Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 83 - 78 The Old Master is Passing Away

This morning, Ji Jingqiu was pulled into a chat group by the senior brother.

The name of the group was "The 4999th Dragon Tiger's Sons Exchange Group"

Ji Jingqiu couldn't help but ridicule; the name had the vibe of a corporate management trainee program.

The group already had 287 members, which somewhat astonished him. Scanning through, he found Yao and the others were all present.

Before long, the group owner sent out a message—

[Xuanzhen]: A warm welcome to our junior brother Ji! (Throwing flowers)

Ji Jingqiu casually picked an emoticon from the pack and sent it out.

He secretly wondered if the group owner was the very Daoist of the Dragon Tiger dojo that Bage had mentioned before.

As the Daoist, he was naturally also the senior brother of this generation's Dragon Tiger disciples.

After a while.

Ji Jingqiu realized the group was eerily silent.

In a group of 288 people, not a single one spoke.

The chat box only contained the owner's welcome and his own response, making it oddly chilly.

Ji Jingqiu was curious, had it been like this for other newcomers before?

Was everyone so unwilling to give face to the Daoist?

Putting the terminal away.

Ji Jingqiu walked into a narrow alley, rounded a few bends, and rang the doorbell of Elder Mu.

He had received a message from Elder Mu and coincidentally wanted to use the equipment there to carry out a physical constitution test.

When the door opened.

Ji Jingqiu didn't see Mei.

"Where's Sister Mei?"

Ji Jingqiu missed Mei, not because of the gift she promised when they last parted.

"She went mining for you." Elder Mu walked ahead, speaking slowly, "Come, let's do a physical constitution test for you first."

Mining for him?

Ji Jingqiu climbed into the machine with a surge of astonishment.

Besides getting a physical checkup, he also wanted to ask Elder Mu about the Evil Poison Disease.

Master Yang had specifically reminded him to pay extra attention to physical tests last time and suspected that his condition might be related to the Evil Poison Disease.

And Elder Mu was the only person he knew and trusted who had the authority to speak on this matter.

"You've reached the fourth limit, right?"

Elder Mu asked, staring at the data from the device.

"Yes."

Elder Mu nodded and said:

"You're progressing fast, your physical score has already hit 99.9, standing on the same level as a normal Five Limit Martial Artist."

"Once you break through the Fifth Limit, your score can reach 99.99, comparable to those with an Innate Battle Body."

"However, just in terms of physical strength, in the subsequent cultivation of the Cultivation Body, you are still not their equal, yet such individuals are rare in a generation."

Ji Jingqiu asked the question that puzzled him: "Elder Mu, can the enhancement and completion effect of the gene enhancer reach the level comparable to an Innate Battle Body?"

Elder Mu seemed to have foreseen his question and instead of answering, he asked back, "Do you think that would make the latter seem too cheap?"

Ji Jingqiu did not deny it.

The gene enhancer indeed had the effect of enhancing and complementing physical constitution.

But to say the enhanced effect could match that of an Innate Battle Body was belittling the latter.

Such special constitutions are recognized as non-replicable.

And gene enhancers could be mass-produced.

Elder Mu countered:

"You should have guessed, a simple gene enhancer cannot achieve such an effect; it also comes with your Evil Poison Disease."

"So do you think it is rarer to have an Innate Battle Body or to live to sixteen with Evil Poison Disease?"

Ji Jingqiu was speechless.

From this perspective, naturally, the latter was rarer.

"With billions of people in the Federation, so-called Martial Bones and Battle Bodies appear in every generation. Moreover, stronger martial artists are more likely to have offspring with special constitutions because the so-called Martial Bones and Battle Body are fundamentally a manifestation of Heaven and Earth Law."

"But those who live to sixteen with Evil Poison Disease, as far as I know, there's just you. So you've asked the wrong question. You should ask whether the cause of your condition can be found and then replicated on a large scale."

Elder Mu paused, and said in a deep voice,

"The answer is, it cannot!"

"When you came last time, I noticed the abnormality, so I specially asked you to leave a few genetic samples. I've been searching for the source ever since."

"But to no avail!"

