Chapter 520: Age
"Also, I've received news from the Alliance Leader that the basic infrastructure on the Ark is complete, and the Main God Temple, the points system, and the internal communication network will soon be online.
In the future, if any of you wish to bring someone back while traveling through various planes, you can report it to me. However, the conditions are the same as for Tian Fan.
One last reminder: anyone you bring must possess at least Fourth Tier power, otherwise, it will be very difficult for them to survive during the Ark's movements," Lin Yan Yang said, staring at the eager-eyed Mo Tian Fan.
"Don't worry, she's even stronger than me," Mo Tian Fan replied, understanding implicitly.
"That's good then."
The Ark's leaders understood clearly that to continuously strengthen the entire organization, they had to absorb local elites from different planes. Relying solely on the few people they brought out would make it almost impossible to achieve their ultimate goal of revenge.
"...While the main Origin Seed emerges, there will also be some accompanying remnants of Origin Seeds. We can't covet the large ones, but the smaller ones might be within reach."
After receiving a positive answer, Mo Tian Fan shared the information he had obtained from his girlfriend with everyone present, in front of the Flame Alliance members.
...
It could tell at a glance that these projected consciousnesses were not experts; they were all beings with power comparable to ordinary people in the Manghuang Realm. Letting them participate in the struggle for Origin Seeds deep in the wilderness was no different from sending them to their deaths.
Bai Mo glanced at it but offered no further explanation, instead lowering his head to fiddle with the sword stuck in his chest.
The originally jet-black longsword's blade had been almost half crystallized by his power unconsciously, transforming into an eerie state, half black and half transparent.
At the same time, the body Bai Mo possessed seemed to be struggling to bear the continuous surge of power from the other end of space, gradually becoming transparent itself.
"It seems I've forgotten again what the world looks like through the eyes of an ordinary person."
Having used divine sense for too long, Bai Mo had nearly forgotten the natural appearance of the world as seen by human eyes. The memories previously trapped within Bai's body, now awakened, felt more like third-person videos.
He needed to periodically return to human senses to retain his dwindling humanity, even if it contributed nothing to the growth of his power.
At least Bai Mo knew that the moment he shed all humanity, he would only be met with complete Daoization, not some sudden ascension to godhood.
Depending on the energy level of his body's mass at death, he might transform into a comet, or perhaps a planet, a star; even grander, he would simply dissipate into a lifeless galaxy.
...
Ignoring the Star Beacon beside him, Bai Mo actively shut down his divine sense, attempting to connect to someone's five senses on the ground, using her eyes to observe this world.
Neither he nor the Star Beacon needed to worry about the other launching a sneak attack, for as collective consciousnesses, the destruction of half a clone was utterly inconsequential.
...
"So many blind spots in the vision." After remotely connecting to someone else's perspective, Bai Mo felt extremely uncomfortable.
Accustomed to the 360-degree, molecular-level scanning of his divine sense, suddenly returning to the ordinary human vision that could only look straight ahead felt like a normal person suddenly going blind in their left eye and suffering from 800-degree myopia with astigmatism in their right.
"And... why can't I see my feet anymore?" A sudden shadow blocked the line of sight between his eyes and the soles of his feet. Bai Mo didn't react immediately, only thinking that there was some issue with the visual transition.
"Who's speaking?!" Lu Yuesheng, currently touring the streets, suddenly seemed to hear a familiar voice.
After witnessing the miracle of a hundred thousand people collectively air-dropping into Hanluo City, she thoroughly understood one thing: no matter how hard she strived in this plane, she could never surpass a single thought from a certain individual.
All her previous preparations – the materials hoarded for rebellion, the hidden firearms factory, the trusted subordinates cultivated along the way... everything changed hands in an instant.
Every non-transmigrator human in Hanluo City had, without exception, their bodies occupied by consciousnesses from their Earth counterparts, while their original souls entered a state of slumber.
Thus, heartbroken and deciding to abandon all restraint, Lu Yuesheng simply transformed into a pure spectator, wandering through the city to observe this battle of gods.
The 'cheats' of these two god-like beings were simply too powerful; mortal players had no business interfering.
"You can hear me?" Bai Mo responded.
What he had connected to was precisely Lu Yuesheng's vision.
The stat allocation system he had given her could also be considered a hidden pawn Bai Mo had placed on the Ark.
During Bai Mo's sleep for the first few years after transmigrating, the Ark's main body had already been hidden deep within spatial fissures by the transmigrators, who had become like startled birds. Even for him, finding it was like searching for a needle in a haystack.
To prevent this interesting group of people from completely escaping his notice later, Bai Mo decided to use Lu Yuesheng, who was preparing to board the Ark and join the Flame Alliance, as his eyes to observe their development.
"It really is you... what do you want this time?" Anyone whose blood, sweat, and tears of ten or twenty years of struggle were snatched away without so much as a greeting would naturally be extremely displeased.
"Lengthen your perspective; don't dwell too much on twenty years. This is but a small ripple in our long lives," Bai Mo consoled her, a rare moment of interest in his tone.
"My life, combining both sides, is only forty years. And you're telling me not to care about twenty years?!" Lu Yuesheng was clearly exasperated.
"You were once an Earthling too, not some ancient monster who lived for thousands of years. At most, you couldn't be much older than me, so how did your sense of time become so... fluid?" she asked, greatly perplexed.
"By time measured with clocks, I am indeed not much older than you. But haven't you noticed that as power increases, to match and control a stronger body, one's thoughts also gradually accelerate, and the quantity of information processed per unit of time skyrockets?
So-called experience is essentially the information received and processed, followed by extensive reflection on that information by the brain.
The physical age of intelligent life and their psychological age have never been the same thing.
My power is millions of times yours. In these past few decades, I have received information that an ordinary person couldn't process in a hundred lifetimes...
Unless I completely empty my mind and force myself not to think, the dulling of the spirit seems unavoidable. After all, I've seen and thought about too many things already."
PS1: I'm really sorry, I was busy with exams these past few days, I originally wanted to update more ORZ
PS2: Daily plug for a book, "Golden Word Divine Catcher," it's probably an anti-trope kind of story?.
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