Chapter 25: Supernatural Nature
In Laboratory D,

The eight candles that were originally burning went out on their own.

Wang Xiaoming released his hand that was tightly pressed against the bronze tripod. He did not react at all, but Li Jun opposite him felt dizzy and staggered, as if he was about to fall.

Wang Xiaoming hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Jun and let him sit on the sofa in the rest area.

"How did it become like this? Didn't I tell you to speak out if you can't hold on any longer?" Wang Xiaoming frowned and spoke in a stern tone.

Facing Wang Xiaoming's questioning, Li Jun did not explain, but looked excited instead!

"Hahaha... Professor, don't be angry. I'm fine. I'm doing fine now." Li Jun first said that he was fine and there was no need to worry. Then he changed the subject and said, "Do you know what I just discovered?"

"What happened?" Seeing Li Jun's excited expression, Wang Xiaoming felt something unusual.

"Just now in the formation, the spiritual revival in my body was suppressed." Li Jun whispered in Wang Xiaoming's ear.

"What?!" Wang Xiaoming was extremely surprised.

Li Jun's words resounded in his heart like thunder, causing his heartbeat to speed up. He seemed to have thought of something.

"It's true, professor." Li Jun continued:

"During the few minutes in the formation, the spiritual power in my body was drained, and the erosion of the will-o'-the-wisp fire on my body was also alleviated a little. Although the effect is very weak, I can indeed sense that the degree of recovery of the will-o'-the-wisp fire has been weakened."

Can extracting the supernatural power of the ghost rider alleviate the revival of the supernatural?
Is this true?
Wang Xiaoming fell into deep thought——

The function of the ritual is to transform other supernatural powers into another kind of supernatural power. To put it simply, it is the transformation between supernatural runes.

Reducing the number of spiritual runes will affect spiritual revival. Conversely, spiritual revival is the proliferation of spiritual runes. When the number of spiritual runes proliferates to a certain extent, spiritual revival will occur.

So……

Wang Xiaoming turned his gaze to a golden box in the observation room, where Wei Jing, who was on the verge of spiritual resurrection, was imprisoned.

If we follow the idea just now, the closer the ghost rider is to spiritual revival, the more spiritual runes should be contained in his body, then -

How many magical runes are contained in Wei Jing’s blood now?

Although the temptation was great, Wang Xiaoming did not bring Wei Jing out. First, Wei Jing was attacked by the spirits and only his skin was left, so it was not easy for him to "whip the corpse". Second, he had other ways to verify it.

"Li Jun, I need a lot of supernatural power blood, how much can you provide?"

Wang Xiaoming was a little anxious. He now wanted to continue performing ritual magic to verify some ideas.

"I don't know either, but the ghost tree in my body has crashed. It's not stressful for me to control it, and it should be able to provide a lot." Li Jun said.

"it is good."

Wang Xiaoming found a huge beaker that could hold about two or three liters.

Li Jun did not hesitate. He used the knife he carried with him to cut open the skin on his arm, revealing the flesh and blood. He then secretly activated the regenerative power of the ghost tree. He saw more and more blood in the beaker, and soon the beaker was full.

Unlike the blood of ordinary people, the life of a ghost rider is sustained by supernatural powers, and their blood smells very bad.

Wang Xiaoming first extracted a portion of blood from the beaker as a specimen, and placed the rest where Li Jun had just stood in the ritual magic.

He took out the yellow paper used to fake death from the bronze tripod, without even checking it, and replaced it with ten sheets of ordinary yellow paper, lit eight candles, and then started the ceremony as before.

This time he placed only ten pieces of yellow paper, so the spiritual energy consumption was relatively much less, and the ceremony lasted much shorter.

When the ceremony ended, the blood in the beaker had not changed at all and still emitted an unusual fishy smell.

Wang Xiaoming did not despise him. He took the beaker and came to the workbench with a microscope. He first examined the blood drawn before the ceremony began. He did not find any abnormalities through the combination of clairvoyance skills.

The number of runes in this drop of blood was the same as what he had seen a few days ago, and the density of the runes was also about the same.

This was probably because the magical runes consumed in transforming fifty pieces of fake death yellow paper had little effect on Li Jun. After all, there were two evil ghosts living in his body.

