Chapter 130: Spirit Burying Terrace 4 (1/2)

Chapter 130: Spirit Burying Terrace (4)

Behind the door was a small secret chamber.

There were no traps. There were vials, jugs, and large piles of books as far as the eye could see. It seemed like a very messy storage space.

At the center of the secret chamber was a large table.

Su Chen was very familiar with this kind of table – he had already taken two of them before. They had belonged to Ulrich and Master Feng, respectively.

It was a research workbench.

In front of the large workbench was a giant armchair, and there was a person sitting on the armchair.

Su Chen’s heart sank.

He cautiously watched the person sitting on the chair.

However, that person sat there unmoving, as if he were completely unaware that the secret chamber had been opened.

Su Chen cautiously walked closer. Upon walking around the chair, he discovered that the “person” sitting on it was actually a dried-up corpse.

That person’s head was extremely large, and his limbs were very short. He looked just like a big baby doll.

Of course, the dry corpse was not a big baby doll.

It belonged to someone of the Arcana Race.

The Arcana Race was quite short in the first place. After becoming a dried corpse, it had shrunk even more.

This Arcana Race member had most likely died for quite a long time. Because his corpse was in an isolated space, it had not decomposed. Instead, it had simply become desiccated.

He ignored the dried corpse, instead turning his attention to the Arcana Race member’s experimental logs.

Every good researcher had a habit of recording experiments. The Arcana Race was no different.

There was a pile of experimental logs on the counter, but Su Chen temporarily had no interest in the experiments themselves. What he was looking for was the experiment date.

The date was not hard to find. It was in the middle of the experiments.

Not outside of his expectations, the Arcana Race corpse in front of him was the real creator of the Spirit Burying Terrace.

He was called Mainbrooke, and he was a prominent scholar of the Arcana Race. He had a deep understanding of Origin Formations, the compositions of Origin Energy Patterns, as well as the mechanical behavior of Origin Energy. He also had a certain amount of research on biological organisms. This Spirit Burying Terrace had been set up by him singlehandedly, including all of the traps within traps and Origin Formations concealed within Origin Formations, which would not be damaged even after the passage of ten thousand years. His talent was so great that even of the current great Origin Formation masters, not many could compare to him.

However, Mainbrooke’s real ambition was not limited to this.

This guy had an extremely crazy idea – he reckoned that there was a method that could surpass the ability of bloodlines to control Origin Energy at a high layer.

In order to understand the implications of this sentence, it was important to break it down.

Was there a method to control Origin Energy without the use of a bloodline?

Yes!

Mankind didn’t need any bloodline help to charge into the Qi Drawing Realm.

But unfortunately, this was a low-layer method of controlling Origin Energy.

Without a bloodline, the highest realm that a human cultivator could reach was the Blood Boiling Realm.

If one wanted to go higher, they could only do it with the support of a bloodline.

Thus, there were methods to control Origin Energy without the power of a bloodline, but it was limited to a low-layer control.

Then were there any high-layer methods to control Origin Energy without a bloodline?

There were!

The Ferocious Race’s Origin Energy Temple and the Spirit Race’s Spirit Body Conversion allowed them to control Origin Energy at a high layer without the use of a bloodline.

But these two methods had their own large drawbacks. The Origin Energy Temple would cause those who used it to intermittently go berserk and lose reason, while the Spirit Body Conversion would even result in a change to their intrinsic nature. Whether or not they could still be considered alive was a good question.

Thus, they were methods that could be used to control Origin Energy at a high layer without a bloodline, but they were definitely not methods that were superior to bloodlines in that regard.

What Mainbrooke wanted was a method to control Origin Energy at a high layer that was superior to a bloodline.

More precisely, this was not his dream alone. It was also the dream of every single Intelligent Race on the Primordial Continent for tens of thousands of years.

But apart from the Origin Beasts, no one was able to achieve it!

They were the darlings of this world, and only the power of this world was enough to send them into hibernation and a deep sleep.

What Mainbrooke pursued was such an illusive destination in his dreams.

From the ancient times until now, who knew how many great talents of the Intelligent Races had advanced in the place of those who had fallen, unafraid of any difficulties.

But no one had ever achieved it before.