119: Chapter 119 Spiritual Source

Time passed rapidly.

March 5th.

Chen Mo's combat power broke through 90,000, reaching 90,002.

This meant that Chen Mo had already touched the threshold of the Peak of the fourth rank, and the door to the fifth rank had opened.

But Chen Mo knew clearly that he had just broken through to the Constant Source Realm less than two months ago, and he had not even traversed half the path of the Constant Source Realm.

Condensing Source Power into Hengyuan Force was merely a qualitative leap; the accumulation of Hengyuan Force was still far from Perfection.

The progression from the fourth Realm to the fifth Realm was not a simple accumulation of quantitative changes; it was another morphological leap, and he was currently still at the first step.

The closer one got to the limit within a rank, the greater the difficulty of improvement.

The difficulty of increasing combat power from 90,000 to 95,000 was several times that of going from 80,000 to 90,000.

The closer one approached the fourth-rank limit, the more massive the accumulation required for every single point of combat power improvement.

He had also been continuously searching for information regarding the sixth rank on the public domain.

But the results were completely blank.

Chen Mo had scoured the deep records of the communication zone countless times and had even asked a few questions anonymously.

But no one knew.

Those civilizations that had been active in the public domain for months, those technical documents shared under real names by the Tianzhi Race, none of them touched upon the sixth rank.

It was as if everything above the fifth rank was a completely different dimension.

The gap was too large.

Chen Mo recorded these blanks.

It was not because no one had ever reached the sixth rank, but because this region was too remote.

The 18,460,000th region was located on the outermost edge of the Spirit Energy Universe network and was among the last batch of regions to be covered.

The truly cutting-edge information was all in deeper Star Domains.

To reach it, one could only move toward Star Domains with higher Spiritual Qi concentrations.

Chen Mo withdrew his focus back to himself.

His Inner World was continuously growing stronger.

The amplification had already reached 13.1 times.

Body, Mental Power, Hengyuan Force, Force Field—the Inner World integrated all levels of power into a single whole.

And the Inner World was also growing stronger as the whole grew stronger.

However, regarding the sixth-rank control and the path of the Outer World, there had been no progress at all.

But Chen Mo was not anxious.

The Infinite Growth ability allowed him to continuously grow stronger.

Even if the control Realm never broke through, the volume of the Inner World itself would continue to grow, the amplification multiplier would continue to rise, and the base power would constantly accumulate.

He did not need to immediately cross every Bottleneck; he only needed to keep time on his side.

And time had always been on his side.

May 15th.

Combat power: 93,345.

After nearly eighty days of accumulation, his combat power had steadily increased.

During this period, he had often paid attention to the combat power rankings of the Spirit Energy Universe.

Cang's data was constantly updating, his combat power rising from 36,732 to 38,645.

The growth rate was not bad.

But compared to Chen Mo's growth during the same period, his combat power had increased by nearly 9,000 points in the last eighty days.

This number was not impressive.

Chen Mo only displayed a portion of his combat power on the rankings, 13,756, maintaining his sixth-place position.

The Regional Genius Tournament had not yet begun, and the reward settlement for the combat power rankings was years away.

There was no point in exposing his full strength too early.

He was in the shadows, while Cang was in the light; although the Tianzhi Race might also have hidden means, judging from the current data.

If this was all of Cang's strength, then the gap between him and himself was not only not narrowing, but it was continuing to widen.

Combat power was the ultimate litmus test. The system was the foundation, and combat power was the result.

No matter how brilliant the system was, if the combat power could not go up, it would not work.

The basic power and growth speed of both sides were no longer on the same order of magnitude.

Judging from these data, Cang's strength and rate of improvement were too weak and too slow for Chen Mo.

He didn't even count as an opponent.

Unless he was hiding even deeper than himself.

Besides Cang, the other names on the rankings remained those familiar existences.

Man Qi, He Hengyu, Ying Shi, Qing Zhu.

Even their rankings had not changed, only their combat power values were steadily increasing.

The competitive landscape within the region had stabilized.

June 7th.

Chen Mo was Cultivating in the starry sky.

Hengyuan Force was constantly tempering within his body.

Then he perceived it: the Spiritual Qi concentration had leaped, increasing to 150 times its initial value.

At the moment of the Breakthrough, the world also changed.

In Chen Mo's perception, dozens of energy bodies appeared out of thin air.

They were distributed across the globe.

They were in the sky, the ocean, and on the ground.

Each one was an energy condensate, irregular in shape but tending toward a spherical form, with a diameter no larger than a fist.

But the energy density they contained caused Chen Mo's attention to instantly focus.

