Day 13
I DID IT! I finally became a cultivator!
I've been training day and night with the family technique for two weeks, and I've finally reached the beginner stage of Qi accumulation.
Mom told me that because our world is very stable and rich in spiritual energy, my body was already very strong, so I would need to reach foundation establishment to see a real improvement in my strength.
But I'm not going to complain! No, even though my brute strength hasn't increased, I've gained control over a new energy and I'm able to control my body much better, so it's a very good start.
I will continue to work hard, and one day I will become an immortal, like in the legends Mom used to tell me!
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(Attention, explanatory and somewhat scientific chapter, I will sum it up in the comment for those who don't like this kind of chapters)
Liam directly decomposed all the blue and green pearls into creation energy. Given what he was about to do, he would need a lot of energy.
After that, he sent all the other pearls into the original seed and began analyzing their origin.
"Fire is the source of everything. It can take life and destroy everything, but afterward, it leaves room for new life to rise from the ashes and prosper. By compressing fire, it becomes more powerful but also purer..."
It had been a week since Liam became a cultivator of the expanse realm.
As the name suggests, the space inside his dantian had increased hundredfold and he way much more energy than before.
On the other hand, his fire rules had reached the advanced stage, so it didn't take him long to decipher the essence of the fire crystals.
After all, they were just low-quality crystals.
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Time passed quickly when you were busy, and more than a year went by.
Liam was still sitting cross-legged in the void, and the original seed floated in front of his dantian, spinning so fast it looked like a luminous sphere.
Slowly, the artifact slowed down, and the runes lost their brilliance.
As it returned to being a uniform gray ball, it released a small divine pearl.
"Finaly!"
Liam brought the original seed back into his sea of consciousness and hurriedly placed the pearl on his watch to evaluate it.
[Mineral Pearl (1 star | Legendary) – Low-Quality Magical Superconductor: the ore originally contained regular fluxorium, but for some strange reason, it gained magical properties and became resistant to high temperatures. It can be classified as a low-quality bi-superconductor. (Material characteristics: Float limit: 1µT | reversible | transition temperature: 500K. There are eighteen rocks: one is several hundred meters long, while others are barely a few dozen. In total, there are about 9,000,000m³ of modified fluxorium.)]
[Special Mention: the content is quite peculiar and heavy for a demi-plane. This pearl consumes two fusion slots.]
(Quality ranking of minerals: poor quality, low quality, medium quality, good quality, excellent quality)
Liam couldn't help but sigh in relief.
He had this idea months ago, and fortunately, everything went as planned.
At first, he just wanted to add superconductors to his divine realm. These would be very practical when his believers started researching electricity and technology.
However, he quickly had a better idea. Since he was going to add a superconductor, why not make it both electric and magical?
Nevertheless, this kind of thing is normally impossible to find in natural lower planes, and the school didn't offer any. Even if that was the case, it was not like he could afford to buy them.
On top of that, there were also some problems to solve to make a magical superconductor.
First, it had to be compatible with spiritual energy. Fortunately, he had obtained another diamond-quality pearl of magic crystals, so that aspect was resolved.
However, Liam identified another problem.
Even if it was the best magic-electric superconductor in the world, it was unusable in the current state of his divine realm.
The reason: its transition temperature.
All superconductors had this problem: beyond a certain temperature, the ore would lose its superconducting properties and become just a regular rock.
There were then two types of superconductors: reversible and non-reversible.
This notion is quite simple to understand: for an irreversible superconductor, if you exceed the transition temperature, you can throw it away because it won't be worth anything anymore, whereas for a reversible one, it will regain its superconducting properties as long as the temperature decreases again.
In this case, the transition temperature of fluxorium was 125K (about -148°C or -234°F), which was already huge for a normal superconductor but far from enough to be usable on armor or weapons; the amount of energy required to maintain such a low temperature was far too significant.
So, why not increase the transition temperature?
Well, if it were that easy to do, everyone would know about it.
Fortunately, he had his favorite cheat tool, and by adding the significant thermal resistance of fire crystals and merging all these properties with fusion stones, he managed to achieve a thermal resistance of 500K (about 226°C or 439°F), which should never be reached under normal conditions.
For the rest, he just had to install a temporary magic barrier that only activated when the temperature exceeded 500K, which would have a much lower cost than maintaining a low temperature.
