Chapter 345: Mental Consciousness System

Luo Feng sat cross-legged within this layer of space inside the Star Tower. The Eye of Life and Death at his glabella observed the Primordial Bloodline of the ‘Heavenly Fire Shadow’. As he observed, he marveled, “Why hadn’t I thought of this before?”

“With my attainments in the Path of Life, every single unit of life contains endless spirituality and can generate its own consciousness.” Luo Feng thought, “With a body on the scale of the Half-Primordial Path of Life and Death, the number of life units it possesses is beyond calculation.”

In theory, a lifeform of the Half-Primordial Path of Life and Death would possess a body vastly larger than a Primal Universe, even rivaling, to some extent, the size of certain High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms. Of course, although the size might be comparable, there was still a gap in the essence of life.

Yet with such an enormous body, the number of its most basic life units exceeded the number of dust particles within a Primal Universe by countless billions upon billions of times.

Every single life unit could independently generate consciousness.

From this, it was evident…

Just how many ‘sub-consciousnesses’ were produced.

Countless sub-consciousnesses, sharing the same memory, naturally unified, converging into Luo Feng’s incomparably vast complete mental consciousness!

“The lifeform of the ‘Half-Primordial Path of Life and Death’ in my theory is far more complex than a Primal Universe.”

“Countless sub-consciousnesses appear to have unified memories.”

“But in reality, these sub-consciousnesses originate from different parts of the lifeform, and their instincts possess different tendencies.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses enjoy thinking.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses enjoy fighting.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses enjoy sleeping.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses enjoy the emotion of ‘pleasure’.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses enjoy the emotion of ‘anger’.”

“Some sub-consciousnesses intensely dislike the emotion of ‘anger’.”

“When all sub-consciousnesses unify, there is tremendous loss—losing ninety-nine percent or even more.”

Luo Feng understood this clearly.

Just like every individual possesses intelligence.

But whether it was an army of ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or one billion—

The greater the number, the harder it became to command.

The number of Luo Feng’s sub-consciousnesses was so vast that even his own realm could not quantify it. Not all of these sub-consciousnesses liked combat, nor did all of them like cultivation.

Some preferred extreme comfort. Some preferred absorbing energy and continuously generating more life units. Some preferred eliminating weaker life units.

A massive body founded upon the Path of Life and Death was, at every moment, eliminating weaker life units while giving birth to new ones.

“With my realm, if my body were smaller, controlling it would be easy.”

“But I pursue the ultimate massive size. Naturally, I encounter this bottleneck.”

Any supermassive lifeform within the cultivator faction would face this same problem.

Without resolving this issue, one could not control such a vast body.

“The mind controlling the body is essentially about establishing a ‘mental consciousness system’—making sub-consciousnesses unify more efficiently and reducing loss.” Luo Feng pondered. “If part of the loss is reduced, the resulting complete mental consciousness could become ten times stronger or more.”

Luo Feng continued observing with the Eye of Life and Death.

He clearly understood that the Path of Life and Death at the Late-Stage God Emperor had already reached a bottleneck and was still far from perfection. This gap existed precisely because the ‘mental consciousness system’ was missing.

Only when this vast mental consciousness system was integrated could the Path of Life and Death truly reach the Half-Primordial Level.

“The principle is simple, but the mental consciousness system is extremely vast and complex. From observing the Primordial Bloodline of the Heavenly Fire Shadow, I can see that the mysteries of its mental consciousness system are exceedingly numerous.”

At Luo Feng’s level, there already existed billions upon billions of layers of ‘consciousness networks’ spread throughout his entire body, governing all sub-consciousnesses from different levels. This was something he naturally possessed upon reaching this realm.

This consciousness network was already very perfect! If he did not pursue an extreme body size, it would have been sufficient.

To further enhance it significantly on this foundation—the difficulty was obvious.

“There is one troublesome point. For High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines, my Eye of Life and Death cannot see the deeper-level mysteries.”

Luo Feng frowned.

The mental consciousness system mysteries he observed were incomplete, missing the deepest core portion.

“With only these incomplete parts, it will take a very long time for me to perfect the mental consciousness system.” Luo Feng realized this. “It could take a million eras or even hundreds of millions of eras.”

“I need to find a way to fully observe a complete High-Rank Primordial Bloodline!”

Luo Feng’s eyes lit up. “Right—the Infinite Space has a treasure that can help me.”

******

Infinite Space, on the island at the center of the lake.

Luo Feng sat cross-legged.

“The reward points I’ve accumulated—it’s time to use them at a critical moment.” Luo Feng was extremely familiar with the Infinite Space Treasury and did not hesitate to exchange for the treasure he needed.

“Exchange for the Book of Wisdom!” Luo Feng immediately chose to exchange.

The secret treasure ‘Book of Wisdom’ required 200,000 Reward Points. It was a treasure book refined from part of the body materials of a Primordial Ancestor. Its value far exceeded the Eye of Life and Death. It could analyze all things, study the Origin Path, and assist in cultivation.

The Eye of Life and Death primarily observed the vitality of all things and their destructive weak points. In terms of observing Primordial Bloodlines, it was comparatively inferior.

The Book of Wisdom specialized in researching Primordial Lifeform corpse materials and analyzing Primordial Bloodline abilities. In this aspect, it was naturally far superior to the Eye of Life and Death.

The Book of Wisdom was also prohibited from being taken out of the Source World.

“Reminder to the trial-taker: After exchanging, the trial-taker may permanently use the Book of Wisdom. However, if the trial-taker dies, the Book of Wisdom will automatically return to the Infinite Space. Please confirm—do you still wish to exchange?”

“Exchange!” Luo Feng was already experienced.

