Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 36 Genetic Experiment
Walking on the streets of Yunmeng County.

Yi Dong discovered that even though the Immortal Kingdom was preparing for war in full swing, it had no impact on ordinary mortals and lower-level cultivators.

It’s just that the prices of many high-end resources have increased a lot.

For example, many finished magical instruments from laboratories and some high-end spiritual materials for refining various magical instruments.

The fairyland lasts for 100,000 years.

With the optimization of bloodlines, the number of people with spiritual roots in Qingzhou has reached one in a hundred.

The ratio of immortal cultivators to mortals is not as high as one in a hundred, but it is probably about one in a thousand.

This ratio is already terrifying.

During the chaotic period, among the countless mundane nations in Qingzhou, only a very small number of people were able to practice Taoism.

Qingzhou today.

There are far more towns and villages than cities, and far more people live outside of cities.

However, the life span of cultivators is generally longer.

In this era, cultivators in cities are generally proficient in the art of health preservation, and each of them can live to be 120, 130, or even 150 or 160 years old.

The average lifespan of ordinary people is only around sixty or seventy.

Because immortal cultivators live longer, the ratio of existing immortal cultivators to mortals is only one percent.

Looking at the prosperous scene of Yunmeng County.

Thinking of the large-scale enrollment of students in Taoist academies, the government is recruiting a large number of people with spiritual roots into official enterprises.

Yi Dong knew that as long as the war continued, it would probably affect the lower classes.

Otherwise, the Immortal Kingdom would not have seen a large increase in the number of low-level cultivators.

I just hope that the impact of the war won’t reach the lower-level cultivators like them in the fairyland so quickly.

Yi Dong usually feels a little sad that he was born at the wrong time.

I always feel that if I were born in a chaotic period, I would have achieved great things.

However, when the Immortal Kingdom was really about to go to war and the outcome was unpredictable, he did not feel excited, but instead felt at a loss.

He learned the news that the Immortal Kingdom was going to go to war from Zhai Shanshan.

According to Zhai Shanshan, those cultivators in Qingzhou with high cultivation levels, no matter they are from aristocratic families or immortal officials, those who were at the Golden Core stage in ancient times and above, and those who are at the Foundation Establishment stage today, have already gone to Zhongzhou one after another.

As for the target of the war, Zhai Shanshan also said that it was to conquer the outside world.

This kind of war crosses the endless void and descends into another world.

At the beginning, naturally, cultivators with low cultivation levels would not be recruited, because in the early stage, there was no complete transmission channel established, and it would consume a lot of resources to send each person over.

At the beginning, all the cultivators teleported from the fairyland were high-level cultivators.

Zhai Shanshan also got some information about the pattern of the war.

Those are the high-ranking cultivators from the Immortal Kingdom. After they arrive there, they will clear out a base.

In general, it means to completely destroy all the high-end combat forces in one place, and then build a large-scale transmission device, and start to transmit a large number of personnel to clean up the remaining forces bit by bit.

Yi Dong wanted to know more, but Zhai Shanshan didn't know the rest.

Zhai Shanshan said this to Yi Dong in order to persuade him to continue working at Lijiang Taoist Temple.

In Lijiang Taoist Temple, Yi Dong can obtain a large amount of spirit stones, so that he can train more immortal cultivators in the family to cope with possible conscription from the Immortal Kingdom in the future.

According to Zhai Shanshan, the Immortal Kingdom probably gives considerable authority to the aristocratic families based on their strength.

If Yi Dong were alone, even if he came from an ancient family, he might only be able to cooperate with the actions of the Immortal Kingdom together with the independent cultivators.

Yi Dong still listened to what Zhai Shanshan said.

But he did not continue to stay in Lijiang Taoist Temple.

Instead, he planned to help Chilong set up the formation and then go back to Zijin Mountain.

After Zijin Mountain encouraged childbirth, there were already many descendants of the Yi family with spiritual roots.

According to Yi Fu, there are over a hundred children with spiritual roots in the Yi family of Zijin Mountain.

There are more than 500 children without souls.

Yi Dong can train all the immortal cultivators in Zijin Mountain by himself.

But he won't do that.

Because of the Yi family, and there is also the Yi family in Pingyuan County.

There are two people of the same generation in the Yi family, Yi Fan and Yi Hao, who, in the eyes of outsiders, are better than Yi Dong.

We are all members of the Yi family.

If Yi Dong trains a group of people and they turn around and join Yi Fan or even Yi Hao later, wouldn't he suffer heavy losses?
Therefore, he has recently been compiling a set of extremely restrictive techniques that combine ancient and modern techniques.

As long as the younger generations of the Yi family practice his martial arts, and then switch to other martial arts in the future, even if they are not useless, the difference will not be far behind.

In this way, he can better control the Yi family of Zijin Mountain.

Yi Dong didn't think that creating these skills was inhumane.

In fact, within the Immortal Kingdom, many powerful families have so-called family skills.

These family skills also have great restrictions.

Modern cultivation methods construct spiritual power circuits, while ancient cultivation methods take Dantian as the core, with spiritual power circulating in the meridians.

Combine two techniques to create a new one.

Yi Dong still needs to read more ancient cultivation techniques before it will be possible.

This time, he came to Yunmeng to cooperate with the aristocratic families in Yunmeng County.

In this era, the ancient cultivation techniques are not very valuable.

However, the skills that can be used to cultivate to the level above the Golden Elixir are generally not available for purchase. Even in the Immortal Kingdom, such skills are not openly sold.