Last but not least, his divine realm was about to welcome… floating islands.
This was no joke.
When a superconductor below its transition temperature is plunged into a magnetic field, what is called the Meissner effect occurs.
In short, the superconductor gives a big middle finger to the external magnetic field and "kicks it out."
When doing so, it automatically generates induced electrical currents called eddy currents.
These currents would create a new induced magnetic field that opposes this external magnetic field.
The external magnetic field and the induced magnetic field then interact and form what is called the magnetic levitation force, which is in the opposite direction of the external magnetic field.
When the external magnetic field reaches a certain intensity (called the float limit), the induced magnetic field increases, and the magnetic levitation force becomes strong enough to counterbalance the weight of the superconductor, making it floating in the air.
In other words, if the external magnetic field exceeds the float limit and the ambient temperature is below the transition temperature, the superconductor can float.
And in our case, all the conditions were met, so Liam was soon going to have floating islands in his divine realm.
The young man couldn't wait any longer and immediately fused his second legendary pearl with the divine realm.
He wasn't worried about the two fusion slots needed.
After all, a pinnacle demi-plane like his divine realm had four slots per month, and even with everything he had used for the reproduction of the red-moon Nagas and the addition of various species of plants, animals, and minerals, he still had 6 slots available.
As the pearl fused with the spatial barrier of the divine realm, everyone who saw the scene stopped what they were doing and looked up to watch the huge flying rocks falling from the sky.
In the forests, the beasts reacted quickly and began to flee, thinking the sky was falling on their heads.
Liam personally controlled the largest island to appear not far from the capital of his divine realm.
At that moment, several enormous auras erupted from the city, and four figures flew into the air.
Liam hastened to calm his saint, the naga magus, and the grandfather/granddaughter duo before they reduced his best island to rubble.
Speaking of them, Ruvia and Nevra both became rank-4 magus while Sylvera breakthrough to an advanced rank 4 spiritual warrior.
Although Liam had not yet managed to improve the red-moon Nagas, Sylvera's body had often been baptized by large amounts of faith power, which had greatly strengthened her body and allowed her to reach rank 4 prematurely.
In fact, only her body was at rank 4, and without spiritual energy, she was much weaker than others at her level.
The commotion didn't last long, and everyone eventually calmed down as they watched the rocks sway like buoys in the air before stabilizing a few kilometers high.
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A few weeks passed quickly, and Liam's spear mastery had finally reached advanced rules, allowing him to become a rank 9 spear Emperor.
At the same time, it took him two exams to repay Lena and Miranda, who had lent him several million points, but he had accumulated over a million points again, which he spent on buying reproduction pearls.
Currently, he was in the school laboratory wearing a white coat.
Several surgical tools floated in the air behind him as he "operated" on a body placed on a large table.
The individual had his belly entirely open, and Liam continued to cut, worsening the state of the wound.
The being measured about four meters long and had a body covered with scales, with a long tail replacing its legs that occupied three-quarters of its body.
Fortunately for her, this female red-moon Naga died a long time ago.
"Em, this should be fine!"
After some time, Liam seemed to have finished everything he wanted to and began closing the wounds.
After that, he placed his hands on the now stitched-up naga's chest and slowly sent his faith energy.
10 points, 100 points… As the energy continued to pour into the body, the wounds closed tightly, and the threads fell away.
Under the skin, several foreign organs slowly fused with the naga's corpse.
He soon spent 50,000 points, but he seemed indifferent.
"Well, it's the moment of truth. Normally, everything should be in place."
He straightened up and tapped something on his watch.
A few minutes later, a tall and very pretty lady wearing a long white coat entered the room.
It was Ms. Kitel, a pinnacle demigod and also the anatomy professor for the two elite classes.
For this class, each student had his own laboratory and could request the professor's assistance at any time.
The demigod approached and looked at the corpse on the table.
"You want me to check, right?"
Liam nodded, and the professor approached the naga.
She placed her hand on the corpse and poured her own energy into it, lighting up the room with a slight green glow.
Even if Liam seemed calm, he was internally fidgeting and crossing his fingers for it to work.
His heart nearly skipped a beat when he saw Ms. Kitel turn around and smile at him.
"Well, I don't have much to say kid. Except good job!"