Chapter 1294 - 361: Power (2)

Normally, when the Mechanical Race runs into the Clan Leader and can’t beat him, at worst they just abandon that star system, let the Mother Ship retreat together with whatever Mechanical Race units can still pull out.

Exactly like they did before.

But right now, this location basically counts as the capital of the Mechanical Race.

And this moment is a critical juncture for the Mechanical Race’s operation against Chen Ming.

If the Mother Ship chose to flee, there’s a real chance the Clan Leader would give chase.

Rather than that, it’s better to stay; even if the Clan Leader really tears apart every ship of the Mechanical Race, afterward he will definitely turn his target toward Chen Ming.

So the Mechanical Race cannot retreat; the Mother Ship can only grit its teeth and tank it within this star system.

And in the brief window while the Mother Ship is being assaulted by the Clan Leader—

Chen Ming can hurry to continue the process he had just started.

Continue relying on the Ship Spirit to completely take control of the complex, diverse external powers Chen Ming himself possesses.

The Ship Spirit accompanying Chen Ming’s consciousness body swiftly fuses together the power released when the Spiritual Stone was shattered.

Like a pitch‑black sphere of light, it hovers beside the Ship Spirit.

Every Spiritual Stone that resonates with Chen Ming is one with extremely intense negative effects.

The product born from that fusion is practically the ultimate aggregation of negative power.

If he claimed it was something scooped out from the Crimson Dimension, it would feel entirely natural.

Yet this power, to Chen Ming, feels incredibly familiar, even intimate.

That sense of familiarity, delivering a violent impact to his consciousness, even makes him feel as if this is the Stone of Chaotic Words further strengthened all over again.

Chen Ming then uses the combination of this power with his own, together with the fusion of more external forces, to forcibly begin controlling Destructive Power.

Whether it is the shattered Destruction Core itself, or the power bursting out as the Destruction Core fractures, all of it curls inward under the Spiritual Stone power belonging to Chen Ming.

The fused Spiritual Stone power is drawing Destruction Power into itself, devouring Destruction along with it.

The knowledge Chen Ming once grasped in the Crimson Dimension now comes into play.

He can easily analyze the nature of this power and understand its essence.

Gradually, the Ship Spirit starts to reach its limits.

Shattering Spiritual Stones—especially stones of the intensity of the Stone of Chaotic Words, and Spiritual Stone‑type stones whose names even carry the character "灵"—absolutely consumes a huge amount.

It still has to further control these powers to restrain Destruction.

Even Chen Ming is finding it hard now to keep a grip on the Destruction Core in his palm, let alone the Ship Spirit.

However, though Chen Ming’s condition is steadily worsening, he can feel his power gradually growing stronger.

So he takes over the Ship Spirit’s progress.

By leveraging the Ship Spirit’s shared consciousness and the prior experience of refining the Chaos Core with An Wuping, he completely fuses the Destruction Power already unified by the Ship Spirit with the Spiritual Stone power.

But at this moment, Chen Ming makes one change.

He knows the Ship Spirit’s idea is: after merging Destruction Power with Spiritual Stone power, convert it into a brand‑new system of power that he can control.

To make it one of his fundamental abilities.

Yet Chen Ming’s thinking is not like that.

He wants to try a new method.

He already has enough power; what he needs is not a new power system, but to bring out his existing power even better.

Therefore—

This entirely new power, under Chen Ming’s control, is drawn into his consciousness body.

And it gradually spreads through his entire consciousness body.

Previously, in front of his boss, Chen Ming had corrected the appearance of his consciousness body, but he had not corrected the powers he himself wielded.

Inside him, one could say it was a mass of chaos.

And when this power, brewed from the fusion of Spiritual Stone and Destruction, seeped into his body—

This power immediately stimulated a defensive reaction from his own powers.

Of course, that reaction is promptly suppressed by Chen Ming.

He continues to guide this power to make contact with his Gathering Spiritual Energy Origin.

Relying on the nature of the Gathering Spiritual Energy Origin, it becomes something close to Chen Ming himself, yet distinct from the power he completely commands.

By exploiting the repulsive nature of Destruction Power that has pushed negativity to the extreme, he gathers the powers scattered throughout his consciousness body into one.

Just like the catalyst produced by the Catalytic Core that he used on himself earlier, this catalyzes the process by which Chen Ming assembles the powers he already possesses.

Everything previously corrected within Chen Ming’s consciousness body—the complicated powers inside him—is fully fused.

Using Chen Ming’s own understanding as the foundation, it forms the various organs of his consciousness body.

Only his heart does not take the shape of a normal organ, but rather his Gathering Spiritual Energy Origin, which, after being influenced by his own power and external forces, has birthed a black, void‑like sphere radiating fluctuations of Chen Ming’s own power.

This is the final product of Chen Ming’s power fusion, and it is purer than the Chaos Core in An Wuping’s heart.

Because it is composed of only three kinds of power.

Mechanical power, biological power, dimensional power.

Everything else—whether it is Destruction or the power spilling from damaged Spiritual Stones, or even the Ship Spirit that manages and aggregates these powers—is merely auxiliary to this core.

And the name of the product after fusion is: [Disaster Core].

Chen Ming doesn’t know why it bears this name, but that doesn’t stop him from using Destructive Power to obliterate the redundant parts of his power system, purify the nature of his own power, and unify all of his power.

Though this was a spur‑of‑the‑moment idea inspired by Crimson knowledge, the final outcome is far better than he’d anticipated.