Chapter 237 - 151: Mental Realm Speculation, Ling Yi Joins, Tier Four
Chapter 237: Chapter 151: Mental Realm Speculation, Ling Yi Joins, Tier Four
Before long, the Flying Tiger Armor’s Flight Mode went on cooldown.
Lin Feng slowly landed on the edge of the Sky Pit, looking down at the deep well at the bottom that had already collapsed and been buried. There was no trace of the Mother Empress to be found.
In front of the Sky Pit, beside the dead Red-Armored Beetle Swarm, fifty Tier Two Zerg Eggs lay concealed under a layer of kicked-up sand and soil.
Walking over to the Zerg Eggs, Lin Feng gripped his Chainsaw Sword and destroyed one. He then dropped to his knees by the resulting fissure and began to gulp down the Organic Nutrient Liquid inside.
A notification showing his attributes appeared before his eyes:
"Lin Feng, LV 29/29, Weakened State"
"Life Value: 480, Physique: 480, Spirit: 545"
"Invaded by Hive Will Domain. All bodily Attribute Values -500."
"Absorbing Energy. Initiating repairs..."
"Note: Exposed to Hive Will Domain radiation. Internal genetic mutation has deepened. Purge?"
Seeing the last line, Lin Feng froze. He lifted his mouth from the fissure in the Zerg Egg and stuck out his tongue. He discovered that inside his mouth, his two rows of teeth had transformed into the Zerg Race’s chitinous serrations. Simultaneously, the surface of his tongue had hardened into a shell, forking down the middle into two halves that resembled a sharp pair of scissors...
Just now, while he was feeding on the Zerg Egg, his mutated tongue had acted like the Giant Mandible of a Black Spine Zerg, tearing at the jelly-like, glistening white flesh inside the fissure.
"Goddammit! Fuck!"
Lin Feng cursed and selected the "Purge" option.
The next moment, a surge of Energy welled up from his abdomen and flowed into his mouth, purging the mutated tissue within.
Fortunately, Ling Yi had acted quickly, preventing the Hive Will Domain’s corruption from penetrating his throat and abdomen. Otherwise, Lin Feng would have already transformed into a zerg, from the inside out.
As the mutated tissue peeled away from the inside of his mouth, the Energy melted it down, and it coalesced into a clump of foul-smelling liquid reeking of Zerg monsters.
Lin Feng coughed hard and spat it onto the muddy ground at his feet.
He scraped his tongue several times with his incisors and molars, spitting out the remaining residue from his tongue and the lining of his mouth.
The blackish-yellow, viscous tissue still possessed extreme vitality after it hit the ground.
Lin Feng could feel that it was a part of his own flesh and blood, but he couldn’t bring himself to accept its existence.
The mutated, viscous tissue writhed on the ground for a moment. Deprived of its nutrient supply, it finally died and began to rapidly decay.
The pus seeped into the soil, corroding it into a pitted mess, and a plume of strange, foul-smelling black smoke rose from it.
Lin Feng’s brow furrowed as he watched.
He was once again struck by the terror of Cosmic Life, and by how disgusting and tenacious an ability like a Realm was.
’It seems killing a Mother Empress alone is far from as simple as I expected.’
’Until I comprehend my own Mental Realm, it will be difficult to handle a Mother Empress’s Spiritual Attacks, not to mention its desperate, all-or-nothing use of its Divine Realm when facing a life-or-death crisis.’
As he calmed down, Lin Feng watched his continuously recovering Attribute Values and began to carefully recall and ponder the information Ling Yi had revealed.
A Mental Realm originates from a creature’s Spiritual Power. A Mental Realm is formed from "intent"—this could be the meaning of one’s own existence or the purpose behind upgrading and evolving.
It’s different from the material Physique Attribute.
The Physique Attribute can be expressed in concrete ways.
For example, there’s the physical Power of one’s muscles, the reaction speed of the nervous system, or, like the High-tier Zerg Race, a massive and incredibly intimidating monstrous body.
These are all tangible, material things.
But the Spiritual Attribute in one’s consciousness represents an invisible, ethereal Energy. It is a fixed form that exists parallel to the material world, and the two can be converted into one another.
It is also one of the important Attributes that constitute the Cosmos.
Ling Yi had said that the Cosmos is dark and cold, forming a single, gigantic field of realm Energy. Without the support of a Mental Realm or a Realm to solidify one’s convictions, it is easy to lose oneself in the boundless depths of the Cosmos.
In other words, the so-called Mental Realm and Realm are the physical manifestations of the Spiritual Attribute.
This was consistent with what Lin Feng had experienced after encountering the Hive Will Domain.
Ling Yi’s Infinite Reproduction Realm had first stripped him of all his senses. Then, after the Hive Will Domain descended, it began to infect and corrupt his physical body and his consciousness.
But the Zerg Mountain and Zerg Sea, as well as the Divine Statue of the Mother of Life, had only existed within Lin Feng’s Spirit World. They were scenes constructed from Spiritual Energy, with no physical form in reality.
And once the Energy sustaining the Hive Will Domain was depleted, the illusion that had bewildered and controlled Lin Feng’s consciousness shattered as if he were waking from a dream.
’So a Mental Realm is like a condensation of Spiritual Power. Once it evolves into a personal Realm, it can exert all kinds of influence on reality.’
’Just like consciousness acting on matter.’
’I need to learn how to actively use my Spiritual Attribute, just as I control my physical body through muscle memory.’
’I have to turn the Spiritual Attribute into an instinct!’
Ling Yi had also mentioned that upon entering Tier Three, after one’s Spiritual Attribute breaks its cap and surpasses one thousand, one’s consciousness enters a self-constructed Spirit World.
The High-tier Mother Empresses of the Zerg Race, including Ling Yi, all comprehended their abilities—like the Infinite Reproduction Realm—at that stage.
A bloodline inheritance, left within the Zerg Race’s genes by ancestors like the Mother of Life, allows the Mother Empresses to directly acquire the Infinite Reproduction Realm. This is how they master their superb biological synthesis technology.
When projected into the Hive Will’s Divine Realm, it manifests as the countless worms constantly falling from the Divine Statue.