The amount of Spiritual Qi contained in each energy body was close to one ten-millionth of the total Hengyuan Force currently in Chen Mo's body.

One ten-millionth.

This ratio sounded very small.

But Chen Mo's total Hengyuan Force was already thousands upon thousands of times that of conventional Source Power.

For an ordinary third-rank Evolver, this single energy body would be enough to equal their accumulation of several weeks.

The next instant, Chen Mo appeared in front of the energy body nearest to him.

Chen Mo hovered at a position less than three meters away from the energy sphere.

It did not emit light, but when touched with Mental Perception, one could feel an extremely pure energy resonance.

He looked downward.

A valley, densely vegetated; the trees that had grown anew after the disaster had already reached over a hundred meters in height.

This energy sphere was suspended above a broad-leaf tree, slowly descending.

It fell into the canopy, passed through the branches and leaves, and merged into the trunk.

The tree began to change.

In a few seconds, the trunk thickened by a full circle; the cracks on the bark were pushed open from the inside by new tissue, the old bark peeled off, and new bark was generated within seconds.

The canopy expanded outward, new branches sprouted from old ones, and leaves unfolded simultaneously.

Within seconds, the size of the entire tree doubled.

The root system spread outward underground at the same speed.

Chen Mo's perception delved into the interior of the tree.

The plant showed no signs of stopping its transformation.

In the center of the trunk, something was gestating.

That thing was not a fruit, not a seed; it was some kind of more complex existence.

The way energy circulated within the tree constituted an extremely primitive cycle; the tree was undergoing Awakening.

Chen Mo reached out his hand and wrapped another drifting energy body with his Hengyuan Force.

He could not touch it directly with his hand.

This thing had no physical form; it was a pure energy aggregate.

The moment it made physical contact, it would be directly absorbed.

Perception delved in. There was no life.

There was no consciousness.

It was just energy.

Pure, highly concentrated energy aggregated in a certain specific way.

They were appearing all over the world. The quantity was not large, but they were still being generated continuously.

The distribution locations were random.

After Chen Mo confirmed this, he did not rashly absorb the energy body in his hand.

Instead, he opened the Spirit Energy Universe and entered the public domain.

On the platform of the 18,467,000th region, the discussion had already exploded.

Countless races had discovered the same phenomenon at the same time.

The energy bodies appeared simultaneously throughout the region, with random distribution locations.

This was not unique to Blue Star; it was happening synchronously across the entire region.

Chen Mo quickly browsed through it.

Some asked what this thing was.

Some speculated it was a natural phenomenon triggered after the Spiritual Qi concentration reached a certain threshold.

Some were already trying to absorb it, and some had already succeeded.

The replies were varied; well-reasoned speculations and pure nonsense each took up half.

Then he caught a new message.

The publisher was a race that had never appeared on the platform before. The Machine Intelligence Race.

Their information was concise and direct:

"This is a substance called 'Spiritual Source'."

"When the Spiritual Qi concentration reaches a certain stage, the world will naturally produce this phenomenon.

The reason is the cosmic evolution and expansion triggered by Spiritual Qi.

While expanding, cosmic space also compresses Spiritual Qi; the two interact, and only then are these Spiritual Sources produced.

Spiritual Source is completely different from ordinary spirit energy particles."

Chen Mo continued reading downward.

"The power contained in Spiritual Source can allow living beings to develop intelligence and evolve.

Not just living beings; even objects with absolutely no characteristics of life can develop intelligence as long as they absorb enough Spiritual Source."

Chen Mo's eyebrows raised very slightly.

Even inanimate objects could do it.

Chen Mo thought.

The production of Spiritual Source was the natural result of cosmic space compressing Spiritual Qi after the Spiritual Qi concentration broke through a critical value.

This meant that Spiritual Source would become more and more abundant as the Spiritual Qi concentration continued to climb.

Then, as Spiritual Source continued to be produced within the region, countless new life forms would be born.

Energy life might be condensing its first energy core at the edge of some nebula.

Digital life might already be operating autonomously in the abandoned servers of some civilization.

Even rocks, glaciers, and oceans, as long as they absorbed enough Spiritual Source, might open their eyes one day.

Planets might also develop consciousness.

Thinking one step further.

Stars.

A star itself was a huge energy body; inside was continuous nuclear fusion, and the balance of magnetic fields and gravity maintained stability for billions of years.

If Spiritual Source was absorbed by a star, and if the Spiritual Source accumulated inside the star reached a certain threshold, the star itself might also develop consciousness.

At the forefront of Spiritual Energy Revival, there might already be the existence of stellar life.

Chen Mo ended his deduction.

The appearance of Spiritual Source was just a signal; the true reshuffling of the landscape had not yet begun.