Virus and the studies of the mass-produced Cultivators is that they can give an ordinary person immense combat ability in the blink of an eye!
"Think about it. What did the history education that we received say about the civil war in the world of Cultivators forty thousand years ago?
"At the end of the war, all the three thousand Sectors were destroyed. Cultivators perished nonstop. The combat ability of all the Sectors was extremely low. Therefore, the spiritual beasts had to be modified into demon beasts to replace the Cultivators in the war.
"However, in the large-scale war of the Cultivators, every Cultivation sect had a lot of vassal cities and even countries that would send a lot of ordinary soldiers to take part in the war together!
"Did the Cultivators who were at the end of their rope never think of improving the combat ability of the ordinary people and making them stronger before they tried to transform the spiritual beasts into demon beasts?
"Think about it. If the Xing Yao Federation was faced with a large-scale war and had a method to improve the combat ability of the ordinary people quickly, would it have applied it to the military dogs instead of the soldiers directly?"
Li Yao felt that his heart was cold.
With the memories of Ou Yezi, an expert of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, it was true that he knew the thoughts of the ancient Cultivators better than anybody else.
The ancient Cultivators, who regarded ordinary people as ants, were two completely different concepts from the modern Cultivators. In the eyes of the high and mighty ancient Cultivators, the lives of ordinary people were not even as valuable as some of the powerful spiritual beasts.
Since the ancient Cultivators could inject the Demon God Virus into the spiritual beasts and modify them into demon beasts, was it impossible that they could perform similar experiments on ordinary soldiers and modify them into even more powerful war machines?
Was the Mausoleum of Chaos a base where a certain ancient Cultivation sect had secretly modified ordinary soldiers? Were the demons, the transplanting of spiritual roots, the artificial Jin Dan, and the weaponized soldiers all part of the modification?
It did not look like it!
"If that is the case," the mental devil continued, "it is easy to understand why the 'demons' were born. The bodies of the ordinary soldiers were still too weak to bear the blast and pain of transplanting spiritual roots, Jin Dan, and transforming their bodies into magical equipment. Therefore, the ancient Cultivators awakened certain dormant primeval genes inside the ordinary soldiers. Perhaps their original intention was to make their bodies slightly stronger so that they could withstand more pain and modification.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Think about it. With the strong flesh and blood of the demon race, together with the artificial spiritual roots and Jin Dan, and the bones and limbs made of flying swords … It was almost the most perfect ultimate weapon!"
"It's a pity that they still lost control in the end," Li Yao said coldly.
The mental devil smiled. "Losing control is the norm of the universe. In the vast river of time, nothing is controllable at all.
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