Regret and confusion appeared on Elder Mu's face.

Just like the Federation still hasn't figured out the mechanism of how Evil Poison Disease develops.

He, too, didn't understand what kind of change caused the gene enhancer combined with Evil Poison Disease to produce such an astonishing effect.

If it could be replicated, it would inevitably be a revolutionary achievement, and Federation Martial Arts would take an entirely new step forward, and he, Mu Xuanying, would be eternally remembered in the Federation's history of meritorious deeds!

By then, what would the Nebula Award count for.

For generations to come, martial artists would have to remember the great deeds of Mu Xuanying!

The Mu Family would also take pride in him!

Ji Jingqiu fell silent for a moment, then said, "I remember you mentioned last time that the genetic editing project went through thirty years of clinical trials before going public, only to explode in scandals within twenty years after."

"That's right."

"Then if we assume there is no issue with the genetic editing project itself, is it possible that humans themselves are the problem?"

Elder Mu fell silent for a moment: "It's external factors."

"Which factors?"

"Many, such as daily dietary habits, planet magnetic fields, climate, and so on, can change human genetics. Of course, this progress is actually very slow..."

Elder Mu sighed and continued,

"Actually, the most speculated is the approaching of the Spirit Ocean. Long ago, some Martial Arts Masters proposed that the approaching Spirit Ocean is changing the underlying rules of our world, the Heaven and Earth Law, or what we call... the Dao."

Masters search for the Dao, Grandmasters forge the Dao.

As the biggest beneficiaries of the appearance of the Spirit Ocean, their perception in this area is also naturally the most acute.

This was an answer Ji Jingqiu had never imagined.

The failure of the gene editing project is related to the Spirit Ocean?

What about the Evil Poison Disease?

After a brief contemplation, Ji Jingqiu took out a medicinal prescription.

"Mu Elder, this is the prescription my parents left behind before they left."

"Long-term use can control the time of outbreak of the Evil Poison Disease, reducing and containing the irregular occurrences to a specific time, but the price is that the level of pain continues to intensify."

Mu Xuanying was visibly shaken, suppressing the Evil Poison Disease?!

Unbelievable.

The Federation hasn't even been able to figure out the principle of the disease's outbreak, let alone suppress it.

And according to his current speculation, the inability to suppress the Evil Poison Disease is probably also related to the Spirit Ocean...

He quickly took the prescription and scrutinized every single herb listed from the beginning.

Suddenly.

"Star Remains... you can get Star Remains?!" Mu Xuanying suddenly looked up.

"Are you talking about that shiny powdery substance?" Ji Jingqiu recalled and asked.

Mu Xuanying really wanted to curse. Dammit, shiny powdery substance.

"Most of the herbs in this prescription were left by my parents before they left, and because the amounts needed are small, there was enough for me to use until adulthood."

Mu Xuanying suppressed his emotions, reminding himself to stay calm.

It wasn't the first time he'd lost his composure around this boy.

What's Star Remains anyway? Isn't it just a scarce resource fought over by Heavenly Masters deep in the Heavenly Road?

Is it comparable to the highest inheritance of the Mu Family—Fire House Buddha Hell?

Is it comparable to the Bodhi Tree?

Is it comparable to the Supreme Wisdom Light?

Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.

After going through the prescription, Mu Xuanying fell into contemplation, pondering the combination of the medicinal properties, and then returned to the instrument to run a series of simulation experiments over ten times.

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"I need time to study this. If the prescription is indeed effective, it will prove that some of my previous speculations are correct, that the principle of the Evil Poison Disease and the blowout of the gene editing project are indeed related to the Spirit Ocean."

After a moment, Mu Xuanying spoke earnestly.

"The emergence and approach of the Spirit Ocean have been changing our world. The greatest change lies in the path of Martial Arts."

Upon reaching this point, Mu Xuanying instructed:

"Right now, you do not need to overthink this issue. You only need to bravely and diligently pursue Martial Arts. Martial Arts is the path to approach the Spirit Ocean and the sole way to touch reality."

"Leave this difficult problem to this old man to overcome!"

