Chapter 81: High Pressure Spirit Furnace

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: High Pressure Spirit Furnace

"I am a dying cell. My name is XXX... anyway, it’s very long."

"In my long life, I have followed a total of two Bosses."

"Perhaps because I’m so insignificant, my original Boss still provided for me even after I became a traitor."

"Unfortunately, I am, in the end, just a pitiful little cell. Even after following the new Boss and having my lifespan multiplied several times over, I still face old age and death."

"Sigh. In the final moments of my life, I can’t help but reflect: was I wrong to betray my friends and family for a longer life?"

"I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but I feel the gaze of my original Boss upon me."

"Alright, it’s not my imagination. I think I’ve been exposed, and I’m completely surrounded!"

"An eye that fills the entire World is glaring at me."

Inside Chen Qi’s body, a dying cell was completely enveloped by his Spirituality.

His Consciousness, attached to the Spirituality, watched the cell die.

It was a platelet, which normally has a lifespan of only 8 to 11 days.

But this little guy had actually lived for over a month. No wonder it had turned traitor.

Fundamentally, Chen Qi suspected that the life form of the [Card] was quite high-level—even higher than he had imagined.

Only a being of that level could inadvertently increase a platelet’s lifespan fivefold.

’Is this a form of radiation from a high-level life form to a low-level one?’

The reason Chen Qi had locked onto a dying cell was to minimize his own interference and gather more data.

In any case, cells were dying in his body every moment, and that included the traitors.

However, relying on the body’s natural metabolism to outlive all the traitors was not a viable solution.

Take the most common red blood cells, for example. Their normal lifespan is 120 days.

After rebelling, they could live for over a year at least.

A player could barely tolerate not being able to advance their skills for over a year.

But what about cells with even longer lifespans? Liver cells can live for three months, and nerve cells can live for decades.

The game had a major reset every five years. Most players, even if they realized something was wrong inside their bodies, would only drink poison to quench their thirst.

For the players, how long they lived wasn’t important; what mattered was being alive.

...

"Waah, I’m dying!"

"But I have no regrets!"

This was the platelet’s final Consciousness. At the very instant of its death, the white light enveloping it compressed violently.

POP. The cell died completely. The radiant Spirituality had no effect on it whatsoever.

Chen Qi’s first experiment ended in failure.

Chen Qi was unfazed. He locked onto a second dying cell and began the experiment again.

The result was another failure.

Still undiscouraged, Chen Qi proceeded with the third experiment.

A full day passed. Chen Qi had failed a total of 3,000 times, yet his enthusiasm remained undiminished.

’All these failures weren’t for nothing.’

’My control over my own Spirituality has become more refined.’

’Before, I could only vaguely sense the annihilation of a cell’s Spirituality and the collapse of its Life Magnet Field. But now, I can capture them precisely, with the time error approaching zero.’

’Unfortunately, Spirituality is a bit too slow to react to the shattering of a will. It’s just too fast.’

’But there’s nothing to be done about it. I can’t even think of a solution.’

’My will is directing Spirituality to capture the shattering of another will. That’s like one beam of light riding some medium to chase another beam of light. It would be a miracle to catch it.’

’My line of thinking should be correct, but this is beyond my current abilities.’

’Controlling Spirituality directly to capture it is too primitive a method. To lock onto all three phenomena simultaneously, I must design a ritual of some kind.’

’But I can’t do that. Perhaps the Alchemy School that Kolos mentioned possesses this kind of technology.’

After careful consideration, Chen Qi decided to settle for the next best thing and try a different approach.

If he couldn’t do it, there was no way Kolos could either.

Chen Qi even suspected that Kolos couldn’t capture the occurrence of the three phenomena at all.

So, what was it that Kolos could capture?

The answer was cellular resentment.

’If I can’t capture them simultaneously, then I’ll just grab them all at once when they begin to merge.’

After changing his approach, Chen Qi’s experiment finally bore fruit.

...

In a world shrouded by white light, another traitor had reached the end of its life.

At the moment of its death, it truly wanted to live for another five hundred years.

Survival is a mission branded into the very genes of life—in a way, it is the meaning of life itself.

Even the most minuscule life form is unwilling to perish.

Driven by this unwillingness, the shattered cellular will leaped into the dying embers left behind by the annihilated Spirituality.

With this temporary anchor, the residual will momentarily halted its disintegration. Although this only lasted for a few microseconds, it was enough.

At this moment, the Life Magnet Field was collapsing. The cellular will rode the spiritual embers straight into the collapsing field, preparing to seek life from the jaws of death.

This was the entire process of how resentment was born. The pupil, faintly visible within the white light, had witnessed it all.

...

’I see. The annihilation of Spirituality symbolizes the death of a life, but life is ultimately complex. Its destruction requires a process.’

’The annihilation of Spirituality is almost instantaneous, being the least constrained by the physical world.’

’Although the Life Magnet Field is a mutated Matter Field, it still belongs to the material plane, so its destruction takes the longest.’

’As for Consciousness, its disintegration process is slower than that of Spirituality but faster than the Life Magnet Field, falling somewhere in between.’

’What’s most peculiar is that it actually possesses a degree of agency.’

’It’s precisely because of its efforts that resentment is born.’

As this understanding dawned on Chen Qi, the white light began to compress infinitely.

He compressed all the power released at the moment of the cell’s death back into its nucleus.

BOOM!

Chen Qi’s Consciousness, attached to his Spirituality, witnessed the birth of a Sun as infinite light and heat erupted from the cell’s nucleus.

His Consciousness was directly dispelled by the Sun’s radiance, causing him to lose control of the entire process.

By the time Chen Qi’s Consciousness returned to him, the dust had already settled.

A tiny, grayish speck of matter had appeared in the High-Pressure Spirit Furnace.

Unfortunately, this speck of matter existed for only an instant before vanishing.

’Did I succeed?’

’Did the gray matter fail to stabilize because its mass was too small?’

Everything had happened too suddenly. Chen Qi couldn’t be certain if what he had created was truly Nuclear Iron.

Fortunately, he had at least figured out the method. The rest was just a matter of repeating the experiment.

Naturally, the subsequent experiments would not be conducted one cell at a time.

Chen Qi’s goal was to eliminate a hidden threat, not to dedicate the rest of his life to the iron refining business.

In the next instant, millions of traitors were rounded up by Chen Qi, facing a mass extinction.

At this moment, Chen Qi was absolutely ruthless, a true world-destroying Great Demon King.

Unfortunately, this time, the furnace exploded.

Chen Qi had to start considering the differences between laboratory preparation and industrial mass production.

At the very least, the High-Pressure Spirit Furnace could no longer be shaped like a bubble; it needed to be optimized.

It took two full days for Chen Qi to sort out the mass production process.

To make the High-Pressure Spirit Furnace more robust, Chen Qi had no choice but to fuse his own Life Magnet Field into it.

This could be considered Chen Qi using all his might to clean out the traitors.

To commend the contribution of all his cells, he decided to name this technique: "Spirituality-Led Life Magnet Field Iron Refining Technique."