Inside the quiet bedroom, the lights were off.
In the darkness, Luo Feng sat on the small personal sofa nearby, unable to calm himself. “This power is too strong. An ordinary small calibre police pistol could probably only leave a tiny hole in that artificial mountain rock. Yet when I controlled the steel spike, it easily pierced through the entire rockery. The power was dozens, perhaps over a hundred times greater!”
The battle between humanity and monsters had continued for decades. The reason mankind had still not achieved victory was because the monsters were simply too powerful.
Among monster populations, there were strong and weak ones.
Even the weakest monsters could ignore those small calibre pistols. Forget monsters, even the weakest human warriors could generally stop ordinary small calibre bullets with muscle alone. As for the more powerful monsters, they completely ignored conventional firearms. Only heavy sniper rifles, large calibre heavy machine guns, anti aircraft machine guns, or even autocannons could threaten them.
Of course, peak level monsters such as the ‘Black Crown Golden Eagle’ could withstand the疯狂 bombardment of a 20mm Vulcan cannon without even losing a single feather. That was truly terrifying.
“I can actually control objects through the air. Th, this could it be…” Luo Feng’s heart stirred. “Could this be a Spirit Reader’s ‘spiritual force’?”
Luo Feng knew very little about Spirit Readers.
However, he still understood some basic information. Spirit Readers were generally also powerful warriors, cultivating genetic energy like everyone else. Yet in addition to genetic energy, Spirit Readers cultivated a second type of energy, spiritual energy. This spiritual energy was usually referred to as ‘spiritual force’.
“But whether this is truly spiritual force or not, I will have to investigate properly in the future before confirming it,” Luo Feng thought to himself.
Since childhood, Luo Feng had only ever met one Spirit Reader.
That was the mysterious silver haired man in black robes whom the Yangzhou City Limit Hall chief instructor, ‘Wu Tong’, addressed as captain.
“The steel spike’s penetration power is impressive, but monsters on the level of the Black Crown Golden Eagle completely ignore conventional weapons. Only laser cannons or nuclear weapons could threaten them, I suppose.” Luo Feng also understood that although his current strength was astonishing, there were still many beings in the world ten, a hundred, or even a thousand times stronger than him.
Like the peerless expert from the online video who killed the Black Crown Golden Eagle.
His body movement speed exceeded the speed of sound. One slash could split the Black Crown Golden Eagle in half. One kick could destroy a six storey residential building.
That was the level of a peerless warrior.
“And world number one expert ‘Hong’, and world number two expert ‘Thunder God’, can even speak with the five great nations as equals!” Luo Feng took a deep breath. To make an entire nation speak to an individual on equal terms, one could imagine how terrifying such a person’s strength must be.
“With my current control over the steel spike, I probably could not even touch their bodies.” Luo Feng silently reminded himself that although he was already very strong, there were still many stronger people.
Even though he reminded himself of this…
Those peerless experts were simply too far removed from Luo Feng’s world. With his current strength, he could already allow his parents and younger brother to live a comfortable life.
“Work hard!”
“I’m still young. Perhaps in the future, I too can step into the circle of the world’s top experts.” Luo Feng was filled with anticipation.
……
Inside the quiet bedroom, Luo Feng awakened his ability, and at the same time became so excited that he could hardly sleep.
“Forget it. I’m too excited today, I probably will not be able to fall asleep. I might as well cultivate genetic energy instead.” Luo Feng sat cross legged on the bed in the posture known as Five Hearts Facing Heaven, then closed his eyes and began cultivating.
Because he already had experience from the first time, and genetic energy already existed within his body,
he could very easily sense the existence of cosmic energy.
“Threads of it…” Cosmic energy continuously flowed into his body through the soles of his feet, palms, and the Baihui point atop his head. “Today, the speed at which I absorb cosmic energy seems even faster.”
Cosmic energy entered Luo Feng’s body through five channels, while every cell throughout his body frantically devoured this miraculous cosmic energy.
After being transformed by the mitochondria within the cells, the cosmic energy became genetic energy.
“Hm? My head…” Luo Feng sensed that a considerable amount of cosmic energy was pouring into his mind. As his consciousness focused on his brain,
boom!
It felt as though his entire soul trembled violently. Afterwards, Luo Feng discovered in shock that his consciousness had arrived in a mysterious place.
This mysterious place was boundless, filled with endless swirling mist. At the centre of the mist floated a dark golden sphere.
The dark golden sphere slowly rotated like a star, continuously emitting streams of mist, causing the mist within this mysterious space to constantly increase.
“This mist… it, it is spiritual force?” Luo Feng could clearly sense the power within the mist. It was precisely the spiritual force he used to control objects.
“And also…”
Luo Feng clearly saw strands of transparent energy continuously seeping in from outside this mysterious place, before quickly being assimilated into mist energy. Luo Feng’s consciousness also sensed that this transparent energy was cosmic energy.
“The mist is spiritual force, and the transparent energy is cosmic energy. Cosmic energy is absorbed into here and transformed into spiritual force. And my spiritual force extends from within my mind.” Luo Feng’s heart shook. “This place is my mind? Or rather, this is my sea of consciousness?”
The sea of consciousness was the specific term warriors used for the mind.
“But why is there a dark golden sphere at the centre of my sea of consciousness?” Luo Feng’s consciousness carefully observed it in confusion.
The slowly rotating dark golden sphere continuously emitted streams of mist, spiritual force. During the process of releasing spiritual force, Luo Feng also felt an extraordinary sense of comfort within his sea of consciousness.
“Ever since childhood, I have fainted several times. It was probably because of this dark golden sphere.” Luo Feng had a strong intuition.
“The dark golden sphere releases spiritual force?”
“And in the past, I had no spiritual force at all. I only gained it after this fainting episode.” Luo Feng pondered. “Then during this fainting process, the dark golden sphere must have released a huge amount of spiritual force. Not only did it grant me powerful spiritual force, it also improved my body at the same time.”
His physical abilities were already strong, but compared to spiritual force, they were far inferior.
“That’s right.”
“Earlier, when that group of prisoners attacked me, one of them released a throwing knife. Just as it was about to pierce my shoulder, it suddenly changed direction. It must have been my spiritual force at work.” Based on the circumstances, Luo Feng could easily deduce certain truths.
Indeed, during this fainting episode, the dark golden sphere had truly released a massive amount of spiritual force.
However, in reality, on Luo Feng’s very first night inside the prison cell, during his first cultivation session absorbing cosmic energy, the sea of consciousness had already begun to change. Even without the throwing knife incident causing the dark golden sphere to release a large amount of spiritual force ahead of time, he would eventually have awakened spiritual force naturally as time passed.
The throwing knife attack merely caused Luo Feng to awaken early.
“In the past, my headaches and fainting spells were most likely caused by this dark golden sphere. But now that the dark golden sphere is continuously releasing spiritual force, it should not cause me to faint again, right?” Luo Feng thought.
It was like a dam blocking floodwaters. Previously, the dark golden sphere had been unable to release spiritual force.
That was why Luo Feng constantly suffered waves of headaches every day. Now, it was equivalent to opening a channel to release the floodwaters, continuously discharging spiritual force, so naturally there should no longer be any problems.