Ji Jingqiu replied solemnly, "Mu Elder, rest assured, I understand."

Mu Xuanying also admonished him not to casually visit those small detection institutions in the future.

Only those like the "Sun and Moon Testing Institution," which offer "absolute confidentiality" as a service.

"You can't come to me every time; the Sun and Moon Testing Institution is trustworthy. Behind them is the Qin Family of the Six Great Families, and the Qin Family's core inheritance, 'Obedience to Heaven and Loyalty', is rooted in the character 'righteousness'. From inside out, they would never betray their trust or break their contracts, or else the entire family would be executed."

Only then did Ji Jingqiu become aware of this background of the Sun and Moon Testing Institution.

In the past, Marshal Qin among the seven marshals was renowned for his boundless righteousness, a man whose promise was worth a thousand pieces of gold!

At this point, Ji Jingqiu took the opportunity to inquire about the Body Skills Cultivation Technique that matched the "Fire House Buddha Hell" held by the Supreme True Buddha Sect.

He was only one limit away from the Five Limits.

After breaking through all Five Limits, he should gather the True Seed and attempt to forge a Cultivation Body.

"Supreme True Buddha Sect?" Mu Xuanying frowned, "My Mu Family's 'Fire House Buddha Hell' doesn't have any matching Body Skills Cultivation Technique at all; that's their own blind research."

Mu Elder's attitude towards the Supreme True Buddha Sect was clearly very poor.

"These fools just like to live in a world of their own delusions."

No matching Body Skills Cultivation Technique?

Ji Jingqiu was somewhat surprised, then what Cultivation Body did Marshal Mu forge back then?

"None of the seven marshals forged a Cultivation Body," Mu Xuanying explained. "The earliest group of Martial Artists simply relied on the abundant resources acquired from exploring the Spirit Ocean to forcibly enhance their own physical bodies."

"The subsequent Cultivation Bodies were also developed based on their own experiences, and then spread to the rest of the world."

"What my Mu Family ancestors created and left behind was a Visualization Map, not a Body Skills Cultivation Technique."

Ji Jingqiu suddenly understood.

"You're planning to go to the central region, right?" Mu Xuanying asked.

"Yes, in two months."

"Then there's no rush. You can seek the Sun and Moon Organization when the time comes to perform a compatibility test for the Cultivation Body, and then find a way to acquire that Body Skills Cultivation Technique."

Mu Xuanying nodded and said,

"With your talent, this won't be difficult. Besides, the central region is very interesting. With your level of Spiritual Cultivation, you should be able to enjoy yourself."

Ji Jingqiu became curious.

He had searched for related information during this period, but this news seemed to be blocked in the forums.

And Li Buyi didn't know about it, either.

That guy has never been to the central region!

The entry review system for the central region is very strict. It's not easy for the Supreme True Buddha Sect to get someone in.

So, a few days ago, he specifically sounded out the attitude of the "Bone Arhat."

Mu Xuanying laughed and said, "It's a place where as long as you believe you won't die, you absolutely won't die."

Ji Jingqiu thought to himself what does this mean, does it indicate advanced medical technology?

But when he asked again, Mu Elder refused to disclose any more, sending him away, claiming that revealing such a secret too soon would diminish the surprise.

After leaving Mu Elder's laboratory.

Ji Jingqiu made a trip to Sir Zhuang's Divine Temple for a tour.

Sir Zhuang wasn't there, but Xiao Shanhe was, happily teaching a boy how to read.

The latter was the very boy Ji Jingqiu had encountered last time.

"Big Brother Ji!" the boy exclaimed delightedly.

"Jing Qiu?" Xiao Shanhe seemed a bit surprised by Ji Jingqiu's appearance, "Why aren't you with Mr. Ji? Aren't they saying they're leaving tonight? Aren't you going to say goodbye?"

Ji Jingqiu's steps halted.

They're leaving tonight?

"Yep." Xiao Shanhe said with a grave expression, "Isn't it a tour group? They said they're leaving tonight and the first stop is to observe the future master's dojo at East 3 Yan Star."

Ji Jingqiu patted the boy's head and turned to leave.