Deified Cells

Source Substance trickled into Lu Zhiyu's mental structure. He felt his mental power growing again, then gradually reaching the limit that each meditation could sustain. If it went any further, the Zero-Dimension World would assimilate him. At that moment, Lu Zhiyu felt that he could no longer withdraw his mental power. It underwent a violent change in the Otherworld, all of it churning like boiling water.

Lu Zhiyu felt his mental power and will beginning to blur together, the two merging into one. Every strand of mental power now bore the imprint of his mind. It was as if, after breaking through this stage, his mental power could contain his entire will.

"My will is actually starting to merge with my mental power. Has my mental power become strong enough to bear consciousness?"

Before, Lu Zhiyu had possessed mental power, but his will, thoughts, memories, emotions, and everything else were all dependent on his brain. Mental power had only given rise to a kind of perceptive ability and a set of tendrils; it hadn't represented Lu Zhiyu as an individual.

But now, Lu Zhiyu could attach his will to his mental power, letting it bear his consciousness and will. This was only an idea that had flashed through his mind, though. For the moment, it was merely possible; he hadn't tried it yet.

Once the change in his mental power was complete, Lu Zhiyu immediately withdrew it from the Zero-Dimensional Otherworld and returned to normal.

Lu Zhiyu got out of bed. In that instant when his mental power had undergone a qualitative change, he had thought of many things, especially one crucial possibility: attaching his consciousness, personality, and memories to his mental power. If he could do that, he would have truly taken his first step into the realm of the supernatural. It would be genuine supernatural power.

Human intelligence had its limits. Each person's brain could hold the equivalent of five hundred million books, but that included daily memories, the things they saw, the sounds they heard, and their subconscious thoughts. These things already took up most of the brain's memory capacity, leaving no way to store knowledge and information without limit.

Moreover, each neuron took close to 0.1 seconds to receive a signal, activate, and send one out. This 0.1-second delay set the upper limit on human intelligence and the brain's information-processing speed. Every time you thought about a problem, you had to wait within that 0.1 seconds.

If it were possible to break through the brain's limits, store information without limit, and raise the brain's processing speed to 0.001 seconds or even faster, would that mean a person could accomplish in a minute the calculations and thinking that used to take a whole day? Could human intelligence break through its limits?

Lu Zhiyu was a little excited. "How can I attach my consciousness and will to my mental power? Human consciousness, emotions, and memories are all stored in the brain. If I want to try, I can only start with the brain. What if I leave a mental imprint on every cell in the brain?"

Lu Zhiyu wasted no time. He immediately began experimenting, sending his mental power into one of his brain cells and leaving an imprint there. He immediately sensed a connection between his mental power and the cell, as if he could control it at will. Even if he separated it from his body, he could still sense its existence.

"So it really works!"

Lu Zhiyu felt his mental power welling up bit by bit from some mysterious, unknown place and gradually entering his brain tissue. No—not just the brain tissue. It was entering the cells themselves.

Lu Zhiyu tried to rein in his mental power, but it seemed like water escaping through a breach in a dam. No matter how hard he tried to plug the gap, he couldn't stop it from pouring out. All he could do was focus completely on the changes taking place in his brain.

Lu Zhiyu had already modified his brain once, dividing it into a main brain and a Wisdom Sub-Brain. This time, though, the mental power was different. He could feel it gradually penetrating the cores of his cells, imprinting his mind and will deep within them, so that every cell in his brain bore his mental mark!

Lu Zhiyu realized that things didn't seem to be going wrong. He immediately stopped trying to plug the breach and let his mental power accelerate its assimilation of his brain. The cells throughout his brain were gradually being eroded, from top to bottom and inside to out, until his entire brain was enveloped by his mental power like a mass of clear water. Every cell was washed and swept clean by it.

From a physical perspective, Lu Zhiyu's brain cells had not changed at all. But from the perspective of mental power, his entire brain now bore his mental imprint, and every cell had merged with his mental power.

Lu Zhiyu could feel his brain being completely activated. Countless memories, emotions, and thoughts—including his primary personality and the Wisdom Sub-Brain program—had all merged into his mental power. He called this process the activation of cells by mental power, or, for short, Deified Cells!

After his cells had been deified, Lu Zhiyu felt as if he could sense every cell in his brain. Even if half his brain were destroyed, he could restore the other half through the power of his Deified Cells. This wasn't simply a matter of controlling cells. Each one seemed to represent a part of his will!

As all the cells in his brain tissue were fully deified, Lu Zhiyu felt his head give a thunderous crash, as if something had burst open. He plunged into darkness, then appeared in a strange space.

Lu Zhiyu found himself in a pitch-black world. He could see countless pieces of information flowing through the darkness—his memories from childhood to the present. When he looked up, he saw a silver Hourglass floating in the air. He had become a white figure of light, standing in this world!

"This is my Mental Space—or I could call it my Thought Space. I'm now formed from mental power. You could say I've condensed my own soul and become the first being on Earth to give form to a soul!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately understood. His mental power had fully joined with his brain, producing this marvelous change. He immediately called out, "Sub-Brain!"

"Sub-Brain awaiting instructions!"

A translucent panel appeared before Lu Zhiyu. His face lit up. As expected, once his brain had been deified, the Wisdom Sub-Brain had been deified along with it, and it had brought all its abilities with it!

"Record the properties of mental power, and develop and expand its applications!"

"Loading!"

A pleased expression appeared on Lu Zhiyu's face. Before, the Sub-Brain hadn't been able to sense mental power or record its fluctuations and properties, leaving him at a serious disadvantage when it came to developing its abilities.

"Reorganize all memories and sort the data into categories!"

"Create a mental power database!"

Lu Zhiyu could feel his processing speed had gotten much faster, almost doubling. But it still had limits, likely because of the limits of his cells and mental power. As his cells evolved or his mental power grew stronger, his brain's processing speed would continue to increase!

Lu Zhiyu got up from the bed, feeling as if he had become more alert and intelligent. His eyes, already exceptionally lively, seemed to shine.

Even without using his mental power, Lu Zhiyu could tell that three people were passing outside the door: a male and a female guest with a service worker. From their footsteps, he could judge their height and weight. A Black man upstairs was watching a game, while a couple downstairs were showering before sex.

Lu Zhiyu pushed open the window and took a light sniff. After glancing at the sky, he could tell from the humidity and air pressure, "It's going to rain tonight. Hmm, probably in five hours!"