CHAPTER 425: CHAPTER 236 REVERSE ENGINEERING, WOOD ELEMENT TRUTH_3

... The Jiushan Realm is vast!

Zheng Fa held his tongue and followed Xiao Yuying into the palace.

Upon entering, he saw treasures densely packed on three walls; one wall hung with flying swords, another with weapons such as spears, axes, and halberds, and the last wall with common Magical Treasures like spiritual flags and Black Banners.

There were also several platforms in the center of the room.

On the platforms lay treasures like the Jade Seal, jade rings, and jade hairpins.

The categorization was clear, with everything one could possibly need.

Xiao Yuying looked at Zheng Fa, seemingly curious about why he was inspecting these Magical Treasures.

Zheng Fa took a deep breath and cast the Five Elements Divine Light at a flying sword on the wall.

As the Five Elements Divine Light swept over the flying sword, the general structure of the sword, especially the pathways of the Spiritual Energy flow, became vividly apparent in his Divine Soul.

He pondered carefully for a while, his hand casting spells rapidly, and a light screen appeared in front of the three people.

"This is..."

Xiao Yuying could not tell, but Lady Xuanhua recognized it instantly...

"This is what I sensed, the internal situation of this treasure, including the general spiritual material and the pathways of Spiritual Energy flow."

Lady Xuanhua turned her head and stared intensely at Zheng Fa for a long time before turning back to look at the image on the light screen.

Seeing her mesmerized, Zheng Fa smirked inwardly—the Five Colors Divine Light could scan the structure of the Magical Treasure, but that didn’t mean Zheng Fa could understand it. He might know what function those Spiritual Energy circuits served, but how they were integrated with the spiritual materials was beyond him.

In the Jiushan Sect, the only one who might truly understand this was Lady Xuanhua in front of him.

What Zheng Fa wanted to play with now was reverse engineering:

He was responsible for scanning the plans, while Lady Xuanhua handled the analysis until they could recreate those Magical Treasures.

Xiao Yuying’s eyes sparkled, and she suddenly said, "Innate Divine Ability?"

"..."

Zheng Fa looked at Xiao Yuying, speechless—do you know about this too?

"My master mentioned it," Xiao Yuying explained, and then added, "My master also said that Innate Divine Abilities are actually granted when a cultivator partially understands the Heavenly Dao and achieves resonance with heaven and earth."

"A kind of Innate Divine Ability is granted only once."

Listening, Zheng Fa was enlightened, but his mind filled with more doubts. How did Xiao Yuying know that an Innate Divine Ability is granted only once?

And moreover, the Heavenly Dao?

Is there really a Heavenly Dao in the Xuanwei Realm?

Xiao Yuying continued, "Back then, Tianhe Venerable tried to guide his disciples to comprehend the Innate Divine Abilities, but none could receive the Heavenly Dao’s blessing again, hence this saying."

"..."

Zheng Fa frowned slightly, Xiao Yuying’s words today gave him a sudden guess—could Xiao Yuying’s master have met Tianhe Venerable?

How old could that be?

...That’s truly frightening.

Seeming to notice his puzzled expression, Xiao Yuying added, "My master has long stopped meddling in the affairs of the Xuanwei Realm...taking me as a disciple was also unexpected."

She did not seem to want to elaborate on what that ’unexpected’ was.

Zheng Fa did not pursue further, instead, turning his gaze to Lady Xuanhua who was still excited.

"Lady? What can you make out?"

"This sword, it must have been practiced by a Thunder Dao cultivator; some parts of it are similar to the Thunder Magical Treasures I know."

Zheng Fa looked towards Xiao Yuying, and saw her nodding: "This is also the reason I kept this Magical Treasure; it resonates with me."

Hearing this, Zheng Fa knew that Lady Xuanhua’s explanation was right and took out the Jade tube to record this analysis.

Lady Xuanhua pointed at the pattern of the flying sword, talking at length. There were places she roughly understood, and others she did not.

After she finished, Xiao Yuying also added a few comments—the function of the Magical Treasures inside was something she generally understood well enough to confirm Lady Xuanhua’s conjectures.