“Exchange successful! Trial-taker Luo Feng, this is the ninth exchange of the ‘Book of Wisdom’. Among the previous eight exchangers, three have escaped the Prison Cage and become High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.”

Luo Feng revealed a smile.

The proportion of those who exchanged the Book of Wisdom and escaped the Prison Cage was far higher than those who exchanged the Eye of Life and Death.

Moreover, among those three High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, none were mentioned as dead—did that mean they were still alive? Yet even while alive, they still returned the Book of Wisdom to the Infinite Space?

“My Reward Points are now only 11,093.03.” Luo Feng sighed slightly.

The Reward Points he had carefully saved had finally been spent.

“Exchanging for this Book of Wisdom was worth it.”

When Luo Feng discovered that researching Primordial Bloodlines and Primordial Lifeform materials provided the greatest help to his cultivation of the Origin Path, he had already felt the urge to exchange for the Book of Wisdom—but he restrained himself.

Even when he encountered a bottleneck, he still held back.

Only after discovering that High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines could not be fully observed with the Eye of Life and Death did he finally spend the 200,000 Reward Points.

Good steel must be used on the blade—this was precisely the moment!

……

Origin Continent, Huyang City, City Lord’s Mansion, quiet chamber.

Inside the Star Tower.

Luo Feng looked at the black book in his hand. It appeared ordinary, but its price of 200,000 Reward Points proved its value. As an invisible force permeated it, Luo Feng understood how to use it.

“Let’s try it.”

With a thought, Luo Feng activated the book.

An invisible fluctuation from the book enveloped the High-Rank Primordial Bloodline of the ‘Heavenly Fire Shadow’. In just an instant, it stopped.

“It’s already finished analyzing?” Luo Feng was shocked. He opened the black book and saw the pages within.

The pages were crystal-clear, containing countless layers of space.

Luo Feng looked.

Layer upon layer of profound secret pattern diagrams resembled a great tree, permeating each spatial layer of the pages.

This great tree seemed alive, slowly changing.

Everything was incomparably clear before Luo Feng.

“So this is the complete structure of a High-Rank Primordial Bloodline! It exists simultaneously across multiple spatial layers and continuously changes along the timeline.”

“Only by studying it across different spatial layers and different time segments can one understand its full picture.”

Even with the full picture laid out, it was still incomparably profound.

It was like a highly advanced book—even if every word was translated into a known language, understanding the entire book remained extremely difficult.

“Buzz.”

The Eye of Life and Death at Luo Feng’s glabella opened. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The originally incomprehensibly complex secret pattern diagrams now revealed their vitality nodes and destructive weak points under its observation! Many key ‘nodes’ were exposed, instantly deepening Luo Feng’s understanding.

“The Book of Wisdom completely analyzes Primordial Bloodlines.”

“The Eye of Life and Death observes the key nodes within the bloodline’s secret pattern diagrams.”

“The combination of the two greatly increases my comprehension efficiency.”

The Book of Wisdom was far more valuable—without it, the deeper layers of a High-Rank Primordial Bloodline could not be perceived at all. Now, everything was fully revealed before Luo Feng without the slightest concealment.

“Let’s begin.”

Luo Feng calmed his mind and began studying the three High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines containing mental consciousness systems: ‘Heavenly Fire Shadow’, ‘Nether Prison Calamity Beast’, and ‘Nine-Headed Chaos Beast’.

******

Dark Sacred Realm, Chengfeng City.

Luo Feng was temporarily residing in the cave dwelling of his friend ‘God Emperor Boxiu’. In fact, God Emperor Bai Yin and God Emperor Chi Zheng also lived here long-term.

“My energy reserves are too low.” Luo Feng frowned slightly. His body’s energy reserves were only slightly over four thousand times that of a Perfect Divine Body. “I need more energy reserves to test my mental consciousness system.”

During the process of comprehending the mental consciousness system, repeated experimentation was necessary. Only through practice could its effectiveness be verified.

Luo Feng had cultivated for a relatively short time, so his energy reserves were not abundant.

“Brother Boxiu,” Luo Feng immediately sent a message.

“What is it?” God Emperor Boxiu was very enthusiastic. The three of them were now quite willing to assist Luo Feng.

“I need to rapidly increase my energy reserves in a short period of time,” Luo Feng transmitted. “Do you have any good methods?”

“The best method is, of course, to go to the large-scale Primordial Hall in Primordial City! The cultivation cave dwellings there provide unlimited life energy for absorption—if you can withstand it, you can absorb as much as you want,” said God Emperor Boxiu. “But Brother Luo Feng, it’s not suitable for you to leave Chengfeng City right now. So you’ll need to rely on some treasures.”

“The fastest method is to buy a World Source Pearl! It can be used to open a ‘Micro Source World’ within your body and serve as the origin of your internal world. After refining it, it becomes part of you, rapidly replenishing your strength,” Boxiu said. “World Source Pearls are relatively common in Chengfeng City. With a slight price increase, it’s easy to buy one.”

“Help me buy one,” Luo Feng said. He did not care about paying extra.

“I’ll contact my friend immediately…” God Emperor Boxiu replied shortly after, “It’s settled. My friend God Emperor Yuhe is selling it to you for 5.5 billion Primordial Crystals without any markup. He’ll personally deliver it soon—he also greatly admires you, Brother Luo Feng!”

World Source Pearls were regularly sold in large-scale Primordial Halls, each costing 50,000 War Merits.

God Emperor Yuhe resold it for 5.5 billion Primordial Crystals without making any profit.

While some factions wanted to rob Luo Feng and make a huge profit, there were also some God Emperors who wished to follow him—only, they had no opportunity to do so.