“Senior, how does it feel?”
Progenitor Chen described everything that he saw and was experiencing.
Lu Yin’s eyes blazed. “How much of your full combat strength does your consciousness body possess?”
Progenitor Chen took a moment to consider the question. “At most, forty percent.”
“Only forty percent?”
“I have cultivated my consciousness to a decent level. For those who haven’t trained it at all, they might not even reach twenty percent of their full power.” He then directed an intense look at Lu Yin. “Do you want to send consciousness bodies to fight in place of people’s physical bodies?”
Lu Yin nodded. “If a consciousness body dies, the true physical body will remain unharmed. Power will be lost, but that can be recultivated. That’s better than a true death.”
Progenitor Chen stared at Lu Yin in shock. “I had thought that I was the best at creating new battle techniques, only to now realize that I’m greatly lacking compared to you.”
Lu Yin gave a wry smile. “I couldn’t have done this on my own. I received inspiration from Yan’er, and Greater Sancte Green Lotus helped me with the karmic deduction.”
“Whatever the case, once this method is fully developed, even if humanity faces a disaster that threatens to completely wipe us out, our civilization will still be able to endure,” Progenitor Chen said.
Lu Yin had been thinking of foreign civilizations, such as the Nest civilization.
If another war broke out, but only consciousness bodies fought while humans’ physical bodies stayed away from combat, the Nest civilization would suffer a severe blow.
The current problem was whether he should widely promote consciousness cultivation methods to cultivators who already specialized in it or to broadly spread the Nirvana Tree Path so that the various consciousness bodies would possess sufficient combat power in the future.
If neither happened, then even if he could add consciousness bodies to the Mind Manor, there would be no change in humanity’s overall combat power. As Progenitor Chen had said, they would only be able to preserve human civilization.
Even so, preserving their civilization was already a great outcome.
During the ancient Heavens Sect, Burial Garden had existed for that reason. During the era of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas, there had been Boundless. For the current era, there would be the Mind Manor.
Still, Lu Yin’s ambition was not to merely preserve human civilization. He wanted to develop an absolute means that would elevate humanity to the level of a fishing civilization.
Above the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm, Greater Sancte Green Lotus’s expression grew complicated. “You have accomplished what Mi Jin could not. Well done.”
Lu Yin was grateful. “Without you, Senior, it would have been difficult to accomplish anything at all. Even if I eventually deduced a solution, it would have taken a very long time. Thank you.”
What Lu Yin had created could not help either the Nine Odysseys Megaverse or the Spirit Nidus. It would only help the Tianyuan.
It could be said that Greater Sancte Green Lotus had spent a tremendous amount of karma to help the Tianyuan. Lu Yin owed the man thanks.
Greater Sancte Green Lotus waved a hand. “Your Nirvana Tree Path has helped the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, while this Mind Manor helps the Tianyuan. Lu Yin, you are the heir of human civilization. I hope you will one day break into the Immortal realm and then lead humanity to experience a complete transformation.”
Lu Yin returned to the Heavens Sect.
Ming Yan had already entered the Investiture of the Gods to cultivate. Her cultivation method was to accept Lu Yin’s consciousness, but the vastness of his consciousness made it difficult to assimilate.
Now that he had separated his consciousness, Lu Yin could no longer perform Word Manifestation, but that did not matter. Word Manifestation had no effect against Immortals, and no one beneath that realm posed any threat to Lu Yin anyways. With most of the internal threats in the Tianyuan and the Nine Odysseys Megaverse dealt with, there was little difference between Lu Yin having the power of Word Manifestation and not having it.
Besides, he was also able to continue cultivating his consciousness on his own.
It did not take long for the Heavens Sect to announce that everyone was to start cultivating consciousness. Unlike the Spirit Link method that had once been promoted in the Spirit Nidus, the new cultivation method was to prepare people for the Mind Manor.
The stronger one’s consciousness was, the stronger they would be when entering the Mind Manor. That would increase their chances of surviving in the future.
Outsiders did not know why the Heavens Sect had suddenly ordered everyone to cultivate their consciousness, but the method seemed reasonable.
It did not take long for numerous consciousness cultivation methods to spread. Talented people throughout the megaverse were selected to travel to the Heavens Sect to learn, and the cultivation methods were quickly distributed.
After another two years had passed, Astral Anura suddenly arrived at the Heavens Sect, looking for Lu Yin.
Lu Yin was puzzled. “A familiar yet strange sensation?”
Astral Anura nodded, still carrying his lotus leaf. “It’s a sense of familiarity that comes from my very bones.”
“Are you saying that this familiar yet strange sensation is getting closer?”
“Yes.”
“Could it be your great-grandmother?”
“Quit spooking people.”
“You’re a toad, not people.”
“Don’t scare a toad.”
Lu Yin was speechless. Astral Anura had completely accepted being referred to as a toad.
“It seems that the sense of strange familiarity is coming from the stirrings of your bloodline. Tell me, Astral Anura, what do you actually know about your origins?”
The lotus leaf in Astral Anura’s hands bent down. “I really don’t know anything. If I did, I’d have gone home a long time ago. I feel like an orphan, just like those two idiots.”
Lu Yin studied Astral Anura, his mind racing.
Emperor Slayer had said that he had once seen a toad carrying a lotus leaf strolling through the Aevum Inch. The timeline meant that it could not have been Astral Anura, so Lu Yin had previously assumed that it was the toad’s great-great-grandmother.
If that was true and his great-great-grandmother was able to roam about the Aevum Inch, then it meant that she most likely was not a simple individual.
Lu Yin had long ignored Astral Anura. He should have used karma to investigate the toad’s origins long ago.
With that thought, a spiral of karma coiled above Lu Yin’s palm, and he threw it out.
Astral Anura sensed the karma and tried to escape, only to be suppressed by Lu Yin. “Do you want to learn about your origins or not? I’m helping you.”
“I like keeping my affairs private.”
“I have no interest in a toad’s private affairs.”