After analyzing one flying sword, Zheng Fa used the Five Elements Divine Light on another, and to their delight—a certain part inside the previous sword, which even Lady Xuanhua did not understand its purpose,

appeared again in this sword. Comparing the two and contrasting the similarities in their Divine Abilities, they unexpectedly solved this little mystery—that is to say, even if Lady Xuanhua did not understand a Magical Treasure, comparing it with similar ones could lead to a rough guess.

This made Lady Xuanhua even more excited.

"Sweep!"

"Again!"

"Already struggling?"

Zheng Fa had never expected that Xiao Yuying had so many magical treasures; using his Five Elements Divine Light, his mana was exhausted...

As he recovered his mana, he also considered some similarities he summarized:

All he had scanned were attacking treasures, mostly made of hard materials, hence containing a lot of Gold Element spiritual materials, with other types of spiritual materials merely serving as embellishments.

Some contained only Gold Element spiritual materials.

In these spiritual materials, however, spiritual energy formed some talismanic patterns, which in turn enhanced the magical treasures with some spell abilities.

What Zheng Fa now needed to clarify was how the arrangement of spiritual materials could form a corresponding spiritual energy circuit.

"So, the Gold Element spiritual materials are to increase the hardness of the magical treasures, while the corresponding spiritual energy circuits are to grant divine abilities?"

After hearing Zheng Fa’s explanation, Lady Xuanhua summarized.

Zheng Fa nodded slightly and said, "It seems to be the case for ordinary magical treasures."

"Ordinary magical treasures?"

"The spiritual energy circuits of ordinary magical treasures are simple, often with just one or a few divine abilities. What we call spiritual energy circuits are just corresponding talismanic patterns," Zheng Fa explained, "But lifebound magical treasures or Divinity Transformation Spiritual Treasures are different."

"How so?"

Zheng Fa thought for a moment and then said, "Lifebound Spiritual Treasures not only have more complex spiritual energy circuits but also encompass all Five Elements."

"All Five Elements?"

"Yes, I’ve seen Zhang’s Fei Xian Pen and also scanned Blood River Ancestor’s flying sword... I’ve found Five Elements spiritual materials in both treasures."

"Even..."

Zheng Fa’s tone was unusually hesitant.

"Even what?"

Xiao Yuying and the others looked at Zheng Fa perplexed, listening to him whisper:

"Even the spiritual energy circuits in lifebound magical treasures come in pairs."

"In pairs?"

Seeing Zheng Fa’s strange expression, Xiao Yuying and the others did not understand why the fact that spiritual energy circuits come in pairs made Zheng Fa so hesitant.

This, only Old Man Bai and others would understand.

...

"In pairs?"

Old Man Bai hadn’t reacted yet, but Mrs. Tian beside him frowned and said in surprise, "Do you mean a double-helix structure?"

"Yes..."

Zheng Fa drew the spiritual energy circuit from the Fei Xian Pen on the paper and said, "I had always been unclear about what the Wood Element spiritual materials were like... now I feel that their corresponding spiritual energy bonds might be similar to the hydrogen bonds that connect DNA."

Before the others could react, the formal university student Tang Lingwu slapped her forehead and realized, "Only this type of structure facilitates self-replication, corresponding to the generative abilities of the Wood Element...

"Just like how cells replicate, from one to two, two to four..."

She couldn’t help but laugh, "Now that we have a comprehensive understanding of the Five Elements spiritual materials, you can start designing your lifebound magical treasure!"

Tang Lingwu was not wrong. Zheng Fa had collected many spiritual energy circuits and structures of magical treasures from Xiao Yuying, and had preliminarily understood the essence of the Five Elements spiritual materials; there were essentially no obstacles to designing his own magical treasure.

But Zheng Fa and Old Man Bai and the others didn’t laugh.

"Zheng Fa?"

Tang Lingwu looked at everyone puzzled.

Only to hear Zheng Fa say, "It’s too similar..."

Zheng Fa was aware there was a connection between the modern world and the Xuanwei Realm.

Yet, the way the Wood Element spiritual material corresponded with the DNA double helix, plunged Zheng Fa into even deeper confusion.

The spiritual energy bonds corresponding to the other four elements—metal, water, fire, earth—are commonly found in the material world, but a structure similar to the DNA double helix, almost a miracle of life—the coincidence that the Wood Element matches it was startling.

Just like he said, it was too similar, so similar that he had already sensed the clue from the Fei Xian Pen but dared not to be certain.