Cultivators Are So Weak in This World-Chapter 258: Secret Vault 234, Part 2

"Are these all experiment records?" Zhang Rongfang’s heart skipped a beat.

He had long felt that it was impossible for people in this world to be so ignorant as to not explore and understand the spiritualization of humans.

Now it seems that it wasn’t that they hadn’t done it, but rather that the results had not been made public.

He immediately continued to read on.

’Test Methods: Firewood, Coal Fire, Iron Melting Furnace, Earth Fire.’

’Test Duration: First test ten minutes, second test one hour, third test one period, fourth test....’

Followed by a series of extended time records.

Zhang Rongfang casually browsed through and found that there was a detailed record of the spiritualized individual for each test.

He flipped directly to the end and saw that the record of each test showed survival.

Survival, survival, survival, survival!!

The repeated survival seemed to be a silent mockery, making even the handwriting of the record appear somewhat hasty.

Finally.

There was a different sign.

’This test result: Individual’s consciousness unclear, suspected madness.

After the fiftieth death and revival, everything returned to normal. The madness disappeared, accompanied by partial memory loss. Everything returned to the beginning.’

"Even the experiment subject went insane but could be restored?" Zhang Rongfang’s heart turned cold.

There was both the ruthlessness of experimenting on the Celestial Maiden and others, and the shock towards the spiritualized individual.

This kind of resurrection, even restoring the mental aspect....

In other words, deification and spiritualization can indeed affect the mind.

In this light, whether the deified immortal individual is truly oneself is still questionable.

At this moment, Zhang Rongfang was utterly firm in his mind that he would never deify himself.

Such deification is sheer heresy!

He closed document number one and continued to browse the documents below.

Below were various other tests on the spiritualized individuals: poison, drowning, heavy weapon suppression, sharp weapon cutting, explosive blasts, and so on.

In most of these execution methods, the ultimate result was the spiritualized person going insane, then resurrecting, losing part of their memory, and regaining their wits.

Moreover, upon reaching a certain number of times, a spiritual explosion occurred, after which everything reset and death count had to be reaccumulated.

Specifically, for Spiritual Guards about forty times, for Spiritual Veins ninety-nine times.

As Zhang Rongfang flipped through the documents, he paused on the experiment using a divine saber to cut the spiritualized person.

’Thirteenth Limb Cutting Test.’

’At the moment when the limb was forcibly detached, spiritual lines erupted from the wound, causing the immediate death of three people at the edge, their lives seized.’

’The spiritual line linked the severed limb to restore it.’

’Sixteenth Head Cutting Test.’

’At the instant of death from head detachment, spiritual lines erupted from the neck, affecting all living beings within ten meters. Two people, unable to dodge, died instantly.’

’Thirtieth Organ Removal Test.’

’As soon as the eyeball was extracted, the spiritual line erupted....’

The documents recorded data from testers who risked their lives during each experiment.

The more Zhang Rongfang read, the heavier his heart became.

The documents recorded that any relatively large organ forcibly cut from the spiritualized person would trigger a localized spiritual explosion.

And this localized spiritual explosion, in the experiments, even caused the death of a Super Grade Three Emptiness master on the spot.

And the one who caused the localized spiritual explosion was just a small Spiritual Guard they quietly captured...

His strength was merely Ninth Grade...

Ninth Grade... caused the death of a Super Grade Three Emptiness master....

This was the first time Zhang Rongfang felt the fragility of ordinary people compared to spiritualized individuals.

Even if one’s martial arts reached the pinnacle of Super Grade, still.....

Next.

He continued to browse through the following documents.

As more test subjects were captured, including some Spiritual Veins experiments, they directly caused serious injuries to an Eastern Sect Grandmaster participating in the experiments.

The nature of the spiritual lines began to be gradually uncovered through the tests.

Their characteristics are: sharpness, toxicity, initial eruption speed comparable to a bullet from a firearm, possessing a certain biological instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, and automatically pursuing targets.

In one of the experiments, someone donned a full set of heavy armor, but was still penetrated by the spiritual line and died on the spot.

The test result was that amongst all known objects, there was only one thing that could effectively block the spiritual line.

Everything else was useless, and metal only delayed the time before being pierced.

And that thing was....

Zhang Rongfang turned the next page and upon seeing the hand-drawn image of that object, felt both surprised and expected.

"Sir, have you found anything?" Zhang Yunqi approached and inquired.

"Found... a lot." Zhang Rongfang pointed to the documents on the table and sighed.

Just from these documents, the number of deaths due to accidents in the experiments exceeded a hundred.

It shows that the Eastern Sect conducted an unknown amount of research here over time.

So many people, one after another, gave their lives to thoroughly research deification and spiritualization....

This secret collection of the Eastern Sect, a gift from the Celestial Maiden, indeed felt too heavy for him....

Zhang Yunqi also picked up a document and carefully read it, his expression changing subtly.

While he read the data, Zhang Rongfang continued to review other records.

Apart from the execution records of spiritualized individuals, there was also research on Super Grade secret medicines.

It was clear that the Eastern Sect was trying to find a path to combat spiritualized beings through secret medicine and Martial Arts.

But unfortunately, the two were completely incomparable.

