Chapter 322: Different Paths, Same Destination
The Primal Matter, originally dispersed, gradually re-coalesced into a single whole within Bai Mo's body after the various Towers of Heaven-Human Unity were completed and the matter returned to him.
This was also the first time he truly felt the entirety of his power. Supported by psionic power and divine sense of such precision, he could finally use his divine sense to observe and interfere with the world at the molecular, and even atomic, level.
The unparalleled power that had only fleetingly appeared during the Daoization Tribulation eight years prior could now, at last, be partially actualized.
Bai Mo incrementally refined the precision of his divine sense, pushing it to his new limit, before concentrating it entirely upon a single drop of water suspended before him.
As the drop of water in his vision continuously magnified, an unimaginable world gradually revealed itself before his eyes, where the boundaries between particles and waves began to blur.
Under the scrutiny of his divine sense, countless atoms, with the exception of a small area around their nuclei that remained perfectly solid due to insufficient observational precision, revealed their outer electron clouds to Bai Mo for the first time as probability clouds.
They resembled colorful ice cream melting halfway, with a solid core of unmelted ice cream surrounded by the liquefied, amorphous, colorful portion.
In clusters upon clusters, they simultaneously displayed their wave-particle duality, superimposing and influencing one another, ultimately composing an exquisitely complex symphony.
But through this process of directly confronting such a bizarre and fantastical world, Bai Mo gained the most intuitive understanding of the quantum mechanics that governed the universe's microscopic realm.
If he relied solely on his own information processing capabilities, at least a third of that information would suffer significant precision loss, introducing countless complexities to his cognitive puzzle of the water world. And all of this was merely the information contained within a single, tiny drop of water.
To Bai Mo at this moment, a mere drop of water seemed to conceal an entire ocean, with the countless water molecules' chaotic movements rendering this miniature world an utter mess.
As his comprehension deepened, a thought gradually formed: the so-called Elementization was very likely a controlled macro-level wave-particle duality transformation.
When attacked, one could actively convert the macroscopic matter constituting their body into ethereal matter waves, the so-called de Broglie waves, achieving the powerful effect of nullifying conventional physical attacks.
Concurrently, theoretically, a particle could be observed appearing on the Moon, or it could be observed appearing in some corner of Earth; only the probability of the two was not the same.
If one could truly control this probability, Bai Mo believed that unlimited long-distance instantaneous teleportation might be born, and omnipresence within the universe's space could also become a reality. He just couldn't imagine what immense power would be required to truly achieve this.
At present, the former, his hypothesized Elementization, was somewhat possible to achieve. However, this too would require enormous computational power and terrifying information processing capabilities as support; his current realm was still far from sufficient.
According to Bai Mo's estimates, at least a level of five thousand to ten thousand units of psychic power would be required to genuinely support a portion of the body for recoverable Elementization. Otherwise, it would be, as his previous test in Florence demonstrated, a purely suicidal, one-way runic transformation without the ability to revert to its original state.
After comprehending these insights, he truly began to deeply develop his fundamental ability: psionic power.
Whether it was using psionic power to control firearms or other weapons for attack, manipulating water vapor to create illusions, or even controlling air to create a vacuum—to his current self, these techniques held little significance. The hundreds of universal Spirit Arts he had created were already perfectly capable of replacing all of them.
Such levels of ability development were mostly pursued because there were no alternatives, thus necessitating innovative thinking.
Essentially, most of the aforementioned techniques leveraged various means to amplify the power behind psionic ability. While perhaps excellent techniques in low-level combat, they were utterly insufficient from his current vantage point.
In his view, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. After being able to truly interfere with the microscopic world, the greatest use of psionic power was not destruction, but creation.
Psionic power capable of fluidly performing atomic-level manipulation, even with the equivalent of only half a drop of water, could accomplish truly a myriad of things.
With a light flick of his finger, a test stone before him was cleaved into two halves. The cut was so perfectly straight and smooth that it would put any cutting machine to shame, for he had used psionic power to directly counteract the intermolecular forces on both sides of the cut, as if using an invisible blade to slice through the gaps between molecules, causing them to separate into two pieces.
If atomic and molecular cutting was possible, then molecular synthesis could naturally be performed in reverse. Using a few easily obtainable elements, Bai Mo could at any time synthesize trace amounts of the millions of common organic compounds found in human society.
Perhaps a quantity of only tens of milligrams might seem insignificant, less than a typical pill. However, if what was synthesized was botulinum toxin, with a lethal dose of 0.01 milligrams for an ordinary person, then the problem would be considerably grave.
Aside from synthesizing new substances through psionic molecular engineering, he was also experimenting with other things.
On a macroscopic level, he continuously transferred away the internal energy of the water drop using his energy absorption ability. From a microscopic perspective, the irregular motion speed of the water molecules could be observed to decrease significantly; macroscopically, the water drop began to transform into ice crystals.
Next, he switched to using psionic power to interfere, attempting to achieve a similar effect. Under the influence of psionic power, the thermal motion of the water molecules continued to be "suppressed."
Just as one might use their hand to grasp lively, wriggling fish, the invisible hand of psionic power incessantly reduced the intensity of each water molecule's thermal motion.
However, after reaching a certain point, Bai Mo felt that the resistance under his psionic power increased almost exponentially, quickly making him feel somewhat powerless. At this moment, he measured the temperature of the ice flower and found it had reached negative one hundred fifteen degrees Celsius.
"Whether it's my psionic power, Ye Zi's energy transmission, or Chen Bo's internal energy control, all eventually converge on the goal of mastering microscopic particles; it's just that each chose a different starting point."
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