What is the essence of life?

From a biological point of view, it focuses on two points - metabolism and intergenerational reproduction.

The former is the basis for the survival of the living individual, and the latter is the foundation for the continuation of the living race.

Of all the things in nature, only the object form of life shows the characteristics of a transient anti-entropy body, although the final life will eventually die, and the race will inevitably perish, heading towards the irreversible ultimate direction of entropy increase, but at least in that initial time, the orderly entropy reduction expressed by life is real.

The root cause of this is the orderly use of energy and matter, the input energy rearranges the substances that make up itself, so that these substances always maintain regular order and reduce their own chaos.

This is the essence of life.

Li Hengpan sat on the ground of the central stone room, he had been sitting here for a day and a night, and after he had died for his parents, he had entered self-cultivation without stopping.

This kind of "retreat" is not the kind of withering and ascension that is mentioned in martial arts fantasy, and the stricter description should be called - traversing oneself.

Traversal is a very common concept in the field of computer science, and to put it bluntly, it is "one by one", usually using a circular program.

Li Heng's current situation is similar, he is scanning himself with his spiritual power in a loop, starting from the microstructure of his own biological structure, and carrying out a very precise and meticulous traversal, like a super lathe calibration machine.

Although he can't scan every cell at the moment, it's an order of magnitude too large, about a trillion billions!

This astronomical magnitude is difficult to parse and store even with the world's most advanced supercomputing and the largest storage array disk, so his scanning level is still stuck at a tiny tissue unit composed of about hundreds of millions of cells.

But even so, the order of magnitude that needs to be traversed and scanned is in the millions, which can be called a super project.

This is not something that can be done overnight, Li Heng naturally knows that speed is not enough, so far his "traversal objects" are mainly placed on several core internal organs, arterial nerves, and meridian hubs.

And the reason why he wants to start such a vast "ergonomic project" is all to pave the way for the next step he wants to carry out - to build the foundation!

Yes, you heard it right, he was about to hit the "foundation-building" realm on the road to "cultivation".

Could it be that Li Heng is really cultivating immortals? Or have you found a way to cultivate immortals?

In fact, his true plan was even more outrageous than finding the path of cultivating immortals.

He wants to create his own "path of cultivation"!

There was no road in front of him, everything was unknown, and most of the so-called previous experiences were vague and specious theories, from which he had absorbed some knowledge, but he could not apply it all, and it could even be said that most of it was not suitable for him.

In that case, why not dig a path for myself?

As long as I can go on and verify, what difference does it make whether the so-called "method of cultivating truth" was created by ancient sages or by myself?

There is no path of cultivation in the world, so I will create one myself.

In fact, he had a vague concept in his mind a long time ago, and he was constantly practicing it, and it was only recently that he had some relatively clear eyebrows.

One of the most critical turning points was when he took control of the autologous bioelectricity!

The cultivation of the "Electrochemical Divine Skill" is undoubtedly a huge leap for him, not only to improve his combat power qualitatively, but more importantly, he has an excellent means to derive himself.

In modern times, he has "carried" his own neural electrical signals into the biocurrent, and used this mechanism far beyond the normal electrochemical power to complete the transmission of neural signals, and in an instant, the rate and quantity of his biological information transmission have risen to a new level, as if changing from a 2G small water pipe to a 100 megabit optical fiber!

In the past, although his brain was very powerful and had the ability to rival that of a high-speed computer, he still relied on the original "old" nervous system when it came to commanding his body, so that his signal transmission was always at the limit of human beings.

It wasn't until he could use biological circuits to "amplify signals" that his reaction speed, brain frequency, and computing power all increased by leaps and bounds, and finally he broke through the biological ceiling barrier of human beings.

And this is also the confidence that he can start such a huge project as "traversing himself" - only when the speed of the Internet is up, can he complete such a huge work.

"Build a foundation in 100 days, absorb qi into the body......"

Gently reciting this already ripe Dan Dao scripture, Li Heng now has a new understanding of these two sentences.

According to his philosophy, at this time, he had already gone through the earliest stage on this "path of cultivating truth" - absorbing qi into the body.

According to Xiu Xian, he has now left the Qi refining period and is stepping into the stage of "foundation building".

In fact, according to his performance and actual strength, he should have "broken through the realm", instead of staying at the stage of "absorbing qi into the body".

The reason why he failed to "build a foundation" is, in the final analysis, because this realm has not yet been developed and is waiting for him to "create".

Before he thought about it, the highest cultivation realm in this world was "Qi Training".

"Qi refining, that is, absorbing qi into the body, to put it bluntly, is to develop other energies that the human body can directly introduce into nature"

The reason is also very simple, but it is difficult for humans to ascend to the sky.

The most effective way for human beings to consume energy is always diet, and by eating, they can take the energy embodied in other lives to feed themselves.

Although there are many kinds of complex forms of energy in nature, they are all "foreign objects" for the human body, and the direct use of foreign objects is a huge problem for the human body.

The human body does not have the corresponding organs to "digest and absorb" it.

"The so-called aura, of course, is not really 'qi', it originally refers to the vast and complex forms of energy in nature, such as sunlight and moonlight, wind and rain, starlight, lead and mercury ore, earth vein electromagnetism, and plant essence...... and so on."

So there is no revival of Reiki in the world at all, or that Reiki has never subsided!

Unless one day the sun explodes, the earth cools, everything withers, and everything dies, then it is called the era of the end of the law when the aura dissipates, or simply the end of the world.

So the aura has always been there, but humans can't use it directly.

Human beings are not born for the purpose of "cultivating the Tao and becoming immortals", and the basic hardware configuration does not have this function.

If it weren't for the opportunity provided by [Transforming into a Mortal Sanctuary], Li Heng would not have been able to touch this level and understand these mysteries.

