The Long-Lived One was not human, and Nie Yun's own circumstances were highly unusual, making neither of them suitable research subjects for "mental power."
The trio's case, however, demonstrated that this new power could feasibly be made available to humans. That held strategic significance for expanding Earth Civilization's technology tree and even increasing the species' combat strength.
However, production of the Water of Life was limited, so these phantom energy warriors could not yet be created in large numbers. For now, the trio remained an exception.
Nie Yun had asked Elder Yu and the others to form a research team precisely to find a more widely applicable method of enhancement, mass-produce people with superpowers, and thereby develop the "phantom energy technology tree" while improving his own understanding of mental power.
"Hopefully, you'll give me a few pleasant surprises..." Nie Yun left the others behind and walked out of the Training Room.
Mental power determined the upper limit of Nie Yun's control over the Mechanical Insects.
As things stood, Nie Yun's performance as a CPU could no longer keep pace with the Mechanical Insect population's outrageous reproductive capacity.
Recently, however, Nie Yun had boosted his mental stats through the extravagant practice of bathing in the Water of Life.
If his previous mental power had been rated at one, it was now approaching five. It had increased severalfold in a short time-a truly astonishing effect.
The suspended grand undertaking of breeding Mechanical Insects had also been able to resume.
According to Nie Yun's estimates, his upgraded CPU could now support roughly fifty million metric tons of Mechanical Insects.
Although the upper limit of the Mechanical Insects he could control simultaneously had increased dramatically, temporarily easing his development bottleneck, the Water of Life's effects on him had also declined rapidly, until it could