Chapter 387 - 203: Mental Realm: Particle Control, Tier Three Awakener

Chapter 387: Chapter 203: Mental Realm: Particle Control, Tier Three Awakener

The four most basic elements of carbon-based life condensed in Lin Feng’s hands.

He stood in silence for a long while, suddenly realizing he’d forgotten every last bit of his high school biology. He had even returned his knowledge of the chromosomal base sequences that form genes to his biology and chemistry teachers.

’It’s a shame I haven’t mastered the Zerg Race Mother Empress’s Infinite Reproduction Realm, which comes with a vast repository of biotechnological knowledge.’

’Otherwise, creating a Life Form would be a simple, effortless task.’

Even so, by relying on his formidable Spiritual Attribute—with a value over one thousand—Lin Feng was finally able to recall some things after careful thought. He remembered the four pyrimidines and two purines that made up the base pairs, along with diagrams of their respective elemental structures.

Billions of years ago, a primordial soup of organic matter just like this existed in the oceans of Blue Star.

Relying on geothermal heat and radiation from the Sun, these components moved chaotically. Through a massive number of random interactions, a low-probability event became an inevitability, eventually producing the gene-protein structures capable of infinite replication and inheritance.

Thus began the journey of evolution!

So, what Lin Feng had to do now was simulate this very process within his own Spirit World.

Even if he couldn’t comprehend the makeup of complex life, he could create the necessary environment for evolution. After providing all the required elements, he just had to hit the fast-forward button.

With this in mind, Lin Feng dropped the synthesized base pairs from his hand to the ground.

Water laced with organic matter then began to seep from the ground beneath his feet, eventually converging into a vast ocean.

Unfortunately, illuminated by the black star overhead, the ocean appeared ink-black, like a dead sea in the Underworld.

Fortunately, as the Laws governing the Spirit World gradually became more complete, the previously motionless black Sun began to act like a normal star, releasing light and heat.

Its rays shone upon the ocean, gradually warming the cold, organic-rich water.

The organic molecules began to move randomly, eventually forming stable hydrogen bonds and evolving from small molecules into macromolecules.

Lin Feng watched all of this unfold in silence.

A peculiar feeling washed over him, as if he had become the master of all creation.

The master of birth and death.

Then, Lin Feng looked down at his hands. On a whim, he tried to channel his Spiritual Energy to modify his own cells.

Ever cautious, he gathered just a wisp of Energy at his fingertip, only to find that the Spiritual Energy capable of altering any material had no effect on his own skin cells.

Even after increasing the flow of Energy, there was still no reaction.

Lin Feng frowned, sensing something was wrong.

’Could it be that this Power, which can control molecules and atoms, has no effect on my own body!?’

’On closer inspection, that seemed to be the case. Neither the Upgrade System nor my awakened Replication Superpower seemed to classify Life Forms as items that could be Upgraded or Copied.’

To test his theory, Lin Feng took control of the organic ocean beneath him and began to accelerate the evolution of life.

Strangely, however, no matter how he channeled his Energy to speed up the movement of macromolecules, he couldn’t create life. The most he could synthesize were primitive viruses, entities somewhere between inorganic matter and a Life Form. Just as he suspected, he couldn’t even form the simplest single-celled organisms, like the prokaryote mycoplasma.

As for those simple viruses, their genetic material—wrapped in a capsid—quickly perished after being created. Without host cells to parasitize and use for replication, they simply died out.

A virus without a host is exceptionally fragile; it can hardly be called a Life Form at all.

And so, Lin Feng’s plan for creation fell apart, ending almost before it had even begun.

’My power is probably insufficient,’ he thought. ’In other words, my Tier Three Spiritual Energy isn’t enough to support the evolution of life on a planet.’

That would require something like the Mother Empress, a Divine Descendant who possesses one of the Hive Will’s Mental Realms—Infinite Reproduction—which helps her expand the Swarm.

The memory of being enveloped by the Divine Realm summoned by Ling Yi, of facing the endless, roaring Swarm, was still fresh in Lin Feng’s mind.

He had nearly been completely assimilated by the Zerg Race’s genes that time. Thankfully, the System had cleansed him of the corruption.

’If I can one day turn this Spirit World into a true Realm,’ he mused, ’perhaps I, like the Hive Will, could use this entire planet—or even the whole Star Realm—as a Spiritual Means of attack.’

At this thought, Lin Feng put his attempts at creating life on hold. He looked up at the dim, starry sky, fixing his gaze on the black celestial body that hung like a Sun against the firmament.

Then, with a mere thought, he floated into the air and shot swiftly toward the clouds in the atmosphere.

Soon, Lin Feng broke through the planet’s newly rendered multi-layered atmosphere and arrived in outer space.

It was exactly as he had seen it before. Clearly, the effects of the Spiritual Energy Absorption had not radiated beyond the planet.

This also indirectly proved that his Tier Three Spiritual Attribute was insufficient to allow for the development of more Laws.

Lin Feng didn’t linger. He knew that the starry background loaded in the distance was just a texture map. The only thing that truly existed here was the massive black celestial body overhead.

So he pushed off, continuing toward his destination.

Having been pulled into it once before, Lin Feng speculated that this thing was likely his own deep subconscious.

That would explain why falling into it caused him to gradually lose all perception before ultimately waking up.

It communicated with the physical world while also connecting to some kind of spiritual, conscious plane. That must have been how Lin Feng was able to hear his mother’s voice so clearly.