"There are no other sub-talisman diagrams." After confirming several times, Zhang finally said: "Only the Fire Element Sub-talisman."
Zheng Fa fell silent for a moment, the Golden Core flew out from his skull, and a mass of red metal spurted out from that Golden Core, landing in front of everyone.
Zheng Fa said to Zhang and the others.
This is the "Oxygen Metal" discovered earlier in modern experiments. The recent collision experiment gave Zheng Fa a hypothesis:
Spiritual energy combines with particles in the form of Five Elements Child Talismans.
Now he wanted to verify it again.
Indeed, after the collision of "Oxygen Metal", what was seen in the Void Spirit Eye was the Gold Element Child Talisman.
Zhang and others looked at each other, not knowing what this meant.
But Zheng Fa seemed to have thought of something.
He suddenly walked to the table and drew a pattern.
"Is this... the Five Elements Ring?"
Zhang immediately recognized it.
This was the Foundation formed previously by Zheng Fa, a ring connected by Five Elements Child Talismans.
"Zhang, how many types of spiritual materials do you think there are?"
Zheng Fa suddenly asked.
Lady Xuanhua heard this question, which seemed rather foolish to her, and said, "Infinite."
Zheng Fa slapped his forehead, feeling he had asked the wrong question.
He changed his question: "Zhang, how many kinds of particles can form spiritual materials in the Xuanwei Realm?"
Now, everyone understood, but also seemed not to.
Lady Xuanhua asked with wide eyes.
Zheng Fa looked at the Five Elements diagram on the paper, and suddenly drew a chart with squares in it, each square had a corner with a number written.
If anyone here had attended middle school...
They would immediately recognize it as a periodic table.
"In this table, there are over a hundred types of non-spiritual energy particles. If I’m not mistaken... each type of particle can form five types of particles with spiritual energy, these base elements of spiritual materials, I’ll temporarily call them spiritual elements."
Zheng Fa had this hypothesis when he discovered the Fire Element Sub-talisman in the Tai Chu Gang Qi.
The base particles of spiritual materials, Zheng Fa divided them into two parts, one identical to modern elements — like hydrogen, oxygen atoms...
The other, exists as spiritual energy in the form of Five Elements Child Talismans.
That is, the elements of spiritual materials – or say spiritual elements follow the Five Elements periodic law!
Lady Xuanhua and others looked at each other, feeling it was hard to comprehend but couldn’t think of any issues.
The biggest question was...
"What’s the use of this?"
Before Zheng Fa could speak, Lady Xuanhua suddenly said:
"This is the essence of spiritual materials, no... the essence of Artifact Refining!" Her eyes seemed to shine.
As a master of Artifact Refining, she instantly understood the significance of this Five Elements periodic law.
"Previously our understanding of spiritual materials... has never been this clear, from fundamentally not knowing how many types exist to only a few hundred basic spiritual elements."
"We can find previously unseen spiritual materials by following this map!"
"We might even produce some spiritual materials ourselves..."
"Starting today, spiritual materials... from being explored only in the Xuanwei Realm, has become something we could manufacture ourselves!"
Zheng Fa gently nodded, Lady Xuanhua was absolutely right:
Only by recognizing the essence of spiritual elements, was it possible to simulate making spiritual materials.
In his view, the most direct benefit of the Five Elements periodic law was its periodicity.
In the periodic table, elements of the same group have similar properties.
Thus, it’s reasonable to suppose that in the Five Elements periodic law, each row’s elements should have similar properties.
This paved the way for Zheng Fa to use the spiritual energy particles in his Dantian to simulate Yunling Jade.
"Are you saying, as long as we identify which spiritual element exists in the Yunling Jade, then simulate it using the homologous spiritual elements to create our own Lifebound Magical Treasure?"
Zheng Fa nodded: "Homologous elements, maybe even the same number of Five Elements Child Talismans and particle numbers..."
Whether it could be simulated, Zheng Fa naturally did not know.
But this was easy to verify —what’s missing, was just a clear understanding of the Five Elements periodic law itself, only by understanding this, would manufacturing spiritual materials become a possibility.
Lady Xuanhua gently nodded and suddenly exclaimed:
"Tsk, Xie Qingxue is from your era..." She looked at Zheng Fa with a somewhat strange expression: "Really unlucky."
