160: Chapter 160 The Birth of Batteries in the Immortal Cultivation World

Wang Bin took out the mysterious Magic Treasure from his Storage Pouch and carefully examined its appearance. This Magic Treasure looked ordinary, just like a common crystal ball; without disassembling it to investigate, it would be impossible to know the hidden mysteries within.

He first tried to inject Spiritual Qi into this crystal ball-shaped Magic Treasure, and as expected, it could absorb a Cultivator's Spiritual Qi.

However, the tiny crack on the crystal ball slowly leaked Spiritual Qi, but fortunately, the leakage rate was much slower than the input Spiritual Qi.

As Spiritual Qi continued to be injected, Wang Bin was surprised to find that this crystal ball could store the total amount of Spiritual Qi equivalent to a Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

This was strange; it was clearly not a Golden Core, yet it possessed such a marvelous Spiritual Qi storage capacity, which greatly piqued Wang Bin's curiosity.

Speaking of which, ever since Wang Bin successfully formed his Core, he had studied the internal structure of his Golden Core, and a preliminary idea of creating a “battery” for the Cultivation World had formed in his mind.

In his opinion, the Golden Core had more powerful functions than ordinary batteries; it could not only absorb and store Spiritual Qi within the Dantian but also convert it into a more Advanced form of energy—Magic Power.

Wang Bin's idea was relatively simple; he only hoped to create something that could store energy and release it on demand.

After testing the Spiritual Qi storage function of the crystal ball Magic Treasure, Wang Bin found that, apart from this, it was difficult to obtain more useful information from it.

Although this crystal ball was classified as a Magic Treasure by the Chu family, it was strangely unrefinable.

This meant that the only way to figure out its specific use was to disassemble it.

However, he only had one crystal ball, and if anything went wrong during the disassembly process, causing it to be damaged, there would be no more opportunities to study it.

Wang Bin hesitated repeatedly internally, but ultimately decided to take a gamble and began to disassemble the crystal ball.

Of course, he did not rashly smash the crystal ball directly, but carefully took some powder from the crack of the crystal ball, intending to study its composition first.

Afterward, Wang Bin spent more than a year consulting various Materials and ancient texts, and also invented various small tools for his research.

Hard work paid off; he finally figured out the composition of the crystal ball's outer surface, which turned out to be primarily High-Grade Spirit Stone powder.

As for the other components, although their exact nature was still unclear, it could be confirmed that their main purpose was to act as a binder and prevent Spiritual Qi leakage.

Since he had already grasped the key information, and there were many alternative Materials that could serve as binders, Wang Bin no longer hesitated.

After another half month of careful operation, he slowly and cautiously disassembled the outer shell of the crystal ball.

When he saw the familiar structures inside the crystal ball, Wang Bin couldn't help but exclaim sincerely:

“The Cultivation World truly has hidden Dragons! I never expected that someone had already created something similar to a ‘battery’ by imitating the structure of a Golden Core.

It's just a pity, whether it was because the technology was not valued or for some other reason, this technology was not passed down and was thus buried in the long river of history.”

The subsequent research progressed quite smoothly; Wang Bin entered seclusion again, spending less than a year, and relying on the structural principles of the unknown Magic Treasure obtained from the Chu family, combined with the knowledge accumulated in his previous life,

He finally successfully modified and created a Second-Grade energy ball, which he directly named energy ball.

As for why it was only a Second-Grade energy ball, this was because Wang Bin had not yet reached the level of a Third-Grade Great Master in Artifact Refining and Formation; to create a Third-Grade energy ball, it would not only be more difficult but also very time-consuming.

However, making a Second-Grade energy ball was relatively much easier for him.

The outer wall Material of the Second-Grade energy ball was made of Medium-Grade Spirit Stone powder; although this Second-Grade energy ball could only store the entire Spiritual Qi of an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator,

This was already enough for Wang Bin; at least, it was perfectly fine for setting up a Third-Grade Formation.

It should be known that a Third-Grade Formation usually has twenty-seven Formation bases, and placing one Second-Grade energy ball in each Formation base means twenty-seven Second-Grade energy balls are more than enough to power one to two Third-Grade Formations.

Of course, to ensure that the energy ball's manufacturing method was not leaked, Wang Bin had to adopt a somewhat unsavory method; perhaps this was also the reason why the previous person who created the energy ball caused its manufacturing method to be lost.

After all, people are selfish, and Cultivators are no exception.

Even if someone broke the Formation and obtained the energy ball made by Wang Bin, it would only be the damaged kind obtained from the Chu family's treasury, making it impossible to know its manufacturing method.

With the energy ball, Wang Bin was finally able to address his Cultivation problems.

He meticulously set up a composite Third-Grade Formation in White Cloud City that combined a solar energy conversion Formation and a Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation.

Among them, the Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation was set up according to the conventional Formation arrangement methods of the Cultivation World, while a large-scale solar energy conversion Formation was set up outside it,

And the Formation bases used in it were not Spirit Stones, but were replaced by Second-Grade energy balls.

During the day, the solar energy conversion Formation would absorb solar energy from the sky to drive the Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation, which would gather a large amount of Spiritual Qi for Cultivators to Cultivate, while the excess Spiritual Qi would be absorbed and stored by the energy balls in the Formation bases.

After the sun set, the energy balls would release the stored energy, continuing to drive the Gathering Spirit Formation, thus ensuring the Formation remained operational in a continuous cycle.

However, this type of Formation also had a flaw: the higher the grade of the Formation, the more solar energy it required, so only one solar energy conversion Formation could be set up in the same area.

After successfully setting up a Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation in White Cloud City, Wang Bin built two new Golden Core Cultivation rooms in the City Lord's inner courtyard.

Based on the situation when a normal Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation operates at full capacity, the Spiritual Qi it gathers is sufficient to meet the Cultivation needs of four Golden Core cultivators.

As the entire Wang family currently only had Wang Bin as a Golden Core cultivator, he built eight more Foundation Establishment Cultivation rooms in the City Lord's mansion,

Some of them were used to produce Spirit Liquid, while the rest were for Du Xiaoyue and others to Cultivate.

At the same time, he also moved the four Foundation Establishment Cultivation rooms from the original Second-Grade Spirit Vein in White Cloud City to the outer city of White Cloud City,

Two of them were allocated to Huang Youcai and Chen Jun for Cultivation, and the other two were kept as spares.

With the successful activation of the Third-Grade Gathering Spirit Formation, the Spiritual Qi concentration in White Cloud City began to gradually become denser.

After two days and two nights of continuous operation, the Spiritual Qi concentration in the two Golden Core Cultivation rooms established by Wang Bin finally reached the standard required for his Cultivation.

This moment was of extraordinary significance to Wang Bin; it marked that Wang Bin had initially broken free from the control of West Sea City.

Du Xiaoyue and Qin Wenjun and others also clearly felt that the Spiritual Qi in their home was becoming increasingly dense; regarding this, Wang Bin simply told them that he had brought back a Second-Grade Spirit Vein.

As for the matter of the energy ball, he chose to keep it a secret, after all, this was the Foundation for him to Cultivate to Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation, and the fewer people who knew, the better.