Chapter 657: Chapter 5: Faith World (10K Word Chapter!)_4
“The Virtual World became even more realistic, and this time the change seemed a bit different… it seems the path I simulated is more unobstructed.”
“The path ahead seems to be clear, what exactly happened to the Virtual World?”
With the completion of the Virtual World, the most obvious change was that the simulation became smoother; what was once obscure became clear.
Many people took this opportunity to advance further.
The number of cultivators in the Fourth Realm, Fifth Realm, and even the Sixth Realm all increased.
For Wang Sheng, of course, this was a good thing.
A simple change, putting to use what was previously useless.
Thus, he accelerated his pace.
His avatar in the Virtual World was quickly completed and at the same time rapidly expanded, but soon a new problem arose.
“There’s not enough diffuse spiritual power anymore!”
Diffuse spiritual power, once separated into stray thoughts and Pure Spiritual Power, a portion needed to maintain the operation of the Virtual World, but more is used for cultivation, which is the most important purpose.
And now, it was necessary to expand the Virtual World.
There was one more aspect that required the consumption of diffuse spiritual power.
Initially, there was no problem; expanding the Virtual World only required infusing stray thoughts into the existing avatars of the Virtual World, because the original Virtual World was mainly composed of and operated by Pure Spiritual Power.
Infusing stray thoughts would only gradually balance it out.
But as more and more stray thoughts were infused, achieving a perfect balance, if infusion continued, the Virtual World would expand, but—
Wang Sheng looked at the newly added area at the edge of the Virtual World and stopped expanding.
In this section, a black fog spread, composed of various negative emotions. Upon entering, one would be corroded by all kinds of emotions.
For an ordinary cultivator, if their mental fortitude was not strong enough, they would go mad on the spot.
“Is this the result of balance being broken? If more stray thoughts are infused, the newly emerged Virtual World would all turn out like this, which is useless to me.”
With no value, naturally, he would not continue infusing.
“If I want to continue expansion, I must infuse Pure Spiritual Power or complete spiritual power… but if I do, my own cultivation won’t be enough.”
Two worlds, nearly sixty billion beings, it seems a lot.
But likewise, a lot of diffuse spiritual power is needed daily to maintain the operation of the Virtual World, removing necessary consumption, and in the end, separating Pure Spiritual Power, plus the separated Pure Life Essence Qi, barely suffice for his use.
Even if it wasn’t for the presence of Life Essence Qi, he would not be able to sustain his cultivation speed.
Rapid improvement also has its price.
“There are only two ways to solve it, one is to conquer and incorporate more worlds, and the other is to find alternative spiritual energy sources.”
No matter how realistic the Virtual World is, it remains a spiritual domain.
This is why Life Essence Qi can’t be utilized. Although Life Essence Qi also contains spiritual power, it’s more part of the material domain.
Thus, it is difficult to apply within the Virtual World.
The Virtual World can harvest Life Essence Qi. That is already the limit.
Therefore, the methods are quite restricted.
“New worlds aside, it has always been ongoing, it needs time, but if it’s other energies…”
“…”
After thinking it over, Wang Sheng already had an idea.
He was not without other spiritual energy types, and in fact, he had tinkered with them for quite some time.
“The power of the Incense Fire Faith is a very pure spiritual domain force!”
“Incense Fire Faith” arises from faith, and fundamentally, it is also a force of the spiritual domain.
Wang Sheng had been storing it for decades, accumulating bit by bit, and he had substantial quantities stored up.
Especially after his reputation spread across the Source Star following the grand unity, as long as someone believed in him, they would generally contribute “Incense Fire Faith.”
Even if it was not pure, its essence could not be denied.
Moreover, even if the Incense Fire Faith quantity does not compare to the diffuse spiritual power now, its potential is significant.
Currently, without deliberate promotion, a large sum of “Incense Fire Faith” is directed his way each year. If guided, the potential might not measure up to the diffuse spiritual power, but it would not be much inferior.
“It’s worth a try, even if it can’t succeed, it’s not a big deal since the ‘Incense Fire Faith’ has no use as it is…”
These decades of collected “Incense Fire Faith” were all condensed into Incense Fire Pearls and stored in the space he created within the Sleeve Universe, collecting dust.
Being able to use them was like making the best out of waste.
Since he had no concerns, Wang Sheng split off a small Virtual World avatar and began experimenting.
He crushed an Incense Fire Pearl and used Divine Thought to keep the “Incense Fire Faith” from entering his body. Instead, he directed it into the small Virtual World.
Once the Incense Fire Pearl was crushed, the “Incense Fire Faith” inside was highly concentrated, almost substantive, appearing as a milky-white color, like a wisp of blue smoke.
After being directed into the Virtual World, Wang Sheng controlled the Virtual World to absorb it.
The milky-white smoke slowly faded and then disappeared.
And the Virtual World underwent a change.
But this change seemed different from what Wang Sheng expected.
“It got bigger, but it doesn’t seem to be as effective as the same amount of spiritual power.”
As expected, the Virtual World absorbed the power of the Incense Fire Faith, which indeed allowed the Virtual World to expand, but the same amount of “Incense Fire Faith” only had one-tenth the effect of expanding the Virtual World as spiritual power.
Different changes must have their reasons.
Wang Sheng decided to continue infusing “Incense Fire Faith” to see what kind of changes would ultimately occur.