Chapter 316: A Great Success in Inspiration!
The greater the energy, the greater the feat – this has always been Jiang Lin's guiding principle. Of course, thoughts are free, and the soul is unbound.
However, the phrase "the free soul is unbound" manifests in Jiang Lin's case a little too seriously.
"If possible, being a little constrained is still better. A cage can be a limitation or a protection." In the new refining room, while Jiang Lin was organizing the refining insights he had gained over the past period, he was also lost in thought.
As someone who was just one step away from breaking through to the Soul Realm, Jiang Lin's ability to multitask was one of his most basic skills.
"Every time I enter that special super-dimensional enlightenment state, I actually can't see anything, because the overwhelming influx of information causes my thoughts to feel as if they are frozen. All I can feel is like I'm continuously 'ascending.' But this ascension process is a bit too long and never seems to reach an end. It feels like there's always another sky beyond the sky."
Jiang Lin wrote down his insights from refining the Strange Fire Xuan Heavy Ruler in the "Lin Qi Jianshi" he was currently compiling, and then he let out a slight sigh.
Jiang Lin had almost realized that his thoughts seemed to be a bit out of sync with the world. He always seemed to be able to find loopholes in this world's "rudimentary operational rules," or knowledge beyond the realm of what the creatures of this world could comprehend. If the world were a giant brain in a jar, Jiang Lin seemed to be the only little brain able to perceive knowledge outside of the jar.
"If the last time was an accidental discovery of a logical bug in this world, then this time… maybe it's my overthinking, leading me to transcend the world?"
Jiang Lin had some guesses about why he suddenly entered the super-dimensional enlightenment state: "Some things seem hard to explain. If I use an abstract way to express it, it would be like there's a storage disk inside a computer that can store all data. I, as the small shrimp inside the computer, somehow created a data entry that wasn't originally in the storage disk, nor should it have been there."
"This is completely impossible, just like how the most advanced artificial intelligence in the past could only know what was in its database, but not what wasn't. As for me… although I don't know what happened, with this supernatural fantasy worldview, I'm afraid my soul consciousness unintentionally touched some taboo concept and almost got taken away."
Jiang Lin looked at the gradually perfected "Lin Qi Jianshi" in his hands, feeling helpless and speechless. He never expected that one day, his "thoughts" would almost cause his own demise.
"But it shouldn't be like this. I, this small shrimp, shouldn't be able to attract, hmm... 'attract' might be a bit of an exaggeration, but anyway, someone as insignificant as me shouldn't be hurt by this. This should be something that only those stronger individuals should worry about—after all, it's always portrayed in novels and reality alike."
"Commoners can speak their minds freely, but those in high positions must not let their thoughts falter."
Jiang Lin didn't quite understand why it was him who ended up suffering. It should have been that old devil Yao Chen who should suffer. For example, an ordinary person wouldn't have trouble just by observing a high-voltage power line, but someone like Yao Chen, who focuses on that line, might easily release his soul and get electrocuted.
"However, no one in this world ever thought about this. But I, on the other hand, figured it out. And based on the results of the super-dimensional enlightenment, I'm sure I'm right."
Although Jiang Lin was a little apprehensive now, he realized that this wasn't exactly "enlightenment"—it was more like a "forbidden knowledge breach" that almost caused him to be erased. Jiang Lin, being a small shrimp, would not have been killed by this, but like the Nine Yang Divine Art, where just a touch could kill you, there was a risk of "thinking offense."
"Who could have imagined that the human race in this world has a common origin!" People here didn't seem to consider why there was such a vast difference between humans and magical beasts, almost like two creatures from different worlds.
The reason why humans didn't have magic cores was even simpler than Jiang Lin imagined! It was because the first "Dou Emperor" of humanity gave up the physical magic core! This action directly reshaped the world, removing all humans related to this "forbidden existence" from the magic core system, thus turning all humans into the "original imperial race."
It was that simple!
Everyone in this world was from the imperial race! They all shared a common ancestor—the original Dou Emperor!
"So, the current human Dou Qi system essentially follows the cultivation process of the first Dou Emperor. The Dou Ling stage will condense a crystal core shaped like a sea urchin, but it will dissipate when they reach the Dou Wang stage. From then on, no one will have a magic core. In other words, the first Dou Emperor was the one who dispersed his magic core between the Dou Ling and Dou Wang stages, leading to a repetition of this strange process in later generations."
"But now, heh-heh." Just as Jiang Lin was feeling a little nervous, he suddenly flashed a radiant smile.
"So, theoretically, Dou Qi practitioners still have an 'nonexistent magic core' before the Dou Wang stage. This nonexistent magic core is like a misplaced bug in the program left by the original Dou Emperor. The body code has already evolved to the latest version, but the Dou Qi code is still stuck on the old version left by the original Dou Emperor. Heh-heh."
"Originally, I had no idea how to handle this, but bugs, heh-heh."
If a program were perfect, the best hacker, unless using physical methods, couldn't break it.
But the strongest fortress is always breached from within.
As the saying goes, the hardest part is the beginning. Now, with his keen perception, Jiang Lin had already sensed the taste of a systemic bug.
"Although I don't know if this will work, the gap has already appeared."
"As long as I keep trying, I'll eventually find a way to take advantage of this loophole."
In the refining room, Jiang Lin began writing furiously, organizing his thoughts. Suddenly, he froze.
After a sudden burst of inspiration, he shouted.
Great success in inspiration!
"The Dou Crystal of Dan Qi Zi... is it based on this loophole?! Or is he trying to use the Dou Crystal to fix this loophole?!"
(END CHAPTER)
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