Chapter 85
The faint glowing moss brought a trace of light to this cave, and the undulating pool water rippled with light.
In the pool, there were "jellyfish" spread out in layers. From the occasional trembling of their tentacles, it could be seen that they were all alive.
After a month, this Incense Spiritual Field was finally completed. Just these three pools, each more than ten meters long, wide, and deep, carried and contributed the power of incense wishes provided by fifty to sixty thousand believers.
Moreover, as long as one paid attention to maintaining their vitality and the illusory world constructed for them, it could continuously generate the power of incense wishes.
It was clean, efficient, convenient, and took up little space.
Li Changmeng sat cross-legged in front of the Incense Spiritual Field, continuously absorbing the power of incense wishes within it.
Due to the fact that these were artificially cultivated, these "crops" probably only had a lifespan of about ten years and would then fall into old age and die.
The investment was far less than the return.
With the completion of the Incense Spiritual Field, Li Changmeng's cultivation level also rapidly increased and had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
Since there were no living souls available as materials, Li Changmeng had also captured the living souls of several believers and created a few clones. After cultivating them to the Qi Refining stage, he began to study spells.
The creation of the Incense Spiritual Field made Li Changmeng feel that he might not really need a large number of mortal believers.
Because the efficiency of the Incense Spiritual Field in generating the power of incense wishes was much higher than that of believers.
So, Li Changmeng thought that if there was a way to let believers cultivate the Incense Spiritual Field on their own, this might be the best way to maximize the power of incense wishes.
And to achieve this, first of all, believers needed to be able to use spells. Secondly, they needed to obtain sufficient benefits from it.
Driven by internal motivation, even if he didn't actively ask for it, those believers, and even people who were not his believers, would take the initiative to cultivate the Incense Spiritual Field in order to gain power.
In this world, whether it was orthodox cultivators, those who followed the Incense Divine Dao, or evil cultivators, there was the concept of talent.
Talent was divided into three parts: cultivation talent, spiritual soul talent, and the physical constitution talent possessed by a very small number of people.
Cultivation talent was the ability to sense the energy of heaven and earth and convert it into spiritual power, such as spiritual qi, the power of incense wishes, resentment, the power of fate, and so on.
Spiritual soul talent referred to comprehension, including the understanding of cultivation methods, learning ability, and the ability to comprehend the Dao.
These two aspects constituted a cultivator's talent.
The talent to sense the energy between heaven and earth was innate. Even Li Changmeng, who had comprehended the Dao of Flesh and Blood, hadn't figured out what determined this talent.
However, the flesh pellet generated by the Mysterious Change Spirit Technique of Incense grew in the dantian and could convert the power of incense wishes into spiritual power.
It was equivalent to an external organ that grew later to enhance talent.
For an ordinary person to obtain this flesh pellet, first, they needed the Mysterious Change Spirit Technique of Incense to infuse the power of incense wishes, and second, they needed a method to actively refine the power of incense wishes into spiritual power during cultivation.
Only in this way was there a probability of growing a flesh pellet in the body to help the cultivator refine the power of incense wishes that appeared in the body and improve the cultivation speed.
However, this was the general method. Through Li Changmeng's research over the past month, he had already figured out the way the sarcoma was born.
After the power of incense wishes was infused into the cultivator's body, it first contaminated the cultivator with incense. If there was a refining process at this time, there was a probability of conforming to this refining to form a corresponding mutation.
"First-grade spell, the Seed Dao Spell!"
After finishing his cultivation, Li Changmeng raised his hand, and a dark red sarcoma gradually grew on his fingertip.
By imitating the birth process of the flesh pellet in the body and with the guidance of the Dao of Flesh and Blood, the flesh pellet had become a simple spell.
By cutting off the flesh pellet and regularly applying the Living Flesh Spell, it could be maintained for a long time.
Then, as long as someone swallowed it, the flesh pellet would take the initiative to parasitize in the most suitable place for its growth—the dantian.
Since ordinary people didn't have the cultivation base and couldn't embark on the Great Dao, this Seed Dao Spell was to plant the path to immortality into the bodies of ordinary people.
Even if the end of this path was Li Changmeng.
With the Seed Dao Spell, it was possible to let those without cultivation talent refine the power of incense wishes into spiritual power.
However, spiritual power was unique. The spiritual power generated by a cultivation method was only suitable for the spells that came with the method or the spells with universality.
If one didn't practice other cultivation methods and only used the flesh pellet, the spiritual power generated would be the spiritual power that was compatible with the Dao of Flesh and Blood.
Li Changmeng had long known that the essence of a spell was to stir up the Dao between heaven and earth.
Through a spell, the spiritual power formed a special frequency or operation route in the body, thus reacting to the corresponding Dao of the spell and allowing the Dao to be expressed in a certain way.
The external manifestation was consuming spiritual power, casting the spell, and achieving the result.
If only spiritual power was used, although it was possible to do some extraordinary things, not only was the consumption of spiritual power great, but the things that could be done were also very limited.
So, the flesh pellet could only enable believers to possess spiritual power but couldn't make them obtain powerful strength.
However, there was no shortage of spells. Starting from the Qi Refining stage again, Li Changmeng had created many spells related to the Dao of Flesh and Blood.
The first-grade spells included the Fetal Separation Spell, the Living Flesh Spell, the Growth Spell, and the Seed Dao Spell.
The second-grade spell was the Mysterious Change Spirit Technique of Incense.
These were currently sufficient for the believers to use.
The only thing that Li Changmeng wasn't sure about was how to enable a person without cultivation talent to cultivate his cultivation method of the Dao of Flesh and Blood from scratch.
The Seed Dao Spell required at least a Qi Refining cultivator to cast. But since one was already at the Qi Refining stage, there was no need for the Seed Dao Spell, unless it was cast on someone else.
"Forget it. I'll think about these things later. For now, it's enough. I can just spread this method," Li Changmeng thought for a while but couldn't come up with a good solution, so he simply gave up. Maybe when his cultivation level was higher in the future, these problems would be easily solved.
Walking out of the cave house, Li Changmeng used his spiritual power to make himself float in the air and at the same time transmitted his voice to all parts of the cave.
Soon, most of the believers in the underground cave gathered together.
Due to the previous influence, most of the female believers here were pregnant, and each of them was carrying more than a dozen or twenty fetuses in their bellies. However, since the time was still short, the negative effects hadn't shown up yet.
If it continued like this, either there would be premature births or both the fetuses and the mothers would die.
Before, Li Changmeng could only often take out the embryos in their bodies to avoid the impact.
However, after today, it wouldn't be so troublesome anymore. With spiritual power, by activating the spiritual light, one could internally examine oneself, detect the problems in one's body, and solve them.
"Everyone, the Dao Lord bestowed a method upon me, allowing me to obtain this power to fly in the sky and hide in the earth," Li Changmeng said.
The people below looked at their Saintess eagerly. The power to fly in the sky and hide in the earth was so similar to that of the people who had massacred them. Now they could also have this power!
"But—I feel extremely uneasy about enjoying this power alone. I think the kindness of the Dao Lord should be felt by all believers.
So, after much thought, I finally know how to let all of you have this power too!"
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a moment of silence. But soon, the believers of the Ancient Immortal Sect, whose hearts were filled with hatred, erupted into a roar.
"Live without pain, die and enter the dreamland!"
Seeing the believers so enthusiastic, Li Changmeng took out the stone-carved cultivation method he had prepared long ago. Its name was—the God Feeding Method.