Chapter 79: Cellular Resentment

Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Cellular Resentment

’Did my Awakening succeed?’

As his Consciousness returned to reality, Chen Qi felt completely refreshed.

With a thought, a white brilliance emanated from his body, shifting and changing according to his will.

This was his Spirituality, now entirely under the control of his Consciousness.

Perhaps because it was now fully controlled by his Consciousness, or perhaps because it had undergone a Metamorphosis during the ritual, his Spirituality was no longer faint and ephemeral, but had become a tangible presence.

However, its ability to interfere with the real World was still limited to the Life Magnet Field.

Where the white brilliance spread, the dust in the air remained utterly undisturbed, as if the two existed on completely different planes.

But in the next instant, CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

His blue Life Magnet Field suddenly appeared. The surrounding natural field was intensely disturbed, setting off a series of electric sparks.

Chen Qi’s Life Magnet Field had expanded to a five-meter radius around him.

From a distance, Chen Qi looked as if he were enveloped in a deep blue bubble.

On the surface of the blue bubble, countless iridescent ripples undulated, with an occasional spark flashing into existence.

This was the true manifestation of a Life Magnet Field interacting with a natural field.

Normally, a creature’s Life Magnet Field achieves a state of harmony with the surrounding natural field, making it invisible and certainly not discernible to the naked eye.

This time, however, Chen Qi had completely integrated his Spirituality into his Life Magnet Field.

As a result, his Life Magnet Field was "reborn," and it once again began to interfere violently with the surrounding natural field.

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’So this is the true face of the Life Magnet Field.’

’Every cell in the human body has its own Life Magnet Field. Billions of these tiny fields integrate and converge to form the vast magnetic field of a human being.’

’I feel like I’ve just seen the true meaning of Life Evolution.’

’The reason single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular ones is because their individual Life Magnet Fields were too small and easily assimilated and erased by the surrounding natural fields. They had to band together to resist nature.’

’Nature’s profound hostility toward life led to the emergence of more complex life forms.’

Chen Qi didn’t know if his guess was correct. The thought had surfaced naturally the moment his Spirituality fully merged with his Life Magnet Field.

It was as if his tiny cells had told him the answer directly.

Though it was incredible, Chen Qi was convinced this was the truth.

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[The essence of the Extraordinary is to directly perceive and reshape the World with Spirituality].

This was a message that had appeared along with the Awakening ritual. He didn’t know if it came from the founding master or that guy who loved to write annotations.

Chen Qi hadn’t felt much from this sentence before, but now he had some understanding of it.

After his Spirit Awakening, his Spirituality seemed to have become a unique organ, capable of receiving information that was previously imperceptible.

Just like the flash of Spiritual Light he had experienced moments ago.

But that wasn’t all he had gained. After his Spirituality fully merged with his Life Magnet Field, Chen Qi suddenly discovered he could control the Life Magnet Field at will.

’I might be able to completely retract my Life Magnet Field!’

Chen Qi had long been troubled by how to control and retract his Life Magnet Field. He had even spent a fortune on the Dark Web World seeking a Secret Technique, but to no avail.

But after his Spirit Awakening, everything fell into place naturally.

Five meters, four meters, three meters, two meters...

Under Chen Qi’s control, the range of his Life Magnet Field continuously shrank, finally retracting completely into his body.

If he were to face an attack like the Blood Transformation Saber again, it would certainly be unable to affect him.

However, it was also after gaining complete control of his Life Magnet Field that Chen Qi discovered the Erosion on his body from the [Red Heart 7] was far more severe than he had imagined.

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The blue field formed by his Life Magnet Field manifested once more.

This time, Chen Qi did his best to suppress the fluctuation frequency of his Life Magnet Field.

Under the miraculous effect of his Spirituality, everything within the Life Magnet Field was [Slowed Down].

The Life Magnet Field was composed of billions of tiny magnetic fluctuations, and his Spirituality’s suppressive effect on these small fluctuations was particularly pronounced.

As a result, those that "didn’t fit in" became prominent.

Twenty-three small holes and two large holes were laid bare for him to see.

The two [Large Holes] caused by the Card’s Erosion were especially conspicuous.

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’Interesting!’

’These twenty-three small holes created by the changes in my age... I think I know what they are!’

Chen Qi’s Spirituality seeped into the twenty-three anomalous fluctuations, instantly seeing through to their true nature.

Kolos once said that when a life form dies, it produces a "grudge."

The twenty-three anomalous fluctuations in Chen Qi’s Life Magnet Field were essentially no different.

For a long time, especially after the Puppet Threads had penetrated to the cellular level, Chen Qi had a question: could a single human cell be considered a complete life form?

This question had troubled him for a long time, right up until that flash of Spiritual Light just now.

The cells in his body had personally given him the answer.

Life Evolution was never about optimality or perfection, but simply a forced choice.

After single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular ones, they enhanced their ability to resist the surrounding natural fields, but the price they paid was [Shared Spirituality].

Perhaps at first it was just the fusion and sharing of Spirituality, but as life became more complex, a more fundamental change was bound to occur.

After reaching a certain stage, the spiritual form of a complex life form could even be analogized to a nation, yet it far surpassed that concept.

The Spirituality of its individual cells had lost most of its autonomy, serving the whole completely.

The Spirituality of these cells was even weaker than that of the most primitive single-celled organisms.

If they were to separate from the whole, they would inevitably be erased by the natural field.

Therefore, they could no longer exist as independent life forms.

But the existence of "cancer cells" proved that no matter how minuscule their Spirituality was, it still existed.

They could still be regarded as insignificant life forms, or at least that’s what Chen Qi currently believed.

So, the death of a cell could essentially be seen as the demise of a tiny life form.

Their annihilated Spirituality, the despairing will of the cells, combined with their shattered Life Magnet Fields, would also give birth to a tiny "grudge."

Normally, this sliver of a grudge would be erased by the natural field the moment it was born.

But the environment they were born into was too special. They appeared within a human’s Life Magnet Field, and they themselves were once part of this vast field.

Perhaps the vast majority of these cellular grudges would still be erased.

But the cells of the human body are dying every moment; the base number is simply too large.

There would always be some lucky ones that would cling to the Life Magnet Field and persist for a long time.

Accumulated over time, even if these grudges were minuscule, they would form a considerable wave of fluctuation when gathered together.

The passing of a person’s age gave them a chance to coalesce.

As for why it was tied to age, Chen Qi suspected it was related to human cognition, or rather, consensus.

In the human subconscious, the passage of years means that each year is different from the last—the old passes away, and the new is born.

The appearance of these grudge-holes could be seen as an Extraordinary phenomenon inadvertently created by ordinary people.

’The essence of the Extraordinary is to directly perceive and reshape the World with Spirituality.’

’In other words, as long as one possesses Spirituality, even an ordinary person can potentially create an Extraordinary phenomenon.’

The Spirituality of a single human might be weak, but the consensus reached by the Spirituality of billions of humans is a force that absolutely cannot be ignored.

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These twenty-three holes, though an Extraordinary phenomenon, were, in essence, nothing more than twenty-three specks of dust that had accidentally contaminated a human’s Life Magnet Field.

If he hadn’t discovered them, it wouldn’t have mattered. But now that he had seen them, with his current control over his Life Magnet Field, he could easily annihilate them.

However, after careful consideration, Chen Qi decided to hold back.

Annihilating them directly would be too much of a waste. He might have use for them in some upcoming experiments.

After Chen Qi gained full control of his Life Magnet Field, they could no longer be considered holes.

The real trouble was the two caused by the Erosion of the [Red Heart 7].

Those were the real holes.