In the experiment, the most successful individual only had skin comparable to steel and power and speed reaching the apex of Three Emptiness.

But because this person overdosed on the secret medicine combination, they only lived for thirty-two days in the end.

Unknowingly, Zhang Rongfang had already flipped to the last document.

The handwriting of this document was very different from the others.

The handwriting of the other documents was somewhat scribbled, varying in length, with slight differences in stroke and spacing.

But this document was different.

Every character in it was uniformly spaced, with the same height and width.

Each stroke seemed to be printed by a machine, extremely neat.

’Test number 13,672.’

’Collected from various sects for martial arts in body refinement, concentrated secret medicine to strengthen the physique, to transcend limits.’

’The involved cultivation techniques are as follows.’

’Eastern Sect: Great Bright Dragon Fist.’

’Zhenyi Sect: Ultimate Skill - Extreme Mystic Yin Finger.’

’Sensing Sect - Moon God Lineage: Sixfold Moon Canon.’

’Confucianism: Heart-Monitoring and Qi-Nourishing Method.’

’Royal Family: Grand Martial Code.’

’Celestial Lock Teaching: Heart-Locking Sacrificial Method.’

Following these were a series of cultivation techniques from forces Zhang Rongfang had never heard of.

He flipped through page by page, until the end, detailing hundreds of carefully selected orphans from across the country, all of whom were exceptionally gifted.

They had started practicing various body refinement martial arts since childhood, using various super grade medicines over decades, purely enhancing body strength.

Finally... reaching the peak state of these cultivation techniques, and then returning here one by one for testing.

Zhang Rongfang did not know what means the Eastern Sect used to bring all these orphans, who had become top experts, back here.

But... the results of the experiment were still documented.

’Conclusion: Regardless of the martial art, the power of man, at its peak, even with full armor, cannot withstand the strength of the spiritual line.’

’Therefore, the future path of martial arts, if it is to have a chance, should abandon hard skills and focus on body technique.’

This last sentence, with its neat and highly regular handwriting, looked the same as before, but the last stroke had a slight fluctuation.

That was the only imperfection.

It also revealed the intense emotions that the writer had at the time.

Zhang Rongfang sighed softly.

He finally understood why in today’s martial arts world, so many martial arts focus primarily on agility in body technique.

Looking back now, it seems that the cause had been destined many years ago.

"Sir, come and see here." Suddenly, Zhang Yunqi spoke up from the side.

Zhang Rongfang put down the document and looked in the direction of the voice.

He saw Zhang Yunqi standing by the bookshelf in the cave, holding a small booklet.

The cover of that booklet also had a serial number written on it, but the material seemed much newer than the documents pressed on the table.

It seemed to have been recorded recently.

Zhang Rongfang quickly walked over, took the document, and began to flip through it.

’Note by Tong Zhang—

After testing, it was found that all identity tokens left by those with deity-worship rituals in major forces were used to monitor the main cultivation technique level.

Extreme caution must be exercised during use. Tokens often leak secrets upon returning for handover.’

Zhang Rongfang’s heart trembled as he quickly looked at the Great Dao Teaching identity token hanging on him.

Yet, fortunately, even if there was monitoring, he was just super grade external medicine, not too outrageous yet.

Good thing he saw this here; if he hadn’t noticed at all, upon returning... it could have greatly exposed the secrets of his strength improvement speed.

Although, before the deity worship, Zhang Rongfang believed that Master Chongxuan would not harbor ill will toward him.

But some secrets must never be exposed, no matter what.

He continued reading.

’Summer of 1158, when Master went into seclusion, I conducted the testing continuation.’

’Test number 13,673.

In the direction of martial arts, those with supreme talent have achieved great success in the practice of ultimate body refinement skills.

Test result: Increased survival time by several seconds upon spiritual line eruption.

Actual single-person confrontation, win rate is zero.’

’Test number 13,674.

Abandoned martial arts direction, attempted to use statue fragments as barriers, combined with armor.

Result was a failure, spiritual line entered through armor gaps, tester died.’

Subsequently, Zhang Rongfang vaguely saw that the handwriting seemed to be that of Celestial Maiden Tong Zhang.

It appeared that she had continued the testing from where the previous person left off.

However, what puzzled him was, if it were just these contents, it wouldn’t be enough to attract the attention of so many forces to the hidden records.

There should be a truly more important secret hidden here.

"Besides these, is there nothing else here?"

Zhang Rongfang, puzzled, quickly flipped through this new document.

Soon, a new experimental record appeared before his eyes.

’1183, execution of the secret cult clearance plan.

Clearance of the Gesar Sect, all spiritual guards and spiritual veins were cleared. Clue discovered.’

’Divine General Ershado acted, personally raiding to preserve the teachings of the Gesar Sect, entered the Gesha Cathedral for one hour.

In the hall of the Sect Dawn Light, all core statue groups were destroyed.

All spiritual guards and spiritual veins simultaneously lost consciousness.

Conclusion confirmed: The deity-worship statues all have a corresponding spiritual body.’

’Weakness determined: Those who succeed in deity worship will automatically manifest their corresponding statue in the divine temple.

Destroying the corresponding statue can completely kill the corresponding spiritualized person.’