The Golden Core Realm, even the Golden Core Realm of the Ancient Cultivators, is quite powerful. If there are too many Golden Cores among the independent cultivators, it will not be very beneficial to the stability of the Immortal Country.

Therefore, if one wants to see the skills above the Golden Elixir, apart from the Immortal Kingdom, probably only the aristocratic families with a long history have such skills.

Although Yi Dong's reputation in Lijiang Taoist Temple is not very good, his abilities are obvious to all.

Many aristocratic families in Yunmeng County invited Yi Dong to help them set up formations or refine weapons and elixirs.

Yi Dong stayed in Yunmeng County for a total of three months.

During these three months, he read ten volumes of Jindan techniques, and thousands of techniques below the Jindan level.

And this is nearly 90% of the ancient cultivation techniques in Yunmeng County.

Although he did not see the most core skills, especially the Nascent Soul skills, Yi Dong felt that it was enough.

After all, he didn't want to create some earth-shattering martial arts, he just wanted to create a few family martial arts that could be cultivated to the Golden Core realm.

The island that the Dai family rented to Yi Dong was called Julang Island. The spiritual vein on it was only of the first level, or according to the ancient cultivators, it was of the lower first level.

However, Yi Dong arranged for Jin Xiu's skills to gather and compress them. After extracting the spiritual energy, the concentration of spiritual energy in the core area was enough for Gu Xiu to build his foundation and practice.

Inside a laboratory on Giant Wave Island.

Yi Dong looked at the human bodies in each container.

"That makes no sense. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the cloning technology."

The bloodline factors in this life are similar to Yi Dong’s DNA in his previous life.

In his previous life, Yi Dong read some papers on cloning technology when he was in school. Combining it with the technology of this life, he spent a year and developed the cloning technology.

However, the final result was not satisfactory.

He experimented with many animals and even human genes, but failed to produce a clone.

The genes of humans in this world should be very different from those of humans in previous lives.

This difference should be a more microscopic difference, which Yi Dong cannot detect even with his sophisticated magic tools.

"Could it be that the spiritual roots of the human race at this time are the main factor for this difference?"

Yi Dong thought that this might be the answer.

The concept of "spiritual roots" exists in the genes of animals and mortals in this world.

Whether a person has spiritual roots or not may be a manifestation of dominant and recessive genes.

So, Yi Dong spent more than a year studying human genes.

But in the end, nothing was gained.

It’s not that his skills are not up to par, nor that he lacks too much knowledge.

It was because he could not build a microscope to observe more microscopic things.

He simply built a million-fold microscope and used it in conjunction with the psychic eye spell to do genetic research.

If he wanted a microscope with a higher magnification, he would need some fifth or sixth level spiritual materials, which he couldn't get for the time being.

Therefore, he never found a way to change the genes related to spiritual roots.

But he did not gain nothing.

He roughly knew that some human gene fragments were related to spiritual roots.

As long as he could create a pill that could stimulate these gene fragments, he would probably be able to ensure that the descendants of the Yi family would have spiritual roots.

However, this kind of spiritual root may not be very good.

If you want to obtain the spiritual root, perhaps it is possible only after thoroughly studying all the gene fragments of the spiritual root.

Through this experiment, Yi Dong was roughly sure.

There must be more advanced means within the Taoist temple or the fairyland that can allow future generations to obtain spiritual roots.

There is even technology in the Immortal Kingdom that can improve spiritual roots and even allow mortals to awaken their spiritual roots from scratch.

It only took Yi Dong two and a half years to come up with a stable method to produce offspring with spiritual roots. He didn't believe that in the 100,000 years of the Immortal Kingdom, those knowledgeable cultivators in the Taoist Academy and the Immortal Kingdom were just sitting there doing nothing.

However, even if the Immortal Kingdom allows people to give birth to offspring with spiritual roots, the best they can do is to have two spiritual roots.

Perhaps this is the reason why, in the fairyland, there is such a big difference in the treatment of those with natural spiritual roots and those with qualifications below natural spiritual roots.

Even if a person with natural spiritual roots appears in a group of independent cultivators, he can easily join the official enterprises or some government agencies of the fairy country and become a clerk serving the fairy officials.

The qualifications of those with special spiritual roots and double spiritual roots are far inferior. In the Taoist Academy, those with double spiritual roots are called mixed spiritual roots by the students.

No wonder, after reading some family classics, Yi Dong found that some of them recorded that many ancient families in the fairyland often gave birth to people with the same spiritual root attributes.

Such as the ancient families Tianhuo Zhao family, Hanshuang Gongyang family, Zilei Zhang family and so on.

“I don’t know if this gene I researched will allow the Yi family to have that kind of spiritual roots.”

When Yi Dong thought of this, he immediately started to research related elixirs.

at this time.

Qingniu appeared at the door of the laboratory and looked at Yi Dong.

Yi Dong's heart moved.

He had time to study genes in the past two years because there were many powerful people investigating within Lijiang River, including people from the Taoist temple.

It's obvious what they are investigating.

So Yidong and Qingniu never went to look for Chilong.

From this, Yi Dong also knew that Qingniu’s magical powers were also limited.

It needs to find a route with a lot of undercurrents so that it can use its magical powers to go deep into the earth.

Soon, Yi Dong tied a lot of spiritual power lines and magical tools to the green ox and rode on it himself.

One man and one cow dived into the river with a large amount of materials.

(End of this chapter)