Yan Wushuang felt that he truly was unlucky.
"Big Sister! Don’t be in such a hurry!"
Yan Wushuang was wrapped in a red silk ribbon, flying rapidly through the air like a kite.
He looked at the figure in front and shouted helplessly.
Ahead, the owner of the red silk, dressed in black, did not turn her head back, seeming to ignore him.
Yan Wushuang was speechlessly choked up.
He glanced beneath his senior sister, where a tiger as wide as seven or eight of his shoulders lay. The tiger was completely white, without a single stray hair, and the woman sat atop it like sitting on a soft, expansive white cloud, looking extremely comfortable.
Yan Wushuang felt wronged yet envious.
He wanted to sit too!
But this white tiger was noble and aloof. It was said to possess the pure bloodline of the Four Symbols’ White Tiger.
More importantly, it was a Nascent Soul!
It simply did not want Yan Wushuang sitting on its back!
Thinking of this, Yan Wushuang’s tone filled with resentment; the white tiger seemed to sense this resentment and glanced back at him, its gaze full of mockery.
"...Sister, can you let me go?"
Yan Wushuang moved like a caterpillar and spoke again.
His senior sister Xie Qingxue finally spoke, her tone seemingly disdainful:
"If I don’t tie you up, are you planning to run away?"
"...Where would I run to?"
"To the Jiushan Realm."
Yan Wushuang sheepishly said: "...I was just going to the Jiushan Realm to gather intelligence on the Great Freedom Demon Sect."
"Gathering intelligence? More like passing intelligence on, right?"
Xie Qingxue scoffed coldly.
"Biting the hand that feeds you, forwarding our sect’s intelligence to outsiders; if you weren’t Master’s son, you would have been punished by the sect long ago!"
"...Didn’t I keep all the critical information secret?"
Yan Wushuang muttered.
"That’s because your father watches over you!"
"I am his son... what’s there to watch."
Xie Qingxue gave him a glance but did not speak, yet Yan Wushuang had already closed his mouth.
Frankly speaking, there should be vigilance.
Otherwise, he really might spill everything.
"Fortunately, you didn’t cause any major trouble... but still, I must find the Jiushan Sect Leader and demand an explanation. You may be foolish... but you are also the son of the Tianhe Sect Leader."
"I did it voluntarily!"
"That’s why you are foolish!"
"Elder Han even said, Zheng Fa has unparalleled talent, stronger than the ancient founders! Being allied with him brings great benefits!" Yan Wushuang argued, "I was just making an early bet!"
"Elder Han... he’s biased."
Xie Qingxue’s voice suddenly lowered, seemingly agitated by some thought, and Yan Wushuang didn’t catch what she said.
He continued to defend Zheng Fa: "Sister, it really wasn’t Zheng Fa who enticed me."
"My dad looks down on me, don’t you understand me? Am I such a foolish person?"
He had his reasons; he and Xie Qingxue were close in age, belonging to the same generation of disciples—when he first started his cultivation journey, it was Xie Qingxue who taught him due to his poor relationship with his father.
Perhaps Xie Qingxue really understood Yan Wushuang a bit more than even the Tianhe Sect Leader.
"I wouldn’t understand you, but would I bring you along?"
"If you stayed in the sect, would Master have spared you?"
Yan Wushuang’s expression changed, he then understood why Xie Qingxue wanted him to be a guide...
"Big Sister!" His tone was somewhat moved, "Trust me, I’m not betraying us! It’s just that Zheng Fa, in the future, will surely..."
"Don’t mention Zheng Fa in my ear again..." Xie Qingxue looked at him with disdain, "This time dealing with the Great Freedom Demon Sect, you better redeem yourself through meritorious deeds, so once we return, the sect won’t punish you."
"I trust you, yet I can’t trust that Zheng Fa." Xie Qingxue’s tone was a bit cold, she said, "If you mention him again, I’ll really go to the Jiushan Realm to seek justice."
Yan Wushuang no longer struggled but drew his head into the red silk, covering his mouth with it—no longer daring to speak.
Xie Qingxue really wanted to go to the Jiushan Realm now...
It was his own master, Yan Wushuang’s father; but Yan Wushuang had never defended him this way.
If it were Yan Wushuang’s father, seeing him , he would have laid him out early on.