Chapter 246: The Dawn Here is Quiet
After everything was set on track, Bai Mo refocused most of his thoughts on the path ahead.
The wild monsters in the VR world lost his control, reverting to the level of ordinary AI. Consequently, they no longer offered high rewards, but for most ordinary people participating in the game, at least these clumsy enemies made it easier for them to grind for experience.
"What exactly is this Primal Matter that constitutes the true spirit?"
Bai Mo ultimately decided to name the entity comprising his "true self," formed from an unknown substance, as the "true spirit," and the substance that constituted this true spirit as Primal Matter.
At present, he was the only one who truly knew of this substance's existence, so naming it was a rather arbitrary affair.
Yet he knew that before too long, others, like Chen Bo, would gradually uncover fragments of it, until the full truth was revealed.
"Activate." Bai Mo initiated his secret maneuver, unleashing a mind control wave on those responsible for monitoring Tianzhong City's Spirit Energy Network.
This control wave was a Spirit Art he had secretly developed by referencing the Spirit Hub of the executed leader of the Tianqing Rebellion. While ineffective against Ability Users above the Life Field Stage, it was more than enough to control these few soldiers responsible for monitoring.
After confirming everyone was under control, the countless underground pipelines of the Spirit Energy Network, along with the spirit fluid runes etched upon them, began to glow, and the energy reserved in the energy pool slowly diminished.
With every passing second, Bai Mo could feel his abilities growing at a compound rate of over ten percent, a surge that only ceased after twenty seconds.
"Sevenfold, my abilities have increased by sevenfold." He felt the explosive growth of power within him and arrived at this figure.
Through the resonance from the same will-Primal Matter and countless resonant amplification arrays, Bai Mo achieved the transmission of power between Tianzhong City's Spirit Energy Network and the experimental area's Spirit Energy Network.
"Unfortunately, I'm getting stronger every day, and the already established Spirit Energy Networks can't be re-calibrated. The amplification factor will only continue to decrease."
He still remembered that on the day Tianzhong City's Spirit Energy Network was completed, his estimated amplification factor was tenfold, but now, due to his continuous strengthening, the amplification factor had shrunk to sevenfold.
However, as new networks in other cities were continuously built, the resonance factor would once again rise.
The nuclear power plant connected to the network supplied full energy to the Spirit Energy Network and the supercomputer behind Bai Mo, allowing him to maximize his abilities.
After testing, his divine sense, when fully concentrated and sevenfold enhanced, was sufficient to perceive the endless oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air.
And with full concentration of his psionic power, he could precisely tear apart biological macromolecules like proteins.
But none of this was the main point. What Bai Mo truly wanted to know was what exactly the Primal Matter that constituted his true spirit was.
Ordinarily, he could only sense its existence through his divine sense, but optical methods and electron microscopes failed to detect it. His true spirit was as mysterious as a ghost.
Unfortunately, despite numerous attempts and exhausting every method, Bai Mo was still unable to perceive the internal structure of the Primal Matter.
Even now, possessing a sevenfold enhanced divine sense, he couldn't see the essence of the Primal Matter, as if it weren't composed of atoms at all.
According to the maximum perception accuracy of his divine sense, Bai Mo could already "see" the atomic structure of matter, but Primal Matter remained a blur in his perception, other than the fact that he could control it.
Helpless, he had no choice but to terminate this experiment and restore everything to its original state.
The energy reserve pool slowly began to replenish, the spirit energy radiance on the runes gradually extinguished, and the Spirit Energy Network returned to standby mode. Only the Primal Matter on the runes continued to voraciously devour energy, day and night.
Under the dual influence of thought induction and mind control, the few soldiers responsible for monitoring remained completely unaware that they had been controlled moments ago. Everything on the dashboard concerning the Spirit Energy Network also appeared to be operating normally.
Inside an ordinary apartment in Bo Yi City, on the border of the Huaxia Federation.
"Young man, do you seek vengeance?" the uninvited guest, cloaked in a black hood, uttered.
"Who are you?!" The young man clearly harbored extreme distrust towards the stranger who had abruptly appeared behind him.
"Don't be nervous, Ning Yan Huo. If I wished to kill you, you would already be dead," the cloaked figure said in an inhuman voice. "I've come to make a deal with you. Don't you wish to eradicate the One-Wheel Cult?"
"How—how could you know!" Ning Yan Huo became highly agitated after his inner secret was exposed.
"Ten years ago, your parents, fruit merchants, got into a dispute with followers of the One-Wheel Cult over some apples. Ultimately, they were surrounded and beaten to death during the argument. However, due to the authorities' priority of 'stability' and 'the greater good' at the time, their cause of death was officially recorded as death by brawl, resulting in only minor compensation for you, and the killers received light sentences..."
"Snap!" As the black-robed figure narrated the events in detail, he grew increasingly indignant, squeezing the pencil in his hand tighter and tighter until it finally broke in two.
"Speak. What do you want?" Though fury had already turned his eyes bloodshot, Ning Yan Huo forced himself to suppress his outburst. After placing down the broken pencil, he asked, enunciating each word.
"You are still too weak, merely a mid-level First Tier. This is a crystal card with a hundred thousand Contribution Points. When you advance to the upper-level Third Tier, which is to say, after you enter the Unmelting Realm, I will come find you again."
"My poor test scores are because my ability isn't suited for combat..." he explained, to himself, not caring if the other party was listening.
"Inside the package are a plan and a list. Follow the instructions, and with the spirit materials and potions in the package, you'll have a chance to reach the level I require within a year," the black-robed figure said, pulling a package from his hood and placing it on the young man's desk. "If you fail to achieve my goal within a year, then you won't be worth any further investment from me."
"Why?" Ning Yan Huo casually glanced at the contents of the package, discovering they were all priceless cultivation materials. The crystal card in his hand was indeed genuine. Even if he worked his entire life, he couldn't afford the things laid out before him, and he didn't believe in a free lunch.
"When you deal with the devil, the price is your soul," the black-robed figure said faintly.
"Even if you truly are the devil, I accept it! As long as I can complete my plan of vengeance, what does it matter if I give you everything!" Over the past decade, Ning Yan Huo's mind had been completely twisted by hatred. To achieve this almost impossible revenge, he was willing to pay any price.
"Good luck."
"Oh, right, aren't you worried I'll just take these things and leave?"
"The endless abyss watches you..." After saying this, the black-robed figure vanished from the room.
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