"In fact, I have already reached the realm of absorbing qi into the body, from the time I can feel the 'aura' of other creatures and the 'potential' of the mountains, rivers and earth, it has already begun."

Whether it is in the cave of his hometown with the help of the special environment formed by the fungus there to nourish and breathe, or to refine the elixir with the five poisons, to the later cultivation of the Dan Dao to breathe out the sunrise and morning light every day, and even enter the earth to absorb the energy in this special compound, until now he can sit here directly to attract the "evil" of the earth's veins into the body, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to attract the energy of foreign objects in nature into the body, and digest, absorb and melt for chemical use.

They may be some kind of plant and tree creature, or they may be some kind of chemical, or maybe they may even be something that is inexplicable like radiation......

However, they can all be called "Reiki" in a broad sense.

And his cultivation method has always been "refining qi", and as his understanding of himself has become clearer recently, Li Heng has also felt the limit of this kind of refining and transformation, and he himself has already approached this limit.

If he could travel to the world of cultivating immortals, Li Heng would also be able to say "without shame": "The contemptible person is also an introductory monk of the ninth level of qi refining."

Of course, this so-called "Qi Refining Method" and "Qi Entering the Body" are the only ones he can practice on this earth, and if others dare to follow it, it will definitely die faster than practice, and they can't be rescued from it.

As long as he can "traverse and scan" the fine microbial structure of his own flesh as much as possible and understand the mechanism, he can start the next step of "building the foundation".

According to the theory of cultivating immortals, it is usually after refining qi to a certain stage, the "spiritual energy" incorporated into the body is transformed into enough "spiritual power", and then the "spiritual power" is condensed to form a higher concentration of liquid "spiritual liquid".

However, as I have said before, the aura in reality is a natural energy in general, not a real gas, and of course it is impossible to condense and liquefy.

However, from another point of view, this idea is actually correct, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than that after the disposable energy rises to a gradient, if you want to continue to increase the power within a limited range (the human body), you need to increase the density of energy.

Just as the sulfuric acid battery was changed to a lithium battery, the latter has a higher energy density, so it is understandable to abstract it by the intuitive transformation of the material form of "gas" into "liquid".

Li Heng can now basically say that he has touched the upper limit of this energy density.

Even if he sits here every day, even if he keeps meditating and cultivating, and induces the earth to enter his body, he can't improve indefinitely, because his own energy can be accommodated to a limit.

It is like a special "radiation" generated from the earth, which stimulates his physical body all the time, and when the "radiation" passes through his physical body, it induces his cells to produce certain chemicals, and stores a part of the energy in his body in the form of this chemical energy.

However, this kind of high-energy substance can not be generated without an upper limit, and it is impossible to accumulate this energy storage substance indefinitely in normal cells, and there are a large number of other life activities in the cell space.

At this point, the bottleneck of the qi intake into the body or the qi refining realm was revealed, and the energy reached the upper limit.

If it were just the survival needs of ordinary people, this level of energy would be completely sufficient or even more than too many conventional needs.

But for an extraordinary person like Li Heng, who sometimes needs to overthrow an army by himself, it may not be.

Especially after mastering power generation and control, Li Heng felt more and more the rate of energy loss, in the past, it was only in the form of ordinary human activities such as punching, kicking, jumping, and running to release energy, and most of the release forms were kinetic energy or heat energy, and the abundant energy accumulated in the body seemed to be inexhaustible.

However, after mastering the high-power "output method" of directly controlling the current and releasing the electromagnetic pulse, it was a little overstretched in an instant.

In the words of immortal cultivation, it is this kind of supernatural magic that consumes spiritual power, and non-qi refining cultivators can control it.

Then the only way is to improve the realm, "expand" yourself, and increase the energy density.

Transform this relatively "thin" form of energy into a higher density of bioenergy.

Li Heng's idea is also very simple and direct, in fact, in humans or most animals, there is a similar mechanism itself - energy storage substances with different energy densities.

Fat is the most dense energy compound in the animal's body, and the animal differentiates into specialized fat cells to store fat and store energy for emergencies.

Li Heng's thinking is similar, since there is an upper limit to the high-energy substances that ordinary cells can store, then he will specialize in differentiating a kind of cell, and he will be responsible for storing this energy substance and transforming and releasing it when needed!

This is the so-called "condensation", ordinary cells can only store high-energy substances equivalent to about one thousandth of their own cytoplasm, and this specialized cell except for a few necessary organelles, all the cell space is used as energy storage space to reach about half of the overall cytoplasm, compared to this energy density instantly increased by 500 times!

This is a very exaggerated promotion, which means that Li Heng in the "foundation building period" in the extreme state will be five hundred times stronger than now!

Of course, this statement can't be true, after all, he can't convert all the cells in his body into energy storage cells, that would just turn him into a super bomb, unless he wants to play a self-detonation game.

The normal practice is to store the differentiation of this part of the high-density energy cells in a certain part of the body, and unlike fat cells, they must not be exposed to this vulnerable part of the body.

Fat has its own defects, and the process of releasing energy is long and slow, which is why it is safe, and even acts as a buffer and defense layer.

However, this kind of "foundation building cell" is different, in order to achieve the requirement of instantaneous energy mobilization when needed, its energy substance cannot be released too slowly, which means that it will not be too stable and must not be easily attacked, otherwise it will explode directly.

Thinking about it, the most suitable location for this energy storage site is the dantian, which is far away from the key organs of the heart and lungs, and at the same time is located at the hub of several major meridians, which can naturally become a channel for transmitting energy.

In this way, the dantian will turn into a sea of vitality that is the source of energy for the whole body.

Li Heng called this energy storage organ, which is completely composed of high-energy cells, the sea of qi!

(End of chapter)