Chapter 236: Mental Infection
In this regard, the values of both were strangely similar; both were individuals utterly devoid of moral concepts.
"Whether their possession succeeded or failed, to me, they would still be strangers," Bai Mo stated calmly. "However, for the sake of rebirth, they were willing to pay any price."
He had conducted experiments, allowing Unmelting Realm ability users to continuously output the most gentle spirit energy flow into an ordinary person's body. If this was maintained for one to two days, ordinary people would have a certain chance to awaken abilities.
But the cost was that the ability user serving as the output source would experience a significant regression in power, and this regression wasn't temporary; it would take at least three months to half a year of re-cultivation to restore their original state.
Due to the error in this experiment, Bai Mo also compensated the participants of this voluntary experiment with a considerable amount of money. Although most of those who participated in that experiment were originally volunteers hoping for their beloved kin to also embark on the path of cultivation.
Only upon reaching the Unmelting Realm, and after an ability user had sufficient control over the spirit energy within their body, would they have the chance to use such a "conferring" method.
Otherwise, once the spirit energy lost control, not only would the ordinary person receiving the conferment die on the spot, but the other party would also be injured.
On the Contribution Points system, Bai Mo's price for this method was one thousand points. Regrettably, fewer than three thousand copies had been sold so far.
"After all, it's their future new body, so of course, they'd be willing to give up anything. They staked everything on this possession."
"No wonder what?"
"Originally, according to my calculations, your power alone couldn't allow tens of thousands of people to gain abilities."
"But after hearing your words, I realized I forgot to consider those soul aggregates intending to possess bodies—they invested everything into this grand gamble."
"Among the millions of departed souls in Tianhai, there must also be tens of thousands of ability user souls," Bai Mo articulated his thoughts, one sentence after another.
"That's right," Yu Xi said, swinging her legs. "The abilities those fellows gained were actually the abilities my 'brothers and sisters' possessed in life, because the higher the commonality, the easier it is for them to possess."
"Abilities don't necessarily have to be tied to what you call Spirit Hubs." It used telekinesis to throw a small rubber ball in the room towards Bai Mo.
"Hmm." Thinking of his body composed of Primal Matter, and how this current avatar could also use abilities and Spirit Arts, Bai Mo gently tossed the rubber ball back with telekinesis.
"Let's truly discuss cultivation." He transmitted such a mental wave.
Yu Xi's instincts allowed her to establish mental links with other beings, forming a collective consciousness, but the prerequisite was that the other party had to be far weaker than herself.
Bai Mo was very curious about such a collective consciousness's views on the new world and the cultivation system, and given its mental capacity, the things it had pondered over in the past few years must be extremely complex.
Although the shell it possessed looked like a little girl, and it had only manifested in this world for a few years, having assimilated the memories of countless individuals, its psychological age would undoubtedly be far more mature than that of an ordinary person.
As the one who initiated the conversation, Bai Mo first transmitted some of his own thoughts.
And subsequently, the two were like computers transferring data, their back-and-forth mental waves each time transmitting data far exceeding the information conveyed by words.
On one side was a Hundred-Thought level mental ability user, assisted by a supercomputer; on the other was a terrifying being composed of countless fragments of will, inherently a Ten Thousand-Thought level entity.
Bai Mo was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of thought threads, but relying on the auxiliary equipment behind him, the speed of a single thought's operation far exceeded the other party's.
The two learned and discussed with each other in this small house, rapidly verifying their ideas. The constant back-and-forth mental waves even caused the small objects around them to subtly vibrate.
Inside the experimental facility, Bai Mo, lying in the conduction pod, impatiently gathered all his other avatars and simultaneously began a multitude of experiments to verify some newly acquired ideas.
As he continued his experiments, with his main body in the pod as the center, a faint, deep blue starry sky continuously expanded outwards.
The vampires on the first underground floor had already been relocated elsewhere by this time. The space they left behind also became Bai Mo's experimental area, and at this moment, it was entirely enveloped by the starry sky.
Referencing the structure of the other party as a mental entity, Bai Mo also attempted to use his mental power to create a powerful mental entity within his starry sky manifestation.
Because he felt that he, who was constantly growing stronger through the proliferation of Primal Matter, still had a very long way to go before his manifestation could materialize, his idea was to first construct a purely non-physical starry sky mental network.
Thus, formless and intangible mental power, under Bai Mo's active guidance, attempted to connect with the equally illusory stars within his manifestation.
Threads of mental power quickly hooked onto several of the stars. And with the continuous supply of mental power, the network's scope gradually expanded, slowly spreading outwards from a corner of the starry sky...
At this point, the exchange had reached its end. The two, each with their own plans, tacitly bid farewell to each other, and Bai Mo's avatar vanished from Su Zhe City.
After learning the full story, he understood that in fact, long before they arrived, everything had already been decided.
According to what she said, the reason the mental entities were drawn by the spell that day was merely because some weaker competitors hadn't yet found living hosts to possess, and were making their final efforts.
The network continued to expand rapidly, quickly consuming Bai Mo's mental power, to the point that even he, a monster renowned for the sheer quantity of his mental power, had to resort to consuming elixirs.
Piles upon piles of spiritual materials were consumed and transformed into mental power, but the number of stars within the starry sky manifestation seemed endless. So in the end, he could only temporarily halt his network-building operation.
Because he discovered that if he continued to devour spiritual materials like a whale, he would develop a significant tolerance, which would negatively impact future expansion.
The starry sky manifestation enveloped the entire experimental facility, but the people here had already grown accustomed to intermittent strange occurrences. After looking up at the sky, they all continued with their work.
The starry sky mental network, residing in the boundless distant heights, was imperceptible to anyone other than Bai Mo. They only felt that a certain part of the stars seemed slightly different, but no one could articulate what exactly was different.
Yet, under the shroud of starlight, everyone felt that their speed of thought had gradually improved, and many cultivation difficulties that had previously stumped them now showed signs of resolution.
Even the few Unmelting Realm ability users responsible for security work felt that the bottleneck of cerebral spirit energy transformation that had long plagued them seemed to have somewhat loosened. These methods of mental infection were all things Bai Mo had learned from his exchange with Yu Xi.
He looked at the contemplative crowd and casually pointed towards his assistant.
Chen Xi, who was already deep in thought, suddenly felt as if she were bathed in the light of a god of wisdom. All her questions could instantly receive perfect answers, requiring no further thought; it was almost as if she were about to ascend to immortality.
Her entire vision was filled with boundless white light. Various luminous figures resembling her own silhouette appeared before her, as if she had arrived in the paradise spoken of by the Luminous Holy Church.
"Come..."
"Join us..."
"Welcome..."
Countless voices, identical to hers, swirled in her ears. They were so intimate, and as irresistible as the warm white light, making her unable to resist throwing herself into the ocean of light behind them.
Yet, precisely at the moment Chen Xi was about to step in, everything suddenly vanished. Completely drained of strength, she stumbled and fell heavily, and the fall left her drenched in a cold sweat!.
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