61: Chapter 61 Mental Breakthrough 10

From the day his Mental Power reached 9.6, Chen Mo had sensed the existence of that threshold.

Over the past few days, he had not deliberately pushed for a Breakthrough.

As his Mental Power went from 9.6 to 9.7, and then to 9.8, each increase occurred naturally during his training.

He was not in a rush; Infinite Growth had no Bottleneck, only accumulation.

On October 24th, his Mental Power reached 9.9.

When Chen Mo summoned the system panel, his Mental Power was only 0.1 away from 10.0; that threshold was so thin it felt like it could be shattered in the next set of training.

He closed the system panel and continued his training.

He did not deliberately force himself to reach his absolute limit, but simply held on for a few extra breaths at the limit of each set.

He allowed his body and Mental Power to acclimate a little longer during that moment of peak pressure.

With each instance of maintaining the limit, the threshold wore down a little more.

Like water polishing a stone, the progress was invisible, but every drop played its part.

Two days later.

October 26th, 3:00 PM.

Chen Mo was at the bottom of the lake, performing Basic Muscle Tension Control Training.

His entire body's muscle groups contracted simultaneously under double the load, the force lines of the antagonistic muscle groups intersecting, opposing, and maintaining at every joint.

Water pressure squeezed from all directions, the soreness and swelling seeping out from the depths of his muscles, his Mental Power highly focused while maintaining the limit.

His muscles were burning furiously inside.

In an instant, under the continuous pressure, the threshold was finally worn through.

In that moment, his Mental Power completed a qualitative leap.

Chen Mo felt his consciousness suddenly become clearer than ever before.

His perception was like an invisible net, spreading outward with him as the center, penetrating the lake water, piercing through the rock layers, and bringing everything within a kilometer radius under his control.

Within a kilometer, he could see every trace of the lake water's flow.

The cracks in the cliff walls, the direction in which water plants spread across the lake bottom, the trajectories of fish swimming slowly in the middle layer.

At the same time, the oppressive feeling of the high water pressure remained, and the soreness in his muscles remained, but his understanding of these sensations had completely changed.

Pressure and pain were no longer Chaos signals wrapped around his body, but had become clear, layered information that could be dismantled layer by layer.

He could perceive the entire process of the water pressure transmitting from his epidermis to the dermis, from the fascia to the muscle fibers, and from the bones to the bone marrow cavity.

Chen Mo stood at the bottom of the lake for a long time before realizing he was still underwater.

He exerted force with his legs, his body springing up from the lake bottom, leaping out of the water, and sitting cross-legged by the lakeside.

Sunlight shone on his soaked hair, and he closed his eyes, beginning to feel all the changes brought about by this Breakthrough.

The most obvious was the range of his perception.

It had expanded directly from the previous one or two hundred meters to the kilometer level, and the precision was an order of magnitude higher than before.

Before, he could perceive the position and movement direction of objects; now, he could perceive their internal structure and material differences.

Everything within a radius of one kilometer was clearly presented in his consciousness.

Chen Mo continued to perceive inward.

Inside his body.

He could see every single one of his muscle fibers.

The sliding of myosin and actin, the flow of blood in the capillaries, the energy conversion of mitochondria within the cells.

Every detail was crystal clear.

Then, at a deeper level.

Chen Mo discovered that he could actively regulate the secretion of hormones in his body.

For the chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla, he could make them release adrenaline in an instant, activating the body's overclocking mode, causing heart rate to soar, blood flow to accelerate, and power output to break through his current limits in a short time.

The release of endorphins and dopamine was equally controllable; he could block pain signals at any time, eliminate negative emotions, and keep his brain absolutely calm in any extreme environment.

Even if his body were being torn apart, his brain would not be disturbed by pain and fear.

Manual overclocking.

Immune to pain.

Elimination of negative emotions.

These were precise physiological controls.

Chen Mo opened his eyes, his breathing deeper than usual.

He knew that the growth of Mental Power from 1.0 to 9.9 was not an increase to 9.9 times the original.

During the process of quantitative change, every time the number jumped up by one point, the substantial strength of his Mental Power increased.

From 1.0 to 9.9, the cumulative increase in quantity was already nearly a hundredfold.

But after the Breakthrough to 10.0, the quantity of his Mental Power underwent an exponential leap compared to before the Breakthrough, reaching over ten thousand times the initial level.

Perception precision, coverage range, and control depth—all three dimensions exploded simultaneously.

His five senses also improved synchronously.

He turned his head toward the direction of the Taiga Forest, his gaze crossing the lake surface, passing over the larches at the edge of the forest, and crossing above the canopy layer.

Ten kilometers away, on the trunk of a larch tree, an ant was crawling upward.

He could see the ant's antennae waving, and see the direction in which every cilium bent in the wind.

The scent of larch resin, the mineral scent of the lake water, the faint humic acid scent of moss decomposing on the rocks—the location and distance of every scent source could be locked onto.

His five senses had long since far exceeded human limits.

But these were not the important things.

Chen Mo activated his system panel ability.

He mobilized his Mental Energy, covering a large area of nearby water.

Then he activated the Infinite Growth ability, beginning to absorb spirit energy particles.

The speed at which the particles surged in was completely different.

Previously, absorbing particles meant capturing them one by one; now, after his Mental Power had expanded, the nearby particles were almost simultaneously pulled by an invisible force, surging toward his body in great swaths.

At the same time, combining his Mental Power with the Human Breathing Method, his absorption range also increased significantly.

Chen Mo could even absorb spirit energy particles while moving quickly.

His recovery speed also increased significantly.

At the same time, energy consumption was no longer a limitation for him.

Previously, he had to consume five kilograms of oil every day to replenish calories; now, he could obtain all his energy directly from Spiritual Qi.

The energy density carried by the spirit energy particles themselves far exceeded any food, and after his Mental Power Breakthrough, the efficiency of absorbing spirit energy particles could easily cover all his consumption.

Freedom.

These two words surfaced in Chen Mo's heart.

He no longer needed to return to the city every so often to purchase oil and sugar, no longer needed to allocate a large amount of space and weight capacity to food, and no longer needed to plan his action radius for supply routes.

He could go wherever he wanted, without having to worry about supply issues at all.

Chen Mo withdrew his thoughts, sitting cross-legged by the lakeside, facing the boundless lake surface.

Then, his Mental Power sank inward, touching the most core change after the Breakthrough.