Free Web NovelChapter 345: Chapter 174: Spiritual Factor Storm, Terrifying Phenomenon
Lin Ye’s fingers moved like lightning. The instant the crystal tube opened, he clamped down with the tweezers in his hand.
The tips of the tweezers clamped perfectly around the particle of Asking Dust. The next moment, an indescribable weight traveled up the tool.
He took a deep breath. His forearm muscles tensed instantly, and thick veins bulged like writhing dragons.
Heavy!
So heavy!
This wasn’t a speck of dust at all. It was like holding up an invisible mountain.
Even though his strength stat had already broken three thousand points in his normal state, he was struggling. ’No wonder that instructor from the Late Stage of the Gang Condensation Realm was drenched in sweat when he delivered that small box earlier.’
The mass of this thing completely defied every law of physics he knew.
Standing to the side, Su Yunjin’s heart hammered in her chest as she watched.
’This experiment is insane,’ she thought. ’To awaken one’s Martial Arts Spirituality, is it really necessary to go this far?’
Lin Ye ignored the onlookers, concentrating all his strength into his fingertips.
Unable to mobilize his Gang Sha, he could only rely on pure physical strength to swiftly remove the particle of Asking Dust.
Then, in a flash, he placed it in his mouth!
BOOM!
The moment the terrifying mass landed on his tongue, Lin Ye felt as if his jawbone was about to be crushed.
He had to engage every muscle in his body, tensing his neck and jaw to prevent the small, heavy object from piercing straight through his mandible!
It was a good thing he was a Gang Condensation Realm Martial Artist with a non-human constitution modified by the system. An ordinary person would have suffered a shattered jaw on the spot.
This wasn’t an experiment. It was self-mutilation.
The moment Lin Ye tensed his entire body, gritting his teeth to swallow the particle of Asking Dust...
...a cold, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
[World Origin Fragment detected entering host’s body. Commencing conversion...]
[Conversion complete!]
[You have gained a temporary buff: Spiritual Factor Storm!]
The instant the notification ended, every hair on Lin Ye’s body stood on end!
An intangible but utterly terrifying spiritual storm erupted from him, sweeping outward in all directions!
"Fall back!"
Yin Liulan shouted, his figure already in a hasty retreat.
Still, the edge of the storm grazed him, and a look of horror flashed across his face.
Nie Cang and Su Yunjin were in even worse shape.
Su Yunjin felt an irresistible wave strike her soul directly. An intense pain wracked her Sea of Consciousness, as if it were being torn apart. Her face went pale, and she stumbled back several steps, nearly falling.
Nie Cang fared no better. He felt as if an invisible sledgehammer had slammed into his brain, and his vision swam with stars.
The researcher from the tech department had it the worst. He wasn’t far from the epicenter and didn’t even have time to scream before his eyes rolled back. He collapsed to the floor, foaming at the mouth and completely unconscious.
A green light shone from Su Yunjin’s hands as she first stabilized her own Sea of Consciousness.
Only then did she begin to treat the fallen researcher.
No one had expected that the person needing emergency medical treatment wouldn’t be Lin Ye.
It was everyone else around him!
At the center of the storm, however, Lin Ye’s perspective was completely different.
He saw countless dormant Spiritual Factors within his body all activate at once!
They transformed into a brilliant ocean of light that briefly burst through the confines of his body, spreading outward before an invisible force yanked it all back in the very next instant.
These activated Spiritual Factors were like billions of joyful fish, darting at high speed through his meridians, organs, and flesh.
Strangely, Lin Ye felt no pain from the impact. This rampant energy seemed illusory, as if existing in a different dimension from his physical body, yet it was undeniably real.
He quickly checked the "Spiritual Factor Storm" buff.
Duration: one minute.
For that one minute, all the Spiritual Factors in his body would begin to construct an array according to a "specific tendency."
’A specific tendency...’
’Construct an array?’
Lin Ye’s head felt a bit fuzzy, but after a moment of thought, he grasped the key.
’The specific tendency must mean these Spiritual Factors will determine their final alignment based on whatever law or principle resonates most strongly with me.’
’But what does it mean to construct an array?’
Lin Ye calmed himself and, using his Observation Skill, focused all his attention inward, observing the roiling sea of light within his body.
Soon, he noticed something.
Each of these activated Spiritual Factors now possessed a "direction."
They were no longer chaotic energy particles, but more like "vectors" in the physics sense of the word.
Guided by the Origin Power from the Asking Dust, these directional Spiritual Factors began to link together at a visible speed, then started to arrange themselves into combinations.
Although Lin Ye couldn’t yet see what complex pattern they were forming, the process sparked a sudden epiphany within him.
’So that’s how it works!’
The essence of the so-called Spiritual Awakening for Martial Arts was to take the scattered, chaotic Spiritual Factors within a Martial Artist’s body and completely tame them.
Then, it was to guide them into building a stable, orderly array capable of achieving Resonance with the laws of the outside world!
The moment that array was complete would be the moment one’s Martial Arts Spirituality truly awakened!
As for someone like Dongfang Zhen, who could continuously enhance his control over lightning, the principle was the same. He maintained the structure of his existing array while constantly absorbing and filling it with more Spiritual Factors, thus making the array’s scale and efficiency more and more powerful!
