Chapter 52: The Origin of Life
On the way back, Mu En no longer concealed his figure. He clasped his hands together in front of him, forming a golden protective shield.
He protected the students within the shield, carrying everyone into the sky and quickly rushing in the direction of Shrek City.
Huo Yuhao, meanwhile, floated to Mu En's left, supported by Mu En's spirit power.
"Yuhao, your modification to the enrollment requirements today has given the Academy's teachers a lot to do. Background checks will probably not be so easy to conduct from now on."
Mu En flew while casually opening a conversation, preparing to chat with Huo Yuhao for a bit.
"I actually don't think the background of the Academy's new students is that important. The Academy's main task is still to cultivate Spirit Masters."
"It's fine to further screen them during each inner court selection. Most normal new students won't enter the inner court anyway, so it's better to have fewer restrictions."
"It's truly difficult for commoner Spirit Masters to obtain a City Lord's recommendation letter. If the Academy makes it convenient for them, it can be considered as forming a good relationship for the future."
Mu En nodded upon hearing this, then gave Xu Jiujiu a meaningful look, indicating to Huo Yuhao that his idea had some shortcomings.
Huo Yuhao understood Mu En's meaning and spoke it out directly.
"Your meaning is that this might cause concern among the various imperial families, worrying that Shrek Academy will become a second Spirit Hall."
Mu En narrowed his eyes, nodded thoughtfully, and continued:
"After the Academy's reforms, the imperial families of various countries can no longer restrict our recruitment of students. The current threat from the Sun Moon Empire is still manageable."
"If one day the conflict between the Sun Moon Empire and the Douluo Three Kingdoms comes to an end, the Academy might become a major hidden danger for these countries."
Huo Yuhao, however, was quite calm about this matter, observing Mu En's contemplative expression with interest.
"This is the first time I've seen you consider something so intently, but I don't think it matters much."
"The Academy has always been a threat to the rule of the Douluo Three Kingdoms. As early as the first resistance against the Sun Moon Empire, the various countries knew of Shrek Academy's appeal and influence."
"Unless we disband the Sea God Pavilion and reduce the Academy's scale, what you're worried about is bound to happen sooner or later."
Huo Yuhao's relaxed attitude somewhat surprised Mu En. Mu En truly hadn't expected Huo Yuhao to see things so clearly, and he felt much more at ease.
"Yuhao, since you understand the situation, I won't say much more. You just need to do things boldly and with confidence."
"We old fellows can at most give you some suggestions. When it comes to making the real decisions, it still depends on your own choices."
Huo Yuhao looked in the direction they were heading, feeling a bit emotional.
"The Academy needs to change quickly. War is coming soon, and we don't have much time left to stay out of it."
Mu En also looked up in the direction Huo Yuhao was gazing.
"Yes, Yuhao, you need to grow faster. I can feel that my own end is near, and I'm afraid I won't be able to protect the Academy for much longer."
Xuan Zi, who was beside them, immediately became agitated upon hearing this.
"Mu En, have you really reached that point? Is there no other way to remedy it?"
Mu En looked at the emotionally unstable Xuan Zi and sighed softly.
"If there was a way, I would have resolved it long ago. Why would it drag on until today? Now, it's no longer just an injury. Even if this injury were healed, it wouldn't be of much use."
"My own life origin has been damaged and is rapidly depleting, nearing exhaustion. No matter how much vitality is supplemented, it cannot compensate for the loss of the origin."
At this moment, in Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea, Electrolux called him in.
"Yuhao, you can carefully perceive the life aura of this former Pavilion Master. This will help you refine the spirit contract and comprehend the law of life."
Huo Yuhao immediately used his divine sense to begin sensing Mu En's current state, gradually forming a corresponding model structure in his consciousness.
Over the next hour, Huo Yuhao continuously adjusted the origin model formed in his mind according to Mu En's state.
Then, after similarly constructing the origin models of Xuan Zi and himself, Huo Yuhao began his comparative analysis.
"Electrolux, the state of the origin seems somewhat like the operating mode of a stomach. Every activity of life consumes the power of the origin."
"The life origin, like the self-dissolution of a stomach, is always in a state of continuous consumption."
"But it also, like a stomach, quickly replenishes the loss of origin caused by life activities. Vitality is one of the important factors affecting the self-repair speed of the origin."
"The process of a Spirit Master improving their spirit power level is to continuously reduce the rate at which daily activities consume the origin, and to increase the rate of their own origin's self-repair."
"The reason Mu En is nearing the end of his life is because his life origin is severely depleted."
"Even if he obtains a large amount of vitality, the completely damaged parts of the origin can no longer self-repair."
"In other words, even if my vitality is sufficient to support my continuous origin consumption, after multiple repairs to the origin, it will eventually become damaged, like clothes that have been patched multiple times."
"It's just, what kind of existence are gods exactly? Is their life origin no longer damaged, or is the rate of damage too slow to be noticed?"
Hearing Huo Yuhao's confusion, Electrolux reached out and summoned a wisp of divine sense, using it to construct a simple origin model.
"Yuhao, the reason a Spirit Master's life origin gets depleted is because the Spirit Master is using their own divine soul to change the properties of energy."
"They transform originally calm energy into active energy or attacking energy, just like spirit power causes wear and tear on a spirit tool through its spirit core."
"And one of the characteristics of a divine body is the infinite slowing of wear and tear. It's not that wear and tear doesn't exist, but rather that the speed of wear and tear is infinitely reduced."
"For example, if you cultivate for 40 years to reach the Titled Douluo realm, when your lifespan becomes 200 years, you can live 60 years longer compared to before."
"It's not that you've compensated for the wear and tear of the first 40 years, but rather that your wear and tear rate has slowed down by half."
"One of the effects of a divine body is to reduce the wear and tear rate over time, causing your lifespan growth to always be higher than your consumption rate."
"And this ability to slow down the consumption rate is a point that both the spirit contract and necromancy need to involve: the application of spatial power."
"Or rather, it is to transfer the process of operation and the resulting wear and tear to the outside world, avoiding the life origin to the greatest extent."
"This is also why spirits can achieve a state close to eternal life. Their energy conversion is transferred to the spirit rings by spatial power, and all wear and tear becomes consumption of the spirit rings."
"And each time a new Spirit Master is contracted, the composition of the spirit ring can be replaced anew. In other words, energy conversion no longer goes through the life origin, but relies on replaceable spirit rings."
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