Feng Wushi had discovered that microorganisms had developed consciousness because several times when he entered seclusion to cultivate—perfectly ordinary sessions of closed-door cultivation—
he had nearly entered demonic path.
He immediately realized that someone was interfering with him.
And he immediately pinpointed the source of that interference as the microorganisms.
After all, he had initially been using microorganisms to interfere with and control other people's breakthroughs.
When he discovered that the microorganisms had developed consciousness, he was even more horrified.
Because only he knew just how terrifying these things were.
"Impossible. How could a bunch of microorganisms develop consciousness?"
"They only have a few cells. How could they possibly develop consciousness as complex as that of humans?"
According to the information he had obtained from the modern world, a complete nervous system was required to produce clear consciousness.
He then realized that it had to be the new variable of spiritual energy that had allowed these microorganisms to develop consciousness.
Spiritual energy could serve as a medium for transmitting information across a neural network.
In other words, massive numbers of microbial cells relied on spiritual energy to transmit information.
Through the exchange of vast amounts of information, they eventually developed consciousness.
Much like humans.
There was very little a single human nerve cell could do.
Store, activate, trigger...
But when a huge number of nerve cells were combined, the complexity increased dramatically.
They could respond to the complex external environment.
And so consciousness began to emerge.
Consciousness was an information response center, an information processing center that prioritized all kinds of events and directed the body's response.
Feng Wushi carefully observed these microorganisms.
He discovered that a microorganism's simplest stress response was accomplished through basic vibrations.
They used the number of vibrations to convey different messages.
Thus, as massive numbers