Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 101: Ninth Layer of the Physical Body

Zhang Qizi initially thought that after introducing the armadillos, the issue with the black ice ants would be resolved. However, within three days, he discovered that the spiritual veins were once again contaminated.

And it was the black ice ants that were polluting the spiritual veins!

"What's going on?" Zhang Qizi immediately began investigating and found that the number of black ice ants had not decreased after the introduction of the armadillos. Instead, they had started to grow explosively. Previously, they could only be seen under thick leaves, but now they could be found on tree trunks, roads, and even their sect's headquarters.

One night, there was even an ant that crawled into his closed stone room through a crack!

The Three-Word Sword Sect was a small sect and couldn't bear to use anti-insect formations. However, Zhang Qizi had sprinkled insect repellent powder, but it turned out to be completely ineffective.

Zhang Qizi first investigated the situation with the armadillos.

Armadillos did eat black ice ants, and they would eat them when they saw them. However, the armadillos he bought only ate other insects and not black ice ants!

"Why?" Zhang Qizi puzzledly caught an armadillo and also caught a handful of black ice ants to feed it. However, when the armadillo saw the black ice ants, it immediately retreated in fear instead of eating them.

Zhang Qizi didn't indulge the armadillo and forcefully fed the black ice ants to it. He then saw the armadillo jumping around like crazy for nearly two hours before gradually calming down.

Although the armadillo was still alive, its spirit was extremely weak.

It seemed that this painful memory would be deeply buried in its mind and would never be forgotten in this lifetime.

"Why is this?" Without solving the ant problem, Zhang Qizi couldn't practice properly, so he had to patiently find the cause.

After all, he was an immortal, and although he wasn't specialized in biological sciences, he had the assistance of divine consciousness, which still greatly aided his progress.

Soon, he found the cause of the armadillo's stomachache—it was the toxin secreted by the black ice ants!

Armadillos normally fed on ants and were naturally immune to the toxins of black ice ants. However, the toxins in the black ice ants on this island were a grade higher than those of ordinary black ice ants!

Furthermore, Zhang Qizi discovered that the black ice ants on his Red Leaf Island seemed to be much stronger than ordinary black ice ants!

"Why is this? Could it be that my Red Leaf Island is some kind of feng shui treasure?" Zhang Qizi felt delighted. If this island was suitable for breeding black ice ants, then the Three-Word Sword Sect would have an additional source of income.

After all, some sects truly needed the poison secreted by black ice ants.

He immediately went to Yingzhou, purchased relevant information on breeding black ice ants, and set up a black ice ant breeding farm to mass-produce them.

Half a month later, he confirmed that the black ice ants on his island were indeed much larger in size, and their strength, speed, and reaction time were faster than those of black ice ants from other places.

If there were activities like ant fighting in this world, the black ice ants from Red Leaf Island would definitely become a famous breeding ground for champions!

But even if there weren't, the fact that stronger ants could produce more potent ant venom was still a remarkable discovery!

While he was reaping the benefits, Yang Ning was also making great progress.

He confirmed that even insects could undergo Body Refining through ultrasonic waves, although the potential of ants was far less than that of humans.

In addition, the neural intrusion technique had expanded from ants to insects with a body length of less than 1.5 centimeters, including various ladybugs, caterpillars, and numerous spiders.

Yang Ning could also use the neural intrusion technique to interfere with the thoughts of some large animals and indirectly influence their behavior.

For example, if a tiger originally wanted to go east to find food, he could make it go west through the neural intrusion technique.

This technique could also be used on humans, and its effect was similar to hypnosis. The person wouldn't notice anything abnormal and would only think they had momentarily lost their mind.

However, it could only control humans up to the Eighth Layer of the physical body.

But Yang Ning believes that this technology will soon break through because, with the strengthening of the brain, Yang Ning gradually perceives a mysterious power that exists in his brain.

Mental power!

Everyone has qi and spirit, but ordinary people cannot perceive it.

Only through the practice of breathing techniques and the god-forming technique can the qi and blood in the human body be stimulated and manipulated to become a powerful force.

The same goes for the spirit, but the spirit resides in the brain, and it is only when the physical body reaches the Eighth Layer that it begins to be strengthened, grow, and eventually manifest itself externally.

On the fifteenth day of entering the Thunder Cliff, during his daily practice, Yang Ning suddenly sensed everything around him with his eyes closed.

Although this feeling was fleeting, Yang Ning was still certain that he had reached the Ninth Layer of the physical body, the realm of spiritual manifestation!

The cultivation realm of Extreme Eternal is set too scientifically. As long as he follows the practice step by step, except for the Sixth Layer of the physical body, which requires intelligence, his realm naturally breaks through as the cultivation progresses.

For example, the birth of qi and blood, and now the manifestation of the spirit.

"I have only been cultivating for half a month, and my spirit has already manifested. This should be related to the Black Tortoise Aura Concealing Technique that I have been practicing!"

Because meditation is also a secret technique for refining the spirit.

This is equivalent to others accumulating their spirit from the Eighth Layer of the physical body, while Yang Ning started from the Third Layer of the physical body, so the time for his spirit to manifest naturally comes earlier!

He hadn't even taken the Purple Cloud Golden Cauldron Pill yet!

Without rushing to find that feeling just now, Yang Ning continued to practice his brain step by step.

Sure enough, the next day, the effect of this spiritual manifestation began to appear again.

And the frequency of occurrence became higher and it was no longer fleeting.

By the fifth day, when Yang Ning consciously condensed his spirit, he could voluntarily enter the realm of spiritual manifestation and also exit it with a single thought!

"This feeling is really like the Color of Observation Haki!" Yang Ning didn't know what the Color of Observation Haki looked like, but under the manifestation of his spirit, he could see the surrounding vision with his eyes closed, hear the slightest sound, and his brain could instantly discern the traces of the thunder striking.

This is no different from the Color of Observation Haki.

It's just that it is called Color of Observation Haki in some places, Mind Net in others, and here it is called spiritual manifestation.

The realm of the spirit is also called Martial Dao Great Grandmaster, which means the focus of Martial Dao cultivation and the ultimate goal of Martial Dao.

At this time, all the bones, qi and blood, and cells throughout the body have been tempered, and the potential has been basically tapped. Continuing to cultivate is just a process of advancing from 95 points to 100 points.

Although there will still be improvements, they are not significant.

Of course, there are exceptions like the Unparalleled Divine Ability that can be cultivated in the Physical Body Realm, such as the Crimson Dragon's Crimson Cloud Force or the Purple-Gold Coiling Dragon Body.

In the Immortal Ascension Academy, the realm of the spirit also means the end of the semester and the ability to apply for graduation.

Because there are no related books on the realm of the spirit and the Divine Sea in the school, one needs to go to the outer gate to obtain them.

Entering the outer gate also means graduating from kindergarten and officially entering the elementary school stage.

The competition he faces is no longer these little kids in the school, but tens of thousands of outer gate disciples, disciples from other sects under the Extreme Eternal Sect, and external forces under the Extreme Eternal Sect, and so on.

The dangers he faces will also increase linearly.

"I have surpassed others by six years in just one year of cultivation. I am indeed a genius!" Yang Ning smiled lightly, his eyes filled with neither fear nor anticipation, only the tranquility of having everything under control.

(End of this chapter)