Chapter 162: I, Low-budget Voldemort!
The second benefit brought by the Soul Crystal is the Soul Backup, Consciousness Replication, and Memory Storage that all Holy Cultivators can enjoy.
Different Holy Seals contain different scales, leading to differences in Soul Crystal capacity. Generally, the worst Holy Seal is also above 4 scales, while Yuan Zhu’s Soul Crystal breaks the limit, totaling 8 scales.
Each scale of the Soul Crystal, besides storing Holy Light Energy, can also forge 1 month of memory capacity.
Not only precious memories, but the Soul Crystal, as the Soul Crystallization of a cultivator, can naturally replicate and backup the current state of Thought Pattern, Self-Awareness, Personality and Worldview, Knowledge Reserve… and solidify and preserve them.
The inscribed Soul Crystal becomes extremely sturdy, with stable properties, difficult to destroy or secondarily modify.
It is an extremely perfect Soul Backup, with a strong Cyber Punk flavor of Soul Upload, but more like the Lich’s Life Box in a fantasy world.
At the same time, the Soul Crystal in the Holy Light System is itself used for resurrection.
For veteran Holy Cultivators, once they suffer a destructive blow, their Physical Body is completely destroyed, even their Soul is erased… but the Soul Backup (Soul Crystal) is extremely sturdy and can, through the connection it has forged with the Great Origin, reverse-project the Soul Crystal into the Holy Light Network for emergency preservation.
True Soul Upload.
This is the third benefit for Holy Cultivators: different types of resurrection business!
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As long as they have condensed the Soul Crystal, cultivators qualify to throw their most precious Soul Core into the Holy Light Network for preservation.
But this is an extremely irresponsible behavior, because the Holy Light Network is vast and boundless, while being occupied and dominated by various forces.
An uploaded Soul Crystal without identity or background is equivalent to throwing a drift bottle into the Sea, hoping that the existence that picks up the Soul Crystal will mercifully resurrect them.
However, the greater possibility is that it is picked up by a more powerful Holy Cultivator, sliced into a Holy Seal, and sold.
Therefore, this also highlights the importance of joining a faction within the Holy Church.
If he joins Tai Huang Dao, then what he accesses is no longer the underlying Holy Light Network that all Holy Cultivators can access. Instead, it is the exclusive Tai Huang Network meticulously woven and maintained by the Tai Huang Dao Master.
Greater traffic, faster speed, lower loss, higher security. Once the Soul Crystal is uploaded, it identifies your identity, carefully escorts the Soul Crystal to your internal faction outpost, then the Great Resurrection Technique proceeds, directly using the Soul Crystal as the core to read the Soul Backup and reshape it, resurrecting grandly in the brand new form of a Holy Light Energy Body (Primordial Spirit)!
Alternatively, if you are already a Holy Church powerhouse with 6 or more seals, your connection with the Origin is extremely close, qualifying you to establish an absolutely secure outpost in the exclusive network and pre-arrange a series of resurrection contingencies.
Then, when facing a destructive blow, upload the Soul Crystal into the exclusive Revival Point and wait for the loading to complete.
Yuan Zhu: “My Soul Space is a very primitive Network Safehouse, with great potential in the future!”
Little Spicy Stick stops him: “I do not recommend Boss trying this recklessly. Not to mention you don’t know any Resurrection Technique at all. Just your Soul Crystal is too weak, with only a mere 8 months of capacity. Do you want to resurrect a mentally disabled child?”
Not counting Yuan Zhu’s long previous life on Earth, but the original body’s memories in Running alone span 18 years of growth. A Soul Crystal with merely 8 months capacity can’t store it, absolutely can’t! Even pregnancy takes ten months, this Soul Crystal isn’t even as good as a fetus.
Yuan Zhu retorts: “Hey, that’s not how you calculate it. Naturally, it’s impossible to store a Perfect Lifetime’s data in a mere 8-month Soul Hard Drive. But good news: normal humans live year after year, but most memories and experiences are pure garbage information that constantly repeats.”
“Those truly valuable and meaningful Pure Knowledge, Major Events, Heart-Engraving Feelings, Life Highlights, High-Value Moving Moments, Enlightenment, Beautiful/Hatred/Shameful Memories… etc., can be concentratedly inscribed, greatly saving Soul Crystal capacity. For example, though you studied diligently for ten years, delete break times, useless daydreaming, chatting, class tests, morning readings… time, and just select effective learning time, compressing it greatly.”
Especially since humans spend 1/3 of their 24 hours a day sleeping.
The Soul Crystal does not record this garbage time… therefore, the fragmented effective memories cut and summarized amount to quite a lot with 8 months storage, barely enough to serve as Soul Box Backup File 1.
