In his research report, Odis wrote: It is not surprising that microorganisms are so active in the soil of the "forsaken land", after all, these guys are very resilient. I remember that the environment in space can't kill some microorganisms.
But the microbes in the "forsaken land" are clearly more aggressive, and they must have undergone some mutations.
If I'm not mistaken, the virus there is even more potent. If people from outside go there, the most likely ways they will die, besides being killed by monsters hiding in the darkness, are from the disease.
Insects are known for their remarkable resilience. I remember seeing a giant dragonfly fossil with a wingspan of about 1 meter from 300 million years ago in a museum before my journey through time.
These guys have such incredible vitality; they've survived several world-ending events...
As he wrote this, Odis looked toward the experimental platform and noticed a faint glimmer in the container heating the sludge.
He got up to check and found some very tiny crystals in the heated mud!
The deeper you go, the more crystals you'll find.
Odis soon realized that heating had created the crystals. He stirred them continuously with a glass rod, and eventually more and more crystals were mixed evenly into the dried soil.
This reaction puzzled Odis. When he examined the soil with a microscope, he did not find any minerals that could produce crystals. Why would such crystals appear when heated?
Or are there even smaller minerals inside that require more specialized instruments to observe?
After the number of crystals in the soil stopped increasing, Odis used small tweezers to pick up a crystal the size of a grain of sand and placed it on a glass plate. Odis took a magnifying glass and saw that although these crystals were very small, they were very regular hexagons.
It was crystal clear, emitting a soft glow, but the light was slowly fading.
As Odis looked at the crystals, she suddenly felt a faint connection between herself and them!
He had a bold idea: he used small tweezers to place the crystal on the pad of his index finger and infused it with a little bit of spirituality.
The crystal's brilliance returned!
The little guy emitted a soft glow and looked very beautiful.
Odis placed the crystal back on the glass plate and took a deep breath: My earlier thought was correct; these crystals can indeed store spirituality! The question now is, how long can the spirituality within the crystal be stored?
He stared quietly at the crystal before him. Odis estimated it would only take a few minutes, maybe ten minutes at most!
Time passed by, and Odis was surprised that after more than half an hour, the crystal's brilliance remained undiminished!
This is strange. Odis was certain that he had only infused a trace of spirituality into the crystal, which was still emitting a faint glow. Why hadn't he exhausted that trace of spirituality after half an hour?
But then Odis seemed to realize: these glimmers of light were the colors of the spirit itself! They were not emitted by consuming the spirit!
Spirituality itself is invisible and intangible, but Odis discovered in some previous experiments that some crystal-like spiritual materials can reflect the colors of spirituality itself!
That color was a faint glow, something Oedipus could not explain with experiments and scientific logic, because colors in nature do not emit light, but only reflect it.
The colors reflected by spirituality are soft light.
These rays of light can be understood as colors such as red or yellow, which are the "colors" inherent in the light itself.
Seeing that it was still uncertain how long it would take, Odis immediately used the power of the "wilderness of knowledge" to replicate the small crystal on the glass and accelerated the flow of time in the replica.
At this point, Odis discovered the second ingenious use of the "copying" ability: if it were not a copy but the original, the "Wilderness of Knowledge" would have no way to speed up its time flow.
This ability can be used to conduct experiments that require a long time to complete.
As time sped up, Odis became increasingly astonished, because this tiny crystal had been glowing softly for three months before it began to dim!
After all light disappeared, the crystal cracked and turned into ordinary soil.
Odis stood up and paced back and forth, somewhat agitated.
This is a huge discovery. In the extraordinary realm, there are also materials that can store spirituality, which are basically crystals.
This material has a wide range of applications; for example, the sealing of many sealed objects can be accomplished simply by using the "spiritual wall".
If it is an extraordinary trait or the main material for advancement, it can be sealed with a "wall of spirit" for a very long time.
However, if the sealing object has negative effects, the "wall of spirituality" will be consumed very quickly and needs to be replenished frequently. In case of any unforeseen circumstances, extraordinary individuals will place a crystal that can store spirituality on the outer layer of the sealing object.
In order to keep the "spiritual wall" functioning for a long time and prevent accidents caused by forgetting or similar basic mistakes.
Another function is to create an environment for storing high-level spiritual materials. Some expensive high-level spiritual materials not only require a "spiritual wall," but also a highly spiritual environment within that spiritual wall.
