Chapter 656: Chapter 5: Faith World (10K Word Chapter!)_3
The infinite expansion of the Virtual World could absorb any form of spiritual power, which meant that if one wanted to enhance at the fastest speed, absorbing unseparated stray spiritual power was the quickest way.
Originally, doing so would have dragged down Wang Sheng himself.
The vast stray spiritual power signified a vast array of miscellaneous thoughts. With two worlds and nearly sixty billion living beings’ miscellaneous thoughts, even though Wang Sheng was a practitioner of Refining God and Returning to Void, he would collapse.
However, the advanced Virtual World, with a clearer distinction between the main body and the avatars, had solved this problem.
While the avatar was still absolutely controlled by the main body, to a certain extent, the Virtual World avatar had become an independent entity.
The avatar could absorb anything without affecting the main body, and much less affect Wang Sheng.
He could truly exhibit limitless power.
Of course, this was only limited to enhancing the size of the Virtual World avatar. Wang Sheng still had to use the sorting method to separate when absorbing Pure Spiritual Power and Life Essence Qi.
But there was now a place for those miscellaneous thoughts.
Miscellaneous thoughts were also a type of spiritual power.
“An infinitely expandable Virtual World is very tempting, but I still have to be cautious… I’ll start with trying a small avatar. If it works, then I’ll use it to enhance the two largest avatars.”
Though he could expand infinitely, Wang Sheng was unclear about the result of using unseparated stray spiritual power for enhancement.
Trying with a small avatar, even if he failed, it would be much easier for him to remedy.
Soon, a Virtual World avatar the size of a human head was constructed. Following that, Wang Sheng took out a clump of original stray spiritual power that had not been separated and merged it into the avatar.
After the integration, invoking the infinite expansion feature of the Virtual World, in the blink of an eye, a clump of spiritual power was completely absorbed, and the original head-sized Virtual World avatar gradually grew larger, finally stopping after increasing almost fifty percent in size.
Wang Sheng wasn’t surprised by this situation. He was more eager to know the internal state of the Virtual World.
“It’s still too small, continue to expand.”
He continued to integrate spiritual power until the avatar expanded to the size of a room before stopping.
“That should be about right. However, it’s hard to tell the situation inside just by looking… I need to find someone to test it.”
Without knowing the internal state, Wang Sheng, exercising caution, chose a death row convict for the test.
He controlled the convict to log into the small Virtual World.
“Normal activities can be carried out, simulation…”
The Virtual World, expanded with original stray spiritual power, seemed to have no problems.
After the convict exited, he checked again and found no changes in either the Spiritual Body or the physical body.
“Now I can rest assured…”
Since there were no problems, he could enter for testing himself.
Soon, his Primordial Spirit appeared in the cramped small Virtual World avatar.
“It seems to be the same as what I observed, no changes… no, there is something different!” Wang Sheng tried many things and ultimately detected the anomaly.
“There are changes, this Virtual World feels more real!”
Indeed, Wang Sheng sensitively discovered that the small Virtual World seemed more real than the Virtual World avatars enveloping Source Star and the World of Ten Thousand Clans.
This sense of realness was not brought about by the advancement.
The sense of realness improved upon advancement was synchronized across the main body and all avatars at the moment of advancement.
Controlling the variables for comparison, there was only one reason.
“Using unseparated spiritual power to expand the Virtual World not only has no drawbacks but also benefits?”
Wang Sheng created another small avatar. This time he used Pure Spiritual Power to increase its size, then conducted a comparison.
“Exactly!”
The degree of realness of the Virtual World increased with pure spiritual power was somewhat lesser compared to the one increased using original stray spiritual power.
Although not by much, it was a noticeable difference.
The difference would be even more pronounced in a simulated cultivation setting.
“Just a small difference, but if it comes to breakthroughs, it’s a huge gap.”
Simply put, using original stray spiritual power to expand the Virtual World was a good thing in terms of the Virtual World’s realness.
As for the reason, Wang Sheng had already gained some insight.
“Without Yin there is no growth, without Yang there is no extension. In cultivation, too many miscellaneous thoughts will affect me, but a world, even if virtual, should have good and bad, positive and negative together.”
The real world cannot only have positive feedback; it also contains a lot of negative feedback.
These negative feedbacks are also a form of experience.
Miscellaneous thoughts are born from this negative feedback. Therefore, after incorporating them into the Virtual World, they complete the Virtual World to a certain extent.
“I didn’t expect such a gain.”
This discovery would have been impossible if the Virtual World hadn’t advanced.
If there wasn’t such a clear distinction between the main body and the avatar in the Virtual World as it is now, he wouldn’t dare to use original stray spiritual power to supplement the operating power of the Virtual World.
Miscellaneous thoughts are a boon for the Virtual World but not for him.
In cultivation, he had long maintained a balance. Absorbing miscellaneous thoughts would only disrupt this balance, causing severe consequences.
One man’s meat is another’s poison, nothing more.
“Since that’s the case, I can confidently use those miscellaneous thoughts to complete the Virtual World.”
More importantly, he could expand the Virtual World, and if he conquered new worlds in the future, he could put it to immediate use, seamlessly connecting them.
Unbeknownst to all the living beings using the Virtual World, the Virtual World gradually began its transformation.
The first step was completion.
The effects were immediate.
For cultivators, even the slightest difference could be perceived.
Having felt a change once due to the Virtual World’s advancement, cultivators received it as if it were a most welcomed gift from the heavens.