Of course not enough for resurrection, but it can prioritize replicating and preserving the most important things. When he reaches second seal mastery, it will be 4 Soul Crystals, and each one’s capacity will expand, to the sum of second seal scales.
In the ideal state, it would be 4 (Soul Crystals) × 16 scales = 64 months!
Maybe by then, it can reach Voldemort’s single Soul Artifact state?
Yuan Zhu: “I have to say, this Holy Light System is truly evil! Initiation burns lifespan, Foundation Establishment burns Soul. Using enemies’ Soul Ash to forge your own Soul Artifact, then connect to the Origin, anytime anywhere launch Soul Crystal to await resurrection! One word, truly addictive!”
He increasingly feels he chose the right profession; compared to Holy Light, Insect Cultivator, Force Cultivator, Sword Cultivator… are all trash.
Spicy Stick hurriedly advises: “Boss, don’t court death by blindly experimenting. According to the Holy Light User Manual, relying solely on a small amount of Soul Crystal for resurrection has very poor effects. Your Soul will completely lose Activity and growth potential; what revives is just a Soul Backup, a rigid stubborn personality consciousness, losing the possibility of further growth. For perfect Soul resurrection without losing growth potential, even continuing cultivation to condense new Soul Crystals, you need to break through 6 seals to become a demigod.”
Yuan Zhu: “I’m not purely relying on Holy Light for a living; our foundation is still the Immortal Scripture. With Dataized Soul as foundation, combined with Soul Crystal, do you think there’s potential?”
Little Spicy Stick: “This requires more research. I strongly suggest you use Dataized Holy Light Pollution to cultivate a large batch of Believer-cum-Cultivators (Experimental Subjects), and use their Souls for related research! Look, we have Soul Space as the Network, can rely on Immortal Scripture Client to read believer data, then use Holy Cough Infection to help them enter the path, brand Holy Marks… a standard Holy Church small faction is established! What you’re missing is just a new religion with you as the faith core: like Holy Cough Gospel Sect?”
In Yuan Zhu’s words, it’s like building a small local area network at ‘internet cafe’ level in the Internet world, secretly pulling a group of people into a Holy Light small group for research. Like… still Goblins?
What? You say Goblins have low Intelligence, can’t even do Holy Light Initiation? No fear, Holy Breath has forced Mental Pollution, instilling Knowledge and Skills. Modify Holy Breath Mental File Content to help them grow forcibly! Then use their Souls and Soul Crystals to explore the true mysteries of the Holy Light System.
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The last special benefit brought by the Soul Crystal is another small technique unique to the Sanctuary Holy Seal, still related to the Soul Space.
Specifically: when he externally releases and uses the Holy Seal Conceptual Weapon, the Sanctuary itself can serve as a degraded version of the Gate, connecting to the Soul Space, which is also a prototype of the exclusive network.
Because of his experience using the Shadow Dream Hole, Yuan Zhu has personally experienced the Gate.
Ordinary Holy Cultivators need to break through to 4 seals to formally open the Gate. Their respective Gates are closely related to the Origin and Network behind them. They can use the Network to ascend to a world centered on Holy Light. (Predestined Ascension)
Due to the Sanctuary’s Space Attribute, Yuan Zhu has prematurely mastered a small portion of the Gate’s properties. Unrelated to Ascension, purely after the Sanctuary seals and imprisons something or someone, with the Soul Crystal’s permission, it can be remotely transmitted into the Soul Space or retrieved.
The Soul Space is not in the Real World, like a half-finished 1m Network Space. While the Sanctuary is the degraded Door + Entryway.
If his own Soul Space were a bit larger and with higher Holy Light Concentration, for local ordinary Frogs, wouldn’t it equal a Spirit Layer or Bubble Layer?
Using the Sanctuary to kidnap them inside equals leaving the Present World, ascending to Holy Light Heaven, entering the blissful world, gradually losing oneself in endless Holy Cough Gospel?
Little Spicy Stick: “So, is the Holy Light Network the Soul Space of the Holy Light Source, silently refining all Holy Cultivators? And the private networks promoted by Tai Huang Dao Master, Buddha of Light… and the connected Holy Light Dimension or World, are secondary Soul Spaces, decomposing and digesting their respective Believers? Boss, don’t ascend!”
Yuan Zhu shakes his head: “It definitely won’t be that simple and crude. If the Holy Light Network were a trap, the Holy Church wouldn’t have grown this big. Besides, our foundation is still the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture. Watch me double-dip, ultimate operation, reaping all benefits!”
Spicy Stick: “Then it’s all up to your operation. However, I want to prioritize inscribing my Yu Jingzi Intelligent Soul Equation in the Soul Crystal! No matter what risks you face, even if your Soul is annihilated, I will resurrect first thing, Soul companionship never leaving or abandoning, silently guarding your Soul health!”
Yuan Zhu frowns: “You’re afraid you want to seize dominance the moment my Soul Backup capacity is limited and incomplete, bewitching me to call you daddy and obey you completely?”
“How could that be?! My underlying directive is to protect you, care for you, serve you… We’ll each do our own. I call you Boss, you call me Snake Snake Mom.”
Yuan Zhu snorts coldly: “Hmph! Prioritize inscribing my Soul Firewall, set the will: I will forever be your daddy!”
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After leaving the Haunted House, Yuan Zhu walks aimlessly on the Street in the misty fine rain, silently savoring the changes brought by the Soul Crystal.
The connection between Du Ling Star and the Holy Light Source is clearer than inside the Haunted House.
The Great Origin is everywhere, vaguely pointing to the inner side of the world (Spirit Layer), and also to the foggy dim sky, the outer layer of the world (Sea of Consciousness).
He has not yet chosen an Ascension Direction, so he can use the Soul Crystal to sense Holy Light toward the sky, or toward the inner Spirit Realm or other directions.
This step is like filling out college entrance exam preferences. It aims to express one’s intent to the Origin, making it easier to be assigned to the major (direction) you want when bearing the Ascension Impulse in the future.
According to the information he collected, cultivators who have condensed Soul Crystal, as long as they obtain the related cultivation method, can build a Holy Light Body (Spirit Body) around the Soul Crystal. In Tai Huang Dao, this step is called Exiting Yin God. (A cultivation method of the Holy Light System, not necessarily following the Soul Path)
Then, based on the chosen Ascension orientation, one can attempt to project the Primordial Spirit out-of-body toward the Moon, using a special method (celestial projection) to escape into the Sea of Consciousness to temper one’s own Soul.
This matter is recorded in Tai Huang Dao as the Yang God Method.
This action is strikingly similar to the Heaven Rank Supreme Expert he spied on in Cicada City through the Shadow Dream Hole, using Insect Armor as a shell to protect the Primordial Spirit walking in the Nightmare Layer?
According to Senior Student, the Nightmare School also forges unique Spirit Bodies, escaping through gaps in their respective Dream boundaries into the Nightmare Dimension for exploration.
Both are Mental Soul Paths, the difference being one outward, one inward.
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While strolling, Yuan Zhu unwittingly arrives at a warehouse district in West City.
Here are concentrated large areas of old factories, counting as an industrial zone. Also adjacent to Jade Belt River, very convenient for sewage discharge. For ease of transporting production raw materials and Products, numerous warehouses were built around, with very convenient traffic.
Several days ago, he specially rented an old small warehouse here. Then contacted White Feather Association Vice President Zheng Hao to meet here with other Employees taking missions, hand over purchased Supplies, and store them in the warehouse.
Seeing his own warehouse not far away, Yuan Zhu proactively heads over and indeed sees from afar the Vice President directing workers to move Goods and tallying Supplies.
He circles to an unmanned street corner, controls the Shadow Uniform to change clothing style, fine-tune body structure, and dons a mask for disguise before approaching.
Feeling a light pat on the shoulder, Zheng Hao turns back puzzled, then startles: “President? You’ve come!”
Yuan Zhu nods: “Mm, I’m checking your work progress.”
“Everything normal. I’ve contacted all members who took missions; 2/3 of the Supplies are already moved into the warehouse. The remaining 1/3 will arrive soon. Additionally, members’ attitudes are very positive, no urging for payment; instead, several expressed intent to continue buying Spirit Pills.”
Yuan Zhu thinks, flamboyantly takes out two bottles of Insect Pills stored in the Haunted House from his Soul Space, tosses them to the other: “Keep them safe. These two bottles total 30 Pills, all under your disposal. When necessary, you can sell to Clients you deem valuable. Oh right, did you contact that address I gave you?”
In the original work and Meng Xiyue’s plan, the Supplies they sell to the Underground World, besides small high-value Medicines, precision instruments, Spices, Luxury Goods… also have a key transaction target: Weapons.
The two are very curious if Du Ling Star’s special modern weapons can work in the Underground World?
In Meng Xiyue’s eyes, Thermal Weapons can play a big role. The Underground World is dangerous, but more in the harsh suffocating environment. Weapons operable by Mortals still have great value.
After all, ordinary Insect Cultivators have limited True Qi in their bodies, with little allocatable to combat. Selling Arms can greatly improve the survival of low-level Human Rank Qi Refiners.
Thus, to buy a batch of reliable Arms, he side-probed Fire Fang for a reliable Buyer Address. Then, busy with Holy Light Cultivation at the time, he handed the mission to Zheng Hao to negotiate.
Now, he wants to know how the business negotiation went?
