The Nature of Faith Power! Nan Feng: It Was Nothing More Than Energy Resonance at a Specific Frequency

"As for me?" Nan Feng shrugged indifferently. "At worst, we'll go our separate ways. I'll condense a Divine Seat myself and become a god in the flesh."

Bibi Dong froze. "Become a god by yourself?!"

"Yeah."

Nan Feng nodded. "My foundation of power actually surpassed the absolute limit that the Douluo Plane could bear long ago. But precisely because of that, to prevent me from bursting this plane apart, the plane's rules greatly suppressed and sealed my power."

"In truth, I don't lack the power to truly become a god. All I lack is a Divine Seat that can be acknowledged by the Cosmic Rules."

Nan Feng counted on his fingers. "As for condensing a Divine Seat, there are actually many ways to do it. It's just that the Douluo Plane is currently too low-level and too weak to support the birth of a native God Level being out of thin air."

"So, relying on your own power to become a god here isn't allowed, because that would damage this world."

"The simplest and safest fallback method is to imitate the Sea God of old and slowly condense a Divine Seat by gathering an immense amount of Faith Power."

"However, that would require a long time spent gathering the faith of countless living beings, allowing one's physical body to gradually transform into a divine body. That gradual transformation would take at least a thousand years."

"If the God of Evil really shamelessly flips the table in the end, then I'll have no choice but to grit my teeth and try this longest route."

At that point, Nan Feng suddenly changed the subject and looked at Bibi Dong with blazing eyes. "By the way, Little Dongdong, do you know what the nature of Faith Power really is?"

A strange expression appeared on Bibi Dong's face.

"Don't tell me... you know?"

"Of course I do." Nan Feng proudly raised his chin. "During the years I stayed on Sea God Island, I specifically spent time researching this stuff! After all, that old bastard Sea God became a god by gathering faith back then, so he had ready-made Faith Power on hand."

"I was incredibly curious about it at the time, so I pestered the Sea God until he gave me a small sample to break down and analyze. Then guess what I found?"

Nan Feng said each word distinctly. "I discovered that this supposedly miraculous Faith Power was fundamentally based on the same principle as the Energy Resonance I explained to you before!"

Bibi Dong looked utterly baffled. "Huh?"

How were those two things even related?

Seeing the clear yet foolish look in Bibi Dong's eyes, Nan Feng paused and sighed.

"This is indeed a little too abstract. And it involves principles at the microscopic level. Since you have no foundation in physics, it'll be very difficult for you to understand."

"Let me put it this way. Simply put, you can think of Faith Power as a special kind of mental energy."

Nan Feng patiently asked, "You know what Mental Power is, right?"

Bibi Dong nodded decisively.

Nonsense. On the Douluo Continent, what proper Soul Master could possibly not know about the existence of Mental Power?

"Then let me ask you." A devilish smile curled across Nan Feng's lips. "Do you know what the nature of Mental Power really is? Or rather... why does simply cultivating Soul Power cause Mental Power to appear in a Soul Master's mind out of nowhere? Where does Mental Power actually come from?"

Bibi Dong's expression stiffened. She was completely stumped.

Yeah, where did Mental Power come from? Everyone only knew that the higher one's cultivation, the stronger one's Mental Power. But who had ever investigated its origin?

"How could anyone know that?" Bibi Dong snapped in annoyance. "It's simply common knowledge in the Soul Master world!"

"I didn't understand it before either." Nan Feng snapped his fingers. "But later, I really did figure out the underlying logic behind this thing!"

Bibi Dong was baffled again. "You even figured out the nature of Mental Power?! Are you serious?"

"Of course."

Nan Feng folded his legs beneath him.

"First, we need to consider the most fundamental question in philosophy and physics: what exactly is the relationship between matter and energy?"

"I think this question is actually very easy for Soul Masters in this world to understand, because Martial Souls exist here!"

Nan Feng held out a hand, and a tiny ball of Soul Power light condensed in his palm out of thin air.