In that case, storing it for another year or two shouldn't be a problem.
It's impossible to have an extraordinary person constantly providing spirituality to spiritual materials; that would be too costly.
Therefore, crystals that store spirituality are used to continuously release spirituality, so that the environment inside the "wall of spirituality" remains in a highly spiritual state, thus slowing down the loss of spirituality from the materials.
However, those crystals that store spiritual energy are very expensive because these materials are located very deep underground and are produced in very small quantities.
Odis seemed to have found a substitute, as if he could already see piles of gold pounds beckoning to him.
However, Odis quickly calmed down because these crystals were too small and could only store a very limited amount of spiritual energy.
Odis looked at the container that had been heated earlier, which contained many tiny crystals. She wondered if it would be better to put them together in a glass bottle.
With this in mind, Odis decided to try using water to see if he could distinguish the crystal from the soil.
He put a few shovelfuls of soil into a flat-bottomed flask, then poured in water, stirred it, and the water became cloudy, with the crystals floating in the murky water.
To see the crystals more clearly, Odis infused the flask with spiritual energy.
Then, something amazing happened!
After emitting a faint light, the crystals moved closer together and formed a small sphere that emitted a brightness similar to that of a small energy-saving light bulb!
Odis stared at the beautiful sphere for half a minute before suddenly snapping out of it and continuing to operate it.
He shook the flat-bottomed flask a few more times, then filtered the muddy water with a metal mesh, rinsed it with clean water, and finally obtained a sphere with a somewhat soft outer layer.
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
At that moment, Odis realized that the world's first "extraordinary lamp" had appeared!
The discovery of these crystals completed the final piece of Odis's previous research: an energy storage carrier.
He seemed to have already seen an extraordinary and sci-fi world, a world full of mystical symbols and spheres emitting soft light.
Odis held the sphere with trembling hands, then suddenly remembered that the most important thing now was to see if the sphere of light could also store spiritual energy for three months.
However, Odis discovered that the spirituality within this sphere was not saturated.
Since we are observing storage time, we must first ensure that the spirituality is in a saturated state.
So Odis continued to infuse the sphere with spiritual energy, and soon the sphere became slightly brighter and as hard as crystal.
Odis used the power of the "Wilderness of Knowledge" again to replicate the glowing crystal and speed up the flow of time. To Odis's surprise, the sphere stayed lit for more than a year!
He started pacing excitedly again, but quickly calmed down once more.
A new question arose before him: how were these tiny crystals formed?
Then Odis picked up the glass rod and turned over the heated soil.
Previously, the silt and soil were heated together, but small crystals appeared in the silt, while there was nothing in the soil!
This first rules out the possibility that the special environment of the "Forsaken Land" produced those small crystals.
Odis paced back and forth in thought, then sat down to ponder. Suddenly, he remembered that he had just discovered that the mutations in the "mutated blood flukes" and "mutated castor beans" were even greater! And both of these were in the swamp, right around where he had obtained the bucket of sludge.
Odis seemed to see a glimmer of light. He continued to think along these lines and came to a conjecture: because the extraordinary power affected the soil and the silt to different degrees, the silt, which was more affected, produced those small crystals.
Soon, Odis had a further conjecture: this strength standard was likely the influence of the "demigod" level. Small crystals could appear due to the influence of beings above the demigod level, but not those below the demigod level.
It could also be at the angel level, but the probability is low, because if there were such a powerful sealing artifact in the swamp outside Silver City, Silver City couldn't have been completely unaware of it all these years.
Odis rose excitedly once more, envisioning ways to confirm it.
If it were someone else, they would need to find a demigod-level helper, but Odis doesn't need to, because after advancing to Sequence 7, the "Central Simulator" can already simulate the abilities and power of a demigod.
So Odis returned to the real world, pulled up the potted plants she had been growing, and sent the pots and soil into the "wilderness of knowledge".
After shoveling some soil, Odis used the "Central Simulator" to simulate demigod-level power and then applied it to the soil.
After the effects persisted for a few seconds, Odis quickly heated the crystals, and they reappeared.
As he heated the crystal, Odis pondered the problem and soon found the reason for its appearance: divinity!
After reaching Sequence 4, divinity is attained, albeit in small quantities.
In Odis's "Extraordinary Model", divinity plays a very important role!
It now appears that divinity has even altered the fundamental matter of this world, transforming ordinary soil into something extraordinary.