Chapter 1022: Chapter 293: Essence
Chen Ming had always found it peculiar.
The entire process of manufacturing An Wuping was personally designed by him, with every step witnessed firsthand, co-created step-by-step with the Insect Queen.
This product of his Spiritual Energy combined with the Insect Queen’s, why did it ultimately yield such an effect? How had it reached this state?
Why did the spiritual energy effects extracted by Thousand Faces exceed those originally designed?
Why did he feel nothing unusual while controlling An Wuping’s facade?
Even now, it remains the same?
The answers to these questions had always been there.
It was just that Chen Ming hadn’t understood them before.
After he could connect these clues with the "knowledge" in his brain, the answers started becoming clear.
The spiritual energy of An Wuping, which could be replicated by Thousand Faces, is a new form of spiritual energy born out of Chen Ming’s Spiritual Energy merging with the Insect Queen’s.
Spiritual energy doesn’t appear out of nowhere.
Only naturally growing beings can awaken spiritual energy.
As something manually created, An Wuping only had the spiritual energies of Chen Ming and the Insect Queen attached to him, and only the fusion of these two energies is the source of An Wuping’s spiritual energy.
Chen Ming focused his attention on An Wuping.
He aggregated the Spiritual Energy Fluctuation used to control An Wuping into one.
Although invisible to the naked eye, in his perception, An Wuping’s Spiritual Energy Fluctuation surrounded his hand.
It was primarily the Insect Queen’s spiritual energy, with his own energy woven in as support.
Previously, when Chen Ming didn’t fully grasp spiritual energy, An Wuping’s Spiritual Energy Fluctuation seemed like two distinct energies—his and the Insect Queen’s—each performing its duties.
But after gaining ample understanding, Chen Ming could reverse his previous notion and see that these two spiritual energies on An Wuping had completely merged and could not be separated.
Even when Chen Ming intended to use only the Insect Queen’s spiritual energy while controlling An Wuping, his own spiritual energy would spontaneously follow, showcasing An Wuping’s full spiritual energy effect.
This kind of situation seemed slightly familiar.
Not long ago, He Gu from the Fourteenth Legion Spiritual Ability Research Institute had shared an example with Chen Ming.
It was about a Mind Breaking Entity’s progression from mid-stage to late-stage.
He Gu had mentioned how a Mind Breaking Entity evolves through several stages.
Initially, in the early stage of the Mind Breaking Entity.
The different spiritual energy properties and fluctuations that form it are distinct and clear.
This corresponds to the phase after An Wuping was created, where Chen Ming’s and the Insect Queen’s spiritual energies were distinct and independent.
When the Mind Breaking Entity enters the mid-stage.
Initially independent spiritual energy properties start fusing, and one type of fluctuation could mobilize all fluctuations within the entity.
This corresponds to the stage where, after Chen Ming skillfully controlled An Wuping, he could mobilize all of An Wuping’s Spiritual Energy Fluctuation just using the Insect Queen’s energy fluctuation.
At that time, Chen Ming hadn’t noticed this.
Mainly because his control over An Wuping was based directly on the entire body, and everything about An Wuping was under his command.
Chen Ming’s subconscious reflexes could control the body, so he was unaware that using one Spiritual Energy Fluctuation involuntarily activated the other, not because he subconsciously coordinated energy usage.
Chen Ming had long since adapted to this spiritual energy unknowingly.
Even looking back, when he first faced the Mind Breaking Entity and released the Light of Annihilation.
The way he released plasma wasn’t through the organs originating from the Aurora Wind Spirit in his body but directly through spiritual energy.
Mainly due to habit.
Once accustomed, he naturally overlooked it.
But no matter how he looked at this stage, it undoubtedly matched He Gu’s explanation.
When the Mind Breaking Entity enters the late stage.
Different spiritual energy fluctuations completely merge and no longer represent their original effects, instead generating unique fluctuating effects.
He Gu also mentioned that most of these unique fluctuations are concepts beyond human understanding.
However, clearly, An Wuping’s situation represents a form that humans can understand, aligning perfectly with his inherent combat performance.
Even if it felt somewhat far-fetched to Chen Ming, given the many coincidences.
After much consideration, Chen Ming believed this to be the answer.
Psychics are people who influence reality through will.
This was something his boss had told him long ago.
It’s a statement he firmly agrees with.
Even Thousand Faces could maintain consciousness as a Mind Breaking Entity, debunking He Gu’s claim that a Psychic’s consciousness dies upon becoming such an entity.
Why then couldn’t he transform the spiritual energy of An Wuping, a Mind Breaking Entity, into his desired form?
An Wuping’s spiritual energy as the Mind Breaking Entity conveniently explained Thousand Faces’ condition.
Why Thousand Faces, in a normal state, could replicate An Wuping’s energy, but upon entering a berserk state, absorbing An Wuping’s energy resulted in instant death.