"The manifestation and withdrawal of a Martial Soul are themselves a process of mutual conversion between energy and matter."

"By observing this form of existence of Martial Souls, we can arrive at a truth—matter can be converted into pure energy, and energy can also condense into physical particles with mass!"

"So matter and energy aren't two completely different origins at all. They share the same source; they are two sides of the same whole!"

Bibi Dong held her breath, her mind racing as she tried to keep up with Nan Feng's train of thought.

"Once you understand that, let's look at Soul Master cultivation."

Nan Feng pointed at Bibi Dong. "Soul Master cultivation, when all is said and done, means seizing the free energy of heaven and earth from the outside world, forcibly compressing it, and storing it within your flesh and blood cells. It fills your body, this material vessel, with higher-density energy."

"Likewise, the entire world is fundamentally made of matter, and our human bodies are also made of matter. Our consciousness, bluntly speaking, is a special product generated when the brain, this highly organized and precise material structure, operates."

"Spirit, thoughts, souls... these abstract concepts that sound so mysterious are, once you strip away the surface and look at their essence, actually a form of energy!"

"So why does a Soul Master's Mental Power grow stronger as their cultivation rises? It's because as your cultivation improves, the matter composing your body becomes filled with increasingly vast and active energy!"

"When this enormous amount of energy enters and becomes active within the brain, this special organ, it is processed and transformed through the brain's unique neural circuits... and that gives birth to the special energy called Mental Power!"

To make Bibi Dong understand completely, Nan Feng used the most down-to-earth example possible.

"You can understand it through the traits of soul skills and Martial Souls."

"Different Martial Souls are essentially different energy converters. When attribute-less Soul Power flows through the special structure of a fire Martial Soul, it is converted into blazing flames. When it flows through an ice Martial Soul, it becomes frost."

Nan Feng pointed at his temple.

"Mental Power is actually the specialized form of energy produced when our own biological energy and Soul Power pass through the brain, this precise and special structure, and are transformed and processed!"

"So ordinary Soul Masters don't need to deliberately seek out some secret manual for cultivating Mental Power. The underlying logic is self-consistent—so long as your own Soul Power foundation is sufficiently strong and the energy supplied to your brain is abundant enough, the brain, this converter, will naturally transform increasingly vast amounts of Mental Power for you."

Bibi Dong looked utterly bewildered.

But immediately afterward, a strange feeling rose within her—she had actually understood it!

Not only had she understood, she even completely grasped what "Mental Power" actually was.

Nan Feng had managed to explain these mysterious concepts in such a simple and blunt manner, and he had genuinely given her the solid feeling of having reached enlightenment.

Nan Feng did not rush to continue. Instead, he casually plucked a blade of grass and played with it.

When teaching, you had to give your student time to digest the material. Taking things step by step was the right way.

After quite a while, Bibi Dong went over the theory from earlier in her mind several times and finally sorted out her thoughts completely.

She looked up. "Then... what about Faith Power?"

"Faith Power is actually the same." Nan Feng tossed away the blade of grass and clapped his hands. "Let me ask you: does thinking consume energy?"

Bibi Dong hesitated. "...It does?"

"Of course it does. Why are you even hesitating over a question like that?"

Nan Feng rolled his eyes. "You can lie around spacing out on the grass all morning and maybe feel nothing. But if you focus on working out a complicated soul skill combination and rack your brain for a while, won't you feel hungry afterward?"

Bibi Dong nodded thoughtfully.

"Exactly." Nan Feng snapped his fingers. "That fully proves that thinking itself consumes energy intensely! Or, to put it more rigorously, thinking is actually a process of energy conversion."

"And those so-called Mental Power cultivation methods that the major sects of the Soul Master world treasure so dearly—what are they in essence?"

"They are simply deliberate methods of using specific patterns of thought to forcibly accelerate your brain's operation, thereby speeding up the process of converting the biological energy and Soul Power in your body into Mental Power!"

"Then if that's the case... can thinking convert that basic energy into other, more specialized forms of energy?"

"For example... Faith Power?"