Chapter 1020: Chapter 292: Power of the Dimension (Part 3)
Yet these anchor points failed to delay even a bit; after suffering severe damage, his consciousness was eventually dragged into the crimson abyss, encountering those scattered red starlights.
Just half a second after Chen Ming’s consciousness made contact with the unknown dimension.
The host’s Spiritual Power completely exhausted, and a deathly aura emerged from his body.
This was the price he paid for opening the Abyssal Rift.
At that moment, the suction targeted at the consciousness finally ceased.
The moment Chen Ming barely touched another dimension, he immediately used the anchor points he just established to escape the abyss.
With the Ship Spirit’s help, he returned to his solitary island.
And it was within this brief second.
All the steel forests on Chen Ming’s consciousness space’s isolated island turned into crimson rust.
This is a sign of complete depletion of Spiritual Power.
Chen Ming is now purely relying on his willpower to persevere.
But willpower also has a limit.
With his Spiritual Power depleted to this extent, Chen Ming’s willpower can’t hold on forever, he’s about to give in.
Even when they fought the host on the mental level, it didn’t require such a vast amount of Spiritual Power, yet just half a second of contact with that crimson abyss, he nearly perished there.
The Ship Spirit anxiously circled around Chen Ming’s consciousness form, gently healing the spiritual damage Chen Ming sustained.
But Chen Ming eventually couldn’t hold up; his consciousness suddenly departed from the consciousness space.
At the moment he left the consciousness space.
Whether it was An Wuping, the Fourteenth Legion’s simulacrum, or Chen Ming himself, all collapsed to the ground simultaneously, gasping heavily.
Chen Ming’s eyes involuntarily trembled, his hands also shaking as he struggled to rise from the ground.
The terminal that had just fallen to the ground beside him was emitting an incoming call sound.
Chen Ming paid it no mind.
He suddenly seemed to realize something; he no longer needed the starry rift in the Gathering Spiritual Energy Origin transformed by the Ship Spirit.
He could directly rely on his will to forcibly return to the consciousness space.
The Ship Spirit was still healing the scars on his consciousness form.
Chen Ming’s consciousness form stood up.
He looked towards where the host was just now.
After the host’s death, the giant brain’s corpse had left the island, suspended in cosmic space, slowly decomposing into pure Spiritual Power.
Everything appeared fine.
A sealed rift already existed in his consciousness space.
During the decomposition of the brain’s corpse, the crack didn’t disappear, only sealed up, continuing to suspend there.
From within that crack, a subtle force belonging to that dimension, which his consciousness space could bear and absorb, was leaking.
It seems...he has become the inheritor of dimensional infection power.
However, saying it’s inheritance seems inaccurate.
Because the host didn’t transfer power to him; instead, the host used the power belonging to dimensional infection to open a rift to another dimension.
Dragged Chen Ming’s consciousness into another dimension, another mad and chaotic dimension.
This dimension’s madness wasn’t pure insanity, but rather a madness that "possessed everything."
Just like a library fully stocked with books.
A regular library allows people to enter and browse freely.
But this library, upon entering, all knowledge floods into the entrant’s brain inexplicably.
This is madness.
Of course, calling it knowledge isn’t quite apt either.
Because these things, in Chen Ming’s firsthand experience, weren’t orderly knowledge.
Rather, it was more akin to imparting an extra sensation, from which one realizes the existence of Spiritual Energy effects and knowledge.
It’s because some cannot withstand such sensations.
Causing that person’s cells, normally containing all human functions, to be completely filled under the influence of this "knowledge," losing their usual roles.
Becoming flesh that cannot be perfectly shaped.
This is what Chen Ming never quite understood, why when something related to Spiritual Energy goes wrong, it results in various flesh formations for some reason.
This flesh stuffed with "knowledge" is incomprehensible to ordinary people.
But this, is the truth.
This time, Chen Ming genuinely felt it.
And in that terrifying world, he obtained the "knowledge" he could bear, precisely this knowledge that granted him power from dimensional infection.
This power was acquired by himself; the host merely gave him the key to the library doors.
The power truly belonging to the host’s dimensional infection had completely dissipated...no, it was scattered outward, scattered to the outside world.
Although Chen Ming’s Spiritual Power was still in a state of exhaustion, after overcoming the limit and the host’s death’s Spiritual Power rebound, his consciousness was now extraordinarily active.
He was continuously thinking.
Thinking about the less than one second he spent in that dimension.
In that brief second, Chen Ming saw many unknowns, these unknowns clogging his brain, yet also forcing his brain to think.
Only thinking could vivify his brain, letting him alleviate the pain of being overfilled.
With the new knowledge he acquired, he realized that the term "dimensional infection power" was incorrect.
This power was actually from that dimension, the dimension’s power.