Then he replaced it with a sample of blood that had just been extracted from the beaker, but using the naked eye and a microscope, he could see no difference between the two.

But when Wang Xiaoming opened his psychic vision, he found that the extraordinary light of this blood was obviously much weaker. When he used the psychic vision combination skill, he saw that the spiritual runes in the blood were obviously much sparser than the previous specimen, and many of the runes gathered together were incomplete.

He then used his psychic vision to look at the beaker and walked around it. The supernatural light in the beaker dimmed and the color changed consistently, indicating that the ritual extracted supernatural power evenly.

In other words, the extraction of supernatural runes is average.

No...that's not right. Supernatural powers are supernatural runes, and supernatural runes are supernatural powers.

If the way humans use energy is to boil water, then the way the supernatural uses energy is to turn rules into runes and use runes to represent energy.

They exploit the rules directly.

Spiritual runes can generate energy and also use energy.

Supernatural runes are the foundation. Without supernatural runes, there would be no supernatural power.

During the ritual, the spiritual runes on Li Jun's body were evenly extracted, destroying the process of spiritual revival, which was equivalent to suppressing Li Jun's spiritual revival in disguise.

The revival of the spirit...

Rune proliferation...

Wang Xiaoming recalled these two words in his mind. At this moment, he was basically certain that the essence of the supernatural was the supernatural runes. It was all speculation before, but now he had experimental evidence.

However, knowing these things at the moment is not of much use to him. The nature of the supernatural should be something he should consider after he reaches a high sequence.

Now he needs to consider whether this ritual formation can help the ghost rider suppress the revival of the supernatural.

Finally he came to the conclusion - yes, but it can only be used in emergencies or for a small number of people, because every time he uses ritual magic, he needs to draw spiritual runes, which consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

The effect was not very good according to Li Jun's description. It was not worth it for him. It not only consumed his energy but also wasted his time. It would be better for him to focus on digesting the potion.

"Professor." Li Jun looked at Wang Xiaoming and said, "Do you need more blood?"

"No, I need to rest." Wang Xiaoming came back to his senses. Only one third of his spiritual power was left in his body. It would be dangerous to perform ritual magic again. He should recover first.

However, when Wang Xiaoming scanned the blood in the beaker, an idea suddenly came to his mind.

"Can we use Li Jun's psychic power to create blood that contains Li Jun's power? That way we don't have to imprison the man in the suit?"

Although this idea may seem redundant, there is a difference.

Li Jun used the ghost wood to produce blood, in plain words he was using the power of evil spirits to multiply spiritual runes. There was a risk of spiritual revival, but through ritual formations there was no risk of evil spirit revival, instead the evil spirits in the body would be suppressed.

"Forget it." Wang Xiaoming finally gave up the idea.

The first reason is that once the headquarters knows the secret formula of the supernatural gunpowder, the suit man must be imprisoned, and the supernatural volcano must be explored and sealed off. This will not change with personal will.

The second reason is the same as why he gave up the idea of ​​using ritual formations to suppress the ghost rider's spiritual revival. His sequence is too low. Even if he consumes all his spiritual energy every day, he can't produce much. It is better to focus on those spiritual items that cannot be copied.

At the same time, Zhao Jianguo, who was in charge of the headquarters, received a report from his subordinates and saw the surveillance footage of Wang Xiaoming arranging the ritual magic.

Even though Zhao Jianguo had witnessed various types of supernatural events, he had never seen a scene like this. Although he didn't know what Wang Xiaoming was doing, as the captain of the criminal police team, Zhao Jianguo still felt that he had to do something.

"Who else has seen this video?" Zhao Jianguo immediately called his subordinates.

"I'm the only one who has seen it so far," the subordinate responded calmly and explained, "We in the monitoring team work in shifts, and it happens to be my turn today."

"Is it possible that someone from the military saw it?" Zhao Jianguo asked again. He regretted very much now. He should not have asked the military for help when the research on the magical gunpowder was successful. It would have been better for him to transfer some people from the headquarters.

"It's impossible for them to see it. The military is responsible for the perimeter security, and their monitoring room is very far away from us. It's impossible."

That's good.

Zhao Jianguo couldn't help but feel relieved. Now that the news hadn't spread, he could still control it.